Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben Adopted A Goose

Episode Date: November 1, 2021

Ben thought he was being pranked by Jono yesterday when a baby goose turned up on his doorstep. He was very confused at how it even got there, because their gate was closed and they don't live near any water. So, where the heck did this goose come from and how did it get into Ben's property? After we discussed this, we opened it up to see whether any of our listeners have played animal rescue, and we ended up speaking to Matt Owens who adopted a magpie (https://www.instagram.com/swoopandmowgli/) and it literally became his pet. It was best friends with the cat, it would come and land on Matt's shoulder whenever he called it, and he ended up going viral for it. Have a stalk of his Instagram, it's the cutest content you'll see all day. Finally, Ben has got concerns that his dog may embarrass him on a certain TV show. In hindsight this show sounds very animal focused. We promise there's other stuff in there too! Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Guys, guys, guys, and girls, and anyone else listening, it's lovely to have you. How are you?

I'm doing all right, how are you? Great, yep. You know, when they used to go, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. And they'd sort of greet everyone. But then a lot of the time on those shows where I'd hear ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the content was not boys and girls safe. Oh really? Not for

kids? Welcome ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. What boys and girls are in here? You shouldn't have brought your boys and girls along to this. Alright, yeah. Not safe for kids. We started out tally at 10 o'clock. A lot of parents would be like, oh, my kids and I love your show. 10 o'clock. I was watching some old skits we did the other day, and me, I was just F this, F that.

And I'm like, unnecessarily, too? Yeah. What does 2021 been want to say back to 2005? Pull your head in, mate. I don't know who you're trying to impress. You've never been cool. You won't be cool. But, you know, at least you can go through.

I'm the same. I'm the same. You're like, what was it? Pull your head in. That's such an old person thing to say. Hey, mate, pull your head in. If I can travel back in time, I'll tell my younger self to pull your head in, mate. You played a prank on me.

It was when I was watching. You know, admittedly, you gave me a heck of a fright. But I'm like, if you guys are, if the, and I'm like, oh, like unnecessarily, you know,

and we should have beeped it. Why did we just let that go out to, like, why don't we, okay, yeah, you swore. Okay,

it happens. We all like to, we've done, you know, some words, but then you beep, you know, I don't beep it.

You know, I, it's, oh, yeah, it is. Such a, such know, I'll beep it. You know? Pull your head in. It's such a dad thing to say. Why do you want to go back to your youngest Elvis? Pull your head in, mate.

Oh, yeah. Now your kids might see that on the internet. What are they going to say? Pull your head in. You know, I feel like they're a lot. Kids in general, now there's generalisation. I hate doing generalisations,. I feel like they're a lot. Kids in general. Now, there's generalisation. I hate doing generalisations,

but I feel like kids are more responsible these days than kids. And women are less stronger than men. There's another generalisation. Are we joking? Generalisations? No, we're not going there. Come in here and prove it. We're not going there.

No, it's not true. I can't get Valerie Adams to come in here and arm wrestle you. We're doing generalisations. No, we're not doing. I can't get Valerie Adams to come in and arm wrestle you, you know? We're doing generalisations. No, we're not doing generalisations. What am I trying to prove here? Don't get involved with this. I reckon I can actually answer it. He's saying that women aren't as strong as men. I didn't say

that. He said that. I said that I thought kids generally were probably a bit more sensible than kids back in the day. These days? These days, they were saying more sensible. That's what I said that I thought kids generally were probably a bit more sensible than kids back in the day. These days? These days. I was saying more sensible. That's what I said.

I reckon. And then old mate over here. Who brings genders into it. Which these days is no. Yeah. Generalisations. Now I'm going to say pull your head in, okay? Lift your game, Jonathan.

Pull your head in. What I will say about producer Juliette at age 23 is more sensible than I'll ever be in life. Don't you agree? Yeah, totally. Imagine you go back to 23-year-old, pull your head in, and be in boys. Compare that to producer Juliet, the way she holds herself. You haven't seen me on a Saturday night.

You've only seen me in a professional manner. Yeah, well, nine to five, Juliet. We appreciate it. I don't want you to tarnish. No, I won't. I'll be good. Thanks, Jude. The podcast today had a really interesting show. I don't want you to tarnish our view on you. No, I won't. No. Okay. I'll be good. Thanks, Jude.

The podcast today had a really interesting show. Got into a weird hole of DJ Khaled facts. Yeah, we did. Which were kind of interesting. I guess when you talk about anyone, there's going to be Ben Boyce facts that will, you know, might go, oh, that's interesting. Everyone's got facts about themselves. Yeah, and DJ Khaled is like, where he came from and why he is what he is. He spent a month in prison.

Yeah. You do surprising. You're like, what's your backstory? You tell me a fact about Ben Boyce. That would be interesting. Oh, look at that. I've got one that I always say, but I don't want to rinse it again. What's that?

Don't look at me all suspicious. Oh, no. I don't know what you're saying now. You tell me a fact about you. You do it on you, because you're the sweeping generalisation guy. Well, I was going to tell you your Novus jingle. Oh, yeah, show us your crack. Yeah, Ben wrote the show us your crack jingle.

Was that through you pulling your head in yours? Yeah, probably, to be honest. Pulling your head in, mate. You know, show us your crack. Oh, Novus, yeah. Ben wrote that. And it was the voice of it. Well, yeah, it's part of it.

We've said that so often. What about yourself? What have you got of facts? Again, I feel like everything that we, we just talk about that stuff. Yeah, you do. You don't really hide too much, do you? All the interesting stuff. Yeah.

I mean, you know this, but I grew up on an Air Force base. Yeah, that's interesting. My dad was a squadron leader in the Air Force. Yeah. And my family. Never thought of following in his footsteps? No. No, my uncle.

No serious question. Yeah, no. No, my uncle. And nor did he push me in that direction either. No, my uncle. A serious question. Yeah, no. No, my uncle, and nor did he push me in that direction either. They were just, they were very, wonderful parents,

very supportive of what I chose to do. But yeah, I'd love to be one of those people like, shit, I came from a rough background, you know, school of hard knocks and stuff.

But if anything, the school of soft knocks. I wish I was private school. They wouldn't even knock you over the foot, you know. If they knocked you, they'd pay you out 100 grand grand sorry for that, sorry for you sorry for that, hush money

but you know, my uncle I distinctly remember having a conversation with my uncle who also was Air Force he worked in the Air Force as well as an engineer and I told him what I did you know, it was radio, broadcasting and he said, they pay you for that he doesn't see this as a

there's a generation of workers who just don't see this sort of thing as a viable job we look upon tiktokers with the same disdain you get paid for that you turn that into a profession it's a profession we can all judge whether

we think it's a worthwhile profession radio compared to others we often bag radio whether we think it's a worthwhile profession, radio, compared to others. You know, we often bag radio, what we do. But you're right. Yeah, it's... Anything's a profession nowadays. You can do anything. Yeah.

You know. I mean... I'm going to stop rambling. We're getting into a pull-your-head-in-territory. Yeah, pull you in. Old man rambling. Okay, pull you in. New Zealand's breakfast.

This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben, good morning. Tuesday morning, just got six o'clock. Do you know what? I was travelling to work the other morning. I've been meaning to play this for a while, and I really respected this man.

As we were sitting at the lights, you know, that's sort of quarter to five in the morning. He's in a convertible BMW, gold, looking like an absolute boss, just blaring Carlos Santana. Like, this is... So this is recorded from your car next to another car? Next to another car, yeah. I'd wear my window down a bit, because this is like at an intersection,

you know, in the middle of the CBD. There's apartments around around There's sleeping people And just Santana shredding it up on the guitar Not even Carlos Santana I was here Carlos Santana At quarter to five in the morning Just amazing I think it was a Monday too

Wow He was just full party mode This guy You wonder with those people You hear people people, their stereos blaring, you're like, do they realise how loud that is for everyone else? Maybe in the car it's a different experience, sonic experience. Yeah, you don't really know. I'll be so like, it's the worst thing if someone grabs your phone

and puts it on shuffle or something at the party. I'm like, what music have I got in here, you know? Oh, yeah. You've really got to have a lot of faith, don't you? And your friends and your music choice when you hand over your phone for people to scroll through. Because you do feel like in your car, you're in your safe spot. Yeah, you can listen to whatever. You can sing

My Heart Will Go On on the way home, crying. Yeah. No one will judge you. Well they will if it's loud, alright? So that's the lesson we've learnt this morning. Hey, $5,000 up for grabs. That's happening at 7.45 this morning. And if you want a sneak peek of the words so you can formulate a game plan, you can go to The Hits Breakfast on Facebook and Instagram,

and that's a wee advantage to hopefully getting you $5,000 this morning. We're going to be talking to the latest of Vic D from Celebrity Treasure Island before 7 o'clock as well. Candy Lane. Yeah, she did so well on the show. Want candy. That's a song from Hop. Remember that movie Hop the Rabbit?

Yes, yes, with Russell Brand was the voice of the rabbit. Great song, I want candy, but it sounds a bit weird when I'm thinking about Candy Lane. She joins us before 7 o'clock. It is the hits. You've got John O'Byrne. It is the hits. John O'Byrne. Of course, there was actually surprisingly a few announcements

made by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, yesterday involving Auckland and the Waikato and things moving forward. So we'll get into those in a bit more detail in the next 15 minutes. Yeah, I know that's a big problem the government's dealing with and we're actually navigating our way through a bit of an issue this morning as well. Looking at our sheet, our run sheet. Too much animal content. So we're having to spread it out.

I mean, you had an answer. So what's the government's problem? Oh, you're saying they've got problems. They've got problems. We've got bigger problems. Yeah. Ben Boyce has got a wonderful animal story. We're going to save that for prime time.

Yeah, very surprising. I thought you were pranking me. Like, honest, I just thought you were pranking me. I was looking for the cameras. I love that that's where your friendship has come to. Yeah. Any unusual events in your life, you just think it's a prank. pranking me like honest i just thought you were pranking me i was looking for the cameras i love that that's where your friendship has come to yeah any unusual listen once you put yeah once you put a digger through your friend's house you kind of you kind of lay off the pranks from that point on so you can rest assured i'm never going to prank you at your house again that's not

somebody who's going to prank me would say uh so you would go that's after then i've got some animal content as well and then you also want to talk about your dog. So this is our issue. We're just trying to spread it out. If you love animals, it's the show for you today. If you want updates on what's happening with COVID and stuff, maybe it's not the show. So it's starting to get a little hotter at night now. And, you know, we sleep with the windows open. And our neighbours, both neighbours have cats.

We're an animal-free zone. So the cats sort of spend their nights hustling and going toe-to-toe, duking it out over our property. You know, just hear, you know, sometimes there's a bit of a spat and something tips over and you're like, dear God, there's a UFC out there. Anyway, I wake up. Last night, it was about 1.30 30 in the morning and i can feel something

on my face and guess what it was well i'm guessing it's the cat now because you've set it up unless the cat story was to throw us off the scene it was me pranking you it was ben gently caressing my face with his fingers the cats had nothing to do with it. No, it was a cat's tail. So the cat had jumped in through the window and was just sort of perched on the side of my pillow and just sort of made itself out. And this is the thing with cats. They have this blind arrogance.

They can just wander it anywhere. They're like, you're not going to kick me out, mate. I'm welcome. They're almost like offended if you look at them sideways. They're very, yeah. We've got a cat at home, and we love him. But he's very much like, he gives you attention when he wants something. But you fall for it.

You're like, oh, mate. Oh, he's going to be all, this is great. And he just wants to be fed, or he just wants, you know. They're quite independent cats, aren't they? More so than dogs. And, you know, look, if we broke down on a spreadsheet the amount of airtime you've given your dog to your cat your cat gets very little like i feel like you love your cat a lot less than you love your dog i just don't know what the cat's up to as much he's sort of like a teenager that he'll just go off you know and whereas the dog's always around he's always doing goofy stuff

i'm like this is great for radio you know the cat i don't know what he's up to he's probably doing the same goofy stuff but at someone else's house. Yeah. Do you think he's got a family he loves more that he goes and visits? Potentially. That's the thing with cats. He's getting fed somewhere else, I reckon. And they force themselves upon people. They just won't leave.

And so then you're like, oh, I guess I've got to start feeding this thing. No one knows who owns them. Yeah, our neighbour's like, oh, our cat sleeps on our bed all the time. He comes inside, sleeps on the bed. Goes inside? See, this is my point. Our cat. Our cat does that. I mean, we've got beds our bed all the time. He comes inside, sleeps on the bed. Goes inside? See, this is my point. Yeah, our cat. Our cat does that.

I mean, we've got beds that he can sleep on, but obviously he's just like, oh, claim that house as well. And whenever you call him out, it's like you're inconveniencing them. Yeah. Like give you that look of like, hey, buddy, who do you think you are? Yeah, so that's my animal banter. There's one done. It's a big show of animal banter.

Don't you worry about that. But next we want to get into something An observation You've got into an internet hole About one of the biggest music producers in the world Yeah Well I don't know It's probably quite an unusual person to focus in on Actually to be honest

Do you know DJ Khaled? Yeah I know DJ Khaled Yeah Hopefully most people know DJ Khaled If you don't You'll know a lot more about him next. That's the hits you got, Jono, on bed. I've been holding on to pieces.

Time to update you on everything that went on yesterday in the press conference. Scrolling through your page. Yeah, that's right. This man's been scrolling his index finger work so hard he's suffering early onset of arthritis. But that's his commitment to this part of the programme. Thank you, Ben. Now, yesterday we were talking about there was going to

be an announcement from the government, and we kind of went, oh, it's probably going to be one of those ones where they update us on an update on an update, and they don't really update us on anything really. I felt like it was going to be one of those, but actually there was some stuff that came out of it. And we want to get into that now, see if I've got my head around it. So Auckland's in this 12.

This is a good time to figure that out. Well, we were all trying to navigate this together because they can't really throw these new rules. We haven't quite made it to the traffic light system just yet. So New Zealand makes it to traffic light system when the country's vaxxed at 90%. But obviously each district health board, they set their own targets.

Yeah, and then they can move to that traffic light system. They did a good job of palming that off to the DHBs didn't they? So the 12th week of lockdown for Auckland, and Cabinet has made an in-principle decision to move Auckland to Step 2 of Level 3 from next Tuesday at 11.59pm and the Waikato from 11.59pm tonight. So that Step 2 allows retail,

so shops are going to be opened and public facilities to open. The number of people to meet and greet as well up to 25 and you don't have to stay in the same bubble it's just one extra bubble. You can have 25 people outside although you can't go inside so you've got to have strong bladder control I guess is probably the big thing as well. I don't think I've ever had

25 people at my flat. 25? Juliet have you ever had 25 people at your flat? No actually our flat's quite small so we probably can't even fit 25 people in our whole room. It's a generous number. Yeah. 25 is generous. If you can cater for 25, then hell, what a rule for you.

So also, as well as some of the shops opening, libraries and museums are going to be open as well. Can only 25 people go into the museum? No, I think you must be allowed to have more than that. I guess this is why. But the museum's not outside. I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you can have hundreds inside a building.

Maybe only 25 people go to the museum. I don't know. Maybe it was shaming the museums a little bit. I like going to the museum. I take the kids to the museum quite often. Well, there's three. Yeah, okay. I haven't been in years.

Do you? No. It's good. Go to the volcano room. It's a great place. Another 22 people. You've got your limit museum. So no gyms, no hairdressers.

But yeah, I thought things would be happening a lot later when we reached 90%, but that seems to be happening as well. So the vaxxed and non-vaxxed next Tuesday can walk into retail stores. However, when the vaccine passport comes into play... Some of those stores you won't be able to, right, will you? Yeah. If there's a vaccine passport on the stores. Yeah, OK. Anyway. We told you we were trying to figure it out.

I think we're all trying to figure it out. Yeah. I think we're all trying to figure it out as well and the government as well. And they've also said they're going to end the top-rating TV show, the 1pm Presser. The 1pm Press Conference is going to be sort of, it feels like it's getting sort of phased out.

They're shifting gears in their COVID response, they've said online. So, yeah. So as far as next week, there's going to be less regular updates at one o'clock. So only Wednesdays and Fridays. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern isn't going to do the 1pm press conference anymore. She's just going to do a Monday one after post-cabinet. Ashley Bloomfield feels like he's been sort of benched a little bit as well. He's hardly going to do them. It's

more going to be Chris Hipkins and Deputy PM Grant Robinson. So only two a week. And they're going to focus less on the case numbers, more on, hey, everything's going great. Hospitalisation's good, you know, like, you know, vaccination's great. Oh, how many case numbers you got? What did you say, sorry? How many case numbers you got there, Hippo? I didn't hear that question, but jeez, everything's good.

They have said that New South Wales had less daily cases yesterday than we did. Hey, everything's going great. It's going great. It's going great. I'll be tuning in for that. The going great update. The going great update. It's going great.

No questions. No questions. It's kind of, you know, we all mocked Trump when Trump was like, let's just not report on the numbers. You know? This is exactly what we're doing. Yeah. It seems like they're going to still be available, but less talked about.

You know, less talked about. I suppose. Well, they did say, you know, all the way through this, for some reason, it's like, well, we had always expected this. They'd always planned for it. They'd always prepared for it. Even though we're meant to go hard and early, whatever, they'd always planned 80 days later we'd have over 160 cases. They'd already planned for it. Oh, this is all part of it.

All part of the plan. Oh, okay. Yeah, so, but they are going to get high, those case numbers, and I guess what's the point in hearing those every day? Yeah. You've either got vaccinated people or you don't have vaccinated people. Well, they're talking about over 1,000 a week in numbers. But hey, everything's going fine.

Everything's going fine. We won't talk about those. We'll just talk about... So when does the going great update start? Is it next week? Maybe from next week. Everything's going great. That is your daily update of what's going great in new zealand right now it is the hits you got john o'donnell rated m for mildly amusing john o'donnell new zealand's

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And then when it turns up to your house, you're like... You should turn up on the dude from the picture. Can you just follow me around and wear that? You look pretty good. We've got some facts about a particular music producer that is coming up. We mentioned it before and there was some grave concern amongst the team that not everyone was

familiar with this artist. So we're going to play his music he's got some of the world's biggest hits right he teams up with justin bieber he teams up with rihanna he teams up with uh so many artists to perform the hits and we're going to get to he made news actually last night a very very funny clip so we're going to talk about it in a minute after we play some dj carlos there we go with justin bie, it is the hits. You're on the hits, New Zealand's breakfast, it was DJ Khaled and we're playing that because he was in the news, he's been in the

news over the last couple of days. Now DJ Khaled obviously a producer, works with Justin Bieber and Rihanna and he was on the news the other night, he got gifted this guitar that's been made to do with Bob Marley's family. It was a prestigious... He's one of the first people in the world to play this guitar.

Beautiful looking guitar too. You have to listen to this. DJ Khaled, we're excited to share this new guitar with you. As someone who has an appreciation for Bob Marley's life and music, we want you to be one of the first to play the guilty 20 Marley. This is him playing the guitar, but it clearly

he's not He's just a little bit off. He's not really like he's, you know, stage through the process that he's saying, well, hey, I don't actually I don't play a guitar, which is fine. I'm a producer. I don't need to play, you know, I know music, but I don't But he was playing it with confidence, too.

He was, like, bopping his head back and forth as if he was nailing it. Can we just hear the guitar bit again? All right. Wonderful stuff. Almost like a kid when he picks up a guitar at someone's place. He's just like, yeah, I'm just jamming away, and it's, yeah. So, yeah, I got into a bit of a hole about DJ Khaled after that video. You know he's renowned for obnoxiously just yelling his name

over the beginning of all of his songs. DJ Khaled. DJ Khaled. DJ Khaled. DJ Khaled. Sounds like the same DJ Khaled. They probably use the same one. Does he not re-voice it? I don't know unless he does it exactly the same DJ Khaled They probably use the same one Does he not re-voice it?

I don't know unless he does it exactly the same every time It's good for his branding You know it's a DJ Khaled Like Jason Derulo too So he kind of yells his profession and his name after Over every song But there was a whole bunch of internet wormhole facts That I got trapped in And this is Jono Pryor's internet wormhole.

Jono's internet wormhole. DJ Khaled edition. DJ Khaled! Did you know you played this Bob Marley clip? Now, I got into an article as to why he was being gifted this prestigious, precious guitar. He's a huge fan of Bob Marley. That's why. And, I don't know

Bob Marley would need to smoke a lot of weed To make himself chill after what just happened to his guitar Wouldn't he? Yes Maybe he can come back and play a Redemption song DJ Khaled But his family, he's become friends with the Marleys Right, so there is a connection there

There is a connection, yeah I don't know how the relationship is after that. But there is a connection there because he plays in Jamaica all the time. He DJs in Jamaica. So Bob Marley's family obviously wanted to gift him a very precious gift. And he treated it with the respect it deserved. He's got the same first and last name. Really?

Khalid Khalid. Oh, really? It's his actual birthday. Khalid Khalid. There we go. It's like Smith and Smith and Bond and Bond. In the early 90s, DJ Khalid spent a month in prison for minor traffic offences. Really?

Now, four weeks is my ideal prison time. Because it's not enough for you to hate prison. But it's enough to hate prison. You know, it's a perfect amount of time on a personal level. Where's he gone? Oh, he's away

for a month in prison. But also a good amount of time to give you just enough credibility on the street. You get out, where you been? Prison.

How long for? Month. It's probably like a lockdown. You know, it's probably about that. Yeah. You know, we can probably handle

four weeks, but anything longer, we're like, we're going nuts now. He once proposed to Nicki Minaj with a $500,000 engagement ring.

Were they in a relationship? No. Okay. And I don't know if she got to keep the ring or what happened, but she denied the proposal. He owns a restaurant

called Finger Licking. Oh, like KFC? Yeah, it's a chicken. It's a chicken. We're known for it's a chicken and velvet cake.

Finger Licking doesn't sound very COVID friendly, does it? Depending on whose fingers you're licking. See, I wouldn't go around licking your fingers. No, not in this environment, no. And before we started, did you know that DJ Khaled was just... No, I didn't know. Because I know nothing about DJ Khaled. I know none of these facts, but anyway.

Do you want answers? No, I don't. He was just a boring, run-of-the-mill, low-level, scum-sucking radio DJ like you and me, Ben Boyce. Was he? Yeah. One day, Ben Boyce could be obnoxiously yelling his name over songs. Ben Boyce! Another one!

Oh, he's got another one? He had one before this? And they he's got another one? He had one before this? And they let him do another one? And that is some facts you never knew you needed to know about DJ Khaled. And you'll probably forget them in about two seconds. We've got Candy Lane. She's joining us very shortly. She was evicted from Celebrity Treasure Island.

It is the hits. You've got a tonne of it. I can't write one song that's not about you. Can't drink. It's your Mendez. It is the hits. You got it, Jono and Ben. Michelle Mendez, it is the hits. Jono and Ben, it is the final of Celebrity Treasure Island. It's getting down to it on the show. And last night, two were evicted. It was sent from the island. Of course, we had

Jess and we had Candy Lane as well. And at the end, when they got to make speeches, Candy Lane took some of the lyrics to, you know, Frank Sinatra's My Way and she kind of, well, she remembered, she obviously put something together. I thought this was really impressive. She kind of like described her time on the island. There were times, and there'd been a few, when Ed and I got the one-two. But now there's back Ed, Chris and Lance still here for the final dance. Let the record show I took my blows and played the game my way.

That was pretty good. Poor Jess had to go next for her thing. She was like, I didn't prepare. I didn't have like lyrics that I'd... I just wanted to say thanks for having me. Yeah, it's been an emotional experience and stuff. We've got Candy joining our New Zealand's breakfast right now. Candy Lane, how are you? I'm good.

So good to speak to you guys. It's been a long time since we've caught up with you, Candy Lane. Are you being well? I am well. You know, I'm such a fan of you two. Oh, we're a fan of you. You did such a great job on Celebrity Treasure Island. Thanks.

You really did. And, I mean, we didn't understand that you were actually there for the most part of four weeks. It's a long haul, Candy. Oh, man. And it felt like it. I get it, yeah. You and Buck formed quite a bond. Your cousin is actually married to Buck Shelford.

That's right, Joe. Even though it was so lovely because I haven't spent any time with that part of the family. And so it was such a great opportunity to sit there and chat about the family and his grandchildren. And it was just, yeah, it was amazing. Well, you formed quite the alliance, you and Buck, and one thing we found quite amusing, and I don't know if you're even aware of this, is that every time they mentioned Buck and Candy,

they would roll it together so tight that it sounded, this might just be us, it sounded like something else. It sounded like a swear word. Have a listen to this, Candy. Fucking Candy. Yeah, like a swear word. Have a listen to this, Candy. Fucking Candy. Yeah, they've got to go. And I think they'll pick fucking Candy. It sounds like he's getting quite aggressive about Candy.

They should have said fucking Edna. What was the one moment on the island that you were most proud of? Earning the 10K for Endometriosis New Zealand. That was a real up for me. You all did so well for your respective charities as well. And there were some tense moments on the show, Candy. There was some friction. No one wants to find out like that.

You guys would not like to find out like that. I mean, at the end of the day, I see you taking this very emotionally, like personally. You can't speak for me. I'm speaking for myself. How do you deal with those moments if you ever run in with Edna or someone?

Oh, look, you can't put an old head on young shoulders. And, you know, I've been in those situations so many times in my life and you just deal with it you just you've just got to um you know sort it out and then let it go and get on with it the next day and i i kept saying to production you know it's all very well you you know you want me you want me to sort of stick up for myself all the time. But, you know, I still had to go home and sleep next to these people. Yeah, yeah. That's a very good point.

You go back to your hotel and I sit here in this awkward camp. Katie, I was actually looking into yourself last night. Ten years old you first started representing New Zealand in dancing. I mean, that's incredible. Yeah, I think my first international was in Berlin. I was about ten. They say it takes two to tango. That's a famous saying.

But can you tango by yourself? Like, is it possible from dancing to tango by yourself? Yeah, of course. Oh, there you go. It doesn't take two to tango. That was much fun. You look unusual tangoing a pole. Yeah, but you can.

Okay. What about dancing like no one is watching? Is that a good idea or not? Well, some of the dancing I've seen on Dancing with the Stars, it would have been better off. You guys should have had it in your sports scene. You should have done competitive dancing. There you go.

Oh, we should have. We should have. Next time. Yes. Not a bad idea. We should do a dance competition. There you go. Can you teach anyone to dance?

I mean, you know, you've got your own school. You know, even us uncoordinated white guys. Hey, I'm up for the challenge. And it would be a challenge. That would have been a good challenge on the show. Teach John or Ben how to dance. Hey, Candy, we've got some music from some pretty well-known dance movies, and we're going to start playing them for you. We've got Candy Lane with

us from Celebrity Treasure Island. We're going to start playing the music for you. You've got to tell us what movie or show it's from, okay? Oh, thanks for that. It's another pointless challenge, like what Brie would do on Celebrity Treasure Island. What movie is this from? Oh, Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Well done. One for one. Iconic, iconic. Yeah, time of my life. Yeah, of course. Dirty Dancing. That's right. Dirty Dancing was quite dirty then, isn't it? Wasn't it?

Dirty Dancing now is not wearing a face mask and not sanitising your hands. And finally, let's go one more, Jono. Furnished off an apartment with a jewel and a robot save you. Ooh. It's a Quentin Tarantino film. Oh, oh, oh, oh. She has the bob in the snake. Yes, yes, yes.

Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction. There we go. And this one, finally, for Candy Lane, guessing the music from the movies. Oh, yeah, this one. That one's a bit trickier, that one. A movie about a magician named Michael. Whose magic trick was taking off his clothes.

Oh, yes. Magic Mike. Yeah, I had obviously the vision of him taking his clothes off, put me on. I never once saw him pull a rabbit out of a hat. No, it was very interesting magician tricks. Candy Lane, you've done so well on Celebrity Treasure Island. Really do appreciate your time, and you keep safe. Thanks.

Really proud, really proud of how I've done, and also to represent Endometriosis New Zealand, a real privilege. Alright, Juliette's backing up the dump truck to unload on some more celebs. What's going on, Ju? So just a quick spy update. Simon Cowell is reportedly quitting TV, but this is just on screen. So he's got a new TV show called Walk the Line, which is kind of like a game show

mixed with X Factor. So it's like people perform, but then I think later on in the show they either choose to walk the line and continue on with the show or take out a cash prize. And then they end up marrying their next contestants. Blindfolded.

While being a ninja. He created this show so he wants to spend more time behind the scenes blindfolded while being a ninja. So he created this show, so he wants to spend more time behind the scenes being a producer and a creator, and he hasn't been seen on TV since he broke his back over like a year ago. Remember when that happened? Gosh, it seems like not very long ago.

Wasn't it on like a scooter or something? Yeah, it was on like an electric bike, I think it was. But now he seems to be loving the electric bikes. He's a genius when it comes to creating those reality tv formats he's an x-factor got talent yeah he's done a whole swag of them hasn't he we spoke to David Walliams who is a acclaimed children's author who also is a judge on got talent and he was sharing a wonderful story about Simon Cowell is that he's quite short and they were traveling through the customs, you know, security, airport security together,

and he said he looked over and he's like, who's that little child? And it was Simon Cowell taking off his high-heeled boots. Yeah. Because he wears shoes with quite a big sort of sole on it, yeah. Smart. That's what you've got to do to appear beautiful. And he says he has bespoke made,

see all the Warriors white T-shirts with the V-neck? They're all the same T-shirt, but they're bespoke made in Italy. He's probably got hundreds of them, right? That's what you can do if you're Simon Cowell, right? Go to Kmart. And that's your very quick spy update this morning as we've got to get to the news. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz.

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Today, 5 o'clock New Zealand time, the race that stops the nation, or COVID, it's the virus that stops the nation, but the race that stops the nation and maybe polarises the nation, depending if you're into horse racing or not, but the Melbourne Cup's going on today. Yeah, I love the Melbourne Cup. My favourite thing, watching the news at 6 o'clock

after a Melbourne Cup and people just rolling out with bits of carrot vomited into their fascinator and things. One of my life goals is to just never be that person rolling around in a bush in the car park of the Melbourne Cup afterwards. Well, there's not many people there this year, obviously, because we're in a COVID world. So 10,000 people at Flemington today for the Melbourne Cup. The thing too with horses, and I don't know much about horse betting or anything, is when you go and get tips from everyone,

or everyone forces their tips upon you, and they say it like it's fact. Oh, you've got to put everything on Shagga's rubbish bin. And no one ever questions them after the race when Shagga's rubbish bin comes in. And you get so many tips thrown at you, it's like listening to the bloody epidemiologist. You're like, I don't know which one to believe here.

Because you're all saying it with great confidence. Well, there was some big announcements made yesterday. We're going to tell you, get you up to date with some of those very shortly. As well as $5,000 at 7.45 if you want. We sneak peek. Where are those, Producer Juliet? I was told off. Oh, no.

I just wanted to clarify. They're on our Facebook and Instagram story, not as an actual post. You have to go to the little story to check it out. Just because she was screaming at you, Ben, it was a clarification, OK? Not a telling off. All right, we'll get into the big announcements

from the government next. It is the hits. You've got John and Ben. I think I want to marry you. Yeah, and 12th week of lockdown for those in Auckland in the 09 region. And a cabinet yesterday made an in-principle decision. That's kind of like if you're good. It's not what your parents would say.

If you're good, you get to do this, you get that. It's got a little bit of insurance too that if next week in principle they don't do what they're going to say, the reporters will go, but you said, and they said, no, no, no, we said in principle uh they don't do what they're going to say the reporters will go but you said and they said no no no we said in principle yeah so in principle auckland's going to move to step two of level three from next tuesday at 11 59 the waikato uh easing restrictions today from 11 59 so basically step two before we get to this traffic light system basically step two allows retail and some public facing shops to open uh and the number of people that can meet outside.

So no more that you basically can mix and mingle up to 25 people. You know, be responsible. Can't go to the bathroom inside. That sort of thing. Thanks, Jacinda. Public-facing shops. What about the embarrassing shops? You're like, I can't face the public right now.

Can we go into those ones? Those sort of shops you go and visit. But, you know, whether you're in the South Island or the North, over the last, well, you could say 24 months in various lockdown forms, people have had to improvise and become semi-professional in areas of industry that would usually be left to the professionals. And it's when you give things a crack, you're like, ah, I see why people train and prepare for these industries for months. Juliet, over the weekend, what did you do?

I cut my dad's hair, and now there's a growing list for me to do the hair of all of my family members eventually. I need to dye my grandma's hair. I need to dye my mum's hair. I need to dye my auntie's hair. I think I'm a hairdresser now. The Ruffle Hair Salon. The salons aren't open yet.

You're a very professional radio producer so with that logic, abiding by that you would make a semi-professional hairdresser. Thank you. It's that sort of Kiwi can-do attitude that ends you up with a misshapen mullet on your head. That's what happened. I got my kids, speaking of semi-professional hairdressers,

I got them to shave a mullet into my hair. Here's how it happened. How's she going? She's done a really good job for an 11-year-old. Oh, it looks like a mullet now! Don't give me the job of briar. Although that's the only way out of this. Yeah, so that's what i'm left with

yeah and now what i'm left with is watching this thing that's sort of three weeks old now what has that become julie i don't know i don't know what's going on with it now guys i don't know how to wear it all right it's locked down he's like whatever you do make sure you put four decades of hair fashion on top of my head combine them all so this is what we want to chuck open this morning on new zealand's breakfast oh 800 that hits the telephone number 4487 if you like texting uh who doesn't like texting yeah we all do yeah we all do unless you're in gloves it's quite hard to text but uh what have you become a semi-pro in maybe it's baking something maybe it's cooking something maybe it's doing something around the house that

you're like well we normally would get a person over to do this, but I've had to give it a crack and it worked. Or it didn't work. Maybe those stories are better on radio. Yeah, maybe you're now a fay in floral arrangements and face tattoos, an odd combination. But who am I to say what your hobby should be? 0800 the hits.

What are you now a semi-pro in? We'll get your calls on next. We've got some wild bean vouchers up for grabs. Give us a call on 0800THEHITS. Sons of Zion, it is the hits. Jono and Ben, 718. We want to know this morning on 0800THEHITS, what have you become semi-professional in over the last year or two

since the pandemic has sort of hit? Yeah, a lot of semi-professional teachers out there, won't there be? A lot of semi-professional politicians, epidemiologists, a lot of them. I got into gardening. Well, when I say got into gardening, I spent 10 minutes gardening and all of a sudden had an uncontrollable desire to phone up, talk back and moan about people younger than me. Gardening's just not for me.

But you've got to do it. You've got to do it. Unless you're like, you know. Yeah. I wouldn't even say it was a semi-professional job. It was just a bushy massacre. I just don't have the patience for it, Ben. You know me.

Imagine me in the garden, mate. I know. Just ripping and pulling it all out. Yeah. And all we left was just a mound of dirt. It's easier to maintain a mound of dirt, isn't it? So we're going to go to the phones. We'll get Rosie on from Auckland.

Morning, Rosie. Hi. How are you, mate? All right? I'm good. How are you guys? Yeah, good. You're a semi-professional what, Rosie?

Well, a sushi maker. Oh, yeah. So this is something you've just learnt recently? No, I've actually been making sushi for ages. And it was just in that like first lockdown that like it was so boring i didn't have any uni uh my work stopped and i was just like you know what i'm just gonna spend like six hours making like a massive japanese banquet and it's kind of six hours of a bank how much of a banquet did you make for yourself? Yeah, okay, I exaggerate, but...

No follow-up questions, Jono. Still eating that sushi from 2020. Wow. Oh, St. Pierre, better watch out. Rosie's hot on your heels. Do you YouTube it, Rosie, or did you just... How did you learn how to do this? I don't know.

I have this, like, funny, like, contraption. It's called, like, a sushi-sy. It's kind of... I'm kind of cheating. But it makes the rolls, and then you just put them out on the seaweed. But I don't know. I've been making it for ages. My next challenge is the bamboo mat, I suppose.

Yeah, right. Dog grooming also, we're being told, is another semi-professional occupation of yours. Yes, yes. So I have a little schnauzer. She's with me right now. I give her the traditional all shaved on top and shaggy on the bottom.

When you're shaving a dog, do you go, what am I doing with my life? Do you shave it back to a zero or something? I wouldn't know the numbers. Do you shave it back to a John O'Prior? Yeah. Pretty much. There you shave it back to a John O'Prior? Yeah. Pretty much.

Pretty much. Oh, there you go, Rosie. Making sushi, grooming dogs. Ben Boyce, maybe you get Rosie over to groom your schnauzer. Yeah. Well, I don't know if it's... What's Bo's... Samoyed.

Samoyed, sorry. Somehow made that sound really... I know. Sort of like... I was like... Yeah, but anyway. It wasn't meant to be. But anyway, Rosie, we're going to hook you up with a Wild Bean voucher.

You can shout morning to you next time you're passing Wild Bean. Oh, thank you guys so much. Good on you, Rosie. You have a great day. Sorry for that weird schnauzer. Didn't mean to. I forgot it was a Samoyed. That's all right.

Kerry, how are you? Hi, how are you doing? Yeah, good. What are you doing? What semi-professional works have you got into over the last couple of years? I've been starting to get into, like, crocheting. So the one-needle knitting. Wow.

That sounds tedious. But that sounds something that Juliet would do. I'm not that talented. I think my talents just stop at sewing machines themselves. They do it for me. What have you created? Like, what have you done crochet style? I'm working on, like, a little Minion soft toy,

but I've made a bumblebee and stepped away from, like, the kitchen cloths to make something 3D. So, yeah, the bumblebee is pretty cute. That's cool. We had a friend, Sel, who she got into crochet, but she would make inappropriate crochets. Like, you know, things that hang on the wall, yeah, the bumblebee is pretty cute. That's cool. We had a friend, Sel, who she got into crochet, but she would make inappropriate crochets. Like, you know, things that hang on the wall, like, go F yourself.

Oh, really? Yeah, things like that. But she did this wonderful scarf. A lot of effort goes into that, though, for, you know. For the pale. Yeah. Great, though. I appreciate it.

And she made, like, this sort of crocheted this scarf, and it hung down. But they were both bosoms on either end of the scarf. So when you hung the scarf over, it was sort of sit appropriately. There's your next project, Kerry. Oh yeah, I could definitely do that. Yeah, breast scarf. Hey, good on you, mate.

You have a wonderful day. We'll send you out some wild bean, eh? You too. Thank you very much, guys. We won't send it out to you. You'll have to go and get it yourself. And we'll send you the vouchers for you to obtain the wild bean. Yeah, we can get you six coffee free when you use the BP Me app at Wild Bean Cafe. There you go. Hey, five grand.

We've got it up for grabs this week. Five words for $5,000. We're giving you a huge advantage. You can go and find the words on our Insta story, The Hits Breakfast. Get yourself a bit of a game plan, and hopefully we'll join words up in about 20 minutes. Mmm, coffee breath. Jono and Ben, the hits.

It is the hits. Jono and Ben on your Tuesday morning, 7.29. There's a show on TVNZ1. It takes place on a Monday night, and it's called Barkley Manor, and it's about a doggy daycare place. Here's a little highlight. Barkley Manor is an esteemed daycare for dogs right in the heart of Auckland City.

Every day, over 200 dogs come to play, and depending on their canine countenance, they're assigned their very own area of the playground. Now, at the risk of losing all the people listening to us in the South Island, I have to admit, that's where I take my dog, Bo. That's where Bo has gone for the last few years. He goes, you know, when we're working a couple of times a week, he goes, he loves it, he loves it. But I know he's a shambles at home. He goes, you know, when we're working a couple of times a week, he goes, he loves it.

He loves it. But I know he's a shambles at home. He's a lovable shambles. So I'm worried every time this program's on there, we're going to see Bo and I'm like, well, because he hasn't, it's not like he can sign a release form where he can tell me,

hey, I did some stuff on camera that you probably don't want to watch. You know, so every time the show's on, I'm like, oh, Bo's going to be on it. Do you go home and say that to your family? I've done some stuff on camera. You're probably going to watch. Yeah, pretty much. You know, yeah, my family ignore my TV's going to be on it. Do you go home and say that to your family? I've done some stuff on camera. You probably don't know. Yeah, pretty much.

You know, my family ignore my TV shows. Runs on family. So I'm like, do I need to ignore this TV show that Bo could be on? Well, for weeks, Julie, you'll attest to this, the Ben voice has been pacing back and forth week to week just waiting for Bo to appear on the show. He's like, it's going to happen, it's going to happen. I'm going to be dog shamed on the show.

Maybe they could pixelate his face like Police 10-7. So you don't know. No association. Well, no matter what Beau sniffs, licks or humps on television, nothing will be as worse as what you've done over the last 10 years, Ben. So that's safe. But I've got a special treat for you.

Krista, who is the owner of Barkley Manor. You'd know Krista. She's going to join us on the show next. We're going to find out if Beau has made the cut. Krista joining owner of Barkley Manor. You'd know Krista. Yeah. Well, she's going to join us on the show next. We're going to find out if Bo has made the cut. All right. Krista joining us from Barkley Manor in just a few moments. Stick around for that. It is the hits.

You got Jono and Ben. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Five. Now, there's a program on TVNZ1 on a Monday night.

It's called Barkley Manor. It's about a doggy daycare place that my dog Bo goes to. He loves it there, but I'm worried that he's going to appear on this TV show and he's going to be doing what Bo does. It's a big, fluffy, white catastrophe. Bo is just waiting to happen. Each week you watch the show and you've dodged another bullet last night, Ben. How many more eps to go?

Because you don't want them to bring your good name down. Well, yeah, I've done that. It's my job. It's my role in the family. Stay in your lane, Bo. Well, we've managed to get a hold of Krista, who actually owns Barkley Manor, which you'll see on TVNZ1. Krista, good morning.

Good morning, Bo's dad. How are you? Bo's dad. That's one of the things I do love about Barkley Manor. You know, you always get referred to by, as the dad or as the parent of the animal. Completely. Yeah, which is pretty cool. You guys remember all, without a word of a lie, your team are amazing.

You remember every dog's name. We try to. I think one of the things that was fascinating for me is I had no idea it was going to get this big as a business. So as we've grown, you know, it just became like family. So I don't have children, so I don't know what it's like for you guys when you drop your kids off at school. But I should be hearing it's the same. If your teacher didn't know your child's name, you'd be pretty worried. Yeah, seriously.

I forget my kids' names from now on then, to be honest, Krista. Just from time to time. Ben's had a morbid because your TV show and I watched it was wonderful the first episode Krista. The big fear that Ben has had he saw all the promos playing for weeks leading up and he's like dear god if

Bo's on the show he's going to bring shame upon the boy's name as if Ben hasn't brought enough shame upon the boy's name. I mean I love Bo but he is a bit of a lovable shambles. You know, one of the things that I get asked frequently is, you know, do owners end up looking like their dogs? Which Ben, you know, fundamentally screwed it.

He ends up looking like Bo when he's older. But one of the massive things that I do know to be true, and this is anecdotal over our 14 years, not some reflection on life, is that you do end up getting a dog that's very similar to yourself. Lovable shambles. We're writing report cards at the moment. I just wanted to read Beau's last report card.

Because this is the thing, without a word of lie, you guys give report cards through, they get class photos, individual photos and stuff. So you know what, Beau's report card, we always put it up with the kids' ones at the end of the year. So I don't know how we compare. So last time we wrote, we put handsome Bo Bo. Bo is your classic class clown. He announces his arrival when entering a new classroom and always shakes his tail feathers.

He knows how to get away with being cheeky. Bo is working very hard on keeping his excitement contained when entering daycare. We can see his hard work is paying off. We love being able to care for Bo and we can't wait for another amazing year with him. So I'll let you guys reflect on how close that is to you, Ben. He's a bit of a show pony, this one. I try not to get too excited when

I arrive at work still. Start shaking his tail every morning. But I do, I feel like reading between the lines, you guys love Bo and you get a lot of care from him, but I do feel like he's a little bit of a pain for you sometimes, reading between the lines. But I think that there's two sides. He isn't a pain. One of the aspects of what we do is we've got to think about what he's bred to do.

You know, he's a herding dog at heart, and the fact that he lives in, you know, lovely urban Auckland is your choice, not his anyway. Yeah. You know, he'd be out chasing down animals in the snow. Krista, he has also, Ben Boyce, Beau's living in urban Auckland, but also Ben Boyce has astroturfers grass. I mean, doesn't get any more removed from his natural environment.

It's true. Is that Siberian astroturfing? Yeah. Thanks, Jill. It's lovely to talk to you, Krista. Congratulations on the show. Thank you. It's a very lovable program with a lot of heart,

and I'm sure it's going to be a raving success, as your business has been as well. You know, we're a part of an industry. It isn't just Barclay. When we launched, we were one of the first, but we've got a lot out there. And what we find about our industry is, maybe like others,

we only ever get talked about when something goes a bit wrong. You know, they're not regulated, blah, blah, blah, because something awful's happened, and that's a really valuable dialogue. what this does is just let our owners just share the lives they live with their dogs and that's special so i love that it's just giving a bit of positive at the moment and should i be worried that bo's going to be featuring on the show in any way that i shouldn't watch the certain episode you've probably caused today ben is i'm actually all the staff are writing report cards right now. So you might have to be a little bit nice to us and see whether or not that politics does work.

Yeah, because I like talking to Bo, I was like, are you on the show, Bo? I mean, he can't tell me if he signed a release form or what. He told us some stories. He loves me on TV, he loves me at the centre of attention, so I was like, if anyone wants to get on there, it would be Bo. Yeah, completely. Well, I don't know whether we can let his ego get as inflated

and we'll have to have a word with him. We'll have to see. We'll have to see. Thank you, Chris. Have a great day. Andrew, thanks, guys. Have a good one. Five words for 5K on the hits.

You're only five words away from a massive payday. I'm Benny's Jono. That's right. This is the hits. Now, if you want to win $5,000, this is the game for you. We play it every morning at this time. It's a game of word association. Really, really simple to play, and hopefully we can match five words today.

That's right. We're going to get Alice on from Carpenter. How are you, Alice? Hi, good, thanks. How are you guys? Yeah, moreno. Lovely to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast. Listen, basically this week we're handing you the baton.

All you need to do is cross the finish line. The words are available on the Hits Breakfast on Instagram. Just go to our story and you can formulate a bit of a plan. Hopefully a little less complicated than the government's plan to get the road map out of Auckland. Yeah, definitely. Okay, Alice.

So you've seen the words? Yes, I have. There's one that you can read it through different ways. Oh, okay. Okay, we'll see how we go. Your next answer you need to give us is who you're sending into the Soundproof booth this morning to match with. I'm going to go for you, Jono. Okay.

Jono. All right. $5,000 up for grabs. The things I wouldn't do for $5,000. All right, Alice, he is about to get into the Soundproof booth. What would you do if you for $5,000. All right, Alice, so you're about to get into the soundproof booth. What would you do if you won $5,000? Oh, hang on. My audio just cut out.

That's all right. That's all right. I thought you were ignoring that question. Sorry, what did you say? I was just wondering what you'd do if you won $5,000. I'm just about to move out of my parents' house and into my own place, so I'll get some stuff for that. Well, it would come in handy.

Let's see if we can do it. Johnna is in the soundproof booth, here is your first word this morning. As you know, you know the words anyway, it's fish. I'm gonna go with chip. Yep. Nice. Sassy is word number two. Um... hands?

What was that? Oh nah, attitude. Attitude. Pants? What was that? Oh, no, attitude. Attitude. Sorry, you confused both of us for that. It sounded like you said ham, but anyway, we'll move on. I was thinking about pants, but I'll stick with attitude. Which is the word that we get to that you've got, you sort of could go either way on?

I read it last night as Polish, but then I thought this morning it's probably Polish. Right, gotcha. Yeah, is it producer Bee Humps who comes up with the words each day? It's Polish or Polish? Polish. Okay, it's Polish. Okay, Polish. Polish is word number three. This is the word. Polish.

Polish silver. Silver. Flip. What are you going for when they say flip? Flop. Flip. What are you going for when they say flip? Flop. Flip, flop. And finally, mourn, but M-O-U-R-N. Yeah, this one was tricky.

I think I'm going to go with life. Oh, you mourn a life? Yeah, they are some tricky words this morning, even with a little bit of an advantage of knowing them. It's still tough, isn't it? Yeah. Let's get Jono out of the soundproof booth, and we'll see if he matches with you this morning. Okey-dokey, Alice.

All right, how did you go? Oh, there was one... You're all right. Yeah, there was one that we could... Yeah, anyway, we got there. We got there. We don't need to bore you with that. You can listen to it on the podcast on iHeartRadio, Jono.

Catch up. If I want to bore myself again? That's all we try to aim to do with this show, is just continuously bore people. All right. Hopefully you've formulated a game plan and see if your words match with Alice's. The winner, $5,000.

First word is fish. Chips. Nice. Sassy is word number two. I locked in two, but one that I call my daughter all the time. I call her sassy pants, but I... It's more of a...

I'm going to go attitude. That was the exact thought process. Did you say sassy pants too, Alice? I thought about it. Yeah. Yeah, they didn't understand me. Well, I thought you said ham for some reason. I was very confused.

You didn't get a sassy ham at Christmas? Don't you be cooking me like that. Don't you look at me like you want to eat me like that. Oh, that's good. We've got two from five. Polish is word number three. Polish. Jewelry.

What did you go? I went with silver. Oh, there's brass. Yeah, there's a wide range there. There's also nail. Oh, there's brass. Yeah. There's a wide range there. There's also nail polish, shoe polish as well. Yeah. There's plenty of options for polish.

I see why Behumps put that word in there. Okay. Well, I'm sorry, Alice. We dipped out there. It doesn't look like you're going to be using that money to set up a new place. You can just live in the shack that you're in now. I'm sorry. It's all good.

With no help from me, I apologize. The final two words, just so we've completed the game. Flip. Flop. And mourn, M-O-U-R-N? Mourn. Loss? Close.

Life was that one. So you guys got pretty close but not quite good enough. Hopefully tomorrow morning someone else takes home $5,000. All right, we'll just end there. Okay, thank you. Hey, Alice, you have a great day. Hopefully tomorrow morning someone else takes home $5,000. All right, we'll just end there. Okay, thank you. Hey, Alice, you have a great day. Well, thanks for letting me play.

You have a good one. I'm sorry, I put that awkward silence on me, Ben. That was a blimp on my broadcasting career. A blemish. A distinguished career it has been, too. It is the hits. Spy, the WhatsApp, spy.co.nz. Listen, what she lacks in professionalism,

she makes up for in screen time on her cell phone. So we forgive her. Jew, what's going on at Spy? So Ed Sheeran has said that Elton John calls him every single day. And he said, people think I'm exaggerating when I tell them that Elton calls me every day, but he literally calls him every morning, even if it's just 10 seconds, calls and says hi. And Elton started doing this when Ed's friend

and Aussie music executive Michael Gudinski passed away. And it's just never stopped since then, and especially now that Ed's contracted COVID. Elton will call in, check in how he's going, and it's got to the point where it's almost like... Awkward? Yeah, like maybe, yeah. It's like your parents calling,

oh, she'll scream that today. I'd love to talk to Alan John, he seems amazing, but if Alan John called me every day, would I get... Novelty's worn off. Yeah. Especially a 10-second call. Maybe it's not a texter.

Yeah, true. Just say, hey, Ed, how's it going? Hope you're all good today. Thinking of you, you know, that sort of thing. Yeah, and Ed said that sometimes, sometimes he'll be feeding porridge to his daughter Lyra in the morning and he'll get a call from Elton and it's like,

Lyra, say hi to Elton. Elton, say hi to Lyra. So they'll just be sitting at the breakfast table all having a chat with Elton John. Oh,

that's sweet. Isn't it? That's lovely. But also a burden on Ed's hearing state. Yeah. Having to make time to talk to Elton John. Yeah, Elton's going to be phoning sometime.

Yeah. The thing is, what are you covering in a 10-second phone conversation, though? That's a good question. Just like, hey, how are you? You can't really go deep on that one. Ben, you are not one for phone calls, Ben Boyce. He doesn't like it.

And when he's on it, he's pacing around. He just paces. Do you notice that? He just does laps on his phone up and down. Same with Ben Humphrey as well. Ben Humphrey always goes to a particular spot in the office to make phone calls just by the printer there. I always notice it. Just doing circling around. Yeah. Clocking up some K's.

You don't notice that you're walking though when you're on the phone do you? Yeah I know I do it but I don't know where I walk to when I'm on it. Yes. That's so true. I'll be like Rangitoto how did I get here? That is funny. And there is potentially a

new Hollywood couple that has been, there's been rumours about. Chris Evans, who is best known for his role as Captain America. Now, you've followed Chris Evans' back catalogue of work, haven't you? You were just saying before. Listen, the issue with me and Chris is there's too many of them in Hollywood. You've got Chris Evans, Chris Pine, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Martin, Chris Rock. Oh, my gosh, that's so true.

How many other Chris's are there? I'll have to Google. But Chris Evans and Selena Gomez apparently date. What did you say? Chris Jenner. That's a good one. Who's your favourite Chris out of all those Chris's? I like Chris Hemsworth. Yeah. And Ozzy

Hunk. Ben likes Chris Martin don't you? I actually really like Chris Martin too. A lot of people mock me for that. Same. They. An Aussie hunk. Yeah. Ben likes Chris Martin don't you? I actually really like Chris Martin and a lot of people mock me for that. Same. They think Coldplay's like the new Nickelback and I'm like I love Coldplay. Yeah well you guys are both white. And boring. No.

Am I allowed to get back to my dating story? Yeah sorry. I think that's the name of Coldplay's new album. White and boring. That's so sad to Coldplay. I really want to see them live. I've never seen them live. Great band. Amazing live.

Amazing live. Yeah, yeah. We'll talk about this one after the show. Sorry, back to your story, June. Apparently Chris Evans and Selena Gomez are dating. There isn't a lot of legs. There's not a lot of evidence, but the rumours have been going around for weeks, and I've been meaning to mention it in Spy,

but if it does end up happening, people have been seen entering and leaving the same place at separate times. People think that her reflections on one of his videos, everyone's going really deep. So if this does end up happening, you heard it here first. I love it how you're like, there's no hard evidence, but we'll talk about it anyway. Get it out there.

Maybe she thinks she's dating Chris Hemsworth. She's confused about which Chris she's dating. That's a very good point. At least she hasn't landed Martin, though. She dodged a bullet there. And that is Spy for this hour. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock, a high drama at the Boyce household yesterday.

An unexpected visitor on the doorstep. You sent me a photo of this. In the middle of lockdown. This gave me a huge surprise. I thought it was a prank from Jono. I'll tell you more about this very shortly on The Hits. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben.

Good morning, New Zealand. Just after 8 o'clock on The Hits. Now, there's a big UN climate conference going on at the moment. I think it's in Scotland. All the world leaders are there. You just heard on the news David Attenborough was talking as well. He was very, he was standing at the podium and jeez, he was rocking that podium back and forth.

It was working hard. Very passionate. I was like, that thing's going to go over on him. Now US President Joe Biden's there and he's offered a public apology to the UN Climate Conference over what Donald Trump, by basically pulling out of the Paris Accord, the US pulled out of that. So he's apologised for that on behalf of the country and said he's going to do better. Although Donald Trump basically pulling out of the Paris Accord. The US pulled out of that, so he's apologised for that on behalf of the country

and said he's going to do better. Although Donald Trump had a nickname for Joe Biden. This is what he used to call him. Sleepy Joe Biden will raise your taxes $4 trillion. That's under the auspices of Barack Hussein Obama. And Sleepy Joe Biden. Sleepy Joe. And there is a shot going on

at this big United Nations conference. Someone has just had a camera on Joe Biden and he sort of looks like he's closing his eyes. One of them is like, it's 20 seconds. He's closed his eyes for 20 seconds. Is he sleeping? Is he Sleepy Joe? And he is definitely dozing.

He's like Grandad at four o'clock on christmas day it's you it is me i am sleepy joe biden i've seen you do the same thing i'm like he's dozing and he's yeah you definitely lost joe there for a while and then one of his aides had to come up and kind of wake him up but to be fair god it'd be boring it would be so boring but you're saving the planet he's like my generation ruined the planet i can't be bothered fixing it. You guys, jeez, they'd have to be careful about how they all got there, right? I'm sure they took two giant US Air Force Ones there.

Oh, for climate change. I hope Greta got there on a big unicycle or something. I think she took the train. Yeah, good. Was it electric? Probably, I'd say so. Yeah. That's the thing, right?

But, you know, how many leaders are there? How many people are there? How did they all get there? They had to fly. Fossil fuel, mate. Have a Zoom meeting. But still, they've got a... They're there for good reason. Have a Zoom. A Zoom wouldn't be national news. We'd be talking about David

Burr at the... He'd be on Zoom. Oh, no. Anyway, that's... Joe could just sleep, then he could turn his camera off. It just comes up black screen, Joe Biden. Oh, hopefully they're doing good things for the planet. That's the main thing. Hey, next, very, very surprising.

The main thing is that they've ruined the planet by getting their bed. That was my point. It's about sorting out the planet for the future. Now, next, something turned up on the doorstep yesterday at home.

Gave me a heck of a fright and I thought it was a prank. I'll tell you what happened next. High drama on the hits. Now I want to tell you about a bit of a tale, a duck tale, if you will. Although later on, actually this is not relevant in the song, but he just really was very passionate about getting duck tales on the radio. So yesterday.

Please tell me it has something to do with the day. Yeah, well it does. Yesterday I got home from work on the radio. So yesterday. Please tell me it has something to do with the duck. Yeah, well it does. Yesterday I got home from work on the radio and our gate was shut, so I opened the gate and went inside and I wasn't even looking like, you know, as you're sort of half looking at your phone and things as you walk up towards the door and I got a heck of a fright

because on the doorstep, well, have a listen. Come home and I got the biggest fright of my life because I wasn't looking up at the doorstep and there was, what is looking up at the doorstep. And there was, what is it on our doorstep? There's a duck! But it doesn't look like a duck that you find in the duck pond. Like, he looks like he could be... Is that a baby swan, maybe?

Oh, maybe it's a baby swan. So we were a bit confused. I thought, like... You're a bit confused, but I'll play DuckTales anyway. I'll back it in. I'll back it in, but I shouldn't because later I find out. But anyway, it was this thing I don't know how it got in.

It's a real mystery and it was right by the door and all I could think of was you in that moment right there and that you were doing this to me. Is this a prank? Is someone pranking us? Is Jono pranking us? I don't know. Has Jono just left a duck in our door? A duck or a swan. The gate is shut.

It must have flown over the top and now we're left with a duck in our door? A duck or a swan. The gate is shut. They must have flown over the top and now we're left with a duck that we... He's so cute. Oh, he's beautiful. You're cute. Look how white he is. But I don't know what we're doing with this now. Is it a goose?

Is it a goose? Is it a sparrow? I think it's a bald eagle. I've been trying to work out what it is. Is it an goose just throwing out? Is it a sparrow? I think it's a bald eagle. Which we've been naming birds. Is it an ostrich? Hold on. You're correct if I'm wrong, but I think we're looking at an emu there. Very, very unusual.

We're like, what do you do in that situation? I love it how you think everything in your life is resulting in me pranking. Mate, I've got my own family. I'm not here to just torment every aspect of your life. I don't know that. On and off the radio. I looked for cameras. I looked for cameras after I got a fright.

I dropped, like, I got a fright. I had, like, a portable coffee cup that I had. I dropped that. I got a fright and looked for cameras. What a low-level prank, though. Look at this, mate. An adorable duck swan emu. Sparrow Kia on your doorstep.

So what did you end up doing with it? Well, yeah. Firstly, I cleaned up a lot of, of like the thing just makes a mess i've been probably quite scared yeah well so we rang um like there's a bird rescue place and they were like bring it out and you're like what's your peaking duck recipe they were like we'll bring it out to bird rescue because we're quite far away from water we went down the road and had a look around to see if we could you know find a place you place where it could have come from. But there was no other goose, ducks, emus, whatever down at that place.

And that's miles and miles away. We also went around the neighbours to see what was the pets. So bird rescue were like, bring it out. So I got the car started and my wife got the towel because I'm like, that's not for me. That's not. I'm such a wimp. Oh, you didn't want to pick it up. because I'm like, that's not for me. That's not. I'm such a wimp. Oh, you didn't want to pick it up. I just, like, it's cute.

I'd stroke it, but I didn't want to be the person putting the towel around the, you know, like. Birds out of their natural environment, they always weird me out too. When a bird goes inside your house, just there, just in a right flap, aren't they? Literally, they flap at their wings and they forget instantly how they got in. Yeah. Just go back here.

How you got in, mate? My wife's so much more braver than me but he was fine. He was actually relaxed a lot when we put the towel around him. We took him out to bird care and we spent most of the time in the car trying to come up with a name for this thing that we're about to hand over. Okay we're in the car and we're playing a game

of duck duck goose because no one knows if it's a duck duck or a goose. It could be a swan Yeah it might be a duck duck or a goose goose or a swan swan. Yeah what if it's a duck?. It could be a swan. Yeah, it might be a duck, duck or a goose, goose or a swan, swan. Yeah, what if it's a duck? I think it's a swan because it's like really cute. Anyway, we're going to bird rescue. Yeah, bird rescue.

And we named it Quokkie. No, it's Squawkie. Quokkie. Grant. No, we're not naming it Quokkie. Squawkie. Squawkie is the final name. There we go.

Squawkie, Squawkie, Squawkie. All right. Jeez, you guys really spent a lot of your day Guessing what that bird was It's a goose It is a goose, okay So the bird rescue place, the lady's like It's a goose Amanda said goose at one point

She wins So guess the bird Duck, duck, goose, it was a goose So they were reckoning it was a couple of months old and shouldn't be away from its mum in that situation, which is sad, but they're going to look after it and release it back into the wild when they can. Oh, what a lovely ending to that story.

What a huge inconvenience in your day. But how glad were you, like, well, finally I've got something for my bleak life to talk about on the radio. I find myself doing that, I'm like, I'm cutting my toenails. Can I turn this into, when have you cut your toenails? You know, rubbing eczema cream on. When have you rubbed eczema cream on? It's a bit of a drama, you know.

We've been in lockdown for ages. We're like, oh, we're going on a drive to take it out and, you know, pull a little thing. Should we chuck it out there? Oh, 800 the hits. Well, Animal Rescue. When have you played Animal Rescue?

Maybe something turned on on your doorstep and you had to save it, nurse it back to health. Let's get your calls and texts on 4487. I mean, the last time you shared a story of this Ben, you were trying to rescue a swan in your underpants or something, weren't you? Oh yeah, you were shirtless.

Yeah, shirtless. He took his shirt off to rescue a swan. So here I am, guys. Thought it was going to be a Cleo Bachelor of the Year photo shoot. We'll do that after Kings of Leon, Sex on Fire, it is the hits. Tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe. And that's all I have to say.

Thanks, Dr. Ashley. Yesterday, family played bird rescue, helping out a little baby. It turned out to be a goose, a little baby goose. Somehow, it's a mystery how it got into the front of our property. And you spent 45 minutes going, Is it a duck? Is it a swan? It's very confusing for the boys.

It wasn't. It didn't lay any golden eggs either, too. And you're just like, how did this thing get in? Because it couldn't have gone over the fence if it was injured. No, it didn't seem to be injured either. So I don't know. It was a mystery. But we wanted to know this morning on Our Under the Hits

when have you played Animal Rescue? We're going to get Hana on from Whakatane. Welcome, Hana. Hi. How are you? It's your husband who's playing animal rescue all the time. No, my husband's a madman. And so he's a dairy farmer.

And so for him to show up and he'd be like, come and have a look what's in the toolbox of the motorbike. Or he's got his beanie upside down. And he's like, have a look in here. Or put your hand in my pocket. And it's unusual. Put your hand in my pocket? Okay. There's a snake in there somewhere.

What sort of things does he help save? It's never going to happen. What's he looked after and helped save? We have had ducklings. We've had rabbits. We've had poo cacos. We've had a puppy show up. We've had calves in front of the fire. But the favourite

I think was when I came home to find an eel in my kitchen sink. Oh jeez, he saved an eel as well. How did the eel need saving? The eel didn't need saving, he just thought it'd be bloody hilarious. So eels are pretty much they stay in their lane, don't they?

Yeah, that's true. That is awesome, Hannah. Thank you very much, You have a great day. You too. Appreciate your call. We're going to get Matt on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Matt, you played animal rescue with what? G'day, boys.

How's it going? Good, mate. Good, mate. Yeah, so a couple of years ago, I was driving down the road and spotted a little baby magpie injured on the side of the road. So I picked her up and took her home and jumped on Google and called a few vets and figured out how to look after a little baby magpie. And I ended up becoming her full-time dad.

Oh, she became your pet? Yeah, pretty much. I always kept her sort of outside and free, never in a cage. So she was always free to go. Her name was Swoop. Oh, I've seen this. I've seen it on social media. That's an awesome story.

And best friends with the cats the magpie became. Yeah, best friends with my cat Mowgli. That was one of the issues that I thought I might have with bringing the bird home. But to my surprise, I'd sort of see them cuddling up on the couch and sleeping together and following each other around. It was pretty bizarre. So this magpie basically became your full-time pet.

So you had a cat and a magpie who were best friends. They played at the cat door together. I've seen it go through social media. And you'd go for runs and you'd go, hey, Swoop, and Swoop would sort of swoop down and just sort of hang out with you. Honestly, it was a rad experience. I'd just whistle or call her name and she'd just basically fly beside me or land on my shoulder.

Wherever I was, I could be anywhere and I'd just do the whistle and she'd come out of nowhere and land on my arm. That was a pretty amazing experience, and we went viral all over the internet. I've got a video with the dodo out that's had 40 million views, so that was pretty crazy for that to happen. You've turned it into a book, a children's book as well, I see, online. Yeah, so I turned it into a children's book.

I thought, oh, I've got to do something with this, and ironically, Swoop was visiting a lot of the neighbours, So I turned it into a children's book. I thought, oh, I've got to do something with this. And ironically, Swoop was visiting a lot of the neighbours, and one of them was an illustrator, Emma Gustafsson. So I got in touch with Emma and said, listen, should we write a children's book? Are you keen to illustrate it? And she was keen to do that.

So we spent the last year working on that. And just before we went into lockdown this time around, I managed to secure a meeting at Scholastic. And so they're publishing my book, and that went a few weeks ago, and that'll be out in February. Oh, that's awesome, man. So you've taken Swoop, like you had to get the stories about giving Swoop back to the wild. Is that what happens?

Yeah, pretty much. Well, actually my dad was sick at the time so having Swoop was a real godsend and she helped me get through that and ironically when dad passed away I went off to his funeral and when I got back she'd gone and made her own

way into the wild. So the book's all about her sort of finding herself. She doesn't really know if she is a human or a cat or a bird. Very cute story. I mean, traditionally, magpies, they've really sort of been branded as the gang members of the sky, haven't they? Like UFC fighters with wings.

I know for some reason, a lot of them have a bit of an issue with the human race. We've some sort of become unfairly targeted, persecuted by the magpie community. But this one was a beauty, obviously. Yeah, no, look, I've had a couple. And my second one, she wasn't too friendly. Every time my girlfriend came over, she'd sort of attack my girlfriend. I think that she thought that I was her mate. Yeah, right.

Very defensive. Well, yeah, those are the magpies we know and love. Oh, that's a very cute story, Matt. So look out for that book next year. Sloop and Mowgli, if you want to follow them on Instagram and social media, check it out. That's Matt Owens. Well, thank you so much for talking to us and we'd love to come and hang out with you one day, Matt.

Yeah, hey, let's get you down to my place and jump out on the boat and go fishing and take the magpie with us. All right. No, I feel like Ben's just sort of forced himself upon you. He's invited himself over to Matt's house. We'll come and hang out with you. I'm in the club. Yeah, boys.

That's us. Let's do it. All right, Matt. That book's called The Story of Swoop. All right, mate. That book's called The Story of Swoop. All right, mate. Look out for it in Whitcalls, and hopefully the shops will be open in February. Coming February 22.

We'll catch you soon, mate. Oh, I'm coming over. Sounds like it. All right, boys. I'll keep the beers cold. See you, mate. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben.

Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk TV. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The Heads. 8.32 on your Tuesday morning. Auckland is 12th

week of lockdown. Looks like a little bit of a relief happening next week in principle. We're heading to step two, level three

from next Tuesday at 11.59. The Waikato restrictions eased today, so that means some retail public facilities reopen, and the number of people that can meet and greet outside to increase up to 25.

So vaxxed or unvaxxed, you can go out there, you can do your shopping. Yeah, vaccination's over 80% now in the Auckland region. Which is pretty good. Some areas around the world have gone back under that. Sydney was 70, wasn't it, on Freedom Day? Yes, you're right. And then what? The unvaccinated can't go into shops as soon as the vaccine

passports. Some shops, not like the supermarkets and things like that though. So they almost want to get live shopping done before mid-December. Any shopping you need to get done between now and when it ends, knock it off in the next four weeks. The 1pm press conferences are going to be a little less and a little different. They're not quite

focusing on case numbers More on good news The black caps had a win Things like that So they're not going to say how many cases there are now I think it's less about that They might mumble it like we would on the radio show It's like

Hipkins will be like Hey have a look at this cute video I just seen this cat on YouTube There's some good news for you The good news update coming. That's some good news for you. It's so cute. The good news update coming next week. But speaking of good news.

Yeah, I was just going to say that. You were saying about a company in New Zealand. Yeah, so it was named the fastest growing company in New Zealand last week. I think it's called Kami. It's giving staff $10,000 each, all of its staff, for working really, really hard in the pandemic and basically just working really long hours, putting all the energy into it. It's basically an app that a lot of teachers use. It's now used in 180 countries.

More than 30 million teachers and students use it. Started by three Auckland University students in 2013. Oh, my God. Done very well. Someone's just called on the other line. It's every other business in New Zealand going, could you not please? Yes, I know.

Do it, but don't publicise it. Now it's a new story. Hey, boy, actually giving you guys something this week. Fish and chips, free fish and chips is happening and how you can win that in your town. We'll tell you in a few moments on the hits. Fish and chips, yeah. Fish and chips.

You know the song? Kids learn this one at school. hats it's a lovely catchy song but i'm always like breakfast lunch and tea like you know it's a lot of breakfast fish and chips yeah most fish and chip shops aren't open at breakfast quite nice for breakfast though i reckon i could eat i could eat fish and chips. Yeah, most fish and chip shops aren't open at breakfast time. That would be quite nice for breakfast though, I reckon. I could eat fish and chips now. I mean, yeah, you could. I'm not the fish and chip police. You can eat them whenever you want. But it seems like an unusual time of the day to consume fish and chips.

But we're talking about fish and chips because at the moment we're on a mission, thanks to Heinz, to shout the nation fish and chips. Now, all you need to do is go to the hits.co.nz. You can register your town. And then this Thursday and Friday, and it's going to go on for the next four weeks, we could say your town has free fish and chips for a couple of hours over lunchtime.

Not breakfast, unfortunately, for those that like breakfast, fish and chips, but lunchtime, a more appropriate dining time for fish and chips for free. Yeah, 12 to 2 on Thursday and Friday this week. And as you said before, Jono, for the rest of the month, thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Fish and Chips shouted, we're going to send our credit card,

the boss's credit card, around the country. So if you want to nominate your town or city, head to the stockco.nz. And you can take part in Jono and Ben's Fry Day, which works better written down because it's F-R-Y. And it's not just on Friday, it's on Thursday as well. But it's all thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Which is also written down in the fine print. Those are the

T's and C's on the F and C's. Yeah. Heinz Tomato Ketchup, packed full of tomatoes, which makes it thick, and thank you so much for them, for getting involved in this. This is awesome. Yeah, thank you, Heinz. You're a big Heinz household. My boy Oscar, he's a huge consumer of tomato sauce, i just i think

maybe this might be i've recorded on my phone one of life's most disturbing noises and uh it's just as the bottle of sauce is just emptying uh you know it's like i'm announcing my retirement from the same and then you hear this noise listen there and there's poppy singing in the background as well which is noise. Listen to that. And that's Poppy singing in the background as well. It's a very distinct, you never want to hear that noise coming from a human being.

The end of a sauce bottle. So you wanted to throw something out there. Of course we all love, there's no debate, we all love Heinz tomato ketchup. That's not what we're here to talk about. Can I debate? No, there's no debate. There's no debate. We all love Heinz tomato ketchup. That's not what we're here to talk about right now. Can I debate? No. There's no debate. There's no debate.

We all love it. Right. Yeah. Makes your chips, burgers and pies. And if you want to debate, don't call up now. Okay? No, we all love it. But you wanted to know, and this is something we were debating just a few moments ago while that song was playing for me, Sharon, whether you put sauce on top of all the chips.

Which I do. Or to the side. And you put it on top of all the chips. Which I do. Or to the side. And you put it on the side. Now, my theory, if you wouldn't mind hearing me out for a couple of seconds, to spray it all over the communal chips, is you're saving everyone else the labour of having to pick the chip up and put it in the dip. Just obnoxiously spray it over the top.

Those that like a dry chip, they can dip underneath the mountain where there's no sauce. That's how obnoxiously arrogant are you just coming in here with your Heinz ketchup? And also for hygiene reasons, you block off any double dipping. No, but then you've been like... Because it's all on the chip.

You open up your fish and chip mat and you all get your little portion where you can put your sauce. So you can dip your own little thing to how much sauce you want. That's your own little pool of sauce. That's the way to do it. To the side, I'm not putting it all over the chips.

Everyone's like, oh, thanks a lot. Well, who doesn't like sauce on chips? Name a person. I said that's not up for debate. So everyone likes the sauce on the chips, and I'm just providing a service of putting the sauce on the chips. It's like, are you putting... Over the most important issues, Juliet, okay, there's nothing. There may be a climate change conference going on in Glasgow.

We may be locked down, but these are the real issues. Now, what do you think, Juliette? You make your decision. Take my side. I am on Jono's side, actually. Thank you. Are you? Yes.

Are you? Yes. I love when the tomato sauce, the ketchup goes a bit soggy on the chip, and then you get a bit of a soggy chip. I love a soggy chip, and that's what makes them soggy. That's your decision to put on your chip. So yes, someone else come along and make that decision for you.

No, Ben Boy's dipping in the poles but not dipping his chips in that side sauce. We're going to continue this on. We're going to end it there but I'll wait under the hits. Four, four, eight, seven. All right, you've got fish and chips. You're sharing them.

That's the situation. Your Heinz tomato ketchup. Is it going all over the chips like some arrogant guy like Jono? Like, oh, who brought this guy to the picnic? Or are you putting it to the side for everyone to do their own thing? Or you could call me a selfless sauce distributor. All right.

0800 the hits, 4487. The phone's already blocking up. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. Thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. We're shouting a different town or city every Thursday and Friday all through November. Two hours of free fish and chips if you want to nominate your town or your favourite fish and chip shop.

Head to thehits.co.nz. Yeah, thanks, Heinz. And we just got into quite a... I was mostly angry we've ever been at each other. I'm sorry. I apologise too. I let it get away on me. Juliet, I'm sorry.

I've never seen you guys talk like that. Ugly scenes. And it wasn't even like we got to experience those. It was just a hypothetical situation. I'm sorry. Ahead of this, I'm sorry too, Ben. We'll talk it out with our therapist Thursday afternoon. We have a marriage counselling.

It's been a tough 11 weeks. It has been. But where do you put the sauce? On top? Do you spray it all over the top like I do? Save you the labour of using your hands to dip? Or do you leave it on the side like Benjamin Boyce, who likes everyone to have their own little mountain of sauce?

Now, someone's actually texted in, guys, I didn't think we're allowed to make any choices in New Zealand anymore. So maybe we should wait to see what Jacinda tells us all to do. Or maybe they put it in the question time, you know? Yeah, we'll chuck it in there. Are we allowed to put the sauce on the, you know? Yeah, good question. Well, in principle.

We'll allow sauce. Next Tuesday. But if you're having a picnic with more than 10 people at the moment, you can't, you know. Now Luke has come in with a complaint to kick things off. Luke Morden, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. What did you want to say, Lukey? Yeah, g'day, fellas.

Hi, mate. First of all, I'm a source on the side, so I'll put a tick next to that for me. OK, Luke. Go there. Yeah, but I normally, I had a mozza this morning. I've jumped off the trailer and sprained my ankle, and I was listening to the Matt and Jerry show on Harrag and I just

couldn't take any more punishment so I had to turn it off and come over to the hitcher a bit and I don't know if you might have heard, I've had a debate going on there for weeks, months now about the four pillars of fish and chips and it's got to the

point where I can't hear it anymore and now I get on here and you have the thought of it. How do you do that? The fish and chip people's got to the plumber. I can't hear it anymore now. I get on here and you have the phone. The fish and chip people they've got to us all here. Clearly, Luke, he's a suck of a punishment. He gets punished at Hodak. He gets punished at the hits. I love it. We're going to send you out a wild bean voucher

so you can not have fish and chips. Bloody good, too. I hope that angle gets better, mate. Appreciate it. We'll go to Taylor From Pukekohe Sauce on top Or the side Taylor The sauce goes

On the side It's like unspoken law You don't make the choice For everyone else You don't make that choice For everyone else You do No you don't

I live in a communist country We spray sauce on you And you'll eat it You'll have your 1pm press update To know what to do Don't you I appreciate it We'll go to Stacey and Gore

Welcome Your local chip shop They actually do it don't you? I appreciate it. We'll go to Stacey and Gore. Welcome. Your local chip shop, they actually do it for you, Stace. Yes. So it originally was called the Browner Street Dairy, now renamed Mr. Chippy under new owners. So what they would do is you could order it, and I can't quite remember what it was called. So you could order maybe, I think from memory,

it was called Loaded F fries, and they would come, so your hot chips would have tomato sauce. On them, pre-sourced. On them with sliced cooked onions. So when you opened it, it was a big mush of hot chips with tomato sauce and cooked onions. Beautiful. See, Ben, you wouldn't like that, would you?

No, I don't. They're pre-sourcing it for you. They also used to do another one, which was your hot chips with tomato sauce and gravy. Oh, the gravy option. That's a lovely option. Beautiful. Thank you very much, Stacey. Chucking gravy into the mix as well.

You weren't only putting my gravy all over the chips either. Sog them up. Now, we wanted to go to a professional. So during that song, we took the time to phone Palmerston North and Mr. Seafood. They're not only dabbles in seafood, but also fish and chips. This is the official word from the fish and chip industry. Morning, Mr. Seafood.

Hello, is that Mr. Seafood? Or have you got hold of Mrs. Seafood? Good morning, yeah, no, it's Miss. Miss Seafood. Welcome, Miss Seafood. It's Jono and Ben from The Hits here. How are you? Hi, good things, Jono. Thank you for ignoring Ben, firstly.

I haven't spoken so far. No, no, don't say hello to him. Well done, you got Jono's name, because I can't even tell which one is which. I can't either. I know you're both just about balls, though. Oh, hey, hey, hey, I'm still... Don't you love me in with that shiny head of his? You don't want me on radio, have you? I'm not going to be on radio anymore.

It's over to you and Jono now. No. We're phoning up with a genuine question. Yeah. Tomato sauce. Tomato sauce. Heinz ketchup. Are we putting it on the chips or are we putting it off the chips when we're sharing a meal?

No, you've got to put it on the side, mate. Is this the official word from the fish and chip community? What if they don't like sauce? But everyone likes sauce on chips. You don't put sprinkler... I'm back in again. I couldn't resist. He left in a fit of rage.

I love the drama. I'm back in, guys. He couldn't resist you, Miss Seafood. I agree. You don't want to put it all over the chips. But who doesn't like sauce? I like sauce, but that gives you the option of putting it on the side. Now I'm back out again.

Yes. So what is your question? On the side or on top? Yeah. What do you reckon? On the side. Yeah. I'm an on top guy.

You're on the top. Yeah. You're on the bottom. Are we still talking about places? Yeah, I think we are. I think we are. There we go. The official word. Well done, boys. I we are. I think we are. There we go. The official word.

Well done, boys. I'll bow down to the better man. There we go. And you win as well. And sauce on the side for New Zealanders. And if you want free fish and chips for your town, you can shout them lunch this Thursday, Friday, and for the next month, thehits.co.nz.

Thanks to Heinz. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys weekdays from 6 on The Hits. And via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny.