Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben Lied To A Bunch Of Kids On A Zoom Call & Is Also An Anti Vac-cer...

Episode Date: November 16, 2021

Please don't read that as "anti vaxxer" because Ben is actually anti vacuum cleaners at the moment. An anti vac-cer. Something precious broke while he was vacuuming and we wanted to know who else was an anti vac-cer, or who else has had problems with their vacuum cleaner! Also, yes, Ben did lie to children on a Zoom call and he got caught out for it! Oooooopsie. Finally, we spoke to a guy who has met Adele, in fact, Adele came into his shop!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast is brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, how are ya? Jono and Ben here. It's Wednesday today. Ben, I know you did, you still doing your te reo courses? No, I've signed up again for the ruo class

starting next year. So I just did the first one, the tahi class. But yeah, it kind of was towards the end of it we carried on but obviously it switched to online learning. So I thought I'd do the next one at the start of next year where hopefully we can go back into the school. Because I found online learning was a bit tougher when you're not around.

And you really, online learning, you've really got to like, I like asking questions. I'm one of these people asking questions. But it's a lot harder on. Especially when there's 30 others in the class. Strangers, you don't know them. And they're like, wow, you've got to be bold. Over Zoom for some reason.

It feels more of a like, oh, here it goes. It's always a bit of a stuttery start as well. Because you've got to, excuse me. I've got to unmute my mic unmute my mic and i'll be here i go this better be a good one whereas class you can go hey what does that mean about that you know so yeah yeah my main concern is uh asking questions in a group environment is that the speaker's already said yeah the answer is yeah and i haven't been listening yeah that is my main worry. I know that. Because nine times out of ten, I haven't been listening. Yeah, you're like, what is it? And they're like, well, as I said before.

Yeah, you never want as I said before. I just explained that. You're like, oh, did you? I just wanted to ask you a question and look like I was part of the game. Because I wasn't getting what you were putting down. So, yeah. Oscar, my son's learning today as well. And he's sort of holding conversations at home too,

which I find makes it like an easier way of learning. Yeah, right. If you kind of, well, I've only done it this week with him. Yeah. But I've found that's probably easier than me just reading documents. Yeah, right, actually getting to say it out loud and stuff. So, yeah, he's learning from his today-o teacher, and then I'm learning from him through his today-o teacher.

So shout out to Scotty Morrison. He does wonderful books and audio books as well. Yeah, Stacey Morrison, who works at The Hits, and Scotty do wonderful things for Tarayo. And there's a book and an audio version of the book, and I find that's really handy as well. So even if you don't want to go to a class or whatever, buy the book, buy the audio version,

and you can actually just read it. He will read along to the book to you, and you can fill out the book and sort of, there you go. He's got a silky smooth voice, too. Oh, he is, and they're all like 15-minute lessons. So each one's, you know, Monday, just 15 minutes, Tuesday, 15 minutes and stuff. So, yeah. Lucky Stacey snapped him up because I'd have him read to me every night.

Yeah, yeah. I'm very used to the sound of his voice. Yeah, yeah, now I listen to that. They've dedicated a large part of their lives to Todayo, haven't they? Yeah, which is awesome, voice. Yeah, now I listen to that. They've dedicated a large part of their lives to today, haven't they? Yeah, which is awesome. Yeah, well, good on them. Keeping the language alive, which is awesome. Doing wonderful stuff.

Hey, podcast today, we had it. We had a show. We did a show. We spoke to Dr. Libby. Dr. Libby Weaver in Australia. She joins us regularly on the program to hock off whatever product she's... But I'll happily have her hocking because she is such

an interesting conversation Libby and it was stress the one thing that we all stress about and when you think about it and break stress down it results down to this one thing that we all have a fear of. Yeah well that's the biggest one of the biggest causes of stress in her 20 years of experience and it's

a lot of years of experience. Yeah very true, very true for a lot, yeah, as you say. It's a lot of years of experience. Yeah, very true. Very true for a lot of your stress. I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of other stress that comes from. Financial. You know, financial stress. She's not saying that all your stress is on this thing, but she was finding that a lot of the time it broke down to one of these things. But then sometimes, well, I'm not going to say what it is,

but sometimes financial stress might be caused a little bit by what you, by what she's saying, you know? Oh, you've caused it by trying to do that thing and now it's resulted in a true... Yes, I could all ball down to that. By trying to keep up appearances and it's all tied in and interweaved. So yeah, Dr Libby

joins us on the show as well and we spoke to a man in Taiapi who claims Adele walked into his second-hand store that doesn't have EFPLOS, so they only accept cash transactions, and bought a headband. Yeah, and after hearing the story, I'm like, yeah, I believe him. On the surface, you're like, who's this guy?

But yeah, but you're right. He was talking to the people that were obviously dancers with Adele. They had conversations about going back to the concert. They were performing. You know, it was like the intel. Yeah, it's like, of course. They'd been trying to see New Zealand, they'd hired a bus. Where was she performing?

Auckland? Yeah, remember she did the like... So she'd taken a big dog leg for the day to head up in Palmy. Yeah. Palmy, Taihapi. Yeah. It's a big day trip. Yeah, they stayed somewhere down there though, didn't they?

And then they had to go back or something. For the show, yeah. Anyway, Adele popped in, handed over some cash because she couldn't do any pay waves or anything. He refuses to accept the EFOS facility. And you'll hear him on the show too, so have a great day. New Zealand's Breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits.

Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. Six o'clock. Jeez, that snuck up on us, didn't it? It did really creep up on you. I walk in here and Juliet's like, we've got to record some stuff during ads. I'm like, this is too much. I know.

What have we got to record during ads, June? Oh, we've just got to record the news and beeps during the ads. Oh, really? Yeah, because we've got to talk to someone else during news and beeps. It's all a bit of an operation here today. It's all creeping up on us. How have you been? Me?

Yeah, I'm getting a little frazzled this morning, but we'll get across it. What's frazzled this morning, but we'll get across it. What's frazzling you? Oh, just, you know, normally you come to work and you're like, there's lots to talk about in the world. Obviously, there's big news with COVID. We're trying to avoid a lot of that at the moment. But that's pretty much, that's dominating most of the headlines. Oh, so you're frazzled because you're trying to dig deeper to find content that isn't just COVID. Yeah, stuff that we can talk about and have a bit of fun with. But, you know, there's not a lot of that around this morning.

A lot of schools back today. Well, I mean, schools are back across the country, but in the Auckland region, a lot of the under-12s going back to school today. Primary schools are back today. It seems like a great move, given that we had a record high of COVID cases yesterday as well. It's a little bit, you know. We'll talk more about that later. We'll delve deeper into that. And the Waikato, back to level two today, which is really cool.

So all the bars, restaurants and stuff can open up as well, which is cool. Yeah, happy for them. They've been in the trenches, haven't they, poor Hamilton? Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, we're going to get through this. We'll stop trying to be frazzled. We'll just get ahead, take a breath, get on with the show.

We've got to actually, speaking of being frazzled, we've got Dr Libby Weaver with us. She's a wonderful guest to the show. We have her on quite a bit. And she's just come up with a new function or a new bunch of cards that can help deal with your stress. Yeah, and it's really interesting. She's got the number one thing that everyone stresses about.

And she's learnt this over 20 years of dealing with people. And it's not exactly what you'd think. It's not having to pre-record stuff during ads? No, that's not what commonly gives people a lot of stress. Today's a very special day in the radio industry. 100 years today since the first broadcast ever in New Zealand. 100 years! I think I was pulling the co-host on that shift, actually,

100 a century ago. Get me to that gag. Were you going to say that? Sorry. November 17, 1921. So 100 years, and it was Professor Robert Jack, and it was in Dunedin. He broadcast.

Here it is. Oh, there you go. Was that the first song that played? I think it was the first song that played? I think it was the first song that played It's a real banger isn't it? Broadcast in Dunedin But you could hear it in Auckland You could hear the broadcast in Auckland That would have been quite magical

And what, on the same frequency you could hear? I don't know I wasn't there a hundred years ago If you were there, you'd tell me I wonder if know. I wasn't there 100 years ago. If you were there, you'd tell me. What was his name, Doctor? Professor Robert Jack. I wonder if Professor Robert Jack was getting slayed on the text machine back then,

100 years ago. Yeah, so it was a radio target. It's a pretty amazing thing. Who would have thought that radio, 100 years ago, started with that and it's come so far. I just thought we'd take a moment to reflect on some of the great moments of New Zealand radio over the last 100 years. Can I do that? You've got a big giant grin on your face. You've obviously got something up your sleeve here.

No, I just thought, you know, 100 years. I mean, it's such a great industry. I mean, who would have thought it'd be around for 100 years? You know, maybe it won't be around for 100 more, but let's reflect on some of the great moments. How far we've come. Professor Robert Jack would love to hear these moments on something that he sort of led the way on. Have a listen to this.

This great moment. Yeah, we'll go to Anastasia. I'm out of love. Set me free. She's never heard that before. Reference to Anastasia the singer. That's not her name, apparently, but it's great to sing Anastasia as well.

What is your name? Sorry. Anisiata. Anisi it's great to sing Anastasia as well What is your name? Sorry Anisiata So nothing like Anastasia Anastasia doesn't get enough Shoutouts, I'm sorry Hey, that was me It was a great moment in New Zealand A historical moment

Getting names wrong seems to be your thing, doesn't it? And she travels around the UK As the number one Adele impersonator. Full-time gig impersonating her. Her name right now is Jenny. Welcome to the show, Jenny. How are you? Maria.

Maria. Welcome, Maria. Hello, I'm well, thank you. We don't know if Professor Robert Jack back in Dunedin 100 years ago got the name right of his guests or not. We certainly haven't on this show. One more final bit.

