Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Are We Best Friends? We Did A Test To Prove (Or Disprove...) It!

Episode Date: November 29, 2021

And it's all thanks to Ben's daughter and a new book she has. We also caught up with Kiwi singer Benee ahead of her NZ & world tour! Finally, what is the meaning behind the saying "the cat's out of the bag!"? We dive deep! Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946. 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. A little bit of a different one today, Ben Bush. You may notice sound quality may be lacking a little bit. We're in an echoey space. Yeah, we're in a meeting room right now. Meeting room surrounded by glass walls. But we thought, hey, let's mix it up for the podcast.

Yeah, you know, it's nice to be in here. You know, we can look out to the office. There is a few people in here with masks and doing stuff, but it's a bit weird to see people in the office for a change. There's a lot of people in here at the moment. Not with us. Not with us. It should mean you're in a weird boardroom.

Yeah, talking into a phone. But we just thought we'd mix it up because we don't want you getting too accustomed to the use of, to the sound of high-quality studio microphones. Yeah. Sometimes you need to appreciate what you're getting every day. You know, you take it for granted that you hear us in crystal surround sound Dolby Digital audio. Yeah, you're right. Next time you hear it, you'll go, oh, that sounds good.

I appreciate having that. The technology that this company has invested in, for once, you'll pay gratitude to. Not just a cell phone recording. So that's the main purpose of this. How's your day been today, Ben? It's been all right. Just a busy wee day.

Busy wee day. It feels like there's a lot of stuff going on at the moment and it's a time in the year where you should be fading out. This is your theory all the time. I start to turn down the knob around about mid-July. Well, you can't. Mid-July, jeez. We can't.

Not this year, mate. There's no off button this year. No, no. For some reason, we're sprinting to the finish line. And, yeah, a lot of stuff happening today. We've got to go and film a television show today, don't we? Give us a clue. Yes, we're doing that this afternoon.

So I'd like to give us some clues. I was just looking through. They send you the, you know, the background of the program. And, you know, it's essentially a game of charades. But there's so many hand signals that I'm confused. Like, I know song, I know movie, I know TV when you're playing charades. Yeah but they're really added to the hand signals, aren't they? Somewhere along

the line. There's like whole clues, parts of syllables. Yeah, on off, all sorts of past tense. I mean, I don't think I'm ever going to use past tense, you know? After reading that, have you read that? Yeah, I read it. It made me more nervous. Yeah, it's made me really uncomfortable about playing charades

yeah I had to get like going into it I was like oh it'd be charades it'd be fun you know because you played it before and then you're like

read that and then I started going oh my god we're going to be terrible and then my daughter who's you know like I never had to console me

going you'll be fine as long as you're funny as long as you guys are entertaining it's a TV show I'm like oh thank you for like she felt like

she was the mum because I was starting to panic about it yeah and the thing is i'm gonna know none of the answers because they're like all literature and playwrights and books and stuff i had no pardon yeah so i don't know if we're gonna really like carry like is it fast and furious i imagine we're on the same team um with tom sainsbury's so imagine there's someone else that poor other person that's gonna be dragged down with us. Yeah, so I'm a little bit anxious

about going in to give us a clue. Plus we had to get a rod stuck up our nose to prove that we didn't have COVID, which is good, very sensible. Yes, you're right. So it was the new thing. It was odd going there with no symptoms, wasn't it? Yeah, it was almost like,

what are you here for? Yeah, they had all their PPE going, but I could tell in their eyes, they were like, you don't need to be here. So I tried to do charades to tell them why I was there, but it didn't work out. I was like, past tense, past tense.

TV show, we're on, give us a clue. They couldn't get it. Oh well, enjoy the podcast. Back tomorrow with studio quality sound. Alright, you look after yourselves. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning.

Welcome along to the show. Tuesday morning. Working on this job at radio, one thing you don't want to hear a mere 10 seconds away from starting the show is, does there need to be a microphone? This is from Jono Price standing in the corner of the studio. I was a little bit boozled. I walked in here and I thought,

well, maybe this is a very clever play from you guys to have me muted for the entire morning. Ratings go of the studio. I was a little bamboozled. I walked in here and I thought, well, maybe this is a very clever play from you guys to have me muted for the entire morning. Ratings go through the roof when the bald one's muted. But thank you, B Humps, for plugging that. I said, where's the microphone? He's like, oh, I took the other one. I said, well, is there one that we can talk into? Damn it, he found a microphone.

Damn, damn, damn. How's everyone this morning, all right? Yeah, waking up, trying to get my head around the red light, green light, damn, damn. How's everyone this morning, alright? Yeah, waking up, trying to get my head around the red light, green light, traffic light system. You said you've had a bad sleep. You've been up all night thinking about it, have you? Yeah, it's keeping me awake. So does that mean

that I could use the toilet? Where? Well, yeah. There weren't any surprises, really, were there? You know, all the regions that you'd expect to be in red are in red. Yeah, I heard a couple of, you know, I guess complaints for some areas. Hold on, New Zealanders were complaining? Yeah, well, thinking that maybe they should be based on vaccine and based on COVID cases, they should have been straight to orange like the rest of some other areas.

But hey, you know. Although, Drew, you were saying they weigh up not only the vaccination rates. A combination of things. If there's COVID there, the vaccination rates, what the health care system's like in those regions like if it's strong and if they would be able to handle an outbreak if there was one there um so yeah they take all of that into consideration yeah which yeah there we go and you rhythm and vines mate oh i know i nearly panic bought tickets to rhythm and alps because that'll be going ahead and one okay yeah so but then I was like

no Juliet just sit back and wait don't rush just chill out you and your jaw grinding mates you'll have something to do on New Year's Eve

don't worry let's hope so we've got a big show this morning your chance to have a pretty sweet summer no matter the traffic light levels

that's coming up very shortly to get in the draw as well as that pop superstar Benny joins us ahead of her huge world tour.

She's going to be with us just after seven. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe. And that's all I have to say. Thanks, Dr Ashley. Jono and Ben.

New Zealand's breakfast. Driving to the car this morning on the way to work, a moth managed to sneak in through the driver's side window. Right. Now moths, they just feel like they're 100% of the time always in an uncontrollable flat. They don't know where they're going, what direction they're heading in, and it's always just like a Ben Boyce of the sky. You're probably right, actually, yeah. Well, they do always end up in places they probably

don't want to be. And they get attracted to lights as well, too, you know? I can't stop it. I can't stop it. I want to stop it, yeah. Yeah, it's like they're kryptonite, isn't it?

Yeah. But once they are in this location where they're bamboozled and lost, they're just right all over, like every part of the airspace

they're just flying in. And they can't remember how they got it. But then when you're in an enclosed space with a frantic mop, mop, moth, you start getting all wound up as well. So I'm starting to panic because I'm driving, so I'm swerving all over the road like the moth is in the car. And there's no way it can find its way out of the driver's side window. So you end up doing all four windows down. And it still won its way out of the driver's side window. So you end up doing all four windows down.

And it still won't get out of the car. I find that sometimes with flies when they get in the house. You open the window, you're like, there you go. That's all right. Or a bird trapped inside as well. They go everywhere but the window. You're like, oh, my goodness. The way you came in is the way you get back out.

There you go. Flies. Have you seen the flies, mate? You won't be happy, Ben. There is an infestation this year. They're everywhere. Lots of flies. Last summer, he wouldn't even open his doors or his windows.

He kept his family kidnapped inside this house at 45 degrees. They're like, can we just open one window? Just one. The flies will come inside. But there's a lot of them. I felt like for a while there, we were breeding flies. And you wake up in the morning, you like where do they all come from like in the morning seems like they surprise you below there's 12 of us we've been here overnight yeah where do they come from they must just be they're humping up a storm of flies because you had your children on

sort of fly catching duties and uh they were on a it was like a was it a retainer or what was it a sort of a commission scheme it was like a, was it a retainer or what was it? It was a payment scheme. It was like a hitman sort of a scheme that I would put out, you know. But then I didn't realise when I wasn't there, they were letting more flies in so they could make more money. So it was defeating the purpose. Very smart from them. Defeating the purpose of me going, just keep the flies out.

How would they catch them? With a can of Raid? No, the fly swat. Oh, old school. Yeah. I don't think we got, we didn't really do the Raid thing. So you know what? Have you guys got those things that you can put on like your kitchen bench if you're preparing

food and it's like a little fan that like detracts the flies? Oh, a shoo-away. Yeah, yeah. I want to get one of those. They seem really good. But the thing is when it's over the food, it's like when you really need to time it when you want to get like a piece of garlic bread or, you know, put the tongs into the salad or something.

It's quite a good deterrent if you're on a diet. You're like, oh, I can't get that food. It's like trying to get your meal through helicopter blades. Doesn't matter what traffic light level you're in, we want to get your summer sorted. You win a $5,000 summer holiday and the use of a brand new Škoda Kodiaq 7-seater SUV. How would that be over summer?

That'd be pretty sweet. It would be phenomenal. Wouldn't it, Brett, the dairy farmer from Taranaki? Sure, it would be. Imagine you just rolling down the road in your new Škoda. You must agree that if you have an accident, we'll require you to lie when you hand over the details. No runners from petrol stations, no wolf whistling, and no burnouts.

Okay, Brett? You wouldn't have to run from a petrol station with 5K. No, that's right. You can shout the whole forecourt petrol. Where would you go, buddy? I'd make sure you go to the top of North Island, up to That's right. You can shout the whole forecourt petrol. Where would you go, buddy? I'd make sure I go top of North Island, up to Cape Reing, yeah. Yeah, and they feel like they'll be welcoming you with open arms up there at the moment. Otherwise, you'd just do laps around the neighbourhood, wouldn't you?

Yeah. You must do some long hours being a dairy farmer, Brett? Yeah, at the moment we are, because we're doing haymaking and silage and stuff. Non-stop? What time are you up every morning? Oh, about half past four. Half past four, and then you knock off when? Maybe six o'clock at night.

Jeez, the backbone of the economy. The rural sector. Now, I saw all these billboards going around. Have you seen the billboards around town going, well done, rural sector, you win the number one prize for ruining the environment? Oh, really? Have you seen?

We've definitely seen them, yeah. Yeah. Really? Honestly, if we didn't have it, we're screwed in this country. We're actually advertising the milk, that new program, that new series they're bringing out. What's that, sorry? The milk. There's a new series they're bringing out. What's that, sorry? The Milk.

There's a new series coming out on. Oh, yes, there is a series online about the investigation into milk and what it's in. Yeah, I have seen that pop up as well. Haven't watched it, but I have seen it around, yeah. Yeah, now, we milked a cow once, just trying to join some banter here, but we milked it straight into a coffee. Do you do that? Yeah, in the morning I do.

I thought it was a gag played on us by the milker, but no, he's like, in the morning, straight from the source. Wow. Which is disturbing and comforting at the same time. Hey, Brent, well, you have a wonderful day, mate. Thank you for all your hard work you're doing. Good luck for this competition, all right? Cheers, Jono.

Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Tomorrow on the show, very, very excited about this. We have a huge guest joining us. Probably the biggest name we've ever been associated with, and I can't help but feel that we were sent the Zoom link for the interview by accident. And it was meant for a better radio show. But we accepted before they could delete the email from our inbox.

It was a pretty incredible experience. We're going to play a few little highlights ahead of tomorrow's interview. We're here to full thing. But have a listen to that bit at the end where this person says something about us and i'm like is was this a joke was this like this seemed too good to be true have a listen from the director of jaws jurassic park and et comes a chat with jonathan ben academy award winner steven spielberg blow me down that's right academy award winner steven spielberg we have no idea how we got him either you said this was daunting making this movie west side story i tell you what's daunting That's right. Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg. We have no idea how we got him either.

You said this was daunting making this movie, West Side Story. I tell you what's daunting, talking to you. An interview full of drama. First shot, last shot of every movie, you have some bubbles. That's all they get. Comedy. We have worked with Sir Peter Jackson, Stephen, you know, Jermaine, Clement, Sam Neill, many New Zealanders.

Not really a question, actually. No, I say it more of a statement. And mystery. Great meeting you guys. I've heard about you. Your reputations have gone all the way to here to Los Angeles. Oh, that's lovely. I don't know if you're making that up or not, but we haven't got time to ask you. Stephen Spielberg presents.

Not sure we can say that legally, but Stephen Spielberg will chat the new movie West Side Story with Jono and Ben December 1st at 8am on The Hits Steven you wouldn't get a bigger name, apart from interviewing a president Ben, you're not going to interview anyone bigger

that's tomorrow morning just after 8 o'clock on the show ahead of his new movie West Side Story which is out in cinemas Boxing Day, but I know, and he was like, your reputation, procedure. Like, what? Us? What? I feel like he was being very overly polite, almost unbelievably polite. Yeah, we'll take it, though.

So Steven Spielberg tomorrow. He didn't say if the reputation was good or not. No, that's true. That's true. What do you mean? This is part of the show that we've just started doing, and I actually really enjoy it. It's called What you mean we get a saying a saying that you often use and when you break it down then you use sayings all the time that you really don't know where

they come from and entirely what they mean no it's a guessing game isn't it uh but you you like to sound like you're across the english language in reality, none of us know what we're really saying. I always think, like, no one really knows what they're doing. You know, does Jacinda really know if I make this decision, we'll be fine for the – no. Yeah. No one knows. We're all the same.

And it's amazing also, too, so many people that you feel are confident, when they actually hear from them, a lot of time you hear from people on podcasts going, you know, I doubt myself all the time. All the time, yeah. You think, oh, maybe this person would never doubt themselves, but a lot of people do have these things. They don't know what's going on behind closed doors. Being an adult, you know, a large part of being an adult

is just making it up as you go along and just not getting called out for it. Yeah. That's the joy. Management. We've been doing this job for a long time. You're like, mate, none of you know what you're doing. Oh, I'm going to say management.

They do. They all know what they're doing. Especially this company. Mate, what are you doing? I'm talking about former management. Previous management. Not the current management. These guys are rock solid.

Mate, we've got to keep your options open. All management is great. Oh, great management. Yeah, sorry. Former and current management. That's right. Everyone has known what they're doing. No, but what do you mean? We are going to look today at a saying you brought up

yesterday on the program, Ben, and you said, hey, we should do that as a what do you mean tomorrow. Cat's out of the bag. Yeah, so I feel like we all say, oh, the cat's out of the bag now, but no one really knows the origin. Why was the cat in the bag?

And why wasn't the SPCA called? Well, it does seem like, yeah, you shouldn't really be keeping cats in bags. And obviously the meaning is, you know, the secret's out. Yes, the secret's out. Well, you got me, the cat's out of the bag. But I can hide that cat away in the bag and you never know. That's kind of what it feels like. So the way this works is we all hedge our bets and try and figure out what the meaning is

and then we'll have a look at it. Ju, have you got any new idea? I was going to say, like, you know when the magicians are on stage and they do tricks? There was a cat in a bag and a magician was about to do a trick to make it disappear, but then the cat got feisty and the cat got out of the bag and panic stations.

You're like, oh, you know how the trick works. Cat's out of the bag! Yeah. I thought it was a Dyson vacuum cleaner with a lot of suction. And somehow the guy accidentally sucked up a cat. Sucked a cat? Into the vacuum cleaner. I don't know.

And then he panicked, went and told someone. But when they came back, it's like, oh, it's all good. The cat's out of the bag. And they're like, how did you suck a cat up a vacuum cleaner? Maybe that one's not the origin story. I don't know. I was just trying to throw something out there. I'm going to say the catwalks of Milan.

Oh, yeah, yeah. And they had handbags for cats where you could carry a cat. Like the dogs in a handbag, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And one day it was an absolute nightmare. They had all these models, you know, a bevy of cats. And one cat got out of the bag. They all got out. And you know, a bevy of cats. And one cat got

out of the bag, they all got out, and it was a dark day for the fashion industry. They all got turned into coats. Well, you're very 101 Dalmatians there, aren't you? So let's look up now and see if anyone's still right with the actual origin story. I'm going to say Juliet's probably going to be the closest here. You and me with our point. Why did we even waste air time with what we said? But it says here, okay, let the cat out of the bag. It originated in the late Middle Ages where con artists would put a cat in a bag.

Oh, so cats were getting put in bags. Cats were in bags, but they would say it was a piglet. So they would sell the piglet for food to people and go, here's a piglet. Pay top dollar for this if you want to feed your family.

And you're like, give us a look at it? You're like, no. Why is that pig meowing? Just don't worry. And then they would hand the cat over and it would be

the weight of the piglet. And the con artist would walk away and be like, mm-mm. Oh, horrific, horrific. I'm glad we've moved on from that. That's horrific. Cats with bin bags and piglets.

Yeah, true. Well, yeah, true, yeah. Okay. Like a ham bag. A ham bag. The cat's out of the bag and that is this morning's What Do You Mean? What Do You Mean? Scrolling through your feed.

He's a giant news tanker who's taken the corner a little too quickly and is about to spill news everywhere, Ben Boyce. Well, the traffic light system, it kicks in from Friday, and yesterday the government announced the regions, the areas around the country that will, what traffic light they'll go into. It's all red or orange. Obviously, at the moment, no one's green. And, yeah, so most of the parts of the country

seem to be orange, except for a few areas that are red, which all kind of, I guess, kind of makes sense. And so for those in red, bars and restaurants open? Yeah, well, under all traffic light settings, yeah, events, restaurants, bars, gyms, and hairdressers are expected to remain open. That's what they want.

But obviously, there's different conditions depending on what traffic light system you're in. And orange? Yeah. Is that all guns blazing? Well, it's all ish. Ish. Is it like an orange light at an intersection

where you're like, you definitely take it if you can? You know, it's all go. What's the rule? Be out of the intersection by the time it's... What does it read? I don't know. What is the rule when you're running an orange light? Well, you, I wouldn't know. You definitely don't know what is the rule when you're running an orange light well you I wouldn't know

you definitely don't know I have to show you a little meme that a friend of ours sent the other day this is driving with Jotter I'm like yes it is driving with Jotter

there's a person in the back seat with about 9 different seatbelts on I've actually never driven I've never been in the car while you're driving

oh we'll go for a drive I've heard things and I can't imagine it and the way that you take been in the car while you're driving i've heard things and i can't imagine it and the way that you take off in the garage down below it's like i've never heard an engine go so hard the speed limit of the garage is 50 isn't it so will anyone be in green do you think over, over the summer period, Ben? Well, lucky you're asking me. Look, I'm an expert coming on to talk about it. I'm going to say no. I'm going to say no.

But this is just me, based on the fact that they obviously want to keep cases as low as possible over summer. So maybe when we go back to work, they'll be like, hey, green, here you go, guys. Interesting, these smaller regions. I was watching the news last night, and there was an article on Whangamatao in the Coromandel, big holiday destination, they've only got one doctor in the town. And she's like, listen, I'm only going to treat the locals

because I can't, there's just not the infrastructure there. So she's like, anyone sick, leave. If you feel sick, don't come. Yeah. Wow. Fair enough, it's going to be interesting to see because a lot of people, a lot of these towns probably want some tourist dollars, but also a lot of places are very scared about the virus and, you know, affecting the communities there.

So it's going to be an interesting summer. Maybe they should just all send us their double O bank account and we can just dump a load of cash in and not come. A lot of talk obviously about whether you can use bathrooms. That's what would have been the big topic of conversation over the last few months. Jacinda Ardern announcing this yesterday you can now see family and friends again in their homes and use the bathroom inside luxury luxury not on the driveway and just quickly it is a big day for the national party today we'll find out who the National Party leader is at some stage today.

It looks like the two candidates are Christopher Luxon and Simon Bridges. It looks like it's going to be between the two. And if you're wondering who Christopher Luxon is, well, on the news the other night, they went around looking. They had a photo of him and showed it to some people on the streets of Wellington and also showed it to him at the end. Have a listen. Who is Christopher Luxon? Who is Christopher Luxon?

Give it a second. He's a good-looking bald man, I'd say is what he is. That was him. That was him talking about Christopher Luxon. And then someone else just said he looks like a giant thumb. Someone on the street. So that giant thumb could be running the National Party by the end of the day. What do you hedge your bets?

What do you reckon they're going to go? Chew? I reckon they'll go Luxon. Yeah. Yep, I reckon. Like Bridges, it kind of feels like they'll be going back in the past. He's had a good crack. He gave it a good crack. Yeah. But it didn't work out. What about Bridges' deputy? Would that be an option? Would they

work together? He's got obviously a lot of experience. Would that work or not? Much like I was asking you about whether you think we're going to be in green over summer. Don't ask me about that. I've got nothing. Spy. The what's up.

Spy.co.nz. Now to the wonderful Juliet, whose main job is to punish herself by reading every article on the internet about Adele. What's happening in Spy, Jude? So remember in the Oprah interview with Harry and Meghan, the bombshell interview, they explained that when Meghan was pregnant with Archie, one of the royals questioned what Archie's skin colour was going to be when he was born. This created a lot of controversy. Everyone was trying to figure out who it was.

And now the finger has been pointed to Prince Charles and this has come out in a soon to be released book on the royal family so it is a big sources said situation but they think that the sources are very reliable. Well you know sources actually bring us spy every day so we must thank the sources for the rich content they deliver us. I know but apparently what was said so he said to Camilla, I wonder what the children will look like when, I think it was either when she got pregnant first

or when they announced their engagement. And Camilla was apparently quite taken aback and responded with, absolutely gorgeous, I imagine. Charles then said, I mean, what do you think their complexion might be? And so now Charles has released a very simple statement to his team on behalf of him, saying this is fiction and not worth further comment. And now he's brought in lawyers as well

to sort of defend himself. But, ooh, it's very, very interesting. I don't know. Mind you, if he's bringing in lawyers, he must have said it. You wouldn't think. Yeah, I don't know. Mind you, Prince Andrew brought in lawyers too, didn't he?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably just gives him a bit of, I guess, a bit more legs to stand on. Lawyers scare people, didn't he? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Probably just gives him a bit of, I guess, a bit more legs to stand on. Lawyers scare people. I know. Don't they? Oh, yeah. If I told you, Ben Boyce, I'm bringing in lawyers right now, you'd be scared, wouldn't you?

Very frightened. Would you be like, why? Why? But also like, oh, geez. Lawyers are scary, aren't they? Oh, they are. Now, we got a lawyer to do something the other day. I owe you money for something we got that lawyer to do.

Yeah. Does he send the invoice? No, no. No, but they charge. Jeez, I want to be a lawyer. Yeah. An hourly rate of just, for opening an email. Yeah.

And even sometimes talking to a lawyer. Oh, that costs, yeah. But no, I'm meaning like if you speak to a lawyer and they just say all these words that I don't even mean and I have to quickly Google being like, okay, what is this what is this clause what does that mean

it's all very confusing just even answering the phones like a $500 we got stuck when we were starting out with an old company that we had

an old TV show and one of our guys kept saying of course the lawyer will get their advice and that was really helpful of course they were they were charging us

because he was saying Jesus lawyer's great he's so friendly always giving me advice I sorted it all out that's so funny. I had to give more than money that we got for this job to the lawyer. I was like, yeah, of course

he's been friendly. He's been calling it. Now if you could pay this invoice as friendly as he was to you. And Matthew McConaughey, he has been considering a run for governor of Texas. We did speak a few days ago about how he did very well in the polls and he was kind of the

preferred governor ahead of all the other candidates. Yeah, but the poll was, would you vote for Matthew McConaughey or the other guy? No one knew who the other guy was. Yeah, totally. But he's now posted a video announcing that he's chosen not to run at the moment. One category of service I've been exploring is politics.

I've been considering a run for governor of Texas. As a simple kid born in the little town of Uvalde, Texas, it never occurred to me that I would one day be considered for political leadership. It's a humbling and inspiring path to ponder. It is also a path that I'm choosing not to take at this moment. He's got a very...

Sounds like the opening dialogue to a movie about a politician. Oh, I love his voice, eh? It's so unique. Love him. And finally, Keira Knightley has announced she and her health family have contracted COVID-19. But her husband is very smug because while he has been diagnosed, he has no symptoms. And so he's going around the family being like, I don't have any symptoms.

I would ace him to death. He's probably the one who brought it into the household. I know. I know. But he's convinced it's because he's one of those cold water swimmers and showers and she's not. So he's kind of giving her a bit of a smack for not being gay. A friend of ours, Marty, does the cold shower every morning. My dad does it too.

Does your dad cold shower? Yeah, it's the whole, have you heard of the Wim Hof method? Where you go from hot to cold? Yeah, my dad is like, you should do it. I'm like, no, I hate cold water. If you want to start your day every morning with an icy cold shower. I know. I tried it once

after hearing about Marty doing it. I tried it and it lasted like three seconds. I was like, oh, that's cold. That was very cold. Taking over all your favourite song intros, Jono and Ben, the hits. We had to host something the other day.

It was on Zoom. It was like an awards ceremony, wasn't it, Ben? And it was our first foray into online awards hostings. You know, and full credit to the likes of the Academy Awards and the Grammys who navigated their way through the pandemic, the sticky, tricky pandemic, because, you know, we felt their pain too. But one thing that I really enjoyed is you would go, well done, Janine Smithers, salesperson of the year. Now, obviously, it's over Zoom.

Everyone's at different locations. And both you and me would start like a smattering of applause. You feel like it's just the two of us in the room. But the problem is, applause, you may know, only ever works on a mass level. And if it's one person, it's sarcasm.

If it's two, it's like a smattering and no one else is on board. You hoped that other people would be clapping along, but they're all on mute. Yeah, they're on mute. So every time someone was awarded,

it would just be like... But then if you don't clap, you look like you're like, oh, why is he so salty about Janine Smithers? You know? We had started applauding on the first award, and then so we felt obliged through the remainder of the ceremony to keep clapping. You find that with the applause sometimes as well.

Sometimes when there's lots of awards at something, and you go along and someone starts a clap after the first and you're like, oh, wait to the end, you know, and then you feel like and then people slowly lose interest and enthusiasm

to clapping. I even get up, I get to the point, I'm so disengaged where I'm just slapping my hand on my thigh, clapping, by the end of those

awards nights. I like the ones where they're like, we're going to name all the nominees and then we'll clap at the end. You're like, great, okay, name it, get through then we'll clap at the end. You're like, great.

Okay, name it, get through it, and then we're all like, whoa, you know. You don't like award shows, are you? People should just get up there, shake a hand, walk off the stage. Yeah. Even getting up on a stage is a waste of time. Read out a name. I love awards where they're like, we're not doing speeches. I'm like, yes, yes, good on you.

Because everyone just wants to get to the after thing. Yeah, that's so true. Everyone wants to hear about you, Thagan, whoever you want to thank about for getting to name people on your list. Do you know what I like? I also like when it comes to applause. I love it when, for some reason, if you've had a bit of a rocky flight, like on a domestic flight or something, and you land on the tarmac,

and there's always that one very enthusiastic passenger who starts to clap. It's like you're applauding the pilot for doing their job correctly and landing the plane and then everyone else feels like, oh we're monsters and we don't stop it. Then everyone claps like, jeez we made it out of that here. And at the end of movies too

I find interesting. Oh yeah, people Well the people you're applauding are never going to know that you're clapping them Steven Spielberg doesn't care that you know the cinema in Westfield is applauding him

for his latest movie maybe we'll get back to him Tuesday morning just after 7 o'clock you're with Jono and Ben on the hits now every Friday on the show at the moment

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New Zealand's breakfast. On The Hits. Now, Who W to be a millionaire? It's a great show. It's all over the world. And in Nigeria, they've got their own version of the show. And this is the most exciting, excited bit of audio you'll hear all week. A winner of a million dollars. Have a listen.

And I love how the host tries to do like a trick. You've got the wrong answer. No. Have a listen. It wasn't medicine. It wasn't medicine. It wasn't literature. It's between peace and economics. I'm sorry, but economics was actually the right answer.

No! No! That is rapturous. It's amazing. I feel very sorry for the sound operator who had headphones on with that microphone. What a reaction. Yeah, it's so cool. It's just the pure joy.

It's just incredible. Just getting up, dancing around the studio. It's incredible. Yeah, the whole audience is up. It's like a football game. Yeah, it's incredible yeah the whole audience is up it's like a football game it's very cool uh and so off that ben boys has been inspired to bring you who wants to be a marketer yeah yeah that's right thanks to our friends at themarket.com where you could uh win five thousand dollars from your shopping basket this friday we thought we'd give away some vouchers right now with our version of who wants to be a millionaire yeah um. Basically, we're going to list off items. You have to tell us what those items are.

Each correct answer wins you a $50 voucher for the market. Let's head to Tauranga. Kylie, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? I'm good. How are you guys? Oh, we're doing well. We're doing really well.

Are you ready to be a marketer now? I hope so. Which turns out $150 worth of market vouchers. Yeah, that's what you can win. Oh my god. I thought it was just $50. Oh, well, you know, you've got three questions if we rattle through that. All right, so these are multi-choice. The first question

is, the Fluffy Encounter, which is about $72, the Fluffy Encounter, is it A, an audio tape of the Christchurch Wizard? That's his biography. Is it B, a Harry Potter Lego set? Or is it A, an audio tape of the Christchurch Wizard? That's his biography. Is it B, a Harry Potter Lego set? Or is it C, me, Ben Boyce, waking up next to my big fluffy dog, Bo? What do you think it would be?

The fluffy encounter. Oh, it sounds like C. Ben Boyce waking up next to his dog? I don't know if there's that product on the market. It's definitely not on Marketplace, but a fluffy encounter would be him being with his dog. I don't know if there's that product on the market. It's definitely not on Marketplace, but a fluffy encounter would be him being with his dog. That's true. It would have to be...

Can we go for A? You're going to go the Christchurch Wizard audio tape. Or would you go another answer? I would probably go B. Yeah! If it weren't the two you were given, would you go another one? It's good that we didn't lock in any answers until that moment. We've just won $50 at the market.

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That's about $219. Isn't the 4-burner a sunbed that really burns you to the crisp? The only toaster that can toast Vogels with one pump? Or is it a barbecue? Oh, it'd have to be a barbecue. Yeah! $150 worth of market vouchers, Kylie. Yes!

I've got so much on my wish list that that'll get rid of some of them. Oh, well done to you. Thank you very much for playing Who Wants to Be a Marketer? A bit of a shaky start. We got there, though, eh? We got there. Well done, Kylie. And if you guys want to head to themarket.com, please do so. Fill up your basket to the value of five grand,

and on Friday, we could be paying for it all. From a socially distantly safe two metres, stay away. This is New Zealand's Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Benny, Benny, Benny. Benny, Benny, Benny. Nice to talk to you. Now, we always said you were going to get, you would be too good for the show,

and I think this is the moment, a world tour. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, so it'll be maybe the next interview. Next interview, you'll be too good. How you been, though? All right? I've been good, thank you. How have you guys been? Yeah, good. You you been, though? All right? I've been good, thank you. How have you guys been?

Yeah, good. You've been traipsing around America. I have. Yeah, I follow you on Instagram. You take a good photo, like a good arty photo, I appreciate, Benny. Thank you. Yeah. I can't do it. I'm just always trying to hock off diet pills and things. I still don't think I'm hacking it. No, you are. You do a good job.

No, you're actually awesome on social media And really good at being And sort of talking about mental health as well Sorry to jump straight into that No, why not But it's awesome that you do that You're kind of real with people on there Which is really awesome to see

Thank you I mean it's definitely hard to talk to my friends about my feelings But there's something a lot easier about just like Uploading a sad thing Like a one on one conversation is a bit awkward I know what you're saying I've talked to my friends about my feelings, but there's something a lot easier about just, like, uploading a sad thing. Like a one-on-one conversation's a bit awkward. I know what you're saying. Like, I'd have a hard time right now crying in front of Ben.

Yeah. Well, there we go. But if we got there, if we were having a, just straight away, if you started, I mean, the interview's not going that badly, John, but you can start crying. Awesome locations you're going to. Obviously, you're playing in New Zealand as well, but you're then going to Moscow, Paris, Amsterdam, Vancouver, LA.

I mean, what's the one place you're very excited to go to? Well, I've never been to Paris and Moscow. Isn't that like the fashion capital of the world? Moscow is? Yeah. I think I heard that. Yeah, I'll Google it right now while we're talking. You continue on the interview, Bea.

I'll get this Moscow information. And so you're going to be away from home for a long time, and a lot of people are worried about your very famous now dog, who's also famous, speaking of social media. Oh, my gosh, I know. I'm with her right now. She's, like, cuddled in a ball in front of me. What sort of dog have you got?

She's a mutt, but blocks a staffy cross. I've actually just sent a DNA test off to the States. Oh, right. Did you go to ancestry.com? No, pretty much. Now, listen, just on this Moscow thing, it's the fashion capital of Russia, Moscow. Oh, right. Did you go to ancestry.com? Pretty much. Now, listen, just on this Moscow thing, it's the fashion capital of Russia, Moscow. Oh, yeah. And I think they're saying

Paris is the fashion capital of the world. Really? So, perfect for you. Yeah. It's so exciting, because obviously you had a big American tour that was cancelled because of the pandemic. So, it must be awesome to be going, I'm doing this, it's happening. I know.

I didn't think we'd be able to do this soon, but I'm just stoked, to be honest. What's the reaction like overseas? Because obviously when you started to blow up, it was in the middle of the pandemic and you were doing a lot of your interviews with Jimmy Fallon and the Late Late Show and the Latest Show and all the shows. You were doing those from home here in New Zealand.

So going over to America, and I imagine you get recognised, is it surreal? It is very surreal. I kind of have been in a bit of a bubble for a little bit of a long time. I'm just so pumped to meet people, and we're doing meet and greets and stuff, so I think it's going to be really great. Well you're about to as I said before go around New Zealand as well before the world tour everywhere. Nelson

and Bacargo, Hamilton, Christchurch, Tauranga but can I say Benny $59 too cheap? Well what I was thinking was like everyone's going to start playing right? And international acts are going to come. And I'm like, okay, let's be real.

Everyone blows their money on a Justin Bieber ticket. People aren't going to have money to go to a bloody Benny show. This is a wonderful New Zealand approach to ticket sales. You wouldn't get more Kiwi. I wouldn't be going to a bunch of shows. I'd be blowing all my money on a couple and then boom. Yeah, so Benny's like, I wouldn't be going to a bunch of shows. I'd be blowing all my money on a couple and then boom. Yeah, so Penny's like, I wouldn't buy tickets to my own show. But at $59 you would.

I mean, that's a great price. It's a great price. Thank you. There you go. Now, John, I was saying earlier today, you're a big water polo player during high school. Not that I followed your water polo career. It was like she could have been representing New Zealand.

Yeah, you were almost gunning for the New Zealand water polo team. Oh my gosh. I was very into my water polo and I was very fit and now I'm beating myself up because I'm definitely not as fit. It looks like an excruciating sport. You'd just be using every part of your body. It was a lot, but it was the best and I loved it a lot. But I feel like you have to be super into it,

and I couldn't go back to it now because you've just got to be at a level, and once you stop, I feel like you just lose all of it. Did you play for Auckland? No, I played for Waitakere and my school. Wow. I don't know why we got talking about it earlier today, but the sort of, I guess the hats, the helmet to your hatty things that you wear, the swimming

underpants on your head. Are they for the ear protection? Yes. Well, I think that if the ball hits you in the, I think it's just to protect your head, because I don't know, if the ball can hit your ear maybe it makes you deaf, I don't know. Gotcha. And then so at 17 you were like,, oh, no, enough of the water polo.

I'm just going to kickstart a music career and end up an international star in three years. So it was a bit of a pivot. The next big thing after water polo. Are you regretting that move now or not? No, no, no. Something else I found really interesting about you is you volunteer at an animal shelter, which is a lovely thing to do. I was there yesterday.

It's the best. Country retreat. You guys could actually go out there. Can I? Can I take my daughter out there? No, I was about to say that. Bring your daughter out there because you can go and they just need puppy cutlers and people to wash the puppies.

Oh my God. If Poppy went out there and saw Benny and puppies, this would be her... DM them on Instagram, countryoffreeanimalsanctuary, and you can go out and help with puppy cuddling. Although, can I just say, as Renny and Benny said, a lot of the job is just picking up the matter. No, it's just fully cuddling yesterday.

Oh, full day of cuddling. Oh, that's good. It was... We needed it. It was lovely. Oh, listen, Benny, you're a wonderful human being. Congrats on all the success so far. Congrats on the world tour and the affordable ticket pricing as well. Thank you. Always good to catch up.

And, yeah, all the best. Awesome. Thank you, guys. Take care. Welcome to Two Half-Hour Stabs to a Half-Hour Job. The official title, Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. Jono, our friendship, it's been called into question. Is this a sham of a friendship or not?

It's been hard keeping it up for 10 years. It's got another 10 years of shamming left, my friend. Because my daughter yesterday, she found a book that she had in her house, and it's a book I brought in here. It's called BFFs, to be a best friend forever and she wanted us to take a bit of a quiz from this book so i've recorded um some of it have a listen okay so i found this book how to be a best friend forever bffs okay i thought are you and john are really bffs or is it just like are you just like oh it'll be just pretending, are you just like Oh, it'll be just pretending. Yeah, are you just

pretending? Alright, okay, well ask us the first question. Okay. What is something that your BFF does better than anyone else? That's the first question. So do we have to answer this? Yeah, how much do we really know each other? It's like a Colmar Brunton poll. Yeah. So you have to answer for me.

So what's something that I do better than anybody else? Get nervous about things that probably won't eventuate. Thank you. Would you agree, Jude? I agree. He does that better than anyone else.

Thank you very much. I'd have to tell him he'd do a magic trick. You go to a magician, you can make eight Heinekens disappear in an instant. And then I have to pay half of that for some reason. Oh, it always comes back to splitting the bill. This test isn't meant to drive a wedge in between our friendships. It's to show how much we know each other.

It's meant to bring us closer. Okay, so that's one for one. Next question, all right. You overhear someone saying something mean about your beer fair. What do you do? Well, we can both answer this one. Okay, well, listen, what I would do is I'd just add some more fuel to the fire. If anything, I'd even spread more salacious rumors about him.

But you'd have to do it on radio, though, right? You'd have to, like, you know, that's probably what we'd do. And if anything, to be honest, it's probably you saying something mean about me on radio. To your face. Yeah. That's fine. That's fine. We never talk behind each other's back.

No, we do it on radio between six and nine on the hits. Next question. You and your friend are planning a sleepover. Who's invited? A sleepover. Okay. Can I answer the question and say probably our wives? It might get a little complicated if we invite anyone else.

And secondly, to be honest, nothing against you, if I'm over at your house, I'm probably just going to get an Uber home. Fair enough. I'm not going to go, can me and Jen sleep over? And you're like, we only live five k's down the road. Why are you planning a sleepover? Hey, so this Friday night, now we're in the red traffic light system, you want to have a sleepover?

Who would you invite to our sleepover? You tell me. Well, no, I think you're right. I think it'd be weird if I was planning a sleepover. There's not enough adult sleepovers, are there? There used to be more of those. All right, let's do another one. Jono, what celebrity would your BFF marry?

Who would I marry? There's the obvious one. I mean, you've got his name tattooed on you. Well, that's true. I mean, you've done half the commitment. He just isn't as committed to the relationship as you, Dwayne the Royal Johnson. Would he come to our sleepover or not?

He'd be invited, yeah. I mean, he'd take up a lot of real estate in the bed, wouldn't he? He'd be like, mate. Move over. And I imagine he'd be just quite a sort of spread out sleeper. Just his giant muscles resting on your face. And his snort too.

Yeah. He would be really inconvenient to share a bed with, Dwayne the Royal Johnson. So I'm going to lock that in. Or one of the many hot chicks he's always

talking about from Love Island. Who? You. Me. What? He's always going on about the hot babes

from Love Island. Oh, you've seen all the hot chicks on Love Island? All right, I'm wrapping it up there. Those were some of the salacious rumors that we're talking about in question one. Exactly. The best friend test. We may or may not return to that. I don't know if we're best friends after that.

Did we just become best friends? No, we didn't. The Hits, Jono and Ben, 7.45 on YouTube. Five words for 5K on The Hits. Youo and Ben, 7.45 on your Tuesday. Five words for 5K on The Hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our game

of word association. We play it every morning about this time. We tell you five words, you tell us what pops into your head and if your words match up with ours,

you win $5,000. Don't forget also you can play it online at stockco.nz. We've got the online version of Five Words 2. I always see you furiously typing away on your computer. I only assume you're getting practice in for

five words there, Ben. Yeah, definitely. But it's actually a lot of fun to play online. Yeah, and every now and then we get one of the online entrants on the air, IRL, in real life. So head to the hits.co.nz. Well, welcome from Tauranga, Stacey. How are you? Good morning. I'm good, thank you. How are you guys? Doing well. Stace, what do you do? What do you do with your day?

I'm a service manager for an organisation that provides support for people with disabilities. Oh, good on you. Sometimes, don't you like it when people do good jobs for the community? Yeah, it must be a really rewarding job. Yeah, it is. Yeah, I don't know what this is, what we're doing, Ben.

No. But she can't say the same back. I mean, St't know what this is, what we're doing, Ben. No. But she can't say the same back. I mean, Stacey didn't even go, I can say the same back to you. But she can't. No, she can't. You make the morning better, guys. But now I feel like I've bullied you into that, Stacey. All right, matey, who are you going to send into the soundproof booth

to match five words with? Jono today, please. All right, send him away from here. And you know obviously how the game works? Yes. He is in the soundproof booth here is your first word. What pops into your head when I say broom? B-R-O-O-M

broom. Stick. Broom stick. Seemed like the obvious one. Candy is word number two. C-A-N-D-Y. Candy. Lolly. Lolly Lolly Juliet Yummy

Hemsworth is word number three Hemsworth Chris Pick your favourite Is he your favourite of the Hemsworth brothers, Juliet? I actually like Liam Oh, you like Liam? What would you have gone with Chris, though?

I probably would have gone with Chris because he's sort of more talked about. Yeah. But then there's, anyway, no, I won't say he was with brothers as well. And then there's another brother. Anyway. Calf is word number four. C-A-L-F.

Calf. Calf. Calf. And board is the final word. And that's spelt B-O-A-R-D. B-O-A-R-D. B-O-A-R-D. Bored. So not as...

Bored game, yeah. I was going to say, not as in feeling bored with nothing to do. It's, yeah, you've played a really good game these days. Oh, no.

No, you did really, really well. I think you have some really good answers and now Jono comes out of the soundproof booth. Jono, it's all, it's in the, I've pretty much got

our account details. Okay. We're about to put the money in. It's all up to you now. You sure weo comes out of the soundproof booth. Jono, I've pretty much got our account details. Okay. We're about to put the money in. It's all up to you now. Should we just skip out my part and do it? Well, that'd be nice, wouldn't it? Just put the 5K in there. Yeah.

All right. I feel like it's time for us to invest into Stacey. I feel like it's a good investment, Ben Boyce. Let's put $5,000 into your bank account, Stacey. Come on. If we get all five, we'll get Stacey $5,000. Broom was the first one this morning. Broom?

Broomstick. Well done. Yeah. Candy is word number two. Oh, candy. Lolly? Oh, well done. Slay my candy.

Two from two, Stacey. Here we go. Word number three, Hemsworth. Hemsworth. There's a few Hemsworth brothers. Yeah. Isn't there Luke? Well, yeah.

The lesser known Luke. Yeah. Would it be controversial if I locked in Luke? Maybe a little. But hey, I can't influence you in any way, shape or form. Well, I'm probably going to go the golden sheep of the family, Chris. Well done, Chris Hemsworth. Yeah, three from three, Stacey.

Okay. Here we go. Obviously not a fan of Liam. Oh, Liam's great. I love Liam. Yeah, he's the more affordable Hemsworth, isn't he? Calf is word number four. Calf, C-A-L-F, calf.

You go calf muscle. Oh! Oh, my God. What did you go, calf? Cow. Cow! Yeah. Sorry.

So close. You were very close. You guys played a really good game, and the last one was board, but B-O-A-R-D. Board game? Oh! Dice! Mate, it does not get any closer than that. I'm so sorry.

That's right. You played a really good game. You played a good game. I mean, I've said you've played a good game multiple times. Ben hasn't once said I played a good game. No, no, you did.'ve played a good game multiple times. Ben hasn't once said I played a good game. No, you did. You played a really good game. Sorry. Fishing for compliments there. This whole time I've been fishing for compliments. Stacey at the beginning,

you at the end. Very insecure individual. Good on you, Stacey. Look after yourself and thanks so much for listening to the show. Thanks, guys. You too. Have a great day. Another chance for someone to win $5,000 tomorrow on the hits. No worries, have a great day. Another chance for someone to win $5,000 tomorrow on The Hits. Alright, time now to three minutes of the most hardcore celebrity news in the market.

Juliet, hit them where it hurts. So Ryan Reynolds was awarded a Canadian Governor General Award on Friday. Obviously he is Canadian, He's a proud Canadian. He basically probably drinks maple syrup every day. He's that hardcore. And he was also given a tribute song by a fellow Canadian, Stephen Page from the Beer Naked Ladies. You know this band?

I sure can't spend one week since you looked at me. You know the song? They're a big band. Wasn't Jacinda Ardern a big fan of the Barenaked Ladies? She was. She revealed to us. She went to see them live, didn't she? She thought she might have been the only fan of the Barenaked Ladies in New Zealand.

Yeah. They just played to her. It was just her and the power station. Imagine that. But Stephen Page from the Barenaked Ladies sung a tribute song to Ryan Reynolds when he was awarded this Governor General Award and it's called Canada Loves You Back and it's very good. by mistake till you're stuck with a song by this jerk.

Canada loves you back. Canada loves you back. Wherever you go, we want you to know that Brian Canada loves you back. It's actually a really good song. Very good. It's really quite emotional watching him watch it too. Yeah, he was crying with his medal around his neck and it was very self-deprecating humour as well. Yeah, it's quite interesting watching a man cry to a parody song,

a comedy parody song, but obviously it was very sweet. The sentiment was there. Now that song is stuck in our head just from Juliet loading it in from half an hour ago. And we've all been wandering around saying Canada loves you back. And now everyone listening is going to be wandering around New Zealand today singing Canada loves you back. It is worth a watch if you can watch it. I think it's like a three minute song or something. I mean, it's one of those ones with a few of the jokes.

You go, I don't get that. I don't know that. We'll tell you from BC. You're like, yeah, he's so from BC. I don't know what that means. I know it's a place in Canada, but I don't get the reference properly. It looks like he's done a lot of stuff for charity over there. Yeah.

They missed all the charities he's helped in the video. Yeah, which you don't really see. Like, you don't really see those headlines as much when you think about it. But he's obviously so proud to be Canadian that he's just, like, doing all this. Now, why would a celebrity help charity without getting the acknowledgement? That's not what a whore would do. Oh, come on. That sounds like someone to say from B.C.

Am I right? Yeah, totally. Oat in a boat. Oat in a boat. And George Clooney, I don't know if you remember this, but back in 2018, he had quite a serious motorcycle accident in Italy. It was on a scooter, wasn't it? Yes, yes, it was.

And he has spoken about it a little bit more now in a recent interview saying that he thought he was going to pretty much die. He thought that was it for him. But something that really surprised him was when he was, you know, sort of lying on the ground, people came up to him. And instead of really helping him, they got their phones out. Oh, they got selfies. And that's what he was like, that's what you realise when you're a famous person.

For some people, it's just going to be sort of entertainment for their Facebook page. But I'm like, mate, I'm potentially dying here. It's a great post, though, isn't it? Check out who's lying on here, barely alive on the road. I know. I think obviously some people helped him, but more crowds gathered. Would have got a few reposts, though, let's be honest. A couple of shares on that job.

Yeah, yeah. But he said because of that, he's now like, because he said he just wanted to shake everyone and be like, what are you doing? But now because of that, he's tried to himself kind of live less through his phone. Like if his kids are doing something cute or cool, because I think they're only four years old, he'll be like, no, try, fight the urge to get your phone and film it.

Just live in the moment, Clooney, live in the moment. I thought he was going to say, because of that, I've lost all faith in humanity. Yeah, that too, right? That too, yeah. And there's your spy update for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Just gone eight o'clock.

Good morning. You're with Jono and Ben on The Hits. Now, yesterday, it was announced what areas would go into which traffic light of the system, the new system that we're trying to get ahead around. It's a simple system, and I think Jacinda Ardern laid it out beautifully here. The following regions will move in at Red, Northland, Auckland, Kawaroa, Lakeland District, Waiakei, the nearest of the North Island, Classic stitch up in the edit there Nice one Although the big news seemed to be that you're allowed to use a toilet

If you go to someone's house And she even spoke about that as well You can now see family and friends again in their homes and use the bathroom inside. Luxury. Luxury. Yeah, that's if they leave you, though. Yeah, Ben, you never let me use yours, do you?

Outside. Do you send me outside with the dog? Yeah. Now, I just seen a flash up on the news that local iwi up north are planning to do roadblocks, not let people through to protect their community over the summer period. There's going to be a few people torn on the whole, just because you can travel, should you travel is the big question. There's a lot of tourists, people that will be craving out for business,

but there are a lot of people scared about the community's not quite protected as well as others. Okay, so here's the plan, Auckland. We all buy moustaches. Okay? We go in under disguise. Okay? Everyone wears a moustache. No one will be any of the wiser.

But you do. It's a good funny time, isn't it? It sucks that a virus causes all this other social, all these other social issues. And just when you thought we were getting to the end of it oh bloody oh Omicron. Omicron pops along. Love me some Omicron. No I don't. Next on the show

we're on a little bit of a mission. Well I'm on a weird mission then I don't know why I've on this mission but Ben said you'll never follow through with it and now I feel obliged to follow through with it. It's remixing an old Kiwi song. Yeah. Yeah. So you're doing this. I'm doing it. It's remixing an old Kiwi song. Yeah. Yeah. So you're doing this. I'm doing it.

We'll find out more why he's doing this in just a few moments. But right now, because we are all waiting for the green light of the traffic light system, this seemed like an appropriate song today. Lord, Green Light. It's the hits. I do my makeup in somebody else's car. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some might say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us.

That is the main thing. John and Ben, breakfast on the hits. It's Lord Greenlight. Everyone waiting for that green light around the country right now. But red and orange as of Friday for all of New Zealand and different regions. You do the investigation because it's quite hard to outlay all the different regions and what traffic lights they are. You do the investigation and we'll shirk all responsibility

of broadcasting any information. That's a good play there, big boys. Well done. A lot of question marks too hanging over Rhythm and Vines, whether that's going ahead in Gisborne. Juliet, you got tickets? Yeah, I nearly panic purchased tickets to Rhythm and Alps which is obviously going ahead because they're in orange

but I was like, no Juliet, don't spend like $500 on tickets and flights right now, just chill out. Which, you know, if Rhythm and Alps, I hope it does go ahead, but if it doesn't well then there's a hole in the market, isn't there? You're putting on a festival now. Yeah, for new DJs. Now

I thought you and me would be a combo, Ben. We come as a duo, DJ, BJ. Oh, my God. It's nice for Ben's name to come first every now and then. Yeah, gotcha. And there's a bit of a fad going on at the moment, isn't there, of people remixing old classics. There's a Kiwi guy who did it with Fleetwood Mac.

Yeah, Joel and Pitch. It's very cool, this. It's very catchy. And then, of course, Elton John's remixed one of his old ones, Cold Heart with Dua Lipa. So you're thinking, you said this yesterday in passing, and I was like, oh, it'll be one of those things

he says and never brings back up again. But you have, you've decided to bring it back up, and you're on some sort of weird mission to create this. Remix a Kiwi classic. up, and you're on some sort of weird mission to create this. Remix a Kiwi classic. Now, I have no... For what purpose? Huh?

For what purpose? Well, we've just got radio to do, mate. Okay, okay. Then I'm with you. I'm with you on this one. If it fills in some radio time, then I'm not there. Sounds like a fun journey. I'm there.

I mean, when you do break it down, what is the purpose of any of this thing we do? Yeah, you're right. Yeah, there's no purpose. Yeah, we just turn up and say some stuff. All right, well, I'm on break it down, what is the purpose of any of this thing we do? Yeah, you're right. There's no purpose. Yeah, we just turn up and say some stuff. Right, well, I'm on board. Yeah, so... But we've got no previous DJ experience.

That's our problem. Like, I feel like we're about to climb Mount Everest and we've gone, well, we'll save some money, we won't get a Sherpa. So we're going through this blind. Okay, now, what we want from you, 0800, the hits, 4487, is what Kiwi classic song can we remix? And we will get Alistair, one of our wonderful producers here at THE HITS, to probably work probably nonstop for 72 hours

remixing a song to make it sound half decent. But he's doing it because it helps us fill in some radio. And that's why we're all here. What is the purpose of it all? Why is Alistair up at four in the morning remixing Dave Dobbin? For this. And so I thought I'd just plant a little seed. Did a little bit of work overnight with Aaron, who works here at The Hits.

And a Kiwi classic. What is more classic than Mr. Whippy is a dance mix. Oh, God. And wait till the beat drops, Julia. Oh, God. You and your jaw-grinding mates. Arms pump into this. Yeah.

That's actually quite good. Yeah, so Mr. Whippy brings the party already with his dairy-based products, but now literally in the neighbourhood. So that's one Kiwi classic we can remix. Could settle on that, but it's a democracy here in New Zealand. So 0800 the hits. What song would you like us to embark on?

And we'll try and get it done before the end of the week. All right. All going well. 800 The Hits. We'll do that in just a few moments. Jono and Ben. The Hits. Jono wants to remix an old Kiwi classic song,

much like other songs have been remixed from Fleetwood Mac, from Elton John at the moment, to make it a little bit more for the now. That's right. Yeah, so watch out, David Guetta. You might want to slide over Calvin Harris and weed the best music now, DJ Khaled, because there's some new DJs making our furore. First time we're dipping our toes into the dance music scene, Ben.

Now, a lot of great suggestions coming through, texting on 4487. Why don't you remix the classic Cadbury Roses song? Thank you very much for your kind donation. Was it thank you very much? Thank you very much. Thank you very, very, very much. I mean, that could be a great little banger.

Sharni, you're on from Wellington. What song do you want to hear remixed? I think Slicer Heaven's a classic. That is a good track, hey? It is. It's a creeper. It is a creeper. Yeah, the beginning too.

You can imagine going along to a thumping beat as well. Yep, yep. And everyone will sing along. Yep. We all know the words. It's easy to know the words to da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Exactly. You can't go wrong.

That is a great suggestion, Sharni. We'll put that in the tank. Good brainstorming. Welcome to the brainstorm, Laura, from Auckland. What classic Kiwi song do you want us to remix before the end of the week? I'm going to have to agree with Sharni and say the legend Dave Dobbin, but loyal. Oh. Yeah, these are all great, aren't they?

Yeah. I wonder how Dave Dobbin would feel about this. Well, that's the thing. You don't want to do this with... Yeah, I kind of did. It's all good intentions. Exactly. We're not out there to make money or to...

And the main thing is we don't want to be sued. We don't want to be dragged through the courts. So we do need to get the artist on board, whoever it is. But two great votes there for Dave Dobbin. A lot of votes coming in for Dobbin. Kerry, you're on from Tauranga. The Kiwi classic that we need to remix. The Exponents.

Why does love do this to me? Oh. Why does love do this to me? That is enough. These are all great options, Shoto. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Why do you keep putting it on me?

You're on this journey now too, okay? You need to stop saying this is Jono's dream. This is our dream now, okay? Yeah, well, it's my dream since you told me it was to fill in radio time. Yeah, yeah. Yes, I'm on board. And it's my dream that it's just not me getting sued by Dave Dobbin, and it's also Ben.

Yeah. So, okay, those are great nominations. We'll throw it out to social. Tomorrow we'll decide on one. And I feel we need to get the artist on board. Yeah, that's a great idea. Also, I was just thinking while those songs are playing, we also did a similar thing, remember, a while ago with the COVID.

We turned the COVID music into a dance remix as well. Oh, it's not our first foray into the world of dance music. We dipped our toes in here. Have a listen to this. This is a COVID-19 announcement. When you're feeling unwell, isolate wherever you are. Isolate wherever you are. Call Healthline about a COVID-19 test.

By getting a test, you're helping keep your community safe. Keep your community safe. This is a COVID-19 announcement. There we go. So that was a good debut, wasn't it? Nothing gets the party started like COVID announcements, right? Yeah, so maybe we were wrong with that one. In fact, if anything, the COVID announcements stopped the party. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, socially distanced

the party. Yeah. Okay, so get these coming through 4487. We'll chuck it on social as well. What Kiwi classic should we remix? And we'll drop it. We'll drop the beat and the song by the end of the week. It is the hits. You got it, Jono and Ben. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah.

She'll be right, and at the end of the day... Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, producer Bee Humpster joins us in the studio the other day. I'm pleased you shared this story with us, because it's probably one of those stories that you could have not told anyone. Oh, it was such a shocker. Like, it was just bizarre.

So I was wrapping up at the end of the day ready to head home and i was sort of doing the old check you know wallet phone keys glasses where are my glasses and um because i wear reading glasses and i just could not find them for the life of me and i was searching uh everywhere for them and in the end I gave up and I just went I don't know where I've put these glasses. How were you planning on driving home if you couldn't see? I can see enough

Legally? Are we going to get into this? It's more screens and words than I thought It's blue It's the light red or green Just like after a couple of beers. Oh dear.

But no, I gave up and I took off home. And as I was going home. I think I made it home. I was like, as I was going home, I was like, oh, I'm going to have to go to the optometrist and get a booking to get new glasses. Can you do optometrist open at the moment? Because obviously we're in London. Yeah. And then I got home and took the glasses

off my face were they sitting on your face the whole time they were sitting on my face the whole time were they on the top

of your head or just on my eyes what so you were looking for something that was literally on your face

on my face and so I can see I can see the border of my glasses when I wear them. So it's just so bizarre. I was just having an absolute brain meltdown. Wow.

But then did you think you couldn't see with them on? Yeah, it was really weird. And I was literally searching. And I think I remember touching my face and touching my head. Yeah, because some of your head would be the thing. Sometimes I put them on top of my head. Sometimes I put them down face and touching my head. Yeah, because somewhere your head would be the thing. Sometimes I put them on top of my head. Sometimes I put them down the front of my shirt. I was checking all those places.

But sometimes when you're looking for something, you're in such a flap. You're not actually paying attention to the obvious. You must have too much stuff going on in there, brain eels, mate. Not in the moment, Benny boy. So anyway, I cancelled the optometrist. So I'll wait until that's we want to check this open. What have you lost and then

found either a very short time later or an incredibly long time later? I do love that show Lost and Found, David Lomas. Do you like Lost and Found? Yeah, it's very good. He takes in a whole lot of unnecessary international flights, David Lomas. That's part of the drama of the show, though, right?

Yeah, he's like, I'm off to Mozambique to look for the... Turns out he wasn't in Mozambique, and that led me over to Disneyland, where I couldn't find him in Space Mountain, so I flew back to Fiji. He kind of travels the whole world, where you're like... There's no place this guy won't go, you know? Yeah, well, you could have a Zoom call nowadays, even a phone call. He could probably save a ton on international flights. I mean, like Lomas,

mate, your international air travel is sinking the show. Did you have to go to Mozambique for half the day? I had to rule that out. I did, and it was a wonderful time. So 0800 the Hits, 4487 lost and found, the shortest or the longest. Can you impress us next on the Hits? Jono and Ben

or as they're known in the office those two Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast on the hits you're on the hits Jono and Ben

on your Tuesday we're talking lost and found either the smallest time between losing something and finding it or the most impressive time

the length I've lost many wallets over the years but then you always find them probably about Smallest time between losing something and finding it, or the most impressive time, the length? I've lost many wallets over the years, but then you always find them probably about six months to a year later. Like I've got, I think, three different driver's licenses, three credit cards, three. I look like an international fraudster. You do.

If anyone was to, yeah. So 0800, that hits the telephone number. We've got Nathan with us. How are you? Oh, g'day. How's it going? Good. You lost something, then you found something. What was it?

Oh, look, it was a really funky old Velcro wallet. Oh, a wallet. How long did the wallet go missing for? Oh, look, well, crazily, it was 32 years and two days from the day I actually lost it. 32. That is incredible. Well done. You win this competition. You must have lost time. Isn't that ridiculous?

Talk us through. When was this? How long ago? This was what, 1980? 1989, Red On Hum, U2 tour. This was before the world hadn't turned on U2. We loved Bono. This was his prime year. So what, did you go to the concert, did you?

Yeah, yeah. A bunch of us from Dayton, like we're all sort of young people. We all made the mass exit us up to Christchurch. So you, and somewhere along the way, whereabouts did you lose your wallet? Did you have any idea? Oh, look, on the Sunday,

on the Saturday morning before the concert, we did a bit of sightseeing around Christchurch, and one of the places we stopped at was Corsair Bay, a beautiful spot, beautiful bay in Christchurch. Yeah, I actually didn't realise that I lost it at that particular point in the day. It wasn't until later on when I was getting prepped for the concert that I realised, flip, where the heck's my wallet?

Oh, now, back in those days, too, tickets, physical tickets were a thing, were they? They would have been in your Velcro wallet? No, thankfully, we made the wise decision to leave all the tickets at the place we were staying together. So you still went to go to the concert, but old Nathan, everyone would be in there, old mates pretending he's lost his wallet, so everyone has to pay for his drinks or not. Oh, mate, that was exactly what happened. And, you know, I probably had a bit of a history of doing that another scenario so

like oh yeah nathan's at it again oh right he's had a rich history of being a tight ass and so this was just a yeah right the wallet went missing obviously you at some point you're like you hope that it may return in a week or so but then then you move on with life, okay? And then 32 years later, did you find it hidden somewhere? Who found it? No, there was a guy called Corin. He sent me a wee message on Facebook, and he basically said, is this your wallet? And had a photo of this funny old blue Velcro thing with a koala on the front

and there was basically a restricted licence in there as well. One of my really old signatures on it and I was like, yeah that's... Hey, you sound like an international fraudster. You're like, one of my old signatures. Absolutely, it was one of my first signatures

and you know how your signatures kind of change over the years. I was like, like, that's a pretty shit signature. And so it must have been remarkable. Where did he find it? So apparently he found it under clay while metal detecting, you know, waist-deep water. So, you know, we're talking about within, you know, on low tide in Corsair Bay, way under the water.

He had to dig to pull it out. You had a Velcro wallet. How old were you at the time there? Nathan, what age are we talking? Oh, look, I was about 17, 18. Okay, that's acceptable Velcro wallet years. Now, what would you say? This is going to be mocking me because I'm a little bit older than that

and I've still got a Velcro wallet. I still enjoy the Velcro. If I'm with a man right now, let Nathan hear your Velcro wallet. It's from Smiggle to Nathan. Oh, Smiggle. There it is there. Oh, so you can still get them, eh? Yeah, you can still get them, all right.

And people still have them. Not many people, but I do. That must bring the memories flooding back, Nathan, hearing that. Oh, yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Can you believe it? It was one of those funky old, you know, Aussie, Australian, koala kind of picture on the front that my aunt and uncle got for me while on a trip over there.

So, you know, it's quite cool to be reconnected with that again. I love that. That is a great auntie-uncle-have-gone-to-Aussie present. When they're at the airport and we're like, damn it, we didn't get Nathan anything. Yeah, yeah. Five bucks, please. Oh, Nathan, well, well done.

That's an incredible story. 32 years. I think we'll struggle to beat that. Lost and found. The wallet was returned. You have a wonderful day, OK? Hey, thank you so much. You guys too.

Talking lost and found too. Someone's texting 4487. I couldn't find my cell phone. I was searching for it the whole time then realised I was talking into it. And one here from Elizabeth in Wamaru. I lost my baby once. I was looking everywhere around the house for him

and I asked my mum if she'd seen the baby and the baby was on my hip. She was carrying the baby.