Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Been Calling Someone The Wrong Name & It's Been Too Long

Episode Date: December 6, 2021

Nothing worse than when you've been calling someone by the wrong name, and they're too polite to say anything, but you then find out later that you have it wrong. Ben found himself in this exact situation. Awkies! We also talked about what your greatest achievement is. Tomorrow, if we manage to land 2 basketballs into a hoop from the roof of Eden Park, we reckon it could be our greatest achievement. But we asked you for yours, and some were outrageous! Finally, we caught up with the ever-lovely Nadia Lim who has a new children's book out, based on a chicken on her farm. Adorable! Enjoy the poddy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, brought to you by Rosene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Rosene, 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. G'day there. It's the 7th of December. It's Jono and Ben here. 9.34, 9.35am as we're currently recording this. First thing we do generally after a show, isn't it? The podcast intro. More talking after the three hours of talking. Yeah. It's when you get your second wind.

Yeah, I do. I do. I get another kick in. We're about to interview David Walliams, acclaimed comedian and author. Very successful children's book author. Yeah, I wouldn't go as far to say as the Roald Dahl of this generation. Yeah, I think it would be fair. I think it's one of his literary idols. Roald Dahl was.

I think so, yeah. Yeah, he's a wonderful conversation. And we spoke to him once before, and he's really funny. He told us, because he judges on Got Talent with Simon Cowell, told a wonderful story about how Simon Cowell wears very thick heeled shoes to boost his height. Yeah.

And they were travelling through airport security, and Simon Cowell took his shoes off, and he's like, who's that strange little short boy missing? Yeah, it was a child. It was a missing child. But it was just Simon Cowell. But we played him a commercial that you wrote show us you crack the novice jingle ben and we also played him don't you can't beat the mad butchers meat we played

these to david williams and uh he was like all your ads just laid him with innuendo yeah and they're not but there are a few that there are yeah yeah and so he enjoyed and he said okay i'm gonna give you a challenge you write a script for me and I'll do an ad for you, but it has to be soaked with double entendres all the way through it. And so we wrote something. Well, you did. You did. Yeah, I wrote something. And apparently it was deemed too rude to even go to David Williams.

Yeah, like it got stopped. And then even if he had read it, we would never have played it on the radio. Our boss was like, well, no, we can't play that. That's too rude to play on the hits. Yeah, so that's... So I don't know what, maybe on the podcast? Yeah. I mean, I'll cherry pick a couple of things from it.

Hello, this is internationally acclaimed author, comedian, and actor David Williams speaking, or as I like to be known as the Big D. So that's where it starts. That's where it starts. When I'm in New Zealand, I'm always sure to fetch my radio, grab my knob and turn on Jono and Ben. And it goes pretty grim from that point on. So I see why it was vetoed.

But this was on the... You wanted to see this on all three of these. On his instruction though. But you're right. Anyone in the chain of command between us and David Williams has no idea. And they're just like, what was this filthy piece of literature? You're going to get David Williams, no idea. And then just like, what was this filthy piece of literature? Then you're going to get David Williams, children's author.

Children's author. Yes, children's author. Yeah, and then there was someone of us about, you know, that being said, John and Ben do a handy job. I'm not dicking around here, New Zealand. You know, just, yeah. They've lost a few jobs. Their TV show's been cancelled,

but that's what they do. They blow jobs. Oh, jeez. So that didn't get through to David Williams. Yeah, and it wouldn't be played on the radio either. No, you're right. So that was, yeah. And it just happened.

I'm David Williams. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Yeah, and you're like, what did he say? Yeah. Anyway, so we interviewed David Williams. We're going to bring that up with him now. Because he might go, what ever happened to that script that he instructed us?

Well, you say you wrote it. Yeah. Yeah. He went on quite a rant for us to write this thing, so we felt obliged. You followed through. I'm surprised you followed through. Yeah, but it was for what for? Wasted work.

Oh, you're fine. We can talk about it with him now. Yeah, that's right. Hey, well, on the podcast today, we're on a mission to shoot two basketball shots at Eden Park tomorrow on the roof. If we get those in we win you a whole lot of prizes including $1,000 cash and triple access pass triple A access pass to Eden Park.

Yeah, it's awesome. Welcome to two half-assed dads do a half-assed job. Official title, To No One Been, New Zealand's Breakfast. One of the worst things you can do as a human being is get someone's name wrong. Oh, I can think of a couple of others.

Well, yeah, but that's right up there, Ben. But you feel terrible when it happened, and it happened to me yesterday, and it wasn't just like an initial, I got someone's name wrong, because I think people excuse it on the first time maybe you meet someone, but this is someone that I'd probably,

I'd known for about three or four years and I've been going to this place I don't want to say the place I was going to but I was going to Because you can't remember the name of it I can't actually I go about once a week to this particular place and for some reason I'd got in my head very very confidently this

person's name was Tom. Very confident and to the point where I'm not one that usually uses people's names. You like to play it safe, don't you? If you're not 100% confident on the name, just sort of mumble it. Hey, man, whatever it is.

Whatever it is, but I was, for some reason, I was arrogantly confident that this guy's name was Tom and so I'd been going, Tom, Tom, good to see you. Overly using it because every time I'd go there, I'd go, oh, it was Tom. Once you think you know a name, you just want to look like a great guy that has taken the time to digest that person's name. Asking him, how's the kids, Tom?

How's things, Tom? Good to see you, Tom. I'll catch you next time. To the point that I'd used it too many times. And this person, to their credit, it just kind of went, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Talking away politely as New Zealanders do it. Too polite. You know, but it wasn't until yesterday that I had a conversation with Tom and then someone else that worked at this place went, Hey Tim, can you go such and such to Tom? And it was like,

Oh, they've called this. Tom is not Tom. Well, you should have gone, his name's not Tim. It's Tom. How long have you

been working with this guy yeah and it was that point where I'm like oh jeez you die inside a little bit and then I'm like

maybe he doesn't even have I've been talking about kids maybe he doesn't have kids I've built up this whole story about

Tom's wonderful Tom Tom three marriage breakups he's back on the wagon now yeah he's doing

great Tom but you just feel awful you're like oh why did i why did i use his name i've said it before government funded name tags you have i've been back in this for years by christmas let's get new zealand 90 name tagged that's my thing you'll never get a name wrong if we're all wandering around with hello my name is yeah it just eliminates a huge amount of social faux pas. Because even between the two of us,

I accept that I'm going to get called Jono most times. That's fine. And that's fine. I'm cool with that. And hopefully Tom, Tim, whatever is cool with that. But I just felt terrible afterwards. Because you feel like you've... Yeah. But then from Tom slash Tim's perspective,

he probably is too polite. He doesn't want to make you feel awkward, so he wouldn't have wanted to correct you. Or he just doesn't want to waste the energy on it. He's like, if he thinks I'm Tom, I can roll with Tom. There's worse things to be done, isn't there? That's true. Because it does get to that point,

where it goes too far down the track. You know, like if you've met someone a few times, but you still haven't got their name, and then you're like, oh, it's too late now. Sorry, man, what's your name again? Have you heard that wonderful Joe Biden audio where he's introducing the australian prime minister but i i always think you know full credit to uh the bosses of companies with a lot of people who remember the names of yeah i'd just be shocking that i'd be like hey red pants have you got that

you know you got that report for me due by the end of the day? Big nose. Meeting at 11.30. That's savage. That's why you won't be running any company soon. So this was the President of the United States. It happened to him. Talking about Scott Morrison, who's the Prime Minister of Australia. They were on a giant Zoom call, and they were doing a bit of a trade agreement between the UK, America, and Australia,

and they had all three leaders on. Boris was there. Joe Biden was there. Scott Morrison was there. And it was time for Joe Biden to thank the Prime Minister of Australia. I think this is it. Thank you. Over to you, Mr. President.

