Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Is It Ok For The Bride & Groom To Invoice The No-Show Guests?

Episode Date: August 31, 2021

Kia ora! On today's show we discussed a wedding dilemma. If a couple don't show up to your wedding, is it acceptable to invoice them the cost of their food?! We also caught up with someone who has contracted Covid TWICE. The original Covid and the Delta variant! Finally, we tried to hunt out the person in NZ who has had the most Covid tests. Enjoy the poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey guys, Tuesday 31st of August, last day of August and I tell you what, the kids, my kids, Oscar Poppy, frothing for Halloween. Already? Yeah, that's one of Oscar's favourite time of the year is Halloween. Yeah, the kids love it, but I was going to say they've gone to, you know. He goes eight weeks here. He's already planning. He's got a Google Doc.

I'm ready to go. He's got a Google Doc, mate. I guess kids have got time at the moment, so planning for Halloween. And the birthdays are a big one. We just need to know what will happen, though. Halloween. Well, you know, will you be able to go door to door on people's houses? Nah, last year we had to do the same.

I think we sort of bought some lollies and they knocked on the door and we pretended to be strangers. And we're like, you know, a bit of a role-playing sit show. Everyone was role-playing. They were role-playing ghosts and goblins. We were role-playing startle their homeowners. But, yeah, I think that's probably going to be. But their birthday's another big one. Poppy's not till November.

She's already, you know, she's already started. She started a Google Doc last night. They plan it early, don't they? Yeah. Your kids had a birthday, then they were planning the next year's. Yeah, ready to go next year. It's like rhythm and vines. It's the same day.

It's like buy tickets now for next year. Yeah, so it's good. Yeah, it's good. Well, you know, kids, you can't plan much at the moment. Very uncertain world out there. No, that's what they get, birthday parties. You're like, ooh, we'll see. We'll see how that goes. Yeah, she wants a puppy party. You know, kids, you can't plan much at the moment. Very uncertain world out there. No, you've got some big birthday parties. You're like, we'll see. We'll see how that goes.

Yeah, she wants a puppy party. I don't know where you get. She wants multiple, like 12 puppies. Right. Like rent a puppy. I don't even know if that's an option. It might be a thing. Yeah, she's been harassing for a dog for years now.

It's a boy I hear about it. The boys have got a dog. You can take mine for six to eight months. Did you get your dog as a puppy? Yes, yeah. Was Bo tiny? Yeah, he was just a ball of fluff. He's a ball of fluff now, but just imagine. Because he's a big rig. Is that

as big as he's going to get? I hope so. He's the size of a lion now. I hope he's not going to get much bigger. No, he's pretty much full size, I hope. Unless he gets shamed for his weight by the vet. But yeah, that did happen once. We were hosting a dog TV show on the on-set vet. He was like, how much do you feed him?

He said, let in. It was a leading question. How much do you feed him? And I was like, oh, and then he explained it. And he was like, oh, OK. And then he grabbed his guts, too. And, you know, sort of shook the guts, which is like, I should be feeling a bit more. And I'm like, oh, mate, he's fluffy. He too and, you know, sort of shook the guts, which is like, I should be feeling a bit more.

And I'm like, oh, mate, he's fluffy. He's cute, you know. Then it got inside your head and you guys were doing CrossFit, you and Beau, that following week, weren't you? No one ever wants their guts grabbed and shaken, do they? I leave the dog alone. I never want my guts filmed. You know when you're walking along the street and you see the news stories

about, oh, New Zealand's obesity epidemic, and there's just these random guts that are being filled. That's horrible, eh? Imagine that. Imagine you're sitting down for the news and you're like, oh, that stomach looks familiar. Yeah, that's me. It's my T-shirt. Yeah, you'd be like, oh.

But anyway, not in 2021. I hope they don't do that anymore. Well, you couldn't, could you? No. Good, good. Do they send the capper operators out for like, you're out on a gut shoot, mate. Oh, God. No heads. No head shots. Because're out on a gut shoot, mate. Oh, God. No heads.

No head shots. Because you'd have to ask them, surely. Well, no, I think that's why they, I think back in the wild, wild days, that's why they weren't putting heads on. So people, but people, yeah. Anyway. Yeah, I mean, if they were your guts, you'd know they were your guts. Oh, yeah, definitely.

Wouldn't you? Definitely. Oh, I've been part of an obesity epidemic story. Yeah, you bloody, you stitch up for a lot of years. I was just going to the ice cream shop. Hey, we had a real fun show for you today, have we? I don't know, but I'm just moving on from that. But enjoy it on the podcast.

Oh, no, we do. We speak to Lloyd Burr, a Lloyd Burr News Hub reporter, who's had both strains of COVID. The Delta one he only had a matter of weeks ago. Yeah. What he went through, it just sounds disastrous. Yeah, so it's a really good conversation, I think, to have at the moment. So, yeah, have a listen to that on the podcast.

Tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe. And that's all I have to say. Thanks, Dr. Ashley. As we know, Auckland remaining in Level 4 for at least two more weeks. The rest of the country, you go. If you love someone, set them free. There you go.

If you come back to us, we're meant to be together. That's right. Yeah, it's kind of like when you let your partner go off to Europe in the early 20s to go and discover themselves. We'll still be together at the end of this. Yeah, yeah, sure. Come back and they're changed. One week later, you're like, they're not texting me back.

Weird. Got photos with heaps of hot dudes, they're not texting me back. Weird. Got photos with heaps of hot dudes in Croatia. Shirtless guys. Yeah. Yeah, they're tanned all over. Yeah. Oh, maybe they're just sort of showing around. Yeah.

Showing their sights. Yeah, exactly. You can read a lot into those things. Anyway, what are we talking about? All right. Anyway, Boss Todd, who ironically is our boss. He's the name Boss Todd. He was always destined for that role in life.

He was, he was. Boss Todd's had a tumultuous last couple of months, really, but pretty three months. He went over to Sydney. He's from Australia. He went over to Sydney to see his mother. It was only meant to be a weekend. He ended up getting caught in their lockdown, couldn't fly back.

Then when he got back, he had to do managed isolation for two weeks. Then the day he got out of managed isolation we went into lockdown yeah so boss todd's had a dream run but well is that a dream run enough it is a dream run it's absolutely devastating run one of the two but in doing so he has had an extraordinary number of covid tests and this is a lot yeah a lot, eh? Yeah, a lot. Well, you have to, I guess, being in isolation and travelling around the place. And so we want to open this this morning.

Do you think you've had more COVID tests than Boss Todd? Now, we're not going to tell you what his number is just yet. We'll get him on very shortly. Now, no one has stuck more up his nostrils. Oh dear, here we go. And this is not even factoring in what he did between 95 and 2005 in boss talk

low hanging the fruit and I'll get it out of the way early while he's not on here to defend himself I'll play it back, can we record that bit to play it back to Todd don't do that you've said it I don't want to face up to people

that's not what radio is about. You just mean to say whatever you want, then hope you don't bump into anyone. So, 0800 that's. How many COVID tests have you had? My daughter's pretty impressive. She's had a large number. Oh, really? I'll play you her number next, too.

She get the saliva test or the ones? Just the nasal stick. We're doing saliva testing now. A friend of mine, I was talking to him over the weekend. He was like, he had to get a COVID test with the family. And then his daughter was like, I don't really want to do it. And I'm like, that's right, we'll do a saliva test. He's like, I didn't know that was an option before you stuck a thing up.

So I don't know. I mean, it seems like maybe it's not an option. Apparently it's a cheaper option too, I was looking at. It's about $75 to collect each swab for a nasal one, a stick up the nose, and then $63 for the test results. So it's $138 per stick going up your nose. Really? For the government.

Oh, wow. $138. And they did 166,000 tests last week. Do the maths on that, because literally I'm no good at maths. I can't do that. Wow. And apparently the US, $20 per saliva swab, $20 US. That's what it would cost.

Yeah. But I don't think they get them back as well as quickly or something, the testing. They can't tune for it. But maybe I'm just spouting off stuff that I don't really know. Maybe John and Ben have got themselves into a hole of talking about information they don't know. Go back to like shaming Boss Todd a little bit.

Boss Todd, stuff up his nose. 1990s. That's better. All right, so give us a call right now. That's our wheelhouse. 0800 The Hits or 4487. How many COVID tests have you had and can you beat Boss Todd? We'll find out next.

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Tuesday morning 7.33 Wanted to know who's had the most amount of COVID tests Listening right now And can you beat our boss Todd? My daughter Poppy She's had a number And so I interviewed her last night What's your name?

Poppy Poppy who? Poppy Fryer I've heard of you That's because of my daughter How many sticks have you had up your name? Poppy. Poppy who? Poppy Pryor. I've heard of you. That's because of my daughter. How many sticks have you had up your nose? Five.

How many tests have you had in total? Six. What does it feel like? The nose test feels really tickly, and after it, your eyes get really watery. There you go. And her claim to fame was the nurse that administered her last test said, you're braver than the All Blacks.

So I tested all of the All Blacks. And so she's been living off that for a while now. She's been coasting off that street cred for a while now that she's braver than the entire All Blacks squad. And it sounds like they needed to get tested before they shot off to Australia too. But we're going to go to the phones. How many COVID tests have you had? Nicole, you're on in Christchurch. Good morning, how are you?

We're doing well, mate. Soon we won't be together though, Nicole, from 11.59 tonight. Yeah, that's it. You'll be a better class of New Zealander. I have had four tests. Oh had four tests. Oh, four tests. All the nose ones and all, yeah,

they make you cough after and your eyes just stream. Yeah. It's amazing to know how far up the nasal cavity goes. Just when you think it's enough. It keeps going. It feels like it touches your brain. It does. It feels like they scrape a little bit off your brain.

When it goes up, it's like, surely you're there now. No. A bit more. Now. No. And they twist it to make sure that they get everything they need. Yeah. I was 20, 21.

I would have thought there would have been a better way, and it turns out there was. This is a saliva test that they've just told us all about. Hey, thank you very much. We've got Steph on. How many COVID tests have you had? I've had four COVID tests. Okay, we can't get past four at the moment.