Don't know this we. This is all pointed at one individual. All right, here's more of Jono screwing up radio. An astronaut in space has voted from space, an early vote. How cool is that? Everyone will know how he's voted, though. She, mate. The woman can be your sexist.

We can go to space. Are they allowed in space though? She, mate. Mormon can be your sexist. Or we can go to space. Are they allowed in space now? Naughty. Who let them in space? They're not meant to be downstairs preparing meals for the astronauts. There you go. That would have stacked up

a hundred years ago. I was waiting for that comment. Interesting though, because the radio did start in Dunedin in New Zealand, as we said, 1921. And Dunedin in New Zealand, as we said, 1921, and Dunedin had seven public radio stations, twice as many as any other city in the country by the 1930s.

It's very good. It's crazy to think that it's still going. You know, there was that wild period, you know, 20 years ago where Spotify and Apple Music was starting to come in and make a play and they're like it's the end. But we're still here.

I don't know who's listening to it, but we're still here. And that's the main thing. We've got $5,000 up for grabs. I don't know if Professor Jack had that. Maybe he did. He might have had more than that on his Facebook. A few shillings up for grabs 100 years ago. Five words, 5K. That's a 7.45 on the hits.

He only deals with the light news stories because that's all his muscle mass can handle. Ben Boyce, scrolling what's happening. A few big announcements yesterday from the government and a few again today. The vaccine pass. Basically, you can apply for that as of today. But the government have said,

don't all do it at once because we don't want to overload the IT system. So when do we do it? Do we wait? Just gradually. But how do I know if you've gone before me or you're waiting politely? I don't know.

So this vaccine pass is going to take the form of a QR code. So you'll need that to go to concerts, music festivals, bars, restaurants, gyms and sports events and more. Unless you're under the age of 12, not required to show proof of vaccination. And it's only valid for six months. So every six months we'll need to do an update of that because I guess they're talking about

the vaccines wearing off and people needing booster shots. Maybe, I'm guessing. I feel like I've applied for 39 different versions of proof that I've vaccinated. Yeah, you apply for one, I think, if you're going overseas and stuff. Yeah, and then I applied for another one that we got sent the other day that you had to do on My Health.

That's basically just to show your records. That's the records. And when you got vaccinated, that goes to that website. That's just proving your records. Oh, right. That's just logging in and saying, yeah, look, see, I can show you. And then I met a guy in an alleyway and I gave him some cash and he's like, this is a legit passport. So I'm fully, hopefully, I can fully prove. Well then I met a guy in an alleyway and I gave him some cash and he's like, this is a legit passport. So I'm fully,

hopefully I can fully prove. Well, no you can't because you have to get on, well, maybe not today, maybe tomorrow or in the next couple of days. Just wait. You need to get the proper pass

with the QR code. Yeah. Oh, that makes sense, QR code. That's easy just to scan in, isn't it? Yeah, and there's going to be announcements today all going well on the borders

and how that's going to be open over Christmas. There was a theory out there. Was it you saying that, Drew, that the Prime Minister secretly wants COVID to get throughout New Zealand? Because then there would be no borders. We're back to the team of five million then. It's just, you know, rumour has it. Rumour has it.

Why would she? She wouldn't want COVID out. Well, because then there's less of a headache for her. The headache is the border around Auckland, yeah? People escaping it. Aucklanders getting pissy. They're stuck in this border. If everyone's got it, we can all go everywhere.

And I see why she wants to do that. Put your tinfoil hat away, right? Your conspiracy theories. Jeez, there we go. But yeah, COVID is going to... What's going to spread faster? Is it going to be COVID or is it going to be Aucklanders over summer?

What will get to the hot spots first? But yeah, COVID, what's going to spread faster? Is it going to be COVID or is it going to be Aucklanders over summer? I'll get to the hot spots first. Do you think Aucklanders are going to be welcome? Regardless if the borders are open, if we're allowed out, if you're travelling to a small seaside town. Which has low vaccination. Yeah, low vaccination and no COVID cases. If I lived in that seaside town, I don't know how welcoming I would be.

That's a very good point. And rightfully so, too. Yeah. And today, of course, as you mentioned before, primary school children and intermediate kids go back to school in Auckland. Well, it seems to be like on a sort of part-time basis. It seems to be staggered. Every school seems to be different,

and they're coming up with their own system to navigate through a really tricky period. some are doing sort of two days a week others doing three days a week and it sort of varies even between my kids varies from school to school yeah it does i saw there's a lot of teachers who are just refusing to go back because they're not vaccinated which is a massive call and a large percentage of them as well and you're reading a wonderful tweet uh off air yesterday where you were like well, you know, if the teachers don't believe in science, should they be teaching the children? Yeah, yeah. What do you think?

I mean, apart from scientists but you know, teachers that maybe would be back in a vaccine. It would be interesting to see how that all plays out. But you can volunteer because there's a shortage there in some schools. You can volunteer plays out. But you can volunteer because there's a shortage there in some schools. You can volunteer your services. Have you seen that?

Yeah. People are, you know, going all messy. To just, you know, do a fill-in. Like Ben could be like, hey, it's Ben here. If you guys want me to cover for an hour. Relief teacher, Mr. Bruce. There's a lot of people online. It was quite a nice little thread on social media yesterday.

That's so cool. With people saying, hey, I know the teachers are going to be really busy and struggling. If you need me to come on over Zoom or whatever, I can do this. These were professionals like, you know, doctors and Ellie Moore, the journalist. She was going to do a journalism class.

That's so cool. What would you teach, Ben? What would you get on there and teach? Instagram. How to get products and advertise them on Instagram. Make sure you use the hashtag ad, guys.

That's the big thing, all right? You need to disclose it. Instagram class, Mr. Bliss. I love it. All right, I'll be taking that. If anyone wants me to do Instagram class, get in touch with me today. Taking over all your favorite song intros,

Jono and Ben, the Heads. Now, yesterday it was announced Justin Bieber's coming to New Zealand. December next year, one concert at Mount Smart. It's going to be huge. And it was such big news that, I don't know if you missed this with everything else going on, but the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called a press conference to talk about Justin Bieber. That was massive. Have a listen.

As you can hear, there is more work to be done to help piece together this puzzle. I'll now hand over to Dr Bloomfield for an update. New Zealand we have 25,000 confirmed cases of fever fever today. We have officially entered alert level oh my god. If you are experiencing any of the below symptoms uncontrollably screaming resisting the urge to make a sign out of glitter that says marry me Justin, repeatedly saying the phrase oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, or questioning whether you're too old for any such actions, you must contact the Ministry

of Health, get tested immediately and self-isolate for 14 days until you compose yourself. Thank you. We're now happy to take your questions. Jessica and Tova. Yeah, they got in first to ask about us. Big it. So, big news. Yeah, big news. It is big news.

And also, you also have the Bieber fever. If you're using the word literally without it being literal, there's another symptom too. Speaking of Bieber fever, we won't get into this now, but we'll get into this a little later on. Someone was in the Herald yesterday. Oh, no!

We need to talk more about that at some stage. Some vintage Juliet, too. How old were you? Maybe about 14 or 15. Oh, you were good. Oh, God. Such an amazing competition and such an amazing car. You can get a Skoda for basically summer

and $5,000 to spend on a summer vacation. It's all living free this summer thanks to the hits. We're getting people in the draw. It's going to be awesome. Summer will be absolutely sorted. Although you still will have to apply your own sunscreen. We're not covering everything. We're not doing that.

So you can't take all the responsibility. Felon, we'll get you on from Wellington. How are you this morning? Hi. Hi, guys. I'm good, thanks. Cool name, Felon. Yeah.

That's a great name. Dynasty vibe. Yeah, it's beautiful. Also Jimmy Felon, you know, as well. That's pretty cool. He's got a superhero vibe. Hey, what would you do if you won this amazing prize there, Felon? Well, I'd probably take my family out to Rotorua and do all the activities up there.

Off to Rotorua. That'd be a wonderful way. We could have a great $5,000 summer holiday in Rotorua. That'd be awesome. You've been there a few times, Ben. You like the tree walk, don't you? Yeah, the zip lining over the trees is awesome. Through the trees.

That's very cool. Yeah, yeah. Do that. Do that if you win, all right? All right. Okay. There you go. $5,000 and you get the Škoda for 14 days.

Just be wary of getting sunscreen on the paintwork, spilling ice cream on the upholstery. Righty, righty, rah. But you're in the draw, felon. Thank you so much. Thank you for listening. And that's right. That's a Škoda Kodiak. It's a seven-seater SUV, so you can take the whole family across.

Seven-seater. I do like the seven-seater SUV, so you can take the whole family across to Rotorua for that. Seven-seater. I do like the seven-seaters. I like the ones where they've got the seats and they're literally in the boot. Have you been in one of those cars? I don't know what the Škoda is, but once I had to sit in the boot seat as well, and that's a vulnerable location. Have you been in a boot seat before? Yes, I have.

Now, where will the new Š Skoda Kodiak take you? You can listen for your next cuticle, and you can be living free this summer. Thanks to Skoda, it is the hits. You've got John Owen being. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the B**** News. We proudly bring you producer Juliette,

who's proudly brought to us by her parents, who proudly made her win. Well, I'll stop talking now. Thank you. Ju, this is the news and beeps. How does it work? Yes, so I have sourced some quirky, interesting news headlines from around the world. There's one New Zealand story in here today, which I thought was quite interesting.

