Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - April 13 - Chris Mac's Six60 Is Giving Us 50 Tickets For Their Eden Park Concert & They Could Be YOURS!

Episode Date: April 12, 2021

We caught up with Chris Mac again this morning after Jono requested FIFTY tickets to Six60's Eden Park concert so that we can give them away. Chris is giving us 50 but only on one agreement... We also chatted to listener Lisa who recently got married, and she wants to finally join bank accounts with her husband, but he isn't keen. What should she do? Is it fine to have separate bank accounts when you're married? Finally, we caught up with Kiwi artist Kimbra, one of the judges on TVNZ's Popstars, which debuted last night. We chatted to her about her experience winning an Oscar, and we snuck in a cheeky wee prank involving Vince Harder. Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. It's Tuesday, the 30th of April, 2021. That's timestamping today's podcast. Ben Boyce, I'm joined by my colleague and co-host Benjamin Boyce. Lovely to see you as always. Nice to see you as well. What are we looking forward to today? Well, wheels are in motion. We never

thought we'd be able to get to 50,000, 50,000, 50 tickets to 660 at Eden Park. Yeah, we pretty much put Chris Mack, bassist, under the pump live on the radio during an interview and said, can we have some tickets to give away? Because no one's got any.

And he was, you can keep doing that, Millennial Max. He's just pulling up the Venetian blinds of the studio. And he was expecting us to say a double pass. We highballed him with 50 tickets. Shot for the stars, didn't we? Yeah, exactly. And he came back 24 hours later. There's a challenge, though, for us. and you'll hear that play out on the podcast i feel like it's one he said us

that when you the more you think about it the more you are it's so tough and less and less likely that he's going to have to hand over 50 tickets but we're gambling men ben's uh gambling anonymous meetings will prove that and uh we're willing to take the punt on that so you'll hear more about that in the upcoming podcast kimbrabra, pop star, Grammy nominated. Did she win a Grammy? Yes, she did. She won a Grammy award winning Kimbra. And also judge on the new series of Pop Stars, which was on 29 TV channels last night.

She won Best Pop Duo Performance. For Now You're Just Somebody That I Used To. And Record as well. She was the record of the year. Double Grammy. Double... And record as well. She was the record of the year. Double Grammy. Double Grammys, yeah. So she joins us on the program as well. It's good to see Kimber because I was just worried for a while there that she was just somebody that I used to know.

Thank you so much for not doing that in the moment as well. I wanted to. I know you did. I know you would have. And I was like... I know you would have. I know. I was like, it's good to see you again

because I was worried that you were just someone you know but she'd be like what we don't know each other and are you saying that I haven't been and for anything

she's been kicking ass for years and years and years so it would've been taken as potentially an insult and it wasn't meant to be it was just meant to be a way of working that joke out so he dodged that bullet

I didn't do it but I wanted to do it now but you've done it now on the podcast the damage is done now on the podcast yeah so I don't know you so why would you to do it now. But you've done it now. On the podcast. The damage is done now on the podcast.

I was like, well, I don't know you. So why would you do that? I know, it's just the title of the song. Yeah. Yeah, so I could have got into one of those awkward situations. So I didn't do it. Yeah. But next time I see it, maybe I will.

No, don't. Don't, don't. Please don't. Because next time you see it, you're like, well, why didn't you do that last time I saw you? Now you've held on to this three meetings beyond. The time has passed. Literally, the song's ten years old now. Enjoy the podcast, look after yourselves, keep safe, kia kaha and always remember

it was over to you for an inspirational quip. It's best to do jokes when the song is relevant. Two dads just trying to fill some air time. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some air time for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now 660 playing Eden Park, 50,000 seat stadium.

I can't wait for that. April 24, Sir Dave Dobbin, Drax Project. This is some of the artists performing before them. It's going to be one heck of a concert. It is. It's a history making event, isn't it? It's a concert, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And we interviewed

660 bassist Chris Mack on the program yesterday, head of the show, and towards the end of the interview, we checked out what many would say was an unreasonable request. Where are our tickets? We want to give away tickets to the show. What are you thinking? 50.

No, 50's too many. Okay, I will see what I can do, only because you called away tickets to the show. I know. What are you thinking? 50. No, 50's too many. Okay, I will see what I can do only because you called me friend of the show. Yeah. It is 24 hours later. We gave Chris Mack 24 hours and it's time now for the follow-up. Chris Mack joins us back.

Lovely to have you back on the show there, Chris. Friend of the show. Well, you just got it in there at the end. I was about to say yesterday you called me friend of the show, you just got it in there at the end. I was about to say, yesterday you called me friend of the show, and you just snuck it in at the end. You're trying to butter me up. Friend of the show. We'll get back to find out how great a friend of the show he is.

Because yesterday, Jono arrogantly asked for 50 tickets to 660's historic gig at Eden Park, April 24. He's a very rude guy. 50 tickets is a lot. I've got a lot of friends. I've actually said no to friends.

This is how bad this is. But then you put me on the spot on national radio for 50 tickets. This is out of the band's bottom line as well. This is taking food off your table, Chris Mack. Yeah, that's right. I've got a family to feed. So you said yesterday you were going to bring it up at the band meeting.

You were hanging out in the studio yesterday. Well, so look, I went to the guys. I said, listen, and normally they don't pay attention to me, and I had to really try hard to get their attention. I took my clothes off. I was just like, anything to try and avert their gaze my way. And I said, look, I had a phone call yesterday with Jono and Ben. They called me friend of show.

And, you know, that really, that kind of got us over the line. I pleaded with them. I begged them. I said, they called me. I don't have many friends. And to be a friend of an entire show, that's like crazy. And I don't want to lose it. I don't want to lose the mantle.

So, look, that convinced them. I was crying a little bit, and that got them over the line. So I'll tell you what. Here's what we decided, though. You can have 50 tickets. Yes. Yes, 50 tickets. Wait.

I remember all those sentences. I'm sorry. But if you want these 50 tickets, you have to do something to earn them. Oh, there's a catch. There's always a catch, isn't there? There's always a catch with 660, isn't there? A catchy tune or a catch on the radio? It's a 660 catch.

Here's what you can do. If you want these tickets you can get them at Eden Park. You can go down there and you have to sit. It's like a musical chairs kind of thing. If you sit in the right seat I'll give you the 50 tickets.

But there's 50,000 seats there. Yeah. That's right. Yeah, that's right. So, I mean, this could be a five-minute flop of an idea because you might just choose the right seat immediately or, I mean, you know, you might be there until the show, to be honest. This is something that could take us, I guess, days and days

just sitting in seat after seat to try and activate these tickets. Only if, yeah, you've got to put your little tush on the right seat and then you can get yourself 50 tickets, which I'm assuming aren't going to you. I'm assuming you're going to... Yeah, we're going to win that for the listeners.

This sounds like some sort of sick plot line to the Saw movie franchise. That's right. I've currently got a white cat on my lap. I'm stroking it. So what do you reckon, Jono? You're the one wanting these 50 tickets. Do you still want them now,

potentially having to sit in every seat at Eden Park? Well, if we go halves, it'll be 25,000 squats each. Oh, squat. They're pretty much us squats, aren't they? My quads are not in good shape, Chris Mack. Yeah, get some stretching in. So are you guys in?

