Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - February 17 - Ben Wants To Regift Something He Got Something For Free...

Episode Date: February 16, 2021

Ben got given something for free and he thought it would be the perfect present for his friend for his birthday. But his wife thinks otherwise. Is it ok for him to regift? Has this ever happened to you? We spoke to some people who had also been CAUGHT regifting. Oh dear lord that's embarrassing. We also chatted about whether you owe your kids money, because as we know, they can be very sneaky and stitch you up! Finally, we caught up with American actor and comedian, Anthony Anderson, who's in the successful TV series Black-Ish. Enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We're doing this now to time capsule these wonderful snapshots in broadcasting history. Ben Boyce, you like to front foot the podcast with what the audience can expect. Yeah, I do. But I also like to try and remember what was on the show. It's amazing. You do a show and then you can't remember what you've talked about for three hours in some way.

No, we just interviewed a lady, an actor, And Ben, she was like, do you remember me? And I'm a little sure. And we did a thing and you had a blank look on your face. I've just done a lot of stuff. And it's not like I'm being rude or anything like that. You just kind of go. You do your show, you move on. I remember listening to Conan O'Brien on his podcast.

And he was saying, you know, he would do a talk show in America. One of the biggest talk shows ever. He's still doing it. And he had a big celebrity guest join him. But he'd get home and they'd go, who was on the show today? And he'd be like, oh jeez I can't remember. And he was interviewing the world's biggest... He probably had Dwayne the Rock Johnson sitting next to him.

And he's like, oh that's right we had Dwayne Johnson. It's just that recall. I feel like you... Well I suppose it's like anyone in a job that you do it every day. You prepare for it. What did you do on Wednesday? Oh I don't know. That's why we need to scan in the QR codes because it's hard to remember where you've gone and what you've been.

Today on the show, though, we did catch up with a very big star in the US, Anthony Anderson. He's on one of the biggest TV shows in America. Google him. Google him. You'll know him. Oh, so many movies. Everything from The Departed, I think Scream 4 he was in,

Kangaroo Jack. He's been in just so many things. Law and Order. You were saying we didn't get to ask him about this, he played a game of dominoes with Michael Jordan, a basketball legend, and beat Michael Jordan. And they were staying together. I think their families were staying at the same resort by chance.

And they were like, they played this game of dominoes. And then for the rest of the time they were both at sea each other, Michael Jordan was very competitive. He hated the fact he lost this dominoes game. He was very salty and so wouldn't talk to him. And then people would go, can we get a photo of the two of you? He would go, no, I'm not going to get a photo with him.

Make Anthony Anderson stand out of the photo. He was so upset that he lost even the game of dominoes. Michael Jordan wanted to put money on it at the start too. He was like, let's put some money on it. But I think Anthony Anderson's wife was like, ah, no. We're not betting against one of the richest men in the world. We're not doing this. So they just paid it for bragging rights and Michael Jordan couldn't

obviously brag about it and so it was very upset. But I think they're good mates now. I think they've bonded together over dominoes. We bond together over dominoes, don't we? Yeah. We love fun. What is dominoes? Was it the, with the white? Yeah. And the black dots?

Yeah, they've got the dots, yeah. I didn't even know how you play that game. Well, yeah, because obviously you see it when people stack them up and they knock them down and people do some pressing stuff. I've seen all the cool tricks, yeah. Yeah, but you can, I don't even know if this is the way you play it, but you can get somewhere you almost get dealt them like cards and then you connect them up.

We've played it before as kids. So if you've got like a, the dominoes in the middle with a three and a six, you can go, oh, I've got a six here, so I can add my domino to that, trying to get rid of your, like cards. Oh, get rid of your car, okay. That's the way we've played it,

but I don't know if that's the way you actually play dominoes. Yeah, it's never too early to get into gambling as a child. Now, also Ben Boyce, you raised an issue during the show about re-gifting, which is coming in Between you and your wife Amanda And we really Drilled down on this topic

Yeah It's a fine line Isn't it Between I mean Sorry Definitive line You're a re-gifter

Or you're not a re-gifter And then you Can be a re-gifter But could you be a re-gifter With something with A corporate logo on it That was the discussion That my wife and I

That you had received For free Yes Yeah true I was free And it had a corporate logo on it. That was the discussion that my wife and I had. That you had received for free. Yes. Yeah, true. I was free and it had a corporate logo on it and I wanted to re-gift it. In hindsight,

saying it out loud, yeah, no, I shouldn't have. But I thought there was a good reason behind it. But yeah, I've learnt. I've learnt. I'm learning as we go.

You have a lot of learning incidents, don't you, around your frugalness. Yeah. We're learning. We're all learning and life's a journey. Life's a journey. Life's a rollercoaster and you've just got to ride it.

I think it was Nostradamus who once said that. Or was it Ronan Keating? It was one of the two. Enjoy the podcast and we'll catch you again tomorrow. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.

I mentioned yesterday on the programme that I got home and the kids obviously being homeschooled, which is lovely. It's lovely to spend time with them, isn't it? More time than the six or eight weeks of holiday that I already had. Just to tack another half a week onto that has been convenient for everyone. But I said yesterday, Ben, they'd started up a little cardboard box shop in the lounge. Selling you back stuff that you'd bought. Correct. They'd

taken items from my pantry and put it in their shop and then were charging me for it to buy the packet of biscuits back. They would have made a lot if they'd started a bar. Selling you back your Heinekens. You're like, oh, there's the Auckland prices here. $12.

But it's the world's greatest scam, isn't it? You just take items from someone else and sell them as you are. I mean, if you're an adult, you'd be sent to prison for it, but for some reason, when it's children, it's cute. Yeah. It's cute. And then I get home yesterday. There's a little note written down with how much money

I owe them. So the IOU, so they're taking this, you know, it's like trying to brush them off as kids. Oh, never to pay those silly kids. Yeah, it's all play. It's all pretend, right? Yeah, no, no, no. It's an IOU system now. And he's like, this is on top of a mounting debt, Oscar, my son, that I already owe him from last year's lockdown. Remember I said, I bet you can't kick that ball through the swing? Oh, he did it. And he kicked it through the two change of, he did it. And he kicked it through

the two change of the swing first go. And then that has slowly, I've tried to double down and get out of it, but like a gambler. This is problem gambling, isn't it? I've got the bug

and now I'm up with like 120 bucks in debt to my son. Wow. And he keeps reminding, like sort of threateningly reminding me about it. Like I feel like a gang member

would be more accommodating. They're like cute mafia, aren't they? Yeah. You know, they don't forget. Yeah. A gang member would probably be more reasonable about this money. I'd be like, sorry, mate, I can't pay you right now. But they want it now.

So people do fall into debt with children. It happens all the time, I find, because the kids, I don't carry cash, but the kids, they get cash from their grandparents or they do something, they got cash. So if you need something, you're like, oh, can I just borrow the five bucks? And then they remember. They remember.

They're like, hey, that money. But you're like, oh, yeah, that's right. I've got to get that. And you don't have the cash to pay the back and it becomes a whole. But then you need to go, hey, well, have you enjoyed the first eight years of your life? Yeah, well, I've paid for all of that. Yeah.

The power that you're putting on right now. I'm just playing for that, not you. Even that jar you're putting the money in, I paid for that. Now, a friend of Aaron, Aaron does a wonderful job as a production engineer for the show. He produces all our great stuff on the hits. His friend's got a teen daughter

and she wanted an iPhone. And the parents were like, okay, we'll pay half of it. And just before Christmas, the daughter was like, I'll go around and ask the grandparents and the auntie and uncle for some cash as well to get some cash.

She got so much money, she could buy the phone outright. So in the end, she paid the phone and the parents now owe her half. So they're paying it off in installments. They're paying it off in installments of $50 back because she got so much money from it and the parents had agreed to pay half. Now they're in a system where they're like,

oh, we've got to pay it back. So she's like a telco company. We have to do a monthly payment. So this is what we want to open up. I'm sure we're not the only cases. Are you in debt to a child? We all hope that their brains are so tiny and small they'll forget about it, but they don't.

They're like elephants. So 0800 the hits. What do you owe to a child? Money, labour, whatever. We'll take it. You can text 24487. Get in touch with New Zealand's Breakfast this morning. We'll head to the phones.

Full board here, a lot of people in debt to children. We'll start with Amanda. Welcome from Rotorua, Morena. How are you? Hi, how are you? We're doing well. Who do you owe money to? How old are they and what is it for?

