Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - August 14 - Big News Small Town, Mitch James, Jono's Worst Moments Of The Week

Episode Date: August 14, 2020

We chatted to the Wizard from Christchurch because apparently he's retiring?! We also had Mitch James on the show and turned his song 21 into a little COVID parody. Finally, we reviewed Jono's worst moments of the week. Happy Friday, stay safe and stay classy Aotearoa!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. Hi, this is the Friday podcast. Welcome, Ben. Welcome to you. We just caught you off guard clearing an email there. Yeah, well, I was. What were you emailing? Who were you emailing? Oh, no, just sorting out some stuff, you know, just taking care of stuff, you know. Don't just say stuff, mate. Let's get into specifics. What, electricity company?

Um, no. Phone bill? No, we're just clearing. There's just so much stuff backs up on emails. If you're not on top of it, the email game, it could slip away from you, right? I've let it slip away on me countless times. I used to do a once a week clearing, which used to drive you bonkers. Sunday morning, I'd clear out the week's emails, and they were five days late in my reply. But you'd feel like you'd need to reply to them?

Have you seen it? And things have passed. Someone would say, oh, we got this thing on Tuesday, don't forget to bring your red shorts and you'd be like, your red shorts or something? Like,

just so you'd seen it? Like, well, that was three days ago, mate. Anyway, so I don't even do that now. I just let them go.

I figure like, you know, you're pretty much the most important thing in my life. Ahead of my wife and kids. Okay, Ben,

that's where I rank you. Where do I sit on your top five, baby? Oh, in the five. Whereabouts in the five? Fifth. I've just placed you number one.

I'll put you fifth. Fifth? Yeah, you're fifth. You're fifth. That's good. One, two, three. Hold on. You've got a wife.

You've got two children. Who's fourth? Who's ahead of me? Millennial Max. Millennial Max? I was on the show. Producer Millennial Max. Millennial Max only started 10 minutes ago show producer Millennial Max Millennial Max

only starred in 10 minutes ago I know but already he's already up the ranks higher than I am he's a go-getter he's number 4 in the top 5 gee he was

a leveller humbling experience I love Millennial Max you know he's new here so I want to make a good impression don't slot him at number 4 already

I don't want to put him at number 1 did he debut at number 4 or did he work his way up to number 1 I'll put him straight in there to already. I don't want to put him at number one. Did he debut at number four? He worked his way up to number one. Oh, look, I put him straight in there, to be honest. You don't even know the guy. No, but he's always at number four.

Anyway, we had a fun show this morning. Mitch James. We're joined by Mitch James, who's in Sydney recording a brand new album. Love Mitch James. And producer Juliette, actually. Where's producer Juliette on your list? Oh, she's at six. She's currently out of top five, obviously.

Yeah, she slipped out of of top 5 obviously yeah she slipped out of the top 5 she's number 6 now she's doing that thing where you run the finger down your cheek

like you're crying she came up with a great idea to do a song about New Zealand going back to oh hello she's just got

up a place is she taking my spot yeah she's a prize slip back to 6 I forgot about that great idea

yeah Juliet's now number 5 an idea with Mitch James song 21 you know his song take me back to six. I forgot about that great idea. Yeah, Juliet's now number five. An idea with Mitch James' song 21. You know his song, Take Me Back to 21. For level one. Yeah. Given the lockdown situation.

And we got Mitch to record it. Taking hands when we meet out in the street. With no COVID and no lungs. Who would have thought we'd be locked up at level three Oh Lord, take me back to level one There we go, we were very happy with that, weren't we? We released that on iTunes or something, weren't we? Great quality audio.

So Mitch James, we'll hear that in the podcast. What else have we got? I just thought it was something quite interesting because I have been playing a lot of Mitch James, his new Sunday sessions, his four songs. But it says on one of his James, his new Sunday Sessions, his four songs. But it says on one of his songs written by here, and it says Mitchell Digby McCallum James. So I presume that's his full name. He's got it there as well.

That's a very distinguished name. Mitchell Digby McCallum James. We went to the same school, Mitch. I went to in the 1920s. He went a few years later. Yeah. But yeah, I don't have such a distinguished name. No. But it was a private school, so there were a lot of people with those four big banger names, and some of them even had the third tacked onto the end of them.

You know those ones? Oh, like at the end? Yeah. Like Jonathan Pryor, the third. The third. Oh, that's quite good. Okay, well anyway, yeah, Mitch Chab's quite about him. He's now in the top five as well.

So where did I go to school? Sounded like we just got a Hogwarts. Enjoy the podcast. Stay safe. And we'll catch up with you guys on Monday. Hey, you've got toothpaste on the side of your mouth. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Big day for New Zealand as we've been banging on about all morning.

5.30 today is when the government will announce what's happening as far as the levels go for Auckland and the rest of New Zealand. Do they stay the same? Do we drop out? Who knows? What I thought was wild on the news last night, I think like over 60% of workers and customs and on the front line at the airport haven't been tested.

Really? That seems insane to me. Wow. But who am I? I found myself just watching the news getting angry. I'm just not even going to read news or watch news. It's very hard. I'm turning into a News Talk ZB listener.

You need to give yourself a break from it sometimes, right? You do. Because it can consume you, and every time you're like, oh, new update, new this, it's very hard. Because it's never positive. No. Neither is it. Something that we talked about earlier this morning

that we found amusing was the 1 p.m. briefing that Ashley Broomfield and Jacinda Ardern do each day has been turned into an actual TV show, shall we say, on IMDb. So that's where they have all the shows and movies. They have their own little page on IMDb saying about the movie and trivia

and all that sort of stuff. Well, now someone's set up the 1pm briefing as its own actual TV show and people are giving it reviews saying it's their favourite show of 2020 and so far it's got a 9.8 out of 10 rating on IMDb and people saying loving the main characters, loving the main actors.

Ashley Bloomfield played by himself, doing a great job. Yeah, so it's very amusing. You need to go check that out if you're going to want to do something today. If you compare that to Jono and Ben on IMDb. Don't do that. With an average rating of 4.2... Don't do it.

It must be out of 5, surely. What's the odd out? 10. The odd's out of 10. Ours must be out of 5. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's quite good, actually, out of 5. People saying about the 1pm briefing,

saying that they hope they didn't rush Series 2 because it's been quite quick since the Series 1. Well, yeah, they gave us like 14 minutes lead in for series two on Tuesday night so yeah it may be a little rushed but I think they could the chemistry I think they could enhance the chemistry a little bit between the two main characters yeah I think so you might be right maybe there's something like

Ross and Rachel on Friends happening there yeah or maybe Judith comes in maybe we can write Judith we've got Judith joining us very shortly we can write her in as an antagonist character. Speaking of rushing things back, thanks to all the news, the COVID announcements have popped back on radio

and TV and the COVID lady probably thought she was never going to use her voice box again. She was like, I'll retire my voice box. I've had a great run in the voiceover game. She had a dream run. So Tuesday night she obviously got the call and I tell you what, she was not happy about it. This is a COVID-19 announcement.

Auckland is now at alert level three. What? Make sure if you are in public, you wear a mask at all times. How the f*** did we get back here? Please remain in your bubbles and remain calm. Calm? The calmer we remain... I bubbles and remain calm. Calm? The calmer we remain...

I will not remain calm. ...the quicker we will recover. We've been here before, New Zealand, and our team of five million will get through it again. Oh, for God's sake, someone get me a drink. I said, someone get me a f***ing drink. Those were the raw sessions. I feel like they could have left some of that out.

She's kind of fluctuating between level one and level four herself. But anyway, they left it all in there, and that's the exclusive COVID-19 ad. That's the stuff they didn't want you to hear. New Zealand's breakfast. Just don't eat them. They're chewy. It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

Can I just give myself a big ups A bit of a shout out This whole time, whole show Since 6 o'clock I've been chewing gum What do you mean ooh? Why is gum chewing so ooh? Because you just took it out What are you going to do with that now in today's COVID world?

