Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - April 12 - Our UK Correspondent Nearly Knocked The Queen Out!

Episode Date: April 11, 2021

Today we caught up with UK correspondent Gavin Grey, who filled us in on all the details surrounding Prince Philip's life, death & upcoming funeral. He then shared a story about how he nearly knocked the Queen to the floor when he was reporting... AWKWARD! We also wanted to see how many other people had met the Royals, one caller said Prince Philip & The Queen visited her in the hospital when she was a child! Jono is also on a mission to try and get Chris Mac from Six60 to give us 50 tickets to their Eden Park show, so we can give them away. Yes, we know, 50 is excessive. But so is Jono! All that and more in today's podcast episode!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings, friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, welcome. Monday, 12th, April, 2-2-2-0-2-1. 2021, it's the Jono and Ben podcast. Annie Pryor is staying at the moment.

She came up for my son's, they had Grandparents Day at St. Peter's College the other day. Nice. They got to show around the school. That's why they're out. But anyway, she was saying that she religiously listens to the podcast, much like your mum, Jenny Boyce. Yeah, she does that as well, too. She loves it. She goes on car trips and listens to the podcast.

Well, because you don't call her. So this is the only way she gets to find out what's happening in your life. Yeah, you're right. And now I question things. I'm like, oh, I probably can't talk about that, because Mum will hear it on the podcast. Oh, what information are you trying to keep from G-Boards? Oh, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Oh, you're like, oh, I should probably call her first before she hears that on the podcast.

Yeah, because she really does. She delves deep the whole lot, because you don't expect people to listen to the whole show. No. Like, tune in for pockets when they're driving. I thought the podcast was just something that radio shows felt obliged to do, but no one listened to. But we all just did them anyway. Yeah.

Just because you could say you're in the podcast space. Well, we're there. That's what we're doing right now. We're in the podcast space. And both our mums listen to it. Yeah. So thank you. Well, they've kind of, you know, through DNA are obliged to listen.

But if you're not genetically linked to Ben or myself, we do appreciate you listening to the podcast on the iHeartRadio. Yeah, that's it. That's where it is. It's on the iHeartRadio. Now, today on the show, not a lot of Prince Philip coverage, but a decent sprinkling, I thought. Yeah, we speak to Gavin Gray, who is from the UK, rural correspondent, and he's awesome.

He's got some in- depth analysis Of what's going on For the funeral with Harry He could be In New Zealand He could be a Royal Correspondent Or a Rural Correspondent The way that we pronounce Royal But he told an amazing story

About how he almost Knocked out the Queen Yes Yeah Yeah And some interesting insight too Into Harry's return To the funeral as well

I think If you were Harry Would you turn up? Yeah no It's a grandparent Well it's awesome I think. If you were Harry, would you turn up? Yeah, it's a grandparent. Well, it's awesome that he did because, you know, there is probably a lot of excuses that he could use with COVID and, you know, all those things.

Oh, baby on the way. Yeah, but he actually is, to his credit, he's turning up. I've got yoga on Thursday nights. Yeah, well, you know, he's going to have to quarantine. He flies to the UK and stuff. So do you have to quarantine when you go to the UK? I think they were saying he might be in isolation. Yeah, I don't know 100%, but I think that was what... Oh, Gavin Gray thought that he'd been there for a week already, knowing that this was pending. Oh, that's interesting.

I thought you could just roll into the UK. Oh, maybe I might. We'll have a go. Also on the podcast today, I got talking about separate beds. If you're in a relationship and you're in separate beds, does that spell the end of the relationship? Some really interesting calls from people who do do separate bedding. And those who tried it and their relationship didn't work out. We'll get to both sides. And we've got an expert on that as well. And the latest on the quarantining laws in the UK.

Yeah, what do you have to do? When arriving in England, you must quarantine for 10 days and take two coronavirus tests while you're in quarantine. And so you need to stay at a government-approved hotel. Right, so they've got isolation facilities as well. Yeah, or you just have to book something at a hotel, so there you go. So 10 days is a little bit shorter than ours,

but obviously Harry will be staying somewhere in the UK. Aussie's been free open the whole time. We've been able to just roll into Aussie through this whole period, haven't period. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, they haven't made us quarantine. And the States, do you have to quarantine in the States? I don't think so. I think you can just base the goal.

Go on in and touch everything. It's funny. See it, touch it. It's funny those bigger countries I think maybe felt obliged to keep things running at some form of normality. You would have to. I mean, how do you make

everyone going into America quarantine? Like, logistically, how do you do that? And I think it varies state by state too, don't they? Because they're almost

laws unto themselves. Those Yanks, Ben, laws unto themselves. Anyway, bit of coverage there. What did we do? We started with some, what the hell did we start with?

I can't even remember. No, in the last three minutes, we've really gone all over the place. But enjoy the podcast. Yeah, enjoy. It's an obligation. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Of course, sad news on Friday, Prince Philip passed away at 99 years old. He's a month short of getting his letter from the Queen, you were saying, Juliet? A couple of months away.

Joan, baby, he was. And we're joined now by our UK correspondent, Gavin Gray. Welcome. Good morning to you guys. How are you? Good. Well, we've talked to you once before. Two times means you're a correspondent in our eyes.

No, absolutely. That's good. Yeah, good. Now, obviously very sad news out of the UK at the end of last week. Prince Philip sadly passing away, but 99 are very good innings. Yeah, and I think lots of people will think it was a life

well lived. It was certainly a very full life, almost being abandoned as a young child in Europe owing to the various different political upbreak and upheaval in Europe, owing to the various different political upbreak and upheaval in Europe at the time. And then, you know, meeting the Queen when he was training at a very promising career

within the Royal Navy. And, you know, being really such a rock, such a steadfast rock for the Queen all these years on. So a terrible loss to the family, a terrible, terrible loss to Her Majesty. Of course, not unexpected, but I dare say still a shock. He'd only just got out of hospital,

you know, three weeks ago, having spent a month in hospital. And there's speculation that in the final hours, indeed, the medics wanted to return him to hospital, but that Her Majesty and he just said, no, I want to be at home for this. It's sweet that she was by his side as he just said, no, I want to be at home for this. It's sweet that she was by his side as he passed.

I mean, the poor fella, he's looked a little shaky for the last 10 years, hasn't he? I mean, he had that driving incident a couple of years ago, where he still insisted, he's like my grandmother, still insisted on driving after the age of 90. Indeed, yeah, I mean, you know, he hated fuss. He hated sort of, you know, people faffing around, as he would say. I was at one press conference with him when he was waiting for a time for the official photograph to be taken with all these people around it. And there was a delay, and he got more and more agitated.

And in the end, there was quite a tirade of expletives towards the photographer um but this was a man who also well ahead of his time in the early 1980s started to talk about the environment and how we had to protect it about he called them carbon gases at the time of course we now call them greenhouse gases you know this was in the early 1980s so a man that saw that as a problem coming along too yes you're right he had retired now four years ago from public life because he was aware that he was you know getting a bit more frail indeed uh when it was said that they left a wheelchair in his main room without telling him uh you know again he said you will you take that bloody thing away you know he was not a person who was going to be told how to live his life. And I think that

last hospital stay was such a shame. And the pictures of him leaving, the last official or unofficial pictures of him seen by the public show a very frail individual. But he was only just a few weeks short of his 100th birthday. And that was an event he had said

a couple of years ago in an interview when somebody said, do you think you'll make 100? How will it be? He said, oh, it will be ghastly. I hope I don't. I love it how he's just, the older he's got, the grumpier he's got. That's the wonderful thing about living a long life. You've got the right to do it, right?

You do. Why do you need to put up with faffing around and nonsense? Jono and Ben as well, the great thing is that you're entitled to it because nobody's going to tell you not to. Exactly. But this was a man as well who, of course, was very much out on a sort of limb. The role that he had taken as

male consort had never really existed. Nobody quite knew what to do. In fact, famously, he said in the early days, he asked courtiers about what his role was, what he should do, and they said we have no idea, apparently, came the response. He did forge a role, yes, as a rock to her majesty. And, you know, one wonders, looking at her amazing service to this country,

could she have done it without him or without somebody like him by her side for so long? And I suspect the answer is no. But he also, of course, famously around the world made some pretty embarrassing gaffes and, you know, saying perhaps things that perhaps someone a little more genteel perhaps might not have said. But either way, I think a lot of people took them with a pinch of salt.

And certainly when you spoke to people after an event where he had been and said something perhaps a bit untoward, they all thought it was very amusing, so they didn't take offence. It's all context, isn't it? I'm sure you're saying it, Tanaji. My favourite one I was reading over the weekend, he was talking to a 13-year-old boy.

He said, what do you want to be when you're older? He said, I want to be an astronaut. He said, you're too fat to be an astronaut. Really? Yeah, yeah. He certainly wasn't shy of saying what he felt. Some other classics are, you know, when in Scotland, talking to a driving instructor, and Scotland, as we know,

has a huge issue with alcohol dependence, he said to the driving instructor, how on earth do you keep off the sauce long enough to be sober to drive? Now, only 30 people can go to the funeral Gavin Gray out of the UK So who's going to be there And we understand Prince Harry is coming back for it Prince Harry is coming back Yeah it's 30 because of coronavirus regulations

And you know what When you look at the family So of course he had four children They've all married and got children of their own When you start to do the simple maths 30 is nothing. You come to it very quickly just working your way down the second generation. And so there are some tough choices to be made.

There are going to be no world leaders or anything. It isn't that sort of a funeral. It's going to be a private funeral held within Windsor Castle, which will allow them a degree of privacy they wouldn't have had. Prince Philip would love that, incidentally. He hated fast. He hated fast. He really thought, gosh, I do not want a state funeral, which he could have been entitled to,

but he really didn't want that, and he didn't want the big ceremony. So Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will not attend because he wants to free up one space, one more space for the family. And Prince Harry, yes, he is going to be attending. It's rumoured that he's been in isolation for the last week or so, fearing that this was going to happen, perhaps knowing it was going to happen. Meghan Markle will not be attending. Now, that's not because of a fallout.

It's because she's heavily pregnant, and doctors have advised her not to attending. Now, that's not because of fallout. It's because she's heavily pregnant and doctors have advised her not to come. And this really does present, I would argue, Prince Harry, Prince Charles and Prince William with the best venue and best time to get together and to iron out those grievances that they were ever likely to have.

Well, geez, it's going to be Orkies for Harry walking in there, isn't it? Oh, yeah. Definitely at the start, that's for sure. Hey, guys. Hey, hey, hey. What have you been up to? Gavin Gray, our official rural correspondent, British correspondent out of the UK. Thank you so much for your time.

We appreciate it. Thank you, guys. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Sad news on Friday, Prince Philip passing away, but a really, really good innings. I mean, 99 years old.

You don't want to, don't ever say that to someone who's still living, though. You've had a good innings. No, I'm not sure. I made that fatal mistake over Christmas time. They don't take too kindly to, you've had a good innings. What does that mean? It means all over, and you're like, oh, no, no, no. It just means you end up trying to dig yourself out of a hole.

And I don't know why I keep referencing cricket too. Good innings. Well, yeah, true. Yeah. Earlier this morning, we spoke to Gavin Gray in the UK. He's a UK reporter. And he reflected on Prince Philip's life for us and how Prince Philip didn't like a fuss.

He hated fuss. He hated sort of, you know, people faffing around, as he would say. I was at one press conference with him when he was waiting for a time for the official photograph to be taken with all these people around him. And there was a delay, and he got more and more agitated.

And in the end, there was quite a tirade of expletives towards the photographer. And, of course, Prince Philip, famous for many of the things he said that made news. He also, of course, famously around the world made some pretty embarrassing gaffes. But either way, I think a lot of people took them with a pinch of salt. My favourite one I was reading over the weekend, he was talking to a 13-year-old boy. He said, what do you want to be when you're older?

He said, I want to be an astronaut. He said, you're too fat to be an astronaut. Yeah, yeah, he certainly wasn't shy of saying what he felt. Philip and the Queen, you were staying together for how many, 73 years? 73 years of marriage. And there's a lovely photo on the front of the Herald this morning. What a sweet

old couple. That's a good innings, Ben. And it was really interesting that Gavin Gray in the UK said that Philip was ahead of his time. This was a man who also, well ahead of his time, in the early 1980s, started to talk about the environment and how we had to protect it. He called them carbon gases at the time. Of course, we now call them greenhouse gases.

You know, this was in the early 1980s. So a man that saw that as a problem coming along. Yeah, right. Oh, the Green Party would be loving him, wouldn't they? Oh, yeah. So we also asked Gavin Offere if he actually has ever had like a, quite a personal encounter

with any of the Royal family. And that's why this morning we want to open up Connect Four. We try and connect four people, four different callers, to the royal family. That's what we're going to do this morning. This was, we'll call Gavin number one, shall we? Yeah, this is the first connection to the royals.

We'd love your calls and texts. 0800 THE HITS or 4487. But this is the first royal connection this morning, an encounter with the Queen. Yeah, yeah. I mean, one fairly famous incident to itself. I've been on several royal visits, but on one, I was in one of the marvelous

national country houses in this country at the same time at the visit by the queen. Now, as you know, if you go on these, you in the press pack are pretty much like sheep. You are put in a pen, told to stay there, and that's where you could take your photos from and, you know, see what they're wearing and try and eavesdrop on what's being said. Now, at this country house, I was also aware that I was filing a report for a television company that I was there for, and the time was getting closer and closer and closer. So I thought, I've got to get out of this press pack now

and speak to my news desk on the phone and get stuff sorted out. So I ran down what must have been the sort of servant's stairs, I guess, and they were far less grand than the real staircase. And at the bottom, I flung the door open and very nearly hit Her Majesty in the face, who just happened to be passing that appropriate moment i don't know who was more shocked she or me i think it was probably me and that was all fine there we go i almost rendered the queen unconscious can we beat that can we connect three more people to the royal family that's your job

this morning i'll tell you oh 800 that's four four487 the text. We'll start with Tash in Openaki. Welcome, Tash. How are you? Hello. I'm fine, thank you. My voice went to a whole other octave there. Puberty just hit me, Tash, and you're going to hit us with your connection to the royal family.

Yes. I was seven years old at the time in England, and I was very ill in hospital. And the Queen and Prince Philip came to reopen and rename the ward because it had a makeover and because I was the child that had been in hospital the longest and all the rest, it was also Easter, so they had a giant Easter egg. Anyway, because I couldn't move, the Queen and Prince Philip came to my bed. Prince Philip sat on the end of my bed and told all us children lots of jokes. Oh, that's a wonderful story.

That is wonderful. So what was the tone of his jokes? I think if they were rude, we were too young and it probably went over our heads. Mate, if I got some gear for you guys, you're going to love this. Oh, that is wonderful. Incredible. What a moment. Yeah, it was. It was lovely. Oh, well, there we go. We got our first love this. Oh, that is wonderful. What a moment. Yeah, it was.

It was lovely. Oh, well, there we go. We got a first call off the rack. It's amazing. Prince Philip perched on the end of her hospital bed. Tasha, that's one connection. We'll head on to Mark in Picton. Mordena, Mark, welcome.

Yeah, mate. Lovely to have you on. Your connection to the Royal Fam. Mate, I was working down at Lake Manapur in 1981. Prince Charles came down for a visit and we were power station workers at the time. We were told to keep well clear of this guy and we all wanted to get a look. So as he's heading back to the fjord and travel launch, we're lined up and I broke ranks, walked over the wards and

Mark went rogue at the power station. You could hear the gun triggers rustling in the bushes behind me, I tell you. Little red dots circling around your forehead. Yeah, so I went over and just introduced myself. And I says, hey, mate, I don't think you should be marrying this girl, do I? And I says, you need to come for a night out with us up to Te Ana.

I says, I'll introduce you to a real local girl. Mate, take you up to the Te Ana. the 80s, they're a different time. What did he say to that? His response was, well, I don't think that would be quite appropriate. So this was all recorded on national TV. They didn't put the soundtrack on. They just said, here a power station worker breaks the ranks to visit and talk to Prince Charles.

