Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: BEN GOT A MULLET

Episode Date: October 10, 2021

This is not a drill!! Ben hasn't had a haircut since before lockdown, so his daughters took the opportunity to give him a haircut. And he actually committed to the mullet and came to work with it! It's more like a mini mullet. Not as long as your usual one, but it'll get there! We also had some tickets to Billie Eilish to give away, and we had some high drama on the show where someone had the opportunity to steal the tickets off a 13-year-old girl. It was ruthless. Finally, we were joined by comedian Chris Parker (also on Celebrity Treasure Island) and body positivity Instagrammer, Jess Quinn, who has a new book out.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. It's Monday the 11th of October, it's Jonathan and Benjamin back at you, and Ben Boyce is coming back at us with a new mullet after the weekend,

which we got much joy out of this morning. He did. I knew you would, too. I knew. You knew what you were doing. Yeah. Well, it wasn't, I didn't just go, I'll just do this for you to give, you know, to give you enjoyment.

But I knew that was going to come just when we were walking in today. I was like, here we go. I knew nothing of it. I wasn't prepared for it. And it's quite, it's not you, which I like. It's definitely not me. I don't know how long it'll last for. Ben Boyce has grown his hair out.

He's been locked down for 50 days. He's got the kids as well to shave up the side of both sides of his head at a number zero or a number one. Yeah. They've tried their best to do a fade, but it looks like a prison cut. I won't lie. Yeah, a little bit like that. But hey, yeah, we're in lockdown. I can wear a hat and it kind of...

You look like a guy who's just been released from prison but wants to make himself look respectable for public. I guess he's tried. He's trying to merge back in with society, I guess. We can tell where you come from, buddy. Yeah, well, anyway. It looks good. It looks really good.

You can check out the photo. Gillian's doing a wonderful Photoshop job for you. I feel like I'm going to be Photoshopped into some other faces because she's like, now look this way, now look this way, now look. So I feel like there's a whole more mockery, more mockery online. You're taking the mockery from on the radio to more online as well. Well, let's be honest. That's where the best mockery lives, online.

Honestly, I don't think it needs to be mocked. I really like it. I do. I don't know it needs to be mocked. I really like it. I don't know. I look, I forget. It's not a very long mullet, and I'm not cool enough to pull off a mullet. No, but another couple of months, you'll be in there.

You'll be in there. I don't know if I can commit to it. Do you catch yourself in the mirror sometimes and go, ooh. I have, yeah, because it was only yesterday that we did it at home, and now I'm like,

even today going to the work bathroom, I'm like, what am I doing? I shouldn't be at work like this. But I am now I'm like, even today, going to the work bathroom, I'm like, what am I doing? I shouldn't be at work like this. But I am. I'm here. And yeah. Well, what I could do is try and grow whatever I've got left. And I can do a zero up the sides as well.

Oh, yeah. We could be the mullet show. The most mongrel-looking radio program. What, are they here to do NRL? Or are they here to do radio? Who knows? No, it was good. Hey, you got me a good one today, actually, on the podcast as well, too.

Well, it was on the radio show. You hear that on the podcast. No, with Billie Eilish tickets. Yeah, it was a moment that I thought, jeez, this is awkward and really, really awkward. When the dad got involved, you'll hear it on the podcast. We gave away tickets to a little girl and she started crying. Yeah, and it was... And it all's not as it seems.

No, no. So everyone walked away happy. Juliet was involved in the planning of that prank. Although you don't really like being involved in prank planning, do you? No, like, I don't mind being behind the scenes of a prank, but if I'm the one that has to do the convincing, I, like, just can't deal. I'm like, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God,

because they actually think it's real. And I'm like, I just can't deal. Even when like, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, because they actually think it's real. And I'm like, I just can't deal. Even when we were talking about the segment coming up today, I noticed you weren't even engaging in conversation, Juliet. It was just between producer Humphrey and myself. Good one, though, because you left it, because we say the rule of pranking now, if you're going to do it,

you're going to leave everyone walking away feeling good. Yeah, not like the good old days. And I walked away going, well, you know, even though you'd taken me for a journey, the person won the tickets. And it was all, you know, I walked away going, well, you know, even though you'd taken me for a journey, the person won the tickets. And it was all, you know, no one was upset. So, you know. Oh, someone will be upset, man.

It's 2021. Yeah, true. You know, so this will upset. So even us just saying this podcast intro is probably upsetting people for some reason. Yeah, true. They're going, why am I even listening to this podcast? Why are these guys rambling on for too long? You know, you're always upsetting something.

That's the joy of living in 2021. Yeah, it's really hard not to. I try not to upset anyone. You can't live life like that though. It's so hard. It's so hard. Just got to rest assured that you're fucking someone up right now. Just being you. With your mullet like, what are you thinking?

God, he annoys me. Hey, have a great day guys. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, he goes away for the weekend. He comes over. It doesn't inform me.

Completely changed his look. Oh, look. You know, Jono and Ben, we have a look, and he's coming here drastically changing his look. Ben Boyce, you explain what you've done. Okay, so we've been in lockdown in Auckland, you know, for over 50 days now, and over the weekend, without a word of a lie, we watched all three

pitch-perfect movies. Oh dear God. And you're still with us. Yeah, and so we got to a point where I was like, hey guys, let's mix it up. The pitch couldn't get any more perfect. So, and I kept moaning about it. Jesus, isn't it all the same thing? Just acapella and... Yeah, but they are very good actually

I mean, they're good at singing But three in a row Did you go in a row? Yeah, well, pretty much over the weekend You binged all three Yeah, there's three There's three The third one, they go to Europe

Why are they in Europe? I don't really know why Because they've finished college They're out But they're still singing together Go and get a career, guys They're performing for the military um so anyway it's the backstory dj carlin's there as well so now can i ask a question sorry to be caught up on this pitch perfect storyline that's rebel wilson yes yeah didn't they start off calling her fat amy Sorry to be caught up on this Pitch Perfect storyline. That's Rebel Wilson.

Yes. Didn't they start off calling her Fat Amy in the first one? Yeah, she says in her character in the first one, I've watched all three over the weekend, that she sort of says that she calls herself that basically to kind of stop other people shaming her. So she kind of does that. You couldn't get away with a Fat Amy character nowadays.

No, there's a few things in there. You're the commentators say some stuff you're like oh that's that's not doesn't stack up yeah it's not perfect not nice at all this movie's meant to be pitch perfect so anyway we are tone deaf more like i took a break from that and then i decided because i've been moaning about how i hadn't had a haircut for over 50 days in lockdown you've been letting yourself go we've all been talking behind your back we're like look at this bloody house bus dream catcher hippie we're working with. So I've got like a very small set of clippers at home that I normally just trim like my beard or anything. What else do you trim with these clippers?

Please don't. That's all I'm talking about. Julia doesn't want to hear about her dad trimming himself. So I got the kids. The kids were like, yeah, you can cut my hair. And I was like, what do you want to do? And they're like, yeah, do a mullet. I didn't think my hair was long enough for a mullet.

And it really isn't. But they gave it a crack. And they didn't do too bad a job. So you've gone, just to explain to the audience, you've gone what looks like maybe a one up the sides. Yeah, a one up the sides. You've got your long hair at the top. And then, well, I don't need to explain.

And the mullet at the back, you just keep growing that out. You look like Damien McKenzie. Yeah, I know. I feel like maybe I'll't need to explain. And the mullet at the back, you just keep growing that out. You look like Damien McKenzie. Yeah, I know. I feel like maybe I'll be better at rugby. But here was a little bit of audio from the girls cutting my hair over the weekend. 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 I'm prior. Although that's the only way out of this. That's the only fix-it job. If it goes bad, you've always got the Jono Pryor. The Jono Pryor option. It's not ideal. No one likes it, but it's an option. I haven't had a haircut for a long time, obviously,

but I don't remember that much laughter from the people cutting your hair. It's not normally what happens, right? I'm not going to lie. You look like a gang member. But it's the cred that the show needs. And if you need anything, if you know what I mean, nudge, nudge, wing, wing, Ben Boyce is your man. We'll get you a couple of gold chains, some fancy Nikes.

I was just, you know, I was trying to look like a rugby player, like an all-black. It looks good. Billy Ray Cyrus. Billy Ray Cyrus from the 90s. Oh, my mullet bag. Do you like it, Juliet? Yeah, it's something different.

I reckon you should keep it. I don't think it's a permanent thing, to be honest. I don't think it's like, oh, here's the mullet guy. There's going to be a lot of fix-it jobs when we come out of this. The hairdressers and barbers are going to be doing a lot of repair work on heads around the place. It was either that or Pitch Perfect 4. We've got some Billie Eilish tickets too.

