Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Did We Find New Zealand's Oldest Belieber?

Episode Date: November 18, 2021

We spoke to a young belieber earlier this week and we wanted to find another belieber, but someone who was above the general age demographic of your traditional JB fan. And I think we found them! Jono also played some very disturbing audio this morning of a couple working out. But without the visuals of them working out, it sounded like a veeeery different activity. We also caught up with Dr Dougal Sutherland who is a psychologist, and he gave some really good tips on how to get through this Christmas if the vaccine debate is causing tension within the family. All that and more on today's podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast is brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. It's the podcast intro, Ben. This is on our to-do list every day after the show. It's the first thing we write up there. Don't forget to do the podcast intro. There's been the odd occasion where we have and you wanted to record a generic vague one for those moments. Yes.

But we haven't done that. It's almost like for Aaron who loads in the podcast. Like one of those break glass in emergency situations sort of thing. This is the time to break the glass. I think probably two occasions we've been driving home and you get a text going Hey, did you guys do the podcast intro? And you're like

How did we forget to do the thing that we meant to do every day it's like putting on a pair of trousers yeah why don't we record a generic one now for the podcast for this podcast oh yeah and they can also be using it in the future so yeah so my idea was just well let's do it let's go okay okay hey guys it's john i'm ben here if you're listening to this this means we've forgotten to do a podcast intro. But what a day. What? Are you blaming it on something? Nightmare.

You're just saying words. Not full sentences, just little things. Surgery. So you can use this as the intro. We've created a generic one, like a little... Well, let's go with some generic topics. In case of emergency, this is the podcast one you should use. So sorry about this, but hey, this is a great intro.

Okay, well, let's talk about stuff that'll always... that'll age well. How's your mouth been? Still functioning? Yeah, functioning okay at the moment. Yeah. Your mouth... It's not often that when someone's talking,

you just concentrate on their mouth. So you talk, and I'll just look at your mouth. Okay, I'm talking away for you. What's that? You move your lips nicely. Thank you. You've got nice moving'll just look at your mouth. Okay, I'm talking away for you. What's that? You move your lips nicely. Thank you. You've got nice moving lips. You're not so bad yourself.

Yeah, thanks. Yeah. The news. Oh, how about that news lately? Yeah. Yeah, big, big, big news, eh? Local sports team? Yeah, they've been gone, gone.

Yeah, or, you know, mixed, you know, but, you know, some good, some bad, you know, just good and local. Sometimes even. Yeah. Sometimes when they go even, yeah. With the ball? Yeah, the ball.

How about when that's part of it? Sometimes the racket that they involve. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The supporting merchandise. Yeah. Yeah. Music.

Music is good, yeah. I mean, you know, Make you feel a lot of things Can't it Yeah I like music Do you like music I'm indifferent Do you know what I like to do

At the end of the day I like putting on the TV And just watching something You know Just something You know Doesn't matter what it is Don't need to name what it is

Just like to watch it I mean the show that everyone's Talking about right now Sometimes I put that on Yeah Other times I watch something else You know something a bit obscure that only I know about, but I don't want to let other people know

what I'm watching. That's right, yeah. And, I mean, there's streaming services. Aren't there? Feels like there's another one new every day. There could be a new one today. Yeah, yeah. I mean, there could be.

That's, you know. That's the one I'm watching. You know, do you know YouTube? You've heard of YouTube? Yeah, I am aware of YouTube, yeah. YouTube. Yeah. A lot of of YouTube, yeah. YouTube. Yeah. A lot of people viewing stuff on YouTube nowadays.

We had a social media meeting with someone the other day. This is, I don't know if this is interesting to anyone, but they reckon it's going to be the viewing platform of the future. Yeah. YouTube. It's got their own TV stations on there. Oh, yeah. They're doing all right.

Don't you worry about YouTube, man. I'd be more worried about the radio industry. What, just because we're in it? Yeah, pretty much. But you're worried because the radio industry, but YouTube might be the one to go on. Everything's on YouTube. I mean, James could probably teach himself

how to service his own car on YouTube, to be honest. But yeah, they do workouts. You've got people who do workout programs. And I was, Jen, you know, they do workouts. You've got people who do workout programs. And I was, Jen, my wife, she was following along to one last night. And it was a husband-wife couple. Oh, I always like the interesting, yeah, there's so many different workout ones in there. I like the English guy, Joe Wicks. He's quite a hard guy.

He says, oh, savage. You know, he always pretends he's puffing, but he never is. And it's like, Joe, mate, you look like a Greek're not you've just done one push-up you're not going oh yeah that's savage it's good that he feels pity for those that are following him along but yeah this couple and it's always dangerous i imagine doing an online workout husband wife couple because you know issues that are bubbling away in the marriage can sometimes seep through. Now, this is towards the end of the workout. They're probably a bit tired, exhausted,

a little bit scratchy at each other. And I felt they were starting, you know, an argument was bubbling. Oh, really? Yeah, mid-workout. Now, here's the first bit of audio. Coming up. Woo, not a one-time one.

Splitting up. Come on, Claudia, let's go. What you waiting on, girl? They know the movement by now. We ain't got no time for that. My bad. Hold those elbows up high. So Claudia was holding him back.

Okay, he's like, pick up your weight. Come on, there we go. Ain't no good no time for that. Tension not only on the muscles, but also on the relationship at this stage. But it continues on. These are the final minutes of this husband-wife couple working out. No time to give up. Yes, give me that pep talk, coach.

No time to slow down. What are you waiting for? Your wife is hurting. What are you holding back for? Sorry, that sounded so... Jesus! What are you doing? What is it?

Because it doesn't sound like... Is this intentional? It's just meant to be like... Sorry, I think I should have another video. Your wife is hurting. Oh, dear God. Ain't no time to slow down. Was that on YouTube?

Was that on something else? So, you know, at this stage of the workout, can I just say, the workout, he's still trying to drive her through, you know. And this is where it ends. Come on, let's go. I'm going to sit there and ponder for 10 seconds. I had somebody yelling in my ear over here.

So now what we've realized here is that if you play audio of people working out, you know, filthy people will jump to conclusions. You know, the Ben's and the Juliet's of the world. I was trying to do a wholesome gym fitness radio voice break, and it's ended up here. Oh, man, your wife's hurt. Speaking of wholesome, thanks to themarket.com. We've got an amazing prize to give away each week.

It's $5,000 worth of products. Last week we had just an amazing, amazing winner. It was a really special moment. We'll tell you how you can win next. These show producers were nominated for a radio award because when you work with these guys, you deserve a medal. Tuna and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Justin Bieber coming to New Zealand.

It was just announced this week coming to New Zealand at Mount Smart Stadium next December, which is awesome. Now, someone who's long, long told us that there were some regrettable years in her upbringing was Juliet, producer Juliet, who you had caught Bieber fever for a large part of your teens. Yeah, I know. And it's one of those things that, you through my tween years my parents would always be like we're gonna bring this up at your 21st and like you know sure enough they did um and I would

always like dread it like all my friends be like you're gonna regret it and I would always be like oh my god I'm so embarrassed for my 21st when it's in the future but you know like the good thing is is like I can be older now and it kind of just looks like I was just like a normal fangirl but when I was a fangirl yeah but when i was a fangirl like it was actually quite concerning my parents were quite worried for me what your parents didn't tell you is that your radio dads would bring it up in a public platform on network radio every morning but uh we've we've been graced a gift from the gods this week you found some footage that was posted on news websites of you outside

Justin Bieber's hotel as a 14 year old. Yes, here we go. Can you hear that? Are you saying calm down Justin or come down Justin? Come down Justin! So that's me outside the Langham Hotel in a Bieber, Bieber, Bieber shirt. You had a big sign with you, you were hanging out there.

Justin Bieber. And you got a photo with him. Did he come down? Come, did he come down? Do you know what? You bullied him out of his hotel room? Yeah. So I knew he was coming and it was a promotional tour,

so I knew he was going to be doing interviews. And so I wrote a letter to my family being like, can I please have this day off school to stand outside his hotel? And mum and dad said, no, no, absolutely not. You have to go to school. What was it? Sorry to pull apart your relationship with your family, but why did you write a letter to him?

Because they were so adamant. They were so against it. So this is like a formal sort of contract. This was like me begging from the depths of my soul. Yeah, gotcha. Okay, I get it. And so I wrote them a letter, and they eventually agreed to it the night before.

So mum was like, fine. Did they write you back? No. They very begrudgingly said, fine. Did you put it in the post box? I should have. The post office? Yeah, that would have meant a lot more.

No, but then, so mum dropped me at the hotel on this Thursday morning. I remember it very clearly. It was a Thursday and I waited outside this hotel, which is where this footage is from that you can see on the New Zealand Herald. And he didn't come out. We didn't see him. And I was devastated. I think I chased after his car and I came home crying and everything. And then mum was like, mum, that felt a bit sorry for me.

And I was like, can I have tomorrow off too? And she goes, absolutely not. But then she's like, but I will pick you up from school and we can go after school. And if he's met fans already, fine, whatever. But this is your chance, basically. So when does it go from fanning to stalking? The lines are blurred, aren't they? right from the get-go yeah i think the hotel lobby is probably across the threshold and then um sure enough after school i was very lucky he hadn't met any fans

during the day when i was at school i was so worried after school at about four o'clock i was waiting outside and everyone was behind barricades but I decided to hide behind a tree, which wasn't behind the barricades, so I knew that I could leap out in front of all these other fans. Just spring on them. I'm here! You thought you could hide from me!

He's very lucky for you. She's not there. Oh my god, I know. Yeah, he came out and I had my Nokia brick phone and I asked for a hug and then immediately regretted asking for a hug. I was like, why would I want a hug? I want a photo. He said he'd come back to me

and he came back to me and we started fighting over my phone because I was like, you're not going to know how to take a photo on a Nokia brick. I know my phone. I've had this for two years. And he's like, I'll take it.

I'll take it. And so I put my arm around him. From his point of view, he's like, hold on, for two days you guys have been going, come out, calm down. I finally come down. Then a hug's not enough. I know. I'm getting told off for using the phone. his point of view he's like hold on for two days you guys have been going come out calm down i've finally come down yeah then a hug's not enough i know i'm getting told off for using the phone so glad i took a photo instead of just getting a hug or an autograph because you know photos last

forever so he wrapped his hands around your nokia 5110 yeah we've seen the blurry grained photo i know i know it's a beautiful photo and luckily someone um from behind the pack from the back of the packed crowd uh videoed the whole thing so you can see the luckily someone from behind, from the back of the packed crowd, videoed the whole thing so you can see the whole encounter from behind. And I've saved that YouTube video. I've downloaded it in case YouTube ever gets deleted. What you can't see, what I do appreciate too, you can't see the other girl you've got in a headlock

and the one lying on the ground that you just shanked to get to the front of the row. That's the good part. But, I mean, it's great that you've got footage of you as a 14-year-old. I know. I think there's some stuff of me etched in a museum, an artistic impression of me when I was 14. So this is good.

Yeah, I know, I know. So, you know, Illy Justin, if you're listening, you're my homie. So, Julie, obviously a big fan, but we've got a double pass to Justin Bieber's Justice World Tour coming to New Zealand December 4. December 7, Mount Smart Stadium. Tickets on sale on the 24th of November from 10am. If you want that double pass, 4487,

but we're looking for the oldest Justin Bieber fan. Yeah, we might have spoken to the youngest during the week. We had a nine-year-old win some tickets. We're going to the opposite end of the scale. Are you the oldest? Do you know the oldest? 0800, that's the telephone number. We'll do that after Justin Bieber.

It is the hits. Broadcasting live. 800 the hits the telephone number we'll do that after justin bieber it is that broadcasting live and mostly awake john owen benn new zealand's breakfast on the hits justin bieber on his justice uh world tour 2022 coming to new zealand tickets on sale uh november 24th from 10 o'clock yeah now we're looking for the oldest justin bieber fan people have been texting in 4487 and we're going to call someone now. I think the dad's involved in this fandom. Oh, awesome. Hello, Imogen speaking.

Hi, Imogen. How are you? Good, thank you. How are you? It's Barry here from the Justin Bieber fan club. Oh, hello Barry. How are you? Barry's doing well. And I have my friend Sebastian over here too. Okay, yeah.

Hello. I don't know why this weird... I don't know why Sebastian is so unconfident about this conversation. He's lost a lot of confidence. Well, that's classic Sebastian for you. I don't know if we're going to put up aliases for our names, but anyway, yeah. Look, we're ringing... Oh, you explain. I don't know if we're going to put up aliases for our names, but anyway, yeah. Look, you explain.

I don't know what's going on anymore now, Jono. Oh, Sebastian. No, listen, hey, it's us. Jono and Ben, not Barry and Sebastian. Hello, Jono and Ben. How are you? Lovely to have you on. And who may we be graced with here?

Oh, jeez. Sorry, it's Imogen. Imogen. Yeah, she said that at the start before you went on that weird tangent. But anyway, we're here now. I should have registered your name. Imogen. Yes, hello.

The word on the street is you're quite the Biebs fan. Oh, my God. I love Justin Bieber. Like, love him. Sometimes, like, quite embarrassingly. Oh, well, I feel like Juliette. Sometimes quite embarrassingly. Oh, well I feel like Juliet, you... We could be friends. Yeah.

The thing is that we've got a double pass to give away, but there's someone in your life that maybe is an even bigger fan. Yes. So, a bit of a backstory. My dad, so he's 62 and he loves Justin, like probably just as much as me, if not more.

Okay. Not traditionally your target Bieber demo, is it? No, but I think that's a bit, like, partially my fault, because, like, when I was 15 and Justin sort of came on the scene, I was so obsessed that, like, you know, everything was Justin Bieber related. I had books. I got birthday cakes with his face on it and he had no choice but to start

loving him. Oh, that's kind of cool. Now, what is your father's name? His name's Simon. Can we give Simon a call? Oh, you could, but he's in Australia at the moment, so it might be a bit difficult. So your dad's in Australia. What does he do in Australia?

Oh, he's in the Navy What does he do in Australia? He's in the Navy over there. So he works on submarines and things. Oh, wow. And is his affection for Bieber public in the Navy? Because I imagine that seems like something they might get a bit judgy on. Look, he did used to get quite embarrassed by it so I would say it's not common knowledge Yeah, right. Yeah, that's great

I'm a big fan of Bieber. I know, but you're not in the Navy You're not here You play just to Bieber on the radio. It's accepted I'm a big fan of the Navy as well I want to be in the Navy Well, they wouldn't leave you in mate if you put that on your application form Some mornings I wish I was in the Navy Why do you push her in the Navy? I don't know you in mate if you put that on your application form. Some mornings I wish I was in the Navy.

Why do you wish you were in the Navy? I don't know, hang out with you everybody. He would rather be at the bottom of the ocean. And at the bottom of the radio ratings on this show. But Imogen, it would be absolutely monstrosity. It would be a monstrosity if we tried to call Australia right now. It's only six o'clock in the morning. We're not going Australia right now. It's only 6 o'clock in the morning. We're not going to wake a Navy man up at 6 o'clock in the morning. But we are going to

tell you that you are taking your dad along to Justin Bieber. Oh my God, really? Yeah, we've got a double pass coming your way. You can check out Justin Bieber and take your dad along next December at Mount Smart Stadium. Oh my gosh. He's actually already said he's going to like

fly back from Australia to go. Oh! Surely he'd be taking the submarine out, but anyway. Take the sub out for the weekend. Mate, so yeah, you and your dad can reunite at Justin Bieber next year. Oh my god, I am so

excited, like, oh, I can't, I'm so excited. Like, oh, I can't. I'm so excited. When was the last time you saw your dad? I saw him before the pandemic, so nearly two years ago. Oh wow. This is going to be a wonderful reunion.

Yeah, yeah, so hopefully the borders are open next year and Dad and I can go boogie to some beads. Oh, good on you, Imogen. I know it means a lot to you and you enjoy that show. Oh, thank you so much. No worries. Thank you for listening to the show.

We really appreciate it. Thank you. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't say this battered up old face. It makes you beautiful. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. Yesterday, the government announced that as of the 15th of December, the border from Auckland is basically going to be no more. People will be able to travel all over New Zealand

as long as they're fully vaccinated or provide a negative test before leaving Auckland. Under-12s don't need to worry about that. And there'll be fines and spot checks if you're not obeying to the rules. So 11.59, December 14th, it all opens up. So it's a wonderful play. If you leave Central City around about 11, you can hit that border at 11.59

and just roll on through by the minute. There'll be a mass exodus of people escaping, won't there? And maybe people coming in too. I'm sure a lot of families who haven't seen each other for a long period of time. Over 90 days lockdown. That's been a long stretch, won't there? And maybe people coming in too. I'm sure a lot of families who haven't seen each other for a long period of time. Over 90 days lockdown. That's been a long stretch, isn't it? 96 days or something too.

And I was talking to someone who works here. I won't name them because it's a personal issue, but I will talk about them on the radio. Yeah, and they'll go, oh, I told you that in confidence. No, he's talking about them. Yeah, but no one knows who you are. They'll know it's them. Yeah, they'll know it's them. Yeah, they'll know it's them.

Yeah, they'll be like, well, I'll never tell that idiot anything again. But they have his cousin, who usually comes for Christmas, not vaccinated, not going to get vaccinated. Right. He's from a vaccinated family, and there is a question mark hanging over the whole family

as to whether they invite or let in the non-vaccinated into their Christmas day. Your thoughts, boys? I haven't really given too much thought in that regard. I promised Chris I wouldn't mention his name. Yeah, it's actually a really interesting one. Because obviously when you're going into bars and restaurants around, the government are going to be setting those rules. But when it's in your own home or social functions, whether it be Christmas or just having people over, what's going to happen there?

Are you going to go around and ask all your friends if they're vaccinated or not? Because I'm going to be nasal swabbing everyone as they enter my household. Are you being bullish? I'll be rectal swabbing you. Okay, all right. Just to make sure, double check.

But this is the thing. We were having this discussion yesterday. The government a lot of times were like, government can't tell me what to do. Don't tell me what to do. But, yes, that's a fair enough point. But on the other hand, when the government does set rules and guidelines, that means everyone knows what to do and how to operate. Whereas if it's left up to you of like, oh, do I let non-vaccinated into my house?

Do I not? So if there was a rule that like, oh, do I let non-vaccinated into my house? Do I not? So if there was a rule that the vaccinated can't mix with the non-vaccinated, which is very North Korean, but you'd all know the I think I'm becoming a communist. Maybe I should move to China. I think you're right when it comes out like that. And I reckon we should take everyone's houses

off them and just, you know, one body. The government maybe owns all the property. It's really interesting because it's happening to a lot of families i imagine around new zealand their whole thoughts of having you know mingling with people maybe some people won't be invited around for christmas this year because of it are you in this situation 44870800 that's telephone number is this dividing your family more than uncle gary's drunken speech at your cousin's wedding last year uh because i imagine it would Because I imagine it would be. I imagine it would be.

I mean, you could also get the non-vaccinated to dine outside on Christmas Day. Or you just stay out there. You stay in here. We can talk to you through the glass. Yeah. Or maybe you hate hanging out with your family at Christmas, just so you're non-vaccinated. Well, yeah, you're not going to be checked.

It's going to be interesting. I hate all this divide that it's causing, you know it's horrible and it's just a virus but there is all this sort of sub spin-off of issues that it's creating through society you're right benjamin yeah and people uh you know people are passionate either way on it but we're gonna actually next gonna talk to a clinical psycho psychiatrist oh my god Do we even know who we're going to be talking to? Like, we've got a clinical psychologist on the phone. Psychologist, yeah. Yeah, a psychologist on the show. Psychiatrist. Yeah, to make the show seem above it.

As I said it, I was like, oh, hang on, that's wrong. That's wrong. Psychologist. Yeah, psychologist. He was meant to raise the IQ of the program. I just brought it down. I leveled things out a little bit, you know? Yeah.

Just to, you know, you don't want to get too smart as a show. Because imagine these tips and tricks and these things that we should be doing if we're going to have those difficult conversations around family. Because you don't want families to be even more divided. So we have a clinical psychic joining us on the phone. Next. Tab a chat. But he is going to tell us how to navigate through it.

What do you do if this issue does arise with your whānau or friends as well? Like I say, Ben, if you're inviting people over for a barbecue or something, how do you navigate through this awkward conversation? Because that's what we love doing in New Zealand, is having hard-hitting, awkward conversations. We'll get to that next. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben.

From a socially distantly safe two metres. Stay away. This is New Zealand's Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Now, it looks like New Zealanders will be able to mingle this Christmas time, but now it throws up the interesting conversation of if people are unvaccinated, whether they will be hanging out with the vaccinated at people's functions. Yeah, and it's a difficult conversation to approach with friends and family, I imagine, too. It'd be awkward, like when Mum told me she had a dolphin tattoo on her upper thigh

and then showed it to me. But a lot of text coming through. So many people are in this predicament with their family. One person in our family doesn't want to get vaccinated so Mum's canned family Christmas. I guess that's an option, too. Just go, oh, it's too hard this year. My friend said they're not

going to come to my Christmas party if any of our non-vaxxed friends are there, which I totally understand. Another text on 4487. My brother's not inviting his in-laws because they're not vaxxed. It's getting a little awkward for the family at the moment. So we're joined right now by a doctor. A doctor, I tell you.

His name is Dougal Sutherland. Welcome to the show. Hey, guys. Good morning. How's it going? Great to have you on. A registered clinical psychologist, which is great. We refuse to talk to the unregistered

ones. And can we call you a leading clinical psychologist? Because I refuse to talk to any others that aren't leading. That's right. Well, you can call me what you like, whether I actually am or not is a whole other deal. Maybe he's a misleading clinical psychologist.

Hey Dougal, we just had a bit of a conversation around Maybe he's a misleading clinical psychiatrist. Hey Dougal, we just had a bit of a conversation around, you know, the vaccinated and unvaccinated. When it comes to families mingling over the festive season, there is going to be some division in some whānau as to whether you let unvaccinated people into your household. Yeah, absolutely. You know, it's going to be a big thing for some people. Some people are going to have to make those choices around which is best for me. And depending on what side you fall on, vaccinated or unvaccinated, that might have some different consequences, I guess. We've heard stories up and down the country of people saying, look, my Christmas plans are going to be a little bit different because people that we usually get

together with, they're not vaccinated and I don't want to hang out with them or I don't want to, vaccinated, and I don't want to hang out with them. Not so much I don't want to hang out with them, but I don't want to expose my family to that risk. So it could be a big thing this Christmas, I think, for a lot of families. I hadn't really thought about it too much. I guess I've been sort of just trying to get through the lockdown and get back to some normality. But I guess this is the new normal, even for social occasions, Christmases, if you're going to parties, all that sort of stuff,

you're going to have to kind of think about these things going forward, I guess. But I reckon, and this is just my reckon, I've got no special powers here, but that it's going to be a short-term thing. Because if we know anything about COVID, we know that it changes rapidly. And what we thought six months ago is no longer the case. I've been saying to people, look, just think about it, not forever, but just for what's going to happen this Christmas, because we don't want it to make a permanent dent in people's relationships, especially if, you know, in six months time, it's all a whole different ballgame. So I've been saying to people, look, just concentrate on thinking about it as a short term blip rather than sort of some long term disruption to your

entire relationship. So with, you know, the communication around that topic, you'd have to tread very carefully because you do hear stories of, I did read a story online about a lady whose dad just refuses to talk to her now because she got vaccinated and he is anti-vax. So I guess you have to be quite careful not to offend anyone in their beliefs or where they side of the line they sit on. So how do you suggest people approach that communication? Yeah, it is a really delicate topic. And, you know, traditionally, Kiwis aren't that great about having these upfront.

No, we're not. Oh, no, we're all right. We don't talk about religion or politics or vaccination, but you might have to. So that's going to be a bit of a struggle for some people. Look, I think viewing it as kind of a series of conversations rather than a one-off kind of ultimatum and going in there, figuring out when the right time is for you and for the people that you're going to have the conversation with. You've got to be sort of, you've got to have your wits about you. And, you know, we all have ups and downs and sometimes we get really fired up about this stuff,

and sometimes we're a bit calmer. So trying to choose a calmer moment so that you're not inflamed or you don't respond sort of impulsively to what somebody else says. And just having a series of conversations saying, hey, look, this is what we're thinking. How does that affect you? Without making any final decisions for a little while, just to give people the wiggle room to come to some sort of a mutually

acceptable agreement rather than sort of setting out some hard and fast boundaries immediately because that will put other people on the back foot and get them quite defensive. I imagine you would want to sort of not use pointed language of like, you're wrong, I'm right sort of situation. Yeah, absolutely. As much as possible, trying to avoid an us and them situation and trying to keep the conversation focused on the issue

rather than making it personal. You know, the issue is around health and vaccination status. It's not about you being right or you being dumb or you being a whatever it is. Avoid blaming or guilt tripping anybody or getting defensive or accusing anybody because they're never good strategies for trying to communicate clearly. Well this is why Dougal I can't

go for a barbecue at Ben's house because he's a proud, loud and proud anti-vaxxer. Whenever I go over there he's like put on this tinfoil hat. You never know. So I'm sorry Ben. he's like, put on this tinfoil hat. You never know. So I'm sorry, Ben. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Open your mouth and we can get good 5G.

Yeah, wonderful cell phone coverage around, Jono. I'll tell you that. Hey, listen, this has been really interesting. And now I can confirm that Dr. Dougal Sutherland, not only a registered clinical psychologist, but by God, one of the leading ones. Awesome. Thank you very much for your time, Dougal. You have a great day. Cool. Thanks, team. See, one of the leading ones. Awesome. All right, thank you very much for your time, Dougal. You have a great day.

Cool. Thanks, team. See you. See you, mate. Welcome to Two Half-Assed Dads to a Half-Assed Job. Official title, Toto and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. Now, yesterday I blamed something on someone else, and it was clearly my fault.

I had a moment where I... Now, this was your first day at home alone in many months, Ben Boyce. What did you do when you got home and there was no one in the household? Well, actually, I had someone come over to... Backstory, gum. Let's talk about gum. Chewing gum is a bit of a bone in contention in our house. That is a stress point, isn't it? You've been chewing the extra sugar-free bubble mint for many a year.

Yeah. It's proudly sponsoring Ben Boyce's mouth. Yeah, I like to have it from time to time, and apparently I chew rather loudly when I've got it on. My wife Amanda always says she's chewing quite loudly, like a horse. I'm like, I've never seen a horse chew gum before. Masticating like a horse is quite a loud chewer,

and also your distribution of the gum too is a bit of an issue. Yes. I only give her one piece because one piece is all you need at a time. But she's like, she thinks it's very stingy on the gum allocation. Right. She's like, can I have some gum?

And I give her a piece of gum. I'm like, when that flavour runs out, you can have another piece of gum. Now, I don't want to pick sides here, but I'm definitely on her side. But you, I've seen you, once you start, you'll mow through a whole packet of Airwaves gum

and you'll have all like 10 pieces. Yeah, I just keep adding to it as well. You're so all over the show, just as a human being. It's so funny to witness. Very erratic. Yeah. It's so funny. It's all or nothing.

And compulsive too, just like if something goes in my head, I'll just do it. And it's got me through a lot of trouble over the years. But yeah, the gum, just adding airwaves one by one to your mouth, you end up with this giant menthol ball in your mouth, like a snowball that you can barely chew because it's too big. Yeah. And it's got me in trouble.

So anyway, gums, you know, it's a topic of conversation that I try and avoid in the household. I'm trying to cut back my gum consumption around other people, particularly in the household at the moment. What, do you just eat it in shame now? Out by myself, behind a mask, no one can see. But we had someone come over yesterday. I was home by myself, as you said, and someone came over.

We'd booked it ages ago because our dishwasher hadn't been working. So finally could get someone around and have to social distance, open up, had to go outside. And then as we were leaving from a distance, he was like, all fixed. I was like, do you know what the problem was? He goes, yeah, it was gum. The gum had gone. Oh, no.

Gum had been caught in the motor of the dishwasher. Right. He's like, any idea how gum could have got the dishwasher? No, you've got a great, there's no one else here. Yeah. You can blame anyone. And I did. And I did.

I felt bad going, oh, it'll be the kids, you know. It'll be the kids. It wasn't the kids. I know exactly it was me because sometimes when I'm chewing gum by myself in my car, I have my portable little coffee, keepsake cup, and I put the gum on top of the cup, you know, when I'm looking for somewhere. And usually I put that in the bin and then, you know, but obviously I'd put that through the dishwasher.

Well, just knowing how tight you are, I'm not surprised if you put the gum in the dishwasher to wash it and then re-chew it again. Put it in the cutlery drawer. Yeah. Even like when Amanda got home yesterday, she was like, oh, the dishwasher's fixed. I'm like, yeah, it is. And what was it?

I was like, I don't know. I didn't say. But, you know, at the same time, I'm like, all right. That's a marriage saver. You know, that's something that's just going to blow up again. If you mention the gum, it's going to create a whole situation. It's fixed now. That's the main thing.

It's not the point of how it happened. It's all fixed now. Now's not the time for finger pointing and blaming. Do you know what's going on out there, Amanda? There's a pandemic. Let's focus our energy on that, okay? On the big problems in the world. Now, in the meantime, who wants a piece of gum?

Scrolling through your feed. This man requires zero oxygen intake because he lives and breathes the news. Ben Boyce. Now, Aucklanders will be able to travel throughout New Zealand over summer from the 15th of December that was announced yesterday. Only fully vaccinated or those with a negative test will be able to travel. Under 12s obviously don't have to

apply for that. So if you get pulled over by the police, they won't be checking the 12 year olds. 12 and under. That's from what I understand. Because of course they can't be

fully vaccinated and they can't be fully vaccinated and they don't have to go get a negative check. Well, isn't that wonderful news? People can come into Auckland, people can leave Auckland. Go to Auckland. Go to Auckland. Yeah, I don't know. It'd be interesting to see how the mood of the rest of New Zealand's going to be

with a whole lot of Aucklanders descending on the areas. I'll tell you how the mood's going to be. Did you see News Hub last night? Here's the mood in Dunedin, mate. I think it's a bit risky. It is a bit risky. Well, I'm not too keen on mood's going to be. Did you see News Hub last night? Here's the mood in Dunedin, mate. I think it's a bit risky. It is a bit risky. Well, I'm not too keen on them coming down to the South Island. Not very comfortable, really.

I reckon it's a bad idea. If you want any more mood than that. Yeah, well, there you go. I can totally understand where they're coming from. I'm not keen on them coming down here. Yeah. $1,000 fine if you are caught basically without being double vaxxed or having proof that you're a negative COVID test.

So $1,000 would be spot checks. And it felt like the government had no option apart from opening up the border. Yeah, I kind of feel like they've given up on the 90% thing a little bit as well too because that was going to be the whole conditions of the traffic lights kicking in. Now they're like, oh, from the 29th, we're basically

going to announce. But I suppose from their point of view, they probably always knew it might not reach 90, but they can't go, let's go for 90, but if we don't, we'll still do it anyway because then no one would do it. I understand that. I tell you what, if the borders weren't opened up, I tell you, Annie Pryor would have been storming the beehive, not being able to see

her grandchildren this Christmas. Would have been a lot of angry grandmothers just marching on Parliament. Rhythm and Vines though and Northern Base, things like that, there's a bit of a question mark still over those happening over summer because of the low vaccination in the areas that they're going to be taking part in.

You were going to go to Rhythm and Vines, weren't you, Ju? Yes, and I am going to Rhythm and Vines because I'm determined that it will go ahead. Even if it's not on, I will be there by myself. I'm sure they've probably got backup options, right? Yeah, well, you'd have to think so. The government is also helping them out financially, so if things do fall over and they can't get some costs back,

the government are going to basically front up that cash, right? Yeah, which is good. There's not many countries in the world that reimburse a music festival, is there? God bless New Zealand. I know. But it is kind of cool. I mean, it's such a big thing for the economy, particularly in, you know, Gisborne, for Rhythm and Vine.

So it would be a real shame if it doesn't happen. So I guess that's why the government's like, you know, and for the organisers, they'll be like, are we going to have it? Is it going to happen? Is it going to? So if the government at least is going to try and back it and hopefully it will happen. Well, for the advisors to go ahead, I am promoting my own festival, Glaston Benny. We're just going to be in Ben Boyce's backyard.

I thought you were going to say Benny, like the singer. I was like, yes! She'll be there. I booked her just before a world tour. Yeah. You could win a $5,000 summer holiday and the use of a brand new Škoda Kodiaq 7-seater SUV. You'll be one of the first to experience the new 7-seater as you go out on your own adventure over summer.

Sounds awesome. Now, we've had a lot of joy saying the word Škoda out of our lips this week. And I thought, well, I need to learn more about Škoda out of our lips this week. And I thought, well, I need to learn more about Škoda. It's from the Czech Republic. Right. Wow. And their most expensive car is not even a car.

They did an advert that they made a Škoda replica out of cake. Got all these bakers to do it out of cake. Do you know how much they spent on this cake? No. $963,000 New Zealand dollars. Wow. It's a good looking cake. Yeah, it looks like a car. Identical.

Wow. It's a cake though, Ben. Yeah, it's a cake. But it's not. You couldn't drive it. Yeah. Because I don't know if you know this, cakes don't transport people. That's incredible. Yeah, Sue, you're on from Morrinsville. How are you? I'm good know if you know this, cakes don't transport people. That's incredible.

Yeah, Sue, you're on from Morrinsville. How are you? I'm good, thank you. The Prime Minister's hometown. That's not going there, John. That's just going. Sue, how much would you enjoy this? Sue said it all.

That skoda and $5,000 over summer, what would you do? We would head to Waihi Beach and just camp and enjoy the... Beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, right. Ben, produced Bee Humps, is telling us you just bought a caravan. I have, yes. She'd be towing that with the old Skoda. That would be great. Yeah, great.

Then my parents wouldn't have to do it. The motorists would pull up behind you and they'd be like, ugh, the caravan people. I've always wanted a caravan, though. Did you buy a second-hand one and have to do it up, or was it all in good nick? No, I bought it and my parents have put new curtains,

so new neck curtains and new actual curtains, and they've made it theirs. Is it your champagne sort of 1970s New Zealand caravan? Oh, great. Yeah, they're good, eh? Yeah, we spoke about this just yesterday. Ben's grandparents used to sleep in one out the back of their house. Oh, OK.

Yeah, exactly. That's the reaction that everyone gets as well. They didn't just sleep there. They decided they liked sleeping in the caravan, so they slept out there. Oh, wow. With the temperatures coming, why not? Yeah, why not? Hey, good on you, Sue.

Well, hopefully you could be towing that caravan with the new Škoda and $5,000 in your pocket as well this summer. You're in the draw. That would be lovely. Thank you. Your next chance to win is when you hear the cue to call. Don't forget, though, 8 o'clock this morning, we're looking for New Zealand's oldest Bieber fan.

If you are New Zealand's oldest Bieber fan, you want to double pass the concert, 4487 on the text, or maybe you know someone who is. Give us a text this morning. Spy. The What's Up. Spy.co.nz. All right, time for some spy entertainment news. We're going to cross to the boss of Goss.

She'd be quite handy now if her name was Joss and she was eating candy floss. But it's Juliet. And here's the celebrity update. So this month, it is 20 years since the first Harry Potter and the first movie Harry Potter and the Phosphor Stone came out and I think I might faint because to celebrate the main cast

Please don't faint because we don't know how to push the buttons. The main cast are returning for a return to Hogwarts special. So Daniel Radcliffe who played Harry, Rupert Grint who played Ron, Emma Watson, Hermione, all the other cast like Voldemort, Hagrid, Malfoy, Bellatrix, Sirius, even that Professor Umbridge who wore the pink and you just almost hated her more than Voldemort. Sorry, I need to take a breath here. Yeah, that's very exciting. It's true, she is. She hasn't breathed in the last two minutes. So it's a TV special, is it?

Yeah, it's a TV special. I imagine it will be similar to what the Friends reunion was like. And so the director will also be there, but there's no JK Rowling, which will be interesting. She's not Rowling with it? Why not? She's not Rowling with it. Well, there's been a little bit of controversy surrounding her in the last couple of years.

She's been criticised for her anti-trans comments on Twitter. You know, ever since she kind of said that, people have been quite against her. So maybe they've just chosen to leave her out this time. But it's going to be premiering in the US in January next year, so we'll probably get it a little after that. Posted by James Corden, I imagine. Oh my gosh.

That would be weird. He'll somehow have them all singing and dancing some Harry Potter show tunes. Yeah. Do you remember Puppet Pals? Yes. Do you remember Puppet Pals? Yes. Do you remember Puppet? Oh, that was really good. Sorry, I just...

Harry Potter, Harry Potter. Oh my gosh, so good. You know, you know. Well, you look like you're excited about this, Julia. I know, I'm very excited. So what, it'll be the tell-all? Well, I guess so. It'll be like reminiscing on maybe behind-the-scenes stories that we don't really know as fans.

Also, the director... Oh, there's this one day Daniel turned up five minutes late and held up the crew. Yeah, and the director, Christopher Columbus, wants his three-hour cut of The Philosopher's Stone to be released alongside this. So it's currently two and a half hours. I don't know how I feel about this, though.

Well, I imagine it would be more true to the book, right? Yes, there'd be more details and things like that. Yeah, because they would have left some stuff out, but I guess that would have been, you know. But there's a reason it was two and a half hours. Yeah. It's because the editing, they were like, mate, this is a perfect time, Christopher Columbus.

Yeah. Is it Christopher Columbus? Yes. Yes, that's him. He wants the other half hour. It might be a bit, you know, might need to trim the fat. It's got another 30 minutes on it. Yeah.

But also, like, part of me is, like, leave the original as the original. Like, you could ruin it if you include more. Well, for for you you think it's just perfect the way it is yeah but then i'm also so curious i'd love to see a three-hour version anyway okay i should tell a different story in spy we should move on from harry potter um ed sheeran this is also a very funny story um has revealed that his wife almost lost her engagement ring at none other than a strip club. So Ed, he was speaking on a podcast. He doesn't go to strip clubs himself because he just doesn't really want to be photographed there.

Fair enough. That's not the ideal location to have a snap taken of you as a strip club. No. Especially if you're by yourself. Yeah, exactly. Although there's the whole like Drake and all those. They don't seem to mind. Yeah. There's a whole lot of. Oh, and all the NBA players. Once like Drake and all those they don't seem to mind. There's a whole lot of... Oh yeah, and all the NBA players

once they win the final, they're all in strip clubs. Imagine if the All Blacks went to Murmys after winning the World Cup. Oh my god. Sam Cain like doing Manu's into the tank or something. That would be controversy plus, but in America it's celebrated. You're right there.

But him and his friends and Cherry, his wife, were in Toronto and they were out and everyone decided that they wanted to go to a strip club and Ed Sheeran was like, well, no, I'm just going to go to bed because I don't really want to be seen there. I'd be photographed having a lap dance. But his wife went along with all the friends

and the next morning, Cherry returned without her engagement ring on and Ed was like, hold up, what's going on here? But turns out she had lost it at the strip club. I assume nothing dodgy went on. And he had to call the strip club the next day and be like, I know this sounds weird, but is there an engagement ring there? They went to the hotel, which was a part of the strip club.

She'd fallen asleep on the couch, turns out, and it was down the side of the sofa. And they had to do an extensive search party to try and find cherries and game. You would have been looking everywhere in that strip club, wouldn't you? All the employees and everything. She slept on a strip club couch.

Risky. With her face on the... I know. I don't know. A bit dodgy, eh? Tell you what. You want to give that Ben boost, be giving that a good old Glen 20 before he went anywhere near it. A little wide down there, yeah. And that is Spy for this morning. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz.

Kids, keep up that learning or you'll end up like these guys. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben's Empty Your Basket with themarket.com with prizes worth up to $5,000. This is an awesome, awesome thing we're giving away thanks to themarket.com with prizes worth up to $5,000. This is an awesome, awesome thing we're giving away thanks to themarket.com. You can basically load up your basket at themarket.com with up to $5,000 worth of stuff.

And they have such a wide variety of items on there. Then you share that basket with us at thehits.co.nz and every Friday we call someone up and they win the basket. Can I ask a question? When did radio make the conscious decision as an industry that we'd just give away so much free stuff? Now it's like an obligation. People expect it. You don't even pay for radio.

Radio's free. Yeah, already. More stuff. Yeah, we've got ourselves into a hell of a prize pickle as an industry. I'd like to call a meeting, an executive meeting, about how we get out of this. But in the meantime. There was a lovely moment last week at themarket.com

where Brittany, she won. She'd gone online to to themarket.com and put her items in the basket shared it with us but then when we rang her back uh just before we were going to say you've won she was like i want to give it away to someone else far more deserving and then we made that special call i don't know if you know this but we've been running a competition each week on our radio show thanks to themarket.com where someone wins up to five thousand dollars worth of stuff from themarket.com they can choose any items they want as many items as they want up to five thousand dollars now britney has won this competition this week but she was like i don't want to win this and then she's like actually there's some people that i want to give it to. Oh, that's amazing. That's really lovely.

Sorry, sorry, we're just in tears. Oh, what's going on? Well, I don't know what background Britt's given you, but Mum lost her family home a few months ago, so she's lost everything. What happened? Yeah, a house fire, so it's been pretty devastating but but brit has certainly um she's certainly picked us through picked us up and dragged us through so um yeah

it's a bit overwhelming oh how special was that that was sue sue and hannah who ended up getting the prize from britney uh she gave her all that stuff away from themarket.com. What an amazing gesture. Amazing gesture. And if you want to go to themarket.com, I tell you what, they've got everything from hand sanitizer to husbands, from lounge suites to lizards. You name it, it's at themarket.com. Some of those things may or may not be true,

but they have got thousands of, in fact, millions of products, thousands of brands making Christmas shopping easy for everyone. Head to themarket.com right now. Load up your cart and share it with us. It is the hits. You got John Owen Baird. Now, you know these wonderful lads from Grammarly.com. Do you get served Grammarly.com commercials?

Yes. Trading's not that easy, but Grammarly can help. Those ones? Yeah, every time I turn on the internet, it's like Grammarly.com, Grammarly.com. I wonder if it's just served to me because my grandmother isn't the best at times. But it seems to be everywhere, right? Grammarly.com ads are to the internet what people standing with clipboards outside supermarkets are in real life. But my son, Oscar, he came in to the lounge yesterday.

He's like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He's just, I'm really sorry. I was like, what? And he's like, I downloaded Grammarly.com. I was like, you what? He's like, the ads, they were just, they pestered him for so long.

They wore him down to a point where he's like, I've got to download it. He's like, I've got a free version. But now he's downloaded the free version. They're pestering him for the, to get the full upgrade for $109.99 per year every 12 months. Do you know exactly what it is?

What it does? From what I gather, if you type an email or something or you're writing a document, you know, Grammarly.com, it's basically like a teacher coming and doing and fixing up all your work. Right, Mark. Spell checks, sort of making it look correct, grammatically correct.

Yeah, and no thanks. I like my misspelled words, sloppy punctuation, and my email's all in caps. Okay, I'm going to keep it the way it's my, how I roll on the internet. Works for me. Does it work for you, Julia,

when I'm yelling at you on an email? You know, yes, it would be actually quite weird if all of a sudden your emails were grammatically correct and all with punctuation and everything. I'd be like, who's hacked Jono's email?

I mean, it sounds like a really handy service. Don't get me wrong, Grammarly.com. But their tactic of advertising is one we could employ, Ben. Just wear people down to the point where they have to listen to the show. Yeah, that's good. Just, oh, God, I give in. You want that? All right, Jono, I'll be on the hits.

Yeah, I'll listen to it. We want to announce if you're in Palmerston North today or around that area, there's free fish and chips between 12 and 2. It's going to be happening at Richie's Kai in Palmerston North, which is 66 Broadway Avenue between 12 and 2, all thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Sounds too good to be true.

It is, because we're going to get all of your personal details and spam you for the rest of life. That's what's going to happen. But it is thanks to Heinz Ketchup. Do you know Heinz Ketchup? Ed Sheeran has a tattoo of a Heinz Ketchup bottle on his arm. Now, I've got some questionable tattoos, some question marks hanging over my tattoos,

but I can proudly say I've got no condiments on my body. I think it's to do with a lot of the places he goes to, he likes to get a tattoo that's iconic from that place. And so, yeah, I think that was in place. Where was he when? I haven't felt it. It was something like Philadelphia or something, but I might be wrong. He must go to some places and be like,

oh, God, I've got to get kiwi fruit tattooed on my back. There'll be times, eh? But anyway, if it's good enough for Ed Sheeran, it's good enough for us. And today, Palmerston North, Richie's Kai. You can go and see him, 12 till 2. Free fish and chips thanks to Heinz Ketchup. Who knows?

Maybe even get a tattoo of a Heinz bottle on your back. Yeah, you can. Full back tat. That is the hits. You got John O'Ban. Two dads just trying to fill some air time. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some air time for us. That is the main thing.

John O'Ban, breakfast on the hits. Ed Sheeran, we were just talking about him before. He's got a Heinz ketchup tattoo on his body, and a little bit more digging. He got it in Ohio, and it's purely just because he loves it so much. They even did a collab afterwards where the Heinz brought out limited edition bottles that look like Ed Sheeran's tattoos all around the outside, like his tattoo, which is pretty cool.

Jeez, he must love that sauce. He does. His favourite thing about America, one of his favourite things about travelling through America is Heinz ketchup. Wow. Yeah. This says a lot about the country.

My favourite thing is your sauce. Anyway, after 12 o'clock today, 12 till 2, free fish and chips, thanks to Heinz Ketchup at Ritchie's Kai in Palmerston North today. Shouting the nation, fish and chips, thanks to Heinz. Now, afteritchie's Kai in Palmerston North today. Shouting the nation, fish and chips, thanks to Heinz. Now, after 8 o'clock, we're giving away Justin Bieber tickets. If you know the oldest Justin Bieber fan, 4487, maybe you are, or maybe it's someone in your family, we want to give them to them.

But it got me thinking about the concerts, because we've been talking a lot about Juliet's fascination with the Biebs. And we're going to get into it more after 8, aren't we? Oh, I feel like we talk about it every voice break. She's looking back on this period in life. I mean, we were all young once. Yeah. I remember I tried to get sponsored by Nike when I was 11 years old.

What was I thinking? It made no business sense for Nike to sponsor an 11-year-old who could barely play tennis. I can see now I'm an adult. Why that didn't eventuate. But it was still cool, you know. Yeah, I know. At least that's the, you know, that's a positive.

It hasn't aged badly. No, no, exactly. In that regard, you know. Yeah, it's not like you're a fan of Bill Cosby or anything. Yeah, yeah, totally. So did you ever go to the concerts with a sign? Would you ever hold up signs for Justin Bieber? Yeah, what signs would you hold up? Oh my goodness.

I can't remember exactly what they'd say, but it would be something to try and get his attention of some description. Probably, like, I love you or something. Marry me, Justin or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something like one of those. Or just like it says, like, Justin Bieber in huge painted, you know. He's like, yeah, I know my name. Yeah.

Well, that's me. Yeah. I forgot. It's good because I do forget. You can hold up where you are in the world. So you can go Auckland. Oh, yes. That's very smart.

The marry me ones are great though, aren't they? Marry me Justin Bieber or marry me Ed Sheeran or marry me Rihanna. And it's a bloody bold wedding proposal. Yeah. Isn't it? So the best you're hoping for is that whoever's on stage, you know, Shawn Mendes, for example, goes,

you know what? I might take a punt on that. I might take a punt on that. There's glitter on that sign. That stranger I've never met. They've coloured it with tinder lines. You know, there's a lot I like about that sign. Yeah, and you have to have a lot of confidence to hold up that sign too. Because, you know, but people

are going to go, when you're walking in, oh, what's written on the sign? Oh, I've written, marry me. Oh, really? Okay, you're hoping for the best of I don't think it's ever worked, but maybe. Has it ever worked in history? Has a star ever stopped a concert and gone, I do. I do, strange, sweaty person holding up a sign

with my name on it. You're probably better off writing, hey, how about we get to know each other for a little bit, see if we're compatible and then maybe we can, you know, both commit to a lifelong marriage. That was probably a more appropriate sign. As instead of just going, you know, headfirst into marry me.

Well, yeah, I noticed that a lot of the NBA games now, a lot of the, some of the fans are quite savvy, and they will like be asking for a particular player's shoes after the game. And sometimes they will, because sometimes players after the game will give away shoes, but people will target a player like LeBron James

give me your shoes and it's not even like you know when you go marry me just to be but LeBron James give me your shoes you're not even saying please like it's a demand so give me your shoes afterwards better give her the shoes it's almost an obligation in that regard that's why LeBron James has played many second halves in socks

well yeah the only experience we had with signs It's almost an obligation in that regard. Yeah, that's why LeBron James has played many second halves in socks. Well, yeah, the only experience we had with signs was we sent John, who's our U.S. correspondent, we like to call him. A Kiwi guy who lives in America. And we sent him along to a 660 concert and we were like, hey, can you hold up a sign saying John Owen Benz say hi for us? And he did. And as soon as he held it up, someone yelled out, John Owen Benz suck.

This is in New York. Well, that's what he heard. But, you know, it's the same syllables for Jono and Ben rock. That's what I'm liking to think. We weren't there. We weren't there. As long as we met that lady, and I'm pretty sure she said, I named my kids after you, and you said cats.

Yeah, it was cats. I'd like to think it was your kids. Adele, can't wait to see her interview with Oprah. That's going to be on Monday night In New Zealand time on TVNZ Well you're going to have to wait mate Until network television decides You will see it

Old school, old school Alright let's do this in the meantime Five words for 5k on the hits You're only five words away from a massive payday It is a very very simple game to play It's basically just word association. We tell you a word, you tell us what pops into your head, and then we do the same thing,

and if all five match up with yours, you win $5,000. Let's go to Palmerston North, where we're actually on offer today. We're putting on free fish and chips with Heinz tomato ketchup. Helena? Oh, very cool. All right, you better get down there. Richie's Kai, do you know where that is? Absolutely. Oh, very cool. All right, you better get down there. Richie's Kai. Do you know where that is?

Absolutely. It's a favourite. Yep, good chicken and good chips. Good chicken and good chips. We hear a lot of things about the chicken. We're going to get Richie on after 8 o'clock, but 12 to 2 today, free fish and chips for Palmerston North. No such thing as a free lunch except when J and B are involved. That's right, and I collab with Heinz.

Ex-Heinz. Hey, Helena, five grand, what would you put that towards? Oh, definitely towards Christmas. Seems to be a common occurrence at the moment, the common theme, that money for Christmas is much needed. What are you doing for Christmas? We've got family coming up from

Dunedin, which is pretty exciting, so fingers crossed that can all go ahead. Listen, we're in Auckland, we'll pop down as well. Yeah, we'll bring all little of Auckland with us. Are we welcome to? Sure, why not? Yeah, great. Come on down.

All right. She's like, I'll say anything. You might give me $5,000. Okay, who are you going to send into the soundproof booth, Helena? Oh, let's go with Juliet. Oh, for sure. I like this. Juliet, safe pair of hands, I think.

Jono, not a safe pair of hands, but he has to go behind the radio desk and push the buttons. Helena, you don't know what shambles you have just caused for us in the studio. We're switching positions. It throws us all off kilter. I'm looking at Ben from another angle. Yeah, I like it. This is not the angle I'm used to seeing your face at, Ben.

It's a good angle. Don't get me wrong. It's a beautiful face. All right, Helena. Juliet is in the soundproof booth. Here is your first word this morning. It is up. U-P, up.

What do you say to that? Down. Up, down. That seems like the only option. Yeah, it does. Yeah. Nerf. Oh, no, I won't say that.

Okay. Nerf is the second word this morning. N-E-R-F. Nerf. Gun. Nerf gun. Yeah. Again, I had no other optionR-F. Nerf. Gun. Nerf gun, yeah. Again, I had no other option for that one. Jono?

Let's just give that up. You ready? I'm saying it's right already. All right, we're thinking so far you've got two locked in, but we'll see how producer Juliet goes when she comes out of the soundproof booth. Third word, Microsoft. Microsoft.

Word. Microsoft. You know Word. Microsoft. You know what I'm going to give that? You can't give that. These don't count until she says them. You are on fire, Helena. All right. Banned is word number four this morning.

B-A-N-D. Banned. Can we come back to that one? Yeah, we can come back to that. Stop doing that. And sausage is the final word this morning. Sausage. Roll.

Sausage roll. Jono's like, we don't know if that's right or wrong, Jono. OK, let's go back to... This is all on you, Helena. You put me behind here in charge of the buttons. Banned. What do you say to that now? Banned?

Oh, so many options at that one. Yeah. Group. Yeah, that's a great option. Good work, Helena. You did really well, mate. Thank you. Well, we'll release Juliet from the soundproof booth, which actually after nine o'clock turns into a torture chamber. Oh, wow.

Some really grim stuff's going on in that booth. I like to leave work just before that happens. Yeah, it's a bit awkward. All right, let's see how we go for our lay now. Jono's already locked in a couple of answers. Really? Are they quite easy? Well, he reckons.

First two, you reckon you'll get these. Absolute dingers. A couple of dingers. All right, up is the first word. Down? Yeah, you know what I get these. Absolute dingers. A couple of dingers. All right. All right. Up is the first word. Down. Yeah. You know what I'm going to lock in there?

Yeah, well done. Nerf is number two. Nerf. N-E-R-F. Nerf. Gun. Oh, there you go. You're right, John.

Told you, Helena. Psychic. All right. Microsoft is word number three this morning. Microsoft. Word? Oh, yes. Let's go.

Maybe my obnoxious, arrogant dinging could be spelling good luck here, Helena. How are you feeling? Three matched. I'm shaking. No, we came back to a word. Should we jump to the one that you went, eh, on?

Was that the last one, Jono? Was it sausage? Yeah, we'll go sausage. Sizzle? Oh, shit. Sausage. Did you pick it? Did you pick that and make it wrong?

Yeah, it was, what was it, Helena? Roll. Sausage roll. Wow, many options for sausage, though. Yeah. And the last one as well there was many options for was band. B-A-N-D. Band.

Yeah. Ooh, music? Group is what Helena went, which is a really good option too. Hey, Helena, you played a textbook game. If I was writing a book of text about this game, you would be chapter one, okay? Thank you. Sorry, Helena.

Go get the free fish and chips from Richie's Carlyle today. Thank you. All right, all the best. Bye. It is a hit. Thank you. All right, all the best. Bye. It is the hits. Can you handle it, Ben? Can you handle it, Beyonce? Can you handle it?

I can handle it. We'll find out if I can handle it. Can you handle it? Spy, the what's up, spy.co.nz. All right, we now hand over to the wonderful producer, Juliet, who can literally do anything in life, apart from stay off Instagram for 10 minutes. Yeah.

What's happening, Ju? So Meghan Markle is making a surprise appearance on The Ellen Show, and this is her first sort of, I guess, sit-down interview since the big Oprah one. Oh, wow, two of the world's most evil women in the same place at the same time. I was wondering whether you would do something like that. I'm doing it joshing. I don't know either of them.

I'm sure they're lovely human beings. But hey, we're here doing cheap gags that they'll never hear. But it wasn't, you know, it wasn't, no one really knew about it. And then Ellen all of a sudden released kind of a sneak peek clip from the interview. Kind of an interesting sneak peek clip. Like I wanted a little bit more goss, but it's still relatively interesting. Well, then that's why the sneak peek has done its job yeah that's actually very true intrigued um but they were talking about in this basically for context alan oh sorry megan used to come to the alan show set

not the actual set but that area and would do a lot of auditions in the same sort of buildings around it oh that's a warner brothers isn't it yeah, that makes sense. So she'd do a lot of auditions there and she talked about the really old, old rusty car that she had. So your car that you used to drive to auditions was a very special car. Yes. It had a life of its own. So I had this

very, very old Ford Explorer Sport and at a certain point the key stopped working on the driver's side so you couldn't get yourself in through the door so after auditions I would park at the back of the parking lot and I would open the trunk and Climb in and pull it shut behind me and crawl over all my seats to get out That's how I would come to and fro. That's quite a good entrance to a car in through the boot yeah that's security too isn't it yeah well it'll be hard to shut the boot from the inside but it's you know i'm sure there's a trick i mean it's not a quick getaway

crowd i mean you want to be robbing a bank in that situation you know what if people get picking up passengers okay go to the car because you'd be also quite you'd be quite conscious of it wouldn't you you'd be self-aware so you'd also wait for everyone else to leave the car park until you could climb through your boot to get in. Yeah, yeah, I know. But now how far she's come. She probably... No, I mean, she's climbed up the ladder, hasn't she? She has. Climbed all over the Royals.

She has. And I would like to cast your mind back to 2019 when Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga did their performance of Shallow at the Oscars. Remember that? Wonderful performance, yeah. And they were really, really close. Everyone was talking about it. They were like, surely they're going out. They were eye-banging.

They were, weren't they? Yeah, yeah. But they were both in relationships at the time. The partner was sitting in the audience, slow-watching as well. Irina, yeah. Yeah, but now, two years later, he's spoken about that performance

and spoken about the rumours about him and Lady Gaga. And so, basically, they decided to act in love for this performance for two reasons. One, to make it a better performance so it felt like people were kind of watching the movie or watching a performance in the movie. Oh, were they acting? They were.

Not in a movie. Was it not a documentary, that movie? I know, it's really sad to realise that, isn't it? And also, but it was also quite interesting, the acting helped reduce Bradley Cooper's anxiety about performing live on stage because obviously he's an actor but before A Star Is Born he wasn't really much of a singer, like he could sing

but he wasn't known for that and he hadn't really done many live performances so he kind of knew if he was facing the stage, sitting on a stool or whatever, he'd be so much more nervous performing for the first time compared to if he was next to him. Well on a stool or whatever, he'd be so much more nervous performing for the first time compared to if he was next to him. Well, I think this is shot, one of the first shots in the actual movie

is at a concert where he's playing as this country music character. Yes. And I think they filmed that at an actual concert where there's thousands and thousands of people and he obviously had to go up on stage and do it, perform it, you know, even though it's for a movie. Yeah. And they wanted to reflect that scene in the performance as well.

So, no, they're not dating. And it was at the Oscars as well. It's not like the Waikawaiti, you know, karaoke evening on a Thursday night. No wonder he was nervous. I know. And also Bradley Cooper has on the same topic been spotted linking arms with his ex, Irina

is her name? Irina Shake? Yeah. After they broke up. So maybe they're back together. He's probably also triply nervous too. He's got the missus in the front row giving bloody daggers at the eye. I know. A lot going on in that performance. Well done, Bradley Cooper. Great performance, though.

Well, I'm glad he's back together. Hopefully back to work. If you're linking arms, what does that say, Ben? You're either skipping to the loop, or you're back in love. Those are the two options. And that is Spy for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Jono and Ben's right. You're back in love. Those are the two options. And that is Spy for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Jono and Ben's Friday.

Thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. This is awesome. Thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup, we're treating the nation to free fish and chips at different town or city every Thursday and Friday throughout November. And today, we're going to Palmerston North. Ben, did you know Heinz Tomato Ketchup,

the official ketchup of space? Is it? NASA approved. Really? It's what the astronauts source up in space. Heinz Tomato Ketchup, so we couldn't be associated with a better condiment. That's awesome.

If you want to nominate your town or city, head to the hitstockcode.nz and we could be bringing you two hours of free fish and chips on a Thursday or Friday and of course Heinz Tomato Ketchup, packed full of tomatoes, which makes it thick. Yeah, we've gone all over the country so far. Christchurch, Nelson, Wellington.

Today, well done, Palmerston North. Yeah. Free fish and chips all day, and it's going to be at Ritchie's Kai, and we're joined by Ritchie now. Welcome. Hey, how's it going? Good to have you on from Ritchie's Kai, Palmerston North.

Yeah, that's me, man. That's me. Hey, you're trying to get me. Yeah, we are. Yeah, welcome. It's lovely to have you on from Ritchie's Kai, Palmerston North. Yeah, that's me, man. That's me. Hey, you're John and Kenny. Yeah, we are. John and Kenny, you're welcome. It's lovely to have you on, Richo. Yeah, I remember you followed from Pinky's Spa up in Ponsonby Road once upon a time. Thank you.

We had a wild time, Ritchie. So now you're running a fish and chip shop in Palmerston North? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Richie's kind of in the middle of Broadway Avenue. He's in amongst the clubs and shit. I love you, Richie. You're awesome. Now, Richie, you've got a heart of gold because today,

thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup, you're putting on free F&Cs for F&Palmerston North. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come grab them, bro north from 12 from come grab him bro 12 till 2. you could be run off your feet richie yeah yeah i'll probably yeah i'll go put the old man coming into me i'm just looking at your facebook page here richie i'll just read out some feedback to you from uh richie's kai and pal D. D. writes, cheers for tonight's dinner, bruv. Mm-mm. Richie's chicken? Mm. Yeah, I think it's a pretty good chicken.

People love their chicken. Yeah, they do love their chicken. People do love their chicken, apart from vegetarians. Oh, then there's a next post. There's a next post here from Richie's Kai. Richie, does anyone own these phones? They've been sitting here for about four weeks. Come and get them if they're yours.

Yeah, young people come in and leave their shit around. You know, they try to find their owners on them, and half of them don't turn up and forgot they left them there. Did you ever find the owner of the phones that have been sitting there for weeks, Richie? They're still sitting there. They're still sitting there? I think they were just dodgy people with dodgy numbers in there. Come on, there you go, Richie.

Come and collect your phone today, if it's your phone, and come and get free fish and chips between 12 and 2 today in Palmerston North. What was the location again, Johnny? 64 Broadway Avenue. 64 Broadway Avenue, Richie's Kai in Palmerston North today. Line up, and Richie

will cook you a feed and maybe even give you some random cell phone. You guys have got a collection of ATM cards. Oh, you've got a collection of ATM cards? Oh, okay. Yeah, right. You could be a fraudster. Good on you, Richie. Have a great day. You guys too. Thanks for talking to me.

Nice to talk to you, mate. Oh, he go too. Thanks for talking to me. Nice to talk to you, mate. All right. Talk to you later, mate. Talk. Oh, he's awesome. Looking further into Richie's Kai Facebook page, it seems like it turns into a fish and chip nightclub on the weekends. Yeah.

You've got people singing in there and everything. This is Richie's Fish and Chips shop. Incredible. Absolute scenes. And there'll be absolute scenes, more scenes today from 12 to 2. Make sure you go along Palmerston North. Free fish and chips thanks to Heinz. That's the hits.

You got John on, Ben. Don't forget today's your last chance to go to themarket.com and basically fill up your shopping cart. Share it with us at thehits.co.nz because tomorrow we call someone up and they win the entire shopping cart paid for up to $5,000. Yeah, we do one a week. I mean, the downside to this is, there's always a dark side to every competition, Ben,

is that the market end up with hundreds and hundreds of people with these baskets full of stuff that go unpaid. We only pay for one basket. You've still got stuff in your basket. Do you want to wait for the hits to call me back and pay for that?. You've still got stuff in your basket. Do you want to, you know, wait for the hits to call me back and pay for that. But it's an amazing website,

The Market. Last week we had an amazing winner. Brittany actually won, but she decided to give it away to friends of hers, Sue and Hannah, who had been through, well, their house had been burnt down.

That's really lovely. Sorry, sorry, we've just been tears. So that's where the bar's been set, okay? More of that tomorrow No, that was a really touching moment So if you want to enter, head to themarket.com Fill up your basket sex on the hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Brought to you by Rosene, New Zealand's most trusted paint.

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