Are you in? Well, there's a chance. We don't have to sit in all the seats. So I'm willing to go for it. What do you reckon, Joe? Oh, listen, yeah. I can't help but feel partly responsible for the situation that we're in. You're fully responsible. So it would be rude to pull out now.

The challenge has been accepted, Chris Mack. We will try to sit in as many seats as we need to to unlock these tickets. Could be 50,000. Knowing you, you'll probably just keep shifting them around the seats until we've sat in all. Yeah, can you make sure that someone from our team knows at least what seat, the lucky seat? You'll know. You'll know. When you sit in the right seat, you will know. Don't worry about that.

Okay. Okay. 50 seats could be up for grabs. To be honest, we've probably could have just sold the tickets. Well, I think they're banking on us giving up. That's what I feel. But don't give it up. It's a great one of your songs. And I'll be using it. Oh, you got it. You got it. You got a bad voice joke

in there. Hey, Chris Mack, love your work, buddy. And we'll give it a go. Give it a go to unlock the 50 tickets. Thank you. Now for the second part of our evil plan, we'll get the 50 tickets and sell them for four times the price. But we won't tell Chris Mack that. We can do it.

Yeah. It's almost like 50,000 squats, though, between us. Well, I guess in the next week or so, we'll attempt to sit in 50,000 seats to win you 50 660 tickets, which is hard when you go 50 660 tickets. It confuses. How many tickets have you got? It's 50 tickets.

We could be giving away here on the hits. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast on the hits. Jeez, I tell you what, got an interesting caller on here. Lisa with us. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Morena. Morena, how are you?, got an interesting caller on here. Lisa with us. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Morena.

Morena, how are you? Doing well, thanks, Lisa. Lovely to have you on with us. Just got married, so congrats. Thank you, thank you. Back and fed. But it's not all wedded bliss. The honeymoon has worn off already.

It's a loveless marriage already. The love fountain has dried up. No, I'm exaggerating here. But something interesting has come to your attention, Lise. Well, okay. So I don't even know if this is weird or not, but I'm a bit of an organisational freak, and we've got lots of bills.

We are lucky enough to own a house, and I'm just trying to sort things out. But we do everything. We pay for everything separately. And I suggested that we maybe just put all our money in one account and have a joint account to pay all of our bills and stuff. And he's totally anti it. And I don't know why.

And I've pushed and pushed, and he's just not paying. Is that weird? Well, listen, it makes you suspicious. You're like, what's on the bank statements? Yeah, exactly, right? Yeah, because I don't know if it's entirely weird to have separate accounts, but

when you've been asked to put them together and you're like, oh no, no, no, maybe it's, yeah. But it feels like up until marriage, having separate accounts, it makes sense probably. But then once you make that, you know, marriage basically, it's simple. Everything that was good about life before marriage, you now hand over to someone else and they hand over to you.

Finances included, you know. Well, that's what I thought. Yeah, when you're married, you've kind of made that commitment. Yeah, but I think it's still okay to have separate accounts. I don't think you have to be joining accounts together. I mean, sure, paying into the mortgage together, but you can still have accounts or you can link the account. I think we've still got separate accounts, Amanda and I,

but they're all linked on the one. You know, like if I wanted to, I could log on there and check what she's doing and vice versa, but it's not like you. Yeah, right. It wouldn't matter if she had her own account. I don't know how long is it. We're all paying into the mortgage together? We do. Well, yeah, we're the same. We've matter if she had her own account. I don't know how long is it. We're all paying all to the mortgage together. We do.

Well, yeah, we're the same. We've got two separate ones that I use for all sorts of shenanigans. My one. And then we do have the joint one. But thankfully, I'm not in charge of the finances in our household because, jeez, we'd be in financial ruin. Like the amount of novelty band T-shirts and Air Jordans I would have purchased would have sunk us.

So, Lisa, you're wanting to know, is it normal for a married couple to have completely separate bank accounts? Like flatmates. So you'd put in for the mortgage, you'd put in for the shopping and the bills, but then for the most part, the money you earn, the money he earns, you keep to yourselves.

Exactly. Alright, well let's throw it out there on 0800THEHITS. It's an interesting one, isn't it? Yeah. With marriage. You feel like you're all in together. I see what you're saying, Jono. So maybe you're out there and you have been married for some time

and you're still running separate accounts. And if you don't do that, how else are gold diggers meant to get their greasy mitts on your money? Oh, that's true. Tyrone, you're on the air. You want to chime in on this one. Separate bank accounts. What do you think?

Well, my wife and I have been married for 27 years. We've never had a joint account. Never? Always had a separate. Gee, and so let's say you're going to go on a holiday. You're going to stimulate the New Zealand economy, head to the South Island. What are you picking?

Central Otago, maybe something? What happens there? If either one of us needs money, we've got it there for us to share. But as I say, we've always had our separate bank account. Have you got a joint savings account? No, never had a joint account ever. That's interesting. Okay, so if you went out for dinner, one of you would go,

oh, hey, I'll cover this? Is that normally how it works? Yeah, yeah. Depends. Sometimes we split the payment. Really? You go halves. That's kind of cool.

You're playing to Ben Boyce's strings. He's like, oh, okay. Hang on, Amanda. No, you had that. I had, oh. He loves a split bill, even with his wife. I didn't know there was an option now. You've opened my mind to this. Was it a mutual thing heading into the marriage, Tyrone,

that you both wanted to keep separate accounts, or was one favouring it over the other? We've just never thought about changing it. It's just always been that way. That's really interesting. Thank you so much for calling. That's awesome to get that side of the street fence. What is it?

I don't know, mate. Is this your analogy? I'll roll with whatever. Laura, you're here. Welcome. How are you, Laura? Hello. Lovely to have you on.

Lisa, now the separate bank account, should she insist on joining accounts? Should she be suspicious he wants to keep separate accounts? Your thoughts? No, definitely not suspicious.

I just think it's really cold to be financially just independent. Yeah, I think if you're suspicious, I think

there's probably something else going on. Yeah, right. Have you got a separate account in your relationship, do you? Yeah, yeah, separate you got a separate account in your relationship, do you? Yeah, yeah, separate accounts. We've been married 18 years, and we didn't have separate accounts, and we had a little bit of a separation about three years ago, and we separated our bank accounts and stuff.

And actually, to be honest with you, it's so much better. Like, it just, yeah, it just gives you the freedom to do what you want and you can just pay the bills, pay the mortgage, and, you know, pay school fees and all that kind of stuff. But then after that, whatever you want to do with your own money is your money, no question. Okay. Go back to Ben's wonderful dinner hypothetical situation. You both go out to dinner.

Who pays? Yeah, so we do take turns. Like, we don't keep score of taking turns. It's just like, oh, yeah, I'll get this. And sometimes we do split it too. But we're not the type of people that go, oh, you ate a bread roll. You're not a Ben Boyce. He's like, oh, you had 29 Heinekens.

You can pay for those. That's what he does to me. A Ben Boyce is already drawing up his Excel spreadsheet for his wife, Amanda, right now. He's going to send her the link too. But it works for you, Laura? Yes, it absolutely does. George is already drawing up his Excel spreadsheet for his wife Amanda right now. He's going to send her the link too. That's right. But it works for you, Lisa, Laura? Yes, it absolutely does. And I actually, I would encourage Lisa to just go with it.

