Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - February 24 - With Jacinda Ardern!

Episode Date: February 24, 2021

Hello fine people of Aotearoa (and around the world, if you're not in the Land of the Long White Cloud)! Today we were joined by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and in classic Jono and Ben fashion, we sprung a pop quiz on her. What was the last thing she Googled; we find out! We also talked about the UK's largest family, where the couple have TWENTY-TWO CHILDREN. Very impressive! So we wanted to know - what would wow us about your family? Finally, Ben's wife isn't too happy with him & his TV watching, and Jono has a new addition to his family! HAPPY DAYS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, 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 on your Wednesday. Good hanging out with you guys today.

It's 24th of February. It's your Wednesday. Good hanging out with you guys today. It's 24th of February. It's a Wednesday. Ben just mentioned that it's a Wednesday, but you know, sometimes the days change, don't they, annually? So the 24th of February might not necessarily be a Wednesday next year. It won't be, I wouldn't imagine. It'll be a Thursday, won't it? Usually that is the case, but sometimes it doesn't.

Anyway. There's no structure to the calendar. Who made up the calendar? I blame the Mayans. There's a lot going on there. We've had a lot going on in the podcast today. Wonderful segue. Jacinda Ardern, our Prime Minister, what does she Google? What was the last thing she Googled how to do? And what was the last TV show she watched?

Some surprising results, I think, we found out today with the Prime Minister. Yeah. I've also found out what would be shocking in the press gallery at Parliament too, because they'd be like, what's your favourite colour? Yeah, I know. Those are the questions that bamboozle the politicians. Yeah, they do catch them off guard. Well, this is immature. And can we talk about adult stuff?

Also, we got you to phone up and surprise us about your family. This lady phoned up. Her mum was one of 27 children. I know. Unbelievable. She mum was one of 27 children. I know. Unbelievable. She was number 13 of 27 children. And yesterday on the show, five words for 5K.

Five words, five grand, sorry, was given away yesterday. I helped give away the money yesterday. A huge fall from grace. A crushing blow. High highs to the lowest of lows. Just like brutal. Unexpectedly too. We walked into the soundproof booth with an

air of cocky arrogance about him. Like here he is, he's going to win someone else's five grand. I thought I'd get three or four and it did. He emerged with a knowing look on his face and just tanked it. This is my game guys. This is my thing. Enjoy all that on the podcast today.

We've got the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, on the phone right now. Hello, JB's wedding planners. What day were you planning on having your wedding and whereabouts was it going to be? Because that's how everybody answers the phone. We're diversifying now. How are you, Prime Minister? Yeah, not bad. How are you guys. We're diversifying now. How are you, Prime Minister? Yeah, not bad. How are you guys?

We're doing all right. Last time we saw you, you were bringing in a cheeseball dip around Christmas time. Oh, someone's listening to this. You've got your bloody secret. It was suspicious, wasn't it? Yeah, you've got your secret service, GCSB, whatever it is, listening. Everyone wants my recipe. You can't talk about the cheeseball recipe.

I'd never had it before, but it was very delicious. How do you make it? You've never had cheeseball? No. It's cream cheese, it's grated cheese, and it's gherkin, a little bit of onion, and the secret ingredient of tomato sauce. It was delicious.

I couldn't help but feel when you were walking into the Empire Tavern that you had more important things to do that day. But you'd taken the time to make this cheese board and I was like, I really appreciate it. I thought, only in New Zealand. Just for context, it was because the last time I saw the Solomio guys, I promised them I would make them a cheese board at Christmas and then I completely forgot.

And then I saw them that morning and they gave me a very hard time. So I went back to an office kitchen and made a cheese ball and took it to them. Well, if anyone would be forgiven for forgetting to make a cheese ball, I think we can forgive the Prime Minister. True to my word, though. You were, you were. That's why you got back in. That's why New Zealand wanted you back in.

Cheese ball for everyone. Just an idea. I admire what you do for a job. You must have to deal with so much heavy, serious stuff. You're making so many big decisions. What do you do for your own mental health? How do you switch off or what do you do to make yourself get through those tough times? Yeah, and look, in all honesty, I'm not that great at switching off.

And I think probably everyone can be forgiven for that. And so for me it's the little things like if actually it's been a really busy day or you know if it's been a little bit hard to get a decent amount of sleep I just make sure I don't you know spend

too much time reading the comments or reading too many harsh columns. I think just knowing yourself and knowing when you're not in the right headspace to take too much extra on board. So if you read an article about yourself, an opinion piece on the paper, I don't know if you do or not, does it affect you? Oh, no, I'm totally human.

All politicians are, and we are probably actually more sensitive than most people would expect. So yeah, no, no, those things absolutely have an effect. So I think it's just a matter of knowing when that's going to be the case. And just important, you don't always have to read everything. Are you tempted to Google yourself from time to time

just to see what's out there? No. No. Oh, terrible idea. Terrible. No good can come from that, right? If you want to make yourself feel better, always just Google Jono and Ben.

Look at the comments on that one. That'll brighten your day. Now, Jacinda, these COVID cases in Papatauetaui, are we worried? Is Auckland going to go back to level two? And why would you give us that exclusive? I don't know. But I've got to ask you the question.

Oh, I'm totally happy to answer those questions. So as you can imagine, look, every time we get a new case or new information, we'll do an assessment of whether or not that affects where we are or what we're doing. So we do that every time. We had a really good discussion last night with Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, and he'd been speaking to his science advisor and health advisors on the ground in Auckland, and their advice at the moment was just to hold where we are. You know, one of the big things we factor in is do we know where these cases have come from?

Because that gives us a sense of whether or not there's anything undetected that might be happening. This has come from the school. So we know that. That means we use our contact tracing and we keep assessing if we need to change anything. Now, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, we really appreciate your time. We know you've got to go. But before, yesterday on our social media, we put what questions should we ask Jacinda Ardern? And we got a wee message from Jacinda Ardern saying, why do you guys always do pop quizzes?

Why is there always a pop quiz on your show? I thought a legitimate question So we're going to end with a quick quiz A pop quiz This was the risk I thought as soon as I write this These guys are going to do a pop quiz I'm just going to go quickly

This is called the last quiz So the last time you Okay So last TV show you watched Oh my gosh This is terrible If you can't even think of it, that's fine. Fireman Sam. Fireman Sam, it's a good series.

I just need to point out because anyone who doesn't know it's a children's show could think of something very dodgy. Like Magic Mike. Yeah, it is not a Magic Mike situation but it's a children's show. Ladies, Fireman Sam is here. Okay, last dinner, Jacinda Ardern ate.

Oh, last night when I got home, I ate some homemade reheated pizza about 10 o'clock at night. Oh, we were just talking about reheating stuff before. Last time you met or talked to a famous person and thought afterwards, oh, that was pretty cool. The last time I spoke to the Queen, she is amazing. She is just amazing. She called just to check spoke to the Queen, she is amazing. She is just amazing. She called just to check in on New Zealand, which is lovely.

Okay, we'll go two more. I think that every time I talk to her. Two more quickly. Last time you Googled how to do something. How to run the country has never been something that you Googled. I have never Googled how to run a country. How to run a country. How to run a country. I'm sure that will be comforting.

Oh, that's good. And finally, just as an idea, last words for us wrapping up this interview. I don't know if everyone else has heard, there has been a beep on this line the entire time. I know. We've tried to ignore it. Everyone's tried to ignore it.

I'll be calling the Secret service after this phone call. Something's going on. I feel like this phone conversation is about to explode or something. Yeah, we better let you go. Nice catching up with you. Thank you for all you do with the country. Take care. Bye, guys.

Warning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Britain's largest family. I mean, Britain at the moment in the middle of a lockdown that seems to be going on for most of the year. Is this the same family you briefly mentioned yesterday?

Yeah. Have they, so there's not a new largest family? No. Still the same? Just looking into more details about Britain's largest family because we mentioned it yesterday

and they've got a whole TV show about them. So they've got 22 kids, this couple, and 18 of the kids are still living at home. And you look at the photo online and you look at the footage, a lot of the kids are very, very young.

Well, I asked you, I was like, why haven't the top end moved out of the house? And you said, well, no, they're all probably of, you know, early child up to teenage age. I feel like someone needs to educate them on contraception. Well, yeah. Do you think that might be a useful conversation? There's a lot of kids.

All in the middle of lockdown and their poor parents are like, whew, we're struggling a bit right now. Producer Humphrey reached out to them overnight and was like, oh, would you like to come on for an interview? And she's like, how much have you got? Money-wise. And I'm like, well, food-wise, I guess.

Yeah, fair enough. She's got 23 mouths to feed. Yeah. We can send over a food parcel. Here's the show that's on in the UK. Meet the Radfords, Britain's biggest family. I am packing up. It's just chaos. And the babies just keep on coming.

All the time I think I've gone insane. Okay, bye. This time, there's joy with the arrival of baby number 22. Oh, my God. Now, we mentioned it yesterday. We don't have her on the show, by the way, so we didn't pay her. Ben refused to pay her. Put any food on their table.

Put some food on their table, mate. Jeez, producer Humphrey. But anyway. 16 pints of milk and four loaves of bread. They go through every single day. 24 toilet rolls and three tubes of toothpaste per week in the household. I mean, think how long a tube of toothpaste would last you at home. Months. They go through three tubes of toothpaste

in a week and she does, I reckon, four to five loads of washing on an average day, the mum was saying. It's always a sign you've got too many children when you can just vaguely remember their names. Oh, yeah. Don't tell me you're Greg Chantel. That's a lot of kids, especially at Christmas time,

you'd need some pretty stringent rules around present giving. And birthdays? 22 cakes a year? Producer Humphries was saying before, before he callously said no to giving them money. Helping out this struggling family with 22 children. But he was saying, you know, for a birthday, they'd have to buy two cakes.

You wouldn't be able to feed everyone just for one cake, would you? Just for the family alone. She must never have not been pregnant, that lady. It's incredible. So we thought we'd open up the phone lines this morning. What is it about your family that would wow us? Now, maybe it is a lot of people, but maybe it's like something cool about

your family. Maybe they're famous. Maybe they've got a record. Maybe there's some sort of cool connection that your family's got. Maybe your family was the first to do something in New Zealand. Ben famous, maybe they've got a record, maybe there's some sort of cool connection that your family's got. Maybe your family was the first to do something in New Zealand. Ben, I know you've got a lovely story about your whānau. Yeah, my grandparents, they married and then obviously

when they started going out they discovered they had the same birthday, the actual day, different years and the same birthday. So on their birthday, their combined birthday, it was like an Ocean's Eleven sort of heist around Christchurch. They'd know the places. They knew the three places that would give dine for free on your birthday and they would go there every year, breakfast,

and then they went to a different place for lunch. Valentine's was quaking in their seafood buffet booths. Just so they could get three different meals and that was their birthday routine, driving around in the little Datsun orange car that they had. Just ripping off hard-working Christchurch restauranteurs. We go here, we go to the casino, we go to Sequoia 88, we go to Valentine's.

Yeah, it was like their little routine. The round of rip-off. Good on them. So what would wow us about your family? 0800, that hits the telephone number, 4487. Give us a text, love to hear from you too. I grew up on an air base. Yeah, that's pretty well.

Air Force base. Yeah. All I can remember is just an abundance of scrogging. Nuts. Really? Because all the pilots and stuff would just obviously just be given scrogging when they're flying around or on missions and things. And I'd get all the leftover scrogging.

That's my only record. Did you get any cool rides on a plane or anything? Or did you just get lots of scrogging? I remember a cool flying fox. Oh, yeah. I was like, the Air Force is for me. I don't know whenever people from the Air get any cool rides on a plane or anything, or do you just get lots of scrubbing? I remember a cool flying fox. Oh, yeah? I was like, the Air Force is for me. I don't know whenever people from the Air Force need to go on a flying fox.

They've got planes, right? They can fly in planes. I don't even know if it was part of a playground or it was part of their training. So a lot of scrubbing and a pretty good flying fox. Those are my last ones. Can you wow us about your family? Give us a call on New Zealand's Breakfast.

We'll start with you, Brendan Morena. How are you? Good. Good to have you on. Okay, wow us about your family. Give us a call on New Zealand's Breakfast. We'll start with you, Brenda Morena. How are you? Good. Good to have you on. Okay, wow us about your family. My mother is number 13 of 21 children. My grandmother had 27 children all up, six sets of twins.

But none of the extra twin lived. Only one of those twins lived. Back in those days, they didn't have the facilities they have now. She was just pumping them out. 27. Out of the 27 children, 21 of them,

there's only one gap year that she missed. Every other year, she was pregnant. She was prolific. Wow. Wowee. I have myself over 100 first cousins. 100 first cousins? Wow, you have wowed us straight off the bat. That's incredible. Could you remember all of your cousins' names? No. I can remember all my uncle and auntie's names. My grandmother had her first child when she was 14 years old.

Well, that's weird. And that was in 1927. Well, there you go, Brenda. I'm not so sure about the... Oh, well, Brenda, you have wowed us. You've floored us in a lot of ways. Well, I don't know where we can come back to from that one. Brenda's just speaking the truth.

And I guess if you've got 27, you had to start there, I guess. But there's Brenda's. That would be the biggest family in New Zealand. Oh, it would have to be. We're going to send you out something, all right? Yeah. Let's welcome Leanne from Marlborough. Can you try not and talk about 14-year-olds giving birth?

Leanne, welcome. Hello. What would wow us about your family? My family used to have, we don't anymore, we took it out, but we used to have the only privately owned greyhound racing track in the southern hemisphere. The only privately owned... You had a greyhound track?

Private. Yeah, so all the greyhound tracks in New Zealand or wherever in the world are owned by, say, like the Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club or the, you know, a club itself. But we brought one off a club and actually put it up at our home. There you go. That was your backyard.

Everyone wants a greyhound track. You can just run around and run around. Yeah, and we used to get people calling from all over New Zealand asking, oh, can we just, you know, put our dogs around here for a quick train before we head down for a race? And it came like a training facility as well for lots of people. It was really cool.

There you go. It's like being you're built like a greyhound. You can have a run around Leanne's track. Good on you, Leanne. Appreciate it. We'll go to Gabrielle. How's Wellington this morning, Gabby? Good morning.

Well, good to have you on. Wow us about your family. So my uncle went to the World for Monopoly. Oh, the World Monopoly champs. Oh, wow. The prestigious monops. I didn't even know this was a thing. How'd he go?

He got third. Third. Oh, he would have bought all the goodies, Fleet Street. Oh, Mayfair Park Lane. He would have been right in there. Yeah, that's, wow. Yes, but you don't want to play Monopoly with him. I was going to say,

have you ever played Monopoly with him? Because he'd be, yeah. My thing with Monopoly is it drags. It drags. I've played it with the kids. I'm like, let's wrap this up.

It does take a while. There's the new versions that are a lot quicker now because you kind of have to invest and you have to wait. It's almost like getting a house and waiting 30 years for it, you know? Do you play Monopoly, Jew? I play Monopoly wait. It's almost like getting a house and waiting 30 years for it, you know?

You play Monopoly, Ju? I play Monopoly Deal. It's the card version. It is so good. So much better than the board game. I'm Googling now. There's one called Speed Monopoly too. Yeah, there is.

We just rattle on through it. Yeah. Just recklessly buy properties on amphetamines or something. Let's take one more, shall we? Do you want to take one more or are we done? We'll take one more, I think. Yeah, we'll go to Ash. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Ash.

What would wow us about your family? Hi. So my family, they were, like, quite big business people back in Fiji. So all the time, like, I just recently learned about this. So, like, they would, like, hang out with, like, politicians and, like, prime ministers. And my grandfather would show me photos of him standing next to the prime minister of Fiji

very casually. I was like, oh yeah, this is my old drinking buddy. We used to drink together. It's totally not a big deal that you're just drinking with the prime minister. Oh, that is amazing. You come from good stock there, Ash.

Yeah. Have you used it to your advantage? No. I just learned about this like six months ago. Because my aunt was like, hmm, I should just call the Prime Minister and I won't have to do the quarantine thing. Come on, a favor for my granddad. It's your old mate, your drinking buddy.

Oh, Ash, we're going to send you out somewhere. We appreciate your call, all right? No worries. Have a good day. You too, mate. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this.

Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Penn. Breakfast on the heads. The heads. Now, I did something to my wife that she felt very betrayed by. She was very upset with me. You're leading into, you're about to admit,

you're running some sort of... It does say, yeah, the trust is broken. The trust is gone. You've got some big news to deliver. Do I need to get the Herald on this? No, I ended up watching, and I'm sure this happens to other people,

I watched a couple episodes more of a show that apparently was a show that we were watching together. No, this is not as exciting as the other option. And I watched it without her on my own. She found out about it because she came into the room. She's like, what are you doing? This is a show that we watched together. Did you panic?

Oh, and did you try and change channel? Give you some backstory. We have shows at home that, you know, whether you're watching on TV or Netflix or Disney+, you have shows that are your own shows. And so for me, for example, the Michael Jordan, the basketball documentary, The Last Dance. For some reason, Amanda wasn't quite as excited

about 90s basketball as I was. Yeah, no one in the household was interested in that. Now, when you come in here every morning and talk about it, wouldn't he, Juliet? He would. He'd be like, shut up about these basketballers I've never heard of. No one in the household was interested in that. No, when you come in here every morning and talk about it, wouldn't he, Juliet? He would. He'd be like, shut up about these basketballers I've never heard of. Exactly.

So that became a show that I would watch by myself. It was a solo Ben project. That's fine. And then for Amanda, she has a show. Currently she's watching Sons of Anarchy, which does seem like a show that I would enjoy, but I think there's the guy, Charlie Hun, who's the guy on the show, and he's, know, like I feel like she's loving the show.

So I'm like, hey, that's your thing? She's a big fan of motorbikes or just hot dudes. Can't figure out what it is. She's never owned a motorbike, so maybe. But then there was, we started watching the show WandaVision on Disney Plus and I heard lots of great things about the show because it's made by the people that make the Marvel, you know, the Avengers movies and all that sort of stuff.

It's quite an obscure program, isn't it? I've seen it. Yeah, so I watched a couple of episodes of that. If you haven't watched it, it kind of starts, they almost like, they parody other TV shows and other sitcoms. It starts out in black and white with sort of fake laughter and it's almost like a Nightlife Lucy show.

Yeah, 1960s style program. And then it sort of morphs, the next episode sort of morphs into almost like it's Full House where there's all sort of canned laughter and then it gets later. It's almost like modern fantasy. Who pitched that to them? Because you'd be like, what are you on, mate? It's not what you thought when you see or you think Avengers movies,

but there's little things throughout it that kind of throw you out of this world and then you kind of go, oh, well, there's something happening here. But we got a couple of episodes into the show. Amanda was like, oh, that's a bit weird. That's a bit weird. This show's a bit weird. So I thought this was the point that it was no longer. She's dropping off.

There's a show that I could carry on with watching. And so I did. I dug it in and watched it. And I'm loving it. Like, it's really good. Like, you're starting to piece together things. You've got all these theories that I'm reading up online about what's going on.

It's really good when you stick it out. But she came into the room and she's like, well, this was, what are you doing? This was our thing. This is our thing. You just said it was a weird show. Yeah, last night you called it weird. So I continued on with the marathon, left you behind. It's like a marathon. You know, when you binge watching.

Some people get further ahead, other people lag. Yeah, but I felt like I had been busted cheating. I felt like the same sort of... Actually, it would probably be better if you had an affair. Not as disrespectful to the relationship. I did the same with Suits. We were watching Suits together.

That was the show. And I, for some reason, decided to watch on ahead when she wasn't home. And then, but didn't tell her that I'd watched ahead. And then so then I had to re-watch those episodes.

Did you pretend that you hadn't watched? Pretending. And that was almost like, oh, this is a waste of time. You know, because you've seen them. We were like, ooh, ooh. Did you have to put on a bit of an act? Yeah, I'm like, I never thought that she was going to end up marrying Prince Harry and go to the Royal Family.

And then, you know, that's a hell of a twist in suits. And then she would then take Harry away from his family. We haven't gone up to that bit yet. Yeah, no, no. Is that what happens? Yeah, no, so spoiler alert. Oh, right. It all turns to custard for Harry.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Does he come back to the Royal Family in suits? I don't know. That was the cliffhanger of the last season that I watched. Well, listen, Ben,

congratulations. If this is the biggest issue in your marriage, then you're doing pretty well, buddy. That's true. To everyone pulling a sickie today,

you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. I'm going to pitch something here and this might be deemed controversial. Okay, that's never a good way to start a conversation, is it?

Probably lost half the audience there. It's my views on the COVID vaccine. No, no. Food. The next day. A lot of times when you wake up the next morning and you eat the food cold that was previously the night before, hot, it's a lot better. I find food, many foods,

in the food pyramid. You know, your lasagnas. Yeah. Is that in the food pyramid? Yeah, but you may be just... Your hell pizzas. Again, in the food pyramid. Are better the next day. Either cold or reheated.

Now, would you agree with me? Because you're a food person. I know you come into work, a lot of times you'll come in with a cold bowl of spaghetti bolognese or sometimes even tuna, which is controversial, and then heat it up in the communal microwave. There's conversations, but we won't dwell on those. And so you're obviously a fan of next day food. Yes, a spag bol the next day is one I find.

Much like lasagna, for some reason it feels like the flavour's sort of, you have a chance to work together. It's like a working relationship. They get on a lot better the next day. The ingredients get the chance to know each other over 20 minutes. They're like, wow, we're really getting along a lot. Hey, we should blend. Yeah.

I do find that sometimes, you know, like ham at Christmas time. Oh, I do find that sometimes. You know, like ham at Christmas time. Oh, I feel like that. You know, on Christmas Day, it's good. But I find for the next few days afterwards, you know, that ham I took home from the Warriors Lounge that day. Yeah, I took a ham back from a corporate box, Juliet. I asked the guy and he was like, yeah, take it. He literally put a ham in his backpack.

Who puts a leg of ham in a backpack? I commend you, eh? It was the first time I've even been to a corporate box, and I was the last to leave. What did you do when you came home? You just pulled this ham out of your backpack. Put it in the fridge. Hunter Gatherer has returned with a leg of ham in a Toy Story backpack.

Provide for my family. Don't tell me I don't give you anything, kids. And that ham for the next couple of days was good. Yeah. You know, there is a point. I mean, my mum, we talked about this. She was January 8th. She was still having a go at the Christmas ham.

I was like, mum. Oh, the boomers love pushing out the Christmas ham. And they've got those weird ham bags. You know the ham bags that you soak in vinegar or something? They smell putrid by the end of it. So what we want to open up, next day food. What food is better the next day? And we'll judge if it is.

I'm going to throw it out there again. Chinese. Love Chinese. You have it the night before. It's great. The next day, for some reason, you feel the need to chuck all nine dishes in the same bowl. Oh, it's good though, isn't it? Put it in the microwave and mash it round like you're just eating every part of the Chinese cuisine in one meal.

And it's good. It's better than the night before. All right. What food is better the next day? Whether it's meal, and it's good. It's better than the night before. All right, what food is better the next day, whether it's cold, whether it's reheated? We'd love to hear from you. We're here to talk to Carla Morena. Hello. We're talking next day food.

What's better the next day? Well, we think boiler, merry boiler, like pork bone, always better the next day. Yeah, once again, those flavours just seeping in, right? Yeah, and it's not a very good potato. I do appreciate that not everyone would like it, but very nice. I find that some of the soup is similar,

you know, the next day, you know? Oh, yeah. You put a soup on the pot, a veggie soup over, you turn it back on again the next day. Oh, cold lettuce, that's just good too. Yeah, or cold snail.

Oh, garlic. Get out of here. Now, with your pork bone boil up, how far do you push that out? How many days can you run the gauntlet on that? Oh, no, you'd only go the next day probably. Yeah, I wouldn't go any further. A dear friend and colleague, Ricardo, who I used to work with,

he would bring pizza in and he would reheat it. And I know we have dear partners, Hell Pizza, but this pizza ended up smelling like hell. Like he... Not the good... Not the good type of hell pizza. I was like, how old is that pizza? He's like, oh, four or five days.

That's pushing the limit. That is pushing the limit. But he had guts of an Ironman, that guy. Could eat anything. Hey, Carl, I'm going to go see you at some hell pizza, all right? That'd be wonderful. Thank you. I love your work. Russell, welcome from Auckland. Next day food. What's better the next day?

I enjoy myself a very, very cool hot curry. And what I find is the next day you make yourself some bacon and eggs on toast and you sprinkle your curry sauce. We left the curry sauce on the night before. I'll tell you something now. That's one way of kick-starting your day into perfection. Well, kick-starting your day. Perfection.

Tell you what, you're really getting your pound of flesh out of that curry, aren't you? Definitely. No, someone's also texted in regards to pizza saying, next day pizza's an interesting one because it's almost like it reverses texture. Because you start with a relatively hard crust the night before and soft ingredients, but overnight the crust turns soft and the ingredients turn hard. Confusing your palate. Yeah, but bam, we're right.

Maybe that's the joy of switching things up. Georgia, you're on, morena. Morena. Let's talk next day food, Georgia. Oh, love a bit of KFC. Oh, yes. It's almost like the fridge has sapped up that thick layer of grease. Hasn't it?

It's absorbed it. Cold KFC, yeah, you can't go past it? It's absorbed it. Cold KFC, yeah, you can't go past it. Again, you could open up, KFC could do a cold range. The next morning, go in there and you've got the stuff from last night. We left this in the

fridge overnight in the kitchen. Now you can buy it. I'll pay for that, yeah. That's great. We'll go to Martin from Christchurch. How are you, Martin? Not too bad, yeah. That's great. We'll go to Martin from Christchurch. How are you, Martin? Not too bad, guys. Yourself? Yeah, good, buddy.

Lovely to talk with you. Next day, food? Well, for my son, Caleb, he reckons lasagna. He can have that three, four days afterwards. Oh, three, four days? Oh, wow, he's like Ben's mum. He's really... Yeah.

Three or four days? Or else you're just eating a lump of lard, I suppose. Yeah. It definitely feels like, but you're right, the flavours sort of seep in with the spag bol lasagnas. We're talking about that. That's a great show. I think that's actually how the Italians wanted us to eat the dish.

Three days later. Reheat in a microwave. In a microwave. That's how they planned it. For me, it's got to be that last deluxe. The next day is always beautiful, of course. Yeah, good on you, Martin. You have a great day. You too, cheers. All right, we've got time for one more? Yeah, let's got to be that last deluxe. The next day is always beautiful, of course. Yeah, good on you, Martin. You have a great day.

You too, cheers. All right, we've got time for one more? Yeah, let's do one more. Hey, Quinton, you're on from Riverton. How's Riverton this morning? Oh, you know, quite nice. Yeah, lovely part of New Zealand. We're talking next day food.

I've got a Christmas pavlova. It firms up, doesn't it, the pav? Yeah, yeah. Yeah firms up, doesn't it, the Pav? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, yeah. But the problem is when no one's around, you open the fridge and you've just got a spoon, you're just diving straight in. Just keep going, like, double-dipping the spoon,

hoping you're not going to get caught. Well, thank you, Quinton. Appreciate that. We'll send you out some hell pizza as well, all right, my friend? So it is. Do you also make the fatal mistake, too, of, like, you feel obliged to put food in the fridge?

Oh, put some wrap over it, put it in the fridge and sometimes it just inevitably sits there for three days and you throw it out. That can happen. It can happen. It's like,

will you eat it the next day? And then you're like, yes, I will. And I never do. I never do. And it always comes back to bite me. She's like, look what I'm throwing out

three days later. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Now, I said just before that we have a new addition

to the Pryor household. It's a saxophone. My son Oscar, he's taken on board a saxophone, which seems like a lot of instruments for a young child, doesn't it, a saxophone?

What? That was him playing it. Not bad. That was day two. It's not too bad. What amazes me is the way that he got into it. It wasn't like it's... He got given it by the school, like, with no real choice.

It was just like, you get the saxophone, you get the... You look at those lips, look like they could play a sax. You play the sax, and they kind of designate instruments to them. But no, they don't give you the sax. We've got to go and... We've rented the sax. We've taken out an insurance cover on the saxophone. Because imagine they're quite expensive.

I wouldn't trust myself to carry around a saxophone. No. But his main goal is to learn the theme to The Simpsons. That's his main... Oh, that's cool. But it's always interesting, you know, because Poppy, my daughter, she's learning the ukulele too. And so I had to go into the music shop.

And it's always quite, I get anxiety because I'm like, I don't play any instruments. So I walk into the music shop and, you know, sort of engage in music conversation. And he's like, oh, I'll just get this ukulele. He's like, oh, it's a good uke. I said, it's a great uke. And he's like, do you want me to tune it for you? I was like, no, no, it's good. He's like, do you know how to tune it? I was like, yeah, I'll just get this ukulele. He's like, oh, it's a good uke. I said, it's a great uke. And he's like, do you want me to tune it for you?

I was like, no, no, it's good. He's like, do you know how to tune it? I was like, yeah, I can tune it. And he's like, oh, well, I've got this tuning device here. You can just do it now. And I was like, oh, dear God. I've never tuned it. He's like, give it a shred.

And then I had to pretend to... You knew what you were doing. I knew what I was doing. I had no idea what I was doing tuning this ukulele I just blatantly lied to this guy and then I had to give I was like

listen I lied he's like yeah I know you lied I called you out on that because you called it a uke trying to sound cool we got a piano at home I've been talking about

you know we got given a free piano and I was like wow this is awesome you know someone's given away a piano the idiots and then you have it in the lounge

and the kids, they have their friends over and then... One of my daughters is actually learning piano and actually play quite well, but when there's kids en masse in the piano, it's like they don't know what they're doing. It's just a constant wall of noise. I'm always thinking, look at Beethoven. He had a pretty good career, didn't he?

Beethoven? No, he did, yeah. He would have had shaky years Learning the piano Beethoven shut up With that incessant piano noise The free piano in the corner of the lounge I do admire kids for learning instruments It's something I wish I always had done

I'm with you I guess there's nothing stopping us Now learning instruments Except I just can't be bothered. Yeah, it feels like that ship has sailed in some way. And I've never learned how to sail a ship, so that's again, that ship has literally sailed. But I love one of my daughters, Sienna,

she's so good at just trying stuff. I really admire that. She's like, I'm signing up for this. Even last night, I was putting her to bed and stuff and I was like, oh, what's on tomorrow at school? And she's like, softball trials. I was like, oh, softball. Have you ever played And she's like, softball trials. I was like, oh, softball. Have you ever played softball?

Nope. Do you know how it works? Nope. And then I was like, oh, okay. All right, well, we vaguely went to a baseball game once. You remember how that was? Oh, I remember the hot dogs. I was like, okay, right.

And so- That's the important part of softball. You could have mentioned this any time of the afternoon. We could have watched something online. We could have- So I was with a pillow trying to go, oh, this is kind of how it works. You hit and you run. We could have, as I was with a pillow trying to go, oh, this is kind of how it works. You hit and you run. Oh, anyway.

You went to an aggravating touch rugby tournament, didn't you? Same thing. She had signed up to touch rugby. She was having a great time and they were doing TikTok dances on their iPad and all sorts. I was like, guys, focus, focus. Again, they sign up, they just give it a crack and it's awesome. It's all about the fun. Do you play an instrument, Juliet? No, I used

to be a trumpeter back in primary school and then I learnt the drums just because Justin Bieber was really good at them when I was in my peak. That's a good reason to learn the drums. I was like, I want to, you know, when he marries me, I kind of need to have something in common with him. Oh, yeah, okay. What, the drumming couple?

Come over to your house and play a drum. I'm not even joking. That's why I learnt when I was about 14 years old. You thought he was going to, now this is a great thought process of a 14-year-old. He's going to fall in love with me because I can kind of play the drums like him. Yeah, exactly.

And that's terrible. I have no musical ability, so. But you play the trumpet and, you know, full respect to the Kenny G's of this world have been blown away for years and we don't pay enough homage to those lips, do we? They make it sound good, doesn do we? They make it sound good as it looks. They make it sound easy, but it's not that easy,

is it? No, it's not that easy. Neither is finishing the sports break. I've been trying to find an out for the last two minutes. That wasn't it, but we're going to wrap it up there. Yeah, yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. The home of yeah, no. 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. It is our game of word association, a game where we put $5,000 on the line in a game that was won yesterday. So let's see if we can do it two days in a row. I tell you what, we're starting to hand out more money

than a lending facility, although we don't charge you high interest rates to pay it back to us. And we would like to welcome to the program from Hamilton, Morena Ashley. Morning, guys. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well. It's lovely to have you on, Ash. You heard Teddy winning yesterday from Wellington? Yes, that was amazing. Tabby, wasn't it?

No, Teddy's Laura McGoldrick's new baby. Yeah. You heard that sweet little baby win $5,000 yesterday? Amazing. Tabby, wasn't it? No, where did I get... Teddy's Laura McGoldrick's new baby. Yeah. You heard that sweet little baby win $5,000 yesterday? No, Tabby, that's right, yes. But congratulations to Laura and Marty Guptill too. You haven't won $5,000, I need to make that clear. But Ashley, we've never had two days in a row, but you could be the first.

All fingers crossed. Yeah, no, that'd be wonderful. You need to make a decision now. Do you choose schmuckpants Jono or Safe Pair of Hands money-winning Ben? I'm going to try Ben since he won yesterday. And that is the safe bet. You're the people's champion, my friend. Get in that soundproof booth.

He's making his way over to the corner of the studio. If this is the first time you've heard five words 5K, we do actually lock ourselves in the soundproof booth. He can hear nothing in there. And also doubles as Juliet's office after the show. I've seen you working in there, producer Juliet. It's a great little office in there. Really good.

It's really antisocial, though, when you kind of feel like, I'd rather be locked in a booth and not talk to you than... Great for efficiency, though. When I want to get work done, no one can disturb me. That's great. Well, the important thing is Ben can't hear us right now and Ashley, you know how it works. I'm going to list five words. You've got to come up with

the first word in your head, okay? Okay, sounds good. Word number one. Text. Text was it? T-E-X-T Phone. Cappuccino. Coffee.

Leonardo. DiCaprio. Extension. Court. And bus. Stop. Jeez, you're rattling them off too quick. I can't type fast enough.

Sorry, do you want me to just chuck a few words in there? Yeah, just give me like three seconds. My typing's very slow. I'm just one finger at a time. Sorry. Good on you, Ashley. You've locked in your five words. Are you completely happy with all of them

before we get back to Ben? Yes, yep, happy enough. Solid bunch of words, solid answering. Well played, Ashley. We'll bring Ben out of the yep. Happy enough. Solid bunch of words. Solid answering. Well played, Ashley. We'll bring Ben out of the sound. Poof, poof. Here he comes,

emerging. Emerging. You look relaxed. You went in there looking tense, but you've come out looking like a day spa in there.

I wasn't in there for a while. No, Ashley was, she fired them out. Too quick. I couldn't keep up typing down her answers. Oh, I like that.

That's a good game. It's a fast game. Should we go fast? My typing didn't like it though. Just so you remember what Ashley said. Showed me up for my inferior typing. Okay, Ashley, have you got any final words for Ben? Just, yep, good luck.

Just be fast like I was. Okay, so just try not to overthink it. Just go fast. Okay, here we go. This is a time in life when you want to be fast, Ben. There's other times when people wanted you to go slower. Right, okay. And we must remind, too, timely reminder about the careless whisper, Ashley.

If you whisper any of your answers, George Michael's 1984 smash hits. The saxophone-fueled careless whisper will begin playing and you'll be ejected from the game, okay? Okay, no problem. Okay, here we go. First word. Text.

Message. Oh, fuck. Oh, son. What? Hot off a win yesterday. Straight on to a first word loss today. What? What was that?

From the high highs to the low lows. Are you joking? Are you joking? What did you say, Ash? I said phone. Text phone. That's what you text on, Ben. But also message was actually probably...

Yeah. Oh, I went fast and it was not a good idea. I'm so sorry. Should we rattle through the others then? Cappuccino. Coffee. Leonardo. DiCaprio.

Extension. Court. Bus. Ticket. Oh, three out of five. Ashley, you went stopped, didn't you, on bus? extension cord bus ticket ooh three out of five Ashley you went stop

didn't you on bus yeah I did oh listen well I thought you played well Ash turns out thank you yeah if you want my IMO

sorry mate and we'll see if Ben gets chosen again tomorrow probably not after that performance from hero to zero straight off the bat I was waiting for the ding sound effect and it was like...

It came out all cocky and arrogant, fresh off a win, bounced out of the soundproof booth. Oh, humbling, humbling experience. Good on you, Ashley. Thanks so much for listening. You're going to have a wonderful Wednesday. Thanks, guys. All right, sorry about that.

It's back again tomorrow, 7.45. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. All right, straight from her computer screen into her brain and out of her mouth

comes the latest in celebrity news from the internet. Juliet, what have we got, Spy? Gwyneth Paltrow reckons she started the face mask trend when the pandemic started. Oh, the popular face mask trend. I'm not even kidding. Is she? What? Is she serious?

Well, okay. So basically she was interviewed by New York Times and they brought up the fact that back in February 2020, so about a year ago, she posted a photo on Instagram of her wearing a face mask on a plane. And this was before America had required face masks to be worn and that had sort of been before it had been

indicated that it helped stop the spread of the virus. And so she was talking to the New York Times about this. And she said, this is a familiar pattern in my life. I do something early. Everyone's like, what is she doing? She's insane. And then it's soon adopted by the culture. That's interesting because the internet would say

the 1960s invented the face mask. Doctors and nurses, they've been doing it for a while now. Yeah. Michael Jackson wore a face mask as well, wasn't he, for many years? Jackson, he was a pioneer of the face mask. Batman has run a face mask. But his is not so good for COVID because the area that he has uncovered

is the one that you really want covered. But, you know, Spider-Man's probably a bit better for COVID protection, I would imagine. There's been many great mask wearers over the game, but hey, Gwen's coming to the... Oh, just get back to making your vajandals. Yeah.

Vajandals. That's what they should have been called. They should be called those candles. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, she's doing really well with her business, isnandals. Yeah. Vajandals. That's what they should have been called. They should be called those candles. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, she's doing really well with her business, isn't she? Good. It's cool.

Yeah, she's selling all kinds of products. So it's like a lifestyle website, isn't it? Yeah, lifestyle website and business that's doing very well for her. And she sells something that looks like a microphone. Didn't they last week? We're like, oh, that looks like a microphone. We should get one for the radio studio. But you told us it wasn't a microphone.

No, it's not quite a microphone. Not quite. one for the radio studio. But you told us it wasn't a microphone. No, it's not quite a microphone. Not quite. Give us the surround sound we needed. No. And Halle Berry, actress Halle Berry, she revealed that her very first kiss was with her best girlfriend. And this was the reason why. Because I had this boyfriend named Sean Boy.

And I wanted to French kiss him. I didn't know how to French kiss. So I got my best girlfriend at the time to show me how to French kiss, so that I could French kiss him. I didn't know how to French kiss so I got my best girlfriend at the time to show me how to French kiss so that I could French kiss him. True story. So she came over to my house and kissed me for like 30 minutes. Literally showed me how to French kiss a boy. Where is she now?

And then the next night I went and I French kissed my son. Isn't that quite a good technique? Did you hit the music behind? No, no, that was already on. Oh, that was already in there? Oh yeah. 30 minutes quite a good technique? Did you add the music behind? No, no, that was already on. Oh, that was already in there? Oh, yeah. Bang, ticka-tang. 30 minutes is a good practice session.

She should have come up for air, wouldn't you? 30 minutes. That is a big session. I mean, you talked about Winslet holding her breath underwater for seven and a half minutes. Okay, Winslet, that's so there. What did you practice on? Oh, I would have been, back in the day,

your mirror probably was a thing. Jenny Boyce comes in, why are you lipping marks all over the mirror? I don't know, Mum.

Get out of here. Nothing? It's a knock first you can imagine. I can imagine a lot of

explaining to do when someone walks in the room and you're licking a mirror. I was dirty, I was just cleaning with my tongue.

And I vouch for you. Thank God you did that mirror practice because you're very good. Thank you, thank you. That's good. And it's five and we're weakening

to the hits. Don't call it NZ. Ben's going to head to the toilets, clean the mirrors. That's what I'm going to do. Broadcasting live and mostly awake.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. When I first saw you. It's Love Story, Taylor's version, the brand new version of that song that Taylor Swift has re-recorded and that song has already gone to number one

on the country music charts in America. Her first debut, number one. The rest of her songs have got to number one but haven't debuted at number one. So there you go, she's re-recorded that and it's already a number one hit. You've been to a Taylor Swift concert. Can you notice any difference in that song?

I feel like there's a bit more violin and stuff in the background, musically and stuff. I can definitely tell a difference in her voice. She sounds a lot more mature and not as young, you know, if you compare it to the old Love Story. All right, so she's developed and chucked some more violins in there. I feel, but I'm not musical, so I haven't really compared it. I just thought maybe I'll listen back to the original and go,

oh, no, there was violin in there the whole time. Hey, yesterday we got to see something, and I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth because it was very generous that they included me on this. But, Ben, you got a package. Yeah. And I got a package and then I opened the package and it

was a hair product and I couldn't help but see the irony in this you laughed, you smiled I know because I opened my package first and it had two little bits of hair product and I'm like oh that's great, Jono's going to open this and then you just like, you kind of, you smiled

and you're like here's your package, open it and he was like smiling, I could's great. Jono's going to open this. And then you just like, you kind of, you smiled and I would and you're like, here's your pack, open it. And he was like smiling. I could see the smugness in his face. So, you know, I had no use for it, obviously. So I gifted it to producer Humphrey, whose hair is looking magnificent right now. But the advantages of being bald is you save money. You save at least $8 to $12 a year on hair product.

And time in the morning too, I imagine. A lot of people spend a lot of time getting their hair sorted in the morning. Listen, I appreciate the gesture. It was lovely of them, but it's like giving a bike to someone with no legs. There's no use for it. No use. I could put it on my armpits.

I could have the most styled armpit hair. But then maybe they didn't want you to miss out. They're like, oh yeah, mate, you can play the game too. Just rub it on? Does he, I've always used my hand, I remember when I did use it, it would leave your hands quite sticky afterwards.

Yeah, but you can wash your hands. Oh, is that an option? Yeah, like that's what I do. Like I do my hair, then I wash my hands and then you're fine. Because you are in the bathroom when you do it, so you're right by the tap.

Yeah, no, I never saw that as an option. Yeah, that was, I'd never go away from the bathroom and go, Jesus, what do I do now with this? I'm always like, I like it. You're the stickiest hands ever. You shared something before which I found interesting about your teeth brushing technique. Julian and myself, we're both brushing of the teeth in the shower,

which my wife finds very extraordinary. Yeah, look, I get it that you're brushing in the shower, but yeah, I would always wait till after breakfast. You brush up, so you shower, coffee, breakfast, then your teeth? At the moment I just get straight up, straight up, have a coffee and eat some breakfast and then have a shower,

get dressed and brush my teeth. So you're kind of going out the door with, you know. Oh, the minty fresh breath. But you're brushing your teeth in wild locations. He's brushing, you notice how much he brushes his teeth too? Oh yeah, you do, don't you? I do. I get food stuck in my teeth. But I don't actually do it without toothpaste, though.

Yeah, well... Sometimes you just brush for the... Just to get the food out of the... Yeah. A raw brush. Yeah. He brushes his teeth in the traffic, in the elevator, in the toilets. It is a bit weird when you're sort of walking around the office brushing your teeth.

People are like, what's he doing? Matthew, you're in good company. Matthew McConaughey does the same. All right. All right, all right, all right. He's a brush... I've seen pap photos of him brushing his teeth in peak hour traffic.

Every time he's in my car, I'm like, oh, can you not brush your... Do your ablutions in the bathroom. Yeah, no, for real. Well, go wash your hands for God's sakes. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shona and Ben, breakfast on the hits.

Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the Beeping News. Yeah, this is the Beeping News and we must thank respected newsreader and journalist Rachel Jackson-Lees for lowering her standards to be part of our show. And Juliette, you've taken some headlines from around the world and censored them. You've done more censoring than an episode of Police 10-7, and we need to figure out what they are. That's exactly right. And your first news story?

Animal Shelter offers **** to anyone who adopts a puppy. Oh, what are they offering? I'm going to say offering a free cat for anyone who adopts a puppy. Okay. Because cats and dogs, they always get along. In fact, your cat and dog do get along. They actually do get along. They're little buddies. You can make a movie about that. Little play fights and stuff like that around the along. In fact, your cat and dog do get along. They actually do get along. They're little buddies.

You can make a movie about that. Little play fights and stuff like that around the house. It's quite cute. I reckon the Animal Shelter's offering free pun names for the dogs. Oh, that'd be good. Maybe like Bark Walberg or Sarah Jessica Barker or Brad Pitbull. That sort of thing is your dog's name. That's what I'm hoping it is.

I love that. Animal Shelter offers pre-rolled cannabis joints to anyone who adopts a puppy. Okay, I wouldn't have got that. Obviously, this is in a state in America where cannabis is legal, so if you enjoy that and you want an animal, it's probably an incentive to go and adopt a dog rather than shop from a breeder. It feels like an on-the-spot purchase you would do after smoking one of those. So you probably need it before the puppy purchase, not after.

Or maybe you buy the puppy and you're like, oh God, what have I done? Oh, then I can have this now and relax. And they've branded it Pups and Prud' Rolls is their advertising campaign. Very, very unusual. There were puppies in the office yesterday. Geez, they're not great for productivity, are they, puppies? No. They're adorable.

There were two golden retrievers, were they? Yes, golden retrievers. Oh, my God, they were cute. Very cute. Everyone's Instagram was all filled up with puppy photos. Did your Instagram get filled up with puppy photos? Absolutely. Mine was absolutely up on the gram.

I could have eaten those dogs. They were so cute. Oh, no. Okay, moving on. The next one. If you die from the COVID vaccine in Japan, government will give your family... I reckon they're giving them a place in the heats

at the 100-metre Olympic final. They're desperate to feel safe. Hey, if you get the vaccine and things go wrong, you can get a spot in the heats for the 100 metres if the Olympics happens. I'm going to say Japan government's giving them free masks saying, my family was severely affected by COVID-19 and all I got was this free mask. Well, a little bit better than that. If you die from the COVID vaccine in Japan, government will give your family over 44 million yen.

Now, that sounds a lot. 44 million yen equates to about 600,000 New Zealand dollars, which is actually still a decent chunk of money. And it's kind of in place to convince people to get the vaccination, to say, you know, it's completely safe. Oh, so the government really literally... Wow, that's awesome. I know, very good.

It's almost like if you've got an older feminist. Almost. 600 grand. Yeah. 600 grand. That's a lot, yeah. If you're like, oh, you know, you're 98 now, you've had a great run,

you could take a hit here for the team, we get 600K. It would be a conversation you'd have to have. And you wouldn't force it on them you'd be like hey this is your choice but just so you know you could knock a decent chunk off our mortgage yeah that's I mean that's a good play and the final one Scottish woman

bit off man's s*** in a street brawl then a seagull swooped down and ate it listen I'm going to say Scottish woman bit off a man's mountain credit card debt and a seagull swiped down and took it away and that's how you get yourself out of financial strife these days.

Oh, that's so bad. Took a crunch out of that. I'm actually going to go serious this one. I'm going to guess finger. All right, I'm guessing she bit off the finger and the seagull ate it because it looks kind of like a hot chip, I imagine, on the ground. So that's what I'm actually going to go with. With the blood, it looked like tomato sauce.

Oh, yeah. Scottish woman bit off man's tongue in a street brawl. Then a seagull swooped down and ate it. Now, it's a very bizarre headline. And when I was reading the story, there were strangers. They got into a fight. And it was like a physical fight. And then all of a sudden, she goes in to kiss him.

And he's like, what the heck is going on? And that's when she bites off his tongue. Yeah, because how does that happen? I was going to say, who fights with their tongue hanging out? I know. Like a lizard, maybe. So that was a good tactic from her as well.

Like we're fighting, oh now we're hooking up. What is this? Oh my tongue is gone. Great play. And now his tongue is permanently disfigured or whatever the word is, and he can't really get it back because obviously the seagull ate it. I can't imagine there's too many tongue donors out there.

No. Not out there. Oh, that's right. With fighting, too. I watch boxing and UFC and stuff, and I'm always like, you know, it's tickling an option. It's a good play. No one likes being tickled. You know, you could have the hardest fighter in the world. UFC and stuff and I'm always like you know it's tickling an option it's a good play it's a great

no one likes being tickled you know you could have the hardest fighter in the world if they're ticklish yeah I guess and if you come in with a tickle

it's just game over yeah much like this unorthodox fighting move yeah it was a tight yeah I haven't seen that in UFC no

no not at all and that's the news and beeps thank you very much producer Juliet want more Jono and Ben you can catch upget and Juliet. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram.

Scrolling through your feed. All right, here is the news. And by the news, I mean two stories we consider not too heavy or complicated. And we're leading with some pretty awesome news here at The Hits. It's amazing news. Laura McGoldrick, who you know from the 3pm pick-up, and her husband Marty Guptill from the Black Caps, they had their second baby, which is awesome.

Oh, how cool is that? What's the baby's name? The baby's name is Theodore James Guptill, or Teddy for short. Teddy Guptill. Teddy Guptill's a great name. Oh, that's a great name. Teddy Guptill. TG.

Oh, good option. Great nickname options. Definitely going to be representing New Zealand in something. Yeah. That's wonderful. I heard a bit of the interview that you were playing before the show that she did with Hilary Barry on the 3pm pick-up yesterday. And she mentioned how nice the baby smells.

And boy, babies smell nice. They do smell awesome, eh? Tell you what, if you could go around smelling babies and it wasn't weird, I would definitely do it. Wouldn't it be nice if that smell

sort of kept with you? Like, if you could have that smell, that would be... I don't know what it is. Have you smelled a baby recently, Juliet? Not recently,

but I think I... It's a weird conversation, but I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, I'm almost like, Laura, bring your baby and let's... Can I have a sniff?

Yeah. It smells... They just smell amazing. Is it the... Mustela, the... I don't know have a sniff? Yeah. It smells, yeah. They just smell amazing. Is it the Mustela? I don't know. I don't know what it is. Babies. Jeez, they smell.

You could use it as a cologne. You smell like a baby. Thank you. But here is Laura McGoldrick talking yesterday to Hilary Barry on the 3pm Pickup. Describe him for us. His little fingers. Is he little podgy? Has he got hair?

He's got really big feet. And he's long. He's got really big feet and he's long. He's got blue eyes and he's got very, very dark hair and this bit with him is so sweet. She was holding him and he started to get a bit scratchy and she pulled up her top and said, Mummy, should I feed him?

And it was the most beautiful thing. Oh, that's beautiful, isn't it? So, yeah, congratulations to Laura and much love from all of us here at the Hits It sounds like little Harley's looking after her

brother there which is wonderful a new addition to the Hits family Yeah which means remember we offered our babysitting services

that was our only gift We did they haven't I knew it's new it's happened they may call on us at some stage

Well they might not after I said I'll probably smell the baby they might be like actually we'll keep that guy away. Yeah. And yesterday in the UK, a man had been texting various ladies, you know, like a bit of flirting over text. And he decided he'd been to the gym and decided to send a bit of a photo

looking a bit ripped after the gym to a couple of ladies. Much like you do to me. Oh, there's Ben looking ripped again. But he accidentally set up a group chat and for all the women, 60 women too, apparently. He's got 60 women all the way. And he sent them the same photo

all under the group chat at the same time. He later apologised, but it was too late. They'd all seen that I'd be part of the group chat. 60 too, because you'd count through and it'd be like, 60? It's not like six. Even six is too many. 60 too, because you'd count through and it'd be like, 60? It's not like six.

Even six is too many. Julia, what would you do if you were one of those ladies? I would get all of their numbers and make a new group chat just with the ladies and make a plan to troll him back

in the group chat. That's what I would do. Yeah, nice. That's the, producer Humphrey was telling us a wonderful story about a dear friend

of his in the UK who was the client of a certain individual salaring, you know, products that would be sort of frowned upon in the eyes of the law. Yeah, products that would be sniffed. Not a baby. You can sniff this and babies. And anyway, the proprietor in question sent out a WhatsApp message thinking individually he was sending these out saying, hey, just so you know, I'm going on annual leave. I

mean, those guys need annual leave. They work hard. They need some time out. Just so you know, I'm going on annual leave. So if you want any supplies, please stock up this weekend. Now, the problem was he sent it to 100 people, and all of their personal details and numbers were on. He created a group chat, and everyone one by one started slowly leaving the group chat. Well, Denise has now left the group chat. Teddy has left the group chat. I don't know why Laura's new baby left the group chat.

It was the first day that popped into my head. But there you go. That's your friendly neighbourhood drug dealer for you. Scrolling through your feed this morning. 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. We do this every day on the show.

We like to learn about every place in New Zealand. And so we call a different town or city. And today we're in the Alms still, aren't we? Lyttelton. Lyttelton. Beautiful part of Christchurch. Lyttelton was, in fact, did you know the landing site for the first of the settler ships from England? I didn't know that.

I think it was a beautiful harbour there, right? Beautiful harbour. One of the most beautiful sights of Christchurch. Just as beautiful as Gary McCormack's big smile. Why are you greasing up to him there after all the slander? What do you mean all the slander? Oh mate, so much slander from you. Yeah.

Nothing but positive comments. Okay. He has a beautiful smile, Gary McCormack. And it's amazing to think just how much online shopping and illegal online shopping has arrived through the port of Littleton. Oh, yeah. He has a beautiful smile, Gary McCormick. And it's amazing to think just how much online shopping and illegal online shopping has arrived through the port of Lyttelton. Oh, yeah.

Amazing to think. Now, Lyttelton Harbour has been home to Māori, too, for 700 years. That's a long time. Wow. That's a long time. We're going to go through

to the bakery, which you're a big fan of, Juliette. Yes, delicious food. Delicious food. Hopefully they're up making cakes. Glamour Cakes, Lyttelton Bakery,'re up baking cakes. Glamour Cakes, Littleton Bakery Bree speaking. Hello, Glamour Cakes, Littleton Bakery Bree speaking.

It's Jono and Ben from The Hits speaking. Oh, stop it, guys. What's happening? How's the cake game this morning? You'd never believe it, but it's booming. Oh, nice. Glamour Cakes. How glamorous are the cakes?

Oh, it's all about the donuts. And if I can tell you something about the doughnuts, they are OTT. Are they too much? They are some for now, some for later. So it's the best of both worlds. Eat half now, then you can take some home and eat some later. A friend of mine came over in the weekend. We had a few people around, and she bought doughnuts.

And she was like, I just want eight doughnuts. And they were like, well, it's cheaper to buy 12 at the place. And so she was like, she was like, all right, well, charge me for that. And then walks out and goes, hey, you've got four more donuts. She's like, I don't actually want the four more donuts, but I'm happy to pay for the cheaper price. Did they burden her with the extra four? No, they burdened us.

And then we got ants the day after because one of the kids left the box open on the bench. Anyway, you don't want to hear about my donut situation. Hi, sharing is caring. Hey, Bree, when did you get into baking? I started baking about 10 years ago, actually. Finished school, had no idea what I wanted to do, and then I was just like, hey, how about I give baking a go?

Because then you get your certificate, you earn while you learn, and then I was like, oh, if I decide to finish, I want to do something else. I could totally travel with that and go anywhere with it. So that's kind of what got me into it. And then I got a little bit creative by the time I finished my apprenticeship. And then I started sort of doing like cheesecakes and donuts. And then it sort of pinned into a bit of a business opportunity.

And then before I knew it, I was running my own business. And I was like, woohoo! Hey, that is a, what a great story. I see a photo of you here on Valentine's Day. You've got a bouquet of roses, but the roses are just made up of donuts. Oh, yes. Every girl's dream. Well, it is for me anyway, because I love snacks.

That is incredible. And so are these family recipes you go off or you just ad-lib them and make them up as you go? I'm a bit of an ad-libber. Just make it up as I go. And then if it works, it works. If it doesn't, I can say, well, I tried that. Moving on to the next swing. You must have tried some shocking pie combinations

that didn't work out for you. Oh, the most interesting one we probably have here that's hit and miss, people either love it or hate it, is a steak, curry and rice. Oh, all together? Yeah. Some people love the pack of the punch,

you know, that curry and the rice and then other people are just like, oh no, that sounds terrible. So tell us about Littleton. Littleton is such a vibey little place. It's such a nice, sweet spot. It's definitely changed a little bit post-earthquake. A lot of the buildings and stuff were lost from the earthquake and fell down,

but it's quite cool with what Littleton has done with itself over the last 10 years, and, like, people have been getting amongst opportunities with the markets. And, like, on a Saturday, honestly, it's such a beautiful spot to come over to because we have the market up on London Street. The whole place shuts down. It's so busy. Like, people come to get their fresh produce. And then there's all the cute little knickknacks and stuff, too.

It's just such a fun wee spot. And then, of course, the harbour. So pretty. You've got all of the bays that you can go down to and have a wee picnic grab your donuts, go down have a swim. Alright now Brie ten years since the Christchurch earthquake this week as

well. I know. Crazy how time has gone by that far. Were you based in Lyttelton at the time of the earthquake? Yeah I was actually here when the big earthquake happened in the bakery, crazily enough. Jeez, you must have been panicking. It was a little bit frightening. The oven started moving towards me and then I kind of got jammed in the back of the bakery

and I was like, oh gosh, right, need to get out. This is a bit of an emergency situation. Oh my goodness. So you were saying obviously Lyttelton, I'm sorry, excuse my ignorance, but the buildings in Lyttelton were quite affected, like cross-stretch CBD as well. Yeah, it was really, really bad. Quite a lot of buildings had to be pulled down after that. Our bakery was one of those included in the building.

Oh, jeez. But it's just so many people had that can-do spirit after it. And they were just like, you know what? This is not going to defeat us. And we're just going to keep going and see what we can do with the situation at hand. And so many people just like started doing little pop-up businesses. We got amongst a container situation as well and we just worked out of a container for four years until we could rebuild. But so many people did that too and it was just like so awesome to see that they were like, this will not stop us, let's keep going.

Awesome, hey, well good on you. You've got a bloody good attitude. How old are you? I'm 28. Oh, God. So this is the problem. We're teaching these young people to be too successful. Hey, you've got to strive for what you want. Yeah, I know. Determination is key, right?

But in doing so, your success makes us old folk look bad. Oh, I can't say that. You guys are amazing. Look at you guys. You're rocking. Oh, we're here. Yeah, we're here. We're hanging in there. Hey, lovely to't say that. You guys are amazing. Look at you guys. You're rocking. Oh, we're here. Yeah, we're here. We're hanging in there.

Hey, lovely to talk to you. And if we're ever in Lyttelton, we have to pop to the bakery sometime. Yeah, please do. I'd love to show you guys some coffee, donuts, and a pie. Good on you, Bree. Have a good one. Thank you so much, guys. Bye.

They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Spy. Go WhatsApp.

Spy.co.nz Listen, she spent all weekend celebrating her birthday three days in a row, and she's done her job to an adequate level this week, and will continue to do so now as Spy Jew. Hello. So Gordon Ramsay, celebrity chef, he's got five kids and he has been branded a savage for this parenting technique to keep his children grounded and humble. And that parenting technique is that whenever they fly as a family, he never allows their children to be in business or first class. So they sit in economy while him and his wife, they're up in business class of first class, enjoying

the luxuries that that has to offer. And the kids, you know? I love it how Ramsey puts his young kids out the back and makes them the burden of the other passengers. How young is his kids? Are they babies? I think they're like in the age group of like 10 to teenagers, maybe.

So they can kind of be by themselves-ish, but still you're right, Scott, no responsibility. So they can kind of be by themselves. Yeah. Ish. But still, you're right. No responsibility. Just putting them in cages is an option. Probably. In the storage facility down below.

I mean, if you're as rich as Gordon Ramsay, you probably could do that. But. Well, good on him. And I understand where he would be coming from, wouldn't you? Yes. Because he's probably a billionaire.

Yeah. He's like, hey, you don't get everything handed to you on a plate. Well, you do actually because I'm a chef. But, you know, life's not free. That's the lesson he's probably a billionaire. He's like, hey, you don't get everything handed to you on a plate. Well, you do, actually, because I'm a chef. But, you know, life's not free. That's the lesson he's trying to help me with. I'm surprised he doesn't fly private, like private planes. That's a good point.

That's a good point. Maybe he's, you know, environmentally friendly, doesn't like to have a private jet. Well, there's that famous story of Ed Sheeran who refuses to get a private jet because what's his line is if someone paid you $60,000, which it would cost to get a private jet. Because what's his line? As if someone paid you $60,000, which it would cost to get a private plane, to wait in an airport for a couple of hours,

would you take the money? Yeah, and you're like, yeah, of course I'd wait $60,000 to wait two hours. And he says, well, that's kind of the equivalent of, you know, you can pay $60,000 of your own money to fly private, or you could wait around and save the $60,000 and fly with everyone else.

He even puts himself in economy. Teach himself a lesson. Don't get too big for your bird, Sharon. Imagine sitting next to Ed Sheeran. Oh my goodness. I would just chew his ear off of questions. Take a million selfies. And this is why he won't sit in economy. Your parents did the same to you, Juliet?

Yeah, we once flew overseas and mum and dad decided to live the life and go... Treat themselves, right? Yeah, treat themselves and go to business class. And my brother and sister and I, kind of as a joke, we weren't obviously expecting it. We were like, why aren't we in business class? And Dad's like, hey, you've got to work hard

and then you'll be here one day. I'm like, that's a good point, Dave. Well done. I tell you what, you've certainly chosen the wrong profession if you want to end up in business class. Yeah, exactly. Should have become a lawyer or something. Damn it, damn it.

And with the whole Megxit, Megan and Harry situation, they've lost their royal titles. 4,000 Brits were surveyed and nearly half of them want Prince Harry to be removed from the line of succession. So if everyone in front of him carked it, he would not be king. Well, what's important is those 4,000 people's opinions don't matter. Yeah, true. One bit. Here's an interesting proposition. God forbid Megan and

Harry break up. And you don't want them to break up but if they did, do you think you'd be welcome back into the room? Yeah, can he come back in? I think they would let him back in. Because they've made it kind of official now, eh? Yes, it's official. They're not returning ever. It's like the royal family are like, okay, we can see other people let's just see how it goes. Now it's like, okay, it's official They're not returning ever It's like the royal family are like Okay, we can see other people Let's just see how it goes

Now it's like, okay, it's official We're separated But he can come back I think they'd let him back Because I think they'd be hesitant To let them back as a couple But if they split up And they were like, right

He's got rid of Megan He can come back now You know? Be the queens like Can't wait to see this episode on The Crown Yeah But you said And you kind of wonder If it's even an issue for the family Or the queens She's pretty progressive I bet the Queen's like, can't wait to see this episode on The Crown. But you said,

and you kind of wonder if it's even an issue for the family or the Queen's, she's pretty progressive, is just like, oh, well, if this is what you want to do, go and do it. Because you said she called him on the weekend. Yeah, apparently she called him just to make sure that he was firstly happy and then secondly, this is what he wanted to do officially still.

You know? And yeah, and then I think she probably, oh, I mean, who knows? Why am I going to say what the Queen thought? I don't know. So apparently she understood the decision. Listen, I was added in on the WhatsApp group. She was texting away.

He said he was happy with his current life. Queenie, call him. That's what I said to him. Just call him. Just give him a call. Yeah. And that is five more. You can head to the hits.co.nz.

Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hips. Wrapping up our show on a Wednesday. We usually end on it's going to be a good day. Not today, though. We're ending on what items are you waiting on that are currently held up thanks to the pandemic in the harbour? So not ending on positivity.

This is a change up. I'm not sure if I like this. I just thought for one day we'll end on negativity. Send everyone off in a negative mood Ben Humphrey, our producer Producer Humphrey is waiting on baby furniture His poor little baby I don't know where he's saying he's going to sleep

In a cardboard box A banana box It's always an option A wok A big wok could hold a baby couldn't it On stick Slide them off Change the nappy, slide them back on Big walk could hold a baby, couldn't it? Non-stick. Yeah. Slide them off, change the nappy, slide them back on,

flip them around to change the nappy. That's an option. Let's head to Tessa. What are you waiting on in the harbour, Tess? I've been waiting since November for some clothing I ordered from Wish and some costumes for our shows for the Fringe Festival, and they still haven't arrived, so I had to make do with other things for our shows for the Fringe Festival and they still haven't arrived so I had to make do with other things for our shows tonight, yesterday and tomorrow.

What were your costumes? Okay, so we're doing two shows, one after the other. One's called The Bunny's Tale and the other one is called The War on Father Christmas and I'm an elf in the second part so I'm looking I've been waiting for elf suits.

Oh, you've been waiting since November. I mean, yeah, jeez. So you had to make some up yourself? Oh, well, luckily I managed to find some stuff at Christmas time that was sort of like just after Christmas and I could get it all pretty cheap. But I was able to like match up clothes from home with the right colour so I kind of look like a fancy elf rather than a traditional elf. Yeah, I guess if you're in the audience, you're like, oh right colour so I kind of look like a fancy elf rather than a traditional elf.

Yeah, I guess if you're in the audience, you're like, oh, I guess she kind of looks like an elf. Are you meant to be an elf? Yeah. Well, the good thing is your elf costume will arrive in time for this Christmas too so you can be festive. Good on you, Tess.

Go and have a lovely day. You too. Bye, guys. Appreciate the call. Back again tomorrow on the hits. Five words, five grand this morning. It didn't work out so well. In fact, the first one I got totally wrong.

So hopefully tomorrow we come through with five grand for someone. Have a great Wednesday, New Zealand. We'll catch you tomorrow from six. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys weekdays from six on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny.

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