Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ghost Story Galore...

Episode Date: October 20, 2021

Kia ora e te whānau! To build Ben's resilience with scary movies, we got you guys to share with us your ghost stories, or the creepy stories that will freak Ben out. Juuuuust to prepare him a bit more for when he watches 5 scary movies in attempt to win someone $10,000. We had a creeeepy story from Lizzie! Jono also told a story of something that happened to him when he was out on an early morning run this morning. His main concern of the story was NOT Ben & producer Juliet's main concern though. What he revealed was VERY SURPRISING! Finally, in our segment Liar Liar we spoke to a man who lives like he's in the 90s!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. It's the podcast, 21st of October. Welcome, Ben.

Got Ben Humphrey as well, putting up a green screen there, I see, in the studio, Behumps. Big interview after the show. Big interview. You know, it's a big-time interview when there's a green screen there, I see, in the studio, Behumps. Big interview after the show. Big interview. You know it's a big-time interview when there's a green screen slid up, don't you? That's right, yeah. Yeah.

It's nice, the green screen, isn't it? Can't wear green, though, with a green screen. No, that is one of the problems. Kuma the Frog would be no good on a green screen, would he? You'd just see eyeballs, wouldn't you? Yeah. You're right, he'd be a nightmare. Because he pretty much is the colour of a green screen, isn't he?

They've pretty much made him the same as that. It'd be great for the puppeteer's hand, you know, because they'd be like, oh, you wouldn't see that, but you wouldn't see Kermit at all. Yeah, the green screen really would have changed puppeting, you're right. But yeah, if you've got a green puppet, well then you just...

Yeah, no, it would really rip the rug out under poor Kermit. He's more of a real life guy though, isn't he, Kermit? Yeah. He's kind of in the sit show. Yeah, get out there. On stage, Miss Piggy. Is Miss Piggy, do they ever, do they hook up?

I think that, yeah. That's a quite aggressive pashing from memory there. Yeah, I can't remember actually seeing them hook up, but I know in the movies they were getting married and things like that, so yeah. She held quite the karate chop too, Miss Piggy, didn't she? She was chopping everyone. Lepre is quite violent. Aye, yeah.

Quite a temper on her. Yeah, you're right, yeah. The Muppets. Well, they were in a relationship, weren't they? Yeah, but it was an interesting, I think they were, but it was an interesting relationship from memory, you know. It was tumultuous. Yeah, tumultuous.

It was. Yeah. Yeah. It was. Yeah. Yeah, she was... I felt like Kermit didn't fully commit to the relationship. You know, like in some ways. She was more invested than he was. Yeah, but I think he was a little frightened about what would happen. Listen, I've asked, it's one of the most searched questions when it comes to the Muffets.

Are Kermit and Miss Piggy together? What do they say? What's the answer? They've had a split. Oh, yeah. They've had a split. Kermit says he'sgy together? What do they say? What's the answer? They've had a split. They've had a split. Kermit says he's not dating right now. Oh, okay. She's at Miss Piggy.

I don't know what happened, but Miss Piggy's made it very clear that Kermit needs to make the first move if there's going to be a reconciliation. Oh, really? Maybe his wavy Kermity hands got a bit handsy on him. Yeah, there we go. Kermit and Miss Piggy will follow that saga. Will they get back together? Yeah, but you're right.

He was less than enthusiastic. It did seem like that, eh? Like, if you're not into it, mate, pull out. Yeah, I know, but I guess... It's going to hurt for the short term. It's going to be awkward. You work together. They're a working couple.

Well, that's the problem. They're probably working together and they've got a relationship, you know, in the environment. And that's always tricky to get. He probably didn't want to make it awkward for the other cast and crew. You know, the manamana guys and all the others. All the other Muppets. Who's your favourite Muppet? Oh, I don't know.

Was Beaker a Muppet? Yeah, he was a Muppet. Fossey was probably one of the ones I enjoyed because he was just like me. He was a lot of bad comedy and he would just keep trucking away. He'd just throw stuff out there. He'd get booed. He'd be like, you know, and he would just keep ploughing away. Much like the two of us, you know.

No one really appreciated it, but he would just keep going. We'll keep him round, you know. Like he would bomb pretty much night'll keep him round. He would bomb pretty much night after night on stage. He had a great comedy career though, for a guy that sucked. I know, which is pretty much us. I quite like the blues guy.

There was a blues guy, wasn't there? The dog that played the piano? Yes, Ralph. We named our audition after Ralph. I was a big fan of the Muppets. Muppets or Sesame Street? a big fan of Muppets. They're still doing it. Muppets or Sesame Street? Lock one in.

Muppets. Muppets. Even though Sesame... Yeah, Muppets. Muppets seemed a little bit more, slightly more grown up, even though it wasn't always. Yeah. Although we've slowly transformed from Fozzie into the two grumpy old men sitting in that little booth.

Yes, we are. Just critiquing everything and a little bit of disdain in their mouth. That's us and the Muppets now. Well, unfortunately, I'm not watching the Muppets. I'm watching some of the scariest movies just before Halloween, which is going to be next week to hopefully win you guys some money. So on the podcast today, we get a frightening story to kind of get me in the zone. This truly was frightening.

Ghosts grabbing her by the ankles. Yeah. Ripping her out of bed. Crazy. Yeah, it happened in Thames of all places. So we'll get that on the podcast. Also our version of the Squid Game with way more casualties as well. You'll hear that shortly.

Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween Scarehouse. Yeah, basically. Sorry, Ben, you go. I was just going to say, I'm not a fan of scary movies, and you've capitalised on that. We have, yeah. You came after the weekend watching a horror film with your wife Amanda, who's going to do wonderful things for me when I bend over and you win Lotto. That was a horror film that we watched.

The film we could zip lock back and a Lotto ticket. I couldn't watch it. I had to leave. It wasn and a lotto ticket. I couldn't watch it. I had to leave. It wasn't even the winning ticket. It's just a practice that goes on. But this is you watching a horror movie. Don't.

Open your eyes. I love Amanda's laugh on that. It's just so good. Actually, coming off the back of what we just talked about, that might have actually been Ben witnessing what was going on. But yeah, so Ben Boy's not a fan of horror movies. Halloween next weekend, weekend after next, sorry. And so we thought next Thursday we'd get you listening on 4487 to suggest the world's scariest movies.

He watches all the top five consecutively, sort of 11, 12 hours of non-stop horror viewing. We start with the $10,000 prize pool. Every fright you get, money comes away from the prize pool. Whatever's left over on Friday, we give away. Yeah, we've had some, I was going to say great suggestions, but they're not great for me. But these are some of the suggestions we've had of scary movies. Halloween H20 and Deepest Creepers. Any of the Nightmare on Elm Street.

Oh, that's the Freddy Krueger ones, right? Freddy Krueger, yeah, very scary. Conjuring. Oh, I haven't seen The Conjuring because I don't like scary movies, but I hear it's very scary. So what we need to do, I think, in order to win the most amount of money, is build up a certain amount of tolerance inside you to things that scare you. You know, sort of like a vaccine.

So you slowly become immune. You build up immunity to scary stuff. I feel like they inject me with scariness. Yeah, inject you with scariness. And hopefully then when my body comes in contact with it, you're like, oh, it's nothing. I can deal with this. Your body can fight it off. I see what you're doing here. Yeah, you when my body comes in contact with it you're like, oh, it's nothing. I can deal with this. Your body can fight it off. I see what you're doing here. You don't do the fright or flight thing.

So, 0800 the hits. We're going to open up Scare Ben. This can be anything. This can be anything. Producer Behemz, you've got a wonderful story that might scare Ben. Yeah, I actually lived with a ghost for about two or three years. It wasn't me. I wasn't his flatmate.

It wasn't pasty Jono. Really? Gertrude, yeah. She would turn appliances on and make lots of noises around the house. But what really creeped me out is I once went out to lunch with some people, with some clients of the business business and I told them the story because our boss Todd he's been around to my house and as soon as he

walked in he goes, oh it's something weird going on here. Really? The weirdest thing was you had no wine in the fridge. He told these clients the story and the clients then just looked at me and they just both went white, both of them.

And they just went, what if it's not your house that's haunted? What if it's you? Because as Todd was telling the story, these two people reckon they saw something come up behind me. Oh, my God. It wasn't the waiter at the restaurant. She's here now. Say hello. A ghost follows you around.

That's what they, I mean, I've not. How long was this lunch? It was a long lunch. It was a long lunch. It was lunch with clients. Oh, that's, okay. All right, so I've already got the shivers. There we go.

So scare Ben. Ben, last night I had a meal with my bare hands and I didn't wash or sanitize them before. Stop it. Stop it. Yeah. That's scary. Okay, so 800 of the hits. Let's scare Ben.

Ben, someone's uploaded a video of you on TikTok trying to parallel park. Oh, God, that is scary. Going hard and ooley. Go hard, go ooley. Go hard and ooley. Hard and ooley. Go hard and early. Hard and early. Go hard.

With Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. So I'm trying to watch some scary movies next week to win you guys some money. Yeah, five of the world's scariest. You can vote what movies they are for, 487. But Ben, we're building up an immunity to frights for you. Because we want you, because every fright you get next week, you're going to lose money off a $10,000 prize pool.

So we want you to be able to take these jump scares and these moments and let them wash over you. Stay calm. Cool, calm and collected. Ben Boyce doing things that scare Ben right now. Here's another one for you, Ben. Guess what? What? You're emceeing the Burnout Nationals

this weekend and you have to talk about cars for 12 hours. And engines. engines yeah that would scare me no idea what i'm doing uh so let's go to the phones on 0800 the hits uh lizzie hello welcome to scare ben oh geez lizzie you're gonna you're gonna play nice lizzie what's going on here oh yeah well um it scared a lot of people that I know. It's going to scare the living pants off, Ben. I don't know whether his pants are living. They're alive, but they might not be on me after this.

All right, what happened? Okay, so a friend and I, we moved to Thames and lived in her mum's apartment. Stop, stop. That's enough. That's enough. Yeah, I thought so. The scary thing wasn't moving to Thames, that's not scary

Oh, couldn't even dream of it Yeah, so we were listening to some music and then we had to turn it down because we could hear some walking up the hallway and it was really really crazy because we were like, there's only us

two there, it's our party. And we could hear the boots going up the hallway, and then next thing we heard the chain on the door, and we're like, what the hell? Looked down the hallway, and we could see it moving. So we went to bed, and then both of us could hear dishes moving around in the... Oh, no, no.

No. But there were no dishes on the bench. Oh. We were both pissed anyway. Is this in a tiny apartment? It was like a two-bedroom, two-story, like, stay house. So, sorry, the chain was off the door? The chain was moving on the door.

Oh. Yeah. Not even long after i got into bed i um i was lying down my blankets right up to my chest and i could feel something grab my legs and i was like what um what the heck yeah and I couldn't move or speak or anything, and it wasn't, you know, that sleep paralysis stuff. It was something totally different. And I tried to whack on the wall behind me where my flatmate's room was, and I tried to yell out her name, and I couldn't. It was just horrible.

Next thing you know, it felt like hours to me, but it was probably only like a couple of seconds or whatever. I realised I could move again and I was down the end of my bed with my blanket still up to my chest, but I was at the end of the bed. I'd physically been pulled right down. So what, by your ankles? Yeah. I felt the grip first and then I felt nothing really. I couldn't really move or anything.

And I've looked up sleep paralysis and all that kind of stuff and it was very similar to that, but I know what I felt and I know what I went through and it was bloody crazy. And I jumped out of my bed, jumped into my flatmate's bed and she freaked the hell out. She was like, what the hell's going on? And then we found out later on, we told her mum and she told us, well, back in the war days, because we lived right next to the cemetery, back in the

war days, when everyone died and stuff like that, they'd just dig pits and bury people in them. And she reckoned that the house was probably built on one of those pits. Oh my God. And so you had an ankle grabbing ghost. Yeah, yeah and it still freaks me out to this day like I often I tuck my legs up and stuff and I don't

like to hang my hands over the bed at all. You wouldn't put your feet out and your hands out would you? No. It's pretty freaky I even tuck the bed under the blanket underneath the mattresses you know like really hard out. Yeah, and often also I did, to end on another story,

I get tapped on the shoulder three times with the three middle fingers of your hand. Like one, two, three, one, two, three. And that often happens. Ever since that day? Yeah. So could you feel your body physically moving sliding down the bed yeah could it move or anything had no control over my body and i know it wasn't a medical

episode it wasn't it was totally what it was and you don't even with sleep paralysis you don't wake up at the end of your bed with your blankets still where they were you know know, it was crazy. Wow. Okay, Ben. How's that for you, mate? I regret listening to that and being part of that, and I'm taking my headphones off. It's over to you now, Jono. You wait until someone starts tapping you on the shoulder.

You wait, Ben. You just wait. It's coming. You know it's coming. He's got his headphones off. He can't hear. We're just making for shocking radio because you actually need them. They're an essential tool of the trade. Am I talking over you? Yeah, no, you're talking over me. Okay, off. He can't hear. We're just making for shocking radio because you actually need them. They're an essential tool of the trade.

Am I talking over you? I don't know who I am. Okay, right. I can't hear anything. Now you're talking over... Okay, hey Lizzie, thank you. No worries, guys. Have a good day, eh? You bet. Now Ben Boyce, I'm going to front foot this because I know you're going to give me grief. You think that I'm always, and you do too, Juliet, think that I'm going to front foot this because I know you're going to give me grief.

You think that I'm always, and you do too Juliet, think that I'm always trying to passively insert into the show the fact that I go running. Oh you do. No one bangs on more about it than you. I'm like a crossfitter on steroids. Which would make a very good crossfitter probably. You go running, we get it. I work out every day too.

Do you hear me banging on about that every day? Yeah. That's a good point. Well, I was doing it again this morning. Doing running. Oh, you get up at 3.40 in the morning, run down the street. You love telling. You don't have to get up at that time.

No, I know. It's a conscious decision. Just to talk about it. I was running. It's the only thing I can talk about. Apart from that, my life's very boring. But halfway through, nature called. Okay?

Right. And when nature called, there was a bush. So I was like, oh, I can give back to nature. Fertiliser. Yeah. Yeah. So I went into the bush. Although sometimes our dog kills a lot of the plants for us.

But I don't know why. With what? He's giving back to nature. Yeah. Yeah. There's an area on the side of the house you're like that's not going

to cut me too well that's never coming back so yeah I was sort of hiding in a bush with my trousers down and you know

one of life's rules is you never want to be caught in a bush with your trousers down were you taking the trousers were you like like old school peeing or was it

no it was another call from yeah oh what no way and then I'm here what Were you like Like old school peeing Or was it No it was another call From yeah Oh What No way And then I hear What And then I hear

Really Yeah Yeah This isn't the worst bit Well that To me that's the worst bit You're like I wouldn't even

What I have so many questions Yeah What would you do Like what's the alternative The public toilets Are locked at the moment Oh it's like

I'd go straight home But I was ages away from home Would you just do the I'd probably have to rather than downing my pants But it was dark It was a semi-dense bush Right Now I'm in this position and then I hear

It's the police helicopter Now I've heard wild rumours about the police helicopter Have you heard all these rumours about the police helicopter. Now, I've heard wild rumours about the police helicopter. Have you heard all these rumours about the police helicopter that the tritronic laser can see what an ant's had for dinner? That's how they can pinpoint with their tracking systems. They can see what you're thinking from the police helicopter. So I'm like, oh dear God, I'm going to be showing up, hiding in a bush.

In a very vulnerable position and I'm like I saw I was getting out of the shock that you were doing that in public they're going to call the units what were you going to do about toilet paper leaf? leaf yeah it's not an everyday thing guys

I mean I was stuck in this There was nothing else I could do I had to go what would Bear Grylls do He'd probably make a meal out of it So the thing Flies over me I'm like they're going to call the There's going to be 10 patrol cars

Of like strange man In a bush with his trousers down And then I ran out And I was like I'm going to be on police 10-7 They're going to be camera crew They're going to be like what are was like, I'm going to be on Police 10-7. They're going to be a camera crew. They're going to be like, what are you doing? I'm going to have to explain and it's going to be the reaction that you're giving right now. But it's going to be on TV.

But the police cars didn't turn up, thankfully. And that was the end of it. It would have been a better end to the story if they did. A bit of out for radio, but I can't lie. Maybe I should have lied. There's probably other moments. You've shared a lot. Not too often you shock me.

I'm like, wow, I'm, yeah. I'm thinking less of you right now. You'd think less of me of the alternative if I had to stay with it. You know, if I did what you did. Imagine if I had to tell that story. Yeah, I wouldn't. I think you wouldn't be telling that story. You're right.

We've got our version of the Squid Game next and it's the hits. Here you go, John O'Byrne, 8.38 Thursday. Get two people on. One is telling the truth, one is telling a lie, and it's up to all of us to work out who's telling the truth. You don't know who's telling the truth out of these two sides. It's kind of like Labour and National, isn't it? You don't know who

to believe. But one of my favourite parts of the show is this, and I kind of say that so much now that it's got no punch when we say this is a favourite part of the show. It's all, it's really losing its punch. But yeah, we've spoken to some great people. The lady who eats bricks. Remember, eats the bricks in her house. She chips away at the bricks in the wall.

And that was true. She was from the UK, right? And we spoke to James Bond's stunt double, and he was also stunt double for Angelina Jolie and Lara Croft. So we've met some wonderful people. And this morning we have Jill on the phone. You're first up. How are you?

Hello. I'm good, thank you. Do you know, ironically, we have the other person today is Jack. So we have Jack and Jill on the phone. Did you go up the hill? Was there water involved or not? That's what we need to know. No, we need to know, Jill, this morning, what your statement is,

what you're trying to claim as the truth. So, I'm actually the first New Zealander to go to space. Are you there now? Oh, she's not going to give you any more, mate. She's like, that's all I'm going to say. Okay, when? When did you go to space? It was 10 years ago.

What was your surname? No. Hey. There's an easy way to fix this. You've got to choose me as the truth. Okay, all right. So how did you get, can you tell us how you got to go to space? I mean, I've had you become an astronaut.

I'm an actual engineer, so I went to fix the satellite. You went to fix a satellite? Yeah. For NASA or something? Yep. Did you work for NASA? No, I was just on a mission? Yeah. For NASA or something? Yep. You worked for NASA? No, I was on a mission for them.

So I went to Washington for a few weeks for some training and then went off. Right. Okay, we've got Jill who claims she went to space. I don't know who's dubious. John is dubious, but that's okay. Let's go to Jack. You would have heard about the first New Zealander in space though, wouldn't you? Well, not if the fixer said, oh, he sent someone up to fix the satellite.

Yeah, we still would be like, hey, there's a technician. We love claiming anything. Yeah, true. We send up a satellite fixer, right? We would be all over that. Why can't I get my sky decoder sorted? In the sky dish. Yeah.

All right, all right. Let's go to Jack on Under the Hits. Jack, what do you claim is the truth? I have a completely authentic 1990s home, and I drive a 90s car every day. A 90s? Are you living, your lifestyle is based in the 90s? Pretty much, yes. I mean, a great era, one of the best.

So you'd be phoning us from a landline right now. Yes, I will. All right. So was it nothing at all? You don't use anything of this sort of today or what? I have a Nokia. Oh, so you've got a Nokia 5310. Yes.

The one with the snake on it that you play. Yes. What a heck of a game. Wow. So have you been living in the 90s since the 90s or is this just something that you play. Yes. What a heck of a game. Wow. So have you been living in the 90s since the 90s or is this just something that you've recently done? It's grew over quite a period.

Since I was about 13, I'd say I've been introducing more and more 90s things into my home until it's become what it is today. It's out of control. Your 90s madness is out of control. Well, I tell you what, it's probably a better decade to be in, to be honest. You want to stay away from

the 2020-2021 years? Yeah. Okay, alright. Well, we'll find out what our other caller has to say. We'll find out who's telling the truth, who's telling a lie next. Liar, liar. Well, we get two people on. One is telling the truth and one is telling a lie. And on 4487, give us

a text right now and tell us which you think is telling the truth and which is telling a lie. But on 4487, give us a text right now and tell us which you think is telling the truth and which is telling a lie. But if you missed it, here's, well, let's recap. Jill, what was your statement? Hello, yes. So the first New Zealanders to go to space. First New Zealanders to go to space. And Jack, what was your claim?

I live a complete 90s lifestyle. He's living in the 90s. All right, plenty of texts have come through on 4487. Jono, you want to make the decision? Well, this is going against anything that I'm believing, but it's the popular vote on the text. Jill, you were the first New Zealander in space. Yes.

Were you? Were you? Yeah, of course. Were you? No, of course. Were you? No, I wasn't. I was like, wow, that's incredible. Okay, well, Joe, you can go. You can go back up the hill now.

Fetch another pile of water and we'll talk to Jack who wasn't lying to us. Are you telling the truth? I am indeed. Wow. Okay, so you're joining us. You sound like you're joining us from the UK. Would that be correct? Yes, I'm coming from the rural peak district of the UK.

Right, okay. I'm just getting buzzed now. You're from Derbyshire? Yes, Derbyshire, yeah. Derbyshire, sorry. Not Derbyshire. Why do they spell it Derbyshire? I can't pronounce half the places.

Yeah. No, you can re-spell it. So a New Zealand radio host can pronounce it Doobieshire. Oh, well, nice to talk to you, Jack. Now, so you're living in the 90s as much as possible? Yes. Yeah. Why?

Apart from my periods. Yeah. Why the 90s? Why do you love so much about it? I think that era in time has got just a good amount of balance of having technology without it impeding your daily life and being overwhelming and as well i think when you look at homes and the colors and the coziness of it is something that we seem to have lost in the last sort of 20 years now you're only i've just been seeing some

details from our producer b hamster hey you're only like 23 years old Now you're only, I've just been seeing some details from our producer, Bea Hampster, you're only like 23 years old, so you would have been pretty young through the 90s. Yes, yeah. But I think because of where I grew up in quite a quiet town, we were a little bit behind with things as well. And a lot of my parents, because we grew up quite working class, had a lot of overhangs from the 90s and even the 80s, so it was still quite

a big part of my childhood. I'm still dressing like from the 90s. I haven't stopped dressing like it's 1994 for about 15 years. Jack and I could hang out together. We'd have a wonderful bond. It would be fat ass, Jack. Word up. So what's the first reaction

when you tell them how you live? People are just like, why? Why do you not want to keep up to date? Yeah, I kind of get that because you're like, well, you're not going back to the 60s or 70s. So it's not obscure enough to be like, wow, he's actually dedicated to this. It's like, oh, it was only sort of 20 odd years ago. Yeah. Yeah, it's not too far behind the times.

But it's just quirky enough for you to feature on Liar Liar. I love it. I love it. So describe some of the things that you own and some of the things you use today, still from the 90s. I have, I think I have three CRT televisions that I watch and use. I've got VHS tapes. I've got old Windows 95 laptop. I've got old phones.

Even things in my kitchen down to my microwave. Have you got a fax machine? I do indeed, yes. Oh, you've got a working fax machine. And so do you use compact discs or cassette tapes when you listen to music? I have both. I have CDs because I have my hi-fi here, but I have cassettes for my car. And do you walk around with like a Sony Walkman?

Yes, I do indeed. I have a limited edition one in turquoise, which my partner got me for Christmas, and it's been my favourite thing. So your partner, I'm just actually reading here, there's an article on you online. So your partner, Matthew, now what does he think? Does he still live in the 90s or is he sometimes Is he like move with the times Jack? Well when I first met him I was like how do I tell him? And that's the only reason he's been into it. My dark secret.

I'm trapped in the 90s. I love it. And how did he take your secret? He loved it. He really enjoyed it and now he's I want to, almost as into it as much as I am. But, you know, things like the Walkman and CDs and tapes and even cell phones and stuff, there's a reason that technology's moved on. It's for ease and accessibility and stuff.

So, I mean, you know, one of the bugbears when you'd hire a videotape from the video shop in the 90s was someone who didn't rewind the videotape. Yes. That must be a huge bugbear for you. Yeah, even now when I get them, I order them off eBay now, and the amount of times they've come and not rewound enough, they haven't even rewound it before they've sent it. Oh, it was the ultimate crime upon humanity.

It was. What monster. Had the Terminator 2 and did not even rewind it. That's awesome. So I imagine now people would just send you stuff from all over the place. Now they know, oh, this is Jack's thing, the 90s, and it would send you something. Yeah, people seem to have a good idea of what I like. And if in doubt, give me a message.

And they're like, oh, well, I've saw this. Do you want it? Most of the time it's yes. But I think sometimes I have to say no because I haven't got an infinite amount of room for it. I was going to say, is it getting too much? Are people bombarding you with too much 90s memorabilia? The only thing I'd say too much is I've had multiple people asking me if I want a television, and they're so big,

it's like I can only take so many TVs into my home, so I'm having to turn them away now. Yeah, they were quite bulky, weren't they? They had a big back end, the TVs, and they were so heavy. Yeah. I don't know what was in them. Jack, this is awesome. Have you found with fashion that you, it's suddenly like John has said before, it's sort

of become back in fashion again? Yeah, it's funny seeing that the amount of people who used to be like, why are you dressing like that, suddenly wearing the same thing as me. Well, it's really interesting talking to you, mate. Thank you very much for joining us this morning. Thank you for having me on. It's awesome to talk to you. From Derby Shire, our dear friend Jack, who's living in the 90s.

I love it. I love it. Nice to talk to you, Jack. Take care. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. It is a Thursday morning. Jono and Ben with you.

How you going, guys? Good. Not too bad. I'm plugging in my headphones. I was like, I can't hear a thing, but my headphones are not plugged in. You know, you can also use nature's headphones, your ears. Yeah. You can't hear the music and stuff.

Yeah, I know what you're saying. Great start to the morning for me, guys. You know, Ben, you would know this about me. One of my huge bugbears in life is having to deal with an overwhelming amount of rubbish. I'm worried about you. You've always got so much rubbish. Yeah, like you're destroying the planet single-handedly. Why do you have so much rubbish?

Where I deposit the rubbish. Well, what happens when you talk a lot of rubbish, you also end up with a lot of rubbish too, physical rubbish. And so one of my, you know, one of the big things I was regretting about leaving the previous company we were working with was they had a great number of rubbish bins where I could deposit all my rubbish in the work garage, you know, any day of the week. And ever since I've got here, I've low-key been trying to find out where they keep their rubbish bins.

Oh, my God. I know, but why do you? You shouldn't have that much rubbish. Don't ask me why. So your bins at home overflow. They overflow and then I end up with more rubbish and so then I'll need to get rid of this rubbish. Oh my goodness. Greta Thunberg would be not liking it. Oh, she wouldn't want to

come to my house. No. Yeah, no, I wouldn't want to invite her over for like kombucha or some sort of hemp seed salad or something. But I found out where the bins are this morning. You should have just asked me. I knew all along. Do you use the bins? No, but I've seen them.

Oh, Nubs needs to. Yeah. Like, not once in the previous company, I worked there for probably as long as you, did I ever use their bin. No. Well, that was the one thing I was like, damn, do I want to leave this place?

She's got good bins. That was the one thing holding me there. Hey, we got $10,000 up for grabs. It's all to do with Halloween and me watching some scary movies. And after 8 o'clock on the show, you're trying to freak me out. Yeah. We've had some great ones being submitted on Instagram. We put it up last night on social media.

Scare Ben is the name of the feature. That's happening after 8 o'clock. Actually, if you've got some suggestions, because we're going to make Ben watch the world's scariest movies. You've got any suggestions? Text them through right now, 4487. All right, we'll do that next. It is the hits. You've got Ed She, because we're going to make Ben watch the world's scariest movies. You've got any suggestions, text them through right now, 4487. All right, we'll do that next. It is the hits.

You've got Ed Sheeran on your Thursday. Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween Scarehouse. Yeah, it's the Scarehouse. Ben Boyce, fatal mistake. Showed a weakness, and his weakness is horror movies. You really don't like them do you have you got that audio jew amanda his wife actually recorded there over the weekend you were watching a terrifying movie open your eyes

very jumpy very jumpy it just you know it's gonna happen too that's the thing but there's nothing you can do to really prepare yourself for it. You're like, I know I'm going to get a fright here. Yeah. And you do. What we're going to do is we're going to compile five of the world's scariest movies. Thanks to you, you can text them through 4487 or call us now 0800 THE HITS. And you're going to have to watch them in a row.

This is almost going to be 12 hours of non-stop horror viewing. The game is we have a ten thousand dollar prize pool and every fright you guess every time you look away turn the tv off run out of the room money comes out of that prize pool and whatever's left over we give away next friday morning that's the game that's the name of the game so i mean it's two of your biggest fears horror movies and potentially letting people down yeah true i think gee whiz we're playing on a couple of anxiety issues here uh you know yesterday we started looking for some of the scariest movies that you guys have watched that you think that i should try and sit through

here with some of them halloween h20 and deepest creepers any of the Nightmare on Elm Street. Oh, that's the Freddy Krueger ones, right? Freddy Krueger, yeah, very scary. Conjuring. Oh, I haven't seen The Conjuring because I don't like scary movies, but I hear it's very scary. So that was some of the suggestions that came through. Yeah, so 0800 the telephone number. What movies should Ben be watching?

We're going to be doing this next Thursday night, just ahead of Halloween. And I think the scariest thing is we haven't paid for the rights to the viewing of these movies. What's going to happen there? That might become very scary. Yeah, well, that's true. Not for us to deal with right now. No, but you're right. Bee Humps can clean up the back end.

Instead of the scream ghost face on the phone, it'd be lawyers from overseas. So 800 of the hits. What movies do you want to submit? We're going to compile these. You can give us a call this morning. Go easy on me. Come on. It's early in the morning. It is the hits. You got it, Jono and Ben. It is the hits. Jono and Ben. Thursday morning, 6.14.

Now you're putting me through some horror for Halloween in the hope that I can win some people money. So what we're looking for, I know, 800 the hits, is getting the scariest movies, the five scariest movies for me to watch. And we start with $10,000, and every time I get a fright or I can't watch, you guys are going to decide how much money you take off until next Friday we give away whatever money's left. That's how it works.

That's how a radio story arc works, Ben. I've got it in my head. It wasn't even my idea, but there you go. I've just recounted what you guys have told me. Yeah, good on you. I mean, we could easily just go, hey, here's $10,000. Give it away. But you know, what's the fun in that?

No. Well, it would be a lot more fun for me. But anyway, we're here now. Okay, so we're taking submissions for the World's Scariest Movies. Jackie, good morning. Good morning. How are you going? You're doing well.

Your nomination? I've actually got three nominations. I think it's okay. All right. Yeah, go for it. The king of the horror movies, Stephen King. Oh, yes. Pet Cemetery.

Okay, yeah. If you have cats. I've got a cat, so that sounds very Okay, yeah If you have cats I've got a cat So that sounds very terrifying, yeah Misery, if you like travelling on the road I think I've seen that Is that the one with the author? Yes, it is That one particularly made me shudder

She kidnaps him I watched it like three o'clock on a Sunday afternoon on TV too Oh really? Yeah, he's like a normal Yeah And it's got that lady In it Yes

Oh that lady Yeah thanks Don't give me any more information That's enough She's very particularly a good actress She's a great actor That lady Oh that lady

Yeah yeah yeah She's great If I say her name You'll be like Oh that lady Yeah yeah What's her name then? And then also

Itch For anyone who loves clowns. Oh, that's Pennywise the Clown, right? Itch, yes. The original one. Kathy Bates. Oh, that lady. That lady, you know her.

Yeah, that lady. Yeah, that's a great movie. Hey, there you go, Stephen King. Are you a huge fan of horror movies, are you, Jax? I am. I've been watching them since I was about seven years old. Wow. Seven?

Geez, you were early to the horror game, weren't you? Traumatic old. Wow. Seven? Geez, you were early to the horror game, weren't you? Traumatic childhood. Yeah. My first memories of a horror movie was watching a two-headed guy riding around on a motorcycle. Geez, all right. She laughs about it now.

What is it about the movies that you enjoy so much, Jackie? The genre. I think just a bit of a thrill. Keep the mind going. Are you a secret fan too, Ju? Yeah, when I'm watching them, I'm scared, and I look away and I'm frightened.

But like you say, Jackie, it's a thrill. It brings something in you. Do you want to come watch with me? Yeah, I'll come and join you in periods of time. Thank you, Jackie. Appreciate it. Awesome. Thanks, guys.

Have a good one. We'll go to Whangarei. Martin, welcome. How are you? Yeah, good. Thanks, mate. You're nominating Whangarei. Martin, welcome. How are you? Yeah, good thanks, mate. You're nominating something that's deep. The deep blue.

I can't remember who wrote it or anything. Oh, you know, the lady shoes in it. That woman. Oh, that lady. I can't play this game again. The classic bit I thought was the funniest bit. They're mucking around with the brains on sharks. They're injecting them with something.

That sounds like it's going to end in all sorts of nonsense. It's actually quite scary because it ends up sinking their floating laboratory type thing. The sharks get into everywhere. One part where there's a bloody cook, he's got a pet parrot, and the bloody sharks get in and he locks himself into his oven. So the sharks are on the boat. It's got LL Cool J in it. They did a remake. sharks get in and they lock themselves into his oven. So the sharks are on the boat. It's got LL Cool J in it. They did a remake. LL Cool J was the chef and he had

the parrot. And he's like, man, this is not cool. It's a bloody scary movie. Oh, Jesus. I was terrified when the sharks get onto the boat and start harassing you. Thank you so much for checking out on the list. That's awesome. Someone said you stood on full for it.

What was the one that, you know, that lady was in there? Blake Lively. Oh my gosh, I've seen it. Was it Open Water? Or something like that? Or The Shallows? Yes, The Shallows. That's so good. Is that frightening? I haven't seen it. It's more like

intense. It's not scary as in you would be scared to go to sleep type movie but it's just like, oh my gosh. It's so good. Is that frightening? I haven't seen it. It's more like intense. It's not scary as in you would be scared to go to sleep type movie, but it's just like, oh my gosh. It's like your classic shark movie. Yeah, horror thriller, it said. 86% favourable ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. A lot of great suggestions coming through, Ben, on 4487. I don't know why I'm playing the antagonist in this whole operation. Someone's got to, right?

Yeah, I know. It's how it works with roles and things, but I would be just as terrified, to be honest. I'm playing the antagonist in this whole operation. Someone's got to, right? Yeah, I know. It's how it works with roles and things, but I would be just as terrified, to be honest. I'm no better. But I'm coming in as this big, brave Oh, mate, what are you? You're just scared of your horror movies. I'll be terrified. We're going to do that next week. If you want to

nominate a movie for me to watch, you can head to the hitsbreakfast on Instagram. But next, the cutest call. It was made by a South Island kid, and it is the cutest call. We've got some audio of it for you next. It is the hits. You got, Jono and Ben? As painful as entering a password on your TV remote.

One letter at a time. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. It is Thursday morning, 6.25. Now, one lucky Kiwi is waking up this morning 42.2 million dollars richer last night Lotto Powerball was struck the second biggest win in Lotto history in Pocono yeah wonderful good great bacon in Pocono it's all I know of Pocono every time I've gone there I've gone enormous ice creams remember oh yeah they've got a tin scooper. Yeah. Or something ridiculous like that. And we did the whole thing of like,

we got it. And we're like, let's get a selfie. Let's get a photo. And it tipped over. Classic. That's so classic. When you put tin scoops of ice cream on a cone,

yeah, that's what result you're hoping for. Did you check the app last night? Apparently the app was melting down. Yeah, it was melting down. I was reading about that this morning. Yeah, it was on the blink.

I was, yeah, I was checking. I was like, I was like, why am I, I haven't won this. You know? I'm never going to win this.

You know you're never going to win. Yeah. But imagine that one person who's like, they went in checking that out thinking exactly the same thing. I'm never going to win this. And they got $42 million.

Jeez, you'd be blazing. Holy moly. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. Are you resigning the next day? What are you doing? Depends on your job. Yeah. Like if you hated your job, absolutely, wouldn't you?

But then everyone knows you've won. Yeah, that's the thing. If you want to keep a low profile about it, you'd probably just stick around for a little bit longer. Oh, life changing, isn't it? Or just saying, hey, I'm going to go on holiday. Oh, really? In this environment? Yeah. We thought we'd just get a little getaway. We've got to spot

an MIQ on the way back and then just never return. Yeah, well, it's true. So congratulations to Herbert Was, the mystery Kiwi. That's $42 million richer. Next on the show, the cutest bit of audio from a phone call a young kid in the South Island made. We've got that for you next on the Hits. Yeah, on the Hits, Jono and Ben, we've got some pink for your Thursday morning, and now we've got some of the latest news. Scrolling through your feed. Alright, Benjamin Ross Boyce, our resident news reader.

I don't know why you got lumped with this job. It's not really. Well, Rachel Jackson-Lees does the news. I just look for some, you know Sometimes it's some of the quirky news Or sometimes it's the big news that we just need to talk about Yeah, for whatever reason you got lumped with researching It's part of your daily routine now Yeah, it keeps me up to date

I mean I could help you, but I don't Yeah, what do you sit and do? I do nothing I do nothing Yeah, clear some emails Now a four year old boy in the South Island You sit and do free jobs. I do nothing. I do nothing. Yeah. Clear some emails. Now, a four-year-old boy in the South Island dialed 111 by mistake and went on to invite the lady on the phone

around to see his toys. Now, the police have shared this audio down south and they've said that while we don't encourage children to call 111 to show their toys, this was too cute not to share. So have a listen to the call. This is police. Where is the emergency?

Hi. Hello. Please, lady. Yes, what's going on? Um, can I tell you something? You can tell me something. I've got some toys for you. You've got some toys for me?

Yep. Come over and see them. Oh, that is adorable. I love it when you're that age, you can just name a profession and then a gender, and that kind of wraps them up. You'd be Juliet, radio lady. Radio man. Yeah, and then after that call, obviously the dad got on the phone and apologised and said, oh, sorry, it was a bit of a mistake.

But after that, the police put a message out to uh their team i've not got that part of the next part of that with a radio through going there's a boy with a toy oh sorry i cut that off i thought i thought the child being really cute was it i gave that job to johnno he was clearing emails uh so anyway, the police turned up and showed him the police car, got a nice photo with him, talked to him about 111 and how you shouldn't call it in the emergencies. But that was pretty cool that they showed up. In the meantime, there were

four armed robberies and two aggravated assaults, but at least they saw the cool toys. I had a similar instance with 111. It wasn't quite exactly the same, but in the same world. And I think I've got my audio of the phone call. Hello, police lady.

I've got some toys. Do the police want to come over and see them? I got taken through the district courts for that. Fair enough, sorry. Why is it cute when he does it? You don't ring 111 unless it's an emergency, but that is a lovely wee story.

And Facebook, big news today. They're looking at changing their name. They've had a few branding issues, a few things going on. They're like, well, maybe the brand is damaged. Oh, we're suffering the same thing. We're thinking about a rebrand to... Bono and Jen. Yeah, they're going to go Basebook. Yeah, so that's the big news at the moment.

And it's funny, you look at Facebook and you're like, oh yeah, Facebook, evil, you know, that's the sort of narrative. But then Instagram, they are Instagram and WhatsApp, and they don't seem to have that bad connotations, you know, as Facebook seem to have that bad connotations you know it's facebook but they're all the same company we happily yeah we happily use their other platforms but i mean for the most part we happily keep using facebook as well yeah we keep going oh no facebook but it's all about uh them posting hate speech and not monitoring or mediating uh the types of videos and content and what's being said on their platform, which is fair enough as well. But also, how do you monitor everything that goes on Facebook?

It's enormous. Yeah. How will you police that, Ben? You tell me. How would you do that? With a cute little 111 call. Smokescreen. No, no.

And that is, scrolling to your feed this morning, some of the biggest news from New Zealand and around the world. We're going to reward someone with two weeks of HelloFresh. If you've got someone in your life, you're like, they deserve that, head to the hits.co.nz right now. Thank you. The hits and HelloFresh. Pay it forward.

We're rewarding someone each day on the show with two weeks of HelloFresh, celebrating the amazing people who go above and beyond to keep New Zealand safe in these crazy, crazy times. If you want to nominate someone, you're going to head to the hitstock.co.nz We've always said on this show, not all heroes wear underpants on the outside, Ben. Some heroes wear underpants like normal people on the inside.

And a nominee today is a dad. He's a working husband and been nominated by his wife, apparently the husband of the decade That's the call That's the call from Nicolabed Husband of the decade

Does it feel like one of those things When your kids get you a world's best dad mug or socks Yeah Father's Day But husband of the decade's been nominated So we're going to go through to him now Wickus Is that Wickus again?

Wickus Yes Wickus Clausen Yep Jonathan Pryor Benjamin Boyce The Hits How are you? Wickers. Can I do this again? Wickers. Yes? Wickers, Clausen. Yep. Jonathan Pryor, Benjamin Boyce, The Hits. How are you? Good, what's up?

Oh, we're going good. Now, we just heard that you might be nominated for Husband of the Decade. Ah, um, okay. Yeah, Husband of the Decade, which means you're not husband of 2000 to 2010, but, you know, the era of 2020 onwards. So you're very soon to give it. I feel like almost prematurely we're giving you this award, but we'll take it. There's going to be a lot of other good husbands over the next nine years,

but you've been nominated by Nikki. Yes, okay, awesome. I don't know if that's a surprise. She's your wife. Unless you've got another one, you'll be like, which one of my wives? No, no, no. She mentioned that a couple of weeks ago, and I obviously didn't think much of it because I really never win anything. So, yeah, it was quite a bit of a surprise.

Yeah, well, you haven't won anything today either. We're just phoning you up to show you. No, it's all right. Good chatting to you, though, because I always listen to you guys in the morning. Oh, it's lovely to have you on, Wickus, mate. We're going to give you two weeks of HelloFresh. Oh, wow, awesome. Yeah, it's all going to be delivered to your door, fresh ingredients.

You've got dinner sorted for two weeks. Just because it's all going to be delivered to your door. Fresh ingredients. You've got dinner sorted for two weeks. Just because it sounds like you've been doing, especially through Level 4, while your wife's working from home, a lot of work for your two sons. Yeah, I know, a bit of a tonne. Both of us trying to do work.

We are looking after one year-old and a four-year-old in between all of that. We do meetings and all of that. It's just a bit of a mess. I know. There are days you're like, why did we have these things? That came up quite a bit, but that's just between us.

We've all had those days. We've all had those days. But you've been cooking, cleaning, laundering. You allowed Nicola to have me time. Well, not with me. Which is lovely. I mean, he appreciated it I did, thank you for our time

together, me and Nicola you've been playing with the boys, you've been doing crafts, you've been doing everything and all while you've been working as well so you know just a bit of relief, two weeks of Hello Fresh. I really appreciate it guys, it's certainly going to make things easier at my time

Maybe you can cook Nicola and me a lovely meal or something. Yeah, exactly. You've just created more work for me, but thanks. It's always good for you and Nicola to get me time, isn't it, Joe? It is, yeah. Lovely talking to you. Thank you for everything you're doing. And we'll hopefully talk to you again soon.

Appreciate it, guys. And have a good day. Love you, sir. We've got some spy entertainment news for you on the way. Yes, an update on a bachelorette couple breaking up. I will tell you more in Spy before 7 o'clock. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben.

Spy, the what's up, spy.co.nz. All right, it's time we allow producer Juliette to save this shambolic show. What's happening in Spy, Juju? So Lily McManus was the bachelorette at the beginning of last year. And I guess you could say her final man, the one that was sort of last standing, was Richie Boyens. And after almost two years together, they've announced that they've split up. Oh, that's sad. Which is sad.

She said on Instagram that there's no bad blood. And if anything, there's still a lot of love. But love doesn't always equal a well-functioning and progressive relationship. She said these last two years have been rough on everybody and for better or for worse, it's forced us to stop and smell our own shh. She has shh and Rich has shh.

We both need some time to heal our own shh. Is she shushing herself or is that you censoring? That's me censoring myself. I don't want to swear on radio. So we don't project it onto each other, which makes sense. You know, you kind of have to make sure your own life is in check before you sort of commit to someone else. I know, so I mean, Ben, I take on all the time.

And Annie takes on Mosh, we take on Juliet. Yeah. Yeah, it's how you go. And we talk about it on the radio. That's right. Well, you make a show out of it three hours in the morning. Oh, that's a bit upsetting, isn't it, to hear that news? Almost two years is a good stint, though.

Do you know what? I was very happy to see the news of the wonderful Brett and Angel from Married at First Sight. I remember they got together years ago. That was the first series of Married at First Sight in New Zealand, right? They were the sweethearts. And they're having a baby. I know. Still together. I actually forgot aboutarts. Yeah. And they're having a baby. I know. Still together.

I actually forgot about them. Like, I kind of... So it can happen from reality TV shows. And then you've got Art and Matilda. Oh, they're couple girls. Who Jono for many years didn't believe were an actual couple. I still don't. Yeah, or like, oh, mate, it's just a side of contract.

Fake babies. It's just a side of contract. They're pretending to be together, and now they've had two kids. They seem very, very happy together. Are the kids real? Have you seen the kids? Have you met the kids? No. They seem very, very happy to be here. Are the kids real? Have you seen the kids? Have you met the kids? No.

They could be Photoshop children. Yeah, they could be like actor kids that they put on the gram and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, Ben. Still, I've got my conspiracy theories, all right? Fair enough, okay. Do you want me to get into anti-vaxxing? Oh, God.

Is now the time? And Mila Kunis was asked in a recent interview what one of her parenting fails was. She's married to Ashton Kutcher and they've got two children together. So there was a little kid in my kid's preschool that wasn't very kind and pushed my daughter. My daughter came back and she was like, such and such little kiddo pushed me. And I instinctually said, did you push her back? And my daughter's like, no. And I was like, push her back next time.

You push her back and you say no thank you and you walk away. And I turned around and I see Ashton's face and he was like, no. But I was like, you stand up for yourself and you say no thank you. I was like, don't push him off of a ladder or off of a swing or off of a slide.

But like on the ground, even Steven, you push him back. So that's something she regretted telling her child? Yeah, but that's good advice. Someone pushes you, push him back harder. That's how you get through life, isn't it? What's the worst bit of parenting you've done there, Ben, boys? What's the worst bit of parenting?

Well, I had that moment the other day where I got my daughter to leave a price tag on for the present that was more expensive than we paid for it. And you could see her face go, but we didn't pay that. Oh, I see what you're doing. No, this is the art of lying, darling. It's not lying, it's just, you know. It makes you look like a more generous person than you really are.

Lying gets you out of so many great situations, doesn't it, in life. That's what the kids need to learn early. And also another great parenting moment from you was when you replied to the WhatsApp group, the Netball Mums WhatsApp group, with a saucy article about some adult toys. It was meant to be for the radio WhatsApp group. I was like, we should talk to these mums.

We should talk to these mums. About their toys. And I sent it to the Netball Mums. That's wonderful. At least there weren't any children in the chat, though. Well, that's true. Well, you'd hope not. Yeah. I had to pull my kids out of the netball seat. You'd never play netball again. That's wonderful At least there weren't any children in the chat though Well that's true Well you'd hope not Yeah

I'd pull my kids out of the netball season You'd never play netball again Their dreams of becoming a silver fern were ruined With a dildo scandal Oh god I'm a dildo That's it That's it

For more spy you can head to thehits.co.nz The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't say this battered up old face yet. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Hey, it's my wedding anniversary today, Ben Boyce. Oh, congratulations. Fifteen wonderful years of marriage. A couple of shaky years in the middle there.

Thanks to me. We hear things now if you're tracking a worm. Things are doing now. I've got to sort of war her down to the point where she's like, well, this is my life now. Yeah, no, but it's wonderful. And she's a wonderful lady. Thank you, Jennifer.

But with wedding anniversaries and stuff, there's traditional gifts that you get. I've never gone down that road. No, but I was looking at the list during the week, obviously, just researching into a present. And you start off well. You know, the first five years are great. Like, you know, a single sooty bit of coal or, you know,

some leftover chalk, an old bus ticket or something. You can get through those. But you reach 15 years and you're up to crystal. Crystal. Is that what it's meant to be? I wonder who follows that. I don't know. Like, surely you can just get a nice gift rather than go, like, have I got a man or like a, it should be like, okay, why. I don't know. Like, surely you can just get a nice gift rather than go,

like, have I got Amanda like a, she'd be like, okay, why? One of them's like paper or something. Have you got like a book or something? That's good. The longer you get into it, the more costly. I mean, you get up to 40 if you're buying rubies. So my advice is probably end your marriage probably before you get to the ruby stage. You don't want it to be, you don't have to be you know

yeah if you're following that then definitely get out diamond encrusted thing it's going to get wild it's almost worth pulling out early so you don't have to pay for these wild gifts

traditional gifts no but it's lovely happy anniversary Jen she won't be listening to this oh yeah I was thinking why that it's like those people on Instagram

are like happy mother's day mum and be like yeah mum on Instagram yeah yeah no she's definitely but you look like you could send that to her like you know text her Instagram was like, happy Mother's Day, Mum. I was like, yeah, Mum, on Instagram? Yeah. Yeah. No, she's definitely, but you look like you could send that to her. Yeah.

Text her. Yeah. Call her. Yeah, it's one of those things. You have to fall into that trap. I've done exactly the same thing, just the radio version. Yeah. And everybody's like, oh, such a lovely girl. Such a lovely guy.

But she's not getting the message. Yeah. And we could call her and wake her up. She'd like that if it was an anniversary gift. Early wake up and I'm live on the radio. Two of her favourite things. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast.

7.29, Thursday morning, as you just heard in the news, senior school students allowed to return to school from next Tuesday. So that's years 11 to 13, 5th, 6th and 7th form. If you're going through the old system, that's obviously in the areas that have been in lockdown. Is there any requirement for vaccination amongst that age group, Benjamin Boyce? I'm not entirely sure what they are.

I know that the teachers, I think, they need to have a negative COVID test and masks are going to be worn on transport and at school as well. But obviously no word yet on the primary schools and intermediate because that's a lot trickier because they're pretty much, they can't be vaccinated in any way.

And there's a bit you hear stories filter through as well. And you said before the show, the government was kind of between a rock and a hard place with this sort of situation. But, you know, I read a story of a mother who's got a six year old and 11 year old and a 16 year old. Obviously, the ones under 12 aren't vaccinated, but she's sending her 16-year-old to high school. And a vaccinated doesn't always show up symptoms if you do catch COVID. Could bring her back into the fuddy. Yeah, that's the thing. You know, what do you want to say about that? Oh, yeah.

It's on my decision. But they're kind of caught. Who am I, Jessica or Tova? Yeah, Jessica, then Tova. That's what I'm like. Yeah, I guess they're kind of caught between a rock and a hard place, aren't they? There's always going to be those stories that emerge. Yeah, they were just saying before I was reading that some of the teachers, the unions

are saying, well, we don't know anything about this. We're not prepared to go back. But then we just heard in the news just moments ago, the primary school, well, someone from primary school going, hey, it'd be great if we could open those up. So you're like, well, who do you know? Yeah, the teacher before was like, it would be great to get the primary school kids back soon as well. Had no one told the teachers union that this was happening last week?

Apparently, there was not a lot going on. Your wife's a teacher. Did she not know? No one. I don't think anyone really knew. The first I heard about it was old Hippo. That's what I, yeah, hey. Well, I don't know if you, you didn't tell my wife.

He's not texting. But Chris Hipkins, hey, up there. Even like with my kids who are 9 and 11, they're like, is that the spread your legs guy? Oh, my God. He is that guy. Yeah. And these are the kids that don't follow politics.

Yeah. On his gravestone, it's going to go Chris Upkins, spread your legs. 1981 to 2000, well, I won't predict his death. Yeah, spread your legs. We've got $5,000. Tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe.

And that's all I have to say thanks Dr Ashley blue belt Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast but basketball started in America yesterday

and New Zealand we're not allowed to crowds at the moment so it was interesting to see on the TV like thousands of people in an arena not many of them

wearing masks in the arena and the celebrities are all there have a listen it's opening night it's Hollywood the stars come out there's adele with her album about ready to drop turner family friend there kevin hart usher raymond james corden late night host

and who else jack yeah and jack nicholson as well. Bieber was there as well. There was all the celebs were there. I thought he forgot. And who else? Oh, there's Jack. There's my mate Jack. Hey, Jack. That was Jack Nicholson.

All right, there you go. Well, all the big bangers. Adele's there. Her album's about to drop. I mean, Adele's obviously now in a relationship with the agent of LeBron James and many other basketball players. She was courtside. Rich Paul.

Yeah, it was Rich Paul. I haven't forgotten that name since we started talking about Rich Paul. Such a cool name. Hey, my name's Rich. He's getting a hell of a deal for his players, wouldn't he, Rich Paul? You're Rich and I'm me, Rich, at the same time. I saw actually a video of Jay-Z with his daughter at the basketball

and she was meeting LeBron James afterwards. But he's Jay-Z and he even assumed the role of just an embarrassed dad of like trying to he's trying to get his daughter to go go and get a signature you can have a photo he's jay-z why is he why is he going it's okay to ask for a photo she's like all shy no matter how famous you are there's always someone hey that you know especially if your

kids are into them uh but i feel like uh yeah, because I'm a fan of basketball, but I've got mates. You do. You listen to podcasts and things, Juliet. But I've got my mates that know a lot more about it than me, but they were like, do you want to join a fantasy league? So we all get to pick players in a team, and I'm way out of my league.

Way out of your fantasy league. Yeah. I feel like I've taken another job all of a sudden, an unpaid job, because now I'm like monitoring to go, is this player playing today or not? Is it like a video game? No, basically it's really nerdy, and I don't want to bore anyone like that.

But you already have, so we're here now. Keep going. We're losing them, we're flatlining. You pick players for teams. We can't afford to lose any more listeners. You put together your squad, and then how well the players play in each game is basically your team goes better or worse. That's way it is but i didn't realize you should be

swapping your players out each week because one of my players went off with an injury yesterday i'm like oh my god another players oh so it's replicating real life yeah it's replicating what's happening in the game so i was yesterday i had two players playing in the game i was like he's my boy then he went off after two quarters i was like no my boy's off you know so it's like a stressful management role yeah that you get not paid for you get no there's no prize i feel like i'm ted lasso like way out of my way out of my league like sitting there now going okay well who's played today there's lots of games there's 82 games over the season it goes to april i'm like what am i doing wow there's just an everyday thing that you have to pretty much every day i didn't

realize the criteria. The commitment. One of my friends set it up, and he's like, you've asked too many questions now. You know no more questions. So now I feel like, because I was like, what happens with it? He's like, too many questions. So he's banned me from it. So now I'm texting other guys going, hey, so how does this work?

Because I'm so out of my league. Who is it? North Korea? He's banned you from asking him questions. James McConey's like, you've had your quota of questions. Figure it out yourself. Figure it out yourself. Whose fantasy was it to have a fantasy league? Because they should get

better fantasies. Well, yeah, he started it up. He's a friend of mine. And then it was like, well, you get a draft to see who gets the first pick and the best pick of the players and stuff. He got the first pick. I was like, well, how does this work? Well, to be fair, he's organised it. He sent out emails. He got the first pick. I was like, well, how does this work? Well, to be fair, he's organised it. He sent out emails. He gets the picture. He's supposed to be

at random and he gets the first thing. I'm like, oh, here we go. So I feel like I'm making up numbers. I'm part of this thing. What else is suffering in your life thanks to your management of a fictitious NBA team? I know. Will this radio show be one that's going to be suffering? And I didn't realise you could

try. Anyway, I don't want to bore anyone with it but I'm like, jeez. After 8 o'clock, we're going to spend an and I didn't realise you could try anyway no I don't want to bore anyone with it but I'm like after 8 o'clock we're going to spend an hour on who Ben should put on the court today

open up the phones I went home with the hits 4487 I did learn yesterday that a right heel contusion is just a bruise he's out with a

contusion and I'm like what's that mean it's a bruise doesn't sound quite as cool though he's off with a wee bruise

did you have to ask him that question as well what's a contusion I can see why he stopped you asking questions. My ego is also contused as well. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It's a simple game of word association.

We give you five words, you say the first things that pop into your head. If those five words match up with our five words, you win $5,000. That's the only time that you can say, hate the players, don't hate the game. Because it's all on the players, isn't it? A lot of the times you can blame the game, not the players, Ben Boyce.

But it is one of those things, it's just what pops into your head. And there's no real right or wrong answers, it's just trying to match up with someone else's thoughts. Now, to quote that wonderful epidemiologist, all we need to do is move our COVID holes and make the same noise as you make out of your COVID hole and you'll win $5,000. Jane in Kaitaia, how are you?

Wonderful on this wonderful day. How are you? Oh, it's a wonderful day in Kaitaia. Is it lovely weather in the north? No. No, no. No, no. No, just a wonderful attitude. Yep, your mood changes the weather. Oh, good on you, Jane. No, just a wonderful attitude. Yep, your mood changes the weather. Oh, good on you, Jane. Now, you're a placement teacher. Yes. What does that mean?

You just get thrown all over the show? No, I'm with my one lady in my one class, and hopefully she signs me off, and then I can be my own lady in my own class. Oh, very nice. Teacher in training with her training wheels on at the moment. That's the one. All right.

Hey, who are you going to send to the soundproof booth? We can give you $5,000. Send in Jono and cross our fingers and our toes. Oh, there we go. Cross your toes, very difficult to do, but I'll give it a go for you right now, Jane, as Jono makes his way over and he's into the soundproof booth. So here we go. What pops into your head when I say the word jog?

J-O-G jog run go for a run yeah it makes sense producer juliet nodding away as she likes to do yeah jam j-a-m jam oh come back come back that one yeah again that's we've hit you with one with multiple options early on. That's hard. Yeah, that's hard. Yeah, yeah. There's so many for that one. You know the monster that comes up with those words, I'm looking at them right now, producer B-Humps.

Mouse is word number three, mouse. Oh, that's hard too, who made this today? Producer B-Humps, Come back to that one. Story is word number four. Story. Book. Yeah, book. Nice.

Seems good. And organ is the final word this morning. Organ. Do I say donut or do I go with specific? I might go, oh, God, this is hard. Maybe we'll just go heart. Heart, okay. Heart's a good organ.

Now we're going to go back to jam. You probably had no time to think about that because we've been throwing other words at you, but what are you thinking for jam? Type of jam? I feel like I don't want to influence because I don't want to be wrong for you either. The more I think about it, the more words come into my head. Yeah, it is one of those. Might as well just go toast.

Toast? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a good option. And mouse is the final one we need a word for. Mouse and lips. Oh, mouse, M-O-U-S-E. Oh, mouse. Yeah.

Oh, is it trap or is it rat? Trap. Trap, mouse trap or is it rat? Trap. Trap. Mouse trap. Seems good. Seems good. All right. Good luck with that.

We're going to get Jono out of the soundproof booth. We'll see if we match up the words. Gee whiz, is the lockdown over? I was going to say, you've forgotten about me in there. We're working our way through some difficult words. Was it tough this morning? Yeah. We know who we're blaming.

Guess who we're blaming for the difficult words. Jacinda Ardern? No. All right, David Seymour. Okay, let's see if we can match up with Jane. The first word this morning was jog. J-O-G. Jog.

Run? Yes. Easy. Jane won from one in coattire. Jam was the second word. Now, we had a lot of options for this one. Easy. Jane won from one in Kotaia. Jam was the second word. Now, we had a lot of options for this one. Jam sandwich. No.

Nah. Nah. Nah. What was it? Toast. Toast and jam? Could have gone traffic jam. Yeah.

Strawberry, raspberry. Too many options. Too many options on that one. Blame Jacinda for that word. Mouse was the third word. We might as well get to the end and see how we're going to go. Mouse. Cheese?

I thought you were going to say trap. Trap was the word we were looking for. Sorry. Story. Time. And organ. Donor. Oh, we thought about donor, didn't we, Jane?

Oh, Jane. It wasn't quite to be, but hopefully we'll get you back on and we'll get to play it again. Cool. Thank you so much. You have a great day, Jane. That was a wonderful medley of bang. Bang. Bang.

Spy. The What's Up. Spy.co.nz. Now, Juliet fills up her days tirelessly researching for celebrity news, which means she has no time in her life for anything else, any relationships. But Harry Styles is waiting patiently, Juliet. I know, I'm a busy woman. He's like, you get this celebrity stuff out of the way and I'll marry you at the end of it.

Yeah, exactly. So Taika Waititi has posted about his girlfriend Rita Ora for, I think, the first time on Instagram. I can't see any previous posts of her on his gram. Can't remember if he's storied her either. Maybe he has. Okay, you've gone in too deep. I i have i'm really committed to this relationship um but he was at the they were both at the premiere for eternals which is marvel's latest release um and he captioned it i feel like i got a lot of attention attention at the eternals premiere last night

maybe it was my date it was definitely my date or maybe it was my suit it was my date i guess no one will know um they both looked stunning he was wearing a very groovy suit she was in sort of like an ivory dress um and say groovy groovy groovy suit it's a nice use of the word groovy i haven't heard that since 1997 no it's quite a nice word isn't it yeah it is a groovy suit you're right groovy suit gray and sort of white patchy sort of number he must must have got that, what, Frank Casey suit higher, you think? Probably. Probably. But yes, debut on the Insta. Very happy for them. So they've been

dating, what, now a couple of years, you would say, wouldn't you? Oh, I think a little bit less than that. They kind of came public earlier this year. She was in Aussie filming The Voice and he was filming Thor, wasn't he? They met in Australia. Yeah. Now they both seem to be

in America. Do you know, I had a dream the other night that I went to the Met Gala with Taika Waititi. I woke up and I was like, oh, that didn't happen. I don't know why I had that weird dream. I hate to bust your bubble, but I don't think it's going to happen. You might go to the Met Gala, but I don't know if you and Taika

will. Next best thing is you woke up, it was 3.40 in the morning, you got to come to work with John on bed. Awesome. Talk about Taika Yeah, there we go. And Zach Galifianakis, he's probably most well known for playing Alan in The Hangover So he has two children aged four and seven

and he says that they think his job is a librarian They reckon he's a librarian somewhere and he's determined to never ever ever show them the hangover. He's determined to not let them discover what that movie is. He just says he'll deny it. He'll say, I don't know what you're talking about. I had nothing to do with that movie.

That's not me. When they eventually discover that he's an actor and was in that movie. It's really interesting. I was just going to say, sorry, we talked to one of the Everswindale twins, the great twins as well, and she was saying that they're her kids. They don't know what she's done. They don't know she went to the Olympics,

didn't know she was a rower, didn't know she'd won gold medals. She was like, yeah, wasn't there at school? They were like, hey, you and Aunty Georgie went to the Olympics and went to school. That's so funny. But you would have thought there would have been something on display somewhere in the house.

The kids would have gone, hey, look, check it out. This is Mum. It's five years. Probably, let's say seven hey, look, check it out. This is mum. What's your year? It's five years. Probably, let's say, seven years. They found out when they were seven or eight. You're a sporting legend. What else have you been hiding from me?

That's a little bit like... Some humble, though, eh? It was awesome. Oh, yeah. That's a bit like Brooklyn Beckham. He didn't realise his dad, David, was a famous footballer until he was about 13, and they went to a football match together. 13!

And people started coming up to, like, shouting out David Beckham's name, going up match together. 13! And people started coming up to, like shouting out David Beckham's name, going up to him. 13! Yeah. And then also Hilary Duff's son, I was doing a little bit of research about kids who didn't realise their parents were famous. Hilary Duff's son, this is very cute.

At 13, that's on the kid, I think, at this stage. Yeah. Have a goog, mate. I know. Jesus. I know. I know. But then Hilary Duff's son saw her on magazines in supermarkets

and just thought that all mums, like all of his classmates' mums, got on magazines like a rotational system and just thought it was his mum's turn. Isn't that so cute? What a wonderful way to honour mums as well. So good. Put four mums on there. On the Women's Weekly.

Women's Weekly. Absolutely. And that is Spy for more. You can head to the... On the Women's Weekly. Women's Weekly, absolutely. And that is spy for more. You can head to the hits.co.nz. And as the hits, Jono and Ben, Thursday morning, someone's waking up this morning, $42 million richer. I doubt they're waking up.

No, true. They're continuing on. Did you do the same thing last night where you like check the app? No, because you did. I don't get a ticket. Oh, you didn't even get a ticket? Neither did I. But I always knew it would go on a small town. It never goes

for Auckland I feel. I didn't win. And I am a rampant gambler and I love feeding that addiction. But you check the app and part of you, for the most part, 99% is like I'm never going to win. No. Yeah. And I am a rampant gambler, and I love feeding that addiction. But, you know, you check the app, and part of you, like, for the most part, 99% of you is like, I'm never going to win. But then there's 1% of you are like, maybe. What if? And then the inevitable happens, and you don't,

and you just sit there in just depressed silence on the couch. But for that person that won, I mean, imagine that. You're right. They wouldn't have slept last night. $42 million. What would you do the moment you, I mean, imagine that. You're right. They wouldn't have slept last night. $42 million. What would you do the moment you won? Oh, my goodness. What's Ben Boyce and Juliette Rothwell doing?

I'd be so worried about the ticket. It's not like you to be worried about something. I mean, if you had it done online, you wouldn't have to worry about that. But if you had a physical ticket that you're like, oh, man, you wouldn't want to lose that before. You'd put it inside your body. Yeah. I'd bend over. I'd be like, Amanda, you know what to do.

I don't know why I'm getting your wife to do it. She's like, you or me? Why are you in this area? Why am I at your house and bending over? Weird. Julia, what are you doing? Can we get a little Ziploc bag first or what? Are you meaning?

Can we get a Ziploc? Of course I'd get a glad zip lock And I'd reuse it for the kids lunches the next day Okay Okay Have I ended this? Am I sorry? I'm moving on

Jono and Ben Just like family The family members you're ashamed of It is the hits Jono and Ben 8.29 on your Thursday morning A lot of talk right now about people You know whether

Getting vaccinated It is your choice To make up your own mind on the situation. And if you are weighing it up, the risks versus the benefits, I want to read out something really quickly. A really interesting post that's been doing the rounds on social media this morning that I just stumbled across from a New Zealand nurses group. Now I want to paraphrase this quite quickly for radio, but they're basically saying there's 186 staffed ICU beds. That's all we have in New Zealand. So surge capacity, if we get more COVID, means that it'll stop things like elective surgeries and other healthcare situations,

because obviously they'll have to look after these people with COVID. So the ICU beds are already half filled right now. So maybe they say your immune system will be okay with COVID, but not everyone's will be. So what happens if you get a burst appendix or something like that? You need to go to hospital for something else. And then they're saying, imagine that scenario if it's your partner or your child or your parent. So it's quite interesting when you put it like that.

So if you're unsure, you're weighing up the pros and the cons, get info from a validated source, they say. And while you may be worried about your Christmasmas plans whether you can travel out of the region the nurses seem to be worried about how many people are going to be in hospital with them over christmas so quite yeah quite some quite a good way to think of it because you don't really think of it like that you know you're not just doing it for yourself yeah you're doing it for the team of five million which is kind of split up at the moment, to a team of one point zero. As you say, it's your choice,

but that's just a way of going, well, hey, if you're thinking about what happens if you do need something in hospital or someone you love needs something. Car accident victims. Are they going to be able to look after those people if there's so many people they're looking after with COVID? Really interesting.

Bit of real chat there for you, boys. Yeah, bit of real chat for you, but I thought it was quite interesting. It is the hits. got John on Ben. Now Squid Game one of the most talked about shows right now around the whole world. I think it's Netflix's biggest show and

we do our own version of Squid Game don't we? Yeah, I was just reading an article here. Netflix they have a metric system to assess the performance of individual shows worth $891 million. What that particular Squid Game is. This series is crazy. It was $2.4 million

in the episode, they reckon, so it was $21 million to make the show, but it's returned roughly $900 million for Netflix. Wow. What are you returning for this company, mate? Give me your stats. Give me your metric system. I don't know if my metric system's quite as good as that but i'm returning right now uh to play a game that a lackluster version of the squid game that's what i'm returning our own version of the squid game where we call up a fish and chip shop somewhere

in new zealand and we have to guess the price of a squid ring yeah just a single piece of squid you know squid looking for love it's running a single life at the moment. We're going to head up north. Hello, Stumpy's Whangarei. Have we got hold of Stumpy's in Whangarei? Yes, you have. It's Jono and Ben. How are you going? I am good. Lovely to have you on. Lovely to have you on the show. Did you realise

you're on the show? No. You're on the show. Now we're doing something called our own version of Squid Game. I don't know if you've seen the show on Netflix. You would have heard of it, right? Yes, yeah. Well, Jono and I need to guess the price of a squid ring at your fish and chip shop. Okay. Have you got squid rings on the menu?

We do. All right. Don't tell us until both of us have given our answers, alright? Okay. Oh, Stumpy sounds like a bargain. Sounds like a value. Do people come in there and go, gee whiz, this menu's affordable? They do.

Oh, okay. A little clue for you there, Ben. Okay, I'm going to go 90 cents for a squid ring. John, I have you. I'm going to say $1.10 for a squid ring. Who's I have you. I'm going to say $1.10 for a squid ring. Who's right? Neither of you. Oh, we're both gone.

We're both out of the squid game. How much? They're $1. Bang in the middle of both of us. That is an affordable squid ring. Yeah. It is. Now, I have a bone to pick with you.

Not a fish bone. Okay, I'm looking through all of the wonderful fish and chipperies in Whangarei. On Google, they all have reviews, but they're very confusing. Like, for example, the Foe Valley Fish and Chips Shops. Best fish and chips to die for. Then we go to the Onorahi Fish and Chips. You'll never find a better fish and chips is the first review. Okay.

The Hookin. Best fish and chips in town. Then I go to Stumpy's, the best fish and chips I've had in years. So which is the best? Stumpy's. Stumpy's, but everyone's claiming, it's like radio, everyone's claiming to be number one. Well, thank you so much for taking part in our very random squid game. That's all right.

Thank you. What was your name, sorry? I'm Violet. Violet, that's a beautiful name. Thank you. It always reminds me of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Violet. Oh, yeah. What was Violet?

Violet, she was a good one, wasn't she? Oh, kind of. What did she do? She's the one that ate the bubblegum. Oh, yeah. Did she float up to the ceiling? Yeah. Yeah, that. Did she float up to the ceiling? Yeah. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, she blew it. It was like a bit of a squid game for kids, Charlie the Chocolate Factory, wasn't it? And no serious questions were asked of Wonka. No, you're right. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, some bad stuff was happening to kids in that factory. Anyway, anyway, that was the Squid Games of our time.

Now we've got a new Squid Game. Hey, thanks so much for taking part in that very random call. No worries. Thank you, guys. Have a good day. You Hey, thanks so much for taking part in that very random call. No worries. Thank you guys. Have a good day. You too, Violet. Bye. Want more Jono and Ben?

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