Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Attempted To Turn Some Covid Lingo Sexy...

Episode Date: August 25, 2021

Hello fine people of Aotearoa and anyone who may be listening in other countries... With Covid making a comeback in NZ, Jono decided to spice up a phone call to his wife Jen and call her with some sexy chat... some sexy COVID chat... Did Jen like it? Have a listen to find out. We also caught up with Ganesh Raj who hosts Eat Well For Less on TVNZ, to get a bit of lockdown cooking inspo using the ingredients you have in your pantry. All that and more! Enjoy the poddy, friends.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. 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. Welcome, Wednesday the 25th of August quarter. It's Jono and Ben here.

We're back for another podcast. Day eight of lockdown. Yeah, is it? Is it? Yeah. Yeah, it's Wednesday. Day eight. Is there?

Yeah, Tuesday we were put into lockdown. Yeah, it was Tuesday night. Well, yeah, Tuesday 11.59. Yeah. You know, it's 60 seconds of, you know, a seven-day. That kind of confuses me when you say that. Well, they always go 11.59 as well. And who's pushing it right up to that last stroke of the day?

You can't get me. I'm out here. Can't get me. Standing outside your property. And now I'm back inside. Okay. It's like our dream of always wanting to break an embargo. You get sent press releases and they're like embargoed

until 7.02 a.m. I've always just wanted to jump on here at 7.01. Just to do it just. Because it's a niggly minute that they wouldn't follow through with legal proceedings. Right. So you're. Just to do it just. Yeah, because it's a niggly minute that they wouldn't follow through with legal proceedings. Yeah, right. So you're just going to do it just a minute before you were allowed to. Still a little bit naughty though, isn't it?

Yeah, but just still not enough for them to go, you know, he's really breaking the embargo. You don't like it. I used to do that with my sister. It was like, stay out of my room, but you just put one arm in. Oh, just winding up. Or a leg.

You're out of it. I'm not in your room. I'm out in the corridor. Mum would come a leg you're out of it i'm not in your room mom would come around you're like see in the corner put your arm back in i never had brothers and sisters grow classic play yeah i was a solo child and what i'm understanding is with oscar and poppy my kids is oscar's main role in life is to just wind up his sister was this the same for you? Oh, yeah, it kind of would have been. I guess, yeah, you'd have to... The amount of joy it brings her.

Sibling, but that'd wind me up as well. Everyone would wind each other up. It was all part of the game you played. It's a family unit. We'd just all sit in the house and wind each other up. That's probably why you did years of wind up on the radio, because you didn't have the joy of getting wound up by a sibling. There was always a fully grown adult doing this.

We all grew out of this. You're like, hey, we're winding this person up. Do you know them? No, I don't know them, but I'll just do it. We've got a really, really cool show for you today. Ganesh Raj, he is on Eat Well for Less on TVNZ. He's awesome, man. He gives you some lockdown cooking advice.

And what I really loved about it was people would ring up and say, I've got this in my pantry, I've got this in my fridge, but here we go for things. I'd be like, oh, yeah, that's really good. Oh, yeah. Like the banana one, I was like, oh, he'll just say banana. Banana bread. But he did it.

Yeah. No. That was really cool. And what's, you know, the option for the leftover mince too, I thought was. Ganesh obviously is brand. The Eat Well Flesh brand, you know, healthy, I thought it was. Smart. Ganesh obviously is brand. The Eat Well for Less brand. You're healthy, affordable, good food.

I just want to imagine him right now hiding in a sea of shame under a mountain of like burger rings or something. Yeah. And just drinking from a... Not eating well for less. Not eating well. And we're drinking from a water fountain of Fanta. That's how I like to imagine Ganesh Raj.

When it's lockdown. Imagine if that was his deep dark secret. I've actually been eating a lot for a lot of money. That's what a lot of Kiwis are doing right now during lockdown. What's the worst thing you've eaten in the last 24 hours? Don't say hummus or something that's going to, or like a smoothie or something. No, I don't. I don't know.

Oh, actually, well, no, to be honest, I ate a little, half a spoonful. something that's gonna all like a smoothie or something no i don't i don't know i actually want to know to be honest i had um i ate a little uh as half a spoonful here we go oh ice cream you're asking because i filmed for the video we had to do it for personal reasons it's for comedy but i was a little half spoonful treatment i bet it was like fat free ice cream as well no it was it was ice cream cookies agree ice cream was nice but i was like fat free ice cream as well no it was ice cream cookies and cream ice cream was nice but it was like why have you got

ice cream in your fridge you would never eat ice cream no the kids the kids and my wife they enjoy it but yeah they were like

we'll have dessert you're like yeah have dessert I wouldn't didn't partay but I had I had a little bit if you want to have dessert

I won't be lording it over the rest of your family and they eat ice cream out of a bowl of gilch just so I won't be eating it. Someone passed me a banana.

Well, that's the thing. I came out there because I was doing it and Indy was like, what? What's going on? You're eating ice cream. It's for a comedy for work. So that's what I did. I won't even do it. I won't even do this.

Just chips. You love your chips. Chips and dip are good though. I won't even I won't even just just chips oh you love your chips oh I do chips and dip are good though yeah I'm trying to button off the dip in the weekdays are you like making it from

imagine you're making it from scratch or are you making the already made little dips nah from scratch we've got cans sitting in the fridge

ready to pounce at any moment it's a good tactic that one but also not good for like oh it's ready to go. Yeah. No, it isn't good, that.

Hey, well, listen, enjoy the podcast. Keep safe out there. Keep safe in your bubble. Keep safe in your lockdown. And we're going to go home. And listen to my computer. Listen to this. It's really working.

It's like an air conditioning, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's loud. Feels like it's about to have a heart attack, much like its owner. After all the onion dip. Hey, have a great day. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't save this battered up old face. It makes you beautiful.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. I don't know if this is the same in your household, Ben, but, you know, COVID and lockdown, it's, you know, not considered a very sexy time. COVID and lockdown, it's not considered a very sexy time, is it? No, you're right. Yeah, I think lockdown probably has. It's when people seem to be letting themselves go more.

The track pants come on more regularly, the care factor. The hygiene standards slip. There's not a lot of sexiness orbiting COVID. You're not so worried about there being a to be a knock on the door at any stage and someone's going to just pop over, are they? Because they can't, so you're right. I mean, you know, aesthetically and physically, you're at your lowest,

aren't you? Yeah, people are at their lowest. And, you know, the virus has got a branding problem. It's not very sexy in the advertising world, is it? No, it's not. It's a horrible virus. We've kind of got these yellow and white striped commercials with just graphics on there and, you know, there's not much pizzazz around it. So I thought that I might try and sexy up COVID.

Oh, no. By phoning my wife. Now, I apologize for what you're probably about to hear on this. I apologize for the courting that you're about to hear. So what are you? I don't even know what you're doing here, but I'll throw it over to you and I'll just listen awkwardly. Hello? Did I ever tell you?

Your heart is a location of interest. Oh, that's good. It's a nice one. You must be a flu symptom Because you've got me running hot Gross Yeah, you made that gross I want to come over there And take your clothes

And put some personal protection equipment On top of that clothing Are you on a Zoom meeting? Yeah. Yeah, a Zoom meeting. Yeah, this has got awkward. He's suddenly lost confidence in this. Yeah.

I panic purchased... Is that it now? Yeah, there's one more. I panic purchased an excessive amount of toilet paper. Would you like to come and use some? That's not even a pick-up line. That's the worst one. Okay.

Back to your meeting. Okay, thanks. Yeah, no, good. You're good. The lover's gone. The lover's gone. Trying to spark up the relationship. In the middle of a Zoom meeting.

Couldn't have worked any better. There we go, Jono. You've done your best. You're all out there battling away. Yeah. You're all out there battling away. We're all out there battling away. There's a hat she got, Jono. Tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe.

And that's all I have to say. Thanks, Dr. Ashley. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Joining us on the phone right now, a friend of the show, and you'll know him from the TVNZ show Eat Well for Less. Great show there is Ganesh Raj, and he's going to be giving us some lockdown food advice.

How are you doing this morning, Ganesh? I'm good, man. You know that Dua Lipa song, and in my mind, the two of you are dressed in sequins jackets? Grooving, grooving hard to that song. That's what played out in my head. That's us every morning on the show. We're straight out of a Do A Leap of video.

How are you doing? How's lockdown for you? Bro, you know how it is. There's no rules, right? Every day is a new day. But there is a rule. You can't leave your house. That's the main rule.

