Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Bublé Bubble Begins!

Episode Date: December 15, 2021

Ben is listening to a Michael Bublé Christmas song on repeat until the Bube zooms us! That began at 8am this morning. But beforehand we discussed who is having the busiest Christmas, more inappropriate Christmas gifts people have been given, and we also presented for the first time, our 2021 WRAPPED UP RAP! Enjoy!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. 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. Welcome to the podcast. Today is the day that Benjamin Boyce listens to It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas from Michael Bublé on repeat. We're in the room, the Christmassy room. It's the hits grotto.

And it's quite a grotty grotto in here as well. Ben Boyce. It is a little bit. I've got one ear listening to Michael Bublé, one ear listening to you at the moment. Lovely song. Why don't you just for the introduction of this podcast pull your headphones out so we can hear it in the background

Michael Bublé it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas okay here we go you know when you take the headphones out and it's like

what are you doing it just takes a couple it's Christmas once more and this is once more and then you're like well there's gotta be

once more because we're going straight back in how many times have you listened to it so far? It's three minutes, about three minutes, 20-something of the song, you know. So I'd say, jeez, I can't even work out how many times.

You started at 8 o'clock. It's been two and a half hours of Buble. Yeah. One song, one song only. Yeah. So I'm just waiting for Michael Buble to get in contact. And you can message Michael Buble too if you're listening to this around the world.

I've messaged him before, actually, because I said, check your DMs. There you go. Okay, see you again. What did you say? He posted something on social media about half an hour ago with that elf on the shelf. So I was like, check your DMs. Check your DMs, Bublé. I'm listening to one song of yours on repeat until you Zoom.

Check your DMs. So hopefully you're in amongst them. Do you say please or do you just go check? No, I just like check your DMs. Is that the done thing? I don't know. Do you use manners when you want people to check your DMs? Maybe I should say please.

Sorry, go back. Okay. You just go, hey, by the way, please. Yeah. Yeah. Now, how many comments has he had on that one just for a... Obviously, check your DMs. Yeah, I should have said please.

He's got two likes, my comment. He's got, yeah, there's quite a lot of comments. Look at that. Oh, you see, he's not going to my comment he's got quite a lot of comments why is he going to scroll through those comments he's got 111 comments it's only been on for not very long I should have said please I'll say please pleasing capitals

so this is what we're doing for the foreseeable future and what else do we have to discuss? Oh, we had a fun show today. Recapped 2021 through the platform of rap music, Ben Boyce. That was fun, wasn't it?

He's saying please. He can't type. Yeah, it was actually really fun. And a winner for the Resene What's in the Paint. And if you don't know what it is, well, it's revealed today. It's a really cool moment. Isn't it? It's one of those things where you're like, of course. Once you get all the clues together, of course it is. So you enjoy

the podcast. This is J and B and Mickey B. Yeah, back to Bublé. Here I go. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning. Welcome along to the show. Good to have you guys with us this morning. How's it? Jeez, man, I was just watching the news. Flooding in Canterbury. Huge flooding in the Lower North Island as well, battering the country.

Cyclone Ruby or something, I think that's what we've had the end of that. But of course a lot of rain, especially even up here in Auckland over the last few days. It's been crazy weather. It's not the summer weather that we're traditionally used to. Oh, the weather, Ben. The weather. It's pulled us out of many awkward conversations, hasn't it? That's right.

Always fall back on the weather. Hey, we've got a big show this morning. Guess what's in the Resene paint tin? Some people reckon they've worked it out. You reckon you've worked it out. And it's around about $6,000? $6,300 and at the moment producer Behemoth, well journey out of myself, we have

the same answer whether that's the right one. We are pretty confident though. I've said it to you Ben boys. Do you think it could be this item? I do. With all the clues, I think you might be right but again, we don't know. Only producer Behemoth knows what it is. If it is this item, it's taken a hell of a battering in the paint. Oh my gosh, I know.

I just don't know. It's expensive. Yeah. No. So if you think, you know, 8.30 this morning, the $6,300 could be yours as well as that

from 8 o'clock this morning I start listening to It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. Now, it's just me doing that on repeat. It's not like The Hits is going to be playing

Michael Bublé non-stop. I'm going to be listening to it on headphones until he Zooms. Hopefully, he may not Zoom. I could be still doing it Christmas time. Well, I think to be sensible, we should have a cut-off date of Christmas Eve. I'm not a monster. I'm not going to deprive you from family time.

It's 16. It's a Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve's the cut-off. Okay, if he hasn't Zoomed us by Christmas Eve, I can go home. All right, that is a big show. That and plenty more. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben.

Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, a lot of people are wrapping up the year right now. Parliament yesterday all ended up. Jacinda Ardern sort of made a closing speech in Parliament and said New Zealanders should

deserve a wonderful break. You bloody deserve it, is what she said. And it was a big applause and they went on about the economy doing well and the unemployment and all the good things. Focus on the good things. That's a good thing to do. Smokescreen, all the other stuff. Focus on the good things. She even said we're

90% vaccinated, New Zealand. As a country. As a whole. And then they went, oh, actually, there's 7,417 more jabs to go. But she's rounded it up. We're pretty close. It's always nice when you focus on the percentages, I find. 89.82% yesterday when she said it.

So it's 90%. I'll give her that. But she's good, though. Double vax, 90%. What I like about percentages and graphs is you can make anything look great yeah and you're with a graph yeah yeah good go bring on whoever invented graphs well done to you uh well ben boys we thought we would do our very own end of year rap uh and we've taken that literally uh rapping and there's nothing quite like two middle-aged white guys rapping to make you feel better about your life. Yeah, but we thought we'd put together all the moments.

You know, this year's been a really unusual year, obviously, with a lot of COVID going on, but then there's big events like the Olympics. Which you forget about, because you kind of just remember the last three or four months. The Friends reunion, the Squid Game, there's so many things that has happened this year, so we thought we'd put it all together

with some of our favourite quotes and lines from the year. We'll bring a video out in the next couple of days of this but here is The video's dropping soon. Not bring a video out in a couple of days. The video will be dropping soon. I'll definitely cut out for the rap game. But here it is, Jono and Ben wrapping up

2021. it up. Grappin' Up 21. It's Jono and Benjamin. Taika and Rita became our best celebs and Hipkins told everyone to spread their legs. National crushed Judith and said she's done. We saw Luxon's head and thought it was a giant bump. Like Grandad on Viagra up at 4.30. Lockdown was meant to be hard

and early. Art and Matilda had a baby girl and Boris Johnson said he loved Peppa Pig, whoa Our vax rate went higher than eyebrows on Tamaki And Adele said, take it easy on me Rapping it up, rapping up 21 Yeah, uh, it's done R&B was canned, was a big bummer

And yes, Earth fam, it's two shots for summer At the Tokyo Games, we had 20 wins But a big congratulations to Lisa Carrington Borders were shut Jaffa shall not pass Greta then said Show your climate crisis off your eyes

Kim and Kanye are now officially over Let's take some questions from Jessica the Empower Friends reunited to brighten our moods ScoMo said our lockdown was Like that movie The Cruise That big boat that got stuck in the sewers canal. Biden forgot ScoMo and said,

Thank you, pal. From Ted Lasso to cup winning boats. From Oprah to Markle to I'm so f***ing good. Time to put the shit to bed. It's time to bail. As Aunty Cindy would say, That was a big time fail.

Like a squid game character. This year is now gone. And next year, look out. Cause here comes Omicron. Traffic lights are orange. greens and reds. Happy New Year's. Tell everyone.

Spread their legs. Wrapping it up. Wrapping up 21. Please keep away. Keep away Omicron. Wrapping it up. Wrapping up 21. Yeah.

Ah. It's done. That is 2021 wrapped up. Some of our favourite moments and some moments we'd like to forget But they were part of the year Listen I don't think the rap game has anything to worry about We're not coming for you No

You just keep doing what you do No you're right They shouldn't feel threatened at all right They should be like oh no The most unthreatening rappers in the game Yeah Hey next we're joined by a couple of stars We're just happy we rhymed a couple of words

From Shortland Street Shortland Street. Shortland Street's got a new spin-off, a sort of darker, grittier sort of drama that's going to be available on demand. It involves a couple of key characters from Shortland Street. Yeah, you know, Jaden Daniels, who plays Curtis, and Reuben Milner, who plays Jack, their brothers on Shortland Street.

Well, yeah, you warned me. You're like, you need to watch this, because it's very different from Shortland Street. It's not the cliffhanger. I thought we were doing the cliffhanger interview. No, this is a whole new spin-off show to do with Shortland Street. And it's dark. Yeah, there's a whole lot going on.

We're going to talk more to the couple of stars of the show next. It is that. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Shortland Street around about this time of year always has the Shortland Street cliffhanger but something that's new is a new spin-off show with some of the characters from

Shortland Street. It's going to be available on TVNZ On Demand next week, Tuesday called Shortland Street Retribution. And it's on TVNZ On Demand very dark. What are you guys up to? We're just catching up with our mate. Funny place for a catch up. We're funny guys.

These two mates, are they? Yeah. Yeah, we're just hanging out. It's nice chatting, officer, but we've got to get going. It's past my bedtime.

Stay right there, please. Shit, I can't be here. Don't move, bitch. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't! I've been getting wind. No, no, no, no! Yeah, it's all full on. Full on drama, right?

Yeah, really. A real sort of drama. It is. And Jaden Daniels, who plays Curtis on Shortland Street, and Reuben Milner, who plays his brother Jack, join us in the studio. Thanks for coming in. Yeah, thanks for having us.

Good to be here. Yeah, great. Handsome gentleman. Very old. Yeah, dashing looks. Look at this room, eh? his brother Jack join us in the studio thanks for coming in yeah thanks for having us good to be here yeah great handsome gentleman very old dashing looks look at this room you see while they're on TV and we're not anymore

hey how you boys been alright great very special episode being released it's sort of a spin off from Shortland Street is being released

over the summer new year period and Ben actually you pre-warned me yeah because we thought we were doing the Shortland Street cliffhanger over the summer, new year period. And Ben actually, you pre-warned me. Because we thought we were doing the Shortland Street cliffhanger interview with you guys. And Ben was like, have you seen the Vimeo link that was sent? I'll get round to it. I'll say, well, get round to it because it's really good, firstly.

It's awesome. And secondly, as John has said, it's not like Shortland Street you'd see at 7 o'clock on TVNZ2. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We get to go a bit deeper into the darker, grittier side. It's very dark. Yeah, Retribution it's called. So you can catch it on TVNZ On Demand. And basically it follows, Jaden, your character, Curtis,

and you've gone to Christchurch. Yep. But undercover detective joined a gang. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Iron Dogs. The Iron Dogs. You haven't heard of them? No, I haven't heard of the Iron Dogs.

How do you think the Iron Dogs would stack up to the current climate? Don't hold their own. The Iron Dogs are everywhere, so who knows? Yeah, so you'll join the Iron Dogs, but then at the start, I don't want to give too much away, but something goes on, and you're like, oh, this is taking a real turn. Yeah, it starts all pretty hard and fast, and you get straight into it. And Tammy Davis, who we're very good friends with.

Lovable Tammy Davis. Lovable Tammy Davis. you know we're very good friends with lovable Tammy Davis lovable Tammy Davis in real life but he's the gang leader and Jesus is evil yeah he's seriously evil like most evil I've seen him

as any character and he goes full on yeah he goes the full way yeah so listen if you're a fan

of Shortland Street well this is going to be nothing like what you expect it's got the same characters. You know, Ruben, you play Jack, obviously, on the show, and you're Curtis's brother on Shortland Street. So there's that tie in there. That's the cool thing is we don't have to do a set-up,

but we get to do a different kind of show. So people already know the backstory. That's awesome. And it's cool to see Christchurch as well, too. It will be shot over Christchurch, all the murals and things around town. It's really cool. Yeah, I actually got to fly down to Christchurch and shoot, too. It will be shot over Christchurch, all the murals and things around town. It's really cool. Yeah, I actually got to fly down to Christchurch and shoot, which was a horrible day.

We got down there, it was snowing. There was 36K winds, and then the snow turned to hail, which turned to rain, which turned back to snow. And we were shooting all day outside, having to pretend that it was summer. Oh, you're in a T-shirt. Oh, well, light layers, very light layers. Yeah, yeah. So it was like kind of having to pretend.

Actually, speaking of Jayden Daniels, I was Googling you yesterday. And it's quite hard to sometimes Google you because there's a footballer in the States playing for Arizona State who's playing very, very well. I think we've got some audio of Jayden Daniels getting a touchdown. Up from Daniels. And he takes it to the defense. Daniels! What a day!

Jeez, listen to that crowd. That's over 100 people, isn't it? He had touchdowns this year. He's connected 186 of 280 passes. He's doing really well. So I feel like the same spelling of your name. He's almost neck and neck with you. Yeah, well, I was going to ask for one of his jerseys,

and then maybe I'd send one of my T-shirts to him. Oh, that's right. I wouldn't say anything, honestly. An iron dog's best yes now reuben i was reading also about you that your original role you went for on shortland street kj harper yes he took it from me yeah well i auditioned for what happened to him hey whatever yeah yeah he was the better man on the day but when i when jack's role came up they just offered it to me i didn't have to audition for it so I was very lucky to get just handed this role,

which was only supposed to be four weeks of shooting. Oh, really? Yeah, and then they liked the connection that KJ and I had on screen as the friendship that we had, so they're like, we've got some ideas for that. So, yeah, they decided to extend me out. That's cool. What's the turnaround for Shortland Street?

So when you've filmed a bit, let's say you go today, you go film a bit When would you see that on television? So today I think we might be maybe three, four weeks ahead Where normally we're six to eight weeks But because of this five week level four lockdown That we've had this year We became seriously behind

Because the highest level that we can shoot in is level three Right Yeah and we still have to do some camera trickery to kind of um are you still socially distancing there we are still socially distant do you socially distance make love like how does that work when we're in level three we had a perspex glass and that the actors would kiss each other through the perspex so you wouldn't see obviously wouldn't see you wouldn't see it so they would angle the camera properly so you can't see any smudges or light gleaming off things like that and then the actors would kiss through that it's like how i learned to pash on

a mirror your mom comes in you're like what are you doing it's really interesting but now we have um we have covid tests we have the salivas and the the rapids every day uh not every day it's just the day before, if there's a kissing scene, those two actors will go and take a COVID test and then they will do the kissing scene

after they've got the results. This sounds like the world's biggest pain in the ass for a TV show that's already under the pump. Yeah. That's right. Well, the saliva tests aren't easy.

They're very hard. You can't have any bubbles. I heard about that. No bubbles and you have to fill it up to the second line. You wouldn't think it would be easy though.

You think a saliva test just sounds like, oh, I can do that, but apparently it's, yeah. Can't eat an hour beforehand, can't drink an hour beforehand, and yeah, there's all that stuff, and then you just go in there with a dry mouth anyway. Jade and Daniel's and Reuben Milner are with us this morning. Their Retribution brand new series, spin-off series from Shortland Street

is going to be on TVNZ On Demand over Christmas New Year. There's something I like, I love, is the Shortland Street cliffhanger. Even at the end of the episode, there's always a cool line on Shortland Street is going to be on TVNZ On Demand over Christmas New Year. Something I like, I love, is the Shortland Street cliffhanger. Even at the end of the episode, there's always a cool line on Shortland Street and then it goes into the music, right? We've written a couple of lines right now. We want to see how good you guys are in your acting.

I reckon they're going to be pretty good. I'm going to put my money on the fact. I want dramatic, though. Our lines aren't very dramatic. Pick a line. And then, Jono, you play the music afterwards. I want to hear how dramatic You can make our cheesy lines Okay alright

Ruben you kick it off my friend I'm afraid it died Your iPhone was out of battery And he did a great look too A very serious look There's always an out on Yeah yeah alright Jaden over to you

Jaden Daniels We are in Guatemala now Dr Robata We have always been in Guatemala. Well, the music really helps, eh? Yeah, it does. That photo on the iPad, it's not Harry Warner's. It's Jono's. You thought it was a little boy's.

Oh, jeez. I wasn't going there. I wasn't going there. All right, we're wrapping it up there. We're going to do more, but that's enough. Hey, go check out Shortland Street at Retribution. As I said before, it is awesome. It is phenomenal.

You guys should be very proud of the work on that. It's so good. Thank you. Dropping on TV and on demand. On Tuesday. Tuesday, 21st. Mmm, coffee breath. Jono and Ben, the hits.

8 o'clock this morning, I'm going to be listening non-stop to Michael Bublé's song. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the hope that he'll zoom us and put an end to the madness. Who knows how long that's going to go. But it's a Christmas gift you're saying from you to me, making me sit through his song over and over. Well, for three weeks you've gone, we didn't get a Michael Bublé interview. So you're saying this is the only way. I would have thought sending some emails off, some calls to buble's management you know maybe that would have been a better way to go about this but you're like no we need to stonewall me create a scene

michael buble at gmail.com didn't work when i emailed it yeah email so yeah this is a wonderful christmas gift and we want to know from you right now on 0800 the hits uh the most inappropriate christmas gift that you've received because this could quickly turn inappropriate, couldn't it? I mean, even after a day, it slips into the inappropriate territory, making you sit in a room listening to the same song over and over. Substance of torture. Yesterday, we had a great call,

the most inappropriate Christmas gift, and it involved some underwear from Victoria's Secret. My husband thought he would buy me a Victoria's Secret G-string that came in a little Christmas ball that you hung on the tree. And the special bit of this was it had a little button in it and if you pressed it, it would play a little Christmas song. So I thought I'd be a little bit naughty and we went to Ikea and we were coming down the elevator and my son,

who had seen his dad push the button several times, decided to play everyone in the elevator some Christmas music out of Mummy Sundays. Oh, such a good call. Oh, I under-read the hits. Remember, every caller that gets on the air this morning gets a free ham thanks to Farmland Foods. Quality bacon, sliced meats and Christmas hams.

Want a ham for Christmas? The worst Christmas gift is next. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Christmas, not too far away now. End of next week. How's that? Nii-whiz.

Christmas. Yeah. Snakes up on your A, doesn't it? Even when you said Monday, it's only 12 days away. We went, gee whiz. Then you're like, end of next week. It's like, whoa, what was that? Which makes sense.

The days go by. You're right. So we're going to go on our 800 hits right week. It's like, whoa, what was that? Which makes sense. The days go by. You're right. So we're going to go, oh, no, 800, the hits right now, 4487. Most inappropriate Christmas present that you have received. Every caller, of course, thanks to Farmland Foods, gets a free ham. So much ham to give away. I now understand why the mad butcher was so mad. He had all this meat to give away.

Drive you bonkers. Let's kick it off with Carla in Morrinsville. Most inappropriate present you received at Christmas, Carla? It was my, at the time, boyfriend. We had not been like, it was probably our first or second Christmas together, and he brought me a magazine subscription. To what magazine? When I was 30 years old, and I said to him,

that would be something that you would give your mother and not to me was it like Fasted Fours and Rotaries or what was the magazine? that's life Jono loves that's life

maybe Jono should have been with him yeah it's strange things like I married my dog and we're happy and in love sort of things weird articles about, I married my dog and we're happy and in love sort of things. Weird articles about that. I have married him now.

Oh, yeah? He made up for it, but yeah, that was the worst Christmas gift I can say that I've actually made up for. I actually felt, I said, oh my God, how old do you think I am? And are you still getting that's life? No, no, I've never got it. I don't know why he brought it for me all of a sudden. Well, I'll tell you what we're going to give you. It's a free ham.

It's not a magazine. Well done, Carla. Perfect. Thank you so much. You guys are fantastic in the morning. You make my morning. I appreciate you listening. That's very kind of you to say.

Thank you, Carla. That is lovely to say. Let's get Imogen on from Christchurch. Your most inappropriate Christmas present, Immy. G'day, guys. So my most inappropriate Christmas present I've ever received was from my parents, and it was a pair of jumper leads. Practical. That is from mum and dad, but not a Christmas present. Yeah, well, you'd think it would be handy and everything like that,

and I suppose they were trying to teach me, like, you know, you've got your own car now, you should learn how to use some jumper leads, but the one time I needed them, they were actually in Dad's car, so I didn't actually have to use them. So your Dad basically wanted them, but he took them. He bought himself some jumper leads. Went to Repco, he hadn't got you a present, and that's what you got. Exactly. Oh, I love it.

Now we're going to send you out a free ham for Christmas, okay? Oh, thank you, guys. You guys have a good Christmas. Yeah, you too. Appreciate you listening. Thank you for guys. You guys have a good Christmas. Yeah, you too. Appreciate you listening. Thank you for listening. You're a legend. Stacey, you're on in Auckland.

Inappropriate Christmas presents. What did you get? Oh, that was the first Christmas at my boyfriend's parents, and we're all sitting around in a bit of Christmas cheer, and his mum says, Stacey, and this one's for you.

And it was a package that looked like a wee surfboard, and I thought to myself, well, she hasn't known me for that while, but what a cool present. Surfboard is a cool present. I love surfboards. And it was a package that looked like a wee surfboard. And I thought to myself, she hasn't known me for a while, but what a cool present. Surfboard is a cool present. I love surfboards.

And it turns out it was an ironing board. And she said, but wait, there's more. And she said to hand me the ironing board. You're like, yes, is it a board? Wait, there's more. Let me guess what it could be. It's a pile of ironing that I haven't done. And my post must have been a picture, and she turned around and she said,

well, I know he's just got a promotion at work and needs to wear collared shirts. And I've been through your house, and you don't have an iron and an ironing board. Well, you're like, you could take your ironing board back to the 1960s, lady. Well, that's exactly what I was thinking, 1950s housewife. Yeah. We would have wanted, but we've done like a cup of coffee. Well, a cup of,

well, great. An ironing board for Christmas. Stacey, we're going to give you a ham, all right? Awesome,

thank you. I feel that's a little better than the ironing board. After seven o'clock on the show, we've got plenty more hams to give away as well as $5,000.

It's a big show. It's a big show because of Razine. We've got to guess what's in the Razine paint at 8.30 and you could be winning $6,300 this morning on the hits.

Jono and Ben, the hits. At 8 o'clock this morning, I'm going to my Buble bubble. Ben Boyce's Buble bubble, I think you've named it. A little room here at work that I'm going to be listening to nonstop. It's beginning to look a lot like... Over and over in some headphones. I'm already sick of the song every time we play a little snippet of it. It's a to look a lot like... Over and over in some headphones. I'm already sick of the song every time we play a little snippet of it.

It's a good song, and obviously on the radio, I'll be able to take the headphones off just during our show to do some radio, but in between, it's nothing but Buble until he zooms.

Yeah, and you're allowed to sleep. I'm not a monster. You're allowed to, but you need to subliminally be listening to Buble with your headphones on. It needs to put you to sleep as well. That, I reckon,

will be one of the biggest hurdles. Not dozing off. This is quite a, I'm not saying it's a boring song, but it's quite a needs to put you to sleep as well. That I reckon would be one of the biggest hurdles. Not dozing off. I'm not saying it's a boring song, but it's quite a sleepy... Yeah, you're right. So it'd be interesting to see if he does Zoom as well. I'm not too sure. But it's a wonderful gift from me to you, isn't it? Well, Buble would be a wonderful

gift. I could give you Buble. But this is a roundabout way of doing it. I'll give it a go. Why not? We were just talking inappropriate Christmas presents just moments ago. Had some great calls, but geez, we need to take one more. This has just come through on 0800 The Hits right now. Christina, what did you get given? Hi,

we got given some adult toys, which was two different colors and lingerie and little Ina had to send it with at least 20 of the family, new family members, just during Christmas with my partner. Who got you this? My partner's mother got me this.

How long had you known this lady? Like not even 30 months. And was this opened up in like a family sort of setting? Yes. It was horrible and terrifying. I was like, oh my God, I just want to hop in the box. I can imagine you'd be like,

oh, I'll look at that later. Thank you for whoever gave me this. I tried doing that. She said, no, like, show everyone what I got you. Open it up. Oh, no, no, no, no. It's fine. Open, open, open. Oh my goodness. That is wonderful.

Sometimes you don't gauge the personality of the person you're giving it to. Do you? Yeah, that's hey, well well done Christina. Guess what you're going to get mate? Oh what? More adult toys. No, no. A free ham thanks to Farmland Foods. No, that would be great.

Hold on, I'll grab your details. They haven't friends of ours, actually. They have a sexy Santa sort of tradition. I think I told you about this. And they go to a friend's place. Every year they all give sort of funny presents as a sort of friend's Christmas. And someone got a toy that looked very similar to the one that hit Stephen Joyce in the face. And they thought at the end of the night, they'd put it up on the shelf.

It's the thing that they'd see it the next day. They'd take it down. They arrived the year later. And they're like, oh, you put the toy back up. That's great. And they're like, what toy? And they hadn't realized for a whole year this toy had been sitting up high on their bookshelf. All the guests that had over at their house.

In the last year. Yeah. And they're like, oh, my goodness, we've got this toy on display. Oh, we had the nuns over from the children's orphanage. We had it all. PTA meetings, we'd had it all. It's Gwen Stefani, you're on the hits. Jono and Ben, 6.55.

Spy, know what's up. Spy.co.nz. That time of year, isn't it, where you like to spare a thought for people? Ben Bush you've been sparing a lot of thoughts for people over the last week haven't you? You've been telling us to spare thoughts for this person and that person. I'd like us to spare a thought for producer Juliet who

every day this year has read every possible article on the Kardashians on the internet. Yeah you're right She puts herself through that for you every morning to bring you Spy It's over to you Ju. so ben affleck has opened up about his previous marriage to jennifer garner and also his current relationship with j-lo um so firstly talking about j-lo he said that he had did have doubts getting back with her um because of the media attention it would cause and that was the reason or part of the big reason why they broke up in

back in the day he also said that he has to take his kids into consideration with kind of everything because what he does affects them my response to my children is the highest responsibility i have so nothing i'm gonna do anything that's painful or destructive to them if i can help it that being said i know that my life affects them i dropped my son off at school two days ago. And he's the only one who will kind of talk about he's nine years old. And there's a bunch of the older boys out there doing some toy drive or something. And I heard him go, Ben Affleck, Ben Affleck. And my kid looks at me and goes, hashtag welcome to my life.

Imagine just being like, all the kids at school know that he's Ben Affleck's son. So they can really find out sort of information about what's going on in his dad's life, sort of torment him probably. It's quite sad. So, fair enough. He sounds slurry there. He does. That's what I thought too.

Obviously not drinking. No. He may have had some pretty rough time over the last little while. Yeah. Well, he did actually. So, and then talking about his marriage to Jennifer Garner, he did say, he kind of said, if I was still with her, I probably would still be drinking.

Because obviously the marriage put quite a bit of stress on him. He said that their divorce in 2017 was a long time coming. They did stay together for as long as they did for the sake of their kids. And part of sort of the internal dialogue in his head was, well, I want to stay together because of my kids, but I'm not really happy. So what he'd do is he'd just pick up a glass of scotch and kind of just drink on the couch kind of to try and sort of fix the issue or make it go away. Rather just to get away from what was going on. Yeah, yeah.

But ultimately he didn't want his marriage to be the model that their kids saw of what a marriage should be. Yeah, I read that actually as well. And I thought that's quite fitting, isn't it? Because sometimes people do stay together, but you're like, well, is this the best example for kids? What a happy relationship is. Totally.

If you're not happy, then, you know, go be happy. Sit in bitterness. Yeah, well, don't.

Don't. Get married and sit in bitterness. Yeah, you don't have to stay together, you know? A lot of people do, don't they? But,

you know, there's a lot of admin around, around going your separate ways, too. So, my friend always says these, like, it's too much admin.

Too much admin. Yeah, but you need to be happy. Everyone needs to be happy at the end of the day. They do need to be happy, but admin doesn't make people happy either. Once you get through that, it's like moving a house. Yes, yes. Maybe you can be happy. Totally. Get through the hard stuff first and then you'll come out on the other side better. That is a spy update for this morning. For more, you can

head to thehits.co.nz. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben. After 8 o'clock this morning, of course, I'm listening to Michael Bublé non-stop in the hope that he'll Zoom us just in time for Christmas. Not sure if that's going to work or not. As well as that, we've got $6,300 to give away.

If you can guess what's inside the Resine Paint tin. Where is the Resine Paint tin? It's the first guess. Can you guess where the Resine Paint tin is? Have we lost the Resine Paint tin? I thought I saw it when I came in today somewhere. But it is, of course, the silly season, and they are getting silly,

even on shows that maybe shouldn't be as silly as ours. Seven Sharp a couple of nights ago, Hilary Barry, Jeremy Wells. Hilary, I love it when she loses it. I've never looked an orca in the eye, have you? Yes, I have, actually. What did it look like? I'm like

look scary. That was not scary. That was like a Disney character. Yes the wheels have fallen off. Pull it back Hillary.

Pull it back. Film UW if you want to call Steve. Make sure you call Steve about it. She lost it. Don't just call him. What did she share? She had one about the emergency defecation situation.

There was one with poor Henry. Yeah, that was a beauty too. But then the next story she had to read in the news was like, and 102 people have been sucked out of windows of a plane. Oh my gosh. There was something like. The transition, the segue was a tough one. It's very hard to do.

Hey, next, we want to... I found the tip. Oh, you did? Oh, good. Yeah. Razine Payton, 6,300 up for grabs. Juliet and myself, we think we know what it is. Ben, you're in the same camp.

Yeah, I agree. I agree with what you're saying, but I don't know if that's correct. If you think you know, 8.30 this morning, it is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of.

Now Christmas, as we mentioned before, it's end of next week really. It's sneaking up on everyone. And we wanted to know this morning on 0800 The Hits, who's having the busiest Christmas day? Well, Juliet was talking through that Jonas Brothers song. What was your routine? This is all done before 11 o'clock in the morning. Yes, this is what it used to be.

We've now kind of chilled out a little bit. So you'd have prison opening in the morning, and then we would have breakfast with dad's side of the family after prison opening, and then we would go to church with mum's side of the family sort of mid-morning, and then by 11 o'clock we'd all have to make it to my grandma's house with mum's side of the family all by 11,

and that was just the most stressful. We'd rip open all the presents That's a lot! Alright, breakfast, church Oh my god it was stressful I love it how we just put so much gravitas on this one day, so much pressure on this one day, we just need to remember

there are other days, there are other days to see family, there'll be another day tomorrow, yeah that's true but then I guess it's the reason for a lot of families getting together i remember as a kid because my parents i've separated when i was around about 11 so we used to have two christmases which is great you know when you're a kid in some ways because you get your family you get presents but also having a christmas lunch you know you wake up with one you have a christmas lunch and you go to the other one and then you

have a massive christmas dinner you're like jeez because everyone put it on for their one you're like oh that was a double it was a double act you did love the double presents though the double presents was good

maybe the hour and a half drive between the two I could have avoided that on Christmas day but you know it's just what you did because you wanted to hang out with family

that was a big reason why Ben was a big backer of split families you got double Christmas gifts double birthday presents as well

well you get presents from yeah you would do you get presents from Dan you get presents from Mark I love that or a split family. So you've got double Christmas gifts. Double gifts, guys. Double gifts. Double birthday presents as well. Well, you get presents from, yeah. Yeah. You would do. You'd get presents from Dan or give presents from Mark. I love that. So we want to know who's hosting the busiest Christmas.

Who's going to the most amount of Christmas dinners as well? Because you fill up. You get to by five o'clock. If you've gone to six different dinners, that's pushing your body to the limits. There's only so much. That's like a meat marathon. Yeah. There's only so much. That's like a meat marathon.

Yeah. There's only so much meat your body can handle. Do you know, we just go to one place for Christmas. We just go to my in-laws. But thankfully, my parents get along with my in-laws. And so sort of our marriage, Jennifer and my, it's inconsequential to their relationship. I feel like they would join, they would catch up anyway for Christmas.

The only reason Annie and John come here is to see their grandkids and hang out with my in-laws. Oh that's easy. Then you just have one big extended family reunion. It's just one location. Oh church obviously. I go to church being a Catholic man. Can you send us a photo from church just to prove it this year? Can't take phones in.

Can't take phones into church. I don't think you can take one outside mate. Just outside. It would be good just to prove it you know because you're always like saying you do. Good Catholic men. That's good. Yeah. They were giving me grief during the song saying that you only use your Catholic faith

to get your kids into a school. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. You haven't denied it. I will be at midnight mass. Oh, will you? Okay.

Morning mass. Okay. Midday mass. I'll go to nine masses. I just want some proof on social media. Otherwise it didn't happen. Tell you what. Just go to the church service social media, otherwise it didn't happen. Tell you what, you should go to the church service.

Juliet, you've done this. Yes. You just mentioned you've done this. She's a long hour. When you're a child, too, because all you want to do is mow into your presents. Yeah, true. When we went to church as kids, we went to a special kids church service, so you'd sing kids' Christmas

songs. It was aimed for all kids, which was great. But you eliminated church from your routine. Yeah, because it's not about that. It's not about that, is it? It's not the reason for the season. Yeah, I think – anyway. So I'll add in the hits. You could have eliminated grandma from the routine.

Who's having the busiest Christmas day? Love to hear your schedule. And remember, every caller that gets on the air wins a ham A ham for Christmas thanks to Farmland Foods We'll do that next on the hits Jono and Ben breakfast on the hits We want to know who's got the busiest Who's having the busiest Christmas as far as the schedule goes?

Yeah basically if you have a spreadsheet of venues that you need to attend on the 25th Then we want to hear from you right now We've got hams Up for grabs many many ha. So much hams. And Jo, one of these hams could be yours in Tauranga. You've got a busy Christmas day? Well, it actually starts Christmas Eve, because we're

having dinner with my dad, because he's very old, and he's fully vaxxed. He's fully vaxxed here? Yeah, and on Christmas Day, I've got vaxxed and I've got unvaxxed people coming for Christmas, so my dad won't come. Oh, I see.

The vaccination playing a role in your busyness. Oh, so you have separate ones? Yeah, I guess that makes sense. He's really scared if he gets it he'll die if it isn't what he's thinking. Yeah, no, fair enough. I don't see where he's coming from. So we've got about 15 people on Christmas Day and that involves cooking presents, games

lots of food, lots of alcohol and then on Boxing Day I've got to have another family member who's fully vaxxed but she won't come to the Christmas Day with all the unvaxxed and vaxxers. Why don't you do a secret Santa and all the unvaxxed

people get two shots of Pfizer? Oh, look, it's oh, I don't know who got you that. We should put it in now. Hey, good on you.

We're going to give you a ham, Joe. Oh, that'd be fantastic. Thank you. Thanks to our family and foods. I want to hold

your ham, Joe. I want to hold your ham. Let's get Anna on from Auckland talking busiest Christmas. Stay, Ana. What have you got? We understand you've got a 24th, 25th scenario happening.

Yes, I do. I have on the 24th. I have lunch with some friends, and we as a Colombian, we celebrate on the 24th night to this family. And then on the 25th, I have four with a couple of friends in the morning. I have lunch with a couple of friends in the morning. I have lunch with my partner's parents and then at nine I have a couple of

afternoon tea plus dinner. Oh my gosh, so you've got two events on the 24th, four on the 25th? Yes. This is busy. A busy time. I feel like I'm talking to Gloria from Modern Family. Yes it is. It's a time.

So you were saying the night before, did you say you have a Colombian, you're getting with friends and family, Colombia. Is there a different sort of celebration, anything different that we'll do maybe in New Zealand for Celebrate Christmas? Yes, we do a little bit. It's more like a family, a little bit of prayer.

Colombia is a Catholic country, so we do a little bit of prayer. Catholic. We also have presents on the 24th, midnight. Oh, midnight, you get straight into it. I like that. Hey, lovely to talk to a fellow Catholic on the show as well, Anna. All right, God bless us.

Should we end this in a prayer or something? We're going to end this by giving you a free ham. How's that sound? Thank you. Get a free ham to take to one of your six functions over Christmas. Thank you so much for listening to the show. Thank you guys. Good on you, I appreciate it. We'll get Sandy on. Busiest Christmases. What have you got, Sando?

Merry Christmas, guys. Merry Christmas to you. What are you running on Christmas Day, mate? It's just, it's a one day event, but it's all at my place. And so first thing in the morning, I've got the champagne and white bait. I've got to get that all prepped

for the girlfriends that come around in the morning. That's cool. And then once I get rid of them, I've got to start prepping the family dinner. So it's a big full-on Christmas dinner for 14 people. Oh, and then once you get rid of them? And once I

get rid of them, it's cocktails for the neighbours. So it's going to be a pretty big day. That is a high impact. High impact. That is, if I'm doing the maths, I'm talking 14 hours of non-stop drinking there for you, Sandy, and cooking. Well, that's Christmas, right? Yeah, it is a lot of Christmas. It's all part of the fun of Christmas.

You just want someone double-checking that you've cooked all the food correctly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good on you, Sandy. Well done. We're going to give you a ham that you can cook for lunch for the fam. Thank you so much, guys. Hey, no worries. You too.

Enjoy your Christmas Day. Sounds like a lot of fun. Yeah, a lot of fun. And now we've got Tanya. We'll just end on Tanya, who you think you're having the busiest Christmas Day, Tanya. Jump on. Yeah, I've got my sister on Christmas Eve and then I've got four Christmases on Christmas.

Four Christmases? And four different locations. Four different locations, yeah. Wow, that's a busy Christmas. You're running a busy Christmas. You and Santa Claus are running a very busy Christmas. I think you might be busier than Santa. And he's had a supply chain issue this year.

Hey, well, we're going to send you out a free ham. Thank you for listening to the show. Have a great Christmas. Thank you. All the best. Enjoy the ham for the fam. Hams for everyone. Yeah, hams all around.

Thanks to Farmland Foods. We've got more to give away this week. It is the hits. You got it, John. I'm Ben. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game Avoid Association.

We play it every morning on the hits. We tell you five words. You tell us what pops into your head when we say those five words. And if all those match up when we play the same game, you win $5,000. Let's head to Nicole in the Manawatu. Morena, Nicole. Hi. You doing well?

Hey, geez, mate. It's been flooding up a storm in the Manawatu. We've had a lot of rain up here. Is it all eased up now? No, it's still raining right now. Gee whiz. Well, hey, thinking of you all there, I've seen some of the stuff on the news. It looks wet.

Yeah, very wet. How are you affected? Your house all right? Yeah, no, we're all good where we are. We're out at a small beach settlement, so it's quite good. Okay, well, let's see if we can make it rain money. That would be great. Today, less water.

That's not what the Manawatu needs, but Nicole needs some cash. You're going to put this towards what, Nicole, $5,000? Christmas and possibly a holiday. Ooh. Yeah. Now, we've had a couple of fours out of five this week. Yes, hopefully this will be a five out of five. Okay, the big decision for you, Nicole,

is to send someone into the soundproof booth. Who's it going to be? Producer Juliet, Ben, or myself? Jono. Okay. Jono this morning. Hopefully this is a lucky oven heading into Christmas for you.

What's your plans for Christmas? Spending it with my sister and some of her family, and my family at her place. Oh, very nice, very nice. All right, Jono's in the soundproof booth. Here we go. Here is your first word, Nicole, this morning. Appropriate one.

It's buble. Buble. Buble. Oh, Michael. Michael, yeah. Seemed like the option, Easy. The best option. Easy. Julia's like, she's caught it now.

You've got it. Pudding is the second word. P-U-D-D-I-N-G. Pudding. Christmas. Christmas pudding. I think I've matched. Same.

But I'm not going to say that now. Even though I did. Password is word number three. Password. Oh. Yeah, now you've got some options here, right? Can I come back to that one? Yeah, sure.

Marlborough is word number four. Marlborough. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Watson. I could go wine or I could go region. Yeah, both are really good options. Yeah.

Oh, God. I'll go wine. Okay, Marlborough wine. Very good wine country, Marlborough. Okay, flower is word number five. Flower, W. Sorry, I'll spell it. F-L-O-W-E-R.

Flower with a W. Rose. Rose, not flowers and baking flour. And we're going back to password. Any thoughts on password? I've kind of split 50-50 on that one off the top of my head. Yeah, same. Yeah, password.

Oh, there's quite a few. Security. Security password. All right. Nicole, there's quite a few. Security. Security password. All right. Nicole, there's some tricky words there this morning. I don't think we helped you out too much with those words. No, you didn't. No, yeah.

Let's be honest. You're like, no, we didn't. Jono's out of the soundproof booth. Yeah, Nicole, not feeling super confident I'm gathering, Jono. Oh, hang up on her now then. No, but you never know. You could match. You never know.

You never know. could match You never know Okay Nicole Let's go hard and early Sharp and short Hard and fast Whatever we do Other cliches Yep

First word this morning Jono Was booblay Booblay Okay Now Come on I don't want a TED talk I'm thinking maybe

Isolation Because that's what I referred to As my bubble Over Oh jeez. Just for the fact that Ben's getting frustrated with me right now. This means we're the easy ones. We're getting into it.

I'm going to lock in. You've got to find a friend or something. Nicola, did you say Michael? Yes. Good. Yeah, well done. Okay, we're going to go pudding, word number two. Christmas.

Nice. We're going to go pudding. Word number two? Christmas. Nice. We're going to mix things up. We're going to go to flower. The F-L-O-W-E-R. Flower shop. Oh, we tried to mix things up. It didn't work. The other one was password, which we were struggling a little bit with.

ID? Oh, you know. And Marlborough. Marlborough sounds. Oh, I had thought of that. That's a good one. We went wine. Wine country, you know, and Marlborough. Marlborough Sounds. Oh, I had thought of that. That's a good one. We went wine. Wine country, you know.

Two out of three, Nicola. Oh, well, not bad. Out of five. Two out of five. What did I say? Two out of three? I'm so sorry that didn't quite work out for you, but you've got a free ham.

Oh, awesome. That'd be great. Then you've got a free little ham parody song, too. What a treat. Here we go. That'd be great. Then you've got a free little ham parody song too. What a treat. Here we go. No piggity. No piggity. You've got some mileage out of these songs. I didn't realise we paid $200.

I see why you're doing it now. I have a great Christmas. I'm going to be playing them in January. Thank you. See you later, Nicola. Still to come, we try and get the attention of Michael Bublé and Razine. What's in the Razine paint tin? You could win $6,300.

It is the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, moments away from me heading into the Bublé box to listen to nothing but Michael Bublé and the hope that he will Zoom us. We'll find out if that works just after 8. We have Chris the tech in here at the moment setting up for this monumental occasion.

It's a lot of work to get it all together. Yeah, a lot of work. Chris doing all the stuff there. Oh, explain more about the stuff he's doing, you know. Oh, look, holy Christ. Do you want to explain about the stuff, Chris? Hey, it's just stuff. It's just stuff.

Technical stuff. It's just all the cables and the plugs and all the stuff. Let's do some spy, eh? Spy. The WhatsApp spy.co. Just stuff. Technical stuff. Cables and the plugs and all the stuff. Let's do some Spy, eh? Spy. The WhatsApp Spy. Docco.nz. All she wants for Christmas is a celebrity sex scandal so that she can talk about it in this.

It's Juliet with Spy. So in the Sex and the City reboot and just like that, at the end of the first episode... Spoiler alert. Yeah, spoiler alert. But if you haven't seen it or heard it yet, you're probably living under a rock. So you need to see it.

And if you're living under a rock, why don't you try a house? Yeah, exactly. Spoiler alert, Mr. Big passes away from a heart attack. And when watching the scene, this is exactly what went through my mind and it seems it went through the rest of the world's mind as well. Carrie walks in and sees Mr. Big sort of lying half in a shower,

clutching his heart. And she kind of just stands there for a bit. And you're like, girl, do something. And then eventually she runs up to him and just like holds him and is like, oh my God, I'm going to cry. But he's staring back. So I've watched the scene.

He's still sort of alive. If someone was there, should I call St. John? Exactly. Yeah, it seems like a lot of people are getting frustrated she didn't call. Call an ambulance. America would have been 911, right?

Yes, yes And I was thinking Why are you not calling emergency services? Like, that is the first thing That you would probably think of But again, she was probably in shock That this is what was going on Maybe she wanted him to

No Maybe she poisoned him Don't say it Maybe this is plot twist Oh my god, no Don't say it Carrie is a murderer No

And it's all revealed Stop, stop You can't say that Kerry is a murderer. No. And it's all revealed. Stop, stop. You can't say that. You can't. What can I say? Apparently the brand of bikes. Peloton.

Yeah, it was on a certain bike. And then he did an ad straight after, pretty much afterwards. Yeah. And Ryan Reynolds hooked it up. Yeah. Basically got it together with him on a bike

for the thing going back. It's back on and it's not the bike. Basically not the bike. He was hoofing it. Have you seen him on that bike? Jeez, he's given it 120. He's toured the France.

He had some cardiac issues already, didn't he? Yeah. So maybe he shouldn't have been going that far. No, maybe he was Lance Armstrong again. But he was really, I was like, and he's got it in his wardrobe as well. I was like, gee, well, he'd be traveling at 100 kilometers an hour on a bike if he was on a bike. So chill out, mate. But a cardiologist has weighed in on whether

Mr. Big would have survived if Carrie had called emergency services. Does everyone know that this is... I know. I know, but everyone's invested. You know what I mean? So Dr. Roy, the cardiologist, says although it was a little unclear exactly what was going on because there was no

real significant dialogue, Carrie should have called 911, but if we took it at face value, he was probably going to die regardless. By the time emergency services got there, it seems that he probably would have passed away at that point. Would have been a waste of resource. Yeah, yeah. But then I say that, but then I look at another article,

and another cardiologist says, yes, it was Carrie's fault he died. Well, she could have done the happy birthday song. Is that what you do when you're resuscitating? Is that what you're washing your hands? No, it's staying alive. It's a happy birthday. Staying alive, staying alive. Happy birthday.

Imagine that your last thing you see is someone singing happy birthday. You're like, what's wrong, mate? That's the wrong song. Staying alive. And apparently, actually, I don't want to say that in case that's the wrong song. Stay in the line. And apparently, actually, no, I don't want to say that in case that's false. Yeah, well, don't. I say it, mate. Have you heard the stuff I say?

Baby Shark is another one maybe you can... Yes. Baby Shark. Yeah, apparently that's another one you can do. It's the 2021 version as well. You'll be like, end me now if you start singing Baby Shark. And I will quickly mention, people are starting to share a, people are sharing a disturbing Home Alone theory

that Kevin McAllister is also Jigsaw in the Saw movies. Oh, the French horror movies. Yeah, so Kevin and Jigsaw both make intricate traps. Both are homicidal. Both have anger issues. The bear trap from Saw looks like the furnace in Kevin's basement. Jigsaw has a room that looks like Kevin's basement. Jigsaw has a furnace trap playing off Kevin's fear.

Oh, that doesn't make sense, that sentence. I should have pre-read that. And that's why we've got the best in the business. Hell yeah. So that's a weird line-up. You started so well there, Connor. Thank you. Shouldn't have done that story.

But anyway, yeah, Kevin. That was my favourite of all the stories. Thank you, thank you. That is spy. I'll wrap that bad boy up. After 8 o'clock, guess what's in the regime? Payton win $6,000,

just over $6,000, as well as Michael Bublé. We try and get his attention with me listening to his song non-stop. That's coming up moments away on The Hits. New Zealand's breakfast. It's coming up moments away on The Hits. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben just got on 8 o'clock, 8.30 this morning. If you think you know what's in the Resine paint tin, Jono, have you got it floating around?

It's a summer-ish item. You throw it away once you use it. Yesterday's clue was it's flash. If you think you know what it is, 8.30 this morning, $6,300 could be all yours. Well, I'll tell you, a few texts that have come through to 4487, they're on the same wavelength as Juliet and myself. Oh, so people think you think you. Yeah, and I think you might be right.

We're zeroing in. We're zeroing in. But more importantly, well, not more importantly, on the same level of importance. Everything's equal importance. I don't want to prioritize anything on this program. No one's better than anyone else. But Ben Boyce, next you will break your bubble and head into the Boyce-Bublé bubble to listen to Michael Bublé. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on repeat.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Until Michael Bublé reaches out. Yeah, we're hoping he's going to Zoom. We're going to send him, I think you're sending him a direct message with a Zoom link, right, to his social media accounts. We're going to do that in just a moment.

And then hopefully he's going to see that. We're going to see him. We're going to bombard him with, hey, message, check your DMs, and hopefully he'll stop this madness of me listening to the song over and over again. The only thing that will get him out of the room is Michael Bublé or his swipe card, which is also, you can use that whenever you want.

I'm not locking you in there. Yeah. I'm not a monster. But kids, he's probably not going to be home for Christmas. So I'm off to listen to Michael Bublé. The only time I can take the headphones off is to do some radio, right? Yeah. You won't hear Bublé nonstop on the radio.

So we've got a full decorated room just outside of the studio here. It looks like Christmas has just vomited all over the walls of this room. And Ben Boyce, you'll go and sit in there next. Yeah. And begin this wonderful journey of discovery and exploration. Yeah, I'm a little bit nervous. We'll see how this goes. Stick around.

It is the hits you got, John. I'm Ben. bit nervous we'll see how this goes uh stick around it is the hits you got john i'm being you're on jonno and ben oh i'm on yeah oh welcome welcome it's uh jonno here from the jonno and ben show coming to you live uh 20 meters away from where we usually come to you live, as we are about to begin the Ben Boyce Bublé bubble. Ben is going to be listening to this song right here. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. On repeat, you can take your headphones off now. He's already started. He's going to be listening to this non-stop over and over

until we grab the attention of the great recording artist, Grammy Award-winning recording artist, Michael Bublé. Please don't check that Grammy fact. I just said it and I hope it's true. I'm sure it's true. We've got plenty of time potentially to research. It's a lovely song. I've listened to it once already and I'm about to get the second time.

It's a lovely song, but it'll be interesting to see how long until he contacts us. Will he contact us? We have sent a direct message to his social media with a Zoom link and at any stage he could Zoom and end this madness. And we must plug you know these days radio is not just an audio form being voiced. It also comes

in the way of visual entertainment and we are streaming live. Are we streaming live already? We're streaming live on the Hits Breakfast Facebook page so you can see a man sitting in a very comfortable chair listening to easy listening music on repeat over and over. Oh, I do it hard, guys. He's doing it hard.

He'll probably be fed. We'll probably give him a shower break. And this is what radio pranks and punishments have come to in 2021. Remember when I'd burn down your house in the 90s? What have we turned into as an industry? We've lost our mojo. Oh, mate, listen to Michael Bublé on repeat. Oh, no, please don't.

Oh, you've got to, and guess what? The chair's going to have a really nice cushion. Oh, no, please. So anyway, if you want to message Michael Bublé, we'll put some posts up on our social media, but you can tag him in it. Make sure he sees it. Tell him to check his DMs, and hopefully he can Zoom us.

Maybe it will happen before 9 o'clock. Yeah, and it's a wonderful setting in here. This is usually just a tiny little meeting room, but it's got Christmas trees. You've got a giant Santa standing up behind you, creepily watching over you. Make sure you don't take your headphones off. That Santa looks like he's got some stuff to hide, doesn't he, that one? You can catch it all live right now on the Facebook page of The Hits Breakfast. And the Resene paint tin, we have $6,300 to give away.

If you know what is inside the Resene paint tin, we'll be doing that in 20 minutes' time. Put the headphones back on. Back to Buble. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. John Owen Ben All I want for Christmas It's the hits with John Owen Ben Ben Boyce currently He's embarked on the Bublé bubble right now

He is listening to Michael Bublé All I want for Christmas on repeat And you can hear him right now on the live stream I can come back here. He is on the microphone. Oh, there we go. Now I'm on this microphone. There's too many microphones.

I'm just talking to the live stream, and I don't know if no one cares. I'm not sure. Who knows? Yeah, no, well, you just go back to listening back to Bublé because he's just started this nonstop marathon effort. Okay, so back to Bublé? Yeah, back to Bublé.

He's putting the headphones on. He's listening to back to Bublé? Yeah, back to Bublé. He's putting the headphones on. He's listening to all Michael Bublé music until Michael Bublé reaches out. Hopefully he doesn't Chris, miss our message. You can direct message Bublé

on his social media accounts. We've sent him a Zoom link in his DMs. But I need to come clean, Producer Juliet. And you know this as well. You were in on this. This dastardly plan.

Ben thinks he's doing this to get the attention of Michael Bublé, listening to the same song over and over again. But the truth is, Michael Bublé's already teed up for an interview. We've got him sorted. Oh, dear. Yeah, so Ben is essentially doing this for nothing. So how long is this going to go for? Well, let's just say it'll be...

It could go into the weekend. What? It could go into the weekend, but now this is what we're doing. We're placing a lot of faith in the audience, Liz tuned in right now, that you don't tell Ben about this deep dark secret. We've known all along that we're going to talk to Bublé.

It was always going to be the end result. But he doesn't know and he doesn't need to know. He just thinks that if he keeps listening to the song and people message Bublé it's going to happen. So we're just, this is just one big stitch up on him really. Yes, but the stitch up relies on no one messaging Ben Boyce.

Oh my God, we're putting a lot of trust into the people. Yeah, no one tell him. This is my Christmas wish is that no one tells him because he's going to work hard to get this done. And you know he's really wanted to talk to Bublé. So the end result's going to happen. That's good. But it just felt like he needed to work for it.

Yeah, no, I agree. This is funny. Yeah, and we've known all along. Yeah, this is good. But it just felt like he needed to work for it. Yeah, no, I agree. This is funny. Yeah, and we've known all along. Yeah, this is good. And now you know. You're in on the deep dark secret. So please don't tell him. There you go.

He's just rambling away to Facebook Live now. And I don't know why, because you can't hear what Facebook Live's saying back to him, but he's just talking nonstop and listening to Michael Bublé. So that's the deal. This is a little twist that I did not expect. Potentially this could go into next week. We'll just see. Bublé has agreed to talk, but at what

time that will be and when it will be is TBC. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hits. The Hits. At the moment Ben Boyce has just started listening to Michael Bublé. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. On repeat, on loop, he's in our Christmas room.

He's got headphones on, and hopefully he's got those headphones off momentarily to talk to me. Come on in, Ben. Yes, I've just been told I'm allowed to take the headphones off just for a moment to talk to you, so here I am. I've just been watching you on the live stream on the Hits Breakfast. Is it live streaming? Because I've been questioning whether it has been. It is live streaming. You're doing a lot of talking and it's bleak. Yeah, yeah. You're singing and you started talking about the squid game

and the guy with his cell phone battery life. I was like, mate, just. I wondered too, there was Slumdog Millionaire, the movie, if you've ever seen that, and every question in that related to something that happened in their life. Maybe this could be a moment for me in the future. They'll be like, in the song, it's beginning to look a lot like christmas what did barney and ben want for christmas and i'll be like i know this because i listened to it how many times while buble waiting for buble this could

be the moment yeah it's probably not yeah but it could be i love what the cup's always half full with you being voiced but he's dressed in a wonderful christmas jersey he's got a christmas hat on and he's not coming out until bu Bublé reaches out and has some form of communication. It could be via text or whatever. We have slid into his DMs, sent him a Zoom link. And you can message Bublé, too, if you'd like to, and get Ben out of this madness. Yeah, message him, message him.

Razeen, your home of Kiwi-made paints and colours this summer, presents Jono and Ben's $10,000 mystery color mix. Here it is, Ben. Here it is. What is in the Resine paint? And you've got it with you in the studio right now. We started with $10,000. Every incorrect entry for what the item is in the Resine paint.

We took away $100. We're now at $6,300. Jono, you think you've worked it out. I'm hoping it's going to be Michael Bublé in the paint tin. And then I'll hope they get out of here. He would have lost a lot of oxygen if he's been in this paint tin the whole time. Yeah, true. I'd be worried about his health and safety.

But the clues are, it's a summer item. You can't beat it on a good day. And you can throw it away after you've done with it. And it's flash. Those are the clues if you think you know what the item is we have six thousand three hundred dollars up for grabs next rise and shine time to start the um who are we kidding we're not the boss of you jono and ben the heads this morning something a little different ben boyce is is trapped in our Christmas room listening to Michael Bublé on repeat

until Michael Bublé reaches out. He's in his Bublé bubble. Ben Boyce, he's taken his Bublé out of his ears momentarily. He's got Bublé just blasting into those eardrums. It's quite hard to talk because I'm talking to the live stream when there's music playing. You feel like you lose track very easily of what you're saying. We're watching you talk to the live stream, and this is some of it. It's beginning to look like Christmas.

And I can't hear me, and you can't hear Booglay, so you're hearing terrible music. Yeah, so you're just saying words. The internet doesn't need this. No, it doesn't. And the internet's got some rubbish on it, and it doesn't need this. Yeah, they can immediately delete this footage once we're done with it. But first of all...

Razeem, your home of Kiwi-made paints and colours this summer, presents Jono and Ben's $10,000 Mystery Colour Mix. We've had so much fun doing this, haven't we, Benny boy? It has been a lot of fun. We don't know what the item is. Jono thinks he's worked it out. Something is in the Resene paint tin. You have it with you in the studio right now.

If you can work it out, thanks to Resene. Resene paints, wood stains, and colours designed and made right here in New Zealand and have been named the most trusted paint for the last 10 years. Well, thanks to them, you could win right now $6,300. Now, the paint tin keeper, producer B Humps. Those clues again, if we could just recap. Yes, so you can't beat it on a good day. You throw it away once you're done with it.

And it's flash. Those are the three clues. And we'll go to Gail first in Rolleston. How's Chit-Chit this morning, Gail? Thank you, how are you? Got flooding in Canterbury at the moment, isn't there? Wild weather. Yeah, it's awful. Yeah, well you keep safe there. I'm just watching TV at the moment. A whacking great tree's just blown over into the river there, the haven.

Anyway, let's not focus on the weather, Gail. Let's focus on winning you some cash. What do you think's inside the Rosene paint tin? I think it's a lump of charcoal for a charcoal barbecue. Oh, a lump of coal. Well, that's what naughty kids are meant to get in their stockings, right? It feels about that weight and size. You would have some practice with lumps of coal for Christmas, wouldn't you, Jono? I would. I do have an open fire in the household, and I like to light it on Christmas Day.

No, it's not a lump of coal, sorry. Good guess, though. Good guess. Gail, we're going to give you a free Christmas ham, though, all right, mate? Oh, awesome. Thank you very much. No, thank you very much for your wonderful ears. We appreciate you listening.

Yeah, we do. Everyone that listens to the show. So what's that, $6,200 now? $6,200. Okay, we'll go to Gabby in Dunsandle. Welcome, Gabbo. Hi there, how are you? Good to have you on, mate.

Lovely time of year to be winning $6,200. Gabby, what's inside the Resine Plankton? I think it's a disposable camera. A disposable camera. Now, looking back on the clues, we've got you use it in summer. You can't beat it on a good day. It's flash, and you can throw it away afterwards. I mean, it's ticking all the boxes for me, Gabs.

All right, babes? This is what, Jono, you thought it could be. And so did producer Juliette. And it does stack up, but is it inside the resin paint? And only your producer, Bee Humps, knows. Gabby, I'm going to get Jono to open the tin. No. No.

Oh, is this it? Is this it? Is this it? Is it? Is it? I'm just opening the paint tin now. Okay. All right.

Resin paint tin's very hard to open. Discovered airtight. Gabby? Yes? I am pulling out right now a Kodak disposable camera! Yes! Oh, my God! $6,200, Gabby!

Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I can't believe it! Oh, that is so awesome. Well, this is so awesome to give this to you. What are you going to do with the money? I'm actually, I'll use it for Christmas.

I'm actually going to share it with my friend as well. You're going to share the cash with your friend? Yeah, we'll go have. She and I have been working on it together, and we've been trying to get on, and obviously haven't been able to until today. That's lovely. What's your friend's name?

Her name is Jess. Jess is also going to get $3,100. Oh, my God. Were you going to go halves with her? I don't know. Jono's just there. Yeah, you can go halves. Oh, you're going to go halves.

Great. Yeah, I didn't know if it was a 20, you know, what sort of split was going on. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that is so awesome. Well done. What was the guess that, what sort of split was going on. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that is so awesome. Well done. What was the guess that, what was the clue that made you guess it? Um, oh, I think it was the one you say was it being a flash. Flash, yeah.

Yeah, I had an inkling that it was a disposable camera, like on the weekend just been, and then it didn't quite match the next clue, and I was like, oh, I'm not sure. Well, Gabby, you've done it, mate. Well done. Oh, my God, I'm shaking. Thank you. Oh, that's so awesome. Just in time for Christmas.

Thanks to Razine, you've got $6,200. Well done. Thank you. That was so fun. I really enjoyed it. We should try and do that again. Yeah, and see that, Johnna? She's sharing that with her friends.

You could be sharing Michael Bublé in your ears with me. But you need someone looking after the up to the admin and the logistics and the back-end band boys. Yeah, so you go back to listening to Michael Bublé. And, Juliet, can I thank you very much for the slice-of-heaven dance mix? Yeah, I know. Which we never knew we needed. I know.

But we've got it. All right, back to Bublé. See you guys soon. Oh, that was awesome. There's something in the way you roll your eyes. Jono and Ben. See you guys soon. Oh, that was awesome. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben.

We've embarked on the Boyce-Bublé bubble. Him listening to Michael Bublé. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. On repeat. Until Michael Bublé reaches out or gets in touch, you can message Michael Bublé on his social media channels if you want and just a secret because Ben can't hear anything right now. Ben Boyce can't hear anything right now.

He thinks he's doing this to get Michael Bublé's attention. But the dirty, dark secret that I hold is we've already teed Michael Bublé up. He's going to get in contact anyway. So essentially he's doing this for absolutely no reason at all. But you can't tell him.

So no one message Ben, all right? This could go into the weekend if we wanted to. But first of all, we've just got a little bit of a surprise because we have a Michael with us on Zoom, the one and only Michael Baker, epidemiologist. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you, mate? Hi. Great to have, mate? Hi.

Great to have you on, Michael. Now, you've probably done more TV time this year than Briscoe's commercials. Gee whiz, you have been in front of that wonderful tapa cloth for probably about six months of the year. Are you sick of giving your opinion on the news now? Yeah, kia ora. Actually, I can't hear you at the moment. Oh, you can't hear me at the moment? Well, that's all right.

Those are technical issues that we'll try and work through. But what I wanted to do, Michael, to get you on, is to trick Ben into thinking that we have Michael Bublé on the phone with us right now. So I'm going to go in and surprise him as he's listening to It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. Ben, take your headphones off. You're only 45 minutes into this Michael Bublé marathon.

Yeah. I have a Michael on Zoom. We have Michael on Zoom. It's MB. Michael Bublé. Everyone knows him. Famous epidemiologist Michael Baker, the big man himself in front of his tupper cloth,

has appeared to not get you out of this room. Oh, it's always good to see Dr. Michael Baker, but not quite the Michael I was hoping for today. Yeah, sorry to disappoint your listeners. Well, can you sing us a Michael Bublé song, Michael Baker? Oh, don't do that. No, I would mangle it, I'm afraid, even more than he mangles it. And now, listen, I know when we started this out, you couldn't quite hear me,

but I was just saying you've done more TV time this year than the Briscoe's commercials. Jeez, he's clocked up some TV minutes. Are you sick of giving your opinion on the news now well i'm actually boring myself now so that must mean something how do you feel like going into summer do you feel you know that we're in a good spot i like it i'm just i'm rolling it with an interview now um or do you feel like you're a little bit worried about omicron coming over this way. Yeah, I mean, epidemiologists, we're paid to worry. So we always do think about, we don't want to catastrophize, but we do have to keep an eye on these things.

But actually, New Zealand has done phenomenally well in its response to the pandemic. I would say probably the best on earth. And I think a lot comes down to not just the leadership, but also I think the whole collective group of New Zealanders at all levels. And I think of that amazing milestone, which is passing now of 90 percent fully vaccinated. You know, months ago, no one thought we thought, well, maybe we'll get to 80 percent. But this is an incredible achievement.

Well, that's wonderful. Michael Baker with us, epidemiologist. Now, last time we did speak to you, Michael, Ben and myself were very concerned about the amount of family time you were getting. And it was very little because you've been working so hard. And all I want for Christmas is Michael Baker to spend time with his family.

Have you got time set aside, Michael? I have. And actually, before I came on the interview, my 11-year-old daughter said, you are the superstars for her. She's an absolute fangirl. Oh, really? What's her name?

Euphemia. Euphemia. Oh, thank you, Euphemia. That's lovely. We'll send Euphemia a Christmas present. Yeah. Okay. Well, you are.

You're going to go through the admin, are you? I'll do the admin. I'll do the admin. All right. Don't let down an 11-year-old. I can't let down Dr. Michael Baker. Hey, well, listen, Michael, on behalf of Aotearoa, thank you so much for all of your hard work this year.

And I know many of these appearances are probably unpaid. You're just doing this for the good of the country. And for that, sir, we thank you very much. Oh, thanks. Great to talk. Lovely to talk with you. He's navigated us out of our pandemic, but not navigated me out of this room,

has he? No, he's not. That's the wrong Michael for me. Shut that down. That's a great MB, though. He was a good MB. He was a good Michael. On any other day, happy to see Michael Baker. Alright, back to your song. The Bublé bubble continues on. It's the hits,. These show producers were nominated for a radio award

because when you work with these guys, you deserve a medal. Tuna and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. At the moment, Ben Boyce. We cross back live to the Boyce-Bublé bubble. Ben is entertaining the live stream with inane banter while also simultaneously listening to Michael Bublé's It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas on loop. Are you there, Benjamin?

I'm just here. I'm here. I'm here. Oh, there's that song. You're playing it now for me. That's good. You take it off your headphones, and then you hear it again on your headphones on the radio. Yeah, it's a lovely song, but, jeez, the novelty is wearing off. I thought before 9 o'clock, I was like, it's going to happen, but it hasn't happened, and our show's ending. Is staying awake going to be your hardest hurdle? Because I think if i was in this position in a cozy temperate room with a comfortable sofa listening to easy listening buble that i did start to get heavy ben

yeah i think there's gonna be a problem i was also gonna light a buble candle we got given as well but then i was like all fire alarms as well so that's another that's another concern. What does the Bublé candle smell like? It smells like pine, Christmas pine. I was like, oh, that'd be nice. You know, get the Christmas spirit going on in the room, and hopefully it's a one. If there is not a Chris Pine Christmas candle smelling of pine, there is a crime upon puns. But anyway, we're not here to focus on Chris Pine. No, Chris Pine.

Yeah, why did we decide to get Chris Pine? Because, no, we're just trying to get Michael Bublé. And you guys have been checking the social media. Anything from him, from his management? Radio silence thus far, which is not good for radio. But no one has got in touch with us from his management or his team yet. People have been messaging him, Ben. You can rest assured.

Your efforts are not falling on deaf ears. But unfortunately, they are falling on one pair of deaf ears, and those are Bublé's at the moment. But he could hear your cry for help. You just keep on going. You stick in there. You're a Kiwi hero. And I will be putting you forward for the New Year's Honours.

I don't think that is deserved. But I will continue to listen to Bublé in the hope that he's going to. I mean, you know, it's Canada. What's the time in Canada right now? You know, maybe that's the thing. Maybe he's just waking up. Hey, listen, I've made one rule when we started working together. Never ask me the international times of other countries, okay?

Calgary, 12.56 p.m. There you go. Oh, yeah, this is prime calling time. This is great. Afternoon. He's getting into the afternoon. He'll call us. Don't worry, guys.

It's going to happen. You can follow all the madness at The Hits Breakfast on Facebook and also our Instagram account as well. We're keeping you up to date. And hopefully Bublé will get in touch, and hopefully Ben will be home for Christmas, kids. We'll catch you tomorrow from 6 o'clock. Have a wonderful day.

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