Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Has The Queen Died In Secret?

Episode Date: February 27, 2022

Denise came back with another boomer rumour, that The Queen has passed away after she caught Covid, but Buckingham Palace are covering it up for the moment. Does this have any merit to it? We then caught up with our UK correspondent Gavin Grey to see if he thinks this rumour is true. Ben found out something scandalous that Jono did in the work garage, and finally we completed our 28 days of Good Deeds!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Birds with the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. Jono, you like to say the date, so it's the 28th of February, the last day of Feb. Wowee, it really flew by Feb for me this month. I'm broadcasting from home at the moment, and would you like me to play some piano, my daughter's electric piano? Yeah, sure. Okay, I'll...

He's very good, isn't he? Wow. I'm doing that one-handed. Oh, geez, he's very good, isn't he? Why are you in radio? Mad of many hidden talents, isn't he? You didn't know, did you? We all know you haven't got the staying power

to learn an instrument. Oh, that's enough. That's enough now. So yeah, that's just a little hidden talent that I don't really have. I don't like to boast about my musical skills, Ben. You know this. Yeah, exactly.

Classically trained. Classically trained in radio and also in piano as well, isn't he? A pianist. I like saying that word. It's a nice word, pianist. Pianist. It's one of those satisfying words, isn't he? A pianist. I like saying that word. It's a nice word, pianist. Pianist. It's one of those satisfying words, isn't it?

Almost sounds rude. You know, almost sounds like you're saying something else. It's 85% rude, isn't it? Yeah. But you're not. Pianist. Juliet, chiming in here. I'm just like, because John is away,

I'm pushing the buttons for the podcast intro. There was, I remember, when you guys were talking, doing a little chat on the radio about pianos, probably two years ago. Pretty sure I had to do like a montage of all the times you said piano. And every time you're like, piano, piano, piano, piano,

piano, piano, piano. And it's a really weird word when you keep saying it. Yeah, words when you repeat them can often sound quite weird, can't they? I'm going to Google the most enjoyable words to say. I've got one. We can all say them.

Okay. Kettle. I love saying kettle. Kettle. It's such a nice word to say. Kettle. Kettle. Kettle is satisfying.

Ignoramus. Okay. Ignoramus. It's apparently top of this list. Bougie. Oh, like. Bougie? Bougie. Bougie, Bougie? Bougie.

Bougie, yeah. Like something's bougie. Juliet would say that. Yeah, it's pretty bouge. Bouge-alicious. Poppycock is up there. Poppycock. Oh, a load of poppycock.

Yeah, yeah. Wow. Poppycock. We should insert poppycock a bit more into the conversation. Zozzled is another one as well. We got zozzled last night.

I've never heard it before, but it means intoxicated. I'll tell you a good word I heard over the weekend that I want to start using more. Jeremy Wells used it on the commentary was schmozzle.

Schmozzle is a nice word. It's not really much in the vocab, but it's good. What does that mean? It's been an absolute schmozzle. Just a bit of a, you know. Good time.

Yeah, it's been a bit of a shocker. Oh, shocker. Schmozzle. Schmozzle. Yeah. So I like that one. I'll start using that a. Oh. Shocker. Schmozzle. Schmozzle, yeah. I like that one. I'll start using that a bit more. Yeah, that is a beauty. Schmozzle. Shambles always have a fun time. Yeah, shambles

is kind of our schmozzle, isn't it? It's a shambles. Bloody shambles going on there. How was your cricket over the weekend, mate? You've been commentating all five days of Test Match Cricket, non-stop. Well, yeah, I had a day off yesterday, which was good for the listeners having to listen to me

with punishing cricket facts. I enjoyed it, but geez, it was a long haul when you don't have a rotator people. A lot of people out with COVID, you know, COVID in the family situation. So, yeah, a lot of talking. A lot of talking words. Do you actually give proper facts?

What do you do on it? Yeah, I mean, now and again, you delve into some actual facts, but then you go off on tangents and, you know, you're selecting all sorts. We were doing, for you, we were doing a board 11 of cricket for you, actually, dedicated to you over the weekend, Jono. Turn me to Peter. Yeah, well, yeah, we actually started. Again, you start talking about actual cricketers who are, you know,

phallically challenged, and then you end up talking about whether Pitbull would make the team or, you know, or Jason Statham, you know. Statham definitely deserves a spot on there. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Yeah, Mike Lane decided he'll fool this once. He put his foot down and said they could only be cricket players. So we had to get rid of the likes of Homer Simpson and the Mitsubishi heat pump guy and all those people.

They were gone. He was a good boy. But that bald guy, the Mitsubishi heat pump guy, looked like he that were gone. He was a good boy. That bald guy, the Mitsubishi heat pump guy, looked like he had bodies stored away somewhere. He was always so quietly talking. He was. Calculated and calm. Yeah.

Something was going on. Do you remember him, Juliet? No. No, she's dined out, mate. Sorry, I'm just scrolling Instagram. Oh, no. We've lost her. Are you literally?

Oh, we've lost her. Yeah, lost her. All right. Anyway, enjoy the podcast. It's a fun one today. We talk about rekindling relationships after a long period of time and a salacious boomer rumor involving the royal family that we end up having to call the UK to find out if it was true or not.

And to be honest, they couldn't say it wasn't true. Enjoy it on the podcast. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Jono and Ben on the podcast. You guys have a good weekend? Not too bad, not too bad. I did a lot of cricket commentary over the weekend. People were sick and you had to fill in on the cricket commentary team. Now, this was your dream and on Friday,

you're like, it's quickly becoming my nightmare. Well, yeah, I love cricket. I was doing some stuff for the ACC on Spark Sport, but you're right, for two years I've been pestering them. You've been helping me to try and get on the ACC. And then on Saturday there was – because normally they'd have people to help relieve you of your juggies. After about three hours of nonstop cricket, I'm like, oh, this may be where – yeah, I've had enough.

Have you fulfilled your dream in the space of a weekend? I felt like, tick, yeah, I've done that. That was amazing. And then, you know, eight hours later, I'm still talking. I'm like, holy jeez, you know. So two days, yeah, Friday, Saturday, and again today. But, yeah. Are you going back today?

I didn't have yesterday. They had some more people in yesterday, which was good. Oh, my God. Because I was sick of my own voice, that's for sure. Jeez. Are you sick of cricket now? No, I still love cricket, but just talking about it. A weekend of isolation here in the prior residence,

the rolling hills of the prior mansion, Ben Boyce. Well, I imagine it's like a lot of New Zealand right now. COVID is on your doorstep. Yeah, well, it's not on my doorstep. It's in my house now. It was knocking for a while there, but it's like the world's worst, you know, an uninvited guest. But not only uninvited, it refuses to leave.

You know, when I turn up to your house unannounced, and you're like, when is he going to go? And I can see you giving eyes to your wife, Amanda, and I don't leave. It's exactly what this is. And it's unusual when it sort of gets into your into your fold so to speak because you've spent you know the uh the government have been uh fear-mongering us for many years uh that's why we're a tinfoil hat now uh and we're all quite

frightened of this thing and then when it gets into your house yeah it's uh the good that you're one of those silver lining though what's that i was meant to emcee two things on the weekend and i didn't have to emcee anything it's a get out of jail free card i'm in isolation we should all be using it if you don't want to go to an event oh mate i'm in isolation no one wants to touch you well i imagine there's a few people using it to their advantage aren't they particularly kids we were talking about this the other day you know like a couple of years ago with the kids they'll be like oh i'm feeling you know feeling a little bit like oh maybe i've got a little cold or something you're like oh give it a go

go to school give it a go see how you go yeah that was the attitude the can do attitude right you're like oh geez you better not say that. You better all stay at home. The kids know this. They know this too. How do you even know I've got it in my house? You wouldn't know. But you're having to take my word for it, aren't you? Exactly.