Not quite as much as our boss Todd, but still a lot. Have you tested positive any of the times? No, all tested negative, thankfully. Did you have to wait in line for them in the queues? No, I actually went into the doctors. Oh, some doctors do that, but I don't think you get your test results back as quick as if you wait 22 hours in a

car. No. Yeah, you get the results back in a couple of days. Yeah, thank you Steph. Appreciate that. Now we're going to go to Boss Todd, who we mentioned briefly before, who's had an exciting couple of months. He's been over in Aussie. He's been in managed isolation. Now he's in lockdown. Toddy, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast.

It's great to be on the show. Kia ora, New Zealand. Kia ora, Toddy. Nice to have you on, Toddy. Now, you've been tested quite a few times, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Shall I say?

Yeah, go on. You say. Four is nothing. Four, I did that in one of those fabulous 14-day package holidays. Package holidays. I did 10. 10? Yeah, double digits.

Wow. One was the one where you have to pay to get it done. And so it's up the nose and then they swab in your mouth and there's this part where they kind of go in the back of the corner of your throat. You're crying and coughing when you walk out. Is this to make sure you're okay to fly back to New Zealand? Yeah, there was that one when I came back in, well, the first round of trying to get the repatriation flights,

there was a small window when I could have got on a flight and I didn't have to do MIQ. Honestly, I was on Air New Zealand, which are fantastic for about four hours waiting, but I missed that. But you just had to have that other special test done to fly. The travellers won. Now, when you're in managed isolation, do they test you every day, Todd? First, you get three days. So you land.

As soon as you land, your quarantine starts and you all get shuttled off together. And, you know, you jump on. They go, hey, we're going to Hamilton. You go, phew. And then you get there and it's the next day. And then you get your test back and there's one in the middle, and there's one 72 hours before you leave.

Oh, there you go. So, Boss Todd. And then you're on standby if you might have to get a call, because once I got a call, then I had to go and get another one. Ten tests. Boss Todd, I didn't think we were going to beat that. Thank you, Toddy. Appreciate that.

Said nothing about your nostrils previously. From other people going, have you heard what they've said about you? We're one and one together. Nothing but favourable things about what's going on with those nostrils, Toddy. Okay, that's fine. And Melanie has phoned through. I did not think we were going to beat 10, but Mel, how many have you heard? Oh, somewhere between 40 and 50.

Wow. 50 COVID tests. Why? I have to get one every week. So when this first started back last March, we had to get them every two weeks. And then I had my injections, both injections in about April, I think. And since then, I have to have one every week. What do you do? I work for Luxury Airport Shuttles. Ah, yeah, of course, you'd be right in there, thick of it. Yeah, yeah, so even though I've had both injections, now they want us to get tested every week. So originally it was the up-the-nose test,

which kind of felt similar to having fizzy drink go up your nose. Yeah, it has been like that, hasn't it? Yeah, and now it is the throat one, which does make you want to gag. So they do both sides of your throat, through the middle, and then up your nose as well. Jeez, I tell you what, you've had all the orifices stuck sticks in. Yep. Probably easier just to leave a stick up there.

Just like, you know, when you test your oil level in your car. Yeah, that would be easy, wouldn't it? Yeah, like that. Hey, well, jeez, you're doing a lot for New Zealand to keep it moving right now. So thank you so much for what you're doing and what you're putting your body through. No, no problems at all. Thanks, Melanie. There we go.

Going hard and ooley. Go hard, go ooley. Go hard and ooley. Hard and ooley. Go hard. With Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Just reading a really interesting article from overseas.

So someone got married and a couple RSVP'd to go to their wedding. They were invited and they RSVP'd and said, yep, we'll be there. And then they didn't turn up. Now, I'm not sure the reason why they didn't turn up, but it was a no-show at the wedding. And so after the wedding, the bride and groom had basically sent them an invoice for the amount of what it would have, you know, for their meals. They said, well, we made the meals.

We had to pay for the meals. You weren't there. And now we'd like you to put that money in either. They gave them options like PayPal or into the account, whatever. Yeah, monthly installments. Afterpay is always a popular one as well. Yeah. It's a really, really interesting sort of move to make.

And so what have the people done? Did they pay the invoice? Well, no, they've done what most people do in 2021 and put it on the internet for everyone else to make judgments of. To weigh in on and roast the married couple. Put it on Reddit and go, hey, is this all right? Everyone go, oh, yeah, that's right. No, you shouldn't have.

Oh, yeah, but, you know, so it's what happens in 2021, right? Yeah, right. You let the internet decide. Yeah, and it's probably mixed. I mean, a lot of people saying, no, you shouldn't have to pay for it. But then there are a lot of people from the comments that I've read saying, well, why did you not let them know that you were that's yeah when i first heard this story i was ready to get on reddit and give them a good old roasting and caps as well with all sorts of angry faced

emojis but then when you mentioned the wedding was overseas yeah it does add a layer of cost to it as well so and you know it's 500 bucks being boys so no you like to save a penny you always rambling on about splitting the bill at dinner and you know if I had 14 Heinekens why is he paying for them all? Stuff like that I didn't, you always say to, you went to dinner the other night

before lockdown and said someone ordered this bottle of wine that you didn't want any bar of, it was out of your price range. Yeah we have to pay for it but anyway it's not about my thing. So would you invoice someone in this situation? I wouldn't invoice, but I'd be a little upset. You'd bitch about them behind

their back? Yeah, you would. You'd go onto Reddit? The Kiwi way. No, not Reddit. You'd be like, oh, those people, you know. Because you would, if they were going to show up, that's fine. I mean, but it would be nice to know, so you could invite some other people. If you're going to pay for it, you know, you may have paid for 50 meals. And then 48 people showed up and two other people didn't.

The positive is someone got double dinners. Two people got double dinners that night, which is great. Juliet, what would you have done in this situation? Oh, I reckon the couple that got married, that's a bit rough. I'd be like, oh, sweet, at least I get them for leftovers if no one else ate them. That would be my thought. Yeah, and i guess you've kind of you paid for it yeah yeah and sometimes you do have to fork out a bit of extra cash for something or cover people but that's just life isn't it okay what do you get oh 800 this where do you sit on this can you and

someone doesn't turn up to your wedding can you invoice them for the cost because it's essentially just a uh you know a catch-up dinner on steroids, a wedding, isn't it? So it'd be like if you scaled it down. That's a lovely romantic way to put it for a 20-day. It's just a catch-up dinner. It really is just a catch-up dinner. I would invite some of the neighbours if we're out the road. We hardly know them, but it'd be nice to catch up.

It is a giant catch-up dinner with everyone from your life that you spend very little time talking to, and you don't feel like you get enough personal quality time with any one guest do you uh but can you can you charge if someone doesn't turn up to your wedding because it would be like to scale it down if you had a uh let's say these five of us went to dinner and we'd all booked and had been paid for uh and ben didn't turn up because he was worried that someone was going to order An expensive bottle of wine Would you expect him to pay? On a smaller scale If it's pre-paid for

Is it just weird because There's a wedding Is that the problem? I love your thoughts It was an insightful thing to say We'll get to your thoughts and comments next It is New Zealand's breakfast. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there,

and then I backed out. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Today, now, bride and groom are having overseas, but they sent a bill to the guests who were no show at the wedding. Now, two guests, they RSVP'd, and they said they were coming, and then they didn't end up turning up.

They didn't give a reason why, so they sent them a bill, an invoice, for $240, which was the cost, $120 each for the dinner. Now, the only invoices that should be sent out after weddings are from the A&E, Emergency Centre for Aunt Dottie's broken hip. She was giving it too much dancing to Lewis Capaldi or something. Danielle has phoned through. You are a wedding planner.

I am, yes yes can you charge people for a no-show at the wedding danielle your thoughts oh as much as i would love to because we've had incidences where it's happened um it's just not something that you can really get away with doing i'm afraid because i guess technically it's not a legal contract, right? No, it's not. RSVPing to a wedding? No, it's not, but it is a sign of respect. I mean, if you RSVP, if you can't make it, that's understandable, but at least let the couple know. Yeah, right. What's the most shocking thing you've seen at a wedding, Danielle?

You know, let's get filthy here. What's happened? I mean, are we talking about guests not arriving or just in general? Just in general. Jono loves going straight to the filth doesn't he? Yeah talk to us Danielle How did you get from the you on zero to a hundred haven't you Jono? When I say filthy I don't mean filthy stuff that's gone. Just what's this most shocking thing? I don't know. To be honest our couples are pretty tame in comparison to American couples

I think when couples go to the expense of hiring a wedding planner, they have set expectations of what they want for their wedding. So we haven't really had any significantly shocking things happen. Oh, okay. Is it shocking that Ben Boyce went to his wedding and refused to participate in the first dance? Okay, that's almost grounds for divorce. Yeah.

Like I had a friend in a novelty mascot suit that came in and tapped me on the shoulder and then he took over for a bit. It was planned. It was choreographed. It was a performance. So long as the bride was aware of what was going to happen. Yeah, no, she did. She did.

She knew after. She knew after it it happened she didn't know before uh yeah what's the most impressive thing that you've had to plan as a wedding planner oh um so we do work on quite large scale weddings um so we often do a lot of indian weddings of sort of 600 700 guests those are big numbers, aren't they? Yeah, yeah. So that's pretty significant. And when you have that many guests, there's a lot of moving parts. So, yeah, I think just the scale of some of the weddings that we work with.

And then when people are having that scale wedding, you know, they have the fireworks displays and they have the private estates and, you know, everything that goes with it. So it's definitely a luxury scale. Jeez, what weddings are you putting on? These sound like events that you could shut a city down for. You'd be surprised how many weddings there are like that here. Yeah.

Wow. Thankfully, it keeps us going. Yeah, well, good on you. Good on you. Have you ever had a wedding where maybe the groom or the bride was a no-show? I haven't had a no-show, but I've had a bride who was about to walk down the aisle and decide that she didn't want to do that anymore. So all the guests were there, everybody was waiting, groom was at the end of the aisle

and the bride just said, nope, not doing this. Do you still party on? Do you still plough on through it and go, we're all here, we may as well enjoy it? Well, in this particular instance, it was just nerves. So we were able to kind of talk her off the ledge and the wedding did end up happening. Oh, that's good. But yeah, I mean, weddings are stressful for everybody and everybody reacts differently, I guess. But yeah. So you become a counsellor too, as well as a wedding planner. weddings are stressful for everybody and and everybody reacts differently i guess but yeah so you become a counselor too as well as a wedding planner we try not to because you know

it's a bit of a gray area um but it's yeah it's it always happens we deal with family issues couple issues um because we are well versed in how to tackle these things people do rely on us for our expertise and so we do automatically kind of fall into a little bit of a counseling area danielle's like do you know there's 600 people out there and i've got a whole fireworks display set up you need to go through with this marriage if not just for my fireworks display i know right like do you know how much money you've spent? Yeah. I could walk down that aisle. It's really, really interesting talking to you.

