Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - February 04 - Intervening The Day Before A Wedding!?

Episode Date: February 4, 2021

Today we deep-dived into a bit of a dilemma. A friend of someone we work with is a bridesmaid at her friend's wedding, but she has a bit of an issue with the groom. Should she advise her friend against marrying him? It's a bit of an awkward situation! Both of us also had a medical exam yesterday and we BOTH had shockers (in terms of urine samples... Whoops). Finally, if you don't follow the Instagram account S**t You Should Care About, you really should. It's run by a couple of girls in Blenheim, boasts over 2 million followers and is followed by a bunch of celebrities. It's a modern-style news account that explains what's going on around the world that the mainstream media might not be picking up. Lucy Blakiston is one of the ladies behind it and we caught up with her!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh, sorry. No. Oh, no, sorry. No, Ben's got a new format for the podcast. New format for the podcast coming up on today's show. Just a bit of a tweak in the podcast intro format. It's a bit of a menu. Like it's a little contents of what's coming up in the podcast. Then we can get into whatever you want to talk about. A name conversation.

Today on the podcast, very, very close to winning $5,000. In fact, did we win? We might have won $5,000 for someone today. No, we just said we're very close to. Okay. So that kind of. It was meant to be a bit of a teaser to like, oh, did they? Oh, did we win? We might have won $5,000 for someone today. No, we just said we're very close to. Okay. So that kind of. It was meant to be a bit of a teaser to like, oh, did they? Oh, did they not?

Also as well on the show, we had someone who had a real, quite a bit more of a serious conversation about a dilemma to do with a wedding that was coming up in a couple of weeks. It was quite interesting. She doesn't like her friend's fiance and was debating whether she tells him or not, tells her or not that she shouldn't marry him two weeks out from the wedding so we get we delve we deep dive into that as well

would you put your sticky beak up in there? no as you said I'm you know classic Kiwi just don't say anything don't make a fuss it's not the best like I admire people that you know they go yep and they're straight black and white they're like yep that's what I want

it's good I was. You know, it's good. I was saying that advice that my neighbour passed on to me. Your level of success is determined by how many awkward conversations you're willing to have. Yeah. Isn't it? Those that have those confronting conversations,

they're upstairs, mate. We're down here on level G in the NZME empire You know who's upstairs mate? People having awkward conversations right now Probably Probably Should we sack Jono and Ben?

Yeah They're probably having that conversation right now Yeah And they're doing that around a big boardroom table With fine cigars Yeah so anyway That's what's coming up on the podcast today Now over to you Jono

With whatever you wanted to talk about When was the last time you went to the dentist boys? You've got good teeth Yeah I went to the dentist boys? You've got good teeth Yeah I went to the dentist probably end of last year I went to the dentist am I? Yeah so always good to go along you've been putting your dentist's kids through

university I think over the last little while. Well they'd actually already finished university and started a career in the workforce but they've actually gone back to university all the extra money yeah you're like wow university and started a career in the workforce but they've actually gone back to university just to throw them through again. Yeah, you're like, wow. But no, have you ever felt the joy of having your gums cut back?

No. As in sliced off? No. That sounds wonderful. Nothing quite like it. I don't know, because you know when you're lying down looking up at the roof and your mouth's numb, you're having to pretend or imagine in your head what's going on

because you can't quite see what utensils are being used. All you can feel is tugging and pulling and I could feel the distinctive odour of burning gum flesh. Oh, okay.

So they're obviously just sealing it up so it wouldn't bleed anymore. So I've had to have my gums cut up. Yeah, that was... That sounds wonderful. It was wonderful.

But the anaesthetic wears off and you don gums cut up. Yeah, that was... That sounds wonderful. It was wonderful. But the anesthetic wears off and you don't feel a thing. Drugs, wonderful stuff. What would we do without drugs? What would we do? Anyway. The gangs would have no revenue flow. Oh, we wouldn't be a cure for COVID.

That's right. Drugs. Anyway, we got ourselves into a strange little hole there. Enjoy the podcast. You know what's coming up because I told you before. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Yeah, as a parent.

Now, obviously, your parents have become grandparents. And that's how the family, if you're struggling with family treats, this is a rock solid start. Come talk to me, ancestry.com and Ben Boyce, I'll help you through all these things. But have you noticed, I don't know if it's just my parents

and my mum in particular, she's got a lot more relaxed now that she's a grandparent than she was when she was a parent. Oh yeah? What happened? Well, like when I was little, she was very, very strict

on what I could eat as far as, you know, like treats and stuff goes, you know, food that was bad for me. But now that she's a grandparent, she's really relaxed. It's all about, she's got no responsibility now. So she's like, hey, she's the fun grandparent. What is she like feeding your kids? Oh yeah, I got up, she was staying last weekend. She's like, well, you have a little bit of a sleep in. I'll get up in the morning with the girls and hang out with them, with my

kids. I'll sort them out. I'm like, great. I get up and I was like, oh, what do they have for breakfast? She's like, oh, they've had something. What do they have? Oh, they've had like a couple of biscuits and a little bit of ice cream. Oh, they're for breakfast. Ice cream for breakfast. Oh, it's just a little treat from the grandma. They checked out of parenting a long time ago, you know,

and we selfishly expect them to be at the top of their parenting game too. Yeah, and I don't mind. It's not like I don't mind the girls having something like that, you know, from time to time, but for breakfast. I mean, to be fair to you, you're placing a lot of responsibility on a generation who thought good parenting was chucking a mattress in the back of a station wagon and having six kids roll around

in there on a five-hour car journey. And they thought a good babysitter was a car in a car park of a pub with a bag of burgerings. Well, true. You know, different sort of parameters. Yeah, no, you're right. So I wanted to know this morning what happened when you left the grandparents in charge.

What are some of the things that happened? And Producer Humphries, before the show you were saying something happened with your family. Yeah, so Grandma, she was losing her vision but she didn't want to tell anyone because she didn't want her... Didn't want to make a fuss. Yeah, and she didn't want to lose her driver's licence. Exactly.

Bang on, Jono. So she was almost legally blind still driving a car? She was driving a little bit, but every now and then... She would go by bus where she could, but if she was going to the supermarket where she'd have bags, she would drive and... Bit of a guessing game. Don't like sort of hitting cars on the way down.

No one was any the wiser, and then we cottoned on to it, and then my younger sister said, oh, yeah, one day I was with Grandma and we went to the supermarket, and on the way home it started raining, and she got me to steer the car home. Grandma was driving using the accelerator in the brake and my 10 year old sister was staring because grandma couldn't see anything. Just take the wheel for a second there.

Grandma thought it was totally fine. She was relaxed. Wow. Okay. I don't think we're going to beat that. Stories of grandparents looking after your kids. Can we get any better than that? We've got some Hell Pizza up for grabs this morning. 0800 the hits. 4487 on the text. Now let's go to the phone, shall we, Ben?

Because that's what we're here to do, aren't we, my friend? Grandparents, when they were in charge, what went wrong? We'll start with you, Lisa, in Auckland. Hey, guys. My two-year-old was spending the night and afternoon with his grandma, and they were having a muck around, playing around on the grass out the back of the house, and he had a bit of a tumble off the deck, which is only kind of a couple of steps onto the grass, and he had a bit of a grizzle after that,

and I thought, not much of it, but took him to the doctor later in the day just to get him checked out, and the doctor's like, no, he's fine. So he's with me two days later, he's kind of hugging his arm a little bit, and I take him along to the hospital. He's got a broken collarbone in two places. It's literally snapped in half. It's like a walk-it-off situation. Yeah, it's not really a walk-it-off situation.

It turns out he had a huge tolerance for pain. Jeez, did he what? Yeah, it's crazy. I love that you took him to the doctor. The doctor said, ah, no, his head's fine. Yeah, that's what I thought. Collarbone, however. You didn't ask me about the collarbone.

Otherwise, I would have told you about that. That's an amazing story. You go and have a wonderful Thursday, Lisa. Thanks for listening to the programme. We'll send you out some hell pizza. Hold the line, my friend. We'll go to the Bay of Plenty. More dinner, Caitlin.

Hi, how are you? Yeah, we're doing well. Grandparents in charge. Actually, Caitlin, you'll enjoy this. I'm just looking on the text here. We went out for dinner once, and my dad was in charge, says Tiff. And we came home, and our baby was wrapped in a supermarket bag, reusable supermarket bag, because he couldn't find the nappies.

Oh, jeez. So he cut leg holes in the bottom of the supermarket bag. Genius. Oh, that's in some ways genius, yeah. What happened with your parents, Caitlin? My grandma, every time we went over or she came over, she was well known for her haircut. She took the opportunity because she reckoned that we were,

I don't know whether she thought we were just living in a desert or something, but she always said it made you cooler. So when you went to her house and she'd say, oh yeah, bath time, it meant bowl cut time. Bowl cut meaning literally putting a bowl on your head and cutting around your head. Not just like a minimal one. So I learned pretty quick to avoid having a bath at her house, but it didn't last long. She was running a clandestine hair salon.

She was not a hairdresser, that's for sure. When you say a bowl cut, would she actually stick a bowl on your head? She would stick a bowl salon. Oh, yeah. She was not a hairdresser, that's for sure. When you say a bowl cut, would she actually stick a bowl on your head and cut it? She would stick a bowl on her head, yeah. Oh, my God.

And cut around the bowl. And this lasted for me until I was about nine and my sister told me I was about 15, which was high school. Oh, the bowl cut. So you can imagine

how that went down. I tell you, the bowl cut, a great recipe for being bullied at school. Oh, my goodness. At high school, yeah. Good on you, Caitlin. Go and have a great day. I'm going to send you out some pizza as well. Should we take one more? cut, a great recipe for being bullied at school. Oh my goodness. At high school, yeah. Good on you, Caitlin.

Go and have a great day. I'm going to send you out some pizza as well. Shall we take one more? Yeah, we'll take one more. Nicky, you're on the air from Auckland. Your grandad's looking, your grandparent's looking after you. What happened? No, they were actually looking after my brother and they had to do a roadie down

to Wellington to see my auntie at the time. So my grandfather decided that he'd drive while the rest of us flew. So he took my 12-year-old brother, so they left late at night to avoid all this traffic. And he thought that because the car was automatic and it was nighttime, that he'd teach my brother to drive. So they took turns driving from Auckland to Wellington.

No. No. Only an eight-hour journey. A 12-year-old drove from Auckland to Wellington. Oh, God. That is amazing. Different time. Yeah, I didn't think there was any issue with that.

It's automatic. It was night time. It was automatic. Oh, my goodness. If anything, night time's more dangerous. Absolutely, especially back then. Oh, my goodness. This is cool.

We're going to send you out some Hell Pizza as well, all right? Wonderful. Thank you. That's one of those stories that we'd read on CNN and talk about in an odd news segment. Exactly, yeah. And Hell Pizza, you can get beer and wine delivered with your Hell Pizza order as well. Check it out online. Warning,

this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Yesterday we both had to go and get a medical. We're doing a TV show

and they need to, for some reason, they think we're getting old and dusty and they need to insure us in case we die during filming. Go get a medical.

I've only ever had one medical before when I had to get insurance a few years ago and that was so, I was like, I had to run on a medical. I've only ever had one medical before when I had to get insurance a few years ago. And that was so... I was like, I had to run on a treadmill. I was doing stretches all the way through. I'm like, this is a prank. Someone's pranking me.

John is pranking me. He's getting someone to do all these things to me. But no, it seemed pretty legit. You had to run on a treadmill? I know, yeah. Wild. I was touching, stretching, touching. It was very comprehensive.

Do you know the problem with medicals is they've been tarnished with a probing brush, don't they? It's like, oh, you've got to get a medical. And you prepare yourself for a probing. But there's no probing. No, there was no probing. Did you get probed in your... I didn't. I saw the same guy as you saw, but it was probably about an hour and a half, two hours afterwards.

He's like, oh, I saw your off-sider. And I was like, oh, great. He's like, oh, he hasn't got long to go. Did he tell you that? Did he mention that? Well, maybe that's coming through later. Yeah, but anyway, that's some news for you. They'll probably pass on at some stage.

Well, it's good you delivered it now. And it's good that he was sharing my personal information with the patients as well. Because you have to fill out this form. And there's so many questions. And I just get on a roll of like, are you fit and healthy? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

You don't even end up reading the questions. And I was like almost ticking, are you heavily pregnant? Yes. Because you do get into a roll of these things. And then the next one was, are your breasts swollen and inflamed? Yes.

But I had an absolute shocker with the nurse. Oh, did you? Because she said, because you need to give a sample of some description. And she's like, well, you just go into the lavatory and give this. She's like, you've done a sample before? I was like, yeah, I've done a sample before.

I know how this works. And you get the tray. It's sort of a bowl. Yeah. Did you get that? Yeah, and you've got to do it midstream, like midstream. Yeah.

You're basically collecting and then leaving it on the windowsill and they'll come in and grab it afterwards. Well, I didn't know this. She didn't tell me that part. She just assumed I knew what to do. And so then I filled up the tray and then I came wandering back into the... Oh, did you? With my hands.

It was full. It was full It was full It was a balancing act And she started You had to fill it up It was to the brim It's not like you pay for a wine glass You're like oh no I paid for an $11 wine glass

I want more And she's like What are you doing? And she's like you're meant to tip it into the test tube. Oh, I didn't do that part. She was just like, leave a tub. She was just like,

leave a tub in the toilet. Oh yeah, you just said leave it on the thing. So I was like, oh sweet, I'll just leave it there. She didn't tell me this. She's like,

oh no, you're meant to carefully pour it into a test tube and then leave it in a holder in the lavatory. So then I had to walk, like balance and walk back and sloshing around

the doctor's seat. Oh, how arrogant do I look? You go in there and sort that out for me, mate. I've left it on the windowsill. You just leave a giant tub. We both had a shocker. Oh, yeah. We'll find out if we pass the medical at some stage over there.

It's like, what an age we live in as well, you know, with medical advancements. But one of the things they did was, like, hit your knee with a little stick and make it, and I was like, oh, okay. This is obviously something.

I don't know what that even proves. Close your eyes and touch your nose as well. Is this a sobriety test? Can you walk in a line straight?

He's very drunk. That's why he left a big bucket of urine in the toilet. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you

into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. I'm sorry to rope you into this. I'm sorry you've been dragged into this. Shono and Pam, breakfast on the heads. The heads. There's a friend of someone who listens to this show, but a friend of someone here at the office that has kind of come on the show right now with a bit of a dilemma.

Yeah, no, we've probably forced her hand a little bit, but we thought it was great content and, you know, we're soulless radio hosts. Also, hopefully this can help this person reach a conclusion, because obviously struggling with it, we're going to keep them anonymous and keep the whole thing anonymous for obvious reasons. Tough word to say.

But then you double down on it too. You nailed it first time. I said first time, then second time. Why did I go back there? It was a textbook anonymous. Why did I go back there? Yeah, no. Anyway. This is where you let yourself down, okay? We'll talk about this at the post-show meeting. I know. No more anonymous. That's right. Mags, welcome to the show. How are you, matey? Hi, guys. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well. Listen, not your real name. And we are keeping you, the word that Ben nailed the first time. Yeah,

okay. And then fluff the second. What is the situation here? Well, so I've got one of my best friends from school getting married in a couple of weeks, and I'm actually one of the bridesmaids, so we've been friends for years. But over the last couple of months, I've started to think maybe she's marrying the wrong guy, and he just doesn't bring out the best in her. He's a lazy slob, which makes her really unmotivated. So I'm kind of stuck in the middle here where I want to tell her that I just think she's

marrying the wrong person. He's a great guy but I just don't think he's the one for her, so or do I just have to suck it up and do my bridesmaid's duties? Just listen, why don't you do the honourable thing and let them get married and live a miserable life together for the remainder

of eternity? No, I can see your dilemma here. Because I guess where you would be torn is, like, if you do say something to her and she's like, well, I'm in love with that slob, and then your friendship's done. Exactly. So that's where I'm a bit stuck. And you don't get to keep the cool bridesmaid's dress for free. No, exactly.

And I really want to keep that. Yeah, no, obviously she is in love with him and she loves him, right? Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. And he sounds like he loves her and as you said, he's a nice guy, but just not obviously as motivated as you would like to see your friend be. No.

Okay. And maybe just not the right person for her. All right. Now, I'm casting a lot of judgment on a gentleman who's not here to defend himself. Okay. And maybe just not the right person for her. All right, now... It's the right of someone else. I'm casting a lot of judgment on a gentleman who's not here to defend himself. Ben, what would you do? Situation? I probably wouldn't say anything, to be honest.

But that's me. But that's me, and I don't like to cause a fuss. I would just talk behind her back. I could have walked in on him with someone else. I would probably, you know... Listen, I'll leave. I could have walked in on him with someone else. I would probably, you know. Listen, I'll leave. I'm making this awkward.

Classic Ben. That's me. Peacekeeper. Yeah, but it's probably not the best thing. Sometimes when you do want to tell a friend, you know, when it's good for their, you know, it's good to have those tough conversations. Would you have that conversation, Jono?

Oh, probably not. I'm like you. We're shallow broadcasters. We don't like to look bad in front of anyone. Narcissistic broadcasters. I'd like to think I'd try and attempt to have that conversation, but I'm not good at having courageous conversations. You know this, Ben. Yeah. Okay, Mags.

We'll throw it out. Thank you so much also for not going and discussing the sensitive issue and the privacy of a room with your own friends and coming on the radio and seeking the advice of complete strangers. Well, maybe it's happened to someone before. Maybe someone hasn't spoken out and then regretted not doing it. Let's throw it out there.

What would you do? What should mags do? 0800 the hits, the number, 4487 if you'd like to text us. Does she tell her mate she's marrying a slob? Someone that loves her, someone that loves, you know, just, yeah. I just like the word slob. Or does she say, quiet, you can get in touch with us right now on New Zealand's Breakfast.

Let's get a call on here from Molly. You're on the air, Molly. Welcome from Wellington. Your thoughts. Does Mag say anything? Definitely not. No way. That's the Kiwi thing, isn't it?

That's the Kiwi thing. Keep our heads down. Yeah, no. I've got friends who are probably in marriages that, to be fair, will probably be over in five years at least. But you don't say anything. You've just got to pick up the pieces at the end if it doesn't work out. And that's what friends do.

And I'm kind of like, it's kind of their thing to sort out. You know? 100%. And nothing's wrong. Like, no one's, he's not cheating on her or anything like that. There's no big drastic things happening

that you feel like you should. Yeah. But it is. And I guarantee if you say anything, that's kind of your friendship done. Yeah, causes more trouble.

Keep your sticky beak out of it. That's what Molly's saying. Who's John only coming here and tell me about that? Imagine if he was like, mate, Amanda,

I don't think you're marrying the right age. Yeah, alright, thanks mate. I actually had that conversation with Amanda, was like, mate, Amanda, I don't think you're marrying the right lady. Yeah, all right, thanks, mate. I actually had that conversation with Amanda, your wife, before the wedding. I had it with her as well. I don't think I'm right for you. You sure? You're too good for me.

You look after yourself, Molly. Appreciate that. Now, we've got an anonymous call on the phone here who's had this exact thing happen. Oh, wow. The night before the wedding, we understand. What happened? I had a really good friendship with my friend, so I just said to her, basically,

I didn't go, oh, I don't like your husband to be. I just said to her, now, you're going to get married tomorrow and just did the big talk like, you're sure this is what you want to do? I just said, because they were quite different, he's quite boring, no offence to anyone, but he was boring and she was quite a party girl. Well, it's offensive to's quite boring, no offence to anyone, but he was boring and she was quite a party girl. Well, it's offensive to him

when you say no offence to anyone, or he would be quite offended by that. Oh, so they're quite different personalities, and sometimes that attracts, but yeah, but you were like they're not right for each other. How did this conversation go down? Was it met with open arms? Yeah, no, because we have that open friendship, so she was like, I get what you're saying, and I

appreciate, you know, your concern, but everything's booked for tomorrow. I can't get my bond back. You've left your run a tad late. You know, maybe we could have this conversation a couple of months ago. Yeah, true. It obviously all happened and it did all work out.

Yeah, it did. I said to her, I said to her, it's okay, I could go set the venue on fire. We could do something. If you don't want to go through with okay, I could go set the venue on fire. We could do something. If you don't want to go through with it, I can make a plan. I will commit arson to get you out of this marriage. What a friend, what a friend. Good on you.

Hey, that was a really nice call. Thanks for listening. Appreciate it, all right. And we'll end from Steve-O in Taupo. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast Again, Steve. What do you think? Well, I don't think she should say anything, to be quite frank. She's her best mate.

She should be there to support her regardless. And if it falls apart, she should be there to pick up the pieces and console her and show that she is her best friend. People that are humans normally do the opposite to what their friends say. So if you say don't do it, she's probably going to do it anyway. No, that's a good one, yeah. And so you'll lose no matter what. So just be a good mate and support your friend, and you'll be all good.

You don't want to lose that friendship? No, I appreciate it, Steve. Steve from Taupo in his truck, a philosopher, Plato, Aristotle, Steve. Not normal for a truck driver. I love that. I appreciate your call, Steve-O normal for a truck driver. I love that. I appreciate your call, Steve-O. Thank you so much. So in conclusion right now,

I think the general consensus would be... Stay mum. Yeah. Stay mum. And that's been backed up on the text as well. A lot of people have gone, listen, I didn't say anything. The relationship ended sort of eight years later

and you've just got to be there for them then. That's all you can do. And that was Jono and Ben on The Hits. Have we finished the show yet? No. We've got got to be there for them then. That's all you can do. And that was Jono and Ben on the hits. Have we finished the show yet? No. We've got more to go. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone.

Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. If you're on social media, you'll probably follow this site, not knowing maybe that it started out in New Zealand, starting out at Blenheim. It's called SHIT You Should Care About. And it's a site that's a new site. You would have seen it pop up. And it's about all the new stuff that you really should care

about in the world. Two and a half million people following this account. And some of the world's most famous people are following her. Usually it's us lowlifes creepily following the celebrities. I don't think all that's stalking. Well, it's the other way around in this instance. Ariana Grande, Bella Hadid, Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon, Chrissy Teigen, some of the celebrities that follow this account. And it was started here by three mates in Blenheim. I know. It just goes to show how important the internet is

to New Zealand. It connects us with the world. Usually we're forgotten about. We've been left off the world map four or five times. So this is great. This is great inroads. And she joins us on the phone right now. Lucy Blackison, this is wild. Yeah, that's wild, isn't it? This account that you started with Friends of Yours

is followed by celebrities like Ariana Grande, Reese Witherspoon, Chrissy Teigen. I mean, it's incredible. Yeah, you know what? I really can't fathom those people sitting in their houses, like three girls from Blenheim running an Instagram account. It's wild. So it is running out of Blenheim running an Instagram account. It's wild. So it is running out of Blenheim, and you're doing it with your friends.

It's called Shit You Should Care About. And so what is the crux of the Instagram account? Well, so we were all at uni, and I was sitting in a lecture one day trying to read the news, and I was thinking, I'm literally getting a degree, and I don't understand what's happening in the news. And then I kind of thought, other people probably want to know what's going on in the world

in easy, kind of funny, accessible terms. So I just texted my mates and was like, should we start something called Shoot You Should Care About? And Ruby and Liz are amazing. They're so smart. And they were just like, yep, let's do it. And it has snowballed, apparently. Yeah, well, 2.4 million people would suggest it has.

Is this a full-time job? Yeah, it's full-time work, but, you know, not full-time income all the time. So we're trying to cross that line of how we make this sustainable for us. Yeah, no, fair enough. But then it's a balance, isn't it? Yeah. People like your content. They don't want to be forced ads about, say.

No, they want news and stuff you should care about, right? Yeah. Exactly, and we want it to be accessible. That's the whole point. So we can never make people pay for our content. Right. And what's it like when someone like Chrissy Teigen or Ariana Grande, Reese Witherspoon,

suddenly pop up and you get a notification going, they're following you? I mean, that just must blow your mind. Honestly, it blows your mind. She messaged us one time saying, what did she say? She posted something and she said, this means a lot coming from people like you. I was surprised to know that this was a site run out of New Zealand. And also surprised to read that 57% of your followers

are from America, only 4% from New Zealand. I know. Everyone's surprised when we say we're from New Zealand. If you were to get any one famous person to follow you, what would be your ultimate dream? I mean, you've got a good list so far. It would have to be Michelle Obama or Lizzo.