Apart from that. Apart from the lockdown, the mental rule. One foot in front of the other. All those cliches, bro. Yeah, because, of course, you're on Eat Well for Less, and it's probably quite hard to eat well for less at the moment because everything kind of goes out the window as far as people's eating habits goes. Last time we talked to you, you were like, shop every sort of three days because you

can't shop that far ahead. That's when we're not in lockdown. But right now, what should people be doing? Well, first thing I would do is have a really good look at the fridge and the pantry and be determined to use 80% of that. Like, this is the moment to start learning, right? This is the moment where you go, all right, this is what I've got, but I do have the time to jump on the internet and go, right,

how do I combine these things? How do I combine that? What does it do? It gets you smarter and you're not going out to spend money. Plus, I think learning how to use stuff in a pantry is going to help you no matter what time of year it is, right? Here's a question for you, Ganesh. As a professional food

expert, cook person, how far can you push an expiry date out for? Whatever it says, like best before is best before. Use by is use by. They're two very different things. Use by is like, don't this is a date. This is a line in the sand.

You can follow that, right? Best before is the beautiful, big, fat grey area. You know what I'm saying? And that's why people call it best before. It's like saying, when's your birthday? And you go, sometime in the future. Gotcha. And so that is essentially the food suppliers covering their ass, but then it's up to your

palate. I can't believe you said that, Jono. I can't believe you said that. And so that's interesting. So if you were to put a best before date on Jono and Ben as a duo, what would you say? Where would you say we peaked and we shouldn't have got, where were we used by up? Where were we used up? I think you fellas haven't even started yet.

You know, what we haven't got in this country is a proper Statler and Wardoff, those two old guys in the Muppet show. That's us. I would love to see, I would watch the two of you till your greys became grey. Well, our contract states our used by dates in about

three years. I don't want to drop any facts around you, but fine. If you want to be like that, fine. Hey, Ganesh, a lot of talk about overeating. You know, one out of the two of us talking to you right now might have gone through three bowls of onion dip in a 90-minute period on Sunday. What's your advice about, you know, keeping up a decent eating regime during a period like this?

Well, look, here's the thing, right? I love eating. Eat as much as you want, but you have to pay the piper. There's no free ride. There's no free ride is what I'm saying. You've got to get out there and walk. You've got to go and do something. And lockdown is like the no excuse zone.

I'm sorry to say, but the only thing you can do is go for a walk around your neighborhood. Yeah, true. You're right. There's literally no reason not to do any fitness right now. There's literally no other thing you can do but fitness right now. So I'm going to use this as an opportunity. Eat your onion dip. Bathe in it.

Have a bath in it. I don't care. But I can see you walking around a little bit. That's all I'm saying. Thank you, Ganesh. Ganesh's going to hold right there because we want to get you guys a call on 0800THEHITS. And you tell us what's in your pantry, what's in your fridge right now, and your lockdown supplies.

And he'll give you a recipe for it right now. 0800THEHITS, give us a call. We'll do that next. It is The Hits. When I grew up, I would be the same as them. Because I care more about what other people say The other hits, Joe and Ben, day seven of lockdown and if your supplies are running low,

you want some options of what to do with your food supplies and we've got someone here right now to give you some answers. Yeah, Ganesh Raj from Eat Well for Less is on. Now, Sarah, what have you got in your house? I've got lots of mints left over and I have no idea what to do with it. So question, question, is this frozen mince? No, so it was left over from Spag Bowl last night. Oh, okay, so you've got cooked mince.

It's cooked at Spag Bowl, beautiful Spag Bowl mince. Yeah. Oh, mate, this is an easy one. All right, you're making cottage pie. Do you like cottage pie? Yes, yes. Do you have any frozen vegetables floating around? I'm sure there'll be something in the freezer.

100%, right? So you're going to get some oil in a little pan, and you're going to get a little bit of olive oil. It doesn't have to be extra virgin. Put a little bit of garlic in there. You're going to fry off all the vegetables, the frozen vegetables, like a handful, two handfuls. How many in the house?

There's about four of us. Perfect. Two cups of vegetables in there, leftover mince in there. Mix it all together. Add some chili if you want a little bit of spice. Get. Two cups of vegetables in there, leftover mince in there. Mix it all together. Add some chili if you want a little bit of spice. Get a baking dish. Put that down. Boil some potatoes, mashed potatoes.

Put the mashed potatoes over the top. Put some cheese on top of that. Put it in the oven at 180 for, I don't know, until it gets brown and delicious. Wow. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome.

I'm actually tasting it right now in my mind, and it tastes good. I just don't possess those skills, you know. That's really clever, Ganesh. Is that going to help you out, Sarah? Yes, yes. That's definitely going to help out. Go have fun, and then don't forget to put stuff in there that your family likes because they'll love you even more than they already do.

There you go. That sounded really good. I feel like you could make that with leftover mints. You could do that. Even you could do that. Even you could do that. Although I think Jonah's version of leftover mints is there's nothing in the Tupper that. Even you could do that. Even you could do that. Although I think Jono's version of Dover mints is there's nothing in the Tupperware. Yeah, that's right. Now, Ganesh, you mentioned extra virgin

olive oil. At what level of virginity do you become an extra virgin? Let's just say that it is in line with the critical meaning of the biological word. The first press of the olive is the biological word. The first press of the olive is the purest. Is that where it's from? Yeah, but that's where the flavor and all that stuff is. So what happens is you buy that stuff, but you're

buying it because you want to use it in a light salad or something where it is only one of two ingredients so you really taste the olive oil that you spent 50 bucks on. Don't bung that stuff in a pan where it kills everything and adds 50 other things to it and you're still going to... There's no point.

That's why you go for the regular olive oil that you can get in those... You know the tin jerry cans? Yeah. Those are perfect. I mean, they're good quality, good price, last forever. That's interesting. There you go. Extra virgin olive oil.

Not an impure thought has crossed that olive's mind. No. Yes. No. mind. No, yes, no, yes, no. We're going to get Jackie on from Auckland. Jackie, you're on with Ganesh. What have you got left over in the cupboard? Hey, Jackie. Hi.

Well, I went to the supermarket and, like a lot of people, found that there was kind of nothing and there was no meat and we're quite a big meat family, but the only thing I have left over in my cupboard is some canned tuna. Yes, canned tuna, the beef of the ocean. That's what they say, right? The beef of the ocean. No, no, you know that. So what are we going to do with tuna?

Okay, tuna is amazing. There's so many options, all right? You can make tuna and potato fish cakes. Ooh, now we're talking. Exactly tuna and potato fish cakes. Ooh. Now we're talking. Exactly. And do you have some dry herbs floating around? Yeah, yeah. I've got a few of those.

So you've got dry herbs, potatoes. So you're basically going to fry the tuna again in a pan with onions and garlic and olive oil. What kind of olive oil, Jono? Extra virgin olive oil. No, the other one. Oh, the other one. The non-virgin one. Damn it.

I hate it when I'm asked questions on the spot. Anyway, thankfully somebody else is listening. Love that. And then finally, if you love like feta, olive, you know, quick salad with tuna, it's incredible. If you've got feta floating around, some cucumbers, some red onion, some tuna, some olive oil, some salt, some pepper, a little bit of white wine vinegar if you've got it,

otherwise just regular vinegar even, or lemon juice if you've got it. Otherwise, just regular vinegar even. Or lemon juice if you don't have that. Boom. There you go. Have some fun. Get ahead, Nish. Thank you very much, Jackie. Really appreciate that, Ganesh.

That was great. You're going to think less of me now, but that's all right. We've got a wonderful friendship. Did you know I microwave Kransky sausages? Yes, because nothing about you surprises me. That's his thing. That's his dad dinner. He's like, when I had to cook for the kids, I just microwaved some Kranskis.

I was like, and he didn't even phone it in. Can I tell you a secret, though? There is nothing more delicious than a microwave Kranski. And we'll take one more. Georgia, you're on with Ganesh. What have you got left over in the pantry? Hello. I have a bunch of, like, bananas.

Like, quite a few of them going off quite rapidly. How many do you have? Six. Six bananas. Okay, how many in your house? There's four of us. So what you can do is you can get these bananas, cut them in half, put a stick through them, and then you put some granola in a dish, and you have some yogurt, and you can dip it in the yogurt so the yogurt's the glue, and then you can dip it in the granola, and then you put some granola in the dish. And then you have some yogurt. And you can dip it in the yogurt. So the yogurt's the glue. And then you can dip it in the granola. And then you can stick it in the freezer. Or you can eat it just like that.

