Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben has a major blowout at the hardware store!

Episode Date: April 19, 2022

Today we discuss Jono's unconventional transport arrangements when he heads away for the weekend with his family, the strange things we have slept through and the worst gifts you could give someone! Plus the latest scam doing the rounds in our office!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast, 20th of April. Now Ben Boyce has got his hands on some audio. Have we got that audio bell of one of my first ever radio shows. I didn't realise you were so young doing this. Why were you in the radio studio so young doing shows? 11 or 12. I was a nerd of a kid who knew what I wanted to do.

And this took me to a community radio station. And Ben Boyce, ever since we've moved here, has been trying to get, A, a tape recorder, and the tape recordings of this show. I brought one back from my mum's house. Just for this. Yeah, from Northland. It didn't work.

It kind of ruined the tape. But we got it sorted. Access Community Radio, 8am. Hello, you're with Johnny Pryor. So there we go. That's a little taste of what's coming tomorrow on the show. Hello. It's a little taste of Johnny Pryor tomorrow.

Hello. It sounded so odd. I mean, that was all before the soulless industry wore me down. So much pep in your step, don't you? You just. Hello. Where's that guy gone? I mean, the audio quality of the cassette didn't do you a lot of favours.

1940s over there or something. Yeah, no, we had to pull that off vinyl, actually. Off a gramophone. Hello. Hello. But you can enjoy it. I can't wait. I'm very excited about work tomorrow because we get to play that.

But you can enjoy just a really great podcast today. Yeah, you can. Hello. Welcome to the podcast. What were your teenage jobs? Did you have jobs as a kid? Yeah, you can. on air. Geez, they were really access community radio. What were you thinking? Well, it was volunteer.

What was it? It's a volunteer group. Okay. And there's not many volunteers out there who want to spend their weekends doing hello on the radio. Did you do jobs

as a kid, Belle? Yeah, I did. I did like this, the classic babysitting, worked in a cafe and then I started

in radio when I was still at high school. Not 11. I think I was, like, 17. They put me in. They, like, let me fill in for the news person and another host. And I didn't, like, even know what I was doing. Oh, yeah, don't get me wrong.

There was questions going, why on earth are they letting me do this? Yeah, yeah. Like, I was probably not, I shouldn't have even been in a building alone. In the middle of town. Yeah. Yeah. Hello. Oh, there we go. That a building alone. No. In the middle of town. Yeah. Yeah. Hello. Oh, there we go. That's tomorrow on the show. Enjoy the podcast.

The Annoying Ones Talking Between the Socks. Jono and Ben on the hits. Day three of the first week of school holidays. Hope you're surviving all right if you're a parent. Yeah, how are you guys going? All right? All good. Yeah, good. Ben, I know I'm'm gonna get a lot of

grief from you about this or front foot it he always has a guy at me bell about uh coming to the party with a lot of car or driving based content like i went actually to be honest i went away in the weekend up to russell and i'm like oh my god i got so much stuff to talk about on the radio because normally you're like i've got nothing to talk about it's amazing when you go away and do something but most of the time your story is above you just driving to work and driving home. You're like, it's all I do, so I've got nothing else to bring. You need to go out there.

I'm like, oh, my God, going away and talking to people. I was like, jeez, there's so much stuff. Stuff happens out there. But John is like, oh, I've got a story on the way to work. There was a guy on the lights. Yes, and there's on the way home too, there's another guy on the lights. No, but actually speaking of Easter weekend, because we went away as well to the Coromandel,

I've realised what my main role is when we go away on holiday. My job is to transport toys, bikes, cuddly toys from point A to point B. The others, they go in Jen, my wife's car, it's just me and the toys. I'm like a glorified toy distributor. Take them from point A to point B. Because we can't, for some reason, I don't know why, pack everything that we need into one boot. Surely it can be doable.

Yeah, well, we shuffled up north. I mean, we're a few bags in the dog as well. And the dog. Rich running two cars of petrol these days. Well, I tell you, the Oscars are like, oh, take the surfboard. I was like, you're not going to go surfing. It'll be cold. Take the surfboard.

So I've got the surfboard in there. I've got bikes. None of the stuff got used when we got there. It's like when you pack your bag for a what-if occasion. You like to always take your tuxedo in case there's a black tie. I wore my tuxedo to the beach just to say I wore it. The kids do the same with their activities as well. And I'm like, none of these activities are going to happen.

In fact, by the time I got to the beach, surfboard didn't even get out of the boot. Really? Not once. Wasn't it a big thing, surfing? I guess it's a little colder this time of year, though. Yeah, but that's the thing. If you're surfing, you're surfing all year round you commit to surfing

okay I'm not a surfer I don't have to commit to swimming through you know it's all fun and games in summer isn't it but you're a real surfer when you go through those winter months you're a surfer no no I've never I've there's something I'd love to try but I've never really tried boogie boarding I love a boogie board right but that's not as cool as surfing are you a surfer bell well i try i lived in the mount for a bit shakabra and i i was like i really want to learn to surf but it's really hard is that what you have to say when you live in the mount as soon as you say i lived at the mount shakabra you gotta just chuck it in yeah it's one of those things that people that do it really well you're right make it look so easy yeah i just didn't

know if i was i didn't know if i could be bothered putting in the effort to learn it's like a lot of work to learn yeah and the problem is we're all adults now know if I could be bothered putting in the effort to learn. It's like a lot of work to learn. Yeah, and the problem is we're all adults now, and you can't be bothered learning more stuff. I've done a lot of learning. A lot of learning over the years. I don't like getting cold. I don't like getting cold, and I don't like big waves.

And it's hard to see what you're doing because you can't see, and then you get under the water, and it's just a lot. Yeah, there's a lot of surfers judging us right now, guys. Shaka bra, just say shaka bra. Shaka bra, guys. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. I was just reading at Edge here, and he had a bit of a night out the other night,

and he got into the back of a chauffeur-driven car, and he had a little bed, that little pillow and a little blanket in there, all ready to go. Already made up. All ready to go, and the headline, Bed Habits. Oh, beautiful. Well done, Daily Mail.

Does the chauffeur provide that that is a dream for someone like me who falls asleep the drop of a pin you're like look it's just over the back seat like it's just but yeah but there you go he's like oh no ed he'll be a bit tired he gets a bit sleepy what a wonderful gesture from that chauffeur when have you ever made a bed for me in the back of a car? Yeah, you happily sleep at the drop of a hat. Anyway, let's do some entertainment news. Spy. No what's up.

Spy.co.nz. All right, we hand you over now to Dr. Belle Crawford, who's prescribed us some early morning celebrity fodder, Belle. Yeah, this one was quite a cute story. A little bit niche, a little bit quirky. But you know how sometimes there might be a name of a celebrity that you really like, so you think, you know what, I'm going to name my kid after that. A lot of Whitney's around, you know?

R.I.P. Whitney Houston. Not so many Harvey Weinsteins or Cosbys now, are there? No. What would you name your kid after? Would you name your kid after The Rock? If you have another child, boy or girl, would you name them Dwayne The Rock Johnson? I hadn't thought about that yet. Dwayne the Rock Johnson? I hadn't thought about that.

Dwayne the Rock Johnson. The Rock. Yeah, I'd have never heard of the name Rock. Rock. Yeah. Would you? Think about it, I guess. Four weeks ago, you would have said Will Smith.

Times changed on that one. That's the problem when you go after a celebrity. It's because something could happen to them. You know, a scandal. Well, humans. humans, you know. As they talk about people, they're putting statues up of people. A lot of flawed people have statues up around the world, don't they? That's right.