Because, yeah, I just think, you know, you don't get that much independence, you know, from when you're married. You're kind of like together on a lot of things. And I think it's quite nice just to have that bit of control over some of your own kind of disposable income. Laura, there we go. And on the text machine, a lot of people favouring the separate accounts.

There we go, 4487, 87% of people going, if you want separate accounts, have them and a lot of people who do roll them. That's the end of that. Wow, wonderful stuff. Wonderful work from you, Ben. Julia, you did pretty well too. You pushed some buttons.

Yeah, I'm about to push some more. 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. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away

from a massive payday. It is our Game of Word Association. We tell you five words, you tell us the first words that pop into your head, and if they match with our words, you win $5,000. Now, I'm going to be honest, no one's been paid in a couple of weeks, and if you were our staff members, you'd be

asking questions to payroll about, hey, what's going on with the business? Why haven't I been paid? Why's no money been handed out? And I'm determined to give away some cash today. Ben, are you? Yeah, it feels like it's been a while since we gave away cash. We've had five winners, though. We have.

$25,000 has gone out the door. There's been a dry spell over the last fortnight, though, and we're hoping to moisten it. Producer Humphries, you know, yesterday, was it feet and foot or something? Oh, that's right. Yeah, and it was... Yeah, the lady said... What was her name? Oh, pedicure. Yeah. And it was... Yeah, the lady said,

what was her name? Oh, pedicure. Yes, the word was pedicure. And she said foot. I said feet. He said, that is a discrepancy. That's not the same word.

So we have to be exactly on the same word we've been told. So there we go. T's and C's. T's and C's. A man always trying to keep you down.

Or the woman. Oh, true. 2021, sorry. What are you talking about, mate? Yeah. Can only men be in positions of always trying to keep you down. Or the woman. Oh, true. 2021. Sorry. What are you talking about, mate? Yeah. Can only men be in positions of power where they keep you down? No.

Fair call, John. Fair call. It's just an old thing that, anyway. You're right. It should update. Yeah, maybe the saying should update, mate. Yeah, exactly. It should.

You're right. Sarah's not happy with you, are you, Sarah? I just kind of zoned out there. Yeah, fair enough, Sarah. Fair enough. It's probably for the best. Yeah, fair enough, Sarah. Fair enough. It's probably for the best. Now, Sarah, you know how five words work? Yes, I do.

All right. Whereabouts in the country are you, Sarah? Mangatangi. So, like, if you're heading down State Highway 2, you go past the old little castle there at Mangatafari. Know it well. Yes, yeah. And Mangatangi's up near the Kaiawa Turnoff.

Oh, lovely. That castle used to be an ice cream proprietor. Yeah, it's for sale. I reckon you guys should buy it and do something with it. There's a castle for sale on State Highway 2? Yes. Ooh. I like the sound of that.

You're playing to our weak spot, a novelty castle. We'll keep you on the phone, Sarah. Well, we have to because you've got to play the game. But anyway, who's going to go into the soundproof booth this morning and match five words with you? Well, when I was asked before, I said Ben, but I think I want to throw Jono in. Oh, fair enough. He is a safe

pair of hands. He is a safe pair of hands. No, I'm not. You've had wins and you're due for a win, so it's time to send Jono to the soundproof booth. He looks like so annoying to an S. Because I don't like the pressure. One of us has got to do it each day to send Jono to the Southbrook booth. He looks like so annoyed. It's because I don't like the pressure. One of us has got to do it each day. And he's gone into the booth.

And Sarah, here is your first word today for Five Words, $5,000. You ready? Yep. It is hen. Hen. H-E-N. Spell it? Sorry? Can you spell that? What was that you said?

Oh, hen. H-E-N. Like the bird, the... Yeah. Okay, I'm going to say egg. Egg. Yep, that's a good one. Okay, I'm down with that.

Jeans is your next word. J-E-A-N-S. Jeans. Levi's. Levi's. Oh, yeah. First thing that pops into your head, that's good. Candle is your third word this morning, Sarah? Wax.

Nice. Yeah. Nice. These are good. Autumn is the fourth word. Awesome. Autumn. Autumn.

A-U-T-U-M-N. I always got to go like that, and then I'm like, oh, that might be a word you use. Autumn. Autumn. A-U-T-U-M-N. I always go to go like that, and then I'm like, oh, that might be a word you use. Autumn. Oh, autumn is in the season. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Sorry. I'm going to go. That's what I was going to say, but I didn't want to influence you in any way, so I just, yeah.

I'm going to say leave. And your final word this morning is farm. Farm. Animals. Those are good. I reckon they're good too. Sarah, I think they're great words. I think you've done a great job.

But it doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what I say. It matters what Jono says. And he's giving him a wave. Nice little wave. Covering up the words here on the screen as he makes his way around. Jogging like Joe Biden.

Joe Biden jog. Well, Ben was waving me out with those seductive little wavy fingers, you know, when you're like, hello. Oh, jeez, I tell you what, I'm feeling the pressure this morning. I think you should,

because I think Sarah did a really good job. Not in relation to the game. I've just got a lot going on in my life. I've got a lot to do. But anyway, we'll put that aside. All my life admin aside, we'll try and win you $5,000. Okay, here we go.

First word I said to Sarah this morning was hen. H-E-N, hen. Egg. Yes,E-N. Hen. Egg. Yes! Alright, we're on the board. Oh, the taxi has left the rank. Okay, here we go. Or the Uber. It might be more appropriate given this day and age. The next word

we said to Sarah this morning, five words, $5,000. We're trying to match up your answers with Sarah's. This is jeans. Jeans. $10,000 that we're trying to match up your answers with Sarah's is jeans jeans I've got two here. I've got oh here your life story Are you talking about talking out? Oh, no, you don't even like story. I don't say the words I'm a hairy say the work. I'm going to go jeans west, which is a peddler of denim. Yeah.

Or Levi's. Why are you smiling? Is it one of them? No. I'm going to say. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I do know, but I don't know.

What would Sarah say? I imagine there's not a jeans west in Mangatangi. So I'm going to go Levi's. Well done. Unless there is a jeans waist, is there? There's not much manga tangis. Alright, good start. Good start, Jono. Two from five. Here's the

third word. We need to match up all five for $5,000 for Sarah. Candle. Candle. Do you want to hear my life story? Because I've got two. Tell me about your childhood. I've got stick or wax. Candle, stick or candle, wax.

Wax. Oh! Sarah! Here we go. From Mungadungie. Okay, two more to go, Jono. Here we go. The next word we said this morning, autumn.

Autumn. As in? A-U-T-U-M-N. Autumn. Thank you for that because I didn't know how to spell autumn. It's the M and the M at the end. It's quite hard, isn't it? It always trips me up.

Autumn. Is it season or? Leaves. Oh, Sarah. Oh, my God. What? No way. Oh, Sarah. Oh, my God. Come on. Oh, Lee. Oh.

Sarah. Oh. Producer Humphrey's getting a cannon. He's got the confetti cannon. He needs to be prepared for these moments. When he wraps his hand around that cannon, you know the pressure's on. Okay.

