Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - April 09 - Jono Embarrassed Himself On A Facebook Livestream... #CrotchCam

Episode Date: April 8, 2021

Happy Friiiiiday! The other night we hosted our 5 Words Pub Quiz, where we played our daily game in person with a bunch of wonderful people! But Jono was doing something throughout the night that was also captured on our Facebook live stream. Something that you don't necessarily want people to see! We also continued on yesterday's topic of what your claim to fame is. Yesterday we spoke to Kanye West's old housekeeper, someone who checked Meghan Markle into a hotel, and someone who held hands with Colin Farrell. The calls continued on today, involving celebs like Michael Jackson, Sylvester Stallone, and Orlando Bloom! Finally, Producer Juliet interviewed Lauren Graham, who you may know as Lorelai from Gilmore Girls, about her new series on Disney+, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. Juliet was so nervous she finished the interview with big sweat patches! Enjoy the podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the top 100 podcasts on iHeartRadio. I don't even think we'd be top 100 let's be honest Ben no I don't think we are but that's okay we're chipping away what are the stats I'd love some stats on the podcast

do you really want to know yeah what's your I reckon how many podcasts are on iHeartRadio oh iHeartRadio okay I don't know

how to get stats on that are you looking on the charts are you can you go to the charts I don't know if I can yeah hit that. Are you looking on the charts, are you? Can you go to the charts? I don't know if I can. Yeah, hit the charts, baby. See where we're sitting. In the meantime, I'm going to tease what's coming up in the podcast today.

Had a fun show this morning. Had a fun show this morning. We spoke to more people with their claim to fame. We covered this in yesterday's podcast. But the calls kept flowing in. Michael Jackson went and visited someone in hospital. Also, we had a wonderful story of a man who worked out with Sylvester Stallone for three minutes at midnight in a hotel in Paris. And also, a lady who had Orlando Bloom's lips attached to her lips.

And lips don't lie. Do they? Unless you're talking to a pathological liar. Well, that's true. They clearly do lie, actually. Yeah, they do. Wasn't Shakira who said lips don't lie or was it hips don't lie?

No, that was her hips, yeah. No one said lips don't lie because lips are the things that lie the most. Now, I'm panning for time because I'm talking about... I am, I am. Well, I'm just trying to work it out here. I'm really struggling to find our picture.

I looked at iHeartRadio, and now I'm on Apple. Yeah, so you're scrolling through the charts here. Looking for our pitch. Oh, it's a long scroll. What number are you at now? What number are you at now? 68. Keep going down.

I see some other familiar faces. I've just scrolled fast and fast. Yeah. Are we out of the top 100 as well? I think so. I think so. But it's hard to... What is the point of this thing then?

I don't know. Are we top 200? Well, I haven't got that far yet. Yeah, still going down down down oh well no I don't know if we oh

yeah I don't know how to tell I mean maybe I scroll past let's say we scroll past him he's into the 500s yeah yeah

no he goes as far as 199 so I'm not sure we're below fun facts about ants yeah podcasts like the history of bread and things like that.

Exactly. I'd listen to a podcast on the history of bread. Well, that's your problem. That's what people are listening to. Yeah. Maybe we should change the tact of this. Do you know bread was made in 8000 BC, before Christ. Really?

Yeah. Romans invented it. Great. It's been a long time. Yeah. Romans invented it. Great. It's been a long... Yeah, so before that, the sliced bread thing, you know, that was early on, wasn't it? Yeah, what was the best thing since sliced bread? Well, I tell you what, you'd have to go back far, far, far in history to find out. But that's...

Jeez, I love a loaf of bread, don't you? Yeah, it's good. I like going to Baker's Delights. Hey, this is why our podcast is not on the charts, mate. This sort of bread banter. Oh, is it really? Yeah, it's good. I like going to Baker's Delight. Hey, this is why our podcast is not on the charts, mate. This sort of bread banter. Oh, is it really? Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, it's not good. I think so. Yeah. I do like bread, though. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben,

New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. We're talking about your claim to fame and yesterday, Jono, we had an amazing call from a lady who used to manage Kanye West's property in America. So I worked for Kanye West. I did them. He was over in America when I was living there. And I did the property management for the rental that he was renting.

The kids might want to block their ears on this one. But when we'd be cleaning up after him sometimes after that big party or whoever was there, we'd go into his bathroom and clean it up and he'd have his condoms on the bathroom floor like the size of an elephant. And they'd pick them up with the tongs from the kitchen and picking up all sorts of stuff off the ground with those tongs. And I don't know if the tongs actually went back into the dishwasher before.

No, I don't know if they did go back into rotation or not. Into circulation or if they were specifically for picking up items off Kanye's floor. But she was amazing. That was an incredible story. So if you've got a claim to fame, 0800, that hits the telephone number 4487. Joining us now from Tauranga, it's Pip from Tauranga. Morena. Hi, how's it going?

Lovely to hear your dulcet tones this morning. And thank you for phoning through to the Jono and Ben radio experience. And what an experience it is being boys. It is a heck of an experience. I don't know if it's a satisfying experience, but it's an experience. We're definitely not getting five stars. We'll trade again at the end of this call. But unfavourable reviews on TripAdvisor too.

But Pip, what is your claim to fame? So about 18 years ago, I met Seth Green in Wellington when he was in New Zealand filming Without a Pedal. Seth Green, now, Seth Green, if you don't know him, famous Hollywood actor, isn't he, Benjamin? Yeah, just having a quick look here now. He was the disgruntled

son of Dr. Evil in Austin Powers. He's the voice of Chris on Family Guy, Chris Griffin. He's been in so many movies. Scooby-Doo, Italian Job, Guardians of the Galaxy. Now you're just reading his IMDb. Okay, I am, I am. I'm sorry. So we'll let Pip continue on now.

Pip knows who he is. I don't know why I've had to... Did you know that he was on Buffy the Vampire? No, no. Too much, Ben. Too much. Fullback. Fullback. So you met Seth Green? Yes, and I got a photo with him. He comes up to my nose.

I'm only five foot four, so he's very short. Okay. And then I bumped into him in the elevator a bit later on, and he actually asked me out for drinks. And I turned him down. Oh, okay, hold on. Let's reenact this. I'll be Seth Green.

You'll be Pip from Tauranga. And we're in the lift. And you walk in. What floor are you going to? I'm going down to the ground floor. Okay, cool. So do you want to, shall I push ground?

Do you want to come down to ground? Yeah. Okay. Oh, hey, it's you. We met before. We had a photo and I came up to your nose. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, listen, me and the gang are to your nose. Yeah.

Hey, listen, me and the gang are going out for some drinks. Was wondering if you want to come along? Yeah, I've got plans. Hold on, what plans have you got? Yeah, I've just got to meet some other friends who go

to another convention. Oh, they can come too. Why don't you invite everyone? Why are you awkwardly laughing now? I'm just, now the doors have opened. Oh, hello. Hello. How you doing?

Oh, I'm just going to, you guys going to ground? Oh, sorry. I've got a wheelie bag, one of those wheelie bags I'm trying to get into. Hang on. Sorry, just give me a second.

Try to get out of the door here. Hey, are you Seth Green? Yeah, yeah. Are you Seth Green? I come up to her nose. You're the voice for Chris Griffin on Family Guy. Yeah, and I was also... You're Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Yeah, you know, you've... The scruntled son on Austin Powers. You've read my IMDb, obviously. Yeah, yeah. Hey, listen, I was actually in the middle of asking this lady out for a drink. Oh, sorry. That's a bit awkward. Sorry.

What'd she say? Yeah, I kind of disappeared. She said no. Okay, that's all right. I'm free. I'm free. I'm just going to put my bag up in the room. Oh, no, I'll be fine. Sorry. What did she say? Yeah, I kind of disappeared. She said no. Okay, that's all right. I'm free. I'm free. I'm just going to put my bag up in the room. I'll be fine.

Thanks. I'll be fine. I can come hang out with you guys. So you did not. That was a wonderful re-enactment. Pip, well done you. Well done Ben for coming in there as well. Thank you.

