Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben lost his Invisalign where?

Episode Date: May 2, 2022

Within 30 seconds of taking the stage, Jono manages to give an auditorium full of people 'the ick!'We chat to kiwi country singer/songwriter Tami Neilson about collaborating with country music icon, Willie Nelson!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome. It's the podcast today and now there's a new computer program, Ben boys. And I don't have instant access to the date and day. Usually I just turn my eyes slightly to the right, about 45 degrees to the right, the date and the day would be on there. But now I feel like I'm going into this intro naked. You love telling the date. Bell Crawford. iPhone.

Monday the 2nd of May. There we go. May! I know. Jesus! It's pretty much the third of the year is gone. Nothing gives me more anxiety than that, to be honest. You think back, we started work, and what we're trying to achieve,

and I haven't achieved half the things I wanted, and only a third of it's gone. You know? What do you want to achieve? Lots of stuff outside, you know, with TV, movies, all this sort of stuff you want to achieve, and you're like, oh, okay, I'm no better off than I was when we started three months ago in my life.

In January, yeah, you're right. You're right, though. We can all use the collective excuse, COVID. It's made it really hard, hasn't it? Oh, yeah, I had COVID. There you go. Yeah. No, COVID has felt like the world has it really hard, hasn't it? Oh yeah, I had COVID. There you go. Yeah. No, COVID

has felt like the world has been on pause. Yeah. Hasn't it? It is hard to get ahead at the moment. A lot of young people just fleeting off overseas now, escaping the brain drain, mate. You guys not off on your way soon, are you? Oh, that time's passed. Next time it'll be a cruise ship, mate.

You can see why people are doing it, you know? Well, imagine if you're sitting, you know, in that 20 to 25-year-old age bracket, locked in New Zealand for two years. Those are your prime travelling years. That's when you go and try stuff, mate. And you've only got the visa until you're 30 in London for two years,

so you need to do it before the end of your 20s. Oh, OK. Unless you've got, like, a passport or you can get a visa or something. Yeah, which is, I know, in this industry anyway, a lot of jobs coming up and then no one's applying for them. No one's applying for them. All the young people are gone, mate.

They're gone. I don't blame them. I don't blame them. I'd escape too, but I've got a family. I'm loyal to them. Yeah. A very full-on show, but a fun show today. A Hundy Mundy, where every caller,

thanks to Employment Hero, that got on the air won $100. Harry Styles tickets, we had Cash in Car was back. It was a very busy show. I'm not going to lie, it was too much. Just call us spaders. We tried to cram too much into three hours of radio. It was, we went from a cash giveaway to another cash giveaway

to a cash in a car giveaway. Oh, plus five words, there's another cash giveaway. It was too much going on. And then we came back with more cash to give away. Yeah. Like it was the biggest bribery radio show you'll ever listen to. Yeah.

But no, it was a lot of fun though. A lot of fun. And also, Ben Boyce, you discovered something about your Himalayan rock salt. That's it. Firstly, that I had Himalayan rock salt. I actually paid attention to the label. But what I found out about it...

Would you have known it was from the Himalayas? No. No. I kind of had seen it there, and I was like, oh, yeah. It's probably from some cave in Mount Wellington. Well, yeah, when you hear this on the podcast, I'm surprised by the result of what was on the back of it. Have a listen on the podcast.

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employment hero yeah uh so you head to the hits breakfast on instagram and comment so you can step aside alan degeneres because we are the degeneres ones this morning starting from seven o'clock everyone wins a hundred dollars ben you've come to work this morning a little concerned. Something changed in you overnight? Yeah, I had the thing that happens to many people from time to time. Not common. You know, you go to sleep, you know, every night pretty much, and you wake up and not too many incidents happen. But last night I woke up in the middle of the night and I'd slept on my arm.

And you know when you wake up and you get pins and needles in your arm? Oh, it's dead. It feels like someone else's limb is attached to your body yeah and I had to sort of go up and I went to go to the bathroom and you're sort of walking down the hallway with an arm sort of like not functioning yeah it doesn't feel like your own and you try not to wake yourself up too much because you've got to go back to sleep at the same time you're trying to bring the circulation back to your arm it's so weird you have to use your other arm to hold that arm up and try and get some blood shaking,

get some blood flow happening. It reminded me of that movie Weekend at Bernie's, that old from years ago, where the person's dead and they're trying to move along. You know, it's like, it's not even your arm, it's a dead arm. No matter how many times you do it throughout your sleeping career,

it's still just as frightening to wake up with a lifeless limb. Yeah. Bell Crawford, who just shared during that song, you put your back out sleeping. Yeah. That's when you know you're getting old. Yeah, I know, right?

And I'm like way younger than you guys. Well, actually. No, but it was when I started working with you guys. I didn't say anything because I didn't want, I don't know, I just didn't tell you. You didn't want us to judge you for putting your back out while sleeping? It wasn't that. Honestly, I had to go to physio, like multiple you. You didn't want us to judge you for putting your back out while sleeping? It wasn't that.

Honestly, I had to go to physio, multiple appointments. I had to get acupuncture. It was to do with my shoulder. I slept funny and tweaked something in my neck and shoulder, and it was so sore. I could barely, sitting here, I could do everything okay, but I couldn't move my head. It's remarkable injuring yourself just sleeping, lying down. Yeah, because sleeping is the most peaceful, sort of relaxing thing you're meant to be able to do.

And you're right, you've injured yourself. You can't claim ACC for sleeping, let me tell you. Okay, not. No. Well, because ACC are like, what were you doing? I was sleeping. Also nothing. That's so an accident.

No, it's not. It's not covered. Really? Yeah, just the heads up. Well, I'm with ACC on this one. How did you and yourself? I was sleeping. Jono and Ben.

Scrolling through your feed. Let's get some news in there. Scrolling through your feed. Chuck some topicality in the frying pan, Ben boy. Sizzle it up and feed it to me for breakfast, baby. Oh, it's a huge day here in New Zealand. Many people, not just kids returning to school for Term 2, but many people returning to the offices for the first time

since the Orange Light setting as well. That would have been on school holidays, and there's a big push in Auckland City particularly to get, you know, because people are coming back today, so many people, they reckon it's almost getting back to normal, which is great. Yeah, that's fantastic. Now I'm just, as you're saying that,

I've parked outside and haven't paid for parking. Oh, I don't know, mate. Is it fatal? Scott, those days are gone, John O'Brien. The free parking days. The car that you hate that drives around and the person doesn't even have to get out, that'll be circulating today.

The ticketing tank, have you seen that, Bill Crawford? They don't even get out of the car. No, they've got cameras on top of the roof and this guy just, they're not even out there so we can abuse them. You can't even pay for parking at this time anyway. What are we supposed to do? Yeah, well, they're out there so we can abuse them. Well you can't even pay for parking at this time anyway. What are we supposed to do? Yeah well they're out there ticketing.

Doesn't even have to step out of the vehicle with their fun hats. You know those big cricket hats they wear. It's a car that has cameras on it and they just drive past and then they're here. So that'll be you just after 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock this morning. Fatal mistake. That's a $40 banger too when you don't pay. Yeah. As well as that there's a lot of travellers coming back into New Zealand as of midnight tonight.

Vaccinated visitors from visa waiver countries can finally enter New Zealand quarantine free for the first time in two years. Oh, awesome. That's kind of cool, actually. Feels great, doesn't it? It does. Good to be back to normal. No one wearing masks. We're just out there doing it.

Living life. It's not quite like that, but it's along the way, so that's awesome. And in New South Wales government ministers have been reportedly told to avoid using the word mate in the workplace as part of a new workplace behaviour advice. As well as not using mate, they've been also banned from

drinking alcohol in the office, which seems like a bit of a no-brainer. And not to yell at staff, but also on this new thing that they've gone through. The alcohol and yelling, why were they doing that anyway? But yeah, the word mate is apparently not to be used to other people. Do you like being called mate, Bill? It depends.

I don't mind you guys calling me mate, because it's nice. It's not condescending, you know? Yeah, it is a fine line between... Depends who does it, I think. You never want to call your partner, mate, wife, girlfriend. Yeah, that always. Sometimes it sucks out. Jono uses legend, and I always find that so condescending when he calls her.

Thanks, legend. No, but from Jono, it's not. No, but you haven't done anything. Like, I'll be like, oh, here's the paper. And he'll go, oh, thanks, legend. I am true. Like, if I was Sir Edmund Hillary and I'd just come back from Mount Everest, that would be, you know,

you've got on your legend. Well, what quantifies a legend? Doing something legendary. Handing you the newspaper is not legendary. It's legendary. It's legendary. Well, to anyone compared to me is a legend. So I'll put it out there.

I always do it in an email as well. G'day, legends. On a group email. That's a good pep in your step, isn't it? Well, apparently, or maybe not according to the New South Wales government, you wouldn't be able to do that. I imagine legend is along the same lines as mate.

You don't like the other one as champ, do you? Is it champ? Champ, yeah. No, champ sounds, that's the most common. Nah, that one and bud, or like buddy. G'day, champ.

Nah, don't like that one. That is a skoic. Anything that puts Ben on a pedestal Legend or a champion Nope It's Justin Timberlake Rock your body It is the hits

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and give away $100. Yeah, so it's a big morning, exciting morning. I was making myself a lovely bagel with some avocado this morning. Oh, look at you treating yourself. I'm treating myself this morning sitting there in the kitchen bleakly at four o'clock by myself. Do you toast the bagel

or you just go cold bagel? Toast bagel. Toast the bagel. I noticed the bagel it really is it's like shoving me into a pair of hot pants isn't it?

When you put it in a toaster you really have to work the bagel in there. Well you do cut it I guess but yeah. Oh you meant to cut it the whole thing. Cut it in half.

But something I noticed this morning is I went to put some salt and pepper on the bagel, you know, treat myself. And a little bit of cardiovascular disease. I noticed something like I hadn't used before, but we had some Himalayan rock salt. And I was like, ooh, this sounds fancy. Salt from the Himalayas. Yeah.

And so I started at four o'clock this morning reading the back of the salt thing. I was like, whoa, Himalayan rock salt. I mean, firstly, how did they get this to New Zealand? Because it says on the back, it's salt found deep within the Himalayan mountains in Pakistan. So I was like, wow. This is salt of the highest caliber. So I was like, wow, incredible.

They've got it to New Zealand. They've got it to New Zealand. And then they had on the back, 250 million year old salt. 250 million years. It's like when they've got the uh the water you know glacier water from millions of 1.5 million years old and then it's got an expiry date that's the thing i was like it's just the salt's 250 million years old and then i looked on the other side it says expires october 2024 and i was like well how lucky are we that we've got it just in that 250 million

dollars just on its final stretch the final bit of the 250 million years like we've got it just in that $250 million... Just on its final stretch. Just the final bit of the 250 million years. Like, if we got it 250 million years ago, we'd have had 250 million years to use it. But we've just got it just before the end, two years out from when it's due to expire. And that's why you're hashtag blessed, mate. But I was thinking exactly the same as you.

I was like, how do they know the salt that's been around in the Himalayas for 250 million years... And they've said it themselves. It's got to expire in less than two years' time. Yeah, no. May 26, 2022, all gone. It's done. It's done.

Do you push out expiry dates, Belle? Depends what it is. Probably salt would be all right, wouldn't it? Oh, you'd think so. Milk, not so much. Or meat or products like that. No way. Yeah, the boomer generation love just love

almost ignoring it treating it with disdain the expiry date don't they it's not going to happen my mum we've talked about many times before just yeah

just running stuff I look at everything and I'm like oh my god that's from four years ago she goes I'll be fine so many preservatives

and additives in it it'll be fine yeah I mean my mum's got mayonnaise from 1992 still in the fridge and they've got that you you know, garlic salt. They've got garlic salt that is,

last time I was in Christchurch, it was so old it's just a giant clump. You know, you're trying to shake it out, but it's just one big ball of morphed together salt. 250 million years old, though. Yeah. Mum said that when she was flatting, that they, or the couple they were flatting with back in the day

would have a chicken. And they'd leave it in. They'd cook it on a Sunday night, and then they'd leave it in the pantry. And then they'd just sort of go make their lunches with the pantry chicken throughout the way. Pantry. Room temperature chicken. Even for mum. For a week. Maybe a week of pantry chicken.

So until Friday they were still eating this. Until the chicken was gone. They just keep going back to it. Did they have a fridge? I think so. And they opted for a pantry. A pantry chicken. It was a choice.

Very unconventional. He's got an idea that I want to try on the radio right now. And hey, let's be transparent. It may not work. Yeah, right. Well, you never know what's going to work and what's not going to work when you

open these microphones up do you ben but it's based around the fact that someone the other day said to me oh you and jono you sound so alike sometimes i can't tell the difference now i wouldn't have thought necessarily we had identical sounding voices but maybe both are nasally and annoying as each other yeah well i know we do both politely answer to each other's names. If anyone's like, hey, Ben, I'm like, yep, that's me. That's me, and I'm doing some terrible stuff right now. That's right. You just remember this is Ben Boyce currently shoplifting here from the Pick and Mix.

But you want to play a game, which I don't know if it's going to work, so we're pulling this out of the, we call it the Rubbish Ben. Yeah. And these are ideas that, you know, Ben's chucking a lot of stuff out. Sometimes they're rubbish. Yeah. So my idea is Bell Crawford's in with us. So Bell, you know, your name being Bell.

I've got here right now. I've got a bell. Let's see what you've done here. That's the other thing with Ben's ideas. A lot of them rich pun based ideas. Yeah, great puns. So what I think we should do to test whether john i and myself sounded like is i'll make a phone call yeah we'll choose someone to make a phone call to someone we

know and then bell when you hit the bell this bell's a bit broken oh yeah okay i knew you were gonna say that how do i hit it you put it on the desk yeah sorry i don't mean to be in pain i'm just no you're not being a pain i want to ding it well for you yeah it's based around a bell and the bell's not even working i did say it might not work it's okay no i've a partner. I want to ding it well for you. Yeah, it's based around a bell, and the bell's not even working. I did say it might not work. It's okay. No, I've got it. I just want to make sure I've got my techniques.

Well, when you said it might not work, I thought the concept, not the actual bell. I thought that would be the safe pair of hands. So even the bell doesn't want to play this game. Okay, so I'm going to make a call. I'll start the conversation. When Bell tries to ding the malfunctioning bell, then you pick up the conversation

and carry on, and then we'll see if we can keep swapping back and forward until the person notices. Okay, well let's go through to our CEO, Michael Boggs. Boggsie's not up for prank calls. Well, who are you thinking? What level of person are you thinking? I'll go a boss.

There to go a boss. You can only go a boss, but let's not go CEO level. Okay, dial it back. Dial it back. No answer. Who are we going through to? Who's this? Emily.

Oh, Emily, the boss. Okay, that hits. Okay. Hello, Emily speaking. Oh, hey, Emma. How you doing? It's Ben here. Oh, hi. Hey, sorry. You got two seconds? Yes, I'm just parking. Oh, hey, Emma. How you doing? It's Ben here. Oh, hi.

Hey, sorry. You got two seconds? Yes, I'm just parking. Oh, that's all right. I just wanted to have a quick chat to you about my leave. Yes. I want to take... Go ahead.

Yeah, I want to leave. You want to leave, leave? No, no, not leave. I want to go on leave. I want to go on leave for a couple of weeks in July. Is that going to be, leave? No, no, not leave. I want to go on leave. I want to go on leave for a couple of weeks in July. Is that going to be right? Yeah. Oh, good.

Is that the school holidays? Yeah. I was just having to enter rehab. Hi, Jono. It didn't work. I said it might not work. You pushed it too far. I went too far, sorry.

Oh, you're putting this on me. You're putting it on me. Oh, Emily. She's busy. She's trying to park the car. It's beeping. I know. It's going to, like, beep all.

On to the next one. We'll try someone else. All right, Emily. But if you need any help with rehab, let me know. Thanks, Emily. Spy if you need any help with rehab, let me know. Thanks, Emily. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz.

Did I say 8.47? Sorry, 6.47. 6.47. That's right. I was trying to wrap up the show, guys. You're fine if you're worried about getting

back to work, back to school, things like that. It's 6.47, guys. Sometimes we just like to unnecessarily panic people. It's the joy. 8.47.

Yeah. 9.32. I'm so late. I'm sorry, guys. I'm just like to unnecessarily panic people. It's the joy. 9.47! Yeah, 9.32! I'm so late! I'm sorry guys, I'm sorry. Alright, if any one of the Kardashians has an ingrown toenail you're going to hear about it in this segment. Spy, Belle Crawford, what's happening? Well, Johnny Depp, the continuing trial this week with Amber Heard

will happen. She's set to testify as well and this was some of Johnny talking about losing his role of Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean and being dropped from the franchise. Captain Jack Sparrow was a character that I had built from the ground up

having added much of myself, much of my own rewriting of the dialogue and jokes and whatever they are I didn't quite understand how after that long relationship and quite a successful relationship, certainly for Disney, that suddenly I was guilty until proven innocent. Why does he sound British now?

He's got a different accent from what he had this time last week. He always sounds a bit British to me. And what has that got to do with the court case? That was almost like an Oprah interview, wasn't it? I guess it's to do with the whole defamation thing. So obviously he lost the character because of what has happened. Disney were like, we're not going to touch you because of the reputation. And now he's trying to restore his reputation, I guess.

So that's got a lot to do. It's everything to do with the court case, John. Okay, sorry. He lost all those roles. He lost millions of dollars because he got ax restore his reputation, I guess. So that's got a lot to do. It's everything to do with the court case, John. Okay, sorry. He lost all those roles. He lost millions of dollars because he got axed for movies, I guess. Not saying he's innocent or anything. I'm just saying that's what.

So if he won this court case, would Disney take him back? He doesn't want to go back to them. They asked him. If they offered you hundreds of millions of dollars, he said he won't go back. Well, I suppose you would be like, if you were innocent and then they'd cut you,

you'd be like, well, thanks, guys. Mickey Mouse, mate, he's ruthless. Dump you in an instant. And Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson made their red carpet debut over the weekend at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Kim looks stunning in her sparkling silver dress. And it also looks like Pete has a tattoo thought to be dedicated to Kim's kids. Too soon? He's got tattoos, what, for her?

They aren't his children. No. No. I love this guy. He treats his body like a whiteboard brainstorming session. He does. Yeah, so he's got KNSCP on his neck, which is thought to stand for Kim, North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm.

On his neck? Yeah, on his neck. He's got a neck? I'm not one to judge tattoo choices because I've got a few and lots of radio ones that everyone goes, oh, why'd you get that? But wasn't he getting rid of his tattoos for movie roles and now he's putting more on? Yeah, and he's got her name branded on him. Very confused by what he's doing.

Branded like cattle. I noticed he wore a pair of vans to the White House as well Dirty dogs or something Vans and dirty dogs Petrol station dirty dogs Looked like a dealer from Hamilton And you may have also heard that James Corden's stepping down from his late, late show Which he's done for the last seven years

That's gone a lot quicker than I thought I thought he'd only been doing it for three or four years But, you know, you watch a lot of carpool karaoke. Yeah. That's a good tenure though, isn't it? I think he's stepping down. You were saying his family doesn't even live in America. So he's in America, his family's in the UK, so they're apart a lot and he just wants to be close to

his family, which is fair enough. Done an amazing job though, as you say. Carpool karaoke, one of the biggest segments that anyone does on any of those late shows. Yeah, but many of them, Letterman went on for like 92 years, didn't he? Until he hated the job for the last 45 years. I think so. I thought that's what you do in those roles.

You just keep doing it until you're old, bitter and twisted. You can get more Spy at thehits.co.nz. That's what I plan to do with this show. It's going to get very negative in the last 35 years. The Hits. She was born in Canada, but now calls New Zealand home. We love her, Tammy Nelson, country singer, and she's just recorded, how's this, how cool is this, a single with

Willie Nelson, the legendary Willie Nelson. And she joins us on the phone right now. Good morning, Tammy. Good morning, how are you? We're doing very well. Or should we say howdy? Yeah. You definitely we say howdy? You definitely should say howdy y'all You've got a new song, it's called Beyond the Stars And you duet with country music legend, none other than Willie Nelson

I mean that's incredible No big deal eh? No big deal Can you get any bigger than Willie Nelson? No I mean Dolly and Willie, they're the king and the queen right? They would be two of your heroes. I imagine you're working probably with someone in recording. You're in the same room with probably an icon, someone you've looked up to for so many years. What's that like?

