Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: How Far Will Jono Go To Save Peter Andre..

Episode Date: August 9, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast, the guys discuss the shock elimination that Peter Andre faced in The Hits 'Best Song Ever' competition, Jono discusses a potential live Karaoke performance and is Ben a bad parent for not wanting to hang around the netball courts whilst his daughter is umpiring??See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast. Kia ora, welcome. It's the 10th of August today. The podcast is on. Yeah. I was going to pitch a topic. Tomorrow, what are you ashamed of Googling? Now, I'm not talking about content that you'd be embarrassed for others to see. I'm talking about like you questioned yourself and how you're a functioning adult. I need some time i'm sure

there's plenty of things but i had to google yesterday how many letters in the alphabet like i knew it was either 23 or 26 right it's 26 yeah yeah thank you thank you i don't know but as i was typing it i was like jeez i hope no one finds out about this yeah there's those questions that you ask you ask the internet and the internet knows everything about you yeah google google does in particular i mean if google was a person you are trusting oh it's probably a big corporation we're trusting a giant corporation with when you think about that you're like no one knows you better than Google.

Your partner, kids, family, you're completely honest with Google. Why? Like, this is going to come back and bite us big time. Google, one day, Google's going to go... You sound like that whole TikTok conspiracy thing about the government overseas, they're getting all your details and stuff.

Well, maybe it's true. Maybe it is, you know? I don't know what they want to do with my details. I don't actually care. If the phone's under surveillance, if I'm being tracked, well, I lead a bleak life, so whoever's having to track me must be leading a pretty bleak life. Do you care?

I feel if you're walking down the road, you're on some form of a camera nowadays. You're always being filmed. You're always being tracked. Yeah. Just give into it. They've won. You know, they've won.

No matter how much tinfoil you put on your head, they've won. Producer Joel? Have you ever wondered what comes up after you search your guys' names on Google? No. Has it ever intrigued you too much? I think Producer Juliet might have.

Didn't we play some of these at one stage? We'll have a look What comes up there, Joel? Are you talking about solo names? Yeah, so for you it's Jono Pryor Jono Pryor, wife, Instagram, family, marathon, hair and net worth That's the six-month deal What's his net worth? No, no

What does it say where net worth is? Ben Boyce is Googling What is Jono Pryor's net worth? Let's have a look Jono Pryor, net worth was this Ben Boyce is googling What is Jono Pryor's net worth Let's have a look Jono Pryor's net worth And then Ben Boyce is Ben Boyce wife Instagram daughter

Facebook age Dreads height And Ben Boyce MMA That's Oh there's a There's a fighter Yeah Yeah I think

Yeah who's Really like If anyone was going to Relinquish the name Ben Boyce It would be me Yeah You guys should fight Fight for the

Fight for supremacy No he can have the name He looks awesome He looks be me yeah you guys should fight fight for the fight for supremacy he can have the name he looks awesome he looks awesome he's probably doing a lot better I'm bringing shame upon the name

mate I'm worth 1.5 million dollars just googled it just googled it one here says 4 to 6 million 4 to 6 million 4 to 6 million

keep going okay things are going well things are going well but you what are you how are you what yeah mate 4 to 6 mil I don't know what did you negotiate oh no definitely Keep going, okay. Things are going well. Things are going well for you. What are you? How are you? What?

Yeah, mate, four to six mil. I don't know, what did you negotiate? Oh, no, definitely didn't. No wonder they said, oh, look, hey, times are tough. We haven't got a lot for you, but I was just grateful to have the show. Your greedy bull co-host has taken four to six million. Four to six million? Jeez, enjoy the podcast.

A lot of fun. We talk about, well. I'm not going to be back tomorrow, by the way. No, no. I was going to say, today on the podcast is just cheapest weddings. It doesn't worry. Stuff that you won't have to worry about, mate. Do you want me to pay for your wedding?

Oh, yeah. If I get married again, that'd be nice. But the cheapest weddings are on the podcast as well. Someone actually made money off it. And you'll find out also how some lady wore her knickers as a scarf for the entire day and no one said anything. That's all on the podcast. Jono and Ben, the bold and the beautiful.

On their heads. Note, may not be beautiful. I did an eye test yesterday. Well, I decided to do an eye test. Did you just Google some letters on the internet? No, I went and did like a proper one. Like I'd done one before with the driver's license and stuff and now and again with the doctor and stuff.

But it was quite a fascinating experience. It's, yeah, I mean, every time I have to do a test, you just get nervous and you're like, I'm going to fail this. Even a COVID test, I'm like, I'm fine. Yeah. But even you get anxious there. So having to just read letters that slowly get tinier and tinier. Oh, no.

And you're like, oh, God. And you say the letters and then you're like, oh, is that right? Is that right? You know, towards the end you're like, maybe because they don't go, yeah, correct. It's not like a game show on TV. They should probably make it more like a game show when you're going, C, G. Well, you've got a one out of 26 chance of landing it, don't you? Yeah.

But one thing I found really interesting because they were sort of, you know, checking out your eyeballs for damages and things like that, you know, and I thought of you. How are your eyes? They're fine, actually. I'm fine. I don't need glasses or anything like that. That's what my 89-year-old grandmother said. Well, no, I thought there's no chance I walk out of there without them going, you need glasses. You know, it's like going to the dentist or the mechanic. You just feel like you're going to... I'm going to need an eye transplant. You're probably going to need dentist or the mechanic yeah it's like you just feel like you're gonna oh i'm gonna need an eye transplant you're probably gonna need this done now but it was fine it was fine um but one day i try and screw you over in the eye industry which i appreciated

which was good yeah i thought oh they're gonna see me coming literally but no but one thing i thought i thought of you because you don't like stuff involved with your eyes there was one thing where you had to look up really close to the machine and then the lady was like keep your eyes open i'm gonna like it's gonna be like a puff had to look up really close to the machine and then the lady was like, keep your eyes open. I'm going to like, it's going to be like a puff of air is going to come out

of the machine. But try not to flinch. You're like, oh God. I couldn't do that. Someone's like blowing into your eyeball. Yeah, but it comes out of the machine.

Every time it would come out, you just flinch. It's so hard not to flinch. It's like, psh. Yeah. And it happened like multiple times on each eyeball and I was like, oh Jono,

because you don't like anything to do with your eyes. You would not like this. Eyes are my weak spot. Plus also my core strength is also my weak spot. But yeah, I had to get a contact lens put in for something we're doing for work. And it was a 45-minute exercise for the poor person trying to put in my eyes. Because you were dressed as Voldemort, I think we're trying to dress you as.