And I've beeped out a word, and you guys have to guess what the full headline is. Your first news story. Police respond after New Zealand woman hit by a possum. Okay, I'm going to say she was caught in the headlights and the possum was driving the car. It's like the opposite thing. Revenge. I'm going to say police respond after a New Zealand woman

was accosted about the vaccine and why it doesn't work by a possum. So this was a university student in Dunedin. So she came home at night time and was unpacking some things from her car. And every time she tried to like walk to her house, this possum would charge at her. Oh, really? And so she would flee inside

and every time she'd peek out the window to see where the possum was, it would charge back at the window. Like it was like, it hated her. So she had to call 111 and get the police to come over and deal with it and when the police came the possum did the exact same thing to the police and what does deal with it mean so what they did is

they it's actually okay what they did is they put the possum in a box and then took it out to the wild so away from the house did you wake up it. No! Did you wake up to a possum at Outward Bound? Oh, yes, on Outward Bound. Yeah, it was right next to me and it was the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my life and so I hissed and drew a stick at it and it went away. What was your hiss?

Making your hiss noise. Oh, did you? Yeah. I did that, yes. It was traumatising. I had an idea because Juliet did go on Outward Bound. She went bush in January of this year.

Yes, I did. In happier times. And she didn't have a cell phone, didn't have any coverage. She came back and she's like, I am so not using social media anymore. I thought we should do a little story arc where we keep Juliet off her phone. Oh, my goodness. See how long she can stay off her phone for. Oh, my goodness.

That would be really hard. I'll give her half an hour. That would be the most. All'll give her half an hour. That would be the most. Alright, the next news story. French President Emmanuel Macron changes f*** without announcing it to the public. I'm going to say he changed the Eiffel Tower.

He knocked that down because now at the moment, can't you put up three builds in the same property at three stories or is that just in Auckland? Yeah, no, that's great. You can get some good property going there in the central city of Paris. I'm going to say French President Emmanuel Macron changes the Wi-Fi password without announcing it to the public and no one can get in online.

French President Emmanuel Macron changes French flag without announcing it to the public. So the French flag, obviously blue, white and red. Nothing drastic, nothing like what John Key proposed a few years ago. He just changed the colour blue to a darker blue and nobody noticed. And the reason why was because he thought the darker blue was just more elegant. And he did that, I think, beginning of 2020. So it didn't cost him $22 million per referendum order?

Probably, I would say not. I don't know. Is John Key listening to this going, is that an option? I could have just changed it. I could have just changed it without having could have just changed it? Yeah. Without having to ask the people? I know, I know. I feel like through that whole thing with John Key, I feel like he wanted the black flag with the silver fin on it.

That would have been quite cool. But that was never one of the options. Yeah. It was never one of the options of the final ones. What was the one he ended up going for with the southern cross and the blue? Yeah, and then it had the black flag as well, but it wasn't the whole thing. I feel like that's what he wanted. That have been a great option it's the one that people take to sports games and stuff around the world but yeah I don't know why that wasn't one of the

options not say it would have won but I don't know why that wasn't one of the options and final news story cat born with after rare genetic mutation takes the internet by storm well I'm hoping it's born with an extra life for 10 lives yeah that's what he needed i'm gonna go cat born with a dislike for chef cat food after they're all meant to prefer it hang on after genetic mutation cat born with four ears after rare genetic mutation takes the internet by storm. Four? Four ears. And if you can, if you're driving, do not Google this now,

but Google it later. I thought you were going to say if you can and you're driving. I was like, I do the ears. No, no, no. It's just Google cat with four ears, and it's a little, I think it's one of those like grey-looking cats. And it's got the main ears. It's really cute.

And it's got smaller ears sort of inside it, tilting out a little bit. It looks very, very cute. It sort of looks like a character from Narnia. Yeah. Doesn't it? Yeah. Isn't it so cute? And it's got 50,000 Instagram followers.

It's called Midas, I think his name is. And I'm in love with it. Oh, that is very cute. Do all the ears function? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Can Midas hear two times better than everyone else? Maybe, maybe. You'd probably think just the main ears did it and then the extra ears were probably not

fully grown in the cat womb. They kind of look like little devil horns, don't they? The second set of ears. Yes. Very cute. And that is the news and beats for you this morning. And as I had Sir Jono and Ben on your Wednesday. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. That is the news and beats for you this morning. And as a heads, Jono and Ben on your Wednesday. She's always got the A to Z of celebrity,

from Adele to Zachary Ephron. Juliet, what's going on in Spy? So George Clooney was on a podcast recently and has spoken about the Rust shooting, that fatal incident with Helena Hutchins and Alec Baldwin, and his experience with guns on set, which was quite an interesting insight. No, I don't know Alec that well. I have to say, you know, I was watching the news this morning,

and they've got the bad guy, which is going to be the first AD. Look, he may be a dick. I don't know the guy at all. But, you know, I've been on sets for 40 years, and every single time I'm handed a gun on a set, every time, Mark, they hand me a gun, I look at it, I open it, I show it to the person I'm pointing it to, show it to the crew. Every single take, you hand it back

to the armor when you're done, you do it again. Everyone does. Everybody knows. And maybe Alec did that. Hopefully he did do that. But the problem is dummies are tricky because they look like real bullets. And he did do that. But the problem is dummies are tricky because they look like real bullets. And he went on to talk about how it obviously was just like someone probably just didn't check properly.

And it's quite sad because I think George Clooney was quite close with Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee's son, who was also accidentally shot and killed on a movie set in 1993. So I think since that happened in 93, that's why caused every, that's why he's saying everyone on set knows to do that, knows to double check, open it up and check because we don't want a repeat

of what happened to Brandon Lee. But of course it has happened, which is unfortunate. Just a horrific oversight, isn't it? Yeah, I know. And then when accidents like that happen, you just, I can imagine you'd just be going over in your brain, why did that happen?

What could have stopped that? You know? And that's just awful. Horrible, horrible. Because I imagine they'd do it, whoever was the armour, would just be doing, it'd be like, you know, clockwork for them. Yeah. Automatic pilot stuff.

Yeah, especially on Ogle. It was a Western, right? Yes. So they would have had to do a lot of that, you know, over the filming. But yeah, it's just a tragic, tragic thing. I know, I know. And Pete Davidson, oh, wow, this is a very different story compared to the last one. But Pete Davidson, we know that he's kind of maybe dating Kim Kardashian at the moment.

He has dated quite a lot of celebrities, Ariana Grande, Kate Beckinsale, Cindy Crawford's daughter, Kaya Gerber. He's kind of gone through a few of them in Hollywood. But he has revealed his dating deal breaker. So if someone is rude to a waiter or a waitress, he will not invite them on a second date. And he also says that if he's wanting to take someone on a first date, he'll always take them to a restaurant because he thinks if you go to a great restaurant, even if I'm a bad date, at least the food was good.

She can go home and be like, well, he paid and I ate good food. And that's the end of that, which is quite interesting. Yeah, right. You're not one for making a fuss at a restaurant, are you, Ben Boyce? You'd get a second date with Davidson. Yeah, that's right. I'm not going to send a meal back. Yeah.

I'm not one of those. Have you ever sent a meal back? Ever? I don't think so. No. No. But I've been in situations where people have. You've sent it back? And justified to do it. But you're like think so, no. No, but I've been in situations where people have. You send it back and justified

to do it, but you're like, oh no. Please don't. I know someone who sends a meal back, not because there's anything wrong with it, just because they don't like the meal and they regret ordering it. So they'll be like, oh I don't like this, can I get this? But that's on you. I know. I know. You must have been

dying inside. I know. I was. You must have been dying inside. I know. I was. And so then they didn't pay for the original meal? I don't think so. Really? I don't think so. Yeah, I know.

Is there a change of mind clause? I don't know if there is. I know. That is a big call. I know. Big call. Do what every New Zealander, good New Zealander should do. Hate the meal, eat it anyway, and then tell everyone about it

outside of the restaurant. And then be polite to the restaurant. Even have a moan on social media. Passive aggressively. And that is Spy this morning. For more you can head to thehits.co.nz Heart-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on New Salted Bean.

In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The Hits. I've been following Elon Musk. You know Elon Musk. He seems to be a bit of an eccentric billionaire. Old musky. Yeah, owns Tesla. Well, he's been getting into a bit of a back and forth between one of the directors of the United Nations World Food Program.

Remember that? Well, a couple of weeks ago, the guy from the UN, he tweeted publicly, you know, what was it, 2% of Elon Musk's wealth from Tesla could solve world hunger. Yeah, it was basically like $6 billion could solve world hunger. And then Elon Musk replied back going, well, you show it to me. You show the accounting, you know, like full disclosure, you know, fully disclosure, and I'll consider it.

Yeah, right. So he said, I'd sell 2% of Tesla if you have open books. Now, these are the types of books, the accounting books, that, Ben, you don't like. You like to be cooking them books. You don you have open books now these are the these are the types of books the accounting books that ben you don't like you like you like to be cooking them books you don't want open books i like the closed books but uh um so the guy kind of responded back saying well like six billion will not solve world hunger but it will prevent a lot of you know like uh you know a lot of things from happening that we don't want to happen is elon like hey hold on but you said it would so yeah yeah so i thought he's like being caught he's oh actually no no i just i just say you say some stuff don't you guys i'm sorry but now there is a link on the un website because i

thought that'd be the end of it there's a link on the un website which outlines where the money could be directed uh so it's like almost like your move elon musk so basically it's saying we'll spend 3.5 billion for food and its delivery, another $2 billion here, another $7. So they're basically broken. They have kind of broken down how it could actually be spent. $1 billion on some cool merch. So it'll be interesting to see how

we go. But Elon Musk seems to have moved on and he's having a bit of a Twitter spat with Bernie Sanders. Oh, yes. Yeah, I don't know if you've seen this. Now, Bernie Sanders, you know, a politician, been around for many, many years in America. If you don't know Bernie Sanders. Oh, yes. Yeah, I don't know if you've seen this. Now, Bernie Sanders, you know, a politician who's been around for many, many years in America. If you don't know Bernie Sanders, he's about 10 years younger than Joe Biden,

and he's been around for a long time. Yeah, so they got into a bit of a Twitter back and forth because Bernie tweeted something about Elon Musk, and then Elon replied going, I keep forgetting you're still alive. That was basically his reply. Golden. There is that category of people where you're like, are they still kicking?

You just don't know. And yeah, he definitely slips into that. Great comeback. Did Bernie, could Bernie give him? I don't know, mate. Bernie's trying to find his grandson. How do I reply to this upstart? New Zealand's breakfast

This is Jono and Ben on the hits Kia ora, good morning, just gone 7 o'clock Here with Jono and Ben on the hits A lot going on around Aotearoa today Waikato going to level 2 Schools opening in Auckland For primary school and intermediate school kids as well Which is a big step as well, which is

a big step as well. I just do. I keep saying it to you. It doesn't make sense to me that, eh? You won't send vaccinated office workers back. But you'll send unvaccinated children back into the world. For some reason, I don't know. I'm sure there's a reason. I'm sure there's a lot of people

out there who are quite nervous about it. I won't lie to you. I'm a little bit nervous about sending the kids back to school. But in saying that, they are both very, very excited about going back. And that's awesome. And you go for their mental health. You get to the end of normally a two-week holiday and they're like, oh, school. But they're excited about going back. So that's kind of, you know, so all going well.

It's, you know, the right procedures are in place. But what does that say about you? Yeah. Like they're excited to leave. They're like, this guy is just busting my chops. Three months of debt. Oh, bad enough. So we need to get back to school.

Can we go through the Christmas holidays? Just keep school rolling. That's what I say. Hey, next, there's a lot of talk about anti-vaxxers. Well, I think I'm turning anti-vax. Oh, okay, so propaganda turning anti-vax. Oh, okay. Some propaganda next. Here we go.

Yeah. I see why the kids want to leave you. Anti-vax. I'm anti-vax. I'll explain more in just a few moments. It is the hits. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some may say it's pointless,

but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. John and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, a few months ago you might remember on the show you may not that we spent uh you know we spent a bit of time we had a race uh you and i john are building a lego grand piano about 3600 pieces and i spent the best part of two or three weeks putting together this lego it would have been easier to construct the burj khalifa i felt it was a large part of my life that was taken up with tiny little Lego pieces.

It's the sense of achievement once it's completed, though. Because it's mechanical and you can play music and stuff. It's very cool. And I actually put it on, ironically, on our piano at home. Yeah, it's great. Just a very tiny, tiny little person ever came over and be like, there's your little piano, mate. Hop on there, little fella.

Yeah. It was the only piano that I. Pop on there, little fella. Yeah. It was the only piano that I can actually play at the house was that one. It was mechanical. You push a button and it plays some tunes, which is pretty cool. But then I was vacuum cleaning, uh, and the weekend,

and then I, I bumped back, you know, basically backed up into the piano, the big one. And then the small Lego piano on top fell down. And yeah. And, and the space of basically three seconds,

what had taken me three weeks was destroyed. And I had a wee moment of reflection with my daughter, Indy, afterwards. Indy, what happened? You were using the vacuum cleaner and then the piano fell off. But I had nothing to do. It was none of my fault, I promise. I know, it was none of your fault. Look, it is everywhere.

So it's gone. It's gone. There you go. His heart was broken into 3,800 pieces. Yeah. Indy sounds jacked. Oh, yeah. What was she saying?

Wouldn't she be drinking coffee? I was like, Indy, what happened? She's like, nothing to do with me. I was like, I was just over at the corner of the thing. Oh, you must have been devastated. Are you going to reconstruct? You know, you can call the insurers. I'm like, yeah, you must have been devastated. Are you going to reconstruct? You can call the insurers. I'm like, you probably could, but I'm just like,

it's in a box now in the corner. I don't even want to look at it now. Too far gone. Well, because I guess if it's half or three quarters broken, I don't know what the damage is. Where do you start? Where do the reparations kick in? Oh, no.

So it's really, it's one of those instances. And so, you know, it was because I was vacuum cleaning. So now I'm, you know, I'm against vacuum cleaning. You could say I'm anti-vac. He's an anti-vac. We've finally got an anti-vaxxer on the show. An anti-vac-er. An anti-vac-er.

Not a vaxxer. Well, you know, I'm double jabbed. But I'm not, when it comes to vacuum cleaning, I'm now anti it. Well, you've got two, you know, you've got two forms, don't you, when it comes to vacologists. You've got slow and steady, methodical vacuuming, or just, I like to go Vin Diesel and Fast and Furious. I'd imagine you would.

I'm just the vacuum cleaner, just banging in the walls, swinging around, tipping over. Give that vacuum cleaner a good old ride. I imagine you would have been quite slow and steady though Yeah, I'm with the vacuum cleaning But it was just me walking back And not judging what was behind me So in fairness it was more my fault than the vacuum cleaner

But anti-vac doesn't work as well If it's anti-Ben Because we don't want people right now to call up If you're anti-Ben That would just lower his self-esteem So 0800 the hits, this is what we want to do 4487 on the text as up if you're anti-Ben. That would just lower his self-esteem. So 0800 the hits. This is what we want to do.

4487 on the text as well. Are you an anti-vaccer? You know, maybe if... Oh, God. What calls are we going to get? Well, no. We don't want anti-vaccers. No. Well, if we get no other vacuum cleaner calls, I'll take anti-vaccers.

We'll put them on the air. We need to fill some air time. No, we want anti-vaccers. People that have maybe had a vacuuming mishap, or maybe they just don't like it for any particular reason. I remember at nine years old, it was my childhood job. The chores was to vacuum the house, and I knocked over the television.

And Annie Pryor, I tell you what, that was not pleasant viewing. She was very upset, as you would be. Oh, you were. Back in the day, too, the TV, big back end, too. Yeah. Big back end. Sort of a Cardi B of televisions. Oh, that's right.

All right, so 0800-THE-HITS-4487. Why are you anti-vacuum cleaning or an anti-vaccer? We'd love to hear from you this morning. Not anti-vaxxers. Jono and Ben, The Hits. Had a wee vacuum cleaning accident where I knocked over basically a Lego, a grand piano I'd

spent three weeks making with Lego and it's now destroyed so now I'm anti-vacuum cleaning or as we like to say now I'm an anti-vaccer. He's an anti-vaccer. It was the worst thing to happen to pianos since Elton John played I'm Dill Danding. Have we got I'm Dill Danding stuff here? I love I'm Dill Danding. Yes I do. Here we go. I'm Dill Danding. Have we got I'm Dill Danding stuff here? Where is this? I love I'm Dill Danding.

Yes, I do. Here we go. I'm Dill Danding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There we go. Wonderful Elton John. See, it wouldn't be hard to play I'm Dill Danding on my little piano. We need to give Elton John some sort of royalties for the amount of times we've played I'm Dill

Danding on this show. It has dragged us through many voice breaks. But yes, 0800 with the hits Are You Like Ben? You're an anti-vac-er. Let's kick it off with Sarah in Wellington. More than a Sarah, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Why are you anti-vac? I took a big gouge out of the wall and then

blamed it on my kids. Oh, with the vacuum cleaner, you hit the wall. Yeah, yeah. It was one of those stick ones. So I actually, like, I think it fell over and it, like, really damaged the wall quite badly. One of the joys of having children is pinning stuff on them. So what was the occasion? Like, you're like, you guys did this?

They're like, no, we didn't. Don't lie to me. Did you do one of those? Well, my boy was too young to kind of argue. Oh, even great. Yeah, like, if you're thinking about having children and you're on the fence, definitely do, because there's a lot of stuff in your life you can just blame on them.

And it's a huge win. Sarah, you've been a champion. Have a great day, okay? We'll send you out a well-being voucher so you can get yourself some coffee, all right? Oh, great. Thanks so much. All right.

Kerry's an anti-vaccer as well on 0800THEHITS. Kerry, welcome. Morning, team. Why are you anti-vacuum cleaners? When I was little, I think I was about six, I was wanting to vacuum the house because Mum was out, and I knocked over about six of her, like, real crystal glasses. Oh.

And it was right before she, like, came home because I was getting, like, oh, no, she's here. I could hear the garage door. I ended up blaming the cat because she came in and was like, what's going on? The cat did it. What's going on? That's a great impression of your mum too.

Did your vacuum clean up the crystal afterwards or not? No, she did. She wanted to make sure. And it's okay because the cat still talks to me too. Yeah, great. Common theme coming through here that things being blamed on humans and animals that can't defend themselves when it comes to the vacuum cleaner. Let's get Sandra on from Tauranga.

Welcome, Sandra. Why are you anti-vac? Because when I was about 10, me and my sister got a little bit smart with her mum, and she was vacuuming in the hallway. But instead of hitting us, all she did was go thump, thump, thump and hitting the walls of the hallway. Oh, she started

whacking the hallway with the vacuum cleaner? Yeah, because she couldn't reach us. The cord wasn't long enough. One of my joys too is when I'm doing the vacuuming is taking the head off it and then just sucking the children catching them by surprise. Oh my god!

You know when you go You know when they've got the long hair and then just sucking the children, catching them by surprise. Oh, my God. You know, when you go. You know when they've got the long hair and you just grab it. Oh, yeah. There's a hack, too, isn't there, for putting ponytails on. Yeah, you can suck the ponytail down the vacuum cleaner pipe and then you attach the. Hair tie. The hair tie. I should have left you stranded there.

Yeah, you should have. I'm not really a fan of hair products. And you can just roll it onto the ponytail. It's wonderful. Hey, Sandra, you have a great day. not really a fan of hair products. And you can just roll it onto the ponytail. It's wonderful. Hey, Sandra, you have a great day. Appreciate that. Awesome. Thank you.

We had a friend who had the robot vacuum cleaner, and so they would go out to work. Oh, the one that goes by itself? Yeah. It does the job for you, right? Yeah. But what it doesn't factor in is his dog had deposited something on the floor, and the vacuum cleaner's just full.

And the vacuum cleaner's like, I've got one job that is to go around as much of this floor before the owner comes home. Oh, my gosh. You can imagine what happened when it went over this thing, and then it spread that around. Oh, my gosh. Did it record every nook and cranny?

Just smeared everywhere. But now there's technology. I was reading that it avoids it. Oh, really? They've got a laser system or sort of artificial intelligence that dodges cables and, you know, any matter on the floor. So I don't know how I'm meant to smear it around now. Maybe I have to go back to the old school way.

Thank you so much for your calls and texts, all you anti-vaccas out there. It's really appreciated. And as the hits, you've got Jono and Ben. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. You've got a wee game you want to play with us next? It's almost a little bit of a Russian roulette type game.

The jerseys. It's not as much Jeopardy as Russian roulette. Scale it back a few notches. There's going to be no casualties on this program, Ben. That's the backbone of this show. Safety. But we're going to scroll through our photo streams. And we're going to have to do some

explaining. Some photos that might be hiding away in our photo streams. Explanations are next. Tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe. And that's all I have to say.

Thanks, Dr. Ashley. John Owen Mann. New Zealand's breakfast. One of the big things stressing Ben Boyce out at the moment is his clogged up cloud. His cloud is clogging and he's getting a lot of pressure. He's putting pressure on his family to declog the cloud. Yeah, the kids last night, they went through and cleared out these apps and cleared out these photos.

Yesterday you were spending, after the show, just a lot of furious typing on his computer, a lot of emails going back and forth, sending out memos to his family to clear the cloud because you're getting pressure from Wozniacki and co at Apple to buy more cloud. Yeah, they want me to take out more space in the cloud and I don't want to pay $17 extra a month for more cloud space.

I want to delete one of the eight of the nine photos I've taken of me pointing at something. So you've been going through your photo stream and you've been clearing out, haven't you? Trying it's a it's a job that no one wants to do but it takes and it takes so anyway yeah i am hoping uh that i'm just going to leave it to when i die to people in my family to deal with to clear out there and i wouldn't wish that upon anyone having to scroll through this photo stream but i wanted to do a game uh this is a little bit of a dangerous game between the three of us. Juliet, you're involved in this as well.

Where we each scroll, you scroll through your photos, your stream, and you land on one. Okay. And then you have to explain what that photo is all about. Okay. All right. Okay. And whatever you land on, you land on.

All right. Okay. Who would like to go first? Ben. Okay. I can go first. All right. Okay. Mind you, he's got a deck called Scliver. I'll just keep scrolling. All right. Okay, who would like to go first? Ben. Okay, I'm going to go first. All right, okay.

Mind you, he's got a declawed clev. How many times do I have to do it? I'll just keep scrolling. Keep scrolling. Okay. And whatever you land on, you hold up and you describe the photo. Okay, this is one of you, Jono. And you have a snake around your neck.

Oh, that's from the UK. Yes. And you're dressed in a very low-budget sort of beef eater costume. Yeah. And you've got a snake around your neck. Oh, that's from the UK. And you're dressed like in a very low budget sort of beef eater costume. Yeah. And you've got a snake around you. I remember this. We were in the UK

and a lady turned up. We were doing some filming over there and she turned up with a container with some snakes in a backpack. Like a random lady. Oh, no. We'd organised her to bring us. Not just like,

hey, random lady, what's in your backpack? She's like, snakes. And we're like, great. Roll up. We'll film. Yeah. And I remember looking at you, Jono's face, and I thought you were having a stroke because they put a snake around your neck.

Wow. And I remember at the time just going, is he? You didn't say anything, Brady. You just kept going. I do. I looked three quarters of the way through a prostate examination in that photo. Yeah. It's a big snake, too.

It's sort of like, imagine the Britney Spears video when she's surrounded in that yellow snake. What was that video? Yeah. It's kind of like that. Yeah. And then she just put it back in her duffel bag and hopped back on the tube. And I'm like, is this a thing in London?

Do the other passengers know what's inside there? What's in someone's bag? But there you go. Okay, there you go. Want to have a go now? Okay. No, yeah, I'll scroll through. Oh, okay.

How far are you scrolling? I'm not that far. I've just given it one finger flick. I gave it a few. That was going back two years. Yeah. This is just from last weekend. Oh, yeah.

Okay, now there's a photo of me here, and I'm lying on a mattress. On the floor? I'm asleep. I'm asleep. You've been kicked out of home. On Friday night. This is now a bedroom. My two kids are posing for a photo with me. Oh, no, I'm asleep. I'm asleep. You've been kicked out of home. On Friday night. This is now a bedroom.

And my two kids are posing for a photo with me like they've hunted. Oh, so you're asleep already? Yeah, it's like they've hunted a white rhino in Africa. And they're posing, you know, those controversial photos with people. What time is this? That's about 9.30 at night. Right. And look at me.

Just look closely. The champagne parenting girl that you're asleep. The kids are up taking selfies. I look deceased. That is exactly how I would imagine you looking that you're asleep. The kids are up taking selfies. I look deceased. That is exactly how I would imagine you looking when you're asleep. Just like... You know, when you're asleep, there's two kinds of sleepers. There's the cute-looking sleepers, and you're like, oh, that's adorable.

And then there's the people that are like, Jesus, are they all right? The amount of times I've woken up and my family are having a funeral around me and putting me into a coffin. You do look deceased. I do look dead. Okay, Juliet, scroll through your photo stream. All right, and landing on something. Oh, this is okay.

This is a little lockdown project I did. When we first went into lockdown, I did a paint by numbers. I ordered one online and this is of Mount Fuji in Japan. And it looks really good, but that's because it's paint by numbers. It does look really good. But I'm not a good painter and so this makes me feel like I'm a good painter. What does paint, do you follow some sort of, is it much like what it is?

You imagine it is. Yeah, so it's got lots of guidelines and different numbers mean different paint so if that's got number 5 that area, you paint that colour, that little area with the number 5. It actually looks really good. Very good lockdown project if you bought. So it's cheating. Someone else has done the heavy lifting

for you. It's basically colouring in with paint and they tell you what colour. I think Michelangelo looked up at the Sistine Chapel and he's like, number 56, give that a little bit of light green. And then over 42. There we go, that was not as risky as I was hoping it was going to be. No nudes, no nothing. I was going to go and find a Jono snake. It wasn't quite there we go. That was not as risky as I was hoping it was going to be. No. I thought no nudes, no nothing.

I was going to go and photo Jono's snake. It wasn't quite what we all thought it was going to be. It was more like a caterpillar in all honesty. And it's Justin Derulo. You're on the hits. Bang on, 745. Five words for You're on the hits. Bang on, 745. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday.

It is our game of word association. We play it every morning at this time. We give you five words. You say the first things that pops into your head after those words. If your five words match up with ours, you win five grand. The main reason we come to work every morning is to give away $5,000 and the vending machine here at work is exquisite. That's the main reason we come to work every morning, is to give away $5,000. And the vending machine here at work is exquisite.

Yeah, it's good, isn't it? That's the other reason we come to work, Ben. Boys, let's welcome in Ryan from Auckland. How are you, mate? Yeah, good. How are you guys? Yeah, bloody great to have you on. Ryan, what are you doing today, bud? Just off to work. Just building, yeah. Oh, you're a builder. On his way to work. $5,000

for a tradie. What would you spend that cash on, Ryan? Probably tools, to be honest. Tools? Fair enough, fair enough. Do you not have enough tools? They were stolen just before lockdown, so I sort of do some more. What a pain in the neck that would be. Were they stolen out of your truck, were they?

Yeah, unfortunately. That sucks. Sorry to hear that, mate. Yeah, that does suck. How much did you get for them on Trade Me, Ben? Oh, I didn't take him. Alright, Ryan, big decision. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth to match five words with? I'll send Ben, I think. Ben, boys,

is going in. We'll let the soundproof booth swallow him whole like Jonah going inside Moby Dick. He is locked in the soundproof booth. And Ryan, you know the drill, matey. You need to list the first word

that comes into your head when I say Buzzy. B-U-Z-Z-Y. B. Buzzy B. Great option. Hummus. Or crackers? I've never had hummus, so I have no idea.

Well, I'll tell you one man who's had hummus, and he is currently in a soundproof booth. He is mainlining hummus into his system, isn't he, Julia? He loves hummus. Ben Boyce gives him the bloody Lisa's beetroot hummus. Lisa's sponsored Ben Boyce. That's right. Laugh is word number three for you, Ryan.

Or joke. Yep, beautiful. Mint, M-I-N-T, mint. Breath. Breath. You said breath or fresh? Breath B-R-E-A-T-H, breath, yep

And the fifth and final word for Ryan to win $5,000 on five words this morning is values Values Values, V-A-L-U-E-S Probably a little bit different I'd just say money Values. Values. V-A-L-U-E-S. Probably a little bit different, but I'd just say money.

Money. Yeah, nice. Good word. Did well. And, jeez, my spelling was impeccable through all of that, Julia. Yes, it was. Well done. Yeah, in my head, I was like, you're going to mess this up at some point prior.

It's going to happen. We'll unleash Ben from the soundproof booth. One of your favourite words is coming up in here, Ben Boyce. Oh, you are going to love word number two. It's going to have you salivating. Ryan did really well, played a solid game, okay? As you would imagine, he laid the foundations, being a builder, for a good game to be played. Let's win him $5,000.

Buzzy, word number one. B. One for one, Rye Dog. Hummus. Yeah, that puts a smile on his face. There's too many options for hummus. It's such a versatile food. Oh, jeez.

What has he got? Now, Ryan, can I give you a little clue? Yeah. Ryan, you said you've never had hummus. No, I've never had hummus. Never had hummus. I'll go, has he gone dip? Crackers, which was, yeah, crackers was a great option.

Yeah, that's a great option too. So was dip as well. Well, listen, you must go over to Ben's house for a hummus party. Yeah, come on over, yeah. Unadulterated hummus party. Hummus all day. Word number three. Laugh.

Joke. Mint. Sauce. Ryan went breath there. And the values was the fifth and final word. Values. Tough one there. Hard.

Values? Yeah. Yeah. Honesty. And the values was the fifth and final word. Values? Yeah, tough one there. Hard. Values? Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Honesty? Money. Money values. Ryan, there were some curly ones chucked in there for you, my friend.

You can go and have a great day. Sorry we couldn't win you $5,000, but thank you very much for listening. No worries. Cheers for that. Thanks, Ryan. There we go. Ryan in Auckland, off to do some building, and Ben Boyce, cleaning up after the mess

he's just made then. Yeah, I feel a little bit disappointed with that effort. Another chance tomorrow for someone to win $5,000. It is the hits. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits, with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Can I send a shout-out, Ben Boyce? The show

traditionally not a shout-out. Yeah? The show traditionally not a shout out Yeah sure why not My son Oscar for some reason likes to take up An array of random sports Table tennis was one Basketball He's like I want to start archery Just wild sports

His latest one is I want to be a golf player So he's like Can you get me a putter Because I need a putter? Because I need to putter, you know, golf balls inside the house, which just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

At least we've got a driver inside the house. So I was like, hey, well for Tiger Woods, didn't it? Everything worked out well for Tiger Woods. I can't think of any blemishes in his life. And I went into the golf warehouse.

He said, guess what they were listening to? More FM. No, they were listening to? More FM. They were listening to that. So that was the shout out I wanted to make. You do that so they give you a discount or something? No, I was hoping I would get a discount on the next golf club that I have to go and buy.

There's someone listening to this rubbish. That's good to know. Spy, the what's up spy.co.nz. Alright, no one knows more about the people you probably don't care The what's up Spy.co.nz Alright no one knows More about the people You probably don't care about Juliet and Spy Except we do care about

Rita Ora and Taika Waititi Don't we We do We are invested In this relationship More than them probably I know They seem in love

But we're really like We get very excited By this thing If we are not As part of the wedding party I'll tell you that personally So Rita Ora Has now officially Introduced Taika Waititi To her parents We are not as part of the wedding party. I'll tell you that personally. So Rita Ora has now officially introduced Taika Waititi to her parents in London.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yes, she did. And this means one thing, guys. That he charmed the pants off them. Yes, but also that means Taika will one day introduce Rita to his parents in New Zealand, and so that means she will come to New Zealand. And we love that. It's only a matter of time. And knowing New Zealand, we will let them have their personal space.

Will we? We won't make a fuss. We need to play it cool. That's all we agree, New Zealand. As excited as we all are, and us more than anyone else. It's so hard to play it cool, you know? Let's play it cool. Okay.

But then when she leaves, we'll be like, oh, my God. Oh, my goodness, I know. Doing that fan thing with your hand in your face. All the articles out and things then, all right? So that's very exciting. And Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin, they've been together for a few years now. You asked beforehand, John, is Dakota Johnson the one

that was in Fifty Shades of Grey? Yes, that is her. Was that a movie you watched with your mum? No. What did you watch with your mum? You watched some movie. No, it was Bridget's In With My Mum. Oh, Bridget and Wes. Some saucy erotic film. Yeah, I watched

Fifty Shades of My Grandma. Fifty Shades of Grey was the rinse through her hair. We thought it was an instructional video but it kind of in a way it was. Oh my god. Oh dear. We're going to both lean a lot. Put it that way. Oh, my God. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. We both need a lot.

Put it that way. So Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin, they were paparazzi coming out of a grocery store, which is pretty normal for celebrities to get taking photos of outside grocery stores, running errands. But the interesting thing was Chris Martin was holding a bottle of water. And upon investigation, it is an $80 bottle of water. And people are kind of like, why would you buy such an expensive bottle of water? Well, because he's freaking Chris Martin. He can afford an $80 bottle of water.

And also, why are there even $80 bottles of water? What's so special about this water? Anything? So this water is called the Ofora water. And the brand's website describes it as the healthiest water on earth due to it being nanopure, hyper-oxygenygenated and the right levels of alkaline and ready for sipping or spritzing. And it currently retails online for $80.

So if you're that rich, you can buy $80 bottles of water. When you mentioned this during the Taylor Swift song, I looked into the most expensive bottle of water, 750 mils. Now what's... You know, that's not much. No! 750 mils, $86,000 New Zealand dollars.

What? Water made from... Water. Water. Water. Yeah. Water made from water, but it comes from some springs in Fiji and some springs in France. Wow.

It's 86... Oh, they've connected the two. Oh, yeah. They've done... They've connected... 86,000. That is excessive. Now, I like to run with my Schweppes soda water.

It's in a black can. It looks like I'm carrying around a can of Cody's all day long. In fact, I went to my daughter's netball and the mum came up to me and she said, excuse me, can I just have a look at, which was very bold of her. She said, I thought for weeks you've been drinking Cody's on the sidelines of Thursday night netball. No. You probably had. I noticed something about Ben's got a soda stream.

Every time he opens it, it sounds like he's opening the door to a spaceship. Yeah. Open it up. Well, it might not be it. Oh, there you go. There you go. Sounds like he's opening the vent to a spaceship.

It's the first time I opened up in the studio this morning, yeah. So it's a lot louder normally. Do you like sparkling water as well? That's so nice. We're a couple of water wankers. Don't mind that. I've got a size stream, so give it a nudge. Nice, nice.

And it's a spy update with some water chat this morning. And we will be charging SodaStream for that as well. I'd like them to know. Send the invoice. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. Got me in love. On the hits.

Good morning, New Zealand. It's just gone eight o'clock. John and Ben with you. Now, the vaccine passport, as of today, you can apply online for your vaccine passport. And I shouldn't laugh, but it's already crashed. The website has already crashed under the demand. Well, they were hoping the government did hope

for a politeness sort of system. They were like, hey, let's not all go on at once. Let's all just be patient and polite. And one thing that we have learned throughout this whole COVID experience over the last sort of 24 months is, you know, the public don't panic. They don't rush.

You know, even think about the toilet paper. We took that sensibly. We each grabbed our allocated amount. And there was never going to be this rush, Ben. So you're going to need a vaccine certificate or a vaccine passport, as I like to call it to attend concerts festivals bars restaurants gyms sports events and much more and it's only valid valid for six months once you get it so you need to renew it every six months i guess i don't even renew my warrant how am i gonna trust myself to

renew this and how can so i imagine logistically you want to go into a cafe, restaurant, bar, whatever. I imagine the QR thing will be on the window. You scan in and you go in because obviously you wouldn't do it inside because they wouldn't want the unvaccinated inside. So you have to do it outside. Who's watching that? Who's making sure you're doing that? I don't know.

They have to employ extra people at these places just to... The QR watcher. Yeah. Or will there be a little... I guess eventually there might be a little system that makes a little, you know, they have to employ extra people at these places just to... The QR watcher. Yeah. Or will there be a little... I guess eventually there might be a little system that makes a little noise or something like that. I'm sure they've thought about it. We'll make it up as we go along.

We've been making it up as we go along anyway. We're world leading, aren't we? We're world leading in New Zealand. They always say we're world leading, but I feel like we're 12 months behind the rest of the world now. Yeah. We're world leading in the fact that we were in front of the world and now we've decided to be 12 months behind.

No one's even done that before. Next on the show, everyone's talking about Adele. She's got new music out. She's got a chat with Oprah that's going to be on TVNZ on Monday and we want to talk about Adele and see if anyone listening has ever met her. We'll get to that in just a few moments on The Hits. Mmm, coffee breath. Jono and Ben, The Hits.

We like to do this from time to time, put unnecessary pressure on ourselves in the show to give us a song to find to someone on our 100 The Hits. Yeah, it's a fun game. It's 3 minutes 30 we've got to find someone. Usain Bolt could run the 100 metres, what, 40 times couldn't he in 3 minutes 30? Yeah, a lot of times.

And we could hopefully find a caller to fill the next break. So we chuck out two insane scenarios and hope that someone listening can phone through. Answering, yes, I've had that, done that, whatever. We chucked out who was our oldest listener. Was anyone older than the Queen last week? You're our oldest listener. Am I? You are.

Well, apparently. We understand it's your birthday today. Oh, it was yesterday. Yesterday. Did you have a cake with 103 candles on it? No, no. She's in that room. Yeah, but you need quite the lung capacity there too, Lizzie,

wouldn't you, to blow them out? I would have blown myself out. She was a dog. 103-year-old Lizzie. Yeah, you, to blow them out? I would have blown myself out. She was a dog. 103-year-old Lizzie. Yeah, that was so cool. So, all right, this morning we're going to throw out a ridiculous scenario each. I'm going to go with a lot of talk about Adele at the moment. As I said before, she's got new music out.

She's hanging out with Oprah. There's a big interview that's going to go worldwide on Monday. In fact, speaking of Oprah, she's releasing little teasers, little videos on her social media. Oh, yeah, building the groundswell. Yeah, great social media play. Just hanging out, talking about their favorite Adele songs. And it felt like when Oprah asked Adele, she'd never been asked this before.

Have a listen. My favorite to, like, have fun with is, send my love to your new lover, treat her better okay favorite adele song me my favorite adele song um i'm gonna say out of all of them yes oh my gosh um i'm gonna say one and only she's sort of caught off guard yeah but it was like she was talking about another artist yeah it was it was her it was adele talking artist. Yeah. It was. It was her. It was Adele talking about Adele. So Ben's question, anyone apart from Oprah who has met Adele?

Yeah, that's what I'd like to know this morning. Yeah, I don't know. 100 of the hits. Long shot, but she was in New Zealand for about four concerts or something in a row, you know, a while back. So has anyone listening right now ever met Adele? Yeah. This is a real bummer for Oprah, who's just itching to contribute to our show this morning.

She's like, I want to call her. I'm in. All right, Oprah, you can call if you want. We'll let you through this one. You've got to get through, though. You can't ring the hotline. Okay, if anyone's met Adele, that's one option. The other one, it was World Toilet Day yesterday, Ben Boyce.

Oh, was it? Did you know the average person visits the lavatory 2,500 times a year? Wow. 2,500 times a year. Wow. 2,500 times a year. Oh, right. Yes. That's plus, yeah. Okay.

You'll spend a cumulative three years of your life sitting on the throne. Wow. Right. So it was World Toilet Day yesterday. What I want to know is, has anyone ever flushed anything down the toilet? Of note. Oh, yeah. Okay. Right. You the toilet? Of note. Oh, yeah. Okay, right.

You know, some expensive items, wallet, keys. I imagine many people have dropped stuff in the toilet, but you want people that have actually flushed it or attempted to. Yeah. Now, not the sort of materials you're flushing down the toilet when the police are knocking on the door. Not that. We don't need that sort of stuff on the show, Ben.

Okay, that's not the content we're after. That's not the backbone of this program. So, yeah, 0800 the hits for World Toilet Day. Anything of note that you have potentially flushed down the lavatory? I know Juliet's friend

was at a party with Kate Middleton in the UK. Oh yeah, she didn't flush anything down the lavatory but she heard Kate Middleton down the bathroom.

She heard Kate Middleton pee next to the cubicle. So that wasn't what we wanted. No, it wasn't. I just wanted to brag that we know someone who knows someone who sat next to Kate Middleton pee next to the cubicle. So that wasn't what we wanted. No, it wasn't. I just wanted to brag that we know someone who knows someone who sat next to Kate Middleton doing tingle, tingle to the star. Okay, so under the hood,

have you flushed anything of note down the toilet, or have you met Adele? Maybe even flushed a note. Yeah. I love note. We'll find out after Adele, what is easy on me. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast. So go easy on me. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast.

It is Adele, Easy on Me. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. We gave ourselves the song to find. For that song, we threw out a ridiculous scenario each. Jono, your scenario? My scenario was in celebration of World Toilet Day yesterday, Ben Boyce. I never felt like you'd make that up. I didn't make up why would I make up World Toilet Day?

What do we do on World Toilet Day? We just go, oh, that's a handy invention isn't it? We give each other toilet paper or something like that. I don't know how we celebrate it but anyway, I was wanting to celebrate it in my own special way by getting someone on for a song to find who's flushed something of note down the toilet.

I researched 7 million Americans a year are flushing their phones down the toilet by accident. But I tell you what, 0% of New Zealanders have phoned through for me. I thought I had lowballed it beautifully this morning. Yeah, but I think I've got to win right now because I asked if anyone listening had ever met Adele and we've got Alan on the phone from Taihape. Alan, you've met Adele. Good morning. How are you in Taihapi?

Now, you have met Adele. Yes, I have, yes. When did you meet Adele? When she was out here doing a tour. I didn't realise, of course, who she was. It was the two girls that came back in that were with her came back in to buy a necklace each because we've got to sign up for those cash-only sales, you see.

Oh, cash-only, oh yeah. Do you run a sort of a gift shop, would that be fair to say, in Tahapi? There's actually nine of us in there, a little market shop. A little market shop, yeah, cash-only, right. You haven't embraced your pulse. Fair enough, I like to operate like that. You do like shop. Yeah, cash only. Right. You haven't embraced the EFTPOS. Fair enough. I like to operate like that. You do like cash only, don't you?

Okay. So Adele came in with a couple of people that she worked with. Yeah. There was two guys with her. One big, big guy. And he was obviously the bodyguard, I realised, afterwards. And the little fella. And that was her husband.

Oh, the little fella was her husband. Did you say, hello little fella, we have no F-Boss here, just cash only baby. And so what did Adele come in and buy off you, Alan? They were walking past and she actually walked past the shop but had the door open because it was quite warm. And she spotted

a headband on a mannequin head was there. And she walked straight in and put it on her head and said, I'm going to have this. And you're like, well you can if you give me cash. Cash only Adele, cash only. I said, well I better take the price off it for it. It's now just doubled.

How much did she pay for the headband there Alan, can you remember? $15 I think it was. $15? That's a good price for a headband. Now, when did you find out that it was Adele? Not until she left? No, it was after that. When the two girls came back, they noticed that the shrine was up there cash only.

They went away and got some money, and they bought a necklace each. And they said, we're in a bit of a hurry. And I said, well, why are you in a hurry? They said, we've got to get back to the concert tonight. Oh, wow. So then they gave me the story that they had a spare day. They'd done a concert the night before, and they had a spare day. So they hired a bus or something, I presume it was a camper van or something.

And they got as far as Palmerston North. They wanted to have a look at the country, a bit of the country. And so they said, we've got to go back to Main Road and make sure we get back in time for the concert. Right. So this was it. But then they obviously went in much of a rush because they're stopping off for headbands

and jewellery at a cash-only shop. Oh, you can't pass that up, John. What did they think of the corrugated iron gumboots in Taihapi there, Alan? They didn't say much about it at all because they wouldn't have seen it until they went through to AVFV. Oh, yeah. That was a little surprise waiting for them. That's amazing. The jewel of Taihapi. And what did she sound like? What did Ade to Avie. That was a surprise waiting for them. That's amazing.

And what did she sound like? What did Adele sound like? She was a lovely lady. Very, very down to earth. And I realised afterwards when they told me who she was, I thought, oh, gosh. My daughter got annoyed with me. She lives in Australia.

She wondered, why didn't I get her signature? I thought I didn't know who she was. I was too busy getting her cash. Yeah, yeah. Her signature. Oh, that is so awesome. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. Yeah, and they obviously made it back and did the concert all right.

Did you ever see her wearing the headband? Have you ever seen a photo of her with the headband on? No, I haven't, no. Oh, we should look out for that. The headrest at the back of our place as part of our, there's nine of us involved in it and it was her

she did it, she got such a surprise when I told her, because she went to the concert. Oh, she went to the concert. Well, listen, Alan Thomas, who sold a headband and Taihape to Adele, this has been a wonderful story. Have any other famous people walked into your shop, Alan?

Not that I know of. You might have Justin Bieber in there or something like that. Mind you, you didn't know who Adele was, so yeah. Alan, you're awesome. Well, we could talk to you all day. Thank you so much for your time. Could we? She was a very nice, down-to-earth person,

and probably I realised afterwards she probably was pretty glad that she could walk around with people recognising her and not being followed by a tribe of people. That's what happens when you go to tie up here, mate. Yeah, that's so awesome. Well, you stay on hold because Ben wants to talk to you all day. Alan, thank you for your time. We really appreciate it.

No problem. See you later, Alan. Thank you. Bye. He was awesome. Alan, who had served Adele in a shop, how cool is that? Very cool. Now I tell you what's not cool Ben, stress. No, it's not. It's the opposite of cool. A lot of us stress, most of us stress, and Dr Libby, I'm getting

stressed out about interviewing her next, because she's going to phone through from Australia, the wonderful Dr Libby. She's appeared on our show multiple times, and I think it's mainly to check if I'm still alive. She's quite concerned about my health, but anyway, how to deal with stress and the main cause of everyone's stress, she has

the answer to next. Intelligent, thought-provoking, stimulating. Three terms that will never apply here. Tunnel and Pen, New Zealand's breakfast. We always love catching up with Dr. Libby. She's an Australian author, speaker, and biochemist as well. And she's got some great things to help us all manage some stress

that we're going to talk about right now. So let's bring her on in. Dr Libby, how's it going? Good to have you on. How are you? Good. Nice to talk to you. Now, I just need to bend Libby.

I've got an introduction song for Dr Libby today. I don't know about this, Libby, so I'm nervous. You probably are as well. Holy smokes. No, I'm just excited. You're excited for the song? Here we go. Here's the song.

Ready? Libby, Libby, Libby, can't you see? Sometimes your health just hypnotizes me. And your thoughts, Dr Libby? Oh, I'm looking forward to the extended mixed version of that. Sure, okay. So we've got the seal of approval to release Dr. Libby, Libby, Libby, can't you see?

Now, Dr. Libby, obviously a COVID world now and life in general, there's a bit more stress going on and some of us handle it better than others, but you've come up with a really cool way to try and help people out with their stress. Yeah, so I've just created a box of cards. It's called Condition

Your Calm, 90 cards to ease stress. And the idea is that you just pick out a card and it's a bite-sized piece of information. And the idea is that you can reframe stress and produce fewer stress hormones in the first place. Now, a wonderful press release that we got sent through from your team. They've basically got some points that we need to bring up. And I'm like, these are all so interesting. I don't know if we'll be able to get through them all but after 20 years of seeing patients apparently there's one thing that people are most commonly stressed about oh what is that yeah it's actually worrying about what other people think of us really yeah i don't know if it applies to you

boys oh listen you've just described the entire radio industry. Yeah, right. So that's a big cause of stress for many, many people. Yeah. So we don't even often realize that's what's happening. But we have traits that we want other people to see in us. I talk about this in one of the cards. So, for example, some people will say, I need other people to see that I'm kind or caring or thoughtful.

And when you're stressed, you want to consider, am I worrying someone seeing me in the opposite way to that? And it then changes the conversation that you then have with that person or you might have a little giggle at yourself, whatever it is. But it starts to help you see where your stress is really coming from. That is so interesting that you raise that. Now, being a narcissist, I'm always just worried about myself. That's my only thing, Libby. But I do notice, and if I can pull out a name of someone,

a broadcaster who has that exact attitude where he doesn't care what people think of him, and you're like, he is leading the most stress-free life, Paul Henry. Paul Henry. Yeah, there you go. You perceive that that's the case. I mean, we don't know him. He seems lovely to us, and you're right.