It's for my 17-year-old. We bought her a MacBook about two years ago or about a year and a half ago. Not a cheap purchase? No. No, not cheap. Not cheap. Birthday and Christmas kind of combined. And she wants to upgrade her MacBook because she's going to university next year.

So she's selling it back to me for $700. But she's saving the other half of it, and she's got a part-time job now. And I thought, oh, she's crap with the money. It'll take her ages to saving the other half of it and she's got a part time job now and I thought she's crap with the money it would take her ages to save that other half so I've got ages

to come up with the money and she said to me last night oh mum I've almost got all the money saved and I'm like oh shit I don't have to save it up I'm good for it

I'm good for it you know I'm good for it I'm going to have to start an installment of my own MacBook that I bought the MacBook that I bought, the MacBook that I brought here. Oh, that's so good.

It's an unfair relationship. It's a one-way street with children, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. You're right. Good on you, Amanda. I hope you enjoy that computer that you've already purchased. Yeah, thanks. And we'll go to Janina in Kaipoi.

Welcome, Janina. How are you? Lovely to hear your voice. Haven't even heard it yet, so I'm just imagining it's a lovely voice. No, she's very secretive, and this is why I like Janina. You never know what you're going to get, and sometimes you don't get anything from her, so we'll move on.

Lauren Wonganui, welcome. How are you? Good. How are you? We're doing well. You owe money to kids. Yes, so my 12-year-old son started mowing the lawns, and we said we'd give him $10 a week

the bill has been mounting up all summer because he's been doing it every single weekend. I thought we would get away with it but he came to me with a printed invoice. It's your invoice. What are you, Green Acres? This is payable in 7 days alright?

If not you'll incur a 10% charge on top of that. Hey, thank you very much, Laura. You were paying your kids to be fly rangers, to catch flies, weren't you? Yeah, that's right. Because I got so annoyed with the flies in summer. I was like, every fly you get, I can't remember what money I put on that,

like a hitman putting out a hit on flies. And I didn't realise when I wasn't there, they were opening all the doors to let more flies in just so they could make more money. Sienna figured out that the tooth fairy would pay for teeth, so she was trying to rip out her own teeth. Yeah, I know. The bathroom was like, what the heck's going on here?

There's blood and tissues everywhere. She's like, I'm trying to make more money. I can get a dollar for this. I can get a dollar. You know, you can get money for these. It wasn't even wiggly. Yeah, she's going for it. We'll end on Tanya and Papamoa.

Good morning, Tanya. How are you? Good morning,, Tanya. How are you? Good, how are you? Lovely to hear your voice. We understand you're in debt to a six-year-old. Yes. How? I am. Well, last year we

had planned a massive trip overseas to visit family in Spain and the UK and we happened to be away for our son's sixth birthday. So we said to him, what do you want to do for your sixth birthday? And he said, I want to stay at a hotel with the world's biggest water slide. Oh, okay. And we were like, what the heck?

We were thinking, you know, do you want to go to the zoo in the UK? Do you want to play mini pubs or go to the mall? Maybe a happy meal or something? So anyway, he chooses the Atlantis Palms in Dubai. That sounds amazing. I've done a research project and looking, oh, Juliet's just Googled this hotel. It's made out of gold. It's insane.

It is seriously insane. But we had a two-night stopover in Dubai, so we were like, you know what, what the heck, we'll book this at this hotel. We've got the most basic of rooms just so that he could go on the world's largest water slide. And then, of course, COVID hit, and we couldn't go. So we had to tell a six-year-old

that we were no longer going to Dubai for his birthday, and he has not let us forget it and I'm now having to save the money again because we invested the money back into our business thinking there's no way we'll ever get to Dubai now. That kid will forget about the water slide. Wow, it looks incredible online.

I want to come with you guys as well. Maybe you can pay for it. I don't know how I'm going to get there now. You'll be hoping this pandemic drags on for a few more years Yes Thank you so much for listening Tanya You're going to have a wonderful Wednesday okay Yeah you too thanks guys

Alright that is a flash hotel Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone It's New Zealand's breakfast Jono and Pam on the hits Now on Feb 23rd in New Zealand Disney Plus is going to become even bigger with the addition of Star bringing even more award winning

and exclusive TV series, blockbuster movies and more 23rd of February and one of the shows coming to Disney Plus is Black-ish, probably the most successful new American comedy in years it's been nominated for multiple Emmys it's funny but it also tackles important cultural issues.

My name is Andre Johnson. I have a great career, a spectacular house, and a loving family I'm surrounded by every day. But as a black man with all the success, sometimes I feel like an oddity. If you look to your left, you'll see the mythical and majestic black family. President Obama loves it.

I was reading online, Donald Trump hates it. So there, it gives you a good response. Good juxtaposition there. And the show's lead actor, the one and only Anthony Anderson, joins us via Zoom. Morning, how are you, Anthony? Nice to talk to you as well. Unfortunately, I don't see you on my end,

so I can't tell you how pretty you look. Oh, we are dashingly handsome, my friend. You have to take our word for that. Now, it's so exciting to see you, and it was also exciting to read that you know about New Zealand's rugby team, the All Blacks. I read that. Oh, the All Blacks.

The All Blacks. I'm all too familiar with them. Yeah, I thought that was pretty cool to read. That's the only local reference I've got for you, but that was good. We were off to a good start. I lived in Sydney for six months shooting this little movie called Kangaroo Jack

and never made it over to New Zealand, but I wanted to because I had become familiar with the rugby team. We just love it when anyone from America knows what New Zealand is. We've been left off the world map five times, so it's a real honour. No, that's okay.

Some of the best things get left off sometimes. Hey, now, Black-ish, wonderful series, mate. Congratulations on all the success it's had. Now, I notice on the IMDB, you're an executive producer. Now, is this just a clever way of not losing a gig? No, producer. Now, is this just a clever way of not losing a gig?

No, no. Actually, it can be a clever way of not losing a gig, but it was designed that way from the beginning. You know, Kenya Barris and I sat down, oh, eight years ago now, and we had a meeting, and we just started talking about television and what was missing from the landscape of television for viewers such as ourselves. And we started talking about what we wanted to see on television

and then we started talking about our family. And what was born out of that was the television show Black-ish. Well, a lot of real-life situations that have happened to you, I understand, are in the show as well. What you see on the screen for the past seven years are stories that are taken, real life stories that are taken from both of our lives and subsequently from the lives of all of our writers who've come on board now. Are there any sort of storylines that your family's gone, hey, you literally just turned that into a TV show? Well, there was one storyline where Drake caught Andre Jr. Or Andre Jr. was caught masturbating in his room. And since, you know, the story is loosely based on stories from all of our lives. My son went to school and everybody thought that it was about him. You know, why are you up there telling these stories?

Everybody thinks it's about me. Well, the truth of the story is, but that actually happened to me in my real life. Oh, jeez. So it was art imitating my life and not my son's life. Not your son's life. I also understand a backflip. You did a backflip in a scene

and everyone thought you might have died. My wife and children asked me to never do that again. But no, it wasn't impromptu. It was something that I've always been able to do with such a big size husky brother and it's always been quite impressive on the dance floor. There's a lot of room for error when you're backflipping as a fully grown adult, isn't there? Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Obviously, it's been an interesting climate, to say the least, in the US over the last few years.

It feels like it's getting better now, does it? You know, the crazy part is it feels like it's getting better. And then the next day, they tell you that it's gotten worse. So it's been a rollercoaster ride for all of us here in the States. You know, I have a question for you guys. How is everything going on over there in New Zealand? It's been, well, we've been bragging that we've had zero cases. We've been singing from the rooftops,

but then we just, we'd gone back into lockdown for three days just because we only have one case and we start shitting our pants. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, we start shitting our pants. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. We've had concerts over summer, so you forget that the rest of the world don't get to experience. We're pretty lucky that we get to go to concerts

and hang out in festivals and things like that. Now, tell me this. Why do you think that is? What's the secret that you're not sharing with the rest of the world? Talk to us. We're so far away from everyone. That's our main benefit. We're in Ireland.

We're way, way, way. It takes a while to get here. No one can be bothered getting here, even coronavirus, I think. Literally, our whole population is the size of one of your smallest cities. Yeah, well, I've got to come over and visit, man. I've got to get on that big swing that you guys have there. Oh, in Queenstown. Yeah.

