Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - April 22 - Jono's Parents Are Radio Award Nominees!

Episode Date: April 22, 2021

Hello hello and welcome to the show! Apart from giving away Six60 tickets left right and centre, we talked about the injuries you endured while playing social sport (PS why is social sport ALWAYS so competitive!?) As well as this, we chatted about the fact that Jono's parents made it to the finals of the NZ radio awards, despite never wanting to be on the radio... But they went out for a celebratory lunch regardless! All that and more on today's podcast.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. Hello, this is the 22nd of April, it's 2021, that's what they say. It's Jono, Jono Prime here, joined by my friend and colleague, co-host Benjamin Boyce.

Come on down. You always wanted to be a commentator, didn't you? I did, yeah. I thought a sports commentator would be great. There's audio that you have, which is magnificent audio. Ben Boyce at Broadcasting School, fresh out of puberty. Oh, no, maybe sort of experiencing it at the time. Yeah, probably in the stages of it.

Yeah, because I did, for a small sports radio station in Christchurch, did some sports commentary. Did some Super Rugby games as well on AM frequency in the local Canterbury region. Jeez, it was fun. But the only thing was that, because we didn't have a commentary box, so we were next to the commentary box in the last row of the stand with a little desk in front. So you're basically just the people box in the last row of the stand with a little desk in front.

So you're basically just the people yelling loudly at the back of the stand. If it was quiet they'd be like, alright mate, shut up. Oh, so you had to like, so if I was sitting there just trying to watch rugby you'd be there with your headphones on going, there goes Andrew Madden! Madden's down at the table! Oh, May Hoffler will score!

And I'm just there with my family. Yeah, totally, yeah. At the start when the people would sit down they'd be like, oh, who's this guy? I'm the world's guy and I'm just there with my family yeah totally yeah at the start when the people would sit down they'd be like oh who's this guy

you know normally when the crowd atmosphere was there and it was a good game but otherwise you're just 80 minutes of just a guy

just behind almost trying to mimic the rugby league you know Graham Hughes and all those people you know would you still like

to be a commentator I would love to do some commentary not as a full time job but I'd love to what if I got you a job as like a a commentator? I would love to do some commentary Not as a full time job But I'd love to What if I got you a job As like a horse commentator Or something

Oh no No I'd be no good at that Too much Too much pressure I'm going to make that my mission I don't want to be a horse commentator There's too much going on

In a horse race No but You know That's never been my dream But you know Chip it in mate With some bants On a

You know A game Somewhere would be great okay I'll try and get you a commentary where's this going what's the call I like this

for what I've been here for the whole you know how long here ACC haven't come calling mate they haven't come calling no and I know that's all you want all you want is the email

you don't want to look too keen no because if you don't know what the ACC is across the hallway we've got Radio Hauraki we love the guys

from Radio Hauraki. I was a friend of Mike Lane, the organiser. He's the creator of it. We've been friends for a long, long time. And I'm like, hey, man, I'm here. And he's like, oh, good. And he's never come calling. I love my sport, yeah.

I remember you even tried to get it written into your contract that you would help out. Yeah. Help out for no extra. You're like, oh, you were like, oh, no. It's not for me, but you could do it if you want. I'd love to, but no. Hand up. But you don't want to be too keen, you know. Because I'm not. Those guys are cool. Those guys are oh, you were like, oh, no. It's not for me, but you could do it if you want. I'd love to, but no. A hand up. But you don't want to be too keen, you know, because I'm not.

Those guys are cool. Those guys are cool. You know, they've got. They're very good at what they do. It's hilarious. You could blend in there. Just be the guy just laughing away. It'd be great.

But they obviously don't want you, though. Because it's been a year. It's been a year. Don't want to force yourself into that sort of environment. It has been a year. You want me to send an email? Don't send an email. I'll go, hey, listen.

Like a parent coming down to talk to the school. Can you just let him commentate one game? Hey, I know he's not quite cool enough. And I know, but hey, he's ours. You know what I'm going to do, Ben? No, don't. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to call Mike Lane.

No, don't. Yeah, I'm going to call Mike Lane. No, don't. Yeah, I'm going to call him. Don't call Mike Lane. Mike Lane is the boss of the ACC, isn't he? There you go, man. Hello, Mike speaking. Oh, Mike Lane. It's Jono and Ben here, mate, from across the hallway.

Oh, hello. How are you, brother? I'm sorry about this, Mike. I thought it was the tax department. I can see him across there. I can see you across the corridor. He's making things awkward, Mike, and this is not a sanctioned phone call from me, OK?

Listen, Mike, we're doing our podcast intro, and he was talking about dreams you had when you were younger, and I said it was a dream of mine to be a sports commentator. Many times he said to me, I just want to do one episode of the ACC commentary, and he said I've emailed them. But I don't want to come on too keen, because I feel like I'm not cool enough to be. I love sport, but I'm not cool enough to be part of the ACC commentary and he said I've emailed them. But I don't want to come on too keen because I feel like I'm not cool enough to be. I love sport but I'm

not cool enough to be part of the ACC. You think the ACC's cool? Jeez. This is like the parent turning up at school that wants to talk about their kid. The proud parent wants to get his kid into the first 15 and I'm asking Mike Lane, can you make a little boy's dream come true and let him commentate a game

with you guys? Well look, if it is if we're in that true fashion around the parent wanting to give the child into the team it's going to have to come with some sort of investment from your side, whether it's some sort of promotion across the network

This is getting into an Aunt Becky full house situation now Yeah, Pretty much. Isn't it? It's a college admissions scandal. Yeah, well, it's the kid whose dad owns the Land Rover there. All of a sudden, he's being sponsored by Archibald Land Rover. You guys first five.

So it's a similar situation. You're going to throw me a bone. You're going to give me a carcass. See, this really shows where I rate the pecking order. This is how much work you have to go through to get me on there, if you're going to give me a carcass. This is really shows where I rate the pecking order. This is how much work you have to go through to get me on there, John. I have to get a sponsorship for them. Okay, all right. There's some more negotiation to have to be had.

There's not a clear yes yet. No, not. Like I said, if you're going to give me a carcass, you've got to throw me a bone. Okay, that just shows where I'm in the pecking order. Okay, well, listen. Okay, negotiations still ongoing with the ACC. Thank you very much. You've made this awkward.

You've made this awkward. But anyway, we haven't got a yes, but we'll keep working on this. Thank you, Michael. All right. Cheers. So the dream's not over. Yeah, but it's the example, do they want me? No.

I was expecting him to go, oh, yeah, of course he can. That's what I wasn't expecting. That's a mate of mine. And he's like, you know I like cricket? You know, like, yeah, of course he can. That's amazing of mine. And he's like, you know I like cooking? You know, like, yeah, I know that, but hey. But one day we'll get Ben Boyce commentating. Make this boy's dream come true. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two.

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This story was very amusing out of Christchurch There's a cat in suburban Christchurch His name is Keith, he's just a house cat I love that name Keith the cat. He roams the quiet neighbourhood at night in Christchurch and he commits cat burglary after cat burglary. And the things it brings home has been incredible

over the last couple of years. So the cat has brought home a corrections officer's shirt, ladies' swimsuits, entire washing lines with pegs attached, the local tradie's steel-toed boots. In fact, the tradie got so annoyed that her cat kept bringing the boots back. He put weights inside his boots and the cat still dragged the boots

one by one back to the house. This cat's got the core strength of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. I know. It got so bad, the offending, that Keith's owners had to put a couple of plastic bins out the front of their property

with a sign saying, sorry, our cat likes to take stuff. If this is yours, come and grab it. It started with one bin and now they have two bins out the front of their property with a sign saying, sorry, our cat likes to take stuff. If this is yours, come and grab it. It started with one bin and now they have two bins out the front of the property as the cat just keeps dragging. Look what the cat dragged in literally every night. That's incredible though, right? That is amazing what they get up to.

Like cats, you don't appreciate. We've got a cat next door to us, Harvey, which my neighbour, when I first met her, she was at pains to explain the cat was not named after Harvey Weinstein. No. I don't know why you would name a cat after Harvey. You wouldn't.

Harvey's a cute name for the cat. But she was prolific killing machine. Is that the cat that brought home the leg of lamb to the neighbour? Or was that another cat? No, that was another, it was a cat at my in-law's place. They got a knock on the door and there was a lady standing there with a cooked leg of lamb. And she was like, is this yours? And Cathy, my mother-in-law, was like, no.

And her cat goes around doing the same thing and had dragged a leg of lamb all the way back to the house. 100 metres up the road. Toed a leg of lamb. That's a panther. You wouldn't want it back though, would you? No, it's been dragged along the footpath. Here's your leg of lamb with tw's a panther. You wouldn't want it back, though, would you? No, it's been dragged along the footpath.