Okay, we're going to put Sarah on hold because this is very important right now. We don't want any influence whatsoever. The final word this morning. There's a lot of pressure when you point that cannon, you know the pressure's on. Okay, we're going to put Sarah on hold because this is very important right now. We don't want any influence whatsoever. The final word this morning... There's a lot of pressure when you point that cannon at me too, Producer Zabri. It's a disappointing walk back with the cannon if he doesn't fire it. If he has to put the cannon back in the cupboard. He's ready to go. The last word this morning

to win Sarah $5,000 is farm. Farm. All of these, I've had two in my head. Yard or animals? Why are you guys turning your head away from me? I'm not looking at you. No one looks at me.

I'm not looking at you. All I can see is producer Humphrey pointing a cannon at my face. No one's looking at you. Turn around and look at me. Look at me in the eyes. I'm not looking at me. All I get to see is producer Humphrey pointing a cannon at my face. No one's looking at you. Turn around and look at me. Look me in the eyes. I don't want to look at you. I don't want to look at you. Thank you, Juliet.

Juliet's not blinking. Animals. Oh! Sarah! Sarah! Is she on hold? She's there. Sarah! I know. hold? She's there. Sarah!

Hi! What are you doing? I'm sitting on the side where I cry. Oh, Sarah, you've just won $5,000. Oh, my God. That's so cool, man. What are you going to spend the money on, Sarah? Probably my kids.

Oh, Sarah, that's awesome. I can tell this means a lot to you. Yeah, it's so cool. Sarah, man, this must be, I'm struggling to put it into words. I mean, you just, what's going through your head? Oh, just, I was sitting there, like, hitting the stereo, going, please, Jono, please. And you got there.

It was so awesome. Thank you so much. Oh, that's alright. Well, listen, you can use that as investment when we all go in thirds on that castle on State Highway 2. We just need a five grand deposit. Oh, who's just won five grand? Oh, that's Sarah. Oh, Sarah, that's

really good. I hope you put that money to good use. It's a lot of cash. It's huge. I've got goosebumps from that money to good use. It's a lot of cash. Oh, it's huge. It means so much. I've got goosebumps from that. You know, I'm feeling teary. That was a wonderful moment to win you $5,000. Well done, Jono.

Well done, Sarah. Congratulations. Five grand. The only loser out of this is Millennial Max, who has to clean up the confetti with the Dyson. Five words, $5,000. Could be back tomorrow. We might have blown the budget on that one.

Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Heads. The Heads. Now, pop stars started back on the TV last night. A new talent show looking for New Zealand's best musical talent. And one of the judges, Kimbera, joins us in the studio. Nice to have you here. What up?

We're very excited. Pop stars back on TV again. I know. I'm excited too. I'm excited. You know, the ads get very excited. Popstar's back on TV again. I know. I'm excited too. I'm excited. You know, the ads get me excited. There's very dramatic commercials where you plug in the cord and then boom, there's lots of speakers and stuff. It looks awesome.

Do you remember Popstar's the first time around? Totally. Yeah. I was a Tonight's the Night fan, you know. True bliss. Yeah, of course. Tonight's the night, we make love to the end. Up until then they were going, not to the end

but they decided that was the night, we're going to finish it off. It was massive, but this series of pop stars are different, not looking for necessarily a girl group, it's all single performers and groups and all sorts, right? Yeah, man, it's a totally different way of

executing the show. I mean, we're looking not only for singers, but songwriters, producers, people that are actually going to be sustainable in this industry, that are going to learn about production and going to learn about how to do media and all of the stuff that is probably, yeah,

stuff I wish I'd had more help with in the early days too, you know, so it's really fulfilling for me to be able to like give back and help show some of these young artists stuff that maybe I wish someone had shared with me about the industry because it's not an easy one, you know. No, not that I can imagine, yeah. Especially if you're getting into it at a young age.

Oh, my God, totally, yeah. To navigate your way through it. And I suppose, too, the last time we would have had a show of this calibre, you know, it would have been the X-Factors and Idols, we milked the talent out of dry in Alto Hato and we've got a rich dairy industry, but there was no milk left. Now it's kind of like we've got a new generation through,

so you must be seeing completely new acts, which would be impressive. Absolutely. And I think because this show focuses a little more on songwriting, you know, there's probably a different kind of interest for young people, you know. They can showcase themselves as writers

and we've set a precedent where we don't believe in humiliating people. And I don't know, man, I've been blown away by the talent that's in New Zealand. Now, your career, you have an amazing career. The Grammys, I mean, that must have been a surreal occasion to look back at that. Prince, I think, I was watching online, gave you your Grammy. It's crazy, right? Yeah. Yeah.

I think because we're coming up on the 10-year anniversary of that song, I've been quite nostalgic and seen things popping up on the internet and I sometimes, I don't look back a lot. Like I'm always looking forward to the next thing kind of. But it's been nice to take a moment to be like, oh yeah, that happened. And that was really amazing time, you know, to be part of a song that changed a lot of people's lives and yeah meeting prince was a huge deal for me especially because his death you know was was

hard on me i i felt you know we're like we lost one of our greatest mentors and songwriters producers so yeah to have been able to have some interaction with him before his passing was pretty massive did you did you talk to him about music prince has kind of made connections with me through other people so he he loved my record and he picked a favorite track on the golden echo so we've never sort of spoken about it directly but prince is you know people have passed on things to me that are part of his camp and he invited us to play paisley park me and my band of course he he passed so that never happened yeah but so things like that but i've never had a real conversation with him. He's the kind of guy that, you know,

the most you're going to get from him is the shades are going to come off. He'll look at you in the eye, but he's a very, very private man. Yeah, I can imagine. It would be an intense conversation. You'd be in your own head. I'd be in my own head the whole time.

How do you start a convo with Prince? Like, how? Look at that Grammys, and I was watching the clip the other day. You've got Beyonce, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, everywhere. I mean, that must have been just like, how do you start conversations with those people? What do you do on an occasion like that?

I mean, the Grammys was such a whirlwind. Looking back at it now, you don't really get a second to take it all in because it's just go, go, go. Right. I do remember standing on stage and seeing, yeah, those artists and Frank Ocean and incredible people that I look up to in a standing ovation for the song. And that was just very special to know that they not only were clapping,

but they kind of had a moment of going, we love this song. And Prince even said that, I love this song. These famous people use their legs to stand up. I know. They didn't need to stand up. That was the thing I remember is that they stood up. I was just They didn't need to stand up. That was the thing I remember is that they stood up. I was just like, yo, respect.

That is amazing. We've got Kimber with us. Popstars is back. She's one of the judging panel along with Vince Harder and also Nathan King. That's right. Former Zed front man.

Those guys, I couldn't be alongside two better people in the world. Now we wanted to do a quick version, our own version of Popstars on the radio right now. So we've got, not the two of us auditioning, because that's never going to happen.

You just heard us trying to sing a song. Yeah, so we put a call out on social media. So first up, we have Marty from Te Aroha. Take it away with your song for Kimbra. I hope you don't have to be beautiful to turn me on. Oh, no. Marty from Te Arawa there. So he's line one. Okay, line two.