Or you can have honey and then yogurt. And then granola. And then chocolate chips. You know what I'm saying? I love it. I love it. I can do it. It's so good.

Thank you so much for your advice. And you also got an Instagram account at the moment called The Humble Yum Yum. I'm doing these Facebook Live sessions to help people with anything that they might need, just like we're doing today. So you can catch me on Ganesh Raj and Zed on Facebook. I'm kicking it at 4 o'clock. Jump on. And if I can help you, I'll do my best.

Oh, Ganesh, always love catching up with you, mate. You keep safe in your bubble and we'll speak soon. Thank you, guys. Know what you do. He's so awesome. That's Ganesh Raj for me. Well, for Les, next on the show, you want to try a bit of a risky game.

I'm putting it all on the line. It involves my wife and some very sexy COVID-based lingo. Okay. It might be NSFW. I haven't introduced sexy Jono to the program, have I? What this program's been lacking is a bit of sex appeal. We'll find out what it is next. Don't cringe, Judy.

You know I will. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. And that's The Hits. Jono and Ben, Wednesday morning. Welcome along to the show. Just gone six o'clock. How's everyone this morning?

All right? I'm going all right. One week since we've actually been in lockdown. This is a week, yeah. It's a funny, it's an unsettling feeling. You know what I liken it to? I liken it to the Monday of a long weekend where, you know, something doesn't feel right, but you go with it anyway.

Yeah. You know? Yeah. It's like a permanent long weekend feeling. It feels like it's been a lot longer than a week. I don't know if it's just me. It It feels like it's been a lot longer than a week. I don't know if it's just me. It just feels like it's been a long, long time. I guess it's, you know, the days feel a bit longer

because you're in the middle of the lockdown. Do you reckon this is a period in history we'll look back on and we'll go, wow, that really got away on us. You know, in a couple of years' time. Yeah. Like a wild night. What did you do, Ben? What were you doing with your thighs?

The most hangover movie sort of thing. Yeah. Flashbacks of Ben dangling from a light shade. But it was coronavirus. Hey, we've got a big show this morning. We're going to catch up the Paralympics. I started last night and catch up with one of the world black stars. Yeah.

Their first game is today against USA in the Paralympics. Yeah. Barney's his name. So we're going to be talking to him before seven o'clock. Crazy sport wheelchair rugby. We've played it before. I know. And Barney's awesome.

All he wanted to do was knock what little hair. He was like, I want to knock what little hair Jono has off his head. He literally knocked me out of the chair. And the chair is a seatbelt, Julie. Oh, wow. It has a seatbelt. I'm flying out of a chair so the seatbelt disconnected. That's how it's impact.

Is that allowed in wheelchair rugby? It's the game, babe. It's like Demolition Derby but in wheelchairs on the court. It was a lot of fun to play and they were awesome. We'll catch up with him before 7 o'clock. 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 breakfast. Now a lot of people are watching Netflix and streaming services at the moment, TVNZ On Demand and whatnot. But I don't know if you guys have this as well. How do you watch your content at home in your flat, Juliet? We've got a TV and we just Chromecast from our phones or whatever,

Netflix or whatever we want to watch. I don't even know what Chromecast is, but it sounds like the future. Well, our one, we've got this um remote and if you want to watch something and the kids want to rent a movie or whatever i have to enter the password or jen my wife has to enter the password because we haven't we don't know we don't trust children with passwords yeah yeah um and so but the thing is with the tv remote typing on the screen is the most painfully slow experience any human being can go through. Every time I do it, I'm like, Elon Musk, he's introducing a robot that you can marry or something during the week. That can massage you and basically be your personal assistant.

And still, we can't figure out how to type on our television. It does a while we've got some of the i mean our tvs it's quite smart smarter than the rest of us in the house always lords is it's intelligence over us but it's got should we do another qts family oh we did one yesterday tv but it's got like netflix and stuff on it so you can actually but then when you have to re-enter your password for any reason that's where it's like oh you have to go but but then the TVL one's got a little thing you can push. It's like a voice thing. You're like, this is handy. But now it's become a gag that as soon as someone talks into it,

everyone else starts going, Ben smells or something at the top. You're like, shut up. I'm just trying to do the password. Yeah, this is 2021. Like, surely entering a password shouldn't be a painful experience now. Yeah. I know I was stuck behind an old lady in an intersection the other day turning right and it was more painfully slow than that trying

to put this password in and the thing is you're doing it at such a slow rate that the kids are sitting there and i make them shut their eyes but they look through their fingers at the password because you're typing in the letters in 10 minute increments trying to find them they know the password anyway. So they're like, well, you can spend half your day typing that in. By the time I've actually got the movie, it's already released a sequel. It's already come out in cinemas. We're not allowed in cinemas.

It is the Hitch. You've got Jono O'Byrne. It's 6.09 on your Wednesday. Scrolling through your feed. He's waiting here with his legs spread, and he's ready to infect the community with this news bulletin. Ben Boyce what's been happening? It is day 7 of lockdown in New Zealand

and 148 cases so far but what I found kind of interesting our retail spending obviously has gone down since we've been in lockdown for obvious reasons, the shops aren't open but the day of the eve of lockdown basically alcohol sales went up by 500 percent

nationwide on the eve of lockdown going you know from that tuesday into midnight have a guess where you think the biggest alcohol sales in new zealand this is according to fbos new zealand so the most people swiping the fbos card on alcohol what region would you say oh is this location shaming this is location shaming, but one location. Drinking problems. Okay, are we zeroing in on suburbs? Which city in New Zealand brought the most amount of alcohol? Oh, I'm going to go

Hamilton. Same! Palmerston North? Palmerston North apparently sales increased by 716% just before lockdown. The biggest increase anywhere in the country. Also, the bars and restaurants jumped up between that period as well.

The spending in bars between Tuesday's announcement and I guess people... Last supper. We're going to go on. Yeah, so that went about 28% for bars and restaurants up about 11%. But then I saw on the news a lot of restaurants had bookings cancelled that evening as well because people kind of went, well, I'm not going out. I'm going home and getting sorted. Didn't you go get takeaways for the last time? No, we thought about it, but it wasn't working on the thing, yeah.

Other people did, we know, but I think some places were kind of in the midst of closing down and not running. But probably their busiest night of the year as well. Yeah. And we're trying to shut down the shop. And something else, and some non-COVID related news,

obviously Toy Story, wonderful franchise of movies. I'm still rocking around in my Toy Story 4 backpack. You are a big fan of that franchise. Some would say years beyond you needing to be a fan of that franchise. But why just Toy Story 4 is my question. Oh, because I got given the bag, and I like that bag,

so I'm rocking the bag. Oh, so you're not actually a fan of... I love Toy Story. No, I do. I love all the movies. They're all great movies. But not 4 over the others. No, it's still a great movie.

But Tom Hanks, obviously the voice of Woody the cowboy on Toy Story and the movies. But there's heaps of toys made with the characters and their voice activated. They've got the voices playing stuff. And there's video games as well. And there's a rumor going around that it's not actually Tom Hanks' voice that does the voice for the toys and the video games. And he was talking to Graham Norton on the Graham Norton Show about the rumor that it

was his brother who did it. Ha ha! Boy, am I glad to see you. Is that you? No, it's my brother Jim. Is it really? That's so weird because we were on the internet and somebody said that and we were like, oh that just sounds like a load of old rubbish.

No, that was my brother Jim. They have so many... There's a snake in my boot. There's a snake in my boot. There are so many computer games and video things, and Jim just works on those all year long. I said, you don't want to do this. He said, no, get my brother Jim.

He'll do it. So that's my brother Jim. That's amazing. That's incredible. I genuinely thought that was an urban myth. It's true. Absolutely true. That's cool.

Cool for old Jim Hanks. Jim Hanks has directed several films. He looks, if you saw him, you'd be like, you could enter a Tom Hanks lookalike competition. Whoa. And he sounds, I mean, he sounds very similar to Tom Hanks as well. So that's kind of cool. I mean, Tom Hanks is obviously, you know, super busy with his movies and stuff. It's kind of cool that he can share the love to Jim Hanks as well.