So was he disappointed when you said no? Yeah, he looked shocked. Like he didn't think I would say that. And I kind of just took off out of the elevator. And then I went to the Lord of the Rings World Premiere press conference. Oh, wow. So it was either go out on a date with Seth Green or go and meet 10 more international celebrities I probably wouldn't get to meet again.

Oh, so you actually met the stars of The Lord of the Rings? Yeah, I met Mole. I've got photos with Mole and everything and when it came to Orlando Bloom, he just wrapped his arms around me and gave me a big kiss to make on the lips. Oh, you got... Oh my goodness. You got... You denied Green.

Within an hour, you've got your lips attached to Orlando Bloom. Wow, what a day. I had friends in Canada saying that there was photos going around in Canada about some mystery Kiwi woman for Orlando Bloom and whatnot. And you were the mystery Kiwi woman? Yes. Oh my gosh. What a 24 hours for you.

Now tell me, what was your role? How did you find yourself attached to Orlando Bloom's lips? I don't know. I was just standing there and he just did it. It was just out of the blue. I wasn't expecting it. I got a bit of a fright myself, but obviously didn't object to that. So Seth Green was filming a movie, wasn't he?

Was it without a paddle? Yes, that's right. Well, I tell you what, Orlando Bloom would be fine without a paddle. I don't know if you've seen him on that stand-up paddle board. I knew it was going to get... We can't have a conversation about Orlando Bloom without going...

Anyway. It's the best thing about Orlando Bloom. Well, that is a great claim to fame, Pip. Yeah, exactly. Thank you so much for that amazing story. Hold the line, we want to send you out something because it's so cool you shared that with us.

Thank you. They keep rolling through on 0800 The Hits. Emma, morning, how are you? Good, thanks, how are you? Oh, we're doing well. Lovely to hear you this morning. Your claim to fame, what have you got, Em? It's not mine to claim, actually, but my cousin

got visited in hospital by Michael Jackson. No, no way, When was this? A long time ago. Probably, I don't know, early 90s. The late, great, or slash not so great, depending on what side of the fence you sit on, Michael Jackson came to visit your cousin.

Is this in New Zealand or overseas? In Australia. Yeah, in Oz, when he was doing a tour in Oz. Went around the hospital visiting people that were in there? Yeah, I think he was doing one of those, in Oz, when he was doing a tour in Oz. Went around the hospital visiting people that were in there? Yeah, I think he was doing one of those, you know, those publicity go and visit sick kids in hospital trips. And, yeah, she happened to be in hospital at the time and had a visit from him.

And what did he say to her? I don't remember much about what they told me about what he said. All I remember is that he, apparently his face looked really plastic and he smelt really bad. Oh, really? Okay. What did Michael Jackson smell like? Like a musty or something?

I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, I just remember my auntie saying to me that, yeah, his face almost looked like it was dripping and he smelt pretty awful. Oh, I see. I wouldn't have picked Jackson for a bad smelling individual.

No, no. I thought he'd be running some high-end colognes and perfume. That's interesting. You know, Michael Jackson was well ahead of the mask game, wasn't he? Oh, he was. You're right. Now we're all happy to wear them. You're right. He was a visionary when it came to masks. Thank you, Emma from the Waikato.

Really appreciate that. No worries. And GT's with us on from Auckland. Morning, GT. How are you? Morning, John. I'm good. How are you, yourself?

Lovely to hear your voice, GT. Now, what's your claim to fame? So I've met Sylvester Stallone in a gym. You met Sylvester Stallone in a gym? Rambo himself in a gym. Absolutely. It was in Paris in a hotel. So I had a long day. I went to the gym. Absolutely. It was in Paris in a hotel. So I had a long day.

I went to the gym at midnight. Could not sleep. Obviously, there was nobody in the gym at that time. Spent a few minutes and this guy walked in

and it took me five minutes to realize that it's a man himself. Wow. You're pumping iron with Rambo at midnight

in Paris. Yeah, I went to him. I said, you're still alone? He said, yeah. I said, okay. You know what? I have to go back to my room and get the camera

because we were talking 20 years ago. I didn't have any cameras on my phone. One day in the future, this will be easier for us. But right now, I have to go to my room. If you can just hold 10 minutes. He said, I'll be gone in a few minutes, so you might just stay here. And I said, okay, I'll just stay here. What do you say I'll do?

Because you're a service to the Lord. You might stay here. So why did he want you to stay here? What was he going to do? Yeah, I just stood there standing on the treadmill, and he was doing his weight, and I just went on to the shoulder press, and he said, you don't do like that, you do like that. Then he gave you like a personal workout.

Yes, I said, okay, and I said, I might do with some tips. So he said, okay, what do you want to do? I said, might do with some tips so he said okay what do you want to do I said have shoulders like you I had no idea what was going on And he walks out. What was that? 15 minutes of most awkward position. I could have gone to my room and got my camera. But hold on. Sylvester Stallone's turned up to the gym. And he hasn't even worked out.

He's only just walked in for 15 minutes. Giving you some tips on how to get shoulders like him. And left. That's funny. He's only just walked in for 15 minutes, giving you some tips on how to get shoulders like him, and left. That's funny. I want shoulders like you, Sylvester Stallone. Hey, well, you've got a personal training session from Sylvester Stallone. For three and a half

minutes, and I can tell you, they were super valuable. I never followed that because I was just looking at this guy that, okay, I'm actually seeing this guy. How are your shoulders now? What's the shoulder situation this guy. How are your shoulders now? What's the shoulder situation for you? How are they looking? They're gone.

They're gone? They're gone. Gone. I don't have any muscle anymore. My shoulders disappeared, much like he did after 15 minutes. Yeah, it's all flaps, no abs anymore. GT, that was very funny, mate. Thank you so much for your call, buddy.

You have a great day. Thank you, man. Thanks very much. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Now, a couple of nights ago, we had the Five Words, well, $500 pub night, the start of the World Tour, Jono.

Yeah, the Five words world tour, which is gaining quite a lot of momentum. Covering the South Island next week. We'll buy a... I think it's time we buy a tour bus. Five words tour bus. A little looking to trade me over the weekend. But, you know, we kicked it off in Auckland. A wonderful crowd turning up to the Botany Commons.

Ben, you couldn't be there, unfortunately, due to reasons, ethical reasons, you not wanting to hang out with me at the moment. That's why he's broadcasting from his kitchen. But I did watch some of the live stream. I thought I'll check in and see what my old mate's doing. You know, I go, oh that's sad.

He used to have a TV show, now he's on a live stream. But no, it was actually, I looked. At a pub on a Wednesday night. It actually looked like a lot of fun and I got quite a lot of, I was quite jealous I wasn't there. I was like, oh man, it looked like heaps of fun, lots of people winning money and bar tabs and food and stuff. It looked awesome.

He wasn't jealous enough to turn up, but he continued to watch the live stream. It looked like a great night. I know what you're going to go into. I know what you're going to do. Yeah, I do. But you can pick up the ball and run with it. There was something that shocked me on the live stream

because you're standing out there on stage in front of, you know, a crowd of people and you're talking away on a microphone, live streaming to, you know, thousands of people on the internet as well and something I just could not take my eyes off. Now, what was it? Listen, through the whole live stream, I had my zipper down for a good hour. And I only found out

when I checked my phone after the live stream had shut down and my wife had gone, pull your zipper up, you idiot. And I didn't get that. That memo wasn't passed on to me during the live stream. And then our lovely Amy,

who was working for the hits too, she came over quietly and she's like, hey, just so you know, you zipped us down. But no one told me this during. Like, tell me during. I didn't notice. It's an awkward thing, isn't it, Juliet? Yeah.