And you're like, if only they knew what I was saying to him. I've got the footage off the National Archives on the TV, and it's really quite cool to look at, and I've got face-to-face photos of me and him talking. Oh, that is really cool, Mark. And he didn't take you up on your offer of the boys' weekend in Te Aro. Hey, look, he came back, and I was going to catch up with him when he came to Kaikoura,

but I didn't get a chance to get down there. I was going to say, hey, remember me, buddy? The boys' weekend's so odd, Charles. I think going to say, hey, remember me, buddy? The boys were getting sore, Giles. I think if you call, all right, we've connected two people to the royal family. Our Connect Four continues on. Have you got any connection to the royal family? Someone's texting a connection to Prince Andrew.

Okay. Not a literal connection. It actually worked with Prince Andrew. You thought I was doing some cheap Prince Andrew content. Come on, mate. We're better than this. Yeah, no, Prince Andrew apparently used to run a production company that was going to broadcast Wimbledon,

and this person worked on reception, and then as a bit of a joke got him to sign the visitor's book when he came into reception for a meeting. Put your name down there. That's good. Sue. Hi. You're on.

Hi. What's your connection to the real family? Yes. It was about 20 years ago, and my daughter got her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. So, yeah, he came and spoke to her personally. In fact, she wasn't even standing on ceremony, really. She just sort of asked him all these questions.

But I don't know if that was the accepted protocol, but he took it all in good faith you know and and answered her question so you actually just personally awarded her Prince Philip awarded your daughter the medal yeah she got a gold Duke of Edinburgh award particularly Juliet's pointing at herself she's like I've got a Duke of Edinburgh award only bronze though did you get personally you know they didn't personally they didn't turn up? No, unfortunately didn't meet Prince Philip himself. You're not going to turn up for a bronze, mate.

That's awesome, Jew. I didn't know that about you. Thanks. Thank you, Sue. Ruby's on from Wellington. How are you, Rubes? Sorry? How are you, Rubes? Good, good. Ruby, you sound like you're on the go. Where are you heading to? I'm just heading into uni right now. What do you study,

Ruby? I'm doing primary teaching. Oh, congratulations. Well, teach us how you have a connection to the royal family. Yes, I do. What was it? Oh, yes, I hand shook Prince Harry. Hand shook Prince Harry. Have you washed your

hands since? No. Good. Even through the whole COVID restrictions. I refuse to. When Ashley Bloomfield said you've got to wash your hands, you're like, this hand touched Prince Harry's eye. Okay, you're an exemption. Not this one. When did this happen? Oh, years ago. It was before

he dated Meghan Markle. Where did you see him? In Wellington. Oh, awesome. So you just turned up or you knew he was going to be there or how did it happen? I was visiting my sister and, yeah, so I heard there was this huge event going.

I was like, oh, yeah, might as well pop in. And there was huge lines everywhere. Such a cute thing. It was really coincident because my grandma has a disability card. So I walked in and went into this, like, kind of security area. And, yeah, handshook her and had a little mini talk. Oh, great. And his hand, soft, tender?

Very soft. Yeah, it'd be a lovely hand, wouldn't it? Haven't you held the hand of someone, Producer Juliet? Didn't you touch someone's hand? I touched Megan Markle's hand. That's right. Oh, there you go. You wouldn't let go and it got weird.

Yeah, I know. I was like, wow, your hands are just so petite and soft, like she has the best hand cream. Yeah, right. So she's got, I thought her hands would be lifeless. Dead and lifeless. There we go. Monster hands.

Claws. Getting her claws into Harry. Hey, good on you, Roots. Really appreciate it. Gin we go. Monster hands. Claws. Getting their claws into Harry. Hey, good on you, Roos. Really appreciate it. Ginny, welcome. Hi. You've done something to the Queen. I have.

I was over in Cardiff in the 1999 World Cup, and my friend was the head of the Millennium, kind of in charge of the Millennium Room, and she asked if I'd like to serve tea to the Queen. And you were like, yes. Wow. You've got no tea-serving expertise? No, I didn't have any tea-serving expertise, but it was an amazing experience,

and I've still got the little white gloves that I had to wear on the day that I did it. Wow. That is great. And so is there protocol? Did you have to go through a little course? Yeah, I got called aside by all the Queen's, I don't know, head people, and they kind of told us how we had to stand, and we weren't allowed to really engage with her or look at her

or do anything like that. And, yeah, we just had to be deadly silent, and they told us how she wanted her tea, and, yeah, it was a really amazing experience. There we go. Actually, my wife serves some sausage to the Queen as well. Does she? Yeah.

How? Sausage in a roll form. Oh, sausage roll. Sausage roll, yeah. Like a Bunnings sort of warehouse. She's popping down like, you want onions on it here? Oh, no, sorry, just going in to get a line trimmer.

Oh, no, it's for charity. We're raising it for the children's netball team. Yeah, no, sausage roll. Sausage roll. Oh, that's awesome.. We're raising it for the children's netball team. Yeah, no, sausage roll. Sausage roll. That's awesome. I can't imagine the Queen's put a snag in a bit of bread with onion sauce lady,

is she? Well, there we go. We connected four listeners and then some to the royal family. Thanks so much for all the calls and texts. From stealing Mike Hosking's car to stealing the hearts

of New Zealand. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Actual hearts being not bestowed. Now, not too long to 660, played the historic concert Eden Park, April 24.

Can't wait for that. And we're joined on the phone by friend of the show, Chris Mack. How's it going, buddy? Oh, my God. I've lived my whole life to be a friend of a show. You're a dear, dear friend of the show. Although, Chris Mack, last week you were hosting the Edge Breakfast Show. Now you're on the hits.

Are you trying to be on more radio stations than we've been on? That's basically Look it's hard to do But I'm getting there If only I can get like a night show on ZB Now it must be pretty cool to be playing at Eden Park Because I know you guys have wanted to do this for a while And your line up beforehand

You've got Drax Project You've got Sir Dave Dobbin playing before you How does it feel for Sir Dave Dobbin to be opening up for 660? I've got a Sir opening up for me. This is insane. It's like, it's the weirdest thing. No, we're punks, man. Like, yeah, you, I mean, Ben knows I've been talking about this

for at least two years or something like that. Like, we've been trying to get this show across the line for so long and it's the first time anyone's ever played at Eden Park and we get to do it. It's really one of the greatest honours we've ever had. Now, did you send a double pass to Helen Clark? Look, I know for a fact she doesn't have a letterbox, so it was really hard to get the tickets to her.

So if you find a house with no letterbox, you drop tickets off for her. Give her a double pass. Because Helen Clark was opposed to having the concert. And I know you were turning up to the dispute, the tribunal dispute every day.

That's right. Yeah, we turned up and we heard Helen talk and she brought some people in and they were really muscling up trying to get us out of there. They didn't want any shows

at Eden Park. But we just thought, like, it's our, it's probably one of the most epic, most iconic venues in our country. And there's no concerts there. It just seems ridiculous. So we wanted to be there.

And we thought, look, if anyone's going to play there, we want to do it first. So we're really proud that we're going to be doing it. And, you know, we just have to not stuff it up. It's so exciting. But, yeah, history, you're going to be making history for that one. 660 got many fans. Who's the coolest person you've been surprised to know as a 660 fan? Ben Boyce, probably.

Although he's sort of turning into punishing territory now, isn't he? You have to button off sort of texting Chris and stuff now. I don't want to look too stalkerish, you know? Yeah, yeah. I mean, if I go through my texts from Ben, like maybe 50% is, can I get a ticket? That's about 50% of my text from him.

Yeah, you know, that text when you send, you're like, I've sent four or five texts here and I get a thumbs up back or something, or emoji or something, you know?

Speaking of... To be honest, it's the only reason I haven't given you my number, Jono, because I'm pretty sure you'd be second in line. I just sell illegal ones

on Travago. What's it called? Vivago, whatever it's called. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't go there. Let's just do that right now. Let's tell everyone, do not go to that website. Do not buy tickets for a month.

What is it called? Oh, Via Go Go. Via Go Go, not Travago. That's a hotel place. Travago. I'll be booking holidays. The bubble's opening. Now, Chris Mack, you're talking about tickets.