I don't know Now it's a stalemate isn't it? Do I put it back in or do I just leave it weirdly holding it in my fingers during the summer why do you think that's one of your finest moments this week I'd like to reflect on some of your worst moments because you know shows on a Friday they like to get the producer

to trawl through and find the best bits best bits of the week and I'm like that's been done before and this is not to the fact that we haven't got too many best bits this is not to smoke screen that this is just a focus on Jono Pryor, your worst bits of the week. Now what this is, guys, if you've just tuned on, it's wonderful to have you with us, by the way. This is classic New Zealand tall poppy chopping. He doesn't like to see other

people succeed. We've seen it before. We'll see it again. But take it away, Ben. Okay, so Jono's worst moments of the week. I like to present these to you. Last week there was a reason. I can't remember why I got it. Oh, because you've done something bad to me. So I'm like, oh, I'm going to get one back over you by looking at some of the worst things that you've said this week. Someone's just texted in 4487.

I actually love Jono's worst moments of the week. Ben, he bullies you Monday through Thursday. This is only fair that you get a bite back. So Jono, yesterday had a very unusual way of describing Thursday into Friday, the days of the week. But why is today

going to be a good day? We want to end the show on some positivity because there's a lot going on in New Zealand right now. That's right. This is the pep talk

you need to wrap your legs around Thursday and ride it all the way into Friday. I'll never say that again. We'll be back with why it's going to be a good day

because I'm ignoring what Jono says. See how it says there? Is it an analogy? A weird analogy? I didn't say how. You could be riding it like a horse. Why did you think the worst?

I'm just saying it's just some of your lowest points of the week. And even today, early in the morning, we were talking about masks, wearing face masks to protect yourself and whether you should wear them in the car or not. Well, here's a question. Do you take your underpants off when you're driving? No.

How's that relate? It doesn't. I don't know. I thought I had something there. Now, you come to the radio for free-flowing conversation, don't you? That's what you come for. Not stilted radio announcers like you yesterday.

Now, next, supermarkets, panic buying, madness, toot paper, craziness, stocking up. Jacinda, I don't know. What am I talking about? She's not even making full sentences. Economy of words. Just saying. What you don't appreciate about breakfast shows before doing one

was how much talking you have to do. So much talking. So much talking. And, you know, you throw some stuff at the wall, some of it kind of sticks, and others it just slowly dribbles down to the floor. And rounding out Jono's worst moments of the week, this was from Wednesday when the big announcements happened

to do with New Zealand changing levels to do with COVID-19. We had Grant Robertson from the Labour Party on the show. And all show, all show, you said the wrong job of Grant Robertson. This morning we're going to talk to Labour Deputy Grant Robertson. As we said, Deputy Labour MP Grant Robertson is going to be joining us. Plus, Labour Deputy Grant Robertson too is going to be joining us before 8 o'clock. I'm not, by the way. We do just need to greatly clear that out. Oh. No, I'm just

the humble Minister of Finance. Who's the Deputy Leader? No, that's Kelvin Davis. Oh, it is too. Anyway, Grant, this has been a shocking start. Jono's worst moments of the week. Yeah, there we go. Back next week, is it? Well, we'll see. We'll see. If I keep doing worst moments. Have a good week.

It won't be back. It's all on you, all right? Just have one good week. Then we won't be doing this. Morning. It's Jono and Ben on the Heads. It's time to look at some big news. Small town.

Now, for decades, the city of Christchurch has had an official wizard. You would have seen him. He's been around for a while doing his thing, dressing out like a wizard, entertaining crowds. His name is Ian. He came from the United Kingdom, settled in New Zealand in the 70s, and he became known as the wizard even on his driver's license as the wizard.

And there's an article this week we're reading on CNN that the world-famous iconic wizard from Christchurch may be retiring and looking for a new apprentice. Yeah, I look at the wizard and I'm like, he's worn the same free-flowing robes for so many years. Do you ever wonder if he just wants to get out there, put on a nice pair of slacks, maybe a button-up shirt, and just wander around in something that's not robes? I don't know.

You're very iconic for Christchurch, so we thought we'd give him a call and see if he is, in fact, retiring. Is that our friend Ian? No, it's not Ian. No, no, it's this person. No, he hasn't been here. It was 1968 was the last time I was known as Ian. Okay, well...

This is the wizard. My name is Jack and I'm the wizard, actually. You call me wizard or Jack. Well, nice to talk to you. It's John Owen Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Yep, okay, John. Yeah, good morning. Good morning to you, Jack the Wizard.

Why did you change from Ian to Jack? 1968, it's the same name anyway. They're both verses of John. Ian doesn't mean a thing to anybody. Yeah, right, okay. We'll stop focusing on your birth name. Get back onto the Wizard again. Yeah, well, nice to talk to you.

The Wyatt's going to call you the Wizard, the Wizard of Christchurch. That's right. You've been the Wizard for many years now. Well, well, nice to talk to you. The ward's going to call you the wizard, the wizard of Christchurch. That's right. You've been the wizard for many years now. Well, I've been more than a wizard. I was made wizard of Christchurch in 1981 at the city council. So it's official. If the council makes it real, it's real.

In 1990, I became wizard of New Zealand because the prime minister made the appointment officially. Wow. So I'm a real wizard. I'm not some so-called idiot or some sort of wanker who says, I'm a wizard, you know. This is the real officially. Wow. So I'm a real wizard and not some so-called idiot or some sort of wanker who says I'm a wizard, you know. This is the real thing.

Don't you hate all those wankers that go, oh, look at me, I'm a wizard and they're not wizards. Don't you hate that? I'm a real wizard and none of this nonsense

about calling yourself a wizard. Now, at the moment, on CNN, you've made news, international news on CNN. Yes. Someone did a story about my apprentice.

Now, having an apprentice is very fine, but it doesn't mean I'm retiring. It just means I've got an apprentice. Oh, we did a story about my apprentice. Now, having an apprentice is very fine, but it doesn't mean I'm retiring. It just means I've got an apprentice. Oh, right. Which means I'm multiplying, not retiring. Well, he's got a great beard, too. He's got a very long beard. Oh, his beard is fantastic. One of the best in New Zealand. He's one of the very best. Now, did he come to you and he's

like, I want to learn your ways, wizard, or did you hunt out an apprentice? No, you can't look for him. That's very dangerous if he's lying and laying a trap for you. He turned up and pestered me and said, I want to be a wizard. Oh, what do you do? I'm a musician.

Oh, are you? What do you do? And he talked to me. Listen, he's a smart fellow, and he's ambitious, and he likes magic, which means he likes to cast spells on people. In his case, he likes to play music and watch them respond to the music,

how the effect of music on the crowd. With me, it's oratory. When I'm in the square speaking in the square, as I used to before it got ruined, I used to have a crowd all around me, and I'd watch their faces change as I flavoured words, and that's a lovely feeling to have an effect on someone like that. Gotcha. Well, your name on your driver's licence is the wizard I'm just reading as well. The police gave me that 1992

special licence for a horse's carriage. And then I got another one, the usual document, but my passport was made out to the Wizard Museum. Wow. And so you're 87 years old now, wizard? Yep, yep, yep. Oh wow, and you're still out and about? I grab my stays and annoy people. Test them and argue with them. A bit like Socrates. You go out each day to the city to annoy the local council.

And they really hate me, the council. They can't stand it. Oh, they hate you? I thought they employed you. They're not employed. Because I'm too popular and they're not. Well, I mean, at least you're not ticketing people and putting rates up. That's probably the advantage you have.

Well, you bring a lot of joy to the people at Christchurch. Exactly. Wherever I go, children are leaping up and down and jumping and all with a smile when they see me coming. I love your car. We're just having a look at your car. So describe your car. It's a car that you can drive both ways.

Is that right? No, it looks as though you can. Actually, it's got two steering wheels in it and it's got two front halves joined together. So when you're driving, they don't know which way it goes. And when you go past someone, you appear to be going past them in reverse, which is a bit scary. It would be quite handy, our producer Juliette noticed, that you could pull into a park one way. Oh, yes.

And then hop on the other side. I can park both sides of the road, too. Well, thank you very much for your time this morning. Well, thank you very much. You're telling them we're alive and well. And if they're coming down to Christchurch, most lunch times are primarily around the Arts Centre or in the Scare, maybe the Arts Centre these days, where the Gothic stuff is.

Look for Gothic architecture, and that's where you'll find us. That's where you'll be. Not retiring. He's not retiring. No, no, no, no. I might go soggy. If that happens, I'm finished anyway. When you go soft on a woman, that's when it's all over.

It hasn't happened yet. Have you? Have you? Okay, okay. when you go soft on a woman that's when it's all over it hasn't happened yet have you have you have you at 87 years old that's quite the magic trick I'm getting worse every day the Wizard of Christ Church and the Wizard of New Zealand

as well lovely to talk to you that's that it's ok chap have a good time come and see us sometime Jesus is entertaining what a great guy

not going anywhere and thankfully so the Wizard of Christchurch. More painful than your alarm clock. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, the very talented Kiwi songwriter Mitch James has had hit song after hit song over the last few years like this. And now Mitch has just released an awesome new EP. It's called The Sunday Sessions,

which is four of your favourite Mitch James songs, stripped back and acoustic. You can get it now at Apple Music, Spotify, wherever you get your music. He's a bloody top bloke, Mitch James, been very generous to us over the last few years with his time. He's an Australian. I think he's finding us right now, Mitch James is. Oh, hello. It's Anastasia calling from Sony Music.

So obviously I'm calling to connect Mitch James with Jono and Ben whenever you guys are all ready to go. We're going well. He's hit the big time. He's got a connector now. He's got a connector. Yeah.

Yeah, I know, hasn't he? Don't tell him that. He's going to be super embarrassed. Yeah, I know. We're going to tell him. You know what he's like. We're going to tell him. He's down to earth.

I used to just slide into his DMs and now we're going to go through you. Now he's got a connector. That's right. And just wait until the next time you want to do an interview request. He'll be like, who? Who are those guys? I don't know them. He'll have nine connectors by then.

Exactly. Exactly. All right. Well, let me just pat Timmy and I won't be a second. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Jono and Ben, you've got Mitch James with you. Mitch James.

How are we, fellas? We're doing all right, mate. It's Jono and Ben here. I don't know if you remember us. We with you. Mitch James. How are we, fellas? We're doing all right, mate. It's Jono and Ben here. I don't know if you remember us. We've interviewed a few times over the years. Mate, you've got a connector now. You've got someone who connects you. I've made it.

You've made it. You've got a connector. We just got connected. I used to annoy you on Instagram, slide into your DMs. Now I've got to go through a connector. It's been a long journey, but I finally made it. You know you made it when you got a connector.

Oh, it's good to chat to you. How's things, buddy? Yeah, it's all good. It's all good. I'm just over in Australia working on this next record. It's been a frustrating year, as I'm sure it has been for everyone.

But yeah, just keeping to the task and I'm really excited about what's coming. Mitch, you're in Australia right now, are you? Yeah, yeah, I've been here since about February. I literally came on the day the borders closed to Australia, so yeah, it's been absolute madness, but yeah, trying to stick to the gun. In all seriousness, the unplugged EP, the Sunday Sessions, acoustic versions of four songs is amazing, man. I honestly listened to it like three times in a day over the weekend.

It was very cool. Oh, cheers, bro. Yeah, I thought it's been quite a while since people have heard something from me and because of the delays with Posit and everything, I felt like, you know, the people deserved at least something. Does it weird you out that Ben listened to it three times in one day? I'm actually offended that you haven't, John.

I listened to it nine times. Mate, I just played it to him before on my phone. How about it? Nine times. Who can listen to it more? I listen to it more. But Mitch, I mean, you started your career, you know, you flew over to London with 20 pounds in your pocket, you were basking, you were living in a tent, I think, in a park at one stage.

Now you're in Australia with a connector that connects us to your interview. But in all seriousness, you must pinch yourself sometimes and go, that's pretty cool. You're open for Ed Sheeran. I mean, it's been an amazing ride. Yeah, yeah. It's been a crazy, crazy journey. And I purposely make time pretty much every day to just take it in and just be grateful for everything

and for people like you guys for supporting me from day dot to get to where I am. But, yeah, I do feel like I'm on the precipice of something even bigger. So, yeah, I'm just really excited to get this new music out and tell new stories and give new messages to people and continue to be grateful for this

crazy, crazy journey. Well, if anyone deserves it, you do, mate. You're a bloody good bugger. Now, I know one of your idols that you, a guy you really looked up to is Ed Sheeran, who you actually opened for and you got his email. Yes. Yes, I do. Now, you emailed him. What is his email? First question, what is his email. Yes. Yes, I do. Now, you emailed him.

What is his email? First question, what is his email? And second question. We can divulge off there. Second question, I imagine he's got a connector for his email. I imagine he's got about seven different layers of connectors. Yeah.

But you emailed him your album, your last album, I remember you telling us, before you actually released it. So are you guys still keeping in touch? Yeah, yeah. I him your album, your last album, I remember you telling us, before you actually released it. So are you guys still keeping in touch? Yeah, yeah, I kept in touch with him, yeah, ever since we met and he was the first person I sent the first album. Probably going to be one of the first people I send the second album just to get a line of someone that I really respect

and see what he thinks about it. But, yeah, I was planning to head over and record in the UK, but it fell through and we were going to go write a song together, which is a bit of a shame. But, yeah, I'm sure it will happen. The man is just one of us, really. He's just a normal bloke who loves the little things in life and he's really not, I'm sure as you guys know

from interviewing him and stuff, he really doesn't have that much of an ego or a presence about him, he's just a normal dude and I think he really respected the way that I treated him, not asking for photos and not sort of fanboying out and just But inside you were screaming like

a 13 year old school girl Yeah It's James with us. Sunday Sessions. Check it out, the EP. If you've got Apple Music, Spotify, it's really worth a listen. It's very cool. Now, Mitch, we want to play a quick game.

It's called the Mitch Pitch. We've pitch shifted some of your songs to make a couple to go a bit faster. We want to see if you can work out what your songs that we've pitch shifted are, right? All right, let's go. What the? Is that Sunday morning?

As long as I'm gone by Sunday, Sunday morning. Oh, you got it. You got it. Well done. There's one from one, Mitch James. Here's the second one. This is the Mitch pitch with Mitch James. We've taken his songs, speeded them up or slowed them down.

Let's move on. Yeah, he's got two from two. He knows his music. Another hit of Ava's game by Dunno and Ben. The final one, the Mitch Pitch, this one we've slowed down. The little bottles that Mitch went down in history. Oh, I had no idea

with that one. 21. 23. There we go. Three for three. The Mitch pitch. What a game. The Mitch pitch.

Now, Mitch, while you're there, can I pitch you something else? Oh, here we go. Of course you can. Okay, now, this is actually, I don't want to take credit for it.

Wonderful Juliet, producer Juliet on our show, she WhatsAppped this to us late last night. It came to her in the middle of the night. As you probably know, New Zealand, well, Auckland's gone back to level three. The rest of New Zealand, level two. And she had an idea for a song, a parody song based on 21, that goes, Take me back to level one? Take me back to level one.

Oh my god. That is Juliet. Take a bow. I've written some lyrics. Ben's going to message them to you and see what you think. You guys have still got it, man. Send it through. I'm not even joking that's a that's a

bloody great idea yeah it is are we are we working on 33 split here yeah well it's kind of all yours really to be honest to be honest if we don't get you on board you can probably sue us for using your song i'm on board all right bro don't worry about that hey so you might have sent it to you okay all right hold on I'll check now. See if you can check now. There it is. There we go. I missed a couple of messages.

Sorry, bro. That's all right, man. Here we go. This is awkward. Yeah, it's all right, man. How many times are you listening to his music? 49 times a day. Now you're messaging him.

I'm a crazy stalker fan. 92 missed messages. Yeah. That one when I just said you up just ignore that one that's fine don't worry about it did he send you a photo

as well as saying is this normal yeah I'll do that in a bit I was like no it's not me to have an S bend in it Ben I just like to get Mitch James'

you know like his advice they always come at 2.30 in the morning alright Mitch ok Mitch see if you can sing that song. This is Mitch James, Level One, ladies and gentlemen. Shaking hands when we meet out in the street

With no COVID and no lungs Who would have thought we'd be locked up at Level Three Oh Lord, take me back to level one. There we go. There we go. We're making magic, Mitch James. L.T. full. Great to catch up, buddy, and all the best.

And make sure you check out Mitch James' Sunday sessions right now. This is very cool. It's always good to catch up. Thanks, boys. Love you. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook.

Now, it was probably about two weeks ago, we hatched a plan to borrow, let's say borrow, Mike Hosking from Newstalk ZB, his fancy Jaguar I-Pace from the work garage. That's right, and he kindly lent it to us, really. I mean, he could have really taken us to the police. He could have taken us to court. He did kindly lend, in a way,

after we got it towed and we had a lot of fun with that Jaguar I-Pace. You parked next to Mike Hosking. It's a Jaguar? A Jaguar.

Why don't we borrow his car and give it away? Well, I'll throw it to the audience. G is with us. Yeah, Michael Lovett. Michael Lovett. We towed it from

the work garage. You stole my car. We replaced his car with a red labour car. Bastard. Jono took it to the drags. 535 kilometres an hour 140, 150, 170.

Don't want to brag about it but I've got to stand and walk around the car. I can't sing. How you gonna get back what you get? Millennial Max. I'm in the car wash.

Mike Hosking trivia. Any question you get wrong you have to wind down the windows in the vehicle. He joined Tony Street and who to host Seven Sharp? Jack Payne. No! Window goes down.

Window goes down. What are we having? Ice cream. So what happened, Sienna? We might have spilled a little bit. It'll be fine, Mike. It'll be fine. If you do want Millennial Max to pick you up, 4487 is the text number.

Oh. Max, are you okay? Gotcha! What do you need the jag for? Charlotte. I need to drop the lawnmower off. Text coming through. I would love to use Mike Hosking's car on my farm. Where is my car? My last hurrah.

Oh, for God's sake, who are you giving it to this time? Okay, Boomer. Millennial Green MP, Chloe Swarbrick, driving down the road, and this other car pulled out from an intersection. And less likely to have... Whoa! Cheeks!

Bad driving. I did that, mate. And that was... The fun with Mike Hosking's car might be coming to an end. I want it back. Polished, beautiful. And the same applies to that Labour car we gave you too. It'll be in exactly the same condition, if not better.

And when I say better, it'll have no Labour sticker on it. Now we have to return the card to Mike Hosking pretty smartly. So we've got a weekend away planned for one lucky couple. You get the Jaguar I-Pace or electric Jaguar I-Pace

for the weekend. A two nights luxury accommodation at Matakana. Dinner for two at Chibo. A new set of loafers and a Dyson cordless vacuum. So you can live like Mike. Obviously we'll book it in

when you're allowed to do this, depending on what happens today. When we say loafers, they're not like fancy Italian five-grain, multi-grain loaves of bread. No. Loafer shoes. Shoes. Leather loafer shoes.

Fancy shoes. So if you want to live like Mike, your last chance, head to the hits.co.nz, because after 8 o'clock today, we're going to call someone up and say, hey, you get to live like Mike. Oh, you'll be popping sun-dried tomatoes and stuffed olives into your mouth like nobody's business. All right, we'll do that after 8 o'clock.

Not a morning person. Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the heads. The A to Z of New Zealand. Calling every town and city in Aotearoa. We're doing one a day. Yesterday was Duntroon, which is in North Otago. Is that right, Producer Humphrey? Yeah. Yeah, but he's not listening. He're doing one a day. Yesterday was Duntroon, which is in North Otago, is that right,

Producer Humphrey? Yeah. He's listening to more FM. I turned around and he gave me nothing. Just gives you a thumbs up. Duntroon, which is on the South Island. We're ringing up to find out about Duntroon. There's quite a lot of good things about Duntroon.

It's got a working blacksmith. A working what? Where's Duntroon in the 1920s? It sounds like it, yes. And what else? Oh, it's got the Flying Pig Cafe. But pigs will fly if it's actually open. So now it's closed all the time.

So she was lovely. Today, though, we're going to Eastbourne. Yeah, Eastbourne, just in Wellington, has a population of 4,665 people. It's close to the sea and catches the afternoon sun. The bay's back onto steep hills with the lower reaches having homes, many with spectacular harbour views.

It sounds like I'm reading a real estate ad right now. It does, it sounds beautiful. Eastbourne has wonderful indoor-outdoor flow. You definitely are reading a real estate ad right now. It sounds beautiful. Eastbourne has wonderful indoor-outdoor flow. You definitely are reading a real estate ad. It's an entertainer's delight. And if you're looking to get a foot in the property ladder, then don't look past Eastbourne. Vendors must sell immediately.

One careful owner, too, apparently. So let's make a call right now to Eastbourne. Good morning, Eastbourne Village, mate. Have we got hold of Eastbourne? Yep, Eastbourne Village, mate. Fantastic. We wanted to call Eastbourne, and it's even better that we've upgraded to the Meaty Village.

That's us, yep. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. How we doing? Doing all right. We call a different town or city in New Zealand one a day, and today is Eastbourne's turn. Oh, nice. You sound like you've been a local of Eastbourne

for a number of years. Oh, no, no. I'm from just up the valley. Okay, so you sound like someone who doesn't live in Eastbourne for a number of years? Oh, no, no. I'm from just up the valley. Okay, so you sound like someone who doesn't live in Eastbourne. It's a bit more wealthy around here than me. It's a nice little seaside town, you know, just across from Wellington.

Yep. Yeah, nice little place. You sell a lot of meats? Yeah, everybody went a bit mad with the old, you know, going down to level two. Oh, yeah, the panic buying. Yeah, everybody panicked a little bit, but that's all right. What's the most popular item in the store?

Sausages, beef sausages. Beef sausages? I think we're getting quite experimental with our sausage flavours these days, aren't we? It's like asbestos and lubricant. I've heard of people making sausages at Parwa. That's pretty... Parwa sausages? Parwa sausages.

What's your go-to sausage? Oh, I quite like... We make one called a Red Roma. Like an Italian sausage and a C go to sausage Oh I quite like We make one called A red Roma Like an Italian sausage And a Cajun sausage So Oh yeah

It's spicy You're a fan of the Kransky Yep we made some of those today Yeah they're quite nice Yeah love a Kransky Kransky's alright Now here's a question for you Jono

He microwaves his For his family What's your thoughts on that Oh I wouldn't do that No well I mean You're a butcher You know you respect the meat Probably has it. Well, I mean, you're a butcher. You respect the meat.

Yeah, I'll simmer it in a pan with a bit of water. Beautiful. Now, you're not allowed to hand out the Cheerios nowadays to kids, are you? Nah, nah. You get in trouble for that if you get caught. Yeah, food safety problem. Remember when you used to eat raw Cheerios? Yeah, I used to do that all the time. Yeah, it was great. Nothing happened. Nothing was wrong with us, was it? No, no.

I've just got a permanent twitch, but that's fine. Yeah, definitely. Now, what should we do in Eastbourne if we're going to go to Eastbourne? Oh, there's quite a few nice cafes around here, you know. Go to the beach, maybe do a bit of fishing off the wharf. Four and a half thousand, the population of Eastbourne? Yeah, about that, yeah. I think so, yeah.

I'm confused. Now, is there two Eastbournes? Is there one next to Wellington and is there one in Lower Hutt? Or is that the same place? It's the same place. Okay, good. Same place, yeah. That's good to know.

Yeah, it's just around the harbour there. So it's sort of opposite to Seatoun and all that. Yeah, you're not far from Wellington, but that's not in Wellington. No, no. So you're close to the airport? Not as close as Seatoun. Oh, right. Okay,'re close to the airport? Not as close as Seton. Oh, right. Okay, we'll cut all this out.

So in relation to Lower Hutt, where are you? Before you go to Wainui, you sort of keep Wainui Amati, you just sort of keep coming around the road. Yeah, it's pretty close. Yeah, close to Petone. And how far from Auckland? How far from Auckland? Oh, yeah, pretty far.

Yeah, okay, all right. Now, we've got the location sorted. Yeah, yeah. And a plane ride to Australia. Yeah, not at the right. Now, we've got the location sorted. Yeah, yeah. And a plane ride to Australia. Yeah, come on. Not at the moment, though. I wouldn't really want to go there at the moment. No, that's true.

Oh, you stay positive and take care of yourself. Nice talking to you, buddy. You too. Guys, have a good one, eh? Like starting your day with ultra morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy. The WhatsApp.

Spy.co.nz. She will stop at absolutely nothing to bring you all the up-to-date celebrity gossip. That's unless the Wi-Fi is down, then she can't copy and paste the stories from TMZ. But apart from that, she's dedicated. So Britney Spears, she had a Las Vegas residency where she lived there for four years. And she only went out clubbing twice in that whole entire time of living in Vegas. And that surprises me because living in Vegas, surely you'd just get amongst it all the time, wouldn't you?

Well, imagine her, though, being a superstar, though, would be a different, she couldn't just go into a club and not get buzzed by people. So maybe that played into it as well. You know what, I'm going to sound very out of touch here, but I don't care. I couldn't think of anything worse than going clubbing. Really?

Clubbing makes me sad. Really? Yeah, do you like clubbing? Yeah, I like going out with mates. It's all about hanging out with mates. It's lots of fun. But now you can do it every weekend, but I enjoy doing that. It's fun.

It's like hanging out with friends. Why do you want to hang out with friends? Me and Peter are on the same page here. It's fun. Yeah, you guys, you go clubbing. Yeah, we will when we're allowed. Only club I go to is the Cozzy Club. Yeah. It's fun. Yeah, well, you guys, you go clubbing. Yeah, we will when we're allowed. The only club I go to is the Cosi Club. Yeah.

That's fun. You're actually such a boomer. I love it. You're basically about 30 years before your time. I know. I'm bringing the average age of the show up. Really interesting, though, with Britney Spears. Now, apparently she needs permission,

this is according to data, to drive a car, leave her home, and possibly even vote. It's really sad to do with how she had a bit of a breakdown such a few years ago. Well, she's since then been under what's called a conservationship, a conservatorship I think it's called. And she's got a legal guardian that looks after her and has to decide all those big decisions for her. That's so sad, isn't it? Yeah, it's really sad.

Well, then would she technically have to get permission to go to a club? Yeah, you might be right. Drive? Yeah. Yeah, well, those things as well. I don't know if that's still the case, but this is what they're claiming online. Yeah, and there was a big sort of movement, hashtag free Britney, that was going on a little while ago.

Everyone was just campaigning because no one really knew that was the case. And then it came out that, oh my gosh, she's her own human being. You know, she should be allowed to do those sorts of things and make those decisions on her own. And it's a sad product, isn't it, of someone finding fame at such a young age. Oh, for sure. When you look at Bieber, who went through that rollercoaster, but seems to have pulled himself out of it.

Exactly. You know, that takes a lot of effort. Exactly. Poor lady. I know. And Nickelback, on another note, they are releasing something today. Not really sure what it is yet. It could be an album, could be a song.

And they're being absolutely roasted by the internet because everyone's like, we do not need more music from you, thank you very much. Poor Nickelback. Nickelback haven't done anything for like 10 or 15 years and they're like, hey, we might try and see if everyone's got over hating us. Why was everyone like, why was it like, oh, I don't know, I just feel sorry for them, you know? Kind of.

Well, I actually kind of like their music. Yeah, they're not terrible at all, but everyone's like, oh, we're not the worst. Yeah, like coronavirus, that's the worst thing in the world right now. I think this is distracting from coronavirus. Oh, poor Nickelback. As you say, Jono, they haven't done anything for a while.

They're like, hey, we might release some music. Oh, go away. Should we get the old band back together? Maybe people might like us now, given there's bigger stuff going on in the world. I know. I thought they were trying to release it under the cover of COVID. Yeah, I know. Poor Nickelback.

I know, for sure. I love it if it's a COVID-themed song as well. That won't do them any favours. Imagine that. I'd want to play that on the hits. It'd be like, screw COVID on the hits. It'd be like, Screw COVID into the ground! It would be.

For more spy, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Yesterday, obviously the whole family was home. Jen, my wife, huge Big Brother fan.

She likes Big Brother's comeback. Oh, the TV show, right? Yeah. Back in the day, Big Brother was just like your classic Aussie bogan with neck tattoos and finely chiselled obliques recklessly pashing each other, wasn't it? Right, yeah. Fornicating and all sorts of nonsense. Well, now, the new Big Brother, I haven't seen it, but it's more of a strategic game.

And they've put a collection of people in the household from all sorts of age demographs and backgrounds. So it's less about the bumping ugl of age, demographs, and backgrounds. So it's less about the bumping uglies and more about the strategy of the game now. So I hadn't seen it. So we all sat down as a family yesterday and watched it on demand. And I haven't been able to sleep since. The Big Brother voiceover guy.

So this is the guy that's like, he commentates on everything and talks to the housemates. Oh, so he comes through the speakers in the house and tells them what to do. This is his big brother sort of thing. I can just imagine this individual with like 39 high definition screens in front of him. He sounds like an evil character from a

Saw movie franchise. You know the Saw movie franchise? Have a listen to him. You seem to think this white room is a reward. Think of it as a halfway house. So it's a prison. Not my words. Oh, he does it, yeah. He just like creepily commentates on them all day, like even when they're sleeping.

I appreciate your in-depth insight into my game. Maybe you should ask yourself why there are two beds and two red buttons. I guess you will have to wait and see. I feel like he does this, like this is a sick little project that he goes off and he's like a heart surgeon or something.

He comes back to his castle. He doesn't sleep, just commentates on these people. Wow, he does that. You have not been evicted. Not yet. Well, the music doesn't help. No, no, no.

I mean, if they put some happy music under that, you would not want to look at that man's internet history. It would change you. It would change you. It would change you as a human being. Anyway, Big Brother, they've done a really good job this year. And that'll make them feel good.

Someone passed on that Jono from New Zealand told them they've done a good job. Oh, thank you. That will mean a lot to them, I'm sure. The whole franchise of Big Brother. So, can I say on behalf of the Big Brother franchise, thank you for those kind words. And on behalf of Jono, thank you for thanking my kind words. Yeah, I mean, I like to speak for them now and again, so that all meant a lot.