Thank you, Boris. And I want to thank that fellow down under. Thank you very much, pal. Appreciate it, Mr. Prime Minister. I'm honored today to be joined. Thank you very much, pal. Appreciate it, Mr. Prime Minister. I'm honoured today to be joining you. Thank you very much, pal. I mean, a pal. He did the same thing as you.

Hey, read pants. Hey, the guy from down under. He did the same thing, didn't he? The guy from down under. He brings me so much happiness. He should have gone, hey, Tom. Bring it to you, Tom. There you go.

The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't save this battered up old face. It makes you beautiful. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Michael Bublé on Jimmy Fallon this week, too, as well. I see. Ben's been on a rampage since Bublé did the rounds here in Aotearoa. He went on many radio shows, and one of them was not ours.

And he hasn't quite let it go. All he wants for Christmas is a Michael Bublé interview. Yeah, I feel like I'd get on well with Michael Bublé. I really like him. Yeah. He's awesome. Yeah, but anyway. Well, you'll never get to meet him, so that's fine.

Yeah, that's fine. You can just pretend that you'd always get along with him. Hey, tomorrow we're doing something that might get Michael Bublé's attention. Who knows? International news. We're doing our own Two Shots. Ayo, it's Two Shots. For Jono and Ben.

Two Shots. To get two balls into a hoop. Two Shots. From the top of the roof at Eden Park. Two Shots. To win you a year-long pass. Two Shots. To everything at Eden Park in 2022.

Including concerts, cricket and the blues. ASAP. That's right, we're doing our own two shots tomorrow on the roof of Eden Park and we're shooting towards a hoop which is going to be on the field. If we land two shots, one from Ben, one from myself, you win

$1,000 and also an all-access pass to Eden Park in 2022. Concerts, sporting games, you name it. If it's at Eden Park, you can go to it. Yeah, it's a pretty incredible prize. So thank you very much for Eden Park for letting us get up on the roof, throw some balls down onto the ground, and also give away this prize if we manage to achieve this amazing achievement.

It'll be the best thing that we'll ever achieve probably in our lives if we do it. Yeah, along with staying employed for the last 20 years too. You know, no one's more surprised than us. Both involved a lot of luck. A lot of luck and, you know, some massaging, some Swedish massaging. But we want to open up the phones right now. 0800 the hits.

What is your greatest achievement? Because you're right, Ben, tomorrow it could be our greatest achievement. It could be on our tombstones. Shot two balls into a basketball hoop from a great distance. Rest in peace. Could you put that on my tombstone? Yeah, I could do that.

Yeah, yeah, great. I feel like I'm going before you. Yeah, I like that. You've already decided that you're going before me. Well, Juliet, actually, you're probably the safe bet. Why don't you put it on our tombstones? Yeah, I will. Yeah, you'll be the one.

You'll be living a bit longer than us. Put us together next to each other at the we can't be apart yeah that's right yeah and then if you can have another tombstone

in the middle of Jono and then it just says and yeah okay perfect there's Jono and there's another tombstone and that'd be good

yeah and then you can bury yourself in the end bit oh lovely just a lovely scenario there we go we can all be together

that's a very cheery scenario Even in the afterlife So yeah I nodded with that What is your greatest achievement? Now they don't have to be Of sporting nature They can just be

Oh well done You managed to clear out You know 5,000 emails That are backed up on Monday Yeah Did you parallel park Outside a busy cafe?

So it might have been His biggest bugbear In fact That should probably be On his tombstone. He was always a little shaky about parking, parallel parking in front of people. Never did it.

Never tried it once, never did it. Drove away. I was like, ah, you can't get into that park, and then drove up the road, and never since I've been one of those people. You can give it another go, though. You can parallel park. People can parallel park and go more than once.

Do you parallel park like normally, or is it just outside cafes that you don't want to do it? Oh, I'll give it a, it depends. When there's spectators. Yeah, but it's not a spectator sport. It is for the spectators. I love nothing more than watching someone trying to parallel park. Ayo, Ayo800, what is your greatest achievement?

Will it trump us potentially getting two basketball shots in from a great height? You can call us or text 4487. Your chance to humble brag next. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of brag next. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

On the hits. Tomorrow we're going to be on the stadium roof at Eden Park. It looks like it might be a little bit windy up there tomorrow looking at the weather forecast. So it's going to make it very tough for us. Shooting basketballs off the roof into a hoop that's going to be on the field below. If we nail two shots, all access pass, two of those to give away to Eben Park for next year,

and $1,000 cash could be yours to win on Thursday. You know, we're deep into December. Everyone's winding down. Not us. We're ramping up. Standing on top of everything you stand for. Yeah, maybe we've left our run a little too late, some would say. But let's go to the phones, your greatest achievement, because if we do land this tomorrow,

I don't hold much hope, to be honest. I'm not going into this with any confidence whatsoever that we're going to get the ball in the hoop. Yeah. So if we do, though, it'll be a miracle and the greatest achievement of our lives. And we just want to know yours. Great text here through 4487. I drove myself while in labor to hospital because my husband doesn't like sitting in Wellington traffic. So he was in the passenger seat.

Oh, my goodness. And he was in the passenger seat. Oh, my goodness. And she was in Labour. Wow. I mean, Wellington traffic is a nightmare at times. But he's still sitting in traffic. Really? I don't think he must have liked dealing with it.

Dealing with it, yeah. Oh, poor guy. Maybe he could have gone, hey, is getting an Uber an option? I'll meet you there once the traffic's done. And then she drove herself home at 1am. Really? Wow. I mean, the traffic's chilled out by 1am, you would imagine, in Wellington. So we're going to kick it off with Rachel in Waihi Beach.

Morena, how are you? I'm good, yourself? Yeah, great to have you on, Rach. Greatest achievement, what was it, mate? Being an adult student and getting a degree in social work. Oh, that's awesome. It seems like it's so much tougher as an adult to knuckle down and be a student again, right? Yeah, your brain cells are a bit dead.

Yeah, you don't learn as easily when you're an adult, do you? I mean, Ben tried to learn the Rubik's Cube and it was painful, whereas kids pick it up in a couple of days. Yeah, I think it's the alcohol intake. Yeah, that could be it. Well done on getting your degree. That's amazing. Yeah, it's awesome. Good on you, Rachel.

Adult student. Steve, you're on from Kitty Kitty. Greatest achievement. Yeah, it's awesome. Good on you, Rachel. Adult student. Steve, you're on from Kitty Kitty. Greatest achievement. What was it? G'day, mate. Saving someone from drowning in the Manukau Harbour. Oh, wow. Listen, I mean, that's impressive.

There was a group of us. There was three of us or four of us actually on the boat. We were coming in near the wharf on the Manukau, and there was a float in the middle of the, right where all the big ships go off the Manukau at Anianga. There the middle of the, right where all the big ships go off the Manukau at Anehanga. There was a float there and I said to my mate,

who's put a float in the middle of the harbour? And it wasn't. It was a guy's head. And we pulled up to him and yelled at him, you alright? And he's like,

yeah, I'm fine. And I said to my mate, no, no, he's drowning. Grab him. And we backed the boat in and we just got, if it had been another 60 seconds, he would have been fish food. But he's in the middle of the harbour and he's like, no, no, and we backed the boat in, and we just got, if it had been another 60 seconds, he would have been fish food.

But he's in the middle of the harbour, and he's like, no, no, all's good here, very polite New Zealanders. Sharks, stingrays, everything else. The police helicopter, excuse me, the police helicopter was above us, he'd had an argument with his, I think his school teacher or his mum or something something and decided he was going to go and end his life. So he just stripped off down to his shorts and then walked out and tried to drown himself. Oh, my gosh.

And plucked him out. The police were there. They met us at the ramp. Yeah, no, it was pretty epic. Wow, that is... A pretty cool feeling of actually just saving someone. Yeah. Hopefully he's still alive.

Yeah, I mean, he and the family would be so grateful. Gee whiz. Yeah. Like his head, his chin was at the water. You couldn't see his arms. He was kicking and paddling as quick as he could, like dog paddle. And if we hadn't have been there, he would have gone. Wow, that's impressive.

Steve, that is a great achievement. You know, throwing two basketballs off a roof. Pails. Pails. Pails. We'll get Nellis on 800 of the hits. Your greatest achievement, what was it? My greatest, well, this isn't my greatest achievement, but my most exciting achievement was probably either getting the world record,

the Guinness World Record for how many chicken nuggets eaten in a minute. Oh, Nellis Issa, how you doing? Our dear friend, competitive eater Nellisissa has joined the show. How many nuggets did you nail in 60 seconds again? 16, and they were decent sized nuggets. They were like pretty big ones. You never want to think about what's inside

of nuggets, do you? No, never. Don't think too hard. That's impressive. So your name's in the Guinness World Records? Yeah. That's awesome. That is very cool. I didn't realise you had a Guinness World Record for it. That's awesome. That is very cool. I didn't realise you had a Guinness World Record for it. Yep, just have the one. But you achieve some amazing eating feats.

I mean, sometimes not just at speed, sometimes just enormous amounts of food. What's the biggest amount of something you've eaten? Oh, probably the 22 Big Macs in an hour. That was quite intense. 22 in an hour. Oh, my God. 22 in an hour. Oh my god. I've got indigestion just talking to you. You get the cookies out after that.

Oh, you would. How does it like, how long does it take to really pass through your system? It really depends on the food. Like meat, I feel like it takes a little bit longer, but then if bread or something easier, then it's not so bad. So you've had 22 Big Macs. How long until your next meal?

I think that time I waited until the next night to eat. How long until your next Big Mac? I don't even know if I've had one since. So you plan these pretty much every week, right, and do it on your social media? Yeah, so I do a couple of videos a week. I don't always do big things. Sometimes I do little things. Lately I've been doing spicy things. Yeah, so I do a couple videos a week. I don't always do big things. Sometimes I do little things.

Lately I've been doing spicy things. Yeah, right. Who knew eating could be such a burden? Well, Nella did, and she does it. What is your Instagram so people can go and have a look? It's just Nellazuzza, so my name, N-E-L-A-Z-A-Z-Z-R. There you go, if you want to go and watch someone eat copious amounts of foods. Yeah, she's amazing.

It's incredible what she does. We actually sent Nella over to the hot dog eating competition in New York, didn't you? And that is a disturbing sport to watch. Yeah. It really is, because they get the hot dogs and they soak them in water and sort of force feed themselves. It's like torture. Yeah, no, never again.

I'm never soaking food in water again after that. It was awful. How many hot dogs are the people that win doing? I think, didn't Joey Chestnut do like 71 or something like that? Yeah, 71 dog dogs in 10 minutes. And he looks like he's been put through torture. Like he's been captured by terrorists and they're forcing hot dogs in his mouth. Hey, well tomorrow, why don't you join us at Eden Park and we'll get you to eat a couple of basketballs.

I think I'm busy tomorrow. Okay, maybe another day. Thank you so much Nella Have a great day You too Mmm Coffee breath Jono and Ben

The Hits She's a celebrity cook You know From TV From cookbooks And now she's a children's author Her second book Marvin Makes a Friend

Inspired by a true story All about a chicken She's got at home Yeah Nadia Lim We love chatting with you How are you? Yeah, I'm good.

How are you guys? I feel like I haven't spoken to you for ages. No, what I love about Nadia is you don't seem like someone who's stressed. Do you get stressed? I try. No, I really try not to because I just think there's no point. You don't have a stressy aura about you. That doesn't mean that stressful things don't happen, but when they do

there's just no point in stressing about them, right? You're like, oh, the car's on fire. Oh, well. Guess that's a thing. But you have moved. You moved from the city. You moved down south and you've been down there how long now? Almost two years. And you're on a farm? A couple of weeks to two years. Yeah, and how was that? Because I was reading a little

thing about you and you were saying that obviously it's not a 40-hour-a-week job. You can't really turn off from a farm. I mean, I was busy before. When we were living in Auckland, life was busy. But this is like next level. You throw in having to look after animals, having to look after all these plants, having to look after the land. It's a constant job. Your list is literally never-ending. You can't take a day off because chickens don't stop laying eggs.

But every time we see you, you're like, oh, come down and visit. I was down that way with the family, like, last year. And you didn't contact me. I did think about it. Then I was like, oh, that's weird. It's like, oh, mate, being like. But it's not weird. No, honestly, mate, don't worry.

We'll be even because I will put you to work. Nadia doesn't want you there for your company. She wants you there for your labour. Pretty much. Well, half-half. Yeah, I did think about it. And I was like, oh, Nadia's just such a lovely person. She probably deep down didn't really want me turning up on her doorstep.

No, I wouldn't say that if I didn't mean it. That's right. I wouldn't say that if I didn't mean it. I don't let him turn up on my doorstep, Nadia. Yeah, I still don't know where he lives. He hasn't told me. Now, Nadia, this is your second children's book you've released, which is very cool because it was written about and it's based around

who we just heard in the background. Oh, here we go. That was Marvin's dad. So Marvin the Chicken. Inspired by a true story, this one's called Marvin Makes a Friend. It's a sequel, a follow-up to your first book. It's very cool, a kid's book. Yeah.

Yeah, last year I wrote a kid's picture book about Marvin, who was the chick that I hatched in my cake tin in the middle of winter last year. And it was actually a miracle that he hatched. My husband, who's a farmer, Carlos, was like, oh, he's such a townie. That's not going to work. And he was just laughing his head off at me. And I was like, well, he's such a townie. That's not going to work. And he was just laughing his head off at me. And I was like, well, it's worth a try. And then sure enough, one out of the four eggs that I'd saved

and put in the cake tin hatched. It was incredible. And so I named him Marvin. I just had a feeling that he was going to be a boy, and I turned out to be right. And I hand-reared him for the first, like, 12 weeks of his life or so. The book is about Marvin, and he's got no friends. Yeah, well, he didn't have friends

to begin with, but now I'm looking at him right now and he's looking at me, but now he has assimilated with the rest of the flock. They've now included him. Spoiler alert, that's obviously how the book ends.

Marvin makes friends? Yeah. All the other characters in the book, like Parker the cow and Athena the lamb, Harvey the hawk, Millie the goat, they're all real characters Athena the lamb, Harvey the hawk, Millie the goat, they're all real characters from the farm. Nadia, would you do us an honour?

Yeah. Would you at some stage name some animals Jono and Ben? Oh, yeah. Yes, I reckon. You decide. You decide at some stage over your farming career, however long that lasts. Definitely.

If you find a couple that pretty much they stick together, they may be a little bit annoying, I don't know, whatever. Maybe it's rather unconditional. Yeah, exactly. Let us know. We'll come down, we'll visit you and come meet Jono and Ben, whatever they happen to be. Okay.

I'm thinking, would they be donkeys, do you think? It's up to you. Yeah, we could have Jono and Hen. It's over to you, Nadia. Yeah, I'm so doing that. Now, one thing we wanted to pitch to you, we've turned, before we've taken an iconic New Zealand book and we've turned it into a rap, now a rap song.

Now, we did a Scarface Claw. Now, we wanted to play you this and then say, do we have your permission to maybe go away and work on a version for you or not? It's up to you, okay? Yes, i would be over the moon and i remember the scarface um claw song that you rapped that you did i loved it oh god okay well we'll play a little bit to bring the audience up to speed here's how it went

who is the roughest and toughest of cats the boldest the bra, the fiercest of cats. Wicked of eye and fiendish of paw. Mighty, magnificent Scarface Claw. Yeah, so that was how that went. You're okay now if we go away and work on a version for you? Oh, I think Marvin would just be so honoured. Marvin, they're going to do a rap about you. Not many words rhyme with Marvin, okay. Just have a look here.

A Marvin Gaye maybe we could do Let's Get It On or something like that. Not many words rhyme with Marvin. Okay. Yeah. Just having a look here. Okay. We'll look. Marvin Gaye, maybe we could do Let's Get It On or something like that. I'm not sure. Oh, yeah. Nadia Lim, thank you very much for your time this morning. You have a good Christmas.

Yeah, you too, guys. And make sure you do contact me when you're down. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is The B**** News. Yeah, the wonderful part of the show. And I always wonder if you're first waking up, if this is the first thing you actually hear.

Juliet talking about some obscure story from a Russian lady giving birth to a squirrel or something. Yeah, the stories are a little bit like that. But these are all actual news stories that we say. Some of them sound really unbelievable, but they're all true. So I've beeped out a couple of words. You guys have to guess what the headline is. Your first news story. Canterbury sheep named Bert is amassing millions of...

I'm going to go amassing millions of swipe rights on New Zealand Tinder. Very popular, the sheep, isn't it? Yeah. I'm going to go Canterbury sheep named Bert is amassing millions of followers on Instalamb. Most popular social media sheep we have here in Aotearoa. Canterbury sheep named Bert is amassing millions of TikTok fans. Now, if you haven't seen this TikTok account, you literally have to. It's the cutest thing ever.

So he lives on a farm in the Banks Peninsula and he's been raised by his owner from when he was a lamb. So he's kind of been trained like a dog. He wears sunglasses. He goes around and, like, eats the houseplants and everything like that. And one of the videos that has got 34 million views, it's the most popular on the account. 34 million? Wow. Yeah, it shows him patiently waiting at the door,

looking through the glass window, like really wanting to be let in, and it's a really emotional song playing in the background. And then the actual dog, the pet dog is sitting inside, and he's like staring at the dog, just wishing to be inside. It's literally the saddest video you'll ever watch, but it's so cute. It's good we needed a famous sheep.

Shrek passed away many years ago, and we've been struggling ever since, haven't we? Yeah. And so the TikTok account is called Burt underscore Chop. If you've got free time, go to that TikTok account. And if you have other more important things to do in your day, well, you can continue on with those. Yeah, fair.

English Pub offers customers 50% off their meal if they... I'm going to say if they order half of it. Do the maths. Yeah. I'm going to say they offer 50% off the meal if the customers pay 150% for it. English pub offers customers 50% off their meal if they lock their phones away. So this is the pubs. They're hoping that it will bring sort of a calmer environment.

People won't be loud and obnoxious talking on their phones. They want people to actually sit down and have a meal with their family or friends and actually engage properly, but you actually literally have to lock them in a cage. I haven't been into a bar or restaurant and gone, jeez, everyone's being loud and obnoxious on their phones before. Talking at the level where you need to ban phones. But it's probably that everyone is on their phones,

so whether they're checking their phones or whether they're filming or taking photos and stuff. What do they want you to do to engage with the people that you're sitting with have you ever heard of that I guess it's kind of a game where everyone

if you're having dinner together and you're out somewhere everyone puts their phones in the middle of the table and the first person to pick up their phone has to pay for dinner

oh my god genius but I would be I'd be paying for dinner every time and the final news story. Band named Ommicron find new levels of fame. Oh, I don't know. I'm just going to go with Rubber, because Rubber Band

is a good name for a band. So, I'm going to go band named Omicron Variant has found new levels of fame on the internet. Band named Omicron find new levels of fame. Well done. But upon further research it seems there are two bands called Omicron. So one is from Belgium that are still together,

and the other is from Hong Kong who split up a while ago, but now they're reaching out to each other being like, yo, we're getting clicks all of a sudden, like, should we reunite? Get the band back together. Are they sort of heavy metal bands? One of them is a heavy metal band, and one of them I think is some sort of rock band. So, yeah, jeans.

That was the thing when ISIS became a thing too. A lot of people were named ISIS. It was a very popular name. There's a car called an ISIS as well too. SARS. There was a drink called SARS. I feel sorry for people that had the name Delta, because Delta's an awesome name.

It just got tarnished with the virus. I feel sorry for people that had the name Delta, because Delta's an awesome name, you know? It just got tarnished with this, you know, the virus. A lot of brand damage this virus brings along, doesn't it? I know. And that is the news and beats for you this morning. Scrolling through your feed. No matter what traffic light system you're in, this guy is always on green and ready to give you the news, Ben Boyce. Well, Christopher Luxon is, of course, the new National Party leader as of last week. We actually spoke to him last

week. Very interesting. Of course, he was the head of Air New Zealand, and he got to even hang out with Obama in Chicago and have dinner with him. Yeah, a big fan of Obama, actually. And when I was living in Chicago, I'd sort of met him once or twice, just as part of a campaign. And we did have a great dinner with him, actually.

He was just a really regular sort of guy and just exactly what you'd hope. When you meet your heroes, you sort of hope they're going to be the same people in private as they are in public. And that's very much the case. He wants to base his leadership style on Obama, which is great.

Well, I mean, if you're going to pick any leader to base it off... More Obama than less Trump, I imagine. Imagine if he came in, oh, he's a huge fan of Trump. Just the way he ran their country, you know, picked his team, aka his entire family, to run the White House. I want to get a bit of a nickname for Chris Luxon.

We tried Rudy Judy and, you know, a couple of names for Judith Collins. Crylux, I think, is working well. Chris Luxon. It's a combination of both. You know how they like to morph celebrity names together. Yeah, gotcha. Crylux, do you think that's... It sounds like he's very tearful, I guess Oh, he's crying a lot

Yeah, that's the first thing I think of when you say Krylux I just feel like someone crying Yeah, true Yeah, right If he starts crying, I reckon we should call him Krylux Yeah What about Deluxe? Deluxe?

Oh, yeah You like Deluxe? I just think of the Luxinator For some reason Yeah Yeah, alright, back to the drawing? I just think of the Luxinator for some reason. All right, back to the drawing board. I mean, the hippo got some traction with Chris Hipkins. You still love the hippo, don't you? I do love the hippo.

Yeah, he doesn't. No, he kind of put me off a little bit when someone went, I don't particularly like that as much. But you're a big campaigner for the hippo. Correct. As well as that, Christopher Luxon has announced his new National Party. Basically, who have got the jobs in his new line-up? Simon Bridges

is in at number three. Judith Collins has dropped 18 places to rank to 19. But you understand, that's probably what's going to happen. Well, you probably don't, yeah. Does she just go, oh, listen, here's my here's my pass. Shall I just check out and be a lawyer? Because she's a lawyer. She can probably go off and be a lawyer and earn millions of dollars.

Don't lawyers earn millions of dollars? They sound like they earn millions of dollars. I imagine they do quite a lot, you're right. She could be a lawyer. I mean, she'd be battling away in Parliament for a while, hasn't she? Well, there's three former leaders in the National Party line-up at the moment, which maybe is not a bad thing, but according to Jacinda Ardern, she was wanting to let it known that maybe it's hard for Christopher Luxon. I don't imagine

it's easy to manage a caucus where you have three past leaders within it, so that can't be an easy job. So I do wish him good luck. Does she wish him good luck, or is that what I was... A bit of a pre-game burn. Yeah. But would you rather have that experience

than not, you know, to lose that experience, wouldn't you? Yeah. Well, listen, I've never done politics, so I don't have any experience than not, you know, to lose that experience, wouldn't you? Yeah. Well, listen, I've never done politics, so I don't have any answer to that question. But thank you for throwing it to me. Yeah. But yeah, so that's the big news out of politics yesterday. So it's they going toe-to-toe today in Parliament, are they?

For the first time. Yeah. Which up? What are they? I mean, what are they going to talk about? Well, if Christopher Lux and if you could cry, then it would make my nickname Cry Lux more appropriate. I'll back you on that one. As soon as he starts crying, Cry Lux is the name.

Until then, what was the Lux? Deluxe or something? Yeah, Deluxe. Deluxe. The Lux Deluxe. The Lux Deluxe works well. Lux Deluxe. Yeah, but maybe if Jacinda Ardern says something mean to him,

he starts getting a bit teary today, then Cry Lux will live on. Will Obama ever cry? Because if he's looking up to his hero, Obama, then maybe that'll happen. Cry Lux. Have you ever seen a leader cry? Never. I've never seen one cry.

That would be quite... Not in public. Quite good, though, in a debate, wouldn't it? Oh, yeah, that'd be satisfying. Good luck with the three other ex-leaders there. You'd be like, oh, stop bullying Chris Luxon. Yeah, that'd be a good technique.

It would be. The crier. And all the debates when it comes out, well, you said this. No, I'm sorry. Start crying. Spy. No, what's up? Spy.co.nz.

Now, she's worked her way up the gossip newsletter for many years. Juliette was a celebrity reporter in Gore, didn't you? That's where you cut your chops in the gory details tabloid down there. Now she's reached the lofty heights of the hits spy entertainment news. So before we get to the Adele story about how she doesn't have the passwords to her social media accounts, I would like to just mention it's come out that HBO spent over $30 million on a Game of Thrones prequel, which was then axed after the first episode. So the prequel was meant to be set thousands of years before the Game of Thrones as we know it.

They saw the first cut of it, spent all that money on the casting, the set and everything, and then decided it wasn't very good and so axed it. $30 million down the drain wow unfortunate but that just makes you realise how much money goes into these

series yeah good investment though isn't it 30 mil just to see if something's going to work or not that would scare me was it a pilot episode

yeah it was a pilot episode well I suppose how much was each episode of Game of Thrones it was probably around about that I imagine true that's very true I haven't looked into that ever I mean I don't episode of Game of Thrones? It was probably around about that, I imagine. True. That's very true.

I haven't looked into that ever. I mean, I don't imagine making Game of Thrones would be very cheap. Well, I couldn't think of anything better that money could go towards. 30 million. I had a budget of 10 million episode Game of Thrones. Oh, okay. So, you know, they put all the chips in on this one, didn't they? Yeah.

You would have thought they would have backed it in, you know? I know. Because it was a huge show the first time around. Yeah. But I think they've now got an upcoming spin-off, House of Dragon, instead, which is they're focusing their money on that. I thought they'd pump 60 million to that just to see how it goes. And Adele, she has revealed that she doesn't know the passwords to her social media accounts. So her team generally were worried about what she might share if she, A, got drunk or B, got annoyed.

Um, but then last year during the depths of lockdown, I think America, they were in obviously a longer lockdown than us. Um, a lot of people were on social media. And so they said, you know, for lockdown, you can have your social media back because it might help you out. You can, I mean, it might cure boredom. And then what she did is she posted kind of a controversial photo from a Notting Hill carnival, which sparked a little bit of outrage. It got quite a lot of criticism online. And so her team were like, oh, nope, we'll take those passwords back off you again. And so now she doesn't have her passwords to any Instagram or Twitter or anything.

Well, yeah, because I know she should have a few wines and then fire off some late night posts. So then that was the first time they got taken off. Are they not her accounts? Yeah, you would have thought they would be her accounts. She's like, my name's on those accounts. Yeah, I know. Maybe she could get the aspect ratio wrong like you do, John. I can never figure it out. That's alright. This video meant to be like,

it's up and down, it's sideways. Why have they got options of doing up and down and sideways? It's 2021. I know. I know. They have actually

now finally you can post square videos longer than a minute on Instagram. You had to change that. Oh my god.

None of that means anything to me. I've given it a bash and I'm constantly making the same mistakes. You're making progress though. It's good.

Yeah. There was a period there where I was having to post stuff for our TV show and every day I was putting up videos that were the wrong ratio

and I'd get told off every day by the director. That's fine. That's great, well done. You don't need to see the stuff. Take his passwords off him that's what I say.

And that is Spy for this morning. For more you can head to thehits.co.nz Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some might say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.

Appropriately just played Bieber because we've designated a part of the program every now and then to Justin Bieber called What Do You Mean? where we take a look at popular sayings and colloquialisms and we try and figure out, we have a guess as to what the history is on them. And today, this is one that we were talking about after the show yesterday, Ben. Beat around the bush. Which is an unusual phrase, isn't it? Beating around the bush.

You said it yesterday on the radio show. This is what happens. Someone will just say a saying that we all probably say from time to time and you're like what does that actually mean and I think during the show John yesterday

you said I won't beat around the bush and then you went into the saying mainly because it's unusual yeah and we're like what does that actually mean what is the origin

of that saying so we like to guess what it is and then we google it none of us have googled what the actual origin is and we'll find out together I really like this part of the show because you get all these tidbits of information,

but I instantly forget. It's like when someone goes, can you tell a joke? And my brain has deleted every joke that I've ever heard. But okay, this will interest us mildly for the next two minutes. But beat around the bush, obviously it means don't muck around. Get straight to the chase. Yeah, I won't beat around the bush. I'll get straight to it.

Yeah, okay, hedge your bets. Get straight to the chase. Yeah, I won't beat around the bush. I'll get straight to it. Yeah. Okay, heed your bets. What do you think the origins are? So we will beat around the bush because we're all going to take a long way to get into the answer. All right, without comedy answers, I'm from Wairarapa Bush, you know, so I thought maybe it was back in the day where you didn't want to fight anyone from Wairarapa Bush, you know. So don't beat around the bush. So you're like, oh, you don't want to beat around the bush.

Maybe you could fight someone from Kapiti region. You could beat the Amazia. But not from Wairarapa Bush. So maybe that was it. You don't want to beat around the bush. So that's your genuine attempt. I just needed Taui to fill in time.

Juliet, you're up. I'm going to guess that back in the day, in the olden days, people were playing a game of cricket and they lost the ball and they were beating around the bush with the bat and they were like, where's the cricket ball? And then they were saying, don't beat around the bush because there might be animals in there and you might hurt an animal.

Oh, okay. All right, that's a pretty solid guess. That's actually not bad. As is the theme with these. John and Ben do two stupid ones and Juliet has a good genuine stab at it. I'm going to go say someone was employed back in the day to trim the bushes of an estate and they spent the day

sort of beating around the bush with the secateurs, not knowing. They're on debut in the gardening game and at the end of the day, they're like, what's happened to the bush? What's happened? I spent all day beating around it. You should have been cutting it.

Cutting it, yeah. Okay, so let's go and get the real answer. Let's have a go. I haven't looked just yet. Have you had a look yet, Ben? No, I haven't actually. Okay, beat around the bush. Okay, Juliette, you are the closest.

Really? Who would have thought it had nothing to do with a lacklustre gardener in the Wairarapa bush. But it was back in the day when they were hunting. And they would have members on the team of the hunting crew who would try and get the animals out of the bush. And so to get them out to shoot them. So they beat around the bush. Beat around the bush to then not obviously hurt the animals because then they would hurt them later once they'd shot them so you don't

want to whack them on the head or anything that's just inhumane uh which has nothing to do with the actual saying of don't muck around yeah you're right because if anything that's not even related another step in the process so you don't beat around the bush is not going there yeah oh okay well there we go. We've got the origin of that. If anything, I've ended up more confused than we began with. Me too. So somewhere along the line, it became a message about don't mess around.

But then you are messing around because you could have killed the animal by knocking it on the head. So maybe beating around the bush is messing around. Anyway, we're very confused by today's What Do You Mean? Yeah, well, we've beat around the bush for too long. I'm beating around the bush is messing around. Anyway, we're very confused by today's What Do You Mean? Yeah, well, we've beat around the bush for too long. We'll beat around the bush now. It is the hits. You got Jono a bit. Jono and Ben, the hits.

Now, tomorrow, Jono and I, we're going to be on the roof, the stadium roof of Eden Park, and shooting down basketballs to a hoop on the field. We need to nail two shots. It's never been done before, let alone twice. And if we do it, amazing prize, thanks to Aidan Park. And some cash as well will be won. But we wanted some advice from an expert. Yeah, that's right.

So we've managed to track down a former breaker. He played for New Zealand Tallbacks, went to the Olympics and everything, almost won the World Championships with the Tallblacks as well. Now he's the CEO, the big dog, at Basketball New Zealand, Dylan Belcher. Welcome. Pleasure. Good voice.

So, you know, the word has travelled, obviously, to the lofty heights of basketball management in New Zealand. So, Jono and Ben are about to change the game. I hear that. I hear that. Tell me all about it. Well, we're going to be up there on the roof at Eden Park, shooting basketballs from the stadium roof down onto the field, where our we're going to be up there on the roof at Eden Park, shooting basketballs from the stadium roof down

onto the field where our hoop's going to be, and we've got to nail two shots to unlock a pretty cool prize that we can give away, and so we thought we'd come to you and basically try and get some advice from you. Well, the best thing that I think's happened this morning is, you know, there's not a lot of wind this morning, so that's going to play in your

favour, obviously, although it may have even helped you, because it's probably with your guys' accuracy, it's probably the win might have actually helped. Yeah. To be fair. What I appreciate, a story that Ben tells a lot about you, Dylan Boucher, is when you were playing for the Breakers, you were also the head of corporate hospitality. Correct, yeah.

We like to think that you were on the court playing the game, but also worrying if table four had their spring rolls or not yet. Exactly, exactly. And when it was empty, I was always worried about what happened. Did I forget to send in the tickets or what happened? You were like at the free throw line thinking, oh, table 36 didn't turn up tonight. That was my excuse for missing free throws at the end.

Only player calling time. Time out, there's no table nine, needs more drinks, guys. Do you get nervous in a situation like that? Because I would just crumble. When the whole stadium, your team, all the pressure's on. I think anyone who lies when they say you're not nervous, there's obviously nerves that go with it. But you do go into a calming space yourself when you've spent hours and hours

at the free throw line of training and you've gone through your routine. That's why it's really important when you're teaching kids, stick with your routine, stick with your routine, because when the pressure's on, you just go back to your natural routine. And so, yeah, obviously, you know, the old saying, where everything goes quiet, it kind of felt like that. It was a pretty raucous crowd, and it did kind of go quiet for a bit, just because you're so focused on what you have to do.

I just talk myself through your routine of what you've got to do. It's obviously different to a game. Once you step into a game that pressure is real. We'll be feeling that pressure tomorrow. I'm starting to feel that pressure now. We haven't done it thousands of times before so who knows what's going to happen.

The most important thing I think you need to do is hold your follow through when you shoot it. Hold your follow through. So at least if it goes in, it looks like it was on purpose. It doesn't look like it was just a fluke. So hold your follow through. Oh, that's when you've got your arm up in the air. Yeah, I've seen that.

So obviously you had a great career. You've got a bit of time now to reflect back on it. Was there a highlight for you? I mean, there was the Tall Blacks World Championship, I remember. You guys got fourth, which was pretty incredible. Yeah, that was a pretty special moment, pretty special team. And, you know, that team kind of went on and had some really lofty heights at international level.

And probably the biggest pinnacle for me and something I dreamed of as a kid was going to the Olympics. And obviously being able to walk around that opening ceremony, running around the track with all the best athletes in the world was something that I dreamed of as a kid, not as a basketball player but as a 100 metre sprinter so the fact that I got to be at the Olympics was

a huge achievement. Did you do a little sprint on the track while you were on it? Absolutely dance like you do you know rip the dress pants you're wearing Hey Usain Bolt Quickly go And how big are your feet Dylan if you don't mind me asking I'm only a size 13

So today's day That was big back in the day Today's day and age you know you've got kids 14 and 15 year olds With size 15, 16 feet Wow Who's the biggest basketballer that you've encountered Like face to face or you know In your travels

Yao Ming hands down Yao Ming was a giant you know, in your travels? Yao Ming, hands down. Yao Ming was a giant. You know, I think he was 7'6". 7'6"? Yeah, he played in the NBA. How big was his feet? I think he was 21. 21?

Jeez. Jeez. Wow. You're not dotting down to number one shoes, too. No. 21. How do you defend against someone like that? Do you ever get to play him? You're not dotting down to number one shoes to 21. How do you defend against someone like that?

Do you ever get to play him? The hardest thing is, when we played Yao, we used to try and physically smash him so he couldn't get close to the hoop. But he's such a big man. He's probably 150 kilos, and he was in shape. It wasn't like he's overweight or anything. He's just a big bone, big, strong man. And so when he's running at full speed towards you

and you're trying to hold him out of the key and get him away from the hoop, it's a pretty tough task. It was like he was almost manufactured in a laboratory. That's incredible, eh? He's trying to pay for China, doesn't he? Yeah, he's trying to pay for China, yeah. That is incredible. Size 21.

If it was Stephen Adams, he'd be about an 18, wouldn't he? Yeah, I think he is an 18. Yeah, you're right. I don't know why I knew Stephen Adams' shoe size. What's Stephen Adams? He'd be about an 18, wouldn't he? Yeah, I think he is an 18. Yeah, you're right. I don't know why I knew Stephen Adams' shoe size. It's a bit creepy. Do you know it in US or European sizes, John? Oh, the Europeans confuse me. Oh, Dylan Boucher, hey, listen, thank you for your time.

Thank you for your advice. It was lovely catching up with you, and you have a great Christmas. Yeah, you too, and good luck with the shop. There you go, Dylan Boucher. And don't forget, you can head to EdenPark.co.nz for their Christmas event calendar with amazing event details and prizes. We've got $5,000 on the way very shortly.

It is the hits. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It's our game of word association. We play it every morning at this time on the hits. We tell you five words, you tell us what pops into your head, and if your five words match up with our five words, you tell us what pops into your head and if your five words match up with our five words, you win $5,000.

Kayla, come on in to New Zealand's breakfast from New Plymouth, Morena. Morning. How are you? Let's try and win you $5,000 or at the very least $0. Those are the two options that we have ahead of us today. Five grand, a lot of cash. What would you do

with it, Kayla? Well, we're going down to the South Island hopefully, so that and Christmas. Christmas is arriving very, very fast. Yeah, $5,000 would certainly go a long way. You're a preschool teacher. Yes. Okay, now

I have no follow-up questions when it comes to your occupation, but I do have a question. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth? Juliet. Oh! Producer Juliet. Ooh, scary. Good luck. Kayla's Christmas and holiday is on the line here, Juliet,

as she heads into the soundproof booth. One of the hardest working booths in the game, that one, apart from the one that Superman gets dressed in. That's doing a lot of heavy lifting in the booth game But let's try and win you $5,000 Alright Kayla your first word this morning Is Bambi

Bambi A deer? Yeah that seems like the obvious one for that one Pedestrian is word number two Pedestrian Crossing? I'm two from two with you right now, Cody. Yeah, I would be the same.

Yeah, you must be regretting not sending John or Ben in there today. But we'll move on. Knife is word number three. K-N-I-F-E, knife. Fork. Knife and a fork. I'm three from three. Yeah, all right.

We'll see how you go on this one. Tofu. T-O-F-U, tofu. Oh. Yeah. I-F-U. Tofu. Oh. Yeah. I've never even ate tofu. Can we come back to that one? Yeah, we can come back to tofu.

I've got the same answer as her, too. Come back. Charity is the final word this morning. Charity. These are tough. Two tough last words I am tossing I'm thinking of fundraising and trust

Oh yeah Maybe trust Charity trust Charity trust Okay Then we'll jump back to tofu Tofu One of the most unsettling

Disturbing foods on the to tofu. Tofu. One of the most unsettling, disturbing foods on the menu, I feel, tofu is. But I don't know what you'd call it. Have you got one in your head, Ben? Potentially, potentially, because it's like, yeah, but I don't know if that's what Juliet would go for. If you go, well, I'm not going to have that because I don't eat meat, so maybe I'd have a tofu. Maybe I'm thinking along those. But I don't know. What that person would be lab have that because I don't eat meat, so maybe I'd have a tofu. Maybe I'm thinking along those.

But I don't know. What that person would be labelled. But I don't know. That's what popped into my head. But, yeah. I actually don't know. Not chicken is obviously the other one. When you're like, oh, this is not chicken when it's in a dish.

I don't know. I'm just going to go vegetarian. That's what I had. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Yeah, you did well, Kayla. That's right. And isn't it really unsettling when you do eat a piece of tofu thinking you're getting chicken in your mouth?

Yeah, it's actually really, I actually like tofu, but you're right, when you think it's something else, you're like, oh, this is not what I thought. Hey, well done. You did well, Kayla. A couple of toughies of four and five there, but you made it through. And let's unleash Juliet from the Soundproof booth

to match five words for you and $5,000 cash. Juliet, I noticed you're wearing more office-appropriate attire now. Yeah, I am. What is this? She used to come for the last two months in track pants, didn't she, Ben Lewis? Yeah, or sports gear. Now I'm like, more people are coming in the office, so I should probably present myself a bit better.

Yeah, well, hey, we don't judge. We don't judge clothing. Management do, though, so that's why you're doing it. Yeah. Hey, Kayla, let's try and win your 5K, all right? Awesome. All right, first word we said to Kayla was Bambi. What do you say to that? Deer?

Yeah, well done. One from five. Pedestrian was word number two. Pedestrian? Crossing. Ooh, this is a good start. She's on fire. Knife is word number three.

Knife. Fork. I reckon it's that new office-appropriate blouse she's wearing. She's come with a game on her hands here, Kayla. Three from three. What's going through your mind, mate? Fingers crossed, but I know how this goes. Yeah, you're right.

We've been here before. It's always that one. Okay. Tofu is word number four. Tofu. Tofu? Yeah. Oh, my God.

Yeah. That is hard. Yeah, we struggled a bit on this one. Oh, my gosh. Producer B-Hubs, don't ever put the word tofu in again. What are you... I don't even... Oh, my goodness.

Sucking up way too much air time, tofu. Maybe like... Oh, my goodness. Can we cometime tofu maybe like oh my goodness can we come back you can come back sorry that's so hard we'll let frog ahead charity is the final word charity um donation what's the point don't even bother going back come back to tofu what would you say vegetarian oh yeah oh my goodness that is a hard word. Kayla, you had a tough one on your hands towards the tail end there. Yes, it was... Donation makes sense, though.

Sorry, Kayla. It's fine. That's all right. Listen, you go and be the best preschool teacher you can be today. Awesome, thank you. And thank you so much for listening to the program. We appreciate it. Back tomorrow morning, 7.45.

Thanks, me. Spy. The WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. All thank you so much for listening to the program. We appreciate it. Back tomorrow morning, 7.45. Thanks, mate. Spy, the WhatsApp spy.co.nz. All right, time now for radio's biggest gossip session with three nattering nannies, John, Oben, and Juliet. What's happening, Ju? So the first Harry Potter reunion teaser video has come out, and oh my goodness, I think I nearly fainted when I watched it. I am so excited

I literally can't even deal. So this is like a Friends style, they'll sit around and go, geez we had fun time doing that sort of thing Yep, so it'll be basically, that's what I imagine it seems kind of like Friends reunion vibes, but the teaser video showed Hagrid, Arthur Weasley and Neville Longbottom getting their

Hogwarts invitation, like an invitation letter, but to the reunion instead of, like, to the school. Oh, nice. Oh, my goodness, so excited. Has Harry Potter moved out from under the stairs? Oh, you'd hope so. You'd hope so. He's the greatest wizard of all time.

Mind you, in central Auckland, that under staircase is probably worth around about $4,000. Yeah, that's actually very true. So it's going to be coming out on the 1st of January next year, and it's with HBO Max, which usually in New Zealand translates to Sky, Go or Neon. I tried to find some more details on where exactly, but I don't think that's come out yet. But I'm sure with time we'll figure out where to watch it in New Zealand. I can't wait till we do the hits, Jono and Ben breakfast show reunion for HBO Max in 10 years' time.

We all sit down and go remember that time you said the time Ben yeah that was oh great times same time a bit of a weather update and the COVID number updates yeah good times

the memories oh that'll be exciting though I know so it's been how long since they've all sort of been together in the same location well so

actually I don't know that but I think the reason why they're doing it is because it's been 20 years since the first film came out but I think I think the last film came out maybe 2011 or so.

So maybe it's been about 10 years since the final movie. It's one of those movies, the franchise and the books, they span the generations, don't they? Yeah, totally. I'm going to be making my future children read it, whether they like it or not. Mum, we hate this one. Read it. I don't care. This is the worst day of my life.

And Prince William has kind of given a bit more insight into him and his children's lives. Every morning he says that he plays his kids music so they can wake up and have a bit of a dance party together. George and Charlotte always have arguments about what songs they want to play, so every day they have to alternate on who picks the song. But currently they're loving a couple, a few bands slash artists

that are very surprising that you wouldn't expect George and Charlotte to listen to. First of all, you've got Shakira. I'm on tonight, you know my hips don't lie. I'm dancing to that. They're dancing to my hips, don't lie. Yeah, yeah. Or hips.

Hips never lie, do they? And then ACDC. Oh, yeah. That's a good song never lie, do they? And then ACDC. Oh, yeah. That's a good song. And simply the best, Tina Turner. Ironically, being Prince William,

he's probably had ACDC, Shakira, and Tina Turner all perform them live in the lounge. They've had to wait there overnight for when the kids wake up.

That is true. I'd expect them, though, to be into more of the TikTok songs, but it's good that they're into a bit of traditional music, I guess you could say. Yeah, they're basically,

they've got the musical taste of a 45-year-old Hamiltonian lady. I thought they'd just listen to I Just Can't Wait To Be King from the Lion King. Oh, that is good. William's favourite song. We're like, play it again.

Put it on repeat. And George is like, oh, it's the other siblings, this means nothing to you. That is Spy for the South. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Resene, your home of Kiwi-made paints and colours this summer, presents Jono and Ben's $10,000 Mystery Colour Mix.

Yeah, help us guess what has been described as a summer item in the Resene paint tin to win up to $10,000. Well, it started at $10,000 yesterday. For every incorrect answer, we took $100 off. So now we're at $9,500 thanks to Resene. And if you guess what the item is, you could win that. It's in this paint tin. Not the type of tin he's been used to dealing with,

but he's got some other ones in his daily regime at the moment. Now, Producer B Humpshy, the only person who knows what this item is. And you've said it's a summer item. You've also said if we want a clue, it'll cost how much? $500.

Now, you burnt through $400 yesterday, didn't you? So we're down to, this next guess is worth $9,500. Right. So would you like a clue? I guess is worth $9,500. Right. So would you like a clue? I don't know. It's not clue time.

No, I feel like it's a waste of money, right? When you say it's a summer item, how summery are we talking? It's definitely something that you use over summer, but it's not exclusive. You can use it any time of the year. Careful, guys, I don't want to, that sounds like it might be a clue.

Oh, okay, yeah, true. Right. Yeah, that question sounds like it's be a clue. Oh, okay. Yeah, true. Right. Yeah, that question sounds like it's a clue. You just took $100 off because I asked you a question. Yeah, well, do you want to ask me a question again? No, I don't. Are you sure? No, I don't.

And I was just worried that that was going to... He just said, how are you? And you're like, there's $100 off the price pool. You're like, we're not even on air. Okay, $100 off. Okay, we're going to go to the phones. If you can guess what it is, Anna, you're going to win this $9,500. What do you think might be in the resin?

Painting. Oh, hi. How are you? Yeah, good, mate. What do you reckon? I am thinking a pair of tongs, but the tongs that don't have the plastic bit on the end. They're just metal all the way. Oh, just raw stainless steel tong.

Is it a pair of tongs? I do like barbecuing all year round, but it's not tongs. Good guess though, good guess. So now we're at $9,500. Still a lot of money. I was listening to a call that we had with a lady who worked for a very

famous celebrity and they go around picking up stray underpants with pairs of tongs recently. So, yeah, tongs, multi-use, multi-purpose during these summer months. Lani from Taupo, welcome. Good morning. It's a summer item, but it can be used outside of the summer months. What is in the paint tin, mate? Oh, I'm thinking of, oh, well, hopefully it's insect repellent.

Oh, yeah, it's a good option. The mozzie repellent. Yeah, because it's for summer but also outside. You get insects all year round. Sorry, Lani. That's okay. That's a really good guess too, that one, Lani, yeah. It's also not the key to Ben's heart that's in there as well.

Summer loving. We'll go to Alan Welcome from New Plymouth. We'll take one more call on this. And so far, we are sitting at $9,300 total on the prize pool. Ellen, what's your guess? A cheese pot of paint. Oh, Rosine. Insider Rosine.

It's Rosine Inception. It's best to do during summer, obviously, but you can do it all year round. Great. Oh, Ellen. That's it, do it all year round. Great. Well, Alan. That's it, is it? Alan. Yeah.

$9,300, unfortunately, isn't yours. Oh, don't do that. That was cheap. Alan, that was such a good guess. That was a really smart clue, I guess. Sorry, well done. Okay, another chance tomorrow as we're slowly getting money down on this. But still an amazing amount of prize thanks to Resene. Summer can get pretty hot, so choose Resene cool colour paints and wood stains and enjoy a cooler finish.

Okay, tomorrow. Do you want a clue now? No, no, no. Not if it's going to cost $500. No, don't. Why don't you just give us a free clue Out of the generosity of your heart Let's put it on social We'll put a poll

Should we get a clue Overwhelmingly he says yes we will But for now I feel like no You could sacrifice calls one morning for a clue So you know the dollar value Would take in calls and incorrect guesses Yeah that's true Let's just ponder this

I don't know why I'm so invested in this I can't win the cash It's fun we don't know what it is taking calls and incorrect guesses. Yeah, that's true. Let's just ponder this. But right now, no, no. I don't know why I'm so invested in this. I can't win the cash. It's fun. We don't know what it is. This is pretty cool. Razine, guess what's inside the paint tin tomorrow. It is the hits.

You've got Jono and Ben. Yeah, yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. The home of yeah, no. She'll be right. And at the end of the day. Jono and Ben.

Breakfast on the hits. Of course, tomorrow after the show, we'll be up on the roof, the day, Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Of course tomorrow after the show we'll be up on the roof, the stadium roof at Eden Park trying to land New Zealand's ultimate trick shot twice. Two shots from shooting basketballs down onto the field into a hoop and we nail both of those.

We'll win, we'll have this giveaway on Thursday an all access pass to Eden Park for $20.22 and $1000 cash. Yeah, great price. Great price. So we're going to have probably about six or seven hours they're allowing us up there for because any longer they'd be like, guys, you're starting to look desperate. We can't have you up there for

this. Yeah, I mean, when the All Blacks book out the stadium, they're like, wait, we're still trying to get the basketballs in. Yeah, they don't take like three days to do it, do they? They just say, this is how long we need the stadium for. Yeah, that's right. So they wanted an allocated time. Fair enough, too, because, you know, it's a functioning stadium. They just can't is how long we need the stadium for. Yeah, that's right. So they wanted an allocated time. Fair enough too, because it's a functioning stadium. They just can't have two idiots attempting to get two

basketballs in for the rest of life. Because we wouldn't leave. We would stay up there and refuse. The Black Caps will be playing Australia cricket and we'll still be throwing balls down into the field. We spoke to a psychic yesterday, just asking her if she thought that we were going to get these balls in.

Here was her response. You'll get one each. We will? We will get it. Yeah. One of you is going to roll your ankles as well while doing it. It'll be Giotto. I've been walking very gingerly. No, not gingerly,

but very carefully. You always roll your ankle though. You're always limping around. Yeah, I've rolled my... Don't sound like that's a new thing, Juliet. I always come in here every week going, oh, I've rolled my ankle. It's lovely.

It gets up and it just hobbles around. It's definitely a retirement age problem. But that's my thing. So I've been walking very carefully. But you're worried your ankle's going to roll, too. Well, because sometimes when psychics do readings or whatever, sometimes they might not get the nail on the head and it might be like a slight different thing

so I'm like what if it's actually bee humps or I that roll our ankle. Yeah so you know we're going to be the most carefully stepping radio show for the next 48 hours. Yeah. No one roll an ankle. Yeah so it's all happening tomorrow after the show you can catch it on our social media as well and then on Thursday all going well we'll have that amazing prize to

give away which will be very cool. Hey, thank you so much for listening to the show. Back tomorrow, we've got $5,000 up for grabs, $7.45, obviously with five words. And this here, it's a Rosene paint tin, which has a summer item in it. If you guess what it is, we've got $9,400 at the moment,

but we lose $100 per guess. It seems quite heavy in there, doesn't it? Yeah. Very similar to a in there, doesn't it? Yeah. Very similar to a sound that would be secretive in nature. Isn't it, Ben Boyce, this competition? Oh, that sounds like someone... I see why they do it. They don't put it in a paint tin.

No, that's right. Yeah, it's completely different. That's right. They don't put it in a paint tin. Okay, it's an embarrassing. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on the hits. put it in a painter. Okay, see you tomorrow for sex.