Oh, okay. Or Barack Obama. Do you decide what to put up there? Like the stuff that you think that people should care about? Well, it's very, a lot of it comes from the community. So obviously we get a lot of DMs from people around the world that send us kind of tips about things going on in their countries that maybe the mainstream media isn't

picking up. And then a lot of it is just from, you know, you just go with your gut. If you see something and you're like, damn, why aren't people talking about that? Now we have the chance to get people talking about it, so we just post away. Now, my dad, you know my dad is, I don't know why

he does it. I don't know if she knows you. Do you know my dad, John? I don't know your dad. At least she knows your dad. Yeah, John, he's a lovely guy. But one thing that confuses me every time he comes to stay at my house is he turns on Fox News but he hates what Fox News is about

and he just sits there stewing at what they're saying on Fox News and then goes, I'm listening to what they're saying on Fox News and then goes, I'm listening to what they're saying on Fox News. I'm like, yeah, well, they're going to keep saying that stuff. You don't want to. You don't have to watch it. Yeah.

We love to hate. People love to hate. Honestly, if you could see some of the trolls we get. I think people just come to our page sometimes so that they can see something that riles them up. Do you get a lot of abuse from Americans? There's people that just create accounts just so that they can

troll people. Oh wow. What an age we live in. Now this sounds like a very old person thing to say. Where in tiny Blenheim you can have an account that is followed by 2.4 million people around the world. An influential

account. It's amazing. Congratulations. I know. around the world. Influential account. Yeah, it's amazing. Congratulations. I know. It's crazy. It's crazy. And you're up for Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the Year, Young Person of the Year, right? I am.

Awesome. Which is shocking. Well done and well deserved. That's awesome. Oh, thank you, guys. I mean, I'm definitely not a frontrunner, so I think I haven't been really getting my hopes up, but I think sometime in March they'll announce it.

Who do you want us to take out? Who's running in front of you and we will destroy them publicly? We'll do a smear campaign. Mate, we don't have your numbers. You're the people to do it. That's awesome. Well done. Lucy, what a wonderful thing you're doing for the world, and it's so awesome to see it happening here from New Zealand

and going worldwide. Shit you should care about the world, and it's so awesome to see it happening here from New Zealand and going worldwide. Shit you should care about. Yeah, congratulations. You too. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. One of my favourite things to do, Ben, I know you know this about me,

is just buy nonsense products. Nonsense products off TV. Oh, so the advertorials, the ads that sort of, you know, say Oh, you need to buy this or whatever You need to get these rocks to put in the fry pan Or this chair that straps you in and massages you That sort of stuff I love that massage chair

But they never say how much the massage chair costs It looks pricey You buy stuff from that You bought the Abdominal Pro, didn't you? It's some sort of Ab Circle Pro Yeah Yeah, still my abs haven't hit the big legs

They haven't hit professional. Still amateur abs. But that was like a thing that you would hold on and you'd swing your pelvis side to side. And I was like, what am I doing? What am I doing? It's probably used as some adult toy now, I imagine. Some adult swing.

We're in a kindergarten, one of two options. But yeah, so we got rid of that. But the latest one I've purchased, the massage gun. It's the friendliest of all the guns. If you're going to pick a gun, pick a massage gun. A massage gun, yeah. It's like a jackhammer for your back. I've seen these people using them in social media.

Does it work? I don't know if it relaxes me or stresses me out more. I've got the massage gun. Oh, have you? I bought it in. Oh, wow. Here we more. I've got the massage gun. Oh, have you? I brought it in. Oh, wow. Here we go. And it comes with

various attachments. So you've got the gun, but you've got like a fork that can stab into you and you've got like a pad, a little pad. Look at this thing. It looks kind of like

a hairdryer almost. A souped up hairdryer. And yet, it's a Japanese attachment. Wow, it's quite, and it looks like you put a microphone into a hairdryer. I tell you what quite and it looks like you put a microphone into a hairdryer. I tell you what it looks like.

You know when you see those niggly police officers on the side of the road pointing a gun to catch if you're speeding? It looks like one of those. It does look like a speed camera. And so then you turn it on, you can ramp it up. Come over here, mate. You know I don't like massages. This is running at 120. This is a lot of

you hate massages. Okay, and you just keep talking. Okay. I don't like massages. This is running at 120. This is a lot of... You hate massages. You just... Yeah, you... Okay, and you just keep talking. Okay. Oh! She's doing this again. Okay, you're on the...

Wow! I'm going to try this one. Surely that's too strong. I've been trying it on different parts of my body. That's way too strong. Is that too much for you? Too much massage. But obviously you can dial it back, right?

You can dial it back, yeah. But I feel like it runs at such an intensity, you feel like you're going to have a heart attack or something. But yeah, that's the massage gun. Another one of my wonderful purchases that I'll inevitably throw out probably in about 6-12 months. Or like the Sharkty mat that I've put under the bed. The Sharkty mat.

I still use it. Do you still use a Sharkty mat? I used it a couple of times and now I rolled it up neatly and I put it under the bed and that's where it's stayed for quite some time now. Do you like lying down but hate the comfort of a mattress and would rather be lying on nails?

Well, then a Sharkty mat is for you. You feel better afterwards. Yeah, of course you feel better afterwards because you're off the sharpest mat known to man. But people that use it love it, like yourself. Oh, yes, and I even stand on it in bare feet because you've got the whole weight of your body just pressure on your feet and it's quite sore,

but it's... Oh, jeez, now we've got them started. You you can massage your face you can just massage any part of your body come over here ben let me massage you okay well he hates being messaged no it makes me more more tense just thinking about it yeah yeah no yeah no yeah no the whole movie yeah no she'll be right and at the end of the day jonah and ben breakfast on the hits always an exciting time to do this five words for 5k on the hit. Always an exciting time to do this.

Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. And it's our new game, five words for $5,000. You basically just... You tell us the first words that pop into your head when we say our five words. If they match up with one of our five words, you win five grand. It's as easy as that.

And I tell you what, it's probably the only way you can get your hands on money that the Inland Revenue can't touch. That'll start a money laundering business. These are your two options. We've got some options there. Yeah, welcome to Five Words, Fiona. Lovely to have you on, Morena. Hey, Morena guys.

Thank you for having me. Oh, you sound bright, bubbly, and like a lady who wants some cash money. Yes, I am. Yeah, I am all those things. Alright, so you've got to choose now, Jono or myself. One of us is going to go to a soundproof booth and not hear what's going on. Who do you want to pick? Jono, please.

Oh, Jono. Oh, no, just what's the thought process behind this? Because I've got a shaky track record in the soundproof booth. Oh, you know what? I just thought Jono being the first link that came to my head was your name, Jono. Oh, right. Okay, no reason. No theory behind it whatsoever.

Well, I'll get into the booth. Okay, so Jono's making his way to the soundproof booth. We've got a booth in the corner of the studio. He locks himself in. He can't hear what's going on. He's taking a while to unlock the door right now. You alright, mate? Still time, mate. Okay, here we go. Jono getting himself inside

the soundproof booth. He's shut the door. He can't hear what's going on. Fiona, you know how the game works? I do. So I'm going to tell you five words. You're going to tell us what word you'd like to lock in. A game of word association after I say these words. And your first word is pillow.

Case. Case. Okay, and word is pillow. Case. Case. Okay, this is a good one. I think it's a good one. Producer Juliet, you think you're happy with it? You're nodding along? I think so. I think it's sensible. I don't know. Sometimes you get multiple words that pop into your head, so you can't take your time. Your next word. Oh, I can take my time because I've got two words in my head and I'm

tossing and turning between case and sleep. Case of sleep. Yeah. Well. I'm going to go tossing and turning between case and sleep. Case and sleep. Yeah, well. I'm going to go sleep. Actually, let's change it. Sleep. Sorry, guys. Are you going to change it to sleep?