Which is the part you were born to play from Harry Potter, you've got the same look. Or Gollum. Gollum from Lord of the Rings is another great part. But we're like, well, let's change your eyes to make them look a bit more scarier. So that's put in some temporary contact lenses. It wasn't necessary. No, it probably wasn't.

The contact lenses were not necessary to the role. Yeah. You know? Well, it's not like we were doing highbrow sketch comedy or anything. And so he put it in 45 minutes. but then the problem was getting them out. And they meant to pinch your eyeball. And I couldn't do it myself, but you meant to pinch your eyeball and you can remove the contact lens.

And he was pinching and poking and prodding, and I was like, you know, I was like a child that was being forced medicine or something. And he put, he went, uh-oh, and the contact lens had slipped behind my eyeball. That's not what you want to hear. No. And I was like, surely, what do you do? Do they dissolve? Surely they just dissolve.

Yeah, you think they're right. He's like, no, no, I'm going to have to scoop it out with my finger. And you already hate eye stuff, so this is not your happy place. And there was another 10 or 15 minutes with his little finger getting behind. Even me, though. I don't mind eye stuff, but even the thought of someone's finger going behind my eyes just made me go If I was ever a prisoner of war

all they would have to do is just show me pictures of eyeballs and I'd release my country's darkest secrets. Tell them all Scrolling through your feed Alright, what we lack in journalism we make up for in puns and that's scrolling through your feed. Heavily invested in this relationship in New Zealand.

We are Taika Waititi. Of course, New Zealand's one of our best directors, writers. Very, very funny guy. Tell that to Jane Campion, mate. Well, I'm not saying she's not one of the... What did you say? One of the? I thought you labelled the best. You've always got to do a one of the, don't you?

Just to buy yourself insurance if you haven't thought about others. We have got some tremendous people in the film industry. And Rita Ora, she's a UK pop star. But they reportedly got married over the weekend. We were talking a wee bit about it yesterday, about the fact that it was a wedding ring spotted on Taika's finger in an Instagram post. Well, now someone else has talked.

A source has told The Sun in the UK as well that they did get married in London. It was a really intimate ceremony. Very special. It's just like, I mean, I feel like Who's, is this someone who went to the wedding? Well, no, the nearest and dearest can see how many in love they are. I feel like these are sweeping, generalised statements from someone who just wanted to. I feel

like if someone were you, you're like, yeah, I'll tell you about the wedding. Oh, it was an intimate affair, you know? Gorgeous. She looked stunning. Yeah intimate affair. You know? Gorgeous. She looked stunning. Yeah. Yeah. He looked very dapper. And just generic stuff, so I couldn't be called into a question.

They also said, despite being in the spotlight, they were determined to keep the relationship as private as possible. You know, these are all just statements to say they didn't want to make a big song and dance about their wedding. But they do have a showbiz style celebration planned at some stage. Oh, well. I mean, that's the thing. When you've got a wedding band,

everyone sort of zeroes in on those details, don't they? As far as the wedding band, I'm minding my genitals. No one knows, Ben. Where's yours? It's in the drawer at home and in the bathroom. And Rita Ora, they reckon it was also changed to surname to waiti aura as well hyphenated as well but i don't know this is your order yeah yeah is she yeah well that's what they said order like it was a maori name that's gonna really confuse us yeah that's true and uh sad

news of course yesterday uh that broke during the show olivia newton john uh sadly passed away after a long battle with breast cancer she was 73 years 73 years old, but tributes have been flowing in, as you'd understand. Her daughter posted a lovely heartfelt one. John Travolta, her Greece co-star yesterday, had lovely words. Kylie Minogue, Sir Rod Stewart, so many celebrities as well. And former, I think it was a Kiwi, he's Kiwi in Australia, right? Richard Wilkins. Oh, the entertainment guy.

He's an entertainment reporter as well. He has got a long, rich history and friendship with Olivia Newton-John and he was talking on Australian television yesterday and understandably found it quite emotional. Oh, buddy. Check back. Well done, man. It's such a beautiful, your relationship with her was so beautiful.

No, no, it's all right. It's all right. It's a a beautiful... Your relationship with her was so beautiful. Do you want to... No, no, it's all right. It's all right. It's the depth of feeling. There aren't too many people that you can do a Zoom... With and feel it. Zoom thing. Yeah. She touched everyone, didn't she?

And even through, as you say, a Zoom call, whether it was someone in a hospital, whether it was someone on the boardwalks of Hollywood who didn't even know her that well, that depth of feeling. This woman was extraordinary, huh? And for you to be here this morning, Dickie, when this is so personal. Well, I'm still numb. I'm still, you know.

Oh, that's lovely. Do they call him Dickie over there? Yeah, which is what we're going to say. Aussies, they love a nickname they don't know. I love Dickie. My middle name's Dickie. We always start calling you that. You'll be Jay Dickie or something.

Yeah. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben on the hits. We're talking about the times you're a little bit dark at your dad. Yeah. After a wee incident that I had over the holidays where I got my daughter and he was a bit, you know bit frightened to go down the hydro slide.

And I was like, it'll be fun. It'll be fun. Trust me. It'll be better than you think. And it wasn't quite better than she thought it was going to be. No, it was worse. I felt awful. I felt awful.

Well, the good thing is it's made me feel better about my parenting. And that's the main thing. Like growing up, you know, dads, they drop the ball from time to time, don't they? I remember John Pryor, who's a wonderful father. He was always a wonderful father, but he forgot to pick me up from rugby once. He was busy. He was working at the Monaco City Council at the time. And that's, you know, parents, they've got stuff going on.

And sometimes you forget you've got a kid. You don't. It happens to them. It's defencive. He had one, two, you know. It's forgettable. It's all those multiple kids. Unforgettable.

Yeah, exactly. It happens from time to time. Anyway, I had some great calls coming through yesterday. We spoke to, was it Hayley? I think. Yeah. Hayley? Yes, Hayley phoned through,

and this is why she was dark at her dad. Well, a few years ago, my dad, he got married, and he didn't even tell me he was getting married. Oh, he got married in secret. That's how I felt when I discovered J-Lo and Ben Affleck were married. They didn't tell you either, did they, J-Lo? You feel cheated, don't you?

Oh, so when did you find out? How long after the wedding? Like a couple of months, I think it was. Had you met his partner, his wife? Yes, about maybe once before. Right, so you knew he was in a relationship. You just didn't know that he got married and you weren't invited. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, no, well, that's why you were dark at your dad. But, Ben, you've got an instance. Well, I'll tell you my scenario. So my parents, much like yours, they have separated. And then they were in new relationships. They both got remarried. I went to the wedding. So yeah, that was good.

Were the weddings good? Yeah, it was good. Good food? Yeah. But then they both decided to go separately with their new partners and my sister to movie world, Hollywood on the Gold Coast. And one went for a trip. And then I was like was like oh i didn't get invited to that okay but maybe i'll get the next time and then my other parent went with it but took my sister a few months later hollywood

on the gold coast movie world i did twice twice i would have loved hollywood on the gold coast yeah so it's not it's not really in the same realm as your dad getting married. But that's his little story. Did the same sister get to go twice? Yes, yeah, yeah. Miley, she got twice. She went twice with both. Brett, he's called us on 0800 The Hits.

Good morning, Brett. Hello. Good morning to you. Now, you were dark at dad. What happened? My father decided to take a trip over to Disneyland, the US, the

original Disneyland, and left his three children here in New Zealand while he took his new partner. I've just been moaning about not going to Hollywood on the Gold Coast, but your father's gone one step further. My dad and my mum didn't take me there,

but on two separate trips. But this is Disneyland. It is, yeah. The happiest place on earth. Yeah, and a fully grown man and his partner. Fully grown. Yeah, well, hey. Okay, yeah.

And then he brought me back some little Mickey Mouse bunny ears was my gift that he brought back to me after his, like, three-week trip. I feel your part. I know what you're going through. This is the exact same scenario, except I'm also hyped up. Disneyland. Yeah, Disneyland. Wow, that's one step further.

But a funny story about it is he actually messaged me a few weeks ago because he's not well at the moment and he wanted to take a family trip. So he was going to shout us all over to Disneyland. Really? So we were all sort of planning to go in October. He has now got a new partner and it's just

them going. Really? Yeah, really. So he's got a new partner from the other partner? Yeah, yeah. Oh, they ended up separating that long after that trip. She's like, thanks for Disneyland. Disneyland was great. Well, it is great. And so now the new partner gets to go

to Disneyland. Yeah, so us kids miss out once again. Oh, you might get some, like a Donald Duck beak or something this time, you know? Yeah, exactly. Oh, well, listen, Brittany, one day we'll get some, like, a Donald Duck beak or something this time, you know? Yeah, exactly. Oh, well, listen, Brittany, one day we'll get you to Disneyland, okay? Oh, yay. All right.

And now we're putting pressure on us to take Brittany as well. First, we'll probably take our partners. Yeah, you take me. You take me. Okay, all right. Hey, good on you, Brittany. Have a good one. Awesome.

Thank you so much. See you, mate. The H good on you, Britt. Have a good one. Awesome. Thank you so much. See you, mate. The Hits. Best. Song. Ever. Well, we are looking for the best song of all time. It's voted by you.

We're putting some amazing songs head-to-head. We're doing it again after 9 o'clock this morning. What happens when you put two amazing songs head-to-head? Is there some upsets? Is there some results that you go, geez, that song's a banger and it's gone already? I tell you what,

there has been some monumental songs. They've been dumped harder than Pete Davidson from this countdown. Yeah, now yesterday you predicted some of the battles

and you didn't do great. I'll be honest with you. You didn't do great. To be honest, can I be more honest with you? I didn't put much thought into it. Well, you probably went, you went with your heart and not with your head.

Got to think about the audience. Yeah, like you predicted Bon Jovi to beat Avril Lavigne. That made sense. But I was surprised with this one. George Michael Queen, somebody to love, lost to the Backstreet Boys. They lost to the Backstreet Boys. To the Backstreet, but Queen. Yeah, Guns N' Roses beat John Farnham yesterday.

Oh, that was November rain in the voice. Yeah. Tracy Chapman, Fast Car bet Tupac, Californian love. Spice Girls Wanna Be bet Oasis, Wonderwall. And another one that we were a little bit gutted about as well, because we put our backing in behind, Peter Andre, Mysterious Girl, over Pink, Raise Your Glass. Well, Peter Andre sadly lost yesterday.

We were like like that's back peter andre this was the moment i think we should put our weight behind mysterious girl to win this competition it's a great for our friendship with peter andre he's one of our 10 000 followers on the hits breakfast on instagram he comments on our post so why not okay let's back it after nine o'clock we'll see if it's there tomorrow on the hits. And it's not. It's not. Pink just destroyed it. We felt a sense of responsibility to Peter Andre, didn't we, to back him. Just because of our connection with him, our personal connection to back our friend.

Pink's got like 300 songs in there. Yeah, she's got a lot of songs in there. So, you know, we were talking to Matt Anderson, who is looking after the countdown here at the hits. I said, you know, technically, could it be Pink taking on Pink in the final? He's like, yeah, that could happen. Because Pink's in again today. Yeah, of course she is. She's taking on Robbie Williams. Let me entertain you.

Well, let's just, Peter Andre just has one song. Just let him have his one. You know, Pink, you just relinquish one of your duds. She hasn't got any duds. That's the problem with Pink. But surely she must be like, oh, I'm not that good. Oh, that one's not as good as the other one. Raise your glass. Let's put that out. Let she must be like, oh, I'm not that good. That one's not as good as the other one. Raise your glass.

Let's put that out. Let Peter Andre have a little bit of time on stage. So can we get him back in the competition or is he gone? What's happening now? I'll do anything. I have got no lows that I will not reach to get Peter Andre back in this competition.

Would you resign? That's probably... Would you resign? Is that your commitment to Peter Andre, our Instagram friend? You said anything. That's the first thing that popped into my head. But you're saying, you know,

we've never met him face to face. I interviewed him once on the radio. Oh, so that show, this puts in perspective, everyone listening right now, your commitment. That's fine. I just wanted to know.

I'll do anything. And then I just said, well, would you resign? Well, I've got a family to think about here. So you won't do anything well I won't resign what's that sorry producer Joel

would you do a live on air version a karaoke version on air of Mysterious Girl by Peter Andre to get him back in oh well that's better than resigning

so yes I would do that okay but what happens because you said yesterday in karaoke what if we got the whole office the building to come watch you do karaoke

at like a real like awkward like morning tea time where no one's having any drinks and it's really awkward no one wants to be there no one wants to be there

would you do that would you do the whole song you can't start to finish and no being silly you have to commit to it you can't be like as soon as

you're like oh he's putting on a silly voice we start again it has to be like full I'm trying my best. Do I have to dress like the Mysterious Girl video? Shirtless? Yeah.

With jeans on? With jeans on. Hey, now we're brainstorming. Here we go. This is where the magic happens. Yeah. Either that or resign. Your options.

My two options. Well, I can't resign. Like, I can't. Well, you can. You know the implications. You can. You know the implications of resigning. I know. I know. But, yeah. I've got a mortgage. Yeah. Well, I can't resign. Well, you can. You know the implications of resigning. I know, but yeah.

I've got a mortgage. Okay, I'll do the performance. Okay, that's what I'll do. Shirtless, awkward morning tea, office performance. Put me on the stage out there in the iHeartLounge. Okay, yeah. Full commitment, otherwise you start again. Who decides how much commitment has been put forward?

Me. So you're going to just be like No, start again I'll put my hand up and be like No, no Have you got another version? Stop, stop, stop We'll start with the name

You're just going to make me do it ten times Great brainstorming session Well that's what I'll do to get Peter Andre back We'll find out if Peter Andre will get back in the competition And what other battles are going to be on today And it's the hits The hits This is the Jono and Ben podcast out of that. Peter Andre will get back in the competition. What other battles are going to be on today? It is The Hits. The Hits. This is the Jono and Ben podcast.

Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. She's not a good person, but either is he. Digging the dirt. Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling at cast members. Yes. It was a script.

No. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. Yeah, you know, I'm not sure how excited I would be, you know, to have Rita Ora in my family. But you guys, you. I'm excited.

What? I'm being excited. Well, no, Ben, so you're saying you'd be excited to bring Rita Ora into your family you're already married. Oh, no, Ben, so you're saying you'd be excited to bring Rita Ora into your family? You're already married. Oh, no, but I'm not saying to me, but into a part of my family. She looks awesome. But it does look like, because here's the interesting thing.

So Rita Ora's sister took that photo that you're talking about. And in the photo, you can see what TD has a wedding ring on or a finger, a ring on the wedding finger that really looks like a wedding band. And everybody's like, hmm. And it would be like Rita's sister to go ahead and say, OK, well, Rita, you can be quiet about it. But I'm going to go ahead and make sure everybody knows whom I'm just going to put it out there and show, hey, he's married. And then Rita posts the same same photo but has the caption and the caption hides the wedding ring right so okay sister you can do what you want but

i don't want him angry at me so i'm gonna go ahead and put it over here at the end of the day do people get secretly married all the time i imagine stars would do it behind closed doors oh yeah it happens a lot sometimes you don't find out somebody got married until they file for divorce. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck could have got married in secret. They could have done it. Nobody would have known, but that's not what they wanted. But if somebody wants to get married in secret,

like Rita and Taika, it's very, very easy to do so. You know, it would be up to the tabloids to dig through every single you know wedding registry all over the world to find out if somebody filed for a license or something like that and they just don't have that capability so and then there's a lot of jurisdictions that'll let you file a secret one. So, yeah, it's very easy to get married in secret if you want to. Now, because speaking of Bafleck and J-Lo, 75 bucks they spend on their wedding, apparently. Yeah, I mean, good for them.

I mean... 75 bucks, what a bargain. I mean, times are tough out there, aren't they, even for them. Yeah. When you're up to your fifth marriage, you're going, do I really want to spend more than $75? Because I could be doing this again in a couple years, you know? Andy with us live from Hollywood.

We're going to ask you about Kanye West as well today. We heard that John Legend, they used to be very close friends, and now not so much. John Legend's like, I couldn't do it anymore. Yeah, you know, they haven't been friends for a while. I know that John Legend talked about it recently, but if you go back and look at interviews that he gave three, four years ago, he'll always say, yeah, you know, we were business partners

or business acquaintances, but not friends, which is really kind of a tragic thing to say because John Legend owes his career to Kanye West. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, signed him to his label, and that is because John Legend owes his career to Kanye West. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. Signed him to his label. And that is how John Legend made it. So to kind of say, well, we've never been really good friends.

You know, yeah, we work together a little bit. It's kind of, you know, you could be a little bit nicer about the guy that gave you your break who hasn't actually ever said anything mean about you. Kanye is known for his confrontations. He's never gone after John Legend. But John Legend says, you know, I don't agree with him politically. Fine. However, it just he seems to want to distance himself as much as he possibly can. But it shows he doesn't give, I don't think, enough appreciation to Kanye for Kanye taking the chance and signing him.

You know, have a little respect for the guy who found you and who has never said a bad word about you. Yeah, and this is the same guy who called Kris Jenner, Kris Chong-un. Yeah. Same guy we're talking about. Has called her Satan, has called her a whole bunch of other things too. Kanye's not shy about saying how he feels. Hey, NT, what a wonderful sesh today, mate. I feel fully, my bucket is full of Hollywood gossip.

Thank you so much for your time. You guys have a great week. You too, NT. They're always getting listener compliments. Happy to be on the radio with your hero. So is he. Jono and Ben on the hits. There's been a bit of feedback, a bit of correspondence to the show,

and I haven't seen it, and that makes me very, very nervous. Yeah, there's a couple of things in life that make Ben very, very nervous. It's germ-laden door handles, me mentioning Bill Cosby's name, and feedback about the show, because you never know what it is. You've got use, you've become hardened over the years to a torrent of negative feedback, haven't you? I just like to ignore it, because I know it's out there. Yeah.

Best thing is it's like the All Blacks. If you lose, don't look at the newspaper. Yeah, that's right. Control your environment. That's what Graham Henry used to say. AKA block out every bit of hate. It's a great way to do it. Yeah, put your head in the sand and just plow on through life.

It's a good theory. But we've got a bit of feedback here. Now, I'm not going to tell you whether it's negative feedback or positive feedback, but it's bringing me a lot of joy right now. It's hardly going to be positive, is it, if you're getting so much joy out of it? Actually, for some reason it should be, but it's probably not. Here we go. We're going to go through now.

It's a text hello man speaking oh hello it's john i've been from the hits here oh my gosh how are you i'm so excited'm so excited. Let me turn my radio down. I've been listening to you since the day I arrived. And now, apart from having COVID, I'm up at like quarter to six every day. So you've got COVID at the moment? I literally am on day nine. My daughter went to a concert in Auckland two weeks ago, and she brought it back. That's a lovely gift from Auckland, isn't it? I know, and I'm a nurse, and I've avoided it for two years.

Oh, my God, you've been at the coalface and then a bloody Auckland concert happens. Absolutely. So I'm literally, I'm so breathless, but I listen to everything in the morning. When I do go to work, I listen to you every day. So Jono hasn't told me if this is a good bit of feedback or a bad bit of feedback. I'm nervous right now.

We're just responding to a text that you sent. Oh, it's fantastic feedback. Fantastic feedback, Ben. Oh, that's good. We don't always get fantastic feedback, so this is nice. I can't imagine how anyone could not just laugh out loud. You got me through so many dark times, you would not believe.

Well, thank you so much for listening. Please, no one tell you about other radio stations. I'm glad you came. I've listened to a few, and I always go back to the hits. That's awesome. Fantastic feedback, man. That's what we love, fantastic feedback. I am actually English and from Liverpool.

You might not be able to tell that. Obviously, with COVID and being in Brussels and just having a big cough, it just makes it sound even worse. I sound more like Paul McCartney than ever. Well, hey, listen, I want to thank you very much for listening. You guys are really doing an amazing job. I think you got everyone through COVID. Yeah, well, thank you.

We got everyone through COVID. It wasn't Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, Ben. Well, I think he had a little bit to do with it and just ended it. But to be truthful, they were in my house every day And I wasn't listening to them every day I love your work, you have a great one Listen, take care guys, you're really doing a great job Mature, responsible and considerate

Three words we sadly can't use here Jono and Beam on the hits Clothing mishaps, we were talking a wee bit about this yesterday There was a time when no one wore clothes Remember that? Well no, probably don't, It was before we were around. Oh, right. You know, Adam and Eve

were wandering around freely, weren't they? No, didn't they have... No, the issue with Adam and Eve was they were wandering around freely. They were carefree. They didn't care. Then they started having

a conversation with some dastardly talking snake. Yeah, right. Alarm bells start ringing for me because the snake's talking. Yeah. But the snake was actually Satan in disguise.

Gotcha. And he's like, hey, you should eat the fruit. Eat the fruit. Now I'm like, is Satan such a bad guy if he's just wanting them to get their five plus a day? You know, get your fruit. No, but they've been told not to eat the fruit, right? Yeah, they've been told not to and then they ate the fruit. Oh, see, sometimes you see them with leaves over their bits and pieces.

Maybe they had them, maybe they didn't. We don't know. Yeah. Anyway, it's good to get my Bible propaganda in there, isn't it? A bit of Catholic stuff for a Wednesday morning from the show Resident Catholic. But yes, clothing catastrophes. Claire Turnbull, nutritionist. We got a no yesterday.

We were calling her a nutritionist. And then we did some research after the show, and it's a nutritionist. Claire Turnbull, shocking clothing incident. Yes, well, I was standing in my kitchen, as you do, 5 o'clock, and I looked down at my trousers, and I was like, that's weird. These trousers have normally got a massive white arrow down the side, like a big logo, and I was like, that's so strange. And then I realized when I turned around that my trousers were inside out,

and it was so obvious, like the seams were inside out. There was a big white label basically flapping behind my bum, looking like a tail. And I had been at daycare, school drop off, to the dairy, like literally everywhere. And nobody told me. So all day, this is five o'clock in the evening that you'd notice this. Yeah. And I get up at five o'clock in the morning. I've got two little boys and the day starts. You know, I've been to quite a lot of places by five o'clock in the evening that you'd notice this. Yeah, and I get up at 5 o'clock in the morning. I've got two little boys and the day starts. You know, I've been to quite a lot of places by 5 o'clock in the evening.

And not one monster. Not one person. Everyone you came into contact, no one said anything. I was like, come on now, people. We've just got to tell each other if we've got these things going on. Now, unless they were like, well, Claire's really, you know, she's pushing fashion boundaries here. This might be straight off the catwalk of Milan, Claire.

I hope so. Clothing catastrophes. Great text just come through, 4487. Lauren, my dad would wear very short stubbies everywhere. Still wears stubbies. One time he came to pick me up from netball practice, and let's just say his netballs were hanging out the bottom of

his stubbies so we'll go to the hits phone line right now on 0800 the hits kalinda uh what happened to you with your clothing catastrophe oh well it's kind of my first corporate job that i'd ever had and um it was quite a cold day so i wore what's called like a snud it's like kind of a fancy scarf that just is one loop around your neck um yeah and I'd just gotten that out of the dryer and I'd worn it the whole day. Then at about 3pm I went to go get out of the car

and I looked down and there's a pair of knickers that had been stuck in the snow all day from the dryer. Oh, the electricity, yeah. It's so embarrassing and I was like 21 or something at the time. So were they just dangling off your scarf all day long?

Yes. Were they underpants that you'd be embarrassed of? Were they your granny panties? They were not cute. They were not cute. I'll tell you that much. No one wanted to see those. Where were they hanging?

They were just like sitting right at my chest height on my scarf. So anyone that I would have met with that day could have just been like, seen them. We're just going, what? That's unusual. But hey, sometimes I don't understand fashion, and I just go, well, I don't understand that. Oh, these wild new kids coming into the workplace with their fashion. Their knickers around their scarf. Were the knickers in or not by the end of the day?

In a twist. Yeah, well, the pretty wine we're at, you're at 400 or so. Linda, that is amazing. Thank you very much for your call. Now two guys with tertiary broadcasting qualifications prove C's get degrees. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Producer Joel noticed something about me out in the office yesterday, Ben. You had to shoot off for something. Now, you would think a 21 year veteran of the radio industry would command a a certain level of respect amongst peers and colleagues out in the office wouldn't you 21 years well you would but then when when you go it's you then maybe maybe not uh you know the moment i like to think the moment I walk into a room,

our colleagues pander to my narcissistic, fragile ego. You know, good stuff this morning. You know, just compliments. Empty compliments. Is that what you want when you walk out there? You want shit. That's what I assume would happen out there in the environment of the radio station.

And so I like to go out there. I like to go out there and greet everyone. You know, an icon of the year waves. Do you like to go out there and greet everyone. You know, an icon of the year waves. Do you like to go out there and greet everyone? Mixing and mingling. I don't know if you do like to. Get your cell phones out. Just film some stuff.

Here he is with the common folk. Okay. But then yesterday, Joel, you noticed something. And Joel's been very quiet about this. He's like, I've noticed this at least three or four times. Yeah. Something that happens in the office when I go out to the office. Now, Joel, I'll hand it over to you,

Producer Joel. Yeah, well, it just kind of shocked me because I used to work at Hauraki. You see Jeremy, while I was walking to the office, people were flustered. Everyone's stoked to see him. And then on Friday,

the first time I saw you leave the office, you're like, see you later, guys. And no one said anything, I think. There was interns sitting over there as well. Not one person even Even looked an eye I was like bye guys Have a good weekend To a whole lot of it

Like sort of Ed Sheeran Went to a packed stadium How are you all going out there? Nothing Yeah I hear you I hear you Yeah yesterday it was a good morning Straight after the show

And literally nothing Good morning to everyone Nothing again And then yeah The IT guy Bruce He came downstairs And he said good morning And about five people

Five people looked Bruce how are you? Good to see you and about five people... Bruce, yeah, good to see you. Bruce, how's it going? Bruce, it's always great to see Bruce. It is great to see Bruce. I love seeing Bruce too. But I'm out there every morning going good morning, goodbye, nothing. Literal radio silence from the radio industry. I feel like, you know that video we saw of Joe Biden

when he's in the same room as Barack Obama and everyone ignores Biden, pretends he's not there? That's how I feel., you know that video we saw of Joe Biden when he's in the same room as Barack Obama and everyone ignores Biden, pretends he's not there? That's how I feel. Every day. Well, then get out there afterwards. There might be a few more people to ignore you as well. No, we'll film it today. And we'll have evidence.

