Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jim Belushi - Actor Turned Cannabis Farmer!

Episode Date: November 18, 2021

Jim Belushi who you may know from Saturday Night Live, was part of our segment Liar Liar. He now runs a cannabis farm! What a career pivot! We also played "Connect 4". where we tried to see if we could connect 4 people to Adele. And we spoke to a couple of people who have been associated with her! #Goals. Enjoy the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast is brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. You got Jono and Ben hanging out with you. Everyone's talking about Adele being on Oprah. You can see that Monday, New Zealand time on TVNZ. And we thought we'd throw something out there, Jono. Yeah, we'd like to do something called Connect Four. We connect four people

to a really famous person. Now, we started with Alan in Taihapen, who, he runs sort of a little gift shop. He makes gifts, you know, just your standard run-of-the-mill

middle New Zealand gift shop. Cash only. Cash only. And Alan claims Adele came in and purchased something. When she was out here doing a tour, I didn't realise, of course, who she was. The two girls that came back in that were with her came back in to buy a necklace each because we've got to sign up for cash only sales, you see. Cash only, right.

So you haven't embraced EFPLOS. Fair enough. I like to operate like that. You do like cash only, don't you? And so what did Adele come in and buy off you, Alan? She spotted a headband on a mannequin head was there, and she walked straight in and put it on her head and said, I'm going to have this.

And you're like, well, you can if you give me cash. Cash only, Adele, cash only. I said, well, I better take the price off it for it. It's now just doubled. How much did she pay for the headband there, I said, well, I better take the price off her for it. Her start just doubled. How much did she pay for the headband there, Alan? $15, I think it was. $15? That's a good price for a headband.

And what did she sound like? What did Adele sound like? She was a lovely lady. Very down to earth. And I realised afterwards when they told me who she was, I thought, oh, gosh. My daughter got annoyed with me. She lives in Australia.

She wondered, why didn't I get her signature? I thought I didn't know who she was. I was too busy getting her cash. Yeah, yeah. Her signature. So that was Alan and Taihapi. So that's one. We've connected one person to Adele.

0800 the hits. This is a long shot. I mean, we've got a fabulous story from Alan. But can we connect three other people? Can we connect four people on the show to Adele. 0800 The Hits. This is a long shot. I mean, we've got a fabulous story from Alan. But can we connect three other people? Can we connect four people on the show to Adele? We'll find out next. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben. The Hits.

It is 6.60. You're on The Hits. Jono and Ben. Jono and the Ben? I like you calling yourself the Ben. It's the Ben. We're in the middle of this. Go for it. Too late, Ben. We're in the middle of this. Connect 4. Connect 4. Well, we throw something out there. I don't know why we challenge ourselves

so much, but we want to see today if we could connect. Because you set the bar too high, Ben. You're always trying to strive. That's what the Ben does. The Ben does that. The Ben is constantly striving for greatness. That's what makes you the broadcaster you are. The Ben. Now, we want to connect four people listening right now to Adele.

Yeah, I know, it's a pretty long shot without getting Oprah to call up herself. Well, I mean, that's what the Ben does, though. He would do that sort of thing. Now, we've got Adriana on the phone. We've made one connection with Ellen in Taihapi, who claims Adele came in and bought a $15 headband, cash only. No Air Force facilities at Ellen's gift store. And now we have Adriana on the phone. Hello, how are you?

I'm good, thank you. How are you? Doing well. Now, we understand you have a connection already to Adele. Yep. And what was the connection? So I used to work in her accounts team. So I was part of the practice, the accountancy firm that dealt with Adele's

account you were balancing Adele's spreadsheets yeah were they good looking spreadsheets I bet they look pretty healthy wow that's incredible so obviously when did you guys realize that it was Adele Adele uh Pretty much straight away I started as a contractor. When she said hello it's Adele here. Hello it's me. I started as a contractor there and the first day when they first told me I was a little bit shocked I was like excuse me can you say that again? And so you spoke you I imagine you had meetings with her? No not really you more so deal with her PA there was only certain occasions that you would have to speak her? No, not really. You can also deal with her PA. There was only certain occasions that you would have to speak to her.

Like there was an occasion where she got quite sick and she had to cancel her shows. So in that instance, yeah, we had to call her just to see what she wanted to do and what she needed help with. But you do mainly deal with the PAs. Yeah, right. And so when you're about to dial a dally you go a couple of deep breaths give yourself a pep talk yeah you get pretty nervous i mean um

i was quite new to accounts at that time it was about five years ago so i was only a semi-senior and uh didn't want to mess that one up no that's amazing yeah Do you have her number now? Should we give her a call? I wish. Oh, here we go. I'd be happy to go to some shows. We made our, well, we made a connection. That's awesome, mate. Adele's accountant. Yeah.

What's she bank in a year? What's her net worth rolling in? Oh, I wish I could tell you. Yeah. I bet it was wonderful. Rolling in the deep pockets. Hey, good on you, Adrienne. Have a great day, mate.

Thanks, you too. How's that day, mate. Thank you, too. How's that? We've connected two people so far in our game of Connect Four. Can we connect two more to Adele next? Now, we have a message that's come through from Producer B. Humps saying, big banger next. Oh, really? Big connection to Adele. You couldn't get any more connected.

Oh, really? Well, you probably could. But this one's pretty good, Ben. If Adele was a plug socket, then this next lady would be the plug. All right. We'll find out what the next connection to Adele is next. After Adele, it is the hits. It is brand new from Adele.

Everyone talking about Adele. She's going to be on Oprah, we can see, at Monday night in New Zealand time. And we're trying to connect four listeners, four people listening right now, to Adele in a game of Connect Four. Go for it! Too late, Joe.

Connect Four! Go for it! Connect Four! We have connected two amazing stories so far Amazing connections to Adele The first was from Taiapi Where Adele came into a store And bought an item

The second one was a lady who used to do Some accounts work for Adele And now we are joined by Zella Morrison Good morning Hi, kia ora How are you? Kei te pai

And you guys How are you guys Kei te pai, kei te pai. And you guys, how are you guys? We're doing okay this morning. Now, I understand you perform for a haka group. Is that a kapa haka group? Yes, I manage a group called Raukura. Aye. Raukura.

And you performed for Adele. Yes, we did. We came out to Aotearoa, I think 2017. I remember this, and it made global headlines. She is a global star, isn't she? You're like her. Don't want to brag about it, but we made global headlines. Well, in the right way. Yeah, well, that is awesome.

So how did it come about? Well, we're very fortunate that Adele expressed how she'd like some cultural element in her performance or in her show. And so that's how it all started. And of course, you're never going to turn down an opportunity to be part of an Adele show. No, incredible. Did anyone get to meet Adele? Yes, I met her personally. And a few of the team also met her pre-show, and we also did a little welcome for her before we actually started the show.

Were you like, are we getting a cut of these ticket sales, Adele? How are we splitting this? No, not at all. I think the opportunity to be part of it was quite an experience. You know, one of those special occasions where it comes along, you're very privileged to be part of a show extravaganza. And have you been a part of any other shows like that? Yes, we've provided shows for Pavarotti when he came out, so it was more of a personal

show for him that was done in the hotel with his family and his child. So that was very, very good. Lionel Richie as well, you know, you too. So we've had... Incredible. And who's that famous guitarist? Santana.ist Santana Santana oh jeez

you've performed with all the big guns yes we've been very fortunate to have the meetings with these wonderful entertainers and of course all different genres of entertainment and singing well that is phenomenal what was Adele like like she just seems like the most lovely

genuine person. You've said it. Absolutely agree with you. She has a very warm personality, very friendly, and very authentic is what you've said. And for her to have a cultural component in this show was absolutely unique because you've seen all these shows before around the world and it's very rarely that you see some sort of cultural element in your program.

Very engaging and very personable. You know, she was very interested in making sure that, you know, we were part of the show and she featured us in the right moment, which was very respectful, very professional. There you go. Warm, engaging, personable, caring, the opposite of everything I am. That is Adele. And that is Zella who's performed with Adele.