I'm sitting in the same clothes I was wearing on Friday. I'm loving this new regime. But yeah, no crazy times, mate. Crazy times. The good thing, too, is you have some wonderful friends out there, people phoning up going, oh, we'll drop you some supermarket shopping or whatever. So, again, I've got people doing my supermarket shopping. Don't have to go into work.

I don't know why I didn't crack this code a lot earlier. It's the dream scenario except for the whole COVID thing, which can come with its complications. But, yeah, well, today. Sorry, I should have gone back there. I gave you nothing. That's all right. You're at home, well, yeah, today. Sorry, I should have brought it back there. I gave you nothing. That's all right. You're at home, mate.

You know, you check out. I'm just making myself a coffee. You're in isolation, mate. You don't have to do any work. Don't do any work, mate. Surprised you even turned up this morning. Can you drop me some supermarket shopping after work? Over Zoom.

Well, what's going on around the world over the weekend? There's plenty going on. There's plenty to unpack. We'll get into that next. Scrolling through your feed. Straight from the world over the weekend. There's plenty going on. There's plenty to unpack. We'll get into that next. Scrolling through your feed. Straight from the Hits News Bureau, a.k.a. the cupboard in the hallway with the brooms and disinfectant,

it's Ben Boyce. Over the weekend, 15,000 COVID cases. Well, yesterday there was a lot of protests going on, not just in Wellington, but in Auckland as well. Protesters walked the Harbour Bridge. Plenty of people over there. and as I saw on social media, someone put the round the bays looks a lot different this year. A lot more aggressive.

Quite clever. I saw a touching, heartwarming moment from the protest in Wellington. A couple got married. Oh, yeah, that was in Wellington, was it? And then they came down to the protest outside the Beehive. Just beautiful, beautiful stuff. Instead of confetti, I think they threw feces. Oh, God.

Celebration. That always winds up when I say that, eh? Yes. Ben will get messages on Facebook now. He gets messages from the protesters. Every time you say that, we get messages saying, oh, I'm throwing feces. We're not rolling around in feces.

Do you know, I saw an interview with a lady on the news, and the reporter was like, why won't you wear a mask? Why isn't anyone wearing masks? And she's like, because masks look silly. But then she had a tinfoil hat on. Oh, was that her justification, was it? That was her, just the masks look silly. And obviously some great tinfoil sales going on.

The monofoil tinfoil empire at the moment. They must be shifting some units, baby. I think they were out of tinfoil down there in Wellington or something. They ran out of shortage. Yeah. Maybe the America's Cup boats for their falling have abused most of it before in the past. But you're right. There was tinfoil hats going on.

What's the theory behind that? I think they were worried about the radiation cause down there. There was a lot of stuff that they thought that was, or they think that's causing some sicknesses going on. That's part of the tactic to get rid of them on the launch. Oh, it's the radiation. It's not the COVID causing the sickness. Apparently, yeah.

So the tinfoil hats are going to do the job, apparently. Where's the radiation coming from? I think of all the 5G and stuff down there as well. And I think the government is spreading radiation across there to try and get, you know, they'd be playing Barry Manilow, they'd be playing Frozen, the big James Bond, and now they're spreading, you know, radiation. Sounds like something the government would do. Yeah, that's right. If I know the government, they'd do it. Ben, you explaining why they're wearing tinfoil

hats. You need to be someone wearing a tinfoil hat. The 5G, you unplug your phone at night, you turn off all the switches in your house. You're a tinfoil hat guy. I was one or two steps away from wearing a tinfoil hat at some stage. You're right. I bought a little machine from the internet that registered the electrics in the house. That's right. You're right.

I don't sleep next to the phone. But, you know, I was one or two steps. I had to sort of pull myself together and sort of give myself a talk and say, all right, it's getting out of hand, and now the little machine lives in the cupboard. I haven't touched it for many years, guys. That's right. But then he comes into our nuclear-strength radio studio every day. Well, yeah, you pointed that out.

Now I'm like, oh, yeah, you're right. I have to worry about a vasectomy. I work at a radio, still in it every day. Grab one of those stainless steel sibs from the kitchen, mate. You can wear that for the rest of the show. That is scrolling through your feed this morning. On the way, we've got plenty for you, including some more calls about when you've had a disaster in the kitchen.

And before 7 o'clock, we've got some spy, Jude. Yes, a famous person has given an update and is quite close to the Ukraine situation. Her partner is basically, or ex-partner, is frontline. He's fighting over there, right? Yeah, so we'll give an update on that before 7. It is a hit. So you've got Jono and Ben. Tested safe for listing from home.

Jono and Ben on the hit. Jono, you redeemed yourself last week with cooking chicken on the barbecue. Yeah, 2018. I was the cause of a mass food poisoning incident that resulted in many casualties on the barbecue. The chicken was cooked medium rare. I thought that's how some enjoyed it.

Juliet, you said in Japan people eat it raw. Yeah, we were served raw chicken in Japan and I refused to eat it. My parents, everyone else ate it, and they ended up being fine. So it's probably just a magical chicken that didn't get food poisoning. Why have we got such fragile digestive systems here? I don't know. That's why I was going off a Japanese method.

But anyway, my chicken license was revoked, and I wasn't allowed to cook chicken for a number of years until last week where I was handed a big, giant, juicy, raw chicken put on a barbecue. And old Colonel Sanders here, he got his license back. You know what I do love about people who barbecue chickens is they get really adventurous. Sometimes they put a can of beer up there, up the back end of the chicken. Oh, yeah. And it seems wildly unnecessary to me.

You think the chicken's like, is this how it ends? It's the Weber barbecue snobs, you know. It's the craft beer loving Weber barbecue. So my other mates that do it, they love it. They insert a can of beer into a chicken's rectum and then they cook it. It's a wonderful power play, isn't it, the barbie? I'll put a can of Lion Red up here, mate.

Why? I don't know. It just looks good. You respect me. So after Jono's shocker with a chicken, we were talking disaster chef on Friday. We got some amazing calls through of disasters in the kitchen. I was on the PCA at my son's school. My job was to cook a sausage sizzle lunch for the children.

I never checked the drip tray and I started the barbecue, caught fire, completely melted like the knobs were falling off and everything from melting. And luckily enough, I resorted to plan B, which my house backed onto the school field. So I went home, cooked all the sausages, and then I was like, how am I going to get all the kids their sausages? They can't file through one gate. So we made it like a school trip. They kind of walked along the road, my drive,

collected their sausage at the back gate, sat on the back field, crisis averted. It happened a couple of times during my 16 years service in a deli. I've been eating chicken meat. You'd start eating the chicken? Not the whole chicken, just the small bits of it

when we needed to shred it. So when you were shredding the chicken, you were having some of the chicken? Once upon a time, I was taking out the hot chickens from the oven. I was doing my normal thing, and I thought, oh, that chicken bum looks really nice.

And then I took it and started munching and it popped. And what happened? I had to go to the office. Verbal warning. Oh, verbal warning. Verbal warning, too much chicken. Those were some great disaster chef

stories if you've got any and you want to contribute give us a call right now 0800 the hits mmm

coffee breath Jono and Ben on the hits you've got Jono and Ben on your Monday morning we're talking disaster chef you've had some

shockers in the kitchen Tiana on 0800 the hits what happened to you I was trying to be a really lovely girlfriend and bake some delicious banana muffins, and genius me left them in the oven for about four hours. Four hours? Those are well-done muffins.

