Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - February 12 - Was Ben Caught At Calendar Girls!?

Episode Date: February 11, 2021

A couple of days until VALENTINE'S DAY! Whether or not you like to celebrate Valentine's, we discussed whether girls really like receiving flowers!? Ben isn't too keen on them as they tend to die rather quickly. Although, we had a caller on who had a really good idea of giving flowers but ensuring they don't die. GENIUS! We also decided to each call our wives while they were working, say "I love you" to see if they'd be willing to say it back in a busy office! Did they pull through?! Finally, Ben's wife was going through their bank statements and noticed Ben had been visiting a certain place that made him super flustered! Enjoy the podcast, your weekend, and Valentine's day (if you celebrate!)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. Friday podcast, short week,

but we're just saying we're very tired this week. I don't know, hopefully the radio show didn't sound tired because it was a lot of fun today. It was a lot of fun. And Ben, I know you like to just front foot what's content. Our wonderful listener, podcast listener, will be hearing on today's rendition of Jono and Ben. So flowers, Valentine's Day flowers, are you into them or not? Surprising results in that poll.

You're anti-flowers. You feel they're a waste of time. They eventually die out. You're more practicality when it comes to presents on Valentine's Day. But I see, I understand why people love them, and it's the thought behind them as well. And they do brighten up a room. Although in saying that, you constantly walk the flowers out of the room.

I gift them to Jennifer. I gift them, happily gift them, but I don't like them lingering around me in the studio. Right. So what about at home then? Do you gift them, here you go, and then you... They've got a three-day shelf life at home, which I know there's the bugbear for you.

I don't mind those three days. They look lovely. They're fine. They start to eventually flop. They start to become flaccid, much like a relationship that's gone on for 45 years. But I understand people love it and it brightens up, and it is a nice gesture to give to people, you know,

to say you are thinking of them to brighten up their day. So I get that. You can also send them a text too, can't you? I'll put them in the same category as the candle. Oh, I love a candle. The candle doesn't disappear, though. It doesn't disappear. No, I love a candle.

I know you do. I love a candle. Suck it for an Akoya. I really have gotten to my candles over the last couple of years. He loves Akoya's asbestos and anthrax. Lime-infused lemon-dri a candle. Suck it for an Akoya. I really have gotten to my candles over the last couple of years. He loves Akoya's asbestos and anthrax. Lime infused lemon dripping candle. Do you know what? I went to a church service last night.

I'm a Catholic. Yeah. A proud Catholic. Are you? Okay. What? You're like saying you are. I'm a good Catholic.

Are you? Sometimes we get the protocol though. Yeah, well, yeah. I've been a Catholic. I don't know if you're a good Catholic because when producer Julian Offey was like oh, so where's the Catholic church come from? And you're like, oh, you started

saying something and then move on through. You're like, I don't know, mate. I just go along to these things. I don't know the back history of what I'm turning up for. I'm pretty sure they're Irish. Yeah, I'd say so, right? Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're Protestants, Anglicans, Roman. Roman times. Oh, Roman Catholic. Yeah, of course, the Romans. Yeah, I'd say so, right? Yeah, I'm putting Protestants, Anglicans, Roman, Roman times. Oh, Roman Catholic.

Yeah, of course, the Romans. Yeah, that makes sense. You're not a good Catholic. I'm a shocking Catholic. Google's a good Catholic. But anyway, I was there last night, and there's a moment where you go and eat the body of Christ, which is always a bit like, what was this?

Do they still have the little wafer? It's a little wafer symbolising the body of Christ. And what I'd done, I'd taken my own body of Christ into the church. I was chewing airwaves through the whole service. And then so you go up and you've got your hands sort of cut. And I was like, oh, I've got chewing gum. Wafer and chewing gum is not going to be a great combo. So then I have to, I kind of have to sneakily get my chewing gum out just in time before.

And I've got it stuck under the palm of my top hand. And then, so I have the wafer, that's fine. And then I'm like, what do I do with this chewing gum? Where does it go? I was like, under the chair. Is that a bit disrespectful? Oh, you can't do that at church. A bit of a disrespect, especially in the cathedral.

No, it's a prestigious place. So I didn't do that. And I was like, oh, what do I do? And so I spent, I don't know, the church staff is still going. And you're cathedral, you know, it's a grand. Oh, it's a prestigious place. So I didn't do that. And I was like, oh, what do I do? So I spent, I don't know, the church was still going. And you were here, you're like, how do I get rid of this? How do I get rid of the chewing gum? And eventually, I just ended up putting it on the back of my ear. Oh, I just put it on the ear.

Just took it behind my ear. You've never seen it, like a little hearing aid that you've got going on. Just squeeze it behind you. I've done it before and put it in my back pocket thinking, oh, I'll remember it, I'll get rid of it quickly. With paper wrapped around it? No, but in that paper, and I was like, I'll just get rid of it, it'll be fine, it's not fine.

And you forgot about it too, it went through the wash, and I was like, ah. I did that when Carlos Spencer came in here, former All Black, we met him. He came in for a handshake, and I had just taken chewing gum out because I was about to have a coffee, so I had chewing gum in the palm of my hand. He was going for my chewing gum palm hand for the handshake. I had to, at some point, just panicked, chucked the chewing gum in my pocket and shook his hand. Saved it with a millisecond.

But again, I forgot to take it out. Fatal mistake. That's what happens. All right, well, anyway, there's less gum-based incidents and more hopefully funny incidents today on the podcast. Enjoy. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.

This week, Jono, I gave you some grief the other day, a couple of days ago, about pop star Lily Allen and how she was, basically a long story short, we got talking about Lily Allen and you noticed her. I noticed her the other day when I was driving somewhere yeah and let's reflect back with the audio of what happened

I drove past a shop yesterday on Kiva Pass she was in the shop window and she's the face of an adult toy oh yes I think she is

oh yeah I'm taking the high ground on this one and you're like drove past anyway and that's oh here we go anyway carry on high ground but you know drove past anyway and that's oh here we go anyway carry on

high ground but you haven't taken the high ground I'm just repeating what you said drive fast you've got this smug look on your face

and you can hear the lily dilly now I I relished you know I enjoyed that moment you know that uncomfortable

moment with you and you did you were relishing that went on that was only 10 seconds. That went on for two and a half minutes. He was making me feel uncomfortable.

Yeah, like, as you kind of justified your innocence and, you know, and you were in that situation, you were actually probably, you know, entirely innocent, but I enjoyed it.

And I had this- Well, let's skin it back. Like, if I'm going into the shop, I'm hardly going to talk about it on the radio. I'm going to put a moustache on and wear a top hat. But I had a situation last night where I was like,

oh, this would have been, the table just turned on me last night with my wife Amanda. Oh, you got your just desserts. Yeah. Now, one of the things Amanda does heaps, helps me out around the house. She's awesome. One thing she does is looks after the accounts.

She takes care of a lot of that and goes through the bank statements, which can be good and bad for our relationship. Sometimes she's known about presents. She's like, oh, okay, what did you spend at this jewellery shop? You're like, oh, that's your present. Oh, that's for my mistress. You have to do a smoke screen. You don't want to get into one of those love actually situations, you know, where you bought the thing and then she found it and you're like, oh yeah, it's not. Anyway. Yeah. But

yesterday she's like, oh, what's like, what's this for Calendar Club? We've gone to Calendar Club. Now, if people know Auckland, there's a place on a street in Auckland called Calendar Girls. Oh, I think there's a- They don't sell calendars. No, there's a network though of them.

Yeah. They've divested, they're all over the country. Oh, okay, they're all over the country. Yeah, oh, they're doing what, it's like a, it's the McDonald's of stripping. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah, so Amanda, my wife's like, oh, Calendar Club. And I'm the McDonald's of stripping. Yeah, right. Yeah, so Amanda, my wife, said, a calendar club.

And I was like, oh, what's a calendar club? Well, I don't know. You've been there twice over a couple of days. I'm like, oh, jeez, what's a calendar club? Now, I've known you for a number of years now, and for one, man, you buy a lot of calendars. Don't you find that? Do you know there's a function on your phone? You can just Who is still buying

calendars? I was like, what is this calendar club place? And then I went through the statements to a forensic sort of breakdown of it. But you get more flustered, don't you? No, it's a, you know, I put calendar club it's got to be a legit, okay. But you can never remember though. And then I worked out on the day that I bought a calendar for one of my daughters

like an actual calendar from a pop-up place in the mall. And I was like, yeah, in a couple of days I'd bought another one for my calendar. So this is like a 2021 calendar. See, he's been to the calendar shop twice. Crazy. And then later on that day I was like, it was a place in the mall. We went to the mall.

It was there in the mall. And so we actually went to the mall. I'll prove it. I was like, oh, here we go. I'll prove it. It's not there anymore. Oh, okay. Because the calendar club, of course, they only sell calendars going into the new year.

I mean, no one wants to buy a calendar. It just disappears. In February for 2021. Imagine how many guys were taking their watch. Honestly, it was right here. Right here. Oh, God, that's the shop. Was there a calendar shop here?

No, we never saw a calendar shop here I know I went to the trouble of getting the calendars off the kids bedrooms These are the calendars This is the calendar That I bought This one here The cute animal calendar This one here

And if you look a bit further down the statement You'll see I took the kids to see marine life at the Mermaids Aquatic Centre And then I caught up with my Polish friend at the 24 hour I took some Polish dancing classes at the 24 hour And then I caught up with my Polish friend at the 24-hour. I took some Polish dancing classes at the 24-hour. And then I learned good manners at the Gentleman's Club, where they teach us all wonderful manners. Morning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast.

Now, today's the 12th of February. On Sunday is Valentine's Day, the 14th of February. Just a reminder out there, you know, you've got a couple of days. A gentle nudge, passive-aggressive nudge there from Ben Boyce to all those people who may have forgotten. And we played a little game after the program yesterday because one of the most complicated thing in any human being's life is receiving a phone call from your partner in an open plan workplace

and they end the conversation with love you, expecting to hear love you back, but you're like, I'm surrounded by my colleagues. This isn't a I love you environment. No, it's not the sort of time for I love you's It's a, you too, yep Alright then, okay. But it's more the time

for just like, what, you know, you're busy at work, you're like, okay, what do we need to talk about? It's a business transaction It's overdone and we're out. Yeah It's like you, you know, you're busy at work. You're like, okay, what do we need to talk about? It's a business transaction. It's overdone and we're out. Yeah. It's like you're two strangers. Yeah.

You're like, hello. Yep. Okay, good. Are we different people during this? The only thing you should love when you're at work is your job, when you're kissing the boss's ass. Yeah. So yesterday, knowing that our wives were both working,

we thought we'd give them a call during the workday and see how quickly we could, we'll see if I said I love you to them and see if they would respond back with I love you, knowing that they were at work surrounded by other people. Yeah, and so then the timer starts as soon as we say I love you and then we just wait to see how long it takes for them to say I love you back.

Now, first up was my turn. Jennifer works in marketing, so I thought I'd market myself to her with a bit of a, I love you situation. Came in soft, I thought, just sort of eased the conversation, then dropped the bomb. And you decide how it went.

Hello? Hey, how are you? Good. What are you up to? Do you have something to say? Yes, I love you. Okay. Is that it? Is that it?

Yes, love you. Okay, bye. Bye. A brutal takedown at the end Okay bye Okay bye Oh I tell you what So you didn't really even set a time at all

There was four seconds on the clock From when I said I'd love you Yeah Because you need to have a bit of pre-conversation You do To warm them up Yeah Do you have something to say Let it beautifully into. Yeah. Because you need to have a bit of pre-conversation. You do. To warm them up. Yeah.

Do you have something to say? Let it beautifully into you. Yeah, I do have something to say. I love you. Well, that was, well, there you go. That was time to beat four seconds, Ben. Wow.

Brought me down to earth. Yeah, didn't it? Now, it was your turn. Now, bearing in mind, Amanda's a school teacher. Yeah, so she was on, I had to time it around a break when she was, you know, kind of away from the kids,

but probably in the staff room or something like that. In the staff room, probably dipping biscuits into those cups of coffee. But do you remember those cups of coffee, that sort of brown glass and see-through that all the teachers had?

Oh, yes. Those bring back memories. So imagine this setting. She's dipping a biscuit into one of those. Cell phone rings, which she doesn't have normally on in class. And then it's like, it's me. And yeah, we'll see how I went in the I love you game.

Good morning, Amanda speaking. Oh, hi. Hey, how's it going? Hi. Hey. Good, how are you? All right. Sorry, I know you're at work and not on a break, so I'll be quick.

Yeah. How's work? Good, good. Yeah, it's busy. One more thing, just quickly. I love you're at work and not on a break, so I'll be quick. Yeah. How's work? Good, good. Yeah, it's busy. One more thing, just quickly. I love you. Oh, I'm at work. I better go.

Okay. Do you want to say anything back? Have a nice day. Okay. Well, it would have been a nicer day for you. Anyway, okay. Love you. Sorry.

You too. Love you. Bye. He got one. He got one. Is Amanda gone? Yeah, I think so. Anyway, okay. Love you. It's alright. You too. Love you. Bye. He got one. He got one. Is Amanda gone? Amanda's gone. He got one. Well done. It was only eight seconds, but it was back and forth.

It was on tenderhooks for a while. It was reluctant. I love you. It was whispered down the phone too. She didn't want the kids to hear that. So you can torment your loved ones in their place of work today with that game. Do you know,

after school, so after school yesterday, Amanda phoned me and I was in a bit of a meeting situation. Oh, did she get revenge? And she was like, I love you,

I love you, I love you. And I'm like, oh, how quickly that had turned. Okay. I don't know, I know it's not for radios.

I'm like, okay, I'll talk to you later. Okay, bye. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to I'll talk to you later okay bye 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

Shono and Pam breakfast on the heads the heads the heads yeah Valentine's Day Sunday we played a game ten past seven this morning

where yesterday we phoned both of our wives Amanda your wife and Jennifer my wife and they were both at work. And it was under the theory that no one likes to say I love you on the phone

to their partner at work, especially open plan offices. Yeah, when you're busy and it's just lots of stuff going on, lots of people around. Here's how you went yesterday with your wife, Jennifer. Hello. Hey, how are you? Good. What are you up to?

Do you have something to say Yes I love you Okay Is that it Is that it Yes love you Okay bye

Is that it Is that it A real leveller In the relationship there Is that it Then you had a go You real leveller in the relationship there. Is that it? Then you had to go. You had somewhat more success. Amanda, your wife teaches, so she's in the staff room.

You're on a break, and it was, yeah, a little bit better. How's work? Good, good. Yeah, it's busy. One more thing, just quickly. I love you. Oh, I'm at work. I better go.

Okay. Do you want to say anything back have a nice day okay well it'll be a nicer day for you anyway

okay love you sorry you too love you bye oh success

sorry you too love you bye no employee in the history of workplaces has ever

confidently said I love you on the phone. I like it. Juliet, you're saying, Bryony, your mate who works here actually, she phones her boyfriend and says it. He's at work.

So she'll say, I love you. And he goes, you too. And she's like, say it. Say it? And he's with the boys. And he's like, love you too. Say it. Say it.

I want to hear those two words, loud and crystal clear. Put me on speaker. So anyway, are you buying anything, Amanda, on Valentine's Day? You're not a Valentine's Day guy. No, I'm not really a Valentine's Day guy. You were talking about how you were going to get flowers, you know, which is a nice thing to say, but I'm just kind of like flowers. They're going to die. Surely you could get – I'm nice thing, I can see. But just kind of like flowers, they're going to die.

Surely you could get... They're going to die like the relationship. Is that what you're saying? I know, it's a lovely thought, but you can spend something like, take that 60 bucks or whatever you spend and buy something else that's going to last for longer. They're a lovely gesture.

People love getting flowers. It's a great panic purchase. It's a burden. What do you mean it's a bird? Every couple of days, you know eventually, you're on a ticking time thing. As soon as it gets inside, you're like, this is not going to last.

It's going to start dropping things all over the ground. It's like gifting someone a goldfish. You look after it for a while, then you forget you got it and you have to throw it out eventually, don't you? I don't know. So you don't like flowers. You're not a flowers person. No, I'd rather spend that money on something else.

Okay. What, like something practical, like a frying pan that you gifted your wife? Oh, here we go. Let's not go back to the frying pan saga that's had enough of your time already. So, 0800 the hits. We want to check this out. Still got that frying pan, though. The flowers are going to matter once.

They're well gone. Hey, proves your point. Got more use out of that frying pan. 0800 the hits. We want to check this out there. Do you actually enjoy getting flowers, or are they a waste of time? Are they a burden? Hayley, your thoughts from Hamilton?

Morning, guys. I'm actually a flower hater as well, but unfortunately, my wife is a flower lover. And I've got a middle ground. I bought some preserved roses. It was about 18 months ago, and they're still going strong. They look beautiful. Oh, wow. So these are like dried flowers?

I guess so, but I don't know. They like embalm them or something. Oh, they put toxins in them. Okay. Asbestos. Wax museum. Wow.

Wax museum. I thought you were talking about those funny plastic ones you can buy from Kmart. I love those ones. No, these are more beautiful than that. For the environment. Oh, that's awesome.

Okay, that's good to know because yeah, I'm the flowers. It just seems like it. You're on a... You know the old cliche of you can pick them up from the petrol station? You can't now. I can not. There's no flowers at the petrol station.

Dairies, though. Dairies. Yeah, the dairy down my road, they've diversified into flowers. And bananas, which winds me up. What? The bananas are never any good at a dairy. Why do you... Why do you...

Are they? Have you ever seen a good bunch of bananas outside a dairy? No. I haven't been looking, to be honest. No, well, have a look next time. Now I've planted that seed in your head, you will not be happy with the banana quality of dairies around New Zealand. We'll go to Tiana. Welcome, Morena, to New Zealand's breakfast.

Flowers, no flowers this Sunday. What are you wanting, Tiana? I would rather be taken out for a nice feed, to be honest. Nice feed. Exactly. You'd rather spend that money, whatever it is. Some people pay up to $100 on flowers. Exactly. Give me an ice-cold steak any day over.

Now we're talking. I like that. That's awesome. You know it. It's the popular opinion on the text that flowers are no good and I tell you who will be hating this phone topic, the flower industry. Yeah. And all our potential flower clients. Oh, yeah.

I love flowers. I love them. No, I can see it. The irony is you'll probably be doing a flower promotion on Monday, Ben. Exactly. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five

words away from a massive payday. It's our favourite time of the show. We love this. So much fun. We do this every morning, 7.45. I get quite nervous though as well because there's five grand on the line each morning and we really want to win that money for you. Yeah, it's a fun game where you just need to say

five words and you need to match with our five words and then we, you simply take the words out of our mouth and we take money out of our bank account and pay you $5,000. Two winners so far. We've been playing this game for around about three or four weeks now, so it is possible to win $5,000. We've done it once already this week.

You've done it once already this week, so hopefully we can do it again right now. The fun thing about the game is you can play, you know, on the radio obviously. You can play with your family, play with your workmates thing about the game is you can play, you know, on the radio, obviously. You can play with your family, play with your workmates, play with yourself. You can play anywhere. Yeah.

It's the fun of this game. And Shannon, you have been listening since it started. I have. And you sound decidedly nervous about this. A little bit. How have you been going, playing along, listening each morning? Not too bad.

Okay. Have you pretend won cash so far? Have you matched five words? Got close. Four. Four. Okay. Well, let's see if we can get five for you right now.

You've got to make the first choice of choosing either Jono or myself to go into the soundproof booth. Who's it going to be? I'll choose Jono. Jono. Well, you've won five grand already. You're on a hot streak. I like not having pressure on me, though.

I like the pressure being on you, Ben. Yeah, I like it. I can breathe a sigh of relief as Jono makes his way to the soundproof booth in the studio. He's going to shut himself in there. And we are going to say five words to you, Shannon, and you're going to say what words pop into your head from those words, all right?

All righty. Your first word this morning is vacuum. Vacuum. Oh, cleaner. Cleaner. Yeah, it seems like the obvious one for me. That's the first word that popped into my head as well, Producer Juliet.

Yes, same with me. I think it's safe. Okay. The next word is, but what do we know? You know? But, hey, we're just giving you some encouragement, Shannon. Okay, next word is slow. Slow.

Take your time. Oh, slow. You can take your time. There's no rush. I think it's slow-mo, but. Oh, slow-mo, yeah. Hmm. Slow.

Oh. but um oh slow mo yeah slow oh you really are taking your time i said take your time but now you're like oh how long are you going to go for yeah yeah uh sorry um that's all right. Five grand on the line. Slow. Slow. Slow. Not fast. Well, you could go with the opposite, yeah? Yeah. Jeez, that's my line's gone a bit blank, actually. Slow.

Slow. All right, Shannon, I'm going to need an answer, unfortunately, Shannon, from you. My mind's gone a bit blank, actually. Slow. All right, Shannon, I'm going to need an answer, unfortunately, Shannon, from you. Slow. Yep, yep. I'll go motion. Slow motion. Okay, slow-mo, slow motion.

Okay. Next word is Netflix. Netflix. TV. TV, okay. Next word is Netflix. Netflix. TV. TV, okay. Next word, rice. Rice? Rice.

R-I-C-E, rice. Yeah. Oh, a couple there. Rice. Hmm. Uh... What's the problem? Take Life What did you say, sorry?

Take Okay Let's go with that one And finally, business Business Dirk Okay We're going to lock in those words for you, Shannon. We're going to get Jono out of the soundproof booth.

I have to go to the rice cake. Oh, no, quick. No, you go. Do you want to change your word right now? He's blocked his ears. You've got three seconds. Oh. No.

Okay, right. We're going to have to lock that in. You can take your hands off your ears right now. It's a high drama. Oh, my God. What was going on? I thought I was going to... I had to go full Bear Grylls in that soundproof booth just to survive.

Oh, there were some tough words today, Shannon. There were lots of options there. And, Jono, we're going to have to see if you can get into the mind of Shannon and see if you can get the same words out of your mouth. Let's rip into it right now. The first word I said to Shannon before was vacuum. The first word was vacuum. Cleaner.

Oh, here we go. That's an easy one. Now, this one we took a lot of time on. This was a tough one. Oh, is this what it was? Yeah, it was one particular word. I thought you were pranking me. I did say take your time, Shannon,

and she took her time. That's right, I said it. The word was slow. Slow. There's a lot of options. Yeah, well, I think that's why Shannon found it so hard. Cooker.

Slow down. Yes. cooker slow down slow fast yeah the opposite of that hey these are all options slow what else is slow? motion? I'm going to lock in slow down. Shannon went for slow motion.

Slow motion. Oh, you went slow motion. Yeah. That was one of the words that you said. Shannon. Oh, Shannon. He didn't say it. He said it.

Oh, no. He said it. Sorry. We're going to quickly rip through the last couple of words to see what Jono would have said. We had rice. Cooker. No, no. We had rice. Cooker. No, no.

We had cake. Our business. Time. Our business was work. And we also had Netflix. And chill. No, it's even, no. No.

Ben, no. Get out of here. No. I'm sorry, Shannon. Thank you so much for playing. Hopefully we get to do it again, all right? Yeah, yeah. Thank you.

Have a great weekend. Thanks, Jono. They were tough for playing. Hopefully we get to do it again, all right? Yeah, yeah, thank you. Have a great weekend. Thanks, Jono. They were tough words today. They were tough words. Listen, I'm sorry. I don't think I can ever show my face in Masterson again. No. I apologise, Shannon.

I've let down Masterson and Shannon. Someone from Masterson, stay out. Stay out, all right? Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Now, as we talked about before, Love Songs to Midnight was iconic radio in New Zealand for many, many years.

It would happen in the evenings with host Gail Ludlow. Yeah, we're wanting to bring back Love Songs to Midday just ahead of Valentine's Day. But we feel we need her blessing and we have the host of Love Songs to Midnight

on the phone tracked down the one and only Gail. Lovey, love, love, McPants, Ludlow. You guys are sounding sickening already. Oh, it's so good to hear your voice. The dulcet tones of Gail.

How are you? I'm just a box of birds this morning and a special morning as well, of course. Oh, Valentine's Day. Love Songs Till Midnight was such an iconic show that loved her all around New Zealand. How many years did you do it for? I was trying to think about that and I couldn't come up with anything. Honestly,

don't remember. It must have been so much fun coming to work and such a positive show because everyone wanted to dedicate songs to people they loved. I think that was it. It's a really positive thing to hear people say good things about each other,

which makes a big difference from when you listen to the news. True, read social media as well, you know. Yeah, you get the warm fuzzies. There must have been days, though, over that long tenure of hosting that show, you turn up to work and you're like, I don't want to play sappy, sloppy love songs

and hear about how in love people are. Absolutely. And you get that in any job, don't you? You took the first phone call, and it was usually something really cool that someone wanted to say, and you realise you came at it thinking, ah, I've done something really good. And that's the sort of show it was.

Now, your voice, a very iconic sounding voice, did you get recognised everywhere? You realise you came out of it thinking, yeah, I've done something really good. And that's the sort of show it was. Now, your voice, a very iconic sounding voice, did you get recognised everywhere? Do you still get recognised when you call up places? Mate, I do. You know, you go in and you're buying the fruit or something and the surf maker says, I used to listen to you. And some people, not so long ago, someone came up and said,

you know, you did our very first dedication and we are still together. Oh, isn't that lovely? We want to pitch something to you. Obviously, you know, Gail Ludlow, heavily associated with the intellectual property of the brand Love Songs until midnight. Yes. We wanted to pitch something to you if we could get your blessing, legally speaking, if we could get your blessing Legally speaking

If we could present love songs Till midday Just for one day only Just for today Letting it up till Valentine's Day I think that's a really good idea Yep, yep You can do it till midday

Can we get some coaching from the love master The love guru Gail Ludlow On how, you know The tone of the voice How we need to approach each dedication. Can you, I've got a song, I've got a song here. Whitney Houston, Greatest Love.

And if you could give us an example of how you would introduce this song. Leon and Liz. And you can introduce Whitney Houston. And what does Leon love about Liz? That's what we need, the question. He loves that Liz has somewhat of a lazy eye. Also, her breath smells rather morning-y. That's good.

You've gone for things there. This is what Leon loves about Liz. Okay, great. Who are you to judge? Lazy eye and smelly breath. Okay, take it away. I would say that Liz, this is to you from Leon, you are the apple of his eye

regardless of it being lazy and he thinks that whenever you're there, he smells sweet perfume even though your breath does. I believe the truth, not the future. That's not bad. You're so good at that. Now, is there one song in particular you're like, I can't listen to that

again because you've heard it so many times over the years? One song that I can never listen to. Yeah, is there any song that you're like, I did't listen to that again because you've heard it so many times over the years? No, I can't. One song that I can never listen to again. Yeah, is there any song that you're like, I did love that song, but now I don't? It's like... I think if I ever heard Unchained Melody again for a year or so, it would have been too soon. Too soon, gotcha.

Okay, you fell out of love with Unchained Melody. And I Will Always Love You, that's probably another one that it took a while to get to him. Yeah. And then he goes, you... Yeah. Are you getting PTSD from me playing this? Can we have a go and just see if you think we're fit enough

to present love songs till midday? Okay. Yeah, okay. This is my dedication for Archibald. Archibald, yeah. And, yeah, who I met when I was only 16 years old and I'm still madly in love with him. This is Love Songs Till Midday.

This next song, going out to the wonderful Gail, who met Archibald when she was just 16 years old. And still, still in love with him. I'll make love to you. This is what Gail and Archibald will be listening to right now. Boys to Men. Love songs till midday. Jono and Ben.

Well, that's fun. That's good. That's good, yeah. I can see why you did it for so long. You'll get better as you go on. Okay, so no, I can't. I thought we nailed it. But anyway.

Well, this next one is going out to Gail from Jono and Ben saying, thank you very much. Whitney Houston, I will always love you. Oh, gee, mate, I don't know if I'd give up the day job, really. No, well, this is, unfortunately, this is my day job. Such an iconic show, and thank you for letting us do it this morning. It's very cool to hear from you guys. Yeah, yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah, Joel. Such an iconic show, and thank you for letting us do it this morning. It's very cool to hear from you guys. Yeah, yeah, nah.

Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie. Yeah, nah. She'll be right, and at the end of the day... Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Let's get into this. Spy.

No, what's up? Spy.co.nz. All right. Here's all the latest in celebrity gossip and pointless banter. Juju, what's up? So, Taylor Swift, she's announced that she's re-releasing her breakthrough album, Fearless, with six previously unheard songs. And this comes after Scooter Braun, that manager, sold her original master copies for, I think, $300 million.

Yeah, so he purchased them last year, didn't he? Justin Bieber's manager, and then sold them on. Yeah. She thought it was some vendetta against her that they had some beef previously. Yeah, and it meant that she no longer was the owner of her own music and so she's re-recorded her Fearless album

and she's releasing a new version of this song. Love Story, which will be probably slightly different and it'll probably sound, you know, the same but super fans will know the difference. So, I mean, you're a 14-year-old. You must just be fizzing and so on.

Frothing, frothing. So Taylor Swift's essentially just covering her own music. She's doing a covers album of her own songs. Yeah, pretty much. It'd be interesting to see that. You can go, oh, did I do it better the first time? Did I do it better this time? Yeah, true, true.

She'll probably sound a lot more mature, but Love Story, that's coming out this evening, New Zealand time, and so the rest of the album, I think, is coming out in April. Oh, there you go. So that's very exciting. 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. We're spreading the love right now, thanks to Food Snob as well. Put the romance into your Valentine's Day with Jono and Ben and Food Snob. Jeez, we really cashed in all our chips with Valentine's Day, haven't we?

Didn't we? I don't know what we're going to do on Monday where it's all over and done with. But Food Snob, some amazing hampers delivered to you in time. You can get them in time for Valentine's Day. You can get them at any sort of occasion. They're full of amazing cheese. Praise cheeses. They'll set your mind at cheese.

These cheeses, you know, Jono, you can just breathe yourself around the cheese because nothing is better than these hampers, my friend. I can't bear to live without them and other cheese puns that are so good. That was a wonderful array, a wonderful platter of cheese puns there. Mozzarella, something else I couldn't quite weave into that. Eden, tasty. Yeah, and all the other favourite cheeses. They are amazing.

It's like a little slice of Paris in your house. There's Paris in your mouth. Yeah. Does Paris come into your mouth? I don't know. I'm not sure. But thanks to Food Snob, we're giving away a hamper right now.

Yeah, now these are beautifully arranged, aren't they? And if you like cheese and sophisticated platters, then you need to tune in to us. Bloody McCormick over on More FM, you know what he's doing? What's he doing? He's giving away vape pens to children. Is he? Yeah. We're doing this heartwarming thing. Oh, Gary

McCormick. No, child, you want a vape pen? What? This is wild. How's this even happening? Anyway, let's bring Lorna in from Nelson. Can I just say, that's not true, but for the record. No, no, tune in to find out. No, don't. Yeah, don't, don't. Stay with us. Lorna, you're on. Welcome.

Good morning. How are you, Nelson, today, Lorna? Yeah, good, thank you. Yeah, no, really good, thanks. Hey, Lorna, listen, you've won a Food Snob platter, Lorna. Yay! How cool is that? Very cool.

Now, we went through your entry form, because what you get now is a bespoke poem written by the William Shakespeares of commercial radio, John Owen Ben. And you've put some notes down about why you love your husband so much. What's his name? Andrew. Andrew. 23 years together, 16 years married.

23 years, yeah. You got married on Valentine's Day. We did. Yeah. You met in a pub. We did. Well, we met in college, but we actually got together in a pub. Got hooked up in a pub at the beginning of all Kiwi love stories.

Yeah, that's a classic Kiwi love story. He loves country music. He's an amazing father to your two kids. He is very much so. Oh, good. Well, listen, hit record on the old hoo-jacky because it's time for us to do a poem for Andrew. From Lorna.

Got together at a pub and I knew I needed to be with you even though you'd had four Yeggers and spewed on your shoe. I don't know if that was the case. I just thought that would happen. It's just hard with you and shoe to rhyme. Yeah.

We got married 16 years ago on Valentine's Day. Let this serve as a passive reminder to both of our kids. I also appreciate it when you take out the bins. This doesn't really rhyme, but it's just to show appreciation. You love to line dance to country music, and we love to both watch movies with John Cusack. Do you like... What movie is he? Do you like John Cusack. Do you like... What movies is that?

Do you like John Cusack movies? Not really. No? Okay. Yeah, it was hard to get music and... Look, I'm going to wrap it up there. Hold on. John Cusack was the highlight.

Okay, there's another first. Anyway, old mate wants to cut it short over here. Old love master Ben Boyce, he's in control of the poems. Lord, have a great Valentine's Day. We've got your food snob hamper coming your way. And we've just been told we've made the random draw for the prize, the grand prize, a night away and a meal for two. And you've won that as well.

Oh, my. Brilliant. Thank you. No worries. You can go and watch all your favourite John Cusack movies. You know, Say Anything,

High Fidelity, being John Malkovich, that's a goodie. Corn Air. He's got some good movies all that. Don't you speak any bad words about

John Cusack. He's not bad, he's not bad. He's not bad, hey, you love Andrew and we love John Cusack. Have a great Valentine's Day, all right?

Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. So we're going out to dinner tomorrow night, Jennifer and me, and I'm booked a BYO jobby. Oh, have you? You like a BYO jobby?

Yeah, I don't mind a BYO, yeah. The thing is, though, with BYO, I don't know what the rules around it are. Like, where does the bring your own stop? Where does the madness stop? Can I bring my own cutlery, plates, napkins? No. And end up paying for just the chef? Or, like, bring my own steak?

And I just pay for the cooking labour. Normally, it's like BYO your own alcohol. Normally it's wine but some places some places do the beer as well but it's just and they charge

you a corkage don't they? There was a thing the guy on the phone was like just so you know there will be corkage.

I'm like corkage? Corkage isn't a thing now. Like most are screw tops so I'm essentially paying $10 for some guy to rotate his wrist 75 degrees. Yeah. Like I can do that myself.

Yeah, it's okay, mate. I've got this. I can do this. But you're right. You know, if you've got a wine bottle with a cork, then, you know, a little bit more work involved. Tell you where they get you on the corkage,

a wedding. They're chucking all sorts of corkage stuff on at a wedding. And they're like, yeah, you can bring your own, but we'll charge you 90 bucks to rotate our wrists around and open your bottle of wine. Oh, yeah, of corkage stuff on at a wedding. And they're like, yeah, you can bring your own, but we'll charge you 90 bucks to rotate our wrists around and open your bottle of wine.

Oh, yeah, the corkage stuff, but you do save a lot more because, I mean, the wine can be quite expensive in a restaurant. So I guess you are saving even with the corkage fee that you're like, I want to pay this. Do you know what Ben Boyce does now? I'm going to tell you, Juliet. You tell me if this is a crime. He'll go to a house, a function, and he'll take a bottle of wine.

And, you know, everyone shares it. There's a quarter of a bottle left. And he'll go to the fridge and then take that bottle home. Well, no, I would like, no, I don't need more. I don't need more.

Less corkage and more dorkage. You know, but that's what I sometimes... I don't need more. Don't need more. You would still do it if Amanda, your wife, indulged you to stop. Once it's in there, leave it there, you know. But you get into a grey area if you've got it under, you know, your own little sort of chilli bags sort of situation.

You know, I feel like, well, I haven't presented that to the house, but once it comes out of there, on a bench or in the fridge, okay, that's, I understand now, that's fair game. That's no longer mine. If it's in your little satchel. Yeah, unless they go, you take that away. And I go, okay. But no one ever says okay.

Everyone's like, no, no, you keep it. No one's ever said okay. Me, I've said okay. Will you drink it? No, okay, well, I will. And then the other thing is you turned up with a half a bottle of wine, didn't you? That was a good friends of ours. And it was a half, yeah, it was a half a bottle.

But that wasn't allowed either. Oh, that was feto, two by a meter, yeah. it was a half a bottle but that wasn't allowed either. Oh, that was Fito, two by a metre, yeah. So that's, these are rules that I'm learning

along the way. Hey, there's lessons. They're all life lessons, aren't they? That's right. So you can turn up, that's what you should do,

turn up with a bottle. I've already done it, mate. I've already corked it. It's alright. I'll save you the hard work. I'll save you the hard work. Save me the six bucks.

Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shono and Ben, with soy lattes. Mmm. Shona and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Sorry. You're right. I should have done that

during the pink song. You should have. Not waited till we were on air. You put your hand up while the song was ending like you had something really important to say. And I was like,

oh, okay, so I'll wrap it up pretty quickly. I won't say much. And then you're like, nothing, eh? When was the last time you walked into an actual fast food restaurant? Not just drive-thru, but actually walked into the restaurant. Would have been a while, I'd say.

Probably a while, yeah. I had not done it. Probably for, I can't even remember the last time I walked in. So I walked into BK yesterday. Right. Burger King. Yeah. Love Burger King. Don't you? Do you know Burger King? YeahK yesterday Right Burger King Yeah Love Burger King

Don't you Do you know Burger King Yeah I enjoy Burger King Remember that time we went to We did something with Burger King And we went and ordered Everything off the menu In the drive through

Like every item Every item Like a small fries A medium fries A large fries And just to see how long And in the end That obviously made us park outside

The Burger King was having A burger conniption When we made that order And that like It wasn't quite as expensive As I thought it park outside. The Burger King was having a burger conniption when we made that order. It wasn't quite as expensive as I thought it was going to be. It was only a couple hundred bucks or something. It was 250 bucks or something

for the entire menu. I was like, wow. Yeah. Yeah. And there was like 35 cars backed up behind us. We ended up just giving a lot of it away,

obviously, because we could eat all that. But yeah, so that was probably the last time I'd been to Burger King because, you know, that amount of Burger King, you're pretty good for a couple of years.

For a while, yeah. Satisfied the cravings. But now you walk in there and I don't know if this is the same at any other fast food restaurants. You don't deal with anyone. There's like a big screen. It's a touch screen.

Yeah, I have seen those. You play short. I was like, what happened to the zitty teenager who hates their life not wanting to be behind the counter at Burger King? I love talking to that guy. You know? Where's the face-to-face interaction? You kind of sort of wait around, don't you?

Everyone just awkwardly stands around the restaurant now. And then your number kind of gets called up from the receipt. It's like, yeah, I guess it's a lot more quicker and more efficient. I guess it's for the, I guess you could say the introverts who don't like speaking to people.

You can just go straight to the old ding, ding, ding, ding. No judgment either. No one's judging you. I love the screens. I love them. You put in whatever you want and it comes in a little bag

and you walk. You don't have to say it out loud to anyone. But we're slowly phasing humans out. Soon we'll be out the back. We'll do the scream. We'll have to go and make our own whoppers. It's not that far off.

Soon you'll just walk into Burger King and there'll be no staff at all because computers don't take holidays. Who's making the burgers if there's no staff? Computers, are they? Yeah, computers will. Trust me, they're coming, mate. Coming.

I told you about 5G. I was talking about 5G last time. 5G, here we go. Conspiracy theories. Yeah. So you reckon instead of like that movie Terminator where the machines are sent from the future, in the movie, to destroy us,

they're making burgers. They're making whoppers. Because why wouldn't a company put a computer in? Computers don't need annual leave. Soon there'll be computers doing this job. But I always think that, you know, at some stages the computer's going to malfunction. I mean, your laptop, you've got to restart.

I mean, what happens at peak time, peak five o'clock dinner time at Burger King, and a computer malfunctions. I know. There's a computer my dad was saying, he's into all the advanced what's that, AI? What's that stand for? Artificial intelligence. Yeah, no, advanced. It's advanced New Zealand.

That's what I was in the political party. AI. And he said there's a computer now that has been designed that can look at a human and can tell whether it's going to have cancer or be affected throughout life. Already. Affected by what? I love the way you just say stuff.

You're spout officer. You're like the Fox News of radio. You just say stuff with confidence. spout officer. You're like the Fox News of radio. You just say stuff with confidence. No one fact check me on this. Affected. Affected by what? That's the computer that's going to tell you that.

This person will be affected. I don't know. This is going to be affected by something. Affected by parking tickets. Sports team, the favourite team losing. Bad hair days. Stuff like that. And I want to predict that, so watch out. It's coming. They're coming to get you.

Jeez, we covered a lot of ground here. Didn't we just? Let's move on. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. The A to Z of New Zealand. We do this every day on the show. As you probably know by now, we call a different town or city in New Zealand.

We call one a day. We learn about the place and we make our way around New Zealand alphabetically just through the phone system. Yeah, a lot of toll calls. Imagine the amount of toll calls we've had, the bills we're charging through this company. But today we're heading to Levin in the Hora Whenua, and it's a town that is living in giant bowls of lattes, scones that weigh three and a half kilograms.

And Levin would welcome you with a big hearty hug and hold your head against its ample bosom and you would feel at home. And I think at the moment we have Lynette on the phone from the sewing centre, but we're after Christine, Lynette. Yeah, she's here. Thank you, Lynette. I'll get her for you.

You're a champion, thank you. Let's see, we'll speak to you at Jono. Good morning. Oh, no. It's Jono. I heard that. I heard Oh, no. Oh. Do you not hear? It's Jono. Oh. I heard that. I heard that, Christine.

Is that true? Yeah. You meant to put your hand over the mouthpiece. That's all right. I'm Ben. I'm here as well. So maybe that's not quite it. Oh, that's more of a mmm, is it?

I get it. So this is double trouble, is it? Double trouble, yeah. I get it. Oh, and you get it. Mmm. Yeah, mmm. So what about together it? Double trouble, yeah. I get an mmm and you get an mmm. Yeah, mmm. So what about together? You're like, oh, it's John and Ben on the phone.

Well, you get a laugh, but they're like, oh, good. I'll laugh at that. I'll laugh at anything you'd like me to laugh at. Hey, Christine, you work at Bernina. Yes, I do. Two days a week. Two days a week. Bernina.

Wonderful jingle for the sewing machines, wasn't it? It was. Amazing. Bernina, so jingle for the sewing machines, wasn't it? It was. Amazing. Bernina, so easy and so versatile, if I remember. So, obviously, you sell sewing machines. You are so correct. Gosh, how did you work that one out? Yeah, well, I was just wondering if...

You're quite sharp today, aren't you? Yeah. Are you a sewing enthusiast? Because I feel like the art of sewing would have slowly died off over the last 10 years. Is that a fair statement? Yes and no. There's a lot of ladies now who are retiring and all their life, all the baby boomers, all their life they've wanted to do something but they've been so busy working, bringing up kids, running the household,

and now it's their turn and they want to learn how to do things. Do you put it down to the fact that clothes are just, we're such a disposable society now. Clothes are so cheap. They are. Aren't they? But a lot of what the ladies do in here is the actual patchwork and quilting,

and then when you talk about the clothes, so many women can't actually buy clothes that they want anymore. You know, they're just not available to buy. Right. What's the best thing you've ever made for yourself or someone else? Well, I started with patchwork, and patchwork is actually very rewarding. I mean, it's a labour of love, and patience is a virtue.

That's all I'll say on that one. So that's the quilt sort of thing, right? When you make little different patches and you put them all together. Yes, that's right. Ah, gotcha. Jeez, we've really zeroed in on the sewing, but we're actually phoning you for the A to Z of New Zealand. Oh, yeah, sorry.

To hear about Levin. Sorry, a lot of that was on me. I started with the jingle. It was our fault. Now, Levin. Ben's got a wonderful song for Levin. Levin, Levin, the loco. What happens when you're Levin in Levin?

What's some of the cool stuff there? The cool stuff here in Levin? Well, the beautiful outdoors and the beaches, great weather. You just can't go wrong. Lovely people. Is everyone lovely in Levin? Wonderful people. But there's, you know, the odd undesirables.

There's the odd undesirables. Same everywhere, but New Zealand on the whole, pretty good, eh? And Levin is great. It is. A lot of people retiring up here. So, you know, the great place to retire or a great place to bring up a family as well. Now, tell me, Christine, do you treat yourself to a little movie at the Boutique Cinema there in Levin? On the

odd occasion I do. I don't go to the movies a lot but every now and again I'll go to the movies. Do you visit the Murrayfield Museum and Cafe and pat a llama? I haven't been there for a wee while. I have been to all these places but they're not the sort of things that you go to on a regular basis,

are they, really? You haven't run your fingers through a llama's hair for a long time. Do you ever slap on the bathers and sit and relax by Lake Horefenua? Do you ever dive in there? No, that's not a place that you'd want to dive in. Okay, okay. What's it... Is it like that lake that was on The Simpsons?

I don't like that. It's probably covered in weed. Okay, covered in weed. Oh, I got you. Now, the clock tower, quite a modern-looking clock tower in the middle of the bin. I'm just looking online. It looks like a sort of older clock attached to a modern roof. Yes, that's why.

That's just down at the bank there. Yeah. Do you ever use it to tell the time, or is it just something that's... Oh, yes. It stands out like a sawtie because it also has the bank there. Yeah. Do you ever use it to tell the time, or is it just something that's... Oh, yes, it stands out like a sawtie because it also has the temperature there. Oh, so you know the temperature as well. That's quite handy. Mm.

So, good. Everything's quite handy in Levin. That's an ugly clock, Christine. Hey, hey, it's a positive, positive. That is an ugly clock. I've seen, you know, if you're putting that up next to Big Ben... Hey, hey.

I see what you mean. It is just like, boom, it's just out of nowhere, this clock, isn't it? I see what you mean in these pictures. It's like a modern sort of roof, and then all of a sudden there's a, oh, they put a big clock on top of it, and then they put another little modern roof on top of the clock. There's nothing like things that are different in this. Yeah, no, you're right.

That's what makes Levin unique. And lovely to talk to you. Thank you so much for sharing a lot of information about sewing and someone makes Levin unique. And lovely to talk to you. Thank you so much for sharing a lot of information about sewing and someone, Levin. Very good. You have a great day. Nice talking to you. All right. It's been a bit of a stitch up.

We'll get going. Okay. Sew this conversation up. Thanks, Christine. Bye. You sew it up, baby. Okay. See you.

Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. He's been scrolling through your feed, and I'll tell you what, he knows more about your personal life than Mark Zuckerberg. And here he comes with Ben Boyce's News of the Night. That's right.

These are some of the big stories from New Zealand and around the world. And, Jono, as I said before, you've been saying this for a while. You were saying that the artists, the musical artists, you know, the pop stars, they're getting younger and around the world. And Jono, as I said before, you've been saying this for a while. You were saying that the artists, the musical artists, you know, the pop stars, they're getting younger and younger and younger. And you're like, what you've always said, very soon we're going to have concerts from a womb. Yeah, that's the wild

claims that we make. Well, because it started with Lorde and then we went down a couple of years to Benny and then you've got your Jojo Sea-Wiz and I don't know any other child stars. It's not really my We went down a couple of years to Benny. And then you've got your Jojo Seawiz. And I don't know any other child stars. It's not really my, I'm not really a target demo for them,

but I'm sure there's more. And yeah, it felt like the next logical step. Yeah, well, right now a toddler is set to release her debut album from being recorded inside the womb. It's actually happened. A 15-month-old toddler is now a recording artist with some sounds recorded, sounds of the unborn, with help of her musical parents. Now, they connected devices to her name is Elizabeth,

the mum, her pregnant stomach, and they transcribed the vibrations through synthesizers, making the sounds that Luke had inside. And they've added a little bit of music, but this is songs from the Womb. I was definitely wanting to get the party started. Isn't it? Put on that Womb record! Yeah!

Yeah! Does a beat drop at any point? Oh, I don't think so. It sounds equal parts disturbing and terrifying. That's atrocious. You were right, though. Oh, I don't think so. It sounds equal parts disturbing and terrifying. That's atrocious. Oh, well, hey, you were right though. Oh, well, thank you. Yeah. So they're doing a world tour, are we? And we just go and see

a pregnant lady with a microphone up to her belly button? Can you buy tickets to the show? Yeah, I don't know about that, but something you can buy tickets to. The Super Bowl, it was on Monday, New Zealand time, the big football game. One of the memorable moments was, of course, the weekend, his halftime show. But also a man that ran onto the field wearing pretty much a pink Borat-style bathing suit.

Oh, the mankini. Yeah, and so this guy was a streaker. He evaded security and then he eventually got tackled. It went all over social media. Now, here's my question. Do the, because I know in New Zealand we like to cut away from streakers and all their shenanigans

on the broadcast. Oh, I didn't know it was on the broadcast. Do they run it live on the Super Bowl? I don't know. I've just seen a lot of social media footage.

Cell phone footage, yeah. Yeah, but, so here begins, he came up, the guy who did it, he came up with the idea of doing it after going to,

the equivalent of the TAB, the sports betting site over there in America and seeing the odds on someone streaking, on someone running on the field. He's like, well, they're good odds. I'm going to the game. How about I put a lot of money down and then make that happen? And he got all his buddies to do it.

He got arrested and charged $500 bond, but he reckons he's going to walk away. Well, he thought he was going to walk away with $370,000 in profit. Oh, my God. From his bets. But now the sports betting company is like, hang on a second. Surely there are T's and C's about that. Well, they're trying to say, hey, you know, you and anyone associated with you that knew that was going to happen is not going to. It's a comical form of match fixing, isn't it?

Yeah, I guess it is. I could never play sport. I would bring great, great shame upon a sport. Because it would just be too tempting, wouldn't it? You know, like if you're playing cricket, you know, just, great shame upon a sport. Because it would just be too tempting, wouldn't it? You know, like if you were playing cricket, you're like, oh yeah, just bowl a ball through your legs for a laugh. Ball number three

of the seventh over, I'd be like, okay, how much am I getting for this? You crazy little sleazy bookie, I'll give you two and a half thousand dollars, I'll take it. They're like, what is he doing? You know, it would be too tempting. I mean, radio, can I be honest with you? No.

I'll be honest. Many years ago, when the administration wasn't run through, you know, computer systems, generally the prizes, you know, I might have sent prizes to myself. But, you know, me and Robert Taylor, I used to work with a wonderful guy called Robert Taylor.

He was the weak link in our prize scam because his fake name was, because you couldn't send them to, you know, Jono Pryor and Robert Taylor. Suspicions would be raised.

He had, I think it was like Tolbert Rayler. So he had just, Robert Taylor to Tolbert Rayler. Eventually. You got to get caught.

We got caught we got outed we got outed I couldn't do it with me I'm still Ben Boyce he can't swap around the names and that is scrolling through your feed

this morning they're proud of New Zealand go New Zealand if only New Zealand was proud of them Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast

on the hits with your chance so bright it's Stan Walker give it is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben, 640. He's got a reality TV show starting on TVNZ2 on Monday. He's joining us in the studio to talk all about it.

Now, this one. Ben Voice Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Pryor's Worst Moments of the Week. Are we doing this again? Yeah, we love to do this on a Friday. We reflect back on some of Jono Pryor's worst moments of the week and there's too many to choose from normally. Well, there's a while back catalogue of bad decisions that I've made.

Yeah. And listen, Ben Boyce somehow has taken it upon himself to conduct a weekly performance review with me. I do enjoy this. I don't know why. I don't know why you put yourself in this position. We'll sit around and we reflect on Jono Pryor's worst moments of the week and we bring you three of our faves each week,

narrowed down from the hundreds and hundreds of applicants. I think we had one at the top of the show, didn't we? What was I saying about computers? Yeah, yeah. It could have easily have been in there. But right now we'll take you back to Tuesday. You talked about swimming in the ocean over the weekend and encountering a snapper.

And what happened to you while you encountered a snapper swimming in the ocean over the weekend and encountering a snapper and what happened to you while you encountered a snapper swimming in the water. So just in the shoreline and the waves were coming in and I was diving into a wave and I saw a snapper head like looking at me. Like the snapper was like, okay, I'll go this way.

And then I was like, I'll go that way. And we did that two or three times until eventually I had a head-on collision with a snapper. What? He went straight into my forehead. I think you're making up something. Okay, I made up that bit. I made up that bit just to make the story cooler.

Okay, I got caught out in a lie there. Juliet straight away yelled, no you didn't. Guys, roll with it. Roll with it. Just go, oh you got a little bit of a snapper. Call me out. It's not as good a story as like, I saw a snapper in the ocean.

Yeah, well, that's where they live. You idiot. We also talked about how when we were in Hamilton over the weekend, you went to the BP, and they were doing an Uber Eats order for someone who just ordered a little tiny packet of tomato sauce. So I went in there, and then the two people behind the counter, they're laughing. They said, you won't believe what someone has just Uber Eats ordered. And it was just a tiny little, you know, those little squeezy tomato sauces you get to a company, a pie that you buy from the petrol station.

Oh, that's never quite enough, but you know. Never enough. And squirts out at all different angles. It really comes out like Ben's prostate issue. It goes everywhere apart from where you want it to go. Sorry for airing that, Ben. I told you about confidence. Yeah, sorry.

We always have to go in there. It was a wipe down time again. We're in the walls. And finally for Jono Pryor's worst moments of the week, we were talking about photos that clog up your photo stream on your phones

and I said how I take a photo of handbrakes, my handbrakes on in the car because I've had some issues with the handbrakes in the past. I just like the security of knowing that

the handbrake is on, it's secure and then this happened. And I have ones of, a lot of my handbrake. I have a thing, yeah. And that's not a euphemism. He's always sending us pictures of my handbrake. I have a thing, yeah. And that's not a euphemism.

He's always sending us pictures of his handbrake, eh, Juju? But now that clogs up my photos. 9,000 photos of handbrake. You should take all that footage and start some sort of

bespoke website on the dark web. Like an OnlyFans account. Yeah, like, naughty breaks. This one's off. This one's only half on. Or this one's fully up.

Fully erect handbrake. Are you going to do it? What? No. I don't think. Is it a thing? I don't think it is. No.

People are into some stuff on the internet, mate. You're okay. You can find a fan base for that. They're pretty bleak photos. But anyway, that is Jono Pryor's worst moments of the week. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. The hits.

Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. Time for our good old friend Juju to come on in. From Hollywood to Linwood, from Lady Gaga to Lady Briscoes, from TikTok to Tic Tacs. Here's all the celebrity news with Juju. Now, Ben, one of your favourite celebrities, Kevin Hart,

is in a bit of a situation at the moment. Uh-oh. His. Uh-oh. Remember the, he's been through a few situations and Ben,

one of my favourite ones with Kevin Hart was when he was caught with another lady in a car. We weren't there. That wasn't his, that wasn't his wife. We weren't there, Joe.

And I think they've worked through the marriage and they're still together which is wonderful. Everyone makes mistakes in life, you know, you can't judge. But then I was like, he's cheated, and Ben was vehemently defending Kevin Hart. We weren't there.

And I was like, well, the cell phone was that was filming him. We weren't there. And then Kevin Hart actually came out and said, OK, I was there. And Ben kept saying, well, we weren't there. It's like your mother-in-law who is still defending Lance Armstrong. But it's nothing like that. So his one-time personal shopper, his only personal shopper that he's had in his life,

has been accused of laundering a million dollars of his money. His only personal shopper he's had in his life? I've had so many personal shoppers. He's only had one. It's quite sad, isn't it? But no, this guy, he would use Kevin's credit card and transfer money

into his own bank account, but then would make the mistake of purchasing luxury items and then posting them on Instagram. So watches and designer things. And so people were kind of like, I think that's how he got caught out. And so now he's in court

dealing with it all. I think it went over for about a year and a bit. One for you, one for me situation. I mean, hey, listen, if you gave me your EF postcard and you're like, hey, shoot down the road, grab a sling from the dairy, I'd buy something for myself. Would you?

Well, that's the labour. You're paying me for my labour. Oh, okay. But I suppose the personal shopper was also getting paid a salary. Yeah, true. It was part of your job, but it feels like a little bit of a, you know.

Yeah. The personal shopper seems like a fun job. It would be fun. I would hate it because I hate going to malls and shopping. Yeah, but if it was your thing.

Oh, it'd be so good. I'd love that job. And when is it like, oh, go whip down, you know, go to Countdown, grab us some shopping? Is it just all general shopping?

Maybe, maybe. Maybe Kevin's just too busy to do any sort of shopping himself. It's crazy in America because you know what? They have such specific jobs and a lot of them are unionised. We were over there filming a prank actually on Ben Boyce at E! Television. And there was all the crew there and I went to pick up one of their lights to help them move it.

No, no, no! We've got a guy. We've got a light guy. And the light guy, literally, his whole job was to just move a light from there to there all day. Yeah, no one else is allowed to touch it. Stay away from the light guy. Stay in your lane, Briar.

Stay in your lane. No diversifying over there. You've got a job. You're one job. You do it well. But as Kiwis, you know, you kind of just all pitch in. You're like, oh, I'll help you carry that.

I'll do this. What do you want to do? But it's over there. It's very like, okay. It's offensive almost you're like oh I'll help you carry that I'll do this what do you want to do you know but it's over there very like okay it's offensive almost yeah and I guess there's things that could go wrong or things like that

we can get sued right like if I knocked someone over with the lighter what idiot was that he wasn't a he wasn't a light mover no and as well as that

Priyanka Chopra she has released a book who she's married to Nick Jonas from the Jonas Brothers and a famous Bollywood and Hollywood actress. She described in her book that when she was about 18, quite

young, early in her career, she had to have a nose surgery to fix something that was going wrong as she was getting what felt like continuous head cold. So she had what's called a nasal polypectomy and the surgeon in an attempt to shave off some tissue to help solve this problem,

he accidentally shaved the bridge of her nose, causing the bridge of her nose to collapse. Oh dear. And so after the surgery, she essentially had a nose that didn't look like a nose. She said that she lost rolls because of it, because her face just looked so different. Well, no one wants to give a roll to no nose. Let's call a spade a spade. Do you want to see someone with no nose on? Why are they so part of the character?

Yeah, you're right. Like a hero in the Avengers or something. Here comes no-nose. But she had to have multiple surgeries later on continuously to kind of fix her nose and it's not the same as how it used to be but she had to deal with that

when she was quite young, early in her career. You're pretty good. Get out of the medical profession. Everyone has bad days at work. Yeah. You know? And if they have a bad day at work,

it is catastrophic. We reflect on some of yours in Jono Pryor's Worst Moments of the Week but really, you're right, there's not, there's no harm, no foul.

Exactly. I haven't collapsed an actress's nose. No, no. So it's quite scary, quite scary but she's all good now. That's why you can head to the Hits website for more. From stealing Mike Hosking's car to stealing the hearts of New Zealand. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the Hits.

Actual hearts being not bestowed. No, that's wrapping up our hour, our first hour of Love Songs to midday. Whether the other shows pick up afterwards, well, that's up to them, but hopefully they will. It's been a lot of fun. We really branded it wrongly incorrectly if it finishes at 9 o'clock yeah right

yeah love songs to 9 just didn't quite have the same ring to it did it so what we like to do is end the show every week on who's going to have

the best weekend a feeling I've been to myself a judge and jury you phone us 0800 the hits and what you don't appreciate about this time slot

is that we need to finish at 8.57 and they're always like you've got to finish at 8.57 I don't appreciate about this time slot is that we need to finish at 8.57. And they're always like, you've got to finish at 8.57. I don't know what happens if we go over that, but I imagine that five puppies on the other side of the world perish if we don't finish it. We really should wrap up by then. All right. Rich, you don't want to see any puppies perishing.

Why is it going to be a good weekend for you, mate? Because I'm off to the Big Gay Hour in Auckland on Sunday. Oh, awesome. That's always a wonderful festival, isn't it? Yeah I'm off to the Big Gay Out in Auckland on Sunday. Oh, awesome. That's always a wonderful festival, isn't it? Yeah, my first time going, so yeah. First time? Well, you enjoy the Big Gay Out, and we will send you some hell pizza to eat in between partying.

Enjoy the weekend. That's pretty cool. It's on Valentine's Day, a big celebration on Valentine's Day this year as well, too. Awesome. We'll go to the Hawke's Bay. Rochelle, you're on the air. Hi. We're rushing to 8.57, so puppies Rochelle, you're on the air. Hi.

We're rushing to 8.57, so puppies don't perish. Why is it going to be a good weekend for you? I'm going to a festival also. I'm going to go have a boogie and a bevy at the old Outfield Festival in Te Awanga. Oh, the Outfield Festival. Wow.

It's going to be a wonderful weekend. We'll give you some hell pizza. Still 25 seconds till those puppies die, Ben. They're not going to die. Hell Pizza, of course, best damned pizza and booze delivery as well. You can check it out

at hellpizza.com. Now next, a week on the show, Monday back, Five Words 5K 745 and Stan Walker has a new reality show. He's going to be with us

on the show. That's awesome. You can have yourself a great weekend. Have a happy Valentine's Day. We'll catch you Monday from 6 o'clock on the Hits. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with you Monday from 6 o'clock on The Hits. Want more Jono and Ben?

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