Here's your leg of lamb with twigs and leaves sticking in it. And the Tyrannosaurus rex, the T-rex, of course, was a fearsome predator back in the day. But apparently, according to Dutch paleontologists, it wasn't a particularly fast mover. They reckon the T-rex moved at a walking, a human's walking speed because the tail was so big to drag along the ground they couldn't actually get up to big speeds.

You see it in Jurassic Park. It's running around everywhere. Got some great times. Faster than Usain Bolt in Jurassic Park. I'm always like, how do they know this stuff? How do they know? This was thousands of years ago. How do they even know what they look like?

I get that you get a skeleton. And they put the bones together. But it's like a puzzle you're doing without the instructions. And then you just ad lib. Oh, it must have been. Like a wash jig. Yeah. Like, I'll put that there.

I guess it was there. These arms look a little short on the T-Rex. You sure that's? Yeah, no, I'll be fine. Maybe they missed out on two bones for the arms. What if the short arms were actually the legs? What if I had really long arms and tiny little legs? Well, yeah.

You don't know. We weren't around. Exactly. But we've made a lot of assumptions about dinosaurs. I guess people smarter than us have worked that out. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben.

The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. We were speaking earlier about a cat in Christchurch who is, look what the cat dragged in. Every night literally has dragged in all sorts of things from the neighbourhood. Yeah, boots, someone's shirt from the corrections department. Basically just been robbing houses and that's the animals can get away with it. Animals, children and the elderly can get away with daylight robbery. No one looks at them. No one suspects them.

Yeah, but you guys didn't believe me when I said my dog, Bo, took underwear from the neighbour's line. And now. The police didn't believe you. After this cat story. Are you starting to think maybe it could have happened? Yeah, but there's mounting evidence to suggest otherwise. All right.

Well, anyway, a friend of mine actually over the weekend. Oh, what did they steal from the neighbour's life? Well, no, they had an occasion where a rabbit, their dog brought home a rabbit from next door. Now, the rabbit, the neighbours had a pet rabbit for many, many years, and the rabbit was covered in sort of dirt and stuff. And my friend, she thought, well, the rabbit's apparently, it wasn't moving a lot, but it was thought they can get stunned

when they're in the shock. And so they're fine. So she quickly sort of, you know, brushed it off, brushed it off, thought it was fine. Gave it a brush.

There's no blood or anything on it. So I thought, oh, the rabbit's fine. It's just got a little bit of dirt on it and I'll put it back in the cage

where I know the rabbit lives in the neighbour's property. What, this floppy, lifeless? It was quite stiff. She thought, oh, it's just stunned. It'll come back. It'll be fine. It'll be fine once, oh, it's just stunned. It'll come back to life. It'll be fine.

Once I put it back in its cage, it'll be fine. It'll come back to life. It'll be fine. It'll be like, oh, I'm back home safe. That's what she hoped. About half an hour later, I heard the scream from the neighbour next door. I was like, oh, my goodness.

She rushed out to see what was going on. And she's like, oh, my God, my rabbit, which sadly passed away a few days ago, we buried in the backyard, has now come back. Come back from the dead. And is now in the cage. It's like, how did this happen? What is going on?

And she's like, oh, okay, well, that makes a lot more sense now. I had to explain the story that fortunately the dog had nothing to do with the... The rabbit returns. The demise of the rabbit. But you would get a shock, wouldn't you? The rabbit that you thought would... Sadly it passed away, I think, due to old age. But like, oh my God, is it back alive?

And kids, that's unfortunately why the Easter Bunny won't be making any deliveries in 2022. It's a harsh reality. You know, my only incident with the rabbit, and listen, apologies if this offends anyone. Many years ago, I was invited on a hunting show. Don't tell this story. What? Don't tell. It was a wonderful story. It's not a wonderful story. It was a hunting show. Oh, don't tell this story. What? Don't tell. It was a wonderful story.

It's not a wonderful story. It was a hunting show called Outdoors with Geoff. Geoff, lovely guy, Geoff. He's a great human being. He's like, do you want to come on the hunting show? And I don't know if you can tell this, Juliet. I'm not a hunty sort of guy. No. No.

Hunting's just not my thing. And so he's like, we'll go. You're not a fan of the outdoors, are you? No, I'm a hermit. I just like to sit inside and get pastier and pastier. But anyway, we went out and he was like,

we'll do rabbit hunting. And we were just, it was Central Auckland. It was a cool park. What? Yeah, I didn't know you could get away. Yeah, you could get away

with it back then. That was 10 years ago. It was a different time. You could fire off rifles in the Central. But I couldn't get any. They were actually doing it for rabbit control because they can be damaging to the land.

And I couldn't, I just, my aim was well off. My aim's always off. Anyway. Everything in life. And Jeff's like, well, we need to finish the show. Like we need, can't have a hunting show where we don't hunt anything. Right.

And so he's like, okay, I'll do it. Bang, he got one. And so he's like, okay, I'll do it. Bang, he got one. And so he's like, I've never had a guest that's come on the show and not managed to catch anything. Oh, not succeeded. Not succeeded. He's like, you'll be the first. Why did you agree to go on a hunting show?

It seems like a mismatch. It does. You're like, yeah, I'm available. Yeah, I can do that. The brand alignment was off there. But anyway, he's like, okay, so what I'll do is I'll get it. Bang, he got it. And then what he did brand alignment was off there. But anyway, he's like, okay, so what I'll do is I'll get it. Bang, he got it. And then what he did, this was cinematic genius.

He props the thing up on two sticks. So it's like hanging there, standing. Have you seen the movie Weekend at Bernie's? Yes. Another reference at least. That's what the rabbit's like. He's like, well, I'll cut back to you. And you look like you've fired the gun.

And he was standing off the camera, off the side of the camera, and then he threw a rock at the rabbit that knocked it over. And it looked like, once you cut between me going, then the rabbit was falling over. Step aside, Peter Jackson. That was nominated for the Academy Awards for special effects. And so that's how I looked like I'd...

But it was all a lie. Well, Jeff had done the work. He knows what he's doing. I'm a fraud. Fraudulent. But that was all a lie. Yeah. Well, Jeff had done the work. He knows what he's doing. I'm a fraud. Fraudulent. But that was my tale of going on a hunting trip. It was a two-day shoot as well. He gave me enough time.

Two days? Oh, my goodness, mate. He was like, surely you can do it in two days. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Shoto and Pam.

Breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads. Now we want to talk about adults injuring themselves at social sport this morning. Yeah, we've got our wonderful newsreader Rachel Jackson-Lees with us in the studio. Morena Rachel. Good morning. Lovely to have you here. Now you were telling a story last week and you're like, I've had a shocking night's sleep.

I've had no sleep. And what happened? Well, my husband plays social football on a Tuesday and, you know, we get up early. So I go to bed early. He comes home whenever he does. And then I see him the next day. I heard a very strange noise. He's usually really quiet. So this was an unusual noise. And I thought someone's breaking into my house. So this is what time at night? I looked at my phone, it was midnight. So, you know, I kicked my leg out as in to rouse him to say, can you sort this out?

I think someone's breaking into the house and realised that I was kicking nothing and that he wasn't in the bed. And so I thought, I'm going to have to deal with this on my own. And so I creep down the hallway and I hear this, and I think someone's in the window, someone's in my house. And I go into our daughter's room and I see him with two crutches and a huge moon boot

leaning over her bed trying to put her blankets back on that she'd obviously kicked off. And I said, what has gone on here? And he explained that she'd had a football injury and had spent the night at A&E. He hadn't called you, texted you? I said, why didn't you call me? And he said, well, what are you going to do?

You can't leave the kids at home. So I just... Maybe he didn't want the, you're too old to be playing football. He would rather drag himself with a broken leg through the doors of A&E than have to have that conversation. And that conversation did come. So now he's stuck in a moon boot and crutches. He's in a moon boot.

He's got two crutches. And so he's hobbling around the place. You have to, the ligaments are torn. So like I think all the ligaments. So, and this is like, he's not making this up because it's black. Like the whole ankle and foot is blue and black. I've never seen it this colour.

The bruising. Like the whole foot and ankle. And it's huge. It's like double the size. And this is a week on now and it still looks like this. Now Tom McRae's your husband, so he reads news on News Hub. So if you look closely, you can maybe see a moon boot or something. Certain shots, they pan out and you can see the moon boot sitting there

underneath his suit pants. Is that the end of his social sport career, do you think? Or do you think he'll be back out there next season? This has been the biggest upset for him. I don't think necessarily being out of action and hobbling around and having his wife tend to his every need. That wasn't the problem. I think the problem was that he's

thinking, is this a sign that I'm too old to play football? And I think that's hit him really hard. You get to a stage in life where your mind says you can do it but your body says no. It's true. That's the problem, isn't it? It's true. I love social sports, especially with people from around work and stuff,

because it's all the people who are like, they weren't quite good enough to get to a professional level. They took a wrong path in life, but they still play like they're professional. Social sports is not necessarily social, is it? It can get quite competitive. I think it does get quite competitive. Ben, you used to play social netball, didn't you?