So there you go. The voice of your Woody Dolph. You've got one in the house. Oh, he's a twin. Oh, is that a twin? Does Tom Hanks have a. So there you go. The voice of your Woody Dolph. You've got one in the house. Oh, he's a twin. Oh, is that a twin? Does Tom Hanks have a twin brother? Yeah. Oh, so him and Jim are twins. Oh, there we go. Oh, very cool. And that is

scrolling through your feed. A little bit of COVID news, a little bit of shaming of Pupis the North, and a little bit of Tom Hanks. Toy Story news for you as well. It is the hits. You've got John on bed. And today we want to do it a little bit differently. We want to know from you what show you're binging. We want one person to give us a call, I know at 100 the hits,

and tell us the show that they've started to binge in the last 24 hours that they reckon that everyone should be binging. Have you been binging, Ben? I started watching yesterday The White Lotus because that was the show that Kate Roger was on yesterday. She's the entertainment reporter for News Hub. And she was like, you've got to start watching this.

So I started watching it, but I started watching it too late last night. You know, we get up quite early. So I probably got halfway. It's not really binging when you watch half an episode or something. Looked good. Looked good. But all you're doing is concentrating on the first 30 minutes and just trying to keep your eyelids open. Yeah.

Really good. Not really taking in the storyline. There's a lot going to be happening because they set it up with a bit of a murder at the start. When someone dies at the start, you're like, oh, who's it going to be? But you never finish things. Well, this is six episodes.

This feels obtainable. This is definitely obtainable. Even at my rate of watching half an episode a night, I could do this over the next two weeks. Juliet, you've been binging. No, I'm useless at Netflix. You know this. I did watch The Crown for a bit and then I've given up on

that. I still want to continue watching it. I'm about two years late to The Crown, I think. It's hard to be useless at Netflix. I don't know how you can I mean, your only job is to sit down. I know. Not good at it, guys. So, Android, that hits 4, 4-8-7. Give us a call.

What's the one show we should be watching on Netflix and Disney Plus on Neon? Whatever. You tell us and you tell the nation next. It is the hits you got John on Ben. Now, were there any good moods or a bad mood or were there any prescription medication that keeps you in even moods? We want to know the mood of the nation. Ben, you're doing the

binging edition this morning. Yeah, yesterday we had Kate Rogers, as we've said before, entertainment reporter for News Hub, suggesting a couple of shows we needed to binge. And everyone really loves to hear about these. She not only recommended The White Lotus, she also recommended this show with Kate Winslet. Mayor of Easttown earlier this year just blew me away.

Kate Winslet's amazing. But if you want to watch a really great, gritty kind of kidnappy murder mystery, please watch Mayor of Easttown with Kate Winslet's amazing. But if you want to watch a really great, gritty, kind of kidnappy murder mystery, please watch Mayor of Easttown with Kate Winslet, all right? All right, so put that on your list. The White Lotus, Mayor of Easttown, according to Kate Roger. Those are the shows we should be binging. We wanted to know from you what shows you're binging

and what should our other hits listeners be doing? Let's welcome on down from the town of Cheviot. It's Tony. How you going, guys? Oh, great to have you on, Tony. Cheviot, it's Tony. How you going, guys? Oh, great to have you on, Tony. Cheviot, is that North Canterbury? Yeah, it is. What a guess.

Yeah? I'm pretty sure I've driven past a sign that says Cheviot. I've driven on the way to see my grandparents when they were alive in Amberley Beach. We'd go through Cheviot. Were these your grandparents who had a TV screen curtain? Oh, no, they were the other ones in Christchurch. We'd often see them in Christchurch, yeah. We were quirky grandparents, to be honest,

but that's not what we're talking about right now. Are they the ones who had a bookshelf in the toilet? In the toilet, and they slept in a caravan out of the house. How's that, Tony? Ben's grandparents in Cheviot, they lived in a caravan. They didn't sleep in the main house. No, no, they went out in Anberley Beach in North Canterbury. They just went outside to a caravan every night,

and some cold winters out there as well. But anyway, Very unusual. Now Tony, what are you binging, baby? Last week, I started watching Lucifer. I've heard this is really good. It is real good. This is about Satan himself.

Yeah, so he wants a holiday from hell so he comes to Earth and hooks up with a detective and starts being a detective he also comes that he's quite a hot looking guy too so i guess he's come back as a hot looking guy right yeah well he's part of the cw network with the um like the dc part of the cw so and all that and um i was watching the crossover on the cw that had all the crisis on everything it's just this massive crossover, all the shows.

And then he popped up in it, and I looked into it and I thought, oh, I'll give that a go. And it's five seasons, so I'm up to season three now. Josh, since starting last week you're already up to season three. Yeah, yeah. Wow. And he is quite the dish, isn't he?

Okay, so Lucifer. That's on Netflix, right? Yeah, and it's got a great cast of supporting roles. Good. Who do you reckon's hotter, Jesus or Satan? That's not going in. Who do you reckon? I mean, both have wonderful core strengths. You're the one that goes to the Catholic church every Sunday.

It has to be Satan, because at least you can go out and have a drink with him. Yeah, true. I mean, both are ripped. You can't question that. Both have been definitely working out. Who are you going to put your chips in with, Ben? Tony's gone Satan. What do you reckon?

Although there are different variations of Satan, aren't there? Somewhere he's got horns and stuff. That wouldn't be the one. He's mythologically supposed to be the light bringer. So going off history, I'm'm gonna I'm gonna say Jesus Jesus is our you go to the Catholic church every Sunday

I try and get my Catholicism propaganda out there doesn't he doesn't he so I'm gonna step out of this one just okay

the father the son the holy ghost amen before seven o'clock thanks so much Tony appreciate you appreciate you cool there buddy

hey before seven o'clock one of the stars of New Zealand's Paralympic team Barney plays for the World Blacks he joins us before seven o'clock it is of the stars of New Zealand's Paralympic team, Barney, plays for the World Blacks. He joins us before 7 o'clock. It is the hits.

You've got Jono and Ben. It's Hannah Swift. Shake it off. It is 6.35. Jono and Ben. Now, the Paralympics started last night in Tokyo. They had the opening ceremony. And Kiwi's in action today.

We've got swimmer GC Reynolds. He has the honour of being the first New Zealand, well, he's a medal prospect, they reckon, at the Paralympics. So he's swimming starts today from midday. Cyclist Sarah Ellington is one of three paracyclists in action. And also New Zealand's Wheelblacks in the wheelchair rugby start with a big first match against USA. And we're going to catch up with one of the stars of the Wheelblacks. In fact, we caught up with him just before they left for Tokyo a few days ago.

Jono and Ben's Torchlight on Tokyo. Jono, my name is Barney Kuniforunisi. I am 27 years of age and I play wheelchair rugby in the Paralympics. Barney, lovely to hear from you. Now, we know Barney personally because we've played wheelchair rugby against Barney, haven't we, Ben? And geez, you're good, Barney. You are good. I loved being on your team and I love the fact that your

main goal when you were playing is, like, I just want to smash Jono. I want to smash what little hair Jono's got left off his head. I think me and Jono were having a competition on who had the most hair, because I think I was pretty bold. The thing is, with wheelchair rugby, you just don't appreciate

how much of your body you're using, getting around the court at quick speeds. And you just honestly, you come in like a freight train. Knock me. Clean off the wheelchair. I've got to bounce out of the chair. How long have you been playing for, Barney? I started playing back in 2009.

So just a little over 10 years. Wow. So if people haven't seen the sport before i only seen little bits how would you describe it it's kind of like a combination of a couple of sports it's like demolition derby or sort of like uh football on wheels yeah and it's played on a basketball court and wheelchairs as well you've got almost like a volleyball as well and you kind of score tries by getting it over the end of the court. Yep, so the objective of the sport is

take the ball across the halfway line in 12 seconds and just try and get to the other side of the court scoring the goal but in between those goals you need to get past at least four or five players so just smack your way through and try and get through as many as you can.

Barney certainly smacks his way through, that's for sure. They call it Murderball, don't they? That's the affectionate nickname for the sport. So originally it was called Murderball back in the 1980s, but then they were like, oh, we needed to get sponsors, so they just changed the name to Wheelchair Rack. There's a bit of a branding issue with Murderball. I can see the problems with the sponsors not wanting to be attached.

Now, Barney, you've had a really interesting journey heading to these games, because you weren't in the team. You had said no. Yes, yes. I removed my name from the team in 2019, because I had to focus on other things. So the team got named back in 2020 and the team was secured. And then ever since Cameron Leslie pulled out because of his new baby arrival, they were like, oh, well, I'm sorry.

I don't care if there's a contract. We want to just put you on anyway. So you had no choice. No, they made it clear. If you didn't go, the team's not going. Oh, and you're like, don't do this to me. But it must be, because you played for the Wheelblacks for quite a few years, but you've never been to the Paralympics, is that right?