Where are our free tickets? Where are our tickets? We want to give away tickets to the show. And have you got two tickets to a gun show as well? We'll take those. I've definitely got two tickets to the gun show. I know. What are you thinking?

50. No. 50's too many. 15 tickets. You've got 50,000 seats there. You can spare tickets. Give them away. We'll give them away on the show.

You want 50 tickets for your show? Is that a bit too much? It seems that you've overshot the mark, I think. So, hang on. Here's what happens. I wake up nice and early on a Monday morning, and I get bombarded with a 50-ticket request. 50-ticket.

It's a lot, eh? It's a lot. I mean, you add those dollars up, that's coming out of the band's bank account. Yeah. Well, I can see. I can... Hey, Kate.

I'll talk to you tomorrow. I've put him in a position. He doesn't want to look like a bad guy. I've got to go into the studio today. I'll talk to the guys and see if we can rustle something up.

50 years is a lot. It is a lot. Like a double pass would be pretty epic. I would have gone maybe two double passes at most. Yeah, we've gone

25 double passes. Yeah. Okay, alright. Let me see what I can do. How about that? Okay, I will see what I can do only because you called me friend of the show. Yeah. We, all right. Let me see what I can do. How about that? Okay, I will see what I can do only because you called me friend of the show.

Yeah. We put that pressure on from the top of the interview. Well, Chris Mack, I guess we'll catch up tomorrow then. We'll find out how many tickets we have to potentially give away. Okay, sure. I'll give you a call tomorrow.

He's not fully comfortable with this, but he's going to go along with it. He's been railroaded. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hips. Jeez, we had a crazy morning first thing yesterday, didn't we, Benjamin Ross boys? Jonathan and Richard

Pryor, we're filming out West Auckland way and you'd got there kind of early where we were filming and so you decided to clean your car. Yeah, I did. Because, you know, life admin at the moment, because we're working seven days a week at the moment, life admin is just piled up with the stuff I've got to do your car. Yeah, I did. Because, you know, life admin at the moment, because we're working seven days a week at the moment, life admin is just piled up with the stuff I've got to do at home.

I'm just like, the house is just like, almost like one of those houses that you'd see on a documentary about, you know, the family have to come and go, oh, you're hoarding too much stuff.

We need to move it out. And we're like, don't move that. It's special to me. That's what the house looks like at the moment. Anyway, so long story short, I was like, oh, I'll wash the car.

I've got 10 minutes. I'll go through the automatic car wash. And so I went into the car wash and I was looking out to the road. I saw this guy. And he had long hair and a singlet on. I was like, well, typical West Auckland. That's great. And he was bleeding from the forehead.

I'm like, yeah, this is West Auckland. Welcome to the Wild West. And he was bleeding from the forehead. I'm like, yeah, this is West Auckland. Welcome to the Wild West. And he was like kind of running around the place. Like, you know, like when a dog can't control its excitement levels and they're just dotting all over the road. He was running around and he was ducking. So the last time I saw him, he was ducking behind a, like a Snap Fitness sign on the side of the road.

And like looking around, I was like, oh, he's playing a fun little game. And then the soap went on my windscreen from the automatic car wash on the side of the road and like looking around I was like oh he's playing a fun little game and then the soap went on my windscreen from the automatic car wash and then it got hosed off and the next thing he's standing

in the car wash right in front of the car wow and he's like let me in they're after me they're after me and I had to wind down

the window because we're in the middle of the car wash he's going I was like mate I'm just about to have a hot soapy wax here I can't leave

I can't open the car or else all the water is going to get in the car. And then he disappeared. And I met you and I was like, man, I just had a crazy experience at the car wash. And then Ben Boyce, this is where you come in. Well, yeah. And I think I saw the conclusion of that little tale because I was driving along the road and there was quite a lot going on. I saw this guy sort of run and slide in under a van that was about to sort of take off from the lights. At the intersection? At the intersection, yeah.

And I was like, wow, this guy, he's under the van. Obviously, the van driver saw the person underneath, stopped, didn't do anything. He opens his door. He's looking under the thing. And then these cops with sirens come in. There's two cars parked up. They come running out and dragging this guy from underneath the car

out of the thing. I'm presuming it was the same guy. I couldn't really see because he was under a van. Well, it's West Auckland. They might have had another incident too. Well, there's a lot going on in the morning. What time of the morning was this? 7.30.

Oh, wow. Actually, because I remember driving down the motorway. I was like, oh, that's odd. There's a car kind of in the slow lane with three cop cars around it. All the tyres were blown out and stuff. So I assumed that they were hoping all these incidents were connected. I mean, the poor guy looked like, he looked like he was lacking about three days worth of sleep.

Wild morning though, wasn't it? Yeah, it was wild. It's funny when you're in those moments, you're kind of like, am I seeing what I'm seeing? Like you don't actually comprehend what's going on. And then afterwards I was like, full respect to those people

who actually do things in those moments, you know, who like stop criminals and tackle them I thought the van driver, I was like good on that guy for getting out there and helping, you know, to try and get under the van, you know, I'd be like sitting in my van with the doors locked You would be doing what you do when the window washers come up, he just looks

ahead and locks his window, they're like literally knocking on his window, pretending he can't see or hear them. Avoid, avoid, avoid. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Now, someone we work with,

who over the weekend told us something really interesting about their set up at home. So she's got a fiance. They've been engaged for about six months. She'll get married in 2022. Coming soon, 2022, this wedding. The hotly anticipated wedding. But she was saying that they sleep in separate beds.

And this is not to do with anything, any sort of disagreement or thing in the relationship. It's just that they feel like they get a better night's sleep. Oh, is that the reason? Very simple reason. But I guess when they want to bump squiddles, they nominate a bed. Like, whose one do you go to?

Is there a consistent one? I didn't ask her that. We don't have that kind of relationship. But then I thought it would be fair to ask the question on the radio. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like you could have front-footed it with them. But anyway, you did.

And you've talked about it on the radio, right? Yeah. What would you do in that situation? Because I know you and Amanda sleep together It feels like you could have front-footed it with him. But anyway, you did. And you've talked about it on the radio right now. What would you do in that situation? Because I know you and Amanda sleep together because I look through your window at night, so I can vouch for that. Although, to be honest, every now and again, because we've got a spare bed in the house,

and every now and again, I'm a bit of a snorer. If one of us can't get to sleep, occasionally one of us will go, oh, I'm going to go try and sleep in the other room. And it's not because of any marital disagreement. It's just because you feel like you'll give that a chance to have a better night's sleep in there. Well, there is a disagreement. She's like, you're snoring too loudly.

Well, yeah, that's probably, mostly it's me. Sorry, too loudly. Or if someone's got to get up really, really early for something or like, hey, I need a really good night's sleep because, you know, you've got kids. Sometimes they come in and like, I need water. I need something in the middle of the night. So sometimes that will happen. Does it spell the middle of the night. Yeah, so sometimes that will happen.

But does it spell the end of the relationship? I'm saying no. That's my thing. If Jen pitched this to me now, she's like, I think we should sleep in separate beds, I'd be weird about it. Really? I would be weird about it.

But what if, you know, like, if it's nothing to do with any problems, they're just getting a better night's sleep. Yeah, but I like... You're still bumping squiddles as you put it. You know? The only one winning out of this is bloody

bed posts because they're selling more beds. Not the relationship I don't reckon. Oh 800 of the hits we want to chuck this out Ben and me disagree hugely disagree on this.

Oh how eropable both of us. I'm going to send out a group email. You do have beds now that have different technology on each side for people because

they're like this and all like this and who gets the covers all those sorts of things. You don't have to worry about those things. Yeah, no, but a relationship needs, you need to be in the same bed. You need to be thrashing around and rolling over and snoring and making weird noises with your body

throughout the night. That's the joy of a relationship. That's the joy of a relationship. That's what it's all about, mate. So, 0800 the hits. Do you sleep in separate beds? That's what we want to know. We've got Bea Humps, producer Humphrey's got hold of a relationship expert

from Married at First Sight. Does it mean the end if you're sleeping in separate beds? Juliet, you knew someone when you were younger. Yeah, my old friend in primary school. I remember when I was younger, her parents slept in separate beds. We kind of lost contact, but I found out recently that the parents aren't together anymore. So I was like, oh, maybe that was, you know, the start of...