We'll put it on the Hits Breakfast socials. We're not making this up for comedic purposes. No. It's like I don't exist. Maybe I'm so white to think I'm a ghost. Scrolling through your feed. He's like a topical Rubbish truck

About to dump Another load of news On us What is going on Ben? Well Serena Williams Has announced She's retiring From tennis

After next month's US Open One of the greatest Athletes of all time 23 times She's won Grand Slam singles champs Wow

Which is pretty incredible Is that Who's the next closest there? I think there's one other female tennis player that has won 24, but they reckon in a previous era where they don't like to compare eras, but in this article I was reading saying that.

It was easier back in the day. It was probably. There wasn't as much strong competition as there is now, but yeah, she's 40 years old. Amazing, amazing career. And she says she doesn't like the word retirement. She'd like to use the word evolution.

She's moving away from tennis, moving towards other things that are important to me. So it's pretty awesome. Oh, incredible. Martina Navratilova. She was a bloody battler at the tennis court, wasn't she, back in the day? She won 18 titles. Chris Everett is up there as well. But I, excuse my ignorance, I feel like there's some celebrities

that, you know, they're those ones you're like, oh, are they dead? Or are they alive? Right. You know? I thought Serena Williams, I know she's still alive, but I thought she had retired.

She'd been going so long. Oh, right. Yeah, I thought she'd stepped down already. No, I think she'd break away from the game, obviously, when she had her kids. But yeah, back in a pretty incredible, amazing career. So congratulations.

Most people probably think that about us with radio. Oh, they're not. I thought they stepped down. I thought they were dead. And now, if you're wondering, the Commonwealth Games is all over. The closing ceremony yesterday, Ozzy Osbourne, we just saw some highlights. He was performing at the closing ceremony.

Speaking of people who thought were dead. Yeah. But there's a new sports competition on ESPN. Now, ESPN have done well to cover everything, like everything to do with sports. And they do a wonderful job of making everything look exciting. Yeah, well, now they're getting into esports a lot more, which makes sense.

And they've got the World Excel Games. Now, if you're good on Microsoft Excel, if you can do your columns and sums, and the people watching these people do it live and looking at their moves and what they're making as they're trying to solve these sort of equations and puzzles and all that sort of stuff, and commentators, they're loving it.

Oh, he's using left. How about Flash Fill? Oh, oh my god what are you doing this is oz to slay who hates all artificial intelligence for something like this you can see it right you can see that's right you'll know you'll know whether or not it worked right it's like all exciting they've got like camera crews and officers, like accounting officers? Well, they've got them playing, and it's like an eSports, so you can see their screen as they're kind of sharing the screen as they're going off to do that.

And they're commentating across the Excel. And what have they got to do, like a monthly expenditure sort of spreadsheet? How does it work? What's the goal? I guess they're giving them sort of equations and things to work out and the fastest to do it without the wrong answers and stuff as well. So, yeah, pretty incredible. There's about 80 80 of the audience going i could do that i could enter that's an achievable sport watching it going then learning stuff too going ah that's how you do

that i've never cracked excel i don't know what i'm doing i just like to add i just like to get a word doc and then create my own little table the hitso and Ben podcast. The world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats. Now Megan Puppers from the 3pm Pickup joins us right now. Good morning. Hello Jono and Ben. How are you guys? Good. Nice to talk to you. Now Megan,

exquisitely pregnant at the moment. That sounded weird. Is it a weird word to use? I thought it sounded nice. I would say heavily. I was trying to avoid it, to be honest. Modestly pregnant. That was the word I was dodging. So I ended up weirdly with exquisitely.

Take it, honestly. Take it. And I ask Megan every day, it's our little running gag. I'm like, had the baby yet? She's like, not yet. I was like, make sure you text me. She's like, I will. I love how I've

still got the massive mound in the front. I feel kind enough to be like, have you had the baby yet? Yeah, that's right. Not heavily pregnant though, exquisitely. Thank you. So Megan's joined us. She probably won't after that intro. We want to talk about binge watching. What should we be watching?

It's a conversation that my wife loves to have with her friends. She's always like, what's the thing we need to be watching so we thought you watch a lot of a lot of great stuff maybe you can recommend some things that the people listening right now should be watching you're right because i am exquisitely pregnant there's a lot of watching to be done i'm sitting at home watching things um there is one that i've watched just i've just finished it on apple tv they did the thing where you drop an episode each week and I can tell you it's finally all out so you don't need

to struggle through that but it's called Blackbird and it's got 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. And Taron Edgerton, Edgerton? You'll know him. He's an eagle. He played Elton John in Rocketman. He's an amazing actor.

He takes on the role, which is a true story. It's about a guy who goes to prison for selling drugs. Then he gets offered a deal to get out, but it involves befriending a suspected killer. Ooh. And it's so gritty, and it's so weird that we like these shows because this is actually a true story.

So as you're watching it, it makes it extra creepy. And he does an incredible job. Just six episodes, I'm saying. Well, I like that. I feel intimidated by going into a series that someone says you need to watch, and it's like Vikings, and it's like 98 episodes. I'm like, oh, I don't know if I can invest so much of my time into that. Why did they make so much Viking content? Well, it's not quite 98,

but it's something ridiculous. I'll put you guys in this situation. We're all in prison. They give us a bit of a deal, a bargain, but you have to be best friends with a killer. Are you taking it? Like besties, you have to go for lunch. What, in the prison situation? Brunch. No, no, no. You're out. Oh, you're out. But you have to go

make friends with the killer and you have to, like, you know, if the killer needs to go to the airport, you have to take the killer to the airport. But what do I get out of it? You get freedom. But you've got to be friends with the killer and provide intel. Oh, no, you're a narc as well.

Enough out of you. I'll be talking to Megan again. All right, Megan, what's another show we should be watching? Well, now that you've said you don't want to invest in, like, a million episodes, when I was't want to invest in like a million episodes, when I was pregnant last time, I watched a million episodes of Drag Race. RuPaul's Drag Race. Have you ever watched it?

Oh, that's a good show. Well, that's what I was going to talk to you about is Drag Race Down Under. We're up to season, episode two, season two. But it's really good because you hear some Kiwi accents, you hear Australian accents. It's about our Kiwi queens. And if you've never quite understood what the show's about,

it is about drag. But they also talk about their stories, their heartbreaking stories about kind of not fitting in. It's actually really funny and quite sweet at the same time. So you should definitely, if you've never watched Ingru Pool,

jump in with Down Under because it feels a little bit like Hans. Chris Parker, who we used to work with for many years on TV, you'll know from Celebrity Treasure Island. I saw a wee teaser he's on the next episode. He's one of the guest judges, I think, by the looks of it, which is pretty cool. They had Lucy Lawless

on the last episode. So for the Down Under season, they get heaps of Aussie and New Zealand famous people. Bindi and Robert Irwin were on. Oh, were they? Now, Megan, can I talk to you? I've got Megan Palmer with us. What to watch, what to binge online. Stranger Things.

I don't get it. I don't get it. My kids loved it. They watched the whole thing. Have you watched any Stranger Things? No. Well, maybe start with that. Maybe start with that.

Oh, my God. You can't come out and say you don't get it. It's a throwback 80s, you know, the style of the city, even E.T., Stand By Me, that sort of genre sort of thing. And it's... Season three, I can understand, because a lot of people season three fell off. Season three was a little bit meh-meh.

But season four, it was amazing. They lost of people season three fell off season three was a little bit but season four it was amazing that's why they lost me at season three because you haven't even started any of it i'm looking at the top 10 top 10 shows on netflix stranger things two three and four are sitting in the top 10 stranger things four has been inside the top 10 on netflix for 10 weeks yeah well it's good john i like i don't know how much more encouragement you need. Not for me. I don't get it. Thanks, Megan. Thanks.

Morning. Contained stodgy parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. Talking a lot about kids and their activities recently and how parents, you know, play a big part in dropping them off, waiting around, picking them up, all, you know, all sorts of things that parents do and do a great job around the country. And I love the fact that my girls, you know, got activities like netball and acting guitar and, you know,

they do a bunch of stuff at school. Do you love it though? Because you're always like, they're doing too much stuff. Well, for a while they were going, it was like five nights a week. I was like, guys, we need to rein it back in, you know. You're never going to be good at any of these things. Well, so concentrate your efforts. No, concentrate your efforts on a couple of terms as well. At school you can do're never gonna you're never gonna be good at any of these things well so concentrate your efforts no it wasn't so concentrate your efforts on a couple of term as well at school you can do as much as you want but after school we'll do a couple during the

hours with dad doesn't have to take you anywhere you know go crazy go crazy and then the next term if we want to swap those out for other ones we can but netball at the moment is awesome i love watching them play netball and they're really into that. But this is a couple of nights a week and weekends and stuff. So that's just one activity. But now my daughter, Sienna, she did an umpiring course. So she did the umpiring course, which is awesome. She did that, went through a few weekends of doing this course, and now is on this little sort of circuit where you can kind of get

a little bit of payment, which is great for her. She really encourages her. But it's not great when you're at the netball courts and you want to go. Oh, okay. Text? What is it? I feel like the text is under the table. I really encourages her, but it's not great when you're at the netball courts and you want to go. I feel like the text is under the table. I don't know the text. Anyway. Let's expose the netball industry for this underground umpiring ring.

It's on your own thing to claim you put the text. Anyway, so she's there and she's umpiring. She'll umpire a game on a Saturday morning. And then they'll get a little bit of a like, someone will go, we need an umpire a game on a Saturday morning. Tax free. And then they'll get a little bit of a like someone will go

we need an umpire for the next game and of course she's going to want it and then they'll go we need an umpire for the next game. You know,

so the other day it was four games she umpired and I'm like do you have to watch them all? Well, this is my question. Like, am I a bad parent if I go,

hey, I love you. I love watching you play netball. I'll occasionally love watching you umpire netball but four games into watching you umpire is I'm love watching you play netball. I'll occasionally love watching you umpire netball, but four games into watching you umpire, I'm going to get a netball and try and shoot some hoops on the netball court or maybe get a coffee from somewhere.

You're not entirely stoked when your kid comes to you and goes, I want to be an umpire. You need to do it. Does that mean I have to go to games of people I have no affiliation with just to watch you blow a whistle. I wondered that because it's awesome. You need umpires and referees in sport. And it's great that people do it, usually voluntarily, don't they?

But these people are getting tax-free cash. But do people turn up? You know, like the All Blacks are playing South Africa this weekend. There's someone, is there someone's parents flying for someone going, oh, my kid's umpiring, he's refereeing out there, you know? Maybe there is in those occasions. Well're all blessed in south africa so they'll probably go along you know you don't mind watching international test rugby but amateur 10 year old netball yeah i can see where you're coming yeah and i'm like geez am i a bad parent if i'm like oh geez like like. You know the thing I enjoy about this show is just you admitting a large part of parental negligence.

If Oranga Tamariki come knocking, I'll be like, oh, we'll just listen to your podcast for every piece of evidence. I was just saying, you know, I'm there. Little girl left at the netball courts because her savage dad didn't want to watch her umpire. No, I mean, it's just like, hey, great, you know, blow the whistle a little louder and that's it. You know, like, what am I offering? Like, I'm nothing. I'm just like, great call, great call there, ref. It's definitely how many games do you want to umpire today?

I'll pick you up at 5.30. Thank you. That's the answer I wanted. If you're a guy here for romantic advice, you are in serious trouble. John Owen Bean on the hits. We're looking for the cheapest wedding after details emerge. Jennifer Lopez, benefit. You know, big superstars.

They got married in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago for just $75. $75. That is the price of a block of cheese. Yeah, well, they spoke to the owner of the Little White Chapel in Vegas where they just turned up. He said the fee is the fee. That's the fee. That's the fee for anyone. Yeah, so you could have charged them more, where they just turned up. He said, the fee is the fee. That's the fee. That's the fee for anyone.

Yeah, so you could have charged them more, but they don't. He was probably wishing that the fee wasn't the fee on that occasion when they come knocking at the door. He said they had no clue they were coming in. They were actually about to close. And then a car pulled up. And he's like, do you have time to do one more? He said, oh, yeah, all right.

And it wasn't until like sort of midway through he went, oh, actually, these are Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. Midway through? Yeah, like midway through sort of getting things organized for it. He went, oh, okay. Yeah, so yeah, I didn't recognize them at first. 75 bucks. Yeah.

Wonderful. We spoke to Enty, a Hollywood insider about this, and said we were very impressed with the $75 fee. Yeah, I mean, good for them. I mean. 75 bucks, what a bargain. I mean, times are tough out there, aren't they, even for them. Yeah, I mean, good for them. I mean, $75, what a bargain. I mean, times are tough out there, aren't they? Even for them. Yeah. When you're up to your

fifth marriage, you're going, do I really want to spend more than $75? Because I could be doing this again in a couple years, you know? I was looking at her previous weddings, on average she's sort of averaging between $5 to $10 mil each wedding.

Her previous four. Right. So you average that out. I don't think they've quite clawed it back with the $75 one, but they're getting there. So we are after New Zealand's cheapest wedding this morning. You can text 4487 0800. The hits is the telephone number.

Sam, we're after the cheapest wedding. Is it you? Well, I'm not sure there probably are a few cheaper than mine can't even blame my husband for this one but it was probably about 50 dollars 50 dollars for a wedding wow yeah so what did you spend the money on basically um it was like the license fee at the court and for a new passport. That was about it. That was it?

Nothing on the reception, nothing on address, nothing on anything? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It was just my visa was expiring, so we had to get married so I could get a visa. That seems like a good reason. And we had to beg the guy to marry us because we didn't realize that we actually had to make a booking. There was nothing on the website about booking. So we thought, oh, we can just walk in and, you know, someone will get us married.

And there was a six-week wait. And we just begged the guy. We're like, please, please, please. We have to leave the country and we need our visas sorted. And he said, okay, just wait. I'm going to just like fit you in. And then was it and that was it he took me for pancakes took pancakes oh so i mean it might have been a lot of 65 bucks once you got pancakes yeah all right well sam that's impressive that's impressive and there's a way when you think about it you you get married how you want to get

married you know it's up to you two. Absolutely. And we just celebrated our six-year wedding anniversary on Friday. So we're still doing it together. So it's good. It's awesome. And you've got a great story to tell. I mean, hey, you rang up the radio. If you rang up and said I had a $10,000 wedding, well, okay.

But you're right. You've got a great story. $50. Yeah, exactly. $50. A marriage based on love and visa applications. Something like that, yeah. I love it.

Good on you, Sam. Definitely not for his money. Good on you, Sam. Anyway, thanks, guys. Have a good one, mate. Thank you. Can we beat that? We're looking for New Zealand's cheapest wedding.

I don't think we can beat $50. This is the Jono and Ben podcast, wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. Looking for New Zealand's cheapest wedding. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. $75 was their wedding. We've already found a $50 wedding so far. I don't know if we can beat that. Well, Kylie's on the phone.

Can we beat the $50 wedding? I've got a $15 wedding. Oh, wow. $15. We had a $50 wedding. Now we've got a $15 wedding. Oh, wow. $15. We had a $50 wedding. Now we've got a $15 one. Yeah. So basically my parents, when they got married,

pretty much only paid for their wedding certificate. My mom got married in her dress that she wore to a high school dance. And my dad got married in some shorts and a t-shirt and did they have a party uh they in fact did not have a party no they had a braai which is like a south african barbecue um with the seven people that attended their wedding so was this a spur of the moment decision or were they planned to do it and just do it like this? No, they were engaged for like seven, eight months. And then they'd been together for like six years beforehand. And my mum was like,

oh, I just don't really feel like planning a big thing anymore. So she cancelled all of her plans and was like, oh, let's just do it. And so has it shaped you and how you want to get married? Yeah, kind of. I sort of have, like, roughly the same plan. You're just going to go and get a certificate and have them cook some meat. Exactly. Well, you can spend, I mean, as John said before,

you can spend as much as you want to spend and it's your choice. But sometimes there's so much little detail that you can spend, what's on the tables, what's on the thing. You know, you can spend heaps. Exactly, yeah. And if that matters to you, that matters to you, and that's great. But sometimes you're like, well, I'm sorry. Sometimes it's like, go down to Pagansave, get some sirloins,

chuck them on a boat. Do you remember the table decorations at some wedding? I probably don't, but I know sometimes that matters to the people putting on the wedding. Do you ever remember what you ate at the last wedding you went to? I haven't been to a wedding, actually. Yeah, no. No.

I don't. I'm sure it was lovely. It was lovely, but I can't remember. You're right. I remember you ordered the sauce at a wedding that we went to and tried to be fancy. That was a fancy wedding.

Our boss, Bronnie, and the waiter came around and I said, I'll have the jus, my good sir. Which was just the sauce. And he was like, would you like some meat to accompany that

because you just ordered the sauce. So yeah. I didn't understand what was on a sauce. And he was like, would you like some meat to accompany that? Because you just ordered the sauce. So, yeah. I didn't understand what was on the menu. But it looked fancy, so it was good enough. It looks fancy. Good on you, Kylie. Well, you go and have a great day. Thanks for listening.

Thank you, you guys, too. G'day, Claire. How are you? I'm good. How are you? We're doing well, mate. We're after the cheapest wedding in Aotearoa. And it might be you.

It might be. In fact, yeah, I made a profit. You made aotearoa, and it might be you. It might be. In fact, yeah, I made a profit. You made a profit? What? You made a profit from your wedding? Did you sell tickets or something? No. We were in the UK, had no money, just had a baby,

and so we did everything on the cheap, but actually it turned out to be the best wedding ever. So what happened was my husband was a photojournalist, and he decided it would be great to get married in a hot air balloon because he had contacts with this hot air balloon company wow so you got it for free basically got it for free got it for free but not only that um it was quite a complicated story but basically we um got a free um vintage car to the church where we got married which is where we were both christened. And then we got a boat from the church, because it was on the river, that was donated to us.

And then we went to the reception area, which was just a village hall. And there was a hot air balloon waiting for us there. And we managed to con a friend of ours who was a vicar, but he used to be an airline pilot, to do the blessing in the hot air balloon. So he went up in the hot air balloon with the vicar, X-747 pilot, who had never been in a hot air balloon, and he blessed us in the balloon. Meanwhile... Was a pilot essential? We had a proper hot air balloon pilot as well.

Oh, good. This X-747 pilot happened to be a priest as well. I'm sure he was probably like, I've spent a lot of time up here, but I don't know what to do in this particular. I can land a plane. So yeah, my husband decided that he was going to sell the story to the Daily Mail.

The tabloid paper in the UK. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So because he was a photojournalist, he kind of had all the contacts, so they bought the story. Anyway, on the day, we would have actually made a lot more profit. We actually make a profit but on the same day i don't know if you remember the monica lewinsky story no she came out yeah anyway that broke on the same day so they gave

us what's called a kill fee which is basically a fee that you get if you don't run in the daily mail so we didn't actually make it into the Daily Mail. But they paid for your wedding. So they paid for the wedding, and we ended up in the Spanish version of Hello Magazine. Hola. Hola, exactly. And on the front page of all these other local rags and stuff. So we did end up having a bit of coverage. So Lewinsky blew your big deal.

So how much money did you actually make, pounds? Oh, God, I can't remember now. Probably only about 500 quid, but it definitely paid for the wedding and I think it paid for a bit of the honeymoon. Incredible. So many modes of transport as well. Land, water and air.

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