No, so this is the first time the Wheelblacks actually qualified for Paralympics. The last Paralympics they went to was 2008. They missed out on 2012. So I was part of the team that missed out on the qualification for 2012, and they missed out on 2016 as well. One thing I found really interesting about the rules of the game is that on the court at any one time, there's like a point system, isn't there, as to what players you can have have up to eight players, eight points. So the points range from the level of function that that player has. So the points go from 0.5 to 3.5, 3.5 being the highest ranked player, so the person with the most function, to 0.5 being the person with the lower function.

So the guys with the lower function normally have the longer chest, they do all the blocking. And the guys that have midpoint function and highpoint function normally do all the smashing and all the psychotic things you see on court. Because there's a lot of tactics behind that for the coach. Oh, yeah, absolutely. You can't really have the points on the court

can't exceed eight, so you can only have maybe two high pointers, two low pointers. What points are you when you play? I'm a 3-5. I'm the highest in the rank, so that's why you see me being a big psycho on court.

He's got to make an impact. And so who is the big opponent? Who are we against ahead of these games? I think they're all big opponents, but I think the US because they've got depth. And most of their guys are all ex-militants. Oh, really?

Of course. Ex-military. Bombing survivors, all of these. We've got amputees. We had a few guys that went over a few IEDs. So tough bastards out there. What first drew you into wheelchair rugby? What got you into it?

I'm sick, man. Straight up. My first training, I remember my first training, they didn't hold back. Yeah. They were like, oh, this guy's Samoan, he can take it. And I literally, after my first training, I couldn't even feel my back. So it is like we have been fortunate enough to come out,

and you guys have been awesome. We got to train with you, got to experience it for a TV show that's coming up on TVNZ. But, jeez, I mean, full respect for what you guys do out there. As John has said before, you just come out of nowhere, you know, and bang, smashing into the chairs. It's a fun sport, but it's also a sport you've... It's terrifying.

It's terrifying to watch, but it's fun to play. It's not that... It's like when the adrenaline's running, you can't really feel the metal hitting your face. I know you, Barney. I've felt the wrath of Barney. Nice to hear from you, mate. And we're so proud to see you.

I saw you on the news the other night. Yeah, we're getting called into into the team so it was awesome. It was such a cool moment. Oh God, I do not want to watch that again. Hey, thanks Barney. Thank you man. There you go Barney from the Wheelblacks. Playing today, the USA. As he said in the interview, one of the top teams so good luck to the Wheelblacks

and all our competitors in action at the Paralympics. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz Alright, time now for Producer, it is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Spy. The What's Up. Spy.co.nz. All right, time now for Producer Juliet to take the reins. She's more sneaky than an infectious strain of COVID-19, and that's how she gets all the dirt for these stories. What's happening?

So some sad news in this morning. Charlie Watts, the drummer for the Rolling Stones, has passed away at age 80. He passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier, well, overnight, surrounded by his family. So probably in quite a peaceful place with some peaceful family members, I guess you could say. The best way you'd probably want to be surrounded by.

But tributes have come in from The Beatles, Sir Elton John. He did have throat cancer in 2004, but there hasn't been any word on whether that was related. But he was 80 years old. And I think it was announced that he wasn't going to be touring with the Stones in 2021 because of an undefined health issue. It's amazing those guys. I'm really, really sad that he's no longer with us. But it's amazing that they were just touring until recently.

I know. You know? Crazy. For so many years they've been doing it. A were just touring, you know, until recently. I know. You know? Crazy. For so many years they've been doing it. A legendary rock band, you know, touring all over the world. They could have, you know, stopped 50 years ago probably with, you know, set themselves up. They would have had the Kiwi Saver all paid up. But, you know, like.

They could have their super gold card. It's amazing, you know. It's just such a legendary band. It's a very sad news this morning. It is sad. I tell you what, Keith Richards, he's remarkable. Keith Richards, he's remarkable. Keith Richards, remember Keith Richards was and they played in New Zealand

and then he flew to Fiji and he had an accident climbing a coconut tree. Did he fall off the tree or something? Yeah, he hit his head like very serious brain injury. So he's flown back to New Zealand and a friend of mine, part of his business was like

his guy he works with was a brain surgeon. Anyway he became, Keith Richards became very good friends with this Kiwi brain surgeon and he would fly him to Rolling Stones shows around the world him and his family.

Put them up, give them a backstage you know, just hang out with them. They became very good friends. Wow. That's a cool story. My claim to fame with the Rolling Stones is that my brother's girlfriend was invited to Mick Jagger's son's wedding.

Hang on. So your brother's girlfriend was invited to the son of Mick Jagger, his wedding. Okay. What's his name? Is that Lucas? I think, I don't know.

I don't know much about the situation. Just Mick Jagger's son? I had to quickly message my family WhatsApp trying to get the story. So how did Mick's girlfriend get invited to the wedding? But no reply because it's 6.51 in the morning. And so I think Nicole, Mick's girlfriend, had a plus one opportunity, but my brother's like, oh, COVID, like, I don't want to go. Oh, this is quite recent.

Yeah. Oh, you never want to go to a wedding of someone you don't know. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You could be dancing with Mick Jagger on the dance floor. See what his moves were actually like in real life. Yeah. Wow. That would be cool.

I'm like, Nick, you're making a mistake. You should really go to this wedding. You don't know who you could rub shoulders with. No, Ben, you said you didn't want to go to a wedding Amanda was going to You didn't know anyone But Mick Jagger wasn't there No, I didn't know if Mick Jagger was there Me and Mick, I think we'd have a great night He was great at a wedding

He was great at a wedding I punished him for 45 minutes And talked about all sorts of stuff And that is Spy For more you can head to thehits.co.nz I punished him for 45 minutes and talked about all sorts of stuff. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. From a socially distantly safe two metres, stay away. This is New Zealand's Breakfast with Jono and Ben.

Hey, this week on the show, it's a big week because we've guaranteed $5,000 in our games. Five words for 5K, not five words at 7.45. That's the time we play it. And to explain more and better... We're getting a lovely insight into the thought process and patterns of Benjamin Boyce here. Anyway, there's a trailer

that explains it a lot better than I can. Aotearoa. It's been a long time since our last lockdown. New Zealand will move to alert level four. It's also been a long time since we've unlocked

some five words cash. Well this week the endless disappointment stops as Jono and Ben enter alert level winning. Someone call Chris Hipkins and tell him that legs aren't the only thing spreading this week. For people to get outside and to spread their legs. Man it's like... We're also spreading our wallets wide open. That's right. This week is a five words for $5,000 must win week. Lockdown in the soundproof booth. Until the cash is eradicated. And if winning a cluster of free cash isn't your thing,

we're sorry to burst your bubble. And just like lockdown, it's all this week. And depending on how we go, we'll maybe still in the booth next week, possibly the following week, and the one after that. Maybe after that. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben Got me in love

On the hits Kia ora, good morning It is the hits Jono and Ben And now 7.45 this morning Your chance to get a hold of Well, $5,000 With our Wii game we play each morning

It's got to be won this week So if it's not won by Friday That's what we're doing We're just playing it over and over again Until it is It's been so long since we've won And our dead, lifeless bodies Are just laying in a desert, aren't they? And the hawks are circling.

But this week, those hawks will have to wait a bit longer to nibble on Ben's bony carcass because we're giving away the cash. I don't know what that weird analogy was. That was good. I liked that. As well as that, we're rewarding an ISA legend. If you know someone who's doing amazing work for New Zealand right now, it's just so many people doing so many selfless things, helping our community, help the country keep running.

Then you can nominate them at the hitstockcode.nz. And thanks to Chemist Warehouse, we've got a $250 voucher to reward someone before the end of the show. Names and professions, because people like it when you single out professions. Oh, no, because I started doing that, and then everyone goes, Who do you want to thank, Ben? No, because... He wants to thank the nurses, the doctors.

Yes, there was doctors, nurses, supermarket workers, taxi drivers, courier drivers, and people were like, what about the dairy farmers? You're like, yes, great. What about the taxi drivers? You're like, yeah. What about the vets? Yes, the vets. I mean, there are so many people that are doing such amazing things. And I'd like you to name them all. Oh, don't make me name them all.

Just say there is so many people and we can't name them all. But you've already got yourself in a hole because you've named some professions now. You got me in that hole. You got me in that hole. So that's happening right before the end of the show. It is the hits.

You got Jono and Ben. Going hard and ooley. Go hard, go ooley. Go hard and ooley. Hard and ooley. Go hard. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

Now I was talking on the show about how I find it a bit overwhelming when you're having Zoom meetings with too many people, or FaceTimes or House Party, whatever it is, during this lockdown. It feels like there's more than just sort of four people. It just gets a bit overwhelming. I don't know who to talk to. I don't know if it's smiling. It's like that time I went on seven days, and I just sat there

and I just smiled politely for an hour. And I was like, oh, this is enjoyable. They're all making great jokes. That is such a Ben Boyce thing. Do I go in here, like, waiting for a busy intersection? Do I go, oh, no, I'll just wait. Oh, that's a really funny line from Paul Ego. Oh, there's another funny line over there.

You know, I just looked like I was having a great time. You just look like an audience member. But not contributing much. Yeah. Is he going to say anything, that guy? Just smiling, enjoying myself. It usually looks like he's having a great time. You just look like an audience member. But not contributing much. Is he going to say anything there, Guy? Just smiling, enjoying myself. It usually looks like he's having a fun time. I haven't been invited back since, probably with good reason.

Well, they paid you to just sit there and smile. I had a great time, but I probably said, like, two things. But it's the same sort of thing on Zoom. There's too many people which just overwhelms me. Have you got the audio of our giant Zoom party we had the other night, Drew? We'll try and find that.

We had a hits party on Friday night, and it was too much for Ben. He turned up 45 minutes late for the Friday night drinks, and then he was gone within two minutes. Yeah, well, it was a three-step process. I muted myself, and then I turned off the video, and then I slowly faded out. I've been just left around. As soon as it just goes black with Ben Boyce on the screen,

you can tell he's checked out. I mean, there was a lot going on. Yeah, this is it. This is the same thing. It's just people talking over each other. And then if they weren't, it was just awkward silence. Then someone would go, oh, no, you go. You go.

Too much. Too much for me. It was a wonderful three-step departure from Boy so what i've been uh doing and i was telling you guys about this after the show yesterday but when people that when groups of mates want to catch up on on you know zoom on house party whatever it is i've now come prepared and my wife and i we like we host like a little almost like a little game show with uh with questions we're doing like an emoji just like a casual catch-up? Yeah, we're like, okay, welcome to the game. Everyone's like, what?

I thought this was just... When things get awkward, we're like, hey, guys, here's a question. You know, it gives you something to do to keep the momentum going. You come with content. I come with questions. Zoom conversation. We were doing an emoji game the other day. We were doing some questions from quizzes, you know,

so it's been great. Husband and wife game show. Well, I love it. Usually the husband and wife game show is who's going to do the dishes who's doing the dishes tonight it's basically family feud yeah so we've been doing that and so there's a little tip for people we just want to say right now there's a little tip right there if you're if you're a little bit awkward like me you can maybe try host your own little game show they're not great game shows but you can host a little game show yeah right give something it gives focus to the conversation yeah yeah i see it when you need it now you didn't know this

but uh we really like this idea of the husband wife game show and that's why we've gone to the lengths to get the wonderful alex jordan you know the last lady who goes the hits yeah to do this we are going to play Ben and Amanda's game show It's not ready for radio It's not broadcast quality I don't care Do you care, Juliet? Neither, no

The husband and wife game The very first husband and wife I mean, husband and wives have tried to do it in the radio game for years Polly and Grant JJ and Dom Didn't they end well? Now it's Ben and Amanda. Let's hope it doesn't have the same fate

for their relationship. Are we doing... I don't know if we're ready. Are we ready for this? We're ready for this. I'm ready for this too. I'm ready. So I'll wait under the hits

if you want to play Ben and Amanda's game show, quiz show. I don't even know what the formatics are, so you're going to have to... Okay, I have got some board games that... Okay. Okay. Are you prepared for this? No, clearly not. But all right, we'll see how this goes next.

We've got prizes, Behumps. Yep, we're going to give away some prizes. Oh, Hell Pizza, apparently. Hell Pizza vouchers to give away when we're back to level three. 0800 the hits. Ben and Amanda's game show. I'm as excited as the next person to hear how this plays out It is The Hits, you've got Jono and Ben

I'm not really sure what we're doing right now But you want us to be hosting Me and my wife and I to host a game show The world's first husband and wife game show Because Ben's mentioned that on his Zoom calls Him and Amanda, his wife, a lovely wife They like to come I imagine it's less Amanda, lovely wife they like to come uh well

it's what i imagine it's less amanda more you you like to come prepared to the conversation you just don't want meandering chit chat and awkward silence so he runs an online game show uh and no one's asked for it no no do people feel bullied into participating like midway through playing at the other night with the friends i was like am i is this going on too long you know you start questioning you're like oh let's not invite the other night with the friends, I was like, is this going on too long? You know, you start questioning, you're like, oh, let's not invite the voices on the next house party call. They did a game show. Wasn't that weird?

For 90 minutes. Oh, yeah, all the friends kept dropping off, going, oh, you really need to go. You've got places to be. The voice is, there's no prizes. We're not paying for anything. So why are we doing this? But anyway, we did it.

Anyway, we've woken your lovely wife amanda up during uh during the song amanda morena morena great to have you how are you we're doing all right um now um i don't know if you're prepared this because i'm clearly not we're going to be doing this on the radio a game show okay that's fun i love this game i love it i love it amanda loves it now i don't know i haven't heard it i don't know how the game works how the format is so it's over to you we've got the introduction okay i'll step back and you can bring in Grace. The Hits presents Ben and Amanda's Quiz. Kia ora, welcome along. This is our game show.

How are you doing today, Amanda? Hi, good morning. Good, good. Yeah, good chat, good chat. Wonderful free-flowing banter. Now joining us today is contestant Grace. How are you, Grace? Good, good chat. Wonderful free-flowing banter. Now joining us today is contestant Grace. How are you, Grace? Good, thank you. Good, good.

Up to much today, Grace? Thank you, Parvin. Nothing? All right, let's get into the first round. Now, Amanda, have you got any quiz questions? Did you manage to find any while that song was playing? Yeah, only a couple, but yeah. Okay, which ones do you want to go with? Do you manage to find any while that song was playing? Yeah, only a couple, but yeah. Okay.

Which one do you want to go with? Do you want to go with the blue? Is the blue card? You could have done this. Oh, my God. Sorry, we don't know about it. Yep. Got one of the blue cards?

Yeah, the blue one. Yeah, John, ask a question to Grace. Okay. I hope you remember. You usually edit this bit out. Hi, Grace. Can you tell me? Emma Watson was Belle in Beauty and the Beast,

but which character originally made her famous? Oh, good question, good question. Can you say that again? Okay. Emma Watson was Belle in Beauty and the Beast, but which character originally made her famous? Emma Watson. Emma Watson. Emma Watson.

Yeah. I would even accept what movie franchise made her famous. A wizarding movie franchise. The Wand? I have no idea. Gary Slaughter. He was a young... Okay, well, Grace, the first round not going as well as we'd hoped.

But that's okay. There's still a chance to pull it back in the second round. This is kind of going as well as I imagined. Amanda, have you got any of the... I think there's that game, there's that five-second rule game. Is that... It should be on the table. Oh, man.

Okay, this is one you need to name. I think it's three things in five seconds. Okay, Grace? I'll tell her. Okay. Okay, you go. Sorry. Now the husband and wife are bickering.

Okay, you go. All right. Name three things. I'll tap out of it. That's fine. That's fine. You go. You guys go ahead.

That's fine. Oh, God, it's just like home. Name three things, Grace, beginning with the letter C. Caramel, condensed milk and coffee. Oh, yes. Nice work. You go through the five-second rule round and let's end it there. She gets extra points because they're all in the kitchen.

That's cool. Does she win, Amanda? Absolutely. Yeah. Does she win, Amanda? Absolutely. Absolutely. Give it to Amanda. Grace, you've won some hell pizza, and you've also won the real prize of getting off this game show. Have a great day today, Grace.

What are you doing today? Supermarket. Oh, lucky you. Getting out and about. Usually the supermarket visits the burden on anyone's week, but now it's the high point of any social occasion, socially distanced occasion. Definitely.

All right, enjoy that. Thanks very much for playing, Amanda. We'll catch you. I'll catch you tonight. Tonight? He should be home by midday. This afternoon. What are you doing in the afternoon?

Where are you going? Yeah. What are you doing? I've got a lot of game shows to host around town, Dave. What are you doing in the afternoon? Where are you going? What are you doing? I've got a lot of game shows to host around town, guys. Alright, that's enough of that. It is the Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on

the Hits. You're on the Hits. Jono and Ben, on your Wednesday morning. Now, a lot of people are navigating lockdown with homeschool at the moment, and you've chucked in music lessons into your household as well. Yeah. Not that you're taking them, right?

I have no musical ability whatsoever, but for some reason I've made my kids try and learn musical instruments. It's good for them to do. I really wish I had done that a lot more at that age. You just don't feel like you can pick it up as an adult. You just don't. I don't know why it's harder to learn stuff as an adult i think you can't practice you just gotta put you know like i said when i tried to learn that rubik's cube for the tv show we got coming out i was like oh this is tough you know you know because you're just not used to that sort of digging in each

day and doing it you're doing todayo classes every wednesday night as well exactly what are you trying to do get better as a person You mean to slowly fade out a lot? It's quite good. I'm just going to whittle away into nothing. That's my plan. That's my five-year plan. You still could learn to instrument. I probably could.

You're right. There's no excuse not to, really. It's quite good for your brain. Particularly during a pandemic. You've got lots of time on your hands. But no, I'm really, really enjoying hanging out with the kids in the afternoon. Oscar has documented his foray into the world of sax. So I'm living with a beginner Kenny G, basically.

And I played you his first time he played the saxophone. A little ropey, but now I tell you what, just a couple of months later, what have we got here? Uh-oh, it's a shark attack it's coming to get you yeah it's a great instrument when it's played well isn't it this is well yeah yeah yeah i can imagine you've had a lot of months where it hasn't been played as well. There's a few testing weeks. That's the journey of learning the sax bend. It's like just a giant saliva pipe, isn't it, the saxophone?

Like I tip it on its side, it's about four litres of... Yeah, one of my daughters is learning the piano and as I say, we got given a piano. Someone was giving it away for free, and we were like, who would give away a free piano? It still works. And now because it sits in our lounge, I'm like, I know why they gave that away for free.

The cat jumps on it. The kids come around and play it. I can see why they gave that piano away for free. Well played, people. Well played. Well played. Next, we are rewarding people during these times. The IsoLegends. It's a play on

the word isolation. Yeah, which we're not using as much these days, are we? No, we're not. So IsoLegend kind of just sounds like a random combination of two words. But anyway, if you'd like to nominate someone who's working on the front line, they're out there doing it for Aotearoa, for the team of 5 mil, head to thehits.co.nz

and they can win a $250 Chemist Warehouse voucher. We'll do that next. It is the hits. Oh, legends. You guys are legends. Oh, you're legends. It's Jono and Ben's ISO Legends. Thanks to Chemist Warehouse.

You're a legend. Chemist Warehouse are an essential service. It's open early, closes late each night. You can visit them in-store and online at chemistwarehouse.co.nz. And thanks to them, we're paying tribute to some people, some hardworking New Zealanders that are keeping our country going at the moment, rewarding them with a $250 chemist warehouse voucher. You know, these are people who are giving back to the community

from two people who have just embarrassed the community over the years. But yeah, it's like our version of the Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the Year, isn't it? It is. Except with a chemist. This is ours. But the problem is, you know, we're trying to do good. Even when we're just trying to do something nice, Ben, we also, we do wrong. Unintentionally.

Yeah, people are nominating people that they believe should be, you know, sorry, should be Isla Legends. And this morning we tried to call the person today who was nominated. Now, Producer Juliet was a slight wrong number. Yes. Yeah, that was written down. Yes. So there's a bit of miscommunications.

Now, this is, bearing in mind, this is very early in the morning. This is just after 6 o'clock because we record these because, you know, these people are working so they don't answer their phone. There might have been a misdial here, but have a listen. Hello? Hello? Hello? Oh, this is an early call.

Sorry, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. No. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. I'm so sorry to wake you up Please tell us we have Julia Murray I'm nobler than a cat bee Oh, we've woken you up, sorry We've got completely the wrong number That's okay

Oh, apologies Make sure you tune into the hits I will, I will, okay Sorry, sorry, oh god, that's awkward That's a 6am-er. That is brutal. Great marketing for the show, though. Tune into that.

They'll think it's a dream and they'll subliminally be told that they've told you to listen to the hits. Sorry, sorry about that. Maybe we should do that more often. That was an honest mistake. So we're going to make the call. Well, we made the call to the right person, today's ISO legend. Julia. Hello? We made the call to the right person, today's ISO legend, Julia.

Hello? Hello, is that Julia? Yes, it is. Hey, Julia, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, hello, how are you? Is this Julia Murray, support gear worker? Yes, I am. We've been just reading some wonderful things. You've been nominated by your sister, Angela, for doing,

we're basically doing an ISO legend each day. People are doing amazing work for New Zealand right now. And she says you're doing amazing work for not only New Zealand, but for your family as well. So we want to say firstly, thank you. What are you doing each day? Me, I'm a support worker. So I go into all the elderly homes so they don't actually have to go into rest homes and things like that.

So I can do their personal cares and their home help for them and things like that. And not only that, you're a solo mother of five. Yes. Gee whiz, just to add, you've got to shout out to the solo parents. Oh, they must keep you busy, yeah. Without even a pandemic, the solo parenting, I imagine, has its challenges, but let alone when you're put in this position and you're out working on the front line every day.

Yep, so thankfully I've got my mother here. She had an eye operation, so she was able to look after my kids. Keep one eye on them. Sometimes they drive me crazy. Oh, really? Well, we want to say thank you for everything that you're doing right now

and we want to give you a $250 Chemist Warehouse voucher to show our appreciation for being an ISO legend so you can spend that on yourself. There's fragrances, beauty products, makeup, cosmetics,

skincare. You can treat yourself online or in store at the Chemist Warehouse. Oh, wow. Thank you very much. No, well, thank you. Don't thank us. That was awesome.

You're the one who needs to be thanked. And as I always say, not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they wear crocs. Yeah, they do. Or stubbies, or track pants, or g-strings. I don't know what category. And I won't ask. It's not for me to know.

Thank you so much for everything you're doing for New Zealand, and just know it is really appreciated, but not only your family, but the rest of the country. All right, thank you very much. No worries. You're nominated by your sister, by the way. Did we tell you that? Yes.

I give her a big shout-out to my sister Angela, who's probably sleeping in. Yeah, she probably won't be hearing this right now. Yeah, have a great day, all right? Awesome. Thank you, guys. No worries. If you want to go to Chemist Warehouse, they are an essential service, open early,

closes late, right across New Zealand. For your nearest store, you can shop also online at chemistwarehouse.co.nz. 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 day on the show. If your five words that pop into your head

match with our five words that pop into one of our heads, you win $5,000. But this week, we have guaranteed five grand must be won at some stage. It is a must-win week, and come Friday, if we're still in here, our wives who are working and homeschooling will be saying it's a must-come-home

week. Yeah, we're putting our marriages on the line for this, Ben Boyce. This could end in messy, messy, messy divorces, but that's how far we're willing to go to give you money, Nick, from Christchurch. Hello. Yeah, messy divorces pending. Well, you could end

all the madness now if you win today, though. I will try my best, but actually I wouldn't mind a day by myself. How's your lockdown going, Nick, in Christ a day by myself. How's your lockdown going Nick in Christchurch? Pardon? How's your lockdown going? Yeah not too bad. Not too bad. We're

homeschooling, working from home trying to get out. We've had kind of nice weather actually so it's helped. Juggling kids. Kids aren't easy to juggle. They're heavy sometimes. So today you need to decide who you're going to send into the soundproof booth to match five words with. I'll send in Ben. All right.

Fully grown man going into a fully grown soundproof booth. Very unforgiving territory in there. And we're going to hit it off right now. The first word that comes into your head, Nick, from Christchurch. When I say left. Right. Crackers. Cheese.

Yum. Sorry, I'm hungry. During the song, Juliet's like, I'm so hungry. She didn't need to hear cheese and crackers right now. Word number three for you, Nick, is stove. Oh, um, I was going to say oven, but can I come back to that one?

Certainly, certainly. If it's any consolation, it was the first word that came into my head, the one you mentioned. Okay. Word number four is fence. Post. And school was word number five this morning. Teacher. Not bad.

Nice. You're doing well. I've matched a lot of your words. And we'll hop back to stove. Yeah, let's go with oven. And then fence. I thought neighbor or house, but post was the first one that popped in. You got it. It's always best to just go with your first thoughts.

Oh, okay, yeah. Because he's going to go with his first thoughts. Yeah. Yeah. Are you happy, Nick? Um, yeah, I think so. We'll see how we go. All right, let's bring Ben Boyce out of the soundproof booth How was it in there mate? It's nice

Tell you what that soundproof booth is unforgiving I saw it once eat a fully grown man He said it wasn't soundproof And he dealt with those consequences Alright today's the day guys We're going to do this It's a must win week for five words For $5,000

Nick what would you spend the money on? Probably We're going to do this. Let's knock this on the head. It's a must-win week for five words for $5,000. Nick, what would you spend the money on? Probably treating ourselves to something when we get out of this. Not quite sure what, but yeah. Go and, yeah, splurge, I think. All right, a vague splurge is on the horizon for Nick. Do you want me to think about these or just go fast and see what pops into my head? Hard and early. Let's go Jacinda on it. Here we go.

And spread your legs at the same time. Do both. First word, left. Right. Crackers. Cheese. Stove. Oven. Nick, this is going well.

This is good. This is good. Go fast. This is good. Do it, Ben. Fence. Gate. Oh, sorry.

Yeah, that was a good one. That was good. Nick, you tell Ben what you went, mate. I wasn't playing him. I went post. Fence, post. Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one.

That's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good one. that was a good one. That was good. Nick, you tell Ben what you went, mate. I wasn't playing him. I went post. Post? It makes sense. It does make a lot of sense.

Both make sense. Don't be saying yours doesn't make any less sense, okay? You made sense too, Ben. The fifth word was school. Teacher. What a monster I'm so sorry We were so close

Damn it Well at least you can sit At home and fester in the feeling That you got 4 out of 5 So sorry You don't get any closer Alright Nick we really do appreciate you listening to the show Oh, I'm so sorry. You don't get any closer. All right.

Nick, we really do appreciate you listening to the show. You stay safe in lockdown. Look after the kids. Look after you. I don't know what else you're looking after, but do it. Okay? All good. Thank you, guys.

See you, John. I'm Ben. That was close. Another day at home with the kids. Little tip, it's called parenting, not babysitting. John O'Ban. New Zealand's breakfast. Just telling you guys off here how it always makes me laugh when I hear Jack Johnson because I was in a few years ago I was in Fiji with my wife

Amanda and we were on holiday. In better times. When you could travel and we saw someone famous and was like oh my god Amanda's like oh my god this is cool and it was like oh yeah we saw someone famous and was like, oh, my God, oh, my God. Amanda's like, oh, my God, this is cool. And it was like, oh, yeah, we should go up and get a photo. Yeah, sweet. And so I was like, hey, man, can my wife get a photo with you? And he said, yeah, well, good.

And she's like, I love you. You're so good. Jack Johnson. And he's like, no, no, Kelly Slater. And the whole way through, man, everything, it was Jack Johnson. I mean, a surfy Californian type guy. Yeah. And someone who was popular and famous.

I just thought going up there, I was like, oh, she obviously knows who it is. There's some similarities. Yeah. Vague similarities. And at the moment, I totally understand. Yeah. And how did Kelly take it? Well, for me, the first time he's ever been confused for Jack Johnson.

I think he was like, he's pretty cool too or something. You know, like it was pretty like. He saved it. Yeah, he saved it. And so did she have to go, did she go through with a pity photo or did she walk away and go. She had the photo.

It was the awkward banter afterwards that we made more awkward. Spy, the what's up spy.co.nz. Oh, I love that story. All right, time now for Juliet. She's had to socially distance herself from every celebrity in the world because her professionalism to this role

won't allow friendships with famous people. I wish it did because then I could give some real scoop. I could find out if Kylie Jenner was actually pregnant if I was friends with her. Yeah, you've bruised the lines though. You want some distance. What's been happening? So Lorde has taken over the Late Late Show with James Corden.

So James Corden's show has been on a bit of a summer break since the 1st of July and they've just returned and they did a little bit of a skit announcing Lorde taking over. It's the first week back from the long break which means there's going to be

a lot of eyes on the show. Right. And it means I may have already booked Lorde to host the show all week. Stay tuned this week for all new episodes of The Lorde Lorde Show, hosted by America's newest face in late night, Lorde, featuring musical guest Lorde, 12.37am, right here on CBS.

So she's doing daily performances, daily appearances this week on the Late Late Show with James Cullen. Does this show start at 12.37am? Looks like it. Does it? I knew they were late, but 12.37am? That's late, late. 12.37am. I still don't know why. In a very specific time.

For that hour? I think they get replays the next day and obviously clips go crazy online. That's the win for them, isn't it? It's awesome though. She did Solar Power on the first night. Really awesome performance of that. They had all sand in the studio and stuff, which would have been to get rid of that afterwards.

Oh, logistical nightmare. Oh, yeah, true. And it looks great, but afterwards, you're like, how do I get rid of all this? In no way comparing us to Corden, but when we did a show, one of the biggest nightmares we had was a wonderful actor, Kiwi actor, Manu Bennett.

Oh, yeah. We had him on the show. And the afternoon, this is two hours before the show's about to start, he's like, I want to arrive on a white horse. And so we were like, what? He's like a fully grown white horse. Right. And it was a wonderful way to enter.

Don't get me wrong. It was. It looked awesome. So we got a horse that was trained. I think I know where this is going. No, it was well trained and it was, you know. And it came into the show. But have you ever tried to organise a white horse?

No. In three hours? No. It worked beautifully, didn't it? It did. It actually did. It worked really well. Yeah, like the horse was.

I was hoping for a comedy poop. Yeah. Oh, that's what I was expecting. I was wondering where this story was going to go. The horse was so well trained. Very well behaved horse. Wow. I did a comedy poop though, just to make up for it.

The horse was well trained. No, it wasn't. And though, just to make up for it. The horse was well trained, I wasn't. And that is a quick spy update for you. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning. It's just gone eight o'clock.

You're with Jono and Ben on the hits. We are day seven of nationwide lockdown. Cases unfortunately continue to grow, but hopefully we're reaching our peak. Now, Jacinda Ardern, she had, you remember the other day, a few days ago, she was like, she found out where the case, the original case, the genome sequencing had come from? Yeah, and it was a wonderful dig at Australia. Have a listen. The second thing it tells us is that it has linked

the current genome sequencing of cases in the New South Wales outbreak. Our case has originated in Australia. Oh, just, and she's like, I'm not angry, I'm disappointed. And then Scott Morrison, Australian Prime Minister. Has he clapped back? Well, not in regards to this, but he's had a crack at New Zealand's strategy to eliminate COVID. Have a listen.

Any state and territory that thinks that somehow they can protect themselves from COVID with the Delta strain forever, that's just absurd. I mean, New Zealand can't do that. They were following an elimination strategy. They're in lockdown. Now, it's like that movie in The Croods. People wanted to stay in the cave. Some wanted to stay in the cave. And that young girl, she wanted to go out and live again and deal with the challenges of living in a different world well covet is a new different world and we need to get out there and live in it we can't stay in the cave and we can get out of it safely that's what the plan does well there you go lovely reference to the plot the plot line of crudes as well i would have thought a prime minister of the country was like it's like that movie the crudes you're like the the movie with the cape okay yeah that's

it what were you someone to stay in the cave. Others want to go and explore the new world like that girl. Oh, my God. It's like a Cartoon Dreamworks animation movie. I didn't realise that. Yeah, it's like... It's a wonderful family movie. It's just an odd movie for a leader of a country to reference in an argument.

You guys watched The Croods? You guys seen The Croods? Oh, Croods once. They got a sequel as well. She grows even deeper into more of a wonderful lady. Yeah, The Croods. You've got to check out the croods guys so there you go coffee breath jono and ben the hits it is the hits 8 31 jono and ben uh now it's quite hard well it shouldn't be quite hard to do exercise at the moment but sometimes people are lacking in our motivation so there's something that's circulating around

on social media, which I thought was pretty good. I'm not sure who originally started it, but it's a little workout you could do based on the 1 p.m. daily presser. So every time you hear the phrase, you do exercises. So like Team of 5 Million, you do four press-ups. When someone says location of interest, five star jumps. Crown Plaza, get a test, wastewater.

These are all… Jet Park park hotel do some burpees contact tracing a journalist talks over another journalist to change a speaker that's a great great little thing you can do while watching the one pre-impressor and get your exercise up as well you could also replace the exercise with chips yeah you know have a chip every time this stuff you could depending on where you're at in your life. Yeah. And how you're mentally feeling. What stage of the lockdown you're at. That is our show, though. We're back tomorrow. Remember, it's a must-win five-words week this week.

That's right, it is. And as we always say, Aotearoa, stay safe. Oh, hang on. You've gone too early. Have I gone too early? When shall I go? Go now. Okay, stay safe, stay sanitised, and don't forget to spread your legs.

That was pretty much perfect. He had a little longer. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh.