Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - April 29 - The Quickest Time Someone's Gone From MEETING TO MARRIAGE

Episode Date: April 29, 2021

Kia Ora! On today's show, we SPOKE TO THE LADY BEHIND THE VOICE OF SIRI! Her name is Karen Jacobsen, from Australia, and my golly it was interesting to hear how many words & syllables she had to record! Producer Juliet also told a veeeeery juicy story about a groom who hooked up with the lady that dropped his wedding suit off, the NIGHT before his wedding... Kind of unbelievable really. On this, we wanted to hear your most unbelievable stories that would make us go NOOO..... Finally, Ben was very stoked when he was driving with Jono and beat Google Maps' time by a minute, and let's be real, there's nothing better than that feeling. Enjoy the show!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. Welcome along to the podcast. If you're wondering what day it is and you're listening in 2056,

well, it's 29th of April, 2021, and I would say at this moment the world is in a state of concern. New Zealand's fine. India ravaged by COVID cases. Isn't it just disastrous over there? I feel so sorry for them because they went three months at the beginning of the year with pretty much no cases

in the grand scheme of things for their population. Right. And now it's just the second wave is wild with COVID-19. You'll be doing studies on this in classes and universities, won't you? Yeah, really, really sad. So hopefully I keep the rest of the world trying to do their best to help India out. This is definitely one of those times in history where we as old people are going to

bang on to our grandchildren and they're going to be like, shut up. Well, you hope so. You hope he gets that, you know, because at the, it felt good going into the end of last year. It felt like there was some positivity around the world with the vaccine. But obviously things like this is really scary. Well, the problem is it mutates, doesn't it? It mutates. The virus's job is to keep itself alive.

So every time it almost stops, it has to mutate and create a new version to keep its evil self alive. So it's Chasing the Dragon, isn't it, on that one? Is that what you say? Chasing the Dragon? Is Chasing the Dragon a thing? Is that a thing? It's Chasing the Dragon. I'll Google it.

I feel like it's a reference. It might be a drug reference. I hadn't heard of Chasing the Dragon before. Yes, yes. It's to do with heroin smoking. Chasing the dragon. Yeah. Oh, because the heroin smoke.

Yes. Applicable in no way at all. No way. Yeah. Apparently it's, yeah. There you go. Yeah. Chasing the dragon.

There you go. So no, it's not. Sometimes you just say stuff, don't you? Yeah. And hope that it lands. Yeah. I know. Because I said it with confidence. I hadn't heard it before, but there you? Yeah. And hope that it lands. Yeah, I know. Because I said it with confidence, and so I guess...

I hadn't heard it before, but there you go. So did you assume it was just, oh, that makes sense to the topic we're talking about? I guess it could kind of feel like it. Yeah. It could, yeah. Chasing your tail might have been a better one. Chasing your tail? Because, you know, it's like a never-ending...

Yeah. That would have probably been a bit... Anyway, we won't settle too long on the Chasing the Dragon reference. Nice, yeah. But what we will do is wish India all the best. New Zealand's, I think, pledged a million dollars. Yeah, and I think the US as well are sending vaccines over as well. Because you were saying yesterday a lot of the vaccines were manufactured originally in India.

And they sent them away overseas. And now they need more back in the country. So, yeah, frightening stuff country so yeah frightening stuff that is frightening stuff this whole covid thing what a strange time in history huh but i tell you what's not going to be strange this coming podcast uh it's going to be rock solid today on the show we had some wonderful information uh shared didn't we i like the topic we did at eight o'clock which was uh quickest meeting to marriage you know from when you met someone to where you walked when you walked down the aisle with them.

Yeah. Spoke to a lady two weeks. I know. I know. Which is, yeah, it seems very quick, but they're still together. So that's awesome. Yeah. You don't hear the stories of people who'd, oh, it ended in a bit of divorce, which I imagine would be the majority of quickfire marriages.

Well, that can happen, right? Yeah. Anyway, so that's coming up on the show. And Juliet, you're not usually here for the podcast intro. You want to say anything to your fans? Oh, hey, guys. How are you? Hope you're living the dream. There you go. And Juliet, you're not usually here for the podcast intro. You want to say anything to your fans? Oh, hey, guys. How are you? Hope you're living the dream.

There you go. Classic Juliet. There we go. There you go. Enjoy the potty. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing.

Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. A cash and car, which we announced just half an hour ago, giving away a fancy car and a whole bunch of cash. What was it? What did he say? A whopping amount of cash, Boss Todd has claimed. And yesterday we were filming a commercial for it. And we were in this studio there where they had the commercial shoot and I needed to use the lavatory.

And then I went to the hallway and noticed that there were two doors there. That's not unusual. But both were lacking the appropriate signage, you know, which sort of separates the toilets. And so I did my market research. I knocked politely. No answer on the first one.

On the second one, no answer. Okay, so then this was a gamble. It was a 50-50 gamble at this point as to where I was going to walk into. And I went in and there was a lack of stand-up urinals. So I thought, oh, this is obviously not designated for me, but I'll use the cubicle anyway. You can miss it. Like a thought process.

Well, I'm here now. You know, when in Rome. Well, I guess it was only the hits team in there at the time. Yeah. And, you know, it wasn't like there was heaps of people trawling in from other business, you know, from the business and stuff. Yeah. And so in there, and then I heard the door open.

Oh, my God. I was like a scared child hiding from a monster. Holding my breath, you don't say anything, because I could tell that the person in there would have been a little taken back to see me walk out. Right. She would have been like, what are you doing in here? You know, that sort of conversation.

And I would have gone, oh, you know, not explained it properly. I was on edge. I'd never been so on edge in a toilet situation than when I was in a portalo at the Big Day Out music festival many years ago. You're frightened. So I just stood in silence just hoping that I wouldn't be noticed. And that's the safe zone. Inside the cubicle is safe zone. No one knows you're in there. No one knows who's in there. But you want that person to leave. You don't want to have to walk out there. Otherwise, you've just got to ride it out, right?

You've got to stay in that cubicle for a tool. You know, it's a waiting game. It's a standoff. And what you don't factor in is your exit strategy in that point. So I had heard her leave and the door shut. And I was like, well, now, is now your time to strike? Or you don't want to meet someone coming in as well, because then there's still questions to be answered.

Or they're waiting in the hallway, and you're like, you were just in there, you're like, yeah, yeah, I was. Were you not breathing silent in the cubicle? Yeah, to make it weirder, I was. And so I just scattered like a cockroach trying to outrun a squirt of a can of Raid or something. Made a clean exit. And that's the end of that story.

I remember my dad telling me a story when I was younger and he was like, he needed to find me a bathroom when I was a little kid. And he went into a shop and the lady's like, well, we have a ladies toilet just out the back. You can use it if you want. And so he was standing inside while I was in the bathroom and then a lady walked in.

Uh-oh. And she's like, what are you doing in here to him? And he's like, oh, I'm just waiting for my son, who's in the cubicle here. And at that moment, he's like, please, Ben, answer. If I don't answer the knock, you know, go, Ben, you in there? He's like, this is going to look very bad. Fortunately, I was a kid, and I answered like, yeah, I'm in here.

But at that time, it was 50-50 whether he was going to look like he was just hanging out in the bathroom. He shouldn't. You get the same thing to, didn't it happen to you in the lingerie shop where you were shopping for lingerie with Amanda and she was there trying it on and you felt like a bit out of sorts. Well, you don't know where to hang around because she's like, hang out, you know, I would like your advice and stuff.

You're like, where do I hang? And then normally you'd look at your phone in that situation just so you're not looking up. You're like, I don't want to pull a phone out in this situation. What's the guy got his phone out? Is he recording? You know, so you're like, oh, stand there. You awkwardly sort of, don't know where to look.

