Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - February 19 - A Listener Of Ours Hasn't Drank Water In 35 YEARS!

Episode Date: February 18, 2021

Kia Ora and happy Friday! Today on the show we discussed our producer Juliet's excessive water consumption, and so we flipped it on its head and wanted to find someone who hasn't drank water in the longest amount of time. And Marty called up who hasn't had it in 35 years! What he drinks instead is INSANE. We also discussed the fact that Jono ruined a friend's big surprise. Classic, that big mouth of his. Finally, we caught up with actress Eiza Gonzalez and discussed what it's like to be photographed all the time by the paparazzi - in light of the new Britney Spears documentary. It's ridiculous how much the paps know about celebrities. Enjoy the poddy!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 back to the potty. It's the 19th of February, Friday. Welcome. Lovely to have you here, Ben Boyce. It's always a pleasure to have your company. Nice to be here on the podcast today because I like to front foot what's coming up on the podcast

Jono blew a surprise, yeah like someone gone to a lot of effort You basically gave away the whole surprise so that's on the podcast We talk about water consumption and when we talk to someone who hasn't had a glass of water in 35 years. I know. It's incredible. What he's drinking every day, what he's making up for it with, though, astounded me. Yeah, so that's on the podcast as well,

and I have a wee moan about split bill situations, and you sort of have a crack at me about that. It's kind of a weekly moan about split. Every time he goes out to dinner, he's like, it's a split bill. Split bill gives me anxiety. But the problem with split bills, though, Ben, is because I know you want everyone to pay for what they ate.

Do you want to bring some, like, miniature scales so you can weigh what they've eaten? But for the waiting staff, that becomes a nightmare. Yeah, I do understand that. You make their jobs. If they're already battling, mate, you know, these restaurants, now you want to go in there and,

oh, can I pay $42.95 and my friend over here is going to pay $35.68. Yeah, I do do understand it's a bit more admin on the way out a lot more and when you're like can we just all pay for it then you can see them dying a little bit inside yeah but uh you get that one friend too that even now and again we'll go i'll just pay for it and everyone pays you back pay me back i'm like oh that's risky because half the people aren't going to pay you back i know some of uh our country's sporting elite would play a game and uh they would go out all for a massive team dinner and then all put their credit cards in the middle and then get the waiter to pick one out of credit card roulette and then so one person would have to pay for the entire lot but you had the chance of not paying for anything would you would you do risk? You'd do that. Yeah, there's a good

chance. Yeah, like if you go on to deal with 10 people, you'd definitely chuck it in. 1 in 10 chance. Bah, then if you're the one, you're like... Yeah, it's a risky game, isn't it? Credit card roulette. I think when it happened, it was the All Blacks, and then the story I heard, it was some new player to

the team, who had literally just started, and he was like like I'm paying for what and the touring party 35 people's dinner great game though great game and then they dropped him the next game had to hand back his car salary's gone but he's still

paying off that dinner in instalments it was a wonderful meal though have yourself a great weekend wherever you are in the world be safe and enjoy the podcast. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben,

New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now, speaking of the weekend, not the singer, but the weekend coming up, friends of ours are organising a get-together, like a group dinner situation, and it's great. I love catching up with the friends and stuff,

but it's going to be one of those split bill occasions. Oh, God, here he goes again. I know, it's coming up, and it gives great. You know, like I love catching up with the friends and stuff, but it's going to be one of those split bill occasions. Oh, God, here he goes again. I know it's coming up and it gives me anxiety. The whole split bill situation where groups of people, this is the, like, go out together, we all, you know, and you're like, oh, it's going to be a split bill. You know it's going to be a split bill. Why can't you just pay for what you have?

Why does it have to be a split bill? It just gives me, like, you're like, the other day in the show meeting, you're like, everyone thinks I'm a tight ass. And then he goes on air and starts rambling on about these stories as well. How do you want to split the bill? Do you want to split it? Look, I'm happy to pay for what I pay for.

I'm even happy to pay for a bit more. I understand swings and roundabouts. But people come to a split, like a group dinner situation at different stages. Oh, I'm so hungry. I haven't eaten today. Oh, this is suddenly my fault? This is suddenly my fault? He won't go to dinner with me now.

He won't go to dinner. Should we get some stuff on the table? Should we get some stuff? Oh, how's this going to work on the split bill? Am I paying for this? What if I don't have any? Like, you know, we'll get some breads. We'll get some chips and stuff.

You're like, oh, will we? Okay. Someone always takes that leadership role, don't they? We went to dinner once and I was like, oh, will we? Okay. Someone always takes that leadership role, don't they? I went to dinner, we went to dinner once and I was like, I want a steak. Eat this steak. I ordered a giant steak. The cow was actually still living in my house.

I just walk in there and just with a knife and fork and slice some off. This was meant to be for like three or four people, I think. It was a big bit of steak. It was a huge bit of steak, granted. But I kind of did it to spite Ben because I knew it was a split bill. So I'm like But I kind of did it to spite Ben because I knew it was a split bill. So I'm like, I'm just going to order

the most enormous thing on the menu. And I could see him giving me daggers. Like, oh, are you going to share that with, I know, that's just. While he's eating a Caesar appetizer for his main. And then, yeah, I might've had 13 Heinekens, but it's not my fault. If you can't keep up with the pace.

I've set a pace. I like, I always feel sorry. There's always one person that's not my fault if you can't keep up with the pace. I've set a pace. I always feel sorry. There's always one person that's not drinking, and I always feel sorry for them in that situation. They're not drinking, but they get to the night, and they have to pay for it. They didn't have the wine or a beer or the spirits or that, but they end up having to be lumped into the split bill situation.

Listen, you've gone in as a team. What have you? And some of the players have played harder than the others. You know, that's the deal. And you're all in as a team. What have you? And some of the players have played harder than the others. You know, that's the deal. And you're all in as a team and you pay evenly. Why can't you just go out, pay for your thing, maybe pay for a little bit more. But yeah, the whole thing about,

oh, we'll just get these for the table. Like, oh, that's another one of mine. Juliet, it's your birthday today. Yes. Would you go out for a birthday dinner? Yes. With old tight pants over here. What I would do...

A bit weird. As I would... Just you and him for a candlelit dinner. Would you go with him? That's a different question. Yeah, okay. It would be like you and your dad

going out for dinner. Why can't I have my real dad? We're going out for dinner and I'm going to order and I'll pay for what we ate. Yeah, jeez. Oh, you know, just anyway. So, yeah, the only thing, I went out for dinner once. This was a few years ago.

One of these group dinner situations, someone ordered a cigar. Someone ordered a cigar. I don't even know they had cigars on the menu. I mean, you're like, well, am I going to pay for the cigar? Go down to the cigar shop and feed us five cigars. I was like, someone got a cigar. I was like, I'll get a cigar.

And you're like, will you? Who are you going to dinner with? Winston Churchill? I was like, this does not make sense. Anyway, the other night I paid a percentage of the cigar that I never had. Anyway, it's just that you got the passive smoke anyway. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast.

Tell us, Pryor, what did you do? What did you spoil? It was... Something took place yesterday that I... Can I add a... What do you call it? A disclaimer at the top of this. Look, I was not informed of any of this information

previous to the conversation. You didn't go out to deliberately ruin a surprise. I get it. But I want to hear about it and I want to laugh about it. You want to mock me. So a friend of mine had told me, he's like, hey, just so you know, in a couple of weeks, it's our wedding anniversary.

Him and his wife, three year wedding anniversary. I thought I'd do something really wild and recreate our wedding day, you know, and have it as a surprise. And we all turn up, all the guests turn up and turn it into a thing. And I was like, okay, no, that's nice. I just didn't hear the surprise bit. And yesterday I was just- Did you go, oh, that's nice, like that? Or would you have been like, oh, well, that's nice. I just didn't hear the surprise bit. Yeah. And yesterday I was just... Did you go, oh, that's nice, like that? Or would you have been like, oh, well, that's cool. To be honest, I was half listening to it. I was like, oh, this sounds...

That's lovely. It sounds lovely. Yeah. It sounds like... When you hear people doing things like this, you're like, I'm a bad husband. I'm a terrible husband. Like when you've got your friend

who goes and fills up the car for his wife every week. She's never once filled up the car. I'm like, oh, you're just making... You're right, you're making the rest of us look bad. But amazing, amazing gesture. And to be fair to me as well, like if you're going to recreate your reading, it seems like something you want to bring your wife in on early. There's a lot of decision making that you assume she would like to make. I get that, yeah.

With bits and bobs. I'm just trying to form a defence here. Yeah, I get it. Yesterday we caught up with them and I was like looking forward to you know in a couple of weeks and she's like

for what and then I you know at that moment it should have been a flag should have been a red flag for me and I was like for the recreation

of your wedding and she's like hmm and she looked to the left and then he looked to me oh hey he would have been like staring daggers at you there and she's like, hmm? And she looked to the left, and then he looked to me. Oh, and he would have been like, look, staring daggers at you there. He was staring at me. And she looked to me.

I looked to him. He looked back to her. There was some awkward silence for about five seconds or so. He was like, yeah, I mentioned it was us. In that situation, you can't think fast enough on your feet, I find, too, that you're like, the wedding that I'm recreating. No, you can't think fast enough on your feet, I find, too, that you're like, the wedding dinner I'm recreating. No, you can't. And then when you're driving home, you're like, why didn't I say that?

Yeah. Why didn't I come? But, you know, my Instagram wouldn't like my mouth. There's no filter. No filter on this thing. It just comes out. And then once it's like a dam, once it's open, it just keeps going. Yeah.

And you apologize and they go, it's okay. But you know it's not okay. It's not okay. Have you blown a big occasion before? Well, the kids did in a weird way for me because I planned something with Amanda, my wife, for a birthday last year. I think I was telling you guys about this and it was like, it's a secret.

We've got some friends meeting us. We're all going to meet. And the kids are like, can we talk to mommy about it? I'm like, no. I stupidly told the kids about it before we happened. And I was like, it's a secret you can't tell mom. They're like, what about the new babysitter? Can we tell the new babysitter?

I'm like, yeah, you can tell about the secret. But when she arrived, the babysitter, new babysitter, they're like, dad's got a secret about you. I'm like, uh-oh, here we go. But we have to tell you in the bedroom. I'm like, oh, my God. What are you doing to me? And I can see a man and my wife looking at me like, what are you?

And I'm like, okay, so we're going out to the, and I had to tell Amanda because I was like, what does it look like? It's a good thing to smoke screen on the fact that you've been creeping on the babysitter too. Yeah, it's like the babysitter looking at me like, what? What secrets do you know about me? How deep have you gone into my social media?

Yeah. All right, so 0800 the hits. We're going to open this up. Have you ever blown the big surprise? Has someone blown the big surprise for you? Give us a call, 0800 the hits, 4487. Get texting on a Friday. We're going to head to the phones.

Now, we've got two Gens here, the Jennys. Which Jenny do you want to go for first, Wellington or Northland? Ben, it's over to you Oh, well, I've got my mum's Jenny lives up in Northland So let's go up that way and see if it's my mum Is this Ben's mum, Jen?

No, I'm not Ben's mum How old are you? I'm 39 No, no, no Could be, could be It doesn't quite work out You blew the big surprise No, I didn't.

My dad did. What did he do? My husband was planning to propose to me. Yep. And so he did the right thing. I asked my mum and dad first while I just popped out to the shops quickly. And when I got back, everyone was in tears. And I was like, what the heck?

What happened? And then my dad goes, oh, you're getting married. I'm so happy. And I was like, what the heck? What happened? And then my dad goes, oh, you're getting married. I'm so happy. And I was like, what? My husband didn't get the chance to actually propose. Called my dad. Oh, my goodness. Was, hold on, was your husband still in the room?

Well, he was. He was in the bedroom waiting for me. So essentially your dad proposed to you. You're getting married. Now go in there and make it formal. Yeah, wow. That's lovely, though. That's lovely that they're all crying and emotional.

He could have lied and said someone's died. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's what it felt like. Well, good on you. I'm glad it turned out well in the end. Are you still married? Yes. It did turn well in the end. Five years tomorrow. Oh, great. Well done. on you. I'm glad it turned out well in the end. Are you still married? Yes. It did turn well.

Five years tomorrow. Oh, great. Well done. Happy anniversary. I'm glad it didn't end in a bit of divorce. Thank you very much, Jen. Appreciate that. We'll go to Theo.

Welcome from Christchurch. You blew a big surprise, Theo. Yes, I did. What did you do, mate? So my granddad, he got a new car, and he was giving his old car to my mum and dad for free. Oh, wow. And my nana told me and my sister and she told us not to tell mum and dad.

But then in the end, we did tell them. They specifically said... But you're like, hey I know it, but I couldn't I'm going to ignore that I understand why you Oh, look How old are you, Theo?

Ten Impossible to keep a secret Oh, so hard It's like, yeah No, Theo, we're going to send you out some hell pizza for you and your family, alright? Okay Good on you, Theo

Don't tell anyone about this conversation, though, mate Now we'll go to Wellington, Jen, shall we? How's the capital this morning, Jen? It's actually quite good today. Oh, good. Yeah. Good. They get two good days a year, and one of them is today.

Jen, what did you blow? It wasn't me. It was actually my brother-in-law and my husband's cousin, they blew the day before my husband was going to propose to me on our 10-year anniversary. So we had planned, me and my husband now, that we would find out what we were having. So I was expecting at the time.

And he had planned that he was going to propose to me that night. But unfortunately, his cousin and his sister-in-law blew that day that he was going to propose to me that night, but unfortunately his cousin and his sister-in-law blew that he was going to propose. Now, did you tell him before he proposed, or did you just play along and act? I played along with it, and after he proposed

I was like, I already knew you were going to propose your cousin, and that gave it away. He wasn't happy. Can we do a reenactment of this wonderful moment? What's your husband's name? Do I have to say it? No, no, don't make up a name. Jono.

Hi, it's Jono here. Jen, we've been together for 10 years. You're a hapu. We've had a baby out of wedlock. I know Ben Boyce on the radio would disagree with that, with his controversial opinions, right-wing opinions about marriage. It's time to tie the knot. Should we get married, Jen?

Yeah, sure. Is that what you said? Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure. You sound a bit apprehensive. Yeah, I was like, oh, we've been together 10 years. Don't you think we're pretty much married anyway? Is this the first thing you said back to him?

Yeah, seriously. Well, you couldn't get a more romantic proposal there. And you're still together now, Jen? We're pretty much married anyway. Is this the first thing you said back to him? Yeah. Seriously. Well, you couldn't get a more romantic proposal there. And you're still together now, Jen? Yeah. Yeah, so we're married now coming up to four or five years. Oh, well done. That's awesome. Good on you.

Well, you go and have a great weekend. Thank you for listening to the show, eh? Thank you. We're going to send you out some hell pizza as well. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you out some hell pizza as well. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this.

Shoto and Pen. Breakfast on the heads. Now the Britney Spears documentary has been talked about all over the world and in the media over the last week and particularly about the portrayal of the media, how they hounded Britney and other celebrities and

getting papped and getting filmed and all that sort of stuff. And growing up so young, so vulnerable age, isn't it, when you become world famous like that, I imagine. And there has been a lot of talk about this, Doc. Lynn supported Britney. I never talked to her father.

The only thing Jamie ever said to me was, my daughter's going to be so rich she's going gonna buy me a boat that's all i'm gonna say about jamie she might have been doomed from the beginning with a father like that uh but we were kind of curious to know what it was like if you were a celebrity like britney and you've grown up with the media for many years and been papped and had the media hound you and there's a new movie you can stream right now in new zealand on amazon prime it's out today it's called i care a lot it's a comedy thriller where a couple try to scam an old lady

and they get a lot more than they bargained for. It looks awesome. It looks great. And one of the stars is Aza Gonzalez. Now, she's been a big star in Mexico since being a child. She was on a soap opera there growing up. She's been a star for many, many years, and she's now making it big in Hollywood,

in movies with Vin Diesel, The Rock, movies like Baby Driver and Hobbs and Shaw and stuff like that. So she's been in so many things, and she's constantly hounded by the media. And she joins us now on Zoom. Aza Gonzalez, great to have you. You've been to New Zealand, we understand. I have. I've been to Auckland.

I went to Piha, which is one of my favorite beaches ever. I was shocked how beautiful that is. I love New Zealand and I love New Zealanders. They're so fun. Well, yeah, because you're friends with Taika Waititi, a famous New Zealand director over there. You were at his birthday party. I love pride and joy of New Zealand.

I love Taika. I love him so much. I actually want to go visit him in Australia because he's shooting right now in Australia. So I'm hoping that when I wrap, I can go visit that set. All of New Zealand's economy rests on Taika's shoulders. I know. Keep milking that cow. Keep milking that cow. That set. All of New Zealand's economy rests on Taika's shoulders. I know.

Keep milking that cow. Keep milking that cow. Yeah, just milk him. Now you've been acting since you were 13. Yeah. What was your first gig? Was it like a commercial or something? No, my first job was actually at the soap opera that I was sort of like a Cinderella story in Latin America.

At that young age and having fame would be a lot to comprehend. Yeah, it is tricky, you know. I always was like very proud of like, oh, I don't have any leftovers of that. And then once in a blue moon, I like find myself in a circumstance like, oh, there you are. Hello, darkness, my old friend. Like I can see the like

child star thing in there inherently but it is it is hard i think that most importantly is hard to grow up in the public eye when you're trying to define yourself as a person and like i mean we've all been that age it's already hard enough because you're like figuring it out with your life who you are your hormones what you, what you don't like, your family relationships, let alone the whole world or like a whole country having an opinion of who you are and who you should be and wanting to comply and wanting to be liked. Because also at that age, you necessarily have that inherently in you.

You want to be liked. Um, it's like the ultimate, like I want to be cool in school and I want people to like me and feel part of a community. And it becomes really alienating and challenging because you're finding yourself in places where you're trying to define yourself, but also comply to these expectations of you. So it is really tricky. And it's taken me, I think that it didn't really affect me in certain ways, like depression at the time, but it really, and the aftermath of like growing older is like, I do find myself like this competitive nature that when you're young kids, they peg you against each other, like rewiring myself. I've had to rewire a lot about myself as an older,

like an older age that comes from being a, you know, a child star. Do you just still find it weird? Cause we looked on, you know, online, there's articles, you kind of get pepped. You're going to, you're walking down the road, you're in your exercise gear, you're going to get coffee, you're going to get a tattoo removal, you're getting pepped and it's all over, you know, it's like, that must be weird for you. You're like, you're just going about your day and there's people taking photos of you. Yeah, it's really weird because it's, there's certain things that I have decided that I'm not going to give them the satisfaction of taking away from me, which is like, I like my morning coffee. I am that person that if you Google is a probably grabbing coffee, there's a hundred pictures of me and I don't care. I won't

stop going because you guys go there I don't understand that and people are like you know it's part of your job I don't get it I don't get the interest of finding someone grabbing a coffee newsworthy and then you read the comments and they're like their PR is working a lot and you're like my PR is home asleep like I'm trying to grab coffee to go to work people go about their normal life and people you know especially I feel like in the pandemic it's gotten worse because, you know, people are really looking for money and work, so they'll sell any picture. Like, they'll buy anything.

Clear example, they're buying pictures of me buying a coffee. I was going to say, has it worked? Has the pandemic obviously has got to... Sorry, that's all the time we have. Oh, I had a good pandemic question there. You can ask the last question and I'll answer it. Oh, now it's going to be a really good one. Uh-oh, no pressure.

I was going to say the pandemic obviously has been terrible in many, many ways, but it would be quite useful for celebrities such as yourself. You've got face masks on. You can disguise, surely, in public. You know what they do? They track your cars. That's what I've realized. They realize, because sometimes I'm like, how in the world

have they found me? They learn plates, they learn cars. It's crazy. You get away for a certain amount of time and then they catch you again. You know what? I don't care. I'm going to continue to live my... I'm not going to give you the satisfaction of disguising myself.

I don't think people care and the people that care are nice enough. And they're like taking it in a very sweet way. Hey, Aza, thanks so much for your time. Interesting insight. Yeah, imagine that. Being just hounded everywhere you go. Even going at your morning coffee. I'd be desperate for that. I would yearn for that sort of attention. After day

two, you'd get over that, surely. No. The novelty would never wear off for me. You can catch Aza Gonzalez in a brand new movie. A new comedy thriller movie. It's out today in New Zealand on Amazon Prime. Check it out. It's called I Care A Lot. It looks awesome.

To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Happy birthday, producer Juliette. Thank you. Happy birthday. Age 24 today? Three.

23, and you only told me that an hour ago. You're a lot older. You forget about these things. I'm a bit dottery. That's what happens. But now we wanted to celebrate your birthday by having somewhat of an intervention. Okay. And it's your consumption of something.

Right. Now, we don't hang out with you on the weekends. I don't know what you do in your private life. Yeah, that's right. We don't go to festivals with you. So I don't know what the consumption's like there. We can only imagine. Oh, yeah. right. We don't go to festivals with you. So I don't know what the consumption's like there. We can only imagine. Oh, yeah.

The things we get. The wild things. The wild things. I don't want to see producer Juliet outside of work hours. But your water consumption is on another level. You're very good at it. You're very good. You've got a, what is that, a 22 litre container there?

Pretty much. One litre container. Already nailed. She's on the last dregs of a one litre container. This is just in an hour. Yeah, I drink a lot of water, don't I? How much would you drink a day of water? Probably about four litres.

Four litres? Yeah, I mean, she's got Lake Popor sloshing around inside of her. Now, it's very important to drink water, but obviously you don't want to drink too much. That's a fine line. But you did talk about when you went on... Outward Bound. Outward Bound. And they gave you water to last a couple of days

and you were like, I pretty much finished it all on the first day. I was parched. I was very parched. And that's what made me realise I drink a lot of water because they gave me enough to sort of last me of what the average human would drink. And I was like, well, I need more than this.

But I think it's because the more I drink, the more I need. You know how you like drink too much and then when you don't have that much, you're like... Yeah, your body's become... It's adapted to it. There was that famous story, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink it.

Well, this person led the horse to water but Juliet had drunk the entire pond. Yeah, that's why. There was none left. I find it would become a full-time job though. Drinking water because, you know, you factor in the minutes of water intake. Then, obviously, the bathroom trips.

I mean, how many times are you going to the bathroom a day? Oh, gosh, I don't know, but I go a couple of times during the show. You guys don't really go much at all during the show. No, we just dried and shriveled up raisins. A lot of times during the night, though. That's issues as well. I'm up every, every...

He's very leaky overnight. Yeah, but anyway, let's not talk about my issues. I find it, I just find it too boring. I find water's just, what is it? What does it taste like? Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. I mean, it's not quite as, yeah. It's delicious. And I do, I do miss, you know,

the one thing I miss the most about working at the Edge, they had a bubbly water machine, like, yeah. Did they? And I was like, oh, jeez, that was, you know, like a water cooler with bubbly water. It makes you feel a little bit fancy drinking the bubbly water, doesn't it? Yeah, and I was like, oh, jeez, that was, you know, like a water cooler with bubbly water. I was like, it makes you feel a little bit fancy drinking the bubbly water, doesn't it?

It does, yeah. I mean, get a slap of Coke in my gob any day over water. But I did some research into water intake and how much you're actually meant to have.

You know, because our bosses are saying, well, let's balance out the stupidity on this show with some facts. Yeah. Some hard-hitting facts. Because it is important

to have water. Do you know what I found interesting? There's a difference in what they recommend for average water intake. There's a difference between the US and New Zealand. Oh, okay. So in the US, they're suggesting 3.7 litres a day for men. That's nearly up near you, Juliet, with your four litres.

And does that come in the forms of, like, if you had a cup of tea, I guess, does that count? I would say so, yeah. Tea and coffee? I don't know. It's got milk and stuff, but tea's got the... Tea's hydrating. 2.7 litres for women in the US every day.

However, in New Zealand, we're only required to have, you know, 1.5 to 2 litres for an adult male a day. And the same for women as well. So you're doubling down. I'm as well in the States. Maybe we're more hydrators in the Pacific. We're surrounded by water. Yeah, right, the water.

We've got plenty of water. Yeah. You can't survive on water for longer than 21 days. Oh, just having water. No water. Yeah. No water. Sorry, I missed that one up there.

I was trying to help you out. No, you tried to help me out. No water. Yeah. No water. Sorry, I missed that one up there. I was trying to help you out. No, you tried to help me out. No water. Then I faded out of it. No, there was a study done and there was some stuff there. Great stuff, John. Thanks.

We want to open up the phones, don't we? Yeah, I reckon this will be interesting to see what the longest time that you or someone you know has not had water. I mean, obviously, they've drunk other things. You've got to have it to survive.

But surely there's no one out there. But you should have said he never saw his father once have a glass of water. His entire life. Was your dad a camel? He just stored it away. Or maybe he did it secretly. It's my secret shame, my love of water. My love of hydration.

You'll never see me drink of water. I will not secret shame, my love of water. My love of hydration. You'll never see me drinking water. I will not shame myself in front of my son. But he just saw him drink loads of tea, so there was some form of liquid going into the system. So let's run a competition. Longest you've gone without water. 0800 the hits, 4487. Jump on the test.

Let's get in touch with New Zealand's Breakfast. We'll start with Hayley. Welcome from Christchurch. More dinner. How long has it been, Hayley? I cannot remember the last time that I had a drink of water. Is this due to amnesia?

Or you just haven't had it in a long time? I mean, it just tastes gross and there are so many other things. Like I just wake up and I have a herbal tea and I drink coffee and I, I mean, I'm consuming liquid, but I don't drink water.

There's more enjoyable fluids out there. I agree. I agree. Blue Powerade. Those electrolytes up. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

No, sure. Fair point. And so do you have any, you know, so how much water would you have a week? Would you have a glass a week? Oh, I don't think so. Oh my gosh. Is that bad? Yeah. No, I don't think so. Oh my gosh. Is that bad? Yeah,

no, I don't think so. My wife and me are so good. Every year we go out to a restaurant or bar and we go drinking and she's always like, we've got to get the water,

we bring the water and you're like, the water, but it's such a good idea when you're like, having some water. Is she like your hydration expert?

She's like an all-in physio. Like a water boy on a rugby game. She's like, here we go, the water, guys water boy on a rugby game. She's at the table. She's like, here we go, the water, guys. Come on, get those waters. Get your fluids in you. Oh, we're having a lot.

Okay. All right, we'll head to Marty and Hamill. Oh, no, we've got to see her in Wellington. We'll come to you very shortly, Marty. Welcome, Sarah. Hello, guys. How long has it been since a glass of water? I'm not going to lie.

It's been about 10 years, guys. Oh, my God. 10 years? Yeah. I, my God. 10 years. Yeah, I cannot believe myself. Wow. Well done on that anniversary. What a milestone. So obviously you're having, clearly you're having other liquids,

but just not water. No, yeah, I don't think I've touched a tap since I was about 15. Must be saving on some water costs there too. You know, a lot of people celebrate 10 years sobriety, 10 years no water. Well done, Sarah. I mean, Phil Goff, the mayor of Auckland, would be happy.

The water shortage in Auckland for many months. Good on you. Now, I drink just a lot of soda water, don't I? I just come in every morning with two bottles today of soda water. I always think it's beer. I know. I think it is. But yeah, but he's disguising it in soda water. I always think it's beer. I know. I think it is. But yeah,

but he's disguising it in soda water bottles we can't see inside. Remember the Prime Minister came in here and she was like, are those half a dozen soda cans surrounding you?

And she was very put off. She was like, this is, I just, she was a little taken back by, Yeah, she was. She says,

I've never seen anyone consume just soda for no reason. And we'll end on Marty. Welcome. Yeah, g'day. More dinner to you, Marty. How long has it been since you've had water?

Well, 10 years is only a drop in the little pond for me. About 35 years. No way. 30? 35 years? What are you drinking? I drink probably about between 15 and 25 cups of coffee a day he is volatile don't say anything wrong to marty he could snap at any moment

what sort of coffee are you talking the instant stuff or you're buying these uh well both actually so i'm a truck driver so i buy it while i'm on the road but yeah just instant coffee when I'm at home. How long are you awake for? Oh, I go to sleep within five minutes of getting into bed. So your body's become used to that? Oh, yeah. Oh, wow.

But are you having other liquids? Are you having, like, juice, Powerade, tea? During the summer, I probably go through about two litres a day of milk. He's got strong bones, isn't he? This guy. Wow, Marty. Do you just drink milk straight out of a bottle? Yep.

Wow. Marty. Hell yeah. Marty, well, this call brought you by caffeine. Yeah. Marty, hold the line. We're going to send you out something. It's a bottle of water.

No. Just one. Just try it. Just try it. Just try it. Return to centre. Return to centre. Oh, Marty, that's unbelievable. I don't think we could, well, no.

Water's coming out. Yeah. Just, oh, gee whiz, Marty, that's wild. 35 years no water. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Now the work computers, they run out of Microsoft. They're Windows, right?

And I don't usually tend to use the Windows, the work computers. You have ongoing issues with this work computer. We update you almost weekly. He got locked out. Forgot my password. Had to deal with IT. Juliet, you had to reset his password for him. All week, though, I've been struggling with the computer screen

because it's gone all off to the side and it's been small. And I've been saying, Juliet, I can't see what's on the screen here. I feel like my dad complaining over like a Skype call. So I can't see. It's off the side and it's all, and I don't know what to push what button. And you, Producer Juliet, I turn to you in these times

because you are the one that, you know, you're meant to be on the, in touch with these things. Yeah, this is your generation. This is your vibe. And all week I'd be like, I can't do anything. You go, oh, that's really weird. That's an odd thing.

So that gave me assurance that I'd, you know. This isn't an old person problem. I wasn't being an idiot because Julia didn't know. So then I took the next step yesterday after four days of moaning about it to talk to Alan who works here at The Hits with us, and he's great with all that crap. He's great. Alan's like your fix-it guy around the office, isn't he?

It's like any problems, personal, professional, whatever, you just unload on Alan and he'll deal with them. Yeah, I want to burden Alan with something that's small, but I thought it's gone four days. Producer Juliet, who I turn to as I'm going to do it, I'll get Alan in and he'll go, oh, jeez, you've got to call IT. There's a problem

I've never seen before but no he just put the mouse up to one corner of the screen and goes click this button here bang

oh no and it was like it basically enlarged the thing oh it was just with the box thing it was just like a box of enlarger

and I was like Juliet I was just putting Juliet because she why are you bumming it off on her she was the one that could have avoided

this for me you're my go to you know I was in here when Alan came in, Juliet, and he's like, oh, Juliet. He said that, oh, Juliet. Well, I might look bad in front of Alan. I'm trying to impress Alan. You know, sometimes there are challenges in life

that you've got to face, and, you know, you've just got to face them with a bit of, what's the word? I don't know. Gusto. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, thanks for the last time. Or just blame the junior person that you work with. At least we both know now.

Oh, Juliet. Yeah, you know. Yeah. Nah. You know. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right and at the end of the day. Jono and Ben.

Breakfast on the hits. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Let's give someone some cash before the weekend, shall we? Let's try, eh? Yeah, we'll try our darndest. This is where we give you the chance to win $5,000 if you match five words with our five words.

It's a game of word association, as you said, Jono. So far, we've had two winners of five grand. Can we make it a third? Let's bring Susan on the air. Hamilton, all right this morning, Suze? Oh, you know, it's Hamilton, guys. But, you know morning Suze? Oh you know it's Hamilton guys but you know good morning Oh yeah no

We were in Hamilton two weeks ago We had a wonderful time We did actually Stayed at the Ramada Yeah I was Is it the Ramada or the Ramada Hotel? I think it's the Ramada I think But hey I don't know

I've just read it That song always pops into my head Ramada Ramada Anyway we're not here to promote. Ramada. Do, do, do, do, do. Ramada. Anyway, we're not here to promote the Ramada Hotel. It feels like you are, though. Susan, you want to win 5K, mate?

I would love to try. I've been listening, so. What do you want to spend the money on, Sue? Sorry for talking over you. That's okay. So I've got an almost eight-month-old baby, so I'd like to have a bit of a night out with the girls while the father looks after the baby. You get a heck of a night out for five grand.

None of that babysitting stuff, eh? Yeah. Five, you're going to blow five grand on a night out. With the girls, I love it. It's like the hangover. Not in one night. I couldn't do too many breaks, you know, first time and all that. Look out, Outback Bar in Hamilton, if you win, all right.

Which one of us do you want to choose? I would love to choose Ben. Yeah, good option. Great option. Send that bony little man into the soundproof booth. He's making his way in there now. Let's start the music, Drew. You know how it works, Susan.

First word that comes into your head. Okay, let's do this. Is he locked up there, Producer Humphrey? Sorry, I was just biding time while Ben shuts the door. Okay. First word. Fail. As in F-A-I-L?

That's the one, yep. Pass. Cartoon. Character. Ooh, character, that's a good option Vanity Fair Fire Place

Auckland Place Auckland City You could also go COVID I guess I didn't want to be too mean to you guys Hey are you happy with those words? I don't know But you know what let's have some fun Alright good on you

Quick game's a good game with Susan. Let's bring Ben back out of the soundproof booth. Yeah, you did pretty well. You did pretty well. I think you got a pretty good shot. If Ben loses, oh, sorry, Ben, you're there. I was just about to say, if you lose this for Susan, it's a gimme.

It's low-hanging fruit. Yeah, come on, Ben. If she doesn't win $5,000 right now. That's all on me, is it? I think you should resign. Oh, okay. If she doesn't win $5,000 right now... It's all on me, is it? I think you should resign. Oh, OK. That's my suggestion. OK.

OK, I'll try my best for you, Susan. Like I haven't been trying my best so far, I've been trying my best for everyone. I just want to make that clear. First word that you need to match with Susan. I know how the game works. Just get to it. I've been told to drag out the drama.

Have I been doing a good job, Julian? Sometimes too much drama. I like it. Too much pausing. That's the point, mate. Okay, it's like a COVID press conference. I'm dragging it out. Just tell us what's happening.

Fail. Pass. Runs on the board, Susan. Yes, Ben. She's already got one Jaeger in her mouth. Cartoon. I've got two in my head. Talk it through with us.

Okay, I've got cartoon character and cartoon network are the two things in my head. I will lead you in neither direction going with my first instinct character oh yes Ben oh

oh that's a Midori shot I think this night is starting to turn wild Susan no no no stop playing the night

one more they're off to Firecats let's get to the number five tequila. Let's go. Vanity. Vanity. Oh, I think vein.

Like mirror. Oh, no. What was that? What did you say, Susan? I always went fair. You're the Vanity Fair magazine. The magazine, the fashion magazine. Oh, he I went with Fair. It's a fantasy film magazine. The magazine, the fashion magazine. Oh, he's very uncouth.

He wouldn't know that magazine. Of course. It's unsophisticated. People are like, I would have got that. He holds a certain level of decorum. Sorry, Susan. Okay, what were the other ones? Let's go through the other two.

Fire. Not cats. Truck. Place. It was fireplace that Susan went. You know, like a fireplace in a house. Not cats Truck Place It was fireplace that Susan went You know like a fireplace in a house Why are you looking at me confused He's looking at me like I bamboozled him

I thought like a name of a street I was like obscure street And Auckland Skytel No city What a let down Susan I'm sorry Couldn't get your 5K for your night out.

It's okay. We started really well. We did start well. We had a little thing and then we lost it. But as always, he's a letdown in the end. It's okay. We're used to it, aren't we, John? We are, mate.

We are. Hey, hey, hey. I'll go get some soundproof. Oh, we see some stuff about you in the soundproof booth. Hey, good on you, Susan. Thanks so much for listening. Have a wonderful weekend, eh? I will.

Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. How are you feeling, eh? Out of a little mini lockdown this week? It feels like it's been a really long week. I feel like lockdown, you know, obviously for Auckland

and even the change of alert levels around the rest of the country, it feels like it's made the week so much longer. I was dragged on like a series of The Block or something. It just keeps going. Although, to be fair, because I come back to work this year and there's been that sort of four-day week and then another four-day, you know, so it's probably our first full week for a while.

Yeah, true. I mean, most of Auckland is probably next week will be their first full week, won't it, for a lot of people who didn't come into work this week. Now, what I have noticed too is, what's the deal with the masks? What are we meant to do with masks? Are we meant to wear them? Are we not meant to wear them?

Now, you've got to ask me more questions, love, on the radio about these things. Yesterday I was like... Because I'm noticing like, probably 95% of people that I see now aren't wearing masks. I think from what I understand yesterday on public transport, not just in Auckland, but around New Zealand, they're now compulsory.

Everything else is... No, it's recommended, but it's not compulsory. You're either a mask person or you're not a mask person, aren't you? You've really got to commit to a mask, like putting on your underpants every day. You've got to make it part of your routine. Sometimes I come in here and Ben's like,

you've got no underpants on again, I can tell. He's like Winnie the Pooh. He also has no pants, which is weird. My pants are just a T-shirt. I'm like, I'm eating honey. Jeez, I need to talk to you about work protocol, mate. Yeah, I think people in New Zealand kind of went through waves. There was that sort of period where everyone, well, a lot

more people seemed to be wearing masks and then obviously we did quite well with coronavirus. So, you know, people kind of relaxed a lot more around it. I like it. Boss Todd actually raised this with us. He finds, and I agree, it makes people, it makes you look 70% sexier, a mask. Doesn't it? it makes people, it makes you look 70% sexier, a mask.

Doesn't it? You put a mask on, you look 70% sexier, I find. Right. Yeah. Same with me. It covers my cold sores

and my bloody zit on my chin. They can be quite useful. Well, they can be quite handy. We gave away some masks for a while on the show. Remember that? We thought we'd put

comical slogans on them like, no kissing, I'm married, or I've got pash rash, and things like that. And then I was outside a shop. This was when, you know, obviously we were all trying to wear masks

as much as possible. I said to my daughter, oh, can you put a mask on? She's like, I can't wear one. She says, I've got pash rash. You had to put a child in a pash rash mask. You're like, Dad, you're like, oh. Do you want to catch the virus?

Turn it inside out or something, mate. Yeah. Because I know employers, they can't actually make you wear a mask, right? So some... No, yeah, I think that's the case, yeah. Yeah, some businesses you walk into... Unless, I imagine you're like in New Zealand and things like that where it's the law to be wearing a mask, right?

Because we spoke to, we were recording something yesterday after work and found this so interesting. We were talking to a team of Americans and they were all working from home on Zoom. And we were like, how long have you been based at home? And it's coming up to a year. I know.

March 1st. They've been working in their houses for almost 12 months. That is wild to think of. And it's pretty much the same in the UK and a lot of other countries. You just sort of forget. I mean, we had that big lockdown. We've had a couple more in Auckland, a three day one, and then you're like, oh, three day lockdown.

You know, I mean, it sucks for New Zealand businesses and stuff as well. You know, there's a lot of people that are affecting. But then when you hear stories like that, there was one of the ladies, a US lady, she was like, I was literally in New Zealand until March 1st and she flew back to the States. She's like,

every day I'm like, why did I leave? I should have just stayed there. Should now just want to give you a bit of a heads up, public service announcement ahead of this weekend. And just remind you, you know, it's a tricky virus, isn't it? Oh, we're leading into this, aren't we? Yeah, yeah. It's a tricky virus.

Well, Jacinda, I do the priming, so I get where you're going with that. We all know what it is. I'm giving Juliet a knowing glance. There's some pre-produced material here. Yes, Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister, has often said, and I think Ashley Bloomfield as well, it is a tricky virus, COVID-19. And so, you know, it's now been turned into a tricky song.

I think it's an example of how tricky COVID-19 has always been. All right. That's right. Tricky, tricky, tricky. Tricky COVID-19 has always been. To rock around, that's right, on time. Tricky, tricky, tricky. Tricky. To rock around, to rock around, that's right, on time. It's tricky. Tricky, tricky, tricky.

Tricky. Tricky. To rock around, to rock around, that's right, on time. It's tricky. Tricky, tricky, tricky. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

On the hits. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. She's having her birthday today, and the only presents we've given her is the gift of copying and pasting celebrity stories on the internet and reading them out.

Juliet, come on down, birthday girl. Thank you very much. Now, the Britney Spears documentary is kind of everywhere, and I know we keep banging on about it, but it's kind of big at the moment. And the director of the Framing Britney Spears documentary, Liz Day, she revealed what was left out

of the documentary. Now, she got to speak to Jamie Spears, the dad that is Britney's conservator. Oh, really? Oh, she interviewed him. He wasn't in the documentary, right? Yeah, so she got to speak to him, but he declined being on camera. And there's also a point

where, for a brief moment of Britney's life, her boyfriend was, her boyfriend at the time, not sure who it was, was her conservator for a little bit, which is a bit of a weird situation when your partner is in full control of your decisions and your life and your money. That was another point that was left out.

Well, I guess if you're in the boyfriend situation, maybe someone you've married and been with for many years, that would make sense, right? I think I do remember that in the news. It was a fleeting relationship, wasn't it, with that guy? I think it was, yeah, for a brief moment, and then the old dad took over again. And then there were also many others that were involved in the conservatorship, and Brittany said that she, like, they found more clips of Brittany saying

that she just wasn't keen for her father to be the conservator. So there was a lot of little bits that they couldn't get in there. It's almost like they should release another little documentary with all those extra parts, you know? Why didn't she just audio record the dad? I mean, you could have. Well, you could have, but you wouldn't be able to use it. Oh, true, yeah. So it'd just be pointless. You'd just be clogging up your

voice recorder on your iPhone, wouldn't it? Yeah, we wouldn't be able to use it without his permission. Well, we spoke to Aza Gonzalez, who's a very famous actor in the US and Mexico, been a child star since she was 13. We spoke to her before 7 o'clock. Led pretty much the same path as Britney, was a child star from age 12, 13 We spoke to her before 7 o'clock. Led pretty much the same path as Britney, was a child star from age 12, 13.

And still to this day, you know, late 20s is getting papped every day. And she said just getting a coffee. She said papped every day getting a coffee. She goes, I love my coffee and it's every day I'm getting a coffee. But it's like, how is that interesting to paparazzi? Yeah, that's what she's saying. But she's saying, I could stop getting a coffee out.

But then I'm like, well, why do I want to let them win? I'm just going to go get a coffee. If you want to take a photo, I might. Well, you can, but she's saying, I could stop getting coffee out, but then I'm like, well, why do I want to let them win? I'm just going to go get a coffee. If you want to take a photo, I might. Well, you can, but it's just me getting a coffee. Because we were saying COVID would be quite an advantage to celebrities. They're all in masks and in disguise, but she said, no, they actually have got your licence plate of your car.

That's crazy. They know what car you drive, so they follow you around. Yeah, if you're wearing a hat, a big wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses and a face mask, you're pretty much undercover. But, you know, it's crazy how many details they do have about you that they don't actually need to recognise you to know that it's you. I thought the same thing during lockdown. I was a hat, mask, I was in Countdown.

You're buying something. And I ended up with a trolley load of Heineken. And a guy we used to work with, Phippsie, he was like, Jono? I was like, oh, dear God. How did you know? He was like, oh, dear God. How did you know? He's like, well, look at your trolley. Look what you got in your trolley. Identifiable in a millisecond.

Hey, thanks, Juliet. No worries. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Ben Voice Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Fryer's Worst Moments of the Week. Now, we looked at these this week.

Can I jump in before you start going? We usually focus on Jono's worst moments. Now, we looked at these. We went through all of the shows this week, and I stated for the record, I was like, I've had a flawless week. No shocking moments, nothing you can highlight. Put the tick this one up for the books, one for the books.

Did you, or did we just decide that today it shouldn't be all about you because today Producer Juliet's your birthday, isn't it? Yes, it is. Okay, that might have been the real reason. I've had a load of shocking moments and so what we thought we'd do Juliet, Producer Juliet, is you know, just take the wind out of a young

broadcaster's sails and focus on all your shocking moments. Thank you. Now you haven't done a lot of shocking moments this week, to be honest, so we had to go back through the archives looking for them. Just fun moments. Some of our favourite moments of working with you because we really do.

We love working with you. It's great. Yeah, we do. You are a very talented lady, and my only concern is that one day you're going to realise that you're too good for this show, and you always have been. You'll be working with Fletch, Vaughan and Megan in no time. We'll see.

But it is Juliet's birthday today, so we thought we'd play some of her worst moments that have featured on the show. Starting, producer Juliet, with a famous actor, Benedict Cumberbatch. Who was in New Zealand. He was in New Zealand during lockdown. And we were obsessing over Benedict Cumberbatch coming to New Zealand.

Although we couldn't quite all say his name, could we, Juliet? No. And so they're like, oh my gosh, Benedict Cumberbatch. Cumberbatch. Benedict Cumberbatch. Oh, it's such hard words. Benedict Cumberbatch. Benedict Cumberbatch is in the Hawke's Bay.

Exactly. Cumberbatch. Can I just say something? How do you say his last name, Jono? Oh, she done some research. Is it Cumberpatch? Cumberbatch. Oh, egg on my face.

Oh, you are too good for this, Joey. This has turned into Jono's worst moments of the week. And we try our hardest to, you know, entertain you listening. We're putting our blood, sweat and tears into this show. But sometimes it's not good enough for you, Juliet. No. Next, Jono. Speaking of sleep, you found out something very interesting.

Yeah, someone, Aaron, who's our production engineer, sent us an article about the alarm clock. Juju, you're yawning. Sorry. Are we putting you to sleep before the show's even started? Yes. She's like sitting there going, Okay, wrap it up, mate.

Wrap it up. Yeah, we're keeping you awake. We do get up early in the morning, so I understand. And sometimes we are pretty boring. And sometimes some of us get flustered, don't we? You're on the hits, gentlemen. Ben, 628. Good morning to you.

Sorry, guys. Flustered. What are we doing? It's all right. Controversial call-outs. Controversial It's alright. Controversial call-outs. Controversial call-outs. What I love about it is the honesty of this show.

I pointed to Juliet to play the music there. Sorry guys, I'm flustered. Join us for a flustered breakfast. You don't hear Hosking going up and says, Prime Minister, first question. Sorry, sorry, I'm flustered. Hey, you know we have

high moments, we have our low moments. We do. I'm only here now. And one of your favourite moments, because you're a big Harry Potter fan, the guy who played Neville Longbottom was on it, Matthew. Matthew Lewis. Yeah, Matthew Lewis. He was on the show and you were very excited about having Matthew Lewis.

This is your reaction to finding out we might be talking to one of the stars from Harry Potter. Apparently we're interviewing Matthew Lewis, he was on the show and you were very excited about having Matthew Lewis. Okay, this is your reaction to finding out we might be talking to one of the stars from Harry Potter. Apparently we're interviewing Matthew Lewis in like a couple weeks.

He's a Neville Longbottom from Harry Potter. It's my lifelong dream to meet someone who plays a character in Harry Potter. Harry Potter. Oh my God,

I'm about Harry Potter. She would like to Neville his Longbottom. Ride his Quidditch stick. Slide into that chamber of secrets. Oh, there we go. She would like to nevel his long bottom. Ride his quidditch stick. Slide into that chamber of secrets. Harry Potter. It's Harry Potter.

I love Harry Potter. Literally, love Harry Potter. I know, we appreciate all your hard work, Jo. Thanks, guys. Happy birthday. Pleasure working with you both. Go and have a great weekend, and she's going to turn up like a sack of kumara on Monday morning. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. How was your day yesterday, Ben? Yeah, not too bad. That was all right the afternoon. I spent a bit of time realising that I'm no good at firstly acting. My daughter's got an audition she's got to do and I was trying to teach her how to act and jeez, I terrible when you're trying to do that you're like actually i'll just leave you to

it you gotta be better thanks denzel washington over here all right time for your acting classes darling she's like yeah she got a script and i was like well let's run through it a few times and i'll play the other character and i'll like to be honest i think you're doing a far better job without me and my why don't you just play both characters I'll just drive you to the audition I felt like I was doing like I was the Brighton Primary School

doing the school play like oh my god do you have to like sit in the waiting room while they go in and audition for these things yeah I do that's coming up

over the weekend so I've got to do that like many times last year like I'm sorry I've got to leave work I've got to go to a audition

and we're like oh you've got an audition work. I've got to go to an audition. And we're like, oh, you've got an audition. Not for me. Technically, yeah, the family's got an audition. Yeah, I get texts through going, audition? Yes, I'm available. Oh, no, it's not for me. It's for my daughter.

So that's what I do now. I sit out with the other. Is it a competitive environment? Oh, yeah. When you're sitting there. I go and, like, slag off all the other mums and dads. Oh, that's your kid, eh? No, no.

Boo! I don't know. I guess you kind of just... Because you're all chasing the same... Well, all the kids are chasing the same gig. I think at that age, it's just more about good experience and stuff like that.

You don't know if you're the right person they're looking for, whether you're going to do it. Yeah, so just go along. It's a cool little life thing they get to do. And if they get the job, sweet. If they don't, it's still chalking up as a good experience.

Oh, you should start a show, Dance Moms or something. Audition Dads. Audition Dads. You're giving daggers to the other dads. Yeah. I used to have a chat to all the other moms and dads in the thing. And then Sienna goes off, does her audition. I go, how'd it go?

She goes, yeah, it was fun. I go, great. Off we go. Oh, that sounds like a boring show. I don't know why I came up with the format of that. Yeah, you're right. I really need to wrap things up. Oh, that sounds like a boring show. I don't know why I came up with the format of that. Yeah, you're right. I really need to wrap things up. Yeah, no.

I had one of those moments yesterday, and it happens quite a lot at the supermarket, but mine happened on the motorway. And so you've got the motorway on ramp, you know, when you wait at the lights. Oh, yes, yeah. And you're all sort of in a queue to be led onto the motorway. I don't know what those lights do.

Are they effective? Because I usually just run through them. Well, they're meant to sort of, yeah, gradually get people on there. Merging. Merging, so it's not so much about like, yeah, traffic doesn't back up. Yeah, I just go, ugh, and just drive through them.

You're so frustrated, though. You get, you know, you're terrible on the roads. It literally means I have to wait for five seconds. What's the point of this thing? Anyway, so I pulled up next, and you're in a row. You're in two lanes, and then next, a friend pulls up. You know, an acquaintance. I wouldn't say, you know, someone that we knew from a previous work.

Oh, yeah. And so you're sort of side by side, straddling each other. And you wind down the windows. Hey, mate, how you going? And, you know, you do your interactions on the motorway. Yeah, we're covered. You know, your stock standard welcome. How you been?

Bloody lockdown. How's work? How how's the family how's the kids i think we even came back to bloody lockdown all right and we covered this all off in the uh in the waiting process you know and then so i get on the motorway and it's rather busy and uh-oh we all the way down the southern, we're playing this game where we're pulling up beside each other. Oh, yeah, and you're still waving. And then it was like I was trying to avoid chasing him. But inevitably, we'd always end up beside each other. Gotcha. Like when you run into someone at the supermarket,

you keep running into them in every aisle. Yeah, you begin in the produce section. You had your chat. You've done everything. You've covered off everything. And then you're like, uh-oh, now they're in confectionery. Uh-oh. Still here at the Frozens on the other side. Now we're at the produce section. You had your chat. You've done everything. You've covered off everything. And then you're like, uh-oh, now they're in confectionery. Uh-oh. Still here at the Frozens on the other side.

Now we're at the checkout together. You're like, I've run out of combo. And it gets more awkward the longer it goes on. Yeah. By the end, I was just ignoring him. And he was ignoring me, too. We both wound up our windows. We're like, this nonsense has to cease.

Yeah, well, you kind of feel like that. Often I feel like the supermarket, you know, we should catch up soon. I said that to someone just because I wanted it out. And they're like, well, we just did catch up. Have you got more you want to say to me? Because it was at that level where you're like, you know them, they're acquaintance. Yeah.

Oh, well, we should catch up soon. And they're like, well, we did catch up. And for them and for me, we were both content with that. You know, that was enough. In fact, that was probably more than enough. I'll give you a text sometime. Please don't. Because I've got nothing more to say to you.

That's right. We have caught up, and that's all we need to know. Made to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. The A to Z of New Zealand. A to Z of New Zealand. We do this every day on the Hits.

We call someone, we basically bug someone in New Zealand in a different town or city, one a day, and we're slowly making our way around New Zealand alphabetically learning about each place. Listen, if you can tolerate us for four to five minutes, yeah, we'll let you get on with your life afterwards. Today we're going to head to Lower Hutt. It's New Zealand's sixth most populous city.

Lower Hutt. With a population of 111,800 per capita, the hut has more bogans than anywhere else in New Zealand. So in amongst the soundtrack of Burning Rubber and ACDC's Bat catalogue rests a beautiful part of Aotearoa that is also home

to New Zealand's youngest mayor, Campbell Barry. Oh, really? Who became mayor at age 28. 28? Oh, wow. I wouldn't back myself to run a city when I was 28. Imagine you, Juliet, you couldn't run a city when you were 28.

Oh, yeah, I could. No way. It'd be a very different city, wouldn't it? Dan, we're going to head through to Lower Hutt now, I think the event centre. Good morning, Lower Hutt event centre. Shelly speaking. Hello, Shelly.

It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. How are you? I'm great. How are you? We're doing well. Listen, you're obviously running an event centre and you'll be busy organising an event, no doubt. Oh, absolutely.

Put that event on hold just for a brief moment because we're phoning everywhere in New Zealand and we're doing it alphabetically. We're up to the L's. Lower Hutt, you're on. Awesome. How long have you lived there? All my life.

All your life? All your life. Hutt girls run through. I get confused between Upper Hutt and Lower Hutt. Like, yeah, because I was originally from Wairarapa and you go through and I could never remember which was Lower Hutt and which was Upper Hutt. Is that kind of something that you'd be like, ooh? Yeah, you don't want to be told you're from Upper Hutt

if you're from Lower Hutt. Oh, right. And I don't want to, you know, doesn't it all say it in the name, Ben, that Upper Hutt would kind of be above the lower version of the hut? I don't know. Well, you're probably right. That's probably a good way of looking at it geographically.

Speaking, is that correct? Yeah, on the map, obviously. Upper being northern. Yes. We're quite lucky nestled in the middle of Wairarapa and Wellington. I don't know how that bamboozled bed, but it did anyway. It did. You're right.

Now it makes a lot more sense. Shara, have you ever left the hut? Briefly. Where did you go? Into town. That's just, you've left the hut. And you're like, that's enough. That's not for me.

I need to live a life in the hut. Correct me if I'm wrong, did it have like a suggestive slogan for a number of years? Like, pat me on the hut or something? Or ride up my hut? Was there something like that? Oh, ride up your hut valley? Stick it up your hut valley or something? Was that right?

I don't know. I don't know. I don't remember that one. That might have been when I was too young to notice and be. Stick it up. No, I feel like we're making up a slogan. Ride up my hut valley. Ride up my hut valley.

It was a slogan. Yeah. It was a slogan. Yeah. It was in 1994. Oh, yeah, baby. 2,000 promotional stickers. There you go. Right up my hut valley. Right up my hut valley.

It was a slogan many years ago. Yeah. They maybe didn't know the connotations back then. No, I probably didn't pick up on it. Have they been tarnished with a bogan brush over the years of the hut? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you do hear of the hut? Yes. Yeah. Oh, you do hear about the hut having,

yeah, like the West Auckland of Auckland sort of thing, you know? Yeah, exactly, exactly. Would that be true to say? There is, you know, or not? Is that, yeah? Oh, I think it's a very broad sweep of the paintbrush,

but if there's, you know, we've got our own little microclimate in the hut. There's lots of different pockets. And there's nothing wrong with being tarnished with a Bogan brush either. Well, no, we all have a little bit of it deep down inside. We do. John, you've been tarnished with a Bogan brush for many years, haven't you? Ben still

tarnishes me with the Bogan brush. I do, you're right. Well, we better let you go off and do a burnout or something. Thanks so much. Thank you so much for your time, Shelley. Really appreciate it. No worries, guys. Thank you.

See you, mate. Bye. They're proud of New Zealand. Woo! Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

On the hits. Scrolling through your feed. All right, we're here to tell it like it is, and if we're too scared to tell it like it is, well, then we'll awkwardly pussyfoot around the details. Welcome, Ben Boyce. What's happening in the news? Well tell it like it is, well, then we'll awkwardly pussyfoot around the details. Welcome, Ben Boyce. What's happening in the news? Well, the Trump Plaza Hotel.

Now, Donald Trump and the Trump organizations had hotels and apartments all over the world. But he's had one in Atlantic City, which is kind of like a, I guess, similar to Las Vegas, but probably not quite as prestigious, right, as Las Vegas. But it's kind of a little gambling town in New York. It's a crappy Vegas, but probably not quite as prestigious, right, as Las Vegas, but it's kind of a little gambling town in New York. It's a crappy Las Vegas. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, you should have said it in a much more harsh way than I did. But the Trump Plaza Hotel was there for many years. Movie stars, athletes, rock stars, even the former president partied there many times, many social functions. Well, now the building's been basically no good. It's been falling apart, and they decided they were going to detonate it. They were going to blow it up. And someone actually won an auction to be the person to press the button

to blow up Trump Plaza Hotel. And it went down in about 20 minutes. There's a huge crowd of people around to watch it. Sorry, it went down in about 20 seconds, just to see the whole thing just crumble to the ground. Now, it's a high-rise building, too. Yeah. A huge big hotel casino building,

and it went down, and I love this being America. There's a crowd of people around cheering it as it hits the ground. Now, I can't figure out if they're cheering the demise of Donald Trump or cheering for the explosion, because the explosion's pretty cool.

It is pretty cool. It's called 3,000 Sticks of Dynamite. Wow. To blow that thing up. He didn't even own it anymore. Oh, right. No, it was acquired by another billionaire, apparently. Well, they're clearing it to put some new buildings in and stuff as well.

Why don't they just turn it into like a Ryman retirement village or something? Why don't they have to blow up the building? It seems like the way they they do that in New Zealand, wouldn't they? Yeah, or like a children's theme park where kids can go and gamble or something. I don't know. You don't have to blow a building up.

It's pretty cool, though. It is pretty cool. It's very American. Yeah. And this is big news for you, Jotto. A hairdresser on TikTok has revealed... Here we go. ...hair content.

The biggest mistakes we're all making when washing our hair. You want to know these biggest mistakes that you might be making as well? Sherrigans, basically, you should shampoo your hair twice. Oh, you've heard about this? I do that. All right. Sherrigans, people aren't doing it enough, so you should be shampooing it twice

and then conditioning basically just the ends of it. You look like you know this. I already do that. I've been doing that my whole life. I shampoo my eyebrows twice. Even if you don't put hair product in and stuff as well, she still reckons that you should be shampooing when you do it twice and then do it a couple of times a week.

Listen, I do poppy my daughter's hair and not having hair, it's very complicated. It gets quite knotty, long hair. But then you get that little spray that... Oh, the detangler. Detangler. That's a game changer. Is that a thing?

I didn't realise that was a thing. Yeah, detangling spray. Do you just give yourself a little spray? I just give a little brush. A little brush on top. Yeah. Yeah, but that's the only hair banter I have. Did you want me to contribute any further?

No, no, that was good. I just basically thought... You two can actually take it from here. No, no, that was good. I just basically thought you'd be... You two can actually take it from here. Well, no, I just thought... Julie, obviously you know this. Yeah, well, because I find when I wash my hair, the first wash, the first shampoo kind of gets rid of the muck. The second shampoo is a lot more foamier

because it's a lot cleaner and it just does it, hits it twice. Yeah, and shirigans only do it two to three times a week. That's the washing thing because too much washing can also cause more damage to the hair as well. Make it more oily too. Do you use shampoo for your armpits? No, no.

That's a bit of a weird question to ask Julia. I wouldn't ask you that, Ben. Focusing on you here, mate. Okay. Do you use shampoo to soap other parts of your body? I have. Soap other parts? But no, shampoo.

Shampoo's, no, but I guess I can see why you just want to be playing the game. Anything with hair on it, I'll shampoo it. The name is Cat. Coming for a shower. All those sorts of things. That's right. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits.

The hits. By the WhatsApp. By doco.nz. Listen, who's to know whether any of these stories are factual? But we pretend they are. Hopefully they are. And that's the main thing. But we're pretending they are.

This is meant to be the factual part of the show, right? Yeah. Juliet in with a spy celebrity update. What have we got, mate? So it's kind of everywhere, this and the headlines. Demi Lovato obviously started out as a Disney star. She's releasing a documentary. She had a co-host

with the dinosaur, that purple dinosaur. Barney the dinosaur. She's one of the kids of Barney. And then she was a Disney star. Lots of Disney, like Camp Rock and all those movies and then became a fully-fledged pop star and actor as well. I heard a lot about Demi over the years. Whatever happened to the dinosaur?

Oh, the dinosaur, yeah. Yeah, no, we'll do some digging on that after seven. It was interesting how when they brought them back in Jurassic World, it wasn't like that, was it? You would have thought that was a gimme. They were in purple and singing songs. We might see Barney pop up in the new Jurassic World with Sam Neill. Hopefully.

Hopefully he gets a gig. Fingers crossed. But Demi Lovato is releasing a documentary called Dancing with the Devil, and it literally covers, back in 2018, maybe you remember, maybe you don't, she had an overdose and was in critical condition. She's always struggled with addiction issues. She's sober for a while and then she had this big overdose

and now it's a tell-all documentary about the effects of that overdose. Hey, be careful. Okay. I felt like I needed to tell you that. I'm always careful. Demi's good at making you believe that she's okay. Demi's very good at hiding what she needs to hide.

I crossed a line that I had never crossed. And she also revealed in the trailer that she had three strokes, a heart attack, and suffers lasting brain damage after this overdose. And that doctors told her when she was in the hospital that she had about five or ten minutes left. To live? Yeah. And then doctors told her when she was in the hospital that she had about five or ten minutes left. To live? Yeah. And then, obviously, against odds, she survived. And she says she's like a cat.

She's got nine lives and is literally on her ninth life. And it just looks crazy. Like a must-watch, I reckon. Yeah, well, that's... So sad. So sad. But it's going to be... So she's sober now, obviously. Yes, absolutely.

And it's going to be out on March 23rd, debuting on YouTube, so when that comes out, that'll probably be everywhere as well, and I assume it's very much worth a watch. I imagine too, with that level of addiction, when you're relying so much on the alcohol and drugs, it would be hard to imagine your life without it.

It'd be such a long journey. I mean, probably even today, like all these years, a couple of years later, she probably still thinks she's still vulnerable to slipping up. Well, it's only, I guess, one occasion and you're back there again, probably, eh? Yeah. Terrifying. So hopefully she's on the right track and, you know, everyone's looking out for her and all her close family and friends, it seems, from this doco.

And Oprah Winfrey, as we know, is going to be interviewing Harry and Meghan for a sit down interview. Now they're neighbours it's not often that all conversations with neighbours get aired internationally do they? I want to be like oh can you mow my lawns I'm just popping away. Unless it's neighbours at war, that was the TV show True but it's saying that apparently Oprah

courted Meghan and Harry for three years to get this interview. Oh she groomed them. Yeah, just putting in the groundwork, putting in the groundwork, befriended them and then was like, yes. I was just saying before,

you'd be like, if you're that sort of celebrity, you'd be like, is Oprah, is she friends with me because she wants some friends with me or because she wants

to get it, you know? She wants to interview me. When's she dropping in the interview conversation? Did Oprah buy an $18 million house next to me because she wants

to be my neighbour? It's a long play. She took three years, she brought me out with milk, we talked about, you know, like checking the mail when we're away and all those sorts of things.

As soon as the interview wraps, the movers move in, they shift Oprah out, she sells her house, it's back on the market. On to the next one. Smart play from Oprah though because that will be

fully publicised, that interview. I will be literally not sleeping until it comes out. Well, no, yes, I will be. Get some sleep, Julie. No, she won't though. it comes out. Well, no, yes, I will be. Get some sleep, Julie. No, she won't, though.

She won't. You won't. When's the interview? I think it's in March. It's March. You know, you need to get some sleep, mate. It's only the 19th of February. A couple of weeks away. Yeah, no, definitely.

Try and sleep. Okay, I'll try, I'll try. And that's five. For more, you can head to the Hits website, thehits.co.nz. 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. We like to end the show on some positivity and heading into a weekend is always good. The alert levels have been adjusted since the start of the week, so hopefully people can enjoy a bit more freedom this weekend. Now, Ben Boyce, I'm going to put this on you. $50. Three lots of $50 to give to the three best weekends. So this is all on you, okay, on your bony shoulders.

Well, I think we've got time to just take three calls. Oh, there we go. Just take three calls and you'll win the $50 and then we don't have to disappoint anyone like we do daily. All right, we'll start with Grace. Welcome from New Plymouth. Why is it going to be a good weekend for you, Grace? It's my birthday tomorrow

and me and 18 of my friends are going on a pirate party pub crawl. A pirate party pub crawl. Arr. Why the pirate theme, Grace? It's a very versatile theme. It is, yeah. I mean, you've got your eye patch, you've got your parrot on the shoulder. Yeah, and I've got lots of games, and we've got a treasure box of prizes.

Wow, it sounds like you're quite organised. I'm very organised. Yeah, and I've got lots of games and we've got a treasure box of prizes. Wow, it sounds like you're quite organised. I'm very organised. Party load of Johnny Depps wandering around New Plymouth tomorrow. Okay, well listen, do you think Grace deserves $50? Yeah, I think so. We'll give you $50. You can put that on the bar or wherever you are. Buy another eye patch for everyone or something.

That sounds awesome. Thank you so much. Enjoy your birthday. You're not doing a pirate party, are you? You're doing it for your birthday. I should. You're missing out. Well on you. Enjoy your birthday. You're not doing a pirate party, are you? You're doing it for your birthday. I should. You're missing out. Well, you have a pirate party.

I will. Pirate party sounds fun. You need more children's themes as adults, don't you, with your parties? Kids' parties are so much fun. I mean, Bouncy Castle. I mean, jeez. And they've always got better food, the children's parties. Yeah, I know.

Yeah. Shove a Cheerio in my gob, thanks, Ben. All right, we'll head to Rachel. Welcome from Auckland. It's going to be in my gob, thanks, Ben. All right, we'll head to Rachel. Welcome from Auckland. It's going to be a good weekend. Why, Rach? Because 10 of my friends and I are leaving our kids behind and we're going out to the Bay of Islands to go sailing.

Oh, Team New Zealand here. Yeah. It's awesome. Can I ask a question? Can any of you sail? No, we've hired crew. Oh, great, great. And obviously someone's looking after the kids,

you're not just leaving them behind. So that sounds amazing. Yeah, that's the father's job. Well, after this weekend... Once a year we get away. Good on you, Rachel. Well, after this weekend they might be renting out the British boat to do little harbour cruises for girls' weekends.

Oh, you enjoy that? We're going to give you $50 to put towards whatever you want to do. Awesome. Thank you so much. All right. We'll go to Canterbury, shall we? Quiet boy. Janina Morena.

It's going to be a good weekend. Why? Why do you deserve $50? I'm going to go mudsliding with my daughter for Scouts. Oh, mud? It'll be pretty fun. Oh, great. So you need $50 for soap.

Well, there is a coffee van there and sausage sizzles and whatnot. Where do you go mudsliding? South Bridge somewhere. Yeah. Oh, wow. Is it an actual thing you go along to do or are you just doing it in a paddock somewhere? Paddock somewhere, I think. Every time I've frolicked around in the mud, I'm like, what's the ratio of mud to manure

in this little setup? You don't want to think about that at the time, do you? No, don't think about that, Janina. But what you should think about is what you're going to spend that $50 on. We'll give you that to have a good weekend, eh? Oh, thank you. Good on you, mate. Thank you for listening.

Well, that was a wonderful end to the show. Oprah Winfrey, eat your heart out. Oh, mate, she's off talking to Megan and Harry soon, isn't she? You guys have a wonderful weekend, whatever you're doing. Be safe out there. We'll catch you Monday morning from 6 o'clock. Five grand up on the line. Five words for 5K. Want more Jono and Ben?

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