Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Not The Only One With A Smiggle Velcro Wallet!

Episode Date: September 9, 2021

So turns out Ben is not the only man-child around the place, Jono met someone who ALSO has a velcro wallet like Ben. Are there any more people like this out there!? We also caught up with a woman called Michelle Kennedy, who was a board member for the dating app Bumble. But she started a new app called Peanut, described as "tinder for mums". It's for women who want to make friends and matches them based on location, interests and mutual friends. Super interesting and such a good app to know about! Finally, Ben needed a bit of a hand trying to figure out the etiquette for "liking" posts on Instagram! Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Owen Ben, new to your mornings, friends of skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of John Owen Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the John Owen Ben podcast. G'day guys, Thursday the 9th of September, it's John Owen Ben here. Welcome to the podcast, intro Benjamin. Yeah, good to be here on the podcast, I was talking this morning about Chris Hipkins, having his little sip from his cup. That's it, spread your legs, not the virus, him, you know, it's good that he's having a bit of fun with his own meme. Yeah, oh it's fun, who listens to this podcast? What's our demograph? Do they know who Chris Hipkins is or do we need to over...

Oh, I see what you're saying. Do we need to over-explain who he is and what Spread Your Legs is? So, yeah, I guess for our international podcast audience. We do know Johnny Lovegrove tunes in from Oregon, so we can say with good knowledge that we do have an international audience. It's an audience of one, but we'll take it. But then I feel like we could explain who Chris Hipkins was for John, but he'd probably know anyway because he keeps up to date with what's happening

in New Zealand but we will. Chris Hipkins is a politician for New Zealand and he said saying the other day go outside and stretch your legs he said go outside and spread your legs. And boy have we had a fucking field day with this. For about three weeks now we've been getting mileage Oh the country has. The whole country yeah. Someone made

mugs with his go outside and spread your legs and he used it in the press conference yesterday and everyone had... And it was subtly. Well, not subtly, but it was subtly. He came out and before he'd even begun talking about the COVID update, the COVID figures, he just was a bit thirsty. He had to sip out the mug

and just the look in his eye. Just sees like, oh, they're going to love this. And we did. We all laughed it up. He played into our sweet spot. He did. So good on him. I know. Good on you.

You've got to bring a bit of humour in these times, don't you, Benjamin? Well, it's nice to have a bit of humour. And I said before, I said on the show, I thought maybe they were threatened by our TV show starting, the 1pm press conference. You know, they were threatened. Yeah. And so they tried to bring some comedy into it, you know? But you were like, you're just trying to plug our TV show.

And I was. Yeah. And now you've tried to do it again. Yeah, I have. For the podcast audience. It might be geo-blocked for the international audience. Might not be able to watch it on TV and see it on demand. Actually, Johnny Lovegrove emailed from Oregon.

And he said, I'm looking forward to seeing your show. And I said, if you need a Vimeo link, because I can send that to you if it's geo-blocked on TV and on demand. He said, don't worry. I've got my ways. Oh, he's got his ways around. People always have their ways. I had my ways for a while. I was on a website

Oh you kept spouting On and on and on And then everyone was like That's not I kept publicly Promoting this website That turned out to be Violently illegal

Yeah Streaming all sorts of shows Any show you could think of Was on this website Yeah You had to watch 300 About 300

Sort of pop up ads That would sort of Spring up on you During each episode But if you fought your way Through those, yeah, you got to finally watch the episode. So you didn't have to – yeah, so you got the free – well, I guess they – I didn't forget. Well, Project Free, it was cool.

No, right. I don't know. It's probably not even a thing now. No. But nowadays, Ben, you'll be happy to know I pay subscription services. Oh, good. I'm not on Project Free TV now. Oh, yeah, that's – yeah.

Yeah. I understand. Do you know that – well, it kind of relates, but you're talking about ads popping up. LeBron James, one of my favourite basketballers, very tight, even though he makes millions of dollars, apparently he's one of the more fiscally sensible players. And he's still like, they have Pandora or something over there,

which is similar to Spotify. Spotify, he won't pay for the one, the service without the ads. He's like, why not? He doesn't pay for the Supreme Service on a music stream. He was on a video from a few years ago. There was Dwayne Wade, another basketball player, giving him grief about it. He's like, yeah, no, I don't.

I don't need to pay for it. Why would I? I listen to the ads. It's fine. So yeah, even the guy who earns millions, hundreds of millions of dollars. He came from pretty rough roots. Yeah, maybe that's why.

His mum was 16 and they sort of dotted around houses. He was growing up and sleeping on couches. Then he was adopted. He was adopted by, it seems like the makings of a movie. He was adopted by a football family. He used to play American football. He's very, really good at it too. Could have been a really great footballer as well so so yeah his adoptive family raised him and uh he still he

still loves his mum still in touch with his mum too yeah i don't know why i know all this about oh no it's when space jam is on i got into an internet hole of uh lebron james okay speaking of uh internet holes uh we just keep bouncing from topic to topic, going, speaking of. Just like two old men rambling. You can get into the podcast. There's actually good stuff on there. No, but I watched a, speaking of NBA players and money, I got into a YouTube video hole,

and it was an episode on the crazy things NBA players have bought with their money. Oh, really? And some of them are just... There's a story I heard, it might be a legend, that one of them couldn't find their car after coming back from the airport and just ended up buying a new car. You know, like... Ludicrous the amount of money they have. There's a guy who has, I think, probably, they said $35 million worth of sneakers. Wow.

And he's just got them all stored in an attic downstairs. And there was another person who bought a grill for his mouth, you know, the diamond grill. $30 million. This is his first year in the NBA contract. The first thing he buys is a $30 million grill. Not a house. Not a car.

Speaking of grills, at home, our oven, my wife thinks it takes too long for it to heat up, so she's thinking of buying a mini oven, but I think it's for boomers. Mini ovens. I was just trying to bounce around. Speaking of wives,

my wife, Jennifer. Speaking of Jennifer, this is my mum's day. Speaking of mums. Oh, this has gone on for six minutes. Yeah, here you go. Here's the podcast. We apologise in advance.

Sorry about that. Sorry about that. Sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads.

Now, our next guest, she was one of the founders of Bumble, and now she has her own app. It's been dubbed Tinder for Mums, and it's backed by celebrities like Aston Kutcher and it's finally reached New Zealand. It's a really, really cool idea. Yes, and we're now joined from the UK by lawyer, entrepreneur and former Bumble board member Michelle Kennedy. I feel there should be a fan fair for that. We'll put it in post. We'll add some sound effects. It's really nice to talk to you.

Now, we're going to talk about peanut. It's been dubbed Tinder for mums, but it's more than just that, and it's reached New Zealand. But firstly, the big question that everyone wants to know who hasn't heard about it is what is peanut? Peanut is a social network for women at all life stages. So whether you're trying to conceive, going through IVF, adoption, surrogacy, whether you're pregnant and dealing with that terrible morning sickness, or whether you're a new mom or a mom of older kids, come to Peanut.

You can find other women who are going through the same thing as you. You can laugh, you can chat, and you can find support. That's a really, really cool idea. You got the idea when you had your firstborn, right? That's right i um my son fin is seven but when i first had him i didn't have any girlfriends who were mums um and who had been through it and and i really felt ultimately quite lonely and isolated it's a really weird kind of moment in your life where you're so excited to meet this little person and your life is about to change forever and yet it feels really daunting

and you're operating on lack of sleep and crazy hormones and really you just need to find other people who know what you're going through and that's i mean that's the good thing now this may come as a surprise i've never had a baby myself um but i imagine going through it, you do mention the loneliness and having that conversation and going, you know, a problem shared is a problem halved sort of situation and going, oh, there's other people out there having the same thoughts, going through the same feelings and stuff, must help the process. Yeah, I mean, it's a really, like, not particularly comfortable thing

to admit as a 30-something-year- old woman that I felt really lonely and I felt that I couldn't really say that to anyone I didn't feel like that was an okay thing to say did it make me a bad mommy or would people judge me because of it just finding the way to say to someone I'm actually in the same position as you can make all of those barriers drop away. The conversation completely changes and you don't feel guilty because you're all there for the same reason. You're all there with the same agenda, which is this thing that we call womanhood is hard sometimes and wouldn't it be great to talk it through with someone else who gets it? I know.

It's a very, very cool idea. It's awesome that it's in New Zealand. Now, I understand you also got a message. Was it a phone call from Meghan Markle? How did that all come about? Yes. Did she dial the wrong number? No, it was legit.

Exactly. No one was more surprised than me, put it that way. The team at Peanut had penned an open letter to her, and it was really based on the fact that a user actually of Peanut had made this post on Peanut about how they didn't really appreciate the kind of press perception of her and that, you know, she really appreciated the community and she appreciated what's behind peanut because ultimately it was at that moment where she did the interview and she said that no one had asked how she was we were kind of the first people to say like we want to know how you are and we're really sorry that no one did that and no one understands that more than the women who who use peanut a bit of a magic moment the whole team were like a bit flawed we were all a bit

speechless what was the speakerphone situation it was speakerphone i did ask if i could put it on speakerphone i can't i had to get permission you'd be like make it back on the phone everyone would be whispering i was like the team are going to be made up please can i put you on speaker um and and then she and she said hello and the whole team was like, the team are going to be made up. Please can I put you on speaker? And then she said, hello. And the whole team was like giggling. Oh, yeah. You'd be frothing.

You'd be frothing if Michael was on speaker. Now, something really interesting about you, Michelle. I'm sure there's lots of things. But one thing about you, you were a board member of Bumble, the dating app. As an app creator, what do you think is the best app that's ever been invented oh the best app ever this is a shout out to another app now you're pushing me i mean obviously i'm going to say it's going to be a bumble or a badoo because that was my past life and i was involved in building this too. You know, the dating app's a game changer for the whole world.