That's incredible. Thank you so much for your time this morning. Thank you. Thank you. It's a pleasure. What an amazing story Okay we've only connected Three people But I'd say You wouldn't want any more

You know Unless Oprah was calling up Or you know But the game's called Go for it Too late Joe Connect four But I wouldn't want any more

Yeah I know But it's called Go for it Too late Joe Connect four Yeah but I should have Called it connect four It feels like you're

Pulling out one Before they've connected The four people We should have just said Let's go three amazing stories About Adele That's what we should have Called it But we called it Connect Four. It feels like you're pulling out one before we've connected the four people. We should have just said, let's go three amazing stories about Adele. That's what we should have called it, but we called it Connect Four. You need a Juliet to load in this. Your chance to win $5,000 worth of amazing products from themarket.com

is not far away. It is the hits. Like getting your news from the internet. Half-truths and false information. Joe and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. It is Liar Liar. We get two people on. Both say a statement with a lot of authority and conviction,

and we need to work out, John, which one is lying and which one is telling the truth. Yeah, we're going to bring Sally, Mustang Sally on from Wellington. How are you, Mustang? Good morning, guys. I'm good, thanks. How are you, Mustang? Good morning, guys. I'm good, thanks. How are you? Do you mind the nickname Mustang?

Is that weird? No, no, that was all right. You're all right with Mustang? Okay, all right. I don't know if I'm all right with Mustang, but anyway. Mustang's a badass nickname, though, isn't it? I'd roll with Mustang if I was you, Sally. All right, Sally.

Now, Mustang is not your nickname, but what do you want to say as your statement this morning? Well, this was quite a while ago. I was at the Cambridge in Wellington. Champagne Mustang? Yeah. Sounds like something Mustang would do, right? Yeah.

And suddenly like a siren went off, like it felt like we should be evacuating. But I was right by the pokey machine and just behind me on the pokey it just started spilling out just an insane amount of coins and I just jumped on it pretended it was my play and it turns out it was the jackpot that had been hit and everyone thought it was a siren for safety but it was a siren for the jackpot and yeah it turns out that I hit the jackpot. It wasn't actually me, but I got about $8,500.

Just had to sign a check, and yeah. Oh, I see. So everyone thought it was a fiery – I mean, you had two options there. One, you were going to burn to death, and the other was you were going to win $8,000 on the jackpot. And luckily, it was the second one. Yeah, I took the risk. Well, the alarm was very alarming. I think people just ran out,

and it didn't really sound like a fire alarm to me, and then the owner of the joint just came in. Yeah, he just assumed it was me, so I just rolled with it. Yeah, well, there we go. You've just admitted to theft. But that's cool. That's cool. All right. So we'll put Mustang Sally on hold.

And on line two, we have Jim. What is your statement, Jim? Hello. I'm a well-known actor who is also a cannabis farmer. A well-known actor and a cannabis farmer. How long have you been acting compared to the cannabis farming, Jim? I've been cannabis farming for six years. Six years of cannabis.

I've been acting for 40. For 40 years. Oh, jeez. It sounds like too good to be true, really, doesn't it, Jono? I mean, both your interests are in movies and cannabis. They're in one call. Ben loves both of those things. Yeah, Barry only one of these

people are telling the truth and one's telling a lie. Why would you not defend that? Usually you're like, no, I don't. Oh, yes, sometimes I just can't be bothered. Have I just worn you down? I can't be bothered. Just defamation. Oh, it's a joke. Start to finish. Three hours of daily defamation on Ben Boyce's character.

Yes, 0800, that's 4487 on the text. Who do you think's lying today? The illegal pokey winner or the illegal marijuana farmer? Or legal, perhaps. 0800 the hits or 4487. We'll find out who's lying next. Jono and Ben, the hits. It is Liar Liar where we get two people on each say a statement.

One is actually telling the truth and one is telling a lie. And we need to work it out. Many texts rolling through on 4487 to try and decipher today who's telling the truth, who's telling a lie. You know what there is an appetite out there for right now, Ben? And that is a snappy little recap of where we're at with proceedings. We spoke to Sally in Wellington who claimed... That I won eight and a half grand on a pokey that I didn't play myself. She didn't even poke that pokey.

She just got in there and took that money. She took eight grand and now she's admitted to it, if it's true or not. And we had Jim, who sounded like he was calling from an international number uh this jim what was your statement i'm a well-known actor who is also a cannabis farmer okay well the votes have come in the votes have come in and a lot of people are going technical on this ben they're saying sally's line too crystal clear compared to jim's what seems like overseas line yeah so they are basically calling us out saying you're too lazy to organize an actor from overseas to play a lie so in that case sally are you lying yeah i'm lying she is like... Classic Mustang. Is Mustang Sally even your real name?

Um, nah, but it comes over often. Yeah, right. Well, listen, Sally, you've been an absolute champion. You have a great day. Thanks, guys. You too. Yeah, right. And Jim, that means you're telling the truth.

Yes. You are. Wow. So who are we talking to? This is very exciting. These are Gus. Jim, well-known actor, cannabis farmer. That's okay.

I'm going to have a look. I'm going to have a look if we can Google this quickly. Oh, it's not Jim Belushi. Yes, it is. It's Jim Belushi. Oh, my goodness. You're too good for this show. What are you doing on here?

How are you doing? How are you, Jim Belushi? Well, I'm on because I have a reality show that's starting on Bravo about me as an actor growing cannabis in Southern Oregon on my farm. I've just been handed a document with that on there. So you're right. It starts on Bravo Thursday, November 11th, growing Belushi. So what gave you this idea to start growing cannabis?

You know what? It was a total accident. I found this beautiful retreat up in southern Oregon on the Rogue River, and cannabis became illegal in Oregon that same year. And I went, oh, well, new agriculture. So I kind of just started it as a kind of a hobby. I just followed this plant where it led me and now I got a full-on farm and I'm in three states and it's been this wild ride, man.

Now, were you smoking cannabis before you started growing cannabis or you're like, this seems like probably growing courgettes or something. You decided to just dip your toes into that field. Well, you know, I've never I mean, look, when I was in high school, you know, and just once in a while would use, and then Dan Aykroyd said that

he knew this guy Captain Jack was the weed dealer for Saturday Night Live in the early, the mid 70s. Oh Jesus, the 70s would have been a wild time for Saturday Night Live. Yeah. Well, he said they wrote on it. Oh, they wrote scripts. Yeah, they were cold heads, all kinds of stuff.

He said, Jimmy, if you're going to grow cannabis, why don't you use Captain Jack's grain? It's a marvelous grain. So it started out like a little hobby, just kind of growing. And then, like I said, it just grew into this business. Literally. Now, did your brother John, did he have any cannabis in his life? Yeah.

I mean, Danny and him were, you know, were cannabis users. Danny actually said if John was the pothead he'd still be alive today. He'd be running the farm. Or he'd be smoking you out of all of your products, Jim. Most likely, right? Because you would have known about this so we had a referendum here in New Zealand where it wasn't made legal.

What other benefits would you say for people that voted no in that referendum? Well, I think the no is based in fear, and fear is based in not having knowledge. And I think growing Belushi is going to really help people understand what this really is, what it really does, how non-threatening it is, and how healing it is. I mean, I was a bouncer in Chicago at a bar,

and I never broke up a fight between two potheads. And in the United States, we have 37 states out of 50 that have passed it. Wow. Now, mind you, California took four referendums to get it. Four referendums. So you guys will get this. What do the Hollywood mates say about old Jim Belushi with his cannabis farm? What are they saying? Oh, they think I'm the smartest

guy out there. Wow, Jim, you got it. Wow, really? I've been on Bill Maher and Seth Rogen and Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon and everybody in the States are very curious about the healing benefits.

Does Snoop Dogg come and visit your farm? Because we've heard a wild rumor that Snoop Dogg smokes 80 blunts a day. You know, Snoop is a different kind of consumer than I am. I'm more of a micro-doser. I do it to help me sleep or pull out my anxiety. But it's medicine for him, man. If he needs to smoke that much, he must need it. Yeah, right.

So does he buy your Belushi weed or not? All day long, man. He's calling me all day long. I get texts from him. He can't get enough of the Blues Brothers strength. Jim Belushi, it's amazing to talk to you. What a real surprise, a real treat. And we can't wait to see your new show, Growing Belushi.

It's the three-part doco. It's going to be on Bravo here in New Zealand next Thursday. Thank you so much for your time. We really appreciate it. You too, guys. Thank you. There you go, Jim Belushi. How was that? Hollywood movie star Jim Belushi. How was that?

Hollywood movie star Jim Belushi. That's a surprise, isn't it? It really is. Now, Ben, next you want to share how you almost ruined the entire house. Yeah, it was a very scary experience. We'll share with you next on The Hits. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits.

Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. Friday morning. Jono and Ben with you on the hits. You know what's annoying me today, Ben Boyce? What's that? No one else needs this in their day. So I'm sorry to burden it with you.

I can only hear out of one of my headphones. I've got two ears and I can only hear through one of them. It's obviously the headphones. Yeah, so I can only hear half of what you're saying right now. I'm only registering half of it. So if I'm a bit vague today and I'm only catching on to half the stuff, there's at least a reason today. Yeah, that's good to know.

Well, hey, we've got a big show today. I know you only hear half of what's coming up, Jono, but there is a big show. I just heard coming up, Jono, then. $5,000 up for grabs, as we always do at 7.45 with our game Five Words for 5K. You want $5,000 to spend at the market? Well, we're giving someone that today. That would pay for Christmas and then some, right? Yeah, and next Christmas.

Yeah. And Christmas is in 2039. So register right now, head to themarket.com and share your shopping basket up to 5K with us at thehitstock.nz and free fish and chips somewhere in New Zealand. Too much winning today. And you always like to get the party started on a Friday morning, don't you? Well, I do like to, yeah.

I do say it's Friday, let's get the party started, and you always go at 6 o'clock. Just wait. Just wait. No one wants to get the party started between 6 and 9 on a Friday. Unless you're a party animal like Ben Boy, so I'll allow you to say let's get the party started. All right, let's get things started.

It is the hits. You got John, I'm Ben. Welcome to Two Half-H started. All right, let's get things started. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Welcome to Two Half-Hast Dads Do a Half-Hast Job. Official title, Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. It is Black Eyed Peas. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. Do you know a lot of their songs make zero sense? A lot of their songs.

If you actually broke down the lyrical content of Black Eyed... But it doesn't matter because they're such bangers. They are such bangers. I'm dancing along, I'm saying Monday, Tuesday. I'm justyrical content of Black Eye. But it doesn't matter because they're such bangers. They are such bangers. You're like, I'm dancing along. I'm saying Monday, Tuesday. I'm just saying the days of the week. But I don't care because it's like such a, you know. I'm saying look at my lovely lady lips.

I don't even have lady lips. Well, it's a banger. I'm saying check them out on everything. None of it makes any sense. It makes a lot of sense. Yeah, you're right. Monday, Tuesday. Now, parents, you know, I have, Tuesday. Now, parents, you know,

have been worried for a while that screen time, particularly with younger kids, could cause a bit of, you know, attention deficits later, you know, cause that with kids. Well, now they've found... Well, now, because we mentioned

the other day, we had a meeting with someone and they said, you've got to get people's attention now with an internet video within three seconds. I know. Three seconds. If you don't have them in three seconds, you've got to get people's attention now with an internet video within three seconds. I know. Three seconds.

If you don't have them in three seconds, you've lost them. But then there's conflicting results out there at the moment, but I'm choosing to read this one that basically says that studies have come back suggesting that there is no link between preschoolers' screen time and difficulties with attention. So, yeah. Is this just to make you feel better for all the screen yeah screen time you've put your kids on pretty much yeah yeah you do you have uh device free weekends don't you yeah well my wife started um yeah bringing that in but i'm the i'm

you're not you're like i'm not a child you know i'll be on my device all weekend ignoring my family and then the kids will come up and go dad can i just look at him all right because i love to be that you know the one that gets the oh oh, yeah, dad, he's, yeah. Oh, he's the easy guy. Yeah. I fall for that every time. Yeah, he just loves to, doesn't like disappointing people. Exactly. Even his own kids.

My daughter Poppy, she's eight. She doesn't have a cell phone. She's got no means of communicating with her friends. So she uses my telephone to communicate with her mates. So she will play dolls or whatever in her room on FaceTime. They can kind of see each other and that sort of thing. So I have the contacts of various mothers, parents, whatever from school. And purely the relationship is purely parental.

Nothing more, nothing less. Playdate-based contacts. But she texts the mothers from my phone because her friend, she doesn't have a cell phone either, so they're both communicating through the parents' cell phones. But she never stipulates it's her texting.

So I'm texting this mother. First one, call me. Next one, I'm waiting in my bedroom. She's waiting to play dolls. And on the server, you know. On the server, it looks terrible. Yeah, well, the mother, I don't know, the mother's married to her partner,

but the partner picks up their phone. Exactly. Poppy's not putting her good name to it. This is all coming into mind. Next one, want to come play in my backyard? Next one Call me Let's do ballet

So that is my communication with this mother Who's not responded to me either She's probably thinking Talking to authorities right now Or something This pest This schoolyard pest Getting parents' details So I ask if they want to do ballet in the backyard Talking to authorities right now or something. This school yard pest.

Getting parents' details. So I ask if they want to do ballet in the backyard. Okay, I see. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

On the hits. Something very cool we're doing, thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup, is bringing free fish and chips to the nation on Thursday and Friday. That's right we did Palmerston North yesterday jeez we sprayed Heinz all over Palmerston North. They're still cleaning up that tomato-y mess today and it's been a really good very successful campaign Ben. It's made us

look a lot more popular than we are because people come and they queue up because they get two hours worth of free fish and chips in a different town or city on a Thursday or Friday. You could go once and then put a moustache on and then go again. You wouldn't, hey. Today, it's going to be in Rotorua. We're going to be at, well, the fish and chips, the free fish and chips. Sadly, we can't be there.

At Bellevue Takeaways. Shazza. Hey, how's it going, matey? Oh, good. You never meet a Shazza who doesn't have a charismatic, beautiful personality. Oh, well, thank you very much. And you don't meet a Shaz that's not a Sharon either. No, you don't.

No, yeah. How's you guys' morning going? Not too bad. Thank you so much for jumping on board and giving free fish and chips out to the people today. Oh, no, you're most welcome. We're all about STW, feed the whanau. Oh, good on you. That's great.

And now you're at the Bellevue Takeaways in Rotorua, and you're going to be open today from 12 till 2, thanks to Heinz Ketchup, cooking for the whole city. Yes, yes, that's correct. Are you worried there's going to be too many people turning up, or you think you've got it under control? Well, for me, it's just another normal Friday, and it is the busiest day of the week

so to be honest, no, I expect a normal flow of busyness, that's great. Okay, let's go, let's rattle through all the days of the week and you can rank them out of five in terms of busyness. I'm going to start on Monday. Yeah, we're open seven days and I'd say Mondays would be about a two to three. Two to three, okay, let's roll on to Tuesday.

Tuesday, same again, two to three. Okay, I'm going to pick it up now. Is this how you saw this working out, Jono? Jono skips forward to the... Well, I thought shares might, you know, change the scores between Monday and Tuesday. Yeah, we shouldn't have gone Tuesday. Should we pick it up?

Should we just jump to Thursday, Friday? Or you want to do Wednesday shares? What do you reckon? Skip the Wednesday, do the Thursday, Friday. Okay, okay. So let's rank Thursday Out of 10 I'd probably say

7 to 9 Ooh Okay Thursday Really jumped up there And then we're going to go to Friday What are you ramping today up to? I'm going to ramp it up to

A 8.5 to 9.7 Wow And then Saturday I don't even want to know about Saturday Just Saturday top Friday Or should I stop at Friday? Stop at Friday. Okay, sweet, okay. Hit the peak.

Pull out at the top. Yeah. How long have you worked there for, Shaz? So long story short, whānau business. I started when I was eight. I'm 31 now, and we're still going strong since 99. Started working for the family business when you were eight years old. What did they have you doing at the deep fryer when you were 8?

Oh, no, no, no. You know, we don't have babies at the vats, but, you know, we put them to doing burger cases, opening up the wrapping papers. And it used to be $20 after school every Wednesday, I remember, and I used to spend it on 50 cent ices at the canteen. I'm looking at some reviews on Facebook here. Oh, no. Here we go.. Hey listen, just

ordered. Perfect. Would highly recommend. Definitely coming back. A+++. Oh wow. Oh wicked matey. Hey that's awesome. That's from the internet. That's never really that popular. You know, the positive, sorry. Here's another one from Janelle. Awesome value

for money. Very tasty. A+++. Yep. No. Thank you very much Janelle for Awesome value for money. Very tasty. A plus plus. Yeah, no, thank you very much Janelle for that review and we hope to serve you again soon, Giles. Well, hopefully you get plenty more A plus plus reviews today because for two hours only there's free fish and chips.

And free smiles. And free smiles, I love that. I mean, they'd be a monster if they didn't give you A plus plus after free fish and chips, wouldn't they, Shaz? Awesome. Hey, thank you guys very much. Hey, thank you.

And have a good Christmas coming as well, eh? You too, matey. You too. There we go. Bellevue takeaways today. 12-2 thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. It's 88 Pederica Street in Rotorua. We apologise in advance.

Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Shoto and Penn. Breakfast on the Heads. The you've been dragged into this. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads. Now a big musical artist from a few years ago is coming back, Jono.

But kick the music off. Remember Crazy Frog? Remember Crazy Frog? Why Axl F? I don't know why I know the name of the artist. Is it Axl F? Well Axl F was the name of the song I think. Yeah from Crazy Frog. Oh was Crazy know the name of the artist. Is it Axl F? Well, Axl X was the name of the song, I think. Yeah, from Crazy Frog. Oh, was Crazy Frog the name of the band? Well, Crazy Frog was Crazy Frog, I think.

Yeah. Oh, right. It was a frog that was crazy. You know, performing. Was he that crazy, though? It was always my question mark. I mean, he wore a helmet, which I guess is a little out there. Well, have you ever checked out that he wasn't wearing any?

His genitals were on display. Google it. Oh oh he had his tadpole out did he yeah crazy frog but crazy frog is coming back uh and hopefully with some trousers on this time well yeah for a new generation uh and it's going to be on youtube soon there's a new new single which is basically going to be a mash-up from what i understand of tiktok big tiktok hits done with Crazy Frog. On the surface, it did look like an umbilical cord hadn't been cut off correctly.

Well, yeah, but Crazy Frog was definitely... That's why he was crazy, I think. Yeah, he was crazy. He had a waistcoat and a helmet, like you say, and some goggles. He does look... To be fair, I do take back my original statement. He looks deranged. He looks like someone's been awake for probably about three weeks, still going hard from the summer festivals.

Left his pants in Gisborne at Rhythm and Vines and has come out with this. Oh, well, he's hung more than I am anyway. Well, Crazy Frog coming back, so we'll bring you that whenever it's back and see what sort of TikTok trends Crazy Frog is doing. And to make your summer holiday even better, someone will win a $5,000 summer holiday and the use of a brand new Škoda Kodiaq seven-seater SUV as well.

It's Live Free the Summer Edition. Now, don't get too carried away. Not every aspect of your life is going to be free. You can't just wander into Kmart and take products and just stroll out the front door. No. You have to accept some responsibility. But you can pay for it.

You've got $5,000 to spend on your summer holiday, right? Which is pretty awesome. Yeah, so you don't have to shoplift. That's always a great option. What would you do with five grand and this wonderful vehicle? Well, yeah, I'd look forward to cruising around in the vehicle, although I'd be a little bit nervous because when we bought our car a few years ago, you know, it was close to being new, I guess.

We had a new puppy, Beau, and we left him very briefly in the front seat while we were in the back doing something, and he started chewing on the gear stick. And so now it's got bite marks all through that i was wondering because i had been in the car yeah um and i thought you had been chewing chewing the uh the handbrake and i was like oh maybe it's the thing of his i don't know maybe he likes to pull the handbrake up with his mouth get a little bit gummy at some time like a rusk uh yeah so i'd be a little bit nervous about that but when you on sell the vehicle you're gonna have to you going to have to explain what's going on there. Yeah, exactly.

I do now, I think I get quite rashy in your vehicle. Right. Because your dog here. Yeah, the dog goes everywhere. I walked out of your car one time and I was covered in a full body rash. I know. I was hoping it was the dog. Yeah.

I assume it was the dog. Yeah, I hope so. Yeah, the dog's... I don't know, you're biting your handbrakes and stuff. I don't know what's going on in that vehicle. Anyway. And on 0800 the hits right now. James, you want this prize. I'm here to take the five grand, mate.

You're here. He's here to take the five grand and the Skoda. Yeah. Now, what would you do with the five grand over summer? Oh, just take it all around the North Island. Bay of Penny might get around the East Coast. You sound like you've got a sweet little bottom there, James, and I can imagine that sweet tush riding in the Škoda over summer.

Did you know an interesting fact about Škoda? I got into a Škoda hole last night. Do you know they started out as a bike manufacturer? Oh, like push bikes? Push bikes, yeah. Oh, wow. Then got diversified into the motor vehicle game. Oh, there you go.

There you go. All right, well, you are in the draw. Hopefully we can sort out your summer with five grand in the brand new Skoda Kodiaq seven-seater so you can have that for a couple of weeks. Awesome, guys. Thank you very much. No worries.

Free cash, free cars, free vaccines. The last one's on the government. That's not us. Yeah. We're with the new Skoda Kodiaq Take You. We'll listen for your next cuter call, and you could be having that over summer. It is the hits.

Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now, the whole world seemed to be talking about Oprah Winfrey's interview with Adele. You can catch it Monday night. It's going to be two hours on TVNZ this Monday. Adele's going to be talking about the new album, stories behind the songs, life, divorce, raising your son.

And you'll hear some new songs from Adele and some of her old favourites as well. And I think the old O-Dog, Oprah, she really digs deep. It's a process, you know, the process of a divorce, the process of, you know, being a single parent, the process of not seeing divorce the process of you know being a single parent the process of not seeing your child every single day wasn't really a plan that i had when i you know when i had when i became a mum um the process of arriving for yourself every single day and still running a home running a business like it's you know so many people know what i'm talking about and it can you

know i feel like that as well i i juggle those things as well made my feet up walking through all of that concrete. She gets all the big stars, Oprah. She's a wonderful interviewer, and they really, really trust her. She's obviously had Meghan and Harry last year, which was a massive interview. There's a word that Britney Spears might be talking to Oprah soon as well. Ben Boyce is going to do the tell-all. Yeah, I keep pitching myself to her, but she's not.

Do you want the exclusive John and Ben, what really goes on behind the scenes? Not as interested in that one. I don't even know if we could fill an hour with that, could we? I'll give you a short little five minute or something. Yeah, exactly. But we did think last time that she interviewed Harry and Meghan, what would it be like if a New Zealand personality did a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey? So we took segments and parts of Oprah's voice from the interview.

What's your relationship like now with your family? Wait, hold up, wait a minute. Were you silent or were you silenced? Yeah, and we phoned Hits Afternoon host and broadcasting legend, Mike Peru.

He had no idea we were calling, right? No, he thought it was only the Edge radio station that would viciously prank him. Uh-uh-uh. He is not safe anywhere. So we called Mike yesterday morning after the show. It was early for him, and we just surprised him with Oprah Winfrey.

Hello, Mike speaking. So, hi. Thanks for joining us. No, Mike speaking. So, hi. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. What's your relationship like now with your family? Sorry, what was that? What's your relationship like now with your family? Which relationship right now with my family?

Do you hold Zoom calls? No. What do you think your mom would say about this decision? What decision? Why wouldn't everybody love that? Isn't that what you want? Well, I do sometimes want that, yes. What was the tipping point that made you decide you had to leave oh is this oprah my goodness um the tipping point well i just had to get out wait hold up wait a minute i did i have to i have to get out So when I asked the question, why did you leave? The simplest answer is. Gore was pretty boring.

What? What? Hold up. Are you hurt by that decision? No, I get to go back every now and again. What was that like? Were you worried about making the right impression? Uh, no, I get to go back every now and again. What was that like? Were you worried about making the right impression?

Oh, that's the story of my life all the time. Were you silent or were you silenced? Uh, definitely silenced. Who is having that conversation? Why were they doing that? Why are you doing that? Mikey, it's Jono and Ben here, if you hadn't worked it out. I know, you're like, ooh, Oprah.

I loved when you realised. Ooh, I've got an exclusive. She's calling me now. Thanks, Mikey. No worries. That made my morning. That is Mike Carparo's exclusive with Oprah, and you can catch Oprah's exclusive with Adele on Monday night on TVNZ.

It is that. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was actually reading You know the little The stickers that you see On fruit Like your apples And stuff

In two years time Within the next two years The government wants to Phase out the stickers Yep That's good for climate change Isn't it Yeah

Because obviously They're not You know They're stickers But the problem is That if they They're there because They want to be able to sort out what the apples are so you know you've got your rose you know your galas your granny smiths yeah your braeburns your pink ladies all that but so if they're not they don't have the stickers on them well they

don't want to put them in plastic bags to put all the pink lady apples together so they're now working on biodegradable stickers, but the problem is trying to come up with those and do it at a good price as well. There's a couple of already apples in New Zealand that have biodegradable stickers on them, but they're very, very expensive at the moment. So they're still working through the technology of trying to get sticker stickers. Can I just ask a question, Ben? You might not know the answer to this, but was this three millimetre sticker a huge problem?

Was it causing... Like in terms of climate change, could we try and take a bigger bite of the apple, so to speak? Apart from just focusing on a miniature sticker that I sometimes or sometimes don't swallow. I guess it all just adds up, I guess. But yeah, because each year houses around 1 billion plastic stickers are used. So you think about your little sticker, right, mate?

