Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Bad Habits Lead To Day Drinking @ 1pm...

Episode Date: August 18, 2021

It wouldn't be a lockdown without a champagne Jono & Ben parody song. This time we used Ed Sheeran's song Bad Habits, so ENJOY. We spoke to a guy who is selling KFC from the day before lockdown on Facebook Marketplace, and the offers he is getting for the 2-day old K-Fry is INSANE. We also played our own version of the Masked Singer... So chuck the poddy on, kick back, eat some snacks and SOAK UP THIS LOCKDOWN!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John O 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 John O and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the John O and Ben podcast. Hey, welcome to the podcast. It's the 19th of August.

It's a Thursday. John O and Ben are back. It's lockdown day number two. Ben Boyce, talk to us about your heart. What are you feeling? I think we spoke about this on the show today. I feel a little bit like, you know, you feel like, oh, this again sort of thing. A little bit anxious.

You spent the whole show going, let's stay positive, guys. Keep positive. I am trying to stay positive. But now we're getting the real Ben. There's a little bit of, I mean, I'm nervous. You know me. I'm nervous at the best of times. Oh, lockdown just sends him into a frenzy.

But I get a bit nervous about, you know, like, you want everything to work out all right in the end. Like a movie you're watching. You're like, oh, I hope they get together and I hope this thing, you know, and I hope this is all, you know, it all happens and it's all swift and all done with quickly in New Zealand. Well, I mean, we couldn't have reacted in a better way. We were getting internationally mocked yesterday for locking down after one case. We were. But now it's all kicking off.

Yeah. And, you know, they couldn't have, they really couldn't have responded in a better way. Well, it seems like as soon as they found out about it, the first act of case, it was bang, straight into lockdown. I reckon the government would have had us in lockdown before that, even without a case. That would have been a hard thing for us to accept as a country, right?

Yeah. It would have been a bold call from them, so they were probably just waiting for one ready to pounce. It felt like they were preparing us for it too, right? Oh, the hippo was out there last week. Oh, no, we don't call him the hippo now, Chris Hipkins. No, what's your nickname for him? Hippoperae.

Hippoperae, the hippo. He likes that too, and he's like, yeah, we can say that too when we're free of the Delta variant. Hippoperae. Yeah. Hip, hip, hooray, the hippo. So he likes that too, and he's like, yeah, we can say that too when we're free of the Delta variant. Hip, hip, hooray. Yeah. But he was last week saying, if Delta's here, swift, early, hard. Yeah. He said that last week when there was nothing.

He just randomly came out with it, which made me go, the hippo can smell something. Conspiracy theorists are always saying, oh, maybe they knew about something. Well, they probably did. It's been knocking on our door for a while. It's inevitable, really, wasn't it? When you think about it. We've just been ignoring it. Well, it keeps you right.

And smugly going, look at New Zealand. I know. We're so clean. But anyway, we try to stay positive. We're trying to have some fun and to talk to you guys. But it's also about being real at the same time, Jono, isn't it? It's about being real. What, are you looking at me like I need to be real here?

Do you want me to say something real? I felt bad for saying, oh, you know, I'm a little bit nervous about it all. But I'm like, oh, yeah, it's real. It's real. It is real. It's real. It's real. I can't be positive all the time.

You can, mate. I'm not saying it's doom and gloom. Ben's like, Why are we here? Who's listening to this? What is the point of what we're doing right now? I just want to go home and be with my family And not leave Is that what you're saying?

No, not exactly But, oh yeah, kind of So you are questioning who's listening to this? Hopefully some people are listening We had a really fun show today Yeah, it was a good show It was a good show today We spoke to Ruby, Ruby, Ruby Tooey

I love that a really fun show today. Yeah, it was a good show today. We spoke to Ruby, Ruby, Ruby Tooey. I love that. I just love that that was solo just then. I carried it on. I supported you. You started it and I carried it on. We spoke to her

from the gold medal winning New Zealand Sevens team from the Olympics. She's awesome, Ruby. Yeah, she's great. She's great. Yeah, she's great. Very cool. And she talks

about Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart noticing their haka and her reaction to that. And yeah, I mean, it's pretty awesome. I mean, how cool is that? Snoop Dogg, Kevin Hart talking about you. Throughout a bit of a poll too, do you prefer working from home or the office today? An expert phoned through.

A life career expert phoned through. And she had some great techniques how to deal with juggling work and home during these weeks. Yeah. She was like, go early on work. Go hard and early on work. Deal with the kids and whatever they need to do. Afternoon's free, baby. You know, you're just dealing with a couple of cheeky little emails

a couple of yeah we're going hard and early aren't we we're up and at it so yeah what do you do when you get home? I do what this thing called lunch that you probably haven't heard of it you're not really partaking what is it? is it a pill?

no it's the thing you sort of add your food and stuff. Food? Eat that. Yeah, that's normally the first thing I do. At what time? Oh, around the middle of the day. Middle of the day?

Daylight hours? I know, I know. It's something that you don't partake in. So that's normally the first thing I do. I prefer to eat in the dark like a weasel. Yeah, I hear you. A night time weasel foraging. A raccoon that's gone to your trash or something like that.

So those are my eating hours, buddy. Startle, startle if someone comes in. Don't bring your crazy ideas down here, mate, with your daytime eating. Yeah, so enjoy the podcast. There's lots of fun in it. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the Heads. Kia ora, good morning.

Welcome along to the show, New Zealand. We are in day two of lockdown. How's everyone feeling? How are we doing? How am I feeling? I'm feeling very disinfected. I'm feeling very clean. I've just been wiping. My hands feel good. I've sanitised my hands about nine times since I've arrived this morning. Pryor's never been cleaner. You could lick me right now. I won't, though. You're more than welcome to. Well, thank you, though.

It probably goes against all the health and safety things we should be doing right now, licking, but it's a wonderful offer. Do you want a live? Will you do a live licking after seven, maybe? Primetime? No, maybe we can look at that if the alert levels change in the future. Okay, you promised me alert level two are licking. Well, I don't know.

We'll just see. We'll just gauge the mood of the nation. In fact, this hour, we want to encourage you guys to give us a call or a text, 4487 is the text, and tell us, you know, what's our mood today? Because it felt like yesterday, first day of lockdown, it was kind of back to, I guess, a little bit of a novelty feel to it. Absolutely, yeah.

And, you know, you enjoy spending time with your family day one. Day two, it's really starting to sink in. This is what we're doing for who knows how long. We'll get you up to date very shortly with how many cases overnight and all the latest news. But yeah, it does feel like it could be longer than a week. How are you, G? You're in a flat situation,

aren't you? Yeah, I'm in a little flat. There's four of them. They're on the North Shore and one's a teacher. No, we're just in a little flat in There's four of them. They're on the North Shore, and one's a teacher. No, we're just in a little flat in Grey Lynn, but with all the locations of interest coming out, they're all kind of around the general Auckland, Ponsonby area. I feel like Auckland is a location of interest. Oh, yeah, true.

I just said, have you been to Auckland? That's a location of interest. It's coming through thick and fast, isn't it? Oh, I know, I know. But I feel like this time around, I'm even, even more careful because I'm just so terrified of this Delta variant and I'm not vaccinated yet. I think yesterday was quite sobering when, you know,

just cases just kept rolling in, rolling in. All of a sudden, too. Yeah. I'm like, where have these been? How come they've all turned up in a 24-hour period? Anyway, we'll discuss this throughout the morning. And fumble our way through three hours of radio. But it's good hanging out with you guys as always.

So give us a call, give us a text. Our lines are always open until nine o'clock and then someone else takes over. It is the Hits, you've got Jono and Ben. It's Moon 5, it is the Hits, you've got Jono and Ben, 6.11 on your Thursday morning as we spoke about before, the locations and the cases, unfortunately, rolling through for COVID-19 in New Zealand. 70 locations of interest.

And we're going to read them all out now, slowly with a second silence between each one. No, and you can catch those online. We'll chuck it up at the hits.co.nz, wonderful website. And from today, masks are mandatory in certain locations. So, yeah, so basically 12 years and over must wear a mask while visiting essential services, including supermarkets, pharmacies and service stations. Now, speaking of supermarkets, we were pretty well stocked just by coincidence.

And I thought, well, we don't need to go to the supermarket. I've done it. I did everything on the weekend. Oh, it's good. Yeah, like sometimes you strike it lucky in that count, eh? You're like, I'm good. I'm prepared for this and didn't even know I was prepared for this.

Yeah, I could wipe for years with the amount of toilet paper that I have stored away. But then I have to go today and the reason I have to go today is really frustrating because I started to go today. And the reason I have to go today is really frustrating. Because I started to smell an odour as I was driving home from the show yesterday. I was, you know, that's not the usual odour of desperation that follows me around. It was something that more, you know.

It wasn't like my dog poo situation. It wasn't like that. No, which you had on Monday. Wasn't that nice when that was our biggest problem? Yeah, true. Wasn't that? Ben that was our biggest problem? Yeah, true. Wasn't that? Ben stood in some dog poo. That was a bad start for the week, you know. We got a whole show out of that.

Yeah. And then, yeah. Yeah, right. That was better times. I'd gladly stand in dog poo again today, just have no Delta variant. You know, like that's... Happier times. Yeah, it was.

