Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - February 23 - We Chat To Chris Hemsworth's Stunt Double!

Episode Date: February 23, 2021

Hello! On today's show we were joined by the stunt double of Chris Hemsworth, who's also been a stunt double for Tom Cruise, Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Craig, and he spilt all the secrets of what it's like working so closely with these stars! We also had our third winner for 5 Words for $5K; Tabby from Wellington took it out, proving that her and Ben's great minds do think alike! We also had someone from the office who's having a bit of a relationship dilemma. Her boyfriend wants to move to the UK, but she doesn't. Do they continue with a long-distance relationship or no!? All that and more on today's podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast, 23rd of February, 2021. It's Tuesday.

How many days in February? 28, aren't there? Yeah, unless it's a leap year. Then what do they go to? 29. Yeah, so people that have their birthday on the 29th of February get born on a leap year, kind of. And a leap year happens every second year? Four years, I think.

Four years. I think it's four years. So yeah, the people that have their birthday on a leap year sort of get a little bit ripped off. They don't technically have a birthday for a number of years. But they're very youthful. Well, yeah, they're a lot younger than they actually are, right? Yeah, you might be four years old, but you're a fully grown 28-year-old. So, Ben, what's coming up on the podcast today? Today, well, 5K for five grand.

Sorry, 5K for five grand is exactly what five grand is. Five words for $5,000 is our new game. And today we have a winner. It was pretty exciting, wasn't it? It was. I love the excitement when we have a winner. It was pretty exciting, wasn't it? It was. I love the excitement when we have a winner. Because you'd hate someone who just took it all in their stride, wouldn't you? When they won $5,000.

I know. It's not what radio's built on. It was a pretty special moment that's on the podcast today. As well as that, we've talked to a guy who's the stunt person for Chris Hemsworth, as well as many, many other Hollywood actors. For the past sort of 15 years, he's been in all sorts of movies and TV shows over there. And he said he's sort of become, well, Chris Hemsworth's one of his best mates. Yeah.

They hang out so often. And how he ripped his groin off. Oh, yeah. Just a terrible... And Khaleesi's dragon on Game of Thrones set him alight. I know. He got some wonderful tales. Yeah, so he joins us on the podcast as well as that.

A bit of a listener issue that we put to you guys today and involves someone we work with and their partner wanting to go overseas and there were some harsh truths delivered from the Hits audience. There were. I guess it's when you're not in the situation, when you're not emotionally attached, you can step away and go, no, we'll do that.

But when you're actually in there, it's so hard to do those things. You're right, Benny. You need to factor that in, but you'll hear that in the podcast. Boss Todd, our boss, just came in before, and he's like, I've got a friend's child's birthday this weekend below the age of five, and his theory is he doesn't buy presents for kids under the age of five. Just put some money into a KiwiSaver or a savings account.

I get it. That's pretty smart because you just end up with a mountain of shit, don't you? The first couple of years, the kids, they don't know. It's not like they want this toy or anything like that. So you're just getting them stuff. Yeah, and as a friend of someone who's had a baby, you feel obliged to buy them stuff. Yeah, that's why it's good to know,

oh, hey, we need more tops or we need more things. You're like, cool, we can actually buy stuff they're going to use rather than just stuff. But you're right, when they get older, it can be just so much stuff. And they mow through it too. Like, they're fads. They move quickly.

I mean, if I could go through, we've had Pokemon, Roblox. We had all of the Rubik's Cubes. Every Rubik's Cube known to man was another one. What else did we have? Oh, Minecraft. Oh, yeah. And you just mow through them. He's gone back on his Pokemon cards, Oscar.

That's cool. And he's found a card that is worth 6,000 USD. Really? 6,000. And I'm like, you know when kids tell you that, you're like, oh, you're not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We actually looked it up. Wow.

6,000 USD, baby. That's awesome. 90,000 New Zealand dollars when you transfer that. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. That's exactly what it is. That's pretty awesome. Yeah, I think also what we

found with uh with our kids is yeah every now and again you kind of almost like you'd rotate their their stuff so you bring some stuff out you put it you know and when it comes out again they're like oh this and they go back into it again you know so you don't feel like you're ever wasting it because when i think they just get overwhelmed you know with stuff you know like i'm not playing with this anymore but if you bring it out after a while they're like, oh my god, I remember the Pokemon cards, and they love it But doesn't it age? Oh yeah, I guess you're probably not going to

Here's your rattle for when you were six months old Oh great, I haven't played with that I'm 11 years old now, but thank you Yeah, true, there is that as well, you're right But it's the world we live in, just stuff So much stuff Moses from Soleim right but that's the world we live in just stuff so much stuff we're trying to

minimise all that stuff Moses from Soleimio who's the new bachelor he lived a minimalist life he got rid of all his cutlery he only had one knife and one fork yeah

it's a good way to be you can have two you can have two I always have this conversation with him why don't you have two yeah true but it's a good way

to leave the planet you know where are we going to put all this stuff I don't know so yeah so it's a good way to do it the ocean that's, where are we going to put all this stuff? I don't know. So, yeah, so it's a good way to do it. The ocean. That's what the ocean was made for.

That's what they've been doing it for ages, right? Hey, 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, my daughter, she's been back at school for a few weeks now. She's nine years old. And obviously, they've been doing riddles at school. It seems like a little period where they kind of, you know,

kids all getting into kind of riddles. There's a fill of content in the classroom. Who's ready for some riddles? Some what? I never went to riddle class when I was a... Early on in the school year as well. But riddles is the big thing. Riddles should be in November, December.

Exactly. Thing. But every time I sort of run into Indy around the house, I walk into her room, it's like she's sitting in the chair like a Bond villain, asking me a riddle as I come into the room. Has she got her fingers joined, like slowly tapping them against each other? Stroking the cat, you know, as it sits on her lap.

But over the last couple of days, every time she will bust out a riddle, I'll be like, oh, let's record something. They're actually quite fun. I mean, some of them, you know, these are ones for nine-year-old kids, so some of them are easier to work out than other ones. No, but that's the thing.

I'm no good at riddles. I'm like, you even explained the answer to me. You have to tell me another three times. That one the other day with the $1.10 and the baseball. The $1.10, that's right. I don't think you've got your head around that one. No, I've pretended I have, though. You're like, oh, yeah.

Yeah, but then I'm like, you can see it in my eyes, can't you? He's like, he doesn't get it. I don't like my brain being teased. My brain just likes to sit there. Just tell me. Yeah, yeah. Why do it in a complex way? It struggles to retain the information it's already got.

I reckon you might do all right. Here's one of the riddles from Mindy, my daughter. I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest person can't hold me for five minutes. What am I? Light as a feather, yet the strongest person can't hold me for five minutes. Don't Google it.

I'm not Googling it. You're tapping away on the keyboard. Oh, clear emails. Well, why clear emails in the middle of this? Light as a feather. That's cute. Come on. Reducer Juliet got this.

It's just loading it in. Light as a feather. Yet the strongest person can't hold me for five minutes. Can I say Kate Winslet could hold you for five minutes? Breath. Yes, there you go. One for one. Okay.

All right, here we go. Now, if you don't mind while you're playing it, I'll also be emailing at the same time if you're wondering why I'm typing. Okay. I've got two hands, but I can't scratch myself. What am I? Two hands, can't scratch myself.

Oh, shit. Oh. You don't even look at me, you're looking at your laptop. Well, that's an important email. Listen, is it a towel? It's a clock. Please Google correctly. Here's another one.

A riddle from Indy. Here's one for Jono. A man who's outside in the rain without an umbrella or a hat didn't get a single hair on his head wet. Why? He's bald. There you go. That's bald. You got one. I see.

This is just another long, long runway up to a bald burn. Is this what it's for? You're partaking in this too, Juliet. Absolutely. Here you go, there's one for John. You got it right the first time you got a riddle. It was the perfect riddle for you. As soon as you said here's one for John,

it would be something to hair loss, baldness, alopecia, something in that world. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Thor right now currently being filmed on the Gold Coast. Taika Waititi is the director, of course, of this new movie. And we got talking the other day about stunt people. It always amazes me in Hollywood, the job that they do, right?

Oh, yeah, we got into an article of Chris Hemsworth, who's obviously playing Thor, his stunt double, who has to basically have a replica body of Chris's, has to train like him, has to eat like him, basically has to live the entire lifestyle of Chris Hemsworth so that there's no difference on screen.

Now, we managed to track down the stunt double for Chris Hemsworth. He's not only been Chris Hemsworth's stunt double, he's been in Hollywood movies and TV shows as stunt person for, you know, The Avengers, Thor, Mission Impossible, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Batman. He's been stunt double for Tom Cruise, Daniel Craig, Ryan Reynolds. I mean, so many celebrities over the years.

And he joins us on the phone right now. Bobby Holland-Hanton, how's things? Very good, thank you. Very good. Hey, it's so nice to talk to you. We really appreciate you taking the time. No, absolutely. Thanks for having me. Now, we're just looking at your background. Very impressive, especially growing up. All sorts of different sports and activities you took part in, which kind of prepared you for a life of being a stunt double.

Oh, absolutely. I think, I mean, I was a gymnast from the age of four. You know, I was a professional gymnast until I was 17. I competed for Great Britain and retired at 17. think, I mean, I was a gymnast from the age of four. You know, I was a professional gymnast until I was 17. I competed for Great Britain and retired at 17. So, I mean, it was... That's a very late retirement age, 17. Yeah, I mean, listen, but I started at four, right? So, I think gymnastics was a real, and I believe, an amazing stepping stone for anything that anyone wants to do physically.

I've always looked at it, for me, it's almost been like a physical degree for me. Well, it uses every muscle of the body. Can you do a backflip on the trampoline, bro? Oh, mate. Yeah, all day long. All day long. All day long.

Now, you probably get asked this question all the time because obviously you've been in stunt double, as you said, for Chris Hemsworth, but everyone else from the likes of Tom Cruise, Daniel Craig, Ryan Reynolds, Channing Tatum but was there one stunt that sort of sticks in your mind in particular that you've done over the years in one of these movies or TV shows you're like

I'm so proud I did this and I was scared going into it but I really nailed it Yeah definitely I mean over the last this I'm coming into my 14th year of professional stunts in films and it's flown by. There's so many that I've done and so many that I'm proud of but i mean you know from game of thrones when i was set on fire for the first time um as a son of harpy i got torched by khaleesi's dragons but it was actually a

flamethrower that set us alight which was incredible and what is it like being set on fire for the first time bobby is it oh mate it's really warm. It's really, really warm. It's hotter than the sun, I swear. It's crazy. And how long are you on fire for as such? We were on fire for about 30 seconds. Oh, my God. It feels like 30 minutes. Yeah.

That kind of stunt is a real head. You have to kind of go into yourself and really, really channel your breathing and your thought process because if you breathe in that fire, then you're going to be going to hospital and you're going to be in a very, very bad way. So it's all about, it's a real mental game, that one. Have you ever injured yourself badly in your line of work? Oh, yeah, a few times, mate.

Like, touch wood, like I said, in 14 years I've done pretty well, but on the last Thor Ragnarok on the Gold Coast in 2016, I snapped my groin off the bone. You smacked your groin off the bone? Yeah, yeah. My rectus abdominis and adductor longus, I basically stripped it pretty much. It snapped 70% off.

Did you walk it off? Nah, mate, I wish I could. I was out for 11 weeks, but I came back pretty quick and I was back doing the stunts after 11 weeks. You know, I popped ribs, I busted shoulders, hit my head a few times. So, yeah, I'm not the sharpest tool in the tool box. So we had to watch a movie and then go,

that was me, and then the actor kind of took credit for what you did? No, you know what? It's part and parcel of the job. That's what we do. We're supposed to be that. You know, it's supposed to, this is part and parcel of the job. That's what we do. We're supposed to be that, you know, it's supposed to,

this is the whole point of the film, movie magic. And I think one thing I will say is, you know, I've been with Chris, I said, 10 years now.

We're very, he's one of my best pals. He's always, always so good and praises me all the time. And, you know, he expresses that to the world and I really,

you know, I'm thankful for that because we do, you know, put our lives on the line, but he's one of those actors that are like, nah, you guys need more credit than what you get. But what you have to remember is we get the best of both worlds.

We get to go to work and train and work with these amazing people, then we go home and we can be with our family and you're not getting stopped in the street, whereas Chris is the biggest movie star in the world, and it's difficult for him to go to the shop without getting mobbed. So I think we get the best of both worlds. He should send you down there as a stunt double for shopping. Shopping double.

Off to Woolies. Shopping double, yeah, exactly. He seems like such a genuine, humble, down-to-earth person, Chris Hemsworth. Mate, he's the best. I swear to God. I'm not just saying that because he'll fire me if I don't. But he literally, I swear to God, mate, I've never met anyone like it. And I think, you know, he carries his team.

We travel around with him wherever we film in a movie. And it comes from the top. It filters down. And we all, you know, his attitude and his work ethic is second to none. And it rubs off on all of us, the whole team. We've got such a good camaraderie. Oh, that's awesome. I feel very lucky and blessed to have met someone like that, not only to be very close, but also to work with on a daily basis. He's one of a kind. Oh, we have to ask this being from New Zealand. Obviously you've been working with Taika Waititi

as well on this Thor movie and the one before. I see some photos of you guys together on your social media. What's it like working with Taika? Mate, I'll tell you what, Taika's a genius. He's one of the most incredible, most talented people I've ever worked with. He is unbelievable. This next door will blow people's minds. He's, I mean, look what he did with Ragnarok. You know, him and Chris collectively

transformed that character. And I think people are in for such a treat. Taika is one of my favourite people. And I mean, look, he's just won an Oscar. I think everyone knows how good he is. He's incredible. Yeah,

basically, all we do here in New Zealand is talk about Taika. Yeah, our economy rests on his shoulders so we really need this to work as well.

I'll let him know that today at work. I'll just say, I spoke to you boys and literally keep going, mate, otherwise New Zealand's falling apart.

Yeah, and he'll probably go, who? I vaguely remember them from like when I used to not hang out with Chris Hemsworth. Listen, this has been an absolute pleasure talking with you.

Bobby Holland-Hanton, who's stunt doubling at the moment for Chris Hemsworth, has had 14 years in the industry. Real pleasure chatting with you, mate. Good luck for the rest of filming Thor, and good luck for the rest of your career as well. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that.

Sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Penn. Breakfast on the Heads. The Heads. The Heads. Now, we're always sniffing around the office for some content for the show, aren't we? Aren't we?

And if someone slips up and accidentally says something that we overhear, well, then we drag them on the radio. Now, one of our colleagues, we're not going to say her real name, joins us on the phone now because a really interesting dilemma that we were discussing in the office yesterday nattering away, weren't we? Good old gossip session. Susie? Hey guys, how are you?

I never know when you give someone a fake name if they're going to respond to the fake name. I'm Susie. Now you're Susie right now. We're all Susie. This is a case of a long distance relationship and you want some advice on it. So throw it out there, Susie. What's going on? I need all your listeners advice on this. So I have been dating my boyfriend for about three years now and he's

just dropped a bit of a bombshell on me. He is going to move to England with no plans of coming home and he's still really keen to do long distance, but I'm just a bit torn because obviously I don't want to go. My life's here. But we were going to buy a house. We were going to get a dog. We had great plans. But yeah, he still wants to do long distance.

I'm not so sure about it. And I'm just, yeah, in a productive way. I need everyone's help. Unusual time to be wanting to move over to the UK with everything going on at the moment, right? You wouldn't think so, but he's sure of it. He wants to go and live his life over there. He's moving

to the epicentre of the virus. I know what I'll do. I'll move out of a lovely three-bedroom house and move into a burning apartment building. And you couldn't get much longer distance. I've just googled 18,000 kilometres to the UK. That is long distance.

And quarantine hotels in the middle. So he wants to continue the relationship if he does move over there at some stage? Yeah, yeah. He wants to keep it going. And, you know, he said, we can see where it's at in a year or two. You can move over.

But, yeah, I don't really see myself doing that at this point. What's the point? It's just going to, you know, the inevitable is it's just going to slowly fade out over time, isn't it? Well, that's what I've always thought about. Yeah. I don't know if it's trying to stop the flow

or what's going on. Can I just say, what a ray of sunshine John O'Neill is today. What a real, like, let's look at the glass half full, can I have it? Oh, yeah. He smashed the glass against the wall. Oh, that's a bit, that's a bit. He might go over there for a against the wall he might go over there

for a little bit and he might go hey when has a long distance relationship like that worked well my sister she dated

well she still dates her boyfriend he lives in the UK she lived in New Zealand they did long distance for two years before she went and moved over

to London oh you've got one example turn her mic off Turn her mic off. Turn her mic off. That's really good. Yeah, there you go. So it is possible. I mean, who's to say you won't move over there?

Who's to say he won't move back? I mean, why not stick together for the first bit and at least to see how it goes? Because it might carry on. Listen, I'm going to put my hand up and say there's no point. There's no point. Please don't tell me at this moment he's going over there to do something heartwarming like live with his dying grandmother or something.

No, no, can confirm it's none of that. Okay. He's just doing something different after this whole COVID year. Right, okay. 0800 the hits. Susie wants your help here. Does she persist with the long distance or do you just chop it off at the knees now?

End on a good note. You know, not on a busy note. Just go, hey, had fun. You go and do what you do over there. We'll probably move on, get new partners. We might meet up later and have an affair or something. I don't know. Examples of long distance relationships working like Producer Juliet's.

That'd be great to hear right now on 0800 The Hits. Are you wanting her to persist with this? I think so. Yeah, I think why not? I mean, at least give it a chance. Oh, he's a romantic. You got to. I mean, you know. Good on you, Suze. Thanks for airing that.

We'll get some calls and texts on 0800. That's 4487 if you want to text us on this one. Let's go to Stacey in Tauranga. Welcome, Stace. Your thoughts? Personally, I would be like, I've had a call three years, and then if he's deciding he wants to fly the coop, then maybe he should go do that.

If you love something, set it free, and if it comes back to you, maybe it's meant to be. Oh, put that on a tea towel. Yeah, that's great. That's a beautiful saying. That's a beautiful saying. But, you know, a lot of people texting, saying that they are from England,

and why would anyone want to move there at the moment? Good point. It's an unusual time. I mean, I can understand a year or two ago, you know, it would have been very appealing. Good on you, Stacey. Appreciate you listening more. And we'll head to Paula in Auckland.

Your thoughts on this, Paula? The long distance, do they stick it out? Oh, definitely not. She needs to kick him to the curb. That's what he's doing to her. Oh, even though he wants to continue the relationship, you're like, nah. How can you continue the relationship, you're like, nah. How can you continue the relationship when he's 18,000

kilometres away? Yeah, true. It's a no-brainer there. He's just sort of, you know, definitely not. Paula, I'm a savage. Classy, bougie, rash. My husband's English. You couldn't pay him to get on a plane and go there right now. Oh, that's right.

You need to read between the lines with that one. Yeah, well, that's a good point. Sometimes, you know, when you're in the eye of the storm, you need to hear some advice like Paula's. We'll go to Jane. Welcome. Long distance. Have you tried it before, Jane? Tried what? Hey, don't get salty

with me, mate. No, it's all Jono's fault. I'm not the one going to England. Maybe you should. I'm with the others. As far as I'm concerned, he's made his decision. He's moving on, so she should move on too. And, you know, if something happens in the future, but he's leaving it wide open.

There's no future in there for her, so she needs to just cut it off and move on. She won't know what he's doing over there. Nah. No, that's right. He could be up to all sorts of nonsense over there. Oh, of course. Drinking warm beer and eating, you know.

Well, not at the moment. He'd be locked in a house probably somewhere. Yeah, true. He'd be doing nothing. He'd be hating life. Hey, good on you, Jane. Appreciate that. I feel like we've just got advice from all of our aunties there. It's good advice, though. It's really good advice. Yeah, true, you'd be doing nothing. You'd be hating life. Hey, good on you, Jane. Appreciate that. I feel like we've just got advice from all of our aunties there.

It's good advice though. It's really good advice. Yeah, no, good stuff. And 100% landslide on the text 24487. It's unfortunate, but move on. You've had a three good years

and who knows what happens in the future, but don't hang in there. So that's the general consensus wrapping this up? You think that's the advice Everyone agrees with me, Ben. Yeah, that's the general consensus. Yeah, that's the general consensus.

Yeah. Well, me and Juliet, we, you know, we had hope for love, didn't we? Oh, we did. Glass half full, people, we are.

Look at the Taylor Swifts over there, hoping for love. I really appreciate that. Sometimes love's not around, Ben. To everyone pulling a sickie today,

you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the Beeping News. It's the Beeping News. Welcome to the part of the show that would be ten times quicker if Juliet didn't beep the headlines. But we play this game with her.

What have we got this morning, June? First story. Florida women wear **** to try and get the COVID vaccine. Florida women are wearing something to try and... To try and get the COVID vaccine. So they jump in the queue.. Florida women are wearing something to try and... To try and get the COVID vaccine. So they're jumping the queue. Yeah, they are. I'm going to say Florida women are wearing convincing Joe Biden elderly looking masks

to get the COVID vaccine. The elderly go first in line. Oh, that's not a bad... It'd be a good play. Yeah, I reckon Ashley Bloomfield masks, you know, surely. Mind you, in Florida they're going to be, who's this guy? Oh, you're true, Ashley. You're right. I'll take that back. I don't know if it you, in Florida, they're going to be, who's this guy? Oh, you're true, actually. You're right.

I'll take that back. I don't know if it was Fendleton, maybe. Who are you, mate? I'm the Director General of Health from New Zealand. From where? I've never heard of there. Yeah, true. That was a bad suggestion. I'm guessing mine's not going to be right. No. Florida women wear

granny disguise to try and get the COVID vaccine. We have a winner. In their 30s and 40s, Florida women wear granny disguise to try and get the COVID vaccine. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. Yeah, so they were in their 30s and 40s. They managed to get the first vaccine, though, because you know how you have to get two. They managed to get their first vaccine disguised as grandma's,

and then their second vaccine when they went to go get that, that's when they got caught. But they're not, the officials are like, I don't know how they got through first time, because they're clearly in their 30s. I imagine that they'll all be wearing face masks. So, you know, that would help out a little bit, you know, to disguise themselves.

I wouldn't even have to disguise myself if I could roll in. Hello, little old man. Sweet little old man. He'll jab you. He hasn't got long to go, but we'll give him a jab before he does. Is there actually any point wasting a vaccine on him? He's got a week to live. Exactly.

He looks worse than Prince Philip. Next one. Licking something that people will buy. Yeah. I'm going to go icebox. I mean, it's not something you want to do is lick an icebox before someone else is going to buy. You can't try before you buy. True.

I'm going to say licking the items in the Valentine's Seafood Buffet before other people buy them. Licking ice cream that others may buy is now a crime in Arizona. We are on fire. On fire. Now, this actually started it went viral on TikTok of people going into supermarkets, opening ice cream containers and just licking them

and then putting them back. But because of COVID, Arizona State has now made it illegal and you could go to jail and face like a $700 fine. So it was a joke, a gag that people were doing. Yeah, it was a viral thing but now you're big trouble. And then it turned into a viral thing.

A literal viral thing. Yeah, exactly. So now it's illegal in Arizona. Have you shared a lick of an ice cream with someone? Oh, I like my kids. Would you lick an ice cream with someone? Oh, I love my kids. Yeah, my kids and my wife. Would you lick an ice cream with me? If I bring an ice cream into this... Pre-pandemic, I probably...

You know, I would have gone, oh, yeah. Would you share my same licking space, or would you look for a... I'd probably look for an alternate space. Knowing that probably that you would have gone there beforehand, but, you know, I wouldn't just go directly. Oh, that's nice. But I would have.

Yeah, pre-pandemic now, no, probably not. Oh, okay, nice. But I would have. Pre-pandemic now? No. Probably not. Oh, okay. So not now. Sensible. Once we've had the vaccine, maybe? Maybe. The ice cream treat after our second injection. And the final one. New company sells self-cleaning a**, which can be used for months without washing.

I'm going to try and get three from three here and keep it in the zeitgeist. I'm going to say a self-cleaning face mask that you can use for months. Oh, that's quite good. I'm hoping it's underpants that they keep cleaning and you just keep wearing them for months. New company sells self-cleaning underwear which can be used for months. Oh, man!

What? Three from three. Yeah. How good. Is this the first time we've even got three? This time I think I've got any, really. Well done. Yeah, so self-cleaning underwear could be a thing.

It's a little innovative new company. It's the fabric, but you've just got to, the fabric is supposedly good for self-cleaning. You've just got to air them out, and that's all you've got to do. For three months. Like, who's gone three months? That's the cutoff. Yeah.

That's just, that's still disgusting though, right? Three months of the same underwear. Yeah, but they've also made self-cleaning socks, t-shirts and bed sheets. Now, you went bush a couple of weeks back, Jude. Did you ride your underpants out for a few days? I, oh, I think I did. Yeah. That's kind of disgusting, eh?

I was going to go to school camp and the teacher's like, sometimes you look at a boy and you're like, oh my God, you're in the same clothes five days later than you were on day one. Yeah, I know. I guess when you're on camp, it's so easy. You can't be climbing the slide in here now. Ride it out.

Ride it out. Exactly. I'm like the poor guy stuck in a bus with these kids on the way back for three hours. Oh God, stanky, stanky. And that's the news in beeps. Thank you very much. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. And we've brought Producer Humphrey in the studio. Morning, Producer Humphrey. Good morning. Don't know why I'm saying good morning to you. I've already said good morning to you at 5am. He only talks to you on air, not off air.

That's right. Don't look me in the eye. Remember, stare down. Now, congratulations because you've got a baby on the way. We do, yes. First time Jono's congratulated him on air again. I won't congratulate him off air. remember stare down now congratulations because you've got a baby on the way we do yes first time Jono's congratulated him on here again

I won't congratulate him off here he hasn't mentioned this don't talk to me about your stupid baby off here on here though I'll pretend like I'm really engaged

no you are having to plan the baby's not even here and you're already researching daycare and primary school options this is wild

yeah so that is the demand living in Auckland. So we are currently looking through daycare options for 12 months down the track. And gosh, the price differences between some places is just crazy. We were looking at a place the other day and it was expensive.

And I sort of said to the lady, what does this come with, a new car as well? And anyway, they said, oh, no, look, the kids, you know, the time that they spend there and a cooked lunch every day. And I was like, oh, wow, that sounds good. Anyway, so I looked at the menu. The day that we were there, lunch was prawn linguine.

Prawn linguine. I don't even know what prawn linguine is, but it sounds like the lunch of a merchant banker. Yeah, it's prawn and pasta. It's beautiful, right? Yeah. And so that's what you're paying for. Like, I was thinking, gosh, you know, surely just a peanut butter and jam sandwich would

suffice. Well, if COVID wasn't a reason for the rest of the country to hate Auckland, serving toddlers prawn linguine. But if you get a prawn linguine for lunch, I mean, jeez, you'd have it every day, right? But the problem is you've got no consistency with the diet, though. If they're getting an Italian dish for lunch and then you're trying to convince them fish fingers are a great option for dinner.

Yeah, true. You've got your work cut out for you, don't you? Yeah, that's what my partner and I discussed. You know, there's no coming back from that. Basically, you're bringing it up. Kids are good on them if they can afford it. The kids love it. Each to their own.

But, you know, you bring up kids with expensive taste probably, aren't you? Absolutely. That and you're setting yourself, you're making a rod for your back. Thankfully, my kids, they've got my Bogan palette. Poppy would just eat fish fingers For the rest of her life I tried to give her Like a proper piece

Of normal fish And she turned her nose up Oh really She's not in finger form I only have my fish and fingers How about you You got expensive tastes at home Oh yeah

My kids are pretty They'll branch out there You know They love all sorts They're good at trying stuff Although one time I've talked about this before I had oysters And they're very expensive I bought. Although one time, I've talked about this before, I had oysters and I was like,

they're very expensive, I bought them. And my daughter, Sienna, tried, I was like, try an oyster. She tried it, didn't like it, spat it out. And I'm like, oh, these are expensive, I've got to eat it. And I ate it back off the plate. I was like, I only pay for sex.

Eating regurgitated oysters. How about the, we went out for lunch with a whole lot of people who worked on the TV show, John Owen and Ben, and the kids, we had a little version of John Owen, a little version of Ben, a little version of Guy. And we went out for lunch with a whole lot of people who worked on the TV show, John Owen and Ben, and the kids, we had a little version of John Owen, a little version of Ben, a little version of Guy, and we went out for lunch. Remember that time we went to a, I don't know why our boss decided to take us all out for lunch. Oh, to the restaurant, yeah, and then this child, wonderful child, whose name escapes me now.

But he sat us down and he did the thing with his hand and he ushered the waiter over. And we're like, what's he doing here? And you know when you've got your hand and it's sort of up in the air and you're moving it in circles, like sort of gesturing for the whole table. We'll get a round of calamari for the whole table. And our boss, Bronnie, is like, well, hang on, we haven't discussed this.

But it was quite a big play. Nothing more humbling than having your calamari ordered by a seven-year-old. It really is. So what we want to do this morning is open up the phones, 0800 the hits, 4487. Kids with expensive tastes. It doesn't necessarily have to be with food. It could be whatever.

Have you got a seven-year-old living inside, a 57-year-old living inside of a seven-year-old? Then we want to hear from you, 0800 the hits, 4487 if you want to text. Welcome, Maureen Alicia. Good to have you on. Morning, how are you? Yeah, it's your daughter with the expensive taste, we understand. Yeah, I've got two daughters,

and my six-and-a-half-year-old recently stomped into the room and asked me if I could increase her $5 weekly allowance so that she could go and buy a new house and a horse. Oh, right, demanding a pay rise. Because her younger sister was annoying her. Yeah, no fair.

Oh, so she wants to move out. She's moving out, six and a half. Yeah, the horse seems surplus to requirements. What's that story? Not sure what she'll do with an extra $5, but we'll see. Did you double her pay, though? Not quite. No, not quite.

Still under the minimum wage. Well, Jacinda would have a field day with you. That's very cool. We're going to send you out some hell pizza, all right? Thank you. Good on you. We'll go to Rachel. Welcome.

Kids with expensive tastes, Rach. Good morning. I have an eight-year-old son, and I asked him last year What he wanted for his birthday And he popped up and just said he wanted to go To a day at the spa A day spa like a massage You've got to treat yourself

Who wouldn't want a day at the spa Yeah I think you heard me rave about it The one time my mum shouted me a voucher For it and now he's all For it so I'm not complaining Because it's a good excuse for me to go too. Yeah, right, gets his skin exfoliated. Feels like a million bucks when he walks out.

Exactly. You've got it on your age. We'll go to Meg. Welcome from Nelson. You've got a child with an expensive taste, Meg. I do. I have a 10-year-old, and he's recently made a new friend at school, asked to go for a sleepover, thought, yeah, sure, why not?

Anyway, I don't know what they fed him, but when he came home, he asked for filet mignon for dinner. So, yeah, we just gave him stag bog. I don't think he knew the difference, but... My thing is, with any Italian dish, all children should be eating their Italian dishes out of a can, out of a Wazzy's can. And that's where it should stop and start. And I blame

shows like Junior Masterchef. Oh, they're good, those kids. Who are coming out with cabanaras and all these things and they're putting unrealistic pellets in our children's mouths. I don't know where Ed heard filet mignon before because it definitely wasn't from me. Good on you, Meg. Have a good one.

And we'll end on Rebecca. Welcome. Good to have you on this morning. Hi, how is it? Yeah, it's doing well Rebecca. Are you on your way to work? I sure am. What do you do? I'm a school principal. Oh, big dog eh? Big dog.

Alright, kids with expensive tastes. Yeah, so when my son was five, he used to go around to his grandparents after school. And there was one day where his granddad had offered to make him nachos the following week. But he was mucking around and wouldn't put his school shoes on. So I told him that if he didn't put his school shoes on and get ready to go, then he wouldn't have nachos the following week.

He'd have salad for dinner instead. To which he got pretty excited and asked me if there was going to be prawns and scallops in that. It's my favourite mum. You know it. Good on you, Rebecca. You go and teach the youth of today, okay? Will do.

Have a good day. Thanks for listening, mate. Yeah, you know it. Yeah. Nah. You know it. The whole movie. Yeah, nah. She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono listening, mate. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie. Yeah, nah.

She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. Well, I had to go into a shop yesterday and buy a stool. Now, I don't know if you're a person that when you go into a shop, you see the items and you're like, I'll just take that one. I'll take the one that's on display in the shop so I don't have to assemble it when I get home. Well yeah,

that's the thing that annoys me too. I was like I'd like to get this particular item and then it comes out in a flat pack box. I'm like, I don't want to put it together. I'll take this one that everyone's sat on for the last two years, just for the ease. Yeah, I don't like putting those things together. It's not my thing. It's not my jam.

People love, some of my mates love putting together flat pack boxes. It's just a thing. It's not my jam. People love, some of my mates love putting together flat pat boxes. It's just a stressful situation trying to follow instructions. There's always extra bits left over. I think anyway, I don't know if I've missed screws or important parts along the way. No, they do. The manufacturers like to leave sort of half a dozen screws for two reasons

just in case you lose any and B, to cause a huge argument with your partner as to why they're not in the piece of furniture. If I was putting those together, I'd be like, put extra ones of those, take ones out of those. And people are like, where's the thing? Oh my God.

Just throw them away. Throw them away. They're not meant to be there. We assembled a bloody double bed together. I tell you what, if you can make it through the assembly of a double bed, you can make it through anything. You haven't slept together on that double bed since.

But you put it together together. I haven't been invited back into it. No, but wouldn't you just prefer that you can just take stuff from the shop? Because like, surely when I'm assembling it, I'm doing the job of you know, a child in a factory somewhere. Surely they should be doing it.

Yeah, I agree. We bought a barbecue over summer and I went out to get one that my wife was like, can you pick up? This is the one we want, we researched. So I went and got it. And again, I asked, I said, can I just get the display one? And the guy's like, oh, it's got a scratch on it.

I'm going to have to take some money off it. I'm like, even better. Yeah, I'll get a knife, I'll scratch it more. This is great. And they delivered it when I was home. And a man of my wife to this day still thinks that

I put it together but she doesn't know that I bought it and it turned up already delivered and I was like this is already made up this is a great day

you know what we do for a job eh what you know when we talk she's not listening to us our conversations are heard by third parties

she's not listening to us right now but yeah I mean just for the ease, can we just all, when people don't like assembling things, they can just go in and take it from the shop floor. Yeah. But then you think about the shopkeeper's point of view,

then they have to go and build another one. Well, that's their problem. Some places you can, like, I know like the warehouse and stuff, you can pay $50 more to get a bike put together, like, you know, and things like that. So they will put, you know, they'll put things like that. For useless idiots like you and me.

Yeah, like that. I'd rather have someone put it together than me. You hire a hubby, don't you, all the time? Yeah, I'll get someone to come around and put up frames and all sorts of things that I probably should know how to do, but I don't. I can make a good cup of tea for him. I think after admitting to what you just admitted,

Amanda's all currently hiring another hubby now too. She's on the phone to them. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Now it's time for this. Five words for 5K on The Hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Always get very excited around about this time

because someone could be walking away from the show with $5,000. It's our Game of Word Association, five words for 5K. It's our favourite game alongside how long does it take the awkward white guy to get bullied onto the dance floor in a nightclub. Let's welcome from Wellington, Tabby. Hey, how are you guys? Good to have you on, Tabby.

You sound like a ball of energy. Oh, nerves. Lots of nerves. Lots of nerves, so we'll use those nerves. Hopefully we can come through today with $5,000. Have you been playing along, listening to the game? I have been. What do you do, Tabby? I'm at home with my kids.

Oh, so you listen at home? Hardest job in the world, yes. Yeah, I tell you what. Yeah, full praise to everyone who's at home with kids. I know everyone did that during lockdown. Yeah, I know everyone got a good appreciation if you didn't do it. For those who do, that's for sure. Hey, hey, Tabby, you need to make the decision.

Are you going to choose Ben or myself to head into the sound? Poof, poof. You're going to put Ben in there. Oh, Ben. You're going to put me in there, okay. He's a rock solid option. He is Ashley Bloomfield and I am that weird guy, Billy TK, from the Advanced New Zealand Party.

Put him in that booth. He can hear the door shutting. He is locked in the soundproof booth. And you need to come up with five words that match with Ben's, okay, Tabby? Looking at this line-up of words, I don't want to put any pressure on you, but I think you've got a pretty good chance today. Oh, fingers crossed. What do you reckon, Ju, looking at these?

I agree 100%. Tabby, keep breathing deeply and making those weird noises down the phone, because here we go. Rape. Pistachio. Nut. Puppy. Nut. Puppy. Dog.

Would you have gone dog, Ju? Yep. There's that noise again. It's nerves, isn't it? It is. Doesn't help that I keep dragging this out, does it? Windsor. Castle.

Aubergine. Eggplant. Do you know I was in the supermarket the other day, and this is not a good time for an anecdote, but my wife sent me to get eggplants. Oh, no. And I didn't know. Didn't you?

I didn't know that eggplants were aubergines, and I asked the lady next to me, I was like, is this the same thing as a... And she thought I was pranking her. What about a courgette and a zucchini? Are they the same thing as well? They're the same thing too. The more you know.

Tabby, not only are we playing a game show, we're also learning stuff here. And your fifth and final word, Tabby. Yeah. Tradie. Say that again? Tradie. T-R-A-D-I-E.

I'm going to have to go plumber because my partner's a plumber. You're going to lock him plumber? Yeah. Yeah? Oh, God, he's going to say builder. I'm going plumber. I have to. You've got to remember what would Ben say.

I'll give you one chance. Okay. KD. Oh, crap! No, I'm going plumber. Sorry, Chippers. What's that? Sorry?

No, go plumber. Plumber. Locking and plumber. Those are your five words. Good. You've done well. You should be proud, Tabby. Let's bring him out of the soundproof booth.

Millennial Max, Ben Boyce emerging. A lot of condensation in the booth this morning, I noticed. A slight sheen on the window. Getting hot and heavy in the soundproof booth. Now what I didn't tell you Ben, is Tabby,

she needs this $5,000 to rescue a family of turtles who have lost their shells. Oh, don't. So she'll use that money to make some carbon graphite shells for those turtles. I'm so nervous. And turtles look weird without shells, don't they? They're just, what are they?

They're just very slow-moving lizards. But not time to focus on that, because let's hit the music, producer Juliet. How do you think you went Tabby? I think it's the last one that's pulled me up, I don't know alright Ben you match your five words with Tabby's, she's got 5k I've just got to try my best, ok here we go

first one pistachio nut that cab has left the rank, Tabby. Okay, here we go. Puppy. Dog. That ding, I like hearing that ding.

That's good. You like the ding, Tabby? Yeah, we want more of that ding. She likes the ding. Windsor. Sorry? Windsor, W-I- N D S O R oh castle now this is the turning point like the money's just there those turtles could have their shells stop it okay words turtles could have their shells. Oh, stop it. Okay, word number four. Aubergine.

I got two in my head. I'm going to go with the first one that popped in my head, eggplant. Oh! Oh, he went away! And he's a big fan of the eggplant too. He's always sending me the emojis. He loves his 5 Plus a day. We've got four words

matched. Tabby. Oh, I feel sick. Oh, Tim, so do I. If you vomit, do it on the radio to make good audio. Alright, Ben, do you want to vomit? Yeah, I do feel great. I'm quite nauseous. Fifth and final word for $5,000.

Oh, God. Oh, God. Tradey. Tradey. Tradey. Oh, there's a few options here. Talk? No, I don't want to say it out loud because this is the last.

Plumber? No. Did you do it, Plumber? He's done it. He did it. He got Plumber. Oh, my God. I was thinking Plumber? Oh, yeah. He's done it. He did it. He got Plumber. Oh, my God. I was thinking Plumber, Builder.

Tabby. Let's cross to Tabby. Absolute scenes, Tabby. He's been here a little bit. Oh, my God. We did it. Holy. Not 100.

5,000. We drew 1,000. I'm not sure. Well, I'll show you something. $5,000. Oh, not sure. Well, I'll share some. $5,000. Oh, my God. Oh, my. You've just won five grand.

Oh, she's on fire. That's amazing. I'm in shock. I don't know how you feel, Tabby. I don't get the money. Well done. Seriously, I so need that. I need to fix the back of the car that I may have dinged.

Well, that money's going to be put to good use. Tabby. Oh, my gosh. Thank you so much, guys. I didn't think money's going to be put to good use. Tabby. Oh, my gosh. Thank you so much, guys. I didn't think you were going to get the first one. I honestly didn't think... I didn't, actually. I was kicking myself on that one,

but I had to go through with it. I was just like, well, I got a plumber the other day, so that was the first thing that popped into my head. Listen, Tabby, this is amazing. $5,000. A game changer for you. Thank you so much, guys.

Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. I'm just talking here, saying words, and I don't know why. We're over time. Let's go. Spy. The WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz.

Juliet's got a big smile on her face as well. And she comes from a long line of gossipers. Fun fact, her great-grandmother actually exposed all of Captain Cook's torrid affairs back in 1770. And she's continuing to do it today. What have we got, Ju? So the new trailer for the new Disney film Cruella, obviously based on the villain from 101 Dalmatians, that has come out and it's racked up 71 million views in the first 24 hours,

which was more than the Aladdin movie and Maleficent. And it looks very good. From the very beginning, I realised I saw the world differently than everyone else. That didn't sit well with some people. But I wasn't for everyone. I guess they were always scared that I'd be a psycho. Is that Anne Hathaway playing her? No, it's Emma Stone.

Oh, Emma Stone, that's right. American, but putting on a British accent. She's an incredible actress. It's going to be a very good movie, it looks. And the thing might, I have a theory about you, you're like, oh, this is the most viewed trailer in Disney history. It's because everyone's locked in their houses.

True. And that's why a lot of all this backlash, too, with people fishing up old interviews. It's like no one's got anything else to do apart from deep diving into the internet. Yeah, that's a very good point. And a quick update on Prince Philip. Prince William has given an update

while he was visiting a vaccination centre saying that Philip is doing okay. They're keeping a very close eye on him in hospital. He's still in hospital. Prince Charles visited him, I think it was yesterday or the other day. He looked very sad. People were upset that Charles was travelling, I was reading online. But if people were upset, as you said before, John, about everything.

No one's got anything else to do. We've got to end this pandemic so people can go outside and just take a breath of fresh air. Exactly. And remember that the internet doesn't always have to rule your life. No, exactly. And that's spy for more. You can head to the hits.co.nz.

Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Auckland, like the rest of the country, all on level one as of midnight last night. So there you go. Enjoy your freedom, New Zealand. Enjoy your freedom. Why are you saying that with a threatening tone?

It does sound a bit threatening. You sound like an evil villain from a movie. Enjoy your freedom while it lasts. Because it won't last long, yeah. No, hopefully it will this time. You know, hopefully. It feels like you're going to come back with a sequel. You're going to go and hatch another plan to release more COVID into the community. You go to the dentist yesterday.

Yeah, I went to the dentist. You've got good teeth. I like your teeth. Thank you. If I could ever have a weird compliment, but thank you. Show me your teeth, Juliette. You've got good teeth too. Thank you.

Oh, you said Jono's teeth were quite yellow the other day. Oh, yeah. That's when you'd cream all over your face and then they made your teeth look yellow. You're like, your teeth look so much more yellow. You know, that was an opportunity for you to go, actually, they're not that yellow, but you almost just doubled down on it.

Yeah. Yeah. No. I admire the dentist yesterday. I was getting a clean and getting it all sorted, and they have a conversation. They just persist with conversations with you while your mouth is open, and they understand.

They're like, how's it going? You're like, you can't really speak back to them, you think, but they understand what's going on. No, you kind of talk from your throat, don't you? I had this bloody root canal which had been going on for a while, since October. It's been like Lord of the Rings. It's been like in a trilogy of like... Well, when you get one, they have to take out, then they put a temporary in,

and then you go back, and then they try and fill up the root canal then you put another temporary filling in so you keep going back anyway knocked it on the head Friday but every time I go in and get a root canal

I fall asleep which is an unusual thing to fall asleep at I think well you've got the anesthetic you know the sun's streaming in the window it's great

sleeping conditions but when you it's part of the fact that they're drilling away your mouth the thing is when you sleep in front of people during the day,

you're worried about your slobber when you wake up, but it's fine because your slobber's just got your mouth, you know. It's a wonderful wake up

and I think she was talking to me, but I slowly doze off and then you wake up and you're like, what did I miss? New Zealand's very interesting with our dental hygiene.

I think we're getting better, but we've talked about this before when we did, we were on the Rock radio station. We had a dentist, I remember that, and we'll ring up and basically shock the dentist with your dental hygiene. And people were flossing with their long hair, like dudes are flossing with long hair. A guy pulled out his teeth with pliers in the shed

because he didn't want to pay the dentist's fee. One guy decided he'd try and gargle petrol at one stage. Oh, yeah, to get rid of his halitosis. Oh, and then, which none of these obviously recommend it, but then another guy... Well, nine out of ten dentists might recommend them. I always wonder, who's that one niggly dentist? I'm not recommending anyone, but nine others have.

Not me, mate. Maybe I'll get petrol gargling a go. I'm going against the grain. And then one other guy was quite thirsty one day and he was a water blaster and he decided to have a drink from the water blaster and blew off his tonsils. Clean out.

Is that even possible? Well, apparently. So yeah, none of these things are recommended. You don't get those sorts of calls here on the hits, do you? Yeah, blew out his tonsils with the water blaster. Wow, that is atrocious. Now we'll be doing that after eight o'clock. Juliet, are you thirsty? Yeah, looking out his tonsils with the water blaster. Wow, that is atrocious. Now, we'll be doing that after 8 o'clock. Juliet, are you thirsty?

Yeah, looking forward to it. That's why we need to get rid of your yellow teeth for some more. Can you blast the plaque off my teeth? Not necessary. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I just edited it out to this little chat. Oh, you did well.

You did well. Now we're talking about the out. How do we have an out to the out? Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Scrolling through your feed. When it comes to the news, this man is all over us.

And by all over us, I mean he's half read a push notification on his phone while driving into work. What's happening, Benny boy? Pretty much. Well, Auckland this morning at level one, joining the rest of the country in the new COVID-19 alert levels. And last night on her social media, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was answering some questions. Oh, does she do

open Q&As? Dangerous. Well, she does some stuff on her Instagram live. She picks out some comments and this one, obviously, she realised was a bit of a joke but she answered it anyway And then final question, what percentage of people will blow up and turn purple like Violet from Willy Wonka?

Great question, I haven't seen any particular research written about the percentage of people who will blow up and turn purple like Violet from Willy Wonka so I can only assume that that is not a documented side effect, which is good news for all of us.

Obviously to do with the vaccine, someone was worried about blowing up like violet from Willy Wonka. And she floated into the roof, didn't she? Or did they roll her off? No, the Oompa Loompas rolled her off, didn't they? Oh, yeah. Just Wonka was up to some nonsense. There was a whole lot going on.

What was going on in that weird factory? It was all sort of brushed aside and stuff. Yeah. I was like, oh, there was a whole lot of stuff. What was going on in that weird factory? It was sort of brushed aside and stuff. Yeah. I was like, oh, there was a whole lot of stuff. So children are disappearing in this factory, and no one is asking hard questions. Oh, but you're eccentric, and you're quirky, and you've run a competition that we all captured

in our hearts and minds of the world. You're eccentric. And you're quirky. Oh, he's a bit eccentric, isn't he? He gets a bit missing. No, no, it's all, you know. Yeah, it's Wonga. We love him

he's crazy he's wild he's going to give the factory to someone and then he smokescreens it by giving it all over to Charlie Charlie's like I don't need these

court proceedings he's handed all the you own the factory now mate you can tell him where the kids have gone anyway despite all the diabetes he was giving the children too Ben

no one focused in on that no you're right and this they're calling this the New Zealand version of the movie Snakes on a Plane. Yesterday on a flight, a New Zealand flight, there was a weta roaming around. It's a weta on a plane,

the very New Zealand version of that popular movie. I remember one night, it was about two o'clock in the morning and I was talking with a dear friend of ours, Bryce, and we're outside a restaurant and I could feel, I thought I could feel something on my face, but it was about 2 o'clock in the morning and I was talking with a dear friend of ours, Bryce, and we're outside a restaurant and I could feel, I thought I could feel something on my face but it was, you know, it was that time of the morning where I'm like

maybe I'm imagining it. And I could see him look at me, he's like, oh my god. And then he pulled out his phone and I'm like, oh this is not going to be good. And he takes a photo and there was this wetter just like over my eye. How did it go to your face? I don't know.

I don't know. No way. I don't know. Endangered, did you know? The wetter? Oh, really? And only specific to New Zealand. Apparently there's wetter-like insects in other countries,

South Africa and stuff, but we were the only ones with the wetter. All right. Well, I mean, New Zealand, they saw the funny side of it. They said they didn't have to wear a face mask, but it wasn't social distancing. And the weather was, one of the passengers actually lived up north and took it afterwards and released it back into the wild.

So there you go. Oh, that's lovely. And Air New Zealand are like, oh, actually, could you pay for your flight? Yeah, we really like to pay. We're in the red at the moment, mate. It's not good. Poor Air New Zealand. Do you know a side article?

Okay, have a guess. What do you think is the most dangerous insect in the world? The one that kills the most amount of people. It's like a scorpion and stuff. Are they insects? Yeah, they'd be in the insect world. Okay, have another go. Spider?

Okay. The bloody humble mosquito. Really? Oh, like with malaria and fever and stuff like that. Yeah. 700,000 people a year the mosquito kills. So harmless. Well,

not harmless. Exactly not. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. And annoying when you're in a dark room in the middle of the night and they just,

they're buzzing, just gets loud. You turn the light on and you're like, no. And man of all life says, keep the light on. You're like,

no, I need to find this because I can't go to sleep. You're looking around the room. It's the greatest game of hide and seek. The mozzie can play a good game. And they're just scrolling through your feed. Paid 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. Something we do every day on the hits. If you're tuned into the show, you'll know by now that we like to learn about every town and city in New Zealand. We we do every day on the hits. If you're tuned into the show, you'll know by now that we like to learn about every town and city in New Zealand. We call one a day. We're doing it alphabetically,

and we are working our way right around New Zealand. Yes, today, Lumsden. 405 people live in Lumsden, which is located in Southland. Originally, Lumsden was known as the Elbow, but then there were some complaints from residents of Castle Rock because their area was also known as the Elbow, but then there were some complaints from residents of Castle Rock because their area was also known as the Elbow. Oh, really? So they then alerted the matter to George Lumsden

of the Otago Provincial Council, and in the absence of any other suggestion, the team voted that the town would be called Lumsden. Very lazy after George Lumsden. It felt like they were just wanting to tick it off their to-do list. Yeah. So we're going to go through to Lumsden right now. The four square.

Greg speaking. Karina or Greg? This is Greg, yeah. I should have known that when you said Greg speaking. How are you? It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. Greg, how are you? Yeah, Karina's here too.

Oh, everyone's there. How are you, Karina? I'm good, and you? Are we on a speaker, early morning speakerphone situation here? Apparently. Oh, lovely. Very good. Now, are you the owners and proprietors of the Lumsden Foursquare?

We are. Lovely. Love me a Foursquare. You love Foursquare? I are. Lovely. Love me a Foursquare. You love Foursquare? I do. I love the thumbs up. I'm a big fan of the thumbs up in all aspects of life, and I love how the Foursquare guy's always got his thumbs up.

Yep, that's their main man, Charlie. Is his name Charlie? I never knew his name was Charlie. Yeah, his name's Charlie. Very iconic sort of character, isn't he? Yeah. How old is he, Greg? 96.

Oh, he looks good for 96. Jeez, doesn't he? Not bad. You'd have to know all of these stats, he's your boss essentially isn't he, the thumbs up guy? Can I take annual leave on Friday? Yeah good alright, good boss Charlie. What's on special at this four square this week at Lumsden? Plenty of spades. I can imagine being a Southland town there'd be plenty of spades yeah? Yes, yeah. No, we're a good spade store.

Yeah. Big boxes. None of this sort of too much craft beer. None of this fancy small bottle craft beer stuff. I'm not into craft beer either. I just can't handle it. It's like, and I don't think, I actually don't think anyone is, but everyone's pretending to be.

Would you agree, Ben? Every time we've had it, I'm like, oh. Oh, yeah, I can probably do, like, yeah, it's the real crafty stuff, you're right. Does anyone enjoy this? I'm not sure, you're right. How about you guys? Do you enjoy craft beer? Oh, we try not to. Now, Lumsden, tell us about

Lumsden. Right, what do you want to know? Where are we? We have Northern Southland. So it's a centre point, really, of, you know, you can go to Queenstown in an hour and Te Anau in 50 minutes

and Nivakago in an hour and Gore in 40 minutes. So we're right in the guts of it. You're a good location if you want to go to other locations. That's the one, yes. We've got a couple of old trains that have been pulled out of the Arete River You're a good location if you want to go to other locations.

Trains were in the river? Yeah, they were in the river. Well, they were dumped in the river for erosion protection back in, well, after the war. Well, a river seems like a good place to leave this train for erosion protection, but then surely it would cause rust? Yeah, well, a river seems like a good place to leave this train for erosion protection, but then surely it would cause rust? Yeah, well, it was buried. Because the river changed, they were buried in the mud, and they kind of got preserved a bit.

The Heritage Trust decided to dig them out and put them on display, so they're actually here on display now. We're just in their raw state, you know, out of the river and water blasted down. Oh, I can see it being hoisted out here on the internet. And how long have you lived in Lumsden? Seven years. What was the move? What was the reason for the move?

Oh, that was just the store, basically, purchasing the store and opportunity to own our own store. Oh, good on you. That's the pathway to getting a packing saver, isn't it, at Foursquare? It is, if you're good at operating one. Is that your 10-year plan? 10-year plan, I'll be retired.

Someone else could live out that. Someone else could be working for Charlie, getting the thumbs up. You go from working for Charlie to working for the stick man. That's right. Hey, well, listen, guys, thank you so much for your time. Righty-o. Thank you. Thanks, Jono and Ben.

See you, guys. See you, mate. Bye. How proud of New Zealand. Go, New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of that. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

On the hits. Buy the WhatsApp. Buy doco.nz. All right, let's get our maid in here. It's time for our morning update of how much better celebrities' lives are than ours. Juliet with Spy. Thank you. Now, Kate Winslet is currently filming for Avatar 2.

Is she in New Zealand? They're filming that here. Are they? Is Kate Winslet in New Zealand? No one told me Kate Winslet was in New Zealand. I think they're filming two or three movies, aren't they, for Avatar? Yeah, so yeah, it is New Zealand.

How did she sneak in without the radio station? Did she quarantine for 14 days? Probably not. Probably got a lush apartment somewhere, Ben. I'm up in arms. I'd like to know the cost of that apartment to buy. A $4 million apartment or something. Oh, that's exciting because I know James Cameron's booked out pretty much every studio.

Remember we had that story that he booked out every studio. He wasn't using it, but he just wanted it there so that when he wanted to start, he could start. Oh, that's smart from him. I don't know what time or day that was, but it's clearly underway. But last year she revealed that she had bet Tom Cruise's record for the amount of time she could hold her breath for underwater, which is 7 minutes and 14 seconds. It's not something I could just jump in the bath and do right now. I had some extraordinary training with a brilliant,

brilliant breath hold instructor named Kirk Kroc, and he got me to seven minutes 14. What can I say? And now she's kind of detailed a little bit more about it. And she said that when she is holding her breath for that long, she literally thinks she's nearly dying. Like, because she says you go into this weird head space, you close your eyes, you slow down your heart rate,

you don't move, you're at the bottom of this massive pool and you just like be. It's almost like meditation, right? Yeah, and you're just so focused and so still. And then she's like, oh, I've got to come up now. And she's like, is this what death feels like? Which is terrifying. And so she just did that for Avatar too, did she?

Yeah. For how long? There's a photo of it as well of her just underwater. It looks terrifying. Now I just did a quick goog while you're talking and the googles told me that 2018 she was in New Zealand so they must have started filming the sequel in 2018.

She did those scenes in 2018 in New Zealand. Oh there we go. Seven minutes under. You always want to play that game where you hold your breath going over the bridge when you're driving with your parents. That was always a game I tried to win. She would dominate that game. Yeah. Yeah. I would always lose it, though. Seven, well, surely they could

just film little spurts of her underwater. She doesn't need to be under there for a full seven minutes. No. But you know, I'm pretty sure James Cameron is quite a hardcore director. Like, he literally pushes his actors and actresses to the... He was only filming for 30 seconds. He just wanted to see how long she could last.

Yeah, exactly. And on the old Kimye story, I know we keep banging on about the Kardashians, but I think it's meant to be the most expensive celebrity divorce in the world so far. There's talks that she's going to be documenting the divorce on the final season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians as well as on their new TV show, Hulu.

But it's kind of interesting because other sites are saying that Kanye might be banned from rapping about her because they have to negotiate what they can and can't say about each other. But I imagine if she airs it all on Keeping Up With The Kardashians he'll be able to rap about her

and if not then it will have to stay hush hush on both ends from them. Well we will keep speculating. I know. We guarantee you that we'll bring you more speculation and stuff we don't really know what we're talking about, but we'll pretend like we do. Exactly.

As this progresses. Yeah. I want them to share it all. I'm so intrigued. Yeah. I mean, I'm not a big, personally, I'm not a huge Kardashian fan, but I feel like it's just so on my face. I'm like, I'm kind of invested now.

I saw one where she gave birth to a child and there was cameras in the birthings. And I was like, wow, gee, this is a level of commitment to reality TV.

It was all gunky. The baby came out all, you know how they come out all gunky? Yeah, right. I was like, well, this is warts and all. Everything.

You can see everything. And that's, I guess, why people either, like their fans love them. Yeah. Because they are just so open and they share everything. And that's, I guess, why people either react like their fans love them. Yeah. Because they are just so open and they share everything.

And people love to hate, almost love to hate them and almost are more intrigued if they, or sometimes if they don't like them than if they like them. Yeah.

They just got famous for doing nothing. No, they've worked their arses off to create this international brand. And we're all jealous that it's not me with a camera giving birth in there.

It's funny how we all think there's something going on behind the fallout of their marriage. It could have just been like over time they just decided they... Fizzled out. Yeah. But we're like, we want to hear all the details. What's he going to put in a rap? What are they going to put on this show? They might have just gone, hey, you know what?

It's just not working out. And then old mate's engaged to old mate again. Oh, yeah. Apparently Khloe Kardashian is engaged to Tristan Thompson. He clawed his way back. Yeah. Well done. He was the one that cheated on her with Kylie Jenner's best friend.

Oh, God, it's all a big web. We don't know that. We don't know that. I know there was footage of him with his face in a lady's chest. Yeah. And he could have lost his car keys. That nightclub was very dark. Yeah, true, true.

And, well, then, I'm glad they've reconciled. Good for the kids. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. And I'm glad they've reconciled. Good for the kids. Yeah, you're right. It's good for the kids. And that is Spy, Kardashian and Winslet version. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hits.

The Hits. Wrapping up our show on a Tuesday. Hey, what a wonderful programme it was this morning. And I'm not just saying that from an egotistical point of view, because our bosses will say the exact opposite once we walk out of here at nine o'clock. But we gave away $5,000. Oh, that was so awesome.

Fifth and final word for $5,000. Oh, God. Tradey. Oh, there's a few options here. Talk? No, I don't want to say it out loud because this is the last. Pl talk? No, I don't want to say out loud because this is the last. Plumber?

No! Did you go, Plumber? He's done it! Those gasps and screams were Tabby from Wellington who's got five grand. Yeah, it can be done. That's the third time

we've done it on Five Words for 5K. It's happening again tomorrow. It's 7.45. You can win five grand. And if you want to play online too, it can be done. That's the third time we've done it on 5 Words for 5K. It's happening again tomorrow. It's 7.45. You can win 5 grand. And if you want to play online too, you can. Just head to the hits.co.nz. We've diversified, baby. We've got our fingers in pies. There's the online game that you can play

and if you match up 5 Words with the online version, we could be calling you back to play the real life version. Yeah, it's pretty cool actually. I think it's going to be better on the radio than online. Well, that's good because that's the important one. Yeah, that's right. The online one doesn't matter so much for you.

In fact, I don't even know why you're wasting your time playing it. What do you want me to call you to play the game? You already play it. It's addictive. You get involved. We're doing that again, 7.45 tomorrow. You have yourself a great day, New Zealand. We'll be back tomorrow.

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