But you put a billion. Now he's got some facts and he's coming back all defensive. I love it. 1 billion. Now you put 1 billion stickers all together. Yay. What are you doing to the environment there? So they are working on it.

There's a lot of Apple companies in New Zealand that, you know, some have got compostable ones already, decomposable ones. But, yeah, it's obviously quite pricey, and they're trying to work through to have a win for all. How do you like them apples? Like, what is your favorite one? If you're going to pick a brand. I'm probably a Royal Gala.

Are you a Royal Gala guy? Yeah I like a Royal Gala. Is that your rich red is it? Yeah it's a red jazz not full red. It is your classic apple. Yeah just a classic apple My son's got into the green ones I'm a Granny Smith apple fan too. My flatmate Anastasia goes

how can you eat Granny Smith? They're horse apples we feed them to the horses. I'm like they're the best apples. Right. Yeah Annie Pryor just, oh jeez she just burdened me with Granny Smith's? They're horse apples. We feed them to the horses. I'm like, they're the best apples. Right. Yeah, Annie Pryor just, oh, gee, she just burdened me with Granny Smith's as a child. Yeah, I feel like it. It's really tortured my childhood. Yeah.

Yeah, I might mind a cheeky little pink lady. Yeah, that's nice. Jazz apples? I like your jazz apples. They are wonderful. Yeah. I'm always like, well, all these apples are very, it's very incestuous, isn't it?

They're all hooking up with their cousins and they're all making new little sort of weird varieties of each other. Yeah, right. There's a new one out every 10 days. It's true. It's a little pity apples and hopefully we'll go solve the sticker problem

that is that she got John on bed. Spy. No, what's up? Spy.co.nz All right. Do you notice Ben Boyce, Millennial Juliet, is starting to get a little too big for her boots.

She's starting to walk around here like she rents the place. Like I rent the place. Ah, that's a good one. Bit of Millennial stuff there. Joking that you guys can... She'll never own the place. Too many avocados, that's the cliche, right? Yeah, yeah.

Now, this spy this morning is a request from me. Yes, and I'm very excited to talk about this. Actually, because I'd seen a lot of things about Taylor Swift. Obviously, she's re-recorded her big album, the Red album, right? And I've seen a lot of things online about Red Scarf. Yes. And Jake Gyllenhaal, the actor, getting sort of thrown back into the mix. And I wanted to you to help me navigate what some of these things are.

Oh, my God. Where do I even begin? So basically, on her original album original album Red she had a song called All Too Well. Is this the one that's very long? Yes, so this is the 10 minute version. So for this re-release she re-released a 10 minute version of the original three to four minute version from the original album and when the song first came out she mentions in the lyrics and I left my scarf there at your sister's house and you've still got it in your drawer even now and this song is about Jake Gyllenhaal because she dated him when she was about 20 and he was 29

for a few months yeah it was only three months and it was over the period deserve a 10-minute banger and the is also, is like when they first started dating, the first paparazzi photos of them together were them walking. It looked like it was autumn. She was wearing this sort of scarf. And he was later pictured wearing that scarf as well. And so that's how people have made the link that it's about Jake Gyllenhaal, because he's still got her scarf from that very first week.

And it reminds you of innocence. Sorry, I should stop singing. Oh, right. Has she ever said it was about Jake Gyllenhaal? because he's still got her scarf from that very first week, and it reminds you of innocence. Sorry, I should stop singing. Oh, right. Has she ever said it was about Jake Gyllenhaal? No, but we can all sort of gather that it is. Is she wanting her scarf back? Is that what this is all about? I don't know.

It is niggly when you do leave stuff at other people's houses. Yeah. But she's worth, I'll just Google, she's worth $400 million, makes $150 million per year from where you're... I think she could buy a scarf. She can whip down to Kmart and get another scarf. I'm looking at two pictures, her and the scarf. It looks magnificent, don't get me wrong.

But then Jake wearing the scarf as well, obviously, at another occasion. He's obviously dipped into his drawer. He's gone, oh, there's a scarf. Didn't even know I had it. Maybe didn't even know I had it. It's like, where does this... But then one of the lyrics is like, now you mail back my things and I walk home alone

but you keep my old scarf from that very first week so he's obviously mailed back all of her things but chosen to keep the scarf because it reminds him of Taylor or he just liked the scarf

yeah but another dig with Jake Gyllenhaal is in the new version of not only is he a scarf thief what other things has this low life done?

So, one of the lyrics in the 10-minute version is basically, I get older, but your lovers stay my age. So she was 20 when they dated, he was 29. He currently dates a French model who is 25, and he is now 40. So that's a dig that he's still dating younger girls, doing a bit of a Leonardo DiCaprio situation. Now, even, like, it's got this big, like, their pack and save, they had it on their social media,

they had a joke about the red scarf, Dionne Warwick, who's the legendary singer, she's even tweeted about this week saying, I'll pay for the postage of the scarf. I mean, everyone's getting involved to see if we can get the scarf back for Taylor. And that's why I was like, we need to know what the backstory is about. I know. So thank you, Julia.

And also, she also released a new music video, I think it was the other day, where Blake Lively directed it, and there was a reference to the scarf in that new music video. Completely different song. A new song, and so that's like a little Easter egg for her fans to suppose as well.

So she's filmed a new video. For a new, completely new song. But featuring a new scarf? Featuring a scarf. So she's got a replacement scarf. Maybe it's not as good. Maybe it is. You know when you've got got something you're like it's just fits well but i mean she's not wandering around with a cold neck yeah yeah um but anyway if you're a taylor sir fan you haven't listened to this 10 minute version you really have to it's literally on repeat every time i drive

and my drive to work is like seven minutes in the morning so i don't really get through the full song and it's quite sad so i have to listen to the last three minutes when i leave yeah i'm that obsessed with this. And the real winner out of this is the scarf manufacturer, who will be selling a buttload of scarves right now. Exactly. And that is your Spy Update for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz.

Thank you, Julia. Very interesting. After seven o'clock on the show, five words, $5,000, your chance to win five grand heading into the weekend on The Hits. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and weekend on The Hits. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits.

It is Friday morning. Jono and Ben with you. Now, this week, Britney Spears, her conservatorship ended. The controversial legal arrangement that basically controlled many aspects of her personal financial life, and she's spoken out in a bit of a lengthy Instagram post, thanking her fans and also talking about how it feels to be free, I guess. The controversial, controlling conservatorship.

A lot of big C words there you were just running and I was proud of you. You got through them. You're in the trenches for a little bit. There's some other words that you don't want. Anyway. You did well. You navigated through it beautifully.

But you were just telling me during the news there that she's done a post for her fans. Yeah. Let's see see i've been in a conservatorship for 13 years it's a really long time to be in a situation you don't want to be in um so i'm just grateful honestly for each day and being able to have um the keys to my car and being able to be independent and feel like a woman and um owning an atm card seeing cash for the first time being able to buy candles.

It's the little things for us women, but it makes a huge difference. You guys seen cash for the first time? Yeah, well... Hadn't seen cash. I guess you wouldn't have been able to have cash. She never bought a candle. Yeah, well, I guess you wouldn't have been able to go into a store by herself and actually do that. Yeah, you would appreciate those tiny little things. But you'd also end up

spending a lot of money on stuff you don't need. You know, I've never bought a mini toy car. I must get one of those. I've never bought a boomerang. I'll get a boomerang, you know?

Yeah, but it's very awesome for Brittany. It's great to see that, you know, that this has happened. And you said all roads are leading towards it and Oprah exclusive as well. Oprah is just interviewing

all the big guns at the moment, isn't she? Yeah, she's got a dowel that's going to be seen on New Zealand Time Monday on TVNZ2, but right now, because it's a great week for Britney and fans of Britney, we thought we'd play some Britney Spears for you. Friday morning, it is the hits.

Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. It's like day 94 of lockdown here in the 09. The probably rest of New Zealand's sick of us banging on about it, so we haven't

been trying to, but it's like day 63 or 64 or something like that in lockdown in Auckland. So, you know, it feels like you've exhausted all the things to do with a couple of young kids at home. But one of the things the kids yesterday got into... Pick up the lighter and the cigarettes, But one of the things that the kids, yes, they got into. You're like, pick up the lighter and the cigarettes, kids. That's all I've got.

Well, they got into some baking, and they do like baking quite a lot. But it was the dog's birthday, and no one had remembered but the kids. The kids were like, Bo's having a birthday. It's the dog's birthday. Yeah, man, the dog birthday does often get forgotten, doesn't it? So we brush over a dog's birthday. To be honest, I didn't know the dog. Had a birthday.