You know, it's one of those situations. We took Juliet into a wonderland last week at Eden Park, your first time going into the mail box. Oh, yeah, the men's toilet. She had never experienced, we were doing some filming and recording in there last week at Eden Park. Your first time going into the male block. Oh, yeah, the men's toilet. She had never experienced, we were doing some filming and recording in there for the Eden Park thing we did. No one else was obviously in the stadium,

so we're like, oh, we'll go in there, and you're like, oh, you're this. It was so stinky. Yeah, she had a physical reaction. Oh, my goodness. I didn't think it was that bad at all. And you guys were like, this is good. I was like, this is good?

Oh, wow. I'm glad I'm a female in that situation. Just don't eat the urinal cakes, is a little bit of advice. Yeah. The most disappointing of all birthday cakes. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. So kids were asking me yesterday about marriage. And they're like, is 17 too young to get married? That's all they said. Yeah, and I said, well, it depends what religious culture you belong to and where they see the age of marriage. But it's interesting just talking to kids about marriage of like, you know,

when do you get married? What age is the best? You know, what's the time distance between meeting someone and then marrying them? It's an interesting one too, isn't it? I guess it's all relative to how in love with the person you are. You may be like, this is the person for the rest of my life. And you might get married and go, hey, turns out it wasn't the person for the rest of my life.

And at what stage of your life are you at, you know, too? I got married when I was 26. Some would consider that quite young, wouldn't they? That's me in three years. Oh, my God. Juliet, mate. Oh, stress. Better lock one down, mate.

Terrifying. There's no rush nowadays. It doesn't feel like I'm like my grandparents and stuff. They were getting married in their early 20s and stuff, but now it's just, you know. You're a spinster if you weren't married by 21, weren't you? You're like, oh, your life's over. But now you don't have to get married at all.

There's couples that have kids and all sorts of things now you don't have to get married at all. There's couples that have kids and all sorts of things. They don't need to get married. It's only a piece of paper, marriage certificate. A piece of paper that lays claim to half of your belongings, but it's only a piece of paper. Yeah, but then you're three years with someone. It's the exact same thing. On the same facto.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, if that's what you're worried about getting half the stuff, well, then you just stay with someone for three years and that's it. You don't have to go. Because I think some couples these days are choosing, you know, you're worried about getting half the stuff. Well, then you just stay with someone for three years and that's it. You don't have to go. Because I think some couples these days are choosing, you know, they're like, we can spend 20, 30K on a wedding or we can put it towards trying to get our first house.

And sometimes the financial, the better financial decision is getting a house together rather than one day of, it depends. And again, it's each to their own. Look, the interesting point too is like from when you meet someone to when you marry them, like what's that age someone to when you marry them, what's that age? What's that time distance? I guess that all depends on how drunk you are and how adventurous you are, too. I mean, you could do it on the first night if you wanted.

You wouldn't need to take a risk. Take a punt. You're in Vegas and people do that, right? Don't they get married on the first? We're going to show this out there. Okay. 0800, that's the telephone number. If you prefer text, that's your preferred method of communication.

4487 is the telephone number. If you prefer text, that's your preferred method of communication. 4487 is the text number. What is the quickest time period we can find right now from meeting someone to marrying them? How long were you and Amanda together before you put a ring on that? Oh, a long time. A long time, actually, we've been together, because we got together, I was like 21 or something, so very young. We've been together for a long, long I was like 21 or something, so very young.

We've been together for a long, long time. But it was because you felt quite young. You're like, well, you don't need to think about marriage. I think she'd probably given up on me ever asking her. I had gone on that long. Sorry, like seven years later before I asked her. But I was like, hey, we were happy. You know, things were good and we're still together and happy.

So it's all good. Juliet, what would be the appropriate time for you? You've met the partner of your dreams. What would you do? The whole thought terrifies me. She's like, I've got a few more years of northern base to go to. I don't want to be locked down just yet. But I would, you know, the ideal, I'd like to meet my person.

Say Harry Styles. Oh, okay, immediately. I'll marry him tomorrow. Even if we don't get along, I'll marry him. So he comes along and he can go to Northern Base with you. Yeah, he'll perform and I'll be the fangirl side of stage. All right, there you go. So the quickest time you want to know from what?

Meeting someone to getting married. Wendy, you're going to kick this one off in Bupamoa Beach this morning. How are you? Good. I'm fine, thank you. Oh, that's good to hear. Wendy, you're going to kick this one off in Papamoa Beach this morning. How are you? Good. I'm fine, thank you. Oh, that's good to hear. Wendy's all business. Quickest time from meeting to marriage, Wendy.

What was it? Four months. Well, four months engagement and then a year for marriage. So within a year from meeting them... You're engaged. And married. Gee, that's a quick turnaround.

Was it like a ticket-off-the-list sort of situation or you were just so in love? Oh no, it was love at first sight, definitely. Oh, that's awesome. We had four kids by the time I was 27. Geez, you're prolific, weren't you, in the old marriage game? Yeah, getting over and done with. We're all good friends now. Now I've got five grandkids.

Oh, good on you, Wendy. That's what they say about kids. Get them over and done with. Get them out there and all. Take it off the list. Get them out earning money. Smack them on the butt and send them out into the big wide world. Well, there you go. A year from meeting to marriage. Not bad, Wendy.

Good start. We've got Lee on from the West Coast. How's the coast this morning, Lee? It's not too bad, mate. Nice and cloudy. Calm. It's going to be a fine day. Lovely, lovely. We met some wonderful people from the West Coast, didn't we? We did, actually.

The Rural Games. Yeah, yeah. Cookie. You need to be down here for the wild foods. That's when you want to be here. Oh, yes. It's one of those things I need to do. In Hokitika, where you eat, you know, the anuses of every animal.

That's the one. That's the one. Everything is, like, there's no, nothing's off limits. Oh, I feel like sometimes, you know, no one's eating this, but on one special day of the year, everyone does.

It's a delicacy. Quickest time from meeting to marriage, Lee? Well, I'm going to go the opposite. I've been with my partner in just over 12 years. I have two kids, a house, and all the rest of it,

and we have no intentions of getting married just due to the fact that, yeah, the cost, money was spent elsewhere, and really, like you said, it all is a piece of paper. Well, it can seem like a better financial decision to, you know, you obviously don't need it in your situation, right? Well, we had the option probably about when my daughter was conceived, we were given some

money and told that, okay, you can use this for A or B, and we decided to use it for B, and it just seems to have worked out real good, especially with house prices the way they are. So it was a joint decision. Your partner wasn't keen to get married? She's quite happy just to go with the flow. Good on you.

The perfect word for her, she had more important things to do. Okay. Well, if I could quote the great Benjamin Ross voice, whatever makes you happy. That's right, yeah. We say it quite often on the show, each to their own, you know? Like, we're not the judge anymore.

What do you say? Whatever makes you happy or each to your own? I say both, actually. We should get one printed on the front of the T-shirt and one on the back. One to each of their own, yeah. Good on you, Lee. Go and look after yourself, okay? Yeah, cheers, guys.

Have a good day. Great to have you on. Tyrone, you're on from Auckland. Quickest time from meeting to marriage. Can you beat a year? My wife and I met each other. One month later, we got married. Whoa.

And a month after that, we were married. So eight weeks. Yeah, we've been married now for 27 years. Wow. Took a gamble. I mean, you don't really know someone too well after eight weeks, do you? I thought I did. And I've never regretted it.

Oh, that's so awesome. Melting hearts this morning, Tyrone. I just heard a collective, oh. All from us. That was beautiful. Yeah, it was lovely. Hey, you keep living your best morning, Tyrone. I just heard a collective, oh. All from us. That was beautiful. That was lovely. Hey, you keep living your best life, Tyrone. You keep your wife happy.

Yeah, I will. However you choose to keep her happy. I don't know. I'd drill down on that one. That's what Tyrone's got to do. Jen. We're doing quickest time from meeting to marriage. Can you beat eight weeks?

Jen. Hello. Hello. You kept us waiting. But did you keep your partner waiting? That is a big question. No, no, no. We met on a Friday and two weeks later we got married.

Two weeks later. Quite a busy two weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Looking back, you're like, wow, that was a whirlwind. Two weeks later. Quite a busy two weeks. Looking back, you're like, wow, that was a whirlwind. And we got married and went up to the registry office in Auckland and didn't realise that we needed to have two witnesses. So we grabbed two random people out of the waiting room who we actually, to this day, 33 years later, have no idea who they are.

And so if they'd like, if they know about us and remember us, love to catch up with them. Oh, that's awesome. They signed our marriage certificate and we said goodbye and that was it. We didn't actually tell anybody until six months later we kind of got engaged and then got married a year later. So what did your family say when they found out that you secretly married? Oh, yeah, that was a bit of a shitstorm. I bet it was. Most people thought it was fabulous,

but there was a couple of people who were a bit grumpy about it. Yeah. Look, we still like each other 33 years later, so that's the main thing. Oh, good on you. There we go. I wouldn't recommend it to young people. I keep saying to my kids, oh, my God, don't do that. Oh, you see, don't recommend it.

Even though it worked out for you, you don't recommend it. Oh, because if you got it wrong, you'd just look like a fool. There you go. Do as I say, not as I do. That's Jen's theory on it. Got married after two weeks. Lied to her family. Disappointed her parents.

Became the black sheep, but she's happy now. Happy now, that's exactly right. Hey, good on you, Jen. Look after yourself. Have a wonderful Thursday, okay? Thanks, see you. 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. Jeez, I had an absolute shocker in the lift yesterday. I like to call a plane a conversation capsule, one where you can't escape conversation

from me. And the lift is the banter box, isn't it? But it's the most awkward, I don't know what it is about riding a lift with people, it can just

be so awkward. Yeah. Yeah. It can be. It creates an awkward environment awkward. Yeah. Yeah. It can be. It creates an awkward environment. It is. Well, especially if no one's greeted anyone and you both stand there in silence

if it's only two people in the lift. You know, you're kind of just standing there looking at the floor, don't you? Yeah. They're long seconds too when you're travelling amongst floors with a stranger. Yeah, I don't know what it is. In dead silence.

Yeah. So anyway, a guy got into the lift who we used to work with actually and he had pushed his floor, I had pushed my floor. Now it's at this moment you really want to temper the level of conversation you engage in because it's a race against the clock.

The clock's ticking down to when the door's open and you need to exit. But I started, I went in too heavy. Oh, I used to do. Well, not intentionally, I said, how's things been? And he's Oh, as you do. Well, not intentionally. I said, how's things been? And he's like, yeah, that started light. But he responded with, not good, just been made redundant.

And I'm like, oh, how am I going to get out of this? Oh, and then if your floor opens up, you're like, oh, that's no good, mate. Have a great day. Exactly. So I got to the point where I had reached my floor, level three. The doors opened. I'm like, I can't. I can't leave. So then the door shut doors opened. I'm like, I can't, I can't leave. So then the door shut again and I'm riding

to his floor. He's still continuing, oh, he's so good, it's tough, I wrap up next week. His doors open on his floor because I saw him push the button. He's like, well, I can't leave now, I'm only halfway through the story. So then we just, the door shut and we're both engaged in this conversation with

the lift not going anywhere. Then someone else pushed the button and said the lift went down to And we're both engaged in this conversation with the lift not going anywhere. Then someone else pushed the button. Then the lift went down to their floor. They got in. And so then the conversation sort of stopped. And we were talking in tongues around the stranger about the redundancy. No. Really awkward.

Yeah. Awkward lift. The lift is a strange place. A little game I like to play now. It was quite fun. We played at the hotel the other day. It's when someone's already in a lift and you're like, oh no, I'll wait for the next one. The door's

closed. You just push the button again. Oh, I love that. And then they open up. And you're like, no, no, I'll get the next one. It's a fun little game. And then everyone in the lift's like, ugh. Just play it once. Just play it once. You're like, oh no, no. Oh, sorry. I'll get the next one. We should turn that into a game. Because you've got to wait

like five seconds for the lift to go to the next floor, but it's quite nice to just... The timing on that, you need to be impeccable, don't you? That'd be a fun game, like how many times can you open up the door with a padlock? Because people are like, oh. You're like, I'll get the next one, and they're like, well, just wait five seconds.

Just go. You're like, oh, sorry, sorry. We've had some conversation shockers recently. The other one we had, remember, there was a four-person conversation, but there were three different conversations going on all at the same time. It was too much. We were maintaining both. We were talking to one lady about her new job.

Then another person came in, and they started a whole other conversation, but neither party knew that conversations were going on. So between the two of us, we were both maintaining conversations, but in a four-person circle. Yeah, I know. And I was like, surely these people all know that we're trying to maintain this four-way conversation. But yeah, I felt like I walked away going,

I felt like I was rude to one person at one stage because I was listening to the other one and trying to talk back. It was a lot of multitasking going on. I saw you listening to one conversation, but then you replied with what the other conversation was saying behind your back. Yeah. Yeah.

Do you remember that lift? Speaking of lifts, we stayed in a hotel in Australia once for work. And when you went into the lift, I don't know how, through some sort of witchcraft, they had music that would play and it was based on the amount of people inside the lift. So if you're by yourself,

they play a song going, one is the loneliest, but you know, and then two people would be a man, John Owen, they had just the two of us. And it was amazing how it was, it was like, oh, it was like,

oh, it had like almost music. That's so cool. Depending on the elevator ride you were taking. That's where radio DJs go to die. Someone waiting, guys. They play music. Oh, wait. Here we go, two people.

The other side. Here we go. That's what we're going to be doing. Obama. Yeah, that was the other one as well, right? Playing live real-time requests in elevators. That's what our future holds. That's what we might be doing if we bang on more about lifts.

That's the hits. You've got John O'Byrne next. The Google Games. It's a simple game we play. Just give us a call, 0800 THE HITS. You ask us a question. If we can't Google it in 10 seconds, we can't get the right answer, you win. It's simple.

You don't even have to actually know the answer. Just put us on the spot with a Google Next. You can win big. Oh, 800 of the hits. Let's go to Susan from Wellington. How are you? Oh, sorry, Rachel from Hamilton. How are you?

I'm good. How are you doing? Oh, we're doing well. Rach, what's on the cards for today, mate? Oh, just, you know, winning this game would be good. All right. That's the cards. That's the first thing on the list.

Yeah, well. All right. The Google game. Jono's going to Google this. What is the question you're going to give him 10 Yeah, well. All right, the Google game. Jono's going to Google this. What is the question? You're going to give him 10 seconds to Google. All right, Jono. How much gold was found in the biggest mine in Australia?

How much gold? Aussie mine. How much gold in the biggest Aussie mine? 2019, 325 tonnes, beating the record of 317 tonnes. Oh, he got it. Jeez, you don't know the thrill of it. You got it, you got it. Well done, Jono,

but we're going to send you out some hell pizza as well. No. Yeah. No, I just like doing that. You guys are the best. Yeah, that's why we're the best. We may choose in Hamilton. That's why we're the best.

You know, like, if we didn't give it out, we wouldn't be the best. We're not the best in any way, shape or form, but I'd like to hear that. That was nice. I don't know why I designed a format for a game. He just breaks the rules every time. There's Bradley Walsh going,

oh, you seem like a nice person. I'll chuck you out some... You didn't beat the chasers, but... And some cash anyway. Does he do that? No. This will be the end of the show. Yeah, you're right.

Anyway, Rachel, Ben's weakness has paid dividends for you. We'll head on to Susan from Wellington. Susan, you can ask Ben a question now. And if he does get it in 10 seconds and doesn't delay it on purpose, I will make sure you don't get that pizza. Oh, my feety. What is the height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France?

Height of the Eiffel Tower? Tower. What, in metres? Times you delay. Yeah. 300 metres. 324. 324 metres. 3 Tower. Tower. And what? In metres? Time's due to land. Yeah. 300 metres? 324. 324 metres.