Absolutely. I mean, remember a time when dating online was considered to be really taboo and remember that so clearly and now look where we are. I think most of my friends met their partners on dating apps. Yeah, true. So it really has been a game changer. I remember the first time, I remember when Snapchat Roulette came up and we were all just coming to terms with just taking photos of our genitals

and putting them on. But we've moved on since then. Yeah, thankfully we've moved on since then. When I say all of us, I didn't do it. It sounded like you did. Now we've got Michelle Kennedy with us. We're talking about Peanut, which has come to New Zealand. Just before you go, Michelle, I want to quickly rip through

the most common Google questions about Peanut, all right? Yeah. Is Peanut a legit app? That's a good question for you. I can confirm it is indeed a legit app. Good. Okay, good to know. Otherwise, this has been a great front.

Is Peanut a dating app? Peanut is not a dating app. Okay, thought so, thought so. It's an app to find friends. Who is the founder of Peanut? It's me. Yeah, how much does it cost to go on Peanut? Peanut is free to use, free to join.

Is there a Peanut for dads? No. He-nut. He-nut. Maybe you're right. He-nut. He-nut. That sounds...

He-nut coming soon. How many users do you have around the world? Two and a half million in the the us uk and now new zealand wow and final question if i have a peanut allergy can i still use peanut you most certainly can okay no allergies allergy free zone on peanuts hey listen lovely talking to you michelle and just quickly before you go i've had this idea for years and i want to see what you think it's like dragon's Den. You send a text. You send it off to a person and you're like, oh dear god

I shouldn't have sent that text to that person. A suck back feature app which sucks the text back out of their inbox. This is very good. You could also have it where it sits like pending. It goes into like a holding pen

and you can't release it until the next day when maybe you're sober or maybe you've had a rethink. Yes. That's good. I'll leave it with you, Michelle. You do what you want with it. Maybe make millions off it. I don't care.

Michelle, so nice talking to you. It's so awesome that New Zealand females, and not just mums, can get onto peanut here now. That's awesome. Thanks a lot. Thanks for having me. Mmm. Coffee breath. Jono and Ben. The Hits.

It's the chain smokers now the chain vapors. It is the Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. So stand on your Thursday morning. Wasn't there a vape store meant to open up next to you, Bee Humpsumps and all the community were outraged and then people were trolling them on the Facebook page The community Facebook page was up in arms

It was a good read and yesterday actually the police chopper was hovering over and someone went onto the community page and said does anyone know why the police chopper is hovering above? and one of the comments I really liked was, apparently they're trying to stop the vape store from opening.

But didn't you say also there's a website set up? Has someone set up a website about a police chopper? Yeah, someone set up the domain for what is the police chopper doing. It's whatisthepolicehelicopterdoing.co.nz. And when you click on that, it just comes up with a screen saying, doing police work. So if you ask what's it doing, you can log in and go, oh, it's doing policeco.nz and when you click on that it just comes up with a screen saying doing police work it's kind of like none of your business really exactly yeah we had a similar thing in our neighborhood recently all these pamphlets being dropped off in uh dropped off in letterboxes and things it was like there's been an application to open a liquor store around the corner we must

all oppose this i'm like shit no this is handy let's all put our backing behind it you mean i can just walk around the corner to one it's the destruction of the neighborhood i'm like no this is the height of convenience why is everyone opposed to this you go around putting your own pamphlets thumbs up to the liquor shop. Not destroying communities. Making it more convenient. Speaking of shopping, Ben, I went to the petrol station yesterday, mate. All right.

And this is a personal thing for you which should make you feel better as an adult. We've mocked you publicly for many years about a Velcro wallet. Yeah, I do have a Velcro. Do you still have it? Yeah, I do have a Velcro. Do you still have it? Yeah, I still have it. Oh wow, you still have it. What do you mean? I don't know, I just thought it would be like a...

Is that the noise? What happens when you pull that out? It's a big, highlight of yellow Velcro wallet. It's a colour change, well it used to colour change as well. It's from Smiggle, but yeah. What happens when you pull it out in a restaurant? I'm being a nine-year-old girl shop at Smiggle. Oh, my gosh.

But I went to the pictures of the guy in front of me. Yesterday, I heard this familiar noise. Oh, is this your bed's here? He's up in his wallet. It was someone else. I reckon he would have been mid-30s. Yeah. Rocking a Velcro wallet, my friend.

Hey, it's something. It's something. He's starting a trend. Well, you can spend a lot on one. I really like my Velcro, but it's different. Everyone knows it's mine. It's like carrying around my Toy Story backpack. I sometimes take it if you go out

when I used to be able to go to bars and stuff. You put it down and no one ever thinks to steal that. They're like, oh, it must be some kid's backpack. Yeah, you know. I'm not going to steal a child's. It's got my laptop in it and stuff like that. But it's, yeah, it's good.

If you were gifted a different wallet, would you be sad or would you be like, okay, sweet. Yeah. I'll use this new wallet. I'd probably be, no,

I probably would be like, Oh, I love my wallet. Like other people will buy backpacks before and I'm like, no, that's nice. But you like your story one. Have you got a little slidey bit where you put,

you can put your Connie's in, you know, the Connie's that you'll never use? No, it doesn't. It doesn't. I think it's marketed at students at Otago, mate. First we want to open up this. It's a big day, of course, for level twoers.

School, back to normality now back to the routine and not that you want to outwardly say it publicly a lot of people probably secretly low-key quite happy to drop the kids off and make them burden them upon someone else for a few hours yeah so we wanted to open up what you call it the pa the parent anonymous line yeah pa system yeah so if you want to give us a call, 0800 the Hits. And that doesn't mean you don't love your kids, but we just want to say, hey, it's great to be back into our routine. Don't say your name.

We won't say who you are, but you just say, hey, I dropped them off this morning. It was great. Or I'm about to drop them off. I'm looking forward to it. And if they're in the car and they can hear you, just whisper awkwardly. And if they ask who you're talking to, you just say, I'm talking to an adoption service to see if they need some more kids. The Parent Anonymous, the pa system is open and if you want to give us a call oh 800 the

hits we'll do that next 807 now school is back for level two right around in new zealand today and we wanted to open up the a the PA system, the Parent Anonymous system. If you want to give us a call, I'll enter the hits. Don't say your name. Don't even say where you're from,

but just talk to us about the relief of taking your kids back. Like I said, Ben, it doesn't mean that you don't love your kids. It just means that you're going to relish every single minute of those six hours that you don't spend with them and enjoy them.

So we'll go to caller number one. It's always tricky, isn't it, relish every single minute of those six hours that you don't spend with them and enjoy them. So we'll go to caller one. It's always tricky, isn't it, when you're like caller one. Well, Bee Humps, our producers, have done a wonderful job naming their location. Oh, great. So hopefully they can make the connection. Gotcha. If not, it does make for fumbly radio, the old anonymous callers, Ben.

You're right, we've fallen into that trap before. We have, we have. We'll head to Marston, your hometown. Caller number one, you're on the PA system. Take it away. Oh, I'm just about to drop my three little rugrats off to school and I can't wait to get rid of them for the day. I've actually taken

a day off work just to enjoy the house to myself. Oh, right, so you've taken an extended day off just for you. Yeah. Good on you. Yeah, just had some time for myself after having them home for two and a half weeks. Now, do you think as you pull up to the school gate, you're actually going to stop the car or just keep it rolling, open the door?

I'm going to just push them out. Just push them out. It doesn't mean you don't love them. That's what I was going to say. Just because you push your kids out of the car doesn't mean you don't love them. You're right. That's what I always say to my kids. I imagine there'll be a lot of kids at the school gate today still at like quarter to four. Just waiting.

Where are they? Oh, sorry. Out of routine, guys. Out of routine. All right, A. Well, thank you very much. Enjoy those 60 hours. We'll go to caller number two in Gisborne.

Welcome to the PA system, the Parents Anonymous system. Good morning, guys. Good morning. Now, whereabouts are you and how much are you going to enjoy today? Oh, I'm in sunny Gisborne and I just dropped off my two little brats and I am going to rush home, make a cup of coffee and binge watch my favorite show. And yeah, then go pick them up this afternoon. The way you say brats doesn't mean you don't love them.

No, it doesn't. I love them to bits, but holy moly, they can eat. Yeah, it's like non-stop eating. Like they survive on a morning tea and a lunch, but at home it's like 80 meals. They even start eating the curtains. They eat everything. Oh, well, you enjoy that without your brats. But you love them.

You love them. You love them. I do love them, yeah. But you love them. You love them. You love them. I do love them, yes. But I love myself today a bit more. We'll go to caller number three in Christchurch. You're on the PA system, the Parents Anonymous system. Take it away for the school drop-off. Thank God they're gone.

I dropped them off early so I could just, you know, have some time by myself before I have to work. I just can't bluff that I know what I'm doing with the homeschooling anymore. It doesn't mean you don't love them, though. Just because they've been waiting at school since 5am. Got to get back there early, eh? You've got to get there early. You've got to be punctual on your first day back. But you're still going to work?

Yes, yes. Work's back. I'm a receptionist, so so I know what I'm doing there rather than homeschooling. All right, well, there we go. Ladies and gentlemen, the piano, some home truths as well. Yeah, geez. Although if you were the kids, you'd know the voices. You'd be like, mummy? Mummy's never called me a brat to my face. Jono and Ben, just like family.

The family members you're ashamed of. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben, 7.07 on your Thursday morning. $5,000 up for grabs with five words. Not too far away, but one of my joys in life is watching you try to put stuff on social media, John. Same. That's one of my joys. Hold on, can I pull back the curtain here?

Because I was like, what's happening next? He's like, oh, I've just got a little thing on Instagram. If you've got anything on Instagram, just so you know you can chip in. So here we are. Strap yourself in. You're in. Strap yourself in for a roasting. Do you want to lather me up in oil so you can put me in the oven?

I thought I'd start there at least. No, it's fun. It's fun. It's always. I've got my L plates when it comes to Instagram. And I'm finding my way through it. Juliet comes in every morning. She's like, you posted the same thing three times last night.

It's so good. I it but it is then i posted a random video of two moose fighting in a street which i found interesting and she was like that was so random why did you post those two moose fighting in a street and i was like well there's moose in the street fighting the thing is it's just the most john o'brien thing ever just like the randomest thing just oh it's a little bit chaotic and sporadic It's like a barrage of posts and then nothing for like four months and then away it comes up again I love it, I love it

But even me yesterday I like, and I'm not too much better than yourself, but I feel like I started to get a little bit of a handle on it No, you're straight, you're light years ahead when it comes to that But I had a situation yesterday where I was like, well, what is the protocol in this situation? Now, sad story, like a friend,

she, you know, her cat is no longer with us. The cat for a long time and it was old, but it was no longer with her. And so she put a post saying, yeah, the cat's no longer with us. And it was, you know, a heartfelt post. But then it was like 223 people have liked this post. I'm like, does that mean if you like it

do you like the fact that cat's no longer around yeah so why would i but i said you want to show support to someone yeah and i was like oh then what's the situation here you almost need instagram almost needs to introduce the reactions like facebook has got so you can you know do a little crying face emoji on instagram post for those like like i felt like in the end i commented on you know rather than them but i was like how do you move these 223 monsters that are liking oh like that like the demise of a cat yeah but it's one of those situations where someone does post something that may be a bit sad or a heartfelt like yeah yeah i think though like if you were posting if something for her she'd probably post it and if she if no one was liking it because no one wanted to like the fact that the cat had passed away she'd probably be like oh i haven't

got any support well maybe they needed bloody deeper sympathies yeah like a kind of like a face that's like oh i'm sorry for your loss sort of face you know shut that up there condolences face do you know you can get into sticky territory can't you with posts of you know if people like your posts ben i know you're going through this someone territory, can't you, with posts of, you know, if people like your posts. Ben, I know you're going through this. There's someone that we know, a friend of ours, who likes a lot of Ben's posts. And so there's an obligation from him to like a lot of... You support Ben.

You've got to support. The problem is she's in a part of the world where, you know, not a lot of clothing is required. Temperatures are hot. There's a lot of beach action. So Ben has found himself in a situation where he's like, well, I don't want to keep liking all the bikini shots. I'm not like, yeah, no, I'm not like, because that's the other thing as well.

If you, you can look a bit like a perv if you go, if you go on and go, oh yeah, like, oh, Ben Boyce is like this. Yeah, he's like, oh, he is. Don't worry, just like what you like. I'm brutal on social media. If I don't like someone and they, oh, yeah, like, oh, Bad Boys is like this. Yeah, it's like, oh, here's a video, yeah. Don't worry, just like what you like. I'm brutal on social media. If I don't like someone and they follow me on Instagram, like all my stuff and I don't like seeing their stuff, I just mute them. I don't give them the time of day.

But you know what he has done now as an alternative because he still wants to throw his support behind her is he just likes these weird shots of scenery that she takes. Oh, that's a nice hill. Yeah. That's a nice mountain. I think that's fair. I think that's a nice hill. Yeah. That's a nice mountain. I think that's fair. I think that's a good decision.

Well, you know, even though we're fine because we're friends and there's nothing more to it than that, it would be one of those things I just want to feel like, oh, he likes this, you know? If you're going through all this, check out all his likes. Oh, he likes the dead cat. He weirdly likes the shot of the motorway, but he's ignored all these other ones. Yeah, well, fair enough. It's just, yeah, I'm still, as I say, I'm still getting my head around it. Sticky territory.

It is. The whole thing is very sticky territory. Anyway, I'll play you this video of two moose fighting. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Kia ora, good morning. Welcome along to the show. It is six o'clock.

Jono and Ben with you on the hits. Excuse me while I just log into my computer. You know, Ben, I can't operate without being logged into a computer. But one of Ben's big bugbears is the moment I shut my computer and he wants to continue on working. And you're like, you've got a laptop. And you're like, oh no, I've shut my laptop. I can't do that now.

And you're like, oh no, you can. You can just open up. It's like someone locking a door for the business turning around the closed side and you know it's like that's what it kind of is for you like i'm done for the day yeah it's what always confuses me too is when you go to those businesses and they've got their door shut this is no one the door shut there's no one in there there's the back in five minutes so yeah that's not when did you leave yeah that's intentional they never say

the time that they, yeah, so you'll always look at your time and you'll go, okay. Didn't you work in retail? No, I didn't, but my friend does. And then, no, after seeing so many of those signs, I was like, but like, they should write what time they're going to be back. But then I'm like, well, they don't want to say what time they're going to be back.

Because no one's ever there when you walk out the door, so no one knows when the five-minute timer started. Exactly. And it's never five minutes. I know. We had this conversation the other day. Five minutes is... Five minutes is never five minutes.

10 to 20. Probably around the 15 mark. Calling a spade a spade. Hey, we've got a fun show coming up this morning, don't we, Benjamin? We certainly do. Our new TV show starts tonight, 8pm on TVNZ2. Jono and Ben Good Sports will tell you how you can win $500 just by watching the show.

Sounds like bribery, and it is. But hopefully you'll have a fun time watching the show as well. And desperation, a little bit of desperation as well. You can smell a lot of desperation. Smell that coming through your speakers. So we put a back in five minutes sign up after the last TV series, and it's been a bit longer than five minutes since we've been back on the telly. And yeah, there's a whole lot of other stuff that I haven't quite...

My computer's not open. Yeah, no, he doesn't have his computer. I can't operate without that computer open. It is a hit. She got John Olben. And everything will be all right. Cover me in sunshine. It's Pink, Cover Me in Sunshine.

You're on the hits, John Olben, 6.16. What do you think of Pink's daughter singing in that? Oh, that's it. So the other day I was stuck inside the soundproof booth until we won $5,000 for someone playing Five Words for 5K. I couldn't see your face. The song was playing and you were winding me up because you're like,

what do you guys think of Pink's Daughter's singing? Like winking at Juliet going, this will get a reaction. And I was like, what do you say is the best part of the song you're like oh yeah yeah and then i was like oh you're winding me up aren't you if i could describe jonah and ben's relationship in one moment that is honestly what do you guys think of pink's daughter singing oh hang on a second it takes him about 30 seconds to go, no, no, he's winding me up again. Pull out. Yeah. I didn't even see your face through the whole thing.

I went through the whole thing going, is he winding me up? Oh, no, he's winding me up. The A to Z of New Zealand. Calling a different town and city in New Zealand. We're doing it alphabetically. We're calling one by one going through every town and city in Aotearoa. It's a painstakingly slow pace. And we're doing it at a slow pace, aren't we?

Yeah, that's right. Life's not a race, is it? Unless you're a marathon runner or a Formula One driver, then do race. But we're heading to Mosgiel today. We're in the M's. Mosgiel is more than just something that you look at when you're driving to Dunedin, Mosgiel. It's got a lot more. A population of 14,000.

Really? A lot more than I would have thought. Yeah. 14,000. And if you're wanting accommodation in Mozgill, you average three-star motel, $108 to $128 a night. Or if you're wanting to treat yourself in a five-star jobby, you're looking at about $402. Okay.

Average pricing. Now we have John on the phone. John, you're from Mozgill? Yes, we are. Sunny Mozgiel. Sunny Mozgiel. Every time I go to Dunedin, and I know this isn't your fault, John, but why on earth is the airport so far away from Dunedin? Oh, there's a good reason for that.

You'd need a bit of length to land the aircraft. Oh, right, so a bit of distance. Because you drive past Mozgiel on your way from the airport to Dunedin. Yes, you do. Mozgiel's halfway between the airport and the city. How long have you drive past Mosgiel on your way from the airport to Dunedin. Yes, you do. Mosgiel's halfway between the airport and the city. How long have you lived in Mosgiel? Not all my life, not yet. But right up until now

I have. A couple of stints in the city for a few years, but then back out here. Yes, no, Mosgiel, through and through. You can take the boy out of Mosgiel. But the guy here will return to Mozgiel eventually. It's a nice wee town. Lovely town.

Now, John, what I do like about Mozgiel, it's got the wonderful Hollywood-esque sign on the hill there that says Mozgiel. Yeah, well, I'd like to know about it. I've got a fairly good knowledge of that. Oh, have you? What do you know about the sign? How much time have you got? Listen, we're here to fill in three hours of radio.

You can keep talking, baby. Okay. 30-odd years ago, I'm in a rotary club in Mosgill, and 30 years ago, Neil Buckley, who was a club member, who had a footwear shop in Mosgill, on the top of his shop he had a big boot, and everybody knew Buckley's footwear shop was under the boot. And he came to me one day and he said,

I'd like to put something on that hill. Every time I drive down the hill it looks like it's begging for something and I'd like to put something up there that represents Miles King. I was going to be there forever. How about a big sign? And I go, oh, that's how it all happened. So you had a part in building the sign? Oh, yeah, it's a big part.

How long did it take? All together, a couple of months. And are you ever worried that it's going to fall off or anything? Or are you like, no, it's pretty secure? No, no, no. Were there any concerns that you may have misspelt Mozgiel? We did look at it a couple of times. Yeah, you wouldn't want to get it up there and be like, uh-oh, we'll spout it in my jeezle or something.

We've got lights on us, and every now and again the Rotary Club boys get up there and we harness ourselves up and we clean it up. Oh, dear. Oh, it's a wonderful sign. Mollywood. Mollywood, they call it. Yeah. Mollywood. That's beautiful. Out of all the signs that I've seen throughout New Zealand. It's iconic.

It is, yeah. And your dad, was he the mayor of Mosgill? Yeah, no, dad was the mayor of Mosgill. He also obviously worked on the company here. So in his capacity as mayor, he had the job of turning the lights on. Oh, awesome. Hey, well, lovely to talk to you. And now, yeah, right, next time I land in Dunedin Airport and I'm driving through,

I'll be like, I've talked to one of the people that made that. Neil Buckley sadly passed away just not that long ago, he had the original concept and that was always known as Buck's sign, you know, he was very, very proud of that sign. Well hey, thank you so much for sharing that with us. Just really, Steve Hansen was a notable resident of Mozgill and Brad Thorne as well, a couple of rugby legends. Yes, they were, yes. Yeah.

Yeah, they both like to know which fish shop to go to when they hit town again. Do you talk to Steve Hansen? Yes. What do you say to Steve Hansen? G'day, Steve. What does Steve say back? G'day. Wonderful conversation.

Oh, the endless hours of conversation. John, lovely talking to you you Nice to meet you mate You keep safe in Mosgiel Really appreciate your time You most welcome Good to talk to you fellas See you mate Cheers John

Ben and Jono Called this show Jono and Ben Breakfast on the Hits The Hits It is the Hits Jono and Ben Chris Hipkins

He did it He's done it again We're going to talk about it very shortly. If you missed it, you probably haven't missed it because you would have seen it on social media. But he had a bit of fun yesterday with his little saying, which is kind of cool, isn't it? Oh, the spread your legs, yeah. Oh, and just the joy on Chris Hipkins' face. When you see that man smile, and it's just as good as witnessing 100 little baby unicorns.

Brings me the same happiness. I will tell you exactly what he did next. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. They're proud of New Zealand. Woo! Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them.

Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Good morning. Now, Sons of Zion, they've teamed up with a whole lot of other Kiwi musicians, and they're part of something really awesome at the moment. All recording their tracks in Tadeo. And here to tell us more is Joel from from sons of zion morena joel morena yeah i'm good thanks how you guys hey we're good nice to talk to you how's things with you yeah they're not bad

they're not bad level two oh stop rubbing it in the freedom whereabouts are you i'm just down in narua here so not too far from auckland yeah, but just close enough too where you can just tease us as well from the border. Yeah, for sure. From the boundary line. Why don't we meet halfway and we'll just stare at you eating KFC? Well, yeah, I mean, it's good for me. I mean, I've been, and I think I've only had about two weeks

of freedom since June. I got stuck in Sydney while they were in lockdown, so I got stuck over there and then had to do MIQ on the way back and then got about two weeks worth of freedom and then we went back into lockdown over here. Oh, back into lockdown. Jesus. You've spent a large portion of the last three months

just sitting inside a house. Pretty much, yeah. That's been me. When you were in Aussie, were you staying in a motel or hotel? We were lucky enough to be staying with my fiancé's parents. Oh, because I was going to say, what are those people doing? Yeah, definitely a bit cramped for a few weeks. Although you look over in Aussie, all the footage I see from Aussie,

they're just wandering around with their shirts off, they're at the beach. Buddy down at Bondi. Oh, mate, talk about it. When they first went into lockdown, the rules were so lax that it basically wasn't a lockdown. It was just some time off. Yeah, it was probably even more free than our level one. So I guess I'm definitely blessed to be back here in Aotearoa where we can kind of get ahead of the curve. And yeah, putting some shows on for some of us.

Yeah, well, fingers crossed that can happen for you guys. But at the moment, you guys, there's a whole lot of Kiwi artists that are performing their songs in today for Waiata Anthems. And it's really cool what you guys are doing. I heard your version. We're going to play it very shortly of Love on the Run. It sounds amazing. Oh, thank you. Yeah, I'm definitely blessed to be a part of Waiata Anthems. You know, it's great to see a lot of top-tier New Zealand artists

re-recording their music in Te Reo Māori, and it's a language that's shared culturally throughout New Zealand, so it's great to see the push to kind of bring it back to where it should be. There's a channel, too, that we have on iHeartRadio as well, the Waiata Anthems channel. Stacey Morrison, I think, from the hits, is introducing the songs and stuff on there as well, which is awesome. The summer show is coming up, all going well, all going to plan.

If the team of five million play the game, well, it's just a team of one million now in Auckland if they play the game. Did you see some wild stuff when you look out into the crowd? Sometimes, you know, when a few of the lads get a bit racked up, they can form some pretty impressive towers, you know, standing on people's shoulders. I've seen a decent tower stack up on each other. I think they got about three or four high before they came tumbling down.

Yeah, I mean, that is such a lads, lads, lads thing to do, isn't it? Let's get on. It's like the milk crate challenge, but just with human bodies. Yeah. Exactly, yeah. You really got to back the uh the person on the ground yeah yeah it was the foundation of that i think they get a yeah you get a support crew of about two or three guys underneath you know yeah then it sort of eventually turned into the leaning tower of pizza that's gonna go horribly wrong yeah for sure uh well so nice to talk to you again and i'm really excited about playing this for everyone right now uh it's an to go horribly wrong. Yeah, for sure. Well, so nice to talk to you again, and we're really excited about playing this for everyone right now. It's an amazing version of your song, Love on the Run,

and we'll hopefully catch up with you guys soon. Oh, for sure. Definitely see you guys at a show. If it's happened over the last 24 hours, he will know about it. Even the fact that I forgot to do the dishes last night, and I'll deal with that when I get home. Ben Boyce, what's happening? Well, 15 cases yesterday in Auckland

of COVID, which is good. The numbers seem to be coming down, but the thing that most people were talking about after the press conference yesterday was Chris Hipkins, of course, from the Labour Party. He said the iconic spread your legs a couple of weeks ago and everyone dined out on that. And he, when he was walking

up to stage, he took a moment, took off his face mask and he went behind the podium and he sort of had a sip from a cup a little bit of water first was him just sort of and he was like oh and then on the cup on the mug had uh his face and spread your legs not spread your legs yeah not the virus yeah that's what i said i thought did i say that did i have a hipkins moment no not yeah spread your legs on the box yeah that's what I said Did I say that Did I have a Hopkins moment No not Spread your legs Not the virus Yeah

That's what I had on the cup So nice little And you could tell He kind of little knowing Smiled at you And he just Looked on that little boy's face Just made me so happy

I love it He's ageless isn't it He is He's like he's permanently Sitting at 14 years old In his looks In his face Yeah

He's quite cute Eternal youth You just want to grab... You know when your aunties come over and they grab both your cheeks? Oh, look at you. He's adorable, isn't he? He is adorable.

It was nice to see him having a bit of fun with it too. Obviously, he's seen the merch. Oh, really? Judith Collins would say otherwise. This is not a time to have a laugh, Ben. We're in the middle of a pandemic, a lockdown, economic crisis. Well, you're saying the National Party

have unveiled their plans for what they would do. Yeah, this morning I saw a flash up on Breakfast TV, like, we're going to talk to Chris Bishop about Nationals plans for their level rollout. And I was like, well, surely Labour's like, well, thanks for that, but we'll pick it up

from here. Yeah, I mean, it's like, this is what we'd do. Oh, great, but we're... Are you going to do it? Well, no, because we can't. Well, then how long did you spend writing this? Yeah. And why did you waste your time? That's right. It's like us going, this is what we'd do if we were, like, presenting the news at night.

They're like, well, great. Well, you're not. You never will. We'd have a prank in here in about, you know, 10 minutes into the bulletin. It's like, well, that's why you're not doing the news. Yeah, it seems very unnecessary, but I guess that's what they have to do. We'll do the weather for Australia instead of New Zealand. It seems like a frugal effort.

And Celebrity Treasurer Island is on at the moment, and last night, very emotional scenes on Celebrity Treasurer Island. You and your family have committed to this, haven't you? You're in the trenches, aren't you? Yeah, well, although last night I was because I'm doing a bit of an online course at the moment because of, you know, things with COVID at the moment. Oh, you're doing Te Reo online? Yeah, well, although last night I was, because I'm doing a bit of an online course at the moment because of, you know, things with COVID at the moment. Oh, you're doing today online?

Yeah, and once a week I do that. So I missed it. And I came out at the end of it and I was talking to my daughters who were loving the show. I was like, who voted out? And they're like, oh, it was the guy. I was like, okay, what guy? I need a bit more. A guy.

I was like, did you play sport? It was like a game of guess who? And they're like, oh, maybe, maybe he does. You know, for them, they're quite young and they're loving the show but they don't obviously know what everyone does, their backstory. Do you? Yeah, I think so.

I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. Julia, do you know what everyone does? Half of them. I'm pretty good with most of them. No, and last night, so Kimberly Crossman

who was on Shortland Street and has done many, many other things, she was in the challenge, the elimination challenge and she actually got eliminated. And then Jonah Fahu who's an actor, owns a gym.

He's been on Game of Thrones. I see why they thought he was an athlete. Yeah, well, he is an athlete. He used to play rugby. But he kind of stepped up at the last moment just before she got officially eliminated and said he wanted to go home, and it was for really, really heartfelt reasons.

Matt, can I say something, please? I would like to accept the game tonight. Just a quick background, about six months ago mum was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer and it's in her lungs as well. I thought I would be alright being away from mum but it wouldn't be fair for me to stay and risk anyone else going home while I may not have the chance to to go further

It was a lovely thing he did and yeah That is very sad, I imagine it was emotional scenes. It was really emotional scenes watching again, watching it this morning, you know, just see, and he was like well Kim obviously really, because she was crying she wants to be here and he was obviously torn because he wanted to be with his mum, which is understandable. So yeah, sending lots of love towards him

and his family. Oh yeah, because we spoke to Joe the week before and he was telling a lovely story how he took his mother to the premiere of Game of Thrones in Los Angeles. Yeah. Walked her down the red carpet. Oh, isn't that adorable? So cute. And she got a photo with her favourite actor from Game of Thrones as well. Which wasn't her son? No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't her son. It's like my mum. Her favourite part of Jono and Ben is actually Juliet.

And that is Scrolling to Your Feed this morning. It is that. She got Jono and Ben. You're running late, stuck in traffic, and now you have to listen to this. Jono and Ben. The Hits. You're on The Hits. Jono and Ben. You're running late, stuck in traffic, and now you have to listen to this. Jono and Ben, The Hits. You're on The Hits, Jono and Ben. Now, school is back for everyone outside of Auckland today, first day back at school.

But if you've got kids still in lockdown, or even if you're not, it's your last chance to get onto the hits.co.nz and we've prepared a little bit of a homeschool activity sheet. And you can colour in a picture of us, the two of us. And there's three prizes of $100 off for grabs. My wife, who's a teacher, actually, she sent it out as part of the little bonus thing for the kids yesterday, as their Zoom thing, and they loved it.

Oh, good marketing. Two from Amanda. Yeah, I was like, this is great. Yeah, go on and get it out there. Get more of the kids out there. Grassroots. Put it in the school curriculum. Colour in Jono and Ben.

Put some hair on my bald head which we actually pitched at the beginning of the week you know you wanted hair didn't you yeah bonus points for uh hair and people have done well uh you know purple afro uh has come through i like your mohawk mohawk's wonderful uh kind of like a comb over situation where it's like there's a few strands left but uh i'm trying to make it work. You just wouldn't want to be caught in Wellington on a windy day. Another one here, I've got bunny ears as well. Oh, nice. So there's some great creativity out there.

So tomorrow we're going to announce the three people that won the $100, the three kids that have done the best job in the colouring competition. And if you want to enter, you can go to the hitstockco.nz and print that out and then take a photo, send it in. There's still a chance. Someone's even drawn one where my eyebrows, they've overgrown my eyebrows and I'm using my eyebrows as hair. Oh, that's coming back over the head.

Which is something you've always pitched to me. You said, grow your eyebrows out. Just keep growing them. Keep growing them. We've got some spy entertainment news up next. Steve from Blue's Clues made me cry yesterday and if you haven't seen this, I'll play it to you next. Give us a clue.

It's emotional AF. It's emotional AF. It's emotional AF. That's your clue. All right. There's the hits. You got it, John. I'm Ben. Spy.

The What's Up Spy.co.nz. Now for Juliet to present some celebrity gossip and for us to make a half-hearted attempt at offering some meaningful quips. Here we go. So yesterday you may have seen, and if you haven't, oh my goodness, this is just lit up the internet, lit up my world yesterday. On the 25th anniversary of Blue's Clues, Steve, the original host from the show, came back from out of nowhere and recorded a message for the world. Now, as you say, he was very iconic.

Blue's Clues, you know the show, he was there. When you think about it, he was just in front of a green screen. But it looked like he was in this house with a little blue dog. Yeah. And yeah, I've got a little bit of a... We just got a letter. We just got a letter. We just got a letter.

And so he, because he left quite abruptly, there were so many rumours about how he left. Horrible rumours too. Yeah, like that, you know, he... Like, pesty rumours. No, no, just rumours that he was on drugs. Yeah, just crazy rumours. All sorts of stuff. It wasn't true.

I think he went to college and stuff, and he decided to, you know, he wanted to go study. Sounds like the sort of rumours a commercial radio host would start. Without any facts or evidence. That's what I would say. Yeah, it is. I think I might have started those rumors. Apologies, Steve. But he released this video.

You remember how when we were younger we used to run around and hang out with Blue and find clues and then one day I was like, oh hey, guess what? Big news. I'm leaving. I just kind of got up and went to college.

That was really challenging, by the way, but great because I am doing many of the things that I wanted to do. And then look at you and look at all you have done. And it's just so amazing, right? We started out with clues. And now it's what student loans and um jobs and families and some of it has been kind of hard and i wanted to tell you that i i really couldn't have done all of that without your help oh this is really lovely the whole thing i've had many people online sobbing saying it's brought closure to the whole Blue's Clues.

We need closure. What happened? Because I guess a lot of kids, you know, would have been mortified that he'd just suddenly gone. Did they replace him with another? Yeah, they did. Yeah, there was another guy that took over. Not as good?

Well, I think he said in the video that it was his brother who came after him. Maybe. But then I think, yeah. So I think his brother was one of the Blue's Clues men. So what's Steve doing nowadays? Oh, should I have a quick go? Drug dealing?

No. That's what I heard. No, I don't actually know. Let's see. Yeah, Steve from Blue's Clues. Oh, it says he's an actor, musician, producer, director, television host. He's basically just still known as the Blue's Clues guy, so maybe he hasn't done anything.

I mean, it's going to follow around for the rest of his life. Yeah, he'll be known as that guy. Yeah, oh, good on him. I know. That's a lovely message. That would have been right in your demo, Jude. Oh, my gosh. I was obsessed with Blue's Clues as a child.

It was just one of the greatest things. And then I remember as a primary school kid being like, all these rumors about where Blue's Clues went. And oh my goodness, I'm just so happy that he's back. Did you ever find out who the letter was from? No, but I really should. What's the Posty Plus catalogue? That's the one thing we do need to solve now, where the letter is from.

There is your spy update. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. After 7 o'clock on the show, we're going to catch up with one of the stars of our new TV show. This lady's for... Jono and Ben, friends of Skinny, with weekly mobile plans from $5. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben.

On the hits. Kia ora, good morning. It's just gone 7 o'clock. You're with Jono and Ben on the hits. School's starting today, as we just heard in the news, with Rachel Jackson-Leese for everyone outside of the 09 area. Oh, well, if you're getting ready for school this morning, good luck, kids.

Get out there. Parents, just try and contain your excitement until that 8.30 drop-off. You know, keep up the facade. Yeah. And then have a silent woo in the car as they depart. Do you know, Poppy, our daughter came into our bed last night and slept.

You know, kids sleeping in your bed, it's honestly like an intoxicated octopus looking for its car keys. There's just limbs going everywhere. Yeah, Jerry Seinfeld, I think when I saw him do stand-up, he described it as like, if you've got a goat and put it inside a sack, and the goat was trying to get out of the sack. Just trying to, like, obviously he wasn't condoning to do it in real life but he was like it's like that it's like what you'd imagine the guy going I'm just

getting out of the sack it is and you always I always end up on the couch I'm going to have to take the hit here I'm clearly not welcome

yeah anyway kids enjoy your first day back at school in level 2 and those still homeschooling from home good luck

yeah good luck and you know not pushing your parents over the edge yeah we've got a new TV show starting tonight. Jono and Ben Good Sports on TVNZ2. We're going to catch up with one of the stars of the show.

The good thing is we're not the stars of the show. The good sports play in the good sports. She's joining us very shortly and we'll tell you how you can win some money. But just by watching it is the hits you got, Jono and Ben. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there and then I backed out. Jono and Ben. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there, and then I backed out. Jono and Ben, New Zealand breakfast.

You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. It is Thursday tonight, 8 o'clock, TVNZ2. We've got a brand new TV show. It's on for six weeks. It's called Jono and Ben Good Sports, and we go searching for Kiwis around New Zealand who take part in some unusual sports we didn't even know existed. We've mentioned this before, the likes of chilli eating,

Quidditch, lawnmower racing, bathtub racing, medieval fighting. There's a lot of sports out there. Yeah, and I've just had a message too from the Prime Minister's office, a little concerned that the 1pm press conference isn't going to be the highest rating show in the universe anymore. Nothing we can do about that, I'm sorry. Sorry for six weeks. Sorry for six weeks. Take the hit.

They've had their time in the sun, haven't they? You guys will climb back after tonight. One of the wonderful people that we met, many wonderful people we met, but one of the beautiful people we met was Shaina Wittihana, who is a strong woman. Let's go, Shaina. Come on. Let's go, Shaina.

Oh! Oh! Sorry. I should have explained what that was. Oh! Oh! Oh! Sorry. I should have explained what it was. Oh! Oh! So that was us. Actually, we'll talk more with Shana about this,

but it was her lifting us. Yeah, she's very strong. I've been carrying you for years, but she carried both of us. She's so strong. And she should be in the Avengers. I'm surprised they haven't called her and recruited her yet That's how strong she is And she joins us on the phone right now

Shaina, how are you? I am good, thank you How are you guys? We're doing well Palmerston North, you're looking after it? We put that pressure on you to look after the whole of Palmy Don't you worry, don't you worry I make sure that everyone's following the rules

Yeah, good on you Good, good It's just the only thing they can't follow in Palmerston North Is the town clock It's a the only thing they can't follow in Palmerston North is the town clock. It's a different time on four different sides. Wow! Do you know that? We got quite fixated by it, but anyway, that's not why we called.

We're going to go and fix that clock, but we've never got round to it. We will one day. Now, Shana is a strong woman and we went and hung out with you for a couple of days. It was very fun meeting you and your whanau and we had lunch. We made your mum make us lunch,

like almost a Sunday roast. It was a hot ham. Oh, it was beautiful. Fried bread. Yeah. Oh, it was wonderful. It was a Monday too. It felt like an inconvenient time for your mum to make lunch.

We had a wonderful sit down lunch, but watched you and your whanau, who all compete in strong person competitions, just lifting the most enormous weights. It was phenomenal. Oh, yeah, mate. That's literally us every day. Well, you've got a great set-up out home as well. Talk us through some of the things you've got. Basically, instead of a barbecue or something outside, you've got a whole set-up of these ridiculously heavy weights.

Yeah, yeah. So thankfully, we've got a whole set-up. these ridiculously heavy weights. Yeah, yeah, so thankfully we've got a whole set-up. We've got all the strongman kits that we need from the odd objects where you'll be able to see me lifting and pulling things here and there. So I have a lot of kit that I can have to train with for big strongman competitions. And you've got giant circular stones, almost like the Muraki boulders. That you lift up and you just dump on the ground. The neighbours

must just be like, guys, can we... Can you stop? Oh my goodness, I haven't had a noise complaint as of yet, so I guess that they just kind of, you know, they know that we're training and so they're leaving us to it. Well, you're not going to mess with a strong woman, are you? A whole family of...

So your dad does it, you do it, your brother does it, and your partner does it. Yeah, so all of us do it. Mum's still on the list to at least come on and come and compete, but, yep, it is just us for now. That was awesome. I mean, you guys have got such a great set-up. And two amazing things that you'll see on the TV show tonight that we did with Shaina.

One was you had us stand on either side of what was called a yoke and you lifted both Jono and I up, including this heavy yoke and managed to walk about 10 metres with us. It was incredible. Yeah, mate. I could have taken you around the whole block actually. We're rather light. Yeah, it was like

you just hung two socks on a coat hanger and you were just on your shoulders or something. How heavy was the yoke? So that was just 100 kilos. Just a cheeky hundred. So together, almost lifting probably 210 kilos probably? Yeah. What do you weigh, Ben?

I'm about 70, I think. You're 70, so I'm 80. 250? Yeah, 250 kilos. The heaviest I've ever I'm 80. 250 kilos. The heaviest I've ever done on that is 300 kilos. And then you took us to a mystery location. We're like, what's going on here? And you had a surprise for us.

Is she going to kill us? No, it was a 10-ton truck. And then you'll see it tonight on the TV show. You pulled a 10-ton truck. You had it harnessed on. It was incredible. Yeah, mate, thankfully um i was able to pull it i mean goodness me that was actually quite a big big truck but a lot of support from you guys don't know and then we were in the truck and i put my seat belt on when uh you'll see that as well weirdly i don't know why i put my seat belt as well into your safety your safety nervous character

now shayna what i also did find really amazing about your house was the amount of eggs. There's just hundreds and hundreds of eggs. How many eggs are you consuming in a month? Oh, God, that's me. So we're looking at roughly maybe about six or so trays of eggs, and about how many in there? 20?

20 eggs in a tray? Yeah, right. So you're talking about 120 eggs you're going through. Yep, you calculated that a lot more quicker than I did. Oh, Shana, you and your whānau, you're just wonderful, wonderful New Zealanders. It was really nice meeting you, and you'll see them all tonight on the show,

8pm, TBNZ2, Good Sports. And you'll see Shana. What we're talking talking about now you actually just need to see it yeah to believe it i know because you can talk about it and you don't quite comprehend what shane is doing it's really incredible so tune in fano come on let's go shana uh take care of yourself and hopefully we'll catch up with you guys soon yeah mate thanks john and ben thanks team uh she's so cool you'll catch her tonight you guys soon Yeah mate, thanks Jono and Ben Thanks team She's so cool You'll catch her tonight on our new show Jono and Ben Good Sports

See her pulling a truck See her lifting both of us And if you watch the show tonight You can win $500 cash It'll tell you how on the show So it's 8 o'clock tonight Jono and Ben Good Sports on TVNZ2 Now yesterday was the first day of Level 2

Again, the schools are open up, so it seems like shops and businesses are happening, and yesterday was, of course, business time. That's right, and we are opening up our business time line. A chance for you to plug your business if the doors have opened up again, like we always say, Jono and Ben like to put the busy back into your busyness. Yeah, that's what we always say. We always say that stuff. So the only

twist is that your plug has to last for 10 seconds. The promotion can only last 10 seconds because it goes undetected like an asymptomatic COVID patient. We won't get caught by the bigwigs upstairs. That's right. So if you want to advertise your business, you're back in action

and you want to tell the country, then you can give us a call 0800 the hits, you've got 10 seconds to advertise exactly what you do then we have all your details and our sales reps will harass you for the next 3 months to advertise on radio that's how it works that's not quite how it works, we won't pass on any details apart from what you want to say on the radio

so give us a call, 0800 the hits shops are open. People are back working. I'm going to play this. I'm going to do it. Nine to five. Why not? Seems appropriate.

Dolly Parton. Yeah, let's do it. This is really breaking format. I love it. You're going to hear about this after nine. I don't care. It's Dolly Parton. That's right, Dolly Parton, 9 to 5. Nowadays she's working longer hours.

She's getting around about 8 and can't leave until after 6. But, you know, just extend business hours these days, right? Yeah, that was an obscure request from you, bad boy. So I know it tied into what we're doing now, but I loved it. Oh, well, yesterday we played Business Time, the whole song. It was fun. I was like, why not? What other working-related songs do we have?

Yeah, I looked it up, and I was like, hey, that's just... Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack. Yeah, we'll play that one. You can play that one tomorrow if you want. Yeah, you can play anything you want. I don't know if that's how it works, right? Yeah, no, well, yeah, you just come in here and just play whatever music you want. We're going to do a little bit of a thing here where we give you guys 10 seconds to plug your businesses.

If they're back open in level 2. Or maybe you're battling away in level 4. And you can do a click and collect jobby as well. We'll take those as well. We're not going to ignore the fact that it's level 4. We're just not going to bang on about it, though, because people are probably sick of us. Oh, you guys are level 4.

Yeah. I mean, Auckland gets banged on about all the time anyway. Oh, America's Cup. Oh, traffic. Oh, you're going to slap another lane onto the Harbour Bridge. Yeah. You know, it gets banged on about all the time anyway. Oh, America's Cup. Oh, traffic. Oh, you're going to slap another lane onto the Harbour Bridge. Yeah. You know, it gets tiring, doesn't it? Exactly. Exhausting for the rest of the country.

We live here, yeah. That's right. So this is Business Time. It's Business Time. Now, as if we haven't done enough for you already, you know, us here in Level 4 letting you get on with your lives, Now we're giving you the chance to advertise your businesses too. We'll get Greg on from Hamilton. Welcome, Greg. You've got

10 seconds. Take it away. Okay, so we need... I'm working for Burra Pears in Tarapa. Come get your tyres and car sorted. He's still got another six seconds up his sleeve. I always finish a bit early.

Well, there you go. The Bowie repairs in Taraba in Hamilton. Yeah. How often should people be changing their tyres, Greg? It depends. Sorry, I can't pick an answer. It depends on the tyre and it depends. I shouldn't have asked you that question.

It's just one of the factors. You probably can't just say it. Wear and tear and how long the car is used for, et cetera, et cetera. How often should people be going in to check their tyres, Greg, from Hamilton? Well, obviously, when your wine's due. So what's that, every six months or ten months? All right, and you can do it right now. Boere Piers Tarapa. There you go. It's business time. Clara, you're on. Welcome. your wine's due. So what's that, every six months or ten months? You can do it right now.

It's business time. Clara, you're on. Welcome. Ten seconds to plug. Take it away. Valuable seconds disappearing here with Clara from Hamilton. She got missing bee humps. Had a text too here saying hey guys, sorry can't call, we're too busy at the moment,

but if you can tell everyone, Cafe 91 is open and back for business. Pumping out the coffees, pumping out the brioches. Clara, you're here too. Welcome, Clara. What do you want to plug? I don't know about the phone line, it's gone down. You there, Clara? Yes, I am.

We thank each and every customer who came and supported us in level 3 and we welcome everybody in level 2. We know you. I know you too. It's our mate. We went and broadcast in your cafe in Hamilton. Exactly, you did. And you love domestic

cricket. Yes, we talked about cricket didn't we? We do love international as well. And international cricket. We had a soft spot, didn't we? You and I for domestic cricket. I don't meet too many people with a soft spot for domestic cricket. It made me fall asleep into my ex-benedict. Your conversation about domestic cricket. I did not sleep last night watching Black Cat

Fools. Oh yeah, they didn't go so well last night, did they? Nah, they didn't. No. No, Clara. And it felt like you and me, we hit it off, Clara, didn't we? Oh, hey, mate. Didn't we? But then you're like, I'm married, I can't. Where did you pick up those vibes from?

Don't pick up the wrong vibes. I probably fell so many off your shows, probably. That's very true. So don't pick up wrong vibes there. Maybe, maybe. I don't know. I thought we had a moment. She had a moment.

Anyway, Clara, good to hear the cafe's open in the Tron, okay? Thank you, thank you. Businesses are open, the country gets back to level two. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. 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, around about this time on the hits. Your chance to win $5,000 We've been four out of five the last few days Sorry Ben you were still talking I was just filling in air time You finish what you were going to say Hopefully today's the day

Catherine you're on from Christchurch Good morning guys How are you? Now Ben Boyce You will love this Catherine works at your favourite store Smiggle Oh do you? Now Ben Boyce, you will love this. Catherine works at your favourite store, Smiggle. Oh, do you? Yes. Oh mate, I've got a Smiggle wallet.

He's got a Velcro wallet, that's right, he's a fully grown adult with a Velcro wallet which we were talking about this morning. Smiggle, yeah, I've got a backpack at home, I've got a lot of Smiggle merch. Oh, they're very trusty and handy. Yeah, exactly. Open up your wallet again, I love the noise of the Velcro. It breaks the sound barrier, this. ASMR. Yeah, it's beautiful. Beautiful, Ben Boyce.

It's also good because it's extra hard for him to open his wallet as well. The strength of the Velcro. Hey, Catherine, guess what? What is that? I've got my online banking open. I'm ready to deposit $5,000 into your account today. That would be lovely. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth?

I'd love to send Jono, please. All right. Jono Pryor heads on into the soundproof booth. And Catherine, I'm going to read you your first words. What pops into your head when I say flashing? Flashing. Flashing. Light? Sorry, did. Flashing. Light?

Sorry, did you say light or lights? Oh, these S's. Yeah. Lights. Lights with an S? With an S, yeah. Cool. Honey is your second word this morning?

Ooh. Yeah, honey. Ooh, honey, honey pot or jar. Let's go pot. Okay, good one. CD is the third word this morning. CD. Player.

Nice. You even know what a CD is? Do you hear? Yes. Simon is the fourth word this morning. Simon. Simon. Simon, yeah fourth word this morning. Simon. Simon. Simon, yeah, randomly Simon.

But something did pop into my head. Oh, you know, like the game Simon Says or Simon Cowell or... Oh, yeah. Oh, gosh, this is a hard one. They were both good options, but hey. Yeah, those were the two probably most obvious for me. I think I'm going to go Simon Cowell. Okay.

And finally, electronics. Electronics. Ooh. Yeah, these are there. We're making it work hard this morning, Karen. I'm very stumped. Yeah, I know. It's hard when you have the spot and you're like, oh.

Technology. Oh, nice. I think you've done a very good job with some difficult, difficult words this morning. We'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth. And we'll see if you can match up five words. Do you know, we just got four inches of bulletproof glass installed in the soundproof booth door. In case of any assassination plots against you, Ben. Just for your safety.

Just in there. How'd Kath go? There's some tough words. Tough words this morning. Yeah, so we'll see if you guys are in sync. We'll see if we can nail this. Good luck, Catherine. Flashing is the first word this morning, Jono.

Flashing. One of Ben's favourite hobbies. Cheap shot, cheap shot. Lights. Oh, nice, nice. Good work. Honey is the second word this morning. Honey.

We're going to go honey bee. That was a good option. That was a very good option. Catherine said the Honey Pot. Oh, another great option. Let's not argue over whose option was the best option. Did Bee run through your head, Catherine? It didn't even run through my head,

and I should because they're the ones that make it. No, but Honey Pot was a good one as well. Yeah, Honey Pot was good. Let's run through these last few now. CD? Cleaner. Simon. Simon.

We'll go Simon Cowell. Oh, yeah. Nice. Oh, well, there we go. We debated long and hard over that one. Was Barney's? Oh, no, we're not. We didn't think of Barney.

And electronics. Technology? Oh, not bad. Three out of five. Average. Average, yeah. Catherine, just deathly silence and then average. It was average performance for me, Catherine.

I'll take that on the chin. You go and enjoy Level 2 in Christchurch. I will. Thank you so much for letting me play. I know, you're lots of fun. Hopefully we get to do it again because it's back again tomorrow morning, 7.45, 5 Words 5K. We've got some Spy up next. What's happening, Ju? Yeah, there's a really cool looking movie coming to Netflix shortly.

I'll tell you all about it next. Spy, the WhatsApp spy.co.nz. As the world crumbles down around us, we can look back on these moments and say, thank God we spent five minutes of our life talking about a constipated Chrissy Teigen. Oh dear. What's happening in Spy this morning, Ju? Well, I don't think we'll ever talk about that on the show. I would like to mention

that Britney Spears' dad, Jamie Spears, has finally filed to end Britney's conservatorship that she's been under for 13 years. In his documents, he said, it said, all Mr. Spears wants is what's best for his daughter. If he wants to terminate the conservatorship and believes that she can handle her own life, Mr Spears believes that she should get that chance.

The judge will need to approve the move for it to all go through, but it's a step in the right direction for Britney. So she's going to have control of all her assets, all her money and everything? Yeah, I think so. She'll probably still have some people on her team guiding her assets, all her money and everything. Yeah, I think so. I think so. She'll probably still have some people, you know, on her team guiding her through it all because... Does she talk to her parents? I would say so.

She seems quite close with her mum. Her mum hasn't really spoken much about the conservatorship because she doesn't really want to get too involved. This is Orkies. It's not Orkies. It's all playing out, like, you know, so publicly, eh? You're right. Yeah, yeah.

We like to keep all our affairs off air, don't we, Ben? Yeah, exactly. Out of the public eye. He's suing me at the moment. You wouldn't even know. No, totally. Put on a happy face. Yeah, exactly.

See you in court. And a trailer for a movie coming to Netflix soon called Don't Look Up has been released. And it showcases one of the greatest casts ever. You've got Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Ariana Grande, and it's basically a dark comedy where two astronomers, which is Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, try to warn the world about an approaching comet that might destroy the world. Meryl Streep plays a female president of the United States. She'd be a great female president of the United States.

So good. And it's directed by the man who did Anchorman and Stepbrothers, so it's quite a funny one. Awesome. Your breathing is stressing me out. This will affect the entire planet. I know, but it's like so stressful. Can I get that one more ice water?

I'll get two more glasses of white wine. And I don't need the judgy face. There's a comet headed directly towards Earth. Do you know how many world is ending meetings we've had over the last two years? Drought, famine. Pulling the O's on is so boring. Coming at the right time too. Yeah.

Geez what a great cast. I know. Leo and Jonah Hill were magnificent in Wolf of Wall Street. So good. I'm just surprised. Leo's just a great actor overall. I'm just surprised he's managed to pull his lips off a 22 year old long enough to film a movie. Well, good on him. That's a good point. He's ageing beautifully. He does. Yeah, I know. Same with George Clooney. There are just some people. And Brad Pitt.

They just get better as they get older. You wouldn't have been, you know, sort of 22 Leo years, were you? No, no. I'd like you to have a Google and compare that to a 22-year-old Harry Styles and see where you sit in the... Oh, I think I'm going to be in the Leonardo DiCaprio camp. A young Leo on the beach. Yeah.

That's Juliet's, you know. I know. If you could put together the ultimate human being, I think it's like that. Juliet. Yeah, exactly. And that is Spy for More. You can head to thehits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, we're going to do something because it's the first day back

at school for many kids around the country. And we want to open up an anonymous parent line for if you dropped off your kids and you want to basically just go yes, in a way. But you don't want to offend your children. It's the PA line, the Parents Anonymous. Yeah, and we'll open it up for you

guys after 8 o'clock. It is the hits. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The hits. 8.28 on your Thursday morning. Now, vaccinations. Yeah, they're the talk of the town.

They love to talk about them at the old 1pm press conference. They love finding out if they've ordered enough online and when those shipments are going to arrive. They always bang on about it for too long. They're like, get to the stats. Oh, just a vaccination update. Everyone's getting vaccinated. It's good.

But you want the figures, Ben. You hit the Prime Minister up about this yesterday. I did. It was very un-Ben Bush-like as well. He's like, you ramble on at the beginning. Just give me the stats. Well, that's what we were all like. Just tell us.

Just tell us. And then we can relax. It's like someone telling a story. You're like, so I had a bit of an accident with the car, with your car yesterday. You're like, what happened? What happened? What happened? So anyway, I was like, but what's the devil?

You want to go? I had to go to pack and save. Yes, yes. I was packing out of the car. But then her reasoning was quite good. She was like, we have to have that ramble at the beginning because that's information we need to get out. Because she's like, as soon as I say the figure, we've lost the room.

Totally. We've lost the room. Totally. Yeah, she's right. She's right. She's right. But good on you for hitting her up about it. She's wanting to reformat the 1pm show.

That's right. Get the big bag of the stats out of the way. Talk about vaccinations. And speaking of vaccinations. It's like doing the plot, the spoiler to the plot at the beginning of the program. Yeah, you are right. You are right. You're right.

But we came up with our own little vaccination song, didn't we? Yeah. Vax Street's Back. And ironically, I looked, Vax Street in New Plymouth doesn't actually have any vaccination centres, if you're wondering. You'd think if you're going to put one anywhere, you'd put one on Vax Street, wouldn't you? Well, true. Is there an actual Vax Street? There's a Vax Street.

Oh, there we go. Well, there's an actual Vax Street song now, thanks to us. Have a listen. Everybody, yeah. Vax your body yeah everybody yeah back's your body right back streets back all right we won't run out of vaccine the worst case scenario is we go back to the plan, which was still 350,000 doses a week going out. Oh my God, I'm vaxxed again. Two shots of Pfizer stabbed in my skin.

Got a question for you, better answer now. Will I become a 5-D cell tower? No. Am I eligible? Yeah Am I due a song? Maybe Am I sexual? Not relevant

And so report my blue light symptoms from the second shot Everybody Yeah Yeah Don't report my blue light symptoms from the second shot Everybody, yeah Yeah Vax your body, yeah Yeah Everybody, yeah Vax your body right

Vax streets back, alright Taking over all your favourite song intros, Jono and Ben, the hits. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben, 8.34, Thursday morning. Now tonight, it starts our new TV show, Jono and Ben Good Sports. As I think we've mentioned a couple of times, we travel around New Zealand. We traveled around and met some amazing people that take part in very unusual sports like Quidditch, Rubik's Cubing, medieval fighting, robot battles, chili eating. There's a whole lot in there. Variety magazine have just done an article on the program, Ben, and they've put it up for Academy Award contention next year.

No, they haven't. One of the front runners for the Oscars. We've got a review on today. We've never had a positive review in our many, many years of TV. And I feel like now I'm going to read it again, they'll go like a, ah, joke. I was like, I don't know how to take this. How do you feel about a positive review?

I feel like it's a joke on me. Like, I get refreshing to go, is it still the same article? It's lovely. So thank you. Yeah, it's tough. Do we reveal it's a joke on me. Like, I get refreshing to go, is it still the same article? It's lovely. So thank you. Yeah, it's stuff.com. We reveal it's a joke now, Julian. I've been years and years of getting pranked and not having favourable reviews. I'm like, what?

It's got to be a catchphrase. Now there's going to be a follow-up article and be like, the loser thought he had a positive review. He talked about it on radio, the loser. We got him. We got him good. I'm always on edge. That's why. I'm always on edge that's why i'm always on edge you are always on edge but you know we've uh we've made a monumental stuff up leading into this program

we have yeah and uh basically we've had a countdown so they sent us clips of a countdown five days to go four days to go three days to go righty righty right yeah these little videos little moments from the show i think we've got one of us trying to eat chilies in a chili eating competition scotch bonnet 150 200 000 scovilles oh jesus these are big are we ready no hell is burning in my mouth so we got those those who say yeah as you said five days to go four days to go three days and then they go it's tomorrow and then there's today. So our only instruction was, now what you two need to do is, when there's five days to go, just put up the five days to go one, the four days to go one.

I mean, are you listening? You can gather what we were required to do. Yeah, you're like, the show starts on Thursday. Everyone gets it. Put this up on your social media and time it. Then we got to... Was it yesterday, wasn't it? Yesterday.

We got to yesterday, and we're like, oh should put up the um the two days to go one and then we're like well how isn't that tomorrow but it's not two days to go so we got to the day before and producer juliet she's like yeah i've been watching this you'll be putting it out you've got out of whack and somehow we got out of whack and so we had a log jam yesterday how did we get out of whack we And so we had a log jam yesterday. How did we get out of whack? We had two days to go yesterday, but also tomorrow. Why would you not tell us this when you saw that we'd put five days up to go when there wasn't five days to go? You know, I didn't want to hurt your feelings. It's on me.

Do you know what it was? I kind of posted them in the morning. And then I'd be counting that day as a day. So I'd be like, oh, you know, so that would be the first day. But then if you see that later, of course you're thinking, well, that's. And so that was the intention was not to post it in the morning. But then that's what we were saying to make ourselves feel better yesterday. We're like, oh, we're posting it in the morning.

So technically like all day today. Then one day tomorrow, it's like two days. So a normal person, a normal human being would count, you know, if you're posting on Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday is three days Yeah we know now And you knew all along She was too polite to inform us

And it was like a slow moving train And then you realise Just as the train's about to hit us She's like hey by the way there's one day to go Yeah because I was like I'm going to post Hang on two days to go tomorrow Well these are both for the same day. You're like, yeah, right, idiot.

Listen, the count on Sesame Street would be very disappointed in us. We're the first people in history to screw up counting down a countdown. Yeah, you're right. How did we mess that up? It's like at the end of the advent calendar going, are nine chocolates left over? What's going on here? So anyway, to be clear, I don't know when the show starts now.

Is it tonight? Hopefully it's tonight. I think it's tonight. But you told me it was two days to go yesterday. So zero days to go. It's tonight. So tonight, yes, 8 o'clock at 10.00, after Police 10.00, you can catch it tonight. Love you to check it out. And you can win $500 cash just by watching your show. It'll explain how

and the show, so check it out tonight. Jono and Ben, good sports. You guys are legends. Oh, you're tonight. Jono and Ben, good sports. Oh, legends. You guys are legends. Oh, you're legends. Jono and Ben's ISO Legends. Thanks to Skinny. You're a legend. Thanks very much to Skinny for this.

We reward a person each day who, as I said before, is doing some amazing things, often selfless things, for the community, for our country, and if you want to nominate someone, head to thehitstock.co.nz. If New Zealand

was your hero, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, these people are the protein powder that keep him running. That's a strange analogy. No, you're right. It's a good analogy. I get it. It works for me. You had me at Dwayne.

Yeah, you did. We're going to go through today to Solly Who's been nominated by his sister Working very hard as a nurse, Solly Morning, Solly speaking Solly, it's Jono and Ben We're from the Hits radio station How are you?

I'm good, more than nice to hear More than nice to hear How are you doing this morning? I'm not too bad, thank you Yeah, just at work now Oh, you're at work already Good, I was just wondering How are you doing this morning? I'm not too bad, thank you. Yeah, just at work now. Oh, you're at work already? Good. I was just wondering at what part of the morning process we'd caught you,

whether you were scrubbing and rubbing things at the moment? I'll be scrubbing and rubbing later on in the day. Oh, right. What do you do for a job? So I'm a nurse by trade. I work at a medical centre a couple of days a week, the first two days of the week week and then the rest of the week I'm based at a vaccination centre doing

some vaccinating as well as running a team of clinicians and health promoters. Doing a lot for the Pasifika community too in Christchurch, vaccinating them. Yeah, doing a little bit of work within the community,

both Pacific and I guess our non-Pacific team, but yeah, specifically Pacific. Specifically Pacific. Well said. Two tough words you tackled there. Now, you've been nominated by your sister for the great work you're doing, and we want to say thank you on behalf of everyone.

And thanks to our friends at Skinny, we're going to give you a $500 Pack and Save voucher and six months of Skinny credit. Damn, that's awesome. Thank you very much. Oh, well, thank you for everything you're doing. Oh, I just want to say a big shout out to everyone else on the team that I'm with.

The team of five million. Oh, good on you, Solymph. We'll be joining each other soon. Do you know, I'm just. The team of five million. Oh, good on you, Solly. We'll be joining each other soon. Do you know, I'm just reading further into this, that when you go for a coffee date with Solly, he has the coffee and you'll be like, I'm just going to go to the toilet,

but he goes up and secretly pays. I love when a guy does that. You're one of those guys. You've got to do what you've got to do. I'm the opposite. I'm like, now I had the flat white. You had the. Ben likes to break down the bill.

I think I had two little bites of the biscotti. Yeah, I didn't eat as many chips as you, so I'll pay 40%. Hey, Sonny, as a nurse vaccinating people, I do have a question for you. Go ahead. The second dose. Is the contents of the second dose different to what was in the first dose? Exactly the same, buddy. Sorry. But then why are some people having different reactions from the first and second? Everyone's a little bit

different, their brother. So some people have a different response from the first one. Others have a much greater response from the second one. But if you're having a good response, it means that when the real thing hits, you'll be able to fight it off with your army of antibodies. Oh, so that's a good thing for your body to have a reaction. Yeah, we call it responses, you know? It's not responses, we're not reacting. Yeah, I see what you're saying.

Your body's responding to what's being put into it. Hey, well, you keep up the great work out there, and well done. Thank you so much for everything you're doing. Hey, nice to hear from you, babe. Nice to talk to you, buddy. Thank you very much. And if you want to nominate someone like Sully, you can head to the hitstockco.nz,

and thanks to our mates at Skinny, we could be hooking them up tomorrow. $500 package, they voucher, which is awesome. Six months Skinny credit, and right now Skinny have a bonus 60 gigs of data to all their capped wireless broadband customers rise and shine time to start the um who are we kidding we're not the boss of you jono and ben the hits it is a hits jono and ben on your thursday now after nine o'clock

we've got another battle another round between the 90s and the noughties and today's battle is this. The Hits, 90s versus Noughties. Today, it's Power Pop Thursday. Power Pop Thursday. Yes, all your favourite songs from Meridian and Trust Power coming up after 9 o'clock, all the big bangers. Actually, we're getting nostalgic on the Hits, looking back at the 90s and the 2000s, and people are getting nostalgic online

because the guy, the original guy from Blues Clues, which started in 1996, he kind of abruptly because the guy, the original guy from Blue's Clues, which started in 1996, he kind of abruptly left the show, Steve. Amongst a sea of controversy and gossip, wasn't it? Yeah, well, it wasn't meant to be. He just left. But everyone went, there was salacious rumours that he had died, that he had all sorts of horrible...

An affair. Yeah, like he was into drugs and all sorts. He ate blue. None of this was true. But yesterday the internet is going crazy because he's done a lovely heartfelt message to celebrate 25 years of Blue's Clues. He's kind of addressed the fact that he left quite quickly and he talks so lovingly about everyone else now. You remember how when we were younger we used to run around and hang out with Blue and find clues. And then one day I was like oh hey guess what big

news i'm leaving um i just kind of got up and went to college and uh that was really challenging by the way but great because i am doing many of the things that i wanted to do that i wanna do a nice line from the show as well And he talks about how great we all look Have you seen us mate? Send him a picture of me Speaking of a picture of you I was doing a little bit more research into him

And why he left And he said he was actually starting to go bald And he didn't want to be a bald man On a children's TV show And he just knew that it was actually time to move on When he was losing his hair You never got that what Now gig, did you? We can't have a washed up looking bald guy.

Looks like a weathered bloody golem. Just keep gunging him so he's got something on the top of his head. Anyway, I don't know how us promoting the 90s versus noughties has turned into a brutal roasting of me, but somehow we've ended up here. That's what we do on this show. We sell one thing, somehow we lead to another.

So we were talking about the vaccine before it, and it ended up about me being bald and ugly. So that's the outdo every bit. You said ugly, not us. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. That is our show today. Of course, a lot of people talking about Chris Hipkins yesterday You know That's the problem. They're threatened. Yeah, I see what's happening. They're worried that their ratings may slip.

Even though different time slots, you know. Yeah, but you've got to worry. You've just got to worry. So they're suddenly doing comedy. It's like comedy's not what they're meant to be doing. And what Ben's done here is he's started off with a topical event and somehow segued into a self-referential plug for his television show tonight. They're really pulling back the curtains.

Very clever. Like a director's commentary, aren't you? But yes, now we've got to. Now you've brought it up, Johno. Our TV show does start tonight. Jono and Ben, Good Sports, TVNZ 2, 8pm. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app.

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