Because if you point it out to someone, it kind of means that you've been looking at their crotch reaches. Yeah. You've been zeroing in on their knick-knacks and gospel pipe. And not that you have been doing that, but you do notice that, and you're like, can I tell this person, or can I not tell this person? What's

the social etiquette here? Yeah, like, see, if I saw some, you know, lettuce or something hanging out of Juliet's nose, I'd be like, A, how are you consuming your lettuce? But B, I'll tell you, I think we've got that relationship now Yeah it's one of those things Where if someone's got something on their face

Or they've got a little booger in their nose It's kind of like Do you say something? Do you not? But I know for me Like I would want to be told So that's why I always tell other people But in this case

I actually didn't notice I wasn't staring down there No well thank you for not doing that Ben like you know Ben if you had some cocaine up your nose or something, I'd be like, hey, mate,

it's the workplace. People could see it. It's starting to take control of you and I think we should address it. Thank you for pointing that out.

I appreciate that and that fictitious situation that does exist. Now, would you tell people being a complete stranger if they had something on their face or their zipper's down? It's a tough one when you don't know someone

because people almost feel offended, but then you kind of feel relieved if you know later because the worst thing is looking into a mirror later and you're like, I had lettuce on my teeth or I had a bogey up my nose. Why did no one tell me? How long have I been doing this? Yeah, that's the thing, Eugene.

You backtrack throughout everywhere you've been, who you've spoken to. How long have I been doing this? Yeah, that's the thing, Eugene. You backtracked around everywhere you've been, who you've spoken to. Listen, if I was any sort of celebrity, that zipper incident would have been turned into a meme by now. But thankfully, I'm well below that fame threshold that the internet will just forget about it. It hasn't broken the internet in any way. It hasn't even lightly touched the internet.

So thank God for that. It's just mocked me on my radio show. Exactly. Before 9 o'clock though... My zipper didn't even go into the toilet, so maybe my zipper was down all day. All day. We apologise in advance.

Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Shono and Penn. Breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads. Now I want to talk about the biggest fear that you've been dragged into this. Jono and Pam, breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads. Now, I want to talk about the biggest fear that you've had. This is the fear in a taxi or an Uber.

You've had a bit of a slip up with this line of conversation before, Jono. Oh, I did. And I felt awful about it. I feel awful even retelling the story. But yeah, I was in a taxi. It was this year, actually. And I'm the king

of light banter that's what Ben calls me yeah Larry Lightfoot that's what they call me around the office my feet are so light the scales even struggle to weigh them with this light banter but I got into a taxi and yeah in the first minute or so uh I said you know what's what's but your biggest fear and I was wanting to know the dollar value, you know, the most amount that a passenger has paid this driver to take them from point A to point B. But then in his mind, he thought I was meaning his biggest fear, F-E-A-R, in life.

And he was like, oh, you know, losing my family. And I was like, uh-oh, uh-oh. This is not like banter. This is heavy banter. So in his mind, I went from zero to Dr. Phil in about 30 seconds. But he was happy to roll with the punches, which I appreciated. And so the trip out to West Auckland just sort of slowly morphed into a therapy session.

And he was pouring his heart out to me. Like, oh, if I lost my family, I just couldn't continue on. And I'm like, oh, this is so sweet. But then in the back of my mind, I'm he's gonna come he's gonna want to come back here he's gonna want to come back question and inevitably it came and he was like you know what's your what's your biggest fear and I was like oh god um losing my keys when I'm in a rush you know I couldn't think of anything anything better but uh no it was lovely it was lovely he shared that with me it was a lovely moment.

We want to share, though, your biggest fear, as in your biggest taxi or Uber fear, because a mate of mine, I'm not going to say how much he actually spent, but he missed a flight down to Wellington, so he was running late for a meeting, and then he decided to jump in a taxi to go to Otaki, which he thought was not too far up the road,

but it turned out to be a lot further than he thought. Otaki sounds like it's not too far up the road, doesn't it? It sounds like one of those places, oh, that's not too far up the road, but it turned out to be a lot further than he thought. Otaki sounds like it's not too far up the road, doesn't it? It sounds like one of those places, oh, that's not too far up the road if you landed in Wellington. Can we guess? You can have a guess. What's this game you're wanting to play, mate? Well, I just want to see 0800 the Hats or 4487.

What's been your biggest fear as far as what have you racked up in a taxi or an Uber? And we'll see if we can beat this. Alright, you're going to hold on to this intel. Yeah, I'm going to hold on to it, mate. Classic radio carrot dangler. I don't think anyone will beat it. And so that's why if I say it now, no one will call up. Right.

So where does that leave us? Well, that's why it leaves me not saying what it is. It leaves me holding on to that. Have you been in a big taxi fare situation, Juliet? Not me specifically, but I was recently in an Uber

and my Uber driver, he used to do taxi services where he'd take tourists to Rotorua or Taupo for like day trips and so they'd pay him to drive them down and he once had a guy

from somewhere overseas, he came and paid him to take him and his family down to Taupo to Hooker Lodge, which is a very flash expensive luxury lodge accommodation. And he was expecting just to drive back to Auckland after that. But then this family shouted him a night stay at Hooker Lodge, all the bells and whistles, breakfast, lunch, dinner, hung out with the family while they did all their activities in Taupo the next day and then drove them back.

He was even given literal bells and whistles. They were like, you're staying at this place, we'll go out of our way, I'll go down the road and buy you a bell and a whistle. So it was obviously a very wealthy family from overseas who was happy to pay for the taxi driver to stay with them. So the taxi fare would have been hundreds. It would have been thousands.

Wouldn't you like, surely you'd look into rental car options, like for that price. There's three or four other avenues you might want to explore before you land on getting a taxi from Auckland to Taupo. But hey, Kate, if you can beat that, 0800 the hits, 4487 the text. Corrine, welcome from Tauranga. How are you? Morning.

Good. How are you? Lovely to have you on. We're doing well, Corrine. Well, I'm doing well. I don't know how Ben's doing. Apparently he's still... I'm doing great.

I'm doing great. And I'm enjoying hanging out at home. All right. Now, he reckons he's got New Zealand's biggest taxi fare. Well, not New Zealand's, but a big fare. I don't think we can beat you. No one's going to beat it. Okay.

Now he's baking off. Now he's butting off. What was yours, Corrine? So, New Year's Eve, we caught a bus to the mound from Welcome Bay in Tauranga. It's about a 20K ride. And we thought we'd Uber home after this New Year's Eve party. $250 was our Uber home, which would normally be about $30, $35. Why was that?

Oh, because you were in the middle of nowhere and it was a high surge moment. Surging. Definitely a high surge moment. We didn't even think it would be that much. Yeah, right. Now that Uber driver is retired and living in the Bahamas. Yeah. What a wonderful fear.

Does that beat your fear, Ben, or yours is still bigger? That beats the fear, Jono. That beats the fear. Oh, ouch. First, hold on. Hold on. We've structured Eight minutes of our radio show

Around this First call we have First cab off the rank So to speak Beat yours Yeah My mate's was 240 So it just beats that

So yeah Well done Well done Thanks I'm not sure I wanted to win that one Oh Corrine Who fought the bill for that Or did you split it?

We did split it, yeah. Yeah, well, well done. Well, this has been an underwhelming end to Ben's big bit, but we'll continue on. Anna's on for the capital in Wellington. What was your biggest fear? Hi, mine was about $330. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, boys.

Get some lung cancer off that call, buddy. Oh, jeez. Okay. Wow. That's nearly $100 more than yours. Where were you going from? So I was actually going from quite a big night out in Courtney Place in Wellington, just home to one of the suburbs.

And the taxi ride was probably about $30, but the soiling fee was about $300. Okay. When you say soiling, it sounds... It was vomit, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, good. My mind goes to other places. There you go.

The old soilage fee does change. I can imagine you've soiled a taxi before, Juliet. I have absolutely not. The higher your voice goes, the less I believe you. I have not. Oh, okay. Are you a taxi soiler, Ben? No, I haven't actually soiled any taxis, Jono.

So it's something still on the bucket list. Well, maybe take a bucket with you. You won't get charged. Thank you very much, Anna. And so 330 beats your 250. Yeah, it does. Yes, well done. Our dear friend from Taupo. Steve, welcome back to the show. Yeah, welcome.