I'm sure a lot of people worked hard on that show, so it'll be a lot. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. He just joined the show. About two weeks ago, we stole Mike Hosking's car from Newstalk ZB and we had some fun with it. He parked next to Mike Hosking.

It's a Jaguar. A Jaguar. Why don't we borrow his car and give it away? Well, I'll throw it to the audience. G is with us. Yeah, Michael Lovett. Michael Lovett. We towed it from the work garage.

You stole my car. We replaced his car with a red labour car. Bastard. Jono took it to the drags. 535 kilometres an hour, 140, 150, 170. Don't want to brag about it, but I've got Stan Walker in the car. I can't sing. How you gonna get back what you get?

Millennial Max. I'm in the car wash. Mike Hosking trivia. Any question you get wrong, you have to wind down the windows in the vehicle. He joined Tony Street and Who to host Seven Sharp. Uh, Jack Payne. No! What are we having? Ice cream!

So what happened, Sienna? We might have spilled a little bit. It'll be fine, Mike. It'll be fine. If you do want Millennial Max to pick you up, 4487 is the text number. Oh! Max, are you up. 4487 is the text number. Oh. Max, are you okay? Gotcha!

What do you need the jag for? Charlotte. I need to drop a lawnmower off. Text coming through. I would love to use Mike Hosking's car on my farm. Where is my car? One last hurrah. Oh, for God's sake, who are you giving it to this time? Okay, Boomer.

Millennial Green MP Chloe Swarbrick. Driving down the road and this other car pulled out from an intersection. And less likely to have... Whoa! Cheeks! Bad driving. I did that, mate. And that was, yeah. The fun with Mike Hosking's car might be coming to an end.

I want it back. Polished, beautiful. And the same applies for that Labour car we gave you too. It'll be in exactly the same condition, if not better. And when I say better, it'll have no Labour sticker on it. Now we have to return the car to Mike Hosking pretty smartly.

So for one final weekend, we put together an awesome prize pack that involved having the car for a weekend and a whole lot of other really cool stuff. To live like Mike and we need to call the winner right now. Yeah, thanks for all the entries at the hits.co.nz Hello, Kirstie speaking. Hello, Kirstie. How's it going?

Good. That's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, hi. How are you? You sound reverb-y and echo-y. I'm going to pick you're in a conservatory of some description. No, I've just run back in the house. Where from? I'm on speaker because I was sweeping the drive.

I charged inside. There's no call ID, but I thought I'd better get it. Yeah, no, get it. It's either us or the Inland Revenue chasing down your tax. Either way, it's probably not a good call that you want to answer, but you've answered it, so that's great. I have answered it. It's either us or the Inland Revenue chasing down your tax. Either way, it's probably not a good call that you want to answer, but you've answered it, so that's great. I have answered it. Well, it's ironic you were sweeping up your driveway. Why's that?

Because now you are... Oh, I started. She's swept up... With emotion? No, swept up the competition? She's cleaning up. Because you're cleaning up. That's good, man.

Thank you, Ben. Guess what? I don't know. What? You are going to slide those sweet feet of yours into some loafers. You are going to sit that sweet butt of yours. Okay. Oh, that sounded weird.

On a leather car seat. You're living like Mike. You'll find our price. Oh, my God. Really? Yeah. You're going to live like Mike one weekend. That suits.

We'll give you Mike's all-electric Jaguar I-Pace for the weekend. You'll get to drive away. You'll have two nights luxury accommodation in Matakana. Dinner for two at Chibo Restaurant in Parnell is very fancy. A set of loafers, fancy shoes, as Jono mentioned, and a Dyson Cordless Vacuum Cleaner. That is all yours. Oh, my God, that's so exciting.

You know what? I never buy a lotto ticket, and I didn't win because I've been sulking. But this is awesome. That vacuum cleaner sucks harder than we do, I tell you. It does. You can maybe clean your driveway with a vacuum cleaner next time as well. I don't want to ruin it. No, true.

Well done, though. That is so exciting. And have you got any favourable things to say about us? You know what? You guys are such a crack up in the morning. I only have such a short drive to work in the morning, but I start the day with a happy heart. Oh, that's lovely.

It's lovely. I really bullied you into that. I'm a preschool teacher, and you guys really start the motion. Oh, thank you. Thank you for those comments that were I'm sorry, I really forced you into saying something nice and you didn't have to do that. But I'm on such a high

I'll say anything. She's like, you got me in a weak moment. I usually wouldn't say nice things about you. No, no, Kirsty. We'll obviously have to organise a weekend that you'll be able to do that in the lockdown conditions, but we'll get that sorted for you and enjoy living like mine. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. She's been sniffing through the rubbish bins of all your favourite celebrities to get this bulletin. Producer Juliet with some spy entertainment news. Thank you very much. Now, Katy Perry at some point, she snuck into New Zealand and wrote some songs

for her new album. Hold on. Did she quarantine for two weeks? I feel like you were just saying that she's come in recently. Is she the reason we're back in level three? No, let's not say it's Katy Perry's fault. This was obviously a while ago. Yes, yes. So her new album's coming out this month, but I think

it must have been before COVID hit. She came in and, well, she recorded it in a bunch of different locations around the world, but in this particular article it said New Zealand and I freaked out and got excited. So, you know. Did she record with Joel Little? Or am I just making that up? Oh, maybe. I guess if she was

sneaking into New Zealand at some stage, Joel Little would probably be someone that she'd want to record with. So you might be right. Well, she wouldn't want to record with us. No, we should both have got radio mics. Music producer would probably be a good option. We've got music. We could have done it.

You just force her to do parodies all the time. Hey, Julia, we don't force you to do anything, okay? Really? You can leave when you want as long as that's in five years with your contract debt. Not before anything, okay? Really? You can leave when you want, as long as that's in five years. Okay, okay. With your contract debt. That sounds good. Not before us, okay?

Not before us. No, until then, you're coming down with us, okay? Wonderful, wonderful. She's loving it here, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great time. And Jason Derulo, so he was obviously in the, he was one of the stars in the movie Cats, where there were a lot of, it was a big star-studded cast.

There was Rebel Wilson, Taylor Swift, Jason Derulo. Who else? Gosh, everyone. James Corden. James Corden, was Rebel Wilson, Taylor Swift, Jason Derulo. Who else? Gosh, everyone. James Corden. James Corden, yeah. On paper, it looks fantastic. They had all the big bangers in there. You thought this was going to be a hit,

and I think Derulo thought that as well. Yes, Jason Derulo thought that his big screen debut on Cats would change the world. He saw the line-up of the cast, and he was like, yep, this is going to be the perfect debut for my acting career, and then it just absolutely flopped. As you would. I mean, it was, you know, it's a critically acclaimed musical.

You've got to, yeah, if you went, hey. The biggest stars in the world. You'd be like, oh, yeah. This is a surefire hit. Yeah. It did change the world. In a way. In a way, yes.

The whole world are allergic to cats now. Exactly. Exactly. And now he's just a TikTok star. Yeah, yeah. Well, not just He's doing very well on TikTok He's got that hit with Josh685

Yeah exactly The Kiwi guy which is awesome Yeah for more spy You can head to the hits.co.nz Now I don't know if this has happened to anyone else And probably hasn't happened too often recently Because if you ever meet a celebrity these days If you're lucky enough to meet someone famous,

you probably just get a selfie with them. But, you know, back in the day, you know, it was back in the day when we produced a tune. You get a signature. That was one of the things you'd like to do as well. It's kind of cool to get someone to sign something. Yeah, a lot of people would get famous people to sign their chest. That was a thing back in the day.

I don't know if the millennials are doing that nowadays. No, I don't think so. Not that I can recall, no. There were so many chest. Yeah. That was a thing back in the day. I don't know if the millennials are doing that nowadays. No, I don't think so. Not that I can recall, no. Not so many chest signings. No, I started off working in radio. I was writing radio commercials, ads, at where they had ZM back in the day

and the stations, this company, like a few years ago. And Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters, yeah, the lead singer of the Foo Fighters, you know the band.

He came into the radio station one day and I was like, oh, I need to get him to sign something. So I got given from ZM, I got a ZM backpack. And they gave me that and they said, you can get Dave Grohl to sign your ZM backpack. I was like, all right, I'll ask Dave Grohl. Have you still got your ZM backpack? Well, I found it in the garage like a few weeks ago.

Now you've got a Toy Story backpack. So I have been using the ZM backpack. I used it for a little bit after this because I was like, well, this has been signed by Dave Grohl. Now, Dave Grohl seems like a genuinely lovely guy and likes to have a laugh and he's really personable and really nice to everyone. But he wrote on the bag, Dave.

Now, Dave in block letters, capital block letters, D-A-V-E, Dave. That was the signature. That was the signature. Dave. But by Dave Grohl. Yeah, by Dave Grohl. So I walked around with Dave Grohl's signature on the bag,

but everyone was like, who's Dave? I was like, oh, it's Dave Grohl. They're like, no, Dave Grohl, he didn't sign that because he's written in block letters across it. Oh, it looks nothing like his signature. No, it just looks like someone, it looked like I'd taken Dave's bag from ZM. There was a Dave ZM.

It looked like I'd swooped in and taken it and so I retired the backpack. Even though I'd been signed by Dave Grohl, who's awesome,

I retired it to the garage. It's champagne celebrity signature stitch-up. They happen in the game. I did the same

thing. Guns N' Roses, one of my favourite bands. Thank you, Producer Juliet. Yeah, quick on that one.

Yeah. Appetite for Destruction, which this song's on. I had the vinyl of it. Oh, quick on that one. Yeah. Appetite for Destruction, which this song's on. I had the vinyl of it. Oh, the record, yeah. And I got to meet the guitarist Slash. Oh, he's a legend.

And I was like, Slash, Mr. Slash. I would love to see you, fangirl. Dear Mr. Slash, could you sign this for me? He's like, yeah, no worries. He just grabbed a random pen. Okay, it was like a Sharpie or something. And he started scribbling his name. He's like, oh, this one's not working properly.

And then he goes like, you know, a six-year-old on a school assignment, scribbles out that, a couple of backslashes. Backslash, we got the name backslash. Scribbles that out, then goes over the top of the scribble with it. And he's like, oh no, he tries to find another penny.

He's like, oh, that one's not working as well, sorry. Grabs a fourth penny, goes through four pens. He just, just a named scribble all over the cover. Nothing that resembles Slash. Just looks like my son got it there when he was four years old and had a bit of a blast. Like starting your day with Panda Eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Yeah, big day for New Zealand. We find out at 5.30 today

if we're going to stay in the current levels that the country is in, or whether things will change. Big decisions to be made and a lot of talk in the media, particularly from the National Party on how Labour is handling this. And we've got joining us on the phone right now the leader of the Labour Party,

the leader of the National Party. She might be the leader of the Labour Party. I don't know, do you want to become the leader of the Labour Party. The leader of the National Party. She might be the leader of the Labour Party. I don't know. Do you want to become the leader of the Labour Party, Judith Collins? There's a shock. There's a scoop for us. I've never been that desperate. Well done.

We've given you a new job. Do you know we spent all morning on Wednesday morning saying Grant Robertson was the Deputy Prime Minister firstly and then we said the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. We're a shocker. It's not him, so anyway. Well, think about it. He would be a better choice than either of the others, wouldn't he?

Oh, okay. I love your savage burns. How are you going, Judith Collins? You all right? I'm great. Yeah, I am great. I've just, I'm actually, you know, I've been out busily campaigning until we had this lockdown,

and so I'm catching up on sleep at the moment because I was a bit sleep deprived, I decided. Well, you've called for the election to be delayed till March next year. Do you think that's going to happen? Well, I don't know. I mean, because we've got no consultation from the government on it.

I would have thought the smart thing would be to do is the Prime Minister can actually, without any problem at all, just extend it out to the 21st of November. And that's the advice that the Electoral Commission has given me and also her. So there's options there. It's very easy for this to happen.

You know, I just think, really, do people need to have this concern that the election's just a distraction at the moment? Right. Do you have any decision or any voice towards the decision today? Or is that sort of out of your hands and to do with the Labour Party and the health board? Yeah, there's nothing. We don't get a say in that.

We don't get a heads up, although someone said they thought that I might get a heads up today for the prime minister. But, you know, it's not like we're giving them every information that we're getting. And but we don't get a lot back. But look, you know, that's the way they want to run it. They want to run it on their own. But look, you know, it's their call. Ultimately, it's their call. Now, what would you be doing different right now, Judith Collins,

if you were running the country? I tell you what, I wouldn't let this stuff through the border, and it's obviously come through the border. When I spoke about that a few days ago, I was attacked by some people in the media. How dare I say that? What's my evidence? And I'd say, well, 102 days without any COVID-19,

the Prime Minister doing a little dance and saying, you know, how excited she was, we've got rid of it. Well, boom, here it comes. So, for a start, I would have sorted out the contact tracing. Secondly, I would have had that messaging around the masks

and everything else going out a lot faster. But also, I'd make sure that we would have all those border control workers and quarantine workers being tested. Well, that's what I found interesting last night on the news, though. Over 60% of those workers who are security workers at the hotels, the customs officials, they didn't get tested.

No, that's right. And we've been sent all sorts of photos by people showing these people working there without any what we call PPE, which is, you know, their masks and gloves. Now, we've got Judith Collins with us, the leader of the National Party. Now, Judith, the Prime Minister has always said, be kind. That's one of her messages. So last week when we were talking to her on the radio, we asked her to say some kind things about you. Three things. Here's what she had to say. Judith Collins.

So you've just got to say three words, nice words in a sentence about, something about Judith. Tough. Focused. Opposition leader. Four words. Now, some of those words were more factual.

Now, we want to throw it back to you, Judith Collins. Three nice words about Jacinda. Well, I don't think she said any nice words about me, actually. I thought that was actually quite unkind, but I would say extremely good communicator. I'd say communicator, if you want one word, communicator. Communicator, yeah. Extremely good communicator.

I would say empathetic. I'm looking for some nice words, empathetic. Yeah, that's good. And, oh, focused. Focus. Focus. Use that one on me. Use that one on me.

Half is not a nice word for you. No. Not a person. I'm disappointed in her. I guess I'm kinder actually than she is. Well, Judith, thank you for your time today. We really do appreciate it. We know how busy you are.

And we'll catch up with you soon. Thank you. Bye. Putting politicians on the spot unexpectedly. That's what this show's all about. We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Here's the news that's broken overnight, a.k.a. your daily COVID information

from two guys who have only read the first paragraph of all the articles on the internet. Yeah, today at 5.30 today, we find out if it's going to be full lockdown or freedom today. Those are really the two options it seems to be.

So 5.30 this afternoon. And I thought Dr. Ashley Bloomfield yesterday at the press conference said something that I thought was really important because a lot of people are saying some mean stuff online and hassling people.

And I thought this was really good. Let me be clear here. There is no blame or shame in having COVID-19. The virus is the problem, not people who have contracted it. They did not ask to catch it. And in the same way you never ask to get a cold or flu in the winter, the virus is the problem. People are the solution. Very good, isn't he?

But I like blaming people. No, you can't. I like going on the virus is the problem. People are the solution. Very good, isn't he? That's good, but I like blaming people. No, you can't. I like going on the internet and blaming people. No, you don't. It's one of my favourites. I don't even go on the internet. You don't have any social media. You've never even been on the internet.

But have you seen that, you know, so IMDB, now that's a page where they store movie shows and TV shows information. Every show and movie get a page about all the actors and all the trivia. I've just realised what the acronym is. Internet Movie Database. Is it IMDB? So someone, I think you're right,

and someone set up the 1pm briefing that Ashley Bloomfield and Jacinda Ardern do as a TV show, an actual TV show, and people are having a lot of fun. Viewers have rated it as their favourite show of 2020. So far it's rated 9.8 out of 10. That's a great rating. Yeah.

The stars of the show are listed as private. Jacinda Ardern played as herself. Dr. Ashley Banfield played as herself. And there's some great reviews on there. How many seasons? Well, season two we've just started now. One review, New Zealand's favourite show is back for season two. I wasn't expecting since season one wrapped up

all the storylines quite well. Glad to see all the main characters back. Probably my favourite show of 2020. So we were having a field day. I must start watching season one. And lots of questions too. Are they going to continue with a single camera option for filming it?

Or are they going to do multi-cam? And who plays Ashley Bloomfield? Why is the press audio so bad? All those important questions are answered online. I think they should mic up the press for this TV series, right? Are they, will they, won't they? Yeah, well, yeah. The tension.

That's why some people say there's not a lot going on between the characters. You know, a lot of story line-up, you know, but a lot of people saying it's their favourite show of 2020. I feel like they could have, the two leads could have a bit more chemistry. Although, again, some people have said maybe the second series feels a bit rushed. Like they've sort of got it out quite quickly. Maybe they should have worked on it a bit longer.

Well, it was quite rushed. They only gave us a 15-minute warning on Wednesday night. And finally, masks, while they're not compulsory, they have been encouraged to be worn, particularly in Auckland. And I don't know if you noticed on the news, all the reporters are out and about in Auckland are all wearing masks, but they all seem to be falling down all over their faces. Well, this was a complaint that we aired yesterday,

that when you talk or have a conversation with a mask, your chin pulls the mask down over your nose. And slowly, every news cross, you see the mask is coming down, Dan, until it's just sitting on top of the top lip. Even Simon Dallow on One News picked up on it yesterday. Masks, as you can see, is one of them. We're being told that now in Auckland is the time to wear masks again. Thank you, Kim.

Those masks aren't that easy to wear, are they? So even he acknowledged it on the news. They are the headlines today that we've sort of lightly dusted over. Scrolling through your feed, of course, 5.30 today, that's when we find out what's happening with New Zealand. Big day today.

Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. And of course, New Zealand, we'll find out later this afternoon, Cabinet meeting at 3 o'clock and then 5.30 tonight. Will it be full lockdown? Will it be freedom?

Plenty of options on the table with the Cabinet table this afternoon, so we'll find out then. And we're just talking about Millennial Max, he's got a good app that tracks you. What's it called? It's called Arc. Arc.

Not to say that you shouldn't download the government one. No, you shouldn't. Don't want to send out mixed messages, Ben. That's not our job, is it, mate? No, but he would say it's quite good just for keeping track of where you are going. Now, this is on Max's recommendation. Millennial Max?

Hopefully he's not sending all our information to some government. The Chinese communists. Something. But it tracks where you go with your phone. So obviously it says, oh, you've driven here, you've walked here,

you've done all that. So if you need to go back and say where have I gone over the last few days. It's probably a front for an international fraud scheme. So everyone knows where you are so they can rob your house or something.

I wonder now that we've said it, maybe we shouldn't have. But anyway, we've gone there now but why is it going to be a good day? I also thought their COVID tracing app too there must be some people out there having rampant affairs

and if they get COVID we'll be like uh oh. So maybe on Wednesday you're like ooh. I hear you. Working late. Working late at the old office. Yeah well funny

because no one was in the yeah yeah. Yeah hey. Oh yeah good point. Yeah there'll be well I'm sure Ashley Bloomfield's not going to be like Well funny because no one was in the Yeah Yeah Good point Yeah I'm sure Ashley Bloomfield is not going to be like

Barry Stindleton has been having a rampant extramarital affair all over town There's the affair updates this afternoon Anyway

why is it going to be a good day We've got to think about the positives in times like this don't we Ben So we like to just take some calls

at the end of every show and celebrate the little wins in life. Yeah, so let's take one right now, eh? Let's go to Matamata. Welcome, Tanya. How are you? Hey, how are you? I'm good, Ben.

You're doing Matamata still trading off bloody Hobbiton, are you? Oh, I don't know. I haven't been out there for ages. Yeah, right. Novelty's worn off for you, obviously. But why is it going to be a good day? Well, it's a good thing amongst a bad thing. I've got a very strict father at the moment in hospital.

But one of my sons and my daughter and my granddaughter, four-year-old granddaughter, are coming up today. So it's just going to be amazing. I haven't seen them in a while. Oh, that's nice. Get the family together. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And hopefully one of the other boys will come up tomorrow and then everyone will be together. And so to go see your father in hospital? Oh, that's an issue. Unless the restrictions are lifted, only one person's allowed to go once a day. Oh wow. Tough, isn't it? It really is tough when you hear

stories like that with these alert levels. I never thought that I'd be one of those people, actually. To be fair. Yeah. But yeah, it's the staff. they're terrified. Yeah, as they would be. It's a very unsettling

and surreal time, isn't it? If I was working there, I'd be scared too, so. Yeah, and they've got to follow protocol. You understand why they need

to have these measures in place. Yeah, it's tough for you guys and tough for him as well, I'm sure. So, all the best for your weekend. I hope you get some fun family time.

Hey, good on you, Tanya. You have a great weekend, all right? Let's go to Trev in West Auckland. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Trev. Let Dr. Goodtimes and Dr. Jazzypants

prescribe you some medicine. Hey, how are you guys? How's it going? All right? Yeah, we're good. All right, mate. What have you got planned for today? Oh, man, first of all, yeah, just being all good listening to you guys in the morning.

Oh, thanks for listening, mate. It means a lot. Sometimes we come up with art, but... Yeah, I don't know either, mate. Sometimes we walk out of here and we go, what did we just do for three hours? I hope no one heard that, but unfortunately you've been listening to it. And yeah, it's Friday, Friday's evening. It's a good Friday and I just finished stocking up all the West Liquor alcohol stores, so, you know, keep the spirits high.

Oh, keep the spirits, literally. Literally keep the spirits high. Trevor has been fuelled. Keep them sane, mate, keep them sane. Keep them sane. I tell you what, West Auckland does not need any more spirits, but Trevor has delivered it to them, and they'll make it through lockdown. Hey, you have a great weekend, Trev. Keep safe

out there. Hey, thanks a lot, man. Double Passer Reading Cinema's coming your way. Let's take another quick call, shall we? Wom, what's happening in Canterbury, baby? Why's it going to be a good day? Hey, it's a beautiful day because it's the sun shining and the blossoms are growing, the daffodils are in the driveway, and I might even

crack a bubbly. Oh, what, now? Why not? It's Friday. It's five o'clock somewhere, and I might even crack a bubbly. Oh, now? Why not? It's Friday. It's 5 o'clock somewhere. It's not even 9 o'clock. Breakfast bubbles. I'm with you. I'm with you.

You and McCormick, lay into it, mate. Hey, why not? You have it on Christmas Day. You have it on Christmas Day. Why not? Celebrate. Go on. Hey, it's lunchtime somewhere in the world.

Yeah, double pass the Reading Cinemas. You have a great day, and you too, Listing. Enjoy your weekend. Stay safe, New Zealand. We'll catch you Monday from 6.