Well, we'd love to have you in New Zealand. We've been told by message that big swing that you guys have there. Oh, in Queenstown. Yeah. Well, we'd love to have you in New Zealand. We've been told by message that we need to wrap it up. So lovely to talk to you and congratulations on all the success of Black-ish. We can't wait for it to come on Disney+. Do you get free Disney Plus out of this?

No. Mickey Mouse makes me pay for everything, no matter what I do for the network. He runs a tight operation, that mouse. He does. Lovely to meet you, mate. Keep safe over there, eh? All right, guys.

Thank you, man. A pleasure. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. The other day,

I was telling you, Jono, how I got into a bit of a debate with my wife, Amanda, about taking the wine and the food that I brought over to a friend's place home with me after we'd had it.

They'd said, take it, take it, we won't eat it. So I was like, fuck. No one ever obliges. So I was like, okay, they won't eat it. I was like, you sure? And they were like, no, seriously, we won't drink the wine you brought and the cheese and crackers.

I was like, you take it. So I did. And then afterwards, she's like, no. No trouble, yeah. I mean, a lot of your relationship disagreements certainly centred around you being a tightwad. I'm trying not to be. Like, I'm trying not to be.

So I was like, hey, and I'm learning as we go. I'm like, okay, this is not a situation that I should take. Can we just rattle through your rap sheet, though? No, we don't need to. In the past, you've been found guilty of trying to smuggle contraband popcorn into the movie theatre. Yes, yes. Just to save on that.

Don't do that anymore. Don't do that anymore. That's my lesson. You've been tried for crimes related to taking half a bottle of wine to someone's house just because you had that sitting in your fridge.

They were friends of ours and that was all we're going to... Anyway, yeah. Don't want to do that again though. Again, learning as I go. You openly admitted to eating the leftovers from other diners in a restaurant

who left that bowl of chips there. Yeah, again, wouldn't do that again. Bad luck apparently. Why have you done that? Bad luck apparently, again, wouldn't do that again. Bad luck, apparently. Bad luck, apparently. This is pre-COVID days. Bad luck, apparently. When that lady said, my milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard, he bought his own milkshake

just to save on costs. But yeah, yesterday I got a little bit of a situation again, and I feel like I'm learning this lesson as well. Now, I got given, from the fine people at Milo, they sent me some Milo cups, and they've got Milo logos on it. And my friend of mine is a massive fan of Milo. He loves it.

It's one of those things, he's always having a Milo, doesn't drink tea or coffee. So I'm like, his birthday coming up, I'm going to give him coffee. Oh, no. He will like these Milo things. You know, because he likes, it means something to him. He likes Milo. And I got given these for free,

which means I don't have to go and buy anything for him. And my wife, Amanda, she's like, you can't give something to I got given these for free, which means I don't have to go and buy anything for him. And my wife and me, and it's like you can't give something to someone that you got for free with a corporate logo on the side. Here's a Milo t-shirt. Why not? In this situation, he likes Milo. This is the perfect present for him.

If I saw it in the shop, I'd probably go, oh, I'd think of him and I'd buy it. I didn't buy that. Does he know that? I don't know. But if he could just hold them with all the items and take a photo with them just so you could put it up on Instagram, that would be quite handy.

That would be handy, actually. That would be really handy. If you don't have to, it's over to you. But I've been drinking the Milo that came with the cups. Oh, so you've had the actual... The Milo, yeah, yeah. Oh, you just want to give him the merch. The cups, they're fine cups.

There's nothing wrong with the cups. I haven't used the cups. But I'm like, well, surely we can give it to him because that means something to him but apparently not. Apparently not.

Apparently I can't give that to him. Look, I'll get him something else. I don't know what or something else I've been given from somewhere else. But not as cool as Milo. Will you now give him

the Milo cups and something else or no, he only gets one? I'm not allowed to give him the Milo cups. Oh, at all?

No. Not even associated with another person? I'm allowed to give it to him outside of birthday parameters. That's a man that's like, you can't give it for your birthday. You can say, hey, I got given these, thought you'd like these. And then I'm like, oh, but it's... But then we don't have to spend money on a birthday present.

I'm like, oh, just give him the cups. I thought it was perfect, but apparently we're not. I've just Googled the rules of re-gifting. Yeah. You know, there's two sides of the argument, obviously. Right. But many people say it's just recycling. Yeah.

It's a good thing. I mean, what would you do with those Milo cups? You wouldn't use them? I would probably use them, but I feel like he's going to use them more than me. More than you, yeah. So all you need to do, apparently, is just re-wrap them. Don't put them in the courier pack that said, two Ben boys, care of the hits. Yeah, thanks. Re-wrap them. Can't put them in the courier pack that said, two Ben boys, care of the hits.

Yeah, thanks. Re-wrap them. Can you afford some wrapping paper? I can probably. Wrap them up and then they look like you've put your own personal... You've gone to some effort,

a relative amount of effort. Oh, we are learning as we go. So there we go, we're all learning together. Hey, relationships, they're a journey. Exactly. Where you start,

where you end up, things change along the way and I'm learning now not to re-gift things with corporate logos on it. Who knew? Who knew? Who knew? Broadcasting live.

And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. We were going to do something else here, but the re-gifting conversation is getting a lot of text and a lot of feedback. A lot of good street talk out there about you re-gifting, wanting to re-gift some corporately sponsored Milo cups to your friend. Who knew you couldn't re-gift something with a corporate logo on it? That's something that I've now learnt. According to my wife, it's a corporate logo.

But it's okay outside of birthday hours. She was like, if you're going to give it away, at least. It's just like a throwaway. Hey, here's these. Hey, I saw this for a year and it's like, oh, that's nice, rather than... Let's not focus in on a... But this is the same guy, Juliet, we've mentioned before.

He turns up to weddings with a card and throws it on top of the pile of presents just going, congratulations, hoping that the bride and groom understand that it detached from a present. I said you could do that. This is the mindset, though. But they haven't done that. It's the thought that counts.

And I love the thought of not spending any money and regifting these things. Well, a lot of people are joining in on 4487 on the regifting debate. Actually, have you ever been regifted something or done regifting and been caught? That's what we want to know. Because is it a crime that you can get away with that neither party will admit or hit anyone up about? Philip, you've got an idea how Ben can actually regift these sponsored Mylo cards. They love it when we're talking about it.

That's great. Welcome, Philip. Hey, guys. How you doing? What are your thoughts? I reckon just use them as the packaging and then they're not that your gift. Chuck a hole of chocolates in there or something. Oh, great.

He did get sent some chocolates from Cadbury as well. Put those in there. There you go. Good to go. That's a great idea. Another text here, 4487. Philip, obviously you're in the re-gifting camp. You don't mind a re-gift, Phil? I don't mind.

What is it? Upcycling? Yeah. Something like that. Precycling? Cheapassing? Yeah, whatever you want to call it. It's a good way of going.

There's so much stuff in the world. You don't need to buy more stuff. Just use the stuff you've got. Here's a question for you. Obviously, you two are re-gifters, Ben and Philip. What if you've used it once or twice? Is it still re-giftable? Juliette?

No, shaking my head. Do they know? Do they know? Are they going to find out? Do they know? If I've washed those Milo magugs and done a good job of it. I guess it depends on the gift, doesn't it? Yeah.

Okay, Juliet, you've got a boyfriend. He gives you something. You find out he's re-gifted it. Your first thoughts? Cheap. Would you marry Ben? But it depends what it is. It depends what it is.

If it's something that I really like and he's got it, I'll be stoked. I'll be like, nah, well done. You've made a good judgment knowing that I'd like it. Because in this situation, I'm like and he's got it and I'll be stoked. I'll be like, nah, well done. You've made a good judgement knowing that I'd like it. Because in this situation, I'm like, yeah, there's a connection there that I was trying to, you know, that was funny. I wasn't just going to give John a Milo mug.

Thanks, mate. Yeah, I say good on you. No, for my wedding, you gave me a Bunnings warehouse hat. You know, those straw ones, those troublesome unruly British tourists all wearing through the country. I haven't seen you wear it once, but anyway. Yeah, no, it was a wonderful wedding present. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Bunnings Warehouse, too. If you find a same-stock item, we'll bid it by 15%. Apparently, I need to say that according to my wedding gift. Exactly. Just say it every time you wear that. So, yes, let's jump in. We've got some great texts coming through here.

0800, that hits telephone number 4487, about people who have been being busted re-gifting. Oh, really? Sharon, you're on from Greymouth. Hi. Are you a friend of a re-gift or not? I am a re-gift. Oh, you love a re-gift.

Have you been busted re-gifting? I have. What happened? My best friend gave me a coffee mug for Christmas. Does it have Milo on it? Is your best friend Ben Boyce? I thought you loved Milo In the bottom of my mug is a hand flicking the bird

Oh yeah And I thought I love my mug My mug that I bought So I'll use my mug and I'll keep her one just in the cupboard And my partner was being a pain in the butt that week. So I was like, I'm gifting it to him. He kind of, he needs this mug. And my best friend caught me out on it.

She just goes, did you re-gift my mug? Oh. I was like, he was being a pain. He kind of deserves the mug. Yeah, no, I know. But the feeling of when you get caught mustn't be a nice one. That's the risk you run, re-gifting. The thing is, she actually bought the mug for herself.

She used it a couple of times and realised... Oh, here we go. Oh, she gave you a used mug? She realised that, like, when you wash it, the hand fills up with water, so you think it's dry and then you put it down and the water comes out of the hand. So she's like, you can have this. Yeah, she goes,

I didn't like it much anyway. And it was like, yeah! This is a quadruple regifted mug we're talking about here. Thank you very much, Sharon. We'll end on Kira in the Waikato. Morena, Kira, you're a regifter? Generally, yes. But

I've come to realise that there's a line after I was re-gifted a present from my bosses at Christmas. Yeah, so they gave me a bottle of rosehip oil with a lovely big writing on the box saying for the treatment of fine lines, wrinkles, scars and stretch marks. I'm 27, so I was kind of like, okay. But then I opened it and the seal was broken and, like, it was partly used.

And I was like, all right, guys, thanks. Thanks so much. Really appreciate it. Someone already tried it out on their fine lines, wrinkles and stretch marks. I don't know. Either it worked really well and they wanted to pass it on or it didn't work. No joke, I won't say. A it worked really well and they wanted to pass it on, or it didn't work. No joke, I will say. A used bottle of wrinkle oil.

Yeah, I'm 27. I've never been so insulted in my life. Oh, Kira, I love your accent, too. That's the quaintest accent we've ever had on the radio. I love it. All the while, we're going to send you out some hell pizza, re-gifted that I didn't want. No.

Good on you, Kira. Thanks for listening. Thanks. Bye. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. I don't know if you have this issue at home, but we order

Chinese takeaways probably most weekends. And we just get a range of dishes, four or five dishes that come and they arrive in those containers. You know the... The place of containers. And I'm not allowed to throw them out.

But for some reason we need to keep stockpiling these Chinese takeaway containers. We don't use them for anything. They just take out two shelves on the cupboard and I'm like, oh, should we throw these out this week? It's the most offensive question I get asked. We're going to use those one day

and we've never once I've got enough I could start my own Chinese takeaway so many backpiled and then I got to Dire Straits last night

and I was like well what can you Google what can you use Chinese takeaway containers for and they're like number one thing

is just make them someone else's problem so I'll come around to your house and I'm like hey Ben here's some biscuits. Take in the container. And then I wipe my hands of that Chinese container.

Well, yeah, because you don't eat lunch, so you could use them for a lunch, you know, if you brought to work and stuff like that. That's if I want my lunch to smell like chow mein. They're handy. Jen was like, oh, the kids can use it as a pencil case to school. I was like, no one wants their rubbers smelling like black bean beef. Pens and pencils.

My mum, Jenny, we talk about this many times, but she loves keeping, but she goes, not only will she keep things like that, like you have a sour cream, she'll keep the container.

You have ice cream, she'll keep the container. Every single thing that she uses, she will keep. She's got like a massive thing in the bottom of her pantry. It's like, you know,

just filled with everything. It's like, oh, you can't, that yogurt container, that's got to be put in, you wash it out. She's like a recycling thing in the bottom of her pantry. It's like, you know, just filled with everything. It's like, oh, you can't, that yoghurt container, that's got to be put in, you wash it out. She's like a recycling processing plant, but hasn't processed any of the recycling yet.

Where does it all go? What does she do with it? I had like a soda water or something. It was in a glass bottle and I was just drinking it at mum's. And she's like, after you finish with that, what are you doing with that? And I'm like, yeah, okay, I'm going to put it in the thing. I'm going to chuck it in the bin like a normal person.

We're going to wash it and we're going to put it away in that thing. She's like a magpie. So she's got empty soda bottles. Oh, yeah. Like if it's a glass, she's like, that's a nice looking thing. I'll use that for something. She keeps everything and it just puts it there. And God forbid the day when Jenny departs this earth.

Oh, I'm just like. What are you going to do? I'm like, I'm going to clean. Mum told her that. I'm like, Mum, there's so much clutter I'm going to clean. I mean, you know, some of the stuff will recycle, but other stuff, I'm just like. You could be on one of those shows on TV, NZ One Night Hoarders. Ben's mother's just passed away, and now he's loved for the responsibility of clearing it out.

And you open the door, and everything just piles out onto the footpath. You're like, I'm real sad about Mum going, but thank God I get to clean up this place. It's almost just a burn it down situation. Let all that plastic melt into the air. Her big one's the little sushi soy sauce dispensers

where she has a use for them though. Yeah, well she's come up with a use to put a mouthwash and take it around as a portable mouthwash thing.

Which is not enough mouthwash to satisfy the mouth. But she'll use that. And it kind of renders what does the mouthwash container do then? What does she do with that when it's empty? Boy, that gets put under the...

That holds soy sauce. Yeah, that's all we use for everything else. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Let's get this started. Five words for 5K on The Hits.

You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game of Word Association, a simple game to play, but quite tough to match up. You've got to match up the words, the words that pop into your head from our words. We say lots of words, and these are the most important ones that you will ever say on radio, because you could win five grand. Well done on saying some words there, Ben.

Yeah, I don't think half of them did make sense. You know how it works. Those words were worth nothing, but the words coming up are worth Yeah, I don't think half of them did make sense. You know how it works. Those words were worth nothing. But the words coming up are worth something. And it's a lot of pressure. I find it a lot of pressure on this competition. More pressure than Ben's skinny legs having to hold up his body. A lot of pressure on those hamstrings, eh, baby?

They're working hard. Sue, you're on. Welcome from Upper Hutt. Thank you. Morena, it's wonderful to have you. We welcome you with open arms. A big audio hug for you, Sue. And I made that weird.

She did make that weird. Now, Sue's gone. She wanted to win five grand, but after that, she's like, no. Did the hug thing make it weird, Sue? I'd love to win five grand to order home. Yeah, no, you want to just ignoring the hug stuff. I'm clearly offering my, anyway. Hey, Sue, you've been listed

in the competition. I have. Yeah, Sue. You've been listening to the competition? I have. Yeah, what do you think of it? I think it's great. My husband got me into it. So, yeah, I've been every morning. What do you think of the hosts? How do you think they go?

Let's not deep dive into it too far. You're pretty good for lockdown times. Yeah. Oh, yeah? Bit of a performance review? Yeah. All right, Sue. Big question.

Who are you going to choose to go into the soundproof booth? Jono. Oh, Jono. Jono making his way right now into the corner of the studio so he won't be able to hear anything that we say about him or just in general. Are you going to talk about me? Are you going to bring up that weird hug thing? Yeah, that's not, no.

I think enough has been said about that. All right, so Jono is just shutting the door on the soundproof booth. He can't hear us right now, so I'm going to say some words, and you're going to tell me what the words are that pop into your head, all right? Okay. First word, five words for 5K this morning is Oprah. Oprah. Oh, God.

Oprah. Oprah. Oprah, the talk show host? Yes, I know. Hey. Sue, you... It's a blank. Oh, really? We'll come back to that one.

We'll give you a moment to think about that one. I'm really nervous. That's all right, Sue. It's okay. Take a deep breath. You're going to that one. We'll give you a moment to think about that one. I'm really nervous. That's all right, Sue. It's okay. Take a deep breath. You're going to be fine. Speeding is the next word. Ticket.

There you go, Sue. That's word. Nice work. Nice work. Next word, birthday. Card. Birthday card. Okay, nice.

A few options popped into my head there just right away. But it was a good one. That's locking your first one. Next word for you, Sue, is rain. Fall. Sorry, say that again. Fall. Rain.