Good morning. Lovely to have you on again, Steve. The biggest cab fare? $1,100. Oh my God! From where to where? Flying into Christchurch at the beginning of COVID and having to go to Dunedin

and no rental cars available with $1,100, thank you very much that made me go broke $1,100? And the taxi driver, do you negotiate with the driver before you hop in or he just lets the meter run? Nah, he just lets the meter run there is no negotiation really

I mean I work in transport so I sort of knew how it worked, but goodness me, I could have taken the truck for that. Gee whiz, that's very impressive. I mean, probably the most expensive, most extravagant taxi ride in passenger transport history. Well, they're keen. I bet he's like, well, you know how much it costs. I don't have to take you.

Well, thank you very much, Steve, and thank you very much, Ben, for participating as well. Yeah, well, thank you. I kind of got... Yeah, anyway, it didn't work out quite as well in my head as that one did.

Mind you, $250 is a big fare. Yeah. It's just not as big as $1,100. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, producer Juliette

does a wonderful job of producing the show. Now she's branching out into doing interviews for the show. It's like our own little Oprah. It's great. It's great.

And we said to Juliette, hey, listen, don't sweat this interview, but it's the exact opposite of what she said she did. She got herself quite wound up. Is this your debut interview?

I think so. Well, I've gone to a couple of press conferences before with Robbie Williams and Hugh Jackman, and I very much embarrassed myself at those. But this one felt a bit more serious, and so I was kind of scared. So she's coming off a checkered interview history. And listen, you're a competent broadcaster.

I'm sure you did a good job. Who did you interview? So it's Lauren Graham and we all know her as Lorelei from Gilmore Girls. So she's in a new series which is on Disney Plus now. It's called The Mighty Ducks Game Changers and it's basically a follow-up series on the original 90s film about the Mighty Ducks,

the ice hockey team. Not the 90s films. There was three of them. Oh, there were films, multiple. Oh, yeah, there were three of them. Oh, there were films. Multiple. Oh, yeah. There were three of them. They were all on Disney+. Emilio Estevez, who's the main character, he was the coach.

He's back in this new series as well. I've watched the first couple of episodes. I was like, oh, he's going to end up coaching the team. Oh, yeah. Is he a disgruntled former hockey coach? Is he? Yeah. Yeah, he is.

I'll have no part of it. I'll turn my back on that sport. But, you know, deep down, you know. or other he might not i haven't seen that far but yeah i feel like he's going to end up coaching the team again yeah so basically now in 2021 the mighty ducks hockey team is uh which was was once not a very strong team back in the 90s is now extremely good extremely competitive and so lauren graham plays alex she's the mother of 12-year-old boy Evan who gets cut from this hockey team. And so Alex kickstarts a new hockey team filled with underdogs and all the kids who kind of don't really have a place in school

into this new hockey team. That's a wonderful synopsis of the film. I hope I explained that all good. It is very good. I watched the first couple of episodes as well. It's very wholesome. So you started with Lauren Graham with a bit of light banter. Yes, and I was nervous. And I actually had to read off my laptop.

Hello, Lauren, how are you? And she laughed at me because of it. Hi, Lauren, how are you going? Very well, how are you? Good, good. Now, whereabouts in the world are you at the moment? I'm in Los Angeles. And are you guys kind of still in a lockdown at the moment

or are you a bit more free now? I'm mentally still in a lockdown at the moment or are you a bit more free now? I'm mentally still in a lockdown. True. It's feeling a little bit better than it has. We're opening a bit. Opening slowly. Yeah, no, I feel for you. I hope you guys can kind of open a little bit more.

Bit of light banter. That was good. Just to intro the thing, you know. Solid start. Is that good? You know, that's great. Ease into it. Then what hard-hitting questions next, Jude?

Hard-hitting questions was about the Mighty Ducks Game Changers series. I was wondering why she wanted to get into it, whether she'd seen the original films, and what was the reason she decided to get involved. Now, you play Alex in Disney Plus' new series, The Mighty Ducks Game Changers. Now, were you a big fan of the original Mighty Ducks, and was that kind of the big reason you decided to jump on board with this project?

I was a big fan. And it's both a reason to jump on board and a reason to really vet the new material. Because I am familiar with returning to something that people really love. There's a different responsibility. But I just thought the script was charming and had enough of a connection to the movies that it honours the nostalgia,

but also brings it into modern times. Yeah, that's what I found. I watched it on the first couple of episodes and I haven't seen the original

and so it was good that I can still understand the storyline without even having any idea about kind of how the original played out, which I think will work

really well for kids growing up nowadays who can watch it on Disney+. Great, great review. Great review from you. Oh, thank you very much, guys. Very confident. Oh, you guys are boosting my confidence.

Thanks very much here. I wish I could just sit here and rip you to shreds, but there's nothing to pluck holes in. It's a very confident interview. But what I found really interesting because I had a little listen last night when you sent it through

was the famous sort of neighbourhood that she lives in. Yeah, so she lives next to Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell. And I asked her about this one. I see that you are, or maybe you were, I'm not sure if you've moved since, your neighbours were Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell. Is that still a thing? Yes. Do you have any other neighbours that we may know of?

Well, we, of course, in this world cannot say. Yeah, true. But I would say I'm in a part of town that's kind of not as fancy as other parts of town. It's like a more kind of a mix of it's just like not a super fancy part of town, which I really like. And then the fancy people live on the other side. Yeah, true, true.

I also saw that you mistook Dex for Brad Pitt. Was that when you first met him or first saw him driving past or something? No, it's been, I have to look at him. He played my brother for a million years. No, it was just like, I passed him and it was something about the car, the angle, the sunglasses, the hair.

And then I texted him later and I was like, I just thought you were Brad Pitt. And he was like, I love you forever. Please marry me. Oh my goodness. I'm sure Kristen after that would have been like, yep, I'm married to Brad Pitt now. Thank you very much.

I mean, Dax doesn't even need Brad Pitt. He's like a deeply appealing guy on camera and on podcasts and in person. Yeah, yeah, totally.. He's like a deeply appealing guy on camera and on podcasts and in person. Yeah. Yeah, totally. I wish I was a deeply appealing guy. Deeply unappealing. You've got all those words in there.

If you just joined us, Lauren Graham, she's from Gilmore Girls, now starring in the new Mighty Ducks series on Disney+, producer Juliette conducting a wonderful interview here. I feel like we should check out more interviews of producer Juliette to do them. Oh, goodness. And then we can just review them the next day. Oh, yeah. This is another one of my favourite bits at the end

where you kind of asked a question and then you kind of backtracked on it. Yeah, because I kind of asked a question about where she lived and she couldn't really say. And so then I kind of asked this question and realised she probably can't answer this either. So it was a little bit shocking. Do think uh the the series here that you've got on Disney plus once it's kind of done and it's done or are they gonna be more seasons out what

do you think is gonna be well I'm not sure if you can say that but what are your hopes I would tell you if I knew I think I think it depends on like you know everything how it does and how people respond to it. And, but I hope they want more. Yeah. Well, from what I watched, I think it'll be such a good, it'll be because, you know, you touch on kids who get their, you know, their dreams crushed by a coach. And then it's kind of about, you know, pushing on, even if you think you're not potentially good enough.

So it sends some really good messages. I think families will really enjoy it here in New Zealand. Lauren Graham, thank you very much for joining me today and all the best. Hopefully, I'm very excited for the series. Oh, that's so nice. Thank you so much. No worries.

Have a good rest of your day, okay? Yeah, you too. Bye. Nice work, June. Thanks. There you go. You asked the lady's address. And you wanted to get her to spill the season of information

about if they were doing another season. Yeah. I don't know if that's good or bad, but, you know, I just work hard to get the goss. Great job. It's a Mighty Ducks. It's an underdog story, the series, and an underdog interview as well, Juliet.

You came through. Nice job. Thank you. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Five words for 5K on the hit. You're only five words away from a massive payday.

It's our Game of Word Association. We tell you five words, you tell us the first words that pop into your head. If those words match up, you are $5,000 richer. Yeah, it's becoming New Zealand's most popular game behind what can we get grumpier to Australia about, whether it's stealing cake recipes or unorthodox bowling techniques. But this is rising up the ranks, that's for sure. Jodie, you're on from Albany.

Yeah, hi. I love Albany. It's one of my favourite places. Yeah, I'm just driving to school. Are you a teacher? No, no, I'm driving the kids. Oh, driving the kids. Hi, kids. How are you?

Hi. My daughter's phone, she got through, so I guess I'm going to have to earn some money. Oh, your daughter got through. Okay, what's your daughter's name, Jodie? Alicia. Alicia. Welcome, Alicia, and welcome, Jodie, to Five Words.

$5,000 could be all yours. You need to send one of us into the soundproof booth. And unfortunately, due to the fact that he refuses to come into work at the moment. I won't be in the same room as him anymore. He won't even look me dead in the eyes. And it's what happened at the Christmas party last year. And we've never been the same since.

But Ben Boyce is broadcasting from his kitchen. Now, he had a COVID test. He came back negative, though, didn't he? Didn't he, Ben? Yeah, didn't he, Ben? Yes, I did. But I still refuse to be in the same room as you, John. Yeah, I know, that's the thing.

I'm like, he's fine, he's healthy, but he's still not coming in. When yesterday when Ashley Bloomfield called a press conference, I was like, uh-oh, Ben's kicked it back off again. No, no. All right, so John, make your way into the soundproof booth.

Of course, I can't see you making your way over there, so I go to producer Juliet for some commentary. Live commentary. He's walking over to the soundproof booth. He is opening the door, taking a sweet time there. Come on. No, I'm just kidding. And now he's in there.

You're good to go. All right, Jodie, you know how the game works? Sure do. All right, five words. Let's see what pops into your head. Here is your first word. It is Waiheke. Waiheke. W right, five words. Let's see what pops into your head. Here is your first word. It is Waiheke. Waiheke.

Waiheke Island. Waiheke Island. Seems like the obvious choice. Producer Juliet, did you have anything else in your head? Nope, that was the main one for me. Jodie, the next word is paint. What paint? Paint.

P-A-I-N-T. Brush. Paint brush. Yeah, good option. Good option. Salmon is the next. Salmon. Salmon?

I would go... My daughter's saying sushi, but I want to go fish. I'm going to go fish. You're going to go fish? You're overriding your daughter right now. This could come back to bite you, but hopefully not. Your next word, Jodie, this morning is buffet. Buffet.

Buffet. Okay, so she's done meal. I was going to say table, but I'm going to go meal. Okay, you're splitting your options 50-50, backing your daughter and backing yourself with one. And the last word this morning, Jodie, is jewellery. Jewellery. Oh, gosh, I've got this little whisper in my ear saying box.

Jewellery, yep, let's say box. Jewellery box. I think that you've done pretty well there. Producer Julie, do you have a second opinion? Yeah, I agree. You've done pretty well.. Producer Juliette, for a second opinion. Yeah, I agree. You've done pretty well. Yep. Well, let's hope Jono matches up.

All right. We'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth and we'll come out and we'll find out if those five words we just said to you match up with his. And if you do, if they do, you win $5,000. All right. It's going to be a good weekend. You'll be happy to know, Jodie, Jodie, I've just been in the Soundproof booth organising my five-year plan

and other life-associated goals. And I plan to continue on working with Ben for the next five years. Even though I won't be in the same room as you. How'd Jodie go? I think she did pretty good, actually, today. A lot of the same ones that popped into my head were the same ones that Jodie

and her daughter, Alicia Alicia came up with. Although they kind of had a split decision on a couple. So yeah, we'll see if you get the same as them. All right, let's do it, Jodie. Let's go, Alicia. Let's change some lives. We've changed a lot of lives with this game, haven't we? Changed a lot of lives and we've ruined a lot of lives too, but we don't like to focus on those. No, let's just focus on the positives. It's a fun Friday. The first word I said to Jodie was Waiheke. And the word I'm going to say to you is island. Alright, no mucking

around there. One for one, Jodes. Okay. Alright, here we go. That was low-hanging fruit. It was, it was. Next word is paint. Paint. Think about it. Think about it. Don't tell me off. Think about it. Think about it. You come out too quickly with a word, and there are options for this word. Yeah. There's paint tin.

There's paint brush. I'm going to go paint brush. Jodie. Jodie. How's Alicia? She must be like, this guy's changing my childhood. Hey, just smile from ear to ear, okay? Smiling from ear to ear.

Well, let's keep that grin going. Okay, your next word right now. The third word is salmon. Salmon. I'm quiet. Yeah, I have gone quiet. You is salmon. Salmon. I'm quiet. Yeah, I have gone quiet. You're right. For once. It's a good moment.

Enjoy this, everyone. Salmon. Salmon fish? Yes. Jodie! Can we give away $5,000 on a Friday? Jeez, I love it when we get three because this is the point. This is the turning point.

All right, come on, Jono. You've got this. Buffet is the next word. Word four, buffet. A lot of stuff going on in Jodie's life. Someone's backing up somewhere. She is multitasking. Winning money.

Reversing. Buffet. Oh, jeez. Table? Buffet table. What was it? Meal. Buffet meal.

Buffet meal. Jodie, I'm sorry. Ah, gutted. Oh, you did so well in the last word. Can you not say gutted because it makes me feel... We're all gutted. We're all feeling gutted. Yeah, I'm gutted.

Jodie's like a scary actor. Yeah, I know. I know you're gutted, but can you just stop saying you're gutted? Just say you're happy. Jewelry was the last one, Jono, just to play the game out. Jewellery. Jewellery necklace? Oh, okay.

Box. Jewellery box is what we had. Don't say you're gutted again, please, Jodie. We're all gutted. Shattered. She's shattered now. Shattered? And I held off the third word.

Oh, Jodie. Oh, Jodie. Oh, Jodie. Listen, love your work, Jodie. Pass on our love to Alicia. And I'm sorry, hopefully you'll get to play again. Yeah, mate. Next week. Oh, that was so close.

Shattered. Shattered. We're all shattered. We're all gutted. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie.

Yeah, nah. She'll be right. And at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Thanks for hanging out with us on a Friday. A fun Friday, as our boss Todd likes to call it. Doesn't he? It's a fun Friday. And a Friday's got a fun feeling about it.

It does. It's been a short week. Better than miserable Monday. How bleak is 6 o'clock Monday morning? Let's not even think about it now. No, that's so far away. Because we're in Fun Friday mode. But we're in the throes of organising the Five Words $5,000 World Tour at the moment.

We do it on air, quarter to eight every morning. You match five words with our five words, you win 5K. And we're taking it live, taking it to the people. Ben, you're a man of the people. That's what you've always told me. Yeah, yeah, I guess so. Are you not a man of the people. That's what you've always told me. Yeah, yeah, I guess so. Are you not a man of the people? I'd like to be, yeah.

Yeah, right, you don't sound confident. Well, I know you're setting me up for something. Because whenever I say, you're a man of the people, you're like, great, well, we're doing this thing. Yeah, right, so he's a bit hesitant to say he's a man of the people. But I have, over the last three days, gone, well, we're going to get this tour off the ground. We're going to kick it off in Auckland, which we did.

Box Tix did that the other night. That was a wonderful evening. And now heading to the South Island, then embarking through North America and all of the European countries as well who want to see us on the Five Worlds World Tour. But we didn't have anywhere to stay and we don't have a venue in the South Island

to host the live Five Words. That was until last night where I received a message from a wonderful woman by the name of Ginny Orange from Orange Homes. And she joins us right now on the phone. Maureen, how are you, Ginny? Good, thanks, Jono. How are you doing? Lovely to have you on, Ginny.

Now, Ben Boyce is here as well. Hello, Ginny. How are you doing? Good, good, on, Ginny. Now, Ben Boyce is here as well. Hello, Ginny. How you doing? Good, good things. How are you? Ben Boyce, he unfortunately is up on some unrelated crimes, which means he's not in the same studio at the moment. I just can't, Ginny,

to be honest, I can't be in the same room at the same time as Jono. I just need some time out. Yeah, and we'll work through those issues, those crimes and hopefully we'll get back in the studio at some point. But Ginny, you've phoned through. Your name should be Mary because this is a

Hail Mary. You've answered our call. In desperation, I've tried to kick off the Five Words World Tour with no planning, no administration, nothing considered. But you're coming to the rescue with an offer. Yes, absolutely.

We would love to host you guys in our showroom. So you run Orange Homes? Yes, yes, I do indeed. I'm part of the team. So Ginny Orange, this is your company? Yes, I'm the daughter. Greg's daughter. And Greg Orange is the owner of Orange Homes. He is, he is indeed. You're offering us up a

show home for accommodation. Show home? Why don't you offer us up a proper home? Not a show home. One with bloody running water and amenities. Does this thing have all those sorts of things? This is better than it gives you.

I mean, it's never lifted, never stayed in. Everything's running perfectly for you guys. Yeah, but are we going to have to take, like, tour parties through this thing? Do we get a percentage cut if we sell a home for you? You see what you can do. Okay. All right, well, we've been offered a show home,

a literal show home for the show. That's very cool. That is awesome. Yeah, it does work. You got me on the clever name there, Jono, the show home with the show.

I'm in, I'm in. Now, so what are the T's and C's here? What are you, we can just come... Yeah, how much do we have to bang on about Orange Homes? Like, it's a kind offer, but I feel like there's a hook attached. How much do we have to bang on about Orange Homes?

It's a kind offer, but I feel like there's a hook attached. As long as you guys stay, have a good time, we'll look after you as well. Everything's set up. You can move in tomorrow, so I'm sure you'll find it pretty good. Oh, now Ben, what do you reckon? I mean, you're the one who's been dragging the chain on this world tour. Well, it seems like it's taking some momentum. I mean, I was thinking more like a hotel accommodation if we did go anywhere, but, hey, a show home?

Yeah, I've never stayed in a show home before. I couldn't say too many people would have done that either. I like the novelty of a show home too. And what, do we have to be out of the show home by sort of 8 o'clock in the morning so you show some potential clients through? No. No, you guys stay for as long as you need. Do your show from there the next day,

whatever works for you. No, I'm keen. I can tick that one off the list of staying in a show home. Yeah, now we've got the accom sorted. Do we just need a venue? Oh yes. So I'm thinking,

where do the Crusaders play? What's the name of that stadium? Yeah, it might be a bit big for that. But hey. Is it overshooting the mark? Yeah, maybe just overshooting the mark. Yeah, just slightly. What's that nice arena that they have?

Oh, Horncastle. Yeah, book out Horncastle. Again, probably a bit big. Yeah, probably just scale it back just a little bit. Hagley Park, book out the whole park. Yeah, again. Too big? Yeah, too big. What are you wanting to scale it back to a little bit. Hagley Park, book out the whole park. Yeah, again. Too big? Yeah, too big.

What are you wanting to scale it back to? The show home. The show home. Yeah, maybe that or, you know, something small like there's a New Zealand Natural by the Square ice cream place. Something about that size maybe, you know? Well, Ginny, you don't need to be here.

We can do it from the show home. We can do it from the show home. Well, that's always an option too. Ginny, hey, you're an absolute angel. Thank you for helping us out. No problem. Happy to help. We'll see you next week in Christchurch. Awesome. Looking forward to it.

There we go. Got somewhere to say it's happening. The Five Words World Tour gaining momentum. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Ben Voice Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Pryor's Worst Moments of the Week.

This is something I like to do on a Friday, reflect back on my friend and colleague Jono Pryor's worst moments of the week. Basically burning out, well, you know, snubbing his candle to make mine burn brighter is basically the theory behind this. And it works. I mean, the amount of management meetings I've had,

posts of Friday's show, they like to review things as well. It really brings to their attention what's happening. It's like sending out a giant group email going, look at all the dumb things this idiot did this week. You know how all companies have like a weekly rap from all their departments? Well, this is Ben's audio version of it.

Now, earlier this week, we were talking to a listener, Becky, who was deciding whether to let her mother into the birthing suite. And Jono, who is a proud Catholic, yeah, he went there. I mean, hey, Virgin Mary. Three random wise men turned up to her one. But I mean, that wasn't the most problematic thing about that birth, was it? Joseph's probably like, how did this happen? We've never... It's a miracle.

Who is this? Yeah, and I'll back up those claims. Joseph, I feel sorry for Joseph. He never asked any hard questions that needed to be asked. Did he? He just rolled with the punches. Okay, I'll tell you. What did you say? We've never, but you're... Okay, I guess. Okay. It's a miracle? We've never, but you're, okay. I guess.

Well, okay. It's a miracle. Poor Joseph. Like if that was an episode of, you know, put him on, what was that British show with that guy, the talk show during the day? Oh, I love that guy. Jeremy Kyle? Jeremy Kyle.

Get that on an episode of Jeremy Kyle and hash it out. I was also off with a bit of a snuffy nose, and we had an interview with Dai Henwood. He was joining us in the studio, so I wasn't there. But, Jono, you thought you'd come up with a genius idea to cover up for the fact that I wasn't in the studio. Yeah, it was basically get you to record a whole bunch of voice parts. I would play them down, and the audience, they'd be none the wiser.

Dai, how are you today? Ben, I am great, mate. I mean, to be honest, it's been too long, and it's just wonderful to hear your voice. So how was the trip in? It was pretty good, to be honest. I tell you, I was coming in from Avondale. It was sort of light to heavy traffic.

Map said I was going to be a bit longer than I was, but I got to park outside and do a little bit of GST admin before I came in. That's funny. I don't think no one could tell. I couldn't tell. And I was there. I was like, is Ben with me? The reactions that you made me record, it didn't quite work out.

We were also talking about emojis this week, and you were like, oh, I never use emojis. But we had a look at your phone and Producer Juliet, we uncovered some stuff, didn't we? Check your phone to Juliet. I don't think I've ever used an emoji. You've got the eggplant. The peach.

The peach. There's some water here as well. Hold on. Oh, I never use emoji. Oh, hello. You've got the hot sweats emoji here. Hold on. Oh, I never use emoji. Oh, hello. You've got the hot sweats emoji here. Hold on. Lots of love hearts.

Pure assassination of my character. Not at all, it was the truth. You plotted and then you put that on social media. Yeah, well, it's the truth. It was the truth. It was the truth. And finally this week, we're talking about Beyonce and Jay-Z. Someone we know had been out to lunch at the same place that they were eating.

And, wow, we'll never recover from this joke. And he's like, Beyonce, they flew there on a helicopter, apparently. And she only had half a bowl of chips. And Jay-Z only had half a salad. He was like, oh, I can feel like dessert. And Beyonce's like, I don't think you're ready for this jelly. So he had to skip out on dessert. That was just a set up.

Yeah. Yeah. It was. Jeez, the disappointment in all of your voices. Gee whiz. That's why I haven't been to work for two days. I can't go into the same room as him. I just can't do it.

I can't. Fair enough. That was the worst of the week. And I'll agree, there were some shocking bits of radio. I'll put my name to that. I can't. Fair enough. That was the worst of the week, and I'll agree, that was some shocking bits of radio. I'll put my name to that. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben,

New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Yeah, Jono, I did the most pointless exercise with one of my daughters yesterday. It wasn't meant to be pointless, it just turned out that way. So,

I hope she's awake to hear this. Special daughter and daddy time. Blime daddy time pointless spending time with the kids it was nice to do something with her I don't mean it like that but once I explain the story you understand what I mean so tie dye, it's back you know the tie dye clothes are a big thing, you see all these bright coloured

clothes everywhere you go, you go in stores and people wearing out and about it's funny isn isn't it, because we did research into this. Fashion is cyclic. It's always since like the 60s. It's just gone around in sort of decade-long cycles. So, you know, that's been my thing.

I've written out the same black holy T-shirt from 1991 and now they're back in fashion, baby. So anyway, my daughter Sienna and i used to she's like can we have a go at making you know making my white t-shirt into a tie tie you know get some bright colors on i'm like yeah that'd be a fun little activity so we went outside and we sort of we well i think we made the mistake of using food coloring um so what we did is we we put the food coloring on the t-shirt and we swirled it around and actually turned out looking awesome. And we were like, man, this is amazing.

Maybe this is our thing. And then Sienna, for some reason, says, oh, you've got to wash them straight away afterwards so the colour sets in. I'm like, oh, okay. When did she become a tie-dye T-shirt expert? I just said, okay. She knows what she's doing.

She said it with confidence. So I was like, oh, I'll put it in the washing machine. And then after the cycle, we took it out, and the T-shirt was 100% white again. And it had gone back to having no dye stains on it whatsoever. It was just a white T-shirt. We'd spent a good part of an hour, an hour and a half, basically going through a process, washing it,

and washing everything away. I'm like, well, that was pointless. Nappy sand, getting rid of those tough stains. I was like, yeah, it was quite a remarkable achievement from the washing machine, because you're like, there's no way all this colour would come out, but 100%, it's a white t-shirt. The irony is, the stains that you want to get out, you can't get out.

But the stains you're wanting to keep in, but why waste the time doing it? Why just buy a t-shirt that a child's worked hard in a factory to make? Well, that's true. I've learnt my lesson now, Jono. I just thought I'd do a nice activity. Maybe we'll make our own clothes. But you're right.

It's a lot easier to go get one for the mall. Yeah. Are you a tie-dye fan, Juliet? Not really. I mean, I think I did one of those school projects, kind of like what Sienna is probably into, maybe when I was her age. But I can't remember how you quite nail it.

Like, what do you actually use instead of food colouring? Is it just some sort of special tie-dye thing that you're meant to buy? Yeah, maybe there's a special pack that we needed, but hey, food colouring, not recommended. You've got that shirt that everyone's like, oh, you've flicked bleach all over it. Oh, yeah. You know that chicken shirt you've got?

Oh, I do. Yes, it's got, yeah, no, but that's, apparently that's fashion. Well, I don't, well, that's what the guy told me at the store when I bought it. But now I wear it and everyone's like, oh, what have you spooked on that? Have you actually genoled your shirt there? Apparently, apparently

that's fashion. I took his word for it and I'm looking great. Next. This is the problem. This is why you're like, I'm going to pivot, guys. I'm going to work from home this morning. Oh, it's all going so well, too, but there you go.

I've made it. I forgot what I was going to say. You pick it up. Before 7 o'clock this morning, producer Juliet, you catch up with a Hollywood celebrity, a big interview. Yeah, it was very terrifying. And I'm very nervous to play it out. It's always good to go into an interview terrified.

Watch out, Oprah Winfrey. We've got a terrified person chasing down the details. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Shona and Ben, breakfast on the hits. It's time for... Great to seeTC on New Zealand Going around every city and town in Aotearoa, aren't we Ben? Yeah, one by one we're doing it alphabetically

And we're learning about each place as we go It's been a couple of days since we called someone Annoyed someone with a phone call Yeah, and today we're heading to the northern region of Aotearoa To a wonderful place called Matakohe And I think we have someone on the phone right now. Matakohe, a rich timber industry. And someone on the phone right now from the Kauri Museum, Tracy Morena, how are you? Oh, thank you. Thanks for ringing us. We're really pleased to talk to you.

Oh, that's good. No one ever says that to us. There's more of that stuff, actually. Can you say it again just so we can remember it twice? Oh, kia ora. We're really pleased to talk to you from here in Matakohe. Oh, lovely. I could even go a third time, Tracy. It's too much, John. Is it?

Now Tracy will be like, well, it's not that cool to talk to them because they maybe just say over and over how nice it was to talk to them. Now, how are you, Tracy? Yeah, we're good here in Matakohe. Yeah, now where is Matakohe? So we're perched on the edge of the magnificent Kaipara Harbour

on the ancient Kauri Trail. So you turn off at the Brinduan turnoff and you head towards Dargaville and we're about 24 kilometres along that road. Now, the Kauri Museum, focusing heavily on Kauri wood. It's the name. I mean, you really nailed your foot to the floor there. Yeah, also the Kauri gum. So it's the industries and the people in our magnificent Kauri forest.

It says here at TripAdvisor, one of two things to do in Matakohe is to go to the Kauri Museum, 817 five-star reviews. Fabulous. That's a lot of reviews. Really, once we get people through the door, people love us. So these trees, what's so great about these trees? Oh, kauri trees are just magnificent. If you really need to take the time to visit the trees in Waipō Forest,

Tāne Mahuta will just take your breath away. Yeah, I've never seen Tāne Mahuta in the flesh, but just say... Oh, you did? Yeah, I know. So it's a thing you need to do before you die in New Zealand, isn't it? Oh, absolutely. And I haven't got long to live, so I'll get up there. Now, tell us a fact about the kauri tree that will wow us.

Well, it's one of the largest trees in the world. I didn't know that. Yeah. What about the giant redwoods in the States? They're the the largest trees in the world. I didn't know that. Yeah. What about the giant redwoods in the States? Yeah, they're the largest. We're the next. Really? So how many years will they grow for?

Like, how many years? Well, we've got evidence that they live over 4,000 years old. Wow. They're really fabulous trees. There was a fad there where, you know, a lot of wooden floors and houses were made out of cold. They weren't there? And then, I'm going to blame this on the boomer generation. They came in and just rolled carpet over it, didn't they?

Oh, they did. Yeah. Yes, but they need to rip that carpet up and polish those floors because that kauri is just beautiful. It is just beautiful, yeah. And then our generation came and ripped the carpet off, didn't we? Yeah, that's right. We're like, oh, these lovely polished floors there. The age-old question, a tree falls in the woods,

no one's around to hear it, does it make a noise? Surely you're the person to answer this one. Well, it does make a noise, yes. No, I thought that too, but yeah. Why wouldn't it make a noise? Well, exactly. Well, I guess no one's there to hear it. Yeah, but the birds and the insects, they hear it.

Yeah, exactly. Of course it makes, that's a stupid question. It is. I don't know why it's been such a question that many people have pondered over

for so long. Well, there's also one about a bear defecating in the woods. What's that one? Oh, that's just like, does a bear do that? Yeah, you're like,

yeah, well, it does. Yeah. And then we can move on and not keep bringing it up. I couldn't tell you anything about bears. Good, I will tell you what, you have been a fantastic representative. Oh, awesome.

Thank you for ringing. For the Coyote Museum. Now, I'm demanding a pay rise for Tracy. I'm going to go and record and say it. I don't know what you're on now, Tracy, but I'm saying double it. Oh, fabulous. Thank you. Who makes those calls?

The Trust Board, no. The Trust Board? Put me onto the Trust Board. You're fabulous. Thank you. Who makes those calls? No. The trust board? Put me onto the trust board. You're good on your mate. You look after yourself. Oh, you too. Thanks so much for ringing. She's lovely.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Scrolling through your feed. Yeah, scrolling through your feed. I'll tell you what, this man, he didn't go to journalism school, but somehow he's ended up hosting our news bulletin by default

because the rest of us can't be bothered doing the research. He has been voiced with what's been happening in the news. Well, on the lighter side of the news

over the last 24 hours, a lady on TikTok in America, she's taken to TikTok asking a big question for Australians and New Zealanders about why they like

to hang their clothes out on the line. Now, apparently, it's not a big thing in America. A lot of people just use the dryer, and I was researching it more, and the clotheslines actually in some areas of America are imposed by community associations, so you can't actually have a clothesline outside. So what, I always get nervous about chucking my clothes

straight from the washing machine into the dryer. Always ends up in a shrinkage situation, doesn't it? Well, that can happen, yeah. But yeah, so she was a bit puzzled why Australians and New Zealanders chuck their clothes outside using nature's dryer, the sun. But yeah, I guess it's just a thing that we do here in New Zealand. I find the clothes, once they've been dried on a clothesline outside, they smell better, don't they? But then you get that situation too, particularly in Auckland, where you put them out and then it rains and you're like,

what do I do now? And you leave them out longer and then it rains again. That really can make things take days and days. Yeah, well, so I guess that's why she's querying us. She's like, you idiots. You know, there's an invention here that gets this done in about half an hour. Well, true. I put my undies and socks in the dryer all day.

All day. Yeah. Well, they don't have to worry about shrinkage with those. Yeah, so that's fine. If anything, if I can make them smaller, it really would help me out. They're quite baggy. Yeah, your shoes. Yeah, your shoes are very tiny.

Now, also, speaking of TikTok, someone else has made another little public service announcement. Mortgage advisor. Hold it, Ben. Can I just stop you there? I got news from TikTok, guys. Did you just go to TikTok before and get everything? Yeah.

Yeah. But I found this one quite interesting. She's a mortgage advisor in the UK. And I think we've all probably done this. When we transfer money to a friend in their bank account and they have the reference, the description of what the money's for, sometimes you're tempted to write a little bit of a joke, right? Oh, yeah.

Well, you're like Tom's boobie shop. Yeah. Adult sexy time. Or as she was saying, a lot of people put money for drugs or something like that on there. And she said as a mortgage advisor in the UK, she can advise you guys not to do that because we see it, the banks see it, the lenders see it, and it can create awkward conversations and questions when you're trying to get a mortgage.

Didn't this happen to you? It happened to a friend of mine whose accountant was going through some stuff. And I think his wife had transferred some money and put something funny in there and he's like um, just got a query what this is all for, this adult thing. He's like, oh what? He didn't realise because I mean you don't always go through your accounts and then realise later it was just a joke

but that kind of backfired. Because if you've got like money for drugs on your bank statement, that's a very open drug transaction. Well, that's true. Surely that's easily explained to the mortgage broker. Oh, yeah.

Or maybe that's their way around it. I don't know. Maybe they're just front-footing it. So they're just saying, keep your transactions sensible. Yes. In fact, I'm going to try and put some money in your account right now, Ben. No. And after the ads, you can tell me what I've written.

No. On your account. Yes. We'll keep it sensible then. I'll keep it sensible tell me what I've written on your account. We'll keep it sensible, then. I'll keep it sensible. I'll do this right now. You send me your bank account number and I'll put 50 cents into your account and I'll put it under something

and we'll come back after the ads. I don't trust you. Trust me. Trust me. Trust me. Okay? No. Ben, you're the last person

who's going to keep it sensible. Ben, just trust me. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Buy the WhatsApp by doco.nz. She's fresh from last weekend punishing herself walking the Rootburn track. Now covered in blisters with a torn Achilles.

Was it really all worth it? I'm going to say probably not, but here's producer Juliette with Spy. Thank you. So, Caitlyn Jenner is the latest celebrity wanting to get into politics. She's reportedly wanting to run for the Governor of California and is being helped by an experienced Republican Party fundraiser. Now, Arnie was the Governor of California for a while. Is he still in there?

I think he's out now, but I think he served a couple of terms or something like that. He was out for quite a while. How could I forget? Gavin Newsom, the current governor of California. Wonderful Gavin Newsom. You know Arnie, though, at some stage he could be back. That was a great gag.

That was beautiful. I couldn't quite work an I'll be back. I was like, yeah, but anyway. No, you did well, you did well. You got it. I couldn't quite work in I'll Be Back. I was like, yeah. No, you did well. You did well. You got it. You connected the dots and that's the main thing. Julia laughed and she's 23, so she got it.

I get it. So it spans the generations, that comedy. Oh, good. Well done. That's what we're trying to do here on The Hits, you know? But Caitlyn Jenner, which is why I find it very interesting, and I don't know why I find this interesting. Maybe it's a stereotype.

But she's a Republican. Yeah. And obviously transgender. And made the transition. So you'd think would be Democratic-leaning with her political views. Yeah, you would think that as well. And another thought is, imagine if Kanye became president and then Caitlyn Jenner became governor of California.

At that rate, you'd have the whole Kardashian family running the United States. Well, they reckon Kim's going to make a run for office, too. Oh, yeah, because she's been helping out quite a bit in that area. She's been with prison reform as well. And, hey, the guy from The Apprentice got in for a few years. Yeah, exactly. Crazier things have happened.

Yeah, very true. And Piers Morgan has claimed that members of the royal family have thanked him personally for standing up for them against Meghan Markle. Now, famously, you know, he had this big steal. Harry just lets his wife trash his family.

But they are... Portraying them as a bunch of ruthless, bullying... Hang on, hang on. No, sorry. They're also very positive about the Queen. The Queen's lovely,

but we hate everything she stands for. So, obviously, he went in on the interview with Oprah, but apparently some members of the royal family, not sure who, have reached out to Piers and said, thanks, buddy. Yeah, well, I mean,

because they really haven't said anything publicly to the royal family, have they? No, their motto is don't explain and don't complain. It's a wonderful motto from the Queen. That's the Queen's mantra, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, which is probably quite a safe thing to do. Yeah, well, I think we should have a bit more of that on this show, actually. We probably over-explain stuff, don't we? We do, we do, and we probably quite a safe thing to do. Yeah, well, I think we should have a bit more of that on this show, actually.

We probably over-explain stuff, don't we? We do, we do. And we complain quite a lot. We always complain about how early we have to get up. But from this day forward, that'll stop. We're the new royal family. Never complain, over-explain. That's spy.

For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast head to thehits.co.nz. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast on the Hits. Want to find out who's having the best weekend? That's the wonderful philosopher Rihanna.

We just heard from her. She also said cheers to the freaking weekend, Ben. Those are words out of her mouth. Yeah, yeah, she did. Yeah, wonderful philosophy. Now, who's going to have the best weekend? We're going to decide right now. 0800, that's the telephone number.

We'll start with you, Renee, in Christchurch. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Lovely to have you on. We're doing really well. What are you doing this weekend? I live in Christchurch,

and I'm going to Queenstown for a jujitsu. Oh, you're going to kick some arse in Queenstown. Yeah, I'm going to kick two arses. Two arses. A lot of arses being kicked in Queenstown, jujitsu style. Hey, well, good luck. Thanks. Your phone's squealing like it's last night's dinner's coming back on it.

I'm trying to get away from my car because it's blasting. I just turned it on and it's blasting you guys now. So the neighbors will be waking up to your voice. Well, listen, good luck for the competition, Renee. And good luck dealing with that farting phone as well. Yeah. Anyway, keep safe. We'll give you some hell pizza, okay, buddy?

Yeah. That's a comical noise. I love it. Jenny, you're on from Hamilton. What are you doing this weekend? I'm heading to City Anger from Hamilton because my husband's up there. He's working up there.

I'm working in Hamilton. I don't see him very often at the moment. So heading to the beach, heading to my husband's and I won't be kicking ass, but there may be something else. She won't be kicking ass, but it may be something else. She won't be kicking ass, but she'll be riding it this weekend in Fideanga. Good on you.

You have a safe drive and a great weekend, Jenny. Thank you very much. Let's send Jenny out some help eat too as well, all right? Why not? Lovely. Let's go to Chelsea in Auckland. Why is it going to be a good weekend for you, Chelsea? Hi.

What are you doing this weekend, mate? So I am opening up a retail store. I've decided to do it. And so all my family, me, hubby, and four kids are going to fit it out this weekend. Oh, what's your store? Give it a plug. Okay, it's called Daily Refill, and it's like your organic grocer. You have your bulk refilleries and also your fresh produce

and just your healthy goodies. Oh, good on you, Chelsea. Good luck opening your retail store. Thank you. And I'll be sure to pop in when it's open to buy some organic goods because my body is a temple. Awesome. It's at Botany Town Centre in one month opening.

Hey, good on you, Chelsea. Keep safe and good luck with that. Thank you. Bye. Oh, there we go. Everyone having a great weekend.. Thank you. Bye. Oh, there we go. Everyone having a great weekend. I hope you do too. We'll catch you Monday.

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