I did. It was probably about 12 years ago, obviously before we had kids. My wife and I used to play in the same team for a while. It was a lot of fun. But one time we both jumped up for the same ball. We were in the same team. Landed, and it landed awkwardly,

and she ended up breaking her ankle like that. Because of you? Yeah, I know. I got blamed for it. It was like we both jumped I don't know we're both competing even though we're

both on the same team one of us should have stayed back and maybe that should have been you maybe it should have been me but it was just

one of those occasions it's like why did it land on you anyway but yeah so that was the whole thing about I had to

obviously take her off day and knee and off way we went that was the end of the game we want to check

up on social sporting injuries. If you've had one, 0800, that's 4487. I went to pick my son up from basketball the other day, and they'd lowered the hoop down and put a trampoline, and I'm like, here we go. I'm like, step aside, guys. Step aside, kids.

Let me show you how it's done. And the inner LeBron James came out of me. I ran from the halfway line, pounded on the trampoline, jumped up and I was like, this is going to be tech. This is like Michael Jordan from the free throw line at that All-Star game. And I slammed the ball down, but it didn't go in the hoop and it bounced off the rim and it went bang,

straight into my face. And then I heard all the kids go, ooh. And then nothing quite like the pain of the embarrassment of a ball straight in your face in front of 12 children. OK, we're going to go 0800, the hits the telephone number, your sporting injuries. We'll start with Scott. Welcome to the New Zealand's Breakfast.

Scott, how are you? Hiya. Pretty good, thank you. Social sporting injuries. This is people who have let themselves go but still believe they've got the skills. What happened? Oh, so it wasn't quite social sport. However, last night my family also heard a funny noise. We heard some crashing down the stairs. And then we woke up hours later to my dad driving

himself home after he's broken his ankle falling down our stairs. Oh my God. So he fell down the stairs and then what? It's like, I won't make a fuss. He didn't want to wake mum up, so he just did the same thing, drove to A&E by himself, was there half the night, came back to the moon booth. Oh my goodness, okay. Look, that's an occasion where you can wake someone up.

Yeah, it feels like it, right? Don't feel guilty about going, hey, can you drive me to A&E? Because I don't think I can. Anyway, wow. Well, thank you very much, Scott. Literally had nothing to do with what we're talking about, but it was a great story. I love it.

And your dad is a hero. You have a great Wednesday. What is it? Thursday. Have a great Thursday. You too, guys. Thanks for listening, bro. Maria, you're on.

How are you? Good to have you on, Maria. Yours was in a touch game, your social sporting injury. No. It was a softball game. No. No. No.

What happened, Maria? Yeah, we were warming up for our game, and I got called, distracted by somebody calling out to me. I turned away, and then somebody else called back to me and said, the ball. Turned around, and I got whacked

straight in the eyebrow. Oh, with a softball, which aren't, ironically, that soft. No, they're not soft. No, they're not. Oh, with a softball, which aren't, ironically, that soft. No, they're not soft. No, they're not. So, and then for two weeks, I was sporting two black eyes. Oh, did it get you right in between your eyes?

Oh, no. No, it hit my left eyebrow. Jeez, it must have had some impact to go across both the bruising. Far out, you poor thing. Yeah, it came from the catcher. And he had a good arm. Has it put you off softball?

Hell no. Oh, jeez, she's back out there. Not even two black eyes will put her off softball. She's a social sporting hero. Thank you very much, Maria. Appreciate you listening. You're welcome. Nikita, you're on from Hamilton.

Mordena, how are you? I'm good, thanks. How are you guys? Doing really well. You had a social sporting injury? Yes, I did, yeah. What happened? I'm good, thanks. How are you guys? Doing really well. You had a social sporting injury? Yes, I did, yep. What happened? I was playing hockey.

I went in for a tackle, and next thing you know, I'm down on the ground because I got full force of a hockey stick and a ball to my tibular. Oh! I don't even know where a tibular is, but it sounds sore. It was, yes. Where is your tibular is, but it sounds sore. It was, yes. Where is your tibular? Just below your knee.

Oh, ouch. Like a shit sore. Hockey's a wild sport, isn't it? There's sticks flying. That ball is like a rock. Yeah, it is. You get very little padding, don't you, in hockey? Compared to ice hockey and stuff, you know?

You're right, it's wild. They used to play it with skulls back in the day, do you know? That was the origins of hockey. Did they? Yeah. Yeah, I think it was hockey. Oh, jeez. They were enemies and they would use their skulls and be like,

hey, that was a good... Game of hockey. Nice slaughtering, guys. Should we have a fun game of hockey? What, with the head? Yeah, I guess. Is this what you do? Oh, God.

I appreciate that, Nikita. And we'll end on Marty. Welcome from Hamilton. Social sporting injury, Marty? Yeah, mate. We had a week playing Zorbs soccer. Oh, it's like comedy soccer. Oh, yeah.

So you run around. You know the Zorbs that you roll down in Rotorua? You can have those with your feet poking out the bottom, so you can still run around. Everyone runs into each other, and you just go flying, right? Correct. Yeah, anyway, while we were playing golf soccer, and as I was falling over, someone stood on my foot

and broke the bone in the top of my foot. And there's no movement as well. You're in that comical bubble, like when Jacinda said stay in your bubble. You can, you've got no choice. You're stuck there. No bubble. Like when Jacinda said stay in your bubble, you can. You've got no choice. You're stuck there. You've got no choice.

And did you keep playing? Yeah, I kept on playing for the rest of the night and went to A&E afterwards and spent the next six weeks recuperating. Oh, what a hero. He kept playing comedy soccer with a broken foot. Why? There's no real reason to. It's not like there's a cup on the line or any

glory, but he did it because that's the sort of social sports player he is. Marty, thank you so much for your time. You have a great day. Thank you. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Over the weekend, we were in Christchurch, which was a lot of fun.

It's been five or six days in Christchurch. Yeah, it was wonderful. My parents, Annie and John Pryor, they live there. They love Christchurch, which was a lot of fun. It's been five or six days in Christchurch. Yeah, it was wonderful. And my parents, Annie and John Pryor, they live there. They love Christchurch, so they refused to move from Christchurch. It's beautiful. Some of the new areas in Christchurch, I think we mentioned last week, are awesome. Going through the city with the new pockets, it's great. Anyway, they wanted to come for lunch.

You wouldn't go to my $2 rice place? No, he kept going, I wanted to. Oh, you didn't end up going. He refused to. Why? He's like, what if I want $10 rice? I'm like, that's not the point. He's like, I can get rice more expensive and probably better.

I said, you haven't tried $2 rice. Anyway, he wouldn't come with me. But I came out with you with your parents. Yeah, I know. Well, this is what fueled Ben through his student years is a diet of $2 rice and a mystery sauce. And, hey, I'm not one to risk mystery sauce $2 rice. I hear great things. Will you come with me?

I hear great things about it. Stop ignoring the question. Will I come with you to eat $2 rice? Yeah. It'll go gagmasters on our social media, mate. Think about that. Well, just buy me $10. It's decent, Bryce.

It's decent. Bryce with proper contents in it. Anyway, sorry. I've really dog-legged this conversation. We didn't go for $2 rice, but we went to see Mum and Dad and had a lunch. Now, what happened is last year we pranked them. Remember we pranked them?

They got a new phone, right? And they were very suspicious about Siri and the phone listening to them and all sorts. Yeah, they don't trust technology. They don't trust technology. So this was the first week of their new phone. And we phoned them up with like an automated computer voice pretending to be Siri.

Hello? Hello, Annie Catherine Pryor and or John Walter Pryor. How are you doing today? We don't talk to stupid computers. Shut up. Hello? Hello, Annie Catherine Pryor. How are you doing today?

If you want to know how we're doing, put on a human voice, Siri. We don't want you to ring us again. Goodbye. How is the wanger? We're getting very angry. Very angry. we don't want you to ring us again. Goodbye. Do not ring us again. They were getting very angry. Very angry. And anyway, we ended that. We ended that in the radio awards.

We're like, this is gold. And it's been nominated for one of the prestigious categories. And this is from your mum who, over the years we've been working together, the last decade, she has not wanted to go on radio at all. No, she's a reluctant radio star. We bully her onto the radio.

We have to kind of trick her to come onto the radio. Like ringing her then and not knowing that she was on radio. She actually appreciated that at the end, but she doesn't agree to come on the radio. But then when we got out with her for lunch, she was like, oh, radio award nominated lunch.

Let's celebrate your lunch. Now she's lapping up the glory. She's like, here's, radio award nominated lunch. Yeah. Celebrate your lunch. Now she's lapping up the glory. Here's a radio award nominee here. She's like, maybe if you used me more over the years, you would have got more radio awards. Well, we tried to use you, but you've refused. Well, and I think she wants a lunch. She was demanding a lunch from Boss Todd.

She wants Boss Todd to take them out for lunch, which I'm sure, you know, knowing Todd, that's not going to be much of a push. He's out to lunch right now. It's not even lunchtime. So that's what they demand. Maybe it's the least we can do for exposing their lack of technical knowledge on national radio.

We should nominate her for the Sir Paul Holmes Broadcaster of the Year, Annie Pryor. What, Services to Broadcasting? Services to Broadcasting, without even knowing she's giving services to broadcasting. Or Best New Broadcaster. maybe that would work better. They were mortified when we did it. They loved it, but then they were like, oh God.

Because then the Herald wrote about it too. They put on the thing just to double down on the embarrassment. And now it's in the newspaper. Anyway, good luck, Annie, for the Radio Awards. Yeah, that's right. We'll take you out for lunch, go to McDonald's or something. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime.

Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Could you steal it? You were enjoying that song. Yeah. You ready? She doesn't even do the, who does he give back? Drinks on me. That was quite a performance in the studio.

Who does he give back? I really enjoyed that. I reckon that would be the fun part of the song, doing that joy. You ready? You ready? You ready? You ready to drink tall meat? Let me see who you twerk with. Go wherever you go.

Look at those lips. Okay, I'll stop. Yeah, maybe we shouldn't have talked about it on the radio. But anyway, that's for the post-show meeting. We'll get that from the bosses. Yeah, listen, I'm putting that on you, Ben Boyce. Now, I want to raise something with you that happened last week while we were away. I was staying at some accommodation, and a mutual friend of ours turned up to visit us,

which was lovely. It was lovely to see him. Yeah. It was nice to see him. And as the night went on, it sort of hit 10, 10.30. I went over to have a couple of beers at your room, right? And then he, you were like, oh, I'm going to go to bed now. It was getting quite late. It was getting late. We get up early in the morning, sort of 4 o'clock. So you're like oh i'm gonna go to bed now it's getting quite late

it's good like we get up early in the morning sort of four o'clock so you're like i'm going to bed now he left me with him and he was in my room and i was i was kind of stuck in it's not a relationship where i can go hey leave now so i was being polite well i thought me going me saying oh i better go to bed we're getting up early in the morning. Would it have been enough to them to go, oh, maybe No, what they did was you just left me stranded. What it did is it got you to bed. At that stage, I was free.

I was like, well, when is this going to wrap up? I'll wrap things up. And I was out and I had a great sleep. Because even at that point, it had probably gone on 45 minutes longer than I wanted it to go on. And so you were there and I was just left with him in the room, and I was doing all sorts of indicators. You know when you do the arms up?

And you sort of make a rainbow shape with your arms. You're like, oh, I've got to get up earlier in the morning. And he did the, oh, oh, and you're yawning. Did you even do the wrap it up? Like, oh, it's so good to see you. You know, that indication there. Three times. Oh, you did?

Three times. It's been so good hanging out. I was dropping all sorts of hints but none of them were being picked up. I even went and got dishes pulled them out, started washing them, cleaned them again, then put them all on just to really have, I was in my pyjamas in bed reading a book.

I mean I don't know what else I could have done. Will you leave? Can you turn out the light? I turned off the light. We were sitting in complete darkness. No, exaggerated a large part of that story. Yeah, but it is hard in those situations, you know, and I always hope that if I am in that situation that I'm going to pick up on the vibes in the room that I'm going to go, oh, or someone's house, you know.

You never know when to leave a party or someone's place. There was a time there I was like, I don't think I'm ever going to see my family again. I think this guy's my new family. He's never, I will move out of this hotel room so he can stay here just so I can book a new one. But he eventually, he left at 11.15,

which, but I mean, it was just like watching my sleep being kidnapped from me. It was every minute. And I was not engaging in conversation because I was just like, I just want to go to bed.

Let's just wrap this up. Yeah. So what we want to do is we want to chuck this open. Who came to stay at your house? You say who it was, whether it be one of your in-laws, a friend, a workmate

and we all try and guess how long they overstayed their welcome for. Okay, because you hear those stories of people going oh we're just going to sleep on the couch for one or two days and then six months later they're still there. Does that actually happen? Does that happen to you Producer Juliet? I don't think so, no.

Oh well thank you. Sorry, I wasn't expecting well, thank you. Sorry. I wasn't expecting to be asked that. Sorry. That was my fault. I should have said, I might come to you for an example. Oh, no, not.

Okay. Oh, well, anyway, you don't call up. This is, we want a call from you. No, I'll sit back and watch. But we'd love a call from someone who's actually happened to you. Oh, Andrew, that hits 4487 on the text. Who's overstayed their welcome?

You tell us who it was, and we'll try and guess how long they stayed for and see if we get it right. I don't know how Trulia even tried to think harder, and it still came back with the same result. Still nothing, guys. Let's kick it off with Katie in Wellington. How's the capital this morning, Katie? I mean, beautiful.

Beautiful. And I said I was going to ask follow-up questions. What are you doing today? Just heading off to work soon. Yeah, yeah, enjoying the day. Good on you. Now, who was the person that came over? Was it your house?

What was the situation? Well, actually, there was a big group of us that all had gone to a concert, and I happened to live closest to where the concert was. And so everybody just decided that after the concert, they would all come back to my place. Okay, so it's a group of people. They've been in a concert.

How long did... Yeah, 11 o'clock at night, I imagine the concert would have ended back at your place. I'm thinking two hours. I'm thinking three days. Three days? Oh, jeez, I'm saying two to three hours. What was the overstaying? They stayed till 7am the next morning. That's not three days.

No, so why did you go so ridiculous, Jono? Like, three days is, like, wow. Because I thought, yeah, I overshot the mark there, my bad. I'll pull it back next call. Yeah. Well, thank you very much for your call, Katie. Appreciate that. We'll go to Hayley in Taranaki.

Morena, Hayley? Atamaria, guys. How are. We'll go to Hayley in Taranaki. Morena, Hayley? Ata maria, guys. How are you? Ata maria to you. Now, you tell us who the person was that overstayed the welcome. Okay, we had a guy come to stay with us. He was from England, and he was coming for six weeks to do some woofing. Six weeks to do some woofing?

What's woofing. Six weeks to do some woofing? What's woofing? Willing workers on organic farms. Woofing, I like it. He came over to do some woofing. Okay, so you've got an English guy, he's here for some woofing. Six weeks, he's meant to be here. And he's staying at your house,

oh, I reckon, I'll go 10 weeks. I'm going to say a year. More than that, guys. More than a year? He ended up being there for three and a half years and we all ended up moving away.

He's still there. He's still whiffing his way around. You can have the house. We'll move out of our own home. Three years? Wow, that's impressive. I know. We'll move out of our own home. Three years! Wow, that's impressive. I know, he was like part of the furniture and we all felt really, really bad

and so we kind of planned this family thing and we all moved away and I remember him walking down the driveway and I was like, oh God, he's finally gone. He's finally gone out of our lives. He's taken all our positions and our house. Well, that is pretty impressive.

You stay there, Hayley. I don't know if we can beat three years, but we'll go to someone who wants to be anonymous on Line 6. If they want to be anonymous or if that's their birth name, I don't know. We're not sure. Is anonymous written on your birth certificate? Sadly, no.

Okay. So what was the situation? Who came over? So my parents have a house bus, and they've been sort of tripping around and staying in some campgrounds in, you know, just New Zealand. Oh, okay, okay. So you've got boomer parents travelling around the country in a house bus,

annoying people on the state highways, travelling at excruciatingly low speeds. That's exactly right. So they've come to stay, I imagine? Yeah, yeah. So they were just in between sort of different areas in the South Island. What do you reckon, Ben? So they've got their own facilities.

They don't need to go anywhere. I'm thinking they're comfortable. They've got their own place. I'm going to say four years. Four years. Geez, I wasn't going to say that much. But Jono's going four years. How long?

Five years and they's still there. Oh, five years. Wow. Oh, jeez. Are you like, hey, guys, you want to get back out on the road? Wow. Oh, I know. I'm keen to try this.

Oh, that's awesome. Family time, eh? You can't beat family time. Relentless. Well, Anonymous, I don't think we can beat that either. You've got some 660 tickets. The double pass is all yours. Oh, my God.

You guys rock. Thanks so much. Maybe your parents can drive you up there in their bus. You've got accommodation sorted. I'll get there myself and leave it. So awesome. Thank you so much for your call. 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. Jono and Ben's 50 Tickets for 6.60 at Eden Park. 6.60, the first concert ever at Eden Park this Saturday.

Gates open at 4 if you're wondering, and it looks like 6.60 are going to be on at 8.30. The concert ends at 10.30. Drax Project on at 7 as well, Dave Dobbins, 6.20. We'll check up all the times on the Hits Breakfast Instagrams as well, if you're heading along. Now we took part in a harrowing

experience on Tuesday, sitting in seats. What a journey, what a journey of two heroes sitting in an enormous amount of seats until we sat on the lucky one at Eden Park to win you 5660 tickets. It was a roaring success. We got the tickets.

You sat in the winning seat, Ben. Oh, no, it gave me a heck of a fright because confetti cannons went off. Fire extinguishers blasted off you. It was straight in your face, exploded in your face. It took about 12 hours for us to finally sit on the lucky seat at Eden Park, so now we have double passes to give away. And Christchurch right now now we've got a double pass

including return flights this weekend for two to be given away within 60 seconds now we're in Christchurch last week and they're still recovering from their five words

world tour which took place after what five days of wild partying it wasn't actually it all wrapped up nicely at nine o'clock that's what I like

about working at the Hips you know you turn up to an event everyone's there on time. Yeah, they're there at six. In fact, they're there early.

They're there early, they're there at 6.30, nine o'clock, everyone's like, well, I've had a fun night, time to go home to bed. If we're still on this

other youth brand we're on, Ben, be up till four in the morning. We'll still be there. We'll still be partying. Yeah. Sensible socialising on the Hits

and that's what I enjoy. Now, this cross live to Christchurch right now from the Workday. Dave Nicholas, how's it going? Yeah, good. I don't know about you, there's Cross live to Christchurch right now from the work day. Dave Nicholas, how's it going? Yeah, good. I don't know about you, but we're still on the five-day bender, guys.

He's still going? He's still going. Some people might have left at 9.30, and we keep going. It's 5 o'clock somewhere, Dave. Hey, now, Dave, you're a wonderful man. Thank you so much for hanging out last week, and this morning, too, putting your body on the line for these 660 tickets. We're going to play a game.

We did it yesterday in Invercargill. Christchurch, you've got 60 seconds to find Dave Nicholas. You'll win a double pass and flights to 6.60 this weekend. If you don't make it within the minute, we go up the island. Maybe Nelson tomorrow will have their chance. So whereabouts in Christchurch are you this morning, Dave? Okay, most people will frequent this place in the early hours of perhaps a Sunday morning because they've been partying at the Mirabelle bars.

But we're just outside the Mirabelle McDonald's on Papanui Road. It's a big thoroughfare into town with all the people from North Christchurch coming in, polluting the city with all of their cars, trying to find car parks and moving parks. So people from North Christchurch coming in, polluting the city with all of their cars trying to find car parks and moving parks. So, come on Christchurch, let's not have another situation. Oh,

producer Juliet, you've gone to the car, hang on mate, hang on to this. She's fired off the timer already. He said where he is. I know he said where he is. But Ben wants to drag it out.

Ben doesn't want Christchurch losing. He wants to drag this out as long as possible. I want to know, they foot traffic around as well as street traffic? I'll tell you what, we're a very bicycle-friendly city.

There's a lot of bike traffic and there's a lot of traffic. There actually is a lot of traffic I can see now coming into the city, coming past us. So come on, Christchurch. We don't want another repeat of the chief situation against the Crusaders

the other night. Don't drop the ball. Let's go. Now there we go, some lovely local references there as well from Dave. We're at the McDonald's in Papunui Road. All right, Hank, kick off the timer. Whatever you do, Christchurch, make an abrupt U-turn on the road.

Drive across Hagley Park. Drive through the cathedral. Nothing irresponsible. Do what you need to do to get to Dave. Would you give me the ticket so anyone that drives radically? 20 seconds down, Canterbury. Dave, any sight of anyone? No, yes, no.

No. I'll tell you what, there's a few people. There's these guys. Canterbury. Dave, any sight of anyone? No, no. No? There's a few people. There's these guys. You know these guys who have video cameras in the bus lane? I'd say ignore those guys. Just do it. Just do it.

Get down the bus lane. Get down the bus lane. It's worth the ticket to get these tickets. I know, but you still got a ticket? I had one of those the other day. 30 seconds. We're halfway, Canterbury. If no one meets Dave, we're going to give Nelson the chance to win these tickets and flights. Time is ticking.

20 seconds to go, and this is really testing our broadcasting skills. Talking for in a minute about nothing. What's the weather like at Christchurch, Dave? It's a beautiful blue sky morning, crisp as heck, but a lovely autumn day. Did you get the email I sent you, Dave,

the other day? Did you send me an email? I sent you an email. Check your work emails, there's an email there from Jono. Padding other day. Did you send me an email? I sent you an email. Check your work emails, isn't it, by the way, from Jono. Padding for time. Oh, Christchurch! Oh, that's terrifically disappointing. They have let down

themselves. They've let down the team of 5 million. It's a huge disappointment. No one in Christchurch winning these flights and tickets to 660. So we'll move to Nelson or somewhere tomorrow, shall we? We'll have another location for you tomorrow for someone to win flights and 660 tickets. Add these two men together

and somehow you'll get three quarters worth of a normal van. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. It is 7.45 on your Thursday morning and that means it's time for... Five words for 5K on The Hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Oh yeah, it's the game that that the whole of New Zealand are playing, except for babies.

They probably can't play. And maybe people who refuse to listen to the show, they probably don't even know it's a thing. But everyone else is playing it. Well, if you haven't heard it before, here's how it works. It's a simple game of word association. We tell you five words. You tell us the first things that pop into your head after each word.

And if they match with ours, you win $5,000. You've got to get all five words. You tell us the first things that pop into your head after each word. And if they match with ours, you win $5,000. You've got to get all five right. And we've given away $25,000 so far with this game. It's been a success, a roaring success. And Helena, welcome from Fielding this morning in the Manawatu. How are you? I'm good,

thank you guys. I don't know why I said Manawatu. Like Vanuatu? Manawatu. No, the Manawatu. Like Manawatu? Manawatu. No, terrible. The Manawatu. Yeah. Now, Fielding. I'm just looking here on the things to do in Fielding.

It's been named New Zealand's most beautiful town no less than 14 times, it says, which is an odd sentence. No less. No less than 14. It might be more, but we're not going to fact check it. That's what they're basically saying. Is it New Zealand's most beautiful town no less than 14 times? Oh, more, but we're not going to fact check it. That's what they're basically saying. Is it New Zealand's most beautiful town no less than 14 times? Oh, it's a pretty awesome place to live in. Friendly fielding, right?

Yeah. Friendly fielding. A lot of pressure on you guys being friendly all the time too. Yep. Can't have an off day in fielding. You can't. You've got that track record to live up to. Now, which one of us?

We're going to chuck our producer Juliet in the mix as well. So you've got Jono, Ben, Juliet. One of us is going to go in the soundproof booth. Who do you want to send in there? Let's go with Ben. Let's go with Ben. Now, we'll send him

into the soundproof booth. And I can actually clarify it is soundproof, that booth, because no one can hear me sobbing in there after the show when Ben gives me my brutal post-show

performance review, eh, Juliet? Yeah, it's brutal. He's a savage. He's like, whoa, are you talking, you bald idiot? And he grabs me by my throat and puts me up against the wall. Oh, wow, yeah. Yeah. The things you don't see.

Yeah, the dark side of Ben Boyce. But anyway, he's in the Southbrook booth. Helena from Fielding. Can feel your friendliness oozing through the phone. We've got five words I'm going to rattle off to you, okay? Okay. The first word. Count.

Numbers. Locking in numbers. That's good. What did you have, Ju? I think I had Dracula. Is that a normal response? I don't know. Yeah, you throw, Ju? I think I had Dracula. Oh, yeah. Is that a normal response? I don't know.

Yeah, you're throwing that one in. But numbers is a good one, too. Yeah. It's a good one, too. Second word is container. Helena? Plastic. Plastic.

Plastic. Word number three, satellite. Space. Space is a good option, satellite. Space. Space is a good option for satellite. I think you could go tower. Space is probably the safest. Indicators, word number four, mate. Can we come back to that one?

Yeah, that's all right. Come back to that one. And the fifth's all right. Come back to that one. And the fifth word, hops. H-O-P-S. Beer. Beer. Nice. So a little bit of a stumble,

a little bit of a stall on word number four, indicate. Car. Car. What's your little teammate saying in the background? What word do they want to lock in? He's babbling a whole lot of stuff. He's just babbling. He's like Ben and myself, babbling away.

Hey, those are five words that was, I'd say, 80% on the difficulty scale. Pretty tough, but you did well. Yeah, thank you. All right, let's get Boney Ben out of the soundproof booth. Emerging slowly. Dishevelled as well. What went on in there? What were you doing?

Hooking up with yourself? I don't know. I'll talk about it. I can't see what's going on in there, but whatever you do in the soundproof booth, that's up to you, okay? It stays in the soundproof booth. Helena did really well, mate.

It's a set of low-hanging fruit. Oh, don't say that. What do you want to say to him, Helena? Oh, good luck, Ben. It's a set of low-hanging fruit. Oh, don't say that. What do you want to say to him, Helena? Oh, good luck, Ben. Thank you, thank you. She's got a child, too, just to add to the pressure. Oh, pressure. That child needs money.

How old's your child, Helena? He's three. Oh, cute age, too. Oh, cute. Stop talking, John. It's an age where you need $5,000 when you're 3 years old Oh absolutely Yeah alright well this is for Helena

And her lovely little child Ben Don't let them down The first word Count C-O-U-N-T Count Oh there's a couple On my head

Do you want me to say them out loud What are you thinking I'm thinking there's a couple in my head. Do you want me to say them out loud? What are you thinking? I'm thinking there's Dracula, there's Numbers, and there's Sesame Street. Those are the three things. Oh, yeah, they count. Oh, that guy. But after Juliet's what? Oh, sorry.

I'll ignore Sesame Street. Yeah. She's like, I don't know your old man's television show. I'm going to go with the first one that popped in my head, and I hope it's right, numbers. Oh! Off to a good start, Helena. Oh, that's a good start.

All right. Second word is container. Ship. Tell your three-year-old, Helena. It's not happening today. I'm so sorry. Max is filming it on social media. He just stopped filming.

He stopped and walked out. He's disgusted with me. Yeah, he's... I'm sorry. No point in continuing on. What did we say for container? What did you say, Helena? Plastic.

Plastic container. Container ship's an obvious one, though, as well. You did well. Third word was satellite. Oh, space or towers. Space. Indicate. Car.

And hops. Oh, I'm going to say beer. Oh, four out of to say beer. Oh! Four out of five. Four out of five. Oh, sorry. Container. It's okay.

If only you had said one word away. Listen, Helena, unfortunately, that's how it crumbles in this game. Thank you so much for playing. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you, guys. When we're in the building, we'll be sure to pop in. Yeah, so friendly. So friendly through the whole process. There you so much for playing. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you guys. We'll be sure to pop in. So friendly through the whole process. You didn't say we could pop in

but I said we would pop in. Thank you very much. Have a good Thursday. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast on the hits by the WhatsApp by doco.nv Here's Juliet, our little gossip gannet

and she's just chewed up some celebrities and we the chicks are about to feed on them straight out of her mouth That was weird That was a weird introduction What's happening in entertainment news? So Chrissy Teigen, we love Chrissy Teigen We talk a lot about Chrissy Teigen

I feel like I know more about what's happening in her life than my mum, for example I just love, I'm always like Chrissy Teigen. We do. I feel like I know more about what's happening in her life than my mum, for example. You know? I just love her. I'm always like, oh, Chrissy Teigen's enjoying me too. She is a bit of a character on the old social media. Yeah, you're right. Does anyone else care about Chrissy Teigen as much? I don't know.

We talk about her a lot. She's always in the news. She seems awesome, though. She seems awesome. She is very funny. Do you care about Chrissy Teigen? I do. I actually do right now.

I feel like I'm bested interest in Chrissy Teigen's future. She is very relatable, like you did say off-air beforehand, Ben. Can I just say for the record, I'm indifferent about Chrissy Teigen. You're a John Legend. I mean, they were great. Yeah, great, great couple. Now, she has talked about her friendship with Meghan Markle. She was quizzed by Andy Cohen about her friendship

and whether she is as nasty as some people say she is or whether she is as nasty as some people say she is or whether she's as nice as some people say she is. She's been so kind to me ever since we connected. She had written me about baby Jack and loss. But yeah, she is really wonderful and so kind. And that's why you look at everything and you're like, my God, what is absolutely wrong with people where they have to make this person out to be so malicious or so crazy

when it's just as simple as them being as kind as everybody says they are. So, yeah, she's really wonderful. That's great. There you go. There's the tea on Megan Markle according to Chrissy Teigen. Not so much tea, is it? No, it's just a lovely sentiment. Megan Markle had obviously reached out because Chrissy Teigen lost Not so much tea, is it? No, it's just a lovely sentiment. Yeah, yeah.

Meghan Markle had obviously reached out because Chrissy Teigen lost a baby, didn't she? Yeah, she did have a miscarriage quite late into her pregnancy and obviously Meghan Markle also had a miscarriage I think it was in July last year. So sent her a nice little letter of support. And just quickly, Angelina Jolie has revealed that the change in her family situation,

a.k.a. the divorce from Brad Pitt, has prevented her from chasing her directing dreams. Obviously, she's a famous actress, but she wants to get more into directing. But turns out directing takes a lot more time because I think you sort of have to be across everything when you're directing a movie. I don't get to sit every day all the time, you know, or as an actor, you can sort of, you know,

there's scenes that you're not in. Yeah, and so she has to manage, you know, or as an actor you can sort of, you know, there's scenes that you're not in. Yeah, and so she has to manage you know, looking after her children and parenting, not babysitting as we've referred to it recently. Parenting and the divorce and so she's had to just take on shorter acting roles rather than going

in the directional path and that's why she's kind of you know, not really directing much. I can't remember a time before this divorce. Yeah, I know. This divorce has been going on for 29 years. I know. It's been a while.

I was just thinking that, right? Well, yeah, so the divorce, I think that whole chunk of it has all been sorted. But right now they're dealing with the custody of the children. So they're going through all that at the moment, which is another. Do you know Angelina Jolie's a fully licensed pilot? Really? Fully licensed. Really? Okay. You want to see her license? She'll show it fully licensed pilot? Really? Fully licensed. Really?

Okay. You want to see her license? She'll show it to you. Fully. Fully. That's interesting, isn't it? I did not know that about Angelina Jolie. No, that fact brought to you by the internet.

Oh, wow. Wow. It's going to be around for a while. And that is five more. You can head to the hits.co.nz. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Jono and Ben.

Breakfast on the hits. Jono and Ben's 50 Tickets to 660 at Eden Park. Just a couple of days ago, we played the world's biggest game of musical chairs. We were sitting on seat after seat after seat at Eden Park Stadium. There's 50,000 seats. We sat on thousands of seats, and finally we sat on the lucky seat to win 50 tickets to 660 this weekend.

It's done. And now we have the arduous task of giving them all away in quite a hurried rush. Yeah. We only got three days to get rid of these 50 tickets so we're going to knock off

a whole bunch now. We're going to get to do six double passes in 60 seconds. Is that what we're doing? No. Five. Five double passes. Five double passes. We'll see if we what we're doing? No. Five. Five double passes. Five double passes.

We'll see if we get to save. We might not get to save. If we can try and get to as many double passes as we can give away in 60 seconds, 660 seconds, I guess you could say, so 0800, that's the telephone number right now. This is the quickest and most panicked ticket giveaway you will hear today. Imagine how much money we could have made if I had taken these tickets and pulled on a trench coat and stood

outside Eden Park and were like, hey, who wants tickets? And talk like that. We would have made a fortune. There's always that person out there, isn't there? Tickets, tickets, who wants tickets? Yeah. Well, why did you buy the tickets? I've got double books. But you're here. You can just walk into the gate.

Anyway, they're trying to make money, but we want to give away these tickets right now. So, oh, 800 the hits. Let's see how many we can give away in 60 seconds. Susan, you're in Hamilton. Susan. Good morning, guys. How are you?

You're going to go to Auckland on Saturday night and go to 660. Woo-hoo! Yeah. Well done. Well done. Congratulations. No time for chat. We're going to move on.

Yeah. We'll go to Alex. Welcome, Morena. Hi. No time for chat. We're going to move on. Yeah, we'll go to Alex. Welcome, Morena. Hi. Do you want to go to 660? Yes, I do. Do you want to ask your mum and dad if you can go? Yep.

You might be old enough to go on your own. I am old enough, yeah. That might have been an adult you asked that question to. Make sure you can ask your mum and dad. You're off to 660, Alex. Yay. Well done. We'll go to Georgia. You're on the air. dad. You're off to 660, Alex. Yay. Well done. We'll go to Georgia.

You're on the air. Do you want to go to 660? Yes, I do. Well, you can't. No, you can. You got a double pass, Georgia. Woo-hoo. Thank you so much.

How long to go, Patricia Juliet? 17 seconds. Wendy, you're on. Caller number four. Window. How about that? How about that? Cash me outside. How about that? How about that? Cash me outside.

How about that? You're going to 660. You bet I do. Good on you. We'll end on Mike. And note the rule. Mike. Oh, he doesn't get the tickets.

No. No, we've got to give it to Mike. Sorry, Mike. No, I've got to give it to Mike. No, the buzzer went, Mike. No, Mike, you see, Spock, you said some words just before the buzzer, didn't you, Mike? Yes, I did. Yeah.

You're off to the show. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I've double passed, Mike. Thank you so much. Gate's open 4 o'clock. If you're going along on Saturday, 6.60 meant to take the stage about 8.30 because they've got a two-day dominance from six, basically,

and Drax Project as well. It's going to be one heck of a night, and we've got more tickets to give away. Our final lot of tickets to give away tomorrow. All we are is giving away tickets. All I've had this week is I've been issued a ticket

for the New Zealand Police. Oh you do? Got sent here. So many infringements get sent here for me. I know. You send them to work don't you? Yeah.

They really must be starting to question am I a danger on the roads? Yes. Every week I'm getting tickets. Oh really? It's a nightmare. So I get my own ticket giveaway.

It's not quite as fun as the 6.61. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. The A to Z of New Zealand. This is something we like to do, well, we say every day on the show, but sometimes it slips every couple of days. Yeah, it does slip every couple of days.

Well, it gets a bit busy when you've got 56, 60 tickets to give away, Ben. We're slowly making our way around New Zealand in this segment, calling every town and city. We're doing it alphabetically, and we're learning about each place as we go. Producer Julie, you were saying we're pretty much halfway now. Yeah, M is halfway through the alphabet.

We'll be here over a year, just over a year. We're pretty much a year at the hits, and we said it was going to take us over two years, so yeah. I didn't know. You'd think M would be further than halfway down the alphabet. Didn't realise M was the halfway point. I would also expect that we're actually probably not quite halfway because I think when we get to the letter W,

there will be a whole lot of towns. C's and T's as well. True. Today we're heading to Matarangi. It's in the Coromandel. Built in the 1980s as a resort town, it's a quiet seaside retreat with a population of 300 that over holiday periods or government-sanctioned lockdowns

is infested with bloody Aucklanders bringing their urban arrogance and a sense of entitlement. It's just a stunning... Have you seen the photo of this place? You could put it on a postcard. But you could also put me on a postcard as well, so that's not saying much about postcards. Matarangi.

On the list of things to do in Matarangi website, visit the public toilets and refuse centre. They're at the top of that list. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Well, there are two of five things to do. Two of the more amusing ones.

Yeah. And if you hate being locked two of five things to do. Two of the more amusing ones. Yeah. And if you hate being locked in your car with your family for hours, then you can simply catch a ferry from Auckland's Viaduct to Matarangi. Can you really? You can indeed. And we're going to go through there right now to the cafe. Hello, Piper's Cafe. Natasha speaking.

Hello, Natasha from Piper's Cafe, Matarangi. Yeah, that's it. It's Jono and Ben from the Hits Radio Station, Auckland. Hi. Great to have you on at this early hour of the morning. What's going on in the cafe? Yeah, it's pretty quiet at the moment, so... What are you doing, a bit of prep?

Prep for the day? Yeah, a bit of prep. We're making savoury mints at the moment. So we do savoury mints with eggs and... Oh, lovely. I love a mints on toast. I can't remember the last time I had mints on toast. It's a good lunch meal after you had...

You don't have to come here then. Like a bolognese the night before or something like that. You just put it on toast. I suppose the toast carbs act as the pasta, don't they? Yeah. It kind of works for a lunch. You wouldn't get a more New Zealand dish. I know.

Mints on toast. I'll get some mints on toast. You don't have it that often, but it is tasty. My wife manages. She's like, not for me, not for me, but I'll have it with on toast. I'll get some mints on toast. You don't have it that often but it is tasty. My wife manages. She's like not for me, not for me, but I'll have it on toast. Mints on toast. I'm like, what do you want to have? Spaghetti bolognese over here. Pasta. Pizza.

The finest cuisine. What do you guys have in New Zealand? Mints on toast. There we go. Somehow it works. It shouldn't work, but it does. Hey, now Matarangi, a beautiful part of the Coromandel. Yeah, it's lovely here. My favourite place ever. Look at that photo Ben.

Isn't that paradise? Wow. The cafe in Matarangi. Yeah. It would be a quiet time heading into winter is it?

Yeah sometimes. Yeah. But no we're having a Thursday night roast evening that's happening every Thursday now.

Oh lovely. Do you love a roast too Ben Boyce? I do love a roast. This is. That's happening every Thursday now. Oh, lovely. Do you love a roast too, Ben Boyce? I do love a roast. This is the cafe for you. I know. That sounds amazing. We also have a bar in the weekend.

Oh, yeah. He had me at Mints on Ties. Do you know the way to his heart? It's through a heart attack. That sounds amazing. And what does that have to do with Matarangi? There's lots of cool walks and going to the beach and there's surfing and playing golf, but it's just a nice place to relax, really.

Do you know what Matarangi means in Maori? No, I don't, actually. The eye of the sky. Oh, I like that. It's quite nice. It's lovely. And if there's one thing that we should do, if we're only in Matarangi for half an hour... You should come to the cafe.

It's a mince on toast, mate. We would line that up. But outside of that, let's say we're filled up on that. We're really proud. Well, you can have mince on toast anywhere in New Zealand. Yeah, let's say. We've done that for lunch and we want to spend the afternoon. What should we do?

You should walk up the hill in Matarangi. You can see the whole, like, beach and area. And you can also look over to, like, Rings Beach in Koarangi. You can see the whole beach and area. And you can also look over to Rings Beach in Koatuna. It looks to me, I imagine it to be like Summer Bay off home and away. Yeah, yeah. Is Irene working in the cafe with you? No, we don't have an Irene. Hey, listen, lovely to talk with you.

Thank you. Now, if we're ever there, we'll definitely pop in. Sweet, thank you. Hope to see you. A lot of min, if we're ever there, we'll definitely pop in. Sweet. Thank you. Hope to see you. A lot of Mints on Toast-based chat there, but I enjoyed that. I love Mints on Toast. That's what I had for lunch today. A lot of focus on

Mints, not so much focus on Matarangi during that conversation. That's fine. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's Breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben was like, shall we say, oh, we're on air. Now, whatever you wanted to tell

me off for you, tell me on air. Well, I'd like, because we want to give away a double pass to 660 right now, I was just thinking maybe they have to get more than three right to get the double pass. Okay. Otherwise, we'll go to another caller. Yeah, good. Now, let's start again. The beginning of the voice break. Go. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben 631 the time. It's time for this.

It was like an off-air conversation. Bloody boring off-air conversations we have. So I'm glad you could hear it and experience. Okay. Now, this is a pretty fun game that we play. It's called the Name Game. If you've got a name, you can play this game. It's pretty simple. If you weren't a Ben, what would be your dream name? What would you want to change your name to? Oh, I don't know. Every now and again, I'm like, you hear these people and you read articles about these cool celebrities like,

Hey, my name's Chase or something cool. You're like, oh, damn, that's cool. But I'm not cool enough to pull off a name like Chase. My name's Lightning. My parents were hippies. I grew up in the desert while they were drinking cactus juice. You know, I'm definitely not cool enough for that. I always wanted

to be Mark because I was a big fan of MacGyver but I thought his name was Mark Guyver. And I was like, when I was a kid, I was like, wouldn't it be cool to be Mark Guyver? MacGyver's a cool name, though. My name's MacGyver. My dad was a guitarist in a band in the 70s. I'm an actor.

It'd be cool. But anyway, that's not what we're here about. We're here to give Ryan some tickets to 660, hopefully. How are you this morning, mate? Hey, good, thanks yourself. Yeah, good, thank you, buddy. What do you do for a job, Ryan? I actually sell capital equipment, like

forklifts and warehousing equipment. I'm up on my way to Whangarei to hand over some machines in Portland. Oh, right. You're up early driving up north. Yeah. Oh, forklifts. I tell you what,

that forklift technology has come a long way. Yep, it has. It has. That's all I've got on forklifts. Yeah, I thought you had more of that. No, I saw a forklift the other day and I was like, wow, it's spinning. It was doing all sorts anyway.

We'll move on with this. Ryan, it's pretty simple. Your name's Ryan. You have 30 seconds to name as many famous Ryans as possible. If you get over three, you're off to 660, all right? Oh, okay. That's not too difficult. I'll give you the clues and we'll see how we go, all right?

I've Googled these quickly in the last song. Okay, here we go. He was the star in Deadpool, married to Blake Lively. Ryan Reynolds. Yes. There's one. Very handsome Ryan. He's in The last song. Okay, here we go. He was the star in Deadpool, married to Blake Lively. Ryan Reynolds. Yes. There's one. Very handsome Ryan. He's in The Notebook.

Also married to Eva Mendes. Ryan Gosling. Yes. He's the host of American Idol. Ryan Seacrest. Yes. He's got three. He's got the tickets.

Keep going. Okay. Oh, this is married to Antonio Banderas. When Harry met Sally, her last name is obviously... Meg Ryan. Yes. All Black, second five, plays for the Crusaders.

Last name rhymes with potty. Ryan Crotty was the... But you got enough to go to 660. Well done. Awesome. Awesome. That's awesome. No worries.

Enjoy the concert this weekend. It's going to be awesome. 50,000 people at Eden Park. So Dave Dobbin, Drax Project 660. It's going to be one heck of a000 people at Eden Park. So Dave Dobbin, Drax Project 660, it's going to be one heck of a night. Oh, awesome. That'll be great.

Do you know if there's still tickets for sale or are they all sold out? I think the last few tickets I just read yesterday, I think they've just released a few more in other sections.

So I think you can. Oh, great. You can. You just won tickets, mate. You've got a double pass. What do you want to buy? No, no, just in case they need me to bring

the whole family. Oh, how many more do you need? I have a family of five. I've got three kids. Take them all, mate. Oh, you're going to give my five? That'd be nice. Take the whole family.

All right. Oh, guys, that's awesome. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. You can park your forklift outside and take the whole family inside. All right, five tickets. It's got an admin-wise five. Not just any forklift, Toyota forklift outside and take the whole family inside. All right, five tickets. It's got an admin-wise five. Not just any forklift,

Toyota forklift. Don't you understand? Not a Komatsu, mate. It's a Toyota forklift. Hey, Ryan, it's been a pleasure talking to you and you and your family. Enjoy 660.

Oh, guys, thank you very much. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of that. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of that. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. It is Sir Dave Dobbin,

Slice of Heaven, it is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben, 6.52 on your Thursday. Officially knighted now, Sir Dave Dobbin. That's awesome, eh? We're just retelling,

I think we've probably told this story a couple of times before, but Dave Dobbin stole a taxidermied cat off us. It's our coolest Dave Dobbins story, right? Well, it's our only Dave Dobbins

story. We don't have any other Dave Dobbins stories. No. And we were hosting the Music Awards and during the ceremony we had a gag with a taxidermied cat. That we'd hired from a higher place. And live during the awards, Dave Dobbins was like, can I have that cat? I said, yeah, of course you're going to give a cat to Dave Dobbins. That's Dave Dobbins. If Dave Dobbins comes up and asks

we didn't realise it had been hired. We just thought it was a, I don't know where we got it from. We were like, it's a stuffed cat. I went and ran over it before the show, and then I taxied him into it myself, if you want to know where we got it from. But anyway, he took the cat. And then the hire company said, hey, where's our taxidermy cat the next day?

And we said, oh, it got to Dave Dobbin. And so we emailed Dave Dobbin. He's like, I don't have the cat. And then we went back and we said, well, Dobbin doesn't have the cat. And they're like, we've got to get the cat back. It's our only cat. And we emailed him back. We. He's like, I don't have the cat. And then we went back and we said, well, Dobbin doesn't have the cat. And they're like, we've got to get the cat back. It's our only cat. And we emailed him back.

We're like, you sure you don't have the cat? And he's like, I don't have the cat. And then we just went back and forth for about a month. Then eventually he said, okay, you got me off. I've had the cat. I've had the cat the whole time. And then we saw him, you know, because he came in and did a radio interview after that.

He's like, I gave that cat the home it never had. I gave it a stick. You know, I was looking after that cat. You know, he was gutted. He put it on his mental piece too. You know, he looked after that cat like it was his own and we took it back off him. So I'm sorry, Sir Dave Dobbin.

Yeah, exactly. I'll tell you what, I'll run over another cat and text you, do me that and give it back too. Spy, the WhatsApp, spy.co.nz. I tell you what, if you love celebrity gossip and three people fumbling around the topics, then have we got the segment for you, Juliet. Come on down.

So the Oscars are happening Monday our time, and it has been revealed what is in the gift bags that all the celebrities get. Now, the gift bags... Does everyone who goes to the Oscars get it, or just the nominators? Good question. It just said celebrities.

So maybe everyone that probably attends. Every attender? No, I wouldn't imagine everyone gets it. There might be some tiered different types of gift bags. Well, speaking of the Music Awards, when we did it, we got a bag with a mini can of Cool Charm. Yeah. It's a good hair product, but I got some off you

because obviously you didn't need it. Two Werther's Originals and some energy drink. So I bet they can't beat that. No, that is a very good gift bag. But this one, these are worth $60,000 each. That's why I think that it wouldn't go to absolutely everyone who's going. But in the gift bag includes trips to Fiji, the Caribbean, and the Bahamas. First of all, what COVID?

Secondly, what else is in there what COVID? Secondly, more, what else is in there are expensive beauty treatments, jewels, clothes and custom created artworks. Well, I'm glad

it's going to people that deserve it. Yeah. The celebrities. They really need it. Imagine after the awards ceremony, people would like

leave their gift bags around. Oh. It'd be a good thing to swoop on in. Yeah. Imagine if you were like a waiter at the Oscars. You could just like

go along all the seats and take all the ones that people left behind. Imagine people probably leave their trophies behind as well. Oh, in those situations, yes. Particularly in years gone by where they could go out and party afterwards in bars. They would have been left all over town, wouldn't they? Oh, I think there was one year the Oscars,

the Academy Awards, I think we gave them trips to like Hooker Lodge and things. The celebrities. Oh, really? Really? New Zealand, we pulled our pants down for those celebrities. That's good to hear. Producer Alan's just written that the bags are given to all nominees in all the big categories.

So you've got like best director, best actor, actress, supporting actress. So it's not to everyone, but just the big wigs who need it the most, obviously. The most rich and the most famous. Yes. And last month, Alan DeGeneres' wife, Portia De Rossi, had to go to hospital and have an emergency appendix removal surgery because she had appendicitis. Now, Alan has now gone on Jimmy Kimmel

and kind of told the backstory of what happened when she had to rush Portia to hospital. Now, Alan struggles to sleep at night, and in California... Well, she's up all night plotting and planning how she can bully her staff. Hey, hey. That's what she's doing. It takes a lot of planning. And so, because she struggles to sleep...

This is the kind of thing where it doesn't age well, these jokes. Yeah, I reckon. It'll be like five years old. Sorry, but we all know what I said to Alan. The evil Alan narrative can stay in 2020. Oh, listen, we all say it with tongue in cheek, don't we? She's written it out. She's written it out.

No one's... Everyone's forgotten about it now, except for you. But because she struggles to sleep at night, other people encourage her to take marijuana products because it's legal in California. Fully legal, fully allowed to have it over there. And she's not really used to it. And so this is, she noticed

Portia was in a lot of pain but she'd tried some drinks that had some marijuana CBD in it and this is what happened. So Chelsea Handler told me about these like weed drinks. They're called CANN. C-A-N-N. I drank one and I didn't feel anything and I drank

so I drank three. And I'm laying in bed and I realized she's not in bed. And she's on the ground on all fours. And I said, you're not okay. She goes, I'm okay. I said, no, unless you're playing Twister by yourself, you're not okay. So I rushed her to the emergency room and they heard. You drove her yourself?

I did. I mean, I kicked in, like, my adrenaline was like, because I just had to rush her there. So it's probably not safe. I shouldn't be saying any of this. So, I mean, probably definitely shouldn't have driven Portia to the hospital after having that. But, I mean, like she said, she probably just panicked and thought of the only reason to, you know,

only way to get her there. Thank you very much, Juliet. That is Spy Entertainment News. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hips. Wrapping up our show, we've got the last lot of 660 tickets to give away tomorrow, the ones that we've won ahead of Saturday's concert.

So make sure you tune in tomorrow. And on social media today on the hits breakfast, we might chuck up another double pass up for grabs there today. But earlier in the show, we gave away one to Ryan. Now, Ryan played a wee name game.

We played about 6.30 this morning and it was a lovely moment. He won a double pass. Have a listen to this. There's still tickets for sale or they're all sold out? I think the last few tickets

I just read yesterday, I think they've just released a few more in other sections. So I think you can. Oh, great. You can. You just won tickets, mate. You got a double pass. What do you want to sections. So I think you can. Oh, great. You can? But you just won tickets, mate. You've got a double pass.

What do you want to buy? No, no, just in case they need me to bring the whole family. Oh, how many more do you need? I have a family of five. I've got three kids. Now, it was at that moment where you're like, okay. So you asked the question, how many more do you need? Wanting to look like a great guy, you know?

It felt like one of those moments, oh, take, you know, I was hoping he was going to come back with, oh, we've got three. I'm like, oh, yeah, we can do three. Oh, so you give him an extra ticket. Yeah. Or maybe even like two, four. I didn't expect Ryan to be such a prolific procreator and have five people in his family.

So that moment we both looked at each other. We looked at each other and went, ooh. And we made that thing with the ellipse where you go, ooh, but silently so he couldn't hear. And in the end we carried on though and Jono made the call. Take them all mate. Take the whole family. Oh guys that's awesome

thank you so much. You can hear the reluctancy in my voice. Oh are we? Okay. But no that's awesome. So they're going to have a great time. They are and I'm glad the whole family can go along. Which means tomorrow we've got the last lot of tickets to give away. And because of the family of five, we've got a single ticket as well. Yeah, I've clogged up the numbers.

But that's fine. I mean, there's lots of people going. There's GA section. There are GA tickets. So if you know the people that are going along and you're like, oh, I'd love to go with my friends, we have a single ticket as well to give away tomorrow. Yeah, head to The Hits Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook. We'll give away those tickets throughout the day on social media.

Hey, thank you so much for listening to the program. We appreciate it. Don't forget also tomorrow, Five Words is back at quarter to seven to win $5,000. Have a great Thursday, New Zealand. We'll catch you tomorrow from six. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from six on The Hits. And via the iHeartRadio app.

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