But they're nice statues and we can't be bothered taking them down. Some we have. But anyway, what's been named after a celebrity? Well, not another child or anything. This is actually a millipede. So, yep yep an insect species has been named after taylor swift it's called the narnia swift day it's a new species discovered and the scientists named it after taylor saying who music helped me get through

the highs and lows of graduate school so naming a new millipede species after her is my way of saying thanks oh well i guess it's an honor for Taylor. You're like, oh, an insect. I'm looking at the millipede. There's more flattering things from the insect world that you could be named after. A butterfly, for example. But I guess in this instance, this person probably didn't have the opportunity

to name a butterfly. No, they didn't discover a new butterfly. But how would you feel if there was a cockroach named after the two of us? I'd take it well. I'd take that well. Anything. Any press is good priest for us.

But we spoke to Rude. I feel guilty now because, you know, Rude the bug man. Oh, yes. We spoke to him after summer and he was like, you should. I said, I use a can of Raid like wild. And actually, wrong thing to say to someone like Rude the bug man. And every time I spray a fly or or something i feel a little bit of guilt that rude the bug man would be crying in one single tear he's like he doesn't spray any of

his house his house is just imagine it just infested he probably makes little beds for them or something around the house you know he probably lives in a giant cobweb and also you may have seen some rumors online that that Rihanna's partner ASAP Rocky, who she's having a baby with, cheated on her and it is not true. And the fashion writer who started this report had said they'd broken up and he's actually publicly apologised, saying, I made a dumb decision to tweet some information I received. I'm not going to talk about sources, blame others.

It's completely my fault. I'd like to formally apologise to all parties involved for my actions and my reckless tweets. It's a great thing about the internet, isn't it? You can just start any rumors. You know, the vaccine turned you into a cell phone tower. That got some traction. There's a lot of misinformation out there, isn't there? It's the great and terrible thing about the internet.

Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben on the internet. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben on the hits. This year we want to achieve some items off our bucket list and your bucket list as well. So if you've got anything for us, you can hit us up on the hits breakfast on Instagram or Facebook and tell us what you want to achieve and something you'd never achieved in your life was catching a fish, Jono. Yeah, I enjoyed it. It was fun.

It was fun. Would I go back every weekend? Probably not. Mainly because I don't have a boat. Yeah. Seems to be the big hurdle to cross there.. It was fun. It was fun. Would I go back every weekend? Probably not, mainly because I don't have a boat. Yeah, well, it's great. It seems to be the big hurdle to cross there. But it was fun. It was enjoyable. The thrill of when it's on the line was exhilarating.

But something that's stuck with me, and as I said before, it's not the rich memories of our wonderful journey into the ocean. Even after the show finished yesterday, Danny, the wonderful captain, was like, we need to go out further. Go further, go deeper and we just kept going until we couldn't see land anymore went down to the Arctic

yesterday afternoon, did some crazy stuff and came back but you know something that stuck with me is the smell of fish on my hands because afterwards they're like hold the fish, hold the fish and you try to like pretend like you're cool with it. Yeah.

I don't think anyone's ever cool with that, right? Not even the people at the fishing shows. Yeah. But thanks to the Seahawker for taking you out yesterday, the fishing charter. And here's the moment when you caught a fish for the first time. There's one on the line. No way. There's one on the line.

He's pulling one up. Who is? It's so heavy. God damn it, it's heavy. The rod is bending. Have you got it? I'm screaming. What have we got?

We've got a snapper. Is that a snapper? It's a snapper. Live fishing drama. This is what you came for. What's the next best thing from fishing? Listening to someone fish. You're going, I'm a shocking commentator.

I'm screaming. I'm screaming. Sorry, Debbie. Sorry. I'm a shocking commentator. I'm screaming. I'm screaming. It's so heavy. And the best thing was, it was undersized. You didn't want you to put back into the ocean, did you? It's so heavy. You ended up catching one, a legal size one later. You can see it on the Hits Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook.

You would have thought I was fishing up an island. But we reflected afterwards. I was like, how was the moment? You know, you've never caught a fish in your entire life. How was your moment? How was it? What was it like? And here's what you said.

How did it feel? Tuggy. Tuggy. A lot of tugging going on. Oh, yeah. It was pretty. You've caught a fish before. It was tuggy.

It is tuggy, yeah. I don't want to go up there. And I was trying to head back to where it came from. And that was the result of that. Now, you said you didn't have the opportunity to have a conversation yesterday, which you were wanting to have this morning. Yeah, well, I read something online over the weekend as I was looking at fish stuff, and there was a really interesting debate I stumbled across,

and that was two guys were getting quite passionate about it in the video I watched, but are fish wet? Now, that was the debate. Now, both sides of the story, they were really passionate about what they the video I watched, but are fish wet? Now that was the debate. Now both sides of the story, they were really passionate about what they had to say there. And when you think about it, is a fish wet? Yeah. It spends its life living

in a wet environment, water. When you go swimming, you're wet. But is it, because you're not wet until you're out of the water. So in the water, you're not, I'm saying when you're out of the water, you're wet, but you know, in the water. So while you're in water, you're not wet, is what you're telling me. Yeah, I was saying, because you're not wet until you're out of the water. So in the water, you're not... I'm saying when you're out of the water, you're wet. But, you know, in the water... So while you're in water, you're not wet, is what you're telling me.

Yeah, I was saying, because, yeah. Belle? Belle's shaking her head. It's like saying when you're in the shower, you're not wet. You're underwater. You're wet. Are you wet? Are you technically wet, or are you just covered...

I think you're wet when you're out of the shower. What is the definition of wet? Being covered in water? Yeah. I'm with Bill. What are you saying? So once you've been swimming, for example, and then you're out of the water,

that's when you're the wettest. I'd say wetness can only be considered an environment that's dry. When you're dry, you're wet because that's how you know you're wet. If not, you're just covered. You're with the water. What if you're in the rain on land?

We'll get to this in a second. 4487 on the text. Don't answer my question. Don't you just blank the water. What if you're in the rain on land? We'll get to this in a second. 4487 on the text. Don't answer my question. Don't you just blank the question. Okay. I don't know how to answer that. I don't know that. 4487.

Our fish wet in the big debate that I've ripped off the internet. And we might call an expert next. If not, we'll just ignore what you're saying and move on. Not listening to you. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hit. Jono caught his first fish yesterday and I

found a debate online, Daily Motion. We're getting into it quite hard. Is a fish wet? And you're saying, Jono. I'm saying, well, yes because it lives in a wet environment. But is it wet when you take it out of the ocean or is it slimy? It's still wet, yeah.

Is it still wet? But it's come from a wet environment. Yeah, but you're sufficient. At all times, is it wet? At all times, it's wet, yeah. Belle? Yeah. When it's in the water, it's wet.

When it's out of the water, it's wet. I was saying it's slimy. Out of the water, it's slimy. It's not wet. Yeah. It's not like it's absorbed the wetness of it. But anyway. Why is it slimy, though? It's just slimy because fish are slimy. I don't know. Itness of it but anyway why is it slimy though it's just

slow because the fish is slimy i don't know it's like jono he's just slimy he's something no one can explain it it's just like slimy about it yeah just don't trust him yeah i know what you say i know you say a lot of texts coming through on this it is split at 40 to 60 at the moment okay uh i won't say in favour of which way. Belle, you were saying you were reading up the definition of something before. Yeah, definition of wet is covered or saturated with water or another liquid. Would you say it was saturated and covered? I would say no.

I would say yes. Is it covered in water? Now, we're going to go through to it. We've got the number of a fish market here. They're up early. We're going to phone this fish market. I think it's in Christchurch. Let's Now, we're going to go through to it. We've got the number of a fish market here. They're up early. We're going to phone this fish market. I think it's in Christchurch. Let's go through.

We'll get an answer. Okay. North Canterbury Seafood. Oh, hello there. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. G'day, mate. How you doing? Not too bad.

How are you? Good, bro. In the middle. Sorry to drag you into the middle of a very fierce debate we're having. Okay. Go for it. You deal with fish on the daily? Yep.

Yep. Caught my first fish yesterday, actually. Okay. He'd never caught a fish before, but we're having a debate. How do you get the fishy smell out of your hands? That's not the debate, but that's a good question. Okay, hey, the easiest thing for you guys to do, if you're handling product like that,

is to initially really nice cold water, like cold water out of the tap, rinse all the gut product off and all the bits and pieces, get it off first with that, then hot soapy water. If you go straight to hot soapy water to try and get the smell of fish out of your hands, the pores of your skin open up and the smell just goes right in and it takes forever to get out. I went to straight hot soapy water.

You don't know, so you'd be a bit smelly then. Yeah, that's why it's still with me. 24 hours later. Yeah, there you go. There's nothing worse, bro. You've done that and you've got smelly old hands and you've got your wallet in your pocket

and you're at a bar having a beer and you pull your wallet out and you go, ooh. That's a hazard of your job, I bet. Hey, yeah, well, hey, cold water, mate.

Can't go wrong. Okay, now, you've been great help so far, but the next thing we're in the middle of a debate about whether fish are wet or not. Now, are fish wet? Are fish wet? Now, I'm saying they are.

They spend their life in a wet environment, so they're wet from beginning to end. Whereas I'm saying when you're swimming, you're not really wet until you're out of the water. So, you know, and it's a fish out of the water. So, you know, and it's a fish out of the water, I don't know, is it wet? That's the big debate. That's a good question. No, I wouldn't say they are

because when we cut them, they're not wet dripping on the inside. So no, I'd say they're like any protein, any flesh that they're dry. There we go, I got a win. But they're wet! They're like swimming the whole time. I know what you mean. Like, yes, they're swimming in water, but maybe it's yes and no.

Oh, don't. It is yes and no. Hey. He's coming back. He's coming back round. You talked him round. I had a win. When I'm in the rain, am I getting wet?

Yes. Yes. Covered in water. But you're not wet, though, if you get what I mean. But you're not wet. Yeah. Listen, I don't know. somehow we've ended up more confused than when we initially rang you, but gee whiz.

Love talking to you. Go and have a great day. Hey, thanks, bro. Good to talk to you, too. Yeah, see you, mate. See you, mate. Bye. Jono and Ben.

Jono and Ben's Better Man with an exclusive evening with Robbie Williams, Saturday, April 30 in Melbourne. This is an amazing competition. Your chance to see Robbie Williams at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne at the end of the month. Four people get to go across to this one, so it's incredible. And he's filming these one-off shows for a movie on his life. A biopic or a biopic.

I never know how to tackle that word. But, yeah, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And what we're doing is unnecessarily placing your partner in uncomfortable positions of having to answer important dates in your life. Yeah, that's right. Yesterday, Kim, she wants to go across and see Robbie Williams. So we rang Stephen, her husband, on the fly. He didn't know we were calling,

and we asked him five questions about Kim's life, dates, and important things that he should know. And he did bloody well. Have a listen. Okay, don't ask me anything about birthdays. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. These are all birthday questions.

They're not all birthday, but there's one. There's a lot of date-based questions here, Stephen. Okay. Don't disappoint me. Oh no. Thanks for setting me up for this. How are we sitting on your list of favourite people now, Stephen? Yeah, yeah.

I'll let you know in about two minutes. Okay. So where did you guys... Okay, Stephen, think long and hard. Where did you guys first meet? Where did we first meet? Oh, that's an easy one. We met at a horse camp.

Yeah, there we go. That's good. Well done. What were you riding at the horse camp? Okay, hang on. I'm an old cowboy from way back Wedding anniversary Well I did the smart thing and actually got married

On the 100th anniversary of Anzac Day 25th of April Well done, two from two Kim's birthday Oh come on Now I think it's It's the day after John O's If that's any help

I think it's the 14th of the 11th. 14th of November. Was it right? Is that right? Yeah, well done. You got three from five. This is good. Pack your bags, Kim.

First born. When was your first born? Mine is on the 20th of the 10th, and his is on the 20th of the 9th. Well done. You've made it through the niggly date stage of the questionnaire. And just outside of Robbie Williams, who is Kim's favourite musical artist? I'd say probably Ed Sheeran. Oh!

Well done, Stephen! Five from five. He did pretty incredible, Stephen. So if you want to put your partner on the spot like that, we're going to do it after 8 o'clock this morning You can register at thehits.co.nz It's a great competition for those that love ambushing their loved ones Into live radio comps

It makes me sort of stressed I mean I feel like I know the dates But you know But you get put on the spot Wedding anniversary Yeah the 13th of September You know So you start going

You know Things like that And that's why we do it Because you get in an absolute fluster. So if you want to see Robbie Williams live in Melbourne, including flights, accommodation and $500 spending money, it's an amazing trip for four people, then

register right now at thehitstockco.nz Scrolling through your feed. Oh, time now for the shakiest news bulletin in the market. Ben Boyce with the spring clean and light dusting of the news. What's happening? Well, the big trailer for Thor,

the new movie from Kiwi actor and director Taika Waititi, has been released yesterday to millions of views online. It's called Thor Love and Thunder. It's going to be out in July. It looks really epic. A bit of Guns N' Roses in the trailer as well. Do you ever feel lost? Just look into the eyes of the people that you love.

Fourth movie in the Thor installment I want. Thor 4? What do you mean? Thor 4. Just hard to get your lips around Thor 4 though, isn't it? Thor 4 I thought would have been quite good,

but anyway, I'm not the expert. It features obviously, you know, Chris Hemsworth's back again, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Melissa McCarthy, Natalie Portman, and Chris Pratt as well, and Taika Waititi himself

is going to reprise his role. It's a very funny role of Korg. Hey, hey, hey, hey, take it easy, man. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Korg. I'm kind of like the leader in here. Over here, there's a pile of rocks waving at you. Here.

Very funny. It's beautiful. It's very New Zealand, that character. Well, that's going to be exciting, isn't it? It's going to be filmed on the Gold Coast, wasn't it? I think, yeah, it was. You're right. It's very funny. It's beautiful. It's very New Zealand, that character. Well, that's going to be exciting, isn't it? Filmed on the Gold Coast, wasn't it? I think, yeah, it was.

You're right. So, pretty epic. It's amazing how long it takes for movies to be made. Felt like they were filming that nine years ago. Yeah, and I imagine

because of the pandemic as well, maybe they held things back until it was able to be released in cinemas. So, you know. Directing, I'm just like, how do you do it?

So much stuff to have, you know. On the day, there would be like 500 people That you need to look after And tell what to do I'd be a shamble You go and Clism emails Take the bins out

Be a nightmare Joe Biden the president of the USA He's been mocked by people, by the Republican Party, his opposition party over in America. So he got to the end of a speech in North Carolina, and then he turned and he sort of went to shake a hand of someone who wasn't there. Now, this is where at the end of it.

God bless you all. So the music plays, and then he sort of puts his hand out. Yeah, and he's sort of holding it there, isn't he? I mean, to be fair to Biden, there was hundreds of people in there and he was probably confused as to who he started shaking the hand of first. But everyone was so far away, there was no one there to shake a hand of. And he stood there for, you know, it felt like five to ten seconds just holding his hand out. And then he got a bit lost there.

Then he turned around and handed his back to the audience, going oh there's surely someone to shake around here i felt like he was doing a joke but then i was like well the president of the usa doesn't normally do gags at the end of his not their uh not their strong point is it and uh maybe it's covid covid's got us all messed up about how we greet people nowadays well that's true even thin air yeah but this is the same guy biden i'm to play this again because we love this clip, but the same guy confused his wife and his sister with this great moment. By the way, this is my little sister, Valerie, and I'm Jill's husband. Oh, no, there you go.

Valerie, you switched on me. This is my wife. This is my sister. They switched on me. They switched on you. I love it how he's pinning it on them. They switched on me. How am I meant to know? How am I meant to know?

How am I meant to know? You always stay on my left, my wife, and my sister stays on my right. Well, I think, you know, it's a really sad state of American politics when we're going, maybe Trump was the better option. I don't know. Maybe. I don't think we're in that stage. We're not quite there, okay.

We're only at that stage. He never shook thin air. He just shook the head of thin air. Maybe there's another option that aren't those two. Rise and shine. Time to start the... Who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you.

Jono and Ben on the hit. As I said before, day three of the first week of school holidays. So I hope everyone's all surviving all right with that. How are you surviving school holidays? Yeah, not too bad. We went up north. I had a big family get-together over the weekend. My sister's back from Melbourne, which was cool. We went up north. I had a big family get-together over the weekend. My sister's back from Melbourne,

which was cool, and went up north to see my mum and my stepdad's place up there. I haven't been up there since pre-pandemic, really. Yeah, it's a long time since you've seen Jenny, boys. What do you think the ideal time

is to spend with your family? Because I think four days is a good number of days. Yeah, it probably is. I actually love my family. I think everyone by the end of it you know apart from the kids the kids like kids go for months yeah it's only the adults who get a bit a bit testy don't they you know we hit that seven to ten day period yeah yeah but

was it a busy household it was a busy household so everyone yeah it was it was hard to find every a room for everyone and so uh my mum and my stepdad took a very like unconventional uh place to sleep they decided to sleep out on a boat that my stepdad's renovating so they haven't taken this boat out into the water but they just oh it's just a land boat well at the moment it will be a seabed just a very big inconvenient bedroom at the moment which is sort of propped up by sort of blocks of wood and stuff like that so. So it has sailed the seven seas? Previously, in a previous life. But he's been doing it.

Look, it's going to be pretty cool when it's done. But at the moment, they decided to sleep in the boat. Just a driveway boat at the moment. Yeah, another bedroom, the boat bedroom. So they slept in there. Well, I mean, it's also good, too, for those who like the feel of sailing but don't like the risk of drowning. A driveway boat. Although there was a bit of sailing but don't like the risk of drowning, a driveway boat.

Although there was a bit of a storm that went through the far north and sort of made its way down the country. And, you know, the boat was out there. It was rocking about. And I was like, geez, are they going to be all right? But they slept right through it. They slept through the storm. Slept through it. Well, stormy seas.

If it was a flood, I mean, they couldn't have been in a more appropriate vessel. They were like Noah's Ark, hey, they're good to go. But they slept through an entire storm. Yeah. But it was a bad storm too. It was quite bad, yeah, quite bad out there. But, you know, the boat must have been comfy and that's what they slept through. So this is what we want to chuck open right now, 0800 The Hits.

What have you managed to sleep through? I'm a prolific sleeper. We were just talking about this an hour ago. If New Zealand ever needs to enter a speed sleeping team into the Olympics, I'd love to trial for it. I can get to sleep in under a minute. You do go very quickly. There's been times I've been sitting on a plane

and you've been talking, and then within a matter of seconds I look at you again and go, who's asleep? It's like you've finished the sentence. I've said all I have to say right now, you're straight away asleep i could have slept on that driveway yacht with jenny you could have it would be weird but hey you're on our family holiday is he in the yacht with mum what's going on out there so yeah this is what i want to check open on four four eight seven the text uh oh eight hundred the hits. What have you managed to sleep through? I'll have to share a story.

My daughter slept through an entire concert. I was holding the whole time. Big banger concert too. Lots of stuff going on. Now we want to know what you've slept through on 0800 the hits of 4487. Madison? Madison, welcome from Tauranga.

Hi. Great part of the country there, isn't it? Bit of a by-election happening. Who are you going to vote for? Oh, not sure yet. Great, great. Yeah, follow-up question. Can you name any of the candidates?

No. No, not very much. No one cares about by-elections, do they? All those weird council ones where they're like, vote for Barry Saunders on the local board. You're like, well, I don't know why. Well, yeah, sure, it's tough. It's tough out there.

It's tough out there. It's tough out there. We're not here for talking about our democracy. We're here talking about what you managed to sleep through, Madison. What was it? A fireworks display for the Yanga. Oh, wow, the whole display? Yeah.

How close to the display were you? Pretty close, actually, yeah. Were you at the display? Yes, I was. How did you sleep through a fireworks display? I am not 100% sure, but I did. Yeah, geez. Wow.

I mean, you've got to be pretty tired to sleep through. It's essentially like a, sounds like an attack or a war. Yeah, it does. From start to finish, a fireworks display put you asleep. Yeah. But yeah. My daughter slept through the entire Bruno Mars concert. That's loud.

Like uptown, you name a Bruno Mars song. Uptown Funk. She was asleep through it. Yeah. So there we go. So it can be fuck. She was asleep through it. Yeah. So there we go. So it can be done. It can be done. Well done.

Sleepy through an entire fireworks display. It sounds like you might sleep through the Tauranga by-election as well. Maybe. You're going to have a great day, Madison. Awesome. Thank you. See you, mate. Andy, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast.

Welcome. Thank you. Welcome. It's a pleasure to have you on, Ando. Whereabouts are you? What are you doing? Talk to us. I'm just, I'm in Auckland and I'm just, you know, just at the gym.

Oh, you're at the gym. Oh, very nice. How many squats have you done? Just getting to that. Just getting to the squats? Yeah. Go do some squats for us now on the radio. Okay.

You don't have to do this. You're very confident. Have you done one yet? Yep. Oh, good. One, and then... Do another one? Yep, two.

There we go. Have to take your word for it. I don't know. Now, we're talking today about what people have slept through. Apparently, your parents slept through something. Yes, they have. It was a robbery. Oh, so everyone slept through the robbery?

Yes, except for me. Oh, you were... So did you have to wake up again and confront the intruder? Well, it just so happens that, like, because, like, the first thing I heard was, like, was, like, the word, get on the ground. Oh, you never want to hear get on the ground, do you? Well, that was the first words I heard,

but then I thought I was dreaming because it was such a very deep sleep. Two seconds later, it was like banging on the roof. Oh my God. And so was it like, get on the floor? Like Dancing with the Stars, get on the floor? Or was it sort of like a get on the floor now? It was actually more of like a get on the ground.

Jeez, so what happened? What did they take or did you manage to stop it? They didn't really take anything. But I think the most thing that may have happened is that they did maybe eat some of the fruits or the vegetables that was inside. They ate the fruit and the veggies. Yep. Oh, my goodness.

Oh, you know, they've got to get their five plus a day. It takes a lot out of you, that burglar in games. Jeez. And the rest of the family all slept through it. So afterwards, you would have been like, hey, guys, this just happened. Yes, because as I said, because, like, to get on the ground, that was actually from, like, the police, because, like, the police, they were chasing this guy.

I don't know why you had to be on the floor, though. Why did you have to go on the ground? Couldn't you have just stayed in bed? I was in bed because I guess, like, the kid on the ground was, like, for, like, the robbery. It was for the robbery. Oh, I see. Jeez, what a traumatic experience for you to wake up to.

It was very, you know, like, dramatic. And, like, afterwards, like, yeah, the police, obviously they came to the door and they rang the doorbell and I was the one to answer it. There you go. Well, that's a hell of a thing to sleep through. Thank you very much for your time, Andy. We'll let you get back to your squats.

Thank you. You two have a pleasant day. Yeah, you too, man. Thanks for sharing that get back to your squats. Thank you. You two have a pleasant day. You too, man. Thanks for sharing that with us. I love you all. I mean, how cool would this be? End of the month, missing Robbie Williams, you and three friends, including flights, accommodation and $500 spending money.

And all you've got to do is put your partner on the spot with some questions that hopefully they should know about you. And Jenna wants to do that this morning. Good morning, Jenna. Good morning. How's it going, guys? Oh, we're doing well. How are you going?

Yeah, good. Wow, we just got back from holiday, so unfortunately today's washing day. Oh, yeah, that's always fun. Yeah, that's the thing about, like, it's so fun going away. Yeah. Like, that drive back home is just, you start just listing off everything in your head that you didn't do before you left. Exactly. Yeah.

Well, hopefully you get another holiday in a few weeks, going to see Robbie Williams. Oh, that would be the ultimate, yeah. Imagine all the washing you'll have to do after that. It'd be filthy. Now, today we want to find out some questions about you, and then we want to ask your partner, Mike. Yep. If he knows the answers to these things. Well, he's your husband, right?

Absolutely, yep. Okay. So we want to know your birthday. What's your birthday, Jenna? Oh, that's the 6th of March. No, sorry, 6th of November, don't they? Oh, you even had a little... Okay.

So 6th of November is your birthday. Okay. Jeez, things aren't looking good for Mike if we're already tripping over this hurdle. What's your wedding anniversary? That one's the 6th of March. Oh, is that why? That's the confusion. I see. So 6th of March, wedding anniversary, 6th of November, your birthday.

That's right. Let's see where I got confused. Okay, who's your first child? That's Isaac. Isaac. Is that the question? Name your first child? No, what's his birthday?

Oh, his birthday. That's the 21st of March, 2011. Jenna, I feel like this is becoming a test for you as well. I know. All right, Jenna, let's help you out a little bit. Do you have a favorite movie? Yep, yep. Armageddon.

Oh, Armageddon. I don't want to close my eyes. Yeah, Bruce Willis. That was the song that we had for our first dance at our wedding. That was emotional when Bruce Willis stayed down there and Ben Affleck went on. Oh, that was an emotional one. And a favorite artist, a favourite singer. Yeah, I'm pretty keen on Lady Gaga.

I do tend to sing her out loud when I've had a few drinks. All right. So how do you think Mike's going to go with answering these questions? Bearing in mind you didn't go that great with me there. I wish him well. He's at work, so I won't know. Yeah. All right.

Let's wish him well. We'll go through to Mike now the score to beat is 5 out of 5 yeah alright if you get that obviously you'll be tied

and then we'll have to just find out you know which one of you gets the luck of the draw to win that competition what does Mike do? I am

he works in exports G'day Mike speaking how are the exports Mike? Pretty good mate Pretty good You still exporting stuff? Nothing like that Yeah

It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station we have your wife Jenna with us right now and to go see Robbie Williams in Melbourne we want to ask you some questions about Jenna

and your guys relationship and see how many you get right and hopefully by the end of the week, you guys are the winners. Okay, well, you could be exporting yourself off to Australia. Mike, the acid is on. Jenna, anything you want to say to Mike before we head off? Well, good luck. This is a real test for you. A real test.

To be honest, Mike, Jenna was struggling with a couple of the questions, particularly her birthday. Yeah. That's the first question. Oh, it's around Guy Fawkes. So it's either before or after Guy Fawkes Day. So it's around the 6th of November. Yes, it is.

Well done. One from one. He did well. All right. Next question, your wedding anniversary. What day is that on? 6th of March, 2010, I think. Oh, he's even come through with a year as well. I mean when

they come through with the years it's just showing off. Two from two Mike. All right Isaac when is his birthday? That's 21st March. Well done. He's gone all right so far. He's not having to export himself overseas. Outlook calendar is really good for that. Okay, well, this one probably won't be on the Outlook calendar. What is Jenna's favourite movie? Oh, it's pretty easy. Armageddon. Yes! Oh, wow.

Wedding song as well, too. Extra points for singing the Aerosmith song. And your final question to be tied on our leaderboard, favourite artist of Jenna, Jenna's favourite singer? It would be Lady Gaga. Oh, well done! There you go, five out of five. That means you guys are tied as

the frontrunner to hopefully go to see Robbie Williams in Melbourne. Cheers for that. Thank you. Have a good one. See you guys. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben on the hits. The Outlook calendar's really good for that.

Okay, well, this one probably won't be on the Outlook calendar. What is Jenna's favourite movie? Oh, it's pretty easy. Armageddon. Yes! Oh, wow. Wedding song as well, too. Extra points for singing the Aerosmith song.

And your final question to be tied on our leaderboard. Scrolling through your feed. When it comes to delivering the news, he's a shaky pair of hands. But his shaky pair of hands are less shaky than my shaky hands. So I'll hand you over now to Ben Boyce. Harry and Meghan, they're in the UK. They paid a visit to the Queen. They went to a church service. And they apparently...

Well, apparently Prince Harry had a stealth meeting between him and his dad, Prince Charles, at Windsor Castle. Some royal gossip said it lasted. Some blabbermouths, tattletale. Yeah, said it lasted just 15 minutes and it was really tense, but I don't know, I mean, what are you? Who is this person? No one knows. Who is this loose lips sinking ships?

But I imagine, because you said it was an awkward meeting, I imagine any meeting with Charles would be awkward. Doesn't seem like he would supply a rich flow of conversation, Prince Charles. No, yeah. I thought it was awkward like, you know, when you fly into, say, Wellington and you don't tell your family that you're there and then they bump into you. Oh! I thought it was that awkward that he didn't know that Harry was in England.

Well, things have been a little bit awkward, obviously, between them since Harry left the royal family, and then he said some things about him, his dad, on Oprah. But apparently, as I said before, the royal gossip said it was an awkward meeting. You'd lead to that with, hey, did you see the Oprah interview? No? Okay. Nothing to bring up there. And then he obviously met the Queen, Prince Harry and Meghan,

and then he went on a TV show and they asked him about it. And this was meant to be tense as well, his answer. But I don't know. Was it tense? Have a listen. Or not. It was tense. It was tense.

He wouldn't even say anything. That was the thing. He didn't say anything at all. Hey, what was the meeting like? Silence. Maybe it was tense. That's fine. What did he say?

He basically just said, yeah, because I felt like one of those situations, and they said that on the show afterwards, that maybe they weren't meant to ask any questions about the Queen. They were like, did you have any messages for the Invictus Games people? And he was just like, well, yeah, she did. And I passed those on to the people, but it was always nice to see my grandma. So it was kind of that, but everyone's like, oh, it was tense it was sassy I don't know why this audio isn't it sounds more tense when Ben uh does the recreation are you taking this one man stage play

on on tour around the country we're gonna start small uh we're gonna you're gonna just do the first and then if it grows we'll bring up bring it up here it's called Harry intense inside circus teds around New Zealand and And Jennifer Anderson, of course, from Friends and many other movies and TV shows over the years, she's opened up about her ongoing battle with insomnia. Now, she's had this going on for decades. She used to just accept it, but all of a sudden she realised how a lack of sleep

can affect her daily functions as well. And now, you know, she often worries about going to sleep, and that's one of the things. As soon as you start thinking about going to sleep it's very hard to go to sleep oh i was talking to producer b hums about today so he woke up at two o'clock uh last night couldn't get back to sleep he said i should just come into work i was like you know that's not the option i should have just come into work i'm with him i'm like just start the day let's get a do it i'm up now let's just do something i'm with. I'm with you on that one.

Okay, so it's a pact. If one of us wakes up at two, we text the others and say, I'm ready to start. We start the show at three o'clock in the morning. We get in there and we just start it. Knock it off by six or seven and we're done. All right, we've signed this deal. Yeah, but she was woken up before she even sleepwalked as well. I woke up with her setting off house alarms and all sorts as well.

Yeah, which is interesting. She sounds like a shambles to live with. with setting off house alarms and all sorts as well. Yeah, which is interesting. She sounds like a shambles to live with. Interesting she sets house alarms. Obviously, she's got quite a big place. Obviously, some parts of it have house alarms going on. Yeah, well, there you go, Insomnia. And she's done a special limited edition Friends merch, hasn't she, with her mate Coxie?

Oh, is she? Courtney Cox. Yeah, for charity. You like charity, mate? I do. Well, then you should buy one of these. Oh, well, let me know. What are they, Bill? It's Friends Forever,

these t-shirts. Oh, we can get my Friends Forever. We'll get it when we're coming at 3 o'clock to start the show. We'll wear Friends Forever t-shirts and we'll start the show. Tomorrow morning, 3 o'clock. Maybe here, maybe not. Tune in if you want, if you're up. That's our guarantee. If we're awake, we're doing radio.

Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It is our guarantee. If we're awake, we're doing radio. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning at this time on The Hits. We give you five words. You tell us what pops

into your head after those words and if all five match up with ours, you win $5,000. Let's explode some money into your bank account, Fiona and Whangaparaoa.

How are you? Hey, good, thank you. Maureen, itoa, how are you? Hey, good thank you. Maureen, it's great to have you on. This is where you can win big or take away the second place prize of absolutely nothing. Still a great prize. It's a big drop off though isn't it really? What would you prefer? I just

want to get through the questions. You just want to get through whatever this is. Good on you Fiona. Hey well the first big decision you need to make is not whether you take away $5,000 or nothing. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth this morning? Jono, please. All right, I'll go in there.

Jono Pryor will make his way to the corner of the studio and get himself in the soundproof booth. You won't be able to hear anything we're saying, Fiona. Here is your first word this morning. What pops into your head when I say Backstreet? Brian. Brian. Okay, wow.

Okay, that wasn't... Brian, from one of the Backstreet Boys? Yeah, yeah. It's a Brian in Backstreet Boys. You didn't go with Backstreet Boys though. Okay, you can go with Brian. I don't know if Jono's a Brian fan, but hey, that's over to you. We can come back to that one but that's all right bernoffi bernoffi pie greg you want to go with greg or something or something okay pottery is word

number three pottery ceramics ceramic oh okay that's a good word. Cult. C-U-L-T. Cult. Leader. Leader. And mourning is the final word this morning. Mourning. Broken. Oh, mourning, broken. Okay, now you're locking in Brian.

You want to lock in Brian, okay? This is going to be unbelievable if he gets it, but I don't think he will. We'll get him out of the soundproof booth but you never know and we'll see if we can match five words with you this morning Fiona hey I forgot to tell you I've been renting out the soundproof booth as a kissing booth as well it gets a little bit awkward in there at times so there was a couple of me this morning okay I don't know where I ended up in this situation but we're out here alive and well all right first word this morning I'm going to say to you, Jono, is Backstreet. Boys. No.

No? No. No. Now, Fiona. Fiona went with Brian, her favourite of the Backstreet Boys, I'm guessing. Who's Backstreet Brian? There's a little Pacquiao one that looked like he was aspiring to be on Jersey Shore but never made it.

Who's Brian? Oh, so Brian was in the Backstreet on Jersey Shore but never made it. Yeah, Brian. So Brian was in the Backstreet Boys. But you've just gone Backstreet Brian. Backstreet Brian. We talked about it. Did you try and convince him? I talked about it. I said, I don't think Jono will go with Brian,

but maybe he's a Brian fan. Well, I mean, Brian doesn't get enough of your time. We should talk more about Backstreet Brian. Well, listen, I'm sorry I didn't match Brian with you. Is there any point in continuing on? We'll go through the remaining four. Oh, we can. Okay, Banoffee.

Stephen. No. Pottery. Trish. No. Colt. Gary. And Morning.

Colin. No, no. Zero from five this morning, eh, Fiona? It was lots of fun playing with you. You have a great day this morning, all right? Okay, thanks. Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits.

School holidays at the moment, and both of my kids were over visiting friends. You stay on a bit of a play date. So my wife and I were like, well, let's go for a walk together. Let's walk the dog. Let's go for a bit of a wholesome walk. Free Kindle? Yeah. Now, you don't like holding hands in public.

Well, the dog's enough to hold on to for me, to be honest. You need both hands holding on to that wolf, don't you? Yeah, the dog is quite strong. It's like you're just taking a bear for a walk. An energetic bear who's been hibernating for six months and it's his first day out. Yeah, and so we went for a walk and it was lovely. And then we were walking back past a hardware store

and my wife was like, hey, can I just whip in and get something? I'm like, that's fine. I have no place inside a hardware store. No, you don't. You get nervous, don't you? You look very, and I don't want to stereotype, but you look very out of place in a hardware store. Like my mum would look at Rhythm and Binds.

You're like, you're kind of looking up in the air, pretending you know where you're going. Yeah. So I'm fine. I'm out there. I'll just hold on to the dog outside and just know just hang out with the dog and that was great i was sort of doing that by the entrance and sort of patting the dog sort of kneeling down and as i sort of looked up i got a little bit of a fright because there was a guy walking out of the store

and he'd obviously just bought an axe which you can buy from a hardware store but he's just got an axe and he's sort of just having his axe and i guess you're sort of walking off and i was like oh it's weird like you look okay walking out of a hardware store with an axe but uh you know five kilometers away from a hardware store yeah yeah questions start to be I sort of thought I'll just get watched just in case you know just sort of watch him as you're going just to see it I was like oh no he's just got an axe he's not an axe murderer no but that's but that's kind of in my head I guess that's what you kind of you think and then all of a sudden there was this lady next to me and I was like oh sorry I didn't see you there and she's like oh can i pet your dog i'm like yeah that's fine i

said sorry i was concentrating on that guy over there wondering if he was an axe murderer or not this is what i said to her and she didn't really laugh and i was like okay is this is this how our radio shows also tough crowd i was like anyway that's fine and so she patted the dog and next thing you know a pulls up, and she goes to get in. I'm like, oh, no, guess who's driving. The guy who was- The axe murderer. Who's not an axe murderer, by the way.

And I was like, oh, my God, I know now why you went laughing, because that is obviously your partner who is driving the car. She gets in the car, and off she goes. So there's a good lesson that just because you buy an axe- You're not an axe murderer no and you shouldn't call people axe murderers to strangers

because they could end up being married to them yeah exactly even in jest well I knew that person wasn't but I was like it's a valuable life lesson

Ben one that we all need to learn don't go around saying people are axe murderers when they're not and clearly he wasn't but I said it anyway and then what

did Amanda come out and go, hey, all you had to do was stand out here with a dog. And somehow you've ended up offending two people, calling someone a murderer. Yeah, I know. Producer Bee Hump's here with us in the studio. You were just saying a year ago today you were in the waiting room, you know, about to be a dad.

Yeah. It's crazy how time flies. Like a year ago, yeah, my baby daughter, Dorothy Rock. You obviously went through into, it wasn't just like you were sitting out there going, oh, you know, paying for parking. You actually were part of the...

Eating the chips out of the vending machine and stuff. You were part of the process, is what Ben's trying to say. Yeah. 1230 was the time that we, but we arrived at hospital around 730. So yeah, we were sitting there and there was no coffee. That's what I remember.

Mate, you have nothing to complain about, okay? Okay, don't complain about anything. I always remember being really bored, you know, just waiting, waiting around. A lot of waiting. Oh, you poor things. Thank you, Belle. Jump on in here with me, all right?

I can't help myself. They've got a lazy boy chair in there and it makes you very sleepy. Oh, God. Oh, you poor thing. Thank you, Belle. Jump on in here with me. Oh, gosh. I can't help myself. They've got a lazy boy chair in there and it makes you very sleepy. Oh, God. Stop talking. It must be so hard for you. And it's noisy. There's all this, ah, ah. And you're like, mate, I'm just trying to.

So what do I have to do with that on a daily basis? Go shaking your head at me. I just find the idea of it, like, it's quite full on. It is a full on experience. I'm a bit scared of that. Yeah. No, it's, and jeez, the ladies that go through it. Phenomenal effort.

I couldn't put my body through that, Ben. Look at this thing. Look at this beaten up old thing. That couldn't do that magic. But a year old now, your baby. What do you get a one year old for a birthday? So ideally some quiet toys. A vape pen?

A kush ball or something like that. It's not going to cause any damage to the house. It's quiet and safe. Something like that. But we're very fortunate. We got some gifts arrived for Dottie over the last couple of days. And one friend has sent a drum kit.

What a monster. It's not a full-size drum kit, but it's a baby's drum kit with three drums and a cymbal. It's enough to have impact. Even rapping it, it was making noise. You know, like, and you sit there and go, what have I done to deserve this? And it's a long road.

I mean, Oscar, my son, plays drums, and it's a long road to get to the point where you're like, oh, this is, you know, listenable. He's also doing the saxophone as well, and it's a long time until you become Kenny G, I'll tell you that. But, you know, drums, babies and drums, not ideal. Did you have toys in your household or things that drove you mad? Yeah, and you do the classic thing that my parents did as well where the batteries just, they don't work and you've got no other batteries. You're like, oh, the batteries have gone from this.

We must have used it somewhere else. And then suddenly you don't have batteries in the house. That's a great play. It is a magnificent play too. And they're like, oh, go get more batteries. You can't. The dairy's out of them. I just hound you until you replace the batteries.

I just wouldn't let up. You try and distract them with something else. My daughter poppy she got given uh by uh one of our cousins birthday present when she's like three or four and it was a dancing rat and the rat for no reason at all sung niles barkley i'm crazy you know this song on loop i'm going crazy and a very appropriate song when you hear that on repeat i know was the rat singing? I don't know. There's a lot of holes in this storyline. Why is a rat singing Niles Barkley crazy? It's the first one.

And that's probably the last one as well. All right. So we want to know. And it was like gyrating its hips as well. Like a gyrating rat. We want to open up the phones if they're working this morning. We have some technical difficulties. But our under the hits is the phone number.

4487. If you want to know what the worst present you either gave someone or you received it could have been for your child could have been for yourself i'd love to get your calls and text on next the great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here jono and ben on the hits we're talking worst presents uh that you've been given uh over the years i was looking online there was a few great ones that you've been given over the years. I was looking online. There was a few great ones that people have been given overseas. Someone got given a lacy bra from their auntie,

and they had to open it in front of their family. One lady, her husband gave her a DVD, and she opened up the case, and there was no DVD inside. And another husband gave his wife nose plugs for her to wear when he was snoring. And it's a little, there you go, you can have that. Oh, so she could put the plugs inside his nostrils. And what a wonderful gift,

thoughtful gift as well. Remember my mum got me like a saucy, it was like a card, which I don't think she read the contents of the card. And it was like massage voucher when we were busy. She's like, yeah, have a massage. But then inside it was like a whole bunch of vouchers you could rip off for like full body oil massage

and a bathtub massage. Yeah, I did the bathtub one a couple of weeks ago actually. Wonderful deep tissue that he gave. So yeah, 800, that's the telephone number. Morning, Kendall. How are you? Hi, I'm good, guys. How are you?

Yeah, we're good. We're good. We're just talking about the worst presents that you've received. Yeah, not me, but my sister got a pretty bad one. Okay, what was that? What's going on? Yeah, so it's sort of been a little while ago, but my nana bought my little sister a doll for her birthday,

you know, basic gift. Yeah. Wrapped it up all nice, thought it was a lovely gift, and then gave it to my gift. Wrapped it up all nice, thought it was a lovely gift and then gave it to my sister, unwrapped it. She was pretty excited but my parents took it away pretty fast and we weren't really sure why.

We figured out it wasn't necessarily the type of doll you really want to give an eight year old. Oh, it was like a blow up situation. It was definitely an inflatable doll. Where did your grandma do her Christmas shopping? Peaches and cream.

I decided not to question that one. I thought it would be a bit better for me not to know that much. Okay. Well, yeah, I guess. And now your grandma must have been like, oh, Barbies are a little bit different these days, but I'll wrap it up anyway. Yeah. I can't even think of what she was thinking,

but it makes for a bloody good story, I'll tell you that much, that's coming out at the 23rd. Value for money, too. If you go on and buy it and they're like, life-size, realistic, I can see why your grandmother... Yeah, well, it's incredible. People at the checkout were thinking. So why does she have a permanently surprised mouth?

All right, Edge, that's magnificent. When did the doll end up, do you know? Oh, I don't think it really saw the light of day again. I think it got tucked away. I don't want to ask my parents what happened with it. It wasn't used as like a flotation device in summer in the pool? Oh, who knows? You have a great day.

Thank you. Oh, good. Thank you, guys. Have a good day. Hey, Bonnie. Great to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast. Worst present, what did you get? I got my mum a cat, but it was available before Christmas Day.

Ended up getting attached and taking it back off her. Oh, what? So you bought the cat with the intention of giving it to your mum? Yep. But I got it a week early, so I had to stay at my house. And I got completely attached to it, so I gave it to her crying. You never want to receive a present from someone sobbing, do you? And I think she kept, like, and then I went home after Christmas

and then she rang me and said I couldn't have it. Yeah, she's like, I can't take this off you. You were, like, hysterical. Pretty much. Here's your cat, man, Christmas. I want to give it to you. After that cat, I did go and get her another one on the day. Oh, you got a replacement cat that you weren't as attached to.

Yeah, pretty much. So what you've learned now about gifting cats to people is get them and gift them. None of this get them, grow attached to them, and then gift them. You've got to be careful that people are in the position to look after the pets. That's what I have to say from an animal point of view. But in this case, your mum obviously wanted a cat,

but you wanted one too. Apparently. Who knew? Oh, that's great. Well, I'm glad everything worked out in the end and everyone ended up with a cat. Yeah, me too. Good on you, Bonnie.

It's Jono and Ben, but FYI, Ben is open to other options. Jono and Ben on the hits. Just announced Harry Styles coming back to New Zealand. Of course, he was meant to be here in 2020. Then COVID happened, and as read in the press release, we never lost hope, guys. Stay calm, deep breaths. Harry Styles is coming back.

Thanks to the Hits and Live Nation, bringing you Harry Styles' Love On Tour, March 7, next year, Auckland's Mount Smart Stadium. You don't want to miss this one. Pre-sales kick off April 22 from livenation.co.nz, and you can keep the hits loud for your chance to win as well. And we've got a double pass. One of the first double passes to give away right now.

Now, what's, because I know if you're a Bieber fan, you're a Belieber, right? Well, you've caught Bieber fever. What's a, a heritosis? Well, maybe Harry Hardout. You're a Harry Hardout. Yeah, which is the name of our game. Welcome, Abby, 17 years old in the middle of the school holes. Are you a Harry Hardout. Yeah, which is the name of our game. Welcome, Abby. 17 years old in the middle of the school holes. Are you a Harry Hardout?

Yeah. We are Hardout for Harry as well. So we've got some questions here. Three questions. Now, whoever gets the third question right wins the double pass. So you've got a good chance to go all the way through to the third question. But if you get one wrong, unfortunately, we're going to have to go to another caller okay okay alright Abby

this is a brutal game but if you're Harry Hardout it won't be brutal just get the third question right the first question what is Harry Styles middle name Abby 17 years old Harry Hardout Edward

oh Edward well done one from one yes you just joined us Harry Styles bringing old Harry Hardout. Edward? Oh, Edward. Well done. One from one, yes. That's good. If you just joined us, Harry Styles bringing his dashing good looks and his charismatic fashion sense to our shores later this year. You look good at Coachella.

We were talking about that yesterday, how about he had the sequined overalls almost with nothing on underneath. I haven't forgotten that comment you made. I'm like, is this... What did he say? He liked his outfit. Harry Styles could pull it off. I couldn't wear it. He made. I'm like, is this... What did he say? He liked his outfit. Oh, yeah.

Harry Styles could pull it off. I couldn't wear it on. He could put on that recycling bin I'm looking at out the window right now and look magnificent. Hey, well done. One from one so far. Harry Hardout. Abby, second question.

Which British TV show discovered Harry Styles? The X Factor. Oh, yes. They went on to create One Direction, and Simon Cowell milked that sweet little ladder for many years, didn't he? Now, this is the important question. You get this one right, the double pass is yours. You've done so well to get through to this so far.

Am I a monster hoping that... No. You are. You are, if you're hoping that she's... Yeah, no, you are. It's good for the radio. I believe in you, Abby. Yeah, you got this, Abby.

Me too, Abby, but it'd be kind of good for radio drama if you didn't. But anyway, who am I to say? Which magazine cover was Harry Styles the first man to appear solo on? Vogue. Oh, she got it. Vogue, well done. Three from three. You're a Harry hard out.

She's got a heritosis. Piles for Styles, and you're off to Harry Styles. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. No worries. Enjoy that concert. It's going to be awesome, eh? Are you crying?

Oh, my gosh. Sorry. I just got tickets to the last one, and then he cancelled it. Oh, well, that's awesome that you get to go along again. Well, go along, actually. This time he didn't go last time. He cancelled it. That's how cancelling works, Ben.

It was a nice moment. I ruined it. I made it weird. You did make it weird, but that's all right. Abby, you're a champion. You go and enjoy that show, okay? Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you so much for listening to the show. More tickets to give away at the hits.co.nz. And all the details you want to go see Harry Styles will be there as well. Jono and Ben. A bit of a public service announcement here. PSA, that some workplaces are being infiltrated by nasty spam operations. There's a lot going on on Facebook at the moment. Our pages are constantly, and I think a lot of other stations, spamming people.

You've won a prize. You've done this. But this one, you're about to tell, this is a whole other level. Yeah, this is a whole other level. Yeah, it's a whole other level. By the way, the one on the John O'Mean page, it's not a scam. Actually, we do need your credit card details. Things aren't going well.

And if you would like to invest in our pyramid scheme, all doors are open. It can create a wonderful future. Work from home. Earn $500 a month. But yeah, no, there's one at our work. They've got inside the system, the matrix, the email system

Can you tell? I don't know what I should refer to it as Have they got inside the email system or not? It's coming from another email That's not the work one, right? So what these people are doing Is they're sending emails From our chief executive officer

Sir Michael Boggs Is he a sir? If not, he should be Boggs-y And so you get an email from the CEO, and it's a good play from the scam artist because all us minion employees want is some attention from the CEO. Why is he doing it through the work system?

It's not coming from his actual email. No, he sends an email from his personal email, sexyceo68. Not the funny number. He likes to keep it classy at gmail.com and he says like so tom who we work with received an email from michael boggs and he's like i don't even think michael knows who i am but here here was the email hi tom by now you know i trust you wholeheartedly that's what they lead with it's's a good opener too. Tom's like, yeah, yeah. And it goes on to say, there's something private I need to share with you.

And I'd love to get your thoughts on it. So I don't know. He's inviting Tom into some big decisions about the company. But the twist is he wants to take this conversation offline. So he's already taken it away from the work email. He's taken his private email. Then he wants to take it to another place. Yeah, he's like, you email me on my

private Gmail, saucy CEO, and then we'll start the conversation. We can't do it on the work stuff. So yeah, Tom's like, damn, I'm rising up the ranks quickly. From someone that I know of him, but does he know of me? But he trusts me

wholeheartedly. By now you know I trust you. And he wants my opinion on a private matter. And what happens, but there's the question, like what happens when you, okay, so you've fallen for that, you do email, the sexy CEO email.

What happens then? What's the question then? It's like, mate, the company's not good. I just need a few hundred dollars. Just a couple? Just you give us your credit card, you know, 50 bucks, 50 bucks. Just to pull us through.

We put some articles out there. The company was going, great. It was all a lie. Just a couple of bucks to just pull us through the next quarter. Yeah, all right. You trust me. I'll get you through. Is that how the scam works?

I don't know. It's a very interesting scam. I've got to a stage now where like on WhatsApp you get them. Like I got one the other day going, hi, this is Donna's friend. I'm waiting at the airport for you. And I'm like, geez, again, I've left another one at the airport. And I'm too scared to even click on the message that they're going to gain access to all of your secret files. Do you know anything about this bell?

Do you know if it does access all your files if you click on it? I just wouldn't click on it. You should be fine. But then you have to be a bit careful because you just want to, then you might have to change all your passwords and that's admin, especially if you've got that autosave thing on. You idiot, why did you click on that?

Yeah, why did the douchebag? Never click on it. And it's like, here's another one. Hello, I'm Doris. Your friend recommended you. Here's my number. What did she recommend me for? Doris.

And I'm like, I almost want to call Doris To go What was the recommendation What way What way was I recommended Host a wonderful dinner party There you go A lot of scammers

Too many scammers But they've got lazy now too Haven't they the scammers Yeah they did They were just chucking stuff at the wall Remember the old days When the scammers used to work a lot harder They did

They'd have to phone you up On your landline Yeah Those were the days of scamming They earned their dollar They did. They'd have to phone you up on your landline. Now those were the days of scabbing. They earned their dollar. Spy. Know what's up.

Spy.co.nz All right, I know Easter's been, but let's crucify some famous celebrities, Belle. What's going on in celebrity news, mate? First up, a bit of a sad story. Now, Cristiano Ronaldo, you may have heard, and his wife, Georgina Rodrigo. Trigger warning, this does mention infant death, if that is triggering for you. They've shared that their newborn son passed away.

They had twins. They confirmed six months ago they were having twins, and they've released a statement saying, it is with our deepest sadness that we have to announce that our baby boy has passed away. It is the greatest pain that any parent can feel. Only the birth of our baby girl gives us strength to live this moment with some hope and happiness. That's devastating.

Poor people. Heartbreaking. So sad. And if this is something you're struggling with, you can find links on where you can get support, Ministry of Health's website and sans.org.nz Also, in other entertainment news, this is actually quite cool. You probably won't realise that it was 40 years ago

since we first watched... Well, I did it because I wasn't alive. You guys probably were. Oh, bro. 40 years ago. I was about 60 40 years ago. It was all black and white probably when we watched it. Yeah.

What is it? What is it? Yeah, so it's the 40th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's E.T., the blockbuster classic back in 1982. Remember when you thought the aliens were coming and you got to your bunker? I did. That was all thanks to E.T.

Yeah, great. We played the E.T. movie to the kids not so long ago, and it's one of those films that you do need to play to children. But the hard thing is the gear change from when they've just been watching the avengers infinity war you take it back 40 years yeah they're like oh this is i just found it real it was so sad i used to cry like it's so sad yeah it was sad but you know when you watch it nowadays you're like well there's a lot of yeah the special effects at the time, they were groundbreaking at the time. You can't take 2022 kids back to 1980.

Now, Drew Barrymore was, of course, a kid when she was the little kid in the movie, right? So she was only seven years old, and she's got her own TV show now, and she had her TV mum, Dee Wallace, who surprised her on her TV show for the anniversary. And Drew comes up to me and she says, Hi, I'm going to sit on your lap now.

And I said, well, come on up, Drew. I mean, I knew you were going to be a director, producer back then. Really? Oh, for sure. That's nice. She also thought E.T. was real, too, back then, didn't she? Yeah, she thought E.T. She's seven years old. You understand that, right? Something you should have, and the special effects were very good back then, didn't she? Yeah, she thought E.T. She's seven years old.

You understand that, right? Something you should have, and the special effects were very good back then too, for the time, for the time. Yeah, for the time. But nowadays she wouldn't think it was real. But you think the producers should have flagged that with a child. Feels like something to go, hey, you know, that's not.

It's not real. It's a puppet sort of thing. Drew would have been going, what's that guy got his hand up E.T. for? How is the day and no one's saying anything? Thank you very much there. 40 years old. Do you know I was reading a fact about ET too?

Do you know he was modelled off Albert Einstein and a pug dog, the actual alien? Oh, really? That's what the modelers created him off. Fun facts from Jono. Fun, well, were they fun? Who knows? Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene,

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