You look at him and go, he seems like he doesn't have a care in the world. He is what he is. I did some focus groups a while back with women of different age groups and interestingly in the 18 to 25 year old group, social media came out as one of their big stresses and people in older age groups don't understand

that. They'll say things that stress them out of things like running late, for example. But when you peel the layers back on that, we're all worrying about the same thing. So for the younger group, that's actually a way through which they might allow people to judge them, whereas for older people, they're only using social media to watch funny cat videos or something. Or burden their family with what they think is a funny email, yeah. Exactly.

And then when you think about running late, what makes that stressful for someone is they're worried about what the person who's going to be on the receiving end of the running late is going to think of them. So our stress is an extraordinary teacher for us if we allow it to be because it will show us where we're allowing others to potentially judge us. Well, it's really interesting. Dr. Libby with us. She's got Condition Your Calm cards.

They're out at the moment. Now, Dr. Libby, apparently we need to change the way we're approaching our to-do list. Now, I love a to-do list. Oh, jeez, he loves a to-do list. I'm always getting sent to-do lists from Ben. I love marking something off. The satisfaction of clearing something off a to-do list is almost as good as setting up the list. He even gave me a to-do list from now until the end of the year of stuff that we need to do.

I did, actually. I shared him in on a dog. He's like, like thanks mate uh but why are we doing this wrong or what am i doing wrong i'm going to have it a gift for someone who actually writes things onto the to-do list that you've already done so you can cross it off sometimes yes make a to-do list at number one yes done that yeah i think there are different kinds of people. Some people feel really solid and confident once they've got everything out of their head and they've meticulously worked through it,

whereas for others, they pull everything out of their head that needs attending to, and it can really help to schedule things. So rather than, you do your big brain dump, but then you start to put it into a day. Oh, yeah, I've got those appointments, so I can't change that, so everything else has got to sit in around it. So scheduling can help your brain to relax a little bit because you know you've got

it scheduled and it'll pop up in your diary a bit of i've done though i downloaded this headspace app and it's you know it's about mindfulness and meditation it's just stepping because a lot of it's about breathing and just focusing on your breathing and concentrating on you know your environment uh is there anything to be said, like, if you find yourself being stressed, just taking big, deep breaths? 100%. It's the length of the exhalation. When we really slow that down, that's what science has shown,

activates the very calm arm of our nervous system, which that reduces stress hormones very powerfully. So that's a great thing to do. Do you ever get stressed? Yes, but I use it to learn so as soon as it kicks in i'm like what's really going on here that's why i wanted to share this information because stress is that one of the most extraordinary teachers and i really want people to stop feeling like it's just oh i'm so stressed i'm so stressed and reciting that to themselves

and thinking that that's just how the world is now we need to actually look at what stress really is for us as an individual because it fosters really extraordinary growth and insight and alleviates then the challenges that can come for our health when we relentlessly have those stress hormones running around in our blood. And a lot of the time that you do stress, it doesn't change the outcome anyway. No, true. It doesn't.

No, it doesn't. Often we worry about things that never even happen, so it's really good to not worry about something until it's actually right in front of you and you need to deal with it because otherwise we can spend half our life worrying about things that never ever unfold. I'm very good at that. Very good at that.

Another one of his things, to-do lists and worrying. His two hobbies. Gone stars. May well not happen. Dr. Libby, love your work. Always great catching up with you, and you keep safe over there in Aussie. Thank you. Thanks for the love you share, you boys.

Take care. Dr. Libby Weaver there for you. Yeah, really, really interesting stuff on stress. Yeah, if you want to go visit her website too, drlibby.com, you can get those stress cards, all right? Welcome to Two Half-Assed Dads Do a Half-Assed Job. Official title, Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. It starts with a stranger. It is the hits, Jono and Ben New Zealand's Breakfast. It's Dancing with a Stranger.

It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 8.43. A lot of schools in Auckland back today. Primary school, intermediate kids, although some are in a very they're all running their own system at the moment, which you kind of understand. Well, the Hippo did a good job of going next Wednesday they can all go back. I'll leave it

to you guys. How many days? How many kids? Chris did some what do they call it in management? Delegate. You basically delegate it. One of my kids' schools, they've divided them by the houses of the school. So it's only half the school on these days. The other ones it's done by the year. They're all just kind of working their way out and stuff.

Some are dividing by hair colour, hobbies, interests. Many classes being taught on the field So I don't know what happens when the weather doesn't play ball But hey, Hippo's gone, you guys deal with it You deal with it This is out of my jurisdiction Do you get a call during the work day and go Hey, go pick up your kids because it's raining

Does that happen or not? Do you know the great thing about us introducing the Hippo Is Chris Hipkin's surname Marcus Lush has been using it on ZB as well Really? He's had the big leagues, baby. The hippo's getting out there. But there was something really nice on the news, actually

on 7th Sharp last night, that someone had put out something on social media saying because a lot of the teachers are going to be very busy, some of the teachers won't be there. They put out a lovely offer to do some sort of online Zooms, you know, for people to take up some classes, which is pretty cool, right? Oh yeah, you could offer your services. You know, for people to take up some classes, which is pretty cool, right? Oh, yeah, you could offer your services.

You know, people of, you know, doctors, lawyers, journalists, respected people. You know, not people like Ben and myself. I don't know. I couldn't. What would you teach people for 60 minutes? Well, that's funny you should talk about that because a couple of days ago I got to do a Zoom with one of the kids' classes. They were studying media studies. Oh, you've done this already, you've already donated your time.

And this is why we keep him on. His generous nature. So you've done this, so you taught a class. Well, I don't know if I taught a class, I just spoke about what I do for a job, what I have done for a job, and then you go to the always interesting question and answer section. At the end.

This is where you're like oh these are kids these are young kids what are they going to ask first question how much do you make oh my god which is a great question i mean any adult wants to ask that question what's your net worth whereas kids you know they ask that and you're like oh geez they don't have that filter of going this is an awkward question they just want to know that second question was that have i met charlie dimelio was a tiktok star i was like no and then another great there's a that second question was that have i met charlie d'amelio as a tiktok star i was like no and then another great that's a great second question though the third question was like um i won't say the actual event but this kid asked if i'd ever worked on this very big sporting event

that was here in new zealand not too long ago and i like i was like at that moment i should have said no but i had but i was like hey there's bunch of kids i want to look like i've done a lot of stuff well i mean because you wouldn't answer the first question how much money you make you've never met demelio so you're not you're zero from two here i was like yes yes i have i worked on that event i was there you know yeah i made a little story i was there it was great it was yeah a wonderful thing had you worked on the event no no i hadn't but i thought well this i need to impress these kids i want these kids walking away thinking i'm a legend and so at that moment i was like cool that's great i've answered that and then the kid kept talking he said i was like oh no he's still talking he said funny you should say that basically he said because my mum was the producer of that whole

event for that company that i was like oh and she doesn't remember You working there But hold on Who was this kid? Is it like Piers Morgan? I know Or has he come in With an agenda?

He's obviously done The background research With mum He's like Was this schmuck Working on your production mum? She's like no He's like great

I'll use that as a little bait And I fell for it Straight away I was like Ah these kids Temploid gutter journalism They're not going to know Any different Yeah of course I worked straight away. I was like, ah, these kids. Temploid gutter journalism. They're not going to know any different.

Yeah, of course I worked on the event. I was there. New Zealand won. It was great. I was there. But no, but I wasn't there. And so what did you do when he called you? Oh, sorry, connection's breaking up.

Can't hear you. Mute. Just panic and cry. Tell them how much money I made. Just a smoke screener. They were even less impressed. much money I made. Just a smoke screener. No, even less impressed. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah.

Yeah, nah. The whole movie. Yeah, nah. She'll be right and at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits.

The Killers coming to New Zealand next year in November and every time you hear a Killers song on our show, just text 4487. You can win a double pass. And there was one

when you were, I love that. It's one of my favourite Killers songs. I do like the story. They're obviously talking about a young girl who dreamed of dating someone when she was older. And clearly she had in her mind that she was going to date Jesus because they're like, you know, this guy you've met,

he doesn't look a thing like Jesus. But clearly, I don't know, did you think of dating Jesus when you were in your young years? Bieber, obviously. Yeah, no, not Jesus, but clearly... I don't know, did you think of dating Jesus when you were in your young years? Bieber, obviously. Yeah, no, not Jesus, no. I mean, Jesus was hot, don't get me wrong. Good looking guy. Yeah, I'd date Jesus.

He's quite unobtainable, isn't he? Good beard. If you're sitting in the bar with, I want the guy to look like Jesus, well, you need to scale it back a few notches. But we'll get Midi Arma on from Mount Monganui. How are you? Good, thank you. Mate, mate, guess what?

Yay. You're going to the killers, Miriam. Awesome. I don't even know when they're coming. November next year. You sounded vague in your response. Yeah, I am a bit vague. You've got plenty of time to plan.

They're coming November next year. They're going to be in Auckland and Christchurch. So, yeah, are you free November next year? If you are, you've got a double pass. Wonderful. Thank you so much. That's right. Good on you, Miriam.

If you were booked out in November next year, I would have been very surprised. But you go and have a wonderful Wednesday, all right? Hey, thanks, guys. Tickets on sale right now for the Killers. If you want to go check them out, it's going to be pretty awesome. A lot of great gigs coming next year too. Yeah, too many gigs. I've mentioned it before being really worried about some artist missing out,

aren't you? I am. Someone's going to suffer. Ticket sales are going to lapse for one of these artists and I'm concerned. I don't know why I'm staying awake at night worrying about it. I don't think any of these people should be worried and there's a lot of New Zealanders to go around and a lot of people are loving it. So have yourself a great day.