Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Comedic Magician Jared Fell BLEW OUR MINDS With A Trick He Did In Studio!

Episode Date: May 28, 2021

Hello & happy Friday! We were joined by a couple of great guests today. Jared Fell, who is a comedic magician, did a couple of magic tricks in the studio and we literally couldn't believe what he did. Insane. We also had Greg Grande on, who was the set designer of Friends (and the Friends reunion too!). On the topic of Friends, we discussed the greatest things from the 90s that we'd love to bring back today. Mixtapes, oversized cellphones etc. Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings, friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Hi there, 28th of May, welcome. Friday, it's Jonathan here. Benjamin as well, we're here, this is the podcast. I remember we had a little intro.

I'm Jono. And I'm we're here this is the podcast i remember we had a little intro i'm jono and i'm ben and this is the podcast welcome not quite as enthusiastic about that one as you are but you know yeah you sound like you're dead inside when you're saying that a bit more energy may wouldn't go astray oh i get excited about the podcast it's it's a really fun podcast today because we'll catch up with another friend of friends. This guy we talked to today was the original set decorator for Friends. Worked the whole series of Friends as the person that was in charge of all the props, all the sets from Central Perk to the apartments. He made it look exactly the way it did.

I didn't think I'd enjoy talking to someone who just purchased a fancy couch and put it in a cafe. But I really did. Yeah. The backstory of the of the couch don't even think about when you're watching those shows you don't think about how it becomes the bit you know knows yeah so it's quite fascinating all taken for granted got a got click baited here been already the most popular actors and actresses okay and I'd like you to guess who's on this list. Dwayne The Rock Johnson won? No. Or whatever, there's fake news.

Not even a proper thing. What is in popularity and what, though? This is on IMDB, reputable website. Internet Movie Database. Listen, Dwayne The Rock Johnson's never going to win an Academy Award. No, but he might do. Proper actors. Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa.

You know, the most popular actor on Instagram. I'm going to go Instagram. Yeah, well, then it's going to be Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Yeah, exactly. So then he should be the most, you just said, he's the most popular actor. According to the list I'm currently looking at. I don't care about your current list. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, number three in the, well, basically the three in the world.

So. What? Most followed accounts on Instagram. Who's number one? Instagram. Instagram's actual account is followed by, yeah,

so number one in the world is Instagram. Number two is Cristiano Ronaldo, the footballer. And number three, Dwayne Johnson. Number four,

Ariana Grande. Number five, Kylie Jenner. Oh, there you go, the top five. Selena Gomez at number six, Kim Kardashian, seven,

Lionel Messi, another footballer, Beyonce, and the Biebs rounding out the ten. Interesting. Yeah, it you go. Top five. Selena Gomez at number six. Kim Kardashian at seven. Lionel Messi, another footballer. Beyonce and the Biebs rounding out the ten. Interesting. Yeah, it is interesting. Over to your list. It's the Internet Movie Databases. 100 most popular celebrities in the world.

But they're just zeroing in on actors and actresses. So this is based on their movies and how well they've been rated, I guess. Correct, yeah. As far as whatever this site is. Is Leonardo DiCaprio out there? Boom. He's in the top ten. Well done.

I'm trying to think of some people that have been in the movies. Is Meryl Streep in there? Streep's missed out, mate. Streep's had a snubbing on this list. She's always a great actor. She's been in a lot of... Yeah. No, no Streep, I'm sorry. Not even the top hundred for Streep's had a snubbing on this list. She's always like a great actor. She's been in a lot of... Yeah. Yeah.

No, no Streep, I'm sorry. Not even the top 100 for Streep. What? Streep. Okay, well, give me the list. Who's on there? Depp. Oh, yeah.

He's been in a lot of movies, yeah. Schwarzenegger. Yeah, yeah, okay. What? Hang on. If The Rock's not there and Arnie's there, then no. I can't do it. I didn't make the list.

You're getting angry at me. I didn't write this list. I'm not enjoying this list. Jim Carrey. Emma Watson. You don't seem impressed by that. Your silence. Emma Watson from Harry Potter and Beauty and the Beast.

Yeah, she's good, but, you know, she's great. Okay. Sad to Emma Watson. No, no. But I'm just saying. Tom Hanks. Oh, she's good, but you know, she's great. Okay. Sad to Emma Watson. No, no, but I'm just saying. Tom Hanks. Oh, yes, yes. As far as your movies

that have been critically acclaimed and a great actor, yes, I'll agree with that one. Cameron Diaz. Yeah, yeah, yep, she's great. Again, you're not sold on Diaz.

Well, she hasn't, yeah, she's stepped away from acting. She's great. Winslet. Winslet. Oh, yes, good actor. She makes the cut.

Yeah, I'd see that on one of these lists. Natalie Portman. Yep, I came with Portman.. Winslet. Oh yes, good actor. She makes the cut. Yeah, I'd see that on one of these lists. Natalie Portman. Yep, I came up with Portman. Yep, good actor. They're all great actors. Mark Wahlberg. He's been in a lot

of big movies, isn't he? Charlie Chaplin. Oh, he hasn't done anything for a while. A little lazy in that regard, you know.

Yeah, he's, it's been a while since he's, you know. Yeah, he's kind of buttoned off. Yeah, why is he not, why is he in the top hundred

and bloody Meryl Streep's not in there? Yeah, anyway. Charlie Chaplin's in there. Charlie Chaplin's

in there. I'm getting angry at this list now. Okay, alright. Pacino. Oh yeah, he's a very good actor.

Connery. Yeah. You know what, I lied. Dwayne the Rock Johnson's here. He's just popped up. He's not top ten

but he's in there Oh good You'll be happy to know Sorry my bad Oh good Hey enjoy the podcast Jono and Ben Or as they're known

In the office Those two Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast On the hits Got a guest with us In the studio right now He's a comedian

And a magician Jared Fell Always good to see you mate Hey man Good to see you guys Nice to see you as well. You well? Yeah, we're good.

How are you? Yeah, good. I wouldn't mind if you put your pants on. That would be nice. It's radio, mate. We're very relaxed. We're very relaxed. How's things been with you in the world of comedy and magic?

Well, there hasn't been really a world, has there? But now that the year's gone, it's kind of, people want to see comedy again. Well, because you were on cruise ships. You were based in America for a lot of the time as well. So, I mean, for you as your trade, what have you been doing? Pretty much OnlyFans. I've been doing it as well.

No, I've only got one fan. OnlyFan. That's me. Oh, you're my one. So the Hits audience might not, because we've talked to you many times over the years, but the Hits, As we've sort of Made our way around Many different radio stations

That's a magic trick In itself I predicted all of that Staying employed Is a tough thing So how did you get into Comedy and magic I was just terrible

At magic And people laughed I got into magic When I was 11 When I saw David Copperfield In Las Vegas Because that's where You take your 11 year old son You know As a parent's holiday Andden when I was 11 when I saw David Copperfield in Las Vegas because that's where you take your 11 year old son

you know as a parent's holiday and then when I was 16 I lied my way into the classic comedy club about my age so I could perform and then things kind of just blew up from there

so how did you teach yourself because I would imagine you wouldn't be able to you couldn't really google tricks you couldn't back then no you had to send away for catalogues or VHS yeah remember those

yeah um and yeah just learn read books and just learn tricks and kind of once you know the basics you can kind of freestyle after that first trick yeah yeah taught yourself what was that oh probably just like a simple card trick like they cut your cards in your pocket like if i was to say to you now think of any playing card okay all right you got one in your mind yeah okay what was it jack of clubs jack of clubs right i knew that right i knew that one in your mind? Yeah. Okay, what was it? Jack of clubs. Jack of clubs. Right, I knew that. Right, I knew that. But check your back right-hand side pocket. What, what do you mean?

Is it there? Not there, no. No, that would have been good though, right? Yeah, it would have been really good. I never learned how to do that. But that would have been amazing. You were looking. For a second there, I was like, oh my God, maybe it is. But no, it's not.

That's where the comedy comes into the magic of clubs. That's right. You don't have to do a trick in comedy and magic. It's a great insurance policy, isn't it? It's so good. It goes not. That's where the comedy comes into the magic of it. That's right. You don't have to do a trick in comedy and magic. It's a great insurance policy, isn't it? It's so good. It goes badly. It was all part of the routine. What has been one trick that has gone wrong on stage?

Oh, there's two that popped in mind. One was performing with the late, great Ewan Gilmore, and we were doing a gig for the police, and I was doing Russian roulette with the spikes. So you have one spike under one cup, five polystyrene cups, and then the audience pick what cup. I slam my hand down.

Oh, the audience pick, not you? Not me, the audience pick, yeah. Which I thought made it more fun. Turns out it doesn't. It went right through my hands. And someone in the crowd yelled, Jesus, I was like, how ironic is that? Oh my God. And so, but at that moment, the audience probably don't know, because you're mixing comedy and yelled, Jesus. I was like, how ironic is that? Oh my god.

But at that moment, the audience probably don't know because you're mixing comedy and magic whether it's part of the gag. They laughed. They honestly laughed. And I had blood squirting out of my hand and I was like, I've got to call the show. And they're like, okay, what's your next trick? My next trick joined A&E.

Getting this sorted out. Gerard Fell, you also were on NBC Bring the Funny, which was a huge show around the world and Chrissy Teigen was one of the judges. She was one of the judges.

Everyone always wants to learn about Chrissy Teigen. Oh, no, it's just like, just really cool that you got to experience, you got quite far on the show where,

you know. Semi-finals. It was such a surprise. Just think, so it's like, Got Talent. It's like a Got Talent show but it was just

international comedians and you fight it off whoever's funny on the night Goes through to the next round Which was weird Because A It's a studio audience At Universal Studios

So they've been there For 12 hours And they're like Please release us I feel like a prisoner of war Yeah You also I remember

Last time we talked You got to hang out With Adam Levine Just at the back Of filming Because he was filming The Voice The Voice

Yeah He was, hey Hobbit, come for a cigarette. Oh really? Yeah, steal my cigarettes. You're like,

you're Adam Levine, if anything, you should be giving me the free cancer. That's awesome. Now you're on your fresh tour at the moment, Tauranga tonight

and where are you going next week? Then I go to Christchurch at the casino next week for five, six shows. Oh awesome. Which tickets are on the casino website

I believe. And then Auckland the Pump House on June 19th. Which I thought would trick you in. Yeah. Oh you're looking at me? Yeah. The Pump House. You've got to be involved in this apparently. Yeah. Oh okay. Here's some cups with some spikes.

Jono I'll get to pick which cup you do. We should do that next time. Let's do that. I'll bring in that trick. It sounds so good. So what I thought I'd do for the Auckland show, so that's the last show

of the tour. Well, we do do Hamilton and Pie Hair, but let's be honest, Auckland's the last. Okay, okay, okay. You've checked out after Auckland. Checked out after Auckland.

Can't wait for the Pie Hair audience to all our listeners up north. It's going to be a great show. So I've, in an envelope, I've hold up a piece of paper, as you can see. Yeah. And I've predicted the New Zealand Herald headline for June 19th. So predicting in advance what the headline, one or two of the headlines could possibly be.

There's also another prediction for you personally, Jono, that I've written in here, that you won't find out until the night of the show. So I can't open the envelope until the night of the show? No one can. If you do, then we've got to start the whole thing again. I'll get both of you to sign it, just so you know, we can't switch out the envelopes. And we're filming this too, so there's video evidence of this.

It's the prediction for me that more hair follicles will disappear from my head exactly how many are left and just don't forget that for the show this is pivotal if i don't bring this to the show the show's show you're like did you bring the oh hold on yes it's just in the car i will be back shortly paper plus still open it actually predicts that you forget the envelope can't wait to see what's in here. This is going to be great. Hey, Jared Fell, always fun catching up with you. Thanks, man. Morning.

This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. We've got Jared Fell with us in the studio. He's a comedian, magician. He's on tour. You can catch him tonight in Tauranga on his fresh tour. Have you got a trick for us, Jared, that can blow our minds? I could do a trick. I could do a trick.

I could do a trick. Do you have an email? I've got an email. Let's stick with the theme. If I was to send you an email, you'd be able to open it and receive it. Right now, yeah. Got your laptop or your phone?

I've got my phone here. All right, so let's go. What's your Gmail, mate? Okay, I'll just turn the mic off and give you my email. Sexy stuff at hotmail.com. That's my email. Don't open the email.

Okay. Okay. But just verify so keep refreshing. Make sure that email comes through so we can't check it. I've got the email.

You've got the email. Oh, the email's come through. It is. Yeah, cool. Make sure you've seen that as well. Okay, you haven't opened it but you've got a Jared Fowler email's come through.

Yeah. I love this. I get so excited by these. I want you to In these moments do you get excited, nervous, what are you feeling When this happens to you? I'm nervous because A, this could go wrong, it's a prediction

It's all about NLP It's about putting something in someone's mind Imagine you're in a casino, have you been into one before? I've been into a casino, yes Awesome! Is this about my gambling problems? Is this an intervention? It is an intervention, it's a strange way to do it But we decided this was the best way to do it.

Jared's not even going on tour. This is just... No, yeah, yeah. He's just coming to help me out. And sleep. I want you to go up to the blackjack table. Okay. Go up to the blackjack table

and you get out one card. Now, this could be any card. It could be any suit. Do I say it out loud? Say it out loud. I'm not a mind reader. Okay. That's what we were.

Two of clubs. Two of clubs. So Jared's now writing that down on a piece of paper in front of him. And what's the second card you get down? I'm going to go five of diamonds. Okay, so somehow you won. So you take your winnings and you're going to go up and you're going to play craps. You get two dice numbers that

come up. What's the first dice number that comes up? Two. Two. Well done. Just in case you didn't know or anyone listening, it's one to six. Okay. Two.

And did you need my second dice number? Yes. Four. All right. So now Jared's written down all those on a piece of paper right now. Okay. Now, this is the fun part. You go to roulette and the ball's bouncing on all those numbers.

Okay. It goes, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. 26. So what's on the piece of paper, just to recap? Just to recap, two are clubs, is the first card you got. Yeah. Five are diamonds. Then you got a two and a four in crabs, and then you picked 26.

Now, I dissed you with the email at the very start of this trick. Yes, I haven't opened the email. Haven't opened the email yet. Okay. Don't tell me. If it is, it's going to blow my... So, you're going to read it from the very top. Jono, in your imaginary trip to the casino,

you go to the blackjack table where the two... No! It's two and a five. It's not the pictures of the cards in the email. This is the email that was sent before that you did not open until now. This is crazy. Then you go to the craps table. After shaking the dice, you throw them on the table.

The dice start rolling. They land on a two and a four. Oh, look at the dice. No. WTF. No. What the crap. What the craps

Yeah Oh my god I'm not one of those Wow Okay Last one Finally you go to the roulette table You play everything

No On a single winning number The ball starts rolling And after several laps Finally lands on number You're kidding 26 Oh my god There's a picture of that We'll put the video up on our Only lands on number, you're kidding, 26. Oh, my God.

There's a picture of that. We'll put the video up on the hits break for social media right now. Jared Fell. Oh, my God. That worked. So impressive. Go see Jared Fell around the country. All the details are on your Instagram.

Yeah, check out my Instagram, Jared Fell, or Facebook, Jared Fell, or Event Finder. If you type in Jared Fell, you'll see all the ticket details. That is crazy. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this.

Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads. We've been having a lot of fun this week reflecting on the nostalgic show that was Friends. Such a huge show it was on last night,

the reunion on TVNZ2. And we've been doing our own reunion, the Friends of Friends reunion, catching up with some people involved in the show. And a very interesting guest joins us right now. He was the set decorator from the start to the end on Friends. Greg Grande is his name. Thank you so much for joining us.

How are you doing? Well, thank you for having me. Now, how the heck did you get the job of decorating the set on Friends? I guess a little bit of luck, as it turns out, huh? Yeah. I had done the pilot called The Six of Us, which turned into the hit show Friends. The show was called The Six of Us before? Yeah. I did not

know that. In pilot form it was, and then when it was released, they changed the name. So Friends. Now, what did your job exactly involve? Well, I was the guy who filled the space with furniture and pictures and artwork and Monica's apartment and Central Perk and Joey and Chandler's and all the furniture details, not unlike an interior designer would do for someone's home.

Because I imagine if your job's not done properly, people would notice. But if your job's done properly, people don't notice. Like I'm looking at a photo now and I'm like, well well there's about a dozen jackets hanging on a coat hanger exactly there's a story i like to tell about the the sofa in central perk which we uh kind of rehabilitated from the warner brothers props rental house that was in shambles pulled it out and kind of redid it but it had a little bit of a rip in the back of it and that was a big thing about you know should this sofa have a rip and then there's the couch parade no one likes the couch so you bring a new one in and everyone weighs in on it the good news about the good news about friends is that uh we pretty much hit it on

the head with uh the first go around one and done you wheeled out the couch though like we love it but we'll spend we'll spend four days talking You wheeled out the couch though. Like we love it, but we'll spend four days talking about the rip in the couch though. Well, did the couch break at some stage? Did I read that? That the couch broke when someone fell on it in the scene? No, no one broke it.

There's a story of Matt LeBlanc accidentally tripping into the club chair in Monica's apartment and he dislocated his shoulder. That had to shut down for a week or two. Had to shut down. Did you feel responsible for that in any way? Yeah.

Now, do you put little hidden secrets in your set design? Like I'd put up a photo of me with my parents when I was seven years old or something just in the background. Are there any little Easter eggs we can look out for? Absolutely. Look at the picture, friends. I have four daughters. One of them is in each nook and cranny of the set

if you look really close or on the refrigerator. Oh, really? That's awesome. What would surprise us if we got to walk on the set? Is it bigger than we would think or smaller? Much smaller. Much smaller, yeah. The perspective you would go, wow, got to walk on the set. Is it bigger than we would think or smaller? Like, having never been on a set like that? Much smaller. Much smaller.

Much smaller, yeah. The perspective, you would go, wow, this is small. That's what most people say when they walk onto the stage over there. They're, wow, this is really small. That's what a lot of people say to Ben. They do, but that's somebody else. I've heard that about him. He won't go there. Oh, it's gone international, has it? Oh, jeez. That's embarrassing. It's humbling, but that's something else. I've heard that about him. He won't go there.

Oh, it's gone international, has it? Oh, jeez. That's embarrassing. It's humbling, but that's all right. Well, this is... We heard it over here. Oh, yeah, okay. It's a rumor.

You say it was a stage, because it was filmed in front of a live studio audience. It's not actually an apartment. That's right. So, yeah, those all sat on stage. Had a live audience every Friday night, and usually at about 9 or 10 o'clock. The show started at 6. At 9 or 10 o'clock, a few folks would leave and they'd bring in a new audience. We then, you know, in season 7, 8, 9, and 10, it was such a popular show most audiences didn't leave.

You know, a lot of rewriting happened on show night to create the magic. Oh, so they would rewrite scripts in the moment? Lines. Oh, lines. So I guess you'd do things and find out it worked better in an audience or not. That's all. That's interesting. Really is it? Now, what's another big show

you've done set designs for? Well, I don't know what you get over there, but I did the Cougar Town. Oh, yeah? Yes, Cougar Town. I did air over there with, obviously,

Courtney Cox. Cooked a slew of shows that come and go, you know? Yeah, right. They all come and go. I've never had one like Friends. No. I bet.

I bet. Hey, listen, thank you so much for your time this morning, mate. Really do appreciate it, Greg. All right, good luck, right. They all come and go. I've never had one like Friends. No. I bet. I bet. Hey, listen, thank you so much for your time this morning, mate. Really do appreciate it, Greg. All right. Good luck, guys. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Last night, the Friends reunion, the original cast, the core cast from Friends got together.

And we said earlier this morning, it was the second time in 17 years they've all been in the same room together since the show ended, the iconic friend show. How cool is that? That probably makes sense though, doesn't it? Yeah. You're always in those situations,

oh, we should catch up. Yeah, well, let's go for a drink. Let's go for dinner. You never do. You never follow up. America's a big country, but I did find it interesting later that I think Matthew Perry was saying,

and Po Chandler was saying that whenever they would bump into each other at a party, they had such a great bond that no matter what situation they were in, they'd be like, sorry, and they'd basically just go and sit with the person from Friends and they'd just catch up all night. That would be their night. Yeah.

Just reminiscing and catching up with them because of the bonding. So no matter what situation they were in. Jeez, it would have been a ratings bonanza for TVNZ2 last night, hey, that Friends thing. And now we can look forward to TVNZ2 replaying that Friends episode for the next 22 years. Every night. No, it was really good. Last night, good question from Corden.

Oh, yeah. He came in with like, why isn't there a movie? Why don't you guys do a movie? No, because that's all up to Marta and David and I once heard them say and I completely agree

that they ended the show very nicely. Everyone's lives are very nice. And they would have to unravel all those good things in order for there to be stories. And, yeah, I don't want anyone's happy ending unraveled. So that was Phoebe, Lisa Kudrow. I'm talking about that. Yeah.

Well, it's not, you know, it's easy. It's a little bit of writing, isn't it? You can unravel with a script easily. Yeah, it's not just the writing. It's just like taking. I could rustle some shabby script up now between now and nine o'clock. Yeah, but it's taking away what, you know, what everyone in their mind,

that was the ending of Friends. And that's like dismantling that and going, oh, well, Ross and Rachel maybe broke up or things like that, you know? Do you want that? No, I don't. I do. In movie form.

And then I'll go along and watch it. And you know you would too. I would, I would. But I don't want it. I don't want it. I was like, yes, that's why. Well, then according to Ben, we're not going to bring back Friends from the 90s then. He doesn't want to do that. But we't want it. I don't want it. I was like, yes, that's why. Well, then according to Ben, we're not going to bring back friends from the 90s then.

He doesn't want to do that. But we do want to open up this topic this morning. What should we return from the 90s? Now, I just need to have a disclaimer here. We don't have a time machine. We can't actually travel back and bring stuff. This is purely hypothetical. And this is I love me some straight up the middle,

straight up the guts, radio nostalgia. Yeah. Don't you? We said this the other day. It kind of feels like the 90s at the moment. We're waiting for a new episode of Friends. Brad and Jennifer Lopez back together.

There's things like bucket hats. Ben and Jennifer Lopez. Oh, sorry. Has Brad started a hookup with Jennifer Lopez? I wasn't meant to say. Sorry, Brad Pitt. He trusted you with that information. He's like, I'm only going to tell you, you strange little man from New Zealand. He was saying it on the radio.

No, I wasn't. No, I promised I wouldn't say anything. Oh, no. He's like, yeah, I'm secretly hooking up with Jenny from the block. Oh, jeez. And you've just gone and now there goes your friendship. He's just gone through that breakup. Oh, no.

Not this. Not this. But what do you want to bring back from the 90s? Now, can I chuck one out there? Yeah, yeah Something that was Hair? Hair? I'd love to go back in time

Some hair follicles would be great Sorry, I had to go there But whatever happened to The white dog droppings They were prevalent Prevalent through the 90s All the things you want to bring back Don't say you want to bring back white dog tears.

What are they? Mate, you weren't born in 98. I was born in 98. Oh, rampant through the 80s and 90s on every front lawn was white dog excrement. Yeah. I don't know why it was white. It was almost like someone like Banks here

going around as a prank spray painting it all. Yeah, I don't know why. And it was all white. Legitimately. Yeah, we actually did a very in-depth research project into it, didn't we? Yeah. Turned out it was some of the food

that the dogs were eating back then would then create a sort of a charcoal-y sort of substance that would emerge. But then to combat it, Juliet, this is what we did to combat the dogs coming onto the lawn, was you'd fill up a 1.5 litre bottle of Coke with water and leave that on the lawn.

Or a 7-up bottle or a Sprite bottle and put it on your lawn. And that apparently would deter the dogs from coming onto the lawn. The dogs would be like, mm-mm, that's a no-go zone. That's a bottle of water on that grass. I don't know why the dogs knew this. I don't know why that worked. Can I say something that's not dog-tired that we'll bring back? Because you've started in a real weird place.

Pizza or you can eat. I'd like to bring back pizza or you can eat. Remember going to Pizza Hut and you could eat anything? And you'd go, we would love it. You'd make a pig of yourself. And it was $9.95. I don't know how Pizza Hut made a profit. Well, they obviously went, oh, we can't do this anymore.

Well, we literally nearly ate them out of the house and home. And then the ice, you had full access to the dessert bar. I know. After eating so many slices of pizza, you went for dessert afterwards. So there you go. It became a challenge, didn't it? Pizza Hut put the challenge up to New Zealand, and we beat them. We ate them.

What would you like to bring back from the 90s? We'd love to hear from you this morning. R800, the hits. We've got some Peter Alexander Friends-themed pyjamas, which are awesome at the moment. You can get in-store and online at peteralex morning. 0800 the hits. We've got some Peter Alexander Friends themed pyjamas, which are awesome at the moment. You can get in store and online at peteralexander.co.nz. We've got a couple of those pairs to give away. So give us a call.

Tell us what you want to bring back, just like Friends is back. We've got Jane on from Greymouth. What do you want to return from the 90s, Jane? Oh, I'd love gladiators. Oh, gladiators. Oh, I'm hearing gladiators. Yeah.

I remember watching that as a kid. Now, Jane, just for those that may not be familiar with the show, could you sum it up in a sentence? Because I don't think I could. Gladiators ready. Contestants ready. It's a Scottish dude, isn't it? The referee.

Where these big muscle-bound men and women, and they're battering each other. It was wild. So they have normal-sized people, you know, like average men and women taking on these huge sort of roided-up dudes. They were. They all could have been adult film stars as well. And sort of gladiator sort of themes.

It was like a combination of the show Wipeout, but then they had all the gladiators who were defending the course, weren't they? That's right, like, just bouncing off them. Blaze and other names like that. What are they like? Blaze and Laser and Tiger and Sniper and Bronco. Wolf, man. Wolf, Cyclone,

Dallas. Oh, such a good call. We're going to send you out some Peter Alexander Friends sleepwear collection pyjamas, alright? Oh, thank you guys, that's awesome. Appreciate? Oh, thank you, guys. That's awesome. Appreciate that. Good on you, Jane. Thanks for listening. I think we should change our names to Cyclone and Blaze.

Would be a lot cooler, eh? Yeah, it would. And Juliet, you can be Bronco. Okay, cheers. We'll go to Lucy. Welcome. You're on from Wellington. Morena.

G'day, g'day. How's it going, team? Good. What do you want to bring back for the 90s? Well, I would love to bring back Georgie Pie because you can't go wrong with the original Georgie Pie. But they brought it back, didn't they? They brought it back for a bit.

No, no, they didn't. Well, they did. I think they did. They pretended to bring it back. They didn't bring it back. Bring it, bring it back. They did not. No, it was not brought. Ben, they didn't bring it back. Bring it, bring it back. They did not. No, it was not brought.

They can't. They didn't. She's saying they didn't bring it. I didn't feel like it was quite as popular as $1 and $2 pies were back in the day. Absolutely not. And they were just, oh, no, no. They brought back some sort of pie they pretended was a Georgie pie. It wasn't the same.

But they put the sticker on it and called it the same. Yeah, McDonald's had their fingers in pies. They dabbled, but they didn't fully bring it back. I know what you're saying. You want those pies that make you question, why on God's earth are these so cheap? What is in them? Exactly.

Take us back to that time. Georgie pie. We're going to send you out some friends, Peter Alexander, pyjamas, all right? That's amazing. Thank you, guys. And we'll take one more, shall we? We'll get Melanie on from Te Puki. Welcome, Melanie.

Hi, how are you guys? Yeah, good. Doing well. What do you want to bring back from the 90s, Mel? The Wombles. Oh, I remember my dad had a record of the Wombles. Yeah. Did they live in the trash? Why'd you make this awkward, Ben? You made this awkward, mate.

Sorry. First, you ruined your friendship with Brad Pitt. Oh, I did. I'll stay out of this one, guys. Yeah. Tell us about the Wombles, Melanie, because Ben's going to interrupt you. No, that's right.

The Wombles of Wimbledon, Wombling Away, Madame Shirley and all of those. They were such a cool TV program back in the day. Oh, they were. And also Teletubbies. I don't know what was going on with the Teletubbies or how they were created, but they were great too. Oh, I might beg to differ on the Teletubbies,

but that's okay. Oh, no, you've made it all good, Johnna. Sorry, we've both made it all good, Mel. No, no, the reason I say that is because they didn't speak properly and at that stage I had a daughter who was having speech problems and she was copying them and trying to get her to speak properly when they weren't speaking properly was a little bit awkward.

Teletubbies! Hey, thank you. Appreciate that, Mel. A lot of text coming through on this. Tangy fruits. They want those lollies to return. Oversized cell phones that made a statement that

I'm a better class of person. I have a phone. Also, instant pudding. Chatter rings are coming through. Tamagotchis. Oh, yes. Mix tapes. Remember mix tapes?

Make a mix tape. Oh, that's right. And you tape it off the radio and then you get so annoyed with the announcer when they were talking over the intro of the song. Yeah. You're like, shut up. And now we get to do that. I know. We do that job.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. You were saying before, Mike King, we spoke to him. He's doing a wonderful thing today. He's walking 100 kilometres in gumboots for Gumboot Friday, which is awesome. You kind of oversold the mark earlier saying he was walking 1,000 kilometres.

I said 1,000. And you can text 469, text BOOT to 469 for Gumboot Day and that money going to I Am Hope. And then every single dollar goes back into providing free counselling for our children. Yeah, which is awesome. Isn't that great? That's an awesome thing you're doing. Also today, two days

coinciding. It's Gumboot Day and it's also New Zealand Music T-shirt Day as well. And so yesterday producer Humphries was like, hey guys, bring in wear a New Zealand Music T-shirt tomorrow on the show. Don't forget. And bring your gumboots as well.

So two things. Multiple things to remember to bring in. There's too many things going on in one day. It's not a lot, really, when you think about it. It's a lot. You've still got to put a t-shirt or something on. Factoring in my proctology exam. Okay, got that.

It's proctology Friday today. And then B-Hub said to us this morning, just before the show started, you got your New Zealand music t-shirts on? Hmm. What happened then? Wow. I was like

hold on give me a vivid I'll just draw 660 onto my jersey and then I'll have my New Zealand music. The unsanctioned merchandise. So no I forgot the t-shirt.

Yes granted. I pulled the gumboots in. You did bring the gumboots you got half of them. You know as I was pulling the gumboots Out of the shed I was like There's something else

I actually thought that When you were in Really Yeah I was like There's something else I'm meant to bring No surely not Now I've been working with you

For a long time now So I Last night When I got out My New Zealand music t-shirt The organised one I was like He is going to forget

He's going to forget And so I got another t-shirt I brought two t-shirts in today Well I had two options And my first option Was to forget. And so I got another T-shirt. I brought two T-shirts in today. Well, I had two options. My first option was to text. I know sometimes I do that. Don't forget, tomorrow's the thing. He does.

He texts me. Don't forget to bring in. I'm going to wear a thing to college. We've got a meeting. So why don't you wear it? And I'm like, I don't want to be that person all the time going, all right. And I appreciate those texts and reminders. And I'm like, thank you, because I actually have forgotten.

You're like a child looking at a father. No. But then I was like, well, he's a grown adult. I'm like, thank you, because I actually have forgotten. You're like a child with your father. No, but then I was like, well, he's a grown adult. I'm not his PA. I'm not Mr. Pryor. Don't forget to do this. So I was like, oh, look, I won't. I'll just bring in another T-shirt, because I know he won't, but I won't. And then you just said,

he's a grown adult. I'll leave it to him. But I can't actually sit with the anxiety of him not bringing one in. So I'll take one anyway. True. So I brought in a T-shirt that I could have left in my bag if not bringing one in. No, I'll bring one, mate. So I'll take one anyway. True. So I brought in a T-shirt. I could have left it in my bag if you'd come in today and gone, oh, look, he's remembered.

Yeah, you would have been surprised. Oh, he actually brought one in. Yeah. Yeah. No, well, thank you, Ben. I appreciate these moments. Because he does. He's like my insurance. Yeah.

He's like a mother. But I don't want to be that person. You know that, too? You don't want to be that guy going, oh, don't forget tomorrow's tomorrow, mate. And I shouldn't really burden you with it either. He's like my mother. He breastfed me. He's tended and cared for me for many years.

And I appreciate it. So I did bring in an extra T-shirt. So we can take a photo. Thankfully. I was also looking for an extra pair of gumboots at home, but I don't have two pairs. I'm a shaky pair of hands. Juliet, you've come to know this.

We've only worked together for a year. Yeah, it's quite, I think it's something I picked up maybe in like the first week of meeting you. Yeah. Not reliable. It's quite obvious. It's very like about something.

Like something you'd be like, oh, what's happening with this thing? What's happening with this thing? You get really focused on one thing, but not multiple things. You'd be like, hey, P-Ups, what's happening with that thing? And we'd be like, oh, mate,

you talked to her an hour ago about this. Yeah. I'm all over the show. Scatter gun. Scatter gun. What's going to happen? Is he going to turn up to work?

Who knows? Who knows? I'll send you a text. Just a reminder, we've got work in the morning. We're going to be in there at six.

Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah,

nah. She'll be right and at the end of the day, Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Juliet made me extraordinarily happy yesterday when she downloaded something onto her computer.

And it was a thing that you can download. It's worse than a virus, I think. Yes. So you explain what it is. Okay, so you know, so if you've got the newer editions of Mac computers, they've got the touch bar sort of at the top of your keyboard. And so you can use, you know, touch ID to open your laptop and you can adjust the volume and stuff

from it. But I saw a TikTok video the other day that said that you can download a touch bar pet onto your little touch bar. And it's almost a bit like a Tamagotchi. You have to feed it. You have to clean up when it does number twos You have to play You know You have to Like kind of play with it With a bit of a dodgeball You can play lasers with it And then it has little ratings Like if it's hungry

It'll be at level ten So listen She downloaded this thing And I said to her This is going to be A burden upon your life And within ten minutes She's like

Oh I've got to feed This thing again I've just fed this thing I've got to change his nappies It gets hungry so quickly I'm like You're such a You're such a demot. Welcome to parenting.

You're such a demot. I know. It's the 2021 version of remember when they was, you know, forced randy teenagers to look after a doll for 48 hours at high school.

Or an egg as well. That was the other one. This is why you don't get pregnant because you have to carry an egg around all year. This is the 2021 version of having to, you know,

look after a doll. I know. Has it stopped you wanting to have children? Yeah, actually, I'm like, I have to feed it all the time. This is probably what it's like to have a newborn or a puppy or something. It's the problem with kids. They need to fend for themselves. But it's someone new as the parent to feed them.

I don't know who made that rule. Well, that's a good rule, right? Strange rule. What? And so can you unload that? Is that the right term? What do you mean? Can you get it off your computer?

Is it stuck on there now? I think I can. I can either exit out of the app so it removes it from my touch bar or I can uninstall it if I really don't want it. Adopt it out to someone else. Julie has got a child without the niggly lovemaking parts to create a child. She'll have to register that thing for daycare. Yeah.

It's a long waiting list. I wonder if it will get bigger. Primary school too, you want to get your look at the colleges now? Yeah, sure. She's a long list. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Five words for 5K on The Hits.

You're only five words away from a massive payday. Listen, Justin Timberlake, he gave a good crack at, you know, a good honest crack at bringing sexy back, and we give a good honest crack at bringing this back every morning, don't we? Yeah, it's a lot of fun. $5,000 on the line if you match five words without five words with the words that pop into your head. A word association game, that's all it is.

So many words. So many words. So many words, even the word words. I've said it too many times, but anyway. Wendo, how are you from Christchurch? Wendy, yes, all it is. So many words. So many words. So many words, even the word words. I've said it too many times, but anyway. Wendo, how are you from Christchurch? Wendy, yes, I'm fine, thank you. Sorry, I gave you a nickname. We're not on a nickname base yet. Everybody does.

What other nicknames you got, Wendy? They're always asking where Peter is. Oh, where is Peter? How's he going? Wendy and Peter. Oh, Wendy and Peter. Peter Pan. Oh! Peter Pan and Wendy, there you go. Oh, you're talking about Wendy and Peter. Oh, Wendy and Peter. Peter Pan. Oh. Peter Pan and Wendy.

There you go. I thought you were going to talk about Wendy and Peter from North Canterbury. I was just wondering how they're going. All right, Wendy Wonder Woman, you've got to send someone into the booth. You need to spit five words out of your mouth. Then those five words need to be spat into our mouths, and we spit them out of our mouths, and it's a lot less COVID-y than I'm describing, but who are you going to send in?

Ben, please. All right. All right. Wendy Whizzle-a-Loser wants Ben Boyce into the soundproof booth, which reminds me a lot, that soundproof booth, of Willy Wonka's glass elevator, Wendy. Okay, I like chocolate. Yeah, no, it's that one where he shot Charlie up, didn't he,

with his senile grandfather into the sky. Wendy? Yes. Now's the pressure time, mate. Five words. You could win $5,000 to start the weekend. How good would that be? Excellent.

It would, yeah. When I say start the weekend, probably factor in two to three business days for our accounting department to get the cash out to you, OK? No worries. I'm happy with that. All right, so probably more like a Wednesday, just to clarify, but here we go. Reunion, first word. School. Sprite. Drink.

She's quick. Squash. Ball. Bull. Sheer. S-H-A-R-E. Bull. Share. Not as in, if I could turn back time. Spell it again? If I could.

Did you say sing it again or spell it again? No. What was that? Please don't sing it again. Okay. Share. S-H-A-R-E. Money.

And the fifth word was poison, Wendy. Gosh, poison. Ivy. Ivy, there we go. Say what you want about Wendy, but she does not muck around. All business, Wendy. We'll get Ben out of the soundproof booth to match your words up. Come on out, bony Ben Boyce.

As he emerges slowly. Oh. With a sweaty hue upon his head. How are you feeling about it, Wendy? Oh, I wish I had heart pills or something. Oh, really? It felt like you played a quick game there. She did.

Yeah. And she's on the verge of a heart attack, so we'll get this over and done with. Okay, geez. Okay. The first word was reunion, Ben. Friends. Now you're going to give Wendy a heart attack.

That was from last night. I thought that was too obvious. There's nothing too obvious. There isn't anything too obvious. Wendy, the dream's over. Sorry, Wendy. I tried to play a quick game, too. I should have taken a moment and thought about it, but that was the first thing that. Sorry, Wendy. I tried to play a quick game too. I should have taken a moment, thought about it, but that was the first thing

that popped into my head. He's too young for your union, that's why. Yeah, he's too young. Young and chipper. Full of life. Sprite was the second word. Lemonade. Squash. Ball. Share.

Market. Poison. Ivy. Oh, three. Should have got the first one. That's all right, Wendy. We'll hopefully get to do it again. We love friends.

Thanks for the game. Love playing. That's all right. We're going to send you out some Peter Alexander pyjamas, some friends pyjamas, all right? Oh, fantastic. Thanks for making my day. When you slip in those pyjamas, you thank pyjamas, all right? Oh, fantastic. Thanks for making my day. When you slip in those pyjamas,

you thank Jono and Ben every time, okay? As you doze off to sleep, you think about us. Have a great day, guys. You too. Have a great weekend, Wendy. Broadcasting live

and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. We're talking about the friends reunion that was on TV last night and we're talking more about our Friends of Friends reunion.

Yeah, that's the reunion that's got everyone talking. And what's our next reunion we've got to do? The Cosby Show. No. No, we can't get all the cast members for that. And after 8 o'clock, we're going to talk to a guy who actually, he created the set, the famous set that you saw in every episode, even Central Perk.

He designed everything in Central Perk. So we're going to go, and he felt partly responsible. I don't know if you caught the story last night of Matt LeBlanc, who injured his shoulder. Didn't he dislocate his shoulder? Yeah, he did, jumping onto a chair.

But it seemed to be a little bit of a miscommunication with this set, according to him. And he would like to put things straight after eight o'clock, our set designer. Ah, yes, but if you missed our Friends reunion all week, well, here's some of the highlights. Now, our first guest this year was Ross's first wife. Carol was the character's name. She's

played by actor Jane Sibbitt. It was two days after giving birth you were on starring in Friends. Yeah. This is the day I got home from the hospital when I got the phone call. Can I come to work the next day? Oh, kind of sore. Big baby, 24-hour labor. When they sent me the pilot over to convince me, when I saw David Schwimmer, I just said,

I have to work with this man. I cannot believe how talented he is. And today we're talking to Michelle Davis, writer and author. She works for Comedy Central overseas. She got to visit Friends at its peak. At that time, this was series 9, I mean it was a phenomenon. I remember walking in

and just thinking I don't believe this, I'm in my television it was the most surreal and amazing and terrifying experience of my life. The singer, the writer of the theme song from a band called The Rembrandts, Phil Sollum

joins us over Zoom right now. Was it true that the famous clap at the start, that wasn't you guys either, though? Somebody, they decided to put the right in there, and we're like, whoa, now isn't that something? Someone's giving us the clap here. Catch up with Larry Hankin. Now, he played an iconic character on the show,

the grumpy neighbour, Mr. Heckles. As I understand, after six episodes you get to become a recurring character and your pay increases, but they cut you after five. My agent called me and said, hey, I got good news and bad news. I said, well, what's the good news? He says, you got your fifth.

You got your fifth on Friends. I go, oh, great, man. What's the bad news? They kill you in this episode. What's the bad news? They kill you in this episode. What? What? Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm.

Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Friends reunion was last night on TBNZ2. For you, Percy, can I ask you a question? Yeah. Where did it rank on the list of reunions for you? On a scale of a soldier reuniting with a dog. Oh, it rank on the list of reunions for you? On a scale of a soldier reuniting with a dog to the Sky

Rugby Post Analysis Show reunion. Oh, that's again quite emotional as well. When they talk about second phase ball from ruck situations, oh my god. Where did the Friends reunion say? Tony Johnson, no one says it better. Look, I really enjoyed the Friends reunion. It was done really well.

I was thinking it was just them going to be blabbering away to Corden on a couch for two hours, but it was really cleverly put together. Them seeing the set for the first time in probably 17 years, them seeing each other, you know, for so long, them reading lines of old scenes and talking about stuff. Yeah, I found it quite emotional watching it. It was like a huge part of your life

as well as obviously a massive part of these people on the show. It was like they were my friends. Except they're not. They're far better than me. They're famous, rich millionaires. Now, did any of them hook up on the show? That was a question James Corden, the host, asked and here was the answer.

Yeah, the first season, I had a major crush on Jen. And I think we both, at some point, we were both crushing hard on each other, but it was like two ships passing because one of us was always in a relationship, so, and we never crossed that boundary. You know, we respected that, but we both...

Bullshit. I love Matt Blanc saying I saw what went on. A lot of canoodling on the couch. Yeah, between Ross and Rachel on screen and off screen as well. Can we pay homage to David Schwimmer's pun there? Ships passing in the night, but one of us was in a relationship.

Oh, the relationship. No, and Gordon didn't acknowledge that in the moment. No, it was really clever. Now, getting the cast together, the now iconic cast for Friends, was obviously a big job, choosing the right people to play these roles. And Jennifer Aniston was actually on another show

that had already started filming, and she went up to the producer of that show to ask if she could leave the current show that had already started filming to be on Friends, and here was his response. And I actually, with tail between my legs, hat in hand, went to the producer of the show I was on, and I said, please release me from this show.

I love this show that I'm doing right now. Nothing against your show. And he said, I saw that show. That show's not going to make you a star. This show is going to make you a star. Well, he's here tonight. That producer's here tonight. Same thing was said to Ben before

he embarked on a journey with me, and it turns out that guy was right. He was right. He was right. I should have stuck with the other one. As well as that, Matt LeBlanc, who played Joey, he went to his audition, and he had to audition multiple times for the role of Joey, and he went out drinking the night before with a friend, by the to his audition, and he had to audition multiple times for the role of Joey,

and he went out drinking the night before with a friend, by the sound of it, and turned out to his audition a little worse for wear. To make a long story short, I woke up in the middle of the night at his apartment and had to go to the bathroom, and I got up too fast, and I can't believe I'm telling this, but I kind of blacked out and fell face first into the toilet, and I hit my nose on the bottom of the toilet seat. And a huge chunk of meat came off my nose.

And I'm looking in the mirror and it's bleeding. I was like, oh my God. So I have to go in for the big callback. And it's like a big ugly scab on my nose. And Marta Kaufman said, what happened to your face? And I told the truth and got the job. You got the gig. And that goes to show you kids, if you don't take your job seriously and you go out on

benders, you will win in the end. Yes, yes. That's truly it. It hasn't worked for you so far, Ju. I know. Just watching you again, I guess you kind of, I appreciated how good they were, all were, as actors. You know, comedic actors.

They were all incredible. And even like, they had the guy from Game of Thrones who played Jon Snow talking about a scene, that famous scene, the pivot scene, you know, the one where they're trying to move a couch and Ross is just yelling pivot. Pivot! Pivot!

Pivot! Pivot! It's such a funny scene, but he was saying, you know, this actor who was in Game of Thrones, you look at that script, there's nothing happening in the scene. It's just like three people moving a couch, one guy yells pivot lots of times, the other one gets angry. It's not really a funny script, that particular scene,

but how it's one of the most funny scenes ever from the show just through their performance. And that's what they call acting. Yeah. Good acting. Comed comedic acting something we've never been able to do uh well let's see it was a really good reunion i thought it was really well put together and uh next our unsanctioned friends reunion like ben's unsanctioned underground kakapo fighting club how's that going there it's not going it's a blood bath every friday night if

you want to come along it's holds barred. Carcapos. All in on each other. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Hey, I had to go meet Oscar, my son. I had to go meet his school principal. Good to meet Oscar, your son. I had to go meet him.

Apparently I've got a son, guys. Turns out he's a grown man. Now, Oscar, he started school and, I had to go meet him. Apparently I've got a son, guys. Turns out, yeah, he's a grown man. Now, Oscar, he started school, and the principal, they did this really good thing where they, it's probably agonising for the principal, but meets all of the new families, all the new whanau. They go and you have a meeting, and...

I thought some stuff had gone wrong, because you're like, I've got to go meet the principal, and you didn't say anything more than that. After I seen that... Because we had a meeting the other day that you couldn't go, because you're like, I've got to go meet the principal. And the person we had the meeting with

was very concerned. They were like, what's going on? Is it all right? Yeah, I hope everything's okay. I think it'd be all right because he would have probably said something to me. But that's the,

this is what I want to talk about. The perception of having to go see a principal. Everyone assumes the worst. Don't you? I even am like, even walking in there, I'm like, I got all nervous.

Is this a trick? Is this a trick? I'm a fully grown man. The guy's probably younger than me. And I get in those environments. No matter how old you are, you still feel like a little child in a principal's office. Yeah. They're still sitting behind a nice desk and you have to sit in the chairs there and you're like looking up like, oh.

Anything like, anything of those locations of authority. Yeah. anything like, anything of those locations of authority, yeah, I always feel like when your parents take you, now, if my parents, when I'm in Christchurch, take me over to their friend's place, I still feel like a little child.

Can we go home now? Hang out with my friend, or you're going to have to go to church. You've been to church, lady. That's one, that's a leveler. You don't, you're going to burn in hell.

Me, I'm a good catho. I'm at church. I'm a great catho. One of at church. I'm a great catho. One of the greats. Put me out there. But your family, long line of educators, you must have felt this feeling the entire time you were growing up.

Your dad was a principal. Yeah, well, Dad would go into Dad's office. It was the principal's office. It was a weird sort of feeling to be able to hang out. Would Kevin Boyce play different roles? So when you were at school, he was the principal, and then when you were at home, he was a weird sort of feeling to be able to hang out Would your father play, would Kevin Boyce play different roles? So when you're at school, he was the principal And then when you're at home, he was the father Yeah, I guess to a certain extent he probably would

Would he act differently towards you in the schoolyard? Yeah, and I think he was probably, because it was a small, not for long But there was a couple of years where he was the principal at the school that I went to And he was obviously very conscious of not being any favouritism So he probably even, not worse in a bad way, but probably more. The opposite. Yeah, the opposite. It was hyper aware of it.

Hey boys, pull up your pants. Yeah. You're not getting into that team. You're like, oh, but I thought I was okay. Well, you know, so it was probably that extent. Yeah. I'm going to call a meeting with your parents and then you'd have to have a meeting with themself.

I think you should expel me. I agree. I remember actually going, speaking of principals, going to the deputy principal's office in high school and I had, it was one of those dumb moments as a kid. My mate was going to an appointment and I was like, I'll walk out with you out of school and just go out for an hour.

What, you just wandered out of school? Yeah, it was bad. It was bad. And I remember coming back in and the principal, the deputy principal had obviously seen us leave and he called me and all the office, he was like, where are you going? I was like, I remember coming back in and the principal the deputy principal had obviously seen us leave and he called me and all the office he was like

where are you going I was like I was going to the dentist I remember he was like oh yeah what was your appointment and I said

oh yeah this dentist and he was like oh great and I thought this is awesome and he was like and he picked up his phone

he was like so if I just call that dentist right now great play and I was like oh he called the bluff and you had to go

no they wouldn't they wouldn't know about the appointment because I walked out yeah and I was like, oh. He called the bluff. You had to go, no, they wouldn't know about the appointment because I walked out. Yeah. But I was like, well played. It was probably a textbook move they've used many times, but I thought, oh, I've got away with this. This is great. Judge Judy always says, the dear Judge Judy always says,

how do you know when a teenager's lying? Their mouth is open. Yeah. Yeah. So looking back, it was a good lesson learnt. He's like, I'll send you to the principal. Oh, no. Not giving voice.

Not my dad. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. It's night, anyone. It is 6.17 on your Friday morning. Justin Bieber, anyone. And he had a brief appearance last night on the Friends reunion.

I'm sure you would have seen it. It was a huge show all around the world on TVNZ2 last night, 7pm. They got the cast of Friends, the original core cast, back together. It's only the second time since the show ended that they've all been in the same room in the last 17 years.

Gee, that's interesting. We've found out some really interesting facts about Friends this week. Alan DeGeneres was offered the role of Phoebe originally. We also learnt that, you know, Joey, Ross, Chandler, they're not their real names.

They're not their real names. It was actually really, I really, really enjoyed it last night. It was like a real good nostalgic trip down memory lane. It was done well, too. Yeah. The love they have for each other and the love for the show around the world, it kind of brought back good feelings, good memories and stuff. Yeah, I really enjoyed it.

Who would have thought it was so interesting just watching people read lines off pieces of paper? It was. Oh, this is how they do it. This is how they practice. Even at the start where they all saw one by one walk back into the set for the first time, and I guess since the show's ended, 17 years in the set, and just seeing their emotion and seeing each other, I thought it was really, really cool. Oh, it'll be like in 10 years' time when we walk back into this bleak studio one by one

used to sit there oh we sat there yeah yeah julia was over there pushing i said oh that's pink in the hood we played some premature uh commercials over here and we don't do those on this stage do we no wholesome commercials that's right uh but we? No. Wholesome commercials. That's right. But as you said before, there's been a lot of statistics around Friends as a show and James Corden, who was kind of like the host of last night's reunion.

How did he ruin it? Did he pile them all into a Range Rover and make them sing the theme tune? No, I thought it was really, he did a good job. He sort of popped up throughout

and it was, yeah, lots of variety throughout. But these stats that he said at the start really put into perspective how big the show was. So Friends, you made 236 episodes of the show. It aired in over 220 territories. Friends was TV's number one comedy for six straight seasons, averaging 25 million viewers a week.

52 million people watched the finale. The show has been watched over 100 billion times across all platforms. That is wild, isn't it? The success of that programme. Has there been a show like it since? I don't think so. Probably not. It was the biggest show on TV and still is

one of the biggest shows, you'd say, around the world. Country calendar? Oh, we're in New Zealand it probably has. There's been no show bigger than country calendar. Honestly, you think that's a joke, but that is... It's the biggest show on TV in New Zealand. I'll tell you, it was most successful, longest running, and highest rating still to this day show. But as we said before, it was really emotional

seeing the castmates together again, the love they have for each other, and also seeing back to the final episodes of Friends and the emotion they had, yeah, after filming the show for 10 years, it was such a huge part of their lives. But do they still stay in touch? How much do you stay in touch? Yeah, no, we stay in touch, for sure.

Maybe not every day. Sure. But, you know, we have such a bond from having done this show and, you know, any time you text or call someone, they're going to pick up. up Matthew who doesn't pick up? I don't hear from anyone Is that Matthew Perry? He did have a dentist

operation before. He had a very swollen face the poor guy didn't he? Yeah they were saying he had a dentist operation so it's good that he still came along and did it. Yeah. Well, I suppose they can't delay it. They're like, mate.

Oh, because they've been delaying it. Oh, we're not delaying this again, Perry. I don't care if you've had your wisdom teeth ripped out. And a last little bit we want to play for you right now. Ross, the guy who plays Ross, David Schwimmer, got quite heated about a castmate, a character that he said he loved, but he didn't enjoy acting worth have a

listen was there anything that you didn't like while you were shooting the show the monkey and the monkey not myself here was my problem like the monkey obviously it was trained and it had to hit its mark and do its thing right at the perfect time But what inevitably began to happen was we would all have choreographed bits kind of timed out, and it would get messed up because the monkey didn't do its job right. This kept happening over and over where we're about to do something really funny,

but the monkey didn't hit its mark, so we have to start again. I would like you to be more serious about this. It's a monkey still winds up up you can tell like 17 years later and the monkey would not is he right it's a monkey i mean my monkey's doing well sitting there on his shoulder politely yeah oh you missed your lines oh come on monkey call yourself a professional proud of new zealand if only new zealand was proud of that. Jono and Ben.

New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Scrolling through your feed. Listen, he doesn't just read the news. He also copies and pastes it from websites. And that's how we get

scrolling through your feed with Ben Boyce. That is true. Now Melbourne is in lockdown for seven days. So there's currently 34 active cases in Melbourne City in Australia.

40,000 tests yesterday, which is the highest ever in Victoria since the pandemic. And so they've gone back to basically no visitors to homes, no public gatherings, restaurants and cafes, takeaway food, and masks have to be worn everywhere, indoors and outdoors as well. So a lot of Kiwis, you would imagine, since the bubble has been opened, just come back from Melbourne. So now there's a lot of people contacted by the government to quarantine in New Zealand or get themselves tested.

Yeah, well, I guess we're all in this together now. I never said open the borders. Why did we open the borders? Ursula Carlson, a comedian, you'll know her from Have You Been Paying Attention? Seven Days, her comedy tours. She was on the project on TV3 last night. They were doing the

rehearsal, they were getting ready to do the show and then she got a message from the New Zealand government, the health board, to say she had to go home and isolate. There's only three of us at the desk tonight because Ursula Carlson had to go home.

She is one of the 5,000 New Zealanders who've come back from Melbourne in the past week and today they were ordered to self-isolate. She's had her test

and she's at home. She just sent us this pic. She says she's sad not to be with us. Aw, cute jammies, Ursh. And so 5,000 Kiwis have to self-isolate. Is that what they're saying?

Well, 5,000 Kiwis have got home in the last year. So they all have to say, oh, jeez. And more 5,000 Kiwis have to self-isolate Is that what they're saying? Well, 5,000 Kiwis have got home in the last year So they all have to say, oh, jeez More importantly, does Ursulina still collect her fee for the project? I mean, she turned up, technically Yeah, but she didn't do the show There for the rehearsal Yeah, no, you need to complete the show to get the fee Yeah, well, I don't know

Maybe it's a charge half Half a day But she wasn't hurt, you know? Yeah. I'll leave it to her agent to negotiate that. Every time we talk to Ursula Carlson or hear anything of Ursula Carlson, she leads such an adventurous life. Remember last time she said, oh, I just broke my collarbone?

That's right. Oh, I've just started in a Hollywood movie. I've just come back from strangling a kakapo in the woods. I don't think that's happened, but yeah. She leads a very adventurous life. Every time we talk to her, something major has happened. Well, she's very popular in Australia and New Zealand. She's got sold-out comedy tours over there.

She's on TV shows in Australia. She was on the Masked Singer show. She was one of the judges. True. And we're popular in neither country. She's in both countries. We just want one. We're just a city.

Just a city. A suburb. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben.

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the heavy lifting of the programme over to producer Juliette. And to be honest, she does a lot of the heavy lifting for this show. We just don't acknowledge it 90% of the time. But over to you, Ju. Thank you. So the Friends reunion was on last night. If you missed it, it was so good.

It was really, really well done. And one of the big talking points was the fact that Ross and Rachel nearly happened in real life. So James Corden asked them, you know, you're all quite good looking, successful actors and actresses. Young, healthy, fit. Yeah. Surely something happened behind the scenes. And it got a little bit awkward at first. And then they delved into the fact that they had crushes on each other. Major crushes, both of them said, right?

Yeah, major crushes early in the first couple of seasons. Yeah, the first season, I had a major crush on Jen. And I think we both, at some point, we were both crushing hard on each other. But it was like two ships passing because one of us was always in a relationship. And we never crossed that boundary. You know, we respected that.

And, but we both... Bullshit. He's like, I saw what went on. Don't think I didn't see what I saw. Because later on in the, the French, you and the, David Schumer was talking, who played Ross,

was talking about, oh, we used to sometimes spoon in between scenes on the couch. Yes, and they can't wait. And they were like, why did anyone not know? And they're like, yeah, we all knew. You're literally groping each other on a couch in front of an audience.

Yeah. We all knew what was going on. They definitely clanked bottles. I think that everyone just almost wished that it did happen in real life. Like when I was watching it, I was like, why didn't it happen? Well, then Courtney Cox had quite a good explanation. She's like, I'm glad it didn't happen in real life because it wouldn't have made the on-screen chemistry.

Yeah, yeah. And probably their friendship as a whole wouldn't have been as strong if they'd gone through a relationship and maybe things had broken up or not gone well. They might not have had their reunion. Yeah. That's the thing because probably they had this tension building, much like, you know, Ben and producer Humphrey.

Just rampant tension building. And so they didn't act on it, but then on screen it was just electric. Much like on the radio show, you two are, will they, won't they? And that's why I guess a lot of actors end up hooking up. Yeah, I know. Don't you? Because you're playing this thing on, you know, Gaga, Bradley Cooper. Jeez, we wanted him to end his marriage, didn't we? I know. I know. Don't you? Because you're playing this thing on, you know, Gaga, Bradley Cooper. Jeez, we wanted him

to end his marriage, didn't we? I know. I know. I know, it's weird. The whole world wanted that. Yeah, he's like, he's in a relationship.

He's like, I don't care, mate. They're on screen chemistry. Amazing. And because you'd be, you know, the lines would get blurred of your emotions for this person.

I also found it interesting how the producers were, they didn't know how they were going to end, you know, the whole Friends series and it went through Ross and Rachel and in the end, you know, the whole Friends series and it was throughout Ross and Rachel and in the end, you know, the audience, the overwhelming thing from the audience

was to have these two characters, you know, come back and be together. Yes. And so they listened to the audience and that's what happened. I know. I thought it was pretty cool. Because I would have been sad if they didn't end up together on film. Yeah, or they left it on going, did they? Did they not? Yeah, I know, you just want to know, you know, you've got to play into that. And I mean, it was a very star-studded event apart from the cast.

You had Lady Gaga performing Smelly Cat with Lisa Kudrow. Thank you to the vet. You're obviously not their favourite pet. You may not be a bed of roses, and you're no friend of those with an old head. And then they had a, like, a modelling fashion show with some of the iconic outfits. They had models Cindy Crawford and Cara Delevingne, as well as Justin Bieber randomly popped up in a potato costume.

They had Kit Harington and David Beckham, crosses to them explaining what their favourite episodes were and their favourite scenes were. So there was a whole lot of extras kind of involved that weren't on the original show. It was a fanfare. It was. It was a fanfare. No was. It was a fanfare.

No, it was really well done. Yep, yep. I had something to say. You mentioned something before as the beginning thing you said there? There were other celebrities on the show.

Friends reunion license. Lady Gaga. Oh, Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga said something really nice to Phoebe going, Oh, I love this. Thank you for making it okay for us to be weird and unusual.

Because she felt she was the weird, she said I shouldn't say this word, but I was the weird, unusual kid at high school. Right. And your character on a smash hit international show made it okay. Yeah, totally. And then Lisa Kudrow said to Lady Gaga later, well, thank you for continuing that on. Because Lady Gaga is almost like that representation now as well,

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