Okay. It's possible. All right, you can change it to sleep. I'm going to let you change it to sleep. Okay, so, Pilar, you've got sleep. Apple. Apple. Oh.

I'm thinking core. Apple core. Core. Yeah, again, a solid option. Yeah, I think thinking core, Apple core. Core, yeah. Again, solid option. Yeah, I think so. Apple computer is another one I was just thinking, but Apple core I think is a smart choice. Career, not the country, career with C-A-R-E-E-R, career.

Successful career. Job. Job, okay. Your next word is maroon. Maroon. I'm maroon. I feel like red, red coming to my head. Okay, and your final word is moon.

Fiona, thinking about this, it's a tough one. You're like, oh, these words are going to win me five grand. I know, there's so much pressure when you know there's so much money on the line. Space. Oh, yes. That's good. I think these are good. I think these are good words, Fiona.

Hopefully these match up with Jono. We're going to get him out of the soundproof booth. Okay. He's good. I think these are good. I think these are good words, Fiona. Hopefully these match up with Jono. We're going to get him out of the soundproof booth. Okay. He's really lost in a daze. He's looking out there. You're right there. You're really alone with your thoughts. I was.

No, I was actually just thinking about all the stuff that I need to do after work tonight. Oh, okay. I need to pick some stuff up from the supermarket. All right. Well, you can make your way back round to your microphone. I've covered up Fiona's five words here. I don't do it.

Like, I always emerge. I feel guilty up Fiona's five words here. I don't do it like I always emerge. I feel guilty coming out of the soundproof booth. Even though I've done nothing untoward in the soundproof booth. Come out with a look of guilt on my face. How'd Fiona go? I think she went pretty well. A couple of words were quite tough and they had multiple options

so she sort of had a bit of a dilemma on the first one so we'll see if it matches up with yours. Alright, Jono, you ready to play? What if I said no? I'm going to mix things up today. I'm going to do it in a different order. Alright?

How's that sound for you? Well, it makes no difference to me because I don't know what order these are. I'm just trying to get into the mind of Jono and I'm going to go first word to match up with Fiona is apple. Core. Well done. One from one.

Well done. You happy with that one, Fiona? Cool. I'm nervous. She's nervous. You're nervous. You got one from one. He's flipping up the words on me for some reason.

I don't know why I decided to do that. I'm just going to move it around. The next word I'm going to go with is career. As in, you had a very unsuccessful career in radio. That led to you being trapped in novelty booths. A job? Yes! Well done!

Well done! Two from two, Fi! We're going to go back to the first word. The first word I gave Fiona. This is the one she had a bit of a dilemma on. Come on, Jono. Come on, Jono. Okay, this is the word, Jono. The word is pillow.

Pillow. Sleep. Sleep. She's on hold. She's on hold now. She's on hold now. She's... So I have an option here

to be a really nice guy for comedic purposes. We all heard it! I don't know what you're talking about. I've got studio quality headphones on. I heard that in both ears. Now I'm thinking pillow.

I've got two words in my head. One is case. It's a good option. It'll probably be the one that I might lock in. But something's telling me to go sleep. I don't know what it is. I think it's my gut. Alright, we're going to give...

Okay, sleep. There's long in it. These last ones are going to keep... I'm going to keep Fiona on hold. She's got three from five. Next word, Jono. To make it four out of five. Five words for 5K for Fiona. Maroon.

Maroon. Maroon. Red? Colour? Oh, did you look at that? Yes. Red? Oh, my goodness.

Did I? You got it. Fiona. Okay, no, no. Red. Oh, my goodness. Did I? You got it. Fiona. Okay, no, no. You whispering son of a gun. You're one word away from five grand. Fiona, we're going to pop you back on hold. We can't have any influence on this last one.

I was thinking we were in five as well. Yeah, this is the first thing that popped into my head as well. Okay. Fiona on hold. Yes. $5,000 on the line here. Bring Fiona up. No, don't.

No, no, no. No, no, no. I want her to whisper me the answers again. No, we on the line here. Bring Fiona up. No, don't. No, no, no. No, no, no. I want her to whisper me the answers again. We can't have that. Okay, here's your final word. Five grand. Oh, my God. On the line.

Moon. Moon. Shine? Moonshine. Ah! Oh, no! No! Fiona!

Oh! Bring Fiona up She's there Jono there was the other F Space Space Oh Fiona I'm so sorry Hey

Four out of five It's pretty good Jono So you should be proud anyway Yeah That is so awesome I'm so surprised We navigated through That third word as well.

That was a real toughie. I think you get marooned. Well done. That was hard. And as polite, I never thought you'd get sleep. Neither did I. Something just popped into me. There was a voice coming into me from somewhere.

Fiona, thank you so much for playing. We're so sorry we didn't win you the five grand today, but hopefully we get to do it again in the future. Woo! Let's go. Good on you, Fiona. Oh, you're so lovely. I like you.

Oh, sorry. Damn. Five words for 5K back again tomorrow. Add these two men together and somehow you'll get three quarters worth of a normal man.

The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Spy. The What's Up by Docco.nz Juliet went bush and she hasn't spoken

about it since. It's like the war. I don't know what went on in that bush, but she came back a changed woman and here she is with Spy. Thanks very much. Now, Graham Norton, he has talked about when he was a little kid, he told a lie to his parents and to multiple people that ended up with him undergoing surgery, like proper medical surgery.

So how it happened was he didn't want to go to school one day, and so he told his mum that he had a bit of a tummy ache, and then his mum was like, right, well, if you're, I think she had her reservations or hesitations. It was like, right, well, we'll take you to the doctor then if you don't want to go to school. Oh, yeah, call in bluff here. You've got to commit to the role at this point, don't you? Yeah, so she took him to the doctor, and this is what unfolded.

He goes, you've got something called appendicitis. And so next week, you'll be going into hospital to have your appendix out. Either I have an operation that I don't need, or I tell this doctor that there's nothing wrong with me, and then I've got two very angry adults in the room. So have the room. So happy operation. And so he still to this day does not have an appendix because it got taken out all because he faked being sick.

And he would have got even more than one day off school. Yeah, true. That's the rest of the week, surely. A dear friend of mine, Robert Taylor, who I used to work with on radio, he did exactly the same thing in Ashburton when he was growing up. But he was like, oh, this needs to go big. And he wanted to have something that his mum couldn't like, like a cold or something.

He wanted something that was internal. So he said, oh, I've got a sore brain, my head's sore. Oh, no. And so they went to the local doctor in Ashburton, and the doctor was like, what's wrong with your head? And he's like, oh, no no it's kind of spasming and it's tension it feels like it's kind of expanding

so he just made this up making it up he's all ad-libbing this and the doctor's like they put him on the next flight to Christchurch Hospital and he was being wheeled into the operating theatre

and he's still got a scar on his head they opened up his head to make sure that everything was okay. I know, it's all good. Then put it back. So back out. Then he had to go to school that afternoon too, which is a long afternoon.

But no, he's away for like a week. It was a major operation. You'd also think that the surgeon would open, you know, Graham and Robert up and be like, this doesn't look abnormal. Nothing wrong here at all. Yeah. God, and that is why kids don't fake being sick.

Just go to school. It's a lot less admin to deal with. Or just wag and don't let your parents know. I know. That's probably the best option. None of these are good options. Let's wrap that up, shall we? And that was Spy for more.

You can head to the hitstock.nz. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. You know, my daughter first did intermediate today. She starts at intermediate and it feels like one of those moments in your life.

You're like, oh, jeez, she moved from primary school to intermediate. And it's gone fast. Such a cliche, but it's gone really fast. When does the novelty wear off? For what? The new school. Tomorrow? You'll be like, uh, yeah, well, yeah, I don't know how quickly that lasts.

But last night I was running around trying to do everything, lots of things to sort out at home, and I ended up, I was going to put some, you know, crumb some fish and I ended up putting icing sugar on it. Do you crumb your own fish? Yeah, I was crumbing my own fish, yeah. You self-crumb. Well, last night I put icing sugar on it because there was a lot going on.

I was trying to, like, iron labels onto school uniforms. I was doing a whole lot, you know, getting food, school lunches. It's like Mrs. Doubtfire. There's a lot going on. This is the sweetest tasting fish I've ever tried, Daddy. If you want to try it, don't, don't.