A double pass to Billie Eilish to give away at 8 o'clock this morning. It's going to be awesome. She's coming to New Zealand September next year and the Vodafone pre-sale starts today. All tickets go on sale from Friday, or the general public as well. It's going to be awesome. But the game that you want to do this morning is potentially not going to be awesome. Well, listen, it's just if you really want to go to Billie Eilish,

well, we've got the tickets for you. Ben just mentioned he gave you all the terms and conditions, and we'll give them to you. Okay, we'll get you on just after the news at eight and you go hey thanks for the tickets here's why i deserve them and you share your heartfelt story with the audience be a big fan whatever it is you can put someone on yeah uh and then we're going to play the game called who's going to be the bad guy uh which is one of billy eilish's songs if you're familiar with her music ben yeah i think

it was her breakout hit wasn't it yeah and who's going to be the bad guy so then we start the timer which runs for 60 seconds and you can ring up and take the tickets off the person if you so desire yeah so we can get we get one caller on uh because probably there's going to be callers and that caller can decide to be the bad guy and take the tickets or they can say hey i don't want to be the guy and give it to that person and everyone's happy now that's what he was he wants happiness i don't you don't want people stealing the tickets no no and i feel like on the hits radio station we're gonna have people aren't gonna steal tickets well you can text 4487 if you really want these tickets and we could get you on after eight o'clock but ben sometimes the world isn't happy sometimes you're forced into lockdown okay sometimes there's 60 cases and they just come through out of nowhere sometimes this stuff happens buddy okay it's it's the real world

welcome to the struggle street uh but no be no uh i remember when uh billy eilish released bad guy uh and you're like well prior it's time for you to step up And you did You stepped up with your own version of Bad Guy Didn't you? Yeah Bald Guy You can see what we did there Yeah

And it wasn't quite a smash hit this one But have a listen to Jono and Bald Guy No hair on my head Losing follicles Got more growth on my testicles Spend zero budget on shampoo My forehead's the size of two So he's a fluff guy

Hair in a man bun guy Must be from Bluff Guy Got some dandruff guy I'm that bald type Head like a pool ball type Sick looking pit bull type Giant baby crawl type I'm the bald guy Hey yeah that's right now apologies

for the testicles uh yeah no there was there was a previous incarnation of the of you know the john and ben brad uh with testicles were a thing that we mentioned not nowadays well you've just previously twice like afterwards you've met Anyway, let's move on from that. Some Billie Eilish tickets up for grabs at 8 o'clock. Hopefully no one's going to be savagely taking tickets off anyone. Being that it's Billie Eilish, bad guy, 8.11 on your Monday morning. Billie Eilish, she's won seven Grammys. She's headlining Glastonbury and she's coming to New Zealand on her Happier Than Ever World Tour

September 2022. Tickets go on sale, pre-sales from today. Can't wait for that. And we have a double pass to give away, which is huge, but I'm very, very nervous about this game. Now, this is called the Bad Guy Game, a format developed by Jono Pryor Enterprises,

copyright trademark inked. You love this, don't you? Because it really puts, it's like a reality show. We were talking about Squid Game earlier, you know? It's like putting potentially the worst of people out there. Yeah, well this is, it has the scope to be a brutal life lesson from the school of Jono and Ben Hardknocks, soulless radio promotions that's not what the world needs right now though

does it? what does the world need mate? positivity, joy, the world didn't need 60 cases yesterday but the world gave us 60 cases, we want some joy right now so what happens is we get someone on 0800 the hits, they get the double pass to Billy Eilish, well they kind of do, we say you get the tickets

but then you open it up for someone to call up and potentially be the bad guy. Yeah, so then, oh, you've explained it beautifully. I don't need to add any more. That's exactly how the game works. But they got the chance of not taking the tickets,

and that's what I say. I plead with you not to take the tickets. Now, Juliet, if we've got some emotional music that we can bring in. Oh, God. Because may I introduce to you, ladies and gentlemen,

13-year-old Annie. Come on in. How are you, Annie? I'm good. Not a kid, Jono. Let Annie say her case. Jeez, you must love Billie Eilish, Annie.

I really do. Yeah, why do you deserve these tickets, Annie? Well, lockdown's been quite hard on me. My brother's been stuck at his boarding school, and my rabbit, he passed. And I missed my birthday in lockdown. Okay, so what happens if we give the tickets to Annie? Well done, Annie. You've won a double pass to Billie Eilish. Okay, so what happens if we give the tickets to Annie? Well done, Annie. You've won a double pass to Billie Eilish.

Oh, my God. Thank you so much. That's what I've done. I've done my part. Don't you dare. I've done my part. Your part would be moving on and letting Annie. Don't just leave.

This is where the game. No one likes this part of the game. Don't do this part of the game. That's it. Annie, we need a win. Most other shows would go, here's a winner. You've got a winner. Why open it up to someone taking the tickets off someone?

No one likes half of the challenges on Celebrity Treasure Island, but they do them anyway because they have to fill in time, and that's what we're here to do. I can't even listen to this. So now we open up the phones, Annie, if you can stay there. I'm sorry, Annie. For 60 seconds. 60 seconds to see if anyone will

be the bad guy and take these tickets off a 13-year-old girl. The timer has started. The phone lines are clogged. No! Maybe they're people wanting to block it. Block someone else.

We'll bring Emma on. Welcome, Emma. You've called through. Hello, how's it going? Emma, welcome. This is the bad guy. You now need to... Shall I introduce you to Annie?

This is Annie, Emma. Hello, Annie. Hi. Annie's 13 years old. Did I mention that? Yeah. She's just won tickets to Billie Eilish. Now, you decide, Emma, whether you're going to be the bad guy,

take those tickets off, or are you going to leave them with her and be the good guy. No, I'm absolutely going to be the bad guy. No! You can't take a ticket, no! You're taking the tickets off. Yeah, for sure. Absolutely.

Oh! Annie. You're a monster. Oh, yes. Why did you do this to me, Jono and Ben? You set me up. Oh, Annie, listen, I'm sorry. It wasn't a set up.

Hey, who's this? Hello? Hi, it's... Hey, Ben. Yeah, it's Jono and Ben here from the Hits radio station. Hey, how's it going? This is Annie's dad, mate. What's going on, mate?

She's pretty upset. What's happening? I can understand that. Yeah, I'm pretty upset myself. Listen, we'll try and... Yeah, we'll try and sort it. Emma? Yeah?

Sorry, do you want to give the tickets back or you definitely want to take them? No, I'm taking them for sure. We need to sort Annie out some tickets. We need to... Can we sort them out? Sorry. Can we please? I want to. We need to. Can we sort them out? Sorry. Can we please?

Can I buy? I want to buy tickets for Annie. Can I? But I don't know if I'll, I don't have any more, but can I buy them? Can I get me like a pre-sale and we'll buy them? I'll pay for them. Is Annie okay? Can she talk?

She can't. I'll try and get her on the phone maybe. Okay. I'm so sorry. Why did we do this game? I hate this game. Annie? Yes? phone, mate. Okay. I'm so sorry. Why did we do this game? I hate this game. Annie? Yes?

Oh, darling. Ben, now's probably a really good time to tell you that Annie's going to keep the tickets and Emma was just an actor we got to phone up and steal the tickets of a 13-year-old. So Andy's going? It's a prank on you, Ben. Oh, yes. Andy, you get to go to Billie Eilish. Yay!

Andy was in on it. Ben Humphrey told Andy to start crying. What, am I dead coming on? The dad was an adult. Telling off. There's no way to win. Inspired. I didn't even know the dad was going to come on.

That was a beautiful touch. Oh, so Andy's going? Andy's going. You're going to come on. That was a beautiful touch. Oh, so Annie's going? Annie's going. You're going to Billie Eilish, Annie. Yay! Oh, jeez, what a rollercoaster. And Emma, well done on playing a savage there. Great, right.

Wonderful performance all round from everyone. And beer boys, how are you feeling? Lots of cups. He was standing up. He was getting all veiny and nervous. Oh, jeez. All right. Yeah, OK. Oh, well done, Annie. Enjoy Billie Eil and nervous. Oh, jeez. All right. Yeah, OK.

Oh, well done, Andy. Enjoy Billy Eilish. Thank you, Emma, for that wonderful acting. It's all good. Wow. OK, it is the hits. I don't know what happened, but hey, Andy's going to Billy Eilish. It is the hits.

Wow. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the B**** News. This is a fun little game we like to play. It's kind of like the Squid Games with a few less casualties. Unless Juliet's added some real jeopardy this morning. No, I have not. Explain the news and beefs, Ju.