They're still sleeping in separate beds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They enjoyed it so much, they wanted to do it full time. Yeah. Permanently. Oh, I under the hits, 4487, get involved in New Zealand's breakfast. Does it spell the end of the relationship? Or is it like, hey, we can do it.

You get a bed and light sleep. Now we'll go to Amy who's on from Blenheim. Your parents are sleeping in separate beds, Amy. Hi, guys. How are you? Lovely to have you on. Your parents,enheim. Your parents are sleeping in separate beds, Amy. Hi, guys. How are you? Lovely to have you on. Your parents, 25 years, they've been sleeping in separate beds. Oh, they've been together 20 that long,

but I don't know if they haven't been sleeping together that long, but it has been a very long time. Yeah, right. And for you as the child, were you like, oh, this is odd, or you were cool with it? I was at the start. I thought it was a bit weird because none of my friends' parents did,

but they, yeah, that's just what works for them. Dad snores really loud, so. Get a bit of night's sleep, I can see it. Oh, well, I do have an increasingly weak bladder too, which means I'm up and down all night. Yeah, see, I'll be like, oh, jeez. Yeah, well, mum's got that too, so it works for both of them.

Yeah, right, they both got, they bring the negative points to the overnight sleep. Someone's texting actually, Amy, a lot of people texting in saying, friends of ours married over 30 years, slept in separate beds, and apparently they're Prince Philip and the Queen. Oh, there you go. They used to sleep in separate beds. That's 73 years, did we say,

this morning, married. There you go, they sat together forever then. I don't know, are you in a relationship at the moment, Amy? Yeah, I am. Mag, would you sleep in separate beds? If he annoys me, I do, yeah. So it's not a problem for you.

Thank you very much for your call. Someone texted in 4487. We sleep in separate beds. I've got severe insomnia. There we go. But we still, they said, quote unquote, bump squiddles every day. Yeah, well, there you go. See, the relationship's still alive then. It's not feeling like you're flatmates in that situation.

Well, we've got an expert on this, relationship experts, and also a family mediator too. You'll know her from Married at First Sight New Zealand. Stephanie Dowles, welcome. Hi, morning, boys. Lovely to have you on. Morena, Stephanie. Separate beds, does it spell the end of a relationship?

Your thoughts? Definitely doesn't have to, no, because there's about 60% of people sleep in separate beds, according to an American study. It mightn't be entirely the same in New Zealand. And over there, you know, you've got bigger people that probably need bigger beds each and things like that. You're just fat-shaming the whole of America there.

Love it. That's right. That's absolutely me. I mean, you know, everything's bigger over there. I like that. You're just fat shaming the whole of America there. Love it. That's right. That's absolutely me. I mean, you know, everything's bigger over there. It's not just the size. Okay, now you're doubling down. But I imagine it would be an awkward conversation. Let's say you're five, ten years into a relationship

and one part of the partnership goes, hey, should we go separate beds? Yeah, well, it's something that needs to be negotiated, obviously. But, I mean, the obvious thing, small children, snoring, restless sleepers, you know, all of that sort of stuff, shift workers. And so it kind of makes sense at some point in a household, really, for parents to be in separate beds if there's real logistical stuff going on. But if one person's just doing it constantly because it's a relationship issue,

well, that's a different story. That becomes kind of dog box territory. And then it also becomes something that's going to sort of creep in over time. And if it doesn't get resolved, it could end up being the end of the whole, you know, the whole shooting box. Gotcha.

So as long as the romance is still alive in the relationship, you're kind of saying it doesn't really matter if people end up sleeping in separate beds? Oh, 100%. And, you know, some people will say, oh, look, my partner snores, so I just can't, you know, whatever. But my social need to be next to him or her that night is much greater than the snoring.

So, hey, just get a really good pair of earplugs. Do what's happy for you. Now, as a relationship expert and family mediator, what's one tip you can give to everyone to make their relationship better? Listen to each other and don't interrupt. Absolutely. Don't interrupt. Listen and then just feedback what you think the person said. You don't have to say whether you think he or she's right or wrong.

Just give that person a fair run without interrupting. People just want to be heard. They just want to be heard. And that's pretty much solved most of it. You don't always have to be right or wrong, but you do want to be heard. I love it when you're right, though, eh? I love it when you have a win. It doesn't happen much, though.

No, especially guys. Guys, don't, don't, don't. I'm not shocking. I never have a win. Yeah. Hey, Stephanie, thank you very much for your expert advice. Really appreciate you coming on the show this morning. No drama.

Thanks, guys. They're proud of New Zealand. Woo! Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Thanks, guys. They're proud of New Zealand. Woo! Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Time for this.

Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Yes, the five words for $5,000 competition. Don't forget our world tour. Kicked off last week in Auckland, rolling into Christchurch. This week. Yeah, this week. We're going. Yeah, this week.

We're going. Thanks to Ginny from Orange Homes, who's weirdly putting us in a show home. That's the accommodation. We're living in a show home. Yeah, that's right. We're staying in a show home this week. We're heading down to Christchurch, and then we're doing a five words pub night in Christchurch on Thursday. So if you're at the Good Home Fairy Mead in Christchurch,

book a babysitter, come down, join us. Lots of laughs. Book a babysitter even if you don't have babies to sit as well. Stimulate the babysitting economy. And you can also win $500 cash. So that's Good Home Fairy Mead in Christchurch this Thursday. Come down and join us. All the details of the hit stock. I don't know. The five words world tour.

It's happening. It's happening. I don't know about world tour the Five Words World Tour. Oh, it's happening. Is it happening? No, you were casting. I don't know about World Tour. It's a World Tour. Okay, yeah. We're going island to island. That's great, yeah. And then we'll be taking it through Prague.

We'll be travelling through London as well. The Mediterranean now. The Mediterranean Five Words Tour. It's all happening. Let's welcome from Wellington, Cherie Morena. How are you? Morning, guys. Good thing. We're doing really well. Lovely's welcome from Wellington, Cherie Mordena. How are you? Morning, guys. Good thing. We're doing really well.

Lovely to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast this morning. Cherie, big fan of Five Words. You're going to be coming along to the World Tour at some stage? Yeah, maybe. Get the merch, buy the t-shirt. Hopefully a cap. Yeah, we'll get you a cap. I'll bring you a Five Words cap. That's right. It's the game show that everyone is talking about. And when I say everyone, I mean in this room right now.

Yeah, we're all talking about it, aren't we, Cherie? Yeah, I'll be talking about it. Okay, who are you sending into the soundproof booth this morning, Cherie, to match five words with you? Jono, mate. Oh. Jono Pryor. Well, come on, mate.

I don't want to do my commentary of you walking away to the soundproof booth. I was half reading an email that I had to send. Yeah, he's really like, yeah, you checked out your computer for a long time there before making his way to the soundproof booth. Now, Shireen, you know how the game works, obviously. Yeah. I'm going to say your five words, the first things that pop into your head, starting from now.

Your first word today is Miley. Miley. Cyrus. Miley. Yeah. Miley. Yeah, Miley Cyrus. Seems like the obvious one. Yeah, first one into my head too. Your next word, Cherie, this morning is charger.

Charger. Four. Four. Phone. Oh, yes. That's a good one. Phone charger. Makes sense to me.

The third word this morning for five words for $5,000 is pedicure. Pedicure. Feet. Feet. Yes. Yeah. Fourth word this morning, five words, $5,000. Drink.

Drink. Oh, that's a tough one drink drink liquid oh nice okay

and the final word for five words $5,000 serious sorry serious S-E-R-I-O-U-S. Serious.

Serious? Yes, I'm serious. Oh, yeah. Serious. Oh, my God. Oh, gee, I'm rubs. This is a really hard word. I'm struggling. She's a Humphreys. You know that? Yeah. Seriously? Seriously, we're doing this?

Seriously? Okay. All right, serious. Truth? I don't know. Truth? Okay. Yeah, that's a tough one.

That's one of the toughest words. I kind of drew a blank on that one as well. Yeah. All right. Good luck. You want to lock that in? Yeah, might as well. Okay.

Nothing else is there. Oh, Cherie. All right, we're going to get Jono out of the soundproof booth. Let's see how you go. All right. Five words, $5,000. I feel confident with the first three or four potentially today. It's just that last one was very tricky.

Jono Pryor, back. Back. I ran out of the booth like a Joe Biden trying to prove he's still got a bit of pizzazz inside of him. You did, you did. A little bit of bounce. Look guys, I'm still fit and healthy to run a country. We should turn, you know that soundproof booth, we should turn that into one of those spark phone boxes once we're finished with this game.

That's a teenager's compassion vape inside it. Are they still a thing? I saw one the other day. Really? It's still being used. Phone boxes for people having an affair, I guess. Five words, $5,000. The first word I said to Cherie

this morning, Jono, was Miley. Miley. Cyrus? Well done. One from five. Second word, charger. Charger. There's a car called a charger.

There's a value in charger enough. Cherie's probably a car person. Are you a car in charger enough. Shree's probably a car person. Are you a car person, Shree? No. Not a car person. She's like, no. No, not for you.

Okay, there. I have a silver one. You've got a silver car. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a charger. I'm guessing. I'm going to go phone.

Well done. Oh, two from two shares. Here we go. Here we go, Shree. Here we go. Okay. Ped we go. Here we go. Okay. Pedicure. Pedicure.

Third word, pedicure. Foot? Foot? Did you say foot? What are you doing? Why are you making that face? He's scrunching up his nose and his eyes. It looks like he's sucked on a lemon or something.

What's going on? Producer Julia. I really don't know. Can we come back to that? Producer Humphrey. Look at that monster in there shaking his head in the other room. What's going on? What did you say?

I said feet. And I said foot. It's the same thing. That's why I was scrunching my face, guys. Producer Humphrey. What a savage. That's why I was like, well, it seems the same to me. Same thing.

Oh, Cherie, I'm sorry. The scrutineers, they're running a tough system next door there. Aren't they just? He's like, no, no. So I'm so sorry. There we go. The next two words, we had drink. Liquid.

No, maybe. Okay, Liquid. No, my man. Okay, and the final word was serious. Dispute. Alcohol. She's an alcohol good. Wouldn't have got it anyway. That was tough. Yeah, she had truth for serious.

Serious truth, yeah. That is a tough word. Oh, feet, foot, heart free. We're going to call a board meeting after the show on that one. Yeah, all right, all right. Some controversy. Five words, $5,000. I'll be back again tomorrow.

Thanks so much for playing, Cherie. Thanks, guys. Have a good day. You too. 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.

Around here, we call her the clothesline because she's ready to hang out the celebrities to dry and bring them down a peg or two. Producer Juliet, what's happening with Spy? So there was a poll that was done in America that said at least 46% of Americans would support Dwayne The Rock Johnson's run for president if he chose to do it. Now he's expressed his interest in the past. Ben, I know you're frothing for this. Can I just raise an issue that he has no previous political experience? Oh, but no, he's a leader.

He's a leader. He's a go-getter. You know, like, he seems like he'd be good at all people that you'd think in the entertainment industry. He'd be great for the job. Yeah, I know, but then you're like... It's never too late to start a new career, Jonathan.

Okay, all right. What do you see? You're talking to me like, I know. It's never too late to start a new career, Jonathan. Okay, all right. What do you say? You're talking to me like I'm an old man. Never too late to have a new zest, new page in your book. Yes. But he did say, I don't think that our founding fathers ever envisioned a 6'4", balls tattooed, half black, half Samoan,

tequila drinking, pickup truck driving, fanny pack wearing guy joining their club. But if it ever happens, it would be my honour to serve you, the people. So he's not saying no. No, not necessarily. But he's kind of painting himself out to be a redneck who wanders around in a fanny pack there. You're right, he would be good.

He seems reasonable. I think he gave, when everything was turning to custard in the States last year. He gave one of the best speeches. Yeah, he gave a more presidential speech than Donald Trump at the time. I guess the hard thing, no matter who has one of those jobs, anywhere in the world, leader of a country, it's very hard to keep everyone happy. And that would be the thing, because he has a lot of popularity right now, and there's not too many people out there, I would say, that would dislike The Rock.

But it'd be hard to have a job like that and not make choices that people may not like. Fans of Vin Diesel? They might not like The Rock, because him and Vin Diesel don't get along. That's true. What about the families of all the bad guys he's beaten up in his movies? They might have some problems with that. I think it would be awesome for them. And I imagine a role like that, a large part of it is acting.

You're putting on, you know, an act. You've probably got people who can make tough political decisions behind the scenes for you. Your job is to present it and look confident and guide the people. It's an act to a certain extent, isn't it? And so he might be fit for the job. Ronald Reagan was an actor before he was

president. He was. True. Seems like a bit of a trend at the moment with the American president. And in other news, just quickly, Kourtney Kardashian is dating the drummer for Blink-182. His name's Travis Barker. They've only been dating a couple of months, and this is quite interesting.

He has already got a tattoo of her name, Kourtney, on his chest. Just on his pectorals there. He's covered head to toe, though, isn't he? He is. I think literally head to toe, right? Yeah. He's full. He's even got his heads done.

Yeah. There's no part. Like, my mum would go, you've got no skin left that's what she would say to travis barker what does your mother think that's what she she always said to me that's your last one isn't it jay i don't know why she sounds like something from the sesame street uh but that's a quick turnaround yeah they've only been dating for what two months a couple of months or so yeah so that's that's quite quick. And also a commitment of getting someone's name on, if you're not married or, I don't know. Have you got your family's name written on you? I've got, yeah, I've got

your name. You write your name backwards. So weirdly you write the end backwards on like a lightning bolt on my name. I've got, yeah, my daughter's as well, yeah. So, yeah. Okay, I'll chuck open a rogue text poll. What's the quickest time we can find someone from when you met them to when you got something of them tattooed on you, whether it's a name, an image, or some sort of meaning about that person?

Can you beat two months? All right. Rogue text poll. This has not been sanctioned by the powers that be. All right, it is. And it is Spite and Salmon News this morning. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm.

Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, you reckon you've got something in mind? Yeah, and it's a little disturbing, to be honest. I, um, you know, one of the joys of working in commercial radio is the abundance of promotional underpants you get sent. Have you been sent promotional underpants before, Julia? I don't think I have. I don't know if it's a bit weird

sending it out to producer Julia. No, I haven't. But you know, so many underpants over the years. You? I've got a few underpants,

yeah. And I think also we've been sent the same pairs of underpants before and this is where the confusion that you want to talk about

is lay. Jeez, the amount of free underpants I've got, I could sew the amount of free underpants I've got and turn them into a parachute. So many underpants. So 20 years of underpants I've got, I could sew the amount of free underpants I've got and turn them into a parachute.

So many underpants. So 20 years of underpants and yeah, like Ben said, sometimes we get sent the same pair from a company. But the problem is when we go away that, you know, you have to get changed and stuff and all sorts of business. Oh, we were doing barefoot water skiing

last night, not this weekend, the weekend before, so obviously we're getting changed and wetsuits and togs and all sorts and underpants. We're getting wet and soggy and left in the rental cars and stuff. Yeah, so like I swooped up and I grabbed I said to you at the time, I was like, uh-oh, who's

a who's? Because we had exactly the same pair of underpants. And you were like, oh no, I'll just take those. And I thought you'd taken those, but I don't know, obviously there was a mix-up in comms, and I ended up with both pairs. So then I've now put on the underpants, and they feel tight. Not used to my loose, flabby thighs. Oh, so you think they're my underpants?

I think they're yours, because you've got a tighter frame. There's still some more elasticity in there. So the same size, they just haven't really been worn in as much. Yeah, the butt feels tighter. So I feel like I'm wearing your underpants now and it's weird. It is weird. It's a weird mental image, isn't it? It is.