It's not great. I haven't discovered something accidentally. It's like dinner and dessert in the same meal. Yeah. Then you try and sort of rub it off and put

the actual crumbs on, but it didn't quite work. Why don't you just buy fish fingers, mate? That's what I do. Oh, I was trying to buy some fish. They're bloody good.

They crumb them for you, sea lord. Oh, well, maybe that's where I'm going wrong. And they're snapped frozen That's what I do. Oh, I was trying to buy some fish. They're bloody good. They crumb them for you, sea lord. Oh, well, maybe that's where I'm going wrong. And they're snapped frozen. But something I've noticed recently, because it's getting quite busy, I feel like a lot of New Zealand families are back into the routine now. The parents are back at work. The kids are back at school.

And things just get busy. And the washing has just got out of hand. Last year it got out of hand. Are you at a mound? It's back. The mound is back. You had a growing mound. You actually had to move out of that house and buy a new house because the mound just moved in. got out of hand. Are you at a mound? It's back. The mound is back. You had a growing mound. You actually had to move out of that house and buy a new house

because the mound's just moved in. The mound of washing. Now, this is where you just, you wash stuff, you dry it, and you put it in a pile and you're like, I'll fold that and put it away later. And you don't, but you keep washing new stuff and you dry new stuff and you add to it. And it just keeps back.

And now, again, it's a mound. It's in the corner of our room. It's just like a mound of washing. So day one of Siena's school, you just sort of swung her back and forth, threw her into the mound, buried her, lost her for a couple of hours. She fossicked around and came out dressed? Yeah, well, that's pretty much. The kids just walk in in the morning and, you know,

they grab their stuff from the mound. It's like instead of- Where's my pants? Go to the mound. That's what the mound's for. Why else would we have a mound? What's this? And I was like, oh, that's Georgie Pie. It used to be a store. That's what the mound's for. Why else would we have a mound? What's this? And I was like, oh, that's Georgie Pie.

It used to be a store. That's where it went. Snifters. Yeah, remember Snifters? Yeah, well, that's in the mound. I can look for that Malaysian Airlines plane in there, in your mound. I am in charge of folding in the house too. Jen's the washer.

I'm the folder. And I let the mound get out of control the other day. And she's like, when are you going to tend to that mound? And I was like, there's only so many hours in the day. I know. I came out with that and she's like, yeah, well, I'm still doing my part. I'm doing the washing.

And I was like, I've got no comeback. You've just got to keep folding it. Do you find something to do, a little confession? Because sometimes you get to the end of folding the clothes and you have socks that don't match it. You're like, where is the other partner? I just keep putting them back in the, or you put them back in the dirty,

and these same socks, these two socks. Oh, you put them back in the washing cycle. I've gone around the cycle for about six months. As if some magician in the dirty. And these same socks, these two socks. Oh, you put them back in the washing cycle. They've gone around the cycle for about six months. As if some magician in the washing machine is going to go, ta-da, it's really an hour again. I'll put them back in the wash. And they go back through again. They come back.

It's like a little game you play. You're like, oh, they come back out again. But you hold on to them for an unreasonable amount of time. Maybe someone will find the partner for this. Three years down the track, oh, well, I guess we're never going to find your mate. Still single, eh? Yeah, well.

Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. The A to Z of New Zealand. It's been really fun doing this, hasn't it? Calling every town and city in New Zealand. Trying to find out about each town, and we do it alphabetically. We've learned quite a lot about all sorts of places

I didn't even know existed in New Zealand. Oh, listen, we've hit the L's. Yeah. We've hit the L's today. Yeah, that's right. It's almost halfway, aren't we? We've navigated our way through the Ks. Now we're heading to Lake Hawia.

Lake Hawia is a small settlement which is 18 kilometres from Wanaka and it's known for its vibrant, lake-based activities, such as going to take a jump in the lake, and that's it. That's all you do. The pictures actually look amazing. I guess you could say it's trout of this world.

A trout being a... The fish of a freshwater lake. I suppose you're right. Is that a slogan that they have, or is that... No, that's just something you've come up with. That's something I brainstormed, yeah. What did you think?

Did you spend a lot of time on it or not? Yeah, it was five to seven minutes. Okay. Yeah, what do you think? Oh, there's a... Your average three-star hotel is $126 a night or $26 per hour. Now, I don't know why you'd want to rent a hotel room by the hour, but maybe Ben can explain to me after this.

Currently, it's 20 degrees, and the local time there is 6.17, and we're going to go through to, I think this is a bakery-cum-cafe. Hopefully, they're open at this time. How are you? So, in Kitchen Burner, Sticky, how can I help? Hello.

Hello. Hello. How can I help? Hello. Hello. Hello. How's it going? Good. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. How's it? It's all good. How are you doing?

We're doing good. What was your name, sorry? My name is Bojana, but you're after Marlena, I think. Are we after Marlena? Yeah, I think so. Are we? Brianna, but you're after Marlena, I think. Are we after Marlena? Yeah, I think so. Are we? Hey, Brianna, you sound fine to talk to, but if you want to put us on to Marlena, we can talk to Marlena.

I tell you what, we're very flexible with who we talk with. I'm pleased to meet you guys as well. Oh, nice to meet you. There you go. I detect a wonderful accent. Good morning. How are you? Good morning.

There we go. That's good. Nice to meet you. How are you? That's her name, mate. She moved on. How are you? I'm good. A bit hot in the back of the kitchen there, but hanging in there. Melinda, we spoke to Brianna.

Where is she from? She's actually from Sweden. Ah. Melinda, we're phoning Lake Hawia. And we're phoning you because we're doing this every single day, phoning every town and city in Aotearoa. Oh, fantastic. Today it's Lake Hawea's turn.

Oh, lovely. Okay, so far away. You trying to get some info out of me? What do you want to know? What are you trying to know? We're just going to start with your bank account details. It's not an interrogation. I won't tell you at all.

My lips are sealed. Okay. Well, thank you, Melinda. Appreciate your time. Tell us about the place. Could you tell us something about the place? What's good? Well, I think the attraction out here would be the lake.

Just so much to do down there. It's really bloody cold, to be honest with you, and it looks so beautiful, but once you stand in it, it's like, oh, instant cool. Wonderful fishing out there. I've caught a couple of rainbow trout and salmon with my kids fishing rod. Oh, because I imagine the water would fill up off the icy cold mountain, the ice-capped mountains. Yeah, it absolutely does.

And it's really serene. It's beautiful, but it's just so cold. Mostly it's just the tourists that jump in there. Is it New Zealand cold? We always yell out to the people on the shoreline, it's fine when you get in. Yeah. Or is it just freezing?

It's really warm once you go under. Or it's refreshing. Refreshing is the other thing. Oh, it's refreshing. You're like having a little giggle to yourself. As you're shivering away. We all know the spots. What do you do?

I am a chef's assistant. Okay, do you do an eggs benny? Yes, we do. We do a beautiful eggs benny, and we make our own sauce, which just makes it that little bit more special. Yeah, that's the key. I try to make hollandaise once at home. Didn't work out as well as going somewhere, so you know. It's all about the whipping.

The whipping, okay. You're going wrong with the whipping, Benny. You've got to whip it. Whip it good. Whip it good. Yeah. Love your work. You keep safe there and keep on cooking. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful day and thanks for calling. See you.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Scrolling through your feed. Listen, a lot of news is broken overnight and safe to say if this man doesn't have news to report, he'll just make it up and you can rest in that knowledge. Well, this is legit news from New Zealand

and around the world and a big congratulations to rugby star Dan Carter and his hockey star wife, Honokata as they announce baby number four. Do they both introduce themselves at parties like that? Hello rugby star Dan Carter, hello hockey star Honokata. She used to be Honokata. Yes, yeah. Honor Dillard. Honor Carter. She used to be Honor Dillard.

Yes, she did. Yeah, but they've got baby number four on the way. They've got three sons already. The oldest one is six, so congratulations to them. That's awesome. That is awesome. Four. Wow-wee.

Yeah. Another 11. They could field a full team. It's not at that stage where I could say you could field a full rugby team because there's only four children. Almost seven aside. Yeah. You could always. They children. Almost seven aside. Yeah. You could always...