324. No. Yeah, you're right. I got there. But yeah, I'll give you some hell pizza as well, because that's what I'm going to do. Okay. Yeah. Actually, it came up quite quickly on that one.

I didn't even have to finish typing the sentence that came up. So Google, eh? Knows everything. In relation, how high is Sky Tower? 324 seems bloody tall. Sky Tower's 328. Oh, okay. Four metres higher than the Eiffel Tower.

Wow. We'll end on Michelle for the Google games. John, I've been panic Googling in 10 seconds. What's your question, Michelle? Hello. We would like to know How far Alan Shepard hit the golf ball

on the moon? How far Alan Shepard, am I Googling this? Alan Shepard golf ball moon. How far did Alan Shepard do? About 200 yards. I wonder exactly. Don't say about. The pitchard do? About 200 yards. I won't know exactly. Don't say about. The pitch shot carried the ball 200 yards.

Yeah. Well, 200 yards is a good hit on the moon, isn't it? How much? How much? How far did he? 200 yards. 24. 24 yards.

Oh, 24 yards. Do you know the answer to this question? Yes. Oh, look, everyone wins Hell Piece up. We were going to ask something really hard, though. We were going to ask you what brand of the golf ball. Nobody knows. Oh, that's a really good question.

You should have gone with that because you were pretty vague on the deets there at the back end. Oh, we're going to give you Hell Piece because that's just what we do. That is the Google game. So much fun. What I like about that is you get a little bit of information you can take with you. Now, I know someone hit the ball somewhere between 24 to 200 yards on the moon. What I don't like about that game is Ben giving the prizes to everyone. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben.

Breakfast on the Hefts. The Hefts. Now, online shopping, yeah, you love it, but it also can go kind of wrong as well. You have some wins and losses, don't you, when you purchase stuff online. Juliet, I'm sure you've had some wins and losses with all the ASOS orders that come through. Yes, and then the punish of returning them

and then waiting for the refund is just a big process. The problem is models. Models look fantastic in all clothes when you look at a picture, don't you? But then when you put it on your frame, you're like, what was that? This deep V-neck goes down to my belly button. I had one just a couple of days ago.

So I did some online shopping, supermarket shopping, and it was fine. And you see the picture, and you're like, that's what I need. So crushed garlic. I was like, I just need a little thing of crushed garlic. Clicked on it, not really thinking, and it arrived, and it's this massive tub.

The picture wasn't, you know, the scale of the picture didn't really come across. That's the problem, isn't it? They need to, like, have it to scale, so they should put that tub of crushed garlic next to the Sky Tower or something and go, oh, OK, that's three quarters of the way up the Sky Tower. That's a lot of crushed garlic.

It's taking up most of my fridge. Like, I can't even play my Twilight DVD. That's how much garlic I have in the house. I wouldn't even play a DVD with vampires on it. There's a lot of garlic. Well, I mean, there's one thing that you don't have to worry about from now until your death. Ever.

There's crushed garlic. I'm just going to have this. I'm going to be slowly working. Because the amount I use is very minimal every now and again. But now I've got this massive thing that's taken up the fridge. Yeah, it's not something you have giant spoonfuls of. You just add a little dabble here and there. I did the same thing with sweet and sour Thai sweet and sour sauce.

You know, the Trident Jobbies, same thing. Pitcher looked like just your stock standards, you know, 300 to 400 ml bottle. I got it. Nine litres of the stuff. Might be an exaggeration, but I have enough sweet Thai chilli sauce to provide Thailand for the next 10 years. But we're mowing through it right now.

You had an issue with suits, didn't you? Linen suits. No, yeah, before I got married. I looked online, stupidly again looked online. I was like, oh, these look great for me and my groomsmen. I was like, these look great. I'll order these. And when they arrived, oh, no, they weren't good.

They weren't good. It was like you were saying before, where it was just, it was like pajamas. And I put it on. I'm like, I'm not getting married in these. He looked like he was going to a themed dress-up party as a Colombian drug lord in a full white linen suit or a child dressing up as the Backstreet Boys in 1997. It was a sad day. And I remember my wife was with me

and I put it back in the box and I said, please don't, let's never talk about this again. And I went down to the clothing bin down the road and I put it in the clothing bin and I said, let's pretend this never happened. Some pretty stylish homeless people wandering around though. Four of them matching. In a tree.

In a foursome. Anyway, can I just say full linen suits from the internet straight to your doorstep. Sounds like all kinds of trouble. You took a risk. Again, it looked great on the picture. I was like, oh, that looks so good. And when it arrived, not good. And you had to get the measurements and pass on the measurements.

I was like, everything's going to be great. It wasn't great. It was an online shopping blowout. Okay, when have you, you've had a shocker online. 0800, the hit telephone number, 4487. Maybe some people do late night online shopping. Juliet, you were mentioning before the show. Oh, yeah.

Someone I know, he used to do, he did a ski season in Canada. And when he was quite intoxicated, he decided to just buy a one-way ticket to Asia and ended up travelling Asia for four months, so that was a very expensive nightly purchase. Well, hold on, but he was meant to go to a ski season in Canada.

Well, no, he was in Canada. Oh, he was in Canada at the time. He's like, I'm going to buy a ticket to Asia, and then just went to Asia. A guy we know bought a light plane. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he was studying to become a pilot, and he's like, oh yeah, he hadn't even got his pilot's licence. And then he thought, well,

you know, the next logical step is to buy myself a light plane. What was a plane? I think he has a little bit of negotiation to get his way out of that one the next morning. But 0800 the hits, your online shopping shocker. What did you have, Joanne? Oh, I had speeding tickets.

Well, you purchased those online. Well, you get those kind of online. I don't know if you purchased them, right? Oh, okay. I'm going to ask you a question, Joanne. Have you phoned the right radio show? Who do you think you're talking to right now?

Because I am loving it, firstly. No, I think we've crossed wires somewhere. Joanne, this is the best call of the morning. Hold the line, we're going to send you out a prize even though you weren't meant to be talking to us, all right? Yeah, okay. What show did you think you were listening to? A better show, probably.

The Hits. Oh, The Hits. Oh, maybe she's a couple of days behind. She's catching up. She's binging the show from two days ago. Thank you very much, Joanne. Hold the line. We're going to send something out for you.

And sadly, that was our only phone call. Non-related, but it was a good one, though. We put her on here. Really entertaining. Really entertaining. Hey, let's get Joanne's story. Because I don't know, what's the speeding tickets about? Should we get her back on?

We'll give her a chance, Elle. Should we put Joanne back on? We'll find out what exactly she had to say about speeding tickets. Welcome back, Joanne. We're talking about speeding tickets this morning. What's your call? What happened to your speeding tickets? Oh, I kept them from my husband.

Oh! And did he find out? No, no, he still has not to this day found out. Oh, okay. Well, I get mine sent to work is the trick. You do, actually, yeah. Register your car to work and no one is the wiser except everyone at work

who thinks I'm a quite an erratic violent driver. So there you go. How many speeding tickets have you kept from your husband? Probably two. This will be

our dirty little secret, Joanne. You go and have a great day. You too. All right, that was a confusing four minutes of radio, but hey, we got through it. That's the main thing.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. 744 Thursday morning. Five words for 5K on the hood. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game of Word Association. It's my wife's favourite part of the show.

She's like, you're going to need to keep doing this game. It's so good to listen to. So I'm like, we're trying. We're trying, but we keep giving away money. Hopefully she can sponsor it. Yeah, that's what I think. But yes, five words, $5,000. So far, $30,000 given away.

And it's a good thing. The show's becoming known for something apart from Ben's erratic behaviour. And he's a public nuisance out there. We've had to sweep a lot of it under the carpet. So we've smoke-screened it with this five-words competition. And Juliet, you've done well. You've become the People's Champion.

She's done more good for this show than I have. My name's in the title. People are loving Juliet at the moment. So you now have three options, Jono, Ben or Juliet, to put in the soundproof booth and hopefully match up our five words with you. Step aside, Ashley Bloomfield. Juliet is the new hero of the nation.

Luke, you're on from Auckland. How are you this morning, buddy? You all right? I'm good, thanks. How are you? Yeah, doing well. What do you do, Luke? I work in IT sales.

No follow-up questions? No. IT sales? Do you have any further questions about IT sales? No, clearing internet history was something I was going to talk about. I don't know if you do more sales than the IT sales, so maybe buying a new computer would be a better conversation. Yeah, Luke, you want to win $5,000?

Yes, I do indeed. Stupid question for me. Why else would you be calling up? And now you need to choose. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth to match five words with, Ben, Juliet, or myself? Yourself, please. Oh, joy. Save your Johnny, he's a safer

of hands. Off to the soundproof booth, alright. He's making his way to the corner of the room and Luke, obviously you know how the game works? I do indeed, yes. Alright, we'll just wait for Johnny to shut the door so he can't hear anything. The door is shut. Here is your first word this morning, my friend. It is

belt. B-E-L-T belt. Buckle.-L-T, belt. Buckle. Buckle. Nice. You're nodding in approval of that one. Yes, yes. I think that's what I would choose. Okay.

Comedian is the second word. Comedian. Can I come back to that one? You can come back to that one. Yeah, of course. Gravel is your third word this morning. Gravel. Road.

Nice. That's good. Sorry, I don't want to sway anything. No, was that what you're thinking? Yeah, that was my first one as well. Yeah, all right. Towel is the second one. T-O-W-E-L, towel.

Warmer. Oh, yes. Get those in the bathroom. Lovely, the towel warmer, aren't they? So good. The best things ever. Appliance is the fifth word today. Appliance.

Well, that's a wide varied one. Shit. Ah! Nice! The store. I get why you went there. And we're going to go back to comedian right now. Your final word.

Show? Oh no Go with 7 days Oh, okay 7 days Okay, comedian 7 days. It's tough isn't it with comedian because you're like there's nothing that really flows on, there's just things that you kind of think of when you think of comedian

Oh actually put joke, put joke Okay, yeah thank you Joke, no worries. Alright Luke those are your 5 words, we're put joke. Put joke. Okay. Yeah, thank you. Joke, no worries. All right, Luke, those are your five words. We're going to lock in joke. And speaking of joke, we'll get him out of the South Proof booth. He's coming out there now. And he's ready to play.

You looking good? You looking good? I was watching Millennial Max film me for this. Is this live Millennial Max? He's filming for a video and he looks dead inside filming. That's the most boring footage, just filming a man inside a novelty glass box. Not saying anything, not being able to hear anything. It's our little inner-city one-bedroom apartment, that soundproof booth.

How'd he go? Really good, actually. I think there was a last-minute change, which I think was a good one from Luke there. But, well, it doesn't matter what Luke says now. It all matters what you say, Jono. The pressure is all on your shoulders. You hush your sweet lips, Luke. I will indeed, don't worry. Okay. The first word we said to Luke this morning, five words

5k, was belt. Belt. Belt, B-E-L-T? Yes, belt. Belt buckle. And he would be correct. Now open those sweet lips, Luke. What do you want to say? Well done. Congrats.

Well done. Okay, I'm liking jumping around this week with the words, so I'm going to jump around a little bit. This is the erratic behaviour I was talking about just moments ago. That's what we tried to sweep under the rug. Gravel was a word that we said to Luke, one of the five words. Gravel. Gravel road?

Well done. Well done. Okay. What he's doing is he's lulling you into a false sense of winning here, Luke. Well, I don't know. I just thought you'd get that one. But he goes the easy words and now it's downhill from here. The other ones, I'm not sure if there is another easy one out of those.

No, it's not hard. I'm going to go with the second word that we said to Luke that was the last minute change this morning. Comedian. Comedian. Stand up. Where did you go, Luke? I said joke. Joke. Yeah, you can see why we joked. We had

seven days locked in there for a little bit, but Luke changed it to joke. That's a wide one. I'm sorry, Luke. Yeah, that was a really good effort though, Luke. We had towel. What was the fourth word? T-O-W-E-L, towel. Towel rack. Oh, close.

Towel warmer. And the final word was appliance. Shed. Oh! Three out of five. I was picturing appliance shed. It's like the commercials with Mike King, the appliance shed. Yeah.

Hey, Luke, well, I'm sorry I couldn't come through for you today. No, I know. And that's the beginning and end of that sentence. I've got nothing else to say. I'm sorry. It was a good effort, though, Luke, and hopefully we get to do it again. Five words, $5,000. Back again tomorrow.

They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Where your mouth is, that's what you get for waking up in Vegas. It's Katie Perry waking up in Vegas with a little bit of Jono added in there as well.

7.53 the time. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. Now I'll hand you over to our trusty semi-professional entertainment reporter. She's only semi-professional because her full-time profession is commercial water blasting. Producer Juliet, now she's about to blast some celebs. Bring it home, Ju.

So Britney Spears has requested to speak in court about her conservatorship. So this is the first time. She very rarely, obviously, speaks publicly about this issue. And I don't think she's, or she may have very rarely also spoken in court or taken part in hearings involving her conservatorship. So this is kind of a big deal. She's never really done something like this before. It's going to be in June, towards the back end of June, but it hasn't been announced.

Brittany's lawyer hasn't said what she's going to speak about specifically. What are they going to court for? What's the case about? So basically, I think it's about whether Britney wants, because Britney has said in the past that she would like a lady called Jodie Montgomery to take over as her conservator. We've talked about this maybe a couple of months ago. Jodie Montgomery looked after her, didn't she?

Temporarily. Yeah. Jodie Montgomery looked after her didn't she? She was her temporary conservator when Brittany's dad had some health issues to tend to so Brittany has indicated that she would like this lady Jodie to be the conservator so perhaps this is what Brittany wants to speak about

in court but that won't be found out till about the 23rd of June I think but this is probably a big step to get Jamie out of there as the conservator. You know? That's good. It's promising news. Totally.

Jodie Montgomery, she was a volunteer at the Pasadena AIDS Clinic. And she worked for the Special Olympics. So she must be a giving human being. Yeah, that's lovely. Yeah, which is good. I'd let Jodie Montgomery look after my conservatorship. Sounds like a safe pair of hands. Sort of on this topic as well,

Reese Witherspoon recently did a magazine interview and talked about the whole Britney Spears, Free Britney movement, and has kind of, she raised a really interesting point about how the media sort of painted Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in a bad light, whereas the media painted Reese Witherspoon

and Jennifer Garner, for example, in a positive light. And she said it's so interesting because they could have very much easily painted me as a bad girl if they wanted to. I mean, Reese Witherspoon got as much sort of media attention as Britney. I think she said, if you ask my kids, they'll tell you that people were climbing on our car,

like dropping my kids off at school. Oh, really? Yeah, so that happened to Reese Witherspoon as well. But she was kind of painted as a good girl in the media. So powerful, isn't it, the media? What they say. We're not powerful. No, I'm just saying in general, you know.

We're probably the least powerful. But they can really dictate the narrative of a person's career. And pick up on it. And the more it sort of, you know, gains traction, the bigger it sort of becomes. Yeah. And it's what people feed into as well. I mean, we've been trying to get Ben's nudes out there for how long now, mate? Ten years?

Yeah. No traction. No pick up. Nothing. Not even on OnlyFans. No. Come on, mate. I'm his OnlyFan.

I'm still paying the subscription. Thank you. I'm just doing it out I'm still paying the subscription. Thank you. I'm just doing it out of pity. Your subs are due though, aren't they? Well, give me some bit of content. And that is a wee spy update and Britney Spears update. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone.

It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. What I love about kids is they're just, their time management is all over the place. My daughter Sienna's like, I've got a duathlon. I was like, oh, when's this? Next week. So it's like, can we start training?

Yeah, she signs up to stuff very last minute, doesn't she? I'm climbing Mount Everest. When? Saturday, right? Yeah. So in her mind, it just rolls around. She's another thing she signed up for. Wasn't she doing like baseball or something?

Softball, yeah. It was softball or baseball on the day she told me about it. I was like, you ever play before? You ever watch it? She's like, no. I'm like, oh, well, we need to do a crash course in a YouTube video. I've entered a UFC tournament. Have you ever been cage fighting before?

No, but I just thought I'd give it a bash. And that's a wonderful outlook on life is that you can do anything but you can't they need to be told they can't but you believe you can

there was a teacher I shared a couple years ago who was really encouraging about signing her class up for stuff and yeah since then she's just like

maybe too encouraging I've just got to sign up for it so yeah I didn't make this team but I made this team and I didn't make this team it's kind of cool but she's... Just throw stuff at the wall, see what sticks. That's what we do with this radio show.

Well, I guess as a kid, you don't... You need to kind of work out what your thing is. So it's kind of good for trying all these things. But yesterday, she's like, can we go for a run? I'm like, yeah, okay, we can go for a run. We've never done that before together. But we can go for a little run. And so we... Did she keep up? Yeah, she was pretty good. But we went running. I mean, kids are fit. Naturally

fit anyway. But we ended up at a group of shops just down the road, and a friend of hers and her mum were sitting outside a burger bar sort of place eating. And so we sort of stopped and had a chat, and I was sort of talking to the mum, and Sina was talking to a friend. Next thing I turn around, she's sharing a friend's burger and fries in the middle of a run. This is halfway through a run. Yeah, she's like, well, she offered me some. I'm like, because she'd cut up the burger, but I'm like, mate, you're in the middle of a run. This is halfway through a run. Yeah. She's like, well, she offered me some.

I'm like, because she'd cut up the burger. But I'm like, mate, you're in the middle of a run. Genre. Like, how long had they been talking before she'd offered up a burger? I know. Very generous. It felt like 30 seconds, if that. Do you want some of this? I'm like, yeah, a very unusual running snack.

Well, you know what I find interesting about runners? And, Juliet, you've run a marathon before, is when runners get to a pedestrian light, but it's red, and they feel the need to keep running on the spot. I'm always like, what is... Oh, no. It's an unusual thing. The runner just wants to keep moving forward.

Obviously, they feel like their legs need to keep moving, so they end up running on the spot, which it always looks unusual. Just take the break, I'd say. Yeah, but they probably don't want to say that, oh, I had a break, you know, and they want to go, no, I kept running the whole way. I was running on the spot like a lunatic.

And no one ever enjoys, looks like they're enjoying running. Do they? When you see someone running, they've never got a smile on their face. No, they're in a wall of pain. Whether they've been going for like 10 metres or 10 k's, you know, it always looks like, oh, jeez. Why am I doing this? I'm too far away from home, so I'm going

to have to finish it somehow. Did you smile once during your marathon run? Every time there was a camera. I was like, hey! Or did you do shaka? Thumbs up and like arms up. Every time there's a photographer on the half marathon you just like smile and wave, boys.

Do you remember we did a thing a few years ago for, it was a TV thing for Cure Kids and we were cycling up the country and well, we did ours more for TV. So we got like an army tank and a helicopter to help us and all sorts of things. But Brendan Pongier, who used to play for the Tall Blacks,

was on Breakfast TV, a host. He also did it. And you met, same thing as like running at the lights. He got an exercycle on the Inter-Island Ferry just so he could say he cycled the whole way across. So instead of just taking the rest over the Inter-Islander, he cycled nonstop on the ferry. So he could say he cycled the whole length of the country.

I'm like, that's commitment. He did it too. He cycled, yeah. I felt like a fraud. Because at the end of every day, we'd be like, how's convenient. He did it too. He cycled, yeah. I felt like a fraud. Because at the end of every day, we'd be like, how'd you guys go today, mate? We're like, good. We're curing kids as well.

Jeez, the amount of kids we cured today. Anyway, well done, Brendan Pong. It was impressive, wasn't it? Well done, Sienna. Well done, Jude. Jeez, we covered a lot of ground in this four minutes. That's what happens. Covered ground and we ran on the spot as well

while covering that ground. It said you're in Afterglow. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben, 6.17, Thursday morning. You spent a large part of yesterday singing that song. I did. It got stuck into my head. Yeah.

And that other song, Gloria Estefan and the Sound Machine. Come on, baby. We don't know how to do that. Kongo. Yeah, we had that stuck in our head as well. Well, we'll get a grab of Gloria Estefan very shortly. It's a very catchy song. That's a jam.

Anyway, right now we're doing the A to Z of New Zealand, phoning every part, every town and city in Aotearoa. Very catchy song. and they roll their cheese rolls. Matauda has a meat processing plant, a paper processing plant, and a plant that processes plants. And right now on the phone from Matauda, we have Melissa. Hello. Hello. Lovely to have you on. Now, Millennial Max has been working

his little youthful behind off all morning trying to get someone. You give us the backstory here, Max. Right, so I've called basically every single person in Matoda. I started off with the Falls Hotel, the butcher, and the butcher told me to call the four square.

So I called the four square. He told me to call the butcher, but I told him that the butcher had told me to call the four square and he said he was full of something. And that's how we've ended up with Melissa at the Country i called melissa and you said that you'd have a chat with us i certainly will you're always our first choice melissa yeah yeah they're all the people we tried first but anyway we didn't know about you melissa it's all right i'll come last it's fine yeah

explain i know it's in the southland region. Where exactly? It's about 13 minutes out of Gore and probably 40 minutes from Invercargill. I love the 13 minutes travel time to Gore. Yeah, because I have to take my son to school every day, so I know exactly. Oh, and every minute counts, doesn't it, that time of the morning? Yeah, every minute counts when you've got to get back and make some good coffee. Was Justin Marshall the famous all-black? Is that where he's from? Yes, it is. And I have his auntie that works here. Oh, there we go. Say hello to Justin Marshall, the famous all-black? Is that where he's from? Yes, it is. And I have

his auntie that works here. Oh, there we go. Say hello to Justin Marshall's auntie. What's her name? Averill. Averill. Say hello to Averill for us. Will do. That's all I know about her. I just remember the rugby commentators would bang on about her being from there. Does everyone down South roll their R's? It seems to be a thing

that they do, right? Yep. Yeah, used to it. I don't even notice it. Yeah. Aucklanders do the eye-rolling. It seems to be a thing that they do, right? Yep. Yeah, used to it. I don't even notice it. Yeah. Aucklanders do the eye rolling. Don't even get me started on Aucklanders. Don't even want to go there. You don't even want to go.

We'll get you started on Auckland. What are your thoughts? Auckland? All they do is moan. All they do is get all the money. Moaning.

Moaning is one of my favourite hobbies. Yeah. We do it down here too but man, Auckland are the worst, man. No one listens to the people in Matau, moaning is one of my favourite hobbies. Yeah. We do it down here too, but man, Auckland are the worst, man. No one listens to the people in Matauro moaning, do they? No, no. No one listens from Christchurch down.

No, they should. We should. Have a local moan. We'll put you on air now. What do you want to moan about? What do I want to moan about? I just want to know why our road's getting fixed. Why can't we have, you know? Alright, that's enough moaning from you. It wasn't much moaning yet.

You didn't let it moan for too long. Do you do cheese rolls at your cafe? We do cheese rolls. Oh, now that's meant to be a Southland sort of delicacy, right? Explain, if someone hasn't had a cheese roll before, what's inside it? There's cheese and there's some onion soup mix and evaporated milk on a piece of bread rolled up into a nice long

shape and toasted in the toasting machine. They call it Southland Sushi, don't they? Oh, yes. It's very good. It's very good and people love it. They're passionate about it, don't they? Well, next time we're there we're going to come into the cafe and we can all have a moan. Yep, you can. We'll have a good old yarn too.

We'll have 50% yarn time, 50% moan time. Yep, and a good coffee. Love your work, Melissa. Thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye. Always our first choice of Matata. Yeah, right.

Have a great day. You too. See ya. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits.

It is the name game. We like to play it. You give us a call. Oh, 100 hits, you tell us your name and then we give you clues to famous people with the same name as yours and we see how many you can get in 30 seconds. Yeah, we usually like to play the blame game

instead of the name game round here. Oh, jeez, the amount of stuff we've pinned on you, Producer Juliette, behind your back. Oh, I know. Oh, you have been taking the hit for us, so thank you very much. In the meantime, we'll head to New Plymouth House, Taranaki, this morning, Michael.

Yeah, good, cold. What do you do? Why are you up so early? Electrician. Electrician? Gee whiz, what are you knocking on people's doors right now going, hey, electrician's here? Get started on people's doors.

Get in, get ready, get ready for the day. Oh yeah, right. It's always good to get a head start on the day, isn't it? You feel like you've grabbed the day by the ghoulies and you're ready to massage them and get... What am I talking about? Ben, save me. That's exactly what I've been doing.

That's what you've been doing. Alright, Michael. We've googled some famous Michaels and we want to see if you can get four of them correct in 30 seconds to win this whole pizza. You've got a very versatile name. A lot of famous people with Michaels, so this should be pretty easy for you. Okay, basketballer, war number 23, play for the Bulls.

Michael. Famous shoes. Okay, carry on. Jordan. Yes, famous jeweler from New Zealand. Has jewellery stores. I love jewelers. That's right.

He's also called Mick, a singer of the Rolling Stones, but his real name was? Michael Jagger. Yeah. He sung songs like Beat It and Bad, did the Moonwalk. On Jack. Yeah, so you got four out of five. We'll do one more.

He's a crooner, he's a singer, he always pops up at Christmas time. Last one, Mick. Bub more. He's a crooner. He's a singer. He always pops up at Christmas time. Last one. Bublé. You did well. Bit shaky on Jordan to begin with. Yeah, I just said Jackson. But you got there. You got there. You got five out of five. So

congratulations. We've got some hell pizza coming your way. Do you know we met a lady? We met a lady as a child. She was pulled on stage By Michael Jackson When he was here That's right She made the news

Yeah And they even spoke to her When he After he died right Why did they get her opinion on it I think they came back Why'd they do that I don't know

It's just like The guy who was telling us about it Was like And they came back And they talked to her again But I guess They were looking for anyone That had

A connection A connection to Michael Jackson Yeah I will ask this lady Who met him for 32 seconds when she was 11 years old. Great story though. Get picked out out of, you know,

how many thousands of people would have been at Mount Smart when he was performing? Michael Jackson 45,000? It always amazes me the people that get pulled up on stage and sometimes, they nail it. I remember going to Green Day and someone they were like, does anyone know the guitar riff to the song?

And this girl would put her hand up confidently. I'm like, oh, this could go wrong. Got up on stage, nailed it. Like nailed it. Playing alongside Green Day. And then afterwards they're like, keep the guitar. Keep the guitar. Surely that's planned.

I don't know, but it was a pretty impressive moment. It's a lovely moment. I love it when people nail it on stage. I'm the same as you. I'd forget words. Sing this part. I'm like, I don't know the words. was a pretty impressive moment. It's a lovely moment. I love it when people nail it on stage. I'm the same as you. I'd forget words and they'd be like, sing this part. I'm like, I don't know the words. I came here with someone else. Yeah.

I haven't practised this with the band. That's the thing at the 660 concert. Imagine how many of those 50,000 people had to mumble their way through many songs, not knowing all the words. Yeah, so you get pulled up on stage to do that. It's impressive when people nail it. Yeah, well done. Have you been pulled on stage before, Juliet?

No, but Justin Bieber used to do this thing called The One Less Lonely Girl, and it was a tradition in all of his concerts that he'd sing The One Less Lonely Girl song, and some of his team would pick a girl to go on stage, and it was my dream. And then when I get chosen, when I get to his concert, I think I felt my first heartbreak.

Yeah, it was really sad. Everyone would be hating the girl that got up on stage. Who's that little bitch? to his concert, I think I felt my first heartbreak. Yeah. It was really sad. Everyone would be hating the girl that got up on stage. Who's that little bitch? Up there, you're like, oh, she's just having a wonderful month.

She's eight years old. Back off, Juliet. Oh, yeah. You get everything. Just a stadium of 20,000 jealous girls. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys jealous girls Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime

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but I've heard people bang on about how good it was. And that, until recently, was the best-ever movie, according to this website, Rotten Tomatoes, until they've uncovered a bad review from the Chicago Tribune from 80 years ago, and they've now downgraded it from 100% approval to 99%, and that means that Paddington 2 has taken over from Citizen Game as the top movie ever, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

So is Paddington 2 sitting on 99%? What a great result for Paddington 2. I've never seen Paddington 2. I mean, I have seen it. It was good, but I wouldn't have got the world's greatest movie. Like, it was good. And it's not often a sequel beats the original as well. So Paddington 2 coming in with a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

I think it was a 99% of 244 reviews. So all positive. Not a single bad review for Paddington 2. Jeez, Paddington loved his honey, didn't he? Oh, he did. Oh, no, Marmalade. He was Marmalade. Winnie the Pooh was the honey thing.

Winnie the Pooh was honey. So I'm getting my cute beers mixed up. Yeah, Marmalade's an unusual spread for a beer to be. Loved his Marmalade sandwiches. Always kept them in his hat. What? He always kept one in his hat, like a spare one,

just in case. I always just thought it was sensible, I guess. Well, he doesn't have pockets, does he? Is he running a naked operation down below? He's just got his trench coat,

doesn't he? Yeah, he does. He's got a hat and a trench coat and nothing underneath. He's a nuisance. He's a public nuisance. Beers and the... Winnie the Pooh's

just the T-shirt, no pants. So, you know, the beers... But if you're going to the effort the year. Winnie the Pooh's just the T-shirt, no pants. So, you know, the bears. But if you're going to the effort to put a jacket on like Paddington or a T-shirt like Winnie, buy some pants as well. Why wouldn't you get one when you're doubled out? Anyway, Paddington's cute. Cute little bear, isn't he?

Now, I like this as well. We went on a mission about a week or so ago to sit on every seat at Eden Park. You remember we went on that journey to get 660 tickets. So a man in the UK has gone on a six-year mission to park in every single spot in his local supermarket. Now, he didn't want to just go and do it all in one day. He wanted to go every time he'd go to the supermarket, which was on average around about once a week.

It's taken him over six years through a grid system. He got a satellite grid system and marked it off every time he'd park in a new park. And it's taken six years to park in every single of the car parks at the supermarket. I suppose you couldn't do it

in a linear fashion because all the car parks would be full at times. Oh, six years it's taken to do that. What, 200 on car parks?

Yeah, 211 parking spots. He reckons it would have taken him about four years had it not been for the pandemic. Obviously slowed things down being able to go to the supermarket during lockdown.

But now he's like he's looking for a new challenge because that's consumed his life for the last six years. Wow. Interesting. That's life. It's consumed his life. Well, you know, it's been a big part of his life this week. I need to park in these spots. Oh, they're not available.

He should go overnight so then like he can get through all of them, you know? He could do it. Yeah. But I guess he was just like when I go go, I need a parking in your spot. Oh, the relationships that are suffered thanks to that car parking. You know what I love is when you're just turning into a car park and then you notice someone's left a trolley in the car park. Oh, yeah.