Yeah. But yeah, so I was driving home and I was like... And I realised what I'd done. Because all the meat that I had purchased from the supermarket on sunday oh no what it was still in my boot oh i had it unpacked you know i get easily distracted juliet yeah i'm like a goldfish i'd unloaded the shopping, some of the bags. I hadn't done the meat. It was meat, chicken. That's disgusting. Do you know there was a part of me going, could I freeze it?

Yeah, is it all right? My mum would. My mum would. She'd take a risk. She'd take a risk. Three-day-old, boot-temperature chicken. She'd be like, you know, it's all right. We can do it.

I don't think it is all right. Yeah. And my wife, Jennifer, she's on top of all that stuff. So she said, where'd you put it? So I threw it in the bin. She's like, did you? Yeah. I said, well, there's a part of me, honestly.

There's a part of me thinking that we could, you know, our digestive systems could deal with the fallout of this. Maybe, yeah. You know, take a risk. So, yeah, no, so that's annoying. Not only for the wastage, too, because meat's bloody expensive, but having to go back to the supermarkets. Oh, no, yeah, especially at the moment.

We are back in lockdown. Day two of a lockdown. Three days at least for everyone outside of Auckland and Coromandel and seven days for the Auckland and Coromandel region. But, yeah, it feels like everyone's very quickly slipped into some bad habits, the bad lockdown habits. Yeah. I don't know what it is.

As soon as the first night, it was like, oh, maybe I'll have a wine while I watch the news. You know, like you feel like you're all of a sudden, you're like. I think I said yesterday, as soon as I heard the words lockdown, my body went boom, 5kgs overnight. I didn't even do anything. Yeah. Who knows how long we're going to be in there.

Just bloomed out. But we are going back into those lockdown habits, and we thought we'd put it together. Courtesy of our mate Ed Sheeran, who's given us no permission to use the song, but we thought we would anyway. Here is the bad lockdown habits that we're all doing again. Going hard and early.

Go hard and early. Go hard, go early. Hard and early. Go hard. My bad habits lead to daytime drinking at one. Conversations over Zoom with no trials his own. Panic buying toilet paper for my loop I watch Ashley on the news from one to two

My bad habits lead to chips and dip shoved in my face Let in hygiene, send it slipping while I watch the chase You know that I get vaccinated but I'm locked in my place Homeschool was shut on day two. It's true. It's true. My bad habits repulse you. Have another drink or two.

Bad habits until level two. Going hard and ooey. Go hard, go ooey. Going hard and ooley Go hard, go ooley Go hard and ooley Hard and ooley Go hard With Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast

Going hard and early, that's what we're doing. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Of course, it is day two of lockdown in New Zealand. We wanted to gauge the mood of the nation right now. Why you always in the mood? That's right. We think we'll continue this on through the entire lockdown

and just see day by day as the mood decreases. Well, yeah, because yesterday felt like it, we said it earlier, a bit of a novelty. Is that the right word? You know, where it's like, oh, this again, it's almost like you kind of haven't really comprehended what's going to happen. Oh, yeah. And it's a bit of, oh, we're back to this.

And then today I feel like we're waking up, you're like, oh, this. You know what it is. So where's Ben's moodometer? On a level of, let's say, you've just got a parking ticket, a $40 stinger as well. Okay, $40. So it's not quite as bad as that. Yeah.

We've just had dinner, and I've told you I'm paying for the whole bill. Oh, that's a happy mood. That's a wonderful mood Okay so where are you Sitting on the moodometer Oh yeah Probably in the middle I'm trying to stay positive At the moment

But obviously So we've split the bill Yeah we've split the bill And then you've walked out And you've only got A $20 parking ticket Yeah Yeah because obviously

There is a little You don't want to like Scare monger people There's a bit of concern Around these cases Growing and stuff No I think scare mongering Is exactly what we need to do

This variant is wild. You want to be a positive show, and you want to say we can, because we can. We've got through it before, and hopefully we've locked down nice and early. But it's interesting. We are back to this again. So we wanted to know, I know, Andrew, the Hitzel 4487,

how are you feeling today? Yeah, what's your mood? I feel like the kids, you know, it's one of those things, you know, they don't ask me many questions now. They just Google stuff. But now they're like, how long do you think we're going to be in lockdown for? It's one of those things now. Well, Google can't provide that answer questions now, they just Google stuff, but now they're like, how long do you think we're going to be in lockdown for? It's one of those things. Well, Google can't provide that answer. Yeah, it's the one

thing they've come to me for. Only Dad, well, I don't even know where Dad can provide that answer. Yeah, I'll be like, oh, Papyrus, I don't know why you spout out things, but you feel like you should. Okay, well, let's do this, and we'll put this away in the time capsule. Let's each make a prediction right now, day two of lockdown, how long we feel that

we're going to be in lockdown. Now, you can also split it up to Auckland v. the rest of the country. That's what we like to do. How long are you thinking? Is this level four? Level four. I reckon Auckland, level four for a month. Level four for a month? Yeah, level four for a month.

Wow. The rest of the country will drop back to... Well, South Island, there's no cases. Yeah, I reckon South Island will drop back to sort of level three in two weeks. Okay. That's my prediction. I'm hoping it's quicker than that. I'm hoping we'll stay at...

I'm hoping we'll go level three in maybe one or two weeks' time. Maybe it's two weeks' time. I'm going smack back in the middle of what you guys said. I reckon level four for three weeks. Okay. I'm trying to be positive here. Now, this wager is going to be a fully paid dinner. Okay.

By the losers. All right. All right. So how are you feeling this morning? Oh, we're under the hits. We'd love to hear from you. Anything at all. What are you up to today?

Are you working today? Why are you listening? Why are you up and about? We'd love to hear from you. Oh, we're under the hits. All 4487. Gaging the mood of the nation. John O'Ban, hoping to get you through this lockdown.

It is The Hits. Sneaker Waters, not my neighbour, it is The Hits. John Owen Bain, 6.36 on your Thursday, day two of lockdown. We wanted to gauge the mood of the nation right now because I guess the reality is set in that lockdown is here and it may be here to stay judging by the amount of cases and places of interest that have just been announced. So this is Jono and Ben's mood of the nation.

Mood of the nation. Di, you're on from Taupo. How are you? Morning. Good morning. Di, your mood? My mood? Oh, it's a bit nippy this morning.

Oh, a bit cold? A bit cold out and about in Taupo? Yeah, good frost. Okay, we'll start it with some light weather, Benta, which is good. Yeah, I mean, the weather makes you know if it's cold sometimes, you're like, oh, it doesn't make you feel good. It does play a part in your mood, you're right. Okay.

Are you feeling positive at the moment, the outlook? Especially, I mean, you're out of the Auckland region, so, I mean, are you feeling positive? Yeah. I started last year, and we went into lockdown, so it was a bit, yeah. You started what? What do you do? Courier.

Oh, essential service. You'd be busy, right? So people love online shopping. Listen, you're doing God's work. You're putting yourself at risk out there at the moment. So listen, we appreciate people like you, Di. Oh, thank you.

From the bottom of my clogged artery heart, I want to thank you. Okay. My muscles don't thank everybody that wants online alcohol. Oh, right. You're having to lift a lot of that around. Especially to the prior residents, for some reason. I'm not sure why you're talking to a J. Jono prior anyway.

Do you know the most shameful thing that happened to me? It was last lockdown, actually, where I was like, you really, you know, I was in the supermarket, mask, fully covered up, whatever, and Fipsy, who we used to work with, Hamish, over at The Edge. I got a text from Fipsy afterwards, about half an hour later. He's like, was that you in the supermarket?

I think I saw you. I was like, oh yeah, I've just left the supermarket. He's like, yeah, I could tell by all the Heinekens in the trolley. Is that Jono? Oh yeah, that's definitely Jono. It's not a good vibe, is it? Hey, good on you. Emily, we'll go toens in the trolley. Is that Jono? Oh, yeah, that's definitely Jono. That's not a good vibe, is it? Good on you. Emily, we'll go to you in Taranaki.

We'll get in the mood of the nation, Emily. Good morning. Your mood. Great. Fantastic, actually. A little bit anxious, but otherwise pretty good. Oh, that's good. You sound like you're trying to stay positive as we are here right now.

Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm on a farm, so I'm away from everyone. It doesn't really bother me. But when silly things like your son has an allergic reaction on the first day of lockdown, which means then you've got to go to town. Oh, jeez. Is he all right? Yeah, he's fine. He's just a bit of a hive.

He's not sure what it is. But probably good. But I've got to go to the pharmacy. So now I've got to go find a mask because those new it is but yeah that's good but i've got to go to the pharmacy so now i've got to go find a mask because those new rules so yeah that's right yeah i was playing basketball with my son yesterday i was like don't break anything or injure anything you know you're like walking on eggshells yeah it's true you don't have to unnecessarily go out to your knee hey good on you emily have a good one we'll go to Linda, the mood of the nation. Lindy, how are you feeling?

Oh, a bit positive and a bit negative. Okay, well, is this your test results? Why the mixture? Just because everything's going on at the moment? Yes, the positive side is there's a congestion of the traffic. Yep, that's a bonus. We can park anywhere, no parking tickets. Yeah, no parking wardens is a great feeling around work at the moment. It's fantastic.