Thank you so much for your time this morning. You're a wedding planner, osuchstyle.co.nz, right? That's the one. osuchstyle.co.nz, that's awesome. Thank you so much for your time this morning. My absolute pleasure. Thanks for calling. That was really interesting. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion

by Kosky on New Salted Bean. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The hits. Yeah, it is the hits, Jono and Ben. Now, we've tracked down someone who has had COVID not once, but twice. You'll know him from the work he does on News Hub as a reporter. He's been the UK correspondent for the last couple of years. Lloyd Burr joins us right now.

How's it going, Lloyd? Good morning. Yeah, well, it's good to have you on. Listen, really interesting. Firstly, you were based in the UK as a correspondent over there for New South, but you've arrived back out of the epicentre of lockdowns to New Zealand, which has just gone into level four lockdown. Just my luck, eh? Just as things start kind of opening up in the UK, get on a plane, come back here, spend two weeks in isolation, and then now we're in lockdown. Just my luck. It's not as bad here as it is over there.

Trust me, I'd much rather be here. Oh, really? Well, you actually spent a bit of your lockdown time making a very impressive Sky Tower at EMIQ. What did you make that of? Well, it's made out of a few seafood chowder dishes. I think I've got a butter chicken in one of them, some creamed mushroom in another one,

and then a whole lot of other dinner plate lids, and there's some toilet rolls in there, there's some kombucha lids, and a whole lot of forks and knives I've chopped up. I mean, this is how bored I got in those two weeks in that Ridges Otorua. But yeah, it's pretty impressive, and it's just sold for $605,

so I'm pretty happy with that. That is impressive. It's taller than you, too. You did a really good job. It looks like the project of a madman and I love it. I love it. Yeah, some people have called me mad. People have called me a lot worse, but yeah, I'm happy with mad.

Now, the UK, obviously you were there as a reporter for News Hub, but you caught COVID twice. Is that right? Yeah, the first time was right at the beginning, but I never actually got tested because they just said, stay at home. The only time you need to come to the hospital is if you can't breathe. And even then, we probably can't take you there because the ambulances are swamped. Pretty brutal, just pretty horrible. And then the second time I got it was about six weeks ago, seven weeks ago now.

I went in to get my fit to fly test and then it came back positive and then it kind of just hit me. I just had to isolate for two weeks and just pretty much slept the whole time and it's just not fun. Don't let that virus run rampant in New Zealand because even for someone who's fit and healthy like me, it's not fun.

So you had the OG version and then you got Delta. Yeah, the OG version was a lot, well, it's hard to kind of, it's hard to compare because the time I got Delta, I was already single vaxxed. Yeah, I wasn't fully double vaxxed. So the second time around, I think, was a lot shorter. It was kind of, it was short and sharp and brutal, but that was because I was single vaxxed. But I did lose all my taste and all my smell. The first time I only lost my sense of taste for dairy products, which was weird.

All the dairy products just tasted rotten. And I didn't know if it was actually because I was ordering in rotten yogurt or rotten milk. But, yeah, everything tasted really weird the first time around. But this was really early on in the picture when losing your taste and smell wasn't one of the symptoms. But a rough rewrite for me. Yeah, it seems like it affects people in different ways as well too.

So, yeah, I imagine you were spoken to many other people at various stages of having COVID over there as well. I'd say most of my friends, pretty much all of my friends have had COVID, either once or twice at some stage over there, especially in big cities like London where it just spreads like wildfire. Yeah, it's just kind of, everyone's had it. There's a lot of talk about the respiratory issues that come along with it. Are you short of breath and you're constantly trying to catch your breath? It depends on who you are.

It affects people in different ways. I didn't have any shortness of breath. My chest felt very heavy. And because I knew that shortness of breath and breathing issues were one of the symptoms, I always made sure that I was doing deep breaths and stuff like that to make sure that I wasn't about to cark it. But there are other people who are the same age as me and who are, first of all, even fitter than me, that they do have these breathing issues. It just affects people in different ways. It's like a lucky dip. Some people don't even have any asymptomatic, don't have any

symptoms, it doesn't affect them. Other people, they end up in ICU on a breathing machine in hospital. So it really is a lucky dip and I wouldn't wish it on any country in the world. I was just going to say, in terms of you've probably been sick throughout your life, where does this rank? Is this the sickest you've ever felt? Yeah, it's like a flu on steroids

that just doesn't, and not good steroids either, it just doesn't end. And good steroids either it just doesn't end and you sort of think you're you're turning a corner you know next minute you're back in bed and you're sweating and you you're just exhausted and your eyes are aching and your ears are aching and then you think oh now i've got to wash my sheets or um i'll go and have a shower and then you're just exhausted so you spend a lot of time sleeping, but it's not nice sleep. It's just sort of exhausted sleep, and you wake up. It's just brutal.

Oh, Jesus, yeah. Well, it's really fascinating to talk to you today, Lloyd. And what's the plan? Well, I guess you're in lockdown, and then we'll see what happens after that? Yeah, I'm in lockdown at the moment. Because I've been in so much quarantine and in London, I haven't had much physical labour, so I'm out attacking this massive overgrown

part of my parents garden I'm at war with agapanthus at the moment Yeah whether he's tackling COVID or agapanthus Lloyd Burr will do it head first. Hey really appreciate your time this morning mate and you look after yourself Lloyd. Will do

it's been wonderful to chat to you guys. Nice to talk to you buddy Another day at home with the kids. Little tip, it's called parenting, not babysitting. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Now, the last day, we're all together. We're all in this together until midnight tonight and then the country sort of breaks off into their own.

Let's do some wild stuff together while we're all here. Just one last hurrah. Hurrah. Yeah, go and shake hands and things. Oh, that's too wild. Too wild we're all here. Just one last hurrah. Yeah, go and shake hands and things. Oh, that's too wild. Too wild? Yeah, sorry. Stand maybe. Okay, sorry Ben. Stand one metre apart, maybe instead of two.

No, too crazy. At the moment, you know, a lot of board games being wheeled out in the prior household. Don't know about you. Yeah, we played Pictionary last night actually. You're a board game family? Yeah, we do. We're like a board game. You don't have the patience for that, though, do you? I don't.

Juliet, you read out a meme the other day which just summed me up beautifully. It was like, as soon as anyone starts reading the instructions from a board game... I black out. I mentally black out. I just shut down. I'm one of these people who's like, we'll figure it out as we go. Yeah, there's a lot of it to that, though, eh? If someone knows vaguely enough to get started,

let's just get the ball rolling. Yeah. Let's get into it. But, you know, figure it out as we go. It's not always the best approach. It can cause friction. You know, especially my son Oscar, who's like, well, I just spent 30 minutes reading out every instruction

from Milton Bradley about this board game. But Monopoly last night. Have you played a game of lately yeah yeah i think i left my family this morning they were still playing monopoly yeah it's still good i think by the time we finish this game of monopoly the pandemic will be over there's new versions of monopoly monopoly deal yeah that you can play it a lot quicker and lovely your speed and cheating and all sorts of you know but yeah right there you kind of got to set it we like to set a time limit on the play let's do it in an hour whoever's in the lady is they can have it you know otherwise you could you just pull the

pin early dear otherwise you're like i've got a kiwi saber and i'm getting money out i can pull a bit from here i think the bank thinks i'm pretty good for it i get a cheeky 5k from the bank uh my mate barry i reckon he can lend me some of his savings he gets into the hole we start selling we have the property. I'm not going well. You're the one. Can I dip into the kids' savings? It does.

It gets to that point, doesn't it? The other one we played was Guess Who, too. Classic game of stereotypes, Guess Who, isn't it? Are you a character you think would commit a white-collar crime? Yeah, I guess I could. It's really... The other one we played too, which is charades. Now, something I noticed with charades is kids get very frustrated with charades.

And I was doing one last night, and my son kept going, Is it a bush? Is it a bush? Is it a bush? And I'm like, no. I'm shaking my head, no, no. Is it a bush? Is it a bush? Is it a bush? And I'm like, no. I'm shaking my head, no, no. Is it a bush? Is it a bush? And it's almost like the more times you say, is it a bush?

Is it a bush? Repeat it over 20 times, and eventually at number 21, I'm going to go, you know what? It is a bush. I just said no. So what were you doing then?

What was the... Action that made him think it was constantly a bush. Oh, it was a wrecking ball. Like a big circle wrecking ball. He's like, is it a moving bush? Is it a mobile bush? Wrecking ball is quite tough to do, isn't it? Yeah.

It's funny though, isn't it? There are those charades players who just end up saying the same thing repeatedly in the hope that it's going to be the answer eventually the more and louder you say it. You're like, shut up, it's not a bush. It's actually on TV. I was just going to add for it eventually. The more and louder you say it. You're like, shut up, it's not a bush. It's actually on TV. I was just going to add for it that pretty much what you're doing, board games on the TV, Hilary Barry, isn't it?

Oh, they're doing charades on the TV? Yeah. That's a good show. Give us a clue. That's right. So there you go. You can get on there and do it. Is it a bush?

Is it a bush? New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the Hits. Kia ora, good morning and welcome along to the show Good to be with you back on the radio again Hey, how are you guys going?

Alright? Going alright You know, the last day of everyone being the team of 5 million Yeah, true We're going to break up with you guys Yeah Let's enjoy it while it lasts

It is Do we have one last Oh yeah, why not Do we hook up with the South Island one last time? Yeah That's weird How are you Jill, alright? I'm good? Did we hook up with the South Island one last time? Yeah That's a bit weird How are you Jill, right?

I'm good, thank you Yes, crazy weather Yeah, I'll talk about that very shortly actually Some big weather news Oh yeah Had some fun with the thunderstorms Was striking last night, weren't they? And I did some audio recording

If you want me to play those Oh good, yeah we can do that in a minute as well It's not that exciting to be honest It's just the kids Because you hear that clap first, don't you? And then it's a few seconds, given the old sound travels before light or light travels before sound. You know the thing.

Yeah. Yeah. The kids were loving it, though. Oh, were they? Yeah. Andy got really freaked out by it, actually. Dogs wouldn't enjoy it. Bo would like it.

Yeah, Bo was very restless all around the house. Yeah. So, yeah. We'll talk more about the wild weather next, but we've got a big show today. We're talking to a person who's caught COVID twice. Yeah, had the original version of COVID, and then just a few weeks ago contracted Delta as well. What does it feel like? Because we hear about the virus all the time, but I don't actually know what it feels like to go through it.

Thank God. And obviously it affects people in different ways. So we'll find out what his experience was like after 8 o'clock this morning. And plenty more, including $5,000 up for grabs like we always do. It's 7.45, it's The Hits. It's Katy Perry, I Kissed A Girl,

it is The Hits, Jono and Ben, 6.07. She wouldn't be doing that now. No, she wouldn't. Kissing random strangers in bars. Wild weather, of course, over Auckland overnight. A lot of evacuations out west of Auckland. Residents evacuated. There was flooding.

Some cars being swept down the road as well. Families getting evacuated. Kids in their pyjamas in the middle of the night. So, yeah, kind of scary stuff. Really, still bad rain happening again today. And, of course, that overrides any COVID restrictions at the moment if you need to evacuate the house for any reason now. That overrides the level four lockdown, which makes sense, right?

Yeah, so, yeah, wild, wild weather last night. And even the dog in the middle of the night, because, you know, I always talk about how he loves to be let out in the night. And I was like, well, this is, you know, the weather's bad out there. He was, like, waking me up with his, oh, oh, oh, bye. I was like, all right, mate. And I was like, well, the weather's bad out there. He was waking me up with his... I was like, all right, mate. And it was quite funny. As soon as I put him out and shut the door, I heard him start barking.

I was like, all right, mate, let me back in. He's like, this is a bad decision. Why didn't you tell me it was bad? I could have told you that. I could have told you that. What time every night does he do that to you? Last night was about 3 o'clock. Does he do that every night you have to wake up?

He usually is. What does he like to do just frolic outside you know we like to say yeah i think he needs to go to the bathroom but then he likes to sleep on the porch yeah i think he's hot because he's got a lot of fur so no matter the weather he does actually like sleeping outside but yeah it's like you've shaved santa claus's beers for the last 20 years and just glued it to your dog yeah big fluffy white it's like he's like a polar bear but uh actually yesterday i was doing some work during the afternoon and sitting at the table and i the cutest noise you talk about the thunder being you know like some people like it some people don't but i was like it was like the

cutest noise in the world do you know what do you know what it would be i was like this is this is by far one of the key like they could do the secret sound on zm but but the cutest secret sound i think this would win there's a ben boyce making that noise when he's taking a photo? Because he makes this little noise when he's waiting for a photo. You know those awkward couple of seconds while the photographer's getting their cell phone ready and he's like I do, I do. It's sort of a smile.

It's an adorable little noise. No, I did that. I don't know if that's a cute noise. I don't think it's a weird noise, but it's the cat. The cat was when he sneezed a couple of times. A kitten or a cat sneezing. I'm like, that's adorable. I've never heard a cat's a cute noise. I don't think it's a weird noise. But it's the cat. The cat was sitting next to me and he sneezed a couple of times. Now, a kitten or a cat sneezing, I'm like, that's adorable. I've never heard a cat sneeze. Oh, yeah, I found one on YouTube because it's very hard to record my cat doing it. Because you're like, sneeze again.

He's not going to. He's just looking at me like, why? Is he allergic to his own fur, which would be problematic? I don't know, but I got one from YouTube. I mean, it's adorable. Oh, my God. Like, how cute is that? One more time.

It's just like, this is what the cat was doing yesterday. I was like, oh, it's adorable like how cute is that one more time it's just like this is what the cat was doing yesterday i was like oh it's adorable we had a we worked with uh our old boss bronwyn and did you bronwyn sneezed but she wouldn't make any noise she'd be kind of like it was the most adorable little sneeze i knew someone who sneezed literally like literally it was like that. It was so cute. I do love the boomer generation who just come in, especially the males, just come in with a boom!

It's like a thunderclap. It is, it is. You're right. Just rock the house to the core. And then generally their wives are like, oh John! And he's like, oh, John. I can't, it's my sneeze. It's sneezing. I can't help it. So the cutest noise in the world.

There it is this morning. Hey, next we're going to look at some of the weirder news from around the world. So non-COVID related news. The more unusual news next, it is the hits. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the news all right rachel jackson lees went to journalism school for five years to get a degree in journalism i need to have to read quirky news headlines for us and have certain words beeped out to make her sometimes sound rude yes juliet we need to figure out the headlines yes Yes, and your first news story? Krispy Kreme sweetens vaccine incentive with...

for those vaccinated. I'm thinking Krispy Kreme is obviously... Well, maybe they're trying to inject Krispy Kreme into the veins as well after your vaccine. Maybe you get an injection... You know, they do those sign-up injections. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, they do. Maybe they can get that directly in there.

I was going to say Krispy Kreme sweetens vaccine incentive with free diabetes for those vaccinated with all the sugar. Krispy Kreme sweetens vaccine incentive with two free donuts for those vaccinated. So remember how it was one? It was in Portland, wasn't it? Yeah, and so I think it was one donut initially. So for a week, they're doing two donuts for those vaccinated. But I was reading, so far, since they started that incentive,

if you showed your vaccine card, you got one free donut. I think it was since March last year or this year or something. They've given away more than 2.5 million vaccine donuts for free because of that. Because we were like, surely this is not a... The promotion isn't what it seems. And we phoned them and the lady's like, yeah, that's what we're doing. Yeah. Free donuts. You could go back every day and get a free donut. the promotion isn't what it seems. And we phone them and the lady's like, yeah, that's what we're doing. Free donut seems... You could go back every day and get a free donut.

I'd love to see Krispy Kreme's bottom line for the last financial year. Look, I understand getting the vaccine, getting a free donut, but you're right, every day seems like a lot of... So now they're doubling down on it with two. Yeah. The next news story...

There's some manager making some bad decisions here and they're going to pay for it eventually. Yeah, true. A man who felt tickling in earmuffs discovers... I'm gonna say he discovered Tickle Me Elmo standing behind him. That's the only logical explanation. Man felt tickling in earmuffs discovers he can earn a lot of money on OnlyFans with a very specific fetish here.

Man who felt tickling in earmuffs discovers huge huntsman spider inside. So I kind of put this one in there to make you guys feel a little bit icky for wearing earmuffs. So he's a tradie in Australia wearing industrial earmuffs, and he sort of felt it, and he took it off, and it was a little huntsman just tucked in, and he couldn't get it out, and then it made the news, and it's just the most Australian thing you can do. I had that when I was, because we used to live on a farm when I was through high school. And I put my gumboots on one day and a mouse ran up the leg of my gumboot. The mouse gave me such a fright.

And ever since then, putting on gumboots, I always feel tentative putting on gumboot now. Sometimes, no, I feel like that with spiders. If I've got old shoes in my wardrobe that I haven't put on for ages, I always like, and just make sure there's no spiders or anything in there. So that guy's going to be traumatised now with your earmuffs, isn't he? Yeah. A friend, Robert, who works here, he's got bitten with his gumboots, whitetails, four times.

Went to Middlemore twice and his whole body puffed up. Really? He looked like the Michelin Man. Far out. He must have been allergic to them. Oh, my goodness. You've got to be careful of what's hiding in your shoes. Yeah, totally.

And the final news story. German company creates concrete roads that can... I'm hoping they're creating roads that can be driven on, but maybe I'm wrong. I'm guessing it's not driven on. I'm saying the same thing. They're creating roads that can transport trucks, bikes and cars from point A to point B.

Well, that's what you hope, right? German company creates concrete roads that can charge trucks, bikes and cars from point A to point B. Well, that's what you hope, right? German company creates concrete roads that can charge electric vehicles. Wow. So this is a new thing. So basically in the concrete are sort of electrified wire coils that creates a magnetic field. So if you're driving along, the car just charges. It's kind of like, you know, the new iPhone chargers. You can kind of rest your, I don't know if you've seen those

around, you can rest your iPhone on the little pad and it charges them. It's kind of like that but for cars. It reminds me of those remember when you were younger and your friend would have like a racetrack with those cars that you would put on and the metal would attach to the middle bit? But you'd always go over

and want to use it and they never worked. He's like, oh no, it doesn't work, mate. Never once have I been to a friend's house and that was a fully functioning toy. True. So that's in real life potentially and that is the news and beeps for you. After 8 o'clock, don't forget we're talking to a Kiwi guy

who's got COVID twice. He's caught it twice a year, also including in the Delta variant. That's after 8 o'clock this morning on The Hits. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't save this battered-up old face here. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben now in the Ardour and Gayford household.

You know, everyone's making big announcements each day, aren't they? You know, Jacinda's out there. She's making 1pm press conference announcements. And Clark, he's making big announcements as well, right? And he made one yesterday, which made me laugh on social media. He was brushing a doll's hair. You could see the doll from behind. And then he revealed the doll.

It was a doll that had been made for Niamh. Have a listen. We get given all sorts of wonderful handmade arts and crafts here. And when I say we, Niamh. And there's some real talent in this country, some incredible talent. And she's a very lucky three-year-old. And some of the things make their way into our home

and into our three-year-old's heart, including this wonderful dolly, which Niamh has even given a name. She calls this dolly Creepy Mummy. And Creepy Mummy would just like to say, hang in there, you got this, even though it's Monday. Is it a creepy looking dolly creepy mummy and creepy mummy would just like to say hang in there you got this even though it's monday is it a creepy looking i don't think it looked that creepy i thought it was actually looked awesome from the front i saw the video before it made the headlines being labeled creepy

mummy so i'd had no idea what this doll was even going to look like i thought it was going to be quite a good looking doll and so i was actually kind of shocked when i saw it yeah i was really well i was because from behind the hair looked quite frazzled i'm like oh this where's this going I thought it was going to be quite a good-looking doll, and so I was actually kind of shocked when I saw it. Were you? Yeah. Because from behind, the hair looked quite frazzled. I'm like, oh, where's this going? But then when it turned around, I was like, oh, no, someone's done a really good job. My kids have a doll of me, Mr. Potato Head,

and they treat that with the respect it deserves. Not creepy in any way at all. We got $5,000 up for grabs. $7.45 this morning. Five words, 5K. It is that. Pyjamas all day. Fine with us.

Chono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. The last day that the team of 5 million are all together. It feels like there's a break-up happening, doesn't it, tonight? Everyone's going their separate ways. It's not you. It's definitely us. It's definitely Auckland.

It literally isn't you. I don't know why you've been in lockdown to be honest Enjoy your freedom Go and be free, spread your wings Although to be honest it's not quite Freedom yet, you know like you can get The takeaways is awesome, you know takeaways And pick up coffee and stuff like that So that's great but it's not quite going out there

And you know parting it up Now do you mind if I bring something up with a little personal issue That you have been Boyce. Okay. Are you like depending on what it is? Yeah depending on what it is. Would you have liked me to front foot this during the year? It makes me nervous you saying that but anyway. Sure mend your song. Listen you've got three phones.

I don't know why you have three cell phones. What are you using them for? Let's not talk about our three phones. Okay. Now every morning Ben Boyce he embarks on a journey of general knowledge. And he comes in every morning and he tries to land a 10 out of 10, a perfect score on the New ZealandHerald.co.nz daily quiz. That's something I've just started getting into during lockdown.

I've just noticed there's daily quizzes over there. And I've been like, oh man, I can nail 10 out of 10. But I never have. Unless you do it again twice and you remember all the answers and then you can get 10 out of 10 every time because it's a combination of general knowledge and current events so you need to be the well-rounded you know pub quiz team member don't you to let to nail this quiz yeah and now your father kevin boyce he loves a he loves a quiz. A long, a long line of, you come from a long line of people, bloodline of people who like to participate

in novelty print journalism quizzes. And also their listener caption. Their listener, the magazine, they have a caption competition. He's won it three times. Really? Every time he wins it, he sends it. He is the punisher that writes into the list.

He's like, I've got a caption for you. Kevin Boyce. And he's won it three times as well. He loves putting in a caption for that. Yeah, like I have a picture of Jacinda Ardern looking a bit depressed, and he would have been like, looks like hard labor.

And it would get printed in the listener, and he'd win a $50 voucher or something. What did he win for that? He wouldn't have won anything. Just the accolades. He buys a subscription to the listener just so he could lead to that competition. He loves it.

He loves it. He loves it. That's so cute. Okay, so you can rattle through this morning's one, Ben. Oh, okay. So this morning I've done it, and I didn't get 10 out of 10. Okay. I was a couple off. Yeah, see, this first one, this first question.

The two lead characters in what British TV series often drank at the members-only Winchester Club? The likely lads, Minder, or Only Fools and Horses? I don't know. Only Fools and Horses. That don't know. Only fools and horses. That's what I thought it was too. No, it was minder. Okay. There you go.

What number is represented by the letter C in Roman numerals? I did know this one. 100. Yeah, 100. Yeah, because the C for century. Yeah, well done. So 100, 500 or 1,000. Paul Cole became the first New Zealander to win the British Open in what sport last week?

Squash. Yes, it was squash. That was news. That was news. So are you doing all right? Which Indian Prime Minister was infamously assassinated by two of their bodyguards in 1994? I didn't know that one.

Wow. Yeah. So it was Indira Gandhi. So I didn't know that one. Who directed the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Time? Spielberg. Was it Spielberg, Cameron or Lucas? It was Spielberg.

Well done. Well done. Oh, Juliet, you might know this one. Yes. Who is the Hufflepuff house ghost in Harry Potter series? The Grey Lady, the Fat Friar or Nearly Headless Nick? Is it the Fat Lady? Was that an option?

The Fat Friar. The Fat Friar. Oh, Fat Friar. I said the Fat Lady. I fat shamed the lady. I'm sorry. Apologies to that random Fat Lady. So we're doing okay.

We're doing okay. What was the name of Vincent Van Gogh's art dealer brother? Was it Theo, Edgar, or Andreas? Theo? I'm going to go Edgar. Okay. I shouldn't have gone with Jono. He wasn't right.

You were correct, Producer Juliet. So there we go. We've got two more to go. Winnipeg is the capital of what Canadian province or territory? Let's just take a guess here. Is it Ontario? No, it's not Ontario. It's not.

No, it's not. It's not Ontario. And the rappers Andre 3000 and Big Boy, they're known together as what? Outkast. Yeah, Outkast. There you go. We've got one there.

What did we get out of 10 this morning? And our final question. In Rush scored 346 goals and 660 appearances for what British football club? Liverpool, Everton or Manchester United? Manchester United. Liverpool. We'd be wrong. It was Liverpool.

Well done, Jude. So we've got 7 out of 10 this morning. See? The elusive 10 out of 10. Even with three of us. Yeah. Even with three of us. What. Even with three of us. What we need to do is, I don't know if I could be bothered doing it today, but maybe tomorrow,

is form a crack team, like the Avengers of quiz trivia. Oh, that's fun. For people listening, and see if we can tackle this thing, like, what's the one where Clooney forms his... Oh, Ocean's Eleven. Ocean's Eleven. Yes. And we crack the quiz, the daily quiz. We'll see that tomorrow.

Can we do that tomorrow? Yeah. Yeah, we can do that tomorrow. Hey mate, we're all here. I won't look at it. I won't look at it. And we'll come in tomorrow, we'll be fresh and we'll do the quiz together. And the team of five million, or the team of four million and those other million filthy virus laden Aucklanders, we'll do this together.

Yeah, alright, tomorrow sounds like fun. It is the hits, you've got Jono and me. This next segment is proudly brought to you by Jono Pryor, proudly bringing you Ben Boyce, who's proudly brought to you by General Paranoia and Hand Sanitiser. And as we mentioned a couple of times this morning,

everyone south of Auckland, Waikato border, tonight from 11.59, will move to Level 3. Auckland will remain in Level 4 for at least two more weeks, it was announced yesterday. And Northland looks like the Northland region will return to level 3 at midnight on Thursday. A drop in community cases yesterday, but then they were saying there was less testing. So Jacinda was like, give it a couple more days and then we'll find out if we have... That was Trump's theory when Trump was president.

He was like, well, yeah, these numbers are big, but let's just do less testing, then they'll find out if we have a playtime. That was Trump's theory when Trump was president. He was like, well, yeah, these numbers are big, but let's just do less testing, then they'll be smaller. And it was a great theory. It's a great way to approach it. Now, I saw on the news that there's a road between Waikato and Auckland that is kind of just split down the middle, which represents Level 4 and Level 3.

Yeah, that was on one side of level four as of tomorrow, and they was on the other side. I think it's quite a big country road. It's going to be level three, yeah. Crazy. Would you be taunting over the fence with, you know, you put your thumbs in your ears and you wave your fingers around? Yeah, you probably would. Getting something delivered or something out there, or

coming back with some takeaways and just eating it outside your property. Yeah, so that's the big news that's all happening tonight as well. And as well as that, there was a lot of wild weather overnight, a lot of thunder going on in Auckland, and we just saw on Breakfast News this morning, flooding. Cars in the middle of the road. Families got evacuated overnight out in West Auckland.

Families going out there in their PJs. So a really scary night for some families out there. What has Auckland done wrong? You know, apart from thinking it's been better than the rest of the country for decades. Apart from that, what's it done to deserve this? All we want is a soy latte. I'd kill for a soy latte.

I can't even get one, you know. I'd kill for a coconut flat white. You know, my sensitive stomach, Ben. Yeah, you should be the mayor book on, shouldn't you? Yeah, out there drinking bloody Nescafe out of a giant tin. You know, we're doing it hard, guys. We're doing it really hard. You know, last time there was big flooding in New Zealand

was actually on the West Coast, South Island. That's right. Yeah, West Coast, some really lovely people on the West Coast who bandied together in times like this. And there was a group of people who had formed sort of a help team to go around all the houses because one of the big issues with flooding is soaking wet carpet, you know,

and you just have to remove it. I think that's the only option when you've been flooded. And this team of friendly people, volunteers, called themselves the Moist Movers. And I tell you what, Breakfast TV got their annual Moist quota up in one morning. A volunteer group calling themselves the Moist Movers. And the Moist Movers have been getting underway here. But we just want to show you the meaning of moist.

It truly is still moist here in Westport. So to talk to us this morning about it is Craig from the Moist Movers. Oh, it's so moist. Like just the moistest moisture that has ever moistered. I don't think you can find a more terrifying word than moist. And the more it's said, the more scary it becomes. And that is your daily update of what's happening in New Zealand. It is the hits you got, gentlemen.

I'm Ben. Spy. The what's up. Spy.co.nz. All right. Say what you want about producer Juliet. I know Ben certainly does behind closed doors. But by the hell,

she'll read the crap out of an internet celebrity story and here she is with Spy. I will. So Eric Clapton has released an anti-vaccine song called This Has Gotta Stop and this is not his first sort of anti-vaccine sort of song he's released. He did release an anti-lockdown

song last year. So this is number two and this is a new one. Is it as good as Layla? Because I like that song. Have a listen. I can't move my hands I break out in sweat. I want to cry. Can't take it anymore.

This time's got to stop. Enough is enough. I can't take this BS any longer. It's gone far enough. So what? From what I read, and I'm like, he got vaccinated. Yes, he did. So he had his vaccine, but he had some small side effects from it,

which is normal. But he did also have a pre-existing peripheral neuropathy, sort of like, what do you call it? Something hindering that area? Don't look at me. Juliet, when you're talking about that stuff, do not look at me. Aren't you qualified now? Yeah, I can't help you, mate.

I cannot help you. So, no, he did have a pre-existing sort of condition. Yeah, so that did mean the vaccine did affect him probably more than your average person. Yeah, well, what I appreciate is he's so riled up that he's gone to the effort of writing a song. But he's also so polite that he's not going to swear. He says BS. I can't take this BS anymore. Oh, yeah, so he's not swearing. No, he's also so polite that he's not going to swear. He says BS. I can't take this BS

anymore. Oh, yeah, so he's not swearing. No, he's still aware. He's like, I'm fine. But hey, I'm not going to let it get the best of me here. The thing is, the tune is quite a lovely tune. I like that song. Kevin Boyce would love that. Your dad would love that. He wouldn't probably like the message, I think.

Clapton's also angry that people are having to prove that they're vaccinated to get into concert venues. He's like, I won't perform at any venue. Yeah. People have to approve their vaccination. So, yeah. Interesting.

Interesting. Well, it's obviously a failure. No, you've got to see. He's been through his journey with this whole thing. And he hasn't enjoyed it. Yeah. But I mean, he seems to be fine now. I mean, he might have had the side effects but they were temporary, so as long

as he's, you know, vaccinated against getting COVID, then that's the main thing. He had a traumatic life here at Clapton, hasn't he? Has he? Oh yeah, I won't go into it on the radio, but some really sad things have happened to him over the years. That's really sad. Yeah. Wait, I didn't even

bring it up. I didn't even go into details about it, but I brought the vibes down. I never know how to segue from something like that. So we'll just, you know, put that to the side and go to the next story. So Kanye West, he's all over the news at the moment with headlines about his latest album, Donda. After its release yesterday morning, he posted on Instagram claiming that Donda was released without his permission and one track called Jail Part 2 was blocked from Universal from being on the album.

It's now been added to the album. It's now on Spotify, I've checked. But something else I found quite funny was Kim Kardashian. His ex-wife, I guess you could say, has posted her favourite songs from the album on her Instagram story, but fans very quickly noticed that all the songs, while she posted screenshots, they were all on mute. So everyone was like, oh, is this a subtle dig that while she's showing her support, she's not actually listening to the music? Well, she's got children.

They can't hear half of the lyrical content. They could listen to Eric Clapton, though, couldn't they? He censored himself. This BS is not fun. And that's why I'm a fan of Clapton. His message might be a bit off, but boy, I tell you what, it's a family-friendly song. Very true, very true.

And that is Spy. For more, you can head to the hitstockcard.nz. Can I just say this Kanye album doesn't feel like, it feels like there's a lot more administration to go. And we're all going along for the ride. He's like, got some songs out on, I'm going to change that one, got a different singer on this one. Well, he's done three or four listening parties and they've all kind of varied. Been different, yeah.

And then he was upset yesterday I was reading that he felt like the record company released it without his permission. He was like, it wasn't ready to be released. Yeah. Oh, well, why don't you just work on it when it's ready to go? Come out and say, here it is, guys. It's probably one of those things. It's very hard to tell sometimes when something's finished, though, if you're a creative person.

Sometimes you're like, well, I don't know. Is that the best it can be? Unless you've got a deadline, you're like, okay, well, this TV show movie's got to be out on this day. It's happening. You're like, well, I could tinker with this bit. I could change this bit. So it's probably a bit like that.

Oh, the amount of days that we walk out of here and agonize over what's been said on this radio show, and only if we could just change that little bit, you know. Well, we would have had less of your Eric Clapton buzzkill, wouldn't we? You know, like, we could do it again. Yeah. You know? Sometimes you say stuff and you're like, you just have to block it

from remembering it, and you're out in your mind. There's some tweaking that could be done. Yeah, so we'll see why he's saying it a lot. It's the grand of process, though. I don't know if I'm ready to release this radio show yet. No. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. Got me in love.

On the hits. Morning. It's just gone seven o'clock. Jono and Ben with you. Of course, the Paralympics are on right now, and as you just heard on the news, William Stedman produced a leap of his life. He was at sixth place in the men's long jump,

and in his final jump, he got enough to get silver which was awesome last night. So congratulations to him and New Zealand's most decorated para-athlete Sophie Pascoe added her 17th medal last night in the pool. Good on her. But she was pretty upset afterwards. It was quite tough to watch. Obviously

it sets really high standards. She was in the lead and then got chased down and got bronze and she was saying it wasn't good enough. And I was like, man, that's, I mean, she's amazing. She's incredible. We've spoken many times on the show how awesome she is. But to see her upset was, yeah, it's quite hard to watch. This is why you're not at the Olympics.

Because you just settled for mediocrity. Pasco wants gold. You're like, oh, I'm just happy to be there. You want a certificate of participation. She wants to win, mate. You don't have the drive. Sophie does. That's what it takes.

Hey, next we've got Paddy Gower joining us. Pretty important night of television tonight on 3. Paddy's going to be doing an investigation into COVID, along with the other News Hub team, and also a documentary on the March 15 terror attacks as well. He talks to all of the victims and what they actually went through that day. It's going to be some heavy stuff. Yeah. That's for sure. So Paddy Gower is on

next. The last time we spoke to Paddy I'm still traumatised by because you got him to retell a story of how his retinas detached from his eyeballs. That's right. And I'm an eye guy. I don't like anything to do with eyes. And you got him to tell me what happened. I won't do that anymore. They had to get sewn back onto his

eyeballs. I was like dear god Ben. I still haven't. I've went through five months of therapy to get... I won't do that anymore. They had to get sewn back onto his eyeballs. I know. I was like, dear God, Ben. Yeah. I still haven't... I've went through five months of therapy to get over that interview. Well, we won't talk about that next, I promise. It is the hits. You got John on there.

It's Bad Blood. It is the hits. John on Ben. It's a big night of TV on three tonight. And Patrick Gower's got a couple of documentaries up for us tonight. And he joins us right now. Paddy Gower, how are you doing? Yeah, not bad, not bad.

I've been a bit paranoid during lockdown that you guys were going to prank me. The block number comes up. You know, it could be my vaccine appointment. It could be health time. It could be anything. It could also be Jono and Ben. Pranking. I'm very, very suspicious.

You know, someone tried to offer me a vaccine the other day and I kept listening to the voice, thinking it was John O'. Yeah, right. And it turned out to be saline. Oh, jeez. We're always like Paddy Gower running an alert level four with us. Paddy, you were just saying off air, you're isolating by yourself. Yeah, well, yeah, lockdown by myself.

I'm actually an essential worker as a journo. I'm up in Auckland working. We've got a COVID special and investigation coming out tonight and so I've been working on my story for that tonight. Yeah, have you got anything a little highlight of something that we can look forward to tonight, something you've uncovered? Yeah, I've spoken

to some people with COVID in the jetpack and you'll start to see for the first time how this was spreading outside of those clusters you've all heard about and how it was spreading around downtown Auckland before we ever knew. And actually you'll get to see some young people that caught it

and spread it around Auckland. So it's one watch, 7.30 tonight. I know you're a journalist and you're a very good journalist, Paddy, but going into situations like that, are you a little nervous? Like putting yourself in the eye of the storm, like the Jet Park Hotel?

Yeah, after going to the States where obviously there was COVID everywhere when I was over there for the US election last time. You know, I kind of got used to it there, but this Delta variant, I've got to say it makes you a lot more paranoid when you are out and about. Look, I felt a little bit more paranoid here than I even did

in the States last year, mate. Yeah, it felt like the first lockdown we came out, we ripped off our masks and we're back to normality. But yeah, I think people will be a little more hesitant dropping down the levels this time. Yeah, and you wait till you see these people in the show tonight and how they caught COVID in downtown Auckland. That will freak you out.

I'm telling you right now, it will absolutely freak you out. Yeah, geez, that's what I need, a bit more. A bit more parallel. Yeah, no, Ben's already a germaphobe, and now you're saying things like this will freak you out. Oh, geez, man. I have to work with the guy, mate.

I know. Oh, God. Now, Patagawa, your documentaries have been, they've been really, really awesome, mate. Patagawa on weed, Patagawa on lockdown, Patagawa on pee, and now Patagawa on hate, looking into the March 15 terror attacks that happened in Christchurch and the effect it had on the Muslim community. But this is a personal story for you in some ways.

Yeah, I mean, it's a pretty full-on topic, and it's personal for me because I was one of the first reporters down there. I've reported extensively on it. But it's also personal for me because I really like the people, the victims that we interview. They're my friends, and we really go to the next level. People will see really full-on interviews tonight where there is actually some quite extreme grief at times. Now, I was reading, too, an article over the weekend, and it was almost like you were wanting to make amends for an interview that you'd done previously with some right-wing Canadians

who came here. Yeah, look, 100%. I interviewed these extreme YouTubers, Stefan Molner and Lauren Southern. They came from New Zealand. People remember, you know, people trying to ban them and so on and so forth. There was a huge controversy. I interviewed them, and we live-streamed it. And I am horrified now, looking back, that I did that.

My ego and desire to be sort of at the front of the story got ahead of me and and i gave these guys a platform not understanding really that much about how dangerous their ideas were and eventually it came out that this christchurch terrorist was actually a supporter of these two and would watch them on youtube and in fact said that what they say and do helped radicalise them. So I'm deeply ashamed about doing that interview. Like, it's just actually the worst thing that I've ever done in my career, no question. It is embarrassing. I'm so ashamed of interviewing them.

And this documentary is, for me, a chance to try and redeem myself and actually platform the other side, platform the Muslims and the people that were affected rather than people that help basically use YouTube to cook people's brains and give them crazy ideas. Yeah, well, listen, I don't think you should put too much on yourself for that. I mean, you were doing your job, and your job is to interview people in the news.

But also it just shows what a real champion you are, Paddy Gower, to actually take that on board and feel like you have to make right. Yeah, I mean, you know, when I was in Parliament and all that sort of stuff, you spend a lot of time building yourself up and you're always right all the time. And, you know, like I said before, you let your ego kind of get in the way

and you're always right. And it is hard to admit you're wrong in life, I think, especially in your professional life. But that interview was wrong. I got it wrong, and I'm sorry about it. And that's that, really. I've made mistakes as well, and that's one of them. Well, Paddy Gow on hate tonight.

One of the things that would have been very heavy to film for this would have been walking through the mosque with some of the families affected by that. How was that? Yeah, just next level. You know, one of them, Wazeem, shows us how he was with his four-year-old daughter and actually takes us back to the spot where they were walking along the road holding hands

and he looked up and saw a gunman pointing a gun at his daughter, down at his daughter, and lifted her up. And people will actually see that kind of recreation. It is very confronting, and it's a difficult decision to take people to these kind of places. But we felt, making the documentary,

that you have to show some of the horror so that people can understand exactly what happened. And you know, there's a very fine line between going overboard and ending up in the kind of area where a Hollywood movie would end up. But we felt that you have to show some of the horror. And when you see people showing how they picked their daughter up while someone

was putting the gun down at her head, you know then that you're in pretty full-on territory. Jeez, you've just got every parent right now going, oh my god, just hearing that Yeah, it's just incredibly frightening but we do let the victims tell their story Well good on you Paddy, you do such important work mate, you keep it up and look after yourself in lockdown

Yeah and I'll start answering that blog number again because you guys aren't going to prank me anymore No, no, no, no I'll start answering that blog number again because you guys aren't going to prank me anymore, are you? No, no, no. I need my vaccine. Exactly. Paddy Gow, appreciate your time. Yeah, awesome, guys. Thank you. Five words for 5k on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive

payday. It is our Game of Words Association. We play it every morning on the hits. $5,000 up for grabs if we match all five words. Do you know we're still bathing in the afterglow of a tremendous win on Friday, coasting off the success of Ben Boyce. You must feel good about yourself. Well, no, because I disappointed a lot of people on the way.

Does the joy not outweigh the disappointment for you? No, because I feel like everyone I'd love to have won $5,000 for. Yeah, well, that's financially and fiscally just ludicrous. Yeah, right. We've already given away $45,000 this year. Jeez, have we? $45,000, I was adding it up last night. Got a lot of explaining to do at the end of the year

when they go through our spreadsheet. Yeah. Yeah. Don't know where that money's coming from, but Dawn, you could be winning some of it in Auckland. Yeah, that'll be cool. You're a truckie, Dawn. Yeah, mate.

Yeah, I've been driving. You're a truckie, Dawn. Yeah, mate. Yeah, I've been driving trucks for the last four years and 21 years on the buses. So, yep, been driving for a while. Oh, good on you, Dawn. Safe pair of hands out there on the road. Wild weather too in Auckland at the moment. It is shocking out here. Terrible.

Yeah, well, you keep safe on the roads, Dawn. What would you do with $5,000? Um, I would try, if I did win it, I would put it aside for my son's 21st, which is coming up soon, so yeah. Um, go out for dinner maybe and get

the family down from up north. Oh, lovely. It'd be a bonanza. A 21st bonanza. Yeah, it'll be awesome. That's if we're not swimming with all this rain that's happening. Hey, Dawn, good on you. So you need to decide right now, D-Money, who you're going to send into the soundproof booth.

Is it going to be Ben Boyce, Producer Juliette, or Jonathan Pryor? Oh, I'm going for the girls today, so Producer Juliette. All right. Nice option. Yes, Dawn. Okay. I'm going for the girls today So it's Mr. Juliet Alrighty Yes, John Alright, Juliet, you make your way into the soundproof booth John, it's like musical chairs right now You have to come over here But the annoying thing is I have to find all the sound effects

Which I'm not quite Oh, there we go And then I need to pull this one down Here we go I don't want a TED talk on it, mate A TED talk? Someone used that line in a movie or something. I was watching it and I was like,

oh, that's a good one. I don't want a TED talk on it. I have to remember that. Hey, Dawn, let's try when you're 5K, all right? All right. We don't want a TED talk on it, though. All right. Here's your first word this morning.

It's quack. Q-U-A-C-K, your son, duck. Yeah, that's what I thought too. Tanker is your second word. Tanker. Tanker. Yeah. Truck.

Oh, yeah. It rhymes with something else. Ben is a giant tanker. Truck, that's a good option, Dawn, given your profession as well. Yeah. Makes sense. Icing is the third word this morning. Icing.

Icing. Icing cakes. Cakes or cake? You said cakes. Just making sure. We just have to be 100% sure because that's what tripped us up yesterday. Yeah. No, let's go with the S, cake.

It's the plural. Lock it in the plural okay uh the fourth word this morning dawn is citrus citrus uh citrus orange orange yeah that's a good one you're doing well dawn you're doing really well let's go 5g and you're trying to get the five grand? And balloon is your final word this morning. Balloon. Balloons. Balloons. Birthday party.

Birthday party balloons. Okay, Dawn. We must too. Timely reminder that when Juliet emerges from the booth, we do have the careless whisper law in play. Yeah, no one can whisper. No whispering. No whispering of the answers.

So, Dawn, we'll do a sultry dance together and escort you off the premises. All right, Producer Juliet. Hang on, sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, hang on, hang on. Hang on, Dawn. I'm sorry, Producer Juliet had come out. She's not out yet, eh? Oh, well, no, she's blocking her ears right now.

She's in the corner. She can't see. What do you want to say? Okay, for the last one, is it balloons or balloon? Balloon. Balloon. Oh, yeah, no. We'll stay with birthday party.

Okay, all right. We'll grab Producer Julia back out of the soundproof. Sorry, you had to go back in there again? Yeah. Sorry. That's okay. This romantic musical, we really fumbled our way through it there. Alright,

Drew, it's up to you to win Dawn $5,000. First word we said to Dawn this morning was quack. Quack. Duck. Yeah, well done. Second word, tanker. Tanker. Truck.

Oh, a two from five. This this is good you know what i'm really struggling with and no one needs to care about this i don't want to talk on it i don't want to talk on it as i can't remember dawn's answers so i'm just going cold turkey on here with these sound effects give me a thumbs up or thumbs down okay okay now we haven't got to the next word yet icing icing um cake We haven't gone to the next word yet. Icing. Icing. Cake. Oh, no. What did she say? Cakes. Oh, the bloody plural.

Again, two days in a row. What are the rest? Well, let's go through the next. Citrus. Fruit. Orange. Orange. Orange.

Orange. Orange. And finally balloon, balloon Air? Damn It started well but it wasn't a full match Some exasperated noises there from Dawn Sorry Dawn

That's all good, that's all good I thought the girls were in for it today But no, it's alright, we'll go for another day Alright, well let's smokescreen this horrific incident with some... Alright, you guys have a great day, Dawn. Okay, cheers, thank you. Look after yourself out there.

After 8 o'clock, we catch up with someone who's had COVID not once, but twice, including the Delta variant. What is it like? We'll find out after 8. Spy, the what's up spy.co.nz Just got her test results back and she's tested positive for filthy greasy celebrity news

Juliet what is happening this hour in Spy? So Reba Wilson has got a bit of a roasting online after a sponsored post she uploaded onto Instagram I feel like Reba Wilson's getting a roasting online every second week at the moment I mean it's the world it's 2021 everyone gets roasted every day week at the moment. Yeah, a little bit like that. I mean, it's the world.

It's 2021. Everyone gets roasting every day. I love roasting people online. Shit, it's fun. You don't even have social media. He gives it a crack, though. Yeah, he does. I don't give it a crack.

I help you out when needed. Yeah, thank you, Juliet. So she posted a photo, and it looks like her on her private luxury yacht saying, and she's promoting these sort of little gummy bears that help out with stress. And she's basically said the stress that comes with traveling, you know, can get a lot. So these gummy bears I have and they supplement and help my stress. And she is just getting a roasting in the comments.

It's been called tone deaf because obviously in Australia right now, there's a lot of lockdowns going on. I talked to my sister yesterday in Victoria. They're in their sixth one. Sixth lockdown. This one's currently a month at the moment. But yeah, the sixth lockdown. It's pretty rough for a lot of people. And the fact that, I think the fact that Reba Wilson is talking about, yeah, you know, travelling

and she's on her, you know, beautiful looking yacht. People are like, this is not appropriate. But mind you, it's important to have some gummies to settle your tummy during these anxious times. I'm sure there's a use for these gummies. Yeah, exactly. The hashtags relate. We can all relate when you're on your big private yacht and your tummy's a bit nervous about what's coming.

Maybe the boat might sink. Oh my goodness. Will we have lobster for brunch? I don't know. Or fresh crab. Who knows? So yeah, she's probably not wanting to read the comments on her Instagram. Well, the first comment was, unless you're not in Afghanistan. Yeah, I know.

I know. Trying to escape. Even when you put that in perspective for New Zealand, you know, yeah, these aren't fun times by any stretch. But we are very lucky still. Very lucky. Yeah, horrible situation going on over there. Yeah, heartbreaking.

And a wee while ago, Kristen Bell said, sort of started a bit of what was called the great celeb bathing debate. She said that with her two kids when they bathe them, if you can see dirt on them, give them a shower, give them a bath, whatever. But otherwise, there's no point.

And this kind of started a snowball effect. Lots of different celebrities kind of commented on this. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis said they wait for the stink before they wash their children. Matthew McConaughey, he doesn't use deodorant, hasn't for the past 35 years. The more famous you become, the more you can let your hygiene standards

slip. That's what we were finding over that fortnight. You're a better class of person, aren't you? And you can get away with it. You're lucky to smell my body toner, that sort of thing. But she's since said that this was a joke, that she doesn't mean that. And basically, she said it with being like, oh, yeah, there's much more things for America and the world to worry about. They're not going to pick up on this.

I'll just say this is a passing comment, bit of a joke. But, you know, they picked up on it and rolled with it and didn't take it in the way that she meant it. Oh, really? And now all these other people are saying, oh, we do that too. And now they'll be like, oh, no, no, we don't. We were also joking. Yeah, I know. Someone's got the ball rolling, oh, no, no, we don't. We were also joking. Yeah, I know. I just thought someone got the ball rolling.

Yeah, yeah. We all talk about that. Finally, we can all come out about how filthy we are. Yeah. Yeah, no, no, it was all a joke, obviously. Expose a lot of people's true habits when it comes to their stank. And that is five and more. You can head to the hitstockco.nz.

Very good. And after eight o'clock on the show, we're catching up with someone who has caught COVID not once, but twice, including the Delta variant. And we're going to put a really, really interesting wedding debate to you guys. I want to know your thoughts on whether these people were entitled or not to do what they did.

We'll get more on that after eight. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben, kia ora, good morning. Ofits, Jono and Ben. Kia ora, good morning. Of course, we've just heard about on the news wild, wild, wild weather out west, the wild, wild west, isn't it? It sounds like a Will Smith movie.

But, yeah, some flooding still going on, heavy rain still forecast. A lot of houses having to be evacuated, up to 50 houses out there. So it's really bad out there. Yeah, I saw, I just heard on the news there with RJL, Rachelachel jackson lee's that uh some people getting rescued on jet skis out there you wouldn't get a more auckland rescue mission would you no hop in your jet ski i thought we might make a call out west to one of the service stations and to see uh what's going on uh yeah find out if everyone's okay wanting to meet with someone oh hello it's jonathan ben calling from the hits radio station Morning, Kumi, for some reason. Oh, hello, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station.

Hey, how are you? Hey, not too bad, we just want to check, how are you? How's everything out there? We've just been looking at the pictures of flooding and all sorts. Oh my goodness, mate. It's flooded, the road is closed as well. Oh, but your petrol station's open. Yes, we are open, we are not selling any gas.

Oh, nice. Yeah, it looks like the supermarket'smarkets closed out in kumyu and all sorts yeah that's right everything is stuck now again look like level level 5.0 level 5.0 i mean the bonus for you is you can step out of your shop and go for a swim in your four-court pool that's right that's what i should do oh yeah i hope everyone's staying safe out there it looks like a pretty rough night for a lot of residents Yes, yes, yes, yes One of my grave staff told me about all that, yes, yes What about your house? Is it nearby? Is it okay?

I live in Henderson, it's all good at the moment, yes Oh, that's all good Is it still raining out there? Yes, yes, my wife just, I had a call with her Yes, yes, it's still raining there Oh, well take care of yourself It's nice to talk to you on the radio. We're thinking of all you guys out there.

Thank you. What do you want to say to your fans? Oh, my fans? Yeah, there's a lot of them now. Keep safe. That's the matter at the moment, eh? Keep safe. That's right.

Goodness and shame. This is why you have fans. Yeah. Hey, take care of yourself, all right? Thank you. Bye-bye. Remember, New Zealand, be kind. And if you can't be kind, be mean behind their back Trust me though, we're talking behind your back

Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast Now, is there a really fun thing here that hits during your work day Or your non-work day at the moment Let's be honest Oh, are you saying people working from home aren't working from home, are you? Oh, okay, right Slave to the corporate man Alright, are you saying people working from home aren't working from home, are you? Oh, okay, right. There we go. Mmm, I see. Oh, okay, well, sorry.

Slave to the corporate man. All right, he wants them in at the office. Take us back to level two, Cindy. It is the 90s versus the noughties. That's a hard one to say. And we're doing it today is carrying on from yesterday, which we did the biggest movie, song tracks and songs. Yeah, now that was a big win to the 90s,

all the soundtracks from uh the biggest movies from the 90s taking on the biggest movie soundtracks from the noughties and you know like the lion king i think was the first animated cartoon i cried in the lion king the last one was last week when i watched one of those animated covid commercials that was the last one but they they took out yesterday, the 90s Tick on that box Today, power pop Yeah The biggest songs from both decades The biggest pop songs ever

You know, the ones that you're like Oh, that one's better than that one It's hard when you put two songs up against each other And it takes a lot for a song to stand the test of time as well So I'd imagine that the noughties The 2000s have a bit of an advantage in that line of thinking, you know? Oh, you're right, because, okay. Yeah, well, you know, songs

age, a song from the 90s compared to a song from 2010. The production quality alone, Ben Boyce, the technological advancements in music production over that period of time. Okay. You know, but Peter Andre, he's a big artist from the 90s, wasn't he?

That's right, yeah. We tracked him down, didn't we? Yeah, him and his chiseled torso. Remember him frolicking through the water in this? Not paying much attention to water safety with jeans on in the ocean. Yeah, you're right. They had jeans on at the beach, but that's all right. A lack of respect for water safety, you'd even say.

We spoke to him once, and we got him to phone your wife, Amanda. Yeah, she's a big fan, but we spoke to him really early in the morning. Because he's in the UK. He had to come to work early. But we thought, I'll call Amanda, we'll wake her up, and it didn't go quite to plan. Okay, I'll do it, I'll do it. Hello?

Are you asleep still? What is this? What time is it? It's John Owen being caught. Oh, come on. Guess who time is it? It's Jono and Ben caught. Guess who it is? Guess who's on the phone? It's Peter Andre. No, it's not.

Don't make me sleep. Don't kill me. I'm so sorry. Don't go. It's Peter Andre. Yeah, he put on a sexy voice as well, too. Just hung up on him. Just savagely hung up on him.

But, you know know since that day that you know we don't have many fans or followers on our social media but one of them is Peter Andre

I know Peter almost every post we do Peter Andre he's got crying emojis thumbs up he's like

hey how you going Peter Andre it's our claim to fame we don't have much but we can claim we've got Peter Andre yeah follows the hits

breakfast it's funny we'll put a video up and we're like oh how'd it go and then we'll go Peter Andre liked it and we're like

oh that's awesome yeah that's enough for us I don't care if it got one like and it was only Peter Andre that's a thousand likes in my eyes yeah and I just love it

that he's just supporting this battler radio show on the other side of the world in New Zealand that's pretty awesome he's got no need to no you're right he's out there giving it like skins thank you peter on someone else i noticed the other day who uh even we did five words uh you

know five words for five thousand dollars we played that non-stop uh on friday until we gave away the money now a while ago we tracked down the guy who was barney the dinosaur speaking of the 90s yeah and um and he was like he he messages, he goes, I just came into this lake. Great to see you. You gave away the money. He's following us as well. The guy who's Barney the Dinosaur. How cool is that?

I mean, if you could name me, you know, two people from the 90s. If you came to me when I was 14 years old and said, hey, young little Jono Pryor, you know, one day Peter Andre and Barney the Dinosaur will be following you on Instagram. Well, firstly, I'd say, what's Instagram? Yeah. And how are they following me in like a stalker manner? But, you know, once I got my head around what that was, the basic structure of Instagram would be like, wow, that's a big game. Yeah.

That's a big game. Peter Andre, Barney the Dinosaur. Yeah, Bob West is the voice of Barney the Dinosaur. And remember, we actually spoke to him a couple of months ago that's why he's following us now we did a sing along with him well he did a sing along can we have a sing along Bob

a sing along it's tough to sing with when you're doing a call at such a distance but we'll shut up then we'll get the message we'll shut up Barney is a solo artist. Okay, here we go. I love you. You love me.

We're a happy family with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you. Won't you say you love me too? I love you, Barney. That was great. So there I love you Barney. That was great. So there you go, Barney the Dinosaur and Peter Andre. And he's a dinosaur. His fingers are using a phone. Impossible. Impossible. So yeah, I guess that was a

humble brag about Peter Andre and Barney the Dinosaur following us. And not even a humble one. It'd be nearly the opposite. We've got microphones in front of our faces. It was a loud, obnoxious brag. Yeah, you're right. Trying to show off that Barney the Dinosaur and Peter Andre from the 90s follow us on social media.

I made no bones about it. No apologies. And if you want to vote for the Power Pop, I'm sure Peter Andre might do well today. Yeah, the Power Pop, the noughties versus the 90s is happening after nine o'clock on The Hits. You're on The Hits. Jono and Ben on your Tuesday morning.

Oh, legends. You guys are legends. Oh, you're legends. Jono and Ben's ISO legends. Thanks to Skinny. You're a legend. We are paying tribute to all the amazing essential service workers right around the country, keeping New Zealand continuing, keeping our country moving, putting themselves in sort of harm's way

a lot of the time as well. And if you want to nominate anyone who's doing great work, head to the hitstockcode at NZ and thanks to our mates at Skinny. We'll call an ISO legend each day. We'll award them with a $500 pack and save voucher and six months of skinny credit. Can I send a shout out to someone? Lauren in the supermarket yesterday, who's a frontline essential worker, all the supermarket workers are,

she's out there detail wiping every trolley, every trolley handle. That's awesome. Just so you could lick those handles if you wanted to. I wouldn't. That's how clean Lauren is making them. People like that. Yeah, you're right. You don't even think about stuff like that.

But that's for your safety, New Zealand. Yeah, that's awesome. All right, I sound like I'm telling you off for some reason. Why am I like this? I'm high and mighty. I did nothing wrong. Back off, Brian. I didn't do anything wrong there, did I?

Yeah, eh? When you wrap your hands around that handle, Ben, what do you think about? Well, I think about that. Think about Lauren. Yeah, that's great. That's awesome. Yeah. And then someone made it at another supermarket.

But anyway, we'll get to that later. All right, we're going to go through to a lady who's been nominated by her daughter today. Hello. Hello. How are you? Good, good. Good morning, dear. Good morning, dear, to you as well.

What is your name? Sati. Sati, how are you? It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits Radio session. Hi. That's exciting. Have we caught you? Have you just freshly woken? Have you, Sati?

Yes. Nice night's sleep, was it? I already had morning tea as well. Oh, morning tea. You get started early. What do you do? Can you tell everyone listening what you do for a job? I work in the supermarket. Oh, we're just talking about how great the people are in the supermarket,

you know, keeping New Zealand moving, keeping our country going. Yes, we have to. Somebody have to do that. Do you know Lauren? She wipes down all the handles on the trolleys. Do you know Lauren? No, I don't know if you do. Well, you've been nominated as a legend right now in New Zealand,

and we want to give you, thanks to our friends at Skinny, a $500 pack and save voucher and six months of Skinny credit as well. Oh, thank you so much, Dad. Now, please don't tell us what supermarket chain you work for, because it could get awkward. So I'll just gloss over that. But, yeah, no, we want to thank you on behalf of New Zealand for all the great work you do.

And when I say on behalf of New Zealand, we literally phoned everyone in New Zealand to see if it was okay to speak on behalf of them, and they didn't disagree, okay? That's really appreciated. Well, we appreciate everything you're doing right now, and you stay safe, and thank you so much for everything you're doing. Thanks so much, dear. All right.

I love it how you call us dear. Oh, you're adorable, Sati. Skinny, of course, helping their capped wireless broadband customers get through lockdown with free data. Skinny have a bonus 60 gigabytes of data to all their capped wireless broadband customers to enjoy. Thanks so much, show our mates at Skinny.

We'll do it again tomorrow. The Isolation, which is a play on isolation. Yeah, no, we should have called it the Lockdown Legend. Juliet came in with a good one yesterday. Too late, though. Too late. Yeah, it was a branding issue, this. We all know it, but we'll plough on through. And the hits.co.nz if you want to register

some great Kiwi to be nominated. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. some great Kiwi to be nominated.