The dog should probably know he had a birthday. But they decided, they're like, can we bake something for Bo? And I'm like, well, you can, but dogs obviously can't eat cake. They're like,

no, we've seen something on TikTok. Can we bake it? And I'm like, oh yeah, sure, why not? And so basically they made these sort of dog treat muffins, but they had dog biscuits within them and boy, they stunk. I mean, once you heat dog biscuits.

Oh, they put the dog biscuits in the oven. Yeah, it was part of the thing. It was part of these, like a muffin. And the dog loved it. Like, he loved it. He had a great time for his birthday muffins. But these things, they were very pungent. Because dog biscuits, you heat them up.

What is in a dog biscuit? I think it's like dried meat and stuff, yeah. Lamb bones and things like that. So that was a baking attempt to one, and it was fine. The dog enjoys it. Has it tarnished your oven? Has it stained your oven? The house, every time you leave and come back in, you'd be like,

is this what we're cooking, dog biscuits? It's a lot of explaining to do, too. Pretty random. And then later, Sienna, my daughter, who hasn't even seen Squid Game for obvious reasons because it's a very violent show, she was like, I want to make the honeycomb cookies. You know, there's a game that they play with the cookies. Oh, they have to cut out

the shapes. Yeah. Yeah. And so she went to make that and I was like, oh, maybe I'll get involved in this, get the recorder out, get some radio. Ben's new cooking show Getting Baked with Ben. Do the recording. And this is what happened moments after recording it. So how do you make these?

Okay, so you basically put like a couple like spoons of sugar and it takes a while to melt, so we're just going to put it on boost. Okay. Oh, that's going quick. We'll just add the baking powder. Oh, no. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Wave the tea towel.

Hang on. So in between, yeah, the smoke alarms going off and the dog biscuit smell, my house was a horrible state. What a shambolic cooking show. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Beep, beep, beep, beep. You'd watch it though, wouldn't you? Yeah.

And what traumatic cookies to bake as well. Yeah. Yeah, the squid games. Girl guide biscuits were a safe option. Could have done police 10-7 muffins or something. She gave it to me. She made one for me with a little, it was like a moon shape,

and then I got a pin next to it. Oh my goodness. So I had to get my own shape. You know what happens next? I know, that's what made me worried about it. You've seen the whole series now of Squid Game, right? Yes, yes. Oh my gosh, I literally can't stop thinking about it. I finished it maybe four days ago,

and I'm like, where's season two? Give me season two. So good. Now, I'm not going to spoil anything, because obviously, Jono, you haven't seen the whole thing, and there's a lot of- It's already spoiled biscuits. Yeah, I'm not going to spoil anything because obviously, Jono, you haven't seen the whole thing and there's a lot of...

There's already spoiled biscuits. Yeah, there's a lot of questions about, you know, well, Squid Games. I'm not going to get into any major plot things.

But the cell phone that the guy has, how long does that last without... Yes! You never see him charging the phone. Yes! Well, that's something

if you've seen the show, that's one of my major concerns. Has he had a cell phone the whole time? There's one of the people that sneaks in there as one of the sort of red people in the masks and stuff.

Great battery life. And he's got a phone. He's secretly looking at it at night and stuff, and he's kind of like finding out about the place. I'm like, he's obviously not charging it because he doesn't want anyone to see the phone. No, he's been double vaxxed. So his body charges it.

Yeah. That'll be out of line. I don't know if you've read all the stuff I've been sending you on the internet, Ben. Yeah, that's what's happening. Oh, thank you for explaining that one for me. It is the hits. You got John Owen, Ben. Five words for 5K on the hits.

You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning at 7.45 on the hits. Five words for $5,000. After this game, someone could be $5,000 richer. Now, I've been looking at the spreadsheet of this year's winnings, Benjamin Boyce, and according to my calculations,

over $50,000 given away on five words this year. Now, that is over 10 winners. You do the maths on that. You don't have to, because I did. Yeah, you did. Even Stephen Hawking himself

would be like, that's some champagne mathematics right there, because I did. Yeah, you did. Even Stephen Hawking himself would be like, that's some champagne mathematics right there, Pryor. That's what he would say. Let's welcome Adele in from Auckland. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Oh, doing well, Adele.

You're spending your days working at home? Yes, yes I am. If you don't mind me prying into your professional life, what are you doing every day? I do office work for a security company, you know. So apparently I'm essential. I would say you're essential. You're essential to the show as well.

Do you want to win $5,000, Adele? Absolutely. Now, I've got a note here because Producer Behumps, he puts little notes on the computer screen in front. And next to your name, it says, you would blow the cash on a scenic flight. Yes, yes. I want to go see the Southern Lights.

They do flights from, like, Christchurch, and then they go fly around 10 hours or something, and you see the Southern Lights, and then bring you back to Christchurch. Now, Juliet is the adventurer on the show. Does that sound like a bit of you, Ju, giving your gasp? Yes, yes. I've always wanted to see, like, the northern lights,

but I kind of forget that the southern lights are also a thing. Yeah. Do you know we were having an interaction with a boss of ours, and there was some tense conversation going on, but he was with his son in the northern lights, remember? That's right. We were talking to him, and he was yelling at us down the phone from the Northern Lights. I was like, you're in the most picturesque location.

Going, you two idiots! Anyway, Adele, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Ben. Ben Boyce. Okay. You're looking nervous. You all right today? I'm all right.

I'm good. All right. Looking more nervous than usual. Running at alert level 10 today, Ben Boyce. Hopefully that means you're going to win $5,000 a day. Let's get into it. Remember the rules. The first word that comes into your head when I say PlayStation.

Five. Oh, PlayStation 5. Yeah, good. Caterpillar. Butterfly. I always thought the digger, too. You know how he's got caterpillar diggers and things? But I don't know if Ben's a...

Ben's certainly not after what I did to his house. He's not a digger guy. No. Word number three was wipes. Baby. Baby wipes was wipes. Baby. Baby wipes, yeah. Nice. Temperature.

Coming in at number four this morning for you, Adele. Thermometer. Nice. You're playing a solid game. And the fifth and final word is star. Now, if Ben was a star geek like me, I would say sun, because sun is the closest star to us. Right.

Oh, okay, you're going in deep, Juliet. You're agreeing. Yeah, that's one of the ones that came to my head too. Yeah, okay. You're going in deep, Juliet. You're agreeing. Yeah, that's one of the ones that came to my head too. Yeah, right. So it was just the first thing that popped into my head, so I'm going to go with sun and hope for the best. All right, yeah. To be honest, I reckon he's probably going to say, like, Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

If he could say Dwayne the Rock Johnson to any of these words, to all of the words, he would. But we'll release him from the soundproof booth, Adele, and win you 5K, hopefully. Ben, here we go. All right. 5G on the line. You don't need to know that because you turn up here every day.

First word was PlayStation. Five. PS5. Oh, we got it. We got it. Well done. It's good. Now, dear friends, it's PS5.

Caterpillar is the second word this morning. Butterfly? That's what they transform into. Isn't it wild that a caterpillar goes from a chrysalis to the... It's just crazy. Nature. It is pretty amazing. Nature.

I mean, think about it. Wipes. The third word. Baby. Baby wipes. Oh, we're going all right. We're on our own. This is good.

Hold on. My phone's just going Adele. Ring, ring. Hello. Hi, it's the Southern Lights here. We're ready to see Adele. Yeah. Well, I can tell you Southern Lights, she's ready to see you.

Here's the fourth word. This is good. Temperature. Word number four. Temperature. Degrees? Adele, Adele. It was thermometer.

I'm sorry. We were going well. We started so well Three Yeah Yeah I was really hoping for it You did

You did really well Adele We'll go to the fifth word anyway Which was star Oh jeez That's That's Star Hollywood

I thought he was going to say Dwayne the Rock Johnson Adele I should have said Dwayne the Rock Johnson. I should have said Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Adele with a more educated guess, Sun. Oh, yeah, Sun's in the state, yeah. Hey, Adele, thank you so much. I'll tell you what we're going to do.

We're going to send you out a wild bean voucher, okay? Go and get yourself a free coffee on us. Oh, thank you so much, and I really enjoyed playing with you. Oh, it was great. I hope we get to do it again. Yeah, hopefully. And it's awesome because we can say Oprah Winfrey, not the only one to have Adele on their show this week.

So called that, Oprah. I knew that was going to come at some point. I tried to resist it all the way through. I was like, we haven't mentioned it. She's like, no. I sat there in the soundproof booth. I was like, I've got to say something. I've got to say something. And I did.

Thanks, Adele. You have a great one. Okay, thanks very much. Another chance for someone else to play Five Words 5K Monday morning. We've got Spy next and we have the details of every concert that you could go to in the next 12 months here in New Zealand. It is the hits. Spy, the what's up by doco.nz.

All right, straight out of the sloppy gossip washing machine comes some dripping wet celebrity news. Juliette. Thank you. So I'd like to give you a little fact, and I think it blew my mind, so I hope it blows your mind too. Iconic Betty White, she is officially two months away from turning 100. She turns 100 on the 17th of January, well, a little less than two months. She turns 100 on the 17th of January, well a little less than two

months. She turns 100 on the 17th of January next year and because her 100th birthday is coming up and there's also been a lot of news about Pete Davidson and the people they're dating, Betty White is adamant that she's keeping her dating life private as fans demand she

and Pete Davidson go out before her 100th birthday, considering Pete Davidson dates everyone in Hollywood. She's 100. She's looking magnificent. She is amazing. She seems like such a character, eh, Betty White? You can get paid $1,000 to watch 10 hours of Betty White's work on Disney+. Really?

That's quite cool. You can binge Betty on Disney+. So, you know, the Queen's 95. Yeah. And reaching the stage of life, and this is very sad, where people are starting to compile, you know, montages. The tribute montages. A lot of people are behind the scenes.

There's a lot of pre-work going on. Because if the news happens, you've got to come out with something really good in memory. You know, gather TVNZ and TV3. They'll have something to push play on immediately. You need to. Isn't that sad? But that's happened so far.

There's no sad news. But let's not know and tell the Queen. She's got a fight. I mean, Betty White's still You know She's still kicking Yeah You never want to hear Hey they're starting to make

Documentaries about you You know You don't want to hear that Do you I know That's sad There's a photo montage Currently in the process

Yeah In manufacturing Oh my gosh It's going to be a big deal When actually both Betty White And the Queen die Like it'll be huge Betty White

She really kicked things off With Golden Girls She did You've got a Golden Girls jersey, don't you, Beth? Yeah, a sweatshirt. Have you wanted to wear it before? It says Squad Golds. I don't know why I remember that jersey, but I know he's got a

Squad Golds Golden Girls jersey. Why have you got grandmas on your top? That's so funny. My Squad Golds is on top with every single one of these grandmas. I'll wear that on Monday. Love it. And we have been kind of My squad goals is to hook up with every single one of these grandmas. I'll wear that on Monday. Yes, please. I'll wear that top on Monday.

Love it. And we have been kind of announcing a lot of concerts coming up. And I just thought I would do a refresher because it's almost quite hard to keep track of all the concerts that are coming up. Like it's literally just announce after announce after announce. Yeah, you know I have grave concern that one artist is going to financially suffer with the amount of entertainment on offer next year. Yeah, exactly. So, starting in March and April next year you've got the 660 Saturdays. They're doing well. They're getting off early. They're getting their

first cab off the rail. They won't suffer financially. No. So they're going to Rotorua, Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Hawke's Bay and Auckland. Delta Goodrum is in March in Auckland. Kings of Leon are doing two shows in March in Auckland. Stan Walker is in April in Auckland. Kings of Leon are doing two shows in March in Auckland. Stan Walker is in April in Auckland. Then skipping ahead to June, you've got the Kid Leroy

who did that song Stay with Justin Bieber. He's kind of one of those artists I reckon he's on the rise at the moment. Kid Leroy I reckon might be hurting in the old ticket sales. I don't want him to stop playing Mount Smart Stadium or anything like that. Yeah, true. It's all your venue, Ben, you're right. So he's in June. And then September you've got Billie Eilish at Spark.

She'll be fine. Don't worry about her. She'll be sweet. She's got three shows at Spark Arena back to back. I think she's already sold out the first couple, right? Yeah, she has. She's got no worries. Sleep easy, Billie.

And then November, we've got a lot of people. So you've got Dua Lipa doing two shows at Spark in November. Sold out the first one, right? Yes. So she's going to be great. Snoop Dogg is coming to Christchurch in Auckland. Wow. I think he'll be fine. The Killers are performing at Spark Arena in Christchurch.

Steady ticket sales. Love it. If you want a double pass, 4487. When we play the killer song. Yes, when the killer song plays. And Alanis Morissette in Spark Arena in November. Thoughts? And Bieber? Did you say Bieber? He's December. He's December 2022, so that was the next month.

Oh, sorry. And then we skipped. I thought you wrapped it up like thoughts, like I had some thoughts. No, I was just going to say, what were your thoughts on Alanis Morissette? Would she suffer? She might, but she did already announce a concert, but it's a delayed concert, so she might already have a backlog of ticket sales already. She might be building off a good base.

You might have paid for that one in a previous financial year. Yes. Very true. That, very true. So she might reap the benefits of that. And then we're going forward to 2023. Gosh, that seems like a mile away. Lorde, her tour was postponed to February and March of 2023. She's doing Wellington, Christchurch,

Nelson, Hawke's Bay, New Plymouth and Auckland. And then finally, last but not least, maybe least, I don't know, your thoughts, Backstreet Boys, Spark Arena in March. Oh, they may as well cancel. They may as well cancel. They may as well cancel. They're at the tail end, they're at the arse end of this. They're in a new year.

I reckon as soon as you get round to January, you're like, oh, all the Backstreet Boys are here next month. I don't know. If I was the tour manager, question marks would be hanging over, but anyway, I'm not. I love it. And that is your Spy Update for this morning. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. I appreciate it. It is the Hits. You got Jono and Ben.

Going hard and ooey. Go hard, go ooey. Go hard and ooey. Hard and ooey. Go hard. With Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. The Killers have announced they're coming back to New Zealand in November next year. Two dates. Auckland and Christchurch. And every

time you hear a Kill killer song on our show, you just need to text 4487. That's this week. And I think we're going to play a killer song right now. Yeah. Are you going to be putting on your leather pants for that show, mate? I'd like to. I'd love to see you in a pair of leather pants.

I'd love to. I always wanted to try a pair of leather pants. You know, I did try. I did try. When I was working at The Rock, I was like, well, jeez, hand in hand, leather pants. I gave it a go once. There's a lot you need to factor in with leather pants.

Peeling them on is difficult. But then once you've got them on up around your waist, you're like, dear God, I'm going to have to call a surgeon to remove these off my legs. And the process of peeling them off is... Tough, was it? It was like sort of ripping off, you know, Duracell. When you separate the Duracell, it was like that. I think it took a team of 10 fully grown adults to remove those trousers off me.

So I won't be wearing leather pants to the killers, but you being your legs, you could do leather pants. You've got leather pant legs if you want a double pass to the killers uh four four eight seven right now we'll give one away because we are playing the killers it is the hits jonathan beams empty your basket with themarket.com with prizes worth up to five thousand dollars it's an amazing prize you just head to themarket.com You put as many items as you want In your shopping basket They have millions of products Thousands of brands

And then you share that With the hitstock.nz Up to the value of $5,000 And every Friday We call up someone and say Congratulations You've won $5,000 worth of stuff All the stuff that you put in the basket

You've won all that We will explode our $5,000 All over your gift basket Just by going to themarket.com. Then go into the hits.co.nz. You could be winning.net.nz. Yeah. Simple as that. And we've had some beautiful, beautiful, deserving recipients so far last week.

Someone who had their house burned down. Yeah. Now, Brittany won the competition, but she gave it to Hannah and Sue who certainly had their house burned down to replace some of the items that they got they lost in the fire, which was an amazing moment. Okay, now today we're going to go through to a solo mother of some teenage boys.

You like solo mums, Pete? Yeah. Weird question. It's a strange question. He likes all mums. Yeah. He's not going to discriminate, but we're going to go through to Cherie in Taranaki. She's got some wonderful items in her gift basket here. Market.com. Good morning, Cherie speaking.

Hey, Cherie, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh my God, good morning, guys. How are you? Listen, we're doing well. You sound like a lively cannon in New Plymouth today. I'm actually in little old Stratford. I'm a caregiver in the community. Oh, good on you.

Are you in between visits at the moment, are you? I am, actually. I am. Well, it's good that we hopefully got you at a good time because we're just having a look. Now, you put a whole lot of items in your gift basket at themarket.com. What were some of the items you put in there?

I think it was an Xbox controller. I think I put a soda screen. Yeah, basketball hoop. Basketball hoop, little slide for my little grandbaby. Yeah, you got a folding workstation bench. I don't even know what a folding workstation is. Oh, yes, no, it's a builder's, you know, like a bench, horse bench.

Because I am quite of an independent woman and I do make things on my fence. You've got HP digital notebooks, you've got pantry cabinets, you've got Bluetooth soundbars and you're a solo mother of some teenage boys.

I am, yes. They're 19 and one's just gone 17. Well, prime smelly material too. They are very much so, guys. They spend all night awake and then they sleep all day. Oh, that's the typical day of teenage boys. Well, hey, thanks to themarket.com, we want to pay for that entire basket. Up to $5,000 is all yours.

Oh, my God. You've actually just made my day and my year. It's been the last few years have been a bit shit, but I really appreciate that. Thank you so, so much. Oh, you're very welcome. No worries at all. I'm glad it can be put to very good use.

Thank you. Yes, it will be. All right, there you go, Cherie. In you, Plymouth, $5,000. Christmas is sorted. You and your folding workstation bench. Go and have a wonderful day. Thank you, guys. You too.

You're very welcome. Thanks so much for listening to the show. If you want to head to themarket.com, you can check out their incredible range of items. Fill your basket. Share with us at thehitstockco.nz and we could be calling you next Friday. We're doing it all the way up to Christmas. Yeah. It's basket, share with us at thehitstockco.nz and we could be calling you next Friday. We're doing it all

the way up to Christmas. Yeah. It's November, Ben. I know. Not even the Christmas, not even prime Christmas time. And you can also get free shipping with

the Market Club on our eligible items over $45. So it's an amazing prize that goes all the way to Christmas here only on the Hits. Yeah, there we go.

You can enter it. Ben's done all that. I did. I wrapped it up. It was good. Now we're still hearing This weird little bit You're on the hits

Jono and Ben It was actually A bit of a rough start For me this morning What happened mate? I opened the laundry door And there was a whole lot of feathers everywhere. And I was like, uh-oh. Either I've been washing like a MacPak goose down jacket or something.

Or you've left a tissue in your pocket, you know, and it comes out looking like feathers all over the floor. Or the cat has potentially brought in a bird. And I thought it must be the bird because the day before I'd noticed there was a bird on the side of the road. And I don't know how it happened there. I was like, maybe it got hit by a car or whatever, but it seemed a little bit stunned.

And I was like, I'll put it up on the fence post away from everything and hopefully it'll be fine. Came back later, I was like, oh great, the bird's gone. It's gone, it's flying away. It's everything great. And then the next morning, Sunday morning,

I was like, oh no, here's the bird and the birds and the cat had brought the bird inside. Cats are the prolific killers. They're the serial murderers of the animal world cats, aren't they? And for some reason they think that's a gift to you. Yeah, they want to bring it inside. It's a gesture. It's like, hey, thanks for

everything you do for me. Here's a carcass of a bird. And you're like, mate, I'll give you whiskers. I'll give you chef cat food. Yeah, and you're bringing this. And you bring this. This is the response? I don't need this gift. Yeah.

My daughter, Indy, who's a huge animal lover, was just like, she was just like shaking her head and looking at it going, oh, you suck to the cat.

She was like, you suck. You suck under her breath. She was so gutted. And I was like, it's the circle of life. It's like Lion King. It's what happens on Port Chess.

She's like, I don't remember this part of the Lion King. But you played some on Port Chie. She's like, I don't remember this part of the Lion King. But you played some part in it, too, by placing the bird conveniently on a post for your cat. Oh, yeah. Like, if anything, by the side of the road, it was probably hidden. Really? Did I?

Oh, a huge part. Don't make me an accomplice in this. I was trying to help out the bird, and I was like, oh, it'll be fine. But no, obviously not. So, poor thing. I feel like every time you try to help an animal, it always bites you in the back. Like that ducky trying to attack me.

And I was just trying to help the ducklings. And he had his shirt off in the park. He took his shirt off to wrap the ducklings in his shirt and then the mother saw him trying to kidnap her little babies. Oh, I wasn't trying to kidnap. I was trying to find out where they go. This weird shirtless man stealing my children. Dump the shirt and run off screaming away.

It was on Police 107 that following Thursday. Wonderful sketch. So what do you reckon? Next time just not get involved? No, because I had the same thing with a pigeon. Pigeon was inside my daughter's dollhouse. I don't know how it ended up there. And we placed it conveniently on a seat outside.

Neighbours cat, absolute massacre. Blood bath in front of them. We were watching through the window It was like we were at Kelly Tarleton's or something It was like a zoo Jono and Ben's Friday Thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup This is awesome

We're travelling around New Zealand Well we can't sadly But the free fish and chips is And it goes to a different town Or city in New Zealand Every Thursday and Friday through November Thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup Two hours of free fish and chips And it's happening today Jono town or city in New Zealand every Thursday and Friday through November. Thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup.

Two hours of free fish and chips. And it's happening today, Jono. Yeah, we spoke to Shaz. Shaz are from the Bellevue Takeaways in Rotorua. They're going to be putting it on today, thanks to Heinz. And we did say, you know, are you worried about the influx of people coming through this Friday lunchtime? For me, it's just another normal Friday and it is the busiest day of the week. So to be honest, no, I expect a normal flow of busyness.

That's great. Okay, let's go. Let's rattle through all the days of the week, and you can rank them out of five in terms of busyness. I'm going to start on Monday. Yeah, we're open seven days, and I'd say Mondays would be about two to three. Two to three.

Okay, let's roll on to Tuesday. Tuesday, same again, two to three. Okay, I'm going to pick it up now. Is this how you saw this working out, Jono? Jono skips forward to the... Well, I thought Shares might, you know, change the scores between Monday and Tuesday. Yeah, we shouldn't have gone Tuesday.

Should we pick it up? Should we just jump to Thursday, Friday? Or you want to do Wednesday, Shares? What do you reckon? Skip the Wednesday, do the Thursday, Friday. Okay, so let's rank Thursday out of 10. I'd probably say 7 to 9. Ooh, okay.

Thursday, oh, really jumped up there. And then we're going to go to Friday. What are you ramping today up to? I'm going to ramp it up to a 8.5 to 9.7. Wow. And then Saturday. I don't even want to know about Saturday. Just Saturday, top Friday, or should I stop at Friday?

Stop at Friday. Okay, sweet, okay. Hit the peak. Pull out at the top. So she's all planned and all prepared for Friday today in Nauru-Turu at the Bellevue Takeaways, thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Two hours of free fish and chips.

It is the hits. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie. Yeah, nah. She'll be right, and at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. breakfast on the hits.

Actually, just a reading before we go about this German shepherd dog. Now, this dog is, it's a millionaire dog. It's an incredible story. Now, the dog inherited a fortune. The dog, it owns a... The dog. I'm talking about the dog, the German shepherd. Yeah, it owns an eight-bedroom Miami waterfront home that was once owned by Madonna. The dog. I'm talking about the dog. The German Shepherd. Yeah.

It owns an eight-bedroom Miami waterfront home that was once owned by Madonna. The dog lives in this home. He's not talking about a human. Just to reiterate, it's the dog. Who gave him this money? Well, basically, there was a lady in Germany who fell in love with this company that helps rescue dogs and stuff like that. And so she donated, when she passed, she donated her fortune to the dog, under the dog's name. So the dog had no association with her.

Well, it's actually the granddad of the dog, and it's been passed down through the dogs. Yeah, through the company. She met the organization and fell in love with the dogs. And she said, when I go, that's what I want to give the money to. But she gave it to the dog's family. So the dog's family now own it. So the dog just sold the house for $45 million.

One of the houses, but it's got a huge property portfolio. This dog, it's got a personal chef. It's incredible. Like, it's amazing. It sleeps in a bed. Who's making the call, the financial decisions on behalf of the dog? Well, I guess the company that run it. But yeah, the dog's also got playmates that live in the house with the dog.

It sleeps in a bed overlooking the bay in miami where madonna used to sleep it's a it's incredible story yeah uh each some of the finest uh finest meats it's got a net worth over 500 million dollars now wow now that sounds like a very stylish dog ben oh no don't say don't say i've connected the dots there and i'm not gonna do it well what do you mean? Don't pull it. You put this dog material here. It does sound like a stylish dog. It didn't need to be taken there.

Does it not sound like a stylish dog? Yeah. Hey, you have yourself a great weekend. All Blacks playing over the weekend against France, which will be good. Just good for them to have a run around, eh? Just good for them to get out there and do some exercise. Which will be good.

That's why you lost that Sky Sport gig. I did. Have a great weekend. We'll catch you Monday for more good radio from Sex on the Heads. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from Sex on the Heads and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Rosene,

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