Fall. Like as in a bouncy ball. No, fall. Okay, I'll say something else. Rain, water. Okay, all right. Okay. Oh, I said you say poor, did you? No, fall. F-A-R. Oh, fall, water. Okay. All right. Okay. Oh, I said,

did you say poor, did you? No, poor. F-A-R-R. Oh, poor. Right. But you're going to lock in, you're going to lock in water? I'll lock in water.

Okay. Fried is your next word. Sorry? Fried. F-R-I-E-D. Fried. Okay. And the final word,

we'll go back to that first one. Oprah? What bird? What's her name? Oh, I'm going to tell you. You want to go last name? Yes. Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey.

Okay, let's go with that one. I see what you're doing there. Okay, all right. We're going to get Jono out of the soundproof booth. They were quite tough words today, weren't they? They were. Jono, he's really alone in his thoughts with the fan on. I'm waving towards him.

I found the light in the fan. Yeah. I found the light in the fan. Yeah, I found the light in the fan yesterday. So we had some – Jono's making his way back to the microphone. It was tough. It was tough this morning, some of these words. Jono hasn't heard these ones, obviously. It's quite tough. But we'll see how we go.

Okay. How do you say the words are tough? Oh, just something that gets tough in the way that you have multiple options in your head. Oh, yeah. Okay, all right. So best of luck. Maybe we can share that wonderful hug if we win you $5,000. Thank you.

All right, Jono, let's see if your words, the five words, match up with Sue's five words to win Sue $5,000. I'm going to go with the second word that I said to Sue, which is speeding. Speeding. Speeding ticket. Well done. Woo, Sue. Okay, we're going to go back to the first one now.

This was one that— It seems all a bit higgledy-piggledy. Who starts at two and then goes back to one? Then we're going to leap forward to four? We're on the chase. They don't talk to Bradley Walsh. They're like, hey, mate, he's in charge. Okay, I'll let you in charge.

I'm the Bradley Walsh today. Whatever unorthodox system this is, you can run with it. Well, we mixed things up for Sue today. The word is Oprah. Jono, like the talk show host, Oprah. Oprah. I'm not familiar with an Oprah. I'm with you, Jono.

Yeah. No, I don't have an answer for that. Oprah Winfrey. There we go. Well done. Okay, that's two. Did you not know who Oprah was, Sue? No, she did.

She just, I think. No, I do, but I got mixed up with something else. Yeah, and then we, it was just trying to recall her last name, which of course I'll do quite well there, Jono. So there you go. We've matched it. That's the main thing.

We've matched it. We've got two from five. And now we need to leap into question number five. No, we're going to go with the next one. Birthday. Birthday. Birthday. Party or cake?

I'm going to lock in birthday party. Ah, Sue. Ah, Sue, I'm so sorry. It was, yeah, there were some options. Sue's had card, birthday card. Oh, yeah, I mean, yeah, that's a good option too. I see what you mean by the words wide and berries. Yeah, the other last two, just because that's a good option, too. I see what you mean by the words white and berries. Yeah, the other last

two, just because that's the way we like to end this game. Rain. Shower. No. And fried. Chicken. No. Well, we got two from five, Sue. I'm so sorry we didn't get you the five grand today. That's okay. It was really fun playing.

I was lovely to meet you, Sue. Sorry for the weird hug stuff at the top of this. Let's forget about that and move on with the program. It was great having meet you, Sue. Sorry for the weird hug stuff at the top of this. Let's forget about that and move on with the program. It was great having you on, Sue. Hopefully we get to play the game again, alright? I hope so. Thank you. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right and at the end of the day. Jono and Ben.

Breakfast on the hits. Of course, alert levels at the moment. Auckland is locked down and the rest of the country in level 2. We'll find out this afternoon if things will change or not or whether things will carry on for a few more days. Or if Auckland's just had an unnecessary long weekend. We'll find out. Is it 1 o'clock

they're doing the... No, I think 1 o'clock they send out a press release today of the cases. 4.30 I think is the announcement today is when they're going to announce. I suppose they want to leave it until the absolute last minute to see if there's any positive. You can understand the reason. Well, no community cases yesterday, so I hope that's a good thing, but then there's still a lot of results

and tests to come through, so fingers crossed. Oh, listen, COVID, it gave us a summer break. It took some time off. It did. It had a bit of a holiday up north for a little bit, didn't it? Then it came back to full-time work. Yeah. Yeah, like everything. So I didn't see the Spanish flu giving us a holiday back in 1912. Oh, right. Was that when the Spanish flu was? I don't know. I don't see the Spanish flu giving us a holiday back in 1912. Oh, right.

Was that when the Spanish flu was? I don't know. Made up a time in history there. So we are all dreaming of going overseas on holiday, and many people can't. I'm sure Air New Zealand can't wait until everyone starts cashing in their credits that they've had to put on hold. What's happening with those?

You've got some of those, don't you, Ju? Yeah, I think they're extending it to June or July in 2022 for booking. It was originally the end of this year that you had to book some. It will use your credit but now they've extended it to six months and I'm like, yes! Because you were meant to go see your friend at the Tokyo Olympics weren't you? Yeah, I was, I was and then that got canned

and that was obviously, those were quite expensive flights that I'd been saving up for a while and so now I'm like oh gosh, when am I going to use that? Now you know you can just see your friend at the Westfield Mall. You don't have to go all the way to Tokyo. But the Olympics are fun. Are the Olympics even happening? Don't know.

Don't know. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. Yeah, a lot of people dreaming right now of a holiday. But we thought, well, why don't we flip it on its head and say, well, what happened to you on holiday? And then we can go, oh, yeah, holiday. Yeah, maybe it's not the best thing.

Holiday horrors. We want to open this up. A friend of ours was telling us last week, we were in a meeting with him. He was saying he went to a place for, holiday. Yeah, maybe it's not the best thing. Holiday horrors. We want to open this up. A friend of ours was telling us last week, we were in a meeting with him, he was saying he went to a place for a holiday and his dad went down with gastro. Oh, yeah, this was many, many years ago, a family outing when he was little, right?

And, yeah, dad wasn't too well. And when one family member goes down on holiday, the rest of the family has to suffer. You know, you can't go off and swim in peace. Hey, old dad's bottled down with gastro, but I think it actually got quite bad. He ended up in hospital. He went to hospital, didn't he?

Yeah. Yeah. And then now we have to bring a holiday to hospital. I've booked around a golf. I'll just do that. You'll be in hospital. You'll be fine. I don't want you to feel guilty.

It's your holiday, but you do feel guilty because someone's gone down with a sickness. Yeah, so the family went to see him in hospital. But then seven hours earlier, the guy next to him and the patient next to him had died. So they were like having a chat with their dad. Yeah. And there was just a deceased body next.

Now, I don't know the rules of health care, but I did. Hey, can don't know the rules of healthcare, but I did. Hey, can you move the dead guy while I'm sitting here with gastro? Yeah, it's not a, yeah. Oh, yeah. So that's a holiday horror. Those are the sort of things you want to know this morning.

A friend of mine, a holiday horror, was coming back from the States a few years ago and wanted to get upgraded and thought he'd say, look, I've hit my head. Totally made up story. I need to be in a comfier seat, you know? And they're like, oh, sorry, sir,

you can't fly if you hit your head. You know, there's a risk. Oh, it was a wonderful backstory, though, to try and get the upgrade. So he couldn't back out of it. And then in the end, he had to pay for basically go to the doctor, get medical certificates,

and basically pay for extra accommodation. It was like three days before they were allowed to be fit for flying. Did he fly back up? Did he get a premium? No, no upgrades. But just basically he had to add three days on his expense to the end of his holiday,

as well as medical things to prove he was fit to fly on a story that was totally made up. Oh, okay. This is how we're going to do it. 0800 The Hits, why don't you join us on New Zealand's Breakfast. 4487. What was your holiday horror? Make us all feel better about not being able to go on holiday.

That's right. Narelle, welcome. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast Holiday Horrors. Hi, guys. Hey, how's it going this morning? What happened on your holiday? About two years ago, I was on a cruise, and I came down with the worst flu I've ever had,

so I was bedridden. And then two days later, my husband was diagnosed with suspected appendicitis. Oh, and you're stuck on a boat. What do they do? So at this point, we were at the point of no return. So they were too far out in the helicopter or a boat to have him disembark. So we had to wait until we got to the next port. So that was Hobart.

When we got to Hobart, my husband was diagnosed with a perforated bowel. And so you had to get off the boat there, obviously. Yeah. And stay in Hobart. What was Hobart like? Because I was sick as a dog, my husband was corrupt. It was a nightmare.

I had trouble finding accommodation. I had to hotel. I stayed in the worst hotel I've ever stayed at. It was supposed to be four stars, but it was four stars from the outside. It was just terrifying. Oh, right. Well, you should talk to my mum about the hotel we stayed at. See if it's worse than that. It was on par, on par

with that one. On par? Did you have a spa bath in the bedroom? Yeah, you were lucky. You said luxury, Jono. No, I didn't have that much luxury. Alright, good on you, Narelle. Have a good one. Thank you very much for calling. Did you have a holiday horror, Juliet? Me? Yeah.

I don't think so, but my friend, he was going to the US for his 21st birthday, going to start a big contiki across there, landed in New York on his 21st birthday and his luggage was somewhere else around. I don't know where it was, but he spent his 21st birthday crying in his hotel room with no clothes.

That's what I did. That's what I did as well. But I had clothes there. He just decided you'd do it. Rachel Moreno, welcome to the show. Holiday Horrors, what happened to you when you were on vacation? Morning. So I went over to Australia for a wedding

and I, for once, let my friend organise the Airbnb. For once. We got there, and it was absolutely filled with spiders, like, all over the walls, near the bed. I was like, I can't do this. So we had to move. Spiders? I couldn't do it.

Yeah? So you moved out of the Airbnb? Yeah, but because we were in such a small town, we actually had to go to the next town to find one. They don't put the spiders on the photos of the place, do they? No, they didn't, which is really unfair. Photoshopped out the tarantula. I imagine Australian spiders, too.

I hate the business of spider lovers. Yeah, Australian spiders would be quite scary as well. Once that, they'd be like, oh, sorry, sorry, you've got this room. I'll get another one. Yeah, they were huge. Hey, Rachel, good on you. You have a great one. Hannah, knock this on the head.

What was your holiday horror? Again, cruises. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What happened on the cruise? We went for a family trip, like, around the Pacific kind of thing. And first day, I got super excited about the buffet. And we all went hard.

Actually, can I stop you there? Who doesn't get super excited about a buffet. And we all went hard. Actually, can I stop you there? Who doesn't get super excited about a buffet? No one. Right, exactly. People that take, I don't understand it, not made of that cloth. But yeah, so stay-to, we were just all down, all just spent the rest of the trip

basically inside with vomiting and just not well. Is the buffet still a thing now? I think the buffet is on some shaky ground. I don't either know. R.I.P. Buffet. One of the greatest

cuisine. You'd always end up with five different nationalities with the foods on your plate. It wouldn't normally you'd have together, you'd have individually, but you're just like, I don't want to come back again. You've got a chow mein with a butter chicken with bacon and eggs. Like you know Gordon Ramsay

would be disappointed. But you almost place it on like a Jenga, don't you? So it ends up like a mountain. Someone's texted in 4487, my holiday horror. I was in Miami and I booked into a hotel that was called The Vet. Apparently,

a person gets shot there every week. Oh, okay. So they stayed at a vet. Did a couple of nights there and I tailed it out of there very fast. Holiday horror is just to make you think, oh, maybe a holiday, you know, isn't the best idea right now

when we're in kind of lockdown. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Spy. The WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. There she is, the wonderful, smiling Juliet,

and nothing screams radio filler content like Jew, Jono and Ben, talking for two minutes about what Dwayne the Rock Johnson ate for breakfast. What have we got this hour, Ju? After already donating $1 million to Canadian and American food banks for the coronavirus pandemic, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have now donated an additional $500,000 to those same food banks,

which is incredible. Incredible when you think about that kind of money. Great generosity. Yeah. What have you donated to food banks? Not as much as them. Yeah. What have you donated to Foodbanks? Well, not as much as them. Yeah, I've been hired to talk about it. You keep it low-key.

Keep it subtle. Not to the public. I saw him accidentally pull out 50 bucks one day and put it into a bucket, and that was the most painful experience of his life. I still gave the 50 bucks, though. That's the main thing. Do you reckon Ryan Reynolds was like that with his 5,000?

I thought it was a five. Accidentally pulled out half a million dollars. No, that's wonderful because I know Dolly Parton has put so much of her own money towards research for a vaccine. She's like, I don't even want to be the first in line to have it. I just want to do this for the good of humankind. Which is awesome, eh? Exactly.

And also in other quick news, Emma Stone is going to be playing Cruella de Vil in a live-action Disney film just titled Cruella. It's obviously based on the original Disney film 101 Dalmatians. It's going to be out in May this year. And she looks pretty incredible as Cruella. She's kind of got half of her hair is all black and half of her hair is all white.

Incredible makeup, which will be very exciting for the little kidlies, maybe for people who might not have seen the original 101 Dalmatians. They're kind of doing that in the Disney movies, aren't they? Yeah. Beauty and the Beast, they're kind of making into like a live action one. Cinderella they did as well and Aladdin. So yeah, it's kind of the new way they're doing these. Making it bigger and better.

One poor bugger who has to play Winnie the Pooh with no pants on. Just a t-shirt walking around. Just a red t-shirt. He was like, oh! Painted yellow. Get it, guys? Oh, mate, HR. James Corden, put some pants on.

We don't need to see... Anyway. Yeah, maybe that's one that won't be redone. And that is a very quick spy update for you from where you can check out the hits.co.nz. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that.

Sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you can check out the hits.co.nz. 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. Jono and Penn. Breakfast on the hits. The hits. The hits. How was your day yesterday, guys? All right?

Yeah, not too bad. Yeah, not too bad. Busy, but good. I notice in the midst of lockdown when there's no one else in the office, Juliet turns up in fitness attire. Sort of lets her standards go. Usually very professionally dressed, Juliet. It's because no one's in the office,

so I can kind of just wear my comfy clothes. It's really good. I love it. Does it force you to do exercise afterwards, though? Because you look like you've either just come from a run, or you're about to embark on one. Well, it actually kind of has. Yesterday after work, I went for a walk,

and the day before, I went for a run. So I think it's maybe putting a pep in my step to do some exercise. That was your theory, wasn't it, Jono? Just to wear skins, wear compression tights, exercise pants, whatever you want to call that, all the time without doing exercise. But everyone thinks you're either going to do it or you have been doing exercise. You look very sporty. That guy, he's just supposed to be working out all the time,

just wandering around in fitness gear. Just look the part. Just don't look at my gut. Yeah, you were wearing a crop top at the time. I was like, oh, okay. A crop top. Fake it till you make it, as they say. Jesus, with everyone at home,

you notice the Wi-Fi is getting a pounding. Did you notice that? Oh, yeah, because all the kids are trying to do online learning and whatever else on, you know. Jen's at home working too online, and so then the internet cuts out yesterday. I'm like, I better phone my internet provider. And I'm on hold for this.

I don't even know how long I was on. I think I'm still on hold for them. I had listened to Dave Dobbin's entire back catalogue four times over on hold. And then when finally they came on, I'd actually forgotten. It's all working now. It's all fine.

I'd forgotten what I was meant to say to them. What's the longest you spend on hold? Well, I had a call the other day, actually. It was a shop, and I was trying to call up about something because the card had declined, and I was trying to ring up about the thing. And I'd obviously gone through the wrong number, and the guy was like, would you?

I felt like he was doing a prank on me. He was like, would you like me to connect you through? Well, I'll give you the number for the correct number. And I was like it was I felt like he was doing a prank on me he was like would you like me to connect you through to well give you the number for the correct number and I was like yeah that'd be great so would you like that number I was like yeah you know when you're in a frustrated you're in a bit of a rush just pausing just beautifully pausing and then I was like okay I've got the number I got a pen I'm like yep so much pausing it's like oh 800 yeah yep yep you know you're like come on mate you can do it speed it up come on wrap this up i was like wow this is a great play by him it was just really dragging this out and when you're in that thing you are trying to get it done you're like come on did he hold on

to the last number for a while i hope so oh you broke it down to six you're like yep yep because you're the final number yeah you're like're like, yep, what is it? What is it? And I was like, oh, jeez. It was quite well. Afterwards, I was like, well done. Well done. Because no one on the other end cares, do they?

