Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Big Christmas Surprise

Episode Date: December 12, 2021

If you've got sharp ears, you may have noticed Ben mention a few times how much he'd love to interview Michael Bublé. The Drive show interviewed him, and he did the rounds across some other radio stations. So Jono has hatched up a plan for Ben to listen to the same Michael Bublé Christmas song on repeat, until Bublé Zooms us. We'll publish a link and hopefully make enough noise on social media so that he notices! Wish us luck, we could be here til 2025. We also spoke to a guy who is having over 60 people over for Christmas. SIXTY. Finally, Ben has a bone to pick with beetroot. Apparently it has no place in a burger! Enjoy the poddy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, g'day, it's the 13th of December. Jono and Ben here. Ben Boyce, you're looking smart. You've had your mullet renovated. Renovated mullet. Professionally renovated. Yeah.

It was unprofessionally cut by your children. It was. And then you hairdress. You're not sanctioned by the hairdressing association, my kids. Nine out of ten hairdressers said, no, I won't be associated with that. But one brave one took it on board, and they've done a good job fading, you know, mixing, mingling. Yeah. So I'll do it for summer, and then we'll see how you go. But a lot of attention about your hair.

That's really been the talk of the week. It is. Do you know what the first thing I need to do when I leave today is go and buy some clippers. It's been the talk of the week. Every time we put a video up last week, even over the weekend, Jono's here. It's not good hair, though. It's not? You get a lot of hair.

You've got more hair than I think a lot of people expected. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I kind of shaved it. I was one of those guys. I rode out of quite a wispy stage. And then I shaved it sort of mid-20s. And so, you know, with the shaved hair, people assume that you're bald, don't they?

Yeah, they do. Well, if I grow it out, it's not pretty. But you've got a lot it's you know yeah your daughter was she's free where Eden Park threw her balls off

and Indy was just she didn't even care that we got a basketball shot in she was just like John who's going here yeah we didn't get here

when did this happen and every video that we put on social media at Eden Park that's the no one cares about the two shots that we got in. Who knew I just had to grow a bit of hair?

A bit of street talk. That was an amazing video, guys. Oh, thank you. It took us a while to get the... No, no, no. Johnny's hair. Yeah, a lot of people loving it. Maybe I should do a new hair's resolution.

Just see what happens if I keep growing it out. Yeah, it's over to you. It won't be pretty. It won't be pretty. How was your weekend, anyway? Yeah, not too bad. Not too bad. Yourself? Yeah, no good. What did we do pretty. How was your weekend anyway? Not too bad, not too bad. What did we do? Did we do anything eventful? We had a nice picnic

on Friday afternoon. It was lovely. You don't have enough picnics, do you? Summertime is a good time for picnics. We all got told we could have picnics during lockdown as well. I hadn't had a picnic in years. That's what you were saying. You're like, I don't have a picnic. I enjoyed it. You sort of fossick around the park, don't you? I could easily sleep. I could be one of those ones who's like, jeez, that's what you're saying. You're like, I don't pick it. No, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. You sort of fossick around the park, don't you?

Yeah. Lay there. I could easily sleep. I could be one of those ones that's like, jeez, that guy, is he dead? What's he doing?

I was going to say, picnic situation. Hot day, park, you're asleep. I actually made a little deal with myself that, because, you know, this job,

you're not here in the afternoon. I made it like, Friday afternoons during summer, I'm just going to find a park and pass out like a deceased person and just sleep under a tree.

That's what I'm going to do. It's going to be my thing. I can imagine you're a car park, you know, you're parking a car park. Get somewhere early and have a sleep. You know, that's the first thing to do. I do. I'll get there 15 minutes early, but I'll have a little snooze on the side of the road. When I put the kids out from school, I'm sleeping in the car.

And I always am quite aware, hyper-aware of other parents. I'll just be like, has he passed out drunk? What's he doing? And you wake up, because you go deep slumber. You wake up, you're a bit groggy when you first wake up. You have to pick the kids up and deal with other parents. Yeah. Yeah, slurring and sleeping.

But, you know, it was fun. What did you do on the weekend, Ben? We had friends had like a Christmas dinner thing outside. Did you do two from two on the Christmas dinners? Yeah, it was good, actually. It was lovely. You did the ham last week. What did you do this week? Oh, well, we brought along

potato gratin and a broccoli dish. Did you make your own gratin? Yeah, Amanda made, she makes really good potato gratin. It's a very, yeah. I only get a pre-packaged jobby from Countdown. Yeah, no, I've never made mine, but it's one of my favorite dishes. They're very good, yeah. It's one of those things, you know.

What is it? So you lay your scallop in the potatoes, layer them up, but a cream? Yeah, it's got some cream. I think there's a fancy cheese that goes in there and stuff as well, you know. So a little bit of garlic and stuff, yeah. Yeah, jeez, I could eat a few. There was a massive, you know, like dish of gratin,

I could get through the whole thing. It is a wonderful dish. It's a nice summer, you can have it with, you know, like a... And a good addition to bring along to a joint. Yeah, everyone would have appreciated it.

It went, it went, it went. It's one of those things, you notice, you're like, well, we brought along those things,

how has it been received? And that went. There's always that pressure, isn't there? Yeah, you're like, oh, jeez,

there you are. Yeah, that did go as well. My only go-to is, I've? Yeah, you're like, oh, geez, there you are. Yeah, that did go as well. My only go-to is, I've got an Annie Pryor hand-me-down recipe of a potato salad. Oh,

yeah. That's good. That was a crowd favourite at a barbecue. Yeah. But yeah, I'm not, I don't like commandeering

the barbecue at the barbecue. There's too much pressure. I like cooking a barbecue, but on my own terms. On your own terms. Just with your own family. Without people standing around and going,

oh, he's turned the meat again, he shouldn't turn the meat. You know, I feel like pressure. Because there's always that thing, I'll only turn the meat once, but to me that's not enough. I need to have a look. Oh, no, a bit longer on that side. I'll just sizzle it 15 times each. There's a lot of judgmental people that do that.

There are, but there are some very good barbecuists out there, and they take it seriously. You know they mean business when you turn up to a place and they take it seriously. You know, there's, you know, you met, they mean business when you turn up to a place and they've got like, it's like a 40 gallon drum, you know,

but it lifts up. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. People were like the brisket we had. Oh, it's been cooking for nine weeks. It's eight to 30 in the morning. And it was like,

the brisket has been, I was like, geez, they are prepared. The people's place. But you cook it at like very low and slow. Yeah. I was like, wow.

I don't have that much commitment to meat. To put it on three days before I'm going to eat it. I know. I was like, jeez. That was awesome. Was it good? It was really good. Nails in your mouth stuff?

Yeah, it was amazing. It was amazing. But I mean, that's a lot of effort to go to. Chuck some scissors on there for 10 minutes. They're probably satisfied. Yeah. Hey, well, have a great day. Enjoy the podcast.

What did we get up to today? Well, you came up with a wee idea involving Michael Bublé that I think I've committed to doing. It feels like it's going to happen with or without me, mainly with me, but this week. So have a listen to that and tell us how you think it is the podcast. I don't know why I'm wrapping it up. Enjoy. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning. Welcome along to the podcast. I don't know why I'm wrapping it up. Enjoy. New Zealand's breakfast.

This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning. Welcome along to the show. It is a Monday morning. Jono and Ben with you. Hey, very exciting. Guess what this week? Every caller that makes it on air,

every listener we talk to on the airwaves wins a ham. Yeah. We've got so much ham to give away. Like a Christmas ham, which is what a lot of people want this time of year. So thanks to Farmland Foods, quality bacon,

sliced meats, and Christmas hams. We give it every call. Yeah, as you say, get on here, get a ham. It's literal ham radio. This week, it's happening. And if you want to win a ham,

there's no hamstrings attached. You just phone us up. You talk to us. We give you a ham. who has to send out all these hams yeah there's a lot in the back end that we need to uh anyway it's not our problem but uh that's going to be happening this week would you like a ham julia i'd love a ham well done yeah that's how it works it's very exciting as well as that thanks to razine we've we've got over pretty much $8,000. I think it's at the moment to guess what's inside the Resene paint tin. The summer-ish item that's inside the paint tin. Yeah.

James is already calling. Should we give him a hand? Oh, look, you're going to go rogue, aren't you? Yeah, should we give him a hand? James, James, did you want a hand, baby? Do you want a hand, James? I want a hand, Johnny. I want to hold your hand.

I want to hold your ham. I want to hold your ham. Oh, God. Well, this is going to be laden with puns the next five days. Well done, James. You got a ham. Lovely, mate. Thank you very much. There you go.

Christmas Day all sorted. And we could be sorted Christmas Day for you over the next couple of hours. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Christmas, Christmas, just 12 days away, I think. Oh, my God. How's that?

It's really snuck up on us, eh? Guys, this shouldn't come as a surprise. I know. You know, it's December 13th. Oh, you say 12 days. Oh, my goodness. It's gone really quickly. It's been a bizarre year here in the office, hasn't it?

No one's been here for half of it. You ever seen our boss, Todd? He went to Australia in like June to go and see his family for a weekend. He got trapped in their lockdown. Then he was stuck over there. Then when he came back here, he was in MIQ. The day he got out of MIQ, we went into another lockdown. So I don't even know.

I think he's CGI. We haven't seen the guy in the flesh for a very long time. I haven't touched his face for a very long time. Yeah, I know. You're right. It's over 100 days, as everyone talked about. But a big part of the year. Three months of the year. It is. Hey, yesterday afternoon, and I'm sure most people would have felt the same thing, is when

you pull into your, excuse me, driveway, someone's parked outside your house. And you get, immediately, you're suspicious about why someone someone do you find this why someone i know people that do that yeah like why are you outside my house buddy when they're perfectly you know it's not even your place to tell them where to park they're allowed to park on the street yeah it's the council's land but you're like you all get your back up

as to why someone's sitting in their car outside your house you think they're up to all sorts of nonsense like i don't mind because our streets, there's not a lot of car parks. People park outside all the time. I don't have the same problem, but I know there's other people around the neighbourhood that do kind of like, you know. Yeah, you do.

My thing is they're either dealing something, they're either stealing something or feeling something. Those are my three theories of someone parked in a car. Can't they just be visiting someone? I know, that's the thing. They probably are. I remember that time I was parked outside your house something those are my three theories of someone parked in a car they just be visiting someone i know that's the thing they probably are yeah i remember that time i was parked outside your house and i was um waiting to come in to do some work with you but i was a little early and i didn't want to uh you know disrupt the voices routine so i was sitting outside your house and i was just on

my laptop it's a weird thing i did the other day i was waiting for same thing waiting for one of the kids to pick up and i was like oh, pulled out your laptop and put your laptop out in the car. Yeah, that is prime suspicious behaviour. You're like, hold on, what's this pervert doing with a laptop in a car? It's like, I was doing some work, clearing some emails, but like, so you should bring out a laptop. I was like, oh, he's got a laptop out, has he?

In a car. I was judging myself. I was like, this is a bad look. In a car. Yeah. I was judging myself. I was like, this is a bad look. This is a bad look. You know what? It was perfectly legitimate. I remember one of your neighbours actually came out and talked to me. Remember?

And he was very intrigued as to what I was looking at on the laptop. Well, that's what you look like. He knocked on the window. I said, what are you looking at? And this conversation, that was a fair question. You know, if I saw someone, if I saw some pest with a laptop outside my house in a car, I'd be knocking on the window as well. So I had to sort of show my search.

What I've been searching is, oh, yeah, okay, a little bit of blood. That's so random. Next on the show, you can win a whole lot of cash thanks to Rosine, the mystery mix, what is the summer-ish item inside the Rosine paint tin. And just for guessing, you can win a ham. Next, we'll do that thanks to Adele. Thanks to Adele. them inside the Razine paint tin. And just for guessing, you can win a ham. Next. We'll do that. Thanks to Adele.

Thanks to Adele. After Adele. She's not bringing in the hams, guys. Proud ham sponsor, Adele. Oh, jeez. Razine, your home of Kiwi-made paints and colours this summer, presents Jono and Ben's $10,000 Mystery Colour Mix. We're going to do this a couple of times this morning, unless, of course, someone guesses correctly right now,

because this is a very exciting competition. Thanks to Rosene. Guess what's inside the Rosene paint tin. Have a listen. There's a summer-ish item, is what we said. An item they'd use more in summer. There's been a lot of guesses so far. Let's have a listen to some of them.

Is it a jandle? No. I think it's a candy cane. Is it a bolo nut? All right, I'm thinking it's some zinc. Sunscreen. A pair of tongs. Insect repellent.

A chess pot of paint. So the format of this whole competition, which is very exciting, is we started with $10,000. Every guess, incorrect guess, we lose $100 off the prize pool. And on Friday, we spent $500 of the prize money to retrieve another clue. Now, it's an obscene amount of money for a clue, but Ben, boy, you blew a large amount of cash

on Monsters, Inc. inflatable costumes. So I'm not surprised you wanted to blow this money, but we did. So now we're down to what, Producer B-Humps? $7,800. $7,800. And the clue that you did hand out that we're down to what, Producer B-Humps? $7,800. $7,800. And the clue that you did hand out that we paid $500 for? You can't beat it on a good day.

Right. So that along with it's a summery item. Or summerish? Or summery? What are we saying? Summerish. Summerish. You started very confidently a summer item, and now it's been summerish.

No, it's you. It's you to use it more in summer. So now I'm backing out of saying summer item and now it's been summer-ish. It's you to use it more in summer. So now I'm backing out of saying summer item. I'm just saying summer-ish every time. You're definitely packing it on your summer holiday. But would you use it all year round as well? You could do. Okay.

But it's more used in summer. Meh. Okay. Oh my God. These are shocking clues. They are. So we're thinking, now this is not producer B Humpster saying this

because he knows what it is, but we're thinking maybe Wellington is the clue from we can't beat it on a good day, but we don't know if we're right or wrong on that one, so let's take a couple of guesses right now. We've got Sharon in Wellington. You can't beat it on a good day, they say, Sharon. What do you reckon's in the tin, the resin tin?

Sure, the tin. Is it a whisk? A whisk? Hmm. A whisk? A dish whisk. You can beat a whisk on a good day, but that is not correct. That's a really smart guess, though, isn't it?

Good thinking, Sharon. Oh, thank you. Hey, Sharon, you get a ham. Oh, my God. Thank you so much. Thanks to Farmland Foods, we'll give you a ham, all right? Thank you very much. All right, you hold there. Great give you a ham, all right? Thank you very much. All right, you hold there.

We'll hope the ham arrives in time for Christmas. Jeez, a lot of people are going to be thinking about us on Christmas Day with these hams, aren't they? That's nice. I most definitely will. Good on you, Shears. Have a great Christmas. Marilyn, you're on. What's in the Rosene Pinkton, mate?

I think it's a can of pop, you know, a soft drink. It can't be a can of... Oh, like a can of Coke or Sprite or something. Idiot. Okay, Marilyn, I'm going to need you to be more specific than that. Ooh. Oh. She's like, it's 6.19 on a Monday morning, mate.

Okay, you always have it on the questions, you know, when you try and guess them for the 5,000. And you always say Fanta. Fanta? It's not a can of soft drink. Why did you do the lead on? Because when we get down to it, you're going to have to be specific. So I was making a point. Okay. Alright, but you get a ham. You get a ham. Thank you

guys. Yeah, hold the line. We'll send you a ham. Thanks to Farmland Foods. This is very exciting. After 8.30 this morning, your next chance is to try and guess what's inside the Resine paint tin and you could win. What are we up to now? 7,600. Did you want to have a guess between the two of you?

I don't want to waste any money, no. It's not for us to waste money off the prize pool now. I feel like every time we do a guess, you take money off, even with us. Summer can get pretty hot, so choose Razine, cool colour paints and wood stains, and enjoy a cooler finish. It is a hit, so you've got to jump on there. Take a dash of good looks, a dash of hand sanitiser and a dash of news, and that's an early morning cocktail I'd like inside my mouth.

Benjamin Boyce with Scrolling. Now today, the traffic light system's going to be reviewed for the final time before the summer break, so will they change any of the settings? I'm not entirely sure. I mean, who knows what's really going on at the moment. Do you think they'll ease back on restrictions? Yep, I think we'll go into green. You've been saying that. Open the borders.

Shut down MIQ. You've been quite consistent through this. I have. I've made one message all the way through this. No one's rolled with my message, but it's been a consistent one. I'm not going to change and chop like a politician. One message, open the borders. Now, they have previously said that nowhere in the country would

move into the green setting just yet, but I guess there's potential that some of the red settings might go to orange. I thought there was going to be a review on the 17th of Jan or something. Yeah, I think that's when every, I think from here and then it's 17th of Jan. This is the last one to go, hey, well, you know how we said there was going to be an announcement today?

Well, we've got nothing to announce. Yeah, it probably is one of those. Now I'll take questions from Jessica, then Toto. Well, Jacinda Ardern was doing a wee bit of a Christmas run of some questions the other day. Talked a lot about COVID, talked a lot about the recovery after COVID, but also talked to, at the end, you know, the light questions at the end, that's what we focus on here on this show.

A light dusting. When the Prime Minister comes on this show, she gets a light dusting from Jono and Ben. No hard hitters. Well, that again, we like to ask a question. Yeah, we do. But then we notice that we don't ever follow it up like some of the Newstalk ZB.

We just go, oh yeah, and then move on. We just take her answer for gospel. Like, we'll go, you know, what's happening with the... People need to know as a parent. She's like, yeah, well, this is... And then we go, oh, yeah, good answer. On to the next one. And then we carry on.

Yeah, this is why we're not upstairs at ZB. And this is why she's not on ZB. Yeah, exactly, exactly. And more the point. But Jacinda Ardern was asked about Christmas time, and she talked about her love for cheesy Christmas movies one thing that I probably picked up from my mother is I'm always up for a really cheesy Christmas film

so maybe even if I don't have a single one I love cheesy Christmas films do you believe that Die Hard is a Christmas film? it's quite a controversial thing you know it is actually I'm going to put it in a Christmas film, but that doesn't mean it should only be watched at Christmas. So that's probably where I would land on that one.

What's with the weird acoustic guitar music? That's all I could focus on. It does make it sound a lot more sombre. Who's strumming away in the background? Was that part of it? Yeah, it was part of it. Yeah, they put that together. It was the decision for someone.

I didn't even hear a word she was saying. I was just like, this is a strange acoustic guitar music. Yeah, so she's obviously a fan of Christmas movies. She talked about how she loves Home Alone and Die Hard. She was like, it's a Christmas movie, but you can watch it all year round. Elf's my family favourite. Really? Yeah, but then I've tried to introduce the kids to other Will Ferrell

movies and they're all quite at that stage. You know, Elf is certainly... Yeah, a bit more family-friendly. Yeah, but that's probably my favourite. What about you? Yeah, Elf, definitely want to watch every year home alone, and I started watching a little bit of Die Hard again over the weekend.

And it is kind of set. You know, you forget it's set around Christmas. There's a little Christmas stuff going on there. I've never seen it, but is that why they say it's a Christmas movie? Yeah, but then it's an action movie. So you're like, oh, but Christmas time and then there's a Christmas song. All the movies we digest are set in the other hemisphere, middle of winter. I know.

Is there one for this side of the world? What do you mean? A Christmas movie, but based in summer. I think New Zealand. There was one. Yeah, there was like a Kiwi Christmas movie. Yeah, Laura Daniel. Laura Daniel, yeah, was in like a Kiwi summer Christmas movie, but based in summer. I think in New Zealand. There was one. Yeah, there was like a Kiwi Christmas movie. Yeah, yeah, Laura Daniel. Laura Daniel, yeah, was in like a Kiwi summer Christmas movie.

Yeah, oh good, so they've done that. Yeah, good, yeah, yeah, great. I haven't just stumbled across a new idea. Yeah, I thought, geez, here we go. Time to resign. 2022, we're making a summer Christmas movie. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. The Hits presents the Humble Yum Yum podcast with Ganesh Raj.

Thanks to Countdown. You know, Ganesh, from Eat Well for Less, he's got a new podcast out. He talks to a different New Zealand celebrity each week about their food, fame, and what their meal would be, their death row meal would be. It's really, really interesting.

Yeah, it's all thanks to Countdown, and he's with us. Good morning, Ganesh. Hey, bro. How you doing? How you doing? How's the restaurant going? You back in the Good morning, Ganesh. Hey, bro. How you doing? How you doing? How's the restaurant going? You back in the game?

I'm back in the game, bro. I'm back in the game. It's weird. It's like I never left the game. Everyone, everything feels a little bit too normal right now. Too normal. Because you've got your own restaurant out west, the Tasting Shed. Yes, sir.

What is the biggest pain in the butt for a restaurant owner that we wouldn't think about as customers the list is long i gotta i gotta pick out a few that you would never think about um okay i got one i got a pet peeve yeah what's that over the so we have beautiful brass cutlery right we have beautiful... Why is it every year I run out of teaspoons? They go... Well, teaspoons go missing from the restaurant.

Oh, the missing teaspoons end up in handbags, dude. Do they? 11 years now and every year I have to replenish the teaspoons. Really? Teaspoons?

I would have thought teaspoons. But I've never thought about going to a restaurant and taking the cutlery. But I mean, it's there for the taking, isn't it? You're paid for it. Everything's there for the taking.

There's toilet paper. There's some in the bathroom. I mean, what else? Take the tablecloth at the end of the night. Oh, mate. You know, so let's just say that things go walkabout, things that people don't expect go walkabout. I have a question, too.

And you can probably answer this as a chef and restaurateur, Ganesh Raj. When you get a meal, and you go, oh, this isn't what I like, are we within our rights to send it back? And is a chef going to do dastardly things to the meal backstage?

Well, listen, here's the protocol around that. Let me tell you what we do, right? So what we do is we make sure we know what you want. You've ordered it. We put it in front of you. And then we give you about two or three minutes and then we meal check you.

Hey, Jono, is everything okay? And then if you look at me and go, yeah, that's fine. I'm not a mind reader, right? So at that point, I'm assuming everything is okay. If I've seen everything. As New Zealanders, we all say, yeah, that's, I'm assuming everything is okay. If I've seen everything. As New Zealanders, we all say, yeah, that's fine.

That's not my problem. I can't fix that. I can't fix that. For me, it's like, yo, if there's a problem, you've got to tell me. Here's the protocol, though. If something's not right, don't eat half of it and then tell the restaurant that.

Ganesh, one time I went out to your restaurant and I emptied the plate and I said, this meal's not for me. Can I have another one? You know, that was one time. That was the one time. And as you remember, I put you in a headlock and stuck my fingers up your nose and said, apologize, apologize, apologize. Ganesh Raj.

I said, apologize, and everything was fine. From the Humble Yum Yum podcast, you can get it right now on iHeartRadio. Every week he talks to a different Kiwi celeb about food, family and fame. This week, very cool guest, Anita Wiglet. Anita Wiglet, you know, who with Ketamine has Kalootsi, that amazing cabaret bar. It is an icon, it's been there for 25 years.

And the show RuPaul Drag Race, Australian New Zealand edition, kicked in and some of our local drag queens got to take part. Our very own Kiddermin won the entire competition. But Anita wasn't in the competition. I think she came in third or fourth. But Anita is an incredible drag queen.

I went to her show. And you can call her he or her. I asked her, I said, what would you like me to do? And she said, whatever you want. See? That's all you have to do. Just ask people what they want. Just ask people what they want and then they'll say no and they'll bitch about you on TripAdvisor.

You had to bring it back to that. We just got past that, John. Ganesh Raj from the Humble Yum Yum, eat well for less. We've got, as we do every week, we've got a listener on with a question for you. Thanks to Countdown, you need to try and solve their problem. Kirsty, you're on with Ganesh. What's your question? I just want to know, when you put too much salt in something, how can you get rid of that?

Like, fix it. How do you fix it? That's a good question. Hey, so tell me something, Kirsty. Tell me the dish that this happened, and that's probably a better way for me to help you. Okay, so I was just making, you know, the old-fashioned mince stew, and my son had filled the salt for me and hadn't put the lid on properly.

Oh, boy. Oh, prank salt there, isn't it? Yeah, it's good. Your stew is going to thicken up now. So you can't get the salt out, but you're going to dilute the salt. But with a stew, you'd use cream. The cream and maybe a little bit of lemon juice. And I would add that to the mix.

And what you're doing is you're diluting out some of that saltiness by using the fat in the milk and cream. Oh, okay. That's a good idea. And then it helps. So it's a slightly creamier, lighter-looking stew, but at least you're eating it and you're not having to chuck it because there's too much salt in it.

That is a great... Can you fix any meal if it goes south? You can. For example, pasta sauce. Let's call it bolognese. You've cooked it down and it's super salty. What you want to do with that, though, is you want to add a little bit of lemon juice to it to balance out.

Then you want to add a little bit of sugar to it to balance out. And then I would add a little bit of water to it. Kirstie, thank you so much for being part of the show. And guess what? Thanks to Countdown, Kirstie, a $200 voucher coming your way so you can get all your Christmas food sorted. Oh, awesome.

That's great. Thank you. Amazing, Kirsty. You have a great Christmas. And remember, don't worry so much about the people. Cook the best that you can and have a good day. Don't stress about the food. Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you all.

Merry Christmas to you, Kirsty. Oh, this is love. This is the most wholesome thing we've ever done on the show. That was beautiful. Catch Ganesh's new podcast, The Humble Yum Yum. It's on iHeartRadio with Anita Wiglet. You have a great Christmas, Ganesh, if we don't catch up with you beforehand. Thank you, gentlemen.

I appreciate it. Have a great Christmas with your families and friends. And you enjoy the magic of Christmas with Countdown's own range, available in-store and online at countdown.co.nz. She's here to tell it like it is, and if she can't do that, well, then she'll just make it up because there's no consequences. Oh, there. There's no consequences.

We can just say anything. Oh, true. And then it's up to you guys to research to see whether it's true or not. No. Kim Kardashian, she's kind of done a bit of a ruthless thing on Kanye. So a few days ago, Kanye West was performing and changed one of his lyrics to, I need you to run right back to me, more specifically, Kimberly.

Basically begging her to come. Obviously, he's been quite open about the fact that he doesn't want to get divorced. But after that happened, Kim has now filed to be legally single and to drop West from her last name, because she is actually known as Kim Kardashian West. And it's kind of like, oh, okay, that's a big no-no from her. Wow. Yeah.

So he went, he had a bit of a speech, didn't he, saying Jesus doesn't want us to be separated, we need to be a family unit. He's blaming a lot of it on the media and what they've done as well. But he performed with Drake over the weekend, didn't he, Kanye? And they've had some beef, Benjamin? Yes.

They have, actually. Yeah, a little bit of beef. Look at Kanye trying to repair relationships. Yeah, look at, Benjamin. Yes. Haven't we? We have, actually. Yeah, a little bit of beef. A little bit of beef. I've got a car near trying to repair relationships. Yeah, a little bit of go. Yeah. Heading into 2022 as a new man. But she's got Pete Davidson now. Oh, yeah, apparently.

And she gave him a hickey. Oh, yeah. That's when you know things are serious. You never give me a hickey nowadays, Pete. No, not anymore. I had to start it with. Yeah, you would. Hickeys are such an unusual thing, aren't they?

Yeah. Yeah. And who pitches it? Is she like, hey, do you want me to give you a hickey? Or is he like, hey, givekeys are such an unusual thing, aren't they? Yeah. And who pitches it? Is she like, hey, do you want me to give you a hickey? Or is he like, hey, give me a hickey? No, I think it just happens. But also at the same time. Oh, I don't think there is a like.

Because now, as an adult, like as a teenager, you're like, that feels like an acceptable manoeuvre. Yeah. But as an adult, you'd be like, oh, what are you doing? Oh, okay. Oh, you're like, get off. And then the embarrassment of having to come to work with a hickey. Yeah.

Imagine if you turned up with a hickey, Ben. It would be about, as an adult, you'd be like... We'd be talking behind your back. We wouldn't say anything to your face. And Joe Biden has made his first late-night TV appearance since becoming president. How late was it for him, though? Oh, quite late, he would have been. He should have been in bed.

That's what, like, 5.30 for him. Yeah. But then it was a pre-record. Yeah, it should have been in bed. That's what, like, 5.30 for a... Yeah. It was a pre-record. Yeah, it should have been pre-recorded. He went on Jimmy Fallon and I was like, oh, what did Biden

talk about this time? Well, no, I like Joe Biden. But he was talking about the service they get in the White House and the fact that he is a terrible cook.

Jill and I, we come from middle-class backgrounds. We both are college graduates. We worked like hell. We had fathers who didn't go what day. Anyway, the end result was that we're not used to people waiting on us.

And so in the White House, there's somebody to make your breakfast or someone to pack your clothes or someone to carry your bag. We now have a deal, and they're great. The guys who run the kitchen on the second floor, we don't have them come in and do breakfast for us because there's no need for them to have to do breakfast for us. We can make our own eggs or pour a bowl of cereal. You make your own eggs? Well, I don't. Jill does. I love that at the beginning of that he starts

going on a little rant and he was going to go deep into what sort of father he had and you could just imagine someone behind the camera just doing that helicopter. Wrap it up. Back on track Joe. Back on track. Sometimes that's sort of how I feel with you John. I'm like okay he's rambling. Alright wrap it up. Wrap it up.

Back on the road. Bye for this hour. We're going to thehits.co.nz. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben, just gone seven o'clock. Thank you so much for listening to the show this morning. Now, just reading, there was a guy who's been investigated by the Ministry of Health.

Well, trying to track him down, who had had 10 vaccinations in one day. One day? Jeez. I heard of someone who'd been quad vaxxed because they had had a couple of shots overseas, but then that vaccine wasn't recognised here, so then they had to have another two here. Quad vaxxed, but 10 times vaxxed over. Now, this is people understanding that people were paying him to have the vax, so they didn't want to have it, but he was going in under false identification.

Yeah, so I would go in under, well, Ben actually made me do it. So I went under and I said, oh, hi, I'm Ben Boyce, had the shot. And then you would get your vaccine certificate, but not be vaccinated. Ten in a day. That's crazy. They paid him to do it. I know, but still, you're not going to be good after that, you know? Well, because some people do have a mild reaction to one dose of it.

Because your body's like, oh, I'm building up antibodies to fight it. But ten! Ten in a day! Check COVID, COVID's going to be frightened of this person. Yeah, you wonder how much immunity this guy would have. Obviously to a point,

but then it's probably going to go, oh, who knows. He doesn't need boosters for a decade. Yeah. Hey, next, we've got Christmas hams to give away. Every caller that gets on the airwaves wins a ham, and we want to give some away next. For people that are having the largest Christmas, stick around.

That could be yours in just a few moments on the hits. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Hey, we're giving away hams. We've got a lot of hams to get rid of this week. This is the biggest thing that's burdening us this week, Ben, is an enormous amount of hams to give away thanks to Farmland Foods. So everyone who makes it on here today and for the remainder of the week

is going to win a Christmas ham. What a great prize. Who doesn't want a Christmas ham? Probably vegans and vegetarians, but hey, they need not apply. Yeah, Farmland Foods, quality bacon, sliced meats, and Christmas hams. And as John has said, 0800 the hits, you can win a ham. But you just can't just ring up and get a ham. Or you can.

No, but you've got to give us some content. We're not just going to give you these ham-me-downs for free. You've got to phone up and deliver the gold. Otherwise, you won't get a ham, okay? Yeah. That's the pressure that's on. So we want to know right now on 0800 the hits 4487, who's having the largest Christmas?

You know, most amount of numbers. Because Juliet, you're not doing too bad. How many are you turning up to the Rothwell residence? About 26, and it's just one side of the family. Yeah, we've got a large family. I imagine seating becomes an issue there. Do you sort of end up sitting on a nephew hunched

over like a table or a spare wheel from the carriage? We probably end up getting like, we have a table ourselves and then we get other people to bring like two extra tables. So it's one really, really, really long table. That's cool. So it's bring a chair, bring a table. Bring a plate, bring everything. Yeah, would everyone bring a plate or something? Yes, yeah.

So sometimes people will take control of dessert. We'll do like the mains and someone will will bring the nibbles and the champagne. But that's a lot of people to maintain. You said you and your mum are rolling up your sleeves in the kitchen. We're getting days in advance. And you don't think about it. That's a lot of cooking to do, isn't it? And it's not just biff a tablecloth down.

Some people get crackers out, candles. Mum gets so stressed setting the table. It's like the most stressful part of her day. Yeah. Sometimes you just wish you could just put some newspaper down, don't you? And feed with your hands. With that amount of people. I know.

That's a lot of people. What do you do with a present situation? So in the past we've done Stealing Santa, which is really fun. It's either no presents or've done Stealing Santa, which is really fun. And yeah, well, actually it's either no presents or we do like Stealing Santa, which is everyone buys a present and then you, it's such a fun game. If you haven't done it, it's so good. It causes a huge divide in the family by the end of the day. It's a good way to get rid of some people, cut the numbers down a little bit. But basically you get given a present from someone.

Yeah, it's like a draw. You get a numbered system. So you get to open a present and then if you're after that next person, I can go, oh, I might take Jono's, I might steal his present

or I might get one from the pile. Yeah. I remember we stole your present last year, Juliet, didn't we? Oh yeah, what was that? The work one. Oh, what was that? It was way more comical

for us to skip. I didn't even want the item. I just wanted to see the look on your face. That's right. Oh, gosh. It was like moisturizer or something.

Something Juliet really wanted. So 0800 the hits. Who is having the biggest Christmas? We'll chuck it open on the text as well. 4487. Is your house going to have more people than New Zealand's daily COVID numbers? Well, then we want to hear from you right now. 0800 the hits.

We'll do that in just a few moments. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. 12 days away from Christmas worked out today, and we've got, just in time for Christmas, every caller wins a ham on the show all week, which is amazing. So thanks to Farmland Foods,

we've got quality bacon, sliced meats, and Christmas hams, and we wanted to know who's having the biggest Christmas. That's what we've chucked open today on 0800 The Hits. Juliet, you're offering food for 25 odd people. They're not all odd. Some of them are. Some of them are relatively odd. Besmirch the good raffle name.

Let's kick it off with Tim in Wellington. Not quite 25, but how many turning up at your house, Tim? I had a number, but then I forgot to factor in the fact that my sister and her partner are coming with their kids. So 20. 20.

Those are big digits. Really big digits. Are you providing all the food, Tim? We all pitch in. We used to do year by year at each other's houses, but it got so messy with COVID and everything that we always just have it at my brother's. And so no one else pipes up because they're like, oh, the bro will do it. Yeah, that's good. And that's what you're like.

Oh, the bro will do it. So we just have it at his house. You just need a couple of years, don't you? If they do it two years in a row, then it's... It becomes tradition. Yeah, it's tradition. So we always do it then. The real funny thing is his wife, Rose, she's a lovely person.

In fact, I think we like her more than we like him. She's always like, what happened to year by year? We're going to give you a ham. Don't look at me, man. I want to do it. You can turn up with a free ham this year, Timothy. Oh, yes, cool, because I can sell them now. Because my bro was going to do a couple of

meets, but I was like, oh, free ham? That's all I heard. Free ham, and it's all yours. Well done. You have a great Christmas, all right, mate? You guys, too, and take care all over the Christmas season, and yeah, yeah. Much love to everybody out there. Right back to you, buddy. What a nice guy. Chelsea, you're on from Dunedin.

We're after the biggest Christmas in New Zealand. Okay, I think I'll give you guys a run for money. I think at this stage we're up to 32, but potentially 33. So if there's a baby due any day, that baby's going to be eating heaps of ham. Love that little Christmas baby, little baby Jesus baby. Love it. Born in a manger and everything.

Do you all sit in the same room room or do you have pockets of people? Some are out on the lawn, some are in the garage? Out on the lawn. It's actually like this massive backyard. It's almost the size of probably like half a rugby field. It would need to be. Yeah. So you've got the backyard cricket and everything set up.

So everybody's everywhere. But it worked out really well because I've got three sets of aunties and uncles. So two will do the mains, one will do the desserts. So yeah, each family's contributing in one way or another. Well, Chelsea, this year you're turning up with a free ham, baby! Oh, I said, because we were on main. Well, good idea. You got a free ham. Thanks to Farmland Foods.

Enjoy your Christmas, all right? Thank you. Very impressive. Good on you, Chelsea. Over 30, but gee whiz. Gerard, come on in from Wellington. How many are turning up to Christmas at your place?

Oh, mate, it would just be such a relaxing Christmas just to have 30. We'll be topping just over, the numbers are still rising, just over 60 this year. 60? Yeah, well, I'm one of 17 brothers

and sisters, so mum and dad, 17 kids, there's 33 grandkids, 17 grandchildren. There was, not a lot happened last year. A bit of a lockdown naked twister went on because we had six born in the last year. It's going to be a very special time. So if anyone's had a loose end, they tend to find us at the back blocks of Wainuiomata, the greatest place on earth.

You must be from one of the biggest families in Aotearoa, are you, Gerard? Yeah, we think we're up there. We think we're up there, but we're not counting. But, yeah, it's a great fun. Yeah, we've been doing it. It's a proven formula over the last 24 years, actually. We have a dress-up night where you've got to dress up from someone or a place or a song from the year that you were born in.

So I'll be cracking along to John Roll's Cheryl Moana Marie. For my age, there's the traditional Kiwi lunch we have given for the kids, obviously. Silly presents for adults. There's the in-laws versus out-laws cricket match. That is sponsored by ACC. And you thought the Ashes series was competitive. Well, eat your heart out. There's a golf there where you have to play.

Oh, it's not a beat. You have to play in your dress-up costume. There's water fights. We do have a variety show. We're not allowed to call it a talent quest because there's no real talent in the family. Where do I get tickets? I'm more going on than Rhythm and Vines this year.

That's impressive, Gerard. Oh, that's so good. From one of New Zealand's biggest families, 60 people. He probably can barely remember the names of most of his family. I feel like you're probably the most fertile family in New Zealand. I might be pregnant just after talking to you today, Gerard. Yeah, well, you're not wrong there. And yeah, it'll be a special but a sad time this year because I suppose the matriarch of the breeding

who started all off Wadi, we call it Camp Wadi's, he passed away this year. So we will have an empty chair in the room. But hey, look, to Wadi, my dad, granddad and great-granddad, we have a bit of a roster, and the grandkids are taking over the camp this year. And so the roster, you look after things like hall cleaning, toilets, lunch duties, dinner, et cetera.

Yep, it takes an army to organise this. Yeah, it does, it does. But they've called the team names after Grandad, and there's Team Licorice of all sorts, there's Team Black Bear, there's Team Potatoes, and there's Team Buggery. Oh, lovely.

I'd better explain that, because as kids, he did confuse us growing up. We'd often hear him say, well, I'll go to buggery. Oh, beautiful. What a lovely tribute it is. And we'll send you out a ham, Gerard. Thank you very much, buddy.

Have a great Christmas. All right. Plenty more hams to give away. It is the hits you got, Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now, I want to start this conversation by saying that I love fruit and vegetables.

And you know that. You joke all the time about... About how healthy it is. Yeah. And I mock you for being healthy, and that's not the good thing. I love, you know, forget about five plus a day. Let's go 50 plus a day. He'll sometimes just be nibbling away on celery sticks and carrots and hummus Lisa's hummus

he just loves what's your favourite Lisa's hummus oh there was sort of what's is it like beetroot one

yeah no it's an orangey one that I have oh orange yeah it's quite nice yeah it'll be like pumpkin seal something like that

it's good he's a healthy guy he's a healthy guy but last night I noticed that... He's going to live longer than I am. Well done. We were making burgers and there was something I feel like that's got no place in a burger.

And I was like, it's beetroot in a burger. Really? Not a fan of beetroot in a burger. You don't like beetroot? No, no. And I kind of felt like it was overwhelming the burger that we had last night. We made homemade burgers.

It's got quite a dirty, dirty flavor. It tastes like soil. Doesn't it, beetroot? Yeah, it's unusual. Unusual. Yeah. I'm not sure the texture, not sure the flavor. And I was just like, hey, I don't know if it's got a place in the burger.

Because burgers are very versatile. Oh, you can chuck anything in between those buns. That's what I always say to Ben about my body. I've got no morals. Chuck anything in there. You can have fish burgers. You can have chicken burgers. You can have beef burgers. You can have plant-based burgers. You can have fish burgers You can have chicken burgers You can have beef burgers

You can have plant based burgers You can have falafel burgers You name it You can make different burgers Right I'm like Gherkin I always feel Gherkin's A bit of filler content

Really It's much like when we Tell the time on the radio It's unnecessary Gherkin So I can give or take Gherkin But it also Do you notice all their

Photos of hamburgers And they look Magnificent On Instagram People take photos Of these burgers But it also, do you notice all their photos of hamburgers and they look magnificent on Instagram? People take photos of these burgers. But they all look like a hedgehog that's been run over on the road with all of the contents spilling out of them. And I'm like, how are you tackling that burger? It looks great. Oh, I see what you mean.

But it's about six foot high with every ingredient known to humankind jammed in there. It looks good for a photo, but logistically... Are you going to be able to eat that? Yeah, food shouldn't be confusing. The first thing you think of shouldn't be, how am I going to tackle this? Well, I went looking last night after I was having a debate at home about beetroot in a burger, and I found some of the world's worst burger ideas. So I thought I'd run some of these pastures and see if you thought they were bad or not,

according to the internet. So on Australia Day in Adelaide a few years ago, they had the lamington burger. Now, these are two bits of lamingtons, and they had meat in between. Oh, ew. Yeah. Beef patty, double bacon, cheese wedged between two lamington buns. That is odd. But sometimes you get the sweet and savory sort of combination can work well yeah but the lamington itself is about three inches well you know one of

well one lamington so were they made thin or were they they just looked like it was like they sort of halved the lamington and put the as the buns so it was unusual another one i thought was unusual was the camembert burger now you think of like a wheel of camembert we'll just cut that in half and that is your buns so they've got meat and bacon and stuff in between the two but the cheese is basically yes that's a vibe i love it this is like an overdose of eating a whole wheel of cheese in a burger switzerland have a burger in a can option so if you're going tramping or something like that, you can take a little can where it has a burger inside. It disturbingly has 12 months of shelf life for this burger to live inside a can.

So I'm like, yeah. And in Vegas, I thought this one was right up your alley, Jono. They have a place called the Heart Attack Burger in Vegas. And basically, they have the cardiac arrest. You can have the single, the double, or the triple, or the quadruple bypass burger with so many different buns and patties within. Great branding for it too.

The cardiac arrest. Yeah. So you get 32 ounces of beef for one of the original, which is 910 grams of beef for one of the burgers. Whoa. So you're pretty much eating. Nearly a kg of mince. A kg of mince. Oh my God. That one of the burgers. Whoa. So you're pretty much eating... Nearly a kg of mince. A kg of mince.

Oh, my God. That's in the... Yeah, one of the... I think that's the quadruple bypass burger. A kg of mince in one sitting. In one sitting. A nurse comes out, brings it out to you. I don't know if it's a register.

If she's a register, she also gives you a COVID shot. With flatline fries. So there you go. Some of the moths are warm. They've got a defibrillator as well. They put that side of that as well. That was interesting, Ben.

Well done. Well researched. Thorough break. Yeah, thank you. You should be proud. Hold your head up high. Thank you very much. We've got $5,000 on the way for you very shortly.

That's five words, 5K. It is the hits. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning, and hopefully we can give away $5,000 to someone just in time for Christmas. Yeah, we do do it every morning, but it's not often we do give away the $5,000, because if we did it every morning, that would be financially disastrous for the radio station.

But it's a hard game to win. And Wendy, I want to match five words with you today. Fingers crossed. Here's hoping. What do you do, Wendo? Cleaning at the moment. Oh, yeah. What do you clean, Wendy?

Cleaning buses. It's a stepping stone. Thanks to COVID. Yeah, well, I mean, jeez, those buses do have to probably be deep cleaned every day, would they? You have no idea. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Do you ever find cool stuff on the buses?

A lot of cell phones and a lot of umbrellas. Oh, you do leave an umbrella behind, don't you? Yeah, yeah. One of those things. A lot of not-so-nice stuff as well, so yeah. Oh, well, Wendy, who do you want to send into the soundproof, both Jono, Ben or Juliet? We're going to go Jono. All right, let's try and win you 5K. What would you spend it Well, Wendy, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth, Jono, Ben or Juliet? We're going to go Jono. All right, let's try and win you 5K.

What would you spend it on, Wendy? Overseas brother. Bring him home for Christmas. Oh, nice. We're about to see. He's in Gold Coast. All right. Well, that five grand would definitely bring him home

just in time for Christmas. That would be very, very handy. All right, Jono is in the soundproof booth. He can't hear what's going on. Wendy, your first word this morning. What pops into your head when I say ham? H-A-M, ham. Sandwich.

Ham sandwich. Yeah, I like it. Tinsel is word number two. A Christmassy word for you. Tinsel. Christmas tree. Christmas tree. Dental is word number three.

Dental. That's a hard one. Can we come back to that one? Yeah, sure. Disposable. Disposable is word number four. Mask. Yeah.

Mask or masks? Disposable or masks? Let's say masks. Masks with an S. Okay. Disposable or masks. Fake is the final word this morning. Oh, fake, okay.

F-A-K-E, fake. Tan. Oh, fake tan. Yeah, gotcha. And dental. Any ideas for dental? There's so many. Oh, my goodness.

Nurse. Dental nurse. Oh, yeah goodness. Nurse. Dental nurse. Oh, yeah, that's a really, really good one. Yeah, I think that's a good option. Well, Wendy, you played really, really well this morning, but hopefully Jono can match with you. Fingers crossed. And you can get $5,000 for Christmas.

He's back. Wendy, I can smell $5,000 depositing into your account today. That would be amazing. I've got a good feeling about this, this. It'd smell better than the buses. Not after you've cleaned them, Wendy, I'm sure. Alright, here we go. First word this morning. We said to Wendy was ham.

Christmas. Christmas ham. I don't have a good feeling about this, Wendy. No. Alright, let's rattle through. What did Wendy say? She said sandwich. Actually, speaking of ham, Wendy gets a feeling about this, Wendy. No. All right, let's rattle through. What did Wendy say? She said sandwich. Actually, speaking of ham, Wendy gets a ham. Oh, yeah.

We're giving away hams to everyone we talk to. Thanks to Farmland Foods. Farmland's ham is all yours, Wendy. Oh, that's a bonus. Every call of a ham. That'll please Mum. Oh, there you go. So you got that for Christmas Day.

Let's rattle through really quickly. See how Jono would have gone. Tinsel? Decoration. Oh, my goodness. Dental? Who have gone. Tinsel? Decoration. Oh my goodness. Dental? We put him in the booth. You did.

That was your fault, Wendy. Hey, Wendy, I can hear everything you're saying. In both ears. He couldn't before, but now he can. Yeah, I've got headphones on.

All right, dental? Floss. Oh, Jono. Oh my God. Disposable? Disposable income. Oh, no. Andoss. Oh, John. Oh, my God. Disposable income. Oh, no. And fake.

Fake ID? Oh, shut up. That was a clean sweep. The wrong sweep. It's not your fault, Wendy. It's all John's fault. But you do the clean sweeping, Wendy, every day. And you are an absolute Kiwi hero.

Love talking to you, Wendy. You enjoy that ham. You have a great Christmas. And thank you for all the hard mahi you're doing on those buses, too. Have a good day, guys. Spy. The What's Up Spy.co.nz. We call her Dwayne Johnson because she's about to rock some celebrity careers.

And here's why. It's due a spy. So over the weekend, the Sex and the City reboot came out. They released the first two episodes. And I haven't seen much of the original. I know enough to know, like, I think the cast names and the general storyline,

but I wasn't a huge follower. But I got a message from my friend when she, she's a massive fan, she was, sent me a photo and she was bawling her eyes out because... Yeah, a lot of people were upset. Can we just say spoiler alert?

If you haven't watched it yet and you don't want to know what happens in the first episode, then maybe listen to this next bit. I couldn't figure out last night, because I've said before, Jennifer, my wife, she sleeps with the television on, so I sort of subliminally digest a lot of shows. I couldn't figure out if I was dreaming about the new Sex and the City, or if she actually had it on, on neon.

What did you dream? Well, I dreamed that, you know, Miranda came knocking on a door. Did that happen in... Look, I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it. But I have seen who... Yes. Big shock in the first episode.

So someone passes away. Spoiler alert. It is Mr. Big, so Carrie's husband. Oh. And so he... Basically, in this reboot, he is obsessed with his Peloton bike, like those bikes that you can work out to at home. And he was riding a Peloton and has a heart attack just after he finishes the workout.

But this has caused such controversy. Well, I think ahead of the reboot, they said there was always going to be a death in the reboot. And people thought it was, I think it's Samantha. Well, I think ahead of the reboot, they said that there was always going to be a death in the reboot, and people thought it was, I think it's Samantha. Samantha, yeah. Well, Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker don't get along IRL, do they? But in the storyline, they say that she's moved to London, and that's why she's not in the series. So they just go, where's she?

London. Oh, yeah, they'll take your word for it. It's sad. But anyway, don't worry about it. Anyway, move on. But Peloton, the actual company, after this episode, their share price dropped 11% because of Mr. Big's death, and they had to release a statement. Well, they didn't have to, but they chose to release a statement saying,

Mr. Big lived what many would call an extravagant lifestyle, including cocktails, cigars, and big steaks, and was at serious risk as he had a previous cardiac event in season six. So that's them trying to... Big wasn't the healthiest guy, and he was too late to the race, wasn't he, trying to hop on that Peloton late in life. That'll do it to you. If he was Mr. Skinny, then...

Why do we fat shame Mr. Big for so long? He's a big wheeler dealer Yeah, yeah, yeah But he did, you know Peloton's right He didn't leave You know, he wasn't a Ben Boyce He wasn't having his five plus a day

That'll be interesting though To see what happens In the rest of this reboot Like we'll carry meet another man Because I think Mr Big Was a bit of a flake In the original Sex and the City Well they were always on again

Off again It was always like He was kind of the one And then things would work out and then he finally comes back to us so oh it's very good but it is very

it's like a woke it's like a 2021 like they're podcasting they talk about Instagram like it's very and they talk about they talk about

the pandemic they reference the pandemic they talk about oh we can't hug anymore because of the pandemic and it's kind of weird where's she London yeah

where's big oh he died on a peloton. There we go, wrap it all up. Yeah. Did you ever see their weird one where they went to, did they go to Abu Dhabi? Oh, it wasn't one of the movies, eh? Yeah. It was an unusual.

I didn't see that. Yeah, no, you must do yourself a favour there and go, oh, jeez, I don't know if that would stack up in 2021. Right, okay, okay. And another quick news, Miley Cyrus reveals that she and Pete Davidson got matching tattoos in 2017. And I was like, well, they were never a couple, so maybe, I'm not sure why, but the reason was, was in 2017 they did a sketch on SNL where they were babies rapping,

and so they decided to spontaneously get tattoos that say, we babies. But Pete Davidson doesn't have his anymore because he's in the process of getting all of his tattoos removed by the time he's 30. He said it was a pain when he was on movie sets because he'd have to turn up five hours before everyone else and get them covered up, so he's getting them all removed, but who knew him and Miley had a They're quite good mates. I was watching some of that. They went out to clubbing and stuff together.

Yeah, they're doing a New Year's Eve TV special together, so that's why they're kind of popping up together a bit recently. And I actually come in here five hours before you guys and get mine covered up for the radio show as well, too. That's a commitment I have.

It's a poor job that they do. And that is five for this morning. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben hanging out with in love. On the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben hanging out with you guys on a Monday morning, 12 days to Christmas. But next on the show, I don't actually know what's happening. A little bit of a surprise for you.

A Christmas surprise for Ben Boyce. Now, I know we've both vowed to never give each other presents. Birthdays, Christmases, anniversaries, bar mitzvahs. And I'm comfortable with that, so don't. Yeah. But we are, as a team, collectively going to give you a gift this Christmas. Okay? And next I'll tell you what it is.

This is a gift that money can't buy. Oh, okay. So don't even think about getting me a Prezi card or something in return. Right. I still don't want anything in return. But you know what it is, Juliet? Yes. Am I going to? Is it a good thing? It is a good thing. Okay. Well, I'll be want anything in return. But you know what it is, Juliet? Yes. Am I going to?

Is it a good thing? It is a good thing. Okay. Well, I'll be happy with it. You'll be happy with it. Well, it depends on what side of the line you sit on whether it's a good thing or not.

Okay. Yeah. It could be the greatest For me, though. For me. Yeah, well, it could be the greatest thing for you ever or it could be a complete

waste of your time. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. It could go one extreme to the other. I'll tell you what it is next, okay? Ben Boyce's Christmas present. It is a hit. See you later, gentlemen. Yeah. Okay. It could go one extreme to the other. I'll tell you what it is next, okay? Ben Boyce's Christmas present. It is a hit.

So you've got Jono and Ben. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Ben Boyce got a big announcement to make. A pre-Christmas Christmas present. Still 12 days till Christmas. Does this have to do with me? I'm very curious.

Yeah. I'm also frightened at the same time. Well, we've picked up on something, a running theme Of the broadcast over the last couple of weeks Now There was a certain celebrity who was Interviewed by a number of radio shows And radio stations here in New Zealand

And you were a little perturbed That you weren't in the mix of Interviewers to speak to this person And here he is here That's Michael Bublé. It is the hits. John O'Bennett. He spoke to a lot of, he spoke to The Drive show, Stace McInerney as well, a few other radio stations. He seemed

awesome but I was a little bit like, a little bit gutted that we didn't get to speak to Michael Bublé. I love the Bublé. He seems like the coolest dude. Everyone from Canada seems like the coolest dude. Why don't we, I mean it's great. Stace McInerney Great chat You listen to the podcast

Why do we not get him Michael Bublé And Jimmy Fallon this week Too He got him Ben's been on a rampage Since Bublé did the rounds Here in Aotearoa

Went on many radio shows And one of them was not ours I feel like I'd get on well With Michael Bublé I really like him So there you go Been on a It's Bublé madness

Over the last week on this show. He's disgruntled that we haven't had Booble. I was, yeah, a little disappointed. Yeah, I like... Oh, because he does. He just seems like a great dude. I feel like I get on well with him. I've wanted to...

You know, it's Christmas time. It's Michael Booble time. You know? And why don't we have our Michael Booble time? He wants to feed off the boobs. I do. I like the boobs. That sounds weird.

Bublé. Michael Bublé. Oh dear. I see what you walked me into there and I regret. So, what's happening? Is he going to come on the show? Nah, well listen. Is that the present?

Listen, no, no, no, no. Woe are your horses. Tally ho. I haven't got Boobley. Okay? But I have got a concept for you to get Boobley. So it's an attention-seeking stunt to seek the attention of Michael Boobley. Right.

Now, I'm requiring you, Ben Boyceos this week to Listen on repeat To Michael Bublé it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Over and over and over and over again Until we get his attention Okay That's the game So this is Hold on sorry 2021's just

Ringing me hi 2021 how are you Yeah good yeah bit of a crazy year What are you saying? Yes, no, it would be the second time in one year that Jono has tried to make Ben's dreams come true with a celebrity. Yeah. You know, I did do Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

You're right. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm going to do another one just before Christmas. All right. Well, you have a good one, okay? Happy New Year. So the second time in a row. Well, last time you got a tattoo and you were like,

do this, this is going to work. And I didn't believe you. And it didn't work. And it didn't work for me. For months and months it didn't work. It was actually becoming a bone of contention, this tattoo on your body. But then it did work.

And you're talking about it. So it was a long play, that one. You've got a good track record. So what, I have to listen? So when is this happening? Well, you either have to listen to the song or repeat or get Michael Bublé tattooed on the other bottom cheek to get his attention.

So it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Now, the good news is you could end up with Michael Bublé going, hey, this is mildly interesting. I'll donate some of my time to talk to this loser listening to myself on repeat. Or, at the very least, you walk away from this knowing all the words to it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Okay.

Okay. All right. When is this potentially happening? We'll just do it later in the week. Thursday, Friday. Okay. End of year. Okay.

Okay. So you could get him. Your dreams would come true. Well, I'd like to talk to him, but I don't. I love Buble. Oh, you love the boobs. You just said it. You just said it. You just said it.

You publicly admitted it. It's a long time to listen to one song over and over and over again, potentially. Well, has anyone done it? 0800 the hits, 4487. What is the one song that you could or would or have listened to constantly on repeat? The one song you could. Don't forget every call we get on air this week wins a free ham, thanks to Farmland Foods. Okay, so what's the one song and why?

Yeah. Because I guess if I do this, this is going to be my one song. And why? The big why is to get Michael Bublé. So 0800 the hits, 4487. As John has said, every caller gets a ham. What was the one song that you could listen to if I'm going to do this this week? It is the hits.

You've got John on, Ben. It is Michael Bublé. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas So that's the song you're thinking That I'm going to have to try and listen to On repeat until Michael Bublé gets in touch Oh yeah on loop Because you've been moaning for weeks now

That you didn't get a Michael Bublé interview I didn't know it meant so much to you But you felt like you lost out You missed a trick there Other shows got Bublé on We have done a similar thing to this with Ryan Reynolds a few years ago. Watching his movie trailer. On repeat.

And that worked. It took like 30 hours, though. That was the thing. We watched a trailer on repeat. It's been done before, so it'll be done again. But it gets results. That's the thing. Well, it does get results.

It gets results. Yeah, it does. And the other thing is you go, Michael Bublé, can we interview you? And he's probably going to go, no. But you go, well, I'm willing to pound both of my ears with your song over and over. And he's like, okay, maybe. Because he's probably done all his,

he's done it in his media. Done his press, yeah. Yeah, all right. Sorry, I can't do this. So he could be listening to the same song over and over. Should we be winding down for the year? Like, shouldn't we be just like to ease it off, the foot off the gas?

No, you just have to sit down and listen to a song. There's people out there digging holes, mate. We'll kick it off with Kylie because we're talking about what's the song that you could listen to over and over again if needed. What is it for you, Kylie and Tauranga? Well, I've been forced to, and I would definitely not do this again, but you're a mean one from the Dr. Seuss The Grinch CD. Four hours from Oriwa all the way back to Tauranga.

Oh, wow, that's a big drive. And that was just on loop the whole time. That was on loop. It's a novel song, but the novelty would wear off quick. Very quickly. My children now know all the words. Are they there? Yes, they are.

Can they sing us a little bit from this song? Sprax. They need you to sing the Grinch. Not the whole thing. Not the whole thing. Just some of the highlights. No, you don't want to. You've just woken up.

Come on. This is bullying a poor child. I didn't realise the word. How do you feel now, John? I'm a mean one. I'll tell you who's just like, I didn't realise the word. How do you feel now, Jono? I'm a mean one. I'll tell you who's a mean one, not Mr Grinch and Jono too. You're a mean one, Jono Pryor. Farmland's Foods are hooking you up with a free ham, all right? Oh, awesome.

Thank you, guys. All the best. You have a great Christmas, all right? You too. Oh, maybe I should check the sleep status of the children that I'm trying to get on the show. Okay, Megan, what song could you listen to on repeat if needed? The Pogues, Fairy Tales of New York.

Oh. On repeat, you could listen to it on repeat? Hell yeah. I love this guy. Shane McGowan was the front man, and he had zero care for dental hygiene, didn't he? No, he didn't. No, I think he had one tooth just sort of hanging on by the thread of a gum.

Iconic Christmas song, isn't it? It is a good song. It's an awesome song. Even when it's not Christmas, I could listen to that on repeat. Oh, Jesus. You're going to get yourself a ham. Thanks so much for calling. Give every caller to the show who wins a ham this week, all right?

Thank you so much. Including Michael Bublé. I guess he'll win a ham if he so much for calling. Give every caller to the show who wins a ham this week, all right? Thank you so much. Including Michael Bublé. I guess he'll win a ham if he calls up, won't he? We'll give him a farmland ham. That's what we're giving away this week. Shall we take one more? Aaron, you're on from New Plymouth. Welcome from the Taranaki.

What's the one song you could listen to on repeat? Mate, mine's a bit like the last caller. It's the Christmas theme and it's Snoopy's, mate. Snoopy's Christmas. Oh, you like it. I love it. It's not Christmas until you hear. Snoopy's Christmas. Oh, you like it? I love it. It's not Christmas until you hear that song. I'll wait all year for it.

But that fairy tale in New York is another good one as well. Oh, well, there we go. You've got a ham thanks to Farmland Foods. All right, enjoy that. Cheers. Cheers. Thanks. Merry Christmas.

There you go. So this will be happening Thursday, Friday. Well, we finish on Friday. And if he hasn't called by Friday, well, then you can keep going. I'll go on annual leave and then I'll come back in January. I'll have that pan out for you. You're still waiting, mate. Still waiting.

Buble's gone on holiday. He's done some things. But I'm still waiting. Listen to the one song. Yeah, good. So, you know, come late, Jan. You can stick with me. But we might get Buble in 2022.

I'd love to have Buble. So we'll find out this week if we can get Michael Bublé basically bullying him to come on the show by listening to a song on repeat. It is the hits. You got John on, Ben. Yeah, you did that. Yeah.

Nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right, and at the end of the day. John O' and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. Hey, next, your chance to win, well, it's about $7,000 right now. What is inside the Resene Painter?

A lot of talk about this competition, a lot of street talk. I'm getting texts from friends. They never text me. They only text me when they think they can win some money off me. But, yeah, a lot of guesses, and each guess that we do have is $100 off the $10,000 prize pool. Now we're sitting at what, sorry, Ben? I think around about $7,000. We'll get there. $7,600. $10,000 prize pool. Now we're sitting at what, sorry, Ben? I think around about $7,000. We'll get there.

$7,600. $7,600. $100. There you go. I just heard from producer B Humps. He's the only one that knows what's inside this routine painting. He did show us, though, on the bottom of the tin, there is a number of indentations now,

thanks to the object being shaken back and forth. Now, we can't, I don't feel like we're a wasted guess, aren't we? Because we just lose $100 from the prize pool So 0800 the hits if you want to guess what's in there We know it's a summer-ish item We know we got paid $500 for a clue So that clue was you can't beat it on a good day We're leaning towards Wellington, Jew

But is there an item that is special to Wellington? I don't know Is it a frozen cheese sizzler that had been cooked in Wellington? Potentially. Maybe. 0800 the hits, 4487. Have a guess next. You can win over $7,000.

Thanks to Rosene in just a few moments. Rosene, your home of Kiwi-made paints and colours this summer, presents Jono and Ben's $10,000 Mystery Color Mix. Yes, thanks very much to Rosina for this. This is a really fun little thing we're doing right now heading into Christmas. You've got to guess the summer thing and summer-ish item inside the Rosina paint tin

we have in the studio. One more time, have a listen. And if you can guess it, you can win the money that's left in the prize pool. Every incorrect answer that's left in the prize pool. Every incorrect answer takes $100 off the prize pool, and if we get a clue, we take away $500. Ben's been busy lifting tin all morning, haven't you? Just trying to figure out what's inside that thing. And that's even too heavy for him.

An empty paint can. But so far, have we got a bit of a montage of the guesses thus far, Producer Juliet? Is it a jandle? No. I think it's a candy cane? Is it a jandle? No. I think it's a candy cane. Is it a bollock nut? Alright, I'm thinking it's some zinc. Humphrey. A pair of tongs. Insect repellent.

A chess pot of paint. Ah! So, Ben Humphrey, Producer B Humps. Have we... Are we close? No. No clues have been anywhere near it. No, nothing's close at this stage. Oh, really?

Now, Wellington was, we're thinking, was a clue. Yeah, because you can't beat it on a good day. We paid $500 good dollars for that clue. Are we close when we're saying Wellington? I'm going to tell you right now that when I gave that clue, I was thinking of Wellington. Okay. Why did you start that sentence like we were being told off? I'm going to tell you right now.

All right, sit here, I do. I'm being authoritative. That's good. All right, let's get Mona on from Rotorua. Morena, Mona, how are you? Morena, I'm good, thank you. All right, what's inside this Resene paint tin for $7,600? Well, I think it could be a golf ball.

A golf ball? Oh, you do that in summer? And you can't beat golf on a good day? It's the way golf courses in Wellington? Yeah. No. No? No.

It does look like it could be a golf ball, yeah. Well, do you know what, Mona? On the plus side, you walk away with a free ham. Everyone we speak to this week gets a free ham thanks to Farmland Farms, all right? Thank you very much. Farmland Foods giving Farmland's ham to every caller. That's right. And you've just got to sing the Beatles song, I Want to Hold Your Ham, to me first.

Just go, mate. She's not going to play ball with you. Okay, fair enough. Emma. She's like, I've got the ham. I'm on my way. Emily's not going to play ball with you. Okay, fair enough. Emma. She's like, I've got the ham, I'm on my way. Emily, how's

Hamilton this morning, all right? Yeah, not too bad. Okay, you've got to sing I Want to Hold Your Ham before you proceed. Really?

Yep. From Hamilton. From Hamilton. If you don't sing it, you don't get a ham. Oh, jeez. No, you don't because you're either.

I'll sing it with you. You might want some listeners if I sing. Yeah, okay, all right. No one wants to sing I Want to either. I'll sing it with you. You might want some listeners if I sing. Yeah, okay. All right. No one wants to sing I Want to Hold Your Ham. It's a great parody.

All right. What's inside the Resine Painter? I reckon it's a pack of beehive matches. Oh, this is probably the best guess so far. From Painter. Beehive. You use matches in summer to kick off fires or if you're an arsonist all year round. I like it, but it's not matches.

Is it? Are you willing to whisk a hundred on this? Okay, chuck it out. Is it a buzzy bee? Because Wellington, again, the beehive and you can get a little buzzy bee. You just wasted another hundred dollars, Ben Boyce.

It's not a buzzy bee. Nothing to do with bees or beehives. What were you going to do if you won $100, Ben Boyce It's not a buzzy bee Nothing to do with bees or beehives What were you going to do if you won that money, Ben? What were you going to do? Can I win? No, I can't win, can I? Hey Emma, you might not have sung I Want to Hold Your Hand But you're going to win one anyway, okay?

Awesome, thanks so much You have a great Christmas and this is back tomorrow So now we're down to $7,400 left. Were any of the guesses today close? No. I want another clue, but for free, you know? Can you give us a free clue? Give us a free clue.

Give us a free clue. Give us a free clue. It's Christmas. Maybe tomorrow. Tomorrow, give a free clue. Go on, give a free clue. Okay, tomorrow. All right, free clue tomorrow.

This is back. There's something like a free clue after seven tomorrow and then the game again after eight. It is The Hits. You got Jono and Ben? The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben. You're on The Hits. Jono and Ben 12 days away from Christmas. Can you believe it's 12 days

away from Christmas? That just seems like something you should say at this time. It's been a very unusual year. Yeah, it has been an unusual year, but right now, Jono and Ben presents the moments we would rather forget from a year we would rather forget. We're going to take a look back at some of the stellar moments of broadcasting that have been featured on the Sophisticated Radio program over the last 12 months, Ben. Are we? Are we?

Some highbrow entertainment, intellectual interviews. We do have a lot of fun doing this show. We really do appreciate everyone that tunes in and makes us part of their mornings. It's awesome. Sometimes you get to 9 o'clock and you're like, gee whiz, people listened to that for three hours? Well, not three hours. Some of us. There's a lot of jibber-jabber that comes out.

And you forget a lot of what you say over three hours. So we apologize for a lot of it, too. But we're going to sort of theme these throughout the week as we look back on 2021. And we've spoken to a lot of people who have But we're going to sort of theme these throughout the week as we look back on 2021 and we've spoken to a lot of people who have had some wonderful celebrity interactions, including someone who met Meghan Markle. When I was working in London, I was in

hospitality and I actually met Meghan Markle before she was a royal. And what did you do? How did you serve Meghan Markle? I was a receptionist, so she was staying at our hotel in London. Although yeah, she was still, she was quite demanding even before she was a princess. She was a princess before she was a princess? Yeah, it was like it was meant to be.

There you go, and then she ripped her away from her family as well. And also someone who cupped the hands of a Hollywood movie star. When I was living in London, the Gentleman movie was being filmed outside my apartment and I saw Colin Farrell. We had quite a long handhold. Oh, you held hands with him for an extended period? He was kind of cupping my hands, you know? Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Colin Farrell, a handheld... I still don't know how they got into the situation of how she even held his hand in the first place. She went up and she didn't know who he was into The situation of How she even Held his hand In the first place She went up And she didn't know Who he was But she's like

I love you But she didn't quite Know who it was And so he was like Well that deserves A handhold Maybe she was thinking I want to hold your hand

No one else will But none better The lady we spoke to In June Who was the Property manager For Kanye West So I manager for Kanye West. So I worked for Kanye West.

He was over in America when I was living there and I did the property management for the rental that he was renting. How was managing Kanye's property? Oh, there were some stories. I think I could write probably an article. Well, don't do that. Just say words on the radio for us.

Pick out your top two favourite Kanye stories. Oh, my top two, okay. One of them was, he called his driver one afternoon and he said, get the girls over to the house. He goes, I've got Amber Rose's ex-fiancée. She was coming into town. This was right before he started dating Kim Kardashian. And he goes, oh, she's coming into town

for the weekend. Get the girls in. Get them upstairs. Get all the undies. Get the suitcases. Get all the other women's clothes out of the bedrooms and hide them. Oh, get them upstairs, get all the undies, get the suitcases, get all the other women's clothes out of the bedrooms and hide them. Oh, they need to go around picking up

underpants. Go over and get all the girls' clothes. Why don't they just keep a track of their own underpants? You'd think so, wouldn't you?

Jeez, and so you were picking up the underpants with your hands. Yeah, don't worry, we didn't use our hands, we used the kitchen tongs. Somehow that's worse than the kitchen tongs.

Did you put them back into circulation? No, we allocated those tongs to many things, actually. All the things those tongs picked up. But when we'd be cleaning up after him sometimes, after he'd have a big party or whoever was there, we'd go into his bathroom and clean it up and he'd have his condoms on the bathroom floor like the size of an elephant.

They were... They made the best thing. Use the kitchen tongs. Oh, my God. And that was Jono and Ben present moments we'd rather forget. From a year we'd rather forget. That is the hits. You got Jono and Ben.

Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Christmas not too far away. Just reading online, there's a way you can basically almost hack your annual leave for next year. You take 14 annual leave for next year you take 14 annual leave days but you almost land 45 days out of the office uh by you know you know how they get those little runs yeah and i'm never that forward planning but then you hear people in the office oh did you take the cheeky wednesday thursday off and you get 17 days in a row and you're like what

this is one of those situations what do you do what do you have to do i was gonna i was gonna read a bit but there's it's there's a whole lot of manoeuvres. Oh, there's a lot. Okay. So, yeah, there is a lot. There's a science behind it. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff because it feels like there's a few holidays ending up on Mondays next year, long weekends and stuff like that.

But if you take 14 annual leave days, you could get 45 days out of the office. How many of those do we have to say that a family member's died? To stretch that out. Or you could just quit and you get a whole lot more days out of the office. Okay, well, there we go. So, we'll be researching that because Ben Boyce won't be telling us how to do it. No. members die. Or you could just quit and you'd get a whole lot more days out the office. We'll be researching that because Ben Boyce won't be telling us how to do it. I was going to get into that. You're a company man. You don't

want the company hurting, do you? The things I do, including today, do I agree to this or not? Earlier in the show, you pitched an idea to try and get Michael Bublé. Yeah, because you have been moaning for the last week and a half that you didn't get a Michael Bublé interview at the end of November. That's Michael Bublé.

It is the hits. Jono and Benny spoke to a lot of, I think they spoke to the Drive show, Stace, Mike and Anika as well, a few other radio stations. So he seemed awesome, but I was a little bit gutted that we didn't get to speak to Michael Bublé. I love the Bublé. He seems like the coolest dude. Everyone. He seems like the coolest dude. Everyone from Canada seems like the coolest dude.

I mean, it's great to say something like that. Great chat. You listen to the podcast. Why did we not get him? Michael Bublé and Jimmy Fallon this week, too. 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.

I feel like I'd get on well with Michael Buble. I really like him. So we've hatched a plan. Ben Boyce is going to listen to this song on repeat starting Thursday until Buble phones.

You'll be drinking a glass of Buble by the end of the week. Buble bar. Yeah. And it's called by Friday. I've got annual leave booked in think I'll boob-lay bar. Yeah, and he has a call by Friday. I've got annual leave booked in, so I will be going, so will Juliet.

And you can stay here through the... Oh, jeez. Making your dream come true, your Christmas dream. It's a present that you didn't even ask for. Will he come through? I mean, we can message him on social media, right? We can get people to go, hey, you know. That's the plan.

We want people to bombard his social media. If he doesn't come through, you know all the words to it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. So that's a win-win in my eyes. I mean, he's busy. He's busy. He's a busy guy. Yeah, well, this is his busy time. No one's busier than Buble.

Not even Santa is busier than Buble around about this time of the year. So that's going to be happening on Thursday. On repeat, on loop. We'll put it on the internet, you know. Do you even like the song? Yeah, I do. I'm a big fan of Buble. That's good. But after listening to it, well, who knows how long it could be. We'll put it on the internet, you know. Do you even like the song? Yeah, I do. I'm a big fan of Boo Blank. That's good.

But after listening to it, well, who knows how long it could be. I listen to it. Yeah. But it's, oh, he's an amazing voice. Yes, he does. It reminds you of Christmas. It makes you feel good. But I've never.

There's worse forms of torture you could go through. That's going to kick off Thursday. You guys have a wonderful Monday. Keep safe. We'll catch you tomorrow from 6. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits. And via the iHeartRadio app. Brought to you by Resene. tomorrow from six.