Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben has a bone to pick with Jono and it ends in tears

Episode Date: May 16, 2022

We catch up with our captivating Hollywood Insider Enty, he dishes on Adele and her boyfriend. Where did Jono wake up in the middle of the night? And Ben has a bone to pick with Jono and it ends in (cry laughing) tears.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast. Hi guys, welcome. It's the podcast introduction. So what you've all come here for? The 17th of May today. Well, we. Ben Boyce just reminded me that at 12 o'clock today, your greatest fear is about to become a reality where I'm going to make you parallel park the skoda that we're giving away in front of a crowd of 50 to 100 people. You monster. The footbath is 100 people. You monster. The footbath, there's a cafe.

You monster. And they'll be chanting, go Ben, go Ben. And you have to parallel park. I don't want to parallel park. It's not my happy place. Like, if I get the option of parallel parking or not parallel parking every time, I'm one of those people, I'm like, my wife says, there's a park. I'm like, oh, no, you're too tight.

You know, you never get it. You know, like. You've either got the optimist or the pessimist when it comes to parallel parking. I'm just like, hey, not for me. I'd rather, you know, it's good to stretch the legs. It's good to walk. Yeah, I know. I do notice you park, you know, sometimes one or two blocks away from the location.

Yeah, yeah. Sometimes I do like to get places early, and I find it a bit weird if you're like, oh, this guy's 20 minutes away, and he's sitting there, you know? So I'm like, that's one of the 20 minutes away, and he's sitting there. That's one of the reasons. You don't want to be the person. So I go, oh, God, that stopped till 20. But what's he doing?

Of course there's a lot. Oh, he's just sitting on his computer in his car. Yeah, so I do want to park away. And I also notice you're not a driveway parker. No. You won't happily drive into someone's driveway and make yourself known. No, it's a big D-swinging move, that one, I reckon. Well, I'm parking in the driveway. I'm parking in your driveway all the time. You can park home. No, it's a big D-swinging move that one I reckon. Well, parking in the drive. I park in your driveway

all the time. You can park in my driveway, that's fine. You think that's a big D-swing, you think that's a big power play. It can be for some people. Yeah. Well,

you do that, you turn the car around, you go into someone's driveway to park, you know, sometimes to turn the car around if you can't do it, you turn.

People are like, look at that. Oh yeah, I know, just on the footpath bit. Yeah, people get all toey. What's he doing? He's in my little driveway bit.

It won't be long. I'm just parking here. You get unnecessarily defensive about that. I reckon the ultimate power play would be not only parking in someone's driveway, but reversing up. Oh, yeah. Reverse it.

Was that a reminder of? That's a reminder. Speaking of parking, I've got to pay for parking today. Bell Crawford, do you driveway park? You're a fan of parking in someone's driveway when you go to their house? It depends. Yeah.

Like, you know, do you know them? Do they have a shared driveway? You don't want to be that a-hole. Yeah. It does depend a lot on your relationship with the person, doesn't it? Yeah, like, is it your family? Is it friends? Do you normally do that?

Is there parking on the street? Like, if I'm going around to Bogsy's, the CEO's house for a barbecue. Are you parking in the driveway? I don't park on the driveway most times. Are you parking Bogsy's driveway? The CEO? Oh, no, sorry. I mean the road.

Yeah, right. Yeah, no. See, I'm not going, hey, Bogsy, mate. You know, driving into the driveway then. And that's a choice. You're preoccupied. I'm so sorry. He's not even listening to me.

He's just paying for parking. I need to pay for parking. Oh, yeah, sorry. There's an app listening to me. He's just paying for parking. Oh yeah, sorry. There's an app I do, but I'm getting very confused. You can't fade out of our own introduction. My wife's loaded in her car vehicle into here, so I'm just like... This is meant to be an inside scoop,

you know, a little bit each of the only podcast listeners. He's even checked out of this. What are you delivering them? Nothing. So that's her licence plate. As Ben sorts out his parking app. Thank you very much for joining the show. Today we had a very fun programme.

We spoke to our Hollywood insider. Gee whiz, he just unloaded on Adele. She's saying Adele's too keen on Rich Paul. Yeah. Codependent relationship maybe. Allegedly. He's saying Rich Paul likes going out partying with LeBron James, his mate, who he manages. And Adele's like, hey, come back over here, geezer.

And he won't. You know, it's a nightmare. A nightmare. She's too keen. Too keen, yeah. You've got to treat him mean. Oh, no, don't have fear. Remember that theory to treat him mean?

It's true, though. Does it work? If you're too keen. Don't be mean to anyone, though. But there is something to be said about being too keen. I'm not saying treat him mean. If you're too keen, won't be mean to anyone though But there is something to be said About being too keen I'm not saying treat them mean If you're too keen People lose interest

You want to seem unavailable So you don't want to be like But not emotionally unavailable You're a knobwit You're like what? You're like oh I just don't want him now It's not about being mean

It's just having your own life That's the trick Yeah you're right Well they need to rephrase The treat them mean Keep them keen You know How could you rephrase it?

Don't seem too keen? Don't seem too keen, yeah. You're rhyming keen with keen. Yeah. Don't seem too keen, keep them keen. You know, it works, but it's... I mean, it gets the message across. We'll go to our old friend Rhyme Zone.

Yeah, Rhyme Zone. Rhymezone.com, and let's see if we can go keen. If anything else works with keen instead of mean, and we can start a whole new phrasing here. Treat him clean. Keep him keen. No. No.

Treat him lean. Keep him keen. Well, because it could be lean as in it's a stretch, but it's like you're being a bit lean on how much you're given. Be a queen. Treat him keen. Keep him how much you're given. Be a queen. Treat them keen. Keep them keen. Keep them keen.

Be a queen. Keep them keen works. That could be something. Like Adele, if she behaved more like, you're lucky to be with me, Rich Paul might not go out with LeBron James all the time. Yeah. You know? Yeah, okay.

All right. Be a queen. Keep them keen. You can't even say it right. It's not quite as good. It doesn't roll off the tongue. No. Be a teen. Keep them keen. You can't even say it right. It's not quite as good. It doesn't roll off the tongue. No. Be a teen.

Keep them keen. Wear some jeans. Keep them keen. Okay, I'm out. What, jeans? No. All right, enjoy the podcast. Rise and shine.

Time to start the... Who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jono and Ben on the hits. How's everyone doing today? All right. You all right, Bill? Good, thanks. how are you?

No good, we went on a mid-morning movie date yesterday We did actually Like something that my retired parents would go and do on a Monday morning Because they get a senior citizens discount or something at the event cinemas But we had to go for work purposes to watch a movie Maybe we're doing an interview later in the week for something And my major fear walking into the movie was staying awake for the duration of the movie. Do you even try?

Like, I'm like, he's going to go to sleep. Is it taking time on? We say it every time we go. It doesn't mean it's, it's not to do with the movies. It's like we go on a car ride and you stop talking, you'll go to sleep. Yeah, no way of reflection on the entertainment levels of the film. It's such a dad thing to do though. My dad would do the same.

They sit down, they'll fall asleep. I used to frustrate me a bit time My dad would do the same They sit down They'll fall asleep I used to frustrate me But my dad would be like Why are you always asleep Every time I go watch a movie Because they're working Working so hard

Yeah That's right My dad never saw a movie with me Well he would But he'd be like I sleep during the Muppets I'd be like I'll probably bring him back PTSD

Yeah Yeah He'll be asleep And Because you were quite You were very good at the start, laughing away, very responsive. And then you just went quiet and I'm like, hey, he's asleep. Or maybe the movie lost me for a bit. Maybe the stuff wasn't as funny as it was at the beginning.

You can't guarantee I was asleep. You definitely were asleep. I was definitely asleep. I was definitely asleep. And then I woke up from the back end of it and got the piece did all together. That's the problem when you go to movies and you dip out during the middle. You have to kind of join the storyline together, connect the dots, don't you, by the end of it. Be a funny podcast.

Our friends used to go to the first half of movies and walk out. But the podcast was them trying to figure out what happened at the end. I don't know if they ever knew what happened at the end. No, we've seen so many half movies, it's the most frustrating thing in the world. But maybe that could be our one. I've got to try and figure out what happened in the middle. I know what's happened at the start of the end,

but what happened in the middle to piece it all together? Yeah, no, very exciting show coming up today. We've got our Hollywood insider. His name is Enty. Makes the lawyers very nervous, Enty, doesn't he? Yes. He's just done a lot of wild stuff about famous people that, you know, the company's like, you know, we're just post-COVID.

We can't afford to go into a lawsuit with Elon Musk, for example. Exactly. So he joins us after 8 o'clock this morning, dishing the dirt on all sorts of celebrities as well as that. We've got Cash and Car. Your chance to win that at 8 o'clock this morning. Scrolling through your feed. This news is not breaking news.

It's already broken, Ben Boyce. Well, yesterday the government announced an emissions reductions plan as part of the Budget 2021. So a $5 billion scheme to basically to try and get more Kiwis into e-vehicles is one of the big points. Lower the emissions is obviously the goal, but trying to get more people as part of it into electric vehicles. What are they trying to do, save the planet or something?

Madness. Now we get a bit of a discount don't we on an electric vehicle? Yeah, the Transport Minister said yesterday they were considering capping the car cost at $35,000 and offering a $10,000 subsidy to allow people to buy an EV or a hybrid. So that's one of the things they're looking into. But the initiative's all going to

start next year. It's about $30 million going into a trial to try and get more people into driving e-cars and saving the planet. I think the overall goal is just get cars off the road as well. Yes, you're right. That's what they would like. If we all just stopped using our cars today and used public buses and transport, that would be the end goal. But then they're like, well, you need to make bus transport cheaper. That's what they were saying yesterday to Robbo.

And they're also talking about maybe even in Auckland, you might have to pay to use roads at peak hours and stuff if you're travelling around into the city and things like that. Which happens in, I think, Sydney, New York, definitely to drive into the CBD, Manhattan, I think you need to pay. So, I mean, it's an international thing. But I tell you what, Kiwis being forced to pay for something that they haven't paid for,

we take that well. Level-headed response. Have you got an EV? No, I haven't been thinking about getting one when I get a new car. You know, because it seems to be the way forward and with petrol being so expensive. But the EVs are quite expensive at the moment. You know, some of them. What are you getting an EV for?

Obviously, they range in price. Yeah, I think they do range in price. And particularly if you're a hybrid or what sort of how big a car you want as well you'd stressed you out remember but i don't know why it stressed you out we had one for work we drove to hamilton remember oh that's why you're stressing out i was like it's just like petrol you're like look at it it's half a half a thing yeah it's like petrol when we get that we'll charge it up yeah i don't know why it stressed you out so much well because the battery was on we were in hamilton needed to get back to Well, because the battery was on. We were in Hamilton. Needed to get back to Auckland.

And the battery was on red. It had red, red, red. And I was like, this thing is going to take nine hours to charge. Find an extension cord and plug it in. It didn't actually take that long. No, it took about five minutes at the charging station. It was phenomenal. Yeah.

Phenomenal stuff. But yeah, that was the one thing. That would stress me out driving the EV. We don't have enough charging stations as we do petrol stations at the moment. And getting from one to another, I'd be like, that would be my constant burden of life. You can charge at home with a lot of them. Do you just plug it into a... I think a lot of them you can, right?

Or do you need to get a special thing put in? Who knows? I know a lot of the petrol stations are going to slowly transition into becoming charging stations. Because I think those ones that you use outside around the town are faster ones. Faster than your standard power at home. So maybe that's why the benefit of using those ones. Speaking of someone who his son goes to my

daughter's school. He works for a petrol station. He said they have the technology now to charge your car as quick as it is to fill your car up with petrol. They've got that power. So the petrol station. So you know go to the petrol station. How long it takes you to fill your car up with petrol. Same amount to charge your petrol. They've got that power. So the petrol station, so you know, go to the petrol station, how long it takes you to fill your car up with petrol,

same amount to charge your car. They've got that tech. They have that now, Ben. Wow. They can roll that out tomorrow. Well, maybe not tomorrow. The petrol station's probably won't want to roll that out.

No, no, no. Can we drag this oil and gas thing out for as long as possible? And that's what's making news in New Zealand this morning. Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on The Hits. Now we want to know this morning. Now we want to know this morning on 0800 The Hits what happened to you in the middle of the night?

Yeah, I'm a sleepwalker, proud sleepwalker. I didn't know that about you actually. Yeah, I'm not doing like every night or anything but it might happen once a month. Really? Just sort of getting up and go for a wander. More or less probably just a waddle really. A dead man waddling

through the night. But it's probably just an autopilot situation I find. Because we get up at unusual hours anyway that sometimes you might just find yourself waking up at 2.30 and just wandering around the house getting yourself up. One time I woke up at 2 o'clock and had a coffee. I was like

uh oh. Because that's like a time bomb. You mentioned ticking time bomb before. You've got to get back to sleep before that coffee kicks in. But now the dog that we have, little Milo, their bladders are tiny, so you need to take him out to the toilet in the middle of the night. That's become my new sleepwalking thing. I'll just get up and be like, oh, the dog needs to go to the toilet.

Oh, so it's kind of doing it on autopilot sort of thing. Yeah, yeah. And so last night I just take him outside and I didn't realise that it was only probably one o'clock in the morning. Too early for him. He's not as leaky as me. I'm an old man leaking a lot. He doesn't need to go to the toilet as much as me. And then

I found myself with the dog nibbling on my fingers as I was lying on the deck. He woke me up. You were asleep on the deck? Yeah. Because I was half asleep. I was like, you go for a pee, mate, and I'll just lie down here.

It's weird waking up with someone nibbling on your fingers, Ben. Really hard individual, eh? But, Belle, you were saying during the ads that you've had animals fighting in your room in the middle of the night. Yeah, I was at my mum's, and this black cat from the air, so you've had animals fighting in your room in the middle of the night. Yeah, I was at my mum's, and this black cat from the neighbours, I woke up at two in the morning, and it was staring at me, waking up in the night with these eyes on you, and my cat and this cat do not get along.

And so then before I know it, they don't physically fight, but then this black cat jumps over my bed, wakes me up, staring at me and then there's a hissing match going on yeah cats they love a standoff the cat so it's like a ufc press press conference snap at any moment they're just kissing each other no physical fighting and then i'm trying to get rid of this other cat out of the house yeah and then before you know it mom's like moms do she's analyzing Oh, do you think, it was a bit over the top. You've got two cats hissing at each other.

I just woke it up. I woke up at two in the morning, I was fast asleep. And we all know when cats go, cats go hard. There's no turning back when a cat starts fighting. Let's go to the phones, we've already got a call this morning on 0800. Marie? Marie, yes, what happened to you? We used to live in Greymouth and we had an old long drop out the back.

And I sat down, put my decks down, sat down, and this rat from the top of the roof ran across the wall, down the side of me, and down the back, you know, underneath where everything goes. I ran out of that toilet with my knickers around my ankles. Oh, jeez. I never went back to it. Don't blame your rats.

Just when they touch you or come close to you. Ben, you had an incident with a big hissing one, didn't you? Yeah, it was very, very scary. It kept launching at me and the dog outside

and the dog and I were like, this is too much for us. We're going inside. You win. That rat now owns Ben's house. Yeah, we had to move out. Yeah, I know. The rats, they do get a bit of a bad they do get a bad rap rats don't they they do yeah um imagine living your life knowing everyone everyone wants to end it you know they wander around that no one like no one's ever happy to see a rat but some people

have cute pet rats but it just feels like when you see them out of there. Yeah, I know. You battle a street-level rat. No one's ever like, oh, that's cute. Imagine if we could reset what our perception of cute animals was and things that didn't frighten us. Cute and fluffy, it wouldn't matter so much, would it? Yeah. And your humble street rat became like a kitten or something. It was like, oh, that's adorable. Yeah, true.