You have someone else's underpants to put on. Yeah. And socks as well. I feel weird about wearing someone else's socks. Do you? It doesn't happen too often, but you're right. I'd rather wear someone else's socks than someone else's underwear. Wouldn't you?

We had an incident a few years ago because we were given the same suits when we had the TV show. The Howland Sun Brothers suits, matching suits. So you swung past work to grab a suit on the way to, I think you were going to Queenstown for a wedding. Queenstown for a friend's wedding, yeah. You grabbed my suit by mistake. Yeah, in a fluster. And then I got there and I couldn Queenstown for a wedding. Queenstown for a friend's wedding, yeah. Grabbed my suit by mistake. Yeah, in a fluster.

And then I got there and I couldn't even pull up the zipper. So I had to go to the wedding with the zipper hanging down. Not a great look to go to the wedding. Yeah, and I just, you know the jacket, the front of the jacket, just hung over just enough length that no one could notice. But boy, oh boy, it's a thrill going to a wedding with your pants unzipped. And starting the day like that too. Oh wow, here he is, he's come to party.

Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B**** News. Yes, all of the world's most questionable headlines deciphered by the world's most questionable broadcasters.

Juliet, what is this game you're bringing to the forefront? This is a game where I go and hunt for some quirky but interesting news stories. I beep out a word and you guys have to figure out what the headline is. Okay. Ready for the first one? Yeah.

Woman shares genius trick for when you want to **** someone without seeming rude. I'm going to go genius trick for when you want to someone without seeming rude. I'm going to go genius trick for when you want to convincingly pretend you remember someone that you met without seeming rude. That's good. That would be nice to know that trick. I just want to know how you can flip someone off

in traffic without seeming rude. Is there a polite way to do that? Just do it under the window. So they don't see it. So you get the satisfaction of knowing you've done it. Maybe that's the way. That's a light way to do that. True. Just do it under the window. Oh, so they don't see it. Yeah, so you get the satisfaction of knowing you've done it. Or maybe that's the way. That's a great trick. Woman shares genius trick for when you want to hang up on someone without seeming rude.

So you know how if people call you and you don't know that they're calling, you can sometimes get a bit thrown and you're like, oh, I don't really want to speak to this person right now, but you feel like you have to. Mid-conversation, you can switch your phone to airplane mode, so then on the other person's phone it says call failed rather than hung up.

And so it doesn't look like you hung up on the person. It just looks like the connection kind of got lost. That's good. There was that hack a while ago we saw online too just saying when you answer the phone,

oh sorry, my battery's about to die. So at any stage of the conversation you can just hang up abruptly and you've set it up. That is very good. Sometimes you get like, what's that? I can't hear you. It saves having to do that performance

as well because you need to actually put on an Academy Award winning performance when you're pretending that the reception's playing up. I thought it was really good. Next story. Content from hundreds of accounts leaked on Google Drive. Oh, this is Jono Pryor's nudes. hundreds of accounts leaked on Google Drive. Oh, this is Jono Pryor's nudes. My nudes are leaked on my...

Hundreds of accounts, his OnlyFans account. Yeah, well, thank God they're getting out there. I've been trying to get some traction for them. I'm going to say content from hundreds of Ben Boyce's online dating accounts leaked onto Google Drive. So a stitch-up for both of us there. Oh, God, no. Content from hundreds of OnlyFans accounts leaked on Google Drive. OnlyFans up for both of us there. Content from hundreds of OnlyFans accounts

leaked on Google Drive. OnlyFans. You were right on your accounts. Good. I know. So a bunch of hackers got in there somehow and almost 300 accounts were affected. I was actually wondering

because it's so easy to screenshot things or video record on your phone and so I was like, can't people just screenshot if they wanted to share things off OnlyFans? But it turns out if you screenshot it just shows up

as a black screen in your photos so you actually can't share what that content is Is OnlyFans actually all just for saucy purposes

or is there actually a legitimate platform of hey you want to learn how to bake souffles I've got an OnlyFans account It's not all

raunchy It seems to be tarnished with that bracelet. It has been done. If you said, Julia said, I'm on OnlyFans, we'd be like, oh, yeah. I know it's for radio tips. You know? Yeah, true.

You automatically think the worst, don't you? It's been stereotyped. Yeah, and the final one. University of Kentucky mistakenly sends... I'm going to say the recipe for the Kentucky Fried Chicken, secret herbs and spices. They sent that out being from Kentucky. I'm going to say mistakenly sends nudes to mother-in-law.

Oh, okay. Classic. University of Kentucky mistakenly sends 500,000 acceptances. So it was initially for a program that only accepts 35 people, but they accepted 500,000. That's half a million. And then they have to do the awkward, it's like a wedding that you have to do a call list for.

Very awkward. It was a glitch that happened in the system somehow. But imagine if you really wanted to get into the University of Kentucky, got accepted, and then you get told and it's ripped away from you. I did that when I was a teenager. I trialled for the school tennis team, and I made the top tennis team. Wow. And then the next day, they were like, it was an administration error.

And I'd actually made the fifth best tennis team. I went home, mum made a special dinner. Oh, we celebrated. That's so sad. And then I had to go back and go, oh, it was a clerical error. At least you still got a nice dinner. That's right.

Mum's like, you vomited that dinner out. You did not earn that. You didn't deserve that. And vomited that cock-o-vart out. That is the news and beeps. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook.

Scrolling through your feed. Here to present the news, because our proper newsreader, Rachel Jackson-Lees, is making herself a chai latte in the work kitchen. Here's through your feed. Here to present the news because our proper newsreader Rachel Jackson-Lees is making herself a chai latte in the work kitchen. Here's Benjamin Boyce. We're going to be talking just before 7 o'clock this morning about what's happening with Prince Philip and the funeral plans in the UK. That's just before 7 o'clock

but here in New Zealand a 41 gun salute for Prince Philip. Sadly of course passed away on Friday so they had one of those yesterday in Wellington. Do they actually fire bullets, 41 bullets into the year on Friday. So they had one of those yesterday in Wellington. Did they actually fire bullets, 41 bullets into the year? I think they fired bullets into the year. I think they'd be wildly dangerous. What did they do?

In the middle of Wellington as well, just like bullets flying everywhere. I don't think they're doing that. But hey, I don't know. I looked at the logistics of it all. But actually, I thought this was quite interesting. Now, back in 1973, when Prince Philip and the Queen came to New Zealand,

he was part of a fun prank at Lincoln University. What was the fun prank? Oh, jeez, I've been to Lincoln University. What were they doing then? Seeing some horrible things at Lincoln University. You never get away with this now. So basically, his motorcade was on the way to Lincoln, and some of the students there thought it would be fun

to have a tractor with some hay bales and sort of look like they were doing like a sort of fun little, almost like, I guess, a kidnapping of him. Taking him out of the car and putting him on the tractor with some hay bales and sort of looked like they were doing like a sort of fun little, I guess a kidnapping of him. Taking him out of the car and putting him on the tractor with the hay bales and driving him into Lincoln University. Now behind the scenes, obviously, they talked to the police, they talked to the royal family and they got sign off for this. To do this thing, the only condition was they had to put a blanket down for Prince Philip

to sit on so he didn't get hay on his trousers. He's like, I'll be part of your crazy prank. And so he got in and they put him on there and he drove in with him on a tractor. The guy said he was lovely, he had a chat with him, thought it was a great laugh and got to do that.

So that was kind of a cool little story. Jeez, you wouldn't get away with that nowadays, would you? No, not at all. But a different time in 1973. Hey, good on you, Prince Philip. Ben, that would play dare into your pranky little heart. Oh, it would. Imagine if you pulled off a prank like good on you, Prince Philip. Ben, that would play dare into your pranky little heart. Oh, it would.

Imagine if you pulled off a prank like that. Oh, Prince Philip, that'd be a... What's been your greatest prank? Oh, mate, I don't know. Pranks are one of those

things that people are like, oh, it's a prank. They're like children. You love them all. You can't compare them all. That's right. And a Texas woman, we've actually,

we've followed this journey quite closely over the years. She's got the Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails in the world. She's finally cut her fingernails. Oh, that lady. We've researched her many times. We're like, we should film something

with this crazy lady. The logistics of having fingernails that long is like, how does she answer the phone? How does she text? How does she eat? 30 years she's had these fingernails like this. She's been growing them for 30 years. In 2017, they were almost 19 feet collectively long. And in 2021 last year, oh, sorry, this year, they'd grown another 5 feet. So they'd gone on to 24 feet of fingernails.

But surely you'd be like, that's it. It'd be so, but what would you do? How would you get around? How would you get an Uber? How would you get a flight? And what I respected about her is she always had them beautifully painted. You'd have to almost take them to a panel beater and put them in the spray booth, wouldn't you? Oh, yeah.

Like a spray gun, just... Because it would use so much nail polish. Actually, it took her two bottles of nail polish and 20 hours to do a manicure. She wanted to give herself a manicure. 20 hours? You were moaning about shaving your legs the other day, Juliet. Oh, it's such an effort. Spare a thought for this poor lady who's having to take a whole day to paint her nails.

Yeah, true. It is crazy. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Buy the WhatsApp by doco.nz. All right, Juliet's here, ready to shove another celebrity carcass in the oven and give it a good old roasting.

What's happening, June? So, obviously, on Friday evening New Zealand time, Prince Philip passed away at the age of 99. He was married to the Queen for 73 years, which is an insane marriage and a very long life that he lived. His funeral will be New Zealand time classic. You know, the UK be New Zealand time classic, you know, the UK and New Zealand,

there's complete opposite ends of the day. So it will be at 2am on 18th of April. So if you want to stay up and watch that, then you can. Are they going to stream it, are they? Well, I think it's going to be one of those things that's publicised to the whole world, a bit like, you know, all the royal weddings and things like that. Gotcha, yeah.

So it's going to be in the same chapel in Windsor Castle that Harry and Meghan got married in. Quite a few, I think, of the kings and previous monarchs are buried there as well. Oh, really? Yeah, and only 30 people will be able to attend because of COVID restrictions, and we think that it'll pretty much just be strictly family

because that family is so big. Harry is flying back to the UK for it. Megan did not get clearance to fly because she's due to give birth in the next couple of months.

I saw also that they, because normally people buy flowers and they bring them down and they leave them somewhere in town and because of COVID at the moment

they're encouraging people to donate to a charity and I think they've put a charity up which I thought was a good idea instead of flowers. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

It's quite a hard thing when a royal member of the royal family passes in when the country's still in lockdown. You know, they have to prepare for massive crowds coming to Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle. So yeah, that is one way that they've got around it. But something that was quite interesting was the BBC,

as soon as Philip died, they had a bunch of coverage of his life and his marriage to the Queen and everything like that. But they were then flooded with complaints because people weren't happy that the final of Masterchef didn't get to air, that many other TV shows were postponed because all of this coverage was of Prince Philip. And where's EastEnders?

Literally. The chase in other UK shows. The thing is though I find it interesting that you would do rolling coverage of a person's passing where you're like

well the news is they're gone yeah what is there to cover yeah apart from probably just not expecting on their live

but you're right it's not like it's a breaking news it's quite interesting though because I feel like for a lot of massive figures that pass away there's this

interest that grows in them once they pass. Like, I remember when Michael Jackson passed away, he made more money post-death than he was alive. So this interest, everyone became so much more interested in them once they die because you can reflect on their life. And this might be the same with Prince Philip. And just a sad time for him to pass with the royal family in disarray. Yeah.

Isn't it? Harry will feel, girl, Wouldn't he feel terrible? Very awkward. Because then they got hate for the public message that they put out. Their response, which was like congratulations on some fine service. Like there was no personal attachment to it.

And I think it was two sentences from Prince Harry and Meghan and then Piers Morgan wrote this massive dedication to Prince Philip and then people were like, well, he's not even his grandchild, you know, which is a very good point.

Yeah, but, you know, Piers Morgan is very pro-royal and things like that. It'd be like a message our CEO Bogsy would send out to someone who's, you know, had five years at the company or something.

Yeah, gotcha. Thank you for all your service. Yeah, exactly. But I think we are catching up with Gavin Gray, UK correspondent, shortly. He knows his stuff with all things royal, so he'll be able to tell us more as well. I got stuck in an article with Prince Philip, and he had a great sense of humour.

One of his things was he's like, I'm the most expensive plaque unveiler in the world. And the other one was he was in Canada, and he was like, I declare this thing open, whatever it is. Whatever it is whatever it is and that is spy for more you can head to thehits.co.nz

yeah yeah no yeah no yeah no the home of yeah no she'll be right and at the end of the day Jono and Ben

breakfast on the hits wrapping up our show really fun show on a Monday morning it was a really fun show for a Monday morning usually you battle through Mondays

don't you but it was a free flowing the banter was mild. Usually you battle through Mondays, don't you? But it was a free-flowing. The banter was mildly enjoyable. And I'll forget everything we've done straight after. Don't you just forget everything you've done? You do. I know, it's quite weird. You're like, what did we just talk about for the last three hours?

And then you're like, oh, poor people had to listen to that. Now, this week, John, I keep saying we're going on the five words. World tour. The first world tour since the pandemic. Well, we're going as far as Christchurch this The first World Tour since the pandemic. And well, we're going as far as Christchurch this week. Is that in the world?

It is in the world, yeah. World Tour. So Thursday night, the Five Words pub quiz, where as you mentioned before, it's going to be at the Good Home and Ferry Meet in Christchurch.

Thursday night, come down and see us. Your chance to win 500 bucks cash and a whole lot more fun with the Five Words tour that takes place then. Now our five to 9 audience

might not know what 5 Words is. It's a competition we play every morning at quarter to 8 where you match 5 Words with our 5 Words and if you do you win 5k. That's why we're doing it live. Expanding the portfolio. Merch dropping next week. We'll get the 5 Words fan club website up and running before the end of this week

as well. And it's kind of all come about because I was like oh we don't have anywhere to stay when we're down there. And then we got a call out of the blue from Ginny, who works for Orange Homes. And she was like, well, you can stay in the show home, which is quite weird. So we're going to be staying in the

show home in Christchurch this week. We would love to host you guys in our show home. This is better than as good as new. I mean, it's never lived in, never stayed in. Everything's running perfectly host you guys in our showroom. This is better than it gets near. I mean, it's never lifted, never stayed in. Everything's running perfectly for you guys. So what are the T's and C's here? What are yours?

We can just come. How much do we have to bang on about Orange Homes? No, as long as you guys look, 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. And I've just got to take a couple of clients through at

9 o'clock, Ben, just to show a couple of potential buyers through the show. Just say things like, build your family home with Orange Homes, a space for your family to grow and love. Just things, natural bits of conversation like that. Oh, is this part of the teasers? Is this what we have to do? Yeah, you can design and build your perfect home with Orange Homes, John. I've got quality workmanship and a trusted name. You know, just little things like that. Oh, is this part of the teasers? Is this what we have to do? Yeah. You have to start... You can design and build your perfect home with Orange Homes, John. I've got a quality

workmanship and a trusted name. You know, just little things like that. You know, just stay in the night. So we've sold our soul to the Orange Home devil and we'll be just working in that vernacular between now and the end of the week. That is a wonderful bit of generosity though, letting us stay at a show home. Juliet's not

having a baby yet, but we've actually signed a contract when you do have your first baby, it needs to be called Orange Homes. Okay, that sounds great. Okay, if you have two babies, one could be called Orange, the other one Homes. That's all part of the excitement coming up this week, and don't forget, tomorrow on the show we spoke to Chris Mack just before 6.60, and we were like, you wanted

50, arrogantly asking for 50 tickets. Give us 50 tickets to your history-making Eden Park gig, and he was a little flustered, taken back, and he's like, well, we've got a band meeting today, so I'll pitch it, and we'll see what he comes back with tomorrow. And also Kimbra joining us as well. Kimbra, one of the judges on Popstars from TVNZ. She's going to be on the program tomorrow morning.

Oh, it's going to be a big Tuesday. You have yourself a great Monday, New Zealand. We'll catch you tomorrow from 6 o'clock. We'll see you then. Have a great day. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits. And via the iHeartRadio app. we'll see you then have a great day