I wouldn't care if I was them. Someone phoning up, moaning about, it's not my fault. I don't care you don't have internet, mate. No, true. But then that's why. You know, you probably, well, if it was your job, you'd care, wouldn't you?

I remember when I first started out on radio, my job was to send out radio station merchandise, in particular books to old people from a talkback station. And old people order something one day and expect it there the next. So they would order it and then a phone, oh, my Ewing Stevens phone people book hasn't turned up. And I was like, oh, yeah, no, we'll get it out, mate. And I just hung up the phone. Did no follow on. Didn't even look on the computer system to see if we'd taken their

order. It's on the way for you. Sometimes I'd just use the same, poor lady's same credit card to order everyone else's books because I couldn't be bothered writing down other numbers. And that's why you're doing what you do right now. Yeah, doing an average job of it too. 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. Something we do every day on the show, we call a different town or city in New Zealand. We call one a day. We do it alphabetically and we're slowly making

our way around New Zealand, learning about every place as we go. It's amazing the accommodating people we have around Aotearoa. I don't know if I'd be as accommodating if two nimwits from the radio phoned up demanding that I tell them about the town.

Tell us about the place. I'm just in the middle of work and getting up and all sorts. Everyone's very lovely, aren't they? I just hope that I would reciprocate, but I know that I wouldn't. You love a chat, though. You do love a chat. I do love a chat.

Yes, you probably would. To be honest, you would. You'd probably out-talk them and be like, oh, I regret calling this guy. I think my phone number's been blacklisted from telemarketers. They're like, he's a punish. Strap yourselves in for a three-hour chat about nothing. We're heading to Little River today.

Little River, it's not enough river to become known as Medium River, but more than enough river to not become Big Stream. It's just out of Christchurch on the way to Akaroa, and it's a town where you would either pee in a gift shop or politely ask for directions from a local proprietor, and we're

going through to one of them right now on Little River. Hello? Hello? It's Cameron, who is this? Hello. Hello. It's Cameron. Who is this? Oh, it's John. I'm Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, g'day, guys.

How you doing? Good. You sound, jeez, you sound like you're running 100 miles an hour right now, Cam. What's going on at the cafe? Oh, it's not a whole lot this morning. Actually, I shouldn't sound like that. It's been a slow one today. It's probably one of those places that you could sort of like bang around plates and cutlery and trays and sound really busy over the phone.

We do that for effect sometimes, yeah. Can you just bang around some trays now just to make the, for effect? Oh yeah, sounds busy. When there's banging, you're automatically associated with busyness, don't you? That's exactly right. How long you lived in Little River for? This was year 13 for me. So whereabouts in New Zealand is it located?

So on the banks of the Insula. So you're about 25 minutes out of Christchurch on the way to Akaroa. Oh, I love Akaroa. I love Little French Town. Yeah, yeah. So we're halfway between Christchurch and Akaroa. Now, is there a Little River in Little River? Is that a stupid question?

No, there's a few of them, actually. Yeah, right. So they could have got a plural option even in two rivers. They could. I think it's just easier sticking with the one. Ben Boyce, previous to calling you, was getting me to dig through the Varspec catalogue of the Little River Band.

Have you heard of the Little River Band? The Australian band. I have, I have. Like, my dad, back in the day, I think we used to make you listen to the Little River Band. There was a couple of two. Help was on its way. You know this one?

Oh, they don't get too much rotation down here, to be honest. Little River. No. I know this one. Help is on its way. This used to be a theme song for a business. Oh, well, there you go. Oh, Godfrey's.

Oh, is it Godfrey's? It was something. Someone will know who's listening. I'm glad they paid all that money for that song. Yeah, that's under my pay grade. Okay, so that one, that was all that money for that song. Yeah, that's out of my pay grade. Okay, so that one, that was great from the Little River Band. I thought you'd know that in Little River. And the other one was Reminiscing.

Know that one? Yeah, I know this one. Yeah, there you go. Jeez, slap your boat shoes on, jump on a yacht, put a cab save in your hand and enjoy that yacht rock. That's how we do it. That's how you do it. Hey, now, Cam, I've been looking on the internet here,

five fun things to do in Little River. Now, I'm going to read them out, and you just tell me whether they're fun or not as fun as the website's believing. You'll be stretching to make it a five, but let's give it a crack. Okay. Cycle the Little River rail trails. Yeah, yeah, do that.

That's a good fun for sure. That's fun. Okay, that's fun. Check out the local arts and crafts. Yeah, well, that's my place, so you better come and do that. Okay, good, good. Really fun. Yeah, really, do that. That's a good fun for sure. That's fun. That's fun. Check out the local arts and crafts. Yeah, well, that's my place, so you better come and do that. Really fun. Stay in some unique accommodation. Yeah, well, there's plenty of that

around. You've got the silos next door. You Google those and then you've got plenty of Airbnbs and really quirky glamping places around, so definitely get into that as well. Silos? Well, that's unique. It says it's eco-friendly. Yeah, it is that. I mean, that's not that much fun, but that's a positive as well. Silos, well, that's unique. Is this eco-friendly? Yeah, it is that. I mean, that's not that much fun, but it's a positive way to live your life, I guess.

It's good for the planet. Oh, I see, the silo stay. Okay, so it looks like you're staying inside sort of big metal containers. Yeah, yeah, so they're right next door to us. There's six of those set up next door to us. Oh, look, I was just showing Jono the photo of it right now. Oh, wow. That looks like it would be almost the temperature of an oven inside. Yeah, it can get like that. Futuristic.

It looks really futuristic. It's like basically staying in big corrugated iron sort of containers. Little rockets. Yeah, right. Number four on the list of five fun things to do on Little River, explore the hidden bays of the Banks Peninsula. Yeah, definitely get to the bays. The bays are beautiful.

A lot of fun. Never end on there. Number five. Now, this is not really your jurisdiction, but it's saying visit Akaroa. You don't really need to. You can stop halfway and come see us if you need to. I wouldn't be going much further, to be honest.

Oh, good. Hey, Cam, listen, thank you so much for your time. It was lovely talking to you. Yeah, no worries, guys. What's the population of Little River? Oh, 12, 1300. Jeez, not many. Nah, it's not many. We're also tucked away up the valleys and in little cottages. What brought you there 13 years

ago? This cafe, actually. I'm born and bred Wellington. This place came available. We thought we'd give it a two-year plan to turn around and piss off again back to the city, and here we are. Oh, wow. Have you turned around? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're like, no, we're still battling away.

No battling. We're going all right. Oh, good. Good to hear. Well, you keep safe there in Little River, and thank you very much for your time this morning. Yeah, no worries, guys. Enjoy the day. Morning.

This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Scrolling through your feed. This is where we look at some of the big news from New Zealand and around the world. And obviously it's D-Day today here in New Zealand. Our cabinet this afternoon will decide if the current alert levels are going to continue or whether restrictions will be eased.

And Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister yesterday, was on Duncan Garner's AM show and he was saying something I thought was quite interesting. A little bit more serious than what we normally delve into because everyone's like, why don't we just close the borders? Because obviously all the cases coming through from overseas. Well, we switched between open the borders to close the borders. I don't know where everyone sits on the borders. It's true.

We want a travel bubble. Remember that? Now we all changed our minds. Oh, no, actually close the borders. Close the borders. Yeah, well, anyway. Imagine if the public was running the country. It would be an absolute shambles.

People will be like, hundreds will get through. No, no, no, now we're closing it. Now you can't get through. Well, this is what Jacinda Ardern had to say about closing the borders. Why don't we pull it back? There's thousands that come in every month. Why? Because, Duncan, you and I, and all of New Zealand,

have an obligation, a legal obligation, to allow citizens to return to their home country. No country that I'm aware of, and I've asked people to check, have barred their citizens from coming home because they legally cannot. You cannot deem someone stateless because it could mean that they're stranded

in a country they have no legal right to be. There you go. She'd be so good at an argument. I mean, she is so good at an argument. But then, then it was an extra point. She was like, okay, you got, you know, that's not enough. That's already points on the board. Yeah, there's more points on the board from Jacinda Ardern. Shutting the borders doesn't mean just

shutting it off to people. It means you wouldn't be able to have medical equipment, imports, you know, critical items that we need coming into the country would not be able to arrive here because they only arrive here with the assistance of planes, of ships and with crew. The idea that we could put

ourselves in a hermetic seal and have nothing come near us is actually just not realistic. Did you reckon Garner was like, who wrote that question? Made me look like an idiot in front of the Prime Minister. Yeah, she was like, good response.