Yeah, good on you, Marie. Have a great one. Yeah, was, oh, that's adorable. Yeah, true. Yeah, good on you, Marie. Have a great one. Yeah, you too. Jono and Ben. What has happened in the middle of the night? And we have our old mate Barb on the phone. Marina, good to talk to you, guys. Nice to talk to you.

It's been a while. Good to hear your voice. Yeah, I've still been listening. I just have not had a good phone connection, so I haven't been calling. Oh, well, it's lovely to hear you. But we were talking, coincidentally talking about you last week.

Was it good? No, all positive. So we haven't heard from our mate Barb for a while, so it's nice to hear you. Now, we took Barb through a tour of the world's greatest YouTube videos. You came in, remember? Yeah, you know what?

I actually do watch a few now and again, so you've changed my life. Changed your life. Yeah, we played the... Charlie bit my finger and all sorts. Yeah, the know what? I actually do watch a few now and again. So you've changed my life. I've changed your life. Yeah, we played the... Charlie bit my finger and all sorts. Yeah, the greatest ones. Now, Barb, what happened? Well, when I was 18, I went with my mum and my sister to England

because my grandmother was ill and it was like, she might pop off the perch, so we're going to go visit her. So on the first night there, I woke up and I had seen this incredible light in the hall and I'm thinking, oh, what the heck is this? And then standing at my door of my bedroom was my grandfather who I'd never met, but I recognised him from photos and I freaked out. I hid under

my bedclothes and I stayed there shaking. But then my sister got up to go to the loo and she came to me and she said, did you see that bright light in the hall? I said, that was Grandad. And she goes, oh, I'm not going to the toilet. So she went back to bed. I'm guessing Grandad's not alive. It wasn't just

Grandad. Oh no, sorry. Yes, Grandad had been dead for years. Wow. My mum said, don't say anything to your grandmother about this. It might upset her. So we went downstairs, and she was sitting at the kitchen table talking to somebody, and mum said, oh, who are you talking to? She said, oh, your father, dear.

He comes along often. We were just like, oh, my. What? Barb, that is awesome. Did the ghost talk to you and go, hello, Barb? No, but he stood at the door and smiled. And that was unusual because he had been blind for many years. And he was looking at me.

And I knew he was looking at me. So I just was completely freaked out. Isn't that lovely, though though it's kind of like the Patrick Swayze movie Ghost for Your Grandmother lovely story nice ghost story hey bub lovely to hear from you again good to talk to you guys take care of yourself alright keep me laughing huh good on you bub have a great day and Stacey is with us from the Bay of Plenty morning Stacey what happened mate for actually, I was tormented by my younger brother. We used to go camping up in a campground in Whangaroa. It was surrounded by bush and then ocean.

But to go to the bathroom in the middle of the bush in the middle of the night, I was always too petrified to go alone. I'd still be petrified at age 40. Absolutely. For years, we thought this campground was possessed because when we'd start walking back towards the tent, the car would, like, central lock. And the first time it happened, I had, it was a Holden wagon,

and when it central locks, all the lights go, and, you know, it sounds like quite a heavy noise, the locks locking at the same time. And obviously when you're standing in this pitch black darkness, I don't know why, but I've never been shot before. But I thought that I had been, and so I dropped to the ground. My partner at the time dropped on top of me, thinking he was saving me from something.

And for years we went around thinking that, you know, night time used to freak me out even more, and I felt like I had to go several times because I was so scared of this possessed campground. But, yeah, one year we didn't take my brother in, found out that, lo and behold, it's been him tormenting me for most of my life. Oh, so he had the remote control in the tent or something?

Yes. So he would do it to any vehicle we were in that had a central locker key on it. And, yeah, at one time he got friendly with another family there and got them to do it. And, yeah, it ruined me for years. What a lot. And a beautiful long play as well and not saying anything.

Yeah. Brothers, eh? You've got to love them. Got to love them. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. Join us, internet wormhole.

Thanks for choosing us. We know there's options out there in the market. Don't tell them about the options. Yeah, no. You've chosen one of the options. Not saying it's the best one. It's just one of them. Playing the game.

What do we say? We're here to play the game, not change it. We're here to change the game. Everyone's going in there trying to change the game. Don't change the game. The game's fine. Just play it. You know William Webb Ellis. Do to play the game, not change it. We need to change the game. Everyone's going in there trying to change the game. Don't change the game. The game's fine. Just play it. You know William Webb Ellis it.

You know the game. Just stick with the game you're playing. Talk over your intrusive songs. Give the time. That's what we do. Ben, I did get lost on the internet yesterday, and it was a really interesting article because I was trying to figure out how I could do less work.

And I was like, what country's out there? I know there's a brain drain going on at the moment. All the young people going off overseas. We've held them captive for two years. You know, what country? Juliette.

Producer Juliette's living her best life overseas, isn't she? Oh, yeah. Former producer Juliette. Every time I look on that, she's bloody eating a banquet on a super yacht

that she's working on in the Mediterranean. Yeah. And coughing and drinking and a lot of coughing. I'm like, you've definitely all got COVID on that boat you working on in the Mediterranean and coughing and drinking and a lot of coughing. I'm like, you've definitely all got COVID on that boat you're on. She's like, and then, my mate was pashing someone else in the background.

Mate, they're young, they're wild, they're free, you know the song. But her mate was just coughing 30 seconds before. I don't know why everyone coughs. We'll get Juliet on tomorrow to explain this. But yeah, it was like what countries out there Have, you know, less than a five day working week And this is where things get interesting Because New Zealand is on the list of countries

That has a four day working week What? Wild propaganda I mean, there's probably some places Some businesses do But not all No no but that's that's out there that's marketing for this country that we're sitting back cruising only for you know fridays off absolute lies uh but they do say an interesting point that productivity doesn't lessen

through a four-day working week because people will like work harder through those four days to get the fifth day of work done yes you know productivity increases in many cases feels like i'm doing a presentation for our ceo michael boggs here don't do that on me i'm not if you want to have fridays off they'll dock your pay mate you can't you can't get through friday show on a thursday for radio no it doesn't work for you doesn't know no. You know, in Spain they do it. Well, I don't know if they do because there's a lie

that New Zealand does it as well. But in Spain they're doing it. Extra day of munching paella. I was talking to a business, a guy who did do it and his business does it and he was saying that the cool thing is

that other people will help out other people in the office on a Thursday. He's like, come on, mate. You can do this. You know? Everyone will pick this. He puts his chip in. They be like, all right, John, what have you got? Okay, mate, I'll help you out.

But that's great, isn't it, for Morale? I mean, if your work or industry lends itself to being able to have that fifth day off. Ireland, apparently, four-day working week. Again, I'm not believing these because they're saying New Zealanders enjoying the fruits of a four-day working week. Another day in Ireland to eat potatoes and say fiddly-dee or whatever you do on your fifth day off. You're right, though. What are the jobs that you can do it in?

Because, I mean, if you want to get one of the doctors and they're not open, everyone's going to be annoyed. If you want to go, you know, there's going to be a lot of jobs that you want to do. So why do they have to work when other people get the day off? Oh, listen, it's not conducive. And, you know, I shouldn't even be talking about this we're just coming out of a pandemic because this is a struggling as much as get them all out there working seven days such a ben boys thing to say let's do radio seven days a week yeah and i never stopped doing radio that's right just keep doing it and we'll send this to the boss upstairs bogsy and john i wanted

to do four days. I want to do seven. There we go. Because I would stress out that on that fifth day, everything else is still going. And you're like, we're missing out on business. We're missing emails. We're missing calls.

Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. I spy with my to lie. Two mildly interesting entertainment stories. Bell Crawford, what's happening? Well, you may have seen that Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker got married for real this time.

It's not their Vegas wedding. They got married at the courthouse in Santa Barbara yesterday. Courthouse, nice pun. Kourtney, go on. No, I like what you did there. It's a beautiful pun. Yeah, and it seems to be the only people that were there were Chris's mum, their grandmother MJ, and Travis's dad was there as well.

It doesn't look like the kids were there, which is a bit of a shame. Scott had them and he was posting them doing things. Also, Kylie was at the Billboard Music Awards. Kendall was at the basketball. So they purposely did it on a day when no one would be there. But they have said, if you've been watching the show, that they were just going to do it one day. Spa, very smart too. You save on, you know, the niggly costs of each guest

having to pay for their dinner. Just go to the courthouse. I imagine you would have been a courthouse guy. No, I wasn't a courthouse person. But yeah, you're right, the Kardashians probably could afford to have a big marriage wedding. Out of anyone. Yeah.

But sometimes the bigger the wedding, the less chance of it succeeding, you know? If you put less gravitas on the marriage, hey, they might just quietly sail on through life like the happy, tattooed, fully tattooed man he is as well. I love his commitment to tattooing the top of his head. Well, yeah, I was thinking about this because obviously you've got a scar.

We talked about your stay cut out. It's been causing you a lot of pain. It has. I've had a permanent headache for five days so you know you'd think getting tattooed on that region would be very painful

as well but it's all worth it in the long run isn't it oh yeah you can grow your hair out so well he does have little hairs

on his head I've seen them yeah you're talking about no they're just the stitches of my scar no that makes it like a mole hair you do

you can kind of grow hair you do have hair. I've seen it. You've got little hairs. You've got little hairs. Don't talk about them like patronising little hairs. Oh, yeah. I didn't mean it like that.

You're doing so well. They are doing such a great job. We'll give you some collagen, babes. You know, it'll be all good. Talking about like little children. Good on you. You've got little hairs. They're just there.

It's good to see them out there. Giving you the crack. It sounds like, though, that Courtney and Travis will have a big party, like a celebration. Sort of like a, I guess, what's the part after the wedding called? Oh, yeah, the breakfast. It sounds like they're going to do a big one in Italy with the family, which I'm sure will be filmed and we'll hopefully get to see it. Don't they have wedding breakfasts in America?

Oh, sure. They have like five-day bonanzas over there. When they do a wedding, they're wedding hard. And the Queen teared up during a tribute to her late husband, Prince Philip, during a Jubilee event. They've got the Platinum Jubilee at the moment. As their granddaughter, Lady Louise, who is the daughter of Prince Edward, led a tribute by driving his carriage around the arena.

And Louise shares a passion for carriage driving like her grandfather did. Also, Tom Cruise was there and he spoke at the event. He actually walked there with security around him. Where did he walk from? Well, he walked through Windsor. Did he? Yeah. Where was Tom Cruise there?

Taking selfies. We also did a private screening for William and Kate of Top Gun, the new Top Gun movie as well. What, with him there? Yeah, well, I think he put it on for them. They're like, oh, we like the movie. He's like, yeah, I'll put it on for you. Really?

Yeah, so he spoke at this Jubilee celebration, and here he is talking about it on a TV show. It's lovely. This is a wonderful, wonderful event. I'm very honoured to be here. It's a real privilege. I mean, she's just a woman that I greatly admire. I think she's someone who has tremendous dignity,

and I admire her devotion. What she's accomplished has been historic. Every time I listen to Tom Cruise, it sounds like someone's doing an impersonation of Tom Cruise. It doesn't sound like... But that's him doing his own impersonation. We were just talking at the beginning of the show. We had to watch a movie yesterday.

I fell asleep during it. Imagine if Tom Cruise was playing us Top Gun, and I fell asleep during it. You would, though, even if it was the greatest movie. Yeah, I would. I'd asleep during it imagine if Tom Cruise was playing us Top Gun and I fell asleep during it you would though even if it was the greatest movie yeah I would I'd be like sorry Tom Cruise mate I need to catch a couple of minutes was he there watching it with them going what do you think guys I'm not sure

he put it on for them though so that's pretty cool push play why have I made this awkward I don't know I'm just waiting for you to wrap it up and you can get more spy now at the hitstockcode.nz. Thank you, Bill. Watch and win with LEGO Masters New Zealand on TVNZ2. Yeah, for the very first time, New Zealand has LEGO Masters.

It's on Monday and Tuesday nights at 7.30pm on TVNZ2. 2.5 million bricks have made their way onto the show. They can be used each night from the contestants. That's so many bricks. I wouldn't know where to start. It's like when you drive into an empty car park at the supermarket. You never know which one to park in. So much choice there.

Exactly. What a wonderful comparison. Yeah. Now, we called out Tracy's name just before, like the adult of a missing child at the Easter show. Tracy, could you call us? You've text through the keyword. And Tracy, you know what they say about you is you always deliver.

Welcome. Thank you so much. You've got a $500 voucher for the warehouse. You can spend that on whatever you want. Thank you so much. It's amazing. It's awesome, eh? That's right.

You text through the secret keyword, which is actually not much of a secret. If it's a secret, we should stop plastering it all over the television screens. Everyone knows it, Ben. Everyone knows it. But that's for you, Tracy.

What are you going to do with that money? I hope my granddaughter's not listening by her birthday's coming up. Yeah, and there's something particularly that she wanted. Oh, are we talking in the world? I won't keep bribing because you want to keep that a surprise.

It's a birthday present. I understand that. Are you enjoying the show, Tracy? I can't figure out how they do it because I can't even make a car out of Lego. Yeah. I can't even follow instructions. Even when you get the mini ones

like at a fast food restaurant when they're doing a Lego promotion, you can make a plane with wings. I can't. I can't. It's got instructions on it. It's incredible what they do. Yes, they are amazing. They are artists, aren't they? Yep, they are. Alright, well Tracy

I tell you what, we're going to get you that out. Thank you so much. Alright, you're a Kiwi hero. You keep safe and you keep beautiful, Tracy. Thank you. Have a great day. TVNZ2's Lego Masters New Zealand back again tonight, 7.30, with another Watch and Win tomorrow. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, I'm not a big fan of cards. I've talked about that before. I mean, I love the cards that my daughters make for me. I think that's really special. But a lot of time I feel like people just buy cards for birthdays or occasions, and they're like, oh, you know, I'd rather just have the $5 if you're going to spend $5 on that.

You have been the public celebrity face of anti-card buying, haven't you? Mark hate me. I'm not on their Christmas card list. There are some causes to put your weight behind, and that's certainly one of them. Ben Boyce doesn't want the $5 spent on the card. He would prefer that in his pocket. When it's meaningful, when it is.

But if it's just a stock standard birthday or an – you know, sometimes I feel like it's a bit of an obligation. Now, what I love is in our attic, I've got a giant plastic box with wheels on it. So, you know, it's a box you can push around on wheels. It's got all my cards, every card in there. And thanks to the wheel technology, I can move those cards from point A to point B. So you keep yours because you don't know what to do with them. Basically. And I don't know when you can throw them out.

Like when you've been gifted it, at what point can you throw them out? And so I just end up putting them in this box. And whenever I want, Bill, I could wheel my box in here. I could be like, what was my ninth birthday like? Must have been a banger. You know, a lot of great cards. A lot of well wishes. Well, I got given a card over the weekend.

Now, my mum, who, much like you, John, loves keeping stuff. She loves keeping stuff around. Jenny Boyce is New Zealand's premier hoarder. We've spoken about it before. She loves keeping stuff. Well, she was going through some stuff that her mum, who is no longer with us, had.

And she was going through some stuff and she brought something down. She's like, oh, here was a card I found from my grandma, from her mum. It was for me and she's like i sure i thought i should pass this on to you it's not i love how she's always just going through stuff as well yeah she's always just she's always got something to go she's always gone through some stuff and here you'll enjoy this she once went through a whole lot of stuff she's like i can pour a box down of my stuff she's like oh i don't want to see more it's causing me burden you go through it and i looked and i went all right i'll get rid of it all she goes you can't do that and put it back

in her car so i was like okay what was the point of that but anyway she brought down this card from my grandma and it just said dear ben hope you're well lovely card i've been thinking of you lately i'll never forget and that's it and that's it and that's honestly what the card had stopped with, I'll never forget. And then, like, comically, and then she has not finished. She's forgotten what she'll never forget, or she's forgotten to finish the card. But it doesn't go on. It's like a mystery. She's clearly forgotten what she said she'll never forget.

She had a touching message. Thinking of me lots lately, I'm like, yeah. And I'll never forget. And you're like, what? Is she never never forget she had a touching message and so what was that thinking of me lots lately i'm like yeah and i'll never forget and you're like what is she never forget that's it maybe she was like i'll never forget that i need to go and pick up something from the dry cleaners and left the card writing to get her slacks from the dry cleaners so this is you know she's no longer being with us probably like a good 10 years now. And you'll never know what she'll never forget. And I'll never know what she'll never forget. I'll never forget. Yeah. It's a mystery.

One of life's mysteries. So I'm like, I don't know. Maybe there was some deep dark family secret she was going to tell me. Or maybe. I'll never forget to give you my account number for the $9 billion that I've saved for you. Imagine if you've just got these riches sitting in some Cayman Islands bank account that your grandma stored away, but she just didn't write down the 00 account number. That's some sort of scam.

That generation, and I don't want to stereotype as well, the older generation, exquisite handwriting. Yeah. Yeah, they did. Just beautiful. So we put it together with the old, you know. Oh, stunning stuff. We've lost that art, haven't we? Anytime you go to write something, you're like, my hand gets sore.

Like, it's not used to it. We can't even be bothered writing, so we send back a thumbs up. That's where we are. And that is a bleak reflection of society. Thumbs up. 714, you got the hits, Jono and Ben. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben on the hits. LeBron James, a very famous basketballer. fan.

LeBron James, a very famous basketballer. You would have seen him in the new Space Jam movie. He earned, last year alone, this is last year, 200 million New Zealand dollars last year. He's the highest paid athlete in 2021. And the Lakers are having an absolute shocker. Yeah, they did have a shocker this year.

Yeah, so this is through everything. Endorsements, movies, everything. Yeah, so $200 million, that's what he earns a year, but he's renowned to be quite frugal, a bit of a tight ass. Now, he's your hero. You love LeBron James, you love Dwayne the Rock Johnson, you love Kevin Hart, Will Smith not so much now,

but LeBron James is your hero, and you said this after the show yesterday, and I could tell his your respect for him has grown overnight so he's got 200 million dollars so this is another basketballer kevin love who's played with lebron james uh talking to a sports broadcaster in the states taylor rocks have a listen they talk about lebron lebron is the most frugal person i know he says when we walk into a place the first thing lebrBron says is, what's the Wi-Fi password? I don't want to use my data. If we're in Toronto, right? Like that

drive from the airport and going through customs to then getting to our hotel, yeah, there's no data used at all. Like he's waiting for the Wi-Fi all the time. He won't even use his phone data unless he's on a Wi-Fi network of a hotel. That's the first thing you're

going into. He could buy the internet. I know. $200 million he earned one year, last year. I'm starting to think he only made Space Jam so he didn't have to buy tickets

to go see Space Jam. Probably. Yeah, probably. You're like, oh, I'll just make a movie and then I don't have to pay to see it. That's very true.

Now that is, that must be amazing for you to hear this about your hero because you now share a common thing with LeBron James. Up until now, you had nothing in common. Now that is, that must be amazing for you to hear this about your hero, because you now share a common thing with LeBron James. Up until now, you had nothing in common. No athleticism, nothing.

No coolness. Now you're frugal, tight bottoms. But I'm not even, it's a whole other level for me. I mean, you know. He needs a better data plan. He does. Call bloody Vodafone or Spark. At least a hotspot off Jono's data.

Now, yes. Bell, did you know for years, we've known for about 12 months, I had let Ben plug into my personal hotspot. He did, yeah. I let him once at a cafe, Bell, and he was plugging into my hotspot for 12 months until he said,

I've been doing this for a year. That's cheeky. In and out of my personal hot spot Tethering away with your dongle So you want to start something Tight Ass Tuesday. Yeah and you know the cost of living, seriously

it's a nightmare at the moment so maybe LeBron James, even he's suffering with the cost of living. So have you got any tight ass tips? A guy we used to work with at a previous radio station, speaking of Wi-Fi, he would go to Burger King. All his internet was at the Burger King. You know who I'm talking about, Bill. And he would log on to the King's Wi-Fi in the palace.

In the palace of Burger King. So that's the sort of things we're after this morning. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It is our Game of Word Association. We play every morning on the hits. We tell you five words. You tell us what pops into your head after those five words.

All five match up with ours. You win $5,000. Every morning we're dangling this sweet little cash carrot in front of you, waiting for you rabbits to nibble away on it. And Brodie, will you nibble on our cash carrot this morning? Yeah, I hope so. That's the right choice of words, but yeah. Why not? Why not?

It'd be great to win $5,000, wouldn't it? That would be awesome. What would you spend $5,000 on and live in there, Brodie? Probably spend it on a bit of racing cars, maybe a few bills. Oh, you've got a race car, have you? It's my passion, yeah. What sort of racing are you doing? I race at Manfield, a little bit all over the country,

Formula First. Nice. Good on you. I've done a little bit of racing around the country too, yeah. Can I also give full credit to Ben Boyce, who pretended he knew exactly what you were talking about. Yeah, I went, oh nice, that was the right answer. Oh nice, yeah.

Yeah, he did it. Like, the place where he's most frightened is the racetrack. I am very frightened. Maybe you should take him out for a drive, Brodie. Oh jeez, yeah.

I'm sure we could arrange something. Oh no, that's what they all say, they all go so fast. I was like, sensible driving, Brodie, sensible driving.

Can we stick it 50km around the track, please? Hey Brodie, you know. Can we stick it 50km around the track, please? Hey, Brodie, you know how the game works. You've got to match five words with one of us. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth, my friend? Ben, please. All right, Ben's heading in. What do you do for a job, Brodie?

I work at Matter Products in Oteki. They make playground mats for children. They recycle plastics and rubber. I do the dispatch for them. That's where I was off to now. Yeah, right, the soft matting on all the kids' playgrounds. I see. That's the one.

Is it all recycled? What, for milk bottles and glass and things? Not so much glass, but most of the plastics are road cones. Enough glass would be too good on the children's playground. Shards of glass might not be the right option. But that's why you do what you do, Brodie, and I say stupid things on the radio. Okay, here we go.

First word that comes into your head this morning when I say to you cassette. Player. Cassette player. Levi's is the second one this morning. Jeans. Twinkle. Sorry?

Twinkle. Sorry? Twinkle. Star. Meadow. Add word number four for you, Brodie. I can pick that one. Budget, the fifth word. Money. All right, meadow.

You just want to have a little word, think about meadow. All I can think of is veil. Oh, yeah, yeah, like a veil. Yeah, yeah. There's grass, there's hills. Meadow's a tough one. Yeah, yeah, no, we'll go grass, eh? Okay.

We'll just go grass. No worries. All right, you did well. You did very well. We'll get Boyce out of the SPB this morning. Awesome. You know, Brodie recycles plastics for children's matting and playgrounds. Do you know that?

Oh, really? They don't use glass, though. They don't use glass? No. Okay. Oh, you're thinking they should. Yeah, no, it's just like, well, that's a recyclable product. Oh, gotcha.

Apparently glass in children's playgrounds don't go hand in hand, according to Brodie. All right, he played a good game, Ben. Okay. You know what you need to do is just match five words with Brodie. He gets 5K to spend on his race car. All right, let's do this, Brodie. Let's do this.

Awesome, mate. Cassette is the first word. Player? One from one. There's a whole generation of people listening right now going, what? What is a cassette player? Yeah. Levi is the second word.

Jeans. Twinkle. Little star. Little star. Head star. You put a little, little in there. Oh, Brodie, I'm sorry. We'll go through the remaining two.

Meadow. Meadow. Field. He went grass there. And budget was the fifth word. Money. Not bad. Three out of five, Brodes.

Not bad, not bad. We're pretty much a word away from four out of five, weren't we? That's how it works Yeah Well yeah You're right You go and look after Levin for us

Really appreciate Listening to the show Cheers mate You guys have a good day You too Brody The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast We want some cash

Saving tips That we can pass on To the nation You know With the cost of living Being high Yeah we're calling it A tight ass Tuesday

Ben You were just mentioning Before Lebron James doesn't use any of his phone data. Logs into our first question he asks wherever he is, what's the Wi-Fi password? Oh, I love that. Someone else is texting saying, try showering at work or the gym instead of using your water at home. That's a good idea. That's genius. Bruno, how are you?

I'm good. How are you guys? We don't talk about Bruno apparently, but we can talk to Bruno. Tight ass Tuesday. It's a tat. And what is it for you? Well, a few years ago I went to the liquor shop and bought some shot glasses. There were probably ten or a dozen of them.

And they had the sort of split in the middle where you can and they had two flavors in them so after emptying them i said to the wife well i bet you i can sell these on trade me and you know trying to sell anything and i give them a quick wash and listed them on trade me and i actually sold them for more empty than i did with buying them full i've seen these these are at the counter these are at the counter of liquor stores, right? You can buy the shots, pre-made shots. And you had the shots, you enjoyed the shots, and then you sold them off.

Yeah, I drank them. They're lovely. And how much did you sell shot glasses for? Well, it was only $2 or $3 more than what I paid for them full, but, you know, it was just to prove to the wife that you can actually sell anything on Trade Me. You can. So you can have 12 shots a day

and not end up paying for any of them, Bruno. Be shocking for your liver. Yeah, I don't know if you want 12 shots a day. It depends if you've got a buyer for them. Yeah, there we go. Genius. What else have you sold on Trade Me, Bruno? Oh, everything. Everything. Well, don't elaborate.

We don't talk about Bruno and Bruno doesn't talk about his everything. Not talk about Bruno. Come on't talk about us everything Not talk about Bruno Come on Aileen How are ya? Good thank you Those who got it might have got it But you probably have to be over 70

What is this? No I got it but it's old Yeah obscure song At least acknowledge it Aileen Come on Aileen I'm with Aileen on this one. Oh, wow. Wow, good on you.

Yes, that's all I wanted, just an acknowledgement. Aileen, we're talking about cash-saving tips, and we understand someone in your household's pretty tight. Yeah, my husband's very tight. We've been married together 14 years. We have separate bank accounts. Oh, really? Yeah.

He pays me a small board payment every week. Really? This sounds like the sort of official arrangement Ben Boyce would like to have in his marriage. Yeah. And, yeah, today's my birthday, and he got me nothing. When my kids suggested he do something, he said, perhaps if he bought a dozen oysters from the fish and chip shop that we could share them for tea.

Would he give you, would you go halves and those? Or would he get seven, you get five? Probably more like nine to have maybe three in there. Nine to three. And so does it help you through life? Because I imagine you would have saved a lot of money. Well, he has, yeah. You're paying for most of the stuff, are you?

Yeah, so often in the past he'll say, oh, I'll take you out for ice cream or something. And then lo and behold, every time he's left his wallet behind. Oh, that's a great play too, isn't it? When they start petting you, start petting the front pockets and the back ones. Yeah, yeah. Probably the most classic, though, was my birthday a few years back.

He said, oh, come on down and I'll shout your lunch. And I was like, wow, this is amazing. And when I got down there, the shop was holding a free barbecue. A free, so you got a free promotional. A free, so you got a free promotional sausage? Yes. Did he shout your lunch?

I mean, it's a technicality. I mean, you wouldn't have known that lunch was on if he hadn't. Yeah. Hey,

we're going to send you out some hell pizza, right? Oh, wow. That's more than I expect on my birthday from my husband.

So you would say we're probably better than your husband. Oh, absolutely. You can share it with him as well, though. It's up to you. So you would say we're probably better than your husband. Absolutely. You can share it with him as well, though. It's up to you. Thank you. Bye.

The Annoying Ones Talking Between the Songs. Jono and Ben on the hits. I don't know if your mum does this. I think she does probably to a certain extent, but a lot of our generations of mothers, when they answer the phone, it's very popular with that generation, to a certain extent, but a lot of our generations of mothers, when they answer the phone, it's very popular with that generation, when they answer the phone, they like to put on sort of a professional-sounding phone voice, you know, which raises the sophistication levels four or five up.

Yeah. Annie Pryor, my mum, she's a stickler for a sophisticated phone voice. However, she's always confusing me for someone else when we call. Barry. She always thinks Barry's going to call. Have we got that around? Hello? Hello, Annie.

Hi. Is it Barry? Barry? How are you? There was no caller ID, so I wasn't sure who it was. Every time I call you, you say, is it Perry? Well, yes. It's me.

You gave birth to me. Yes, you're right. Hello. Hello. She's very, yeah. Yes, very sophisticated phone voice. And I'm like, who are you trying to fool with this voice? Who are you trying to, like, she sounds like an extended member of the royal family.

You know, someone who's not playing like an extended member of the royal family. You know, someone who's not playing in the main, in the main team, the tight team. But you know, oh, she's the Duchess

of Cornwall or something. And do you find that with your, does your mum try to put on a bit of her pot? Not so much. I do notice that my, my dad's a real stickler

for the full name when he answers the phone. Yeah. Like, it's Kevin Boyce speaking. It's never, you know, and often when I ring

it's probably Kevin Boyce. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that's his full boyce speaking you know it's never you know and often when i ring it's might be kevin boyce yeah yeah you know that's full name but and back in the day yeah there was other parents that used to do the full phone number too you know i always do you know three four five nine seven eight when you're in the answer you're like what are you saying just in case you're like once two four oh no i wanted three, four, six, nine, seven, eight. It's so formal, but it's so open at the same time. Just shouting out your telephone number as you answer it. My telephone number as I answer it. The other thing, too, which I really do enjoy, which Mum does,

she's a big campaigner for the voicemail. Leaves a lot of voicemail messages and always with the time attached to it. Yes. Hi, Jay, 7.45. Even though when when you check the message it's going to tell you message receive but then they come on with the time as well like a double time check yeah and i guess it's just all part and parcel of the rigmarole they went through you know on their time people didn't know phone numbers and they didn't know the time that's right your message is nothing it's just a my phone message you know you can't probably can't dial my number can you does it yeah like nothing well i read the

other day and it just kind of went why don't you call me on your phone on speaker now and then i'll deny you i might have severely messed this up yeah it was the other day i mean maybe i maybe it's just you answering. We'll see. Yeah. So I'll deny you now. At the tone. That's quite breathy.

What was he doing in the middle of his message? Oh, dear God. Who gets exhausted leaving a phone message? Oh, my God, jeez. Poor guy's had a rough day. Did not leave him a message. That's for sure. Air Chats will win cash in a car.

It's just moments away. Amazing, amazing car. Thanks to Shkoda. It is the hits you got, Jono and Ben. The Hits. Cash in car. Call 0800 THE HITS now to guess how much cash we've stashed

in the Skoda's boot Here's your chance to drive it home along with all that money 0800 THE HITS Yeah this is your chance it's just gone 8 o'clock so that means

your next guess is up right now with cash keeper Alex to win that car from Shkoda Worth. It's just under $46,000 and all the thousands of cash in the back of the car. Yes, she's living the life of someone in the FBI Witness Protection Program. Coming to us from a secret location, CKA Cash Keeper Alex. Come on in.

Hey, guys. Now, we understand you want to tease us with some clues that could be coming up soon. Well, yeah, I've been cut off again today. Apparently, I'm saying too much, but I've got a goal. I haven't talked to management yet, but I'm going to try to get some higher or lower across the line. We've been pushing hard for that, yeah. I'm not sure how I'm going to do it, but I think maybe I might have to take some money from the car to bribe them. Right, okay.

You've got to talk to the suits, the big wigs, see if we can start doing some higher or lower. So that's on the horizon, just to know. So it's not so much a clue, just like I'm hoping to have a meeting and I'll bring you the results of that meeting at a later date. Yeah, I'm going to let you know, but I'm hoping it's going to go well today. This is like a Jacinda Ardern government press conference. We've made a decision

but we'll tell you about that decision at a later date. It was a press announcement about nothing really. They were like make sure you lead an Alex about the higher or lower thing. She's got an announcement about a big meeting. Well she's got no announcement really other than that she was talking to someone about it. Now I've done the maths on this. We've said it's between

$50,000 and $20,000. That's only $500,000 in between $15,000 and $20,000. $500,000 and $1,000. The odds are in your favour. If you want to have a guess, next. That's Cash in Car. Guess how much cash we've stashed in the Škoda's boot and drive it home along with all that money.

Imagine yourself in a brand new Škoda Kamek Monte Carlo car. It's worth $45,990. You not only win that amazing car, but you win thousands of dollars in the back of the car. You've just got to guess exactly how much money is in the back of that car. And if you guess correct, you take home both cash and car. Now we're going to head to the Hawaii of New Zealand, Palmerston North. Caroline, you're on.

I'll tell you I was breakfast. Welcome. Hello. Good to have you on. This cash, would it mean a lot to you, Caro? Yes, it would. Yes. Haven't had a job for a couple of years, so it'd be nice to have one.

Oh, did you lose your job through COVID? Just before COVID, things just got a bit difficult. I couldn't work from home, so. Oh, did you lose your job through COVID? Just before COVID, things just got a bit difficult. I couldn't work from home, so. Oh, you poor thing. Sorry to hear that. So you're back out there looking for a job. Hey, let's sell yourself now. What do you do?

What are your skills? I've worked with computers for a long time, but I'd like to get out and meet people more and help people if I can. Good on you. What's your five-year plan? Oh, jeez, all right. To be settled and be in the right place.

And probably win cash and car. Yeah. You know, how's that? The 5x5. What do you think you could bring to this role? I'm a correct guess. You are hired. All right, Caroline, we're going to hand you over to Cash Keeper Alex, who's joining us

from a secret location, only because she can't be in the same room, because if you get agonisingly close, we can see the bead of sweat pouring down her forehead. Yeah. So they've had to remove her from the situation. Caroline, you're with Alex. Hello. I've got a great poker face, so you've got nothing to be worried about. I just, you know, to be honest, I was sick of coming in.

And I don't blame you. You work in the afternoon, we're making you come in way too early. Okay. Caroline from Palmerston North, please tell me how much cash is in the back of that car. $17,677.23. Okay. Caroline from Palmerston North with a guess of $17,677.23. That is incorrect. I'm sorry. Sorry. Thank you. Oh, sorry, Caroline. Well, sorry you didn't win the cash in the Shkoda this time around, but the plus side, you had a live job interview on the radio, got yourself out there, good branding for Caroline.

Yeah, and there's more chances, though. You don't have to worry about that, and hopefully Alex is going to have a good chat with management and Hira and Lara will come in tomorrow, right, Alex? Yeah, exactly. And for now, there are these great interactive billboards around the country that you might see pop up and it says the last guess

and probably some clues that we're going to put out. Otherwise, just keep updated on the hits NZ. Interactive billboards. Where does the multimedia stop? Online, radio, billboards, you name it, we've got it all covered. Newspaper print. Ben, you name another form of communication.

Blimp. Blimp. Tinder. Pornhub. We're on them all. Advertising everywhere. Okay. All right, wrap them up, guys.

Cashkeeper Alex, next chance, 11 o'clock this morning, right? Yep, that is correct. Good on you, mate. Well done, Caroline. Great guess. She's gone. She's gone, mate. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers.

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sorry I got you guys in trouble last week. Look, I've been on the air in New Zealand like three weeks and they're already trying to shut you down. I mean, you said some slanderous stuff about Elon Musk. Stuff we couldn't even put to air. I loved it. I loved it. But I mean, the stuff that you were saying about Musk, I can't even repeat right

now. It made our lawyers very sweaty. I don't want to make your lawyers nervous, so I will refrain from telling them any more alleged truths about Elon Musk. Okay, well now you've said the word alleged, can we do this now? Because he said allegedly.

What did you say about Musk? You've got to send this back to the lawyers, John. Okay, well he said now he's saying allegedly, but may or may not be true. What was your rumour about Elon Musk? No, I lawyers, John. Okay, well, he said now he's saying allegedly, but may or may not be true. What was your rumor about Elon Musk? No, I mean, I've got a lot of things about Elon Musk. I mean, I will say that, you know, he's not going to back out of the Twitter deal.

That's still going to happen. He's just, like, playing games and stuff right now. NT, you've been in the Hollywood scene for many, many years. We wanted to know, because you've said before you've met many famous people, who's your most famous friend that you have? Like somebody I could call up and say, hey, you want to go out? Oh, yeah. Say yes?

Yeah. That's so easy. Probably, maybe, I've mentioned her before, Emma Stone or Renee Zellweger, probably, are my most famous friends. Those are, probably. They're my most famous friends. Those are good friends. They're great friends to have. Zellweger, she seems like a lovely lady. She is.

I've known her for a very, very long time. I've known her since before she was famous. Yeah. We go way, way back. So, yeah. So she's probably long, long running. I find that a lot of my friends are, some became famous and some didn't, but we started off when we were young and, you know, so some of them became famous and

some friends with them and some didn't, I'm still friends with them. And it just kind of a turn of the fate. And it's interesting to see like which ones happened to do really well and which ones didn't at all started off well and then crashed and burned or decided, hey, it wasn't for them. So it's really kind of interesting how that's all worked out over the years. Now, news this week, Adele and her fiance, Rich Poole, the sports agent, bought Sylvester Stallone's house, NT. It is Sylvester Stallone's old house and Adele bought it.

So Rich already has a house. So Adele said, I want you to move in or pretend that you can move in to at least stand outside and we'll hold up the keys or whatever. Like Rich is going to leave his great house to go hang out with Adele. It is Sylvester Stallone's old house. And an interesting story on that is that it was originally listed, I believe, for about $150 million. And they ended up, Adele bought it for $58 million. So that's quite the downsize in price. And the original

listing agent for Sylvester Stallone was Hilton and Hyland of the Hilton family. And it was Baron Hilton, so the younger one the one that you know once permanently paralyzed the guy in a drunken accident and you don't even need to say allegedly you can find it in the legal record so has he a real estate agent now he is a real estate and apparently a very unsuccessful one thought he could get 150 million dollars for the house and they only got 58 million so sylvester salone's wife fired them and hired somebody to sold it and sold it to adele yeah right so adele bloody screwing stallone down on the price there by 100 mil or so rich paul rich paul and her you see that lasting no oh no i mean he's the reason

that well one of the reasons that the whole residency didn't work because she is so I think that she's crazy, madly in love with him. And he is, hey, I'd rather go out with LeBron and party with him and stuff like that. So she's trying to do the residency in Las Vegas. She's trying to rehearse, but she doesn't do one day of rehearsal. Not one thing of practice, because all she can do nonstop is just be on the phone with rich, wondering where he is, what he's doing. Um, you know, can you come to Las Vegas?

Can you come hang out? And she spent all of her time just obsessing over that. And it's not a healthy relationship at all. And those kinds of things don't last, but I'm very, very hopeful guys that we're finally going to get a good Adele album again. When they finally do break up, it's going to be like the first two or three.

You know, Ben Boyce, a huge LeBron fan. And when you said all he's doing is he's out partying with LeBron and I can see your heart melt, Ben. I was like, oh, I want to be partying with LeBron. It's LeBron's manager. Andy, we love chatting to you. Our lawyers are very nervous, but we enjoy it. Thank you so much for your time.

We'll catch up with you again next week. Sounds good. And then we'll talk about the Dancing with the Stars and how Alex got screwed up. Oh, he's across it. He's on it again. The Hits. Last week, Jono, you spoke about your generosity.

You were banging on about your generosity at Wash World. Spoke at length, yes, how I gifted four and a half minutes of free washing time to a fellow motorist who was there waiting to do it. Yes, maybe the kind gentleman at Washworld had put in a few extra coins for me. Which we didn't know about until later. Which had extended my time beyond my required washing time, which had left me with an extra four and a half minutes. But I could have let those minutes tick down, Ben.

I could have driven off. But my generosity wouldn't allow me to. Now, you look like a good person. That's great. That's great. You were doing a nice thing, but there was an occasion. Kiwi Bank New Zealand was there. Nominations are open now. Submit my name. Got me thinking about something a few weeks ago. Now, I want to bring you

into this one. This happened a few weeks ago. Now, you've been with us for a few weeks. Before you were here, we had obviously producer Juliet. She was with us and she's gone off overseas and having a wonderful time overseas. She doesn't miss you guys. She doesn't, no. If anything, she looks

nine times happier without us. Sailing the Mediterranean on a super yacht she's working on and just coughing her way through Europe. All of them are coughing. I'm like, you've definitely all got COVID. Can someone address this? Yeah, so a few weeks ago, before Juliet left, myself, Jono, and producer Bea Humpston, Juliet,

we all went out for lunch. It was our last lunch before Juliet went. And then Jono, on the day, did a wonderful, you know, it was a wonderful thing. Another act of generosity. Yeah, we were about to pay at the end. He was like, hey, I've got it. It's all sorted.

I'll pay for this. And we were like, oh, my God, that's brilliant. You didn't have to do this. That's great. But thank you, but you didn't have to do this. You didn't have to do it. So in this moment, he's basking in all the glory, right, Bill? He's basking in the glory.

Oh, no. I'm like, lay it on thick. Yeah, we're like, oh, it's wonderful that you did this. Say it louder, so the whole bark in here. Juliet's gone off overseas coughing away, but also thinking in her head, that's wonderful that Jono's done this. What a guy.

And after, you know, He's number one seed. Bee Humps and myself are talking to Jono, going, you don't need to do that. Send us through your account details. Nothing happened until 24 hours later. Jono sends her an email for his account details for us to put in our share of the money towards the lunch,

which is fair enough because, you know, we were happy to pay for Juliet's and pay for our share. That's fine. But then I thought, oh, mate's got all the credit for the lunch. He's taken all the credit, and now we've reimbursed him our credit. It's not like I can ever bring that conversation back up with Juliet going, hey, that lunch before you left, we all pitched in for that one. It wasn't just Jono.

He's like, well, how petty do I look? And even, how petty do I look bringing this up right now? He wants to loop back round to a lunch when she returns back seven years later. Remember that lunch you had beforehand? The one that you only pay for.

I vaguely remember it. Do you know the next day, he shoots us his account number. We pay to the, but we all return it. Do you know what, to be honest, I was happy to pay for it, but someone was like, oh, you know, chuck's your account number. And I was like, well, I know that's a false promise. I know that's a false offer, so I will check through my account number.

However, the person who said Chuck's reading your account number hasn't put anything in my account. I have, I have. You've made that clear. Tested safe for listing from home. Jono and Ben on the hits. Last night, Dancing with the Stars, another big elimination. The couple I'm saving tonight is... Eric and Lauren.

Oh, Fez and Britt. It's been an amazing experience, and I just wanted to thank everybody we've done the experience with. This isn't easy, and 99% of everything that goes on you don't see, and it's so much more work than I could have thought. Yes, Faz and Brittany sent home last night, and they join us right now, less than 24 hours on. Good morning, guys.

Good morning. How are you guys doing? I'm sure to be sent home last night. Yeah, you know, it's not the most cheerful day, but we had a good time, so, you know, no argument. Well, it only gets better because you're on Jono and Ben on the hits, mate. Things only

get better from here. I appreciate it, guys. Good to be here. Well, you guys did such a great job. You got praise from the judges last night, and then you get sent home. I mean, it must be kind of mixed feelings this morning. Yeah, I mean, it must be kind of mixed feelings this morning. Yeah, I mean, it's a show in a nutshell, right? It's a bit of a rollercoaster.

But, you know, I mean, next week you'll probably be required to do 15 different dances. You know, the less contestants, the more dancing the remaining contestants have to do. That must be a relief, Alex. I look forward to getting my life back, yeah. What's the most common question you boast to get asked by the public? Probably, I think a lot of people love to think that everyone's in a relationship with each other. Oh, so are you two?

You're not. No. That was the next question. You've been hooking up the whole time. That's a different reality show than that. Our Vans was on that. Very different. Yeah.

Good change. Now, how much fake tan, what is the budget for fake tan on that show? Like, are you getting sprayed every day or what's happening? Big budget.

We'll go that far. Big budget. I can imagine because there seemed to be a lack of shirt sometimes from you, Vaz, so I imagine there was no shirt budget

and so the tan budget because of it. Surprisingly too much shirt budget if you so the tan budget, you know, because of it. Surprisingly too much shirt budget, if you ask me. Well, actually, speaking of shirt last night, host Clint Randall, had made a wee comment after your first dance. I think we've got it for you. Here's the audio. I thought it was hot in here, but your nips say otherwise.

Where are you looking, bro? Did that throw you last night, Baz, that comment? Yeah, look, it was a bit of a curveball, but, you know, it's a game, you know, the show. General rule of thumb is you never want anyone zeroing in on your nips and having a conversation, a nipple conversation on television. Now, Britt, you are a professional dancer, okay?

And a high school teacher as well, too. Have you been teaching this whole time? Yeah, I have. I actually have to go to work in a few hours. It can be my fault. How do you fit this into the schedule? I mean, ridiculous hours you must be doing. Yeah, it has been ridiculous.

I've been working all day, every day for the past eight weeks, but still loved it. Happy to have a break with. I bet you are. What a machine. Is it the students going, hey, miss, did you hook up with that guy? No, I've actually not had that from them.

Okay, well, I won't plant that seed. No, definitely not. Okay, so I've got some dance moves here. You need to tell me if these are dance moves on the dance floor or dance moves in the bedroom Okay Okay Brit The drop catch Jesus

Have you made these up? On the dance floor That's a dance floor move Have you dropped catch To Jesus before Brit? I have not personally, no. Okay, the next one. The Roman Fingers.

Oh, jeez. I don't know. Let's go with bedroom. That's a dance move. The Roman Fingers. Okay. The Scratchy Maverick. What parts of the internet did you go to for these?

I'm sorry, guys. Come on, it's going to be a dance floor one. It's a dance floor move, the Scratchy Maverick. Is it? Is it? Is it? Are you making these up? The Danish corkscrew.

Okay, we're wrapping them up. Okay, sorry, guys. Who's going to win Dancing with the Stars? Who's your money on if you can put some money on for Dancing with the Stars from now? It's got to be Jazz and Brad supporting my brother all the way. Good on. Well, you've all done such a fantastic job

and doing it all for charity. You know, God bless the charities. God bless the fake tan. And God bless the Danish corkscrew. You have to look that one up. Don't Google search it. Legendary. You go. Keep safe.

Nice to talk to you. Appreciate you guys. Thank you guys. The Hits. For more podcasts from The Hits Network, check out iHeartRadio.co.nz.