You parked in the building. I don't think we're allowed. I parked next to Mike Hoskick. Just arrogantly. I'm near him too. It's a great thing. You guys both have. Yeah. But yeah, Linda, what do you do for a job? I'm a nurse. Oh, mate. Frontlining it a job? I'm a nurse. Oh, mate.

Front-lining it. Yes, I love my job. But, you know, like, I just wish everybody would just listen and not panic buy because you just want to buy some food for your family for the evening. You don't want to do the panic buy. And you're getting nothing. Nothing there, yeah. And you turn the corner and two people are punching each other up

over a bag of toilet roll. And I'm like, what the heck is that? Yeah, sorry, Ben and me, they get away on us, did we? I'm sorry. You should have had the toilet paper. Yeah, I thought I had my hands on it first, but anyway.

Yeah, you're right though. We just, everyone, they say don't just shop normally, but we just... But it's human nature. Yeah. It is. It is, it is.

They're all panicking. And when everyone clears out the shelves, you're like, oh Jesus, there's going to be nothing there. I can just shop normally, but we just... But it's human nature. Yeah. It is. It is, it is. They're all panicking. And when everyone clears out the shelves, you're like, oh, Jesus, there's going to be nothing there. I can't shop normally because I need to get stuff, and that just kind of... Just rest assured there's more trees we can chop down to make more toilet paper. Now, Linda, whereabouts do you work?

At Middlemore. At what, sorry? Middlemore Hospital. Oh, Middlemore Hospital. All right. Well, you keep safe. You really, you're doing God, you know, couriers are doing God's work. You're doing God's work.

Jono and Ben, we're doing God's work. We're all here. We're all essential. Yeah, no. God rocks. We do really appreciate you guys listening to the show and, you know, hanging out with us during lockdown. I just want to say, thank you so much for making me laugh every morning when I'm driving to work. Oh, God's work, baby.

It's gone to his head now. That's why we're going to have another punch up in the studio right now. You keep safe, Linda, out there, okay? Thank you so much. You too. Love your work. Yeah, it affects people in different ways than we are thinking of you right now. On day two of lockdown, it is the hits.

Jono and Ben. Savage Love, you're on the hits. Jono and Ben 6.45 on your Thursday morning. He's a mean, clean, lean news machine. Actually, he's not even that mean. But thanks to a load of hand sanitizer in his bony frame, he is clean

and lean. Ben Boyce, what's been happening? Well, it's his bony frame, he is clean and lean. Ben Boyce, what's been happening? Well, it's pretty much just COVID, COVID, COVID in the news around Aotearoa at the moment. 70 locations of interest as of last night. And masks are mandatory. They're the main things that are coming out of the news at the moment. So masks are mandatory for everyone over 12 at certain locations around, particularly supermarkets, pharmacies, and service stations.

And I think it's probably a good idea if you're going to be interacting with anyone, a mask is a really good idea at the moment. Yeah, it is. And you actually just got to remind yourself to do it too. I just went out. It's a habit. Around work here, we can take our masks off for broadcasting purposes. But when we're wandering around the office and. Going to the bathroom.

Yeah, you got to wear a mask. Even though there's no one around, really, you've still got to, you know, try and keep up that good habit at the moment. I like it too, because I've got a zit on my nose and cheek at the moment, which is great. Yeah. Covers up that. So you just cover that up. Now, yesterday, Jacinda Ardern had the one... I mean, it's the biggest rating show on television, isn't it, at the moment?

The 1pm press conference. You know what the TVNZ and all the TV networks actually would be good to do is to just roll on a peak program directly after it. We've got our new show coming out. Put John Owen being good sports on. Yeah, I was like, can we move it from whatever night they're going to put it on? We've always been desperate for that daytime two, two o'clock slot. Two o'clock slot. We'll take it.

We'll take that slot at the moment. It's a great slot. But Jacinda Ardern yesterday announced where they think the COVID, the Delta strain came from and have a listen to this. The second thing it tells us is that it has linked the current genome

sequencing of cases in the New South Wales outbreak. So you're like, hang on, New South Wales. Does that mean Australia? No. It's truly not Australia. I'm not entirely sure where New South Wales is located. It better not be Australia. It better not be. Carry on, Jacinda. Our case has

originated in Australia. Oh, boo! Bloody Aussies! Dumb Aussies! Suck Aussie! Yeah. So that's what, yeah. When I was watching that, Dan,

because you came in and you said, did you hear the Australia thing? That case originated the show. You could hear New Zealand go, just another thing. Classic Aussie. Up there with the underarm incident, taking the pavlova and crowded house.

Kicking out all our criminals, and now this. Yeah, this. This. This, Australia. As well. Something else I found really interesting as well, one of the biggest Google searches as we went into lockdown

on the day before, the day of lockdown, was liquor stores open during Level 4. It was searched almost 3,000 times in New Zealand. So what is the answer to that? I think a no is the short answer, unless you're in one of those areas where there's a trust. You know, sometimes there's liquor out west I think in Auckland

they don't have you can't get liquor at the supermarket so then I think they do have liquor stores open but they have a lot of online shopping

as well so you'll be alright mate I was asking for a friend my drunk drunk Jono he's my friend

I was asking for a friend at a supermarket so we'll stop at this shop normally alright yeah no it's Drunk Jono. He's my friend I was asking for. Supermarkets are well-stocked in this shop normally, all right? Yeah. No, it's... And honestly, we're just talking about that during the song because we spoke to someone before saying they witnessed two people fighting,

punching each other over toilet paper. Now, guys, it's toilet paper. Yeah, I know. It does, but you feel... Worst case scenario, use a tea towel. There's options. Yeah. But it does affect people in different ways at the moment.

It does, yeah. And, you know, there's a lot of people that, you know, their work is up, you know, like there's a big question mark over their work. And we really, really feel for those people at the moment. And it is panic and fear. And some people react to panic and fear in different ways. Yeah. But everyone has just.

And end up punching someone in the throat over toilet paper. Just as it says, be kind, and it is important. Even though it sounds like something your mum would say, you're like, all right, Mum, yeah, I have got clean underwear on, all those things that your mum say. But you do. It is important to try and be kind right now. Yeah, it is.

Because we're all going through this, and you're right. And if you can't be kind, talk smack about them behind their back. That's what I do to Ben every day, don't you? Yeah. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, I'm kind to your face. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. We've got some spy entertainment news on the way before seven.

You're on the hits. Spy. The what's up spy.co.nz. The only infectious viruses you'll hear about in this update are what the contestants of Love Island have been up to. Juliet, what's happening in Spy? So do you know the DJ Diplo? Have you heard of him? I like Diplo.

Yeah, he's worked with Justin Bieber. And Sia. So he appeared on a podcast earlier this month, but his comments have resurfaced, and his comments are about New Zealand lockdowns. He basically declared that New Zealand

sucks due to our response to lockdowns, which is COVID, sorry. I just said he liked Diplo, hang on. I know. I just said I liked him. Now I'm off to Bunnings to buy a pitchfork and I'm going to burn him down. I know.

So he was on a podcast and they were talking about whether, like, the host was kind of saying, oh, you know, everyone's in the same situation. I'm not really jealous of anyone at the moment. And then Diplo said, maybe New Zealand, but they suck. They have one case, and they closed the whole country down. Well, there was world news about the fact

that we had one case and closed it down. Obviously, you're very justified now as you see the cases rising. But I guess for anyone overseas, they're like, what, one case? Yeah, we're quite lucky, though. Thank you for your thoughts and opinions Diplo

I love it it's got unnecessarily defensive there about New Zealand yeah we all do don't you start folding your arms Diplo

arms are raised start judging his DJ sets or something yeah your songs are all why don't we get an epidemiologist to do that yeah

he's got to weigh in on the epidemiology Not a guy who's out on pingas all night playing songs Dr Michael Baker and Judge Diplo Set He's judging our reaction to COVID Very good idea Not enough social distancing Yeah true It was contagious though so that was good

And in some lighter news Lorde released a new song yesterday Yeah, true. It was contagious, though, so that was good. And in some lighter news, Lorde released a new song yesterday. Obviously not anticipating that the whole country would go into lockdown, but man, my flatmate is playing it on repeat, and I think I might move out onto the streets if he keeps on repeating it. No, but it is a good song. It's called Mood Ring. I can feel the thing. Kind of similar vibes to the other one.

Yeah, it's a vibe to Solar Power. She's got a blonde, like, to her hair's blonde. Is it a blonde wig or is it a blonde hair? It's a blonde wig. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just saw the picture online of her, you know, in the video. Yeah, I think she put the blonde wig on for a representation of something else or someone else. I didn't really read into it.

Oh, so you can put wigs over your hair. I'm just asking for a friend of mine, and you can put wigs on. That's an option. Oh, that's good to know, just for that friend. Just to... Mate. What?

Just Diplo was asking me before. The world is crumbling. Now's not a time for alopecia jokes, okay? Alopecia, yeah, we've got alopecia. Should I move on? Yeah, it is. Alright, and then a spy for you can enter the stuck-in-their-heel-hose. Did I make alopecia sound like a worse disease?

I don't know, I don't know. After seven o'clock on the show, more bullying of Jono. Yeah. That's right, more bullying. The only fun we can get during these times is bully me. Bully the ugly one. Oh, that wasn't what we meant. Oh mate, you had to make it sound

worse than it is. No, you keep bullying me about my looks, mate. It's fine. It's fine. Whatever makes you happy. Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. Jono, good morning. It is Jono and Ben

hanging out with you guys on The Hits. Of course, day is Jono and Ben hanging out with you guys on the hits. Of course, day two of lockdown and many people slipping into the old lockdown bad habits again. Tell you a little hack I found yesterday,

you know, a lot of people doing some online workouts which is great. You can actually watch one of those but just sit there and have a drink

and it still feels like the computer still thinks you're doing a workout and you're like, oh, yeah, you're watching someone do exercise.

It feels like you are. I had a little period in my life where I was walking around in active wear. And I wasn't going to a gym. People see you in active wear, they're like, this guy, he's doing stuff. He is doing stuff. 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. And a lot of people, you know, having to navigate working from home and homeschooling and pretty much hanging out with their family 24-7. Now, do you prefer working at home or working in the office, Ben Boyce? What does my bony mate Ben like to do? I kind of, I feel like I can do okay at both, but I do actually kind of

like having a place. Oh you feel like you're doing okay in this job? That's interesting That's not what his performance review said last week Anyway so sorry continue on I feel like I can work at home but I do like a place to go for work I do feel like that. Okay this is work I'm going to go along

and do it. Yeah so you're probably more favoured in turning up to an office and doing your day's work We're very fortunate we do get to come into Okay, this is work. I'm going to go along and do it. Yeah, so you're probably more favoured in turning up to an office and doing your day's work. We're very fortunate we do get to come into work for this period right now to do the show. Yeah, which I had to be reminded of yesterday when I got home and I was getting all, I was like, oh, we're all locked in. And Jen was like, you get to get out of here.

We're locked here. And I was like, oh, yeah, true. Don't you hate it when they're always right? I've got no comeback. I didn't even think of a cool comeback like 10 minutes later when i usually do try and restart the argument again just to say that you know you see that thing 10 minutes ago well i think that i said you know you'll say it again just like that thing because i've got a really good line to come back on this yeah i couldn't even come up with one of them yeah no so i prefer working at home

yeah i feel like you get more done thanks julian i'll work from home with little mix this is a little mix harmony oh fifth harmony one of them it was one of the few cities my daughter owned a man done. Thanks, Julian. I'll work from home with Little Mix. Is this Little Mix? Fifth Harmony. One of them. It's one of the few CDs my daughter owned. Man, we heard this song a lot. Yeah, I think productivity is more. Because you've got your travel time. You've got to factor that in.

Workplace distractions. Ben, I know you're always getting distracted by other staff members. I'm not. Hey, geez. Assassination of character. I'm not. Wait, jeez. Assassination of character? He's like, hey, hot stuff. What if? No way. Meeting in room three, now.

No, he's not like that. He's worse. I'm just glad there's no one in the office at the moment so I don't have to witness it. So you're for the office? Yeah, I like to come to go. I'm just glad there's no one in the office at the moment so I don't have to witness it. So you're for the office. Yeah, I like to come to work. We now know the reasons why life's coming in now, don't we?

Well, now I know. This has been a champagne stitch-up. I'm sorry. I feel like I'm partly responsible for this. Yeah, fully responsible. There's no part of my I'm not responsible

at all for any of this. I'm not even in my actions. But anyway. So we wanted to do a poll. Home or office? What do you want to chuck a vote in? Where do you prefer doing your line of work? Juliet? Oh, I like working at the office.

You like the office? Yeah, I like the office. Do you feel like, you know, because a lot of people are doing Zoom calls, it feels like, you know, that's great. They can connect. But sometimes it feels like a conversation in the office would happen a lot quicker to resolve a Zoom call. You're like, oh, we'll schedule a meeting.

We'll go through the thing. It seems like it takes a lot longer sometimes. Granted, they could, yeah. We do still need to figure out the etiquette when it comes to zoom calls and what's required yeah no you did right so we'll chuck a poll out there this morning oh 800 the hits come on i'll tell you at 4487 is the text do you prefer working from home or at the office i'll do that next not planned okay it is Adam

Lambich you're on the hits John or Ben 718 day 2 of lockdown all over the country and we wanted to know

right now in our 100 the hits of 4487 what do you prefer like working from home or being able to go into an office or a place of work?

Now Ben's opted for the office. He likes coming in and I get the routine. Don't you? You like, we're lucky you don't get stuck in traffic first thing in the morning, do you? Yeah. Yeah, but many people battle traffic. And it's quite nice for, you know, like, but we do, I guess in saying this, I'm going to say it, and then we do do a lot of work from home,

but it's quite nice to go get the bulkier work done, go somewhere to work, and then go, oh, that's kind of done, and then you move forward rather than mixing it all up. But some people, like yourself, John, like working from home. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I don't like working at all. If there's an option, if I can sit on the couch with a bag of chips, then I'll do it then.

So we're going to go to the phones right now. Do you prefer work or office? That's the poll this morning. We're joined, actually, by Producer Humphrey. He's got us Liz Barry. LizBarry.com for a life and career coach. Welcome, Liz Barry. Hi, thanks.

Thanks for having me. You've got one of those great names you can say the first and last name and it's satisfying. It sounds good. Now, Liz Barry, as a life and career coach, what do you prefer, work or home? Well, it all depends. If I'm working from home from just a standard work arrangement, then I get quite a lot done. But if I'm working from home in lockdown, it's a little bit different. I've got kids at home trying to deal with their homeschooling and all of that.

So, you know, 50-50. Yeah. Is there any good tips that you could pass on to people listening right now who are having to navigate the next week, probably, and maybe longer, you know, working from home with kids and family life and to try and get all that done? Sure. Look, I find if you've got a bit of flexibility in your day um kind of know when your

peak energy levels are like for me it's first thing in the morning I like to get up early and sort of try and do an hour's work before the kids get up and then I can deal with them in breakfast get them homeschooling all set up ready to go try and do a bit more work, and then by the afternoon when my energy levels are dipped, and most of the kids' energy levels will back and we'll go outside, go and do something, go for a walk, take the dog, and that has really helped

with, and also the other thing is keeping into a really good routine. The normal routine that you try to have, I would stick with that. Is not educating the children an option? You know, it depends on the age of the children. I've got two older teens that have exams coming up, but they're pretty self-managing.

I don't really have to deal with them. But it's the young, like I've got a girl still in primary school. You know, if she feels like it, I will try to get her to do some things, but I'm not really pushing it that hard. Yeah, I was doing some homeschooling, and I'm like, gee, when does school get so hard? Well, maybe I should have paid more attention when I was at school. Yeah.

I find myself secretly Googling answers, Liz, as I'm homeschooling. So what is one thing people are doing wrong when working from home? I reckon, look, I've noticed just people can actually, you can really overwork. Some people are overworking and especially people in management. Especially in that last lockdown, the managers were working harder because they really do have to keep in touch

with their team. They have to kind of over-communicate. And there's a risk of burnout with working from home because there's no division between the office and home. Like my husband has got his desk set up in our bedroom right now, which is not really ideal.

And that's where he sleeps, I assume. Unless he's sleeping in the toilet. You're mixing things up in the house, aren't you? Yeah, I fully get that. Because you can never be off the clock, can you? Well, I mean, there's an opportunity to never be off the clock. Do you think we're over-zooming? I reckon we did a bit in that first lockdown,

and I think we've kind of learnt from that. Yes, we can over-Zoom. I got completely over it in the last lockdown. Having said that, it has been the gift of lockdown as well. It's opened up a whole lot of new ways of working and careers. I think that, you know, people who have kind of wanted to organise a work-from-home arrangement. I know at the university, my team have managed to organise

at least one day a week that they can now work from home, and that's because of Zoom and because of telecommuting is now a bit more accepted. So it's been a massive opportunity for a lot of people. Yeah, I mean, that has been the positive of Zoom is that management and a lot of workplaces across New Zealand have gone, okay, we can trust our employees to actually work

from home. They're not going to slack off and stuff. So to summarise, LizBarry.com is saying, get up early, structure, bit of structure, knock some work out early, kids get up, do some homeschooling, afternoon, have a relax, check out. And you didn't mention when the wine or the beer

could come out, Liz. Is that an optional sort of thing? Well, four o'clock is actually early. That's a sensible time. And that's outside of the hours where you're emailing so you don't start abusing your colleagues.

Especially if you've gone up early, then maybe four o'clock's a good knock-off time, eh, Liz? Really nice chatting to you. Life and career coach. You can catch lizbarry.com on the internet. Great advice online as well. Really do appreciate you sharing that with the audience this morning. It's a pleasure. That was really good. That was good.

She was good. Yeah, that was some good human interest stuff there, Ben. Glad you ticked that box for once. Oh, yeah. Thank you. We've got five words. $5,000 not too far away. Yeah, there was some good human interest stuff there, Ben. Glad you ticked that box for once. Oh, yeah. Thank you. We've got five words. $5,000 not too far away. Yes, that's still going on. Even though we're in lockdown,

your chance to win five grand in 20 minutes time. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't save this battered up old face. It makes you beautiful. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. It is New Zealand's breakfast, 7.32. Jono and Ben with you. Your chance to win $5,000 not too far away.

The tracking app, you know, the tracer, the COVID tracer, which you're very good at using, Ben. I've been trying to get good at using it. Yeah, you are. You get a little bit judged. Then people are like, oh, this guy. Well, when you sign in, do you feel judged? I feel like everyone's like.

Or is it just you and your head? Yeah, maybe it's just in my head. I'm trying to be really good at it. No, I am judging you when you're doing it feel judged i feel i feel like everyone's like was that just you in your head yeah maybe it's just in my head i try i'm trying to be really good no i am judging you when you do it you know i just want a sandwich putting it up by the door yeah no i've tried to follow your lead as well i think we all sort of relaxed a bit you know so it's good to kind of you know we're not now we're not going anywhere so we can't track it anywhere but yesterday i drove past the pro after, I was driving home, there was a massive protest of anti-lockdown people. Oh, yes.

Yeah. I don't know if you saw them. Just if you didn't see them, imagine what anti-lockdown people would look like, and that's exactly what they look like. It was about 50-odd people or something, wasn't it? Yeah. And anyway, I guess they feel their government's trying to control us through tracing and locking down.

Yeah, some people are a bit worried about getting traced, aren't they, for some reason? Yeah, well, if you're not doing anything... Yeah, and it should be fine, right? Have you got the thing with the kids and you can do this Life 360? Oscar, he's got a cell phone because he's off to school. He needs to make his way to and from school. And we've got this Life 360 thing. Oh, he's got a cell phone, because he's off to school, you know, he has to make his way to and from school, and we've got this Life 360 thing.

Oh, no, I don't know about it. Well, basically, we can track him. So kids nowadays stand no chance. They can't go skateboarding and vaping and tagging or whatever they're wanting to do. Unless he leaves his phone at school, and then goes out without the phone. Well, then there's a flaw in our plan.

Unless he buys another phone. Le and then goes out without the phone well then there's a floor in our plan unless he buys another phone leaves that well yeah yeah you can't wag he puts the phone in the library for the day you're like oh good item mate he's working hard geez where there's a will there's a way yeah i'll see why you need to be traced mate trust anyone to find a hole in the plan you're straight away too i was like hang on here's what I'd do no no but it's actually really good to have that sort of you know that sort of thing

to be able to keep an eye on your kids yeah it is yeah love tracking people one of my favourite things see what you get up to after work place one on Jude's car I know what you're both up to oh god

just wanted to like to know where my workmates are at all times creepy speaking of creepy we've got some what you made both up to. Oh, God. Just wanted to know where my workmates are at all times. Creepy. Speaking of creepy, I've got some... What you made producer Juliet do yesterday was... I didn't make her do it. Well, mate, what you were involved with...

Juliet requested it. Don't make it look like it's the thing. Well, you did, actually. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't start this whole... Yeah, you know, in Jono's defence, you did. You requested this.

Oh, God. You put this on yourself, Juliet. I'll tell you what it is next on The Hits. It's AJR. Bang, it is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Yesterday, we were talking about Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's message in the first press conference announcing we were going into lockdown.

She announced our policy in New Zealand was to go hard and to go early. And this is our reflection on it yesterday. Going hard and early. Go hard and early. Go hard, go early. Hard and early. Go hard. It's also the name of Jotaprize OnlyFans account.

It's a very disappointing account. So after the show We thought that was a funny little bit For us So we chucked that on social media And we thought we could add to it By making a fake account for Jono Pryor's OnlyFans account

Juliet took this Judy on board And I received a text I think it was around About 2.30 Juliet took this duty on board and I receive a text. What time did this text come through from Juliet? I think it was around about 2.30, Juliet. Yeah, that sounds about right. And you said your request was a little bit of a strange request. You're one of these people who sends multiple texts.

You don't include it all in one text. And that was one text. Yeah, which made me, I was like, damn it, I should have sent this all in one text because he'll be reading this. Yeah, that's fine. They were just coming through, bing, bing, bing, bing. You're like, ooh, what is this? Yeah, that's fine. They were just coming through. Bing, bing, bing, bing. You're like, ooh, what is this? Okay, this is a very strange request.

And then next one, I'm doing your OnlyFans account was the next text. Next one, have you got, I remember a photo of you. You took a selfie in a mirror in your underpants. And then that was one text. And the following text, or were you in a nappy or something? Question mark. And then another text, do you still have that picture crying emoji and i said i'll have a look so i went deep into

my files and uh turns out yeah i still have that picture of me in my uh yeah in my underpants now this is uh just looks like a public toilet it does i'm in my underpants i've taken a little bit of cheek showing there. Yeah. All very tasteful, though. You all have very tasteful shots. A tasteful shot. Done tastefully.

And I've just taken a photo in the mirror there. And I think you can see someone waiting for the loo outside, actually, through the gap in the door. You didn't shut the cubicle door, but that's okay. So, yeah, I sent that photo to Juliet. And you said, Christ Almighty. Christ Almighty.

Now, was that a good Christ Almighty? I was like, oh, I don't want to make you feel subconscious. Oh, no, no. What do you mean you don't want to make me feel subconscious? Your next text was, I'm dead. Christ Almighty, I'm dead i'm dead that's so good

that was a text that wasn't in real time you didn't have to like respond straight away juliet you know you could yeah and then about 20 minutes later she's obviously been looking at the photo just going well geez what is this it looks like and goes, would you like any adjustments made to the photo? Would you like any adjustments? Were you like, there's no Photoshopping on the face of the earth that could fix whatever this is. Oh, so good. You can catch it now on the Hits Breakfast.

We're on Instagram. We're on Facebook as well. And we've got $5,000 up for grabs very shortly. It is. Five words for 5K on the Hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Instagram, we're on Facebook as well, and we've got $5,000 up for grabs very shortly. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning on the hits around about this time. We tell you five words. You tell us the first things that pop into your head.

If your five words match up with our five words when one of us gets to play the game, then you win $5,000. It puts a lot of pressure on us, doesn't it? Quite a lot, but much like probably the pressure feels on Ashley when he has to tell the Prime Minister that Delta's got into New Zealand. Yeah. He's like, oh, I don't want to have that conversation.

And we're going to get that pressure put on today by Madeline. Welcome from Auckland. Good morning. How are you, mate? I'm doing okay. Better than expected. You keeping safe there? Yes, definitely. Yep. What are you doing? Who are you, mate? I'm doing okay. Better than expected. You keeping safe there? Yes, definitely.

Yep. What are you doing? Who are you locked down with? I'm locked down with my hubby-to-be and my son. Oh, you're about to get married. So $5,000 would go towards the wedding. Definitely. And maybe a honeymoon.

Oh, nice. You can check a honeymoon in there as well. Okay, yeah, nice. Why not? All right, Mellon. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? You've got Jono, Ben or Producer Juliet. They are your options. I'm going to put all my faith into Jono today.

Oh, don't do that. Don't put all of your faith in. I'm putting all my faith in Jono. Put 30% of faith into me. That's just what we need. Oh, come on. That's not a good start. No, it's not a good start.

We're going to go across to the soundproof booth and self-isolate for a few moments. And when he comes out, hopefully we can match all five words. Sorry, I'm just waiting for Jono to shut the door. He is inside the soundproof booth now. Here is your first word this morning, Madeline. It is iftpos. Iftpos. Machine. Iftpos. EFTPOS. Machine.

EFTPOS. Card. Ooh. Ooh. We had machine and card. Both are great options. What are you going to go for? I've got EFTPOS.

Card. EFTPOS card. Okay. BID is your second word. B-I-D. BID. Yeah. What are you thinking when I say bid?

I don't know what that goes to my body's training, but... What do you want to lock in for bid? Are you going to bid on something? What are you thinking for? B-I-D, bid. Going to need an answer. Auction, yeah, that's what I was thinking too. That's a good one.

Rabbit is the third word this morning. Rabbit. R-A-B-B-I-T. Rabbit. These are really hard words. Yeah. There's so many that you can... Top of the head, what's coming to you?

Bunny. Yeah, that's a good option. That's a great's coming to you? Bunny. Yeah, that's a good option. I reckon that's a great option. But hey. It's a bunny. Okay. Sweater is the fourth word this morning. Sweater.

As in like a jumper. Yeah, exactly. I don't want to say it like something in case that's the word you want to use. It's a jumper. That's a good one. And instant is the final word. Instant. Like instant, I-N-S-T-A-N-T.

That's the one, yep. I'm thinking instant kiwi. Oh, yeah. Yeah, nice. All right. I think you've done a good job here this morning with some tricky, tricky words, Madeline. So we're going to get Jono out of the soundproof booth,

and we're going to see if your five words match with his and you'll be $5,000 richer. Tough, tough words this morning, Jono. No, that's not what you want to hear coming out of the soundproof booth. I feel great. Just got vaccinated inside there. Oh, yeah, it's a pop-up clinic.

I didn't tell you about that. Yeah, double shots as well. Feeling like a million bucks. All right, Madeline, let's win you $5,000. Yeah, here we go. First word this morning, F-Boss. F-Boss. Machine.

Oh, I said it too, but it's okay. You said machine? No. What did you end up going with? Oh, it was cards. Cards. Oh, Mads. Oh, so sorry we didn't give you $5,000.

I thought you played a really good game. Let's quickly run through the other ones as well. Bid. Like an auction? Yeah, well done. Rabbit. Bunny. Good work.

Sweater. Sweater. Jersey. Oh, close. Jumper. Jumper. And instant. Coffee.

Oh, instant Kiwi, instant coffee. Both were good options. You played a really, really good game, Madeline. Hopefully we get to do it again with you soon. Yeah, definitely. Thank you for the opportunity, mate. No worries. Have a lovely day and stay safe.

You too, stay safe. Oh, Madeline, what an angel. I wanted to give her five grand. Yes. For your chance tomorrow. Did you just say, why didn't you give her five grand? I wanted to. Yeah.

I wanted to. I thought you were pinning that all on me. No, no, it's not you, mate. You did your best. We all did our best. We're all getting through this together. Be kind. Be kind.

Ten for five million. Hey, coming up next, Spy Jew, what's happening in the world of shlebs? Something very bizarre to do with Matthew McConaughey that might surprise you. I'll tell you next. It is a hit. Spy, the what's up. Spy.co.nz. Juliet has spent tireless minutes

finding these salacious celebrity stories and now all of those minutes of hard work are going to pay dividends in Spy What's happening, Ju? So we've touched on this a little bit before the great celebrity bathing debate Ashton Kutcher, Kristen Bell and Jake Gyllenhaal we've learnt that they don't really shower much

or bathe their kids a whole lot not every day Dwayne The Rock Johnson your absolute hero, Ben as well as Chris Evans and Cardi B have made it whole lot, not every day. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, your absolute hero, Ben, as well as Chris Evans and Cardi B, have made it clear that they shower every day, at least once a day, maybe even twice.

He's very clean. Well, Emily Blunt said that in the interview, didn't she, where she used his gym, his private gym. She's like, you've got to sanitise and wipe down. This is Dwayne The Rock Johnson, yeah. He's definitely wiped down the equipment after use. He is. Don't forget your towel. Bring a towel.

He looks very clean when you do look at him. But a star that is, something's come out about Matthew McConaughey, and it's kind of bizarre. He has not used deodorant in 35 years. No way. He doesn't wear cologne very much at all, unless he absolutely needs to. He brushes his teeth a lot, though. Oh, yeah.

What? Is that like a thing, or you just notice his white teeth? No, he He brushes his teeth a lot though. Oh yeah? Does he? What? Is that like a thing? Or you just notice his white teeth? No, he'll brush his teeth in the cage. He loves a fresh mouth. Ah. Yeah. So you'd think he'd also like fresh armpits.

Yeah. There's always one of those photos that would be in the women's magazines and stuff like Louis McConaughey at the intersection brushing his teeth. And you've followed suit, Ben. You're brushing your teeth in all sorts of locations. I know. But the reason he doesn't wear deodorant is because he reckons he has no odour. And his mother's always

told him that he doesn't have any odour. Oh, well your mum's always going to say that. But one of his old co-stars agrees and says, if I could describe Matthew McConaughey in a smell, he smells like granola and good living. And that he actually doesn't smell. So he gets through life without wearing deodorant. He must be a frequent washer of

his clothes, in case he gets a bit of BO on them. Yeah, right, right, right. Yeah, it's quite surprising for him, I think. What was the interesting story? Oh, remember his mum. Oh, his mum. Oh, yes. His dad passed away while his mum was on top of him.

That's right. She told the story on a chat show. Yeah. That was crazy. She was like, it was too much for the big fella. He literally died while they were. Yeah, it was too much for the big fella. He literally died while they were... Yeah, it's crazy. I read Matthew McConaughey's book,

and that story was in detail of when his mother called him and was straight up with Matthew. Hey, Matthew, your father's passed away. He died while... And he was like, oh, my God. But he did say in his book, if my dad was to go one way, that would be the way he would do it. He never did anything dull,

in a dull manner. He always went out with a bang, quite lit for a bit. Sorry. And then a spy. Oh yeah, mic drop. Oh,

beautiful Jew. Before you can enter the hits, don't cut it, NZ. After eight o'clock on the show, I'm very excited, because we're going to be deciding on the Christmas song that we're going to play tomorrow on the show, because we are celebrating Christmas early. And we're going to be deciding on the Christmas song that we're going to play tomorrow on the show

because we are celebrating Christmas early. And we're going to talk to a guy who's selling some KFC from just before lockdown on Facebook Marketplace. Yeah, now it's a race to the finish line on this. There's everyday passes. Yeah. He really needs to get to selling this. How much is it going for?

What's been offered? We'll find out after eight on the hits. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the Hits. Kia ora, good morning, just gone 8 o'clock, you're with Jono and Ben on the Hits. Of course, not the greatest news yesterday, last night with more cases and more locations

of interest. You just heard Ash in the news bring you some of the latest updates and it sounds like there's going to be more cases again today. So not the greatest but we are day two of lockdown, trying to stay positive, aren't we? That's right. When does your positivity wear out?

Because the more you say, I'm trying to stay positive, it makes me feel like you're not that positive. It's like when mum goes, we had a good time, we're having a good time, aren't we? Are we? Are we? No, yeah. The more you say, I'm trying to stay positive,

the more positive we'll be. No, but one thing that we did love was the bad habits that we're slipping back into automatically as soon as Jacinda announced that we were going hard and early and we're going into a lockdown, we turned, didn't we? Yeah, back to those bad habits. We had pulled it together over 12 months and all of a sudden all our good work was undone. Back to the bad habits from the first lockdown as soon as she said these words.

Going hard and early. Go hard and early. Go hard, go early. Hard and early. Go hard and early. Go hard, go early. Hard and early. Go hard. My bad habits lead to chips and dip shoved in my face Let in high cheese and it slip while I watch the chase You know that I get vaccinated but I'm locked in my place Homeschool was shut on day two, it's true It's true, my bad habits repulse you

Have another drink or two Bad habits until level two That's right, the bad habits that we've all slipped back into. Hey, next on the show. Jono and Ben, feet each here and there. Feet no Jono and Ben in there, though. Not all each here. Next on the show, we want to be the first station in the world to play some Christmas music.

We need to decide on the song that we're going to play. We'll do that next. But right now, here is Ed Sheeran. Feet, Ed Sheeran. This is the song. And no Jono and Ben. No lockdown bad habits, I don't think. It is bad habits on the hits.

Every time you come around. Another day at home with the kids. Little tip, it's called parenting not babysitting. Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast. Now it feels like we all need a bit of our Christmas cheer right now with everything going on with COVID in New Zealand and so

we started earlier this week to be on a mission to be the first I guess outlet. First outlet to play a Christmas song in 2021. Now when we announced this, we didn't know they would have more gravitas or more meaning by the end of the week. Because then we went into lockdown Tuesday night and we're like, you know what? This was meant to be. The Christmas cheer, the Christmas spirit.

We were meant to start celebrating Christmas in late August. People were judging us. The Westfield malls were shaking their heads. They're like, how dare you get the leap on us? And we're like, we're sorry. That's the Christmas game. It's a brutal game. We're probably going to get choked out by tinsel or something.

We will. By one of the mall owners. I don't know what they do. But yeah, that was our mission. And tomorrow we will be the first to play the Christmas song in 2021. It feels like we need it right now, as we said before. A bit of Christmas cheer. But there are so many great Christmas songs around.

Yeah, I tell you what, we are getting organised for Christmas. You wouldn't find a more organised person or people this Christmas. Well, true, we've really started really, really early. If you think you're more organised, you can call 0800 the hits, but there won't be. And we've been doing a knockout round each morning about which song we are going to play. And the finalists yesterday, which went up on social media. Yeah, we had Mariah Carey.

I was championing this one, All I Want For Christmas Is You. And then, Jono, you were championing this other one, which is both great songs, don't get me wrong, Snoopy's Christmas. Which I was looking is on both simultaneously the worst Christmas song list and the best Christmas song list. Snoopy's Christmas, really? Topping both lists on the internet.

You're the love it or hate it, aren't you? I didn't realise what the backstory was. You know the backstory? It was in World War I. Germany were taking on Britain, and at Christmas they had a truce. And then the soldiers on both sides, the Germans and the Brits, would hand over beer to each other and biscuits over the enemy lines. We're back to fighting another day.

Back to killing each other the next day on Boxing Day. Back into it, yeah. So there we go. We put those two songs on social media at the Hits Breakfast. You guys voted. And the winner, the song that we're going to play in its entirety tomorrow, Snoopy's Christmas. A landslide. A landslide victory.

And we will be playing Christmas songs from tomorrow for the next 131 days. We will not stop until it's Christmas. It's a long bow. No, tomorrow's the day. Tomorrow's the day we get it out of our system and we celebrate like it's Christmas. It's a long bow. No, tomorrow's the day. Tomorrow's the day we get it out of our system and we celebrate like it's Christmas because we need it right now. Listen, I know we're meant to be wrapping this up, but we chucked out, are you more organised

for this Christmas than we are? And someone's actually phoned through. Oh, really? Sarah, you're saying you're more organised than us in August? I've started my shopping, yes. You started your Christmas shopping? Yeah, yeah. You started your Christmas shopping? Yeah, yeah. Actually, on the advice of my husband,

he reckons with everything that's happened in the last year or so, like supply and prices are potentially going to go up, so less supply. You went hard and early. You followed Jacinda's rules. Going hard and early, go hard and early, go hard, go early, hard and early, go hard. So instead of panic buying toilet paper, you panic bought Christmas presents, go hard. Go early, hard. And early, go hard. So you're sort of panic buying toilet paper.

You panic bought Christmas presents for the family. But that's awesome. Yeah, I've got a list. A running list of people. So yeah, it's good. Well, hey, I thought we were organized. Yeah. Playing Christmas songs in August.

I reckon Santa's hearing that right now. Go, well, someone's. I haven't got it. I haven't got it. I haven't got it. I haven't got it. I haven't got it. I haven't got it.

I haven't got it. I haven't got it. I haven't got it. I haven't got it. So yeah, well done, you. Hey, yeah, well, you're a better person than I am Sarah. Well done. Already done the Christmas shopping this year. You have a great day and keep safe

and welly, okay? Thanks. I think I might need to put some Christmas lights up too. Yeah, why not? Yeah, we'll do that Christmas tomorrow with us. We'll decorate our studio tomorrow morning as well. Yeah, and John will bring in those lemons that he's going to bring in. Oh, he's always having a go.

I've got a lemon tree at home and for months I've been... Well, you're just saying something. Are you going to bring in decorations tomorrow? No. That falls on who to bring in decorations? Oh, B-Hubs can bring in decorations. They're going to be stoked about that. Get some tinsel up or something, mate. Mistletoe. You know, all the good stuff.

Hey, next on the show, someone who's selling something. Can I be any more vague? Someone who's selling something. Is it a commercial? Have we got commercials coming up next, maybe? It's some KFC. It was brought the day before lockdown.

It's for sale on Facebook Marketplace in Tauranga. You'll be surprised what it's going for on the hits. It is the hits Jono and Ben keeping you guys company through the second day of lockdown of course lockdown means no takeaways around the country at the moment but there's one Kiwi who's

been a bit of an entrepreneur around takeaways and we'll tell you more about it in today's Big News Small Town so Tauranga man is selling KFC just before we went into lockdown on Facebook Marketplace. Aaron Kittle, his name from Tauranga.

Morena, Aaron. Hey, how you doing? Great to have you on. Gone viral, and we're not talking about the bad Delta variant. Yeah. Kind of like shocked. What did you put on Facebook the day, Facebook Marketplace, the day we went into lockdown?

Oh, I just, you know, I had some leftover chicken. I thought, hmm, I wonder who would buy this. So I chucked up some KFC chicken. Yeah, now, so this is a day old KFC chicken. It's been refrigerated. You've got half a bucket there, a couple of chips. It looks like about half a dozen pieces of chicken. Yeah, it's about six or something in there.

Yeah, right. And your message was, bucket of day-old KFC. We'll consider swaps for a GTR car or a PlayStation 5. Have you had much response to this, Aaron? Oh, I'm just like, I'm still getting messages. Like all through the night I was getting auto messages and people offering me, like, like cars and all that.

Really? I was offered a Honda Integra Type R. Wow. $100,000. They just want the bucket for some reason. I love it. You also put on your message, serious inquiries. Don't lowball me.

I know what I have. I love that. Well, I mean, you obviously want to get the chicken out pretty smartly. Yeah, as every day goes on, the less appealing the chicken sounds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I need to get it some because, yeah, it'll get a bit old, but yeah. Who's winning the bidding right now for you, Aaron? I had a silly offer of $1 million, which I doubt for true, but there's someone really serious willing to offer me $185 for two chicken wings.

$185? Oh, you could split the package up, couldn't you? Oh, you could, yeah. That's the going with it. That's what the market's willing to pay for it. Yeah, no, I mean, I'm really tempted to start getting rid of it now because it is getting a bit old. Also, toilet paper.

A lot of people were wanting to swap toilet paper with you as well if you're low on it. Is there any supplies that you have forgotten to get before lockdown? Yeah, I've been getting tons of toilet paper and all that. Honestly, I mean, even a couple of beers wouldn't go far. A bit of chicken. Now the

transporting of the merch. It's going to be tough, isn't it? What are you planning to do on that front? Maybe a curbside delivery? So if anyone's listening right now and desperately wants your KFC chicken, that's up for grabs, what do you want them to do? Just send in your offer and I'll see what I can do, really.

I feel like you need to get onto this pretty smartly. It's just the chips. Even the chicken. It's a ticking salmonella time bomb. Yeah, I think I'm going to take the next off from this next hour. Get it off your hands, mate. Well, good on you for providing a bit of fun and enjoyment right now because New Zealand does need a smile and a laugh.

And hopefully you stay safe in the lockdown. Thanks so much for talking to us. That's all good. And have a good morning, guys. See you, buddy. See you, Aaron. Here we go. He was great, wasn't he, Aaron?

He's selling some festering chicken on the internet there. Love it. Hey, OMG, I want one. What is today's amazing two prizes you have a choice of? We'll find out in a few moments. Going hard and ooley. Go hard, go ooley. Go hard and ooley.

Hard and ooley. Go hard. With Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. I like those. Aaron, our production engineer, has done a wonderful job of making this show seem topical. Because we do a shocking job, you know. He has, he has.

Now, OMG, I Want One is, of course, back. And you can win a prize just by texting for the comfort of your home. You can text OMG to 4487 and you can just get today's wonderful prizes. Here are your two choices. Have a listen. Thank you, Jono and Orban. Today, it's your choice. Walk out of lockdown frosted, darling, with prize A.

A beautiful set of diamond earrings. Ooh. Or opt for frosting of a much sweeter kind. Cupcakes, cream buns, or, you know, other essentials with prize B. A $500 supermarket voucher. Text OMG to 4487 now to get in the draw oh there you go, you can be dripping in diamonds or dripping in toilet

paper, that's great, yeah OMG, a lot of people saying OMG Tuesday night I think when the press conference started yeah some other words as well, 4487 though if you want to text that through hey Ruby Toohey joining us in the next 15 minutes, now she of course plays for the Black Ferns,

the gold medal winning Black Ferns. Such an amazing moment in the Olympics when they won. There was the emotion because they'd got silver in the last Olympics. Snoop Dogg was even talking about it in his Olympic coverage. He was. Yeah. The haka as well. If that's the first time you're hearing Snoop Dogg in Olympic coverage,

it's probably quite a lot to take in. But yeah, I think Ruby Toohey even got a message back from Snoop Dogg as well. We're going to talk to her in about 15 minutes time. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Let's see our chandelier. It is the hits. Jono and Ben.

Yeah, as we say, we're keeping you guys hopefully entertained through the lockdown at the moment. There's a lot of uncertainty going around. If not, we hope we're keeping you aggravated. That's our other goal. Masks, if you haven't heard the news, anyone 12 and over must wear a mask while visiting essential services during Alert Level 4, so that

includes supermarkets, pharmacies and service stations where staff must also wear them as well. So that's new sort of law that's been passed in. Yeah, everyone has to wear masks except for the people who are anti-vaxxers. You do what you keep doing, guys. People look a lot cooler with masks on, don't they? They do, yeah. A lot sexier. When I look at you, I'm like, oh, he's a sexy man.

I noticed on the plane the other day, we were just getting on the plane, it was like last week, and I noticed everyone sitting with masks on. I was like, oh, other day. We were just getting on the plane. It was last week. And just everyone sitting with masks on. I was like, oh, everyone looks mysterious and cool. It's amazing how much the bottom half of your face lets down the rest of your face, isn't it? When you reveal it. Yeah. You know, when you take a mask off. Yeah.

Yeah. So, listen, I'm vouching for masks from now until the end of time. Just keep wearing them. Permanent masks. Yeah. It's worked for the superheroes over the years. Now, I want to do a totally original game with you, Jono. I don't think anyone's done this before.

It's called The Masked Singer. Oh, The Masked Singer. Now, is this because you did do Celebrity Treasure Chest Island, which also fell into some copyright issues, and Dancing with the Celebrities. That was another big show of yours. Is this going to get you in more legal trouble? Like the Z Factor did?

This is my masked singer game I want to play with you right now. Now, producer Juliet and myself have gone scouring through the internet and we've found some audio of singers talking with masks on, with surgical masks, you know, like the masks you're wearing if you go to the pharmacy at the moment. Now moment now as a judge on the masked singer do you want me to

throw out absolutely ludicrous guesses so we can drag this thing out over a 12-week season well no because in this occasion you could go ludicrous and they could be the person oh it could actually be a superstar yeah yeah yeah like yeah exactly okay was it joe barton well it could be Joe Biden. He was a singer, but these are all singers. Yeah, right. So you have to work out who. So if I say Beyonce.

It could be Beyonce. Yeah, right. It's not going to be the Briscoes lady. No, no. Right, okay. I like this version of the Masked Singer. Okay, so have a listen to this. The more affordable and achievable Masked Singer.

So an actual singer, a famous singer, talking with a mask on. Have a listen. Please wear a mask. Please wash your hands. Be safe. Take care. So there's a singer even talking about a mask while wearing a mask. I mean, you can't get any more. Oh, how long did it take you to find that?

Oh, man, it was a great... What were you Googling to find? What, singers talking with masks on? Yeah, I know. Jeez, you're going to have a weird search history. It sounds like... Go again? It sounds like Lady Gaga. Please wear a mask mask Please wash your hands Be safe Take care

No, no We're going Someone who's cooler For the younger The kids Oh, like the Charlie D'Amelio generation Oh, it's Billie Eilish

Yeah There you go Is it Billie Eilish? I've never heard Billie Eilish speak before That's what she sounds like With a mask on though Mask on

Slightly muffled But still pretty good She was accepting the award I've never heard Billie Eilish speak before. That's what she sounds like. Now, with the mask on, though. Mask on. Slightly muffled, but still pretty good. She was accepting the award and came out and did it with the mask on. All right, the Masked Singer continues. Okay, now we all awkwardly dance to the judging table for our version of the Masked Singer as well. All right, we're like, wow, this is crazy. All right, now you're the next one. Who is this Masked Singer?

Stay safe, speak your mind and i might sound like a broken record but wear a mask it's a sign of another mask one no you don't sound like a broken record but you sound like uh lady gaga yes yes it is lady gaga It is Lady Gaga. How are you finding this? We get one more or what? I'm wrapping it up. It's your format. Are you starting to lose faith in it?

No, I'm enjoying it. But I'm like, was that the high point? Or was that, you know? Is this what they should have done on The Masked Singer? How many more weeks? 12 more weeks. Oh, okay. I thought we've had the high point. I've done my best guess.

Okay. No. Let's do one more. The Ben Boys ran a reality show. Have we reached the high point. I've done my best guess. Okay. No. Let's do one more. If Ben Boyce ran a reality show. Have we reached the high point? Oh, we'll wrap it up, eh? Okay. And the final one, which famous singer is this?

March 16th, I didn't feel good. I was really tired. I kind of had the chills a little bit. I felt nauseous, but I never had a fever. I never had what they said to look for. It doesn't sound like they're wearing a mask. Are they wearing a mask? No, they just took it off briefly

I thought this was the masked singer It's very hard to find Now I know why he wanted to finish early Because he didn't have a third masked singer It was Pink talking about having coronavirus And so she was talking about It was all related If you only had two

Why didn't you just say I've got two? Why did you have to say three? I feel like things work better in thirds, don't they? But yeah. So I couldn't find the audio. There was some pictures of celebrities wearing masks. That was a fun game, the Masked Singer. It won't be back because there's no more audio of celebrities talking in masks.

One night only. Next on the show, we've got New Zealand rugby seven superstar, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby Tui, joining us on the phone. I never want to leave. It is 6.60 sundown. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben, 8.41. Now the Olympics. Remember the Olympics?

Remember those better times when we were all sitting around watching the Olympics? Jeez, that was fun. Remember the times when Tokyo wasn't allowed to put any people in the stadiums? Yeah. Yeah, great times. No, but the Olympics were awesome, and we fun. Remember the times when Tokyo wasn't allowed to put any people in the stadiums? Yeah. Yeah, great times. No, but the Olympics were awesome, and we did so well as a country. And one of many, without a doubt, was probably my favorite moment at the Olympics, was seeing the Black Ferns win gold in the sevens.

It meant so much to them, particularly after losing in Rio, getting silver. And then, you know, family members had passed away. It was really emotional scenes, and they did a great haka which went viral. And Ruby Tui is awesome. One of the players, she's an awesome player and she's an awesome character off the field. Became a sort of viral sensation for interviews like this. There's not enough hand sanitizer in the whole of Japan

to clean that act up. That was just an absolutely terrible beginning. But there's nothing like your captain looking you in the eye and telling you to clean your act up. That was after a bit of a sloppy start in one game, they came through to win. She's absolutely character, and now we're back in lockdown. The team just freshly

got out of MIQ, and Ruby Toohey's with us. How are you? What was it? Have you guys done it yet? No! Is it a tough two weeks, Ruby? It's just so weird. And especially, usually you go away on a trip, you know, you're visiting family, had a really good time,

or gone to the Olympics, and then you get back to the MIQ and you just kind of, it's a bit stale, you know? Yeah. Listen, I can relate to that Olympics reference in no way at all. But we can imagine. We can imagine. Hey, now, Ruby, we've got an official song that we'd like to introduce you with. Here we go.

Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby. Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Tui. There's a lot of songs. How good. A lot of songs around with your name, Ruby, in it. Oh, no one's ever played that song before. You're absolutely original. Yeah, whatever.

But the Tui twist, the Tui twist, I knew that, so I appreciate that. Yeah, it's a little bit of a personalisation. Yeah, we like to personalise each of our interviews. No, but a huge congratulations. It was so awesome. It was probably my favourite moment of the Olympics, seeing you guys win gold.

Just the emotion and how much it meant to you. I mean, you guys must be still buzzing now, I imagine. Oh, thank you, bro. That actually means heaps. You know, we just had a journey, eh? Like, we just had an absolute journey from getting buggered, doing kind of not much, to, like, just the last 10 years,

just now we have to bloody, like, it's funny because we fought for pay for a long time, and now we've got it, and jeez, now we, like, we used to just train like, it's funny because we fought for pay for a long time, and now we've got it. And jeez, now we, like, we used to just train at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. every day, but now it's, like, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oh, right. It's crazy, but I absolutely love it. But the cool thing is, like, El Cero's really gotten behind us,

and to be honest, you saying that and you guys watching, it's actually changed all of our lives because now we've got equal resources with the men's humans. Like, we just live this fantastic life. And we've been through so much together. I don't know if you saw us win silver in the Rio Olympics, but, you know, just such a massive journey. And so to hear people say that, like, it actually means so much.

So thank you, guys. No, I'm glad it means so much to you guys. And it has been a huge journey. You know, I was looking through. I went deep into your Instagram, Ruby. I'm not going to lie. It probably got a little weird there. I was like, do I need to know what she was up to in 2016?

Well, I'm here. Sorry, I've made it weird now. I hope there's a point. Is there a point to this? I'm starting to lose the point. There was a photo you posted and you're walking on the sideline of a game. Is there a point to this? Yeah, I'm starting to lose the point. Quickly. There was a photo you posted, and you're walking on the sideline of a game, and your face is just covered in blood.

Oh, yeah. Drenched in blood. And, you know, everyone looks so much cooler with blood all over their face. Have there been injuries where you're like, why have I chosen this for a job? Well, to be honest, bro, the last two really hard games I had was the one covered in blood in the semi-final at the Olympics, and they're both against Fiji. So it's not like why am I playing rugby? It's like,

why do I keep playing sevens against Fiji? That's what's running through my head. And I've got a mighty old scar across the top of my forehead, which I can't, it's really hard to cover up. Little kids get a little bit scared now. So it's part of the job, and I still love it. But, yeah, I'd probably recommend going to the gym a lot before you give it a crack.

Now, of course, you were in MIQ, Ruby, too, when Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart went viral talking about you guys and your huck. I think we got a little bit of audio if anyone missed it. I'm sure they did, but it was pretty incredible. Have a listen. Rugby finals. What? I will never get over this. New ceilings. New dogs. What's that?

Yes. Okay. This virtual right here is hundreds and hundreds of years old, so it's not nothing that they just made up. That was you. Sorry. They were talking over it on social media showing, yeah,

you were buzzing out, man, how cool was that? That was so cool. I said, okay, because I went on your Instagram too

because I heard you guys, even though you get quite famous and young, you're actually a really nice guy. I get that feedback a lot about you. Oh,

about us? About us? Like real humble. Oh, you're talking about us or Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart? Yeah, you know you're talking to us, right?

You guys, and then Ben, I think, he loves that interview with The Rock. Oh, yes, yes, yeah. And so that was like me and Snoop Dogg. I just thought that was so cool. And then he was respected at Hard Out. And then he told a little story about how he got a haka presented to him when he got to New Zealand and, like, the impression it made on him.

It was just, like, real special and real beautiful. And, like, I think that's the coolest thing about sport. It can just bring so many people together, a little bit like music, you know. So when that happened, I was just like, bro, these cool moments are why you play, hey. And he replied back to you a couple of days later. He was, like, 100% and gave the sort of love heart sort of emojis. Yeah,

and then he watched it. Well, he must have asked him to watch it. And then he shared it and then he just giving love. Like, how cool. Snoop D-O-double G. I'm buzzing, eh? I'm so happy. That is amazing. Now, we watched a lot of their commentary. I don't know if you caught

much of Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg, and we were like, they need to commentate every sport ever now. Oh, 100%. You guys need to do an Olympic version too, I reckon. It'd just be two fumbly white guys. Not quite as cool as those guys. Not going to try to navigate their way through it all. Hey, Ruby, we are all so proud of you and the whole team.

Congratulations. Well deserved. And you guys, you know, you represented New Zealand beautifully on the international stage. Thank you so much, Boris. Thanks for taking the time. And seriously, your support of our women's rugby team actually means the world to us. And, yeah, so much love to you guys. Thank you so much. you're on the hits gentlemen being 856 on your thursday morning uh yesterday wrapping up the

show with the big announcement from yesterday from jacinda ardern uh where the covid came from the second thing it tells us is that it has linked the current genome sequencing of cases in the New South Wales outbreak. Now. Our case has originated in Australia.

Boo! Bloody Aussies! I love that. She really rammed that over. That's right. Our case is thanks to Australia.

Yeah, lovely burn there from Ardern. And we'll see you again at one o'clock in the press conference. Yeah, the top rating show on television. We'll be back tomorrow from six. We're playing Christmas songs. The first in the world to do that from eight. Join us then. We'll see you then.

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