They could play the sevens? Yeah. Oh, no, you add Honor and Dan. There's six. One more. The Carders could be a, you know, be a sevens team.

A family sevens team. But that's wonderful news. I'm just looking at their Instagram posts here. Oh, beautifully tanned people, Honor and Dan. Like, you know,

they're the sort of people that if they're at the beach, you're like, there's no part of their body that's not tanned. Even though and Dan. Like, you know, they're the sort of people that if they're at the beach, you're like, there's no part of their body that's not tanned. Even though they don't remove their shorts, for some reason,

they're tanned underneath them. Well, yeah, he's been living in France, you know, for a while. You know, I'm sure that comes with living in France. I noticed also on social media,

they don't show the children's faces, which is obviously some privacy, which is great. Yeah, yeah. It's a nice thing to do and I thought

we had Dan Carter I remember when he came back and signed for the Blues and did he ever play for the Blues? oh that's a good point I don't think he played again I think he got injured

or something didn't he yeah I don't think he didn't play I think he got injured unfortunately but he came back it was big news he signed for the Blues

and I thought we had an interview with him I was so excited and it turned out that in the other room you guys were just playing audio, just bits of Dan Carter

talking from other interviews, not our interviews and it actually worked quite well. A few years ago, what would have been more embarrassing for you, Dan Carter, seeing your giant jockey billboard

or seeing you in a blues rugby jersey? Yes. Sure does. Okay, okay. Is this legit? Sorry, Dan. If it is, Dan. Dan Carter, is this legit sorry Dan if it is Dan

Dan Carter is this you actually on the talking to us right now thank you good to be here no it's not him what if I told you

it wasn't Dan Carter when I said it worked quite well the bits before that yeah it was it went on for about five minutes yeah

it was well done. Well, Dan Carter would never come on this show, and that's the only way we can get him is audio clips from other interviews. Now, a woman who claims to be the world's cheapest multimillionaire has revealed some of the tips, how she does it.

She's very frugal. She keeps her bills very low. She reckons she's got a net worth of over $7 million. She lives in Las Vegas, and she turns her water off. So she only turns her hot water on 22 minutes before having a shower

because she knows that's how long it takes to heat it up for a shower and then she turns it straight off again afterwards. So yeah. This is like, yeah, this is your dream wife. Oh yeah.

Imagine, because you go around turning off all the power to save some electricity, don't you? She replaces cans of tuna with cat food if it's cheaper, 30 cents cheaper. She'll eat chicken or tuna with light gravy. She uses the same old cleaning sponge until it's falling apart. Only uses one knife. She won't wash.

And instead of flying four hours. She won't wash the one knife? Yeah, no, I don't know why that's so. Why won't she wash one knife? I don't know. And she has regular business trips to LA. She drives four hours in the car each way to save herself $350 on airfares. So she's just like that.

Oh, but you've got to balance it. Like, when's she going to enjoy life? Like, eating cat food. I know, cat food. Lady, you're worth $7 million. I mean, surely. Treat yourself to some sea lord tuna, for goodness sake. Yeah, I know.

You know, she could even upgrade and get their fancy stuff where they put the tomatoes and the juice in. Yeah, true. You know? I know, you're right. Treat yourself to some sea lord tuna for goodness sake. Yeah, I know. You know, you should even upgrade and get their fancy stuff where they put the tomatoes and the juice in. Yeah, true. You know? I know, you're right. Treat yourself. And still have money. You know, it's not like that's going to blow.

Yeah, anyway. As the world's cheapest millionaire, and that's scrolling through your feed this morning. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Pam on the hits. We've got a guest in the studio, Jono. Now, she has been on our TV screens for years.

Oh, she's played more roles than an international con artist. Yeah. Aurora on Outrageous Fortune, but probably most famously Waverley on Shortland Street. What a role. But who am I, Nick? I'm not your wife. Not any.

Of course you are. No. Our whole wedding was just another sham and I got sucked in again like always. Oh, iconic character, isn't she? And now an acclaimed author. That's right. Claire Chittum has got up early and is with us in the studio. So nice to see you, Claire.

Hi. Thanks for having me, guys. Always such a lovely, friendly aura about Claire Chittum, isn't there? Look, there's just no time to eff around with being unhappy, is there? That's right. That's awesome. Just before we talk about the book, isn't there? Oh, look, there's just no time to eff around with being unhappy, is there? That's right. That's awesome. Just before we talk about the book, it looked like over New Year's you were hanging out

with the Prime Minister around about New Year's, according to your social media stalking. I was like, oh, there are the two of you having a New Year's together. Oh, I was very lucky. You know what? Our Prime Minister, she just wants to get down to a bit of drum and bass. Yeah, right. Were you at a festival together? We were at Shapeshifter.

Were you? In Fomatar. She's very polite at letting people take photos of her. I imagine she would, but that would be prime punishing zone. People at Shapeshifter. We were keeping her, I think she was being kept a long way away. Yeah, it looked like you guys were back behind. We were behind the scenes.

Not out in the middle of it. Now, the new book, how long have you been working on this? So I've been working on the book for, I guess, most of last year. My co-author, Kylie Bailey, who's a health journalist and good friend, and I sort of smashed our way to the finish line. That's over 200 pages, though. It's not like you just... Yeah, no, it's not just a little story.

He likes to do a page count when the authors come in. He's like, oh, well done. No, I just thought when Claire's like, oh, we just not just a little story. He likes to do a page count when the authors come in. He's like, oh, well done. You've done a good job. No, I just thought when Claire's like, oh, we just sort of smashed it together. But no, it's a really detailed book. And it's something that I think we're all surprised to know that you have been battling some health issues for a while. Yeah, I think, I mean, I was 22 when I was put in hospital with Crohn's disease.

And obviously I was in the middle of playing Waverly on Shortland Street. And I did talk about it at the time. Excuse my ignorance. Crohn's, I know it's something to do with the digestive system. Yes. But what is it exactly? It's really sexy. It's an inflammatory bowel disease.

Oh, right. Also part of the autoimmune family of illnesses. So it basically means that your immune system is malfunctioning and that in your guts some horrible areas of ulcers and sort of build up can occur and with Crohn's it's meant to be permanent. You're meant

to never be cured but I don't subscribe to that belief system. Yeah right so you've been trying all sorts of methods and cures Well I cured myself 15 years ago. Came off my medication and the last time I had meds for Crohn's disease was 2004. And I have never had a Crohn's pain since.

What was the magic bullet? Well, that's why I've written a book. Oh, I found the book. Good for you. Because it's not a short answer. I basically tell my story about that, answering your question in the first kind of 25 pages of the book. And then Kylie has written about living with anxiety from a really young age

and what she's done to try to kind of manage her illness and manage her mental health. And I guess collectively, we both know that there is just fundamental things that you can do to help your gut, to help your head, to help your feelings, to help your body, you know, whether that's your movement and your exercise or whether that's your diet or whether that's what you're doing with your stress levels and how you're managing your health. I really want people to start thinking about their health in the whole form. Like that's, I guess, what holistic health care is. But I could never have got better if it wasn't for my

doctors and specialists and taking pain meds to get to a point where I could even live comfortably. So I'm all about both. But to do that, you've got to get educated. Yeah, that's awesome that you put it all together. Here's a crazy story. Speaking of being in Whangamata, some dear friends of ours, their daughter,

she, for the last year, has just been convulsing like this, nonstop, 24 hours a day, been convulsing like this non-stop 24 hours a day just convulsing her whole body and she did some damage through doing a ballet manoeuvre and did some damage or so they thought so and they'd been to all sorts of treatments the doctors were like she's got anxiety

it's an eating disorder she's you know afraid to you know walk in front of people and stuff like that anyway they tried everything and they ended up going to this healer in Whangamata who didn't even touch her, didn't even lay hands on her. Adol was just sort of waving his hands over, and then he was getting something up his arm

and shaking it off his arm. Now she doesn't shake. How wild was that? That is amazing. I mean, that's amazing, and I feel empathy for the relief that she must have felt. Yeah, totally. And that's my thing as well, Jono.

Like I've been to my share of, let's say, kooky people or, you know, healers where, and the only reason you say kooky is because you don't understand how it works. Yeah. It's like our bodies are big energetic fields of cells vibrating in a bunch of water and bones and flesh and stuff. We just have to learn how to manage it better. Sometimes it's an emotional problem and it's talking it out is going to be the thing that helps you feel better and sometimes

it is energetic, which is your cells and Reiki and kinesiology. We talk about that in the book and they're all sciences. Even in Rongoya, there's like an aspect of Maori healing, which is just holding hands above a body.

Sometimes people just need to be grounded a bit, you know. The difference is what's right for you is not going to be the same as what, you know, the person next to you needs. So there has to be a little bit of responsibility taken, but it can also be really fun to kind of figure yourself out in that way. Hey, Gletcher, it's always fun hanging out with you. Thank you so much for having me, guys. And if people want to get the book? Yes, please.

You can find it on all good bookstores, What Cools Paper Plus. I'm not sure about the more regional stores, but if they don't have it, ask, and then they'll get it. So you're saying all good bookstores and some shitty regional ones? No. They might not have it yet.

Awesome. A guide for good guts and feeling good insider now. It's called Good For You, Claire Chittum, and Kylie Bailey as well. Thank you so guide for good guts and feeling good insider now. It's called Good For You, Claire Chittum and Kylie Bailey as well. Thank you so much for hanging out.

It's been fun. Thanks for having me, team. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of that. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast

on the hits. It looks like our Pfizer's vaccine has been approved yesterday by Medsafe here in New Zealand. Oh, that's wonderful stuff. Tell you what, here's a tough question for you. Spell Pfizer.

Oh, it starts with a P. Yeah, really trips you up. Yeah. This is the big issue. Great stuff about the vaccine, but let's see if Ben can spell Pfizer. Okay. Oh, geez.

P-H-Y-S-F-I-Z-E-R or something. You're just saying letters now. What is it? X-S-T- All right, mate. We're reading saying letters now. What is it? X-S-T- All right, mate. We're reading off your screen. What is it? P-

Well, I'll have a go, eh? No, you've just read it. P-F-I-Z-E-R. Yeah, okay. Pfizer. It really trips me up. I think that's one positive out of this whole pandemic. We've all learned how to spell Pfizer.

Well, I haven't, clearly. Let's do some Spy. Spy, the WhatsApp Spy.co.nz. Oh, we love having Julia come in and do this part of the show. And to be honest, if she was any better at this job, she'd be hosting E! News. But she's stuck with us schmucks. What's happening in Spy, Ju? So Ashton Kutcher once thought that he, or recently, thought he caught his wife Mila Kunis

watching adult content in the middle of the night on her laptop. He was like, what's going on? That's the most sophisticated way I've ever heard it being described, adult content. Yeah, so he woke up in the middle of the night and kind of saw her on this computer. What are you watching? What are you watching? Turns out it was episode five of Bridgerton,

which is the weddings the wedding happens and there's some steamy scenes and stuff and he's like i thought mila kunis was cheating on me but turns out she's cheating on me with bridgerton and that is how hooked people get on that tv show is it brigadon or bridgerton i've heard people pronounce it a half a dozen different ways what's it what's it about i've seen it pop up I can't even It's like early 1800s England Yeah

But it depends Apparently very good Yeah Yeah Drama yeah But yeah my mum Not my cup of tea What was I going to say?

Has it got burnouts? No burnouts No sweet burnouts? I haven't seen any burnouts Maybe they do some on horses And carts and stuff like that But I haven't seen that You like it though

Well I know I watched a little bit with my mum. I haven't got into it just yet with mum, but I was watching a lot with my mum. I sat down over it, and I was telling you guys this, and it was quite a saucy scene. I was like, oh, this is a bit uncomfortable. Nothing worse.

And no one said anything. Mum didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. But you all know what you're watching. Yeah, you're like, oh, yeah. Just can you do the fast forward 30 thing? Times 30? Let's wrap this up, guys.

Come on. Yeah. Nothing more awkward than watching that sort of stuff with your parents. That's what his wife Amanda always says, too. Let's wrap this up. Come on. Can we fast-forward 30 this? And a brand-new Netflix show is going to be filmed in Otago.

It's called The Royal Treatment, and it's basically, in a nutshell nutshell about a hairdresser who meets a prince who's about to get married but then they fall in love she's doing his hair for the wedding and it's going to be filmed in New Zealand Spoiler alert, you've just ruined the plotline to Royal Treatment There are so many international productions

being filmed in New Zealand at the moment Well it's probably the place to film things at the moment with what we're doing so well with COVID 100% Apparently they're actually having to put It's probably the place to film things at the moment with what we're doing so well with COVID. 100%. You can't. Apparently, they're actually having to put people, young people through film school, train them up quickly and get them out on set.

Oh, really? Because, yeah, everyone in the industry is taking up. I think they're filming the Lord of the Rings Amazon thing. James Cameron's doing Avatar. He's doing about 19 new Avatar movies or something in New Zealand. There's a whole lot of productions going on. There's about four Netflix shows. I mean, Jono and Ben about to embark on,

so that's sucking up some resources. So much resource. We're taking our phone on the road and we'll film with it. And that's far. You can head to thehits.co.nz for more. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hits. Now we're running a competition with Razine called Colour My World.

You get a room of your house painted, but there is a twist. Uh-oh, your child must come up with a colour scheme and someone brave enough to register as Sonia. Morning, Sonia. Morning. How are you? We're good, thanks. How are you?

We're doing really well. What part of New Zealand are you in, Sonia? We are in beautiful Papamoa. Oh, Papamoa. Yeah, now I tell you in, Sonia? We are in beautiful Papamoa. Oh, Papamoa. Yeah, now I tell you what, the old real estate around that part of New Zealand is filling up, isn't it? It's gone crazy.

It used to just be empty land, didn't it, Papamoa? Once upon a time. Well, I think everything obviously used to be at some point empty land. And then houses were built on it. But more recently, now it's just houses being built left, right and centre. Ipty land. And then houses were built on it. But more recently now just houses being built left, right and centre. I am old enough to know that I used to drive through a bit of

countryside to get to Papamoa from the mouth but it doesn't happen anymore. Oh, wonderful part of New Zealand though around there, isn't it? It is. How is it living there? Because you'd always feel like you're permanently on holiday so you'd get nothing done. Well, I think when you get in the swing of it you forget where you live and then you're reminded when you do have a day off

that you can just hop on around to the beach. Oh, good on you. Oh, I love it. Now, you've got a room in your house that you want some painting? I've got a daughter here, Awatea, that wants a room painted. She's been nagging me. What room is she? We'll chuck Awatea on there, Sonia.

She's right here. Morena Awatea, how are you? Good, thank you. Oh, good. Now, how old are you? Nine. Nine years old and you want to do? The Little Lounge. The little lounge. The little lounge. Oh, the little lounge. Still, I feel like the little lounge is your lounge.

The big lounge. Let's go to the big lounge. If we were going to paint the big lounge. Let's paint the big lounge pink. Yeah. Oh, no. Real estate is suddenly plummeting. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's the only house in Papabao that's gone down. Why stop at the little lounge? Just paint the whole house pink. Oh, well, you. That's the only house in Papabao that's gone down. Why stop at the little lounge and just paint the whole house pink? Well, you guys are in the draw. Obviously, if you win, you've got some negotiating to do about what room that gets painted. Good on you. Good luck for this draw.

And thanks to Rosene. And just so you know, for the wider public, Rosene also, they don't focus all their painting around comedy. No, they don't. They do some serious stuff too, don't they, Ben? That's right.

They are colour professionals. You can visit Resign Colour Shop for quality paints, wallpapers, colours, and wood stains. Register right now at the hit stock.com. And see if you want to colour one of your rooms. We'll do the draw tomorrow. Hey, join us too. 7.45 tomorrow.

Five words, 5K is back. Agonisingly close today. Four out of five words, Matt. Was it Meatloaf who once said two out of three ain't bad he would have been bloody impressed with four out of five he would have been he'd be like what i need to re-record the song it's better than my song yeah we vaguely still remember we'll catch you guys tomorrow from six have a great thursday what more jonathan ben you can wake up with the boys weekdays from from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast.

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