Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: How much is Britney paying her ex?

Episode Date: June 13, 2022

Jono's got a cute puppy update, Ben had an awkward encounter at his front door. We chat with our Hollywood Insider about Justin Bieber's health battles and Britney's wedding and how much she's paying her ex and Paddy Gower joins us to chat about his latest two part documentary On Booze on ThreeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the podcast. It is June 14th. Just me at the moment. And of course, Belle with me at the moment. Jono's gone to a funeral. So it's just you and me at the moment. Hello. Hello.

Now, I meant to say something the other day. I was doing a basketball watch along for the ACC. Because I'm a big fan of basketball. Your boyfriend drags you along to watch a lot of basketball and league on TV. Yeah, it's quite handy when he'll tell me things. And I can be like, oh, I've got something cool to chat with Sabine about. You know, like we can chat about stuff. And what I didn't tell you about,

because we were watching along, and sometimes, you know, watching with a few of the guys in the ACC, they give players sort of nicknames and stuff. And there's a guy called Al Horford. He's a player. And one of the other guys, Tom, just started calling him Bell Crawford.

Because Al Horford and Bell Crawford. So you got a lot of shout-outs during the game. Thanks, I should go listen to it on the podcast. Yeah, every time I go to the podcast, there's Belle Crawford because Al Horford and Belle Crawford so you got a lot of shout outs during the game oh thanks I should go listen to it on the podcast yeah yeah every time I go to the podcast there's Belle Crawford again

so yeah that's funny hey you actually have your own podcast probably way more successful than this one who's your dream guest there I was thinking the other day

because you've had Mel C from the Spice Girls yeah and I always bang on about that I would really love to interview people like Reese Witherspoon oh yeah

she's incredible I guess big names like that. I would really love to interview people like Reese Witherspoon. Oh, yeah. She's incredible. I guess big names like that, but yeah, I don't know. I try now and then. Lady Gaga would be cool. So the Mel C one, because you had her on, on the Self Love podcast, how long between trying to get her to actually getting on? Because there's a long time for some of those ones, right?

Yeah, they can do, as you would know. I think the first time I tried, it was a year before I actually got her. Wow. And it was just, I was going to London, there was a few different things on, and she was just so busy. And then I just tried again, and then she could do it. So it's just timing sometimes. Okay. Yeah, so don't worry,

I only have a few little things up my sleeve behind the scenes. Well, look out for Reese Witherspoon coming up with us. Fun show today, we had Paddy Gowell come on, and you were just listening to Paddy's chat back. He really opens himself up, journalist Paddy Gow, talking about drinking. Yeah, I really like the chat you guys did with him, sort of talking about how there's bits he could have cut off the camera that's embarrassing for him. We all have those moments when we get a bit silly,

and then you're like, oh, no, the next morning you're like, oh, God, so embarrassing. But he's kept that on there for us to witness, which I think that's really epic that he's done that. There was a thing I saw online the other day going around where it's like a little thing where people take a little video of themselves at their first drink, often before a wedding. It's like, hey, I'm Ben, and this is my first drink.

And then they find you later going, and this is my last drink. I'm like, what monsters are filming this and putting this on the internet? And it's interesting to see the change, as I'm sure a lot of Kiwis would relate to, from your first drinks, particularly at a wedding, between your first and last drinks. I'm like, jeez, that's a confronting suicide as well. Yeah, definitely.

No one needs to film that and just put it on the internet, but I guess Padigao is doing that, and he talks about that in the podcast today. Padigao on booze on TV tonight. As well as that, we get into our smell election, the best smell as voted by you. It's getting down to the business end of that competition. And Jono is helping someone in space get home from space.

It was in a spam, and if he does so, he'll get a lot of money. Enjoy that in the podcast. With a long and extinguished career. Jono and Ben on the hits. Weather a little bit better today around New Zealand. She's wild weather over the last couple of days. And it was so, so cold as well. So, so cold.

So, so cold. Cold, cold heart. But a huge downpour in the middle of the night too. You might have felt that or heard that over some parts of the country. Hey, well, okay, it's winter, you know. Why do we, every winter we're like, oh, this is what happens. I know, you're right, actually. It's how Mother Nature works.

I have to go to a funeral today in Te Awamutu. My wife's grandmother sadly passed away. You met her. Absolute clone of the Queen. Yeah, she did. She looked very much like the Queen. You put them side by side, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference, apart from the one wearing the crown. Yeah, she did. She looked very much like the queen. You put them side by side, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference,

apart from the one wearing the crown. Yeah. But yeah, no, so she... She came on our TV show. Remember once we had in the audience, there were gags saying, oh, the queen's here, and we had a shot of her,

and it looked exactly like the queen. Yeah. So she's from Te Awamudu, so we're going to Te Awamudu, but I offered my services as the multimedia expert for the funeral. Oh, you offered your services? Yeah.

So, like, I've gone, I'll create an audio-visual display. You offered to do this? I'll do that. I thought it was one of those occasions where people went, oh, he works in media, he should be able to do it. And I'll be like, well, there I am. You offered. I foolishly, I thought that that myself i put that on myself oh so like i know your technical skills no you know i write emails in caps yeah all caps yeah so i've been trying to compile like

you know photo montages on imovie i've been trying to like've been trying to do the pictures that go on the big screen with the name and everything. I've been trying to book great. Mate, I am very underqualified for this role. But I'm in too deep now. Why did you volunteer? I don't know.

He's upskilling. You can add that to your list. I don't know if upskilling at a funeral is the time to do it. So, yeah. It's going to probably be quite an erratic presentation run off my laptop and dear god I hope no nudes have slipped into the phone imagine that on a grandma's funeral

imagine that you just hit one of me and my underpants in the toilet, imagine if that pops up oh god to be honest my computer could really embarrass me at this funeral. You know,

he's like, you've done some stuff to me, buddy. Now it's payback. You know? I don't know what I've put in there. I don't know.

It's like a game of Russian roulette so we'll see how it plays out today. Are you feeling confident that what you've done is going to be okay? 80%.

I'm 80% there. Good luck today. Thankfully, my wife, she's a bit more onto it than me, so I'll try and get her to double check. But yeah, I'll give you an update tomorrow. See how the multimedia presentation goes. Scrolling through your feed. All right, let's hand you over to the most inexperienced newsreader in the game.

It's Ben Boyce. Now, I said before, a couple of parents were very embarrassed by something that happened in a store. So it was in the UK, in England, and the parents went to a DIY store with their three young kids. And when their back was turned, as is what happens in the store, their four-year-old decided he needed to go to the bathroom. And I could see his logic.

He saw the display toilet. And he was like, great, here's the bathroom, whipped his pants off, hopped on top, and by the time they noticed what the child was doing, he'd already left a, shall we say a display, inside the display toilet that couldn't flush, obviously, because it wasn't. So then it falls, you know, just because you've created this child,

for some reason it's your job to remove the matter You know You can't let the store people do that No Yeah Everyone saw the funny side of it In these shots of the parents Kind of like when you take out your dog

They've got a plastic bag And they're scooping it up And having to explain to the child afterwards That display toilets aren't functioning toilets But I get his logic Do you remember my story about Annie Pryor having to come to my aid?

What? Remember? I was staying at my friend Kevin Kim's house. Oh, yes, yes. Yeah, yeah. Oh, this was an absolute disaster. I would have been

seven or eight years old. And I stayed at Kevin Kim's house the night. The next morning I woke up, same situation as this young child, not a display toilet though, a functioning one. Yeah.

And for some reason the system malfunctioned. So I'm panic mode. I'm panic mode. I'm like, dear God, what do I do? So I think I got like a hand towel or something. I picked it up and I was like, uh-oh, what do I do with it now? And so I opened the window and threw it out.

And so then I was like, I got out of the. And it was like, pfft, pfft. And so then I was like, I got out of the toilet and I was like, I've got to go now. And ran home. Did you leave it there? I just lived down the road. I was, you know,

500 metres down the road. Ran home. Told Annie Pryor. Mortified. Your mum comes back with a spade, didn't she? We had to do a reconnaissance mission back with a spade.

She's like, right, come with me. We snuck in down the side of their driveway, the bushes, and he spaded it up. We walked down the road with a spade. Your crisis averted. This is a low point in your life and your mum's life too. She's like, remember we phoned her about it.

She's like, I tried to erase that from my memory. Terrible. Terrifying. If they were the internet, yeah. Terrible. Terrifying. If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now every week we like to look into our spam folder. It's a neglected folder on your email. You hardly ever go into it.

A lot of good stuff. Actually, I found a genuine email last night that had gone to spam. I was like, ooh, that wasn't meant to be there. Yeah, but was it work related? It was work related. Something for the two of us. I don't know how that crept into. So something we looked very bad that we hadn't replied for a couple of weeks

was actually genuinely in my spam folder. Oh, well, there's two things that we do once a week. That's clear the spam and shower. And now we're going to do one of those things. You want to kick things off with the spam? Maybe read out the work email so I know what it is. It's to do with a podcast that someone's asked us to be on. And we replied once and then for some reason the reply from them went to the spam folder two weeks ago.

I don't know why. But yeah, I got a nice little email from I'm Police Woman. Just as I'm Police Woman. Love heart. I am Police Woman. No, it's just I'm Police Woman. I'm Police Woman. Yeah, right.

And I saw you in your Facebook and I want to be your girlfriend if you want. Oh, wow. With a cop. Yeah, with a cop. Now, I don't know if I'm John on your Facebook, and I want to be your girlfriend if you want. Oh, wow. With a cop? Yeah, with a cop. Now, I don't know if I'm the John and Ben Facebook, maybe. I don't have my own personal Facebook, but she's obviously singled me out. And write your number, and I'll send you a private message with 18 sexy photos. So there you go.

If I want a girlfriend who's a policeman. I love the specific number of sexy photos, too. No, it's 18. She did the photo shoot. I'm stopping at 80. That's enough sexiness for one photo shoot. That was very good. What have you got?

This one is actually a friend of mine sent this to me because he knows that we do this segment. He received this. It says, I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of a Nigerian astronaut, Air Force Major Abasha Tunde. He was the first African in space. Oh, wow. Okay, he made a secret flight to space 14 years ago.

However, he went up with a Russian crew and they replaced his seat on the returning flight back home with cargo. What did I say? He stuck in space. It then goes on to say... Oh, that decision go like, hang on, we got him or cargo... Or a couch.

We really need that couch back. I'm sorry, mate, you understand. It goes on to say, he's in good humour. But he wants to come home. But he wants to come home now. It's important to remain in good humour when you're stuck in space for 14 years.

I guess so, yeah. Yeah, now, I don't know how this guy's got comms with his cousin up in space either. Anyway... So how are you going to help? In the 14 years he's been on the station, he's accumulated flight pay amounting to 15 million US dollars. So he's been on the station for 14 years. He's stuck in space for 14 years, still remains in good humor.

What a trooper. What an absolute trooper. So the issue is, though, this guy works for the Codes of Conduct Bureau. And one of the codes of conduct at the Codes of Conduct Bureau is they can't start offshore bank accounts. So they want to deposit the $50 million. It makes sense. It does make sense when you explain it. They want to deposit the $15 million in my account.

$150 million, sorry, in my account. Yeah. So we can bring back Dr. Tarambe from space. Who's the consumer? Which that goes to. What does your friend get out of it? He's just helping out the guy. I mean, you would just do it to help out the guy.

It's his cousin. I'd allow you to think if a Russian space crew left me up in space, I'd be emailing all people from all around the world. Yeah, so $3 million to fly him back from space and I get a 10% cut of $150 more. That's lovely. we'll get involved I feel like this information needs to be sent to maybe

NASA Maybe they thought I was Jeff Bezos Maybe that's the name he wrote Spy, no what's up spy.co.nz Alright, here she is What have I written here for you Belle? What have I got today?

I think that's good. I like that one. Yeah, all right. Over to you, Belle. Here's some spy. Rebel Wilson has responded to a nasty newspaper's handling of her new relationship, where essentially they were going to out her, and then when she announced the news herself that she's in a relationship with a woman, they basically threw a tantrum for stealing their exclusive.

So they kind of gave her, from what I understand, a couple of days. They said, hey, we've got this information, and you've got a couple of days to respond. Is that right? And then so in the meantime, she was like, well, screw you guys. I'm going to do it myself. I mean, they were nice. They gave her a couple of days, didn't they?

It's still like, it's like blackmail. It's shocking. Shocking. I don't know how, if you were a journalist of that ilk, not everyone in the journalism game is like that, but imagine phoning someone up going, hey, I'm going to out you in a newspaper article. You've got 48 hours.

Yeah. I could probably do that, actually, to be honest. That's the sort of thing I'd do. Yeah. Well, now that Sydney Morning Herald journalist is facing a worldwide roast, people are shocked at their behaviour. So it's, you know, we're not tolerating this anymore. And another journalist had tweeted Rebel, and she replied saying,

thanks for your comments, it was a very hard situation, but trying to handle it with grace. I think she handled it really well. She's been posting photos with her girlfriend since earlier in the year, but no one knew and no one needed to know. No, and it's not really a big deal, is it? No. But yeah, I think 40, okay, what is it, if I am a grubby journalist, Ben, I've got some filth on you.

I've seen you philandering around, mate. How many days you want? I'd like more than 48, though. Like 48 months. 48 months? I'm trying to buy myself more time. I'll give you 48 months. You can sort all your stuff out, okay?

It's going to be front page news. And it looks like Will Smith is planning his Hollywood comeback after Slapgate. You know, people are saying, oh, is he going to act again? Well, reportedly, planning to start a new movie, I Am Legend 2. He hasn't been dropped from it. And his performance, you know, everyone loved it. And the film also made half a billion dollars at the global box office. So they're probably going to want to power him with the second.

Now, correct me if i'm wrong my vague memory of i am legend one he's pretty much the core car the only cast member having a dog with the only people alive so you edit will smith out of the movie and you've just got a dog no i think sadly the dog or the dog yeah it was so you know i am legend you edit will smith out of the movie You've just got beautiful scenery. Or dystopia. Yeah, wasn't it zombies or something like that? But yeah, well, maybe they found some other people that were still alive.

Zombies fighting the sky is not there. He still carried around. I am legend, though. Is that the movie you want to come back in? Will Smith, I am a legend. You're like, well. You can make a comeback. You know, everyone loves a redemption story,

don't they? Oh, you're mucked up, mate. Get back out there, you know? Yeah. It's all in how you handle it. Yeah, you've got to back the person. If he's remorseful and he's, you know, talking to Chris Rock and stuff and apologising, then I think people will probably accept it.

I'll watch him slaughter some zombies. Yeah. And that is Spy. You can get more now at thehats.co.nz. It's Jon John Owen Ben's general smell election

we are looking for New Zealand's best smell as voted by you in like a tennis style

tournament we're putting each odour up against each other and the first battles took place

yesterday yeah bacon bacon was taking on the smell of a sharpie

vivid now we said the voting lines were open for 24 hours being voiced And bacon. Bacon was taking on the smell of a sharpie vivid. Now, we said the voting lines were open for 24 hours being a voice. It's only fair in a general smell election. And the results have come through. And the winner with 80% of the vote, almost a landslide, is bacon. Yeah, well done to bacon. Bacon. That'd be your favourite of all the smells in the world?

Walking into the room and it fills the room with the aroma. It does actually, doesn't it? Smell of bacon. So you want to put a vote in for Bacon? Yeah, bro. All right. Good on you. Thank you.

You'll be tuning in? Yep. See you, mate. For something I feel like you won't be. So well done, Bacon, advancing on through to the next round. The other battle we had yesterday as voted by you guys was the smell of petrol versus the smell of lighting a match. Now, this one was a lot closer.

Yeah. Both a dangerous combination together and also a hard combination to vote for as well. But with 55% of all of the votes, petrol is staying in the smell action. Oh, to be honest, the petrol, I don't mind, but I love the diesel smell. Oh, you're a diesel fan.

If I came in there dripping in diesel, just soaked in diesel, very flammable, would I be your perfect man? Huge health risk. Too much. Too much, yeah, no, there's a health and safety risk. Now that's somebody who works at a petrol station. Loves the odour of it. So we've got three big battles today to get through our smell election.

We've got lawn clippings taking on freshly cut firewood, KFC versus rain on the pavement, and freshly washed baby versus Lynx Africa. Some great battles there, Ben. So what we want to do right now, 0800 the hits or text 4487. We'll just focus on the first battle that we're going to get to. And if you'd like to vote for KFC, the smell of KFC, the smell of the colonel doing what the colonel does,

frying them chickens, taking on the smell of rain on hot pavement. I think I'm going to go with KFC on this one. I'm with you. Now, Ben, that's traditionally not something you would do. Like if it was, you know, the smell of hummus. Hummus. Then I'd imagine that's a Ben Boyce thing. No, but the smell of KFC is so good.

So I'm going to pick this one. But what do you guys think? 0800 The Hits. And thanks to Chemist Warehouse, the real house of big brand fragrances, we've got some bottles of CK1 to give away to every caller that gets on the air today to vote the hits jonah and ben spilling the tea on hollywood's a-listers cardassians i have met every single one exposing scandals because 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 Enty. He handles the scandals for us shambles. Enty from Hollywood. Come on down.

Quite the rhyme. I like it. Lovely to have you on. How's the week been for you over there? Well, the week's just Quite the rhyme. I like it. Lovely to have you on. How's the week been for you over there? Well, the week's just starting off here. You guys are a day ahead. What does tomorrow look like? If you could let me know, that'd be great. Monday wasn't that great, to be honest. It's so cold here. We're in the middle of winter.

We're in the middle of an arctic blast at the moment. The opposite of where you're heading into. Yeah, a lot of heat. Very, very hot this last weekend. I'm a little bit jealous of you guys right now, even though you're heading into. Yeah, a lot of heat. Very, very hot this last weekend. So I'm a little bit jealous of you guys right now, even though you're cold. The other big story, of course, of the week, Britney Spears, the wedding,

and crazy footage we were watching online of her ex-husband, Jason Alexander, basically walking on through past security and getting in there. That was the most disturbing part of it. Yeah. Even though nobody knows who Jason Alexander is, they always confuse him with the guy from Seinfeld. And he was married to her for 55 hours or something like that. But just that he was

able to do that because the security guards don't know that he was once married to her for 55 hours and he didn't have an invitation or anything. So just the fact that he was able to bluff his way through all of that should tell Britney that perhaps she needs to hire some better security. Just imagine if it was somebody who wanted to cause harm to her. Did you hear the inside word from the wedding? We saw that Madonna was there singing a very lackluster version of Vogue. I mean, Britney wanted to sing Vogue. Did anybody else? No. Not even the lady who wrote it. I know.

Well, Madonna's not interested in anything right now. Madonna is, she's just not the same person that she once was. I think that she, let's see, how do I want to phrase this? I think that she enjoys partying a little bit more than she ever used to before, and perhaps it's not agreeing with her. But I also thought that it was an odd invitation list. Now, one of the things is Brittany did invite her brother, but he chose not to come.

Obviously didn't invite her sister or her parents. Her children did not show up. It was said that it was because they didn't want to take away the spotlight from Brittany. But I think it shows that they don't really get along with her husband, her new husband, because I think it was a really nice excuse that Kevin Federline came up with. He's got a couple more years before his money train runs out. He's going to have to get a job because that child support ends in two years.

And I guess you can see why their family are a bit salty. This guy's gone and taken all their money away from them oh jeez i mean i'm sure it's a lock solid prenup and what i was hearing was and this is when she was still pregnant you know that he wanted basically five million dollars every few years or something and however long they stayed married but his deal was especially when the child support he wanted i think a million dollars a month or something if they got divorced for child support and other stuff i mean he'll never get that but that's what his starting point was so yeah i mean he's looking for as much money as he can possibly get uh and it must be hard being of that level of fame where you're like are these people

with me because they love me as a person just trying to mooch off me yeah i think that that's that's completely fair i can't remember what celebrity it is anymore and they were talking about oh you know my friend this my friend this and everybody went back and looked and they realized the friend that they're referring to was like a hairstylist. The other friend they were referring to was their makeup artist, people who are dependent on them for their paycheck. So if you are dependent on somebody for your paycheck, you're going to just say whatever.

It goes even back in time to say like Elvis. Any of those people probably could have helped him and not enabled him or whatever, but he was paying so many people and they're like, do what you want, Elvis. You're the king, baby. Yeah, it's the same kind of thing. I mean, I imagine that everybody who surrounds themselves, you know, that Mariah Carey has around her, they're all employees and stuff. And they're just, oh, you're the best. You're the best.

You're the best. What happens if you're on, let's say, on a set for a television show and you're one of the leads or whatever, you have constantly people fetching you stuff. Oh, do you want this? Do you want this? Let me go get you this. Let me go get you this. Oh, we'll have a car take you back to your car. Or we'll have a golf cart take you to the trailer.

Do you need anything else? Do you need anything else? And then you have your employees go, oh, my gosh, you're so wonderful. You're so amazing. So it's just kind of this echo chamber where you can see it's not real life. Jeez, it sounds like the life. A car to drop me to my car? What sort of schmuck life am I leading? You're just walking to your car at the moment.

NT, thank you so much for your time. Always great to catch up with you, and we'll hear from you next week from Hollywood. Hey, stay warm, you guys. Joe and Ben's Rush for Gold. George is right. Well, you've got your chance to rush and Ben's Rush for Gold. Gold Rush. George Ezra. Well, you got your chance to rush for gold every day this week at 7 o'clock in celebration of George Ezra's new album. It's called Gold Rush Kid.

Of course, George Ezra. He's got smash hits like Shotgun. I'll be right in, Shotgun. And it's really cool to see he's got a brand new album out. So what you need to do is you need to register at the hitstock.co.nz. Listen every morning at 7 o'clock. If we call out your name and your hometown, we'll have someone from the Hits outside. You'll have 60 seconds to rush outside for the gold, which is $400 if you meet the Hits person in 60 seconds.

If not, a jackpot's the next day. So we've got Clara from the Hits in Christchurch. Welcome, Clara. How are you, mate? I'm good, thank you. How are you guys? Good. You're sifting outside someone's house.

I've always said there's a fine line between stalking and radio promotions. Yes, well, it's slightly dodgy. We've been creeping up this driveway now for about the last two minutes. Oh, okay. So you are outside someone who has registered, and you can do the same at the hits.co.nz. Now, as Bea mentioned, they've got a minute to panic, get out, slap a dressing gown on.

Because it's morning. You don't know what stage of undress, getting dressed. You're out in the morning routine. We have done a similar competition last year, too, and there were half-naked people sprinting down the road in a mad flapper. You don't need this in your morning routine. So, Clara, can you announce the person's name and the location in New Zealand?

It's not going to street details or anything like that, but enough for them to get panicked and to run out hopefully in 60 seconds. Beautiful. So we're just at Emily Taylor's house in Rolleston. Emily Taylor, your time starts now. 60 seconds. I'll get out of the car. There is a light on. There's, your time starts now. 60 seconds. I'll get out of the car. There's a light

on. There's a light on, yeah. Can we see panicked Emily running around with a towel wrapped around her? No, there seems to be no action at the moment, but there's like a game on at the moment. What, like a rugby game or something? It looks like there's some sort of bizarre activity

going on, but I don't see sign of human life at the moment. Oh, she had 40 seconds left for Emily to get out of her house in Rolleston. If she wasn't watching her Super Rugby replay, she might be listening to the hits and knowing she's got $400 cash.

Are we getting any movement? Because this is really testing our broadcasting skills, filling in for a minute, padding for a minute. I've got next to no more banter, bed boys. She doesn't get out there in the next 15 seconds. The prize will jackpot tomorrow to $800. Clara? There still doesn't seem to be any more life at the moment, unfortunately.

Seven, six, five, four, three, two. Clara, now. No. Seven Six Five Four Three Two One Clara Now No What I'd love you to do Is go and knock on Emily's door

Let's tell her Okay Oh you're going to do that Yeah let's tell her We need this We need this part I don't think anyone needs this So we'll say

Hey I'm from the Hits Sorry you could have won $400 No worries I feel devastated for Emily right now. Yeah, I feel devastated for you too. We don't need to do this. This is awful.

This is just the well-rounded ending. This just makes it awkward. This does make it awkward. Yeah, I like making it awkward. Yeah. It's great. Well, you knocking on the door there, Clara? Yeah, I'll just double check.

Hopefully we're at the right house. We've had Emily running around another street, up and down. I can't find them. I'm here. It's a disaster. I'll just double check. No, it looks like we're at the right place. Yeah, right.

Is there anyone inside? It's quite dark. Knock on the door. Big knock. Big knock. I'll do another big knock. Okay, we'll see. Yeah, I mean, if she comes out now, we'll give her $200.

Oh, okay. Okay, would that be nice, Ben? That'd be lovely. Yeah. That'd be lovely. Okay. We'll see. We'll see what's going on.

There seems to be no sign of a human. To be fair, it is 10 past seven on a Tuesday morning in pitch darkness. Yeah, but the rugby's on. Yeah, maybe they'll let the TV on. Okay, well, maybe someone's deceased inside. Let's hope not. So that means the prize. Thanks so much, Clara, this morning.

We appreciate that. No worries. It doesn't look like there's really too much going on. Okay, well, run, Clara. Run for your life. Okay, get look like there's really too much going on. Okay, well, run, Clara. Run for your life. Okay, get out of there ASAP. Subline. The Hits will be in another town or city in New Zealand tomorrow.

Register right now at the Hits.co.nz. And just after 7 o'clock, you'll be winning $800. Well, they jackpotted quickly. Well, it's all thanks to George Ezra's new album, Gold Rush Kid. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Experts in giving out inexpert advice. Jono and Ben on the hits.

I mentioned we got a puppy a few weeks ago. Now, the great thing about having a puppy is it has some of the same character traits of a new baby in the household. Except with less responsibility. I feel less responsible than you do for a baby uh but you know you also get to sit on the sidelines and enjoy things that the puppy's experiencing for the first time like everything's a game to this thing you know i'm doing up my shoelaces that's a game rip the shoelaces you're at the puppy stage aren't you when you just want to play the whole time going to get the rubbish bins that's a game making the bed that turns into game. And he's looking at me like, why are you so depressed playing these games?

I'm like, because I've made beds for 35 years. But one thing that really amazed me yesterday was his first experience with a mirror. I always saw this. We put this in the Hits Breakfast. It's very cute. Yeah, so he's never been in front of a mirror before, and it was blowing his mind. 20 was like looking behind, and he was like jumping up on it, like trying to interact with what he was seeing in his reflection.

20 minutes in front of that mirror. Wouldn't it be amazing to go back to the stage where a mirror blows your mind? Yeah, to experience that for the first time. Oh, wouldn't it? I mean, 20 minutes in front of a mirror, huge waste of time. Like, you wouldn't get much other stuff done. As a fully grown adult, you'd be like, oh, jeez, you find a lot of faults about yourself when you're 20 minutes.

Staring in a mirror. But the other thing that I've been trying to do, and you probably know this spot on your dog, Bobie, is ever since owning the dog, I've spent the last six weeks trying to find the special scratchy dog leg spot. You know, on every dog's stomach, there's that pinpoint little, and it's different on every dog, that pinpoint thing that when you scratch, one of their legs takes off like a Formula One car.

Yeah, it's like, oh, that's the spot. Yeah, and it's like striking gold when you hit it, and I hit that yesterday as well. And it's like, brrrr, and it's like a mind of its own. Just one single leg. Just back and forth, back and forth. Do you hear that dog on the boat? Yeah.

Why is it just one leg? It's very unusual, isn't it? But the dogs, they love it. You strid that leg onto, even you, you'd beat Usain Bolt with that leg. It is going a million miles an hour. And the harder you scratch, the faster the leg goes it's funny that puppy stage which is awesome uh you know but also like they're very energetic as well but now you get to stage with my dog like someone comes to the door sometimes he won't even get up

like you just like out he'll bark but it's like mate you didn't even you just phone that one in you just like you raised your head slightly Someone at the door Someone's there He's like a lazy teenager I was like mate What are you doing Your job's to go And you know Scare them off

Get on down there Alright alright Here I go How would Bo Because he's a big white Fluffy sandwich How would he be If there was an intruder

What's he doing He actually to be fair He makes a lot of noise When someone does Come inside the house He would be really good Like in the first bit Go oh someone's here.

And then someone would pat him. He'd be like, oh, g'day, mate. How's it going? He would very quickly. He's easily calmed down. Yeah. Find that spot for his leg and away the way it would go with the intruder. Well, I just need to find that spot on you.

I want to scratch you. I want to scratch you all day until I find your scratchy leg spot. Okay. Get those legs moving back and forth, eh? That's kind of weird, but I don't know how we got here. Making dreams come true. If you dream of annoying guys talking at you. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Jono, I don't know if you're like me, but I find one of the most awkward things that happens in your life can be when people come door to door to your house to sell you something. Now, for them, I get it. It's a tough job, but it is an awkward, I find myself in a very awkward position because I love chatting to people, but I find the longer you chat to the people

that come to the door, the harder it is to say no. To cut the cord. Yeah, I'm with you. You can't form a personal relationship with someone who's trying to sign you up to donate to Greenpeace for the next 35 years. Exactly. You've got to cut them off at the pass early.

Yeah, the best way to get rid of them would be just to shut the door straight on them, but that's very rude. You have done that before, haven't you? Well, almost. I've done that before. The best one was actually when I had COVID, just going, well, I'm isolating, through the door. That was a great excuse.

COVID has been wonderful for many things. I mean, COVID's been shocking for a lot of things, but also on the same. You've got to look at the positives. It's got us out of many engagements that you never wanted to attend in the first place. You know, many of your partner's work dues that you couldn't be bothered going to. And it's got you out of somewhat,

like all you need to say is, I've got COVID or I'm isolating. People take- Through the door, they're like, they're not going to open that door. No. But in the weekend, I had someone come around to the house.

And it's funny when they come up because you open the door and you're like yeah and they look at you and you look at them and you're like oh they start to go on their spell you're like oh here we go and you know and it's a hard job and the guy who I had was he did a great technique he was like what's your name

and I was like oh my name's Ben and he was like oh yeah and then he kept inserting my name into all the statistics throughout the conversation. There we go. You know, this is what happens. That's not good, is it, Ben? And I'll be like, yeah, you're right.

You're right. Do you know how much of the rainforest? 30% Ben. That's not good stats there, Ben. So it made it way more personal for me. Like, I was personally involved. But all I was kind of seeing, it was like driving along in the motorway where you just miss your exit exit you're like I'm

just looking for another exit looking for another way out of this and you couldn't the longer he sort of went and the more he sort of weaved me into the conversation yeah the harder it is to kind of get out of it you know because you can't you can't know how many of them are starving been being I know I know you've been you're not gonna let that go on I know I'm like a shock you know but you're right okay to let that go on I know and I'm like it's shocking and I'm like yeah you're right it's shocking good technique it was a really good technique the thing is

when they start on their spiel the train's departed and you can't get off and you know it's a spiel you know you're being you know

he's copied and pasted that and put Jeanette's name in there Sandra's name in there they've had the same thing and you know what's happening but you just can't stop it I don't've had the same thing, and you know what's happening, but you just can't stop it.

I don't know how you stop it. I know, and you get to the end of it, because you're kind of trying to get to the end of what exactly do they want. Do they want you to sign up for 12 months? Do they want to do the thing? How is this going to... That's what you want to fast forward. What do you want from me?

Forget I don't care about the rainforest. Someone else will... No, you don't. No, you don't. If you cared about it, you wouldn't be talking about this on the radio. You would have donated quietly. Okay, let's be honest. You don't care about the rainforest.

Someone else will sort out the rainforest. That's not my job. But let's cut to the chase. What do you want? Do you want a fiver, a tenner, a gold coin donation? No, they want you to sign up for 12 months. That's the thing. That's the thing.

My other favorite thing to do at the moment now is to drop my wife in it. Because often I'll go, oh go oh look to be honest my wife's the one that makes the decisions on these things in the house she's not here right now but she'll be back at five o'clock and then i don't tell her when they're not gonna do it oh she's gonna love this amanda no that's not good isn't amanda if i know amanda she wouldn't let this rain fall Oh yeah The thing is too Now they come out with an iPad All of a sudden An iPad appears out of nowhere

And they're like All you need to do is put Every one of your ex-partners in this And put your bank account number in there And it's just simple We'll just direct debit out of your bank Oh no Here's my

Everyone want to look You want to look like a charitable guy But you don't want to be one well I do but to a limit it's a commitment but then it's great what they're doing so you know are we bad at having this conversation well no they're coming back to see my wife after 5 today

The Hits New Zealand's most successful unsuccessful show Jono and Ben on The Hits Hello It's Jono and Ben on the hits. It's Jono and Ben's general smell election. Probably because we've got a cushy job sitting in a radio studio already doing weird novelty smell actions. Yes, we are finding New Zealand's favourite odour, favourite smell,

and there's been some great ones so far. Bacon has advanced through to the next round, and also the smell of petrol taking out uh that for that battle as well so both of those are through to the next round right now though i i can't pick a winner here ben oh yeah for kfc thank goodness for kentucky versus rain on the pavement now these are the two iconic smells, the smell of KFC or the smell of rain on the pavement. And everyone that gets on air this morning, thanks to Chemist Warehouse, gets a bottle of CK1. How's that for a great odour?

Yeah, that is a good odour. Now Mother Nature urinating on the pavement, what do you think? What do you think against the smell of KFC? I think KFC's a much more distinct smell. But I know that a lot of people already have come through going, I love the smell of concrete on the pavement. It's like a school nostalgia thing. Yeah, well, what if it was raining on the pavement

and you're walking outside of KFC? You're just having an absolute, your nose is just melting. So this is what we need votes for. We phoned KFC yesterday to ask what's so good about it. KFC, the smell of KFC is up against the smell of rain on hot concrete. Now, what is it about KFC

we all love the smell? Maybe because of finger licking good. It is finger licking good. I'm always licking, well I'm doing less finger licking nowadays. After COVID, but you know Well, I'm doing less finger licking nowadays. Are you less? After COVID. But, you know, I mean.

True, you can't lick other people's fingers. No. I'm not going to go in KFC and start licking your fingers. But lots of people love it. It's one of the most popular smells. You work in a business that has one of the best smells. Could be just made with love. Made with love.

She's thinking of pay rise from the kernel, isn't she? She was great. And concrete, the smell of rain on hot concrete. We went to the heart of this issue, the concreting industry. Karen speaking. G'day, Caro. How are you? Oh, bloody good, mate.

How are you going? Good. You have no idea who this is, mate? No idea. But we're talking like we know each other. I like this. I like this thing. What are you doing like we know each other. I like this. I like this. What are you doing?

You're working out. You know that. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Hi. Now, are we still chipper with us? It's still good? Yeah, that's fine. Okay.

We're talking about the best smells. We're doing a competition this week, and a lot of people have voted for the smell of rain on concrete. No, not a good one. Not a good one? You work in the concrete industry. That's why it's not a good one. Not a good one? You work in the concrete industry. That's why it's not a good one. Why not?

Oh, you smell it all day. Yeah. Oh, the novelty has worn off from you. Slightly, yes. Okay. Oh, apparently it takes people back to their childhood. Yeah. Does it?

Very nostalgic. Now, Carol, if you don't mind me saying, you sound incredibly youthful. Oh, thank you. So maybe the permanent odour of rain on concrete has kept you young at heart. They've got pranks. They've got puns. Now they just need some actual listeners.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now we're in the middle of the smell lecture looking for New Zealand's best smell. Jono and Ben's general smell election. Now, you know the permanent smell we have in here is the smell of excessive hand sanitiser use, thanks to Ben Bush, and the smell of desperation. That's what this radio... Thanks to both of us, right.

That's what this radio studio is combined of. Now, we're going to go to the phone lines because our next battle is... Round four. KFC. Thank goodness for Kentucky Fried. Versus rain on the pavement. What is the best smell?

The iconic rain on the pavement versus the even more iconic, in my opinion, KFC. The smell of KFC. What came first, rain on the pavement or the smell of the kernel? Oh, that's a good point. When was concrete invented versus KFC? I'll come back to you in just a second while we go to the calls. Now, we'll get Rowan on. On the text, I'd say rain on the pavement slightly ahead at this stage,

but you want to put a vote in for what, Rowan? Me, I'm a KFC, mate, every day. Every day you eat KFC? No, no, just any day, I should say. Yeah, that's a beautiful smell. He's like, button it off, not every day. Not every day, but I would smell it every day. I get you.

I'll tell you what I would do, Rowan, is I'd smell you every day, especially now that we're going to spray some CK1 all over your neck, thanks to the chemist's warehouse. Beautiful. Good on you. Rowan, I tell you what, it's going to be flocking. Everyone's going to be flocking to Rowan's neck. Good on you, mate.

Hey, thank you. Thanks for voting in the smell election. KFC started in 1952. Concrete was first invented in 1824, so there you go. Fiona, mate. Hey, thank you. Thanks for voting in the smell election. KFC started in 1952. Concrete was first invented in 1824, so there you go. Fiona, welcome. Good morning.

All right, it's rain on pavement, take it on, KFC. What are you putting your mind to? Yeah, I think you understood enough of that

to know what we want. Yeah, I've listened to Jono Long enough to know what he's saying. What are you going to vote for? Rain on the Pavement, boys. Oh, Rain on the Pavement.

And a lot of people so far have been going with KFC. Why do you love the smell of rain on the pavement? I just think it's a much more unique smell, authentic. You know, you can smell KFC on any given day, but rain on the pavement. I wonder if our smell of rain on the pavement is exclusive to New Zealand only. Like if you went over to England or America, if their rain on the pavement would smell the same.

No, I think it would be different. Yeah, because we've got our own tar seal. We've got that, you know, signature range black tar seal we like rolling out. Yeah, can we classic? Do I tell you what you also love? Do you love CK1 all over you? Oh, yes, please.

There we go. Thanks to Chemist Warehouse. They're the home of the big brand fragrances. Yeah, the real house of big brand fragrances. You almost got that correct. Yeah, you're going to enjoy some CK1. We'll send you out a bottle, all right? Oh, thanks, guys.

Thanks, Chemist Warehouse. Paulder, you're on from Wellington. Cured up. Cured up. KFC, Rain on concrete. Gotta love the KFC smell, eh? Oh, yeah. I just think you can't beat it.

Nah. You can't. You go to hard stays, Mahi, and you go past KFC, and then you're just in love, you know? Yeah. And then you veer off into the drive-thru, and you're like, what am I doing? Even though KFC in the area, you can be walking along, I feel like my dog walking when you just get that whiff and you look around like you get that scent. It's great.

It's a crazy smell. You can't go by. Okay, if I invented a body wash, KFC body wash, just smelling like chicken, would you buy it? Yeah, I'd buy it. So you'd soap yourself a duck, eh? That's how much he likes. I just wanted to check his commitment levels.

Yeah. Yeah, that's good, Poulter. Hey, we're going to give you some CK1 thanks to Chemist Warehouse. Beautiful. Cheers, boys. No worries. Have a great day. So the voting lines are open for 24 hours.

We'll announce the results tomorrow. If you're very passionate about it, go on social media. If you're indifferent, get on with your day. Sorry, those are your options. Warning. This show contains Jono and or Ben. Jono and Ben on the hits. So on tonight and tomorrow night on 3,

a documentary looking at booze hosted by Paddy Gower. It's called Paddy Gower on Booze. And the respected journalist Paddy Gower allows himself to join us right now. Good morning, Paddy. Nice to see you. Paddy Gower, welcome. How are you?

I'm really good. Nice to see you. Yeah, no, it's really good to see you guys. You smell magnificent. We hugged Paddy Gower, welcome. How are you? I'm really good. Nice to see you. Yeah, no, it's really good to see you guys. You smell magnificent. We hugged Paddy and he smells like an English meadow. Link's Africa. Link's Africa. And it's the more expensive version of Link.

No, the kind you buy from the dairy when you've forgotten the other lot. Lovely to see you back on TV tonight. Paddy Gower on booze. It's on tonight and tomorrow. Now, it looks, you've said it's quite confronting in a lot of ways. You're a bit scared about people seeing this. Yeah, yeah. And I actually really don't like watching it myself. You do a bit of drinking on the show and you see a side to yourself that the public wouldn't have seen before. Yeah, I mean, quite a few people have probably seen it because a lot

of people have seen me booze down the years. You know, I've been a pretty big boozer and I've had a good time. I've partied a lot. We do a scene where I'm meant to get boozed or I think I was meant to get merry, right? Yeah. And actually just I completely overcook it. I completely overcook the honey and get way too boozed for the shoot. Obviously, you guys made TV and everyone just keeps kind of going.

But, you know, I sort of woke up the next day and I was like, oh, jeepers, that was bad. Push the boat out there, Paddy. Was I working yesterday? Yeah, yeah. What happened for the most of yesterday? And I've ended up getting completely boozed on camera. Actually, you know, if there's anyone out there

who really wants to think about their drinking, you know, film yourself for a few hours with an HD camera and a sound crew. Really? Because you really see a different side of yourself. Are you like, that's not me when you're watching yourself? Well, I must admit, I didn't realise I looked like that when I was drunk. I was like, do I really come across like that? But that led me to have a really kind of hardcore conversation

with one of my mates you know corin dan we used to do the whole um political editing thing together and he confronts me in the doco um you know we're mates like you two are you know professionally you know not not outside of work no no we don't get on at all yeah unless there's a contract for me to hang out outside of work yeah yeah yeah that's right that's eight hours a day that's it we're gone call me on work hours so yeah and we're a similar sort of vibe to you two guys and i guess it'd be like one of you two hitting each other up about you know your drinking and and it just came like a bolt out of the out of the blue you know like no one none of my mates had ever hit me up about my drinking before you know like no one had ever said oh mate do you reckon you just booze too much are you going to keep going like this forever and my drinking is really quite normal it's just

sort of typical kiwi male i would imagine yeah like a lot of kiwis do you know is that going to change their views particularly uh watching this show you'd think yeah yeah i think it'll make a lot of them look at themselves. Because that's the thing, you imagine someone with an alcohol problem to be drinking first thing in the morning all through the day and just sort of meandering their way through the day. But that's probably not, that's an alcoholic, but there's other versions. Yeah, for me it's been binge drinking and partying

and it's been LinkedIn with socialising and LinkedIn with work in with watching rugby and linked in with being with my mates and going fishing and all of these classic kind of things and people will see that tonight and people who um are expecting a lot of fun and a big investigation and stuff like that they will be confronted they will be shocked i think it's about seven minutes in uh It's pretty early in, and people will be shocked to see me the way they am, and I don't like it. But, you know, it tells a story about booze in New Zealand. Well, it's good on you for being so vulnerable. I mean, you could have easily edited that out.

I could have. Yeah, definitely could have edited it out, and we were having a lot of fun. You know, we go to crate day one day. So, you know, we're looking and having things that are a lot of fun. And then there's obviously your sort of darker side to it as well. Yeah, there's this flip side, which is that I start to look at what it really does to me. And, I mean, I don't know.

I mean, how many times have you guys ever hit up a mate about how much they drink? You don't. And it kind of goes unspoken. And you're like, oh, you know, we all probably know someone who goes quite hard and jeez, I've been guilty of it in the past. But you don't sit down and have that conversation with those people. You're like, oh, that's just, you know,

that's just Glenn or that's just Sarah. That's just what they do, you know. Sorry, Glenn. Sorry, Sarah. So now the people know Glenn and be like, oh, jeez. Yeah, Glenn and Sarah. I've been meaning to tell you for a while.

This is the way you're going to do it. But you don't have that chat, do you? No, you and Sarah. I've been meaning to tell you for a while. This is the way you're going to do it. But you don't do that chat, do you? No, you don't. And honestly, I've never had the chat with anyone. And Corin was the first time that anyone had had the chat with me. And it had a really profound effect because it was just like, whoa, I've been told. I am not alone. I am just one of hundreds of thousands of people who will see themselves tonight.

And that helps me feel a little bit less embarrassed. I still feel really embarrassed by what people are going to see. They just didn't have camera crews for it. And never, ever do that, eh? Awesome that you're doing this, Paddy. I think he drinks to deal with me, to be honest. I know the reasons. Yeah, I know, I know.

They just need to tighten up that contractor bit, eh? Less time, less time. Getting out on booze. It looks fascinating tonight on three. Thanks so much for hanging out. It's always great to see you. Yeah, great. Thank you.

Good morning. Spy. No what's up. Spy.co.nz. All right. Here she is. What have I written here for you, Belle? Let me just...

What have I got today? Screw her. No, that's no good. I like that one. Yeah, all right. Over to you, Belle. Here's no good. I like that one. Yeah, no, right over to you, Belle. Here's some spy. Rebel Wilson has responded to a nasty newspaper's handling of her new relationship,

where essentially they were going to out her, and then when she announced the news herself that she's in a relationship with a woman, they basically threw a tantrum for stealing their exclusive. So they kind of gave her, from what I understand, a couple of days. They said, hey, we've got this information and you've got a couple of days to respond. Is that right? And then so in the meantime, she was like, well, screw you guys.

I'm going to do it myself. And there you come. I mean, they were nice. They gave her a couple of days, didn't they? It's still like, it's like blackmail. It's shocking. Shocking. I don't know how, if you're a journalist of that ilk,

not everyone in the journalism game is like that. But imagine phoning someone up going, hey, I'm going to out you in a newspaper article. You've got 48 hours. Yeah. I could probably do that, actually, to be honest. That's the sort of thing I'd do. Yeah.

Well, now that Sydney Morning Herald journalist is facing a worldwide roast, people are shocked at their behaviour. So it's, you know, we're not tolerating this anymore. And another journalist had tweeted Rebel, and she replied saying, thanks for your comments. It was a very hard situation, but trying to handle it with grace. I think she handled it really well.

She's been posting photos with her girlfriend since earlier in the year, but no one knew and no one needed to know. And it's not really a big deal, is it? But yeah, I think 40, okay, what is it? If I am a grubby journalist, Ben, I've got some filth on you. I've seen you philandering around, mate. How many days you want? I'd like more than 48, though, like 48 months.

48 months? I'm trying to buy myself more time. I'll give you 48 months. You can sort all your stuff out, okay? It's going to be front page news. And it looks like Will Smith is planning his Hollywood comeback after Slapgate. You know, people are saying, oh, is's going to be front page news. And it looks like Will Smith is planning his Hollywood comeback after Slapgate. You know, people are saying, oh, is he going to act again? Well, reportedly, planning to start

a new movie, I Am Legend 2. He hasn't been dropped from it and his performance, you know, everyone loved it. And the film also made half a billion dollars at the global box office, so they're probably going to want to power him with the second. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, my vague memory of I Am Legend 1,

he's pretty much the core cast, the only cast member. He was the dog with the only people alive on it. So you edit Will Smith out of the movie. You've just got a dog. No, I think sadly the dog wasn't there. So, you know, I Am Legend, you edit Will Smith out of the movie. You've just got beautiful scenery of dystopia. It wasn't zombies or something like that?

But yeah, well, maybe they found some other people that were still alive. Zombies fighting the sky is not there? He's still carrying around. I Am Legend though, is that the movie you want to come back in? Will Smith, I Am A Legend. He can make a comeback. You know, everyone loves a redemption story, don't they?

Oh, you're mucked up, mate. Get back out there, you know? Yeah. Well, how do you handle it? Yeah, you've got to back the person who's remorseful and he's, you know, talking to Chris Rock and stuff and apologising. Then I think people will probably accept it. Oh, watch him slaughter some zombies? Yeah.

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