Because you don't think about all those things into that detail. And I mean, it's a good reminder that the people, i.e. Ashley, Jacinda, the hippo,

love the hippo. Chris Hipkins. They know what they're doing. You know, we don't know what we're doing. We're not epidemiologists. We're not experts. We all think we are.

We're all spouting off opinion, aren't we? I'm here every morning just saying stuff. Yeah, I heard this but that's really good about putting it into perspective why the borders are currently still open and will remain open. Yeah and I say

I tell you what I hope we do come out of lockdown today out of the different level restrictions because nothing makes you feel more ashamed to be an Aucklander than lockdown. We really get excluded from the team of 5 million when this happens to us. As if our coffee choices and our Range Rovers weren't enough.

Slap a pandemic on us. And Team New Zealand, they've been out there. Well, they can't obviously race at the moment because of the Prada Cup's going on and it's been delayed because of the current alert levels. But they're out there trialling a new little addition to their boat, a batwing sail. Apparently it looks like the Batcave.

Kate from Batman on the Sail, they're calling it the Batwing Sail, and they reckon that might be a little bit of a secret why the boat, they reckon, is going faster than it ever has before. And no-one's paying attention to the motor they've attached underneath the boat as well. It's a nice little diversion. Another little distraction. Oh, look at the batwing!

Under the boat. Yeah. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. When do the races against Team New Zealand start? I think it's March. I think it's March. March! Yeah, well, they've got the best of 13. Oh, jeez. Yeah, it could be potentially a best of 13. It's the first of seven, basically, for the

Prada Cup final at the moment. One was meant to be today. Hopefully they can race again this weekend. But you're right, March. I think March is when it all happens. Feels like Team New Zealand is at a little bit of a disadvantage, right? Because all the other teams have had race practice, essentially.

Yeah, you're right. I mean, it's nice that they're automatically through to the final, but you're right. With their little bat wing. But yeah, the other teams are... Do you reckon they're just twiddling to their thumbs just adding cool stuff to the boat? Should put a spoiler kit on here?

It's like spoilers and fluffy dice and things like that. I'll pop down to the BP Grabbers and Air Freshener. They've just got nothing else to do. They're just tinkering with the boat. Should we put our name? Oh no, we've got a name. We've got sponsors on the side. Do you want to put our Hits bumper sticker on the back?

Oh yeah, we could do that. And that is scrolling through your feed. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Spy, the WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz

Oh, listen, when you finish your work today, you can say you made that big sale, you sat through an important meeting with a client, you finished building that house. We can say we talked some trash about celebrities.

Thanks to Juliet. We are here doing God's work. What's happened to inspire you? So in light of the Britney Spears documentary, old interviews with other stars are coming out from back in the day. And one specifically is Lindsay Lohan being interviewed by David Letterman. And it seems like every new site is picking up this interview about him grilling her on her rehab.

And it looks, I mean, to be fair. Looks like bullying. Yeah, and whether or not he should have been asking her those questions, here it is. Now, aren't you supposed to be in rehab now? Do you not watch anything that goes on? I do. May 2nd.

I was under the... May 2nd. And how long will you be in rehab? Three months. How many times have you been in rehab? Several. Do you have addiction problems? Now you sound like Dr. Phil. Yeah, I'm sorry.

It's a pretty uncomfortable watch. We watched some of the highlights that were circulating yesterday, you know, and asking some things that you're like, oh... And it ends with her in tears. Yeah, it was pretty horrible to watch. But then I went home and I watched the whole 14-minute video. Now, I'm not here defending David Letterman and his questions he asked. Maybe some of them were on the line.

I don't know. But you need to get context of the thing. We just saw, you know, the internet's chopped together a two-minute supercut that jump cuts to her crying at the end. But in the context of a 15-minute interview, 13 extra minutes of conversation that was had, she was there playing along, she was joking, she was laughing. And the bit that I found ironic is where the internet had cut her crying at the end.

That was actually in reaction to David Letterman giving her a compliment, going, listen, we've made a lot of jokes about you. Have you been to this place? It's not like a joking matter. No, but I mean, what in life can't we make light of, honestly? Really, we're all... No, I'm fine with making light of myself. That's why I want to walk out with a tag on.

Yeah, I mean, we never thought we'd see you again, honestly, you know, because of the jokes and stuff. But yet, you have enough spine, enough sense of yourself, enough poise to come out here and talk to me. And then she starts crying. No, I love seeing you. Yeah, I love seeing you, honestly. I do. Stop.

Oh, she's tearing up a little bit. God bless you. So, yeah. And then all you saw on the internet cut was, oh, she's tearing up. Cut. Stop. Interesting. So in reaction, he was actually being nice a lot.

He's like, I've had my issues and I want to see you succeed. Why don't you, you know, all these people hating against you, why don't you prove them wrong? Go to rehab and own it. It was interesting, isn't it? I mean, it's so easy to just go back to the early days. And what a lot of people would see, most people would see was the cut and go, oh, you know.

Yeah. And as you say, we're not defending anything this year because there was some stuff that, you know. Everything needs context. Exactly. It's easy to take a clip out of something from 2005 and get outraged and demand a public apology. But you've got to look at the context around the whole situation. For sure, for sure.

So, well done you for spotting that yesterday, Jono. I wanted to play it to Jen and it was the only thing I could find on the internet was the 15 minute. I was like, watch this, you're going to be outraged. And I was watching it

and I'm like, I'm not outraged. I'm not outraged. And in other news, which I'm very, very, very excited for, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

are going to be doing a sit down, tell all interview with Oprah Winfrey. It's going to be an intimate conversation, they say. And it will start with Meghan and Oprah, just them two.

Is he on the benches? He'll be on the sidelines for this part, and they'll be discussing her stepping into life. Make a tea. The British should make a tea. Make a cup of tea, wouldn't they? A quaint cup of tea. I'll put the jug on you.

All right, well, you do that. We'll have an interview. Would you like a crumpet? Yes, please. No, it's an English thing. Crumpets are actually so good. They're good. You don't have enough crumpets. I started getting into them last year because someone made a's a crumpet? It's an English thing. Crumpets are actually so good. They're good. You don't have enough crumpets.

I started getting into them last year because someone made a joke about crumpets and you're like, you don't have enough crumpets. So good. With a bit of honey on there. Delicious. They're versatile.

Anyway, there's no zero down on crumpets. So yeah, it'll start with Megan discussing stepping into life as a royal from the US motherhood and Megxit. And then Harry will then join

later on in the interview. When Meghan says he's allowed to. To talk about how he felt moving to the US and their future plans as a couple. And it will broadcast on the 7th of March, which is not very far away. And I am so excited. Well, I can't wait to watch that interview full of pre-sanctioned questions. Yeah. So they've probably already pre-recorded it because, you know, just in case.

Well, she's her neighbour. Oprah's the neighbour, right? Yeah, as well as Alan. Didn't Oprah go to the wedding? Yes, she did. She did. And then she got something online the other day from neighbour M or something. Everyone's like, oh, that's Meghan as well.

So obviously they're quite tight. Well, yeah, you know, sharing cups of sugar and milk and stuff. And crumpets, hopefully. Crumpets. And that's five. Bloody crumpets are good. That's what we've learned about at this over the last few minutes. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime.

Some might say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. John and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Hopefully today we'll find out, well, should find out, 4.30 this afternoon, the alert levels, are there any change or will they stay the same? Things seem positive that hopefully they will revert back to being a bit more freedom for people in Auckland and businesses can

open up because it must be a little bit tough. It would be a tough struggle owning a business, particularly the small businesses. Some friends of ours got a cafe and I went in there on Monday, they were doing the click and collect sort of thing. It was pouring down with rain. No customers. Like, could this day crap on us anymore?

Anyway, we're thinking of you out there. Hopefully it gets back to normality tomorrow and the rest of the country can stop treating Aucklanders like we have leprosy. Okay? We're part of the team of 5 million. Not at the moment. We get kicked out.

We get benched from the team of 5 million. Now you're back on again. Hopefully this afternoon we're back on again. Hey, tomorrow 7.45 we're back. Nearly gave away $5,000 this morning with five words. Make sure you join us for that. You have yourself a great day, New Zealand. Hopefully we get some good news this afternoon.

We'll catch you tomorrow. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on the hits. And via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on the hits breakfast. Friends of Skinny.