Well, we actually recorded separately over lockdown, so it was definitely my silver lining to lockdown. But then I got to go and perform it live with him last month at his ranch in Texas. It was absolutely overwhelming. I held it together through the first verse and the chorus. And then he started singing and I just started weeping. It was just so overwhelming to have him on stage singing with me. And yeah, it was just incredible well because it's a really uh amazing story that you were meant to be over there in 2020 obviously

performing in the states and because of covid you couldn't go but you did some live streams and then he ended up watching willie nelson his wife ended up watching your live streams yes well yeah i was supposed to play the festival on his ranch um and of course yeah it, it all fell apart. And so they moved the festival online. And normally when you play a festival, you know, there's like five or six stages and things going on. So if I'd actually gone and played, you know, the chances of them actually seeing me would have been slim to none. And so because it was moved online, they watched the whole festival and saw me. And I got this big influx of new fans on social media and one of them was this woman named Annie.

And I thought she was really cool and we kind of, you know, talked back and forth for about three months before I realized that she was Willie Nelson's wife. Oh, really? Three months. This Annie's a sweet lady. I'm just like, oh, she's so cool. And, you know, and it was my brother who discovered it

and texted me and went do you realise who he is oh we've been swapping all sorts recipes, all sorts of ideas there's always a lot of talk about Willie Nelson's consumption of the devil's lettuce did Willie

was he shoving edible gummies down your mouth I read he's not smoking it anymore as such, but he's still a lover of marijuana. Of course, yeah. And he has his own company, Willie's Remedy, which is his own strain and does teas and coffees and all sorts. So, yeah, I think that definitely lends to the fact that he is a very lovely, gentle, kind soul,

and he's just very chill. Reading online about you, obviously you grew up in Canada with a love of country music. Now, I read something. Did you perform for Johnny Cash in your pajamas? Is that true, or is that just something that was changed into an urban legend? Yeah, no, I mean, not for him.

We did. That sounds really dodgy. It does, actually. You should play for me, but make sure you're wearing your pajamas. You're like, I'm always well-dressed. What am I? No, I mean, it is true that I had to open his show at a festival with my pajamas on because I was in my family band at the time, my mom and my dad and my two brothers.

And we'd done a show before. We were on tour. And we'd always change after, you know, changing to our comfy clothes to kind of drive through the night to the next show. So I had on my pajamas, and our tour bus caught fire. And so we pulled over to the side of the road, everything in our tour bus was ruined. But thankfully, all our instruments were safe, because they're stored underneath the vehicle and so yeah we we rocked up to the festival in what we were wearing the clothes on our back they gave us all matching t-shirts and i wore my pajama pants and a festival t-shirt to open for

i imagine the audience were like okay well, well, this is an unusual shtick from the family here. Kaz, a little too Kaz for someone who dresses. You would have looked like fans because you've gone and bought all the festival t-shirts. They love this festival. There's this family. Terry Nelson, it's always great to catch up with you. A question I did want to know from you, because obviously you love country music, and country music is not as big in New Zealand as it is across in Canada and America do you find it's an advantage or disadvantage doing it from

here in New Zealand yeah I mean when I first landed it was pretty daunting to find that there isn't a lot of mainstream platforms for country music when when you kind of look at these supposed disadvantages you've got to flip it and and look at it positively and yeah i was like well i'll be unique and i'll stand out and i've definitely because of that have accomplished so much more being here yeah no i mean hey and we've given you gore you can have your fun and gore with your country music i'm sure that will willie will fly over for gore yes uh tell me else and beyond the stars is the new single from the upcoming album Kingmaker lovely to catch up with you, thank you for sharing that amazing story with us Thanks so much

Talked about earlier, it's a big week at the moment schools are back for the start of Term 2 many businesses are back after the orange light setting as well so it's good to see things happening a bit more normal And to celebrate this momentous day, we are giving away $100 to every caller that makes it on our show. This is thanks to Employment Hero. $100.

Imagine what you could spend with that. You could buy maybe one, even two courgettes. Yeah, well, true at the moment. What was it, avocado? I know, it was garlic last week. It's very expensive, right? Yeah, half a litre of petrol. You know, this is what we can give you today.

So what we wanted to do, thanks to Employment Hero, is get you to call us 0800 THE HITS. And you have five seconds. Five seconds? Five seconds to tell us what you're going to do with this $100. That's too short. Mate, I'm from the TikTok generation. You've lost me after three.

I don't know if you're from the TikTok generation, to be honest. I checked 1981. I'm still a millennial, bro. I'm still just scraping. The oldest, most weathered-looking, beaten-up old millennial you'll ever see. But I'm in there.

Okay, okay. So you're from the TikToks. You want what? So someone calls up, oh, $800, the hits, and then what? They've got five seconds to say what they're going to do with the money.

Yeah, for example, hey, Ben, what are you going to do with the money. Yeah, for example, hey Ben, what are you going to do with the money? Vote for my favourite contestants 100 times on Dancing with the Stars. Well done,

you got $100. Oh, you're going to get there? So it's an unnecessary panic we are creating here. Book a holiday. What's that, sorry? You can just go book a holiday.

Book a holiday, fixed bill. Bill Crawford, what are you going to do with the money? Book a holiday. Yeah, great. We just had that

from the last caller, sorry, we're not giving that to you. So 0800 the hits, that's how it's going to work. You asked me. Go. Oh, Jono Pryor. Hello, good morning.

You've got five seconds. What are you going to do with $100? Give it to charity. Oh, that's nice. Which charity? Children's stuff. Anything to do with kids. So that's what you can do.

You just call us right now, and we'll give you $100. That's it. That's thanks to Employment Hero. It's as easy as it gets. Yeah, Employment Hero, the smarter way to manage people, payroll and productivity. Can we spend it? What is this? 1,762 hours a week

at work every year. 1,662 hours at work a year. Does that count for us? We're only here for three hours. Maybe not. No. It's got a little asterisk that says Jono and Ben, but it does say you're part of the TikTok generation, so that's good.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. To make Monday better, if you're heading back to taking the kids to school, heading back to work today, we've got a hundy Monday. Every caller that gets on the phone on 0800THEHITS, thanks to Employment Hero, wins $100 in Jono unnecessary pressure

based on the hits listeners right now. Yeah, five seconds to tell us what you're going to do with the cash. Okay, this is panic cash. We're going to kick it off with James in Rotorua. Welcome to the show. We're going to go to Emily first. We'll go Emily first if you want there, Bill. We've got a new phone system. We're all trying to figure it out. And everyone said go to Emily

first and then you and James. I like to mix things up. Emily, you've got five seconds. What are you going to do with $100? Pay a relief milker so I can have a sleep in. Oh, pay a relief milker. So people come in and they can help out milking. Can they just come off the bench? Yeah, pretty much.

They've got to have experience and they cost quite a bit. Yeah, right, and $100, that'll do it. How many things will that milk for $100? Well, I'm actually only milking 94 cows now, so it's nice and easy for them. $100, that'll do it. How many things will that milk for $100? Well, I'm actually only milking 94 cows now, so it's nice and easy for them. $100, 94 cows. That's what Emily's going to do with it, and you're going to sleep in for one morning.

Absolutely. All right, Emily, you've got $100. Thanks to Employment Hero and Joy. Awesome. Thanks, guys. I've been trying to milk Ben. Do you know how to milk? You've been milking your career for so many years. Vet, you're on.

Welcome from Kaipoi. Morena, five seconds. What are you going to do? I'm just trying to stop laughing. Sorry, Yvette, you're on the radio, mate. You're listening to Gary McCormick, are you? Yes. I will fill my car up or I'll get a facial.

I'm not sure what. Fill my car up. Two ends of the speech from there. Get a facial or fill your car up. I know. You can get a facial while filling your car up as well. Okay, Yvette, we're going to give you a facial, mate. $100 all yours thanks to Employment Hero.

Awesome. Thank you so much. You're going to have a blemish-free, blackhead-free face, okay? This is fun. This is fun. This is a great way to start the week. Should we try and take a couple more? Yeah, we'll get James on, shall we? From Rotorua. Morena, James.

Morena, lads. I'll be taking my wife out for dinner for our five-year wedding anniversary. Melting hearts. I know. Just you heard New Zealand collectively go, oh, James. Where are you going to go? No Patel and Rotorua, they do

a good buffet there. They'll get our fuku full of oysters, I'd say. Geez, I love a buffet. Love a buffet. You end up with the world's most obscure foods on one plate, don't you? Combinations of food that don't generally go together, but you put them together and you love them, and you'll love that, James. Well done,

James. And make it a mountain, too. The New Zealand buffet community, we love turning our plate into a mountain of food. Got to carefully place each wonton. It's like you can go back, but it's like, no, no, no, no, one trip, I'm going to do this. So by the end of it, it's like a game of Jenga, isn't it? Hey, good on you, James. Happy anniversary, too. Happy five years, mate.

Thank you, boys. Have a good day. What a start to the week. Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono, now I've had a bit of a checkered history on the show, being my name besmirched about present giving. Yeah.

Labelled a tight ass, I think. And particularly also a present that was part of a group of presents, a fry pan that was a nice fry pan, and you were like, I gave that to my wife. And since then, you've dined out on more meals than we've had with this fry pan, to be honest. Now, Belle Crawford, you're woke. Take it as a compliment.

Yeah, take it as a compliment. The fry pan gifting to the wife. No. No, but this was, yeah, anyway, I've learned my lesson, but this was something. He backed it up with an apron. No. Absolutely not.

It was one of a few presents, including Jewel. But anyway, there was something that she had said that she'd wanted, but I've learned my lesson. I wouldn't do it again. But then Rachel Jackson-Lees, who reads the news for us in the morning. Good morning. We were talking on Friday after work about how you used to work with my wife, Amanda. I actually never met her.

However, she was very well known from a particular day in the office where something very extravagant turned up so we all worked in an open plan environment i was in the newsroom i think she was in sales or promotions or something which was just across the way so everybody can see everybody else and on this one day you know when you're in the office and like a bunch of flowers turns up for someone and everyone's curious? Secretly low-key wanting it to be for them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like, what has that person got that from?

Who's it from? This was no bunch of flowers. This was, I think you'd call them cake pops, which are like lollipops, but they've got little cakes on the end of them. And you've got to remember this was more than 10 years ago. So this was very before these were on trend. This was new, new to the market. Yeah, this was very cool and very different. No one had seen it.

There might have been some flowers stuck in there as well. Whatever this was took up her entire desk. Wow. And reception brought it up, and everybody, like everybody just gasped, like, what is this on this girl's desk? And the chatter goes around. Talk of the town. What's the street talk? What's the street talk?

Well, it was just so beautiful. No one had seen it before. It was like, who is she and why has she got this? She must be amazing. Finally, the word gets around, oh, her boyfriend is Ben Boyce from the TV. Oh, Ben Boyce from the TV. My good name that's been besmirched on the show. It's doing great things.

Turned up with a... Yeah, right. And so, can I be honest, Rachel? Sure. This doesn't sound like anything Ben would do. What do you mean? It sounds like the opposite of something Ben would do. What?

What? You would never send your wife a present. Oh, look, everyone's talking about Ben Boyce has sent these things. This is great. And we've all remembered it 10 years later. 10 years later. People still talk about it. Yeah, everyone's talking about Ben Boyce has said these things. This is great. And we've all remembered it 10 years later. People still talk about it. Everyone's talking about it. Rachel's still talking about it on Friday. So there you go, John. I just

wanted to say that my gift giving is actually on point. Okay, well I'm going to get Amanda on the phone and just see who this gift was from. This is Ben's wife. There's no need to get Amanda on the phone. Have they been talking about this for 10 years? For 10 years? No, there's no need to get Amanda on the phone. Let's just say. Have they been talking about this for 10 years? For 10 years.

No, there's no need to call. So I'm going to call her on my phone. Okay. Just to clarify this. Because if it is you, you need to take the credit. I've taken the credit. Hello. Hello.

How are you? Now I'm wondering, there's something going on between you and Jono. Quite breathy. It was a very suspect answering. Amanda, cast your mind back 10 years ago. You're working in the office. Hi, Jono. Hi, mate.

Hey, how are you? Hi, good. Yeah, I'm in the office. Rachel Jackson-Lee is the newsreader, still talking about it now. A wonderful gift that turned up. Just what was it, Rachel? I think you'd describe it as a bunch of cake pops, like little cakes on sticks with flowers.

It took up your whole... Wonderful gift from your husband, Ben. It was amazing. Yeah. It was like one of the most amazing gifts. Who sent them to you? My brother did from America. From America. From America!

Okay, okay. Well, yeah. But who got the credit for it? Me, all right? Ben's still taking the credit for it to this day. Oh, you little... Okay, hang up on her. Hang up on her.

You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. It is Harry Styles is coming back to New Zealand, of course, and he's going to be here March next year. And, Jono, you're outside with a week game. We're going to play Watermelon Sugar High. What's going on? Well, we are outside the building, Ben Boyce, where the forecast is not raining cats and dogs.

It's a downpour of watermelons. We have Joel, the intern, harnessed up on top of the roof, and we're going to drop a watermelon as chosen by a listener. He's holding two watermelons. One of them contains tickets to double pass to Harry Styles, and the other just contains raw watermelon. Now, producer Bea Humphrey said, listen, I haven't done a health and safety on this.

Be careful that no one's walking underneath. And I've just done the health and safety check. Ben, watermelon's very healthy. And I've got four row cones, so it couldn't be safer. All right. I still feel nervous. But anyway, Deb is joining us this morning. Good morning, Deb.

Hey, good morning. Now, Debs is joining us this morning. Good morning, Deb. Hi, good morning. Now, you have a big decision this morning. Watermelon A or watermelon B? Only one has the double pass. The other has delicious watermelon. What are you going to choose? A, thanks. A, all right.

All right, Joel. She's chosen watermelon A. Drop it down. 40 metres in there. Here it comes. Oh, God. It's full god It's Boo It's a melon

Massacre Debbie Yeah Debbie I'm just I'm looking through the Please be tickets inside Watermelon

Which is all over the book house right now And I can see Pips And two Tickets To Harry Styles Oh Debs You got the tickets.

Oh, my gosh. It's so cool. Thank you. Oh, well done. You chose correctly. You're going to Harry Styles. It's going to be incredible. You enjoy that, all right?

Awesome. Thanks. I was just going to say, sorry. It was perfect. And then you jump back on, mate. Yeah, no, I'm just explaining to someone. We'll clean it up. Don't worry.

It's all good. Okay, all right. I'm getting side eyes. I'm getting explaining to someone, we'll clean it up. Don't worry, it's all good. I'm getting side eyes, Ben, I'm getting side eyes. If you want your tickets, Harry Styles, livenation.co.nz. Another chance tomorrow morning, same time, to play this game. It's Jono and Ben, but FYI,

Ben is open to other options. Jono and Ben on the hits. I know one of your morbid fears in life, Ben, is being accosted by a charity collector. Oh, you make me sound like a horrible person when you say that. The interaction can get particularly awkward sometimes. Yeah, you know what he'll do, Bell, if Bell Crawford's with us. If he pulls into Pack and Save and sees some charity collectors in the foyer before you walk in,

he'll just drive on to another supermarket. I've said I've considered doing that, John. I've never actually done that. Well, I was walking through the mall yesterday and charity worker. You know, they come out in their vests and things now. They've got like a vest on over their tops. I mean, they are doing a great thing. I mean, you know, it's all money to help out others in need.

That's right. Yeah, I mean, let's front foot it with that from the barrage of what I'm about to feed out is I get approached. Hey, how are you going? All of a sudden, you're in a whirlwind of conversation. Have you heard about, I won't say the charity, have you heard about XYZ?

Do you know someone who suffers from XYZ? Blah, blah, blah. You're all of a sudden in this conversation. It's like you're at a busy intersection and you're trying to turn right. You're just trying to get a word in there's no gaps the presentation is being pumped yeah into your face and if i don't say no i've found out i've figured out if i don't say no early in those situations like almost as they're coming towards you hand up no just don't look at them and just keep yeah no i made eye contact fatal mistake

and you love a chat too. So this is where you're torn. If I don't say no, it's like me opening up a family-sized bar of caramel. It's all gone. It's all gone. Anyway, before you know it, within three minutes, I've got all my personal details on an iPad with an iPad shoved in my face saying, sign here.

I'm like, what has happened? What happened to the good old days i've been for fiver in a bucket you know now we sign up to 30 years of monthly payments i did it with pandas bell many years ago pandas the wwf pandas world wildlife foundation they direct debited my account for for five years five years and you know. Oh, no, you did? You did, yeah. And you know what? This poor lady, and I felt sorry for her. She had done a great presentation. Good hustle, you know, textbook stuff. And she was holding the iPad.

I was like, I can't do this. I can't. I'm sorry. I can't do this right now. I just, can I give you five bucks, ten bucks? She's like, no, we don't take money. I was like, I'm offering you money. Just take the money now.

No, we don't do it. You need to sign up for this. I'm like, I can't. Why did you say you can't do it? I pulled out at the finish line. Oh, right. No real reason other than that I just can't do the money now. No, we don't do it. You need to sign up for this. I'm like, I can't. I pulled out at the finish line. Oh, right. No real reason other than they just can't do this right now. Because they'll sign you up for a year and if it's something you can't do, then you shouldn't be pressured

into it. The poor lady had run the marathon and I just ripped the finish line away from her. I got one in the weekend just walking along too. It was a bucket situation. Buckets are great. Great. This is a bucket situation, but I didn't have cash. And I was It was a bucket situation. Buckets are great. Great. This is a bucket situation, but I didn't have cash. And I was like,

great bucket situation, don't have cash. And then the lady goes, it's all good. And out of the bucket, she pulled out a machine, a machine. An Enfos machine.

It's all good, buddy. It's all good. We know people. I was like, it's not all good, but it is good for you. And then I had to put some money through on my card. And I was like, well, that's all good. We know people. I was like, it's not all good, but it is good for you. And then I had to put some money through on my card. And I was like, well, that was well played.

The introduction of the portable Air Force terminal to the charity collection. It's a game changer. It's a game changer for them. I don't have my card. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. That's Cash in Car. Guess how much cash we've stashed in the Schooda's boot and drive it home along with all that money. It is an amazing car, the Škoda Kamek Monte Carlo.

It's just under $46,000. You can win that car, the brand new car, and the thousands and thousands of dollars of cash that is in the boot if you guess the exact amount, how much cash is in that boot. Now, I've got a very fancy commercial with this, too, that you might have seen on television, worthy of an Academy Award for outstanding contribution to promoting radio competitions, that commercial.

We're going to go to Pukekohe. Natalie, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Hi, good morning, guys. Good to have you on. Do you like cash and or cars, Natalie? Oh, better both, but the cash is always good. Do you like cash and or cars, Natalie? Oh, a bit of both but the cash is always good.

If you don't like either of those, you can go to MoreFM's Bitcoin and Bikes promotion. But right now we're cashing and we are carring. Now, Cash Keeper Alex is with us in the studio. Now, we don't even know what the amount is. So you're one of the few people that know how much cash is in the boat. Yeah, and I did this last year and I don't

know how I got the job again, because... Were you a shaky pair of hands, were you, Alex? Oh, my Lord. I didn't know what was going on. I actually forgot how much I can sweat until right now, in this moment. It's a life-changing prize. It's incredible, isn't it?

So, yeah, someone could win this right now. Alex is like Peter Pettigrew from Harry Potter, the secret keeper. It's a niche joke there, John. I've just started reading Harry Potter songs. Natalie, Natalie, what is your guess? How much cash do you reckon is hidden in the boot of the Skoda?

So I'm guessing the cash amount, am I? Yeah, that's the name of the game. You've got to, yeah, just the cash amount to the cent. Is that what we're doing? Yeah. Okay, not including the car? Oh, no, take the value of the game. You've got to, yeah, just the cash amount to the cent. Is that what we're doing? Yeah. Okay, not including the car? Oh, no, take the value of the car out of it, which is just under $46,000, the brand-new Skoda.

How much is in the boat? How many thousands of dollars in the boat? Okay, let's go $3,487.25. Cashkeeper Alex, has Natalie correct? Has the competition ended before it's even begun?

Day one, imagine that. Wouldn't that be awesome? Natalie. Yes. That is incorrect. Oh,

Nat. Listen, you did well, you played the game and do you know what? It's a hundy mundy, thanks to Employment Hero, we are going to give you $100, Natalie,

simply for being on the radio with us. Oh, that's cool. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you so much for listening, Cash Keeper Alex. But you know what? I do have a little bit of a tidbit of a clue. It's nothing huge.

But the cash amount this year is more than the cash amount that was given away last year in cash and car. So I'm not going to tell you what that was, but you can go back, do your research, find the video of me with my shaky hands reading out the cash amount, and that might give you a little bit of a clue. Cashkeeper Alex, there you go. The bane of your life for the foreseeable future is going to be people asking you, how much is in the boot of the car? Well done.

Good work, good work, Natalie. Good work, Ben. Great work to you too, mate. You should be proud. Now, 11 o'clock this morning is your next chance to guess. You can submit your cash in car guess with your name and your phone number right now on iHeartRadio app. And Alex, you could be calling them back.

Cashkeeper Alex could be calling them back at 11 o'clock this morning to take your guess. So get to iHeartRadio right now, submit your name and your number if you want to have that next guess to win this amazing car thanks to Skoda and of course

all the money in the boot as well. Yeah, next. Suffered a very unfortunate oral incident on Friday, Ben Boyce. I'll tell you what it is next. I'm intrigued. The show where the masks

make them look a whole lot better. Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben, you know I'm on a journey at the moment. I've got Invisalign in, which is like basically a claustrophobic mouthguard for your teeth. Very tight mouthguard. They're kind of like instead of braces, you've got these mouthguards that sort of bully your teeth into place. Into submission. Yeah, that's right.

And so i'm aiming to have you know teeth from hollywood and a face from bluff that's that's my end goal but you have to wear them like 18 19 hours a day you know it's a big commitment isn't it yeah yeah only take them out to sort of eat and drink right that's what you mean today yeah and you sound at varying levels of a snake doing a snake impersonation uh it takes a while for your mouth to it it's like having another layer of teeth upon your teeth that's what it feels like inside your mouth like that so i had to film something on friday and it involved coming out on stage in front of a live

studio audience and i've gone uh-oh this is going to be on camera I'm going to have to pull out the old Invisalign. Right. But I hadn't done it before going out. So there's, you know, 50, 60 people in the audience and I'm, you know, being filmed, I'm like, sorry guys, I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to remove these in front of the live studio audience and on part of the show.

Why did you do it like? Not until, you know, I can't plow on like this. They need to come out. And so there's no sexier moment in your Invisalign career than when the removal process happens. You take them out, there's like a click. I can probably do it now. Yeah, click, and then a whole lot of saliva.

And then you pull it out, and then there's like about nine strings of saliva that also attach themselves to the guard. And I had to do that in front of everyone. No doubt, probably a very close-up slow-mo shot. And you could hear everyone go, oh, and audience go, oh, the whole thing. And you said your wife, when you used to remove yours, she's like, you've never been as hot as you are right now. Yeah, she was like, I feel like I'm dating someone at a retirement home,

at a Ryman or something, when pulling out your numbers like that. I feel like I'm dating someone at a retirement home at a Ryman or something when you take it out like that. Put your teeth in before we start making out. I had an incident because you had to take it out when you, because I had them for a while as well and I had an incident where I put them on my tray at the food court because I took them out of my mouth I was eating, I put them there and then the lady

came round and she was like really lovely, she was like can I take your tray I was like yeah that'd be amazing and she put it and then I could watch and I was like uh oh uh oh and she put them in the bin and I was like uh oh did you have to

pull them out am I going to go I'm going to get my falsies out of the bin and I go in the food court and I'm like jeez things are really taking a turn for that guy

he used to be on TV now he's rummaging through the bin he's eating leftover kebabs from the food court we sold more I'm like oh jeez look away kids

look away look away not pretty you're running late stuck in traffic and now you have to listen to this Food called more. Oh, jeez. Look away, kids. Look away. Look away. It's not pretty. You're running late, stuck in traffic, and now you have to listen to this. Jono and Ben on the hits. Monday morning. It is a busy morning right around the country at the moment, navigating the return to school term two.

A lot of people returning to work as well under the orange light setting. And we wanted to know this morning on our 100 Hits, because every caller that gets on the radio gets $100 thanks to Employment Hero this morning. Who's wanted to know this morning on 0800THETS, because every caller that gets on the radio gets $100 thanks to Employment Hero this morning. Who's having the busiest morning? Who's having the morning of it? Who's having a bloody morning of it? We've had a morning of it. Phones weren't working when we got in this morning, Ben.

Well, that's all we're... No, it's been busy, though. It has been a very busy morning. It's been cash and car, thanks to Shkyoda. We have Harry Styles tickets, five words for $5,000. Hundy Mundy as well. Very busy morning. Producer Bee Humps looks like he could kill a man right now. He's got no colour in his face. It's all been washed out. I'm scared to say the wrong thing to him.

It might be the last year of me. Let's get him a long black. He's a race car in the red right now. So he's had a morning of it. So we're going to leave him be. I made a joke before and I was like, not the time. Not the time. It wasn't the time. He's got a red face like an alcoholic right now.

Okay, so he's had a morning. Let's leave him. But we want to know on 0800 The Hits, who's having a busy morning? Because it is a busy morning to navigate right around the country as I said before. And I imagine, you know, there's a lot of people dropping kids off at school. Jen, my wife, she's two different

school drop-offs. During a COVID haze, I bought a puppy. She's managing a puppy at the same time, working. Alicia, are you having a bloody morning of it? Oh my gosh, it's been so busy trying to get back into the school routine, trying to organise school lunches for the kids, pack everything the kids need for daycare, navigating through traffic, making sure the kids wake up.

It has been hectic. I'm still not at work yet. 45 minutes late at the moment. 45 minutes. So you couldn't get a more target listener phone call right there. So is traffic really bad too this morning? I understand. Yep.

Yep. It's a lot of cars on the road. Okay. Alicia. But I love it how you've got time to call the radio station. Oh, she's in the car. I guess you're not moving anywhere. This is what I do. I listen to you guys on the radio while I'm driving, so it's perfect.

Lovely to have you on. Lovely to have you on. Tell you what, we're going to give you $100 just to make your morning that much better. Oh, that's great. Thank you, guys. I really appreciate it. No worries. Good luck getting to work eventually.

Yeah, thanks. Yeah, eventually. What's your boss's name, Alicia? Anne. Anne. thanks, Adam. Yeah, eventually. What's your boss's name, Alicia? Anne. Anne. Sorry, Anne. Alicia's running late winning radio competitions. But she's on her way to work.

It's not like she's taking time out of her day to, you know. Good on you, mate. You're going to have a great week, Alicia. And welcome back to the treadmill, mate. The treadmill of life. Thank you, guys. You too. That's how it works.

0800 The Hits is all thanks to Employment Hero, the smarter way to manage people, payroll and productivity. $100 up for grabs next. We're trying to take a whole lot. Let's do it. Yeah, give us a call after hearing Alicia's call. Do we all just want to go back into lockdown? The Hits. It's a hundy Monday, making Monday a little bit better

thanks to Employment Hero. If you're tired of the admin that comes with running your business, Employment Hero makes HR recruitment and payroll easy. $100 to every caller that gets on the airwaves. Who's having the busiest morning? Jeez, I'd be sloppy at admin if I ran my own business, Ben Boyce. Well, have you got Employment Hero? No, no one's sloppy with Employment Hero.

Now, if you are dropping nine kids off to six different schools in between negotiating a free trade deal with the US, in between coaching your daughter's basketball team while cooking breakfast, then that's the sort of person we want to hear from. Carissa, we're going to get you on from Invercargill this morning. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Hi, good morning. I'm good, thank you. Busiest morning, Carissa, for a hundy-mundy. What are you doing?

I've got four kids, so I had one up. The baby was up from three until six this morning so I've been tired from that and then I've been trying to get two kids ready for school

and one for kindy jeez that's a lot of kids four kids if you could lose a couple would you oh I don't know it would be hard to pick

yeah hard to pick but yeah just two just two would make it a bit more manageable well Carissa who hasn't slept since three o'clock

this morning managing four kids we're going to give you $100 thanks to Employment Hero. Oh, that'd be amazing. Thank you. They are the Kiwi heroes, Employment Hero. Good on you. Go and get some sleep, alright? Jess, you're on. Welcome.

How are you from Tauranga? Good morning. I'm good. How are you? Yeah, busiest morning. Getting two kids ready for school, one in college, one in intermediate, so they're pretty hard to get out of bed. And trying to arrange my puppy to go to puppy preschool this morning, which didn't want to get into the car and go, pretty much like the kids. And getting my partner up and ready to go to work today.

So all on today at our house. Oh, you're getting everyone up and about. Listen, if I could eliminate one from the equation, maybe your partner could look after themselves. Yeah, oh, he's useless. Oh, she's getting her whole family and her dog dressed and ready for the day. Jess, you got $100. Thank you.

Enjoy your Monday. I hope it gets better for you. Let's try and squeeze one more, shall we? Yeah, let's do it. Nicola, you're on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Yeah, hi. Yeah, how's it going?

Busiest morning. Show off. What are you doing? Fed 10 cats, 2 dogs, 2 pigs, a duck. Walked down to my daughter's because I ran out of petrol and getting my 2 muckles up for school and kindy. Wow. Dr. Doolittle.

10 cats. Does that qualify you as Dolittle. Yeah. 10 cats. Does that qualify you as a crazy cat woman, 10 cats? No, not quite, not quite. No, when you get to 15, mate. I rescue animals. Oh, that's lovely. Gee, that's a lot. You're running your own zoo there.

I feel like it. Yeah, well, we'll give you $100 for some more food for the animals, shall we? That'll be good. There we go. There's a lot of people out there and all we're doing here, all I'm doing here is sitting here for three hours trying to say borderline offensive stuff. There's some busy people out there, Nicola.

You're going to have a great week. Good luck to everyone navigating their morning this morning. Thanks so much to Employment Hero again for the Hyundai Monday. We'll be back again. It is the hits you got, John. I'm in bed. Spy. No what's up.

Spy.co.nz. Here's some stories that celebrities would prefer weren't on the radio. Bell Crawford, what is happening? Well, he might actually want this one on as a bit of free promo. Not that he probably needs it, but Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg could be coming to New Zealand this year to open his family burger bar first off in Auckland. Wahl Burgers. Wonderful pun to begin with.

Let's congratulate the Wahlburger family on that one. Ben Boyce, you would be gagging for a pun restaurant like that. The Boysenberry ice cream you've always wanted to get off the ground. It was either that or a doggy daycare called Bark Wahlberg, but they've gone with Wahlburgers. And it's good. It looks awesome, actually. It was either that or a doggy daycare called Bark Walberg, but they've gone with it. It looks awesome, actually. It looks really good. Yeah, so they already have 91 restaurants around the world. It'll be the first in New Zealand. First up, don't worry, it's coming to the rest

of the country, but first off, Euro's restaurant site in downtown Auckland is where it will be. They haven't set a date yet, but it will be this year, and it can take up to 240 diners. Also, they're looking at expanding in Queenstown, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch, and likely other locations. That's awesome. Now, I'm worried, though, because it's great if he comes to New Zealand.

But remember, his schedule was publicised a few years back. Yeah, he's got the routine of a grumpy pensioner, doesn't he, Mark? He's in bed by 4.30 in the afternoon or something. Yeah, like he gets up at 2.30 in the morning and then he goes to bed by 7.30. But then there's some things like he's got an hour and a half for a shower from 6 till 7.30. Like there's a whole

lot of stuff going on and you're like, Mark, you're doing your schedule all kind of wrong. Oh, just bump it, you know, I'm sure his family are lying in bed going, Mark Woolworth, can you do this at 7 in the morning? Just bump your, if you move, if you realigned your schedule by three or four hours, it'd acceptable exactly you know two to six then uh but he's just from one who has many peculiar quirks ben well you're true yeah i appreciate you out there everyone would go what the hell are you doing so you're right we even say and we get up to the same

show as you we're like why is he getting up so early yeah no i do a lot of times i do things and my family my family have to have an intervention and go what you're doing is not normal like the way you operate is not like a normal yeah so i'm not going to throw stones at warburg enough fair game of how much how much do you reckon mark warburg's worth an nzd of conversion nzd i always appreciate a conversion there from the usT NZ Deep. 300 million? Nah. More. More than 300 million? 301 million.

No. 302 million. Okay, I'll just tell you. $537 million. He's doing all right. Gee whiz. And if you want a body like Mark Wahlberg, then you better eat his hamburgers at Wahlbergers. That'll do it, right?

Yeah. Also, Adele is reportedly close to finalising a deal to replace her Vegas residency shows. They were actually meant to be wrapped up by now. They were meant to start in January, finish in Vegas in April, but of course they were postponed, first due to COVID. Then it came out that there were creative issues. She's since fired and hired a new team,

and her people are in chats with Planet Hollywood to host the show there and they're trying to get it to happen as soon as possible. Well, apparently it cost Caesars Palace where it was going to be $150 million her pulling out of that. Really? And I think there you... What do I know?

But I'll bet off anyway. I'll bang on anyway. I don't know if that was the right term to say, but anyway. Let's not linger on it. Is the, when you pull out of something like that, I think in Vegas it's all like showbiz, razzmatazz, and they had like a water feature, and I don't think Adele wanted all of these quirky features in her show.

And apparently that's where they were banging heads. Don't go to Vegas then. Like, here's what happens in Vegas, right? Yeah. And also just quickly, Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to Ukraine over the weekend. She, of course,

has worked with the UN for a long time and visited kids and had photos promised that she would come back. Oh, that's awesome she's done that. That's amazing.

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