They were so well done, they could build a house. They were that rock hard. You basically made little bricks. How long were you meant to put them in for? What, 20 minutes sort of thing? Yes. And and what happened what happened between 20 minutes and four hours i watched a couple of movies did you not get any indication that there was smoke or any you know like oh the muffins no it's all actually yes but by the four hour market started to go a little bit black in the

house i was like oh what's going on nothing on? Nothing quite like the chef with amnesia, the forgetful chef. Yeah, pretty much. Julian, this happened to you. I never remembered. Julian started cooking muffins, baking muffins, and then got locked out of the house. Yeah, it was actually cookies. My flatmate, we started baking some Anzac cookies,

and then we went outside to our balcony for drinks, and then we accidentally locked the door behind us, and then we panicked. Accidentally locked the door? No, and then we panicked. Accidentally locked the door? No, the door was faulty, honestly. It was most stressful. Jono, were they adze cookies or were they hash cookies? Were the cookies being baked or were you?

The cookies! Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. Shelley, you had a disaster in the kitchen. What was it? We were cooking chips one night, and Mum said to my brothers and me, now make sure you don't drop the basket into the oil, because, you know, it'll go over the edge, catch on fire. So off she went and did her stuff.

And my brother filled the basket up, put it in, and he dropped it. And the oil went everywhere. The flames started, and the kitchen caught on fire. Oh, my goodness. The kitchen caught on fire. So you had one of those like you go to the fish and chip shop. You had like a basket that you put in the... So it was sort of like a big, deep saucepan that went on the stove,

and you had a basket like a fish and chip shop one. Put your chips in, you heated your oil up on the stove, and then you dropped your basket in. But if you dropped it in too quick, the oil went everywhere, all over the top, and it did. Now, that big pot of boiling oil sounds, A, very healthy, but secondly— Very healthy, yeah. And we didn't have the good canola oil or anything in those days. Motor oil, mate. Motor oil, mate.

Motor oil, probably. My dad was a mechanic. Who knows? So good of me. And so how much damage? How do you put a fire out like that? I imagine it would spread very quickly. It was sort of just, I think, I can't remember if my dad was home,

but someone grabbed a blanket or a couple of blankets and smothered it. Yeah. Yeah. The most important part of the story, how were the chips? Bloody good, actually. Oh, bloody good. They cooked really quickly. Nice and crispy.

So did the kitchen and the house. They cooked quite quickly as well. Yeah. Wonderful call. You go and have a great day. You too, guys. Thank you. See ya.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. This is The Hits, Jono and Ben. We're doing 28 good deeds in 28 days and we've had Rachel reach out to us. She's in the midst of a pretty horrible situation so we're going to make a call. Kia ora, Rachel speaking. Kia ora, Rachel. It's Jono

and Ben here from The Hits. How are you? Good morning. How are you? Caught you at a good time, bad time? Good time. We're all good. Yeah. Just for once, I'd like someone to go,

it's a shocking time. I'm in the middle of open heart surgery or something, but everyone's too polite. No, I didn't cut a leg off today, so you're fine. Now, Rachel, you're having a bit of an issue

with Instagram. A little bit. Small part of life that I didn't realise was a thing for amputees, but apparently is. I've had someone take a photo off my page, which was just a picture of myself not wearing a prosthetic, so thumbs out, thumbs out. And I've used it on their stump foot fetish page with kind of an all welcome to come and perv pose.

Oh, so you've got, you're missing a part of your leg, are you? I am. I'm a below-the-knee amputee. I have been for three years this February. And, yeah, apparently there's fans for that. So they're taking your photo, so you know it's your photo, and they're using it. It's my photo.

Have you obviously been in contact with Instagram to try and get it taken down? Yeah, so I'm trying to get it taken down. I thought that maybe big people would have bigger ways of doing that because little people apparently can't. They just keep replying to any of my followers that have reported it. We don't have time to look into all the complaints we get, so we're not going to look into this.

Really? That would be traumatic for you. Yeah. It's not ideal. No. I think positive, but it's just not nice thinking that your photo is out there being used for something that you didn't want it to be used for. And obviously, if this was my daughter or your daughter's

or any of my daughter's, we just wouldn't stand down until it was removed or addressed. And I feel like I deserve that same respect for my body as well. Totally. I'm not an object. And it wasn't even a flirty, it's not a flirty, sexy photo. It's me drinking coffee. Yeah, right. There's a lot of that going on at the moment on social media.

You know, people grabbing photos and using it for other fake pages and stuff, trying to scam people out of various bits and pieces. But this is a whole other. I love the internet. It's the Wild West. You can do anything. Well, Rachel, the reason we've got you on is for you and me to ask Ben to take it down from his website.

So, Rachel, if you want to ask him. It's not that I know. Ben, I'd love you to use your superpowers And take it down It's not my website I don't have any jurisdiction Over that I'd love to be able to do that That's what the guy who owns the website would say Well listen what we have done is we have reported it

To Instagram for you Thanks So hopefully that gets some sort of resolve for you But it turns out Mark Zuckerberg doesn't really Care about New Zealand that much. So doing a good deed, we wanted to help you out in some way, and we've discovered that you really want some planter boxes. Yeah, we've had a few failed attempts at building them.

Yeah, right. Well, we've got your three of them. Thank you so much. That's really cool. You're very welcome. We're very sorry to hear about your experience right now, and hopefully that gets all sorted. Yeah, I hope so much. That's really cool. You're very welcome. We're very sorry to hear about your experience right now, and hopefully that gets all sorted. Yeah, I hope so too.

Well, I think I won't stand down until it is. Ben, you, Ben's identity was stolen on the internet, and he was going around asking everyone to enter his competition. Oh, yeah, it was. And then you had to provide your credit card details. Oh. Yeah, this was actually genuinely, this happened to both of us. We got individual,

they started a Johnny one and a Ben one and then people were going, why have you contacted me about winning prizes and putting my visa details in? You're like, no, this is a scam. It's a scam. It's a whole lot of stuff. Yeah, we got $50,000 out of that.

No, we didn't. Well, gee, that's a hell of a scam. What people will give you. I'm listening. Rachel, you're an absolute champion. I hope you enjoy those planter boxes and I hope you resolve that issue too. Thank you so much. We've got more good deeds to do before 9 o'clock this morning,

so if you've got any for us, text 4487. But Spire's up. Yeah, someone famous you may not have realised has a Ukrainian daughter and has had to update the public on her safety. More on that next. Right now, though, Mitch James, it is the public on her safety. More on that next. Right now, though, Mitch James, it is the hits. You got it, John. Open the door and let me in.

Clothes on the floor before we say a word. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. All right, she just had a big old suck on the celebrity vape pen. Now we get to inhale that second-hand passive smoke. Juliet, what's happening in Spa? So just quickly, Viva magazine has a very special guest editor

in their magazine today, and it's the first ever guest editor they've had, which is Lorde. So the theme of this particular issue focuses on a lot of things that's important to Lorde herself, indigenous fashion, the importance of te reo, and protecting our environment. And I've had a little bit of a flick through

of it, it's a very nice magazine if you like Lorde and you like fashion and culture I highly recommend picking this one up it's out today She's a busy lady, having a side hustle as an editor of a magazine like Meryl Streep and the Devil Wears Prada would take up a lot of time

and energy Ben. Yeah well she's done a great job actually, I had a look through as well, obviously stuff that up a lot of time and energy, Ben. Yeah, well, she's done a great job, actually. I had a look through as well. Obviously, stuff that means a lot to her. But I imagine, was she on the phone, you know, going, Johnson, I need that article through by five o'clock. I mean, she's an international recording artist. She can't be stressing out about deadlines.

Like if Johnson hasn't met the 5 p.m. deadline, I'm in the middle of recording a song here, there's a lot on your plate there. I need 400 words by Tuesday, all right? And actress Hayden Panettiere, you may know her from the series Heroes and the movie I Love You, Beth Cooper. Her and her ex-partner, Vladimir Klitschko,

have a seven-year-old daughter together. Vladimir is obviously a former Ukrainian boxer and Hayden has had to give an update on kind of the situation of Vladimir and her daughter. She said that her daughter is safe and not in Ukraine but Vladimir has signed up to Ukraine's reserve army, has said he's prepared to fight which is incredible and he did sort of send out a video message to everyone. I'm Vladimir Klitschko and I'm addressing the entire world to stop this war that Russia

has started. Just today civilians were shot by the rockets with special operations. Civilians getting killed and it's happening in the heart of Europe. And so he's basically encouraging people to fight to stand up,

like support Ukraine. And even Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have done something huge. They've promised to match donations to Ukrainian refugees up to $1 million. So if people donate, they'll match it, which is an extra million dollars going towards that cause, which is incredible. Just devastating scenes over there. And you watch that and it puts everything in perspective, particularly with what's going on in Wellington.

You know, it really, there are people doing it tough out there in the world and it's a world away. I was watching an article on the media coverage of it and the media coverage in Russia compared to the Western media coverage, completely different. Really? Like, they don't allow words like war, attack, invasion on their broadcast. They don't allow foreign media to report in Russia. Basically, the Russians paint it as if the Ukrainians are attacking them.

Wow. And the vision they show is completely polar opposite to what your CNNs and your BBCs are showing us on this side of the world. And I know there's protesters in Russia who are anti-war, polar opposite to what your CNNs and your BBCs are showing us on this side of the world. And I know there's protesters in Russia who are anti-war, and it's illegal to protest. They just get arrested immediately on the spot. Really? Even if it's a peaceful protest, they just walk in

and shoot. They don't leave them there for 17 days in Russia, mate. No, they don't. And that is your Spy Entertainment update for this hour. For more, you can head to theh't. And that is your Spy Entertainment update for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz.

After seven o'clock, we've got a big announcement to do with Live Free to make if you want your rent or mortgage paid for an entire year. Well, we'll tell you how it could be yours

in about three minutes' time on The Hits. The great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here. Jono and Ben

on The Hits. We're in the middle of doing 28 good deeds in 28 days. It's our final day today, Jono. Yeah, and do you feel like a better human being now at the end of the month? It's been, you know, it has been really rewarding helping out some amazing people along the way. I now know how Jesus feels. Okay, we're not quite at that level.

Would you say the same? No, no, definitely wouldn't. But here's some of our favourite moments so far. Next to the warehouse they gave us a couple of $500 vouchers that we could surprise some shoppers buying back to school items with. Especially with masks, they're $75 for a pack of 100. If it's compulsory, what do I do if I can't afford the mask? So I can, oh.

I'm glad we could help. Thank you, thank you so much. This morning we're delivering papers for the New Zealand Herald. Yeah, the only people who are up and about right now are people just stumbling out of bars, vagrants. Kylie texted her and we thought we'd give her a call back. Well, she was in the middle of a meeting. Hi. We need to give Kylie enough money for the week to pay for her supermarket shopping.

Oh, how cool. Outstanding. Yeah, so pretty incredible things that, well, I was going to say, it's been pretty incredible to do these things for people. I'm not going to be a Jono and put myself up there with some great people throughout history.

You 70% did, and then you backed out of it. I backed out of it, yeah, but it has been really rewarding, and we've got our last couple to do today, right, on the show. Yeah, I think the biggest surprise of this whole thing is that Jono and Ben have seen something through to the end. Usually, I know you probably wanted to do a fade out on the 15th, 16th, did you, Ben? But you saw it through.

Well, yeah, and we've got to the final day today. And doing the maths, we've got a couple more to do. So right now, because it is a Monday, we do something called hundy monday yeah that's right we've got uh hundred dollar notes to give away now there's a bit of a game that i'd like to play which you don't know about ben what's that you've got a generous heart yeah a generous almost generous probably the most generous radio show in the market because everyone who comes on here is a winner. You give a prize to literally everyone we talk to. You don't even know what the prizes are half the time.

We'll send you out something. We'll flick you out something. These are some, to coin some phrases. So next, 0800 the hits. I would like three quarters, thank you. You need to pitch your case to Ben Boyce why you deserve the $100 on Hundy Mundy. So what sort of good deed

you'll do with the money? Maybe, you know. But only two of them will receive the cash. There will be one loser. No. A loser that you have to decide upon. No. We can't do that. Someone who may not think favorably of your decision making, Ben. Oh. Now,

just an example, Drew. Can we hit the music if possible? Stuff like this. Ben, I need $100 to pay for my grandmother's electricity bill, which is about to be turned off. By the way, she's on life support. Here's another one. Ben, I need $100 for a hair transplant.

Is that from you? Ben. Yes. My shoes have worn out and I walk 25 kilometers to school every day. So only two of those people will get $100. The third one will get nothing. Oh, 100 of the hits. I don't want to do this.

Four, four, eight, seven. What did you make? You won't even make the decision on the hypothetical one. Well, you're not getting your hair transplanted, right? 7, 14 next. So to make the heart-wrenching decision to not give someone $100, it is the hits. I've always been this way.

You're running late, stuck in traffic, and now you have to listen to this. Jono and Ben on the hits. It is pink. All I know so far, it is to this. Jono and Ben on the hits. It is pink. All I know so far, it is the hits. Jono and Ben, 7.17. You've twisted this on its head, Jono. 28 good deeds, 28 days. We're sprinting to the finish line of generosity today on day 28.

It's been a fun month. We've done some good stuff, and we've got some leftover cash to make dreams come true. However, the twist, the nasty twist, the plot twist is Ben Boyce, the Simon Barnett of the show. Who's more generous? You or Barnett? Barnett, definitely. He's giving people houses on TV, right?

Yeah. No, he's selling them, I think. Oh, is he? I just thought he was giving away houses. I don't think he's that generous. Okay. If anything, they're probably paying for him to sell houses to people. Okay.

His generosity doesn't stretch that far, mate. He's got a mortgage to knock off. So you need to phone us up. 0800. It's on a hundy mundy. You can win $100. You just got to tell Ben the heart-wrenching reason why you need the money and only two out of the three are going to win so ben who never likes to make a tough decision is going to have to decide on a loser and then

you have to say you're a loser to them okay i don't want to say i'm a loser but all right that's yeah no you're not the loser they're the loser okay you are a loser you have to say I'm a loser, but all right. You're not the loser. They're the loser, okay? You are a loser. You have to say that to the caller. Okay. Okay, this is what we're going to do. We're going to kick it off with Karen on 0800 The Hits. Welcome to the show, Kaz.

How are you? Good morning. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Now, delivery is critical on this, Karen. Slow and steady. Pull on heartstrings.

Some tears. Whatever. That's over to you it's your performance, hit the music Ju As a mother my heart's been breaking for months now my daughter

has been, was in a relationship for an excessive six years and has four children but two beautiful children to the father. He decided that he couldn't make it work and left her before Christmas. Oh, sorry to hear that. Yeah, and she's had to do it really hard,

and it really has broken my heart as a mother. And they also committed to a house that she's really struggling to afford herself. So to put food on the table has just been a real struggle for her and it would just be nice to give her something just for her. You are an angel. It's a pick-me-up.

I'm trying to wrap you up, Karen. Oh, that's serious. Yeah, honestly, it has. It's broken my heart. Who can do that at Christmas, just before Christmas? I mean, I've heard of it before, but seriously. Wait until after Christmas. Wonderful pitch.

Wonderful pitch there from Karen. You hold there, Karen. I'm so sorry to hear that. Marcus, you're on from Wellington. Yeah, good morning, boys. How are we? Oh, good, mate. Yeah, good morning, boys. How are we? Oh, good, mate. Yeah, Marcus.

Oh, mate, that last story brought a tear to my eye. Oh, man. Marcus, okay, so what do you want the $100 for? Oh, mate, I'd be loving to buy myself a birthday present. It was my birthday on the weekend. You know, because of COVID, the old folks couldn't come. You know, they're out of town and things like that. So, you know, I woke up in the morning and nothing on the birthday table.

So I'd love to go and treat myself. Oh, no birthday present, Marcus. A presentless birthday boy online, too. I know. Oh, that's sad to hear. All right, Marcus. All right. That's a very good reason to have $100.

And we have one more. Do we have to take this last caller, Jono? Amy, you're on. Welcome. You need to convince me why you deserve the money. Only two of you are going to win. What's your reason? Kia ora. So I'm not sure I'm going to get through this

without crying. I just want $100 from my daughter-in-law. She's at home right now with COVID and my grandson and normally she works three jobs to try to make ends meet, but one of them is in a as a translator and is is casual work and she can't do it right now when she's sick and she's struggling to get the rent so it just would it would help with it

wow okay now a lot of people doing it tough out there at the moment yeah so i'm sorry i'm sorry to hear that amy yeah yeahending lots of love your way. No, no, it's what's going on out there at the moment. Now, Juliet, if you could get all three callers on the line. Don't make them all get back on the line. Oh, I don't want to do this. And, Ben, you have to decide blow by blow who's getting the $100. Only two out of the three will win.

The most indecisive man in commercial radio now has to make a decision. Oh, jeez. Okay. Karen, Amy, you're going to get $100 each from the show budget. Oh, thank you so much. Because they seem like amazing reasons.

Unfortunately, Marcus, there's not another $100 in the show budget, but Jono Pryor, the goodness of his heart, is going to give you $100 from his budget. Everyone gets $100 today. You're all getting $100.100 from his budget. Everyone gets $100 today. You're all getting $100. Happy birthday, Marcus. Hang on, boss.

No. Everyone gets $100. That's how it works. It is the hits you got to all of it. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene. Helping Kiwis decorate with New Zealand-made paints since 1946. Whether you're heading to work this morning or working from home, The Hits has your music covered.

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What an amazing prize. John O'Prior, are you still with us? Or are you off there? He's muted himself. Am I here? You've muted yourself. You're working from home this morning. Yeah, I muted myself on Zoom.

Champagne stuff from this boomer. Let's go to the phones right now on 0800. That's to get your rental mortgage paid for an entire year. Who have we got? We've got Maxine. Maxine, you're on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Hello.

Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. Now, are you living in a tent outside Parliament, and would you like us to pay your rent for 12 months? Oh, unfortunately, no. I have to be at work, so. Well, you are in the draw.

So, yeah, that'd be amazing sort of weight off your shoulders, I imagine, if you got your rental and mortgage paid for the entire year. Oh, that would be awesome. What would you do with your weightless shoulders? Well, I would probably pay the rent, yes, but I'd probably buy my partner a car. Oh, buy a car with the leftover money. I love that.

All right, well, you're in the draw. More stress on your shoulders with car repayments. I love it. Good on you, Maxine. You have a great day. You're in that draw with Les and Brad on Friday, okay, to win a key. Cool. Thank you.

Have a good day. No worries, mate. Scrolling through your feed. Here's to our local courier here to deliver the news. And probably steal some packages on the way. It's Ben. What's happening? Well, It's been what's happening. Well, it's been called a Europe's darkest hour since World War Two.

Obviously, Russia have invaded Ukraine. It's horrible to see the footage and the situation over there. Just devastating and terrifying for all the people there. And the Ukrainian President Zelensky, he made a really impassioned speech. He was talking in Russian. He was talking to the Russians in the hopes of getting through to them, saying he's tried to contact Putin to avert the war, but it's been met by silence.

He said the two countries didn't need a war. We want peace. But he has added that the Ukrainians will, if they're under attack, they will defend themselves. But he's really pleaded to the Russians to listen to themselves, to be the voice of reason, and they want peace. So hopefully the message can get across to some of the Russian people. I know the rest of the world's doing their best to make things difficult for Russia.

They were cut off from the SWIFT banking system. Do you know what the SWIFT banking system is, Ben? No. It sounds like a shady little internet scam that you like to run when you rip off elderly people, but the SWIFT banking system is basically the online connection, I think between 11,000 banks or so and over 200 countries, so they can't access money or pay for any more weapons or fund their war any further. So they don't have access to the system,

which essentially transfers money all over the world for most countries. It's quite an interesting background, the president, who's really stepped up in a time of crisis. But he was a former comedian. He had no experience in politics. Elected three years ago. Yeah, so he basically played a role on a TV comedy series where he was a schoolteacher who said some stuff and passion stuff about the government. And then people went, he should be president and became president in the tv show and now has that become president in real life it was seen as a bit of a joke in 2019 but he got 73 percent of the vote uh promising to

fight corruption and bring peace to the country and uh so far he's doing a really really great job in what must be just horrible horrible horrible circumstances. I imagine. And that's like New Zealand watching many of our highbrow sketches, Ben, on TV and voting you as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Probably more like watching Chris Warner and saying he should be Director of Health in real life, you know? Yeah, true. Like, move over, Ashley Booth. You ran for Parliament, didn't you?

Oh, many years ago we had a little political party. That was, yeah, as a bit of a joke thing. Didn't quite get in, obviously, which was probably a good thing, to be honest. Although, Invercargill, you won Invercargill, didn't you? Well, no, we were a long way off winning, but we got the most amount of votes in Invercargill. So thank you, Invercargill. I don't know what it says about Invercargill people

throwing away their vote at the time. It was like 0.005 or something. It says they're stupid is what it says. Yeah, but thank you. We got our $1,000 back for entering, and then we spent it on a bar in Invercargill. How much? Because they gave us the most amount of votes.

So, yeah, it was a strange time. You wouldn't do it in 2022, would you? No, exactly. Hey, we got $5 thousand dollars up for grabs you can spend that on a bar in invicargo it could be yours in 15 minutes on the hits one great way to make the morning commute a little more stressful jonathan ben on the hits now over the weekend i was as we mentioned earlier the uh in the show was working, I work in the weekend doing some commentary for the ACC, the alternate cricket commentary in that work over the weekend.

And I found out something from someone about something that you did, Jono, at the end of last week in the work, in the work garage. Do you want to confess to anything? Do you want to, do you want to just. End of last week.

Now I do like to treat the work garage like a lawless society, sort of like Bolivia. What goes on in there can stay in there. Yeah, we used to dump a lot of rubbish, a lot of your rubbish in the old work garage that we used to work at in our old company. That was my main bugbear about leaving our previous company was I don't have anywhere to dump my rubbish now.

Now I've just been throwing it in the ocean. But, yeah, I mean, I am hyper aware that this new garage is quite high tech and there's CCTV cameras and you never want to be caught on CCTV doing anything. Even if you're engaging in a completely innocent act, if it's on CCTV, it looks dubious. It does.

Do you find that? Yeah. It's hard just walking to the lift here. Well, geez, you look shady, buddy. You look shady. And I've done some stuff. Okay, I'll front foot it. It's a confessional now.

Okay. I turned up to work shirtless the other day. You saw me. You did? Wow. I've dumped rubbish. Okay. And I accidentally ran over a sweet elderly lady holding a puppy.

Well, funny you should say some of those things, because over the weekend I came into work, and I comfortably parked my car in the work garage and walked towards the lift. And there was a guy in a high-vis vest working in the garage. There's a bit of maintenance going on in the building at the moment. And he looked at me, and he was like, oh, you drive a lot better than your mate.

And I was like, oh, okay, really? Why is that? And he said, well, the end of last week, your mate was backing out of the work garage. And he was like, oh, I'm pretty sure he would have seen me. And then I was like, uh-oh, no, he hasn't seen me. And he said he had to back back, and he kept backing back as you back back. And he backed all the way back until he was standing up against a concrete wall.

And at a high-vis vest, he said he raised his hands aloft and went, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, like this. And then you carried on, and you obviously stopped just before hitting him, and then went out of the garage. And then I felt the need to apologize on your behalf. So I'm so sorry you had to go through this for my mate there. And then thinking as I walked away,

I'm sure John has got a backing camera, but anyway, he obviously wasn't looking at it. And so I had to apologise for you almost running over someone

in a hiver's vest in the garage. That's what I love about it is he was highly visible. As he backed back, he raised his arms and whoa, whoa, whoa. I know, vaguely, but then I waved at him nicely. he was highly visible. As he backed back, he raised his arms. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I know, vaguely. But then I waved at him nicely. Did I wave at him? I don't know. I remember waving at someone in a high-vis-best. He didn't bring anything up. But then I was like, have you had any issues?

He could have raised something then when I was waving politely at him. I was like, hey, mate. He looked, to be honest, he looked a little shaker. Well, now you know why. What's wrong with that guy? He's as white as a ghost.

Here we go. I had to apologize for what he did. I'm sorry. You're constantly having to apologize for me being in my actions. Cleaning up your scandals, eh, Nick? So we've got five grand, upper grams, five words, 5K. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene.

Helping Kiwis decorate with New Zealand-made paints since 1946. Our phones haven't stopped ringing. Just ringing to see if this is the song. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It's a game of word association we play every morning around about this time. Match all five words with ours and you win $5,000by welcome to the show how are you i'm good thank you you school teacher you how's how's the weekend been all right oh it's been awesome now i have

a really good feeling about this one uh it could be the covid floating around in my system or it could be the fact that i think you're about to win $5,000. I'm hoping so. You've heard the game before, Abby. Yes. What would you do with 5K? It's a lot of coin. Well, I just got married a month ago and we didn't have a honeymoon, so I think it would have to go towards that. Did you have a lockdown wedding sort of job or what? Well, we actually got married the day before we went into the new system,

so it was on the 22nd of January. Amen to that. So you could have over 100 people. Yes, that was right. Yeah, well done. Well done. I imagine some weddings would be quite happy for the 100 limit. It would save a lot of money, although there's some awkward culling that needs to take place.

Did you have a culling list? Yeah, well, we did stick to 100 just in case things changed. So yeah, it was really tricky. Okay, well, who are you going to cull right now and put into the soundproof booth? It was Ben, wasn't it? Alright, I'll go in. That's the guy's name. I always

go as Ben, and he's into the soundproof booth right now. He can't hear a thing, and you need to come up with five words that match with his five words, and we'll give you $5,000. dollars here we go abby the first word this morning sponge bob square pants yeah easy one first off the bat leash is the second word for you this morning i'm gonna go dog Taxi. Word number three. That was taxi. Taxi. T-A-X-I.

I'm going to go car. Blueberry. The fourth word this morning. Blueberry. Blueberry, yeah. Fruit. And word number five. You're playing a really quick game here, Abby, is Hollywood. Star.

Star. Jeez, you played well. Are you happy with those words? I think so. I mean, the last one, it could be Hollywood sign, but I'm going to stick with Hollywood star. Okay, Jew, I matched with four out of five with Abby. How about you? I was the same. Okay, Jew. I matched with four out of five with Abby. How about you? I was the same. Yeah, you did well.

We'll unleash Bean from the soundproof booth. And he's coming out now like a disobedient boy who was sent off to the naughty corner to think about his actions. All right, I'm back, I'm back. Four out of five I matched with Abby. Oh, really? Okay.

If you match any less, you're a failure to your family and the team of five million. Okay, all right. Let's see how I go. First word this morning, Spongebob. Squarepants. Leash.

Dog. Abby. Sounding good. This is good. I told you I had a good feeling about this. This is good taxi cab We go to blueberry word number four. Muffin.

Hollywood. Sign. Way off. Abby. I should have gone with Giorno. I'm so sorry that wasn't an option because he's at home today. He hasn't got a soundproof booth at his house, unfortunately. No.

No, Dredd. Echoey, noisy toilets. So, well done Abbey you played a good game as the saying goes

it's not you it was definitely all Ben it was definitely me thank you for listening you go and

have a great week Abs thank you so much another chance to play tomorrow morning around about

the same time but after 8 o'clock we've got our boomer with a rumour back and this

one's to do with the Royal Family a very salacious rumour in about five minutes' time on the hits. If you love rumours straight from the mouths of the post-war generation born from 1946 to 1964, then this part of the show is designed specifically for you.

That's right. Last week we had Denise who kept texting us for many weeks about all sorts of rumours. She told a rumour involving the Prime Minister and Clark Gayford, basically saying that Clark was in New York, he was looking for houses over there, because Jacinda Ardern was going to quit in a matter of months. And she learned this from her hairdresser, don't forget. That's right. We spoke to Barry Soper, political reporter, not long afterwards,

and he kind of squashed the rumour. Well, you know, there are more rumours about Clark Gaifert than there are protests at Parliament. Honestly, if I spent time investigating the amount of emails and texts that I get about Clark Gaifert,

then I wouldn't have any time for anything else. Denise, last week, the rumour, the boomer rumour, debunked in minutes by political editor Barry Soper. Oh, what would Barry know? I mean, for goodness sake. He knows nothing. He started that whole, that kind of gig.

He wouldn't know anything. He's a political reporter. He is around Parliament. No one's around Parliament more than Barry Soper. Darling, darling, he's a soap of the whole opera. Fiasco of Jacinda. He's part

of it. I'm sorry he doesn't understand the real truth. No, no. What would Barry know? Listen, obviously we're not going to turn you on the Jacinda's moving to New York with Clark rumour, but we've not going to turn you on the Jacinda's moving to New York with Clark rumor. But we got another text from you during last week's show saying you have one about the Queen. Now, we'd love to hear the boomer rumor that Denise is bringing to the table this week. Well, you know, Queen is like an auntie to me.

I mean, she's such a darling, but this is very sad. If she passed away, I've heard, yeah. No, surely not. I mean, there has been some things online I've seen where someone, a blog overseas might have said that she passed away, but then they retracted it. So surely, surely they would have announced it. No, no, I've heard it.

Look, this rumor came from my butcher. He's British. So your British butcher, he's heard it straight from, this is direct from the UK out of Buckingham? Yes, yes. British, my butcher. But not all British people have a direct line to the Buckingham Palace. But why have they not announced it then?

If this is the real news, as you're saying, it's obviously very sad. But why have they not announced it? Because I this is the real news, as you're saying, it's obviously very sad, but why have they not announced it? Because I always hate books, darling. So I always hear these things first. It seems like such an enormous event to keep hidden from the public. It does. Are they just keeping her under a blanket? How are

they hiding the fact? Well, according to my butcher, who is British, they're hiding it because she doesn't want to say anything, of course, at this point, because she can't. I mean... Well, you're right. Can I just say, the more you say my butcher, he's British, the less I believe this rumour. Yeah, I'm with you, Jono, but yeah.

I'm really sad about it, though, and I know my butcher doesn't tell talkies. Now, sorry, where was your butcher from? Oh, he's from Manchester. Oh, right. Oh, Manchester. And where is that? What country is that in?

Well, that's in England, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, and so that would make him... British, my butcher. It spread very quickly. Like in Stewart Island, I had a contact there. And also, where was that? Eke Tahuna. Eke Tahuna.

That was another one. Denise, are you just making up locations? Yeah, I feel like it. Okay. All right, Denise. Well, as usual, we'll try and follow up this rumor. We've got Gavin Gray Gray who's our UK correspondent we might try and call him next

because if anyone's going to know John A it'll be him, right? Maybe a butcher from Manchester who's now in New Zealand somewhere Yeah, maybe Denise, what would you like to say if Gavin says this is not true? Well then he's coming live because it is true It is true and my butcher's

very British, I tell you. Oh, that's our scandalous rumour today from our Boomer Rumour. As always, we like to follow these up, Jono. I think we should call Gavin Gray, who's our UK correspondent. If anyone would know about the real family, it'd be him, right? The annoying ones talking between the songs. Jono and Ben on the hits. So now we get Denise on from time to time, who's our boomer,

and she always has a rumour. Today she'd heard from her butcher this rumour. Well, you know, the Queen is like an auntie to me. I mean, she's such a darling, but this is very sad. If she's passed away, I've heard, yeah. So we hope it's not the case that the Queen has passed away. We hope it's just another one of her crazy rumours. But we thought we'd follow it up anyway with our UK correspondents, Gavin Gray.

Good morning, Gavin. Hi there, guys. Lovely to have you on, our UK correspondents. I don't know if you know that, but that's what we call you, Gavin. We probably don't pay you that correspondent fee, but we'll call you one. I like it. Gavin, we do a part of the show. It's called Boomer Rumors.

Basically, wild rumors created by the over-60s market here in New Zealand. The latest rumor is the Queen has already passed on, although Buckingham Palace are hiding the fact. Yes, this is something I have actually heard of. And indeed, it's not, I don't think the only rumour circulating about Her Majesty. I think basically it is incorrect. I'm pretty sure it is incorrect.

I can't categorically 100% say it isn't because I haven't personally seen the 95 year old monarch because of course she has coronavirus and is basically isolating and hasn't been seen on any sort of the virtual chats which were due to be taking place. We were told she'd be on light duties this week and it started off that way.

But then they have been one by one cancelled. we've learned in the last couple of hours that an engagement, her first engagement that she was due to undertake since testing positive for COVID has been cancelled. And again, apparently we're being told that's to help Her Majesty recover from coronavirus. So this could have some substance. Well, I knew that that last sentence was bound to ignite the rumour mongers and the excitement among that. She is 95 years old. Hopefully she hasn't passed on and this is just a wild rumour. But what actually happens when the Queen sadly passes on? I imagine there'll be ceremonies and a whole lot of stuff that has to happen?

Yes. Now I have worked and still work for national broadcasters here. And in the last few years, all the major national broadcasters all have been practising for the eventual day that Her Majesty passes on. And there are some very strict protocols to be obeyed in the event that Her Majesty dies that will effectively see the country go into official mourning for several days. Charles must be sitting there salivating like a dog staring at some sausages right now. He's eager to be king. He wouldn't want his mother to obviously pass away, but it's been a long road.

You're right, Jono. Yeah, so you two guys have absolutely encapsulated the sheer conundrum that he must face almost every day. He's made it known he wants to be king. He's not going to pass it on to William, as so many would like it to. Prince William's seen as a very, very popular figure around the world. Prince Charles potentially less so.

So he's going to want his turn, as it were. Now, the problem is, of course, Prince Charles, already in his 70s, is therefore taking it over in a very different way from Her Majesty, who was, of course, in her 20s. So it's a very, very different thing for Prince Charles taking it on. But there is that conundrum, I dare say, within his own heart and his own mind as to that day when she eventually dies, that this will be a day of great sadness, but also a day of tumultuous change in his life. Why do you think she eventually dies, that this will be a day of great sadness, but also a day of tumultuous change in his life.

Why do you think she's been queen for so long and not handed over to Charles? Was it like when my parents went away for the weekend and they wouldn't trust me with the house? Is it that sort of situation? Well, look, I'm not sure that the keys to Buckingham Palace would be entirely Charles' to do as he will with. I think part of the thing has been Her Majesty always says, I dedicate my life to service. And that meant her entire life, not the healthy bit of it, not necessarily the more active bit of it.

Now, regarding Charles, though, things are going to be very different. Now, you mark my words, boys. You will either ring me up a year into his accession and say, gosh, you were wrong, or boy, you were right. Things alike, the coronation itself will be much shorter, much simpler, and much less flashy. There will be fewer working members of the royal family. He really envisages a much, much more slimmed down royal family, partly, to be honest, some of the work's being done for him, isn't it? Prince Harry disappearing and Prince Andrew never to be seen in public, so to speak. But he's going to be really using fewer members of the royal family doing more, and I think basing the British royal family

on some of the sort of European royal families that we've seen, where it's really the main four or five characters who are the royal family. Gavin Gray, our UK correspondent, I think we can call him that. Thank you so much for your time. We really appreciate it this morning. Take care, guys. If you're a guy here for romantic advice, you are in serious trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. We're talking about love and relationships, Jono.

People that have rekindled their relationship after a bit of a, say, sabbatical. Yeah, relationship sabbaticals. Did you take a breather and then ended up breathing on someone else for a while? My thing would be if I broke up with Jen, my wife, now, and then we rekindled, say, five or six years down the track. I'd want to know numbers and stats. Well, apparently. Who was more prolific out on the market?

Well, apparently Ben Stiller, who rekindled his relationship with his ex-wife after five years, apparently they didn't date. They didn't see anyone else. No one else. Not to say they didn't get, well, no. And it's to say they didn't date, they didn't see anyone else. And that's their story and they're sticking to it.

But Kirsten, you had a relationship sabbatical. Good morning. Yeah, we did. Yes, we got together when we were about 17. This was in 1998. It was a fine year, a vintage year for relationships. Yeah, and then we were together for about a year, maybe almost two years. And then I remember actually my boyfriend at the time said,

oh, you know, we won't be together for too much longer because, you know, we're young and we want to travel the world. And I was pretty heartbroken then, to be honest. But we did break up. And that took me a while to get over. But then we had other relationships. He went overseas actually for a while to the UK. I had another boyfriend here.

He had other girlfriends. After about five years or maybe it was six years, it was about, we got back together. And have you been together ever since? Yeah, we've been together ever since. And now we've got a six-year-old and a three-year-old. And I remember still, like, at the time when we got back together, I actually had another boyfriend. And he used to just pop around all the time and say hi. And my other boyfriend was like, who is this guy?

And I was like, ah, old news. Now, can we just spare a thought for the other boyfriend who he came in as a as a you know a temporary player off the bench yeah well he lucky just didn't um he didn't are you wary that you know he went to the uk they do things differently in europe uh you know that they try stuff they push boundaries have you found out about his partners in the uk during your sabbatical yeah no well that's the thing like so we just we got engaged about 17 years ago and then we haven't done anything further because i guess we sort of think oh well you never know like maybe the the whole sabbatical idea is not a bad idea so you've been engaged since a very long time keeping your options open just a little bit even though you've got kids that engage.

Pretty well this day. It is. I mean, it's always good to base a relationship on the fact that, you know, one day it could all turn to crusted.

So let's just, let's not get too committed. It's like a flight. You need to know where your exits are, you know, just to be safe. You hope you're not

going to ever use them, but yeah. Limit the paperwork and I want to be filling out an extra documentation're not going to have to use them, but yeah. Limit the paperwork. I don't want to be filling out any extra documentation. Good on you, admin. Too much admin. I see where you're at. I see where you're at.

I'm not busy. Hey, we appreciate you sharing that with us. Thank you. Yeah, all right. No, thank you. Oh, well, can you beat Kirsty? Have you had more breakups and rekindlings? We'd love to hear from you this morning.

0800 The Hits is our phone number. It is Justin Bieber. 0800 The Hits is our phone number. It is Justin Bieber. Anyone on The Hits. We're talking relationship sabbaticals like Ross and Rachel. Were you on a break? And did you get back together again or not? Who got to 0800 The Hits? Caroline.

Yeah, my parents. Yeah, my parents. Oh, it was your parents? So talk us through the details. Not too many details, your parents, but what happened? Yeah, well, I was quite young at the time, but my parents, yeah, they decided to separate and divorce, and then I went and lived with my mum, and then about seven, eight years later,

they got back together and remarried, and they've been together ever since. Oh, that is sweet. Did they go off and have different partners during that seven, eight-year sabbatical? Yes, they did. Yes, they did. And then just decided that— Orkeys. Yeah, a little bit of orkeys, but that's good.

They decided they were meant to be for each other. Oh, absolutely. Look, they've been together since they were in high school. So, you know, it's, yeah, a really long time that they've been together. Now, as the kids, were you sort of planting seeds like some sort of family-friendly Disney movie? Like The Parent Trap or something? Trying to get the day together. Yeah.

I wish. No, not really. It was pretty cold, actually, when they did get remarried, you know. What was the first wedding or the second? The second. But also a little bit awkward as a teenager going, oh, mum and dad, stop hooking up, you know?

Like, as a teenager, it's not always the things you want to see, but awesome that their love was blossoming. Oh, absolutely. Yes. Yeah. You'd never heard of anybody sort of divorcing and then getting back together. So, absolutely. Yes. You've never heard of anybody divorcing and then getting back together. So, you know, it was pretty cool. Yeah, it's a wonderful

story. You're right though, you don't want to see your parents ravaging each other on the couch, do you? You don't want to watch Home and Away. Mum! Yeah. Thank you for sharing that story with us, we appreciate it. Oh no, no worries. Christine, you bloody legend. Hello.

Now, we're talking relationship sabbaticals this morning, and apparently you had a wee sabbatical. Well, we've actually had two, to be fair. Two? We've broken up and got back together twice. Yeah, can't stay away. And currently together? Yes, we are.

Yeah, we've bought a house together and everything again. Oh, awesome. Give us the timeline of these hook-ups and break-ups. Gosh, hook-ups, I don't like that term, but I'll for a hook-up. When you got together and then you decided to have a break and then you got together again, so we're talking a year or two at a time?

Originally when we got together we only went out for a short time because at the time he had young children and I had none and it just wasn't quite right timing. So we went our separate ways and then we met up again through work. I think it was like nine years later. And in the meantime, I had had my daughter with somebody else. We got together and got married a year after we reacquainted.

And we were together for about nine years and then went our separate ways. Then he had a motorcycle accident and broke his back. Yeah, it was like a real reality check. He was very lucky and he made a full recovery, but it was like a reality check that, you know what, life's too short to worry about the small stuff and just get on with it. So we got back together and we're still together. Oh, that's

beautiful. You're beautiful. What's the thing, though? What do you think it is, the thing that makes it just feel right? What's the thing you guys keep coming back on? Convenience. I don't know if there is such a thing as soulmates. Not convenience. Not convenience, Jono.

It would have been blooming inconvenient if he'd ended up in a wheelchair, but I was prepared to change my house around to take a wheelchair if he'd ended up in one. Oh, that is absolutely sweet. And so, hey, are you never too old to hook up? It's a bit hard when he's got a broken back, but eventually that back gets working again. Is the back back to full strength? Yes, he's in full working order, shall we say. Backstreets back and so is that back.

Oh, Christine, lovely story. That really is a beautiful story for a Monday. You have a great day. Rise and shine, time to start the who are we kidding? When are the both of you? Jono and Ben, on the hits. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. On your Monday morning is the last day of February,

which means it's our last day for this. Sorry, there's no intro. Of course there's no intro. You think throughout the month we would have got an intro? But you think throughout the month, remember, we don't have an intro. I paused like there was an intro, but anyway, John and Ben's good deeds. We should have got an intro, but anyway, we didn't do that. We're too busy doing good deeds for people,

and we're going to do our final one right now. Maybe the final good deed will be make Ben an intro. That'd be nice. Shall we make a call? Now we're going to go through to a lady here who's struggling to pay for the sports gear for the kids. Can be costly, that sports gear, Ben, boys. Yeah, kids' sports uniforms and all sorts. I can imagine.

This is Chloe. Oh, Chloe. Chloe speaking, Jono speaking, and Ben speaking as well. Oh, hello. Now, we have a message here from you, and you've got a good deed that you'd like us to do. Yeah. Is it make Ben an intro?

Because I'd really love an introduction for this segment, but it's not about me right now. Hey, Chloe, it sounds like, as most parents would understand, you've got to pay for school uniforms and sports gear at the moment. It gets quite pricey. Yeah, it really is, especially when you've got multiple children. How many kids have you got?

Three. Three kids. So that's a lot of uniforms. There's a lot of stuff to buy, a lot of shoes and socks and all that stuff which doesn't come cheap. Well, as our final good deed on 28 Good Deeds for the month of February, our final good deed ever, we'll be doing no more good acts. Well, no.

No more. The madness must stop. We're going to pay for your kids' sporting uniforms. Oh, wow. Thank you. Yeah, we want to give $300 towards the kids' uniforms, whatever you want to spend it on. The kids' is all yours. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. The kids there? Yeah, we want to give $300 towards the kids' uniforms, whatever you want to spend it on. The kids is all yours. Thank you so much.

You're very welcome. The kids there? Yeah, they are. Oh, hand us over to the kids then. Okay. Boys, come here. Yeah, bring them all over. Hello.

Hey, kids, your sports uniforms. I know you'll be stressing out about those. Get some new shoes for soccer. Okay, it's a private number. Okay, it's a private number. Yeah, it's a private number. It's a couple of weirdos chatting down the line to your mum on a private number pretending to pay for stuff. Who actually are you?

Who are we? Good questions. These are great questions. Okay, we're Jono and Ben. We're from the Hits radio station. And we've called on a private number which I understand your suspicions. I never answer a private number myself.

He wouldn't have either. But in this case your mum has answered the number and we want to give you guys $300 to pay for your sports uniforms or school uniforms, whatever you need. Yes, please. That's okay? That's okay with you? We've won them round, Jono. Yeah, it takes a while.

I mean, he's still getting his head around this private number setup. Only for that. Only for that? Okay, well, yeah. Do you want more? Or do you want to spend it on other stuff? Yeah, for like anything that's $300. No.

Oh, okay. Stop it. We'll leave this with you guys. It's out of our jurisdiction. Hang up now. Private number's going. with you guys. It's out of our jurisdiction. Hang up now. Private number's going. See you guys. $300 you spend it on whatever. Thank you, private number.

You're welcome. Don't always answer a private number, but in this occasion it was a good one. Thank you, private number. No, it's a private number, sir. All right, see you guys. So much chat. Private number out.

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