So I go hunting around the internet for some quirky news headlines that I think might interest you. And you listening as well. And I beep out a couple of words and you guys have to guess what the real headline is. All right, the first news story. Expert says we've been using **** wrong and shares way to fix mistakes. I'm going to say it's John O'Prior opening a beer bottle with a cell phone.

Maybe he's been using his cell phone wrong. But I've seen you do that many times without a word of a lie. It's a function that Apple don't really promote. It's a perfect little bottle opener. Does it not scratch your phone? Oh, there's collateral damage. It's the risk you're willing to take.

But it's either that or don't drink the beer, Jude. It's quite confronting the first time you see you do it. You're like, anyone got a bullet? I'll just use my, you're like, your phone? You're like, yeah. Yeah, I try not to use other people's phones. They kind of give you a bit of a sideways glance. But yeah, I'm going to go.

Expert says we've been using our password to the work Wi-Fi wrong and shares the way to fix it. It seems to be a constant problem for this program. True. Expert says we've been using our iPhone calculators wrong and shares way to fix mistakes. Okay, when I discovered this, I was like... They're actually a bottle opener.

I was like, this is the greatest thing ever. So you know if you're using your iPhone calculator and if you're doing like a long equation or whatever and you accidentally type a number wrong and you're like oh my gosh i have to start all over again you don't have to do that so just say you type a number you just swipe the number oh is it working oh wait hold on i actually need to add something. There you go. 35 plus 80. Oh, wait, hold on. No. 25 plus 26. There you go. So you just swipe, and it gets rid of the most recent number for you, so you can change it. So you can swipe to the left, and it'll delete the number.

Yeah, on the actual number. Does that also mean you're in a date with that number as well, if you're swiping that way or not? True. Could be. Could be. Swipe left, swipe right. But it's a very handy trick.

That's a wonderful little hack. My daughter did one the other day too. You know when you're typing and you want to have a capital and you usually double tap that arrow to go caps, you just hold it down and it will do the caps and you let it go. I'll do full caps shouting the whole way? Yeah, you can hold it down the whole time and shout like I do. Yeah, handy.

The next news headline. British engineer takes world's fastest... to 230 k's an hour. I'm going to say it's the world's fastest social media pile-on. It happened quickly and it happens many, many times. I say British engineer takes the world's fastest visit to the bathroom at 230 k's an hour. All right.

British engineer takes world's fastest lawnmower to 230 k's an hour. I thought this might interest you guys because you guys have had some experience with ride-on lawnmowers. It was for a Guinness World Record, and 0 to 100, I was going to say 0 to 100, 0 to 230 kilometres an hour real quick, apparently. He also believes the lawnmower can go faster, but it becomes

more dangerous because the front wheels eventually start to leave the ground if he goes any faster but he's beat the Guinness World Record and it can still mow the lawns and he can still ride on it. It's just hella fast. Wow. You never want to get a speeding ticket while mowing the lawns. Always a general rule with lawn mowing

isn't it? True. And the final news story today. Learned to quilt and now make personalised gifts for foster care children. That sounds like a wonderful story, that one. And I'm going to say it's a wonderful man that's learned how to do that. Dwayne the Rock Johnson. What else can't he do? Well, he can also now quilt and makes gifts for foster kids. I'm going to say someone not sitting in a retirement village

learned to quilt and now makes personalised gifts for foster children. Prison inmates learnt to quilt and now make personalised gifts for foster care children. So it's a prison in Missouri in the United States and this prison focuses on rehabilitation rather than punishment and they get the inmates learning how to quilt and they bloody love it. They're making personalised ones for little boys and little girls,

and it's just making the time pass for them, and it's doing quite a good thing. Oh, I love little quilts. I thought they'd be like images of someone shanking another person. Oh, no. But they're beautiful little quilts. Yeah, it's quite a good idea. Made by these two lovely looking.

Look at these two guys. And now if you saw them selling their quilts, would you buy one of them? No. You don it's quite a good idea. Made by these two lovely looking, look at these two guys. And now if you saw them selling their quilts, would you buy one off them? You don't want to meet the artist. You just want to happily date the quilt. Don't tell me about your crimes, but just give me a lovely quilt. That is news and beeps this morning. Thank you very much, Producer Juliet.

Before 7 o'clock, he's one of the stars of Celebrity Treasure Island. He's one of the stars of social media as well. Chris Parker joins us to tell us exactly what went on on Celebrity Treasure Island. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of.

Morning. Now, Meghan Trainor, the pop star, smash hit for All About This Bass. Well, she's built her house with her husband, who's an actor, and they've decided to put side-by-side toilets in the bathroom. Now, this is probably playing on what Jacinda and Ashley were worried about last week.

They were like, there's only one person in there at a time, and we're like, one at a time? Who else is going in, you know, with more than one person at a time? Well, it turns out Meghan Trainor and her actor husband. Yeah, now, they were apparently finding that they would both sometimes need to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night

at the same time, I guess, if they wakes up. Thank you for that. Sorry. Dramatic. A bit of a remix there, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just like to provide a bit of that. What was that?

It was the beginning of the Squid Game song, Accidental. How often does that happen? I mean, really, to work? And just wait. One can just go, oh, you go first really to and just wait like one one can describe oh you go first i'll just wait yeah but that's what most most people do yeah but maybe if you got lots of money from uh from hit songs you can put in uh two two toilets in your bathroom and it's an odd thing to like are you talking to each other yeah they said they have tried gone

to the bathroom number you know yeah once at the same time i did that once they're like yeah okay no this is too far in a relationship. This is too, you know. Which it would be. But it would almost be like, it would be like surround sound all happening at the same time. Imagine the smell.

It's very unusual. Like the manure falls. Hey, next, Chris Parker, comedian. So funny on social media and amazing on Celebrity Treasure Island. He joins us next, the Dish the dish the dirt on what happened behind the scenes. It is The Hits. It's Katy Perry.

You're on The Hits. Jono and Ben, 6.30. Now we're joined right now by one of the stars of Celebrity Treasure Island, Chris Parker. Chris Parker joins us. Welcome. Still on the island, are we? Still on the island. They gave Chris Parker joins us. Welcome. Still on the island, are we? Still on the island.

They gave me a phone now. Lovely. What reward challenge was this that you won? We all got iPhones. I am nowhere loving it. I mean, the family have been sitting around watching it. Jono's family the same. I mean, so many families are loving it.

But you on the show, did you love it? I mean, first of all, I love that it's a family-friendly show. I did not realize that when I was on the island. What did you love it? I mean, first of all, I love that it's a family-friendly show. I did not realize that when I was on the island. What did you think it was? Pornography? I don't know. I thought I was on Love Island. It was honestly a life-changing experience.

Like, it's so crazy watching it back now. You're like, oh, my gosh, why am I so caught in, like, you know, so anxious and frustrated. It's just Tim Tams on the line. But at that time, you're just so kind of sleep deprived that you just sort of believe in the stakes. And it's like being in the weirdest game of laser tag of your

life where you just kind of lose your sense of like what's real and what's not. And so I just became so deeply invested in this thing. It's just crazy. I mean, it's what soulless reality TV producers have prayed on for decades. And you were just the puppet. They're like, Chris will be perfect for this. But you're so good on the show.

I'm loving seeing you on there. And some really awesome moments too. I mean, the day I was watching you and Sir Buck Shelford passing a rugby ball around the beach. I mean, that's pretty awesome. That's the thing. I was like, well, if we're here, I'm going to make use of my time. So I want to upskill. And why not learn rugby from the best?

You know, I learned some rugby skills from Buck and some Instagram posing from Edna. You know, I was just trying to get some dance lessons from Lancey or Candy. You know, I was just like, if I can upskill them, I really am a winner at the end of the day. He's come out of this as the singing, dancing, rugby-playing comedian he always knew he was. We had, like, the thing is, you really are on the beach the whole time, and you get so bored.

You don't have your phones. You have no way to tell the time. You just begin to lose your mind. You don't see any way to kind of entertain yourself. It's like the worst family holiday of your life. I'll do anything. We had this game where the Patonk Balls

used to throw it across the beach and it was just whoever could get it closer to the stick would win and we would play it for like four hours.

Shea, you've got to shout out to old Hankson Castaway. I mean, the stuff he went through. You can see why he had an intimate relationship with Will.

With the volleyball, yeah. You and that Patonk Ball from the... Close bond. Exactly and that Patonka ball. I spawned. It's a great show. As Ben said, the family's a hook. Poppy, my daughter, is obsessed with you, Chris. So much so that she had a dream about you the other night,

and it's an obscure dream that you were at her birthday party, her ninth birthday party, with her only friends, but you had wooden teeth and you were smoking a cigarette in her bedroom. That's really off-brand. That is off-brand. I mean, you've got great teeth and you're a vaper.

I think there's a lot to unpack there, Jono. Maybe, is it you that is smoking in the house and you're sort of me with the watered teeth somehow? Maybe she just woke up and it was dead with watered teeth huffing on it. It's Chris Parker, go back to sleep. But you have been keeping the nation entertained, not just on the telly, though, Chris Parker. You've also been on social media as well.

But now I imagine, well, two things. One, you're a pain in the butt for your flatmates filming every morning. And also there must be pressure now on every announcement, every sort of bit of lockdown. You're like, oh, I've got to come up with another video. Everyone's like, oh, really? Feeling a bit anxious about this one?

Can't wait for Chris Park. It'll make me feel a little better about this. And I'm like, mate, you've got to find your joy from somewhere else. You know, it's mainly just a way to keep myself entertained. I'm just a massive show-off. So I'm just looking for any way to get your joy from somewhere else. You know, it's mainly just a way to keep myself entertained. I'm just a massive show-off, so I'm just looking for any way to get in front of a crowd. And because I can't do it, like my live comedy at the moment,

I'm just like, well, Instagram it is. This is it. Now, my major concern is you're spending too much time focusing on content you're creating and not actually digesting what they're saying in the press conference. Do you know where we're at at the moment? And can you explain this very confusing roadmap? Well, basically, it's like, from what I understand,

there's some balls and some sticks, and we have to balance along and then untie some boxes, come out to the ocean, pick up some balls, shoot them into some hoops, and I think we win some Tim Tams. It's so awesome to see you just kicking ass on the TV show and also all over the internet and all over everyone's feed. Love your work, mate, and we'll catch up with you soon.

Can't wait to have a smoke with some wooden pieces. That was Chris Parker from Celebrity Treasure Island. You can catch us tonight on TVNZ too. Tell you what, he is a glorious treasure trove, isn't he, Chris Parker? He's doing a great job on that show. They all are, all those wonderful people are. There'll be a lot coming from Jono Pryor. Can we just get a copy and

send that out to all the Truths of Ireland people? They'll appreciate that. Jono Pryor at 6.35 in the morning on a Monday morning. Well, I said it. I said it genuinely and you guys are just mocking me. Yes, yes. They'll really, really appreciate that. Next time we interview some of us at the Truths of Ireland, we'll play that to all

those wonderful people. Hey, next, we're going to keep you up to date with some of the news that happened over the weekend. Not amazing news, but we'll get to it next. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Scrolling through your feed. All right, no one's finger has been working harder than this man's index finger.

Scrolling through your feed. What's happening in from the news? Well, I'd much rather be talking about Jake Gyllenhaal at the moment and his nice message about anxiety and how it happens to everyone because yesterday and over the weekend, not great news in COVID-19.

60 cases yesterday. It's now in North and Waikato Bay are plenty. So yeah, it's three or four o'clock today. The government are going to come out with another announcement to see if whether we're going to ease restrictions. Now, there have been some rumours. I don't know if these are true or not,

but it's my job as a radio announcer to get them out there, fan the flames, that these were workers in the industry of sex bed travelling around Northland. So you would imagine if there were close contacts... Where are you getting all this stuff from? Yeah. Where do you come up with these?

Producer Humphrey was telling me before, we're getting a copy. Are they being printed anywhere in the media? Have they been printed anywhere? No. Well, I'm just going to say them, allegedly. Yeah. But I'm just going to say, if you were a close contact and this was the situation, you'd be definitely coming forward.

Wouldn't you? I don't know where you're getting all this information from. Not what I'm reading today I love how you're such a you're always at the head of the gossip world I love it, gotta get it out there I heard, and now you spiral more and it could be completely untrue

it could be completely untrue you have those stories that happen all the time the same with the couple that went down south and Wanaka couple there was another photo of another couple the day before that was going around, people go, these are the people. These weren't even the people. Yeah, I know.

So many times that social media is so wrong. I'm not saying in the sense, I don't know, but I'm saying, you know, just wait until it, you know. If you've got to be at the head, mate, you've got to be at the front. You know, when it does come true, or if it doesn't, they'll be like, hey, that guy was either, A, telling the truth, or B, just firing off salacious gossip.

Completely unwrong. But a big weekend of vaccinations over the weekend. And I thought it was pretty cool. They had a 24-hour vaccination place for the DJ in Auckland for shift workers, people that couldn't go during normal hours. They had it open all through the night, which is pretty cool. It's an interesting one, the number 60, isn't it? Do you think the government would be at a stage where you're like,

I only hope is the only way out of this, we're back to a level where there is operation of normality for the whole country, is just vaccinate. That's the only way. It's the quickest way out of it, right? And would you see that happening before the end of November? To have a number of people vaccinated that they'd be, you know, in their minds, comfortable with going back to normality.

Well, it's interesting. Because you want a 90% number, don't you? Well, that's, I guess, what they're aiming for, aren't they? Yeah. Yeah, well, it's changed. I mean, obviously, one case we went into lockdown. Now we had 60 cases. That's right.

And now we're having picnics. There's no consistency here. It almost feels like you're making it up as you go along, which you have to do with something like this. And over the weekend, there was a huge $30 million jackpot in Lotto. It wasn't struck. It rolls over $30 million on Wednesday night.

But there was first division was won. But each only took home only. I say only took home $250,000 with one strike player getting $500,000, which is amazing, but still $30 million up for grabs on Wednesday night. We spoke to the lady who won the big one before, didn't we, last week? That's right. We won a million dollars. Between how many people in the syndicate?

There was eight workmates. Yeah, it was a crazy experience. When we found out, we live in a small town, and we had heard that the local supermarket had sold a winning ticket, all of us, or anyone that had purchased a ticket from the supermarket, we were checking them online on her phone. And one of the girls was reading all the numbers out and as they were all matching, we were all sort of getting more and more excited. And then when she read out the last one,

the whole room just screamed and yelled and everyone was dancing around. That's pretty cool. And they could be the numbers that we really want to come your way. Wednesday night, that's Lotto. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. The Hit Spy with McDonald's Monopoly.

Feel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes. This is the opposite of entertainment tonight. It's entertainment way too early in the morning. Over to you, Juliette with Spy. So over the weekend, Kim Kardashian hosted Saturday Night Live, which is kind of a late-night American television show where there's lots of comedic gags made. People get roasted all the time.

They always have a guest host too like a big famous guest host each week yeah yeah Adele hosted it not too long ago I think but Kim Kardashian's hosted it for the first time and she actually did very well she made a lot of uh jokes um some quite uh controversial yeah quite edgy jokes yes um I'll play a few of them I'm here to announce that I'm running for I'm just kidding guys I'm not running for... I'm just kidding, guys. I'm not running for president. We can't have three failed politicians in one family. My father was and still is such an influence and inspiration to me.

It's because of him that I met my first black person. Want to take a stab in the dark at who it was? I know it's sort of weird to remember the first black person you met, but OJ does leave a mark or several Or not at all. I still don't know Thing I'm really proud of is that no one could ever call me a gold digger Honestly, I'm not even sure how you become one. So I asked my mom's boyfriend Cory They're wonderful jokes she did well, maybe she didn't know she could say no to the writers.

She was too polite. Well, say everything you've written. Yeah, I know. So, yeah, it got quite, it's kind of good doing the rounds on Twitter and social media because it is her first time hosting. A lot of people were very negative, which I know would be a surprise with the internet. But before she was on it. But now I think she's getting praised by those negative people going,

hey, she did a really good job. People were also commenting on the fact that she was wearing a bright pink outfit because recently she's just been wearing black morph suits the whole time so it was nice to see a bright color on her oh good on her they're easy to uh hate on aren't they the kardashians for some reason but really they're just a successful family i know and maybe that's why we hate them i know Because they're better than us. I'm secretly jealous, yeah. And the Spice Girls have signed a global touring deal amid their 25th anniversary celebration. So they've announced a worldwide partnership

for touring, merchandise and campaigns with Universal Music Group, which could mean that they could do a world tour, come to New Zealand hopefully. I'm sure if Victoria Beckham will be a part of that because she wasn't part of the original reunion, but they reckon they can get her on board. They keep ploughing her head, don't they, without Victoria?

Yeah, they do. It's like, what's going to happen in 20 years when we want to do the Jono and Ben world tour and Ben doesn't want to be part of it? Yeah. Plough head, mate, plough head. Mel B also said that she's been battling COVID-19 for five weeks. She's been sick as a dog for five weeks with COVID.

I was trying to see if she'd been vaccinated or not, but I would say probably not if she's that sick. The world is going to become, we were talking about this before the show, the world is going to become two groups of people, the vaccinated and the non-vaccinated. It's going to drive a big divide between people, particularly if they're not allowed into, anti-vaxxers aren't allowed into

bars, restaurants, supermarkets. Travel, planes. Yeah. It's going to be an us and them sort of situation, isn't it? It's kind of crazy. And that is Spy. Thanks to McDonald's. You can download the McDonald's app to play and win prizes with the Monopoly game at Macca's. We've still got plenty more to come on the show after 7 o'clock.

$5,000 up for grabs as well as some Billie Eilish tickets to be won. She's coming to New Zealand next year. Can't wait for that. We've got some tickets to be won on the hits. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. Kia ora, good morning. Just gone 7 o'clock. You're with Jono and Ben. On the hits. Good morning.

Just gone seven o'clock here with Jono and Ben on the hits. Trying to find other news out there that's not about COVID. Well, I have some non-COVID news. Ben Boyce has come to work with a new haircut over the weekend. A drastic change. He's got a mullet. A lockdown mullet done by my daughters. Yeah, they gave it a crack.

They didn't do too bad a job. I've had time to mullet over, over the last 60 minutes. And it's not fully developed yet. He is like Joe Dirt at the start line of his mullet growing journey at the moment, isn't he? But I'd like him to see it through, Juliet, would you? Yes, I would like you to commit to this. Oh, commit to it? I don't know if it's a commitment.

At least like during lockdown. So you could have it till them. Oh, commit to it? I don't know if it's a commitment. At least during lockdown, so you could have it till Christmas. Yeah, true. What were your parole conditions when they released you from Perimenemuno Prison? Are you allowed to be here today? I was going to play I'm still going to do it. Alright, I'm going to play this. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, I love playing anything

to do with Dwayne The Rock Johnson and I thought as a parent, you can relate to this. When your kids have a song stuck in their head and it happened to Dwayne The Rock Johnson and I thought as a parent you can relate to this when your kids have a song stuck in their head and it happened to Dwayne the Rock Johnson his daughter singing the same song over and over in the car. Well no no you brought jelly down the stream Rummy mally mally mally Life is but a dream

There you go Life is but a dream Way There you go. Way to end the song. Hey there, just keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. He's doing a good job of like, and there we go. What a great session. Hey, next on the show, we're going to talk about the biggest TV show in the world right now.

This is huge. And we wanted to know if it was set in New Zealand. How different would it be? We'll get to that in a few moments. It is The Hits. You've got Jon Ombien. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't say this battered up old face.

Jon Ombien, New Zealand's breakfast. So now the biggest show in the world right now that everyone's talking about. It's Squid Game. So there's a bunch of New Zealand celebrities. They're on an island and they play for Pirate Treasure. That's the one. Yeah, it's a lot more jeopardy now. It's just Celebrity Treasure Island,

which makes Ben a little hesitant about entering the next season. We've lost a lot of good celebrities, guys. No, it is. It is a South Korean show. Brett Thomas still says, I'm sorry, guys, you know the rules. It's a grim ending to the show. It's a huge, Squid Game is on Netflix, and if you haven't seen it, you would have seen the memes about it, you would have heard people talking about it.

But you described it really well. Dystopian, sort of futuristic sort of type of show, right? Yeah, it's almost like a Hunger Games-esque style show where people are fighting for survival, but it's based on Korean games that people played as children. Yeah, right. And I'm only up to episode two, but from what I've gathered,

they've rounded up a whole bunch of people who are in some serious financial strife, which makes me believe a large part of korea is really bad at budgeting and they've gathered like hundreds of these people and they make them compete in these games but uh things go badly and a lot of them are executed if they lose the game it's not a show for kids it's very uh it's yeah it's quite violent but you're right the first game that they play is sort of red light, green light. A little game that you play that you have to stop. This triggers me.

And when it's red light, you have to stop. But of course, if they move, they're basically out of the game. The first shooting is quite confronting. Oh my God, it is. You're like, oh, okay. No one really knows what they're going into play on the game and the audience as well. And the people there, you're like, oh, this is the consequence. Jeez.

But they can win billions and billions of dollars. So it's all worth it in the audience as well. And the people there, you're like, oh, this is the consequence? Jeez. But they can win billions and billions of dollars, so it's all worth it in the end. Yeah, well, they actually decide. They all leave. Because they're like, you don't have to be here if you all decide that you want to be here. They actually vote and they all leave. They leave.

But then they're like, hey, we should come back. Yeah. Because they come back. Guys, they had a lot of money. Those games were kind of fun. We should come on back. So we wanted to know this morning, because this is a huge show. I mean, one of the main actors went from having virtually no one on social media following them

to 14 million in the space of a couple of days. And the writer you were saying last week, Juliet, the writer of the program, the creator, he'd had the script for 10 years, kept getting it denied and thrown out for a decade. And eventually Netflix came on board. And also, something crazy, you might notice that the people in the show, they wear white slip-on vans. That's what they get dressed into.

Sales of white slip-on vans have increased by 8,000% since Squid Games. And then people are thinking Halloween this year, everyone's just going to go as Squid Game characters. Yeah, the vans are like, wow, we haven't sold this many white slip-on Vans since 1995. Some good sales. So we wanted to

know this morning, if Squid Game was in New Zealand, what would be the childhood games that you'd be taking part in? Oh, I see what you're doing here, Ben. You're opting for a bit of nostalgic reflection from the schoolyard. Yeah, it's a wonderful play. It's a great play from you.

What are you going to check out there? I would say Bull Rush. Oh, yeah? But, you know, many institutions now would already probably consider Bull Rush already dangerous enough. Imagine Dodgeball. Oh. Yeah. Oh, that's another one.

But my fear is, you know, watching the Squid Games, the setup that they have, this giant warehouse, and, you know, the budget that this person has. The production costs alone. For this guy, whoever's running the Squid Games to run them would be in the multi-millions. Who's running that in New Zealand? The guy who owns Briscoes? Do it in a big Briscoes or something?

That's not a bad suggestion. All right, Bull Rush, we'll chuck that into the mix. Can I chuck in Spotlight? You know that game? You play outside with a torch. Oh. Yes. I was hiding for that one.

I always need to go to the bathroom. That was always, I just get so anxious. You'd be like, oh, don't. Hold it together, Ben. Hold it together. We have to say that to him every morning now, too. Hold it together, Ben. Just till nine o'clock, buddy.

Then we'll let you go. Okay, I went home to the hits. The schoolyard games that we could do in the New Zealand version of the Squid Games, you can text to 4487. Let's get it on, New Zealand. And we've got a $15 wild bean gift voucher for grabs this morning. Shout your morning tea next

time you're passing wild bean. We've got some of those to give away, so give us a call right now. 0800 the Hits. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there, then I backed out. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Very exciting. Just talking about Squid Game on Squid Game or Squid Games on Netflix? Squid Game. But I guess there's multiple games.

But it's Squid Game. I'm getting into a Mike Hosking's situation there. Whether it's Hosking or Hosking. Is it Jacinta or Jacinda? No one knows. I'm pretty sure everyone knows. But Squid Game, it's the biggest show in the world right now. Everyone is talking about it. Even if you haven't watched it.

For weeks I felt like I had watched it because so many people were talking about it. Really, really good show. Very violent though. It is very violent. In essence, in career it's set. They've swooped up a whole bunch of people with financial problems and they're getting them to compete in child games to win billions and

billions of dollars. The consequences are quite bad though. Yeah. The downside is if you don't do well, you get shot. Yeah. Or other ways as well. You die. Basically you die. I'm going out to episode two of that. I'm going out to episode three. So they think, oh wow. So basically if you lose a game you're out

and you're not coming back. There's no coming back. So we're going to do the New Zealand version of the Squid Games. What childhood games would we use

to off people? Is that what we're doing? No I was just saying if it was set in New Zealand what would be the games? Yeah I guess you're right. But we're not going to off anyone.

No we just want to know if we're just We might put you in lockdown for five weeks or something. We're brainstorming some. No, no. We just want to know if we're just... We might put you in lockdown. Yeah. For five weeks or something. We're brainstorming some of these this morning. We have $15 wild bean gift vouchers up for grabs.

You can shout morning tea next time you're passing wild bean, which is pretty awesome. Yeah. So it's probably not going to be the Squid Games in New Zealand. It'll be like the calamari games. So we'll do the New Zealand calamari games. We'll start with you, Christy. The childhood game you bring in Ford. Christy and Tauranga with you, Christy. The childhood game you bring in Ford. Christy and Tauranga.

Oh, Christy. Damn. She's already lost in the game, guys. RIP, Christy. Oh, the consequences are dire, too, aren't they? Even the radio version is brutal. What was she going to suggest? Do we know?

Heads down, tails up. Oh, yeah. Was that when you heads down, you had your thumbs up? Yeah. Is that right? Yeah. What was the format of that game? I don't know. I can't even remember when you hit your thumbs up? Yeah. Is that right? Yeah. What was the format of that game? I don't know. I can't even remember. I remember Stuck in the Mud. That was another one

too. People used to cheat wildly at that one too. Oh yeah. I got you. I got you. No you didn't. Great playground reenactment. I got you. No you didn't. And then I go, well how do we solve this? Yeah, there was no one there to solve it. We've got Martin on from Christchurch,

the childhood game for the New Zealand Calamari Games. How's it going, guys? Yeah, what do you want to chuck forward, Marty? I want to chuck on the floor as lava. Oh, it's a beauty, too. You could have literal lava. Yeah, they would, wouldn't they? Oh, they would.

What about moving and disappearing objects that you've got to try and hang on to as well? Yes, that's a great idea. With dire consequences with real lava. Gee whiz. I would not wish that upon my worst enemy. Thank you, Martin. Appreciate it, buddy.

Don't worry. Have a great Monday. Carolyn, you're on from New Plymouth. We're developing the format for the New Zealand Squid Games, the calamari games. Take it away. What are you going to chuck forward? Elastics.

Oh, elastics. What would you do it with, like barbed wire or something? Yeah, well, I guess the thing is you could just do it with elastics, but then you know what the consequences are. It's the same as if you did something like chatterings as well,

another Kiwi staple of a game. Hannah's the same as like, you know, you did something like Chatterings as well, another Kiwi staple of a game. Hannah's come forward with Tiggy, which you get angry when I call it Tiggy, because you call it Tag. Yeah. Tag? It's Tiggy. Tag! It's Tiggy.

It's a great debate in New Zealand. Oh my goodness. And then you had Ball Tiggy as well. Yeah, ball tag. You could do that with grenades or something. Oh, gosh. Greg, we'll get you on from Hamilton. The childhood games we're putting forward for the New Zealand Squid Games. Yeah, mine is gutter board.

Oh, I remember that. And that was the two bits of wood in the shape like a triangle. And you'd throw the tennis... Yeah. That was a that was a schoolyard classic and if you hit it if you hit it on the top and you caught on the fall they're out straight away that's right you're out in the calamari games you're out is that still in the curriculum nowadays go to board i certainly hope so i've seen it in my old school i have white

took a river the middle of nowhere school but it's um i've seen it in my old school. I have Waitakaruru. It's in the middle of nowhere in school, but I've seen it there. Yeah, they're still living like it's 1992 in Waitakaruru, and that's why we love the place. Another good text coming through as well. Hopscotch. Oh, yeah. Hopscotch is a champagne one too?

Yeah. Imagine the nerves if you knew that was high-stake hopscotch. Or double Dutch as soon as you touch the rope. Oh, this the nerves if you knew that was high stake hopscotch. Or double dutch as soon as you touch the rope. This is good. It's already a TV show though, so I feel like we can't do any of these. But it was fun. It was fun. It was John and Ben and Juliet just reflecting on

games we used to play as kids. And sort of disguising it to something topical to do with Squid Game. That's exactly what we did. I mean, in the end, we all had a bit of fun. We said some stuff. We went, oh, yeah, I remember that. And now we move on. Yeah.

Going hard and ooly. Go hard, go ooly. Go hard and ooly. Hard and ooly. Go hard. With Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. I had to do an arduous task over the weekend, and it wasn't getting a new mullet, as my

friend Ben Boyce has done today. I'm sorry I keep mentioning it. We just need to refresh it for the new audience coming in. It's a new look show. You look great. Yeah, it was a lockdown haircut that my daughters gave me. I thought, yeah, and they chose a mullet. I don't think my hair was – I don't think I'm cool enough

to pull off a mullet and I don't play rugby for the All Blacks or anything like that, so I'm not cool enough. But, hey, giving it a go, it's lockdown. You know, that's what we love the unconfident what have I done yeah yeah which is pretty much what I've

done yeah no it's good I didn't realize your kids were so bogus though yeah little baby Woodstock and little baby Cody's yeah

did a wonderful job no it looks good I actually really do like it Juliet Lyson as well yeah looks great thank you I don't know if you're mocking me, but hey, it's fine. Can we get a photo on social media?

Yeah. Because we can't mock her, but the internet can. It's mean if we do it. Apparently it's workplace bullying if we do it. I'm opening myself up for you coming in here today. Oh, you didn't tell me. I didn't even notice it first. I didn't know I was going to do it until yesterday.

I was like, hey, I kept moaning about not having a haircut because of lockdown. They're like, well, we can change this. That's what my family said. So I't know I was going to do it until yesterday. I was like, hey, I kept mining about not having a haircut because of lockdown. And they're like, well, we can change this. This is what my family said. So I was like, all right, give it a go. You should have just watched on the WhatsApp group. Hey, guys, just so you know, when I come in, there's going to be something different about me. Just something. I posted it on my Instagram.

You're not following me, mate? I saw it. So you knew. Yes, I knew. Okay, anyway. I actually thought you, sorry to continue this conversation, but I thought that you would have, you know, done the mullet gag for social media and then kind of committed with the, got rid of it. Yeah.

No, I didn't. I should have. I should have. Definitely should have. No, I had to do an arduous task over the weekend, and it was clear out the bookshelf. I mean, I'm putting myself to sleep now, even just saying what I had to do.

But as I'm doing it, I'm like, why do we even have a bookshelf? Why does every household, for the most part, feel obliged to have a shelf that holds books? Books you'll never read. And if you do read, you read them once, you're never going to go back over them again. Do you find that with books? I haven't read a book, and I proudly say this,

since I was seven years old and I read't read a book, and I proudly say this. So proudly. Since I was seven years old and I read Roald Dahl, The Witches, because my teacher made me do. Since then, I've never finished a book from start to finish. So I don't know why we have 50 or 60 books that just sit on a shelf. People come in and they look at the shelf and they're impressed. It's kind of like a sign of notoriety to have a number of books. I had the same conversation with my wife when we were sorting out our house,

our new house, because she loves reading. She's got a lot of books. But she was like, well, we need a bookshelf to put them on display. And then we went, why? Why? And it's just like, it's just it. And so we don't. So where do you put all the books?

Well, they're in a cupboard. They're in a cupboard. They're not on display. We're like, why? And we had that same conversation to you. We both were like, why are we displaying? Look at all these fine books that we've read. The finest books.

And chances are you haven't read 99% of them. But it just gives off an appearance to guests that come over like, well, they must read a lot of books. I'm understanding if it's your thing. Like the kids love Harry Potter or David Williams, things like that. And they've got them in their rooms and stuff and they've got them out

you know it's almost like a little badge of honour I guess for kids to go yeah I've read that one I've read that one but but if a book

I'm going to say this is a giant waste of money but as a Juliet you know this no it's not a giant waste of money as a parent you shouldn't be saying this I know

because you just read them once you're never going to go back over them twice my daughter's three times won one of the books at the moment. She's like, I love it so much. Exception to the rule, Ben. You name me one book you've read twice. Oh, no, not me, not me.

I probably have read the same book to both my kids, like one of the Roald Dahl books. I would have probably read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I would have read that to Indiana Center. So, yeah. And then when I was, because I had to go through each book and hold them up to the family and we had a vote as to whether we keep it or not.

And then one was one that my mother had brought up. They're slowly shipping stuff from Christchurch to Auckland every time they come to stay of my possessions. And I held up a book and it was some childhood book. And she's like, we've got to keep that from your childhood.

And I threw it in the bin. She's like savage. I was like, It's from your childhood And I threw it in the bin She's like savage I was like you tell me when I'm ever going to read The big fat hippopotamus on my roof Ever again I mean it was a great book I remember it fondly But I don't need to go back over it again

Books they're an obligation They're not a necessity I imagine I'm on the text 4487 right now People love books Books or not books they're not a necessity I imagine I'm going to text 4487 right now open up the polls people love books 4487 books or not books books are great you can get all that information from the internet now

Instagram tells me all that cool stuff now your form of reading is reading subtitles on a Netflix show yeah that's always too much even with Squid Games I've had to go on with that weird voiceover it's because I don't like the reading next $5,000 up for grabs. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben.

Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Uh-oh. We've overordered on cash, and it's all got to go. Yeah, it's a game of word association. We play it every morning at this time on the hits. If you match all five words with the same words that we come up with, you win $5,000.

And we're going to bring the wonderful Kayla in from Christchurch, Morena. Hello, how are you? Oh, Kayla, we're doing well. All the better for hearing you this morning, mate. How's Chit-Chit today? No, it's good. It's very good. Sunny here. Spoke to Annie and John Pryor over the weekend. They said it was steaming hot. Yes, I caught burns.

Yeah. Oh, really? It was steaming hot. Summer is here. That's good. And they were removing layers of clothing, Annie said. And. Oh, really? It was steaming hot. Summer is here. That's good. And they were removing layers of clothing, Annie said. And I don't want to know what happened beyond that. So they're still very, very active. Your parents. This is your parents you're talking about.

What? Kayla, what do you do, mate? I work at Gorgeous Food. It's a bakery in Hornby. Oh, it sounds gorgeous. It does. What's the most gorgeous thing on your menu? Us.

I love it, I love it. Good on you, Kayla. Big decision. Who are you sending into the soundproof booth this morning? Ben. Oh, Ben. Now, Ben, forgot to tell you too. The soundproof booth's gone quite squid games-y.

So play your cards right in there, buddy. Could have dark consequences. Kayla, you know what you need to do, right? Yep. You and the gorgeous girls at the gorgeous bakery need to match five words with Ben Boyce. If you do, we'll give you $5,000, okay? Okay, yep. Alright, the first word that comes into your head, Kayla,

when I say rubbish. Spin. Same as me. Nice. Juliet, you're giving an agreeable rubbish. Spin. Same as me. Nice. Juliet, you're giving an agreeable nod. Yes. Applause is word number two, Kayla. Clap.

Twister, word number three. I'll come back. Come back to twister, okay. We'll head on to word number four, which was sun. S-U-N. Rise. Going to round out the words today with salad. Dressing.

Great. Nice. You're in a bit of a twist with Twister. What do you think? Game. Yeah. Nice. You're in a bit of a twist with Twister What do you think? Game Yeah Nice I matched 4 out of 5 with you I think I was 3 out of 5

Those solid stats Kayla will get Ben out of the soundproof booth Let's hope you walk away with $5,000 and if you don't walk away with $5,000 at least you walk away with what you came here with, which was your gorgeous smile and your wonderful attitude.

Okay, Ben. $5,000. Here we go. First word that I need you to match. It's the first word that comes to your head. Rubbish. Ben. That's what they call him in America.

They call you Bin, don't they? Yeah, Bin, yeah, that's right. Whenever he orders a coffee, when we travel, I'm not saying I act like we go over there all the time, but when we did go over there, you would order a coffee, and they'd be like, Bin, Bin, and they'd written B-I-N on the cup. Because of the New Zealand accent. My name's Bin.

Bin. Bin voice. But no one ever questioned it. No, that's an unusual name, but anyway. I'll roll it. Okay, word number two. Applause. Clap.

Kayla. This is a great start, mate. Third word was twister. Kayla was a little stuck on this. Twister. Oh, there's definitely two options for Twister. Because you've got the... Do I say the game version of Twister?

And you've also got the Twister as in the... Oh, yeah. Game? Oh! Well done. Sun. S-U-N. Three from three.

Again, I've got two options. Sunset. Was it sunrise? That was the other option. He had your option, Kayla. That was the sunsetset Sunrise show. Oh, mate. The sun is not shining on this game this morning.

All right, let's go to the fifth word. It was salad. Dressing? Oh! Oh! Kayla. Oh! Four.

Four out of five. Mate, what do you want to say? Not good enough. Sorry, what do you want to say? Not good enough. Sorry. Yeah, it was so close. You know, I said to Kayla, I actually matched in my head four out of five with her as well. So that was the show's average with Kayla. And I tell you what, you've been better than average today, Kayla.

You've played a wonderful game. You go and look after yourself in Christchurch, okay? Okay, cool. Thank you. We've got Billie Eilish tickets up for grabs very shortly. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben tickets up for grabs very shortly. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. The Hit Spy with McDonald's Monopoly.

Peel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes. All right, here's the opening acts to the real news bulletin in three minutes' time with Rachel Jackson-Lees. This is the one, you know, they'll start trickling through for at the concert, Juliet. You'll have a few people you're playing to. What have we got? So Adele has given her first interview in five years. So she's doing a bit of a comeback.

She's got new music out, I think, on Friday. And she was on the cover. You might have seen photos over the weekend on Vogue. She looked incredible. Looking magnificent, Adele. Amazing, amazing. But she's talked about quite a lot of things. She talked about her divorce, her new

relationship, her son, her new album. She said, so she was married to her husband from 2016, then they got divorced in 2019. She said she was actually really embarrassed about her divorce because it wasn't something that she, you know, obviously pictured going through. But the reality was her marriage wasn't really working for her anymore. She wasn't miserable, miserable. Neither of them did anything significantly wrong. There was no major hurt. She just knew that she would probably be miserable if she continued going through the motions and just not really doing anything for herself.

I imagine there would be a level of embarrassment on there when you have a divorce, especially on a public, such a public platform as well of like, oh, we didn't make this thing work. You probably feel like a failure in some regards. Yeah, but to be fair, someone like her going through a divorce and speaking about it probably helps so many people around the world. Of course, many more divorces. It's okay to get divorced. She's normalised it. Yeah, yeah. But one of the really sad things was her son, he's eight years old, asked her a lot of questions when they were going through the divorce,

a lot of innocent questions like, why can't we all still live together as a family? And she's like, oh, that's not really what people do when they break up. And he's like, but why? And she's like, well, that's just not what society, you know, when you break up, you kind of go your separate ways. And then he asks, you know, don't you love dad anymore? And she's like, oh, well, I do love him, but I'm just not in love with him.

And so trying to explain those things to him. To an eight-year-old, yeah. Yeah, and so she wrote this album. It's basically, she wrote it because she wants her son to be able to listen to it when he's in his 20s or 30s and understand sort of what she was going through and why she made the decision to leave the relationship so that hopefully he'll understand better when he's older. There's going to be a whole lot of songs of like,

You didn't take out the bins. You said you were going to paint the deck. A list of things he didn't know. That useless husbands never get around to doing, a.k.a. me. But she did speak about her new relationship with NBA agent Rich Paul. She didn't say about that in the album. I found someone else. I found someone better and richer.

His name's even Rich. But she did say that he's really funny. He's really smart. She did date other people between getting divorced and finding Rich. But the fame thing kind of got in the way of those other sort of smaller relationships. But Rich Paul apparently just doesn't, the fame doesn't really frazzle him. She knows what she wants. He accepts that.

He knows what he wants. And they seem very happy together. And she did say she was very happy. Do you get a cooler name than Rich Paul? I know. I don't know. He's up there. I know.

That's very true. And I've just Googled him. He looks magnificent. I know. He does, doesn't he? They look like a very cool couple. Everything you want Rich Paul to be, Rich Paul does. LeBron James is agent.

I mean, he's hooking you up with tickets to the NBA. I know. Not that she needs to worry about that. She could probably buy. She's Adele. She could probably get some GA tickets. But for me, I mean. You want to date Rich Paul.

I do. And that is your Spy Update this morning. And as thanks to McDonald's, you can download the Maccas app to play the Monopoly game. Rise and shine. Time to start the, um, who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jono and Ben, the hits. It is the hits.

Jono and Ben, great fun hanging out with you guys on a Monday morning. Now, Kim Kardashian was on Saturday Night Live, iconic TV show in America over the weekend. There was a bit of, I guess, social media backlash about her appearing on the show. What's Kim Kardashian doing on there? As people love to moan on the weekend. There was a bit of, I guess, social media backlash about her appearing on the show. What's Kim Kardashian doing on there? As people love to moan on the internet. But she was awesome.

And some of the jokes that she made, a little bit full on. Have a listen. I'm here to announce that I'm running for... I'm just kidding, guys. I'm not running for president. We can't have three failed politicians in one family. My father was and still is such an influence

and inspiration to me. It's because of him that I met my first black person. Want to take a stab in the dark at who it was? I know it's sort of weird to remember the first black person you met, but O.J. does leave a mark. Or several. Or none at all. I still don't know. But the one thing I'm really proud of

is that no one could ever call me a gold digger. Honestly, I'm not even sure how you become one. So I asked my mom's boyfriend, Corey. Oh, what a country, eh? Where you can make fun of a murder. Yeah. Yeah. True.

Good on her for doing it, though. Because those are some, she would have probably even presented those and gone, oh, okay, you're going there Unless she's talking to Corey and going hey Corey You might not want to watch tonight Or give him a text and go hey I've seen some stuff Don't mean any of it though Poor Corey's like hey

Who's Corey? He's a lovely gentleman He's with Chris yeah probably about half her age Right We all know why Corey's there For love We're all trying to find love Yeah, yeah, probably about half her age. Right. Yeah, we all know where Corey's there. This is a great guy. For love. For love.

He's there for love. We're all trying to find love. Hey, next on the show, Jess Quincy. I've already found him, but I've got a wife. How about you? We're still looking. I know there's somewhere to be looking, aren't we? You know, I'm okay with the one I've got now,

but, you know, we're still looking. Okay, I'll just... No. Can't get enough. Must be love on the way. now, but we're still looking. Okay, just me? No. And as a hat, it's Jono and Ben on your Monday morning. Now, Jess Quinn, she was on Dancing with the Stars. She does so much great work online for body

positivity. There you go, got that one out. Of course, Jess Quinn lost her leg at a very early age, and she's brought a book out, which is awesome. And she joins us right now. Good morning, Jess. How are you doing? Good. I can't complain.

I mean, obviously stuck inside my house, but it could be worse. You can come on here and complain. Yeah, we're happy to have complaints. I mean, how cool is it to have your book out, your story out there for the world? Has that been something that you've been nervous about, you've been excited about, or a bit of both? I think I've mostly been excited about it. I think when it got close to it, I was like, oh, my goodness, there's so many people that hopefully so many people are going to read

these words that I poured my whole heart into. That was a little bit nerve-wracking, but, yeah, mostly exciting. Were you worried if there's any spelling mistakes in the book? That would be my major concern. Oh, my goodness. I was so worried about that because I've read it. I can't even tell you how many times I've read this book. And then I got the hard copy and I wanted to read it properly as a book,

which I've probably done twice now. And I found three things that I was like, oh, my goodness, I can't believe I said that in terms of like I wrote something wrong. Yeah. I would start panicking. I'm a shocking speller. And then I'd be like, I'd just brisk through and you wouldn't notice any mistakes or anything that's grammatically incorrect or anything.

No. You know, they're always level-headed internet. They'll call you out on it. Yeah. But no, I haven't found one yet. So if someone finds one. Well, I'll trawl through it. And if I find one, I'll give you a good old roasting

on the gram, mate. Love that. Now, nine years old, Jess, that you lost your leg and reading about that and sort of, you know, because I've got a nine-year-old myself, I mean, it just really hits home. I mean, take us back there.

I mean, do you remember heaps about that or is it kind of all a bit of a blur? I remember more about it now that I've written the book. That was really a helpful tool in remembering what I wept through, which was great. But I do remember parts of it it I don't know what I remember from memory and what I remember from

stories but yeah it was definitely a really hard time obviously um and yeah just going from being a really normal active kid to pretty much living in a hospital and having my life completely flipped upside down was just so strange. And then, yeah, I think my memory has, I mean, like all of us, we don't all remember what we went through or what happened when we were nine. So there's parts that stand out and parts that I didn't really understand until I wrote the book, really. For those that don't know what happened, what actually, what did you go through? Yeah, so I was eight when I was outside playing with my sister,

and I decided to stand on a soccer ball. I thought I'd be really cool and try to show off. And I actually snapped my femur bone, which is supposed to be the strongest bone in your body, and they tried to heal that. And about four months later, it wasn't healing, and so they put me through a series of tests and realized the reason it had broken

was because there was an underlying osteosarcoma, which is a bone cancer. And basically, I was rushed pretty quickly into a whole lot of chemotherapy, which I did for probably nine months. And then they amputated my leg. It was the only way to get rid of the cancer and save my life. But I had a really rare amputation called a rotationplasty, which I dive into in the book. But I was the first in New Zealand to have that done. So not only was I navigating, I guess, everything that I went through, I was also navigating this kind of new world of amputation and not having anyone to kind of follow with that.

So, yeah. Well, totally. I mean, you do such amazing work. You're such a great role model online at the moment, you know, with body positivity. But reading as well, you know, teenage Jess, you know, you wouldn't even wear shorts because you were self-conscious about your leg. What would you like to say to yourself if you could talk to your teenage self again? We can't make that happen, by the way. No, we can't. We don't have a time machine, but if that could happen, I mean, what would you,

well, you know, what you know now, what would you like to pass on to yourself back then? I think just knowing that you're not the only one that's different. I think it was really easy for me being surrounded by friends and media where everything just looked kind of the same, I guess. And I would like to remind myself that I'm not the only one with differences. All of my friends had something that they weren't secure about. I'm sure we just didn't speak about it at the time. So I kind of isolated myself by being alone and being different and as i've gotten older i've realized that we all are so i'd probably just

seemed a friendly reminder about that well it's now that we introduce you to teenage jess come on i thought it was kind of cool you said you said that our differences are our superpower which i thought was it was a really really cool way of putting it. Oh, are you there, Jeece? The phone's still there. I muted you by accident. Oh, I thought I'd offended you. I was like, oh, God, what have I?

I just said the best line I've said in this whole interview. We'll never know what it was. You must get such amazing messages, not only only about the book but just from people around the world yeah for sure it's it's kind of my motivation to keep going i have a love hate relationship with social media messages definitely keep me going because it was a photo shoot that you took that pretty much went worldwide was a few years ago right yeah so that's what started the whole instagram world for me i had no no plans but i had a photo shoot go viral overnight it was about five years ago now um and yeah it just kept

growing really and and it kind of gave me this platform to to speak my message and i fell in love with it and yeah everything's kind of come from that which is amazing well you're doing uh you're using instagram for good not like my Ben, who's just always hocking off his Fit Tea product. I don't do Fit Tea. His diet pills. No, I don't. He's lying. He's always smiling, pointing fingers, going,

you want a slim body man like me? That's what you use it for. I'm on your Instagram. Jeez, you've got a cute dog, Jess. He is very cute. He's only nine months old, and he's crazy, but he's very cute. Now I'm getting a lot of acid from my daughter to get a dog. Do it. Do it. But

then you're like, I'm going to have to deal with the fallout of everything that literally falls out. It's all on you, Jono. I knew it was going to be a lot of work, but it's ten times more than that. That's what I wanted to hear. I'm going to record this and send this to Poppy. It's ten times worse. This is good for my argument. Jess, it's so nice

to talk to you and congratulations on the book. Still standing. Where can people get copies? It should be available in most bookstores. If it's not in your local bookstore, you can request it. And it's also online on Mighty Ape in New Zealand and Booktopia and Book Depository. Thanks, Jess.

Next, we're hooking up someone with HelloFresh for two weeks, a lockdown legend. If you want to nominate someone, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Remember the words you told me, love me till the day I die. The hits and HelloFresh. Pay it forward. This is really, really awesome. If you know a lockdown legend,

someone that could do with two weeks of basically having their meals covered thanks to HelloFresh, It gets delivered to their door. Fresh ingredients. Easy to follow recipes. Then you just need to hit up the hitstockcode on NZ to nominate someone. Just by nominating someone, you could also win tickets to one of the hottest concerts of 2021. But let's call our lockdown legend right now. We've got someone here who's been nominated.

Her name's Mickey or Michaela. Works in radiation. She's a therapist. Hello, Michaela speaking. Hi, Michaela. Is this radiation therapist Michaela? Yeah. In Tauranga?

Yeah. Radio announcer Jonathan Pryor and colleague co-host and radio announcer Benjamin Boyce on the phone here. Hello. How you doing? I'm okay, thanks. Don't be all standoffish. I can tell you're miffed. You're like, what am I a part of? You've been nominated as a lockdown

legend. Oh, awesome. She's like, what does that mean? It means you get two weeks of HelloFresh delivered to your door, two weeks of meals all sorted. Oh, that's awesome. Thank you. Oh, now you've come round. We're one-er over.

Oh, good. One-er over with a fortnight's worth of free food. Hey, Michaela, that's wonderful stuff you're doing in Tauranga. You go and visit some of the community's most vulnerable, I imagine, at times. Yeah, we have all cancer patients are constantly coming in to get

treatment, so it never really stops. I imagine it would Yeah, we have all cancer patients that are constantly coming in to get treatment. So it never really stops. I imagine it would be quite draining, the emotion of seeing that every day. Yeah, it can be. Put things in perspective. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I imagine it would.

I imagine it would. Well, you're doing wonderful work there in Tauranga, and many people think so. That's why you're getting two weeks of HelloFresh, Michaela. Oh, yay. Thank you. No worries. You enjoy that. Thank you so much. Next time, be a bit more warm and inviting. She wasn't sure. I'd be like, what is Shona Benoit? You know? I'd be exactly

the same as you. Love your work, Michaela. You keep safe in there, okay? Okay. Thank you. Keep up the good work. There you go. If you want to nominate someone, you can head to thehits.co.nz. And, of course, if you want to get some HelloFresh delivered to your door, hellofresh.co.nz. It's simply delicious.

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