Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Stitch Up On His Wife Backfired Big Time!

Episode Date: March 3, 2022

Ben took some "pranking inspiration" from Jono and tried it on his wife when she was on the phone to the bank. But he learnt quickly that when pranking, it should not involve the bank! We also spoke to a woman who has climbed Mt Everest 6 TIMES! Finally, Ben has discovered the world's cutest animal that you all MUST GOOGLE. Enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the podcast, Jono and Ben here, I'll just remove my face mask Ben boys You notice how they awkwardly have to do that on the news Yeah I know And I've never respected it as much as I have now when you have to get it off in a hurry Because they still want to signify that they're playing by the rules out there in the community You're right But you know then they take them off for their thing It does feel like something they could probably do when they're not on camera but you're right

It's just like oh hey we've got on, and now we'll take it off. Yeah, it's just so they can avoid the trolls like me who would say, where are their face masks? They think they're above the rest of us. People love complaining about stuff, don't they? I love it. I just love it. I love complaining. It makes me feel better about my miserable life.

You used to be able to read. I remember when we were working at TV3, you used to be able to read in the system the complaints, because every complaint that would come through to reception, I remember when we were working at TV3 you used to be able to read in the system the complaints, because every complaint that would come through to reception, they would log it. Now I wouldn't read these when our show was on, because that's it. They were all so positive, and you're like you didn't want to get too big a head.

You'd let your ego get away on you. You want to stay grounded. I know what you're talking about. But I remember once that one of the ones that stuck with me was when John Campbell was doing his marvellous show in the evenings, and someone complained. They rang up and said, John Campbell tried to say eruption. It sounded like erection.

Sort it out. Sort it out. I love that they just chucked the ball back. You sort it out. But it was like, well, you know he was trying to say eruption, and it sounded like he did say eruption, but maybe not as clearly as maybe something else. So why are you offended by it? You thought it was a reaction.

It was like, sort it out. But the chances of that ever happening again, very minute. Yeah, and then there'd be just other trivial things like, Mike McRoberts' tie doesn't match Carol Hirschfeld's hair tonight. Sort it out. Sort it out. And all complaints ended with, sort it out. Yeah, that was so funny.

And then obviously the person working reception had to write them down verbatim, word for word. Sort it out. Write it down, sort it out. Yeah, just copy and paste sort it out with every time. But it's funny, the things that wind people up, isn't it? I think now, if anything, the last week in particular, if the last two years hasn't done it, certainly the last seven days,

just get it in perspective. Well, yeah. You know? You're right. Things you complain about will really, you know, pale in comparison to what some people are dealing with in the world right now. My son was watching the news last night

and we were bouncing from the apocalypse happening outside Parliament with burning infernos then going to a war in the Ukraine then going into more COVID news. He's in the middle of a 10 day isolation and you're like he turned to me and said what's wrong with the world? Oh it's heavy isn't it? It is heavy and I said

well you know there's good out there. I mean Ben, you look fantastic today. That's a good thing. I put my trousers on the right way. But it's hard to find the good at the moment, isn't it? But there is people, so many people doing so many good things. But, you know, people letting another person merge in front of them politely in traffic, that's not going to lead the news bulletin.

No. You know? Me paying for someone's supermarket shopping. A, it's probably never going to happen. Yeah, I was going to say, when did this happen? But hypothetically, you know, I'm a better person than I am. I pay for someone's supermarket shopping who's forgotten their wallet. That's not going to be on Leading News Hub, is it?

No. No. No. Although it might be one of those in surprising news. Something you never thought would happen. Leading the supermarket news. Cold- never thought would happen. Leading us on surprising news. Cold-hearted monster, shouts Supermarket Show. Yeah, but it is iconic.

You can forget that there is, because all you see is negative, negative, negative. That's news. It's traditionally more negative than it is positive. Yeah. It does kind of weigh you down a little bit at the moment. So hopefully, you know, we do delve into a little bit today on the show. We talk to a reporter. Off that, we talk about the year. So hopefully, you know, we do delve into a little bit today on the show. We talk to... Off that, we talk about the year.

Well, we talk to a reporter. It's really interesting. He's still in Parliament and was in Parliament yesterday to see what it was like just being through that. As you say before, it was just very full on scenes for New Zealand. It looked like the reporters were quite rattled after what they had seen all day. I'm not surprised. Yeah. I mean, if there was a burning inferno and people throwing bricks at police outside your house, I suppose you'd be...

A little bit rattled. You would be. You're right. So that's on there as well. As well as a really interesting... We talked to someone who went up Mount Everest six times. Six times. And someone who was in a plane crash. Yeah.

Oh, my God. What a bonanza. I know. It's all on the podcast. That's almost five radio shows in one. Jono and Ben. Thursday morning. Jono and Ben with you. Some wild times yesterday. We'll talk about that very shortly. Oh, yeah, really wild, scary times outside Parliament,

all that going on. In fact, we're going to catch up with someone who was there yesterday reporting for the New Zealand Herald. No, and just what's happening today? Are people still hanging around? It was sad scenes. It was. I just felt sad for everyone.

I felt sad for Wellington, sad for the Prime Minister, sad for the protesters who were there with legitimate reasons from the get-go because this has just been overshadowed, and sad for the people who were rioting because you're like, well, they thought that was their only option. Yeah, it was sad all around. Happy and news, though, that you're back after a few days at home. There is some light in the world.

And isolation. Some good. God has put good on you, Ben, today. But one thing we want to talk about yesterday happened after the show was a team meeting. We had a staff meeting here over Zoom, you know, because that's the way we do things these days. So you're at home. Everyone's at their various homes or offices around the place. The HIT staff meeting.

And we have a new person at the HITs called Jesse. Now, over those Zoom meetings, it's always a bit it's risky when you put your mic on and you want to say something but at some stage i've started to get this confidence to take my mic off mute and say stuff remember i did it in another meeting we were with producer b humps we're all in the same room i was like take me off mute i've got some stuff to say he's like are you sure i mean you've got to be pretty confident you did and you did you came in yesterday and you're like hey I've got a song I'd like to play to Jesse, the new person here at The Hints.

And everyone's like, oh, okay. There we go. For a while there, you were obviously looking at your laptop because I saw you. I was like, Jesse's very disinterested. He's doing something for ages. But I guess you were finding the song that you wanted to play. I was YouTubing the song that I wanted to play. I was like, he's really checked out at the meeting.

I was like, I've got some comedy gear here and uh because her name was jesse and i was like and all i could think of was oh no he's gonna play that i wish i was jesse's girl oh that's a bit awkward on first meeting she thought that as well yeah she's like please don't play that song please i have a song to play she would jump to that conclusion but you went with another one a a more Disney-appropriate one from a kids' TV show. You played this one. Like, hey, Jessie, welcome.

Hey, Jessie. I get it. Yeah. No, Jessie's Girl didn't even come into my mind. That's the only one I could think of because I'm not a big, you know, but I haven't seen a lot of Jessie. But I do. No, it exists.

You're like, please don't play Jessie's girl. Were you sudden to cringe for me? Oh, yes. I was like, oh, God, this is not going to go well. I just thought this was my favorite. The whole team were very worried there. I think including Jessie. But Juliette knew.

I think you two share a love of Hey Jessie. You used to watch her growing up. Yeah, and I knew exactly it was going to be Hey Jessie. Because we'd done a voice break on Hey Jessie before and I remembered that. Hey Jessie! But you know what was funny? After the meeting,

I bumped into our newsreader, Rachel Jackson-Lees, and she comes up to me. She was like, God, I thought he was going to play. No. After they talked about that first. Yeah.

And she goes, oh my gosh, does John have COVID? And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. Like, household contact, but he doesn't have it. And she goes,

oh my goodness, because there were some of us who were in a meeting room and he was the one that was on the big screen on the TV. And he looked so ill and so pale. What? And so pale. Oh, what? And I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He doesn't have COVID.

That's how he looks all the time. Maybe that's just him and his complexion. It's me on a good day. So I have the permanent look of, should I donate some money to that guy? Does he need a wish to come true? Yes. There were plenty more to come before 7 o'clock this morning.

Oh, is that a big screen? I think you were the one that was stuck on the big TV. Mate, you were making it. I'd like to play a song if I could. Make it all about yourself. Scrolling through your feed. All right, hand you over now. To get the news straight from the horse's mouth,

he actually went to a stable this morning and took it out of that horse's mouth, and it's here for you right now. As we mentioned before, violence erupted. Even fires broke out outside Parliament yesterday. A really dramatic conflict between the protesters, New Zealand police, and as you said before, John, no matter what political allegiance you've got or what side you sort of sit on, it was just sad to see all round. It was sad, yeah.

And I think that Parliament and all the parties inside the Beehive were unified on that front. It was a dark day for New Zealand. And especially to think back two years ago to the day, we were the envy of the world. Yeah, you're right. Fast forward 24 months, we're bloody burning, trying to burn down Parliament.

Well, it's captured the world's attention, everything from pepper spray, pitchforks, riot police. It was all there outside Parliament yesterday, and it was really, really sad. We usually use those pitchforks to chase DJs out of New Zealand, don't we? Yesterday it was for rioting purposes. Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister, she was quite emotional and I think justifiably so when she was talking yesterday in Parliament.

We have all at times felt angry during this occupation. After all, when we're in the middle of a pandemic, have 400 people hospitalised and 20,000 people becoming sick in just one day. After all, when we are in the middle of a pandemic, have 400 people hospitalised and 20,000 people becoming sick in just one day, it's almost impossible to comprehend that people would stand opposed to efforts to slow that down. One day, it will be our job to try and understand how a group of people could succumb to such wild and dangerous myths and disinformation. And while many of us have seen that disinformation,

a small portion of our society have not only believed it, they have acted upon it in an extreme and violent way. The thing is, if you're in that group, that's all the information you're receiving. So you think this is the world, don't you? If you're outside Parliament hanging out with buddy old mate and hemp pants there and he's going oh this is the government sending out rays put on a tinfoil hat and you're immersed in that world that is your world but then there would seem to be different components within that group outside there were some that were

vaccinated there's some that were unvaccinated you know there was a real mix of you know and i think they could probably lost you know lost control of what was happening outside there. There wasn't one unified group as well. Yeah, there was some protesters that were talking online last night on TikTok, where I like to get all my misinformation from. And they were saying they'd protested in the 80s. And they were like, protests aren't this. They need to make a point. And then you peacefully walk away once there's a resolution.

Right. But it was the opposite. You're right. Different fractions there. And it's a dark day for tents as well. A lot of tents went. Very flammable, aren't they? Very flammable.

And good tents too. Like good quality tents just gone. Mowed over. People got to use those tents. Yeah. And just quickly, the Tinder swindler, we talked a lot about him lately. Well, he was swindled. How about this, guys?

He got swindled. So someone hit him up on Instagram and said, hey, I work for a meter. Basically, I can get you verified. I'm verified. I've got the blue tick. And then they set up like an office for him to have like a face-to-face, sorry, a Zoom-type meeting. People going around and stuff and say,

hey, yep, we can get your blue tick, we can get rid of all these other fake accounts around your name. Just wire us through $6,000. And they swindled him. Get you and your girlfriend verified. They did, and it wasn't until the Tinder Swindlers manager got in touch with actual Meta and went,

hey, what's happening with this thing? They're like, oh, no, we never charge for verification. And the person's kind of deleted their accounts and kind of walked away off the internet. Oh, my God. So how's that for a wee bit of justice? Karma. For the tender swindler there.

Very good play. Very good play. And a long play as well. Yeah. Yeah. Because you scam a few people on the internet with your, he likes to get lonely elderly ladies. That's his sweet spot, isn't it?

All right. You're like, I can make you happy, just wire me $5,000 I'm in a bit of trouble here, man, oh they're after me. I know you're gay boys it works for you. It is the hits, you've got Jono and Ben, 6.20 on your Thursday. That person who didn't let you merge

probably listens to a lesser radio station. Jono and Ben, on the hits. It's happy hour, Marshmallow. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. Now, I want to find if Jono's the world's worst driver. Yeah, he's set himself this crazy mission. He wants me to re-sit my driver's license test as well. And I don't know why I'm going along with it.

Like, he's not the police. He's not, as far as I'm concerned, he's not from VTNZ. There's no obligation to this, but I'll go for the ride. I'll be the passenger on this wonderful journey with you, Ben. On this wild ride. Not with the wild riders when I'm sitting in the car with you. But anyway, we want to know. I want to give people the opportunity to tell their driving stories

to see maybe they might be a worse driver than you. What have I done that makes me New Zealand's worst driver? You're just erratic. You're very, very erratic. Like changing lanes, driving through car parks, running over people. I'm not erratic. Other cars and pedestrians just get in my way while I'm going about my business. I once ran over someone at the work garage.

I had to apologise. I had to apologise. I actually feel bad about that because it's been sitting in the back of my mind. I'm like, I genuinely didn't see this guy. And it's hyper-expressing. I pushed him against a wall. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Well, Ali's phone through. She thinks

she had one of the world's worst driving experiences. Ali, good morning. What happened to you? Well, it was back in today. We had a couple of cars. We were just family, friends. The uncle who was driving the wedding car wasn't used to driving an automatic, can you believe it?

Oh, right, yeah. Automatic's the easier option, though, isn't it? I know. Yeah, out of manual help. He took off, the bridesmaid's car took off behind. He went to change gear and put it into park. So he stopped. He went into a screaming halt and the bridesmaid's car went up the back of it.

On your wedding day, you had a nose to tail. Yeah. Luckily, there were no injuries, really. The poor little flower girl went flying forward, did a forward roll on the front seat of the car. Oh, jeez. And so you're all dressed up. You're in your wedding dress.

Yeah. Yeah, my flowers went mushing into the front seat and I faced into my flowers. It was quite comical afterwards. At the time it was like, oh. But yeah, we had a lot of laughs since then and it's been a story that's been told many times. That's a beauty.

Hey, thank you so much, Ellie. You have a great day. No worries. So this continues on, does it? Well, it does. It does until you pass with flying colours, your test. Well, I haven't had any accidents that I know about. Yeah, but you didn't know you almost ran someone over the other day. It's got me thinking, geez, what else have I done that I don't know about? Okay, next on the show, we're all wearing masks at the moment,

and I've discovered something about the mask, and it plays beautifully into our age demographic, Ben boys. All right. Oh, you'll appreciate this. All right, find out what it is. After Ed Sheeran bad habits, you got the hits. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Jono and Ben on the hits.

So I've been going to the supermarket, as most people tend to do, and I've noticed something that masks help you do as you age. So I was at the counter the other day, mask on, and the lady behind the counter's like, I'm going to need to see your ID for some of these products. And those products were about 900 Heineken bottles. Oh, well, you've got to stock up.

You do, you panic buy. Even though there's no reason to panic. Well, I think Heineken, there's been no reports on the juice, that the Heineken shelves were empty, but hey,

that could happen, I guess. I had a mask on, obviously, so she could just see my eyes. And I'm like, oh, mate,

I was born in 1981. She's like, no. I'm like, yes. I'm like, oh, mate, I was born in 1981. She's like, no. I'm like, yes. I'm like, I'm 40. She's like, no, I'm going to have to get my manager. I'm like, what? Just loving it. Really?

And then the manager comes over and she's like, this man says he's 40. And the manager looks me up and he's like, yeah, says he's 40. And the manager looks me up and down and is like, yeah, no, he's definitely 40. I was like, geez, I had a good checkout operator there. If you want to make any old person feel great about themselves. Well, that's the thing now, I imagine. I hadn't even thought of that. But with ID, you can't really take your mask off in those situations.

So they kind of just only got the eyes and the wrinkly forehead to sort of look. The crow's feet, you know, bags. The receding hairline. Take your hat off. Oh, you know. The other thing about ID, Sue, is back in the day, Juliet, you probably didn't even have to experience this. We had to go to extreme lengths

to get some fake identification. Really? Driver's licenses used to be on paper. You'd have to go to Whitcalls and get a stencil and scratch out letters and scratch on. Oh, yeah. And then you had to sort of assume the role

of a 45-year-old plumber called Gary Worthington and you had to remember Gary's date of birth when you were standing in front of a bouncer at the Fat Lady's Pits or whatever the pub was you were trying to get into. And also star signs as well. Sometimes it would be a star sign question. And the bouncers probably had no idea

what the star signs were, but it was just a question they'd throw out. If you took too long to answer, they'd be like, nah, mate. You're definitely not an Aquarius. You know? You don't act like an Aquarius. They're gentle souls.

They probably had no idea, but they're just trying to throw you off with a question. It's so much easier now for the generation. All they have to do is go onto the bloody liquor website, say, are you 18? That's so true. In the history of, are you 18? Has anyone ever gone, you know what?

No, I'm not. I'm pulling out of this website transaction. And then they just wait for a delivery to come. Oh, is this for your mum and dad? Yeah, yeah, now they're out. Oh, okay, I can't be bothered coming back. Take them. You know, easy street.

We used to have to work to get our liquor. Oh, jeez, I think you've found a horrible flaw in the system. Hey, before 7 o'clock this morning, we're going to catch up with someone who was at the protest yesterday and is there this morning. What is going on outside Parliament? We'll find out before seven. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene.

Helping Kiwis. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. Yesterday, you would have seen the scenes you'll see this morning online. Violence erupted, fires breaking out in Parliament lawns, dramatic conflict between the protesters and the New Zealand Police. And someone who was there to witness it and is still there today

is Nick James from the New Zealand Herald. Nick James, welcome. Hi, guys. How are you? Yeah, John O'Prior, Ben Boyce. Full names, official. Welcome. Now, we understand you're on Old Man Mallard's balcony in Parliament. Yes, that's the one, yeah. Does Trevor know you're on old man Mallard's balcony at Parliament. Yes, that's the one, yeah. Does Trevor know you're on his balcony?

And are there sprinklers there because he'll turn them on? Yeah, I think he's pretty aware. I'm sort of accompanied by around, I don't know, maybe five or six other journos. So I don't think the sprinklers are going on any time soon at the moment. So yesterday you were there when everything was going down with the riot police, with the fires, with the violence and all that happening. I mean, it must be a really, really scary experience to be sort of witnessing. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I sort of was there from 5 a.m. yesterday and then sort of finished up there at 7 o'clock last night. I've never seen anything like it.

It was the most chaotic scenes I think I've ever seen. I thought in the morning when we saw, you know, the police move in on the protesters and see some pepper spray and all that stuff, I was like, you know, that was unbelievable to see. And then around sort of three o'clock, this fire started erupting from Parliament's front lawn. It was unbelievable, really. And it just got more and more chaotic from there. On the scale of all of us panic buying toilet paper to Juliet and her friends at R&V, how chaotic is it? What's the scale? Sort of talking a 10? I would say it's a 10.

And I mean, just looking out now, that reflects that. I mean, I'm just looking at a sea of destroyed tents and marquees that still cover Parliament's front lawn. You wouldn't even recognise at the moment, you know, if you'd visited a month ago sort of thing. It's just another tip. It's a rubbish tip, essentially. Yeah, we were saying this morning on the show that no matter what your political views are or who you support or whatever, it was just sad. It was sad for New Zealand to see it coming to this and to see the police out there in the riot gear and see what was happening and the fires. Pepper spray, as you say,

it was just a sad scene to have all over the news last night. Yeah, and I mean, I think police reflected that. And obviously, you know, they had tried for three weeks. It came to three weeks of sort of trying, you know, asking these people to leave, not really taking any sort of hard, hard measures on them. And I guess it sort of just got to that crunch point where, yeah, things just exploded, really. And when they exploded, it kicked off.

As Barry Soper calls him, the police commissioner, wonderful Cuddles Costa, he gave them the chance, didn't he? He gave them the chance, didn't he? He gave them the chance to leave. And it seems like the ones who are still going on the news last night, they weren't at the protests for genuine reasons, like many people were in the beginning, who were actually like, you know, I've lost my job. I'm anti-mandate. I'm not necessarily anti-vax. Who were that group that was still lighting fires and throwing bricks at the police?

Yeah, well, I guess that's the million-dollar question, really. I mean, that's the speculation that, you know, there was a few people that just were there really to cause trouble. They just, yeah, they were there to throw bricks, to start fires, to set off fireworks, to, you know, cause anarchy, really. And, yeah, you know, you could definitely see sort of walking around yesterday. I mean, I remember seeing a protester sort of crying and was like, this isn't what we were here for, whatever.

But, like, yeah, it's just, yeah, there definitely seems to be, there was some people that just wanted to cause a riot, essentially. What's there today? Obviously, you said there's the lawn and everything. There's a lot of rubbish and everything everywhere. But is there a huge police presence still today? Are there people outside Parliament? I mean, what's going on this morning?

So essentially, I've walked around sort of the street that the protesters previously occupied, and there's pretty much no protesters around. They're not anywhere near, but there is a huge police presence still. You know, there's police with dogs as well, just sort of walking around the perimeter. And there's some police as well, just sort of walking around nearby Wellington streets. I guess just trying to sort of reassure Wellingtonians that it's a safe place to walk if they're sort of coming from a train station or going to school or that sort of thing. Oh, well, thanks, Nick. Well, you keep

safe down there. I'm glad you are safe. It seems like it's over for the most part now, which is a good thing. And geez, old Mallard's going to have to get that grass seed out, isn't he, on the front lawn? Yeah, definitely. He's got a lot of work on his hands. Let's put that netting over the top, too, so the sparrows don't start, you know. You know what it's like, Ben. It's a nightmare.

Exactly. I tried two or three times and ended up getting AstroTurf because it was too tough for me. Maybe you should tell Trevor he could look at the AstroTurf option. It's expensive, but you know. No maintenance. Yeah, exactly. Good on you, Nick. Thank you so much for your time.

You keep well. No worries. Thanks so much for having me. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz Just like eating fried chicken, the celebrities are going to have instant regret

after appearing on this segment. Juliet, what's happening in Spy? So Jason Momoa and Lisa Binet announced their split in January after 17 years of being together. But there are now reports that they're back together and have put their split on hold as apparently they're living together again. So these reports came out yesterday. But then I kind of want your opinion on something because Jason Momoa has said something that kind of insinuates that they are still separated. Right, okay.

We have nothing more than just giving our blind opinion on things. So yesterday was the premiere of Batman, which Zoe Kravitz is starring in, Zoe Kravitz being Lisa Benet's daughter. And Jason attended with his and Lisa's kids and Lisa couldn't be there. But in an interview on the red carpet, Jason said,

Lisa couldn't be here so our kids and I are representing. It's still family, you know. It's still family, you know. It was an obligation, yeah. Do you know what I mean? It kind of insinuates, oh yeah, we might have split up,

but it's still family. Do you know what I mean? I know what insinuates, oh, yeah, we might have split up, but it's still family. Do you know what I mean? I know what you mean, Jo. I know what you mean. I was very confused with who's married to who and who's whose kid. It's a blended family, you know what I mean? Was Lenny Kravitz there? No, Lenny probably.

Oh, I don't know. He might have been there. He might have been there. She's that guy, eh? You see Lenny Kravitz, and he's just someone who gets, he's like clooning it. He's getting better with age. The last thing I saw of Lenny Kravitz was my wife was deep in an article on Lenny Kravitz, him straddling a horse shirtless in leather pants.

Leather pants? They're not stretchable. Didn't he have an incident where he stretched in concert with leather pants? Oh, it all came out. I was going to say little Lenny came out, but it was little. It was little. It was as big as

Ben Bush's arm. I was like is it oh it's a microphone tripod. I know it's Wow. It's outrageous. Because the leather pants

obviously when they go they go. No, no. That's how sexy he is. He's like sticky. Imagine how sticky that is. And he's just going raw leather, straight on legs. Just the ultimate rock star.

What a sight to imagine at nearly 7 o'clock in the morning. Let's have a look. Oh, Lenny Krabber's on a horse. There we go. Look at him. He's got a farm in Brazil that he lives on. Oh, wow. Straight like a horse. He lives in the forest. Brazil that he lives on. Oh, wow. He's like a horse.

He lives in the forest, probably grows cocaine or something like that. Wow. Do you grow cocaine? I don't know. And Dua Lipa is getting sued for allegedly copying, levitating, this song here, from a reggae band. So this reggae band is called Archital Sound System,

and in 2017 they released a song called Live Your Life, and to me it sounds pretty similar. All day, all night, all night. Yeah, because sometimes you hear these things, you're like, all right, you're dreaming, you're just trying to get money. But this occasion, there is some, I mean, I'm no musical expert, clearly, but there's, yeah.

Some similarities. That's identical. I know, just quite, just a, like it's just a more poppy version, wouldn't you say? So she's getting sued,

whether or not that'll go through, her lawyers will probably be on to that. But again though, it's probably her production team as well, who, and without thinking about it, probably had a melody in their head. Yeah.

Yeah. That's true. You know, it's like we steal jokes from the internet. That's right. They kind of a melody in their head yeah that's true so we steal jokes from the internet they kind of just stay in your head and you say some stuff

and turns out someone said it on Twitter or something you know and that is your Spy Entertainment update for this hour for more you can head

to the hits.co.nz after 7 o'clock on the show there's a song you need to listen out for to get your rent or your mortgage paid for an entire year

we'll tell you what it is in 3 minutes on the hits. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. We like to play this fun game called You Wouldn't Read About It. You phone us up with a story. You regale your tale to us and then we cross-check it on the internet. And if we wouldn't read about it on the internet, you win.

That's how the game works. And previously we had a wonderful mishap in the beauty parlour. She then gave me this bit of paper and said to me, now you just put this on, I'll go, you just put this on and I'll come back. And I couldn't work it out because I thought it was a mask. I kept putting it on my face. I thought, I'm a nurse, I should know how to put a mask on. Anyway, she turned back inside.

She said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's a G-string. As you've got a G-string over your mouth. What sort of mask is this? Jeez, you'd feel like an ass, wouldn't you? Well, your face would. Maybe she's wearing an n95 as a pair of underpants or something yeah uh we also had another call uh last week with someone

who shot themselves with a spare gun in the spare gun shop which is pretty incredible as well and we and so what happens when we hear these stories these amazing stories is we google them and we see if anyone else in the world has ever had the same thing encountered to them and if we can't read about it if you wouldn't read about it, the person wins big. And it's kind of the story that when you do tell people they don't believe. It's like when I tell Ben I'm a practicing Catholic. And he's like,

he may say, you're only doing it to get your kids into school. If you actually had to Google that, Ben, Jono situation, into Google, put in religious bogan. Brian Tarmachy comes up. So maybe you would read about it. A bogan who's also religious.

So that's how it works. 0800 the hits telephone number. You call us up with your story and you could win big next if we can't see it on the internet. Dua Lipa, Elton John, it is cold hot. You got 712 John O'Byrne on your Thursday. You wouldn't read about it as the segment we're going to do right now. Debbie Riggins, she's got an unbelievable story.

We won't read about it. Good morning, Debbie. How's it going? Hey, John O'Byrne. How you doing? We're going good. Now, apparently you've got a story that you think could have only ever happened to you and we may not read about it anywhere else?

For sure. Not entirely me, but actually my husband. So my superhero, my husband. All right. What happened to your husband? So my husband, he's an avid aviator. He's always loved planes, had the opportunity to learn to fly.

So he grasped that with both hands and said, yep, going to do this. So yeah, he started to learn to fly. So he grasped that with both hands and said, yep, going to do this. So, yeah, he started to learn to fly. And one Saturday, off he went to do his lesson. And it was actually his last lesson before he was going to go solo. So, yep, all sweet. You know, he was all good about this. I was at home with our two little ones at the time and got the, you know, heart-stopping phone call, there's been an accident.

Oh my gosh. So, it was like, but then it was, but he's okay. So, yeah. They should have led with, don't worry, your your husband's okay but there's been an accident exactly but that tends always to be the sorry there's been an accident so um he the plane was this brand new plane had been shipped halfway around the world and um the instructor was in the plane with my husband and um they were doing touch and go, getting him ready to go for his solo flight. And the instructor got his foot stuck in the pedal and actually got the plane wing caught in a fence and flipped it upside down,

and they landed on top of the fence. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. So they hadn't actually taken off at this point yeah yeah so they would so touch and go they they kind of just do this brief land and go again and um so yes they've been they've been flying for a while so um but my my husband is my superhero and he was that guy's superhero that day as well because the guy was actually trapped in his seatbelt, hanging upside down and couldn't get himself out. So he got his foot stuck and then he couldn't get out,

and so your husband had to pretty much land the plane? Well, the plane landed itself basically upside down on the fence. Oh, jeez. You never want to leave it to the plane to land itself. No, no, never. Yeah. You know. Everyone walked away okay.

Yeah, everyone walked away okay. Quite shaken up, obviously. I can imagine. Yeah, but plane was a complete write-off. So, okay, well, that's an amazing story, and I'm so thankful that everyone was okay. Now we need to find out if we could read about it. What do you reckon?

Like a plane lands upside down after instructor gets foot stuck? What do you reckon? Yeah, that's good. That's good. If we can't read about this on the internet, you're going to win big, Debs. Has it put your husband off flying? Learning to fly, yes. He kind of went, maybe not for me now. But he still has an amazing love for anything aviation.

And I imagine a dark, embarrassing day as an instructor when you actually crashed the plane. Oh, yeah, correct. Probably not good on his record, yeah. Yeah. And what have we got here, Ben? We've got a terrifying video of two skydivers getting stuck, but they turn out all right.

Pilot loses control after foot stuck under rudder pedal. Oh, is that it? But it didn't. No, everyone was okay there, but it didn't sound like they landed upside down, so I'm going to give you this one. Oh, no. It's a similar story, but not quite the same. Another terrifying story

for these poor people. Jeez. Well, yeah, you win because we couldn't read about it. Oh, fabulous. Yeah, my prize

is my husband, really. Oh, how lovely. You know what our prize is, Debs? What's that? You. That's made my day. Oh, Debs, you're awesome.

Thank you for sharing your story with us. Appreciate it. We're the real winners here. Thank you so much, mate. You have a great day. You too. Now, in the next 20 minutes, obviously there's a lot of heavy news at the moment on the TV screens,

and it can be hard to know how to explain it to kids who want to know what's going on in the world. We've got a parenting expert joining us in about 20 minutes. It is that. The great thing about 20 minutes. It is The Hits. The great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here. Jono and Ben on The Hits. We love that little weasel on this show, don't we?

It's Kid Rock all summer long, 7.27 on The Hits. Now, of course, that is the song you need to listen to for this hour on 0800 The Hits. Who have we got, Jono? We're going to go to Kyle in Pukakohe. Welcome. How are you, mate? We're going to go to Kyle in Pukakohe. Welcome. How are you, mate? Good to have you on, Kyle.

And my friend, you are in this draw Friday. Tomorrow your name could be pulled out and you could have one of five keys to live rental mortgage-free. Mortgage-free. That would be great for a year. Yeah, wouldn't it? Thanks to oneroof.co.nz, official partners of Live Free. What would you spend the cash on? Because it frees up a bit of income, doesn't it? Have a biteroof.co.nz official partners of Live Free. What would you spend the cash on? Because it frees up

a bit of income doesn't it? Have a bit of a laugh loosen your belt. Oh the kids have just said they're learning the drive age

so a couple little runabouts would be great. Ah nice. A new Lamborghini and a Ferrari for the kids. So much money.

Yeah I don't think it's going to cover that but hey. Good on you Kyle well done you're in that draw make sure you're listening to the

wonderful Laura and Brad tomorrow afternoon. Yep that'd be sweet. I learned about You're in that draw. Make sure you're listening to the wonderful Laura and Brad tomorrow afternoon. Yep, that'd be sweet. I learned about a new animal that I never knew existed yesterday. And have you guys ever heard, now don't Google it yet because this is part of my game. Have you ever heard of the quokka? It's a wonderful name to say.

And I'm so disappointed that I've never heard of an animal called a quokka before this. Because it almost sounds like you're swearing, but you're not. Because of quokka. Quokka. Have an animal called a quokka before this because it almost sounds like you're swearing but you're not because of quokka quokka have you heard of the quokka I actually have but I can't remember what they look like well this is the this is the fun thing and I want to do a test because every time you like I did exactly the same thing as soon as you google quokka um it's it's basically like a little wallaby. You look at the pictures and they're so freaking cute. You'll just go, oh, have a look. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

There's a picture of one like hugging the camera lens. Oh, they are adorable. I thought the quokka would be something like a Dunedin student would do. Yeah, but I think it's the best reaction. It brings so much joy seeing pictures of quokkas. They are so cute. Oh, look, there's Chris Hemsworth with a quokka. I know.

As if you couldn't get any more cute than Chris Hemsworth. Well, the quokka is more cute than Chris Hemsworth. So they're kind of like a little mini wallaby, kind of mixed with, I guess, a chipmunk or something. Yeah. I mean, they're super cute. It feels like something out of like a Pixar. It looks like something would be like,

Hey guys. Hey, Hey, what are we doing today? Yeah. The quokka is now my new favorite animal. Now I wanted to test if the same reaction is that we can get from anyone. If we can,

can we bring joy to someone, just a random person, bring them up and say, Hey, if you buy a computer, can you Google quokka? And this will make their day or not. Okay.

So I was like, cause I feel like it made my day yesterday. It made your day just there, Juliet, seeing what a quokka and this will make their day or not okay so i was like because i feel like it made my day yesterday it made your day just there juliet and seeing what a quokka look like now that i've googled them and seen and remember what they look like they're the ones that live on this little island off the coast i think of perth rottnest island and they've got no predators and so when humans go onto the island they're not scared of anything so they're not scared of humans so if you ever go to rottnest island and you see quokkas, they'll be like happy as Larry. You can go up to them

and they'll pose for selfies and stuff. They're so cute. There's lots of amazing photos with quokkas. I'm reading a bit further into that. Did you know that they do throw their babies at predators to escape? Oh, okay. Don't make this uncute, mate.

There's a dark side to the quokka. I knew something couldn't be that cute without skeletons in its closet. I want to be in still a movie, Meet the Quokkas. That's the movie that I want. My thought is that we can brighten anyone's day if they were prepared to Google what a quokka looks like. So let's give someone a call and let's see. A random reception at number – what about a council or something?

Yeah. Call a council, yeah, because, I mean i mean councils they're just faced with complaints all day so this technically should brighten their day ben council you're speaking with maya kia ora maya it's john i'm being calling from the hits radio station how are you how are you good don't go gun shy on us, Maya. Just a real quick call right now. I'm sorry to interrupt your day, but I've just learned about a new animal.

It's called the quokka, and I reckon it'll brighten up anyone's day. Have you ever heard of the quokka? Never. Oh, neither have I, until yesterday. It's a real animal. It exists in Australia. If you've got Google and you type in Q-U-O-K-K-A-S.

Oh, my God. It sounded like you swore because you hit the phone button. But how cute is the quokka? The first photo on Google Images looks like he's taking a selfie. I know. It looks like they're giving hugs as well. They're the cutest animal, right? Click on it, and there's a photo of Chris Hemsworth with a quokka. How's that for you? Oh, my God. Look at his eyes. I know, it looks like they're giving hugs as well. They're the cutest animal, right? Click on it, and there's a photo of Chris Hemsworth with a quokka.

How's that for you? Oh, my God. Look at his eyes. I know, it's pretty cute. I just wanted to brighten up someone's day. We rang you at random. We thought, you know, you might be dealing with all sorts of stuff at the council. It happens from time to time, so we just wanted to brighten up your day, all right?

Oh, that is so cute. Thank you. You're very welcome. Have a great day. Now, by the way, can you put me through to someone? I want to kick someone's ass about my race. No. All right, have is so cute. Thank you. You're very welcome. Have a great day. Now, by the way, can you put me through to someone? I want to kick someone's ass about my race. No. That'd be funny too.

All right. Have a great day. You too. See you guys. Hey, next, how to help kids make sense of some of the heavy news that's on our screens at the moment. That's after Sons of Zion is the hits. I heard them say we're too young.

They're not afraid to use the F word. Be family friendly. Jono and Ben on the hits. There's a lot of heavy news around at the moment. Yesterday there was violence outside Parliament with the protesters and police. You've got the war in Ukraine, not to mention the alarming COVID numbers. How is it evicting our kids and what should you say to your kids about the news? We thought we'd talk to Dave from the Parenting Place.

Dave, good morning. How are you? Not too bad. Doing better than a lot of people around the world at the moment. Well, yeah, there's a lot of heavy stuff that's going on, and that's kind of what we wanted to talk to you about today because you guys at The Parenting Place have put out a few little articles online about how to sort of talk to kids about some of this heavy news.

That's right. I mean, most of us are parents at The Parenting Place, so we're all experiencing this ourselves personally. I mean, I've got a six-year-old, and he asked me the other day what war is. And I've never thought about how to articulate what war is to a six-year-old. And he really, he got me on the back foot.

So we've put a few articles together just to help parents like ourselves manage some of those really tricky conversations. That is. Sometimes they do throw the curly ones at you and they don't give you any runway, do they? There's no lead in. How did you tackle it, Dave? Oh gosh, look, I don't know if I'm the best case study really, but one of the things that I try and remind myself is I don't have to have the perfect answer. I don't even have to have an answer. But the most important thing for me and what I have to remember is just being that non-anxious presence

in my child's life really reassures them. Because young people, they're always wondering, what is the relevance of this thing to me? How is this going to affect me? And there's some anxiety that builds there. So being a non-anxious presence, being a parent that says, you can bring any question you have to me,

however you're feeling, that's fine. Just reassuring them, that's really the key, rather than trying to find the perfect answer for whatever question they throw at you. I like to use the go and ask your mother, which has pulled me out of many difficult conversations. Totally, yeah. Just buy yourself a little bit of time, eh?

I know you guys aren't psychologists or anything like that, but you are very helpful in giving advice to other parents as well and things that you can do if you're having through your own experiences. But something that I wanted to ask you about is obviously COVID. For the last couple of years, we've all been kind of trying to keep COVID away,

stay in your home, protect everyone. And now all of a sudden, we're kind of learning to live with COVID. And I imagine for kids in particular, as friends, I know that kids are getting COVID and they're kind of almost playing it off, going, oh, it's just a cold. But you've kind of been saying for two years,

don't get COVID, stay at home, we don't want to get it. So obviously there's a bit of a transition that has to take place now with not only adults, but also with kids as well. Oh, goodness, that's so true. And to be fair, a lot of our kids are actually more exposed to COVID in their schools and more exposed to conversations about COVID in their schools than maybe they are at home.

So it really depends on kind of how much of that conversation is happening at home. So, yeah, again, there's a huge amount on our kids' minds. There's a huge amount on our minds. We're having to actually learn really quickly how to manage this. So, yeah, really follow their lead. Don't give them more information than they need and try and keep it age appropriate. So really what you're trying to do is just reassure their anxiety. It's going to have an interesting effect on this young generation. I think it is. I mean, it's really hard to know exactly what impact that'll be until years later.

But one thing I would want to say to any parents listening is to give your kids the benefit of the doubt that they are resilient. I mean, of course, as parents, we want to give your kids the benefit of the doubt that they are resilient. I mean, of course, as parents, we want to protect our kids, but actually it's amazing how resilient our kids are. And if you can provide that stable presence at home, then our kids actually can navigate some really hard stuff. And they may even come out of it stronger, more wise than if they hadn't gone through it. And that's what resilience is all about. It's about bouncing back. And you develop resilience by going through hard times. So I think we can have confidence that this is actually going to,

yep, there'll be some stuff to unpack over the next few years. But there's also the opportunity for our kids to be stronger and wiser for this. I was just reading an article you guys have put up at theparentingplace.nz, and it's talking about how to deal with kids in the news. And for someone who loves the sound of their own voice this is a great little quote uh as a family if you watch the news together uh add your own commentary and i thought oh this is great i get to chip in and add some stuff but i guess in a way it's probably quite helpful to sort of contextualize what's

going on yeah i i have a six-year-old so you've got to think about that kind of age appropriateness so it's quite hard to filter what my six-year-old's hearing as the news bulletins are coming up. So for us personally, we've decided we're not going to watch the news together because I think I'd rather have a bit more control as to what he's hearing. But obviously you can't shout at your kids from conversations at school or watching the news at their parents' house or their friends' houses or accessing the stuff on devices. So at a certain age, it's probably better to embrace it and then come alongside offer

commentary, as you say, and help them make sense of the real complexity that they're hearing. And do you go through the difficult parts? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Just talk over the top of the mute button. Exactly. Oh, there's a mute button. I don't have to do that.

Well, David, we really appreciate your advice this morning, and if people want to get that, there's plenty more at theparentingplace.nz. Awesome. Thanks, guys. See you later. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000.

A simple game of word association, but it's not that simple to match up five words and win $5,000, but we're going to try our best right now to make someone 5K richer. All right, Tina, we'll need your full name, your address, and list of every questionable thing you've done in your life. How are you, Tina, in Christchurch? I'm good, thank you. You want to win $5,000?

Absolutely. What would you spend the money on in Christchurch? I would put it on my mortgage and hopefully get my renovated bathroom finished. Is it half done at the moment? Half done. Waiting on tiling. Isn't it always a niggle when you're living in a half done house? It's lucky we have two bathrooms.

I have three kids and a husband and I'd love to have my own suite back. Tina wants her sanctuary, her shower sanctuary. I do. I want my shower. Well, we're going to get you to decide who to send into our workplace shower, the soundproof booth, with no running water. No running water. Ben, please. Okay, he's going in. He did shower in there once, and we didn't tell him it was a see-through door, did we, Ju? No. Things got weird, and he came out tell him it was a see-through door, did we, Ju? No. Things got weird.

Yeah. And he came out just as dry as when he walked in. But Tina, here we go. Let's get you to match five words with Ben and finish that bathroom so you can shower yourself every morning. Sounds good. Flame. Flame. First word that comes into your head when we say flame.

F-L-A-M-E. That's the one. Fire. Word number two, slam. Dunk. Ponder. Oh. Can we come back to that one?

Absolutely you can. I'm not the boss of you. Needle's the fourth word. Oh, God. Needle? Yeah. Vaccine. Vaccine. Yeah, good thinking.

Word number five, circus. Vaccine. Vaccine. Yeah, good thinking. Word number five, circus. Ringmaster. Ringmaster. Okay, and ponder, which is a difficult one. It was a tough word, ponder. I can't actually. Oh, yeah, I've got something, but it's not solid.

It's not rock solid. I've got spank. I had the same thing. Same. So maybe it was rock solid. It's not rock solid. I've got spank. I had the same thing. Same. So maybe it was rock solid. Alright. We shall see. You did well, Tina. Now those were the most important words you will say

today. All the other words that come out of Tina's mouth today will pale in comparison. Ben Boyce is fresh back from the soundproof booth, freshly showered, looking like a million dollars. Word number one was flame. Fire? Good.

Word by word, one tile gets placed into Tina's bathroom, Ben. If you get to word number five, the grouting might even be inserted. Here's word number two, slam. Dunk. Oh, good. That's a slam dunk. I like word number two, slam. Dunk. Oh, good. That's a slam dunk. I like it. Ring, ring.

Hello, is that Terry the Tyler? We have a gig for you at Tina's house. Word number three, ponder. Ponder? Think. Oh. Nice. Yeah, it's the ponder.

That was an interesting word. Okay, all right. Needle. Word number Yeah, it's the ponder. That was an interesting word. Okay, all right. Needle. Word number four, needle. It's also, I'm thinking, while looking at you, I'm going to say this, prick. Well, she might want to say that word to you now. Because what did you say? That wasn't meant to you now. Because what did you say? That wasn't meant to be.

Tina, what did you say? Vaccine. Vaccine, yeah. Been with a comedy answer and it cost you $5,000. It wasn't meant to. Makes sense though, you know. It does. Yeah, no. Hey, laughs first.

You know, there's no victims in comedy. Well done, Tina. You played a really good game. Word number five out of interest. Circus. Tent. Ringmaster. It's better to lose three out of five than four out of five, I find.

Yeah, you're right. You did well, Tina. Absolutely. I'd hate to call you a prick on air, Ben, at all. Like you've just called Jono. Well, you could have been if it was four out of five and that was the only word I got wrong. Tina, you continue

sharing that bathroom with the whanau and have a great Thursday, alright? I will. Cheers, guys. After eight o'clock, we're going to find out if John Key will answer our phone call. We haven't organised it. Yeah, former Prime Minister John Key. I'm going to pick no. Yeah, me too too i don't think

he'd even answer the call if he knew it was us calling we'll find out after eight on the hits tested safe for listing from home john owen ben on the hits now we have discovered that juliet has uh touched something and so we want to open up oh 800 of his what have you touched now i i suggested this uh a couple of days ago when we're recording something early for the show and it was it came out all wrong it came out all wrong we want to know what you've touched is what you said and uh they're not you know yeah i was like i think i worded it was like who's touched you which was kind of yeah and like because juliet you had two amazing stories you told us some two very famous people that you've one you've sort of held

their well held their hand, the other one's shaking their hand. Yeah. Megan Markle. Here's the photo on my Instagram highlights. There you go. You're definitely holding, you've got a firmer grip on the hand than Markle's almost wanting to pull away there.

She's like, there's a lot of people here. So this was a lot. Did you feel like when you were holding her hand, could you feel the betrayal? Yeah, because this was before any of the split from the royal family happened. Maybe you gave her experience in pulling away from things, getting out of something, you know. Maybe that was it.

Because that was obviously when they came to New Zealand many years ago, Harry and Meghan. So you grasped her hand. How many seconds were you holding that Markle hand? It was probably like a couple of seconds. Oh, wrapped around Markle's mitt. Yeah, hands were very soft and very petite, I remember feeling. Tell you what, she wouldn't be offering her hand out nowadays, would she?

No. Not in the COVID world? No, it's not a hand-holding time at the moment. No, you're right. So, okay, Markle's hand. Now, that's a big one to touch. Yeah. What else have you touched?

I've touched Justin Bieber's, sorry, I started saying that and then I was just thinking the wrong thing. His hand. His hand, yeah. If you had said hand quicker. Yeah, you made that weird. I was just thinking the wrong thing. His hand. His hand, yeah. If you had said hand quicker. Yeah, you made that weird. I made that weird. And I've also touched his waist when I put my arm around him for a photo.

I've touched his shoulder for another photo. And yeah. And security touched Juliet's hands when they put them in handcuffs. Yeah. So Bieber's hands, what do they feel like what's the touch of Bieber like touch of Bieber

is kind of like his hands relatively smallish too but like quite knuckly you know what I mean knuckly hands we got to feel the knuckle remember we hung out

with him he was on our TV show many years ago and we hung out with him backstage before he came on and we were getting a photo

and we had our arms around him and he sort of used his knuckle to flick us in our moose knuckle, in our genital region, goofing around with us. But then Ben weirdly kept the water bottle he had drinking out of, like you're a head detective on a case trying to get DNA to pin a crime against him or something. I did keep that because he had left a half-drunk bottle of water there.

And I was like, I'll keep this. I don't blame you. A couple of days later, I'm like, why am I keeping this? Did you swab it? No, I did. I put it away. I put it in the recycling. But I was like, yeah, it was one of those things.

Why am I doing this? You would have done nowadays four drops for a cheeky rat test, wouldn't you? See if the Bieber's packing any COVID. So this is what we want to do. Now 800 the hits. What have you touched? Now, it doesn't necessarily have to be the hand of someone famous. It could be, you know, you draped your fingers down the Mona Lisa or something.

You held on to the Eiffel Tower. Maybe, you know, MC Hammer. He said, no, no, you can't. And you did. You went, you did. You told, you showed him yeah so it could be a person it could be a place could be a thing whatever what is the most impressive thing that you've had your hand on well i accidentally grazed the bosom of my auntie

when i was about 14 years old and went in for the hug oh yeah you know it's happened she knows it's happened and there's's no mention of it as well. It just traumatises both parties, doesn't it? One of those, yeah, awkward occasions. I've never recovered from that incident. Well, hopefully something just a little bit better than that. If that's the bar. How much better?

We've set it very low. We've cut it up all those little stories. So, oh, Andrew, the hits is the phone number. We'll find out after James Arthur. It is the hits. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We want to know what you've touched. And we've got Lydia on our 100 The Hits.

Lydia, what have you touched? Oh, well, I've touched my coffee this morning. That's a good thing to touch. Haven't we all? Yeah. And then I have touched the highest point of the earth, Mount Everest. Oh, you've been up. And you led with a coffee.

Well, the coffee was the most important thing today. I'm glad finally somebody knows the importance of coffee. So you've been to the top, the very top of Mount Everest. I've actually been six times. Wow. There's two women who've been six times and one woman who's been eight. So does the novelty wear off, like, after six times? Or is it still just as incredible and such an achievement every time?

It's not the novelty. It's actually, you know, when you're guiding, it's hard work. And there is risk. It's not a, you know, there's risk because it's a mountain with glaciers and crevasses and seracs, you know, which are ice towers, and no oxygen, by the way. So it's risky. And I think, so I have the opportunity to go back again,

but, you know, six times is... That's pretty good. I haven't even climbed six times up Mount Eden. Get going. Yeah, get going, Johnny. So what is it like at that altitude when there is, you know, lack of oxygen? It's hard to breathe, obviously. Yeah, it is super hard to breathe.

Well, you know, if you have to do a peak flow meter where you blow into that cardboard thing and they say, yeah, your lungs are okay, that's like that. You have to, you know, you blow all your air out, and it's really physical to blow all your air out before you take your big, big breath in before you breathe it out. When you're at altitude, you're trying to get a complete lung exchange because you want to have as much air going in

because there's not much air in that air. Yeah, gotcha. It's really dry and people sometimes get an altitude cough and people crack their ribs from coughing up there sometimes. It's a harsh atmosphere. If you and I jumped in a helicopter, well, we wouldn't jump in a helicopter, but if we could get transported to the summit of Mount Everest right now, we'd both die because we wouldn't be acclimatised.

So I had to acclimatise and build up the red blood cells in my blood. Wow, that's really fast. So how long roughly would it take you, well, did it take you to get up there on average the six times? About, I mean, to acclimatise and get ready and get all the stuff going, you know, you have to get your equipment up there and down about six weeks. Six weeks, Jane. What are you thinking when you're up there and what can you see?

Yeah, does it feel like you're literally on top of the world? Yes, it really does. It feels like you're climbing this. Once you get really high, you know, your last couple of hundred metres, oh, my goodness, it's like I'm walking on Mount Everest. It's not the view because all the mountains look really small around you it's just being there it's it's it's being there it's uh can you hear it's kind of exciting yeah you can tell it makes it's your happy place yeah yeah it's really amazing

place and people diss it but not people who've summited they don't diss it you know what like it's really amazing experience. Well, thank you so much for sharing that with us. It's an incredible story and incredible that you've done that six times. Thank you. Have a good morning. You too. Steve, you're on from the Waikato.

What have you touched? Oh, when I was a young fella, my mum took me to the museum. And when man first stood on the moon, they came back in that shuttle thing with the parachutes and landed in the ocean. They sent that thing around the world to the museum, and I got to sit in it. Oh, Steve. So it's almost like going to the moon, but not quite. Yeah, I've seen plenty of moons, but yeah.

That's a pretty cool story. That's pretty cool. Thank you, Steve. Great touching. Good touching. You've touched us this morning as well. No worries. No worries.

It's Jono and Ben, but FYI, Ben is open to other options. Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono, you try something. You do this little joke every time you make me do a prank call or I'm involved in anything to do with pranking. You often make me. You instruct me to do these things like the other day i had to guess who was on the phone you rang up someone from my number and it turned out to be art green and then when you reveal yourself to it you do this whole oh sorry who's this what's going on like i don't know about this yeah this is what doing? Have a listen. My wife, Maddie, and I have been...

Oh, it's Art Green. It's Art Green. Sorry, Jono. It's a game we play. Jono's got my phone. He's rung, and I don't know who he's called. And I have to try and work out who it was, hence the weird questioning. Sorry, who's this on the phone?

It's Art Green. Art, what's Ben doing? Oh, sorry, don't come in and do this. You're part of this. You've got my phone. It's Ben prank calling you again, Art. You guys are always prank calling me. Yeah, sorry, I was just out getting a coffee.

And then I come in and he's... He's lying to you, Art. He rang the... Oh, jeez. He's done this many times to me. It's a fun game to play. Because you're already in a fluster at the end of the call. I'm trying to reveal. So this is what we're doing.

John O made me do it. And you come in and you're like, sorry, what are you doing, man? I'm just coming in for a gig of coffee. You've just been a lonely man pranking people. So I've never done this. I've never done this. But the other night, my wife was talking on the phone. And she was talking to the bank, something about our joint account

and money here and there. And so she had a moment where she was like, oh, I need to get, I needed to give verification. So I was okay with the, you know what she was doing with the bank? Oh, all the funds that you were planning on embezzling? Did you approve?

Yeah, well, sure, because it's obviously a joint account. So she went, oh, hang on, I'll just hand it over to my husband. He can obviously verify that he is who he is and he's happy with the money being transferred. And then I thought, oh, here's an opportunity to do a Jono prior.

And I was like, oh, sorry. Sorry, who's this? What's going on? Hold on, you're doing this to a bank manager? I did this to my wife. I was like, what's she doing? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just coming.

I'll just be making a coffee. What's Amanda trying to do now? And as soon as Amanda's looking at me like, what are you doing? Why are you saying this? And then I was Amanda's looking at me like, what are you doing? Why are you saying this? And then I was like, ah, it's just a little joke.

I'll reveal it to the guy on the phone. But they don't quite, it's not really the policy of the bank to go, well, hang on. You've just said you're not who you are. You're not part of this. And now you've changed your mind. And so the guy was very, very confused.

Suspicious? Very suspicious. I had to go through a lot more verification for who I was because of my stupid little joke from Jono. Well, when I do it, to be fair, it's in, you know, the holy cathedral of pranking, the radio studio. It's your safe zone. You get away with stuff in this room that you couldn't do in any other workplace. Some of the stuff we say to Juliet, I'm like, shit, I'd be dragged through HR.

But I'm like, no, no, it's radio, mate. It's radio. Get away with anything. Got a microphone in front of my face. I can say anything. Anything offensive and you don't get in trouble for it. Not to bank managers. Like Ben. Two people you shouldn't prank. Airport security. You've learned that one. And now bank managers.

Oh, that was good. I was like, sorry, who's this? They're like, well, hang on good I was like sorry who's this they're like well hang on I don't know who is this now like what's oh you got there

you're living your land the tone of James I mean it would be quite a good angle for the you know the jovial jokey credit card scammer who's like

hey mate oh no no and you sort of you know they forget about basic security on the other end of the phone

because they're having so much fun with the scammer who's pranking them. They let it all go. It doesn't quite work, does it? Just some news to hand. A lot of talk about rats tests.

We can get them at the moment. Well, from Thursday morning, they can be ordered online from the Ministry of Health website, the new website, if you're in the household of someone that has a reported COVID case. So that's good news, actually. And then how do they get those to you? Because they haven't been able to get them

to the chemists and things. What supply chain issue, Bloomfield? Well, you just can't go out and pick them out, man. Yes, they must put them on the courier. I'm guessing, I'm guessing. I don't know how you're not the Ministry of Health. I'm just saying, it's all I come to hand. It's good.

It's good. It's good to see them and they're going to be in countdown stores. They're in supermarkets, in the warehouse. You know, so getting them out there. Have you figured out the rat test now?

Because you were shoving it up to your frontal lobe initially. Yeah. You pulled back a few centimetres. You sent the wrong video link, which is by our boss, by our big bosses. This is what you need to do.

I followed it and then I'll keep going on to you guys going, jeez, you really stick the thing in fine. You guys are like, really, do you? I think he was seen on the video for a whole different procedure. Yeah, I think so. He performed it on himself. Spy, know what's up.

Spy.co.nz. All right, let's get some entertainment news, Jew. What's been happening? Our full-time gossip monger. All right, let's get some entertainment news. Ju, what's been happening? Our full-time gossip monger. All righty. So Courtney Cox was on Jimmy Kimmel, and she revealed that her old house, she sold her old house,

and the reason for it was because she believed it was haunted. And this is kind of how it came to be. So Carole King came over to my house, and she said that there was a ghost in the house. And I was like, yeah, whatever. But other people who would stay there with me, like friends of mine, said they felt an encounter with a woman was sitting on the edge of the bed.

And I was like, yeah, whatever. But then I was at the house one day, not being a believer, and the doorbell rang. It was a UPS guy or something. And I opened the door, and he said, do you know this house is haunted? And I go, yeah, why, why do you think that? He goes, because there's someone standing behind you.

And I was like, let's sell. What a terrible, terrible UPS guy. Isn't it creepy? Would you even listen to the UPS guy though? The courier, imagine couriers coming to your to your house Well there's someone standing behind you But if it had been a whole lot of people Would have been saying it, you're right And the UPS guy probably doesn't know her friends

Like if it's got two different people Who don't even know each other And they're both seeing people in your house That would be creepy In Ben's instance, when there's a ghost behind you It's usually just me standing behind him With my pasty white complexion He's like, no, no, no, don't worry, it's usually just me standing behind him with my pasty white complexion. He's like, no, no, no, don't worry, it's just my co-host.

Maybe that's why they didn't talk to Chandler on that Friends reunion. Maybe they thought he was a ghost. They talked to him, mate. Talked to both of them. They didn't really choose him, eh? They felt so sorry for him through the whole thing. They ghosted him. Yeah.

They pretty much did ghost him, didn't they? That is so sad. He's one of the best characters. Yeah. And Kanye West has fired another one of his divorce attorneys because Kim Kardashian has been ruled officially single by the judges. She has won that, and she's going to be dropping West from her last name because he desperately did not want her to get divorced from him.

So she has won. Well, he shouldn't have been hiring divorce lawyers and relationship counsellors instead To save the marriage Oh that's true And he's now dating someone who looks exactly like Kim Kardashian Who is 20 years younger than him You said that the other day And I looked and you're dead right

That is crazy So if anything he's probably ended up with a better option But it's like if he wants to get back with Kim Don't date another girl That was the thing where he was saying he wanted to get back with Kim, don't date another girl, you know? That was the thing, yeah, where he was saying he wanted to get back with her. He was in a relationship. Yeah. Which is kind of unusual.

I felt sorry for that person in the new relationship going, well, hang on. Yeah. How serious with me are you, you know? Yeah, that was Julia Fox, I think, who shot to fame because she started dating Kanye all of a sudden. Now she's like, hey, I got what I needed out of you, mate. Yeah, exactly. And that is Spy Entertainment News for this hour. For more, you can I got what I needed out of you, mate. Yeah, exactly. And that is Spite Entertainment News for this hour.

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