Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Is it ok for a grown man to call his mother Mummy?

Episode Date: June 6, 2022

We wrap up all the best bits of the Queen's Jubilee including Charles saying Mummy, Louis stealing the show and check in with our Royal Correspondent Gavin Grey. Ben got a bit too invested in his daughters school project and Jono has another car story for us which got us thinking about orange lights. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast. Hi, welcome. Podcast intro. It's the 7th of June. Now we're just looking on the screen at the moment. We've got a TV that plays on mute. And we're looking at the gentleman who plays Elvis in Baz Luhrmann Presents Elvis. And you wouldn't get a more flawless looking human being,

would you? Oh yeah, you've seen him on the red carpet. He's an incredibly good looking guy. yeah just just stunt i mean why you know why why am i like i am and he's like he is austin butler is his name but go google austin butler he's hot yeah um like flawless like every fight i've seen of the guy you're like geez he's a yeah he's a yeah yeah what now you answer my question why am i like i am and every fight i've seen of the guy, you're like, geez, he's a, yeah, he's a, yeah. Now, answer my question. Why am I like I am? And every fight I've seen of the guy is just gorgeous. Why don't you stop smoke screening?

Answer the question. Austin Butler is his name. You want to Google him? He's only 30 as well. He bought a 91. Yeah. But why am I like this? And Austin Butler is like the way he is.

Anyway, the Elvis movie looks very good. It does look really good, doesn't it? Yeah. I can't wait to see it. Yeah. You're still ignoring John. Yeah, he's still ignoring me. Don't look at him. Geez. Don does look really good, doesn't it? Yeah. I can't wait to see it. You're still ignoring John. Yeah, he's still ignoring him.

Don't look at him. On the cover of GQ magazine. He looks like, he looks a little bit like Paul Walker. Oh yeah, with slightly longer hair. Similar eyes, hey.

So that's, is this his breakout role being Boyce? I think so. Like I think from, yeah, I think he's done a few other things but this will be the one that catapults him into superstardom oh jesus he used to have a matter of time too yeah i mean he used to have long hair have a look at scroll down

his instagram to his long hair he looks even better with long hair oh yeah he looks like an italian supermodel yeah he's hot here we go frothing over austin butler and he's you know he's got like this deep v-neck black and white photo shoot he's done. You know, bare feet, of course. Free-flowing trouser. And just looking like, I would make love to you. Like, book out six to seven hours in your calendar. Because you're going to get butlered.

You're going to get Austened. Tom Hanks is in the movie as well Yeah looks really good Looks really good Elvis didn't it What is Tom Hanks Tom Hanks plays his manager Or something didn't he

Maybe he does Yeah He plays a guy called Tom Parker And then Jurassic World Out on Thursday too Oh yeah Sam Neill in that He's going to be on the show This week Sam Neill

Yeah it's a big banger movie I mean Top Gun Still in cinemas Still you know Doing amazing things I wanted to go see Top Gun Over the weekend Oscar my son's I couldn't figure out If it's I could probably just google what the rating is

but is it a kid's movie he's desperate to see how old is he he might be old it might be all right he's 12 yeah it's M well I think it's M mature yeah it's for I think there's some things that's kind of like this is on you you guys apparently it's more action by the sound so it's probably safe for him yeah if your son goes home and pretends he's a fighter pilot in the tree this is on us

it's meant to be a really good movie isn't it hey well listen thank you so much for listening to us review movies that we haven't

seen yet they all look good they all look amazing and it's so good having been in lockdown for two years so good seeing all of these back in the theatres, isn't it?

People going back into the theatres. Oh, refreshing stuff, you know. People going back to places. Yeah. Cool chat, guys. Even like the rugby of the weekend, there's people, you know, people out and about, the bars, the games, you know, it's kind of cool. Now, Ben Boyce, he somehow inadvertently ended up in a CEO corporate box on Saturday night.

No place there. You know, when you look around, you're like, I should be here. Fancy, right? Because they would have been suits. They would have been suits. The last thing was suits. Power suits. Would you wear your Toy Story backpack?

I didn't have a backpack as well. But you would have been kind of like, you would have looked like the CEO's son. Who's like, he's yet to get a job. I'll bring you. Come on, you and your friend can come along. And you always end up sort of making a fool of yourself by the end of the night yeah yeah i was trying my best to but yeah to be on good behavior because it felt what was your chat what was your conversation like oh you know this is at the blues i talked to one of the guys who's going to be uh he's running for mayor i was like oh mate how's it all good you know just you know

guys are going with yeah that stuff the mural stuff did you talk about any issues that you had with the city that you'd like to see i didn't get into that sort of you know the guys are going with that stuff, the Meryl stuff. Did you talk about any issues that you had with the city that you'd like to see? No, I didn't get into that sort of, you know, the big hard-hitting issues. You've got a lot of issues with the parking around the city. Huge issues with the parking, yeah. And then they're trying to turn everything into a freaking footpath. What are they doing that for? They're trying to turn all the whole city.

Anyway, that's what I would have said to them. I'll be your shift on the news talk. Yeah, you can go back up there and talk to News Talk ZB. Well, I'll just end up driving down the footpath. Oh, gee. That's the only solution. Hey, and it was a fun show today. We had a lot to cover.

There was obviously the big royal celebrations over the weekend, so we talked to our UK correspondent. There was heaps happening in Hollywood, too, so we talked to our Hollywood correspondent. We have correspondents all over the world, don't we? Don't we? Big show. And Holly Jean Brooker joins us as well to

tell us what we should be doing on the sidelines to support our kids when playing sport, but not go too far. That's all on today's podcast. Enjoy. Mmm, coffee breath. Jono and Ben on the hits. Queen's birthday weekend, Queen's birthday honours over the weekend.

Congratulations to all the people that won that. Did you make the cut? I filled out a registration form for services to being a legend. Another year, not there. But yeah, pretty amazing. Must be a pretty great way to start your weekend. Who were the big bangers on the Queen's Birthday list?

Well, people like Ross Taylor, cricketer, Benji Marshall, rugby league player, Chelsea Wynn-Stanley, of course, television producer and director as well. They all got orders of merit. We've got some new knights and new dames as well. How do you actually get them as well? Do you get shoulder tapped or do I have to fill out a form?

How does it happen? Right. Because I am gunning for you next year, buddy. I have no place there. That and the New Year's one, all the New Year's. I might try the New Year's ones this year. No place there. How was your weekend, Belle?

Yeah, good. Good mixture of a bit of chill. We're moving house, which is always fun. And yeah, boyfriend's birthday. And we're fighting a little bit, but it's okay. She's still moving. If I'm completely honest. You know, it's just normal stuff. You can't be honest with us.

I don't know how it's not guilty. I was trying to make his birthday good. And I was like, sorry, mate. Here we are fighting. To be honest, things aren't good. We're moving house together. Oh, very happy birthday, yeah. Yeah, no, it's a pretty dark weekend.

That was very funny. Did I say Benji Marshall got it? No, things are fine. We're all good. Where's that registration for? You know, we've got another long weekend coming up, too, for Matariki Oh it's great

This month It's really good So we've got so many Long weekends in the calendar now We might as well just make Every weekend a long weekend So there's some consistency Yeah

Do you know what I mean The only downside Is there's an extra day For me to put Heineken Into my body I ended up in A corporate box At the rugby

Which is like Oh hell yeah Because I was A mate very last minute was like, do you want to go to the rugby on Saturday night? The Blues were playing the Highlanders. And I was like, yeah,

why not? He's like, yeah, we'll go buy tickets at the gate. I'm like, that sounds great. And then we went to a bar, met up with some other friends,

and they're like, guess what? People have pulled out. They're going to the corporate box with us. Would you like to come? No, we've already got our tickets, thanks.

Sweet, yeah. I ended up talking to one of the mayoral candidates, the CEO. I've been to park. I'm like, whose box was it? I had no plan. I think it was the CEO's box. I, yeah. I ended up talking to one of the mural candidates and the CEO. I've been to Parkham. Whose box was it? I had no plan.

I think it was the CEO's box. I'm like, I shouldn't be here. You know when you're there the whole night going, I really shouldn't be here. No, and you kind of get a bit anxious and self-conscious about conversations you're having with people.

They're like, you're far too important to be talking to me. Exactly. Then what did you talk to a CEO about? What did you have to say? CEO stuff.

CEO stuff. How's the ticket sales and stuff? He's a great dude, Eden Park. He wished that you ran the marathon around the top of Eden Park. He was like, I just thought you were with the CEO of Eden Park. You're in their box. I know, I know. No place.

No place. No place. You're like, Ben Boyce, do you know where I can get a nomination form for the Queen's Birthday Honours? That's what I'm after. Because if you had a Queen's Birthday Honours, then yeah, you could be in a CEO box. Exactly. Okay, next year, Ben. It's coming.

Now, coming up very shortly, the big weekend, Jubilee weekend. Huge scenes on social media. Oh, it was massive. They did it well. I'm glad she made it through. Well, yeah, she popped up at the end. I think there was a few events that she didn't quite make it to, which is fair enough.

Nap time, have a relax. 96 years old. It was a huge bender for a 96-year-old. Four days, way too long. We'll bring you some of the highlights and lowlights of the four-day celebrations for the Queen's Jubilee. That's next. Scrolling through your feed.

I hand you over now to the Picasso of news. He's very abstracted. No one quite knows what to make of it, but he is basically. The Queen's Jubilee got a lot of attention over the weekend and there's a few things I think we should focus on quickly. Prince Charles, a lovely speech about his mum, or as he likes to call her, mummy.

Have a listen. Your Majesty, mummy. Mummy. Oh my God. He has such a big cheer from the crowd too, mummy. Just a little bit of, a little bit even dies inside Mummy. Mummy. Oh, my God. You got such a big cheer from the crowd, too. Mummy. Just a little bit of, a little bit even dies inside when I hear a fully grown adult calling

their mum, Mummy. It's an interesting one to go with, isn't it? Would you ever call Jenny Mummy? No. I feel like if I did, it would be by mistake when you called the teacher mum or something at school. That was an embarrassing day. Yeah.

Yeah. Annie likes to publicly humiliate me sometimes. So Annie, my mum's from Christchurch and we'll go out for lunch or something. She'll be like, Jay,

could you pass mummy the salt and pepper and do it in front of the, you know, the people at work. And I was like, Annie, you know my weak spot

and it's calling you mummy. Do you know anyone who calls their mum mummy? No. I reckon he's made to call her mummy though. I mean, I know the crown's not real, but like she makes, he has to call her mummy. It's quite a British thing.

It's kind of, yeah, it does seem quite a British thing. Also as well over the weekend for the Queen's Jubilee, something that I thought was really awesome. There was a lovely little sketch with Paddington Bear and the Queen acting in it. Now this had been filmed, I think a wee while ago and together already and it was very, very cute. Thank you for having me.

I do hope you're having a lovely jubilee. Tea? Oh, yes, please. Perhaps you would like a marmalade sandwich? I always keep one for emergencies. So do I. That was very cute. So he had his marmalade sandwiches in his hat She had hers in her handbag

It was really really cute And seeing the Queen sort of like I mean she would have been acting to no one really I mean and that was probably the only The only thing that got her across the line She's like who do I have to act with and spend time with And they're like no one She's like I'm on

It was very very cute It's being hailed the best thing to happen this decade. Yeah, people were loving it. People brought me tears. It was so cute. It was very, very nice. And just quickly, the news in New Zealand this morning. The vaccination rates are about to be revealed,

and it could be lower than expected. The Ministry of Health's mass is under review by StatsNZ. They'll be like, thanks a lot, StatsNZ. Come along and be like, no, no, you haven't quite counted. Where did StatsNZ come from? Why do we need them coming? Who cares? Let's just all think we've got 95% vaccination rate.

They were like, we're still confident it's over 90%. They're saying it's still confident, but it's expected it will not stay at 96%. So basically, they included some people who didn't qualify for the data set to make the calculations and now they think with those people not there or back in there, it won't be quite. It's at 96%. Well, I'm going to go along pretending that we are. That's the best. Ignorance.

That's what's pulled us through the last couple of years. That's crazy though. Boy, this is the last thing Ashley needs. It's the last thing Ashley needs and it's the best thing Mike Hosking needs right now. And that is what's making news in New Zealand and around the world this morning. Your Tuesday morning, it is Jono and Ben on the hits. If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Clickbait headlines. They get a lot of hate, don't they? Of course, they're designed to suck you into clicking on the article with often a ridiculous, sensationalist headline. You're like, oh, don't they? Of course, they're designed to suck you into clicking on the article with often a ridiculous, sensationalist headline. You're like, oh, what's this? And then sometimes I get there and I'm disappointed because the headline isn't

quite what I... I've been clickbaited basically. Yeah, and I guess the radio equivalent is when we talk over the intro of, you know, Applebee's on date night and we're going, hey, coming up next, we've got a story that's going to rock you to the core you won't believe what happened next

we clickbait people we do and when you get there it's not once we haven't rocked one core nothing no core rocking but over the last couple of days

we both throughout the weekend sort of looked at some articles online and went well let's have a look at the headlines and then right now

let's find out what the articles were all about the problem with clickbaiting is and we're responsible just as much responsible as the person writing the headline because they know what they're doing we know what's happening to us but we still can't help but click on the article exactly i know that 100% of the time i'm going to be disappointed that

the headline is not going to match the story but you're right there was one i saw the weekend man tries to hug wild lion i. I was like, oh my God, what's happened? Has the man been mauled? What's happened? Did he try and hug the lion? He did, yeah. And it turned out he was a vet. He worked with wild lions. So he had a relationship with them. Of course, they came up, he hugged them. They've been hugging for a while

now. And I was like, well, that's quite a consensual hugging relationship. It was like, yeah. So the man's built up the trust in the lions. Who was the little kid who grew up in the wild? It was quite a consensual hugging relationship. It was like, yeah. So the man's built up the trust and the lines. And so, yeah. Who was the little kid who grew up in the wild with no shirt on? Like Tarzan? Tarzan, yeah.

Yeah, he had formed the bond with him. So I got click baited because I was like, why would this guy? I want to see what the hell, yeah. And he was just like, oh, he knows the line. Okay, here we go. I'm going to read the headline. You try and guess what happened here, okay? Okay.

78-year-old woman dies at vaccination centre after being vaccinated. Oh my goodness, that sounds horrific. She obviously, what? First line of the story from NBC, her death is not related to the vaccine, said the Department of Public Health. Oh, so they... She just had a heart attack,

which is unrelated to the vaccine. Right, but it sounds like... But then the click-baity sensationalist headline... Yes. I got another one at the weekend. The scary new science that shows milk is bad for you. And you're like, oh my goodness, this sounds... Is it scary?

I was like, I drink milk, what's so wrong with it? Basically, the article goes on to say adults don't need as much calcium than originally thought. So you're like, you don't need heaps of it. It's okay for you, but it's not... So what if you have too much milk? Well, it's like, if you have too much,

it's scary. New science is bad for you. But it's not really that bad for you. I got clickbaited. Here's another good one here. 98 things you need to know. Ironically, I didn't need to know about 97 of them. Yeah, that's always the way to write.

This weird trick actually works. That's another clickbait headline. Ask Ben's wife It didn't Alright you've just added that in there And that's where we're in that today So there's a final article It said girl didn't know what was inside of her Until they cut her pants off

Oh my goodness It turns out it was a baby she'd been growing for the last nine months Oh she was pregnant And she knew she was pregnant But they just had to cut her pants off. Oh, jeez. Spy. Know what's up.

Spy.co.nz. All right, now to our early update on the vacuous world of celebrity gossip. What's happening, Belle Crawford? I guess I'd better cover off what I clickbait you with. So there's all these rumours that Kim Kardashian tried to go to the Jubilee and turned up at the Palace Gates, you know. But her reps are saying that she was actually in London for an entirely different reason.

She left before it even started. Because I'd seen Skeet looking after little Chicago over the weekend, one of her children, holding his hand. So she was away. Did she leave him at home to babysit, did she? Yes, I need someone to look after the kids. He was wandering the streets of London with the kids, so obviously looking after them.

Oh, right. Well, maybe he was trying to find a backdoor entrance to the Jubilee with the kids, you know, get the kid over the fence. Because that works quite well when you're trying to sneak. A friend of ours, Dan, said his dad would always sneak them into events and, like, throw the kids over the fence so he didn't have to pay for the kids. Wings of Wanaka and stuff like that. That's right.

He was crawling under barbed wire fences to get into Wings of Wanaka. Such a Kiwi thing to do. Maybe that's what they were doing with the kids. And the actual performances, people who were actually allowed in there, you had Ed Sheeran. He performed Perfect. Lovely. In front of the gates of Buckingham Palace I was reading over the weekend that Ed Sheeran was inspired to play guitar By watching the Jubilee Basically 20 years ago when Eric Clapton was playing

So that's pretty awesome, it's gone full circle now He's playing at it, so it's amazing Now don't get your hopes up though, that doesn't happen to everyone Don't think you sitting there Watching whatever you're watching thinking Oh I could do that one day. Chances are you won't. And also you had people like Elton John. There were so many.

I mean, I know he's not as big as Elton John, but Craig Day was there. I was pretty excited when I saw that. Oh, Craig Day. Talking for a drink on Monday. Then we did some stuff on the Tuesday. He's just listing off his week, wasn't he? Busy week, guys. Had to get my try

cleaning on Wednesday. I really forgot to write the song, and they were like, what's the lyrics? You're like, I'll just go through it. I couldn't do it because I was doing this on Monday, this on Tuesday. You're like, oh great, we'll just use that. Busy, busy week. Of course, one of the standouts of the weekend, all the memes, all the photos of Prince Louis all weekend pulling faces.

So cute. He looks like a future royal scandal in the making, doesn't he, Louis? Every parent's been through that. When you're at an important function, be it a wedding or a recital or whatever, and the kids are playing up a little bit, having fun, because kids don't care. Every parent's been through it.

You're at your grandmother's jubilee in front of hundreds of millions of people and your kids are just not playing ball. But they don't care. They have no scope for what the environment's like, how you should behave in that environment. They're just going to run a consistent level of whatever they want to do,

no matter where they are. That's why you love kids, right? Yeah, and he was even doing the thing where he's stealing mum's phone, pulling faces at her, and they've made light of it. They know what he was up to, and they've posted, just like I guess families do, a little album of the weekend saying, we all had an incredible time, especially Louis. Yeah, and you can sort of see in the background a photo of Skeet holding one of the Kardashian kids over the other side of the fence,

just trying to push the kid under the fence. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Win with Jono and Ben and the warehouse. Proud partner of Lego Masters New Zealand on TVNZ2. Well, yeah, Blake Taylor, just that one song to give us a call on 0800 THE HITS and to see if they could call us up to win a $500 at the warehouse voucher. Blake Taylor, what on earth are you doing over this time of the morning at 10 years old? Listening to win a $500 Lego voucher.

That makes a lot of sense, baby. Well done. You've got $500. You can spend it at the warehouse. You can buy a whole heap of Lego or anything else you want. That's a lot of money for a kid, but that's awesome. Thank you. Yeah, I see, I went to the warehouse over the

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Now also, guess what, Blake? We're going to be talking to the winners. We're going to be talking to Jake and Glenn after 8 o'clock this morning from Lego Masters. OK. OK. He's like, I might be at school around about that time, but if I'm not, make sure you listen. Don't think you're going to trick me into keep listening. Hey, Blake, thank you for listening to the show, and thanks again for watching Lego Masters.

Enjoy that $500 at the warehouse. Thank you. See you, buddy. Hey, Ben, I actually need to tell you something. Oh, really? A few months ago, we filmed a TV show. Yeah. Well, part of a TV, just an episode of a TV show.

It was like a game show sort of thing, and it was filmed in that building that we filmed it in. Oh, yeah, I know. Yeah. Quite an old building. Probably a heritage building or something like that, right? Yeah. And when I was in there, I was like, this has quite an asbestos-y vibe about it. You know?

It felt asbestos-y. Like if you were going to go, does that building have asbestos in it? I'd go, yes, it does. This is the building that does, yeah. So I drove past it yesterday afternoon, in fact. Shut down. The building has been condemned for asbestos removal. Why did you have to tell me this?

Asbestos. You were breathing in the asbestos. Why do I need to know this? Why do I need to know this? Why do I need to know this? Well, I don't want you to. The doctor's like, Ben, you've got some shocking lung issues now. What happened? I want you to be able to go, oh, we filmed a TV show in an asbestos

building. So that's happened now. Asbestos, again, was one of those things back in the day they used a lot of, and then at some stage went, oh, hang on, this is not quite as good as we thought it was. Do you know what the thing was though it was fireproof so that's why it worked so well so people are like put this on buildings you know it's fireproof you know it's not going to burn when the building you can see safety reasons why and then they stopped they slowly phased it out

right yeah well i guess once they realized the crippling diseases that were associated with it i remember free had friends who had moved over from America back in primary school, and I remember the dad saying it was quite funny, because in America they were phasing it out pretty quickly. But he said in New Zealand they just have signs going, warning, asbestos. Hold your breath. It was like, wow, New Zealand.

I was like, yeah. Pretty casual. Warning, hey, we've warned you. It's somewhere around here. We all walk into buildings and go. Don't let go until you're out of it. So anyway, it was a fun game show to do and, you know, the lasting prize of lung damage. What more can we say?

Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. 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 NT

No Such a gossipy old nana, aren't I? NT, come on in from Hollywood How are you, mate? I'm good, how are you? Oh, it's great to have you on, buddy. It's really good to have you on. Now, the Queen's Jubilee, it's happening in the UK.

We're just being pumped. All sorts of footage and vision and sketches. Do you care about it in America? Is it getting any coverage? I mean, obviously it's getting coverage, but I think that people, the thing that got the most coverage was the interaction with Kate Middleton and her son.

I mean, everybody all over the world saw that. I think that that's all that anybody really cares about. And then, of course, over here, everybody kind of pays attention to what Meghan Markle and Prince Harry or whatever did. But it's just, it's not a huge deal. Because we heard that Kim Kardashian and Peteson went over to the uk and were trying to get in but were denied a sort of invitation do you know anymore anything about that i think that they went and you know you bring the the hulu cameras with you that you know the channel that that airs on their new show and even if they don't get on you can use selective editing

and make it seem as if they were part of the jubilee oh we we're going over to London to, you know, we're going over, why are you going to London? We're going over to London for the Queen's Jubilee. It doesn't really matter. And let's say that how many events were, you know, a part of the Jubilee? It seems like there was a dozen or something. There's probably some kind of event at some restaurant or something where they could pretend with, oh, so this was a party as part of the Queen's Jubilee celebration,

whether or not it was. So I think that that is why they flew over there. And then there's all the signage or whatever for the Jubilee, and they can make it look like they attended even though they didn't. Is that all I need to do to seem more popular? A bit of selective editing. Do that with my life. The other thing, too, I thought was a bold move to go over there without an invite.

You paid for flights, accommodation. I think they can afford it. Yeah, I think so. That's exactly what I was thinking. They can afford the economy here for your flight. Now, the MTV Awards were over the weekend there, NT. What do you think about those? Well, you have to realize, and I'm sure that, you know, your listeners are smart enough, but the MTV Movie Awards are fake awards.

I hope everybody knows that. What? You're only going if you know you're going to win an award or you're getting to sing or whatever. There is no way on this earth that Jennifer Lopez had the best song. Let's just get that right out in the open. And it's just who will attend. And it's all like that right out in the open. And it's just, who will attend? And it's

all like that. The Academy Awards are not. Anything that's run or tabulated by an accounting firm is generally real. With that being said, the Grammys are tabulated by an accounting firm. But as we've learned over the last couple of years, that they're very shady about who gets nominated. And they do rearrange nominations, put things in different categories to give people chances to win, or if they owe somebody a favor, or if they don't like a certain category the way it is, they'll manipulate the category. But J.Lo cried. J.Lo cried.

J.Lo cried. She cried when she got her award. You know, she's a better actress than we give her credit for. Listen, are you saying those tears were fake tears? I'm surprised that with the amount of work that she's had done to her face that she was able to actually... Oh, hey, hey, hey. Bell Crawford, our producer's going, no, no.

We don't body shame around here, E&T. I know it here. She doesn't, I do. I'm all about it. No, wait. I'm not body shaming at all. Here's the thing. I would never body shame.

It's something that she got done by a doctor. It's not natural. So that's not really body shame. Yeah, true. That's manufacturing. I know it's an ugly ground, Mr. Yeah, Ed, you're an absolute champion. Thank you so much for taking time,

and we'll catch up with you next week, buddy. Sounds great. You guys have a great week. You too. Got a lot of talk about the Royals, the Queen's 70th Jubilee over the weekend, which was attended by thousands of thousands of Brits over there, as well as having Ed Sheeran perform,

Elton John as well, and a really, really cute sketch that we talked about where the Queen was acting with Paddington Beer. You would like a marmalade sandwich? I always keep one for emergencies. So do I. That's pretty cool, I see.

Acting was a little bit wooden. What? I thought she did a good job. You just, he's just saying that to wind us up. You're so mean. He's just saying that to wind us up.

She was talking to nothing and you could tell. Oh, she was amazing. Yeah, no, you could tell. Her sense of humour, she's funny. Oh, it was very cool. No, it was adorable.

It was adorable. Just trying to inflame the situation. And you did. For no reason. And you did. I could tell he was going to get so defensive about it. It was really cool.

They're saying it's the best thing to happen in the last 10 years, that sketch. No sketch that you did has been told that, has it? The worst thing to happen in the last 10 years. All of the sketches we've been a part of. Exactly. And also another massive talking point from the Queen's Jubilee over the weekend was some audio of Prince Charles. Now, he referred to the Queen as, you know, mummy. And we're going to be talking to Gavin Gray, our royal correspondent, after 8 o'clock.

But we hit him up about this just moments ago. Your Majesty, mummy. Mummy. Now, is mummy a common thing in the UK, even for a grown man to be talking about his mum? Not often for a man in his 70s, no. But, of course, this is exceptional. I think he's playing to the crowd.

He knows he gets a huge cheer. Because, of course, in the past, royals have always referred to each other as prince or princess or the king or the queen. They've never said mum or dad or sister or brother. You know, it's always been a fairly sort of odd third-person way of speaking, if you like. And I think he knew he was in for a cheer when he said it. Plenty of people as well, however, think it's a little bit awkward and squeamish

and it doesn't sound terribly genuine. But, hey, look, I think the emotions in that speech were very heartfelt. Listen, it makes me feel uncomfortable. And I'm on the other side of the world. So that was Gavin Gray, our UK correspondent. We're going to catch up with him after eight this morning. But we wanted to know, with all the festivities going on right there, all the talk over the weekend from the Paddington Bear sketch,

from Charles calling his mum Mummy to Louis, you know, acting up and being a typical four-year-old. Are you into it? Were you into it over the weekend? Are you into the Royals in general? Or is it something that we need to probably go? Laura McGoldrick, who does the- Oh, she froths over the Royals.

Oh, like her Instagram. Like she even put a thing on because she just like, it was just a barrage of like Royal Clipper after Royal Clipper. And then she went, her husband, Marty Guptill, she's like, he's going to unfollow me if I put any more up there. Did she do like a warning? A warning over the next few days

there's going to be a barrage of royal content? I didn't see the warning, but I just would go, oh my God, this is still going. This thing's still going. It's the full performance of Ed Sheeran. It's the such and such. It was like her own royal channel on her own Instagram. Listen, I, can I be honest?

No, I don't know. No, you're not. No, of course. Have you got a bag with Queen's acting again? Well, it was a little wooden, but anyway, we won't focus on that. I didn't see any of it. I didn't see it. The only coverage I've caught up with has been over the last hour and a half on this show. I've loved it, though. But I'm not... What have you done on social media?

Like, you go on your social media. Yeah, I didn't see anything. Maybe I need to stop follow kids getting hurt. That Instagram account and more royal accounts. But yeah, no, I'm not what have you done on social media like you go on your social media yeah I didn't see anything maybe I need to stop follow kids getting hurt that Instagram account and more royal accounts but yeah no I'm not I wasn't going out of my way to digest the content

you? oh yeah look I saw a lot of it over the weekend on TV or on social media and stuff you know I kind of I kind of feel a little me

me typical me I'm on the fence about it like the royals if you're into it you're into it if you're not you're not I can copy and the fence about it. Like the royals. If you're into it, you're into it. If you're not, you're not. I can copy and paste this comment. Bell you into the royals.

I've always been quite fascinated about it. And I think it was, I know RIP, the Princess Diana era. Like just a lot of us really looked up to her. I just thought she was incredible. And I just find it interesting. But, and the Queen, she's done an incredible job. So you're going to go into the, okay. Oh, 800.

She's gone. Are we like. I don't know if Charles is going to be as popular. Is it like when they replace the lead actor on a TV show? It's not the same. You're like, oh, maybe they should have ended that show. Like when they replaced Harry Warner on Shortland Street. One night there was Harry Warner, there was a whole new Harry Warner.

No one even acknowledged it on the show. Okay, 0800, that's the Royals. You into them? Or you're not into them? You can text 24487. I tell you what, I'm impressed by the fact that they kept Andrew hidden the entire weekend. They did so well with that. Rise and shine.

Time to start the, um, who are we kidding? When are the both of you? Jono and Ben on the hits. After a long Queen's birthday weekend, a four-day celebration in the UK, celebrating the Queen's Jubilee. Everyone was performing. Everyone was there. It was a huge, uh, a huge occasion wasn't it? I had a question, does the Queen sleep

in a Queen sized bed? Like it would be an obligation wouldn't it? She'd be like it's named after me I suppose. Charles gets a King sized when he gets he's been waiting for that King sized bed for a while now hasn't he? Yeah. That's for sure. He's probably still in a King single or something right?

Well he does call her mummy still. Yeah. But we're just chucking out the 0800 that hits after the weekend's festivities. Are you into the Royals

or not? There's a lot of conversation about whether we should cut ourselves away from the British monarch. Do you think so? Do you think that's...

Listen, you're asking me and I don't know nearly enough information. I don't know what the consequences are apart from having to print new money. Yeah, which, you know,

that seems like a bit of a ballag. I imagine when back in the, the you know when a lot of the wars were going on unfortunately wars are still happening but i imagine you know being part of the commonwealth was obviously good for a little country like new zealand yeah i mean after last week our one and only plane breaking down in the us i think we need them but then just in just insurance you know yeah but then there's a controversially about you know all part you know anyway Anyway, that's, you know, that's probably up to you guys. What do you want to know? Are you into the Royals or not?

And no matter what you think about them, they are like, they're kind of like the British version of the Kardashians, aren't they? Except with more sex scandals. With more? More, you'd probably be right, actually. Jeez, yeah. Declan, are you all for the Royals? Mate, I've got a tattoo of the Queen's face

So I'd like to say a little bit But maybe not as hard of a die-hard fan as some others Hang on, so you've got a tattoo of the Queen's face? Funny enough, I do, yeah Whereabouts? It's on my left forearm Oh, jeez So you're a massive Royalist?

Oh, I mean, not as some people think. I'm not as diehard as a fan. Because you've got a tattoo, people would go, oh, he's a big fan. Oh, yeah, it's a bit of a misconception, eh? It's a bit of an interesting one. So what's the backstory behind the tattoo? A bit of a laugh or you're like? Oh, well, I've had the rest of my arm done, tattooed,

and I wanted something to finish off the sleeve. And being from England, I wanted something English to finish it off. Oh, that's, yeah. And the guy who did it is really good at hyper-realism and faces and whatnot. And he said, let's do this. And he said, here's a photo of the Queen now. And I told him, absolutely not. And then he showed me another photo of her bloody years and years ago,

looking a bit young. So we said, let's go for it. And yeah, it's probably one of the best conversation starters I've ever used. Well, because it looks like she's mid-20s on your arm. She's got the flawless complexion. Yeah, mid to late 20s with a five o'clock shadow because of my arm hair. But, yeah, pretty good. Amazing.

I mean, the other thing is, too, like, if you did go the 96-year-old version of the queen, you know, in 20 years' time, they'll be like, who's the wrinkly old lady you have on your arm? Yeah, yeah. So I think, I mean, I think one of the reasons I got her the young version is because when I get old and wrinkly, I mean, she'll look like she does now, I think. Now, the thing is, it's not small. No, it's just takes up, looking at your picture right now, it was actually in the Herald over

the weekend. So it takes up the whole of your forearm. It does. It does. You won't miss it if you look at it. And your mum, I'm reading here, your mum's a diehard fan. She's the one that probably should have the tattoo. Yeah.

I mean, we have talked about her jumping on the tattoo train and getting something like it, but apparently I'm a bit more like the nuts one in the family, so she's going to leave it to me. I mean, was there an option to get, like, I don't know, the British flag, a crumpet, a cup of tea or something tattooed on? Yeah, I mean, I didn't want to be too stereotypical. I thought if I'm going to do it, I may as well do something a bit funky. Piers Morgan?

Something else from the UK. I mean, someone, but yeah, she's pretty good, I suppose. Oh, well, that's awesome. Lovely to talk to you. Yeah, thanks, mate. Appreciate it. Good on you, buddy. Scrolling through your feed. There's a lot of talk about the weather getting cold this week,

and I've just checked our forecast, actually. Slightly overcast with a downpour of topicality. Ben, what's happening in the news? Well, Harry Styles, he picked it a long way off. He, of course, had the song, Watermelon Sugar High. You talk about things being high with watermelons. $100 watermelons. That is the price of watermelons over the weekend at the supermarket chain, Farrow Fresh.

You can't really get watermelons because they're out of season. Those are pricey melons. $100 for one. They've been imported from Australia because you can't, yeah, as I say, very hard to get right now. But $100 for one watermelon. You think a few weeks ago we were recklessly throwing them off at Cherry Picker. The top of the building.

And buildings as well. Yeah, oh, we wasted a lot of watermelons. Now we could have been making money. $5,000 worth of watermelons we went through. I don't know, but yeah. That is crazy. $100 watermelons. Who's paying $100 for a watermelon?

Well, exactly. You couldn't do that. I don't know if anyone is, but not great news for these guys. Eat some other fruit. These guys are going to be touring in just a few weeks. The Wiggles, they're coming back to New Zealand, just announced they're doing a 17-show tour in August, but yeah, they love their fruit salad.

And watermelon's an integral part of the fruit salad, I find, too. It offers a nice base sort of ingredient, doesn't it? And if there's no watermelon in there, well then, didn't we go a bit sepo that they were going to take up heaps of spots at MIQ? I think people do get quite upset that you're right. I don't know what happened with this, but the Wiggles are coming in August. They're going to be kicking off in Hamilton and then going right around the North Island and the South Island as well.

17 shows, tickets on sale by the end of the week on Friday. And what I was reading about the Wiggles, because you think about, they're essentially performing like bands would be. But their sound check is at 7.30 in the morning. Because obviously they play in the morning, not at night. They're the opposite of rock and roll. Yeah. But it's probably a time, it's probably a schedule I'd like, you know, up early, get

the concert done by midday, we've got the afternoon free. You can maybe do two concerts, but if they are, they're done by two at the latest. And then, you know, away you go. You go have a lovely dinner, you're in bed by sort of 8.30. That's wonderful. There we go. And can I apologise on behalf of New Zealand

to the Wiggles for us bullying them out of their MIQ spots we really let it get away on us the lockdown didn't we we bullied the Wiggles the whole thing

we look back at all the things we were getting so up in arms about a like I wore gloves to work for God's sake I know everyone get it out we got out of hand

got out of hand got out of hand sorry Wiggles for bullying you. Your chance to win five grand coming up very shortly. But this song is back in the charts, all thanks to Stranger Things, the new series. It is Kate Bush on the hits. They're running on that road.

They're running on that hill. They're running on that building. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Another weekend gone, isn't it? Another weekend of kids' sports, if they didn't have a week off with the Queen's birthday weekend. And, you know, here to tell us how we can be supportive parents on the sidelines of games,

because apparently throwing my empty cans of pals at the referee is frowned upon by the sporting community. She's from the parenting place, Holly Jean Brooker. Good morning. Good morning. Kids in sports. Is it right that I vicariously live through my children in sport, yell

on the sidelines and abuse referees? Your thoughts? Oh wow, just lump me in it. Yeah, oh man, I totally do that. My daughter is training for the cross country at the moment. She's six. And I just have memories of like, I came second to last in the cross country. There's a She's six. And I just have memories of, like, I came second to last at the cross country.

There's a real joy in living vicariously through our kids. But it's hard. Like, I don't want to be a sideline parent, but you really have to contain your emotions and your yelling and support, don't you? You're not talking any yelling in a negative way. No, but like, come on, get in there, you know, rip her face off, stuff like that. Okay, you know you are then.

Okay. I think that it's great when we can get in behind our kids and yell and support. But, yeah, we don't want to be going down the negative route of, you know, like, criticising what they're doing and play and critiquing them on the sideline. You've got to find your own way home, stuff like that. Yeah, it's embarrassing for ourselves and our kids.

It is like you can get quite involved. I do that when I'm watching the kids play. You get quite involved in the game. It's a close game. I'm like, I've got to walk away and have some shots on another court just to get myself some time out. And not that I'm saying anything as such. I'm just like, I'm getting quite involved in this.

I don't need to step away just a little bit. Yeah, I guess that's the joy of sport, you know, in encouraging our kids to participate in their chosen sporting endeavour. Every kid's different though, aren't they? Like some kids are really, you know, into it and other kids are just happy to be there and aren't competitive. So you've kind of got to deal with that as well. Yeah, I think it's exactly right.

It's really great when we can follow our kids' lead and take the pressure off them and ourselves. There's three things, there's three essential things that kids need to stick at a given sport or activity, and it's enjoyment, ownership, and intrinsic motivation. And all of those things come from within, not from parental pushing or prodding. My son Oscar has signed up to, he does basketball.

He's taken up table tennis. He's never even played table tennis table tennis on Wednesday nights he's like I'm signing up to golf I'm like you never even hold a golf stick but he's just he's given it all a go and I'm like all I can see is my week

as an unpaid Uber driver filling up pretty quickly yeah totally and it's okay for us as adults you know it is on us to organise the schedule and it's expensive there's not enough hours in the day

or dollars in the bank for limitless team memberships to all of the things. And yeah, so it's okay for us to kind of say, hey, that's cool, like great that you want to give everything a go, but let's do two things this term, two things next term, or whatever works for you and your schedule. I like the cut of your jib there, Holly Jean Brooker, that's good. Now the other thing I want to talk to you about is, you know, you look at Tiger Woods, Venus and Serena Williams.

These are obviously adults now who probably started their chosen sports or maybe not even their chosen sports at age two. What are your thoughts on that style of parenting? Because it clearly gets some fantastic results at the back end, but all the way through. A lot of pressure on some young kids. Yeah, and, you know, we all have that in the back of our minds, but I guess when we're realistic,

most kids aren't going to go pro with a sporting activity, are they? For most kids and adults, it's enjoyment, it's socialising. There's this guy, there's this author, Jim Taylor, he wrote this parenting book called Positive Pushing. He's an expert in performance psychology. And he talks about this, how parents can struggle with knowing how hard to push kids and whether they're going to push them too hard or not enough or are they going to make their kids unmotivated or rebel.

He says that popular sports development culture says that if our kids aren't specialising, they're left behind. But actually, if they're under 12, they're still figuring out whether they really like a sport and want to commit. They need to own the sport themselves and find their own reasons to want to work hard for it. So it's all about balance. We don't want to

push them too far and give them a sense of failure or resentment. But we also don't want to give them up too easily because, you know, when they're naturally talented at something, there are benefits to doing something hard and coming through the other side. Well, thanks for your guidance and expertise, Holly Jean Brooker from The Parenting Place.

What I took away from that is work them harder, train them harder, get them out there earning money as professionals. Well, you haven't listened. You can head to theparentingplace.nz for more advice. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. Yeah, this is the sexiest radio competition in the market,

isn't it, Ben Boy? So sexy it's even got its own OnlyFans account now. Yeah, your chance to win $5,000 right now if you match all five words with our five words. You can see all the special parts of the soundproof booth on OnlyFans. Let's get Jake on from Walkworth. Morning to mate, how are you? Yeah, good, mate. How are you? Yeah, good, mate.

How are you, boys? Jeez, it sounds action-packed where you're calling from. Jake, where are you? Up in Warkworth. What are you doing? Building on the site, trying to get away from the loud buggers. Oh, building away. How are bloody supply chains?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's the one. Can't get Jim. That's a white no. I've just read a lot of articles about Jim. And then some other vague sweeping statements from two guys who know nothing about the building industry. No, keep it going.

Free-flowing banter. Jake, five grand, it's a lot of cash. What would you do with it, buddy? I'd go to the All Blacks game and treat myself out at a night out. That's simply good. I heard the island test already sold out, the first one in Eden Park, so that'd be awesome. Yeah, I'd go buy lots of green. Green shirts, green shirts to wear the Irish test, exactly.

Yeah, that's right. It's a great smoke screen over there. Smoke screen being the word. All right, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth to try and match five words? Ben, you can go in. All right, Ben's going to head into the soundproof booth. Actually, if it needs a renovation, we'll know who to call, Jake.

Oh, yes, please. Let's just hit a bit of a facelift on the outside, a new sticker, and let's try to win you $5,000 so you can head to the All Blacks. Oh, that'd be nice. And purchase a lot of pittosporums as well. Here we go. The first word that comes into your head, Jake,

when I say Boris. Johnson. Boris Johnson. Vote of no confidence happening this morning in the UK. He could be out by 10 o'clock this morning. Lego's the second word. What's that, sorry? Lego. Um, oh.

Um, can I come back to that one? Yeah, no worries. Pavlova coming in at number three for you, Jake. Dessert. You there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pavlova. Oh, dessert.

Oh, dessert. Sorry. That's all good. I zoned out there for some reason. It's nothing to do with you, Jagers. I've lost you. Yeah. Trophy's the fourth word, buddy.

Can we come back to that one, too? Yeah, no worries. They're pretty tough words this morning. Toyota. Coming in at word number five, Jake. What was that? Toyota. Toyota. Coming in at word number five, Jake. What was that? Toyota. Car.

Yeah, I had car as well. Now, there's a couple that we left hanging. Lego was the second word. Bricks. Bricks, beautiful. And we'll just jump back to trophy with word number four. Trophy. Award. Beautiful. You did well. Let's get boys. Um, award.

Beautiful. You did well. Let's get Boyce. Yeah, they're tricky. They were tricky this morning. Boyce. Come on, Ben, you can do it for me. Out of the soundproof booth. Over $70,000 we've given away in this competition over the years.

Wow, jeez. Yeah, and a lot of that money going to charities, community works. I feel like the guy from Lotto. You know, he does a little recap about how much money they've given away to the community. Okay, Ben, let's try and match five words with Jake, okay? Okay, here we go. He needs to build a new garden, apparently. Boris. Word number one.

Oh, Johnson. One from one. Lego. Lego. Bricks. Bricks. Here we go. Pavlova coming in at word number three Pavlova very contentious piece of cakery the Pavlova

dessert oh my god you've done well James alright trophy word number four winners trophy wow that's a hard one Trophy. Trophy. Word number four. Winners? Trophy?

Winners. That's a hard one. What's trophy? That was a hard one. Jake went award. Ah, yeah. Which was another great answer as well. And the fifth and final word was Toyota.

Car. Oh, no way. Four out of those. That one wrong too. Jake. It doesn't get any closer than that buddy Sorry Jake Oh no, good on you, thanks for that eh Well you go have a great day building on the site

Keep warm out there and thank you so much for listening Jake, really appreciate it matey Cheers lads That person who didn't let you merge probably listens to a lesser radio station Jono and Ben on the hits Driving with the kids over the weekend and came up to an

intersection. And it had the dreaded flashing orange lights. You know when all the lights are going bang, bang, bang. Oh, when they're not working. Not just your standard orange light that you gun it through. Yeah, which is a green.

We all know orange means green, Ben. So it's in the road code, have a look. It says if it's on light that you gun it through. Yeah, which is a green. We all know orange means green, Ben. So that's in the road code. Have a look. It says if it's on an orange, gun it. Chapter 9. Gunning it through oranges, I think it's labelled. But nothing makes you question more whether you are fit to drive than when you come up to an intersection of flashing orange lights.

Every bit of knowledge i have about road rules just completely disappears from my mind i don't think everyone's in the same position too everyone's just totally thrown out by this like who's going how long are we going for that's the other question as well yeah because the good thing i mean the dream scenario is when there's flashing orange lights is that you're with the flow of traffic and no one's stopping once you know you what you know once you're in that flow you're're like, if anyone stops, we're all screwed. Okay? You feel sorry for the other schmucks

having to wait at the other giveaway. Because you're right, because no one ever goes, oh, we've had our turn. Wait, you go. You're like, you're waiting there going, do I go?

Do I not go? Yeah. And the issue is though, when you do go, you just shut your eyes and you give it a bash. Don't you? Because if we don't,

because giving away to right, hand turning, going straight, that's all out the window. It's just who can make it safely across the other side of the intersection. What a rush. It is a rush. I tell you, if you want to put some spice in your day-to-day,

go and find an intersection that's not working properly. Because not even the police trust us. They're like, we're going to just send some poor boy down there. Yeah, with the white gloves to wave everyone around. That's how bad we are at driving. That when the lights go, we forget how to do the driving.

Essentially, it's kind of probably like a roundabout in some ways. It should be. That's the way we should treat it. Yeah, without the circle bit. Yeah, the circle part. But you're right. It all goes out the window. Yeah, again, there's a roundabout down the road from my house.

I think it's one of the top five most deadly roundabouts in New Zealand. I know the one. It's got 19 different entrances to it. And multiple lanes as it's going round. Yeah, it's got triple lanes. And each of the exit has a pedestrian crossing too. So you scream through the roundabout, then you're like, oh dear God, there's a pedestrian.

It's a wild roundabout. It is. Every time I go on it, I'm like, I'm going to have an accident. I'm going to have an accident I'm going to have an accident And I'm like You know You have to shut your eyes And just give it your best shot

Isn't it But hey That's Cash and Car Guess how much cash We've stashed In the Skoda's boot And drive it home Along with all that money

This is your chance To guess exactly How much cash Is stashed In the back of that Skoda If you guess The exact amount To the cent,

you'll take home cash and the car, and it's within $60 is what we're guessing between now. Now, this is the business end. Two weeks ago, Ben, I came to work, and I said we're at the business end. Oh, you did? Turns out we weren't ready for business. It wasn't business time.

No. I was talking out a hole in my business end when I said that, but now it really does feel like get the suits out, let's head to the boardroom table because business is about to be done and hopefully it's going to be done with you. Pip in Auckland, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you Pip, alright mate? I'm awesome, I'm so nervous. Now lovely to have you on Pip. You work with youth, what do you do with the youth? So You work with youth. What do you do with the youth?

So we work with young people 18 to 24 years of age on a program called Cadet Max. And we put them through a work readiness training and then help them find full-time employment. Oh, what a wonderful job. And then you also foster dogs at home? Yeah, yeah. We've just registered with Paws Restart, an amazing

rescue organisation in Auckland and we've got our own cats and dogs so we're looking at fostering puppies to help them out. Are we talking to Mother Teresa right now? Gee whiz, Pip. Well, I tell you what, I hope you've got your business suit on because it's the business end of the competition.

We're going to hand you over to cash keeper Alex to hopefully win you a brand new car and a bootload of money. Yeah. You're making me feel like a terrible person, by the way. You are, Alex. I am keeping this cash in car. But, Pip, you could win it. So how much cash is stashed in the back? I think it's $18,090.17.

Pip from Auckland with a guess of $18,090.17. It is incorrect and it is lower. Oh, damn. Jeez, I felt like we were in the middle of a horror movie or something there with that music. Pip. I've helped someone. You've helped someone. And look, that's the Pip we know and love.

Generous to us all. She's helping people, isn't she? She's like, hey, I didn't win it, but I've helped someone else. Oh, another chance at 11 o'clock this morning. Remember to get all the correct and incorrect. Thank you. Incorrect guesses at the Super Cartoons. Oh, God. at 11 o'clock this morning. Remember to get all the correct and incorrect guesses at the Hits Super Cartoons Edge. Oh, God. As we narrow it down. She's got places to

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My wife She had a bit of a Weak conversation with me I got a little too excited About something that I was doing with the kids And she was like Hey just

Just sort of you know Just ease back a bit Now Pull your head in You said you were told To pull your head in It was kind of a Pull your head in situation

Because no one ever Wants to be told Pull your head in To give you a back story Like we've talked about This many times on the show we're not there's not a lot of skills that either of the two of us have that you can pass on to your kids like i can't teach them how to do something mechanical i can't do anything to do with building even in this job where one of your main functions is to tell the time for people you've been you've messed it up

before it is a digital clock i got the day wrong the other I mean, there's not many things you need to do. And sometimes I do them wrong. It's like each morning, what's the day of the week? Okay, I'll try and remember that. To the best of your ability, sometimes he slips up. And my daughter, Sienna, they have these, what are called rich challenges. And they have to investigate something each term that they want to find out more about. Do a bit of a project.

And this term she wanted to make, she was like, I want to make a little stop motion little video like a little animated video oh god you would have got what this would have got away on you and i was like oh my god this sounds like the best thing ever you know because it's you know it's like we think of wallace and guam you know you have the little animation thing so i was like we'll buy some plaster sand we'll buy some colored paper we'll make a little set where you make a character and then we can film this little stop motion thing with an app it's actually really cool you can get a little app and it just it helps you do it for you

I'm like I don't even know the rest of the story but I I'm going to tell you to pull your head in because I know what sort of person you are

and how this really would have got away on you yeah I got quite involved I got quite into it I was like now we need to do this now we need to do this now we can add music

now we can add sound effects now we can do this thing now we can have graphics we can get things and then Amanda was like can I just have a word to my wife just a second i'm like yeah yeah what's up i thought she was gonna go what's going on we're doing some stuff in there what's going on make it quick what's up she was gonna go talk to me you know it's so sweet to see you spending the other bunch of time but she was like hey

you do realize it's sienna's assignment not yours i'm like yeah we're doing it together sienna's in there and she's like no no she hasn't been in the room for like nine hours uh it's just you making this weird stop motion the movie what is the movie about it's about this little uh little character that she designed called frank he's on a day out he goes across the road he gets run over by a lego car that he doesn't see it's all you know there's a rich backstory rich backstory in cinemas this thursday i had to you know sort of pull it back but i have done this in the past where you get so invested in a kid's assignment that you've helped and then you're like did they mark it today did that what

are these teachers doing if they haven't got the marks and then you get offended if it gets a less than savory result that you're after and then all these teachers get these emails from parents going why are you being so defensive about your kids project exactly so i. So I think they should have a new marking section in the curriculum where they get the mark for the parents who took over the project and want to know how well they did. Get a couple of NCEA credits for your efforts. I remember I went along as a low-level celebrity judge being boys. Yeah, it was me.

They tried some other people And ended up with me And I was judging a fashion show Again me But the fashion show was all about making outfits Out of things that could be recycled And it was all Single use plastic bags and stuff And looking at the outfit

It was like going to the Met Gala It's like these kids have not made This ball gown out of pack and save bags. Oh, really? And you could tell all the parents were eagerly watching you going on the sidelines, watching and then waiting for your score. I even got hit up. They're like, hey, do you think that dress would have been

maybe an eight or a nine? Not the six that you gave it. Oh, really? And I said, who's the fashion expert out here, mate? Now we chucked all those plastic bags in the ocean and got on with it. Just use the Dancing with the Stars excuse and go, ah, I didn't get the text votes.

Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZV. In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. After a long Queen's birthday weekend, everyone talking about the Queen, her jubilee celebrations happened in the UK. Four days of celebrations, a lot to unpack. And joining us right now from the UK,

live from the UK is our UK correspondent Gavin Gray, good morning Hey guys, good, how are you? Good, fresh off your four day bender Yeah The rain even stayed away until Well, mostly, mostly Well the celebrations have looked incredible

The Queen, after thinking she wasn't going to pop back She popped back at the end, which was a great way to finish Yeah, so she kind of Bookended the whole event the Queen, after thinking she wasn't going to pop back, she popped back at the end, which was a great way to finish. Yeah, so she kind of bookended the whole event. And I have to say, I think a lot of people were very pleased to see her. She looked really, really well, but evidently, you know, didn't appear in those middle two days. And that's of growing concern. And immobility issues remain, of course.

But, look, I think people looking back at it, those courtiers, the organisers, will be very pleased with how it went. I don't think that they could have asked for it to go much better and, you know, Harry and Meghan sort of behaved themselves. Interestingly, I heard a tip saying that they were on a plane back to

America as the last event was still going on, deciding not to hang around and see family members afterwards. Yeah, no, and you can understand why. What is the shortest amount of time we can spend in this country? We will take that option. Now, I heard they got booed, which is a bit sad. Oh, did they?

Yes, they did. So they went to the St. Paul's Cathedral service, a sort of Thanksgiving service for Her Majesty, which she wasn't at. And indeed, as they walked in, they would definitely have heard some boos. And that was very odd. But I'll tell you what most people were looking at that day, and that was the body language, is they went to take their seats and where they were sitting. And they were put to one side, along with Princesses, usually, and Beatrice, who they get on very well with. But on the other side,

from Prince Charles, Prince William, and most of the other senior roles, indeed, Prince Harry was seated so many pews back. He was behind somebody who was about 31st in line with the throne. Oh, really? That goes to show you, yeah,

and I dare say that would have put his nose out of joint a bit. But what was interesting was that simply the Cambridges and the Sussexes did not exchange a glance. Something we wanted to play to you, Gavin Gray, is some audio of Charles. Oh, yeah, now Charles made a speech about his mum, or as he likes to call it, have a listen.

Your Majesty, mummy. Mummy. Now, is mummy a common thing in the UK, even for a grown man to be talking about his mum? Not often for a man in his 70s, no. But, of course, this is exceptional. I think he's playing to the crowd. He knows he gets a huge cheer.

Plenty of people as well, however, think it's a little bit awkward and squeamish and it doesn't sound terribly genuine. But, hey, look, I think the emotions in that speech were very heartfelt. Listen, it makes me feel uncomfortable, and I'm on the other side of the world. I mentioned Louis just before. Louis got a lot of attention over the weekend, because Louis was having one heck of a time, wasn't he, at the Jubilee?

I think it's very funny. I mean, we're always looking at reactions and lip reading. And apparently, you know, there was lots of, wow, great, all the rest. But he is obviously a child who wears his heart on his sleeve at the age of four. You know, but hey, they're kids. And I mean, at that age, you know, to sit through something two, three hours long, you know, what kind of thing do you expect? But certainly Prince Louis, with all his all his different facial expressions, the hands over his ears for the loud roaring of the flypast as well. Yeah, he seems to be great fun.

And I have to say, like Kate or don't like Kate, I do think she's a marvellous mother. He was adorable. But you'd be writing the tabloid headlines for him in about 20 years. Louis apologises for big night out. Louis apologises for offending a certain group of people with comments. Oh, we don't know that.

You know, you're probably right because they always say there is the air and then the spare. And of course, the spare sometimes doesn't really know what to do with his life. Yeah, well, listen, it's been the most talked about party in the UK since Boris Johnson's illegal lockdown birthday.

Hey, Gavin Gray, thank you so much for your time this morning. Win with Jono and Ben and the Warehouse. Proud partner of Lego Masters New Zealand on TVNZ2. It was the final episode of Lego Masters NZ last night on TVNZ. And our final voucher for the Warehouse. It's a giveaway. If you knew which Warehouse the little Jono and Ben figurines were located at, it was on the Hits Breakfast

on Instagram. Congratulations to Tony. You've got a $500 voucher for the warehouse. Yeah, well done. Thank you very much. And we're actually on it. Did I say it was in Nelson?

Yeah, it was St. Vincent Street, Nelson. Yeah, it was all on up on social media. Gee, my wife said, oh, they're so cute, those little figurines. Cuter than us. Geez, they racked up

some good ear points, I imagine, over the last couple of weeks, those figurines. Now, a're cuter than us. They racked up some good air points, I imagine, over the last couple of weeks, those figurines. Now, a pleasure to have in the studio the winners of the first ever Lego Masters New Zealand, Glenn Knight and Jake Roos. How are you? Good, thanks.

Feeling great. Lovely to meet you both and congratulations on winning the first ever New Zealand Lego Masters. Thank you very much. We were just saying off air, it must have been filmed months and months ago. Yep, yep. Back at the beginning of the year on a long, hot Auckland summer. So you had to keep it quiet from everybody.

I imagine your friends and family would have been like, how did you go? Did you win? Yeah, yeah. Well, you had to get very tight-lipped and just say, I just can't tell you that. Sorry. You got rid of a lot of friends.

You had to cut a lot of people. What was it like going on the show? Because obviously you would have watched the Australian one, the American version. What was it like actually being there and then Because obviously you would have watched the Australian one, the American version. What was it like actually being there and then being under the time constraints of making Lego? Yeah, it was a lot harder than we thought it was going to be. Well, like 2.5 million bricks to choose from each time.

I would just be like, where do I start? There must be that sort of 10, 20 minutes where you're just going, how are we going to tackle this? Yeah, the first episode was really hard for that reason because we were just getting used to everything and it was quite overwhelming for a while there and part of the problem was there was two and a half million bricks

but we didn't know which ones. We had ideas but we didn't know if we necessarily could build them or not. Jeez, we would be shocking at this. All it would have been would just be an hour of us bickering at each other. So you must work together well as a team because I'd be like,

Ben, where's the other one? Go sit down over there. Yeah, it'd be a very stressful environment. But you guys obviously work well together and you know each other's strengths and weaknesses. Yeah, we worked well from the start, but as we went through it, we got better and better.

When you're working for that long in that sort of environment, you do get a bit stressed, but we managed to keep it together. And the unnecessary reality TV clock ticking down. You don't need the clock, do you? Di Henwood yelling out the time, how long you got to go. No one needs that.

So you win, obviously, the trophy. You win a $25,000 voucher for the warehouse and a car each. Is it a Lego car or an actual car? It's an actual car. Yeah, so car each. That's awesome. Yeah. And the title, which is the most important part.

Well, yeah, true, and the title. But the car each. I'm excited about that. And a big big lumpy trophy Now that looks like it's made out of Lego Very fragile It's glued They've used the craggle on it

We wouldn't want to step on it though What is the rudest thing you can build out of Lego? It's a family show We're in a family show They're on a family show You can build anything out of Lego, man. This is why we wouldn't wait to get the well done. That's right.

We'd end up bickering away. Well, congratulations. It's so awesome, you guys. The title of New Zealand's first Lego Masters, that's incredible. So well done. Thanks very much. Now, Jake, you're a climate change consultant.

Correct. Is the climate screwed? Are we heading for a... I'm sorry to dog-league the interview. Things are extremely grim, and they just keep getting worse uh it becomes quite hard to deal with you know and i imagine if you're doing it every day you're like oh this is not this is a bleak outlook yeah yeah and where i've got to is it's it's taking me up and down emotionally uh and now i'm just like stoic it's like you just have to keep working on it because you've got nothing else to do but to get away from that darkness that uh that's why i love a part of the reason i love lego because you know you can just you don't know what

no one knows what the future holds but if you can just make people happy for you know for a moment with you know what you create then then surely that's a worthwhile use of your time you know now what's one thing we can all do better one simple thing we can all do better to help the climate oh let's see um everyone thinks that recycling is number one it's like i recycle so therefore i'm helping the environment and you are but in the scheme of things it's actually travel fossil fuel um that you use for planes and cars and things like that, which is one of the biggest ones. So through lockdown and stuff, it would have been good for the world obviously with not as much travel. Well, yeah temporarily, but it's all just bounced

back. Don't worry mate, we're back to ruining it again. I'm glad Lego gives you guys that escape and it's obviously formed a wonderful bond between the pair of you and most importantly you won. Yeah, well done. Well done guys. Thank you. done. Well done, guys. Thank you.

Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz Alright, time to find out which famous folk are bumping uglies. Belle Crawford, come on in. I can't be promising that kind of stuff today

but the MTV TV and Movie Awards were on yesterday and the cast of Selling Sunset were some of the big winners. I'll tell you more about that soon

but first of all, we had a crier and it was J-Lo accepting a Generation Award. I want to thank all the people who gave me this life. I want to thank the people who gave me joy and the ones who broke my heart. The ones who were true and the ones who lied to me. Very emotional speech there, wasn't it? Now, I'm looking at this through a whole new set of lenses, Ben Boyce, the MTV Awards, because just an hour or so ago,

we had Enty, our Hollywood insider on the show, and he completely pulled the rug for me. But the MTV Movie Awards are fake awards. I hope everybody knows that. What? You're only going if you know you're going to win an award or you're getting to sing or whatever. There is no way on this earth that Jennifer Lopez had the best song.

Let's just get that right out in the open. But J-Lo cried. J-Lo cried. J-Lo cried. She cried when she got her award. You know, she's a better actress than we give her credit for. Listen, are you saying those tears were fake tears? I'm surprised that with the amount of work that she's had done to her face that she was able to actually edit it.

Bell Crawford, our producer, is going, no, no. We don't body shame around here, E&T. I know it here. She doesn't. I do. I'm all about it. No. Wait.

I'm not body shaming at all. Here's the thing. I would never body shame. It's something that she got done by a doctor. I'm not body shaming at all. Here's the thing. I would never body shame. It's something that she got done by a doctor. It's not natural. So that's not really body shame. Yeah, true. That's manufactured.

I know. It's an ugly ground. But she didn't win the best song. She won the Icon Award. It was a generation Icon Award. She's an icon. She is an icon. Yeah.

I'll take that back. She's an icon. Yeah. Well, you look at her and she's iconic, Ben. Yeah, exactly. So I wouldn't give you the icon award. No. They'd be like, who's this guy?

I was available, guys. I was the only one who said yes. The funny thing was as well, she joked to her fiancé, Ben Affleck, it's so weird that they're back together, a bit of a 2.0, that she'd be back home by 7 in her speech. She's like, I'll be home by 7. What time are the awards? Must have been super early. Jeez, weren't they early? Home by 7. What time are the awards? Must have been super early. Jeez, were they early?

Home by 7. Maybe 7 in the morning. Maybe she's pushing the boat out. Yeah. That sounds like my awards ceremony. You're in and out early, in bed by 7.30. Wonderful stuff. Well, there you go.

Well done, Jennifer Lopez. Iconic. Yeah, and also there's a big show you may have watched, maybe you're not, but it's been huge on Netflix, Sailing Sunset. It actually was the big winner, winning the best docu-reality series, building out the likes of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Jersey Shore's back, by the way, the reunion.

So that's a pretty big deal for Sailing Sunset. If you've watched it, it's basically rich people selling very rich houses, the hills on steroids. It's very good and very dramatic. Relatable stuff. Relatable stuff. Yeah. And after what Auntie's just said, these poor people, they're like, well, this award means nothing. I thought very good and very dramatic. Relatable stuff. And after what Andy's just said,

these poor people, they're like, well, this award means nothing. I thought we had a good show. Yeah. Surely that's not all the case. But hey, here's the downside. You hosted an award ceremony once and they gave Ben a motel room to stay in and he forgot what room he was in. Oh yeah. And turned up at the wrong hotel. And then the best

part about Ben hosting this award ceremony is he was meant to walk the red carpet. Oh yeah, I was the host. I was the host. I'd been there all day rehearsing. I'd been in the dressing room and then they're like,

we're going to get you outside and walk the red carpet. I'm like, sweet. Go to the door and they're like, where's your pass? I was like, oh, I've left it in the dressing room.

The guy's like, nah, can't come in. I'm like, but I'm hosting the awards. He's like, nah, don't care, mate. You don't come in here thinking you're all big business hosting the awards, mate. I did.

Got a ticket. Plus those shoes, they're no good. You won't be allowed in unless you've got two ladies with you. Such a New Zealand thing. And that is Spy. You can get more now at thehats.co.nz. That is our show for a Tuesday. Have yourself a wonderful short weekend.

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