Chris, I think, from Rangiora. Chris, take it away for Kimbra. Okay, we've got Marty and Chris, I wonder around if I could be found with somebody true. Okay, we've got Marty and Chris and then we've got one more. Aaron from Invercargill, you're on the air. Take it away with your song for Kimbra. After the love is gone,

how could you leave me young and not stay around? Okay, so we've got Marty, Aaron, Chris. Who's going through? Kimbra. Without a doubt, Chris. Oh, my gosh. Chris, it's time for you to reveal who you are

and who all three have been. Man, oh, man, my name's Chris, but I also go by the name of Vince Harden. All three, all three. Kimbra was looking at me For the first two going Okay little shaky Yo

Some pitchy moments To be honest A little earlier We're gonna have to talk about that Guys she is a tough cookie How was the show Vince You enjoyed filming it mate Yeah man

It's awesome And can I just say man Kimbra is the bomb to work with Love you girl Aww Love you too She can hear you She's got headphones on.

She's saying, oh, that's nice. Ben's gone, oh. Yeah, it was lovely. It was lovely. Why do you say nice things about me like that, John?

You're okay to work with. He's okay to work with, too. Hey, Vince, thank you so much for your time. Vince Hardy, you can catch him on Popstars alongside Cambris. And hey,

thank you for coming in. Yeah, dude, always. I appreciate you. You're heading back to the States to look after your one-year-old puppy and your 32-year-old boyfriend? I don't know how old he is. Just took a random guess

there, did you? Yeah, okay, cool. Yeah, why not? Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben

on Facebook. Now, someone we were working with over the weekend actually said that their gym gave them a call to re-sign them as a member.

And, you know, which they do from time to time. Gyms love signing you. Are you a member of a gym, Ju? Yes, I am. Just want to cross the road here. You've really got to commit and keep going to make your money worth it, I think. Well, yeah, because I think a lot of people, and that's what we want to find out now, a lot of people are paying for gym memberships but not actively going as much.

Or not going at all. It's like a donation to charity and the gym knows that. The gym's like, these are guilt payments because they want to get fit. And as soon as you pull out, all eyes are on you. You're like, oh, okay. You've given up on that dream, have you? Oh, really? So you'd rather just have these passive payments that keep them at bay,

and you can continue on living your life, eating pies and not going to the gym. Yeah, because they never really check up on you like you're going week to week or anything like that. They're just happy that the money's rolling in. And fair enough, that's the business model. It's like the gym's kind of like your cousin. You know it's there,

but you forget about it 90% of the time. It doesn't cross your mind. So the person we were working with over the weekend had a call from the gym and they were like, hey would you like to renew your membership? And he went, well hang on, have a look at your system and you tell me how many times I have been over the last little while.

And so they had a look and they were surprised with the answer and I'm not going to say what the answer was right now because I just want to find out if anyone listening right now can beat it. What's the longest time that you've been paying as an active gym member but not going? You had a good stint, Drew, didn't you? In terms of not going.

Not going but still paying. Lockdown had put everyone out of kilter. It did. I mean, hey, it might have been a year ago, but still everyone's out of whack. I think you're right. And, you know, yeah, the gym's probably got a hard time through lockdown and then coming back in with all the, you know, the social distancing and the sanitising. Oh, it's too much. You know, then life gets away on you.

And do you know what sucks as well is if you get injured and then you can't go to the gym. Oh, yeah. And then you're like, well, I can't and I'm paying, you know, $25 a week for this. You were probably six months where you didn't go and you're still paying, eh? Yeah, for a long time there I wasn't. And it was because of lockdown. I blame lockdown. I blame COVID.

Producer Humphrey was saying he got gym shamed. Come in here, Producer Humphrey. He got gym shamed just two days ago at the gym, didn't you, mate? What was it? You were huffing and puffing away? What was happening? I did. I had to cross one of the trainers in the stairwell, and I was huffing and puffing.

Well, you were just walking up the stairs to the gym. And he, as we passed, he said, oh, a bit of a catch-up session, is it? I was like, oh, that is a burn. Mind you, if you're struggling to even walk into the gym, it's probably like, oh, he hasn't been here in a little while. A catch-up session. So you want to chuck this out there. Longest time people have paid to go to the gym but It's probably like, oh, he hasn't been here in a little while. The catch-up session. So you want to chuck this out there. Longest time

people have paid to go to the gym but never attended. Yes, and we'll see if it can beat the person that we're working with over the weekend. We'll go to Grace because Ben Boyce reckons he's got the longest amount of time that someone's paid for a gym membership yet not attended the gym. Grace, how long was it for you?

It was about a year and a half. Oh. Well, you have beaten my... Already? Yeah. You've got to stop with this format. He did it last week. I said it may not be, you know... Already first caller.

First caller. A year and a half you paid for it. You didn't go once, Grace. I mean, I did, but even for like a year and a half I did it because I didn't like The gym but I didn't want to Pay the money to get out of the contract I didn't want to pay the money

To like Pay for the gym until the contract ended Yeah it's hard to break up Personal trainers are hard to break up with as well It really becomes It's not you, it's not your burpees it's just i like their burpees better yeah hey good on you grace so well thank you there we go ben you got to stop the last week you did this with the i've got my friend had the largest taxi fare i thought

this was a good one because they rang up and they said you know would you like to renew renew your membership a year later from the last call and he went well do you want to just check how often i've been in the last year and they checked and they were like oh he hadn't, and he went, well, do you want to just check how often I've been in the last year? And they checked, and they were like, oh, you haven't been once. He's like, well, there's your answer. I would not like to renew my membership because I haven't been once. It's your last call. But thank you for your call, and thank you for taking 12 payments monthly out of my account. Steve, you're on from Palmer.

You're welcome. How's the Manawatu this morning, mate? Yeah, clear and fine, but a bit cold. It's all good. Thanks, man. Jeez, I'll tell you what you don't factor in about the Manawatu. The wind turbines, which you've, but a bit cold. It's all good. Thanks, man. Jeez, I'll tell you what you don't factor in about the number two. The wind turbines, which you've traded off for many years.

You think there's only three or four of them, but you get up into the hills, hundreds. Hundreds of them, yep, and they're always turning. How many wind turbines? Yeah, we Googled how many wind turbines. They are so huge. How many wind turbines? The question, oh, no, we're going to get, no, that's not six of them. 134.

Because I want to know how they put the little grease on without the little tourney thing on top. How do they get the tourney thing on the sticks there, Steve? Technical name. Oh, they drive up there. They had a problem recently with the new blades and a new road. Couldn't get the truck around the turns on the road. Oh, is it like a crane and then it cranes it up on top of the pole? Yeah.

So they're looking at flying at him. Of course, it's too windy. They just can't get them up there by plane. Fly the blades in. Oh, yeah, because one didn't have a blade. I'm like, how do you get a blade up? How do you replace the blade? Anyway.

Tell you what, this has been a hell of a dog leg, but I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed it. I forgot what we got, Steve. Oh, that's right. Gym membership, Steve. Longest amount of time that you've paid for a gym but never attended? Currently about three years Three years Oh Steve

Where are you going to Cut the contract mate Well you know I'm a gym member It's a good thing isn't it I'm a paying gym member It's good for your health I can say with a hand on my heart

That I have a gym membership It's good for your health mate It's good for you Thank you very much for your call. Thank you for all your calls and texts. So we've got one here, eight years.

Oh my goodness. Eight years, but it was actually a bit of an oversight because they lived overseas in Australia and then moved back to New Zealand

and continued paying the membership for eight years when they were back here. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of that.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits was proud of that. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Listen, yesterday we were sent a whole load of Barbies, weren't we? Thank you, producer G. Lee. It came in a giant box of Barbie, the Barbie dolls. It's after we talked to Karen Walker the other day, because she's got a Karen Walker Barbie doll.

Every year they honour some kick-ass females around the world who are doing some amazing things, and they make them into a Barbie doll for them. You can't buy the Karen Walker doll, but she's obviously pretty cool. She's got her own Barbie doll. That's awesome. What an honour.

Juliet's like, grab some Barbies for Poppy, your daughter. And I did, I did. And she's like, I noticed you didn't grab the wheelchair one. I'm like, oh. I wanted to leave some for people in the office because you said people in the office will have them.

So then I grabbed that as well. So I had a load, because I already thought, well, I've taken enough here. And then I've got an armload of Barbies, and I'm walking out of the office. And then the comments start coming, don't they? You would know this from walking around town with a Toy Story 4 backpack. Right, right. Yeah, in the office, there was some, oh, here are the Barbies for him. And Ben, you were like, they're for him.

He's going to go home and play with them. And then, oh, oh, oh, oh. And then walk out, there's a little bit of a joy there. And not that there's anything wrong with guys playing with Barbie dolls. No. If you're a 39-year-old man playing with Barbie dolls, I'll cast no judgment. Maybe a little bit of judgment.

But, you know, not publicly. Yeah. Not publicly. And then, so you left me because you were parked outside. And I had to walk two blocks with an armload of Barbies. And oh, jeez, just wandering through the public and people going, where did you get them from? The nice, the Barbie shop?

And you're going to go home and play with all the jibes from people that we work with. Right. Travelling from here to the car park. And I was like, for a small moment, I felt your pain. Oh, you did? You just kind of roll with it, though. I get used to it.

Yeah. It's water off a duck's back for you. Because Ben, if you don't know, has a Toy Story 4 backpack. At least in this occasion, this was for you, you know, you knew that it was for your daughter. The Toy Story backpack is for me.

And the Smiggle Velcro wallet? It's for me. Like, you know, it's not. I've got no, you know, people are like, oh, is that your daughter's backpack? I'm like, no, it's not. It's my backpack. And they're like, oh.

Okay. They wanted it, but I wanted it more. So I got to keep it. So I took it off those stupid kids. Yeah. So have you got it here today? Yeah, it comes in two days. In terms of movie merch, it's really stuck it out.

Toy Story 4 was out, what, three years ago? Oh, yeah, it's really good. My Little Pony, I had a My Little Pony one before that. That's right. I love that one, though, too. We were working at The Rock, and he had a My Little Pony backpack. Are you kidding? I did, with all different ponies all over.

It was very colourful, and I love that, too. I love taking that. When I go into town or take a bag, you go to a sports game, you just take that because no one's ever going to steal the bag. True. Because they're going to, oh, this is from some seven-year-old kid's bag. That's a tester character to work at The Rock with my little pony bag. That's when I was like, I respect this bit.

Nothing's going to get to it. I was the only one who didn't own a Metallica T-shirt, but I owned my little pony bag. He introduced us to other colours that weren't black. That's right. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Scrolling through your feed. Yes, time for scrolling through your feed. You can call this your most trusted news source, is what I'd be saying right now if I was working with John Campbell on breakfast. But instead, I'm here with the least trusted, Ben Boyce. Now, a photo circulating on social media of Prince Philip. So this was taken in 1957, and it looks very, very similar to Prince Harry.

Identical. It does, eh? It's circulating all over social media back in the day. I think Prince Philip, he would have been in his mid-thirties. They reckon he's smiling at camera in a naval uniform and he's got a beard going on and he looks very similar to, you know, you see a lot of

similarities between Prince Harry and him. You've got the same nose. Same nose. And there's always that rumour about whether Harry is actually, you know, the son of Charles and Diana. So hopefully this sort of puts that to bed, that thing in this photo, with the similarities that you see in the photo.

Identical. There is another one of Charles when he's a bit younger. He's also got a beard going on the exact same nose as Philip and Harry as well. It looks like very much a three-generation thing, those three photos, if you put them side to side. Prince Harry has, I think of yesterday, released a bit of a statement, a bit more of a personal statement about the loss of his grandfather.

Yeah, it was three paragraphs this time instead of two sentences from the other day. He got a bit of criticism. Judy was counting the word count. She probably put that into Microsoft Word and got the word count for it. Yeah, he got a bit of criticism for only releasing like a two-sentence sort of tribute compared to other people, but then now he's since released

a much longer one about his time. Yeah, it was lovely, this one. He was, you know, he was saying that he's been a rock for Her Majesty

and saying that he was the leader of the Royal Marines, but most importantly, he was my granddad, which was lovely. I imagine you probably need time

to sort of reflect into making a statement. So maybe that was, granddad, which was lovely. I imagine you probably need time to sort of reflect before making a statement. So maybe that was, you know, not even from him, the original thing. It was almost like a Photoshop job saying, you know, like a press release type thing. So this is actually like a personal touch. Why is there pressure on him to make a statement too?

He's making it publicly too. Yeah, surely he could just say something lovely to the family, which I'm sure he will do. You're right. It's a bigger point. Some women's like, what are you going to say? lovely to the family, which I'm sure he will do. You're right. It's a good point. Some people are like, what are you going to say? But it's like, well, you don't have to say anything publicly. A lot of people, when someone dies,

everyone sort of, you know, people put up photos. Look at this time I had a photo with this person on Instagram. You know, you almost feel obliged to. Yeah, I know. It's a good point. A lot of the times you can, hey, send an email to the Queen. Yeah. I'm sure he would do that.

Well, he's going, he's turning up at the funeral. What he wants to say, he'll say. Even better. He can say it out of his lips instead of sending an email. And I love this bit of audio. This happened in Tampin Bowling over the weekend in America.

Now, the hardest shot in Tampin Bowling, everyone would have played at Tampin Bowling at a birthday party, a Friday night drinks at a work team building function. You know, get dragged along

to play Tampin Bowling. So this is the 7-10 split, where you bowl your first ball down the lane and you end up with two pins on either side. Oh, the two back ones. Yes, you've only got two pins to go. So you can at best knock over one. Yeah, but the guy, for the third time on television,

managed to get both pins knocked over. Have a listen. Right through the face, leaving the 7-10. The 7-10 only been made on television three times in the history of professional bowling on TV. Come on, kid, do it. He did it! He did it!

He got the 7-10, Randy! He did it! Woo-hoo-hoo! He got the 7-10, Randy! Woo-hoo-hoo! Such good audio. We actually learnt over the weekend, ironically, about the 710 split. We ended a 10-man bowling competition.

Yeah, and the lady who was teaching us, it's the hardest bowl to get because of the split. And the only way you can do it is knocking the pin with pace off the back wall and it sort of rebounds back and hits the other pin. That's the only way you can do it, which, woo, Randy. He got the 710, Randy.

Woo. Do you know now, something that we did discover while tempering bowling on the weekend in this competition is what you don't factor in. So you're tempering bowling,

you're having a wonderful time with friends or whānau. You order a platter of, you know, chips, spring rolls maybe. They do some wonderful deep fried goods at the bowling alley.

That comes out and you just start eating them. But your fingers have been going in and out of that bowling ball. How many fingers have been in those holes? You usually try other ones. You're like, oh, maybe this one's better. You don't factor it in, do you? But the inside of those balls are washed. And you're just dipping your fingers

in and out all day long, then eating You need some tongs if you're going to eat those chips Or wash your hands and wait till after bowling I never have though, I've always just gone straight for the food It's a very good lesson, so there you go Woo, Randy!

17, Randy. 17, Randy. Creole Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. The Google game. The Google game. Yes, all you need if you want to play at home is some nimble fingers and a steady Wi-Fi connection.

It's pretty simple. You ask us a question, we've got 10 seconds to Google it. If we can't, you win big. Now, Ben Boyce, I recorded you secretly. Illicit recording of you typing as you're broadcasting from home. Furious fingers. Listen to this. Gee whiz.

It sounds like I'm just not actually typing anything. No. I'm doing it for comedic purposes. But I was actually typing an email. I feel sorry for that computer, I tell you what. But he's a good bet. If you want to get something Googled in 10 seconds with those fingers, we'll welcome Madison. Who's 12 years old from Stratford. How's Taranaki this morning, Madison? Pretty rainy.

Oh, yeah. Do you sound old for 12? No, not really. Oh, no, okay. I don't know what I would expect a 12-year-old to sound like, but you're up early. Yep. And ready for another're up early. Yep. And ready for another day of school. Yep. All right. This free-flowing banter.

Okay. Let's go. What's your question, Ben Boyce? You can do the Googling. Okay. What's your question for me? What is the average rate of fingernail growth? Oh, average rate of fingernail growth.

Come on, Google. Your fingernails grow at the average rate of... 4. It's 3.47 millimetres per month, but I was too slow. I didn't quite get there. So three millimetres a month. I feel like they grow faster. Your fingernails grow faster than your toenails, don't they?

Do you notice that? Yeah, but the toenails really like to catch up. Before fingernails grow faster than your toenails, don't they? Do you notice that? Yeah, but the toenails really like to catch up. Before you know it, you're like, oh, wow, I need to clip the toenails. So to put this in perspective, the average grain of short rice is about 5.5 millimetres long, so they don't even grow the average grain of rice a month. So if you lose a fingernail, it may take up to six months for that nail to completely grow back.

Madison, well asked question, and we're going to give you some hell pizza, okay? Thank you. No worries. Good question, good question. Now, we were talking yesterday, the lady who had the longest

fingernails in the world hadn't cut them since, what, the 80s? Yeah. She just finally cut them off. You'd almost have to go in with a chainsaw or something when you're on those.

They'd be thick. Yeah, they'd have a solid base. with a chainsaw or something wouldn't you on those? They'd be thick. They'd have a solid base. Circular saws or something, you're right. Yeah, we'll go to Ross. Welcome Ross, how are you? I'm good thanks. Lovely to have you on. We've spoken before haven't we Roscoe? No, but I've won

King Kong and Godzilla movie tickets. Oh there we go. We've had Ross's prize history. Now we could give him some more. I'll do the Googling. Ross, what's your question? My question is,

how many helium balloons does it take to lift a 70kg person? 70kg person. 70kg what? Person. Person. That answer is... 70,000 litres.

No, litres. How many balloons? 300 balloons. Well done. 1,000. 70,000. How many? 10.

Oh, yeah, no, you're right. Sorry, I misread that in a panic. 10,000 balloons. 70kgs, that's about me. So that's, wow, 10,000 balloons. That's a lot of balloons. Imagine the movie Up, how many helium balloons he needed for his whole house. You're right, actually, now.

Yeah, like... That's a whole house. When you go 10,000 for a person, he certainly didn't have 40,000 balloons on that house. No. If I wore 40,000, it'd be like millions. Yeah, millions. Actually, yeah. Oh, that movie's ruined for me now The logistics don't add up

Hey well done Ross We'll send you out some hell pizza Well done on winning The Google Games Well thank you very much You have a great day Broadcasting live And mostly awake

Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast On the hits Now we were in a conversation Yesterday with someone And she said Oh do you know XYZ? Referring

to a person that we may have come across in the industry. Yeah, obviously she said the person's name, not XYZ. Yeah, of course I know XYZ, but unusual name. We all know. We all know them. Oh, I tell you what, the stuff XYZ has done for this industry really gives back. But she then

goes on and we said, yeah, yeah, yeah, we know him. Great guy. And she then goes on to go, we have history. Now when someone says we have history. History.

You think of this One Direction song. Great song. Where does that lead you to believe their relationship or friendship or whatever ended? Because I find we have history. Leads me to believe it ended badly.

Oh, you think it ended badly? Yeah. No, I don't think it necessarily ended badly. I just think it necessarily maybe alludes to something, maybe a sort of relationship that you may have had with someone. Maybe. You know, that's probably why I'm like, oh, we've got a bit of relationship that you may have had with someone. Maybe. You know, that's probably, I'm like, oh, we've got a bit of history.

Oh, so you're saying that. We might have kissed or something back in the day or we might have known each other and partied together or something. Like that doesn't necessarily for me mean it ended badly. Juliet? I think, yeah, if you say,

oh, we've got history, I think if it ended badly, you wouldn't necessarily say we've got history. You'd just be like, oh, he was a bit of a, you know what I mean? Would you call it out though? But we just met this lady, so she might not have that. Whereas I thought history was her passive aggressive way of saying, I effing hate them. Oh, no, I didn't pick up on that.

It's interesting how you picked up on that. But you've always thought, you think a hookup's taken place. Or something, or alluding to something like maybe you partied together back in the day. Which is also history because you're like I don't want to sell

what they got onto. It's all like, yeah. It's a carrot dangler, isn't it? It's like I've got a secret about them but I can't tell you. It's like when people tell you that.

Oh, I know something about them. I'm all like, you're not going to tell me so why did you know to just sort of tangle that over me? Maybe that's what it is then. Okay, we have history. It's like I've got some fil something about them. I'm all like, what? You're not going to tell me. So why did you know to just sort of tangle that over me? Maybe that's what it is then. Okay, we have history.

I've got some filth on them. I'm not going to tell you what it is. But you know that I know some stuff about that person. And you can go and ask them yourself. But they've probably got filth back on them too. Oh, yeah? Well, yeah, we do have history. Because they are, yeah.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Buy the What's Up by doco.nz. All right, if you like sticking your sticky beak into the private lives of celebrities from the comfort of your car while stuck in traffic, well, this is the bulletin for you.

What's happening in Spy, Ju? So, last night, Popstars debuted on TVNZ1 and 2. It's basically, it was a hit back in the 90s, started the band True Bliss. It's come back to kind of uncover some Kiwi talent. Now,

the way it's worked, it's a bit different to X Factor where they usually perform covers of other people's songs, but this one they have to perform songs that they've written themselves, so original ones. Original music. So they're not just... Controversial.

They don't come in doing covers of popular songs in the charts. Yeah. I guess it's more inclined for musicians who can, you know, a lot of them play instruments and stuff and create their own music. Which almost makes it, if you think about it, a little bit harder because they're judging you on your songwriting and also your voice. I like watching like a plumber

trying to sing Justin Bieber holy. That's why I love those shows. Well they didn't really have any of the people that, you know, weren't as good on this sort of show. You know the ones that sort of the ones you get in there and they... I love the public bullying. And you're like, oh you suck suck, mate, what are you doing on here?

Which is good, I think, in today's 2021 world. They didn't have the people that were set up to sort of fail, because that was, you know... Yeah, I guess that, you know, in this day and age, Ben, public bullying, not a thing. You don't want people to be affected with mental It's such a big thing in society right now. So it was good to see them taking that road, sort of the high road, and going this is a proper competition for people and we've got the people through

that are actually all really awesome. Totally. And the way that it works is they say yes, no, but then they also say maybe, which is kind of initially causes a little bit of a confusion. For me, today, it's a yes. So it's a yes for me. I'd say yes. For me, it would be a maybe yes. So it's a yes for me. I'd say yes.

For me, it would be a maybe. Today, it's going to be a maybe for me. It's a very strong maybe. Yeah. A very strong maybe. You wouldn't get a more confusing judging system if you try. So where am I? Where does it go?

Do I go home? I know. Where does that leave me? So I go home? I know. Where does that leave me? So I think what happens with the maybes is, so the yeses go through, the noses obviously go home, and the maybes sort of go. It's a maybe. It's a maybe.

Should I make arrangements for accommodation? It's a maybe. It's a maybe. We'll look at all the maybes at the end. Should I get a bus home, or what do you want me to do? Well, don't stick around for a little bit and we'll see. You might be going home. So will you give me somewhere to stay?

Might say maybe as well on that one. What do I tell my boss? Do I say? Tell it's a maybe. They're a maybe. Yeah, right. Will I be at work next Monday? It's all maybe.

It's all maybe. But yeah, they do go through the maybes and then select a few of them to eventually go through. So it's kind of giving them a second chance in a way. Oh, right. Just dragging their experience out longer. But that's got a really interesting play from TVNZ, putting it on both TVNZ 1 and 2. Yeah, last night, you're right,

it was a simulcast on TVNZ 1 and 2. Fairgo got bumped for one week only for Popstars. For one week only. What, are they trying to bully everyone into liking this Popstars show? And if they are, it's a great play. I guess Fair Goats is such a big show

that you know, you already, you know, you put it up against that. It's probably, Fair Goats is going to naturally outrate it. So maybe they're like, hey,

we're going to give it the best opportunity. That's a great idea. Maybe we should do that with radio. Maybe what they should do, we should simulcast on every radio station. Just for a... We'll sync their ratings. Just for a morning.

Yeah. And then ours will stay adequate. That would be fun. Yeah. Yeah, great. That's a morning. Yeah. And then ours will stay adequate. That would be fun. Yeah, great. That's a really good idea. Let's make that happen. And Dancing with the Stars has recently had another season start in Australia. Now, they obviously announced ahead of the season beginning who the stars are going to be.

But people are shocked once it had aired that Chappelle Corby is one of the stars on Dancing with the Stars Australia. Now, she is obviously the Australian woman that famously, you know, it was headlines everywhere. She went into Bali and was accused of smuggling drugs into a surfboard or something. That was 15 years ago. Yeah. We haven't let that go, have we? She served time

in a Balinese jail, which Balinese jails have a reputation of just being horrible. Yeah. So she's on Dancing with the Stars Australia, which would be quite a watch,

wouldn't it? It would be quite a watch, although for the first time in Dancing with the Stars history, I imagine they'll be introducing drug testing after the Pasadena. Hi, hi, hi.

They should have, I tell you what, they should have tested bloody David Seymour after his twerking incident. Except he was functioning. Do you know, Chappelle Corby

was in New Zealand last year filming another Australian reality show. Really? Where they get the British military, like the SAS. Oh, they had New Zealand

that show? They filmed it in New Zealand because I was talking to a sound operator who worked on it, a Kiwi sound operator, and it was in the South Island. So they had all these Australian celebrities like Nick the Honey Badger Cummins and Chappelle Corby, all the Aussie greats, you know.

And he said it was the most brutal thing he's ever seen. So do they have to go through military training or something? Essentially, like, for the SAS. And they made them all fight each other. And they're like, don't take it easy on everyone. And the sound guy was like, I'm traumatised. I need therapy afterwards. Because the SAS, they're like, they're not just reality TV hosts.

They're the SAS. They're like, you will fight her. He's like, I don't want to fight her. He's like, you will fight. And they actually have to go, like, it was brutal. That's like a different version of Survivor, like literally trying to survive. Yeah. Fights.

He was like, I've been the same since this poor sound guy. Who was the maybe on that? The maybe option on that one? Do you want to fight? Oh, maybe. I'll come back to you on that. And that is five and more. You can head to thehits.co.nz.

Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Wrapping up our show. Now, if you missed the update, it looks like we're going to have 5660. Well, we say this, but there's a little bit of a catch. 5660 tickets to give away.

When you run all the numbers together, it sounds like we've got 50 lots of 660 tickets to give away. Yeah, so 50 tickets to 660 is what we're hoping to be able to give away. It all started yesterday when we spoke to bassist from 660, Chris Mack. And Jono, you basically went too cocky. You came in quite arrogantly and asked for 50 tickets.

Where are our tickets? We want to give away tickets to the show. I know. What are you thinking? 50. No, 50's too many. Okay, I will see what I can do only because you called me friend of the show.

Yeah. So then we sent him off to his band. They had a band rehearsal yesterday and he pitched it to the band and then this morning it was the return of the Mac. Chris Mac came back and he had an answer for us. It wasn't a clean clear you can have the tickets.

No, it came with a hook. Here's what you can do. If you want these tickets you can get them at Eden Park. You can go down there and you have to sit. It's like a musical chairs kind of thing. If you sit in the right seat, I'll give you the 50 tickets. But there's 50,000 seats. So it's like the biggest game of musical chairs ever.

We've basically got to go around and he's like, you just keep sitting in seat after seat and you'll know when you sit in the right seat. I don't know what that means. He said it could take five minutes or five days. So has he chosen like you just keep sitting in seat after seat and you'll know when you sit in the right seat i don't know what that means he said it could take five minutes or five days so has he chosen like a magical seat i don't know i thought maybe you'd know because you're part of the organization i thought you're part of the organization she's like i wasn't in on the memo no one cc'd her in on the group email i don't know so i don't know when we're going to be doing this but hopefully in the next a few years you're going to have to go the first seat you try. It'd be 660.

Oh, maybe. But that'd be too obvious. It would be too obvious. But all that at 659? So where? Because you're right. But this is where it'll get into your head because you won't know.

It's like the most we could do is 25,000 seats each, right, if we split them up. So that's like 50,000, well, between us, 50,000 squats. Because you're just sitting at- Jeez, my glutes. My glutes are going to be looking magnificent at the end of this. I know, jeez.

You'll be able to cook an egg on them. So yeah, as Chris Mack said, it could... Or maybe the egg would just run down the middle bit and just get all sticky and eggy. So maybe you'll want to cook an egg on my glutes afterwards. So hopefully we'll be able to do this. Use a frying pan.

And we'll be giving away 50, 60 tickets. Stay tuned for that and plenty more throughout the week. But yeah, have yourself a great Tuesday and we'll catch you tomorrow from 6 o'clock. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys weekdays from 6 on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast.

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