Don't you love that? Don't you love that? Have you ever left a trolley in a car park? Well, no, I try not to. But sometimes when you put them away as full, you kind of leave it next to it. And everyone just kind of is piling it up there. I love it when the trolley stack is so full

and you kind of just have to balance yours on the end and hope that it doesn't roll back. And then if you put it in and you walk away and you hear it rolling, you just sprint. Just sprint. It's no longer your problem. Once it's placed, it's not yours. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man.

The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Spy. The What's Up. Spy.co.nz. Listen, she could have done anything in life, but she chose to sit here with us every morning and talk about Justin Timberlake's ingrown toenail issue. And we appreciate that, Juliet. How is his toenails now?

Are they getting better? Yeah, I think they're getting better slowly. He's got the cream on? Yeah, he's doing the good stuff. So a bit of a Beckham edition of Spy this morning. David Beckham's business, the earnings of the last 12 months have come out, and it ends up that per day he brings in $90,000 per day. What is his business? So it's what they call a branding business,

but it's basically all through the sales of clothes, shoes, and fragrances that come under his brand, the Beckham brand. Yeah, I saw he had some aftershave here at the Chemist Warehouse display we have in the studio. David Beckham's got the odour there. A lot of the celebs get into the odour game, don't they? Yeah, they do, I think. But $90,000, that's probably more than most

people make in a year. Compared to a day. I know, isn't that insane when you think about that? And that obviously helps them just build more money and wealth, obviously. You know, that money, because he can invest that and make more stuff. Compounding interest, baby. But that's what the business is.

So he's got to pay employees and probably taxes and building costs. Yeah, yeah. But then he's got a lot of other side hustles. Unless they're all doing it for the love of it. Yeah, true, true, true. I just love David Beckham. Oh, he's earning how much? And we're like doing this for work experience? We've never got paid. I just enjoy saying I work for David Beckham. Yeah, true. I just love David Beckham. And now they're like, oh, he's hitting how much? And we're like, doing this for work experience?

We've never got paid, I just enjoy saying I work for David Beckham. That's great. My favourite David Beckham story I ever heard was someone phoned us once on a radio show and they were working on the hills in the Swiss Alps or something on a ski slope. David Beckham was up there with

Brooklyn Beckham when he was a bit younger and Brooklyn broke his leg. And they had to call up the snowmobile, which this person was on. They were operating. And David Beckham was on the back of the snowmobile with Brooklyn Beckham being towed along. And he was on the phone to Victoria on speakerphone. And he was getting golden balls, was getting a roasting for being an irresponsible dad. You know, dads make some wild calls, don't they, when it comes to parenting.

And yeah, Victoria not happy that Brooklyn was coming home with a broken leg. That would be fun to witness, Victoria Beckham telling off David. The sky was like, ah, he's just like me. He's one of us. And speaking of Victoria Beckham, actually, she posted on her Instagram story that she got gifted a pair of Crocs from Justin Bieber. So she said, a lot of you are wondering what I'm going to be wearing once I'm out of lockdown

and once where you can all kind of go, because I think the UK restrictions are all being lifted at the moment. And she said, should I be wearing Crocs? She's never worn a pair of Crocs in her life. But she said, you know, it's the thought that counts. Thanks, Justin, a.k.a. when you say the thought that counts, it's the thought that counts. Thanks, Justin, aka when you say the thought that counts, it's the thought that counts. It means you don't

really like the present, do you? Crocs are working hard to get them liked, aren't they? They're posting them well. I was reading something yesterday, one of the most popular, they're searching. They're very comfortable. Very comfortable pair of shoes. My dad used to wear them and I used to roast them.

Like all the time. They're kind of almost like cool, but not being cool now. It's one of those things that people are riding. You're like, oh, yeah. It's those things that people that push the fashion boundaries are like, oh, okay, they're making them cool. Yes. Well, Justin Bieber, I think he's made, like he must have worked with Crocs,

and he's made them really cool and part of his whole brand. So they're Justin Bieber edition Crocs, but they're still Crocs. Croctober has been a dream of ours for many years. but they're still Crocs. Croctober has been a dream of ours for many years. Maybe this year is the year

Croctober. They're liked in the mainstream market now. Maybe this is it. You're right. Alright Croctober

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Jono's Internet Wormhole. Now it's got official branding. I know. There we go, it's the Internet Wormhole. I do actually easily get click-baited and lost in various articles. And today, this is seven things every child needs to hear. So a list of seven things that you should say to kids to help them out.

And I would like to thank the internet for doing all of my best parenting. It's where I get all my best parenting tips from. YouTube has babysat my kids for the last six years. It's done a wonderful job so far, the internet. But I don't know why they couldn't come up with top ten. Why'd they stop at seven things every child needs to hear they always stop at odd numbers

don't they these lists I guess so but then sometimes I feel like sometimes they stretch it out like you know they'll wipe it out to 10 if you've only got 7 good ones Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

got trapped in that holden she went during the lockdown when she was like here's the list of things that you need to remember and she's like here's 10 things and she'd got to like number 6 and she was like, here's the list of things that you need to remember. And she's like, here's 10 things. And she'd got to like number six.

And she was like, be friendly to your parents. Yeah, it was all about doing that. Wash your hands. You've said that one. Oh, we'll wash them again. You know, like you're just patting it out. Don't forget to say please and thank you. You know, she was really patting it out.

But anyway, seven things every child needs to hear. The first one, I love you. Aww. Yeah, that's a nice thing to say to a child, isn't it? The second one, I'm proud of you, is another nice thing to say. These are good, these are good.

The third one, I'm sorry. Now, this is where I think it shows a sign of weakness. You never say sorry to a child. That's good. No, it's a weakness in parenting, isn't it, saying sorry? Have you ever apologised to your children? Yeah, lots of times. Yeah? What have you said sorry for? Oh, I'm trying to think.

But, you know, I wasn't aware we were going to be talking about this. But, yeah, many times when you do something up, you're like, I'm sorry. It encourages them to say sorry. Another one here is, I forgive you. But that really depends on what they've like, I'm sorry. It encourages them to say sorry. Another one here is, I forgive you. But that really depends on what they've done, I believe.

So you've got to say, I forgive you to children. If they've smashed you. You've got a lovely TV, Ben. If they broke your TV. Well, yeah, but you'd have to forgive them in the end. You can't hold a grudge for 18 years. Why did you stop talking to your kids?

I've never forgiven them. Nine years ago. Why did you stop talking to your kids all the time? I've never forgiven them. Nine years ago. I was waiting for them to move out. Another one here is I'm listening, which is a good one that you should say to a child. I'm listening except when I'm on my phone. That's a good one, listening though.

That's, yeah, I think we can all, I can definitely be better at that. You try, but sometimes you do, you've got a lot going on in your head and you need to just take a breath and sort of go, okay, I am actually present in this moment. Yeah. You don't do a lot of listening with phones around, do you? No.

No, you end up clearing email. I know of friends of ours, they've just banned phones from the house. Yeah, I've heard about these people who have a lockbox when they get home. And they go inside. So as soon as you get home, you put your phone in the lockbox

and you only take it out if it's, you know, if everyone's like, oh, yeah, you can take it out to make a call that you have to make. Otherwise, the phones go away. Here's another one. You've got to say to a child, you've got what it takes. That's a lovely positive thing to say.

Unless they're wanting to be like a neurosurgeon or something, then I would say, well, you've got what it takes. Why don't you do a course? Go to university. Oh, you know, you can't put them straight in. Yeah, then at the end of the university, I'll go, well, now you've got what it takes to be a neurosurgeon. And another one, the final one is,

you've got to say, this is your responsibility. So they know that they need to be responsible for their own actions. But what they should learn in life is how to shirk responsibility. That's what you get as you're older, don't you? What? Not taking on responsibility?

Yeah, palming stuff off. Palming stuff off. I mean, there's a amount of responsibility we pass on to poor Juliet. Oh, no. She's looking after all us so much, Edmund. There's stuff we should be doing.

It's okay. It's my job. Yeah, there you go. There's seven things every child needs to hear. Oh, there you go. Jono's internet wormhole where it is the hits.

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