Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Broke Into His Own House At 4am

Episode Date: March 30, 2022

That's what happens to you when you sleep in the garage! (Although, he kinda has to). We also gave Lisa and Colin a trip to Auckland because Colin had never been on a plane and Lisa has never stayed in a hotel before! It was so wholesome. Finally, Ben pocked dialled an old colleague for 38 minutes yesterday. Awkies. Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, this is the podcast, it's the 31st of March, Jono and Ben here, communicating via the wonderful platform of Zoom, which I think we've given a big shout out to before, but you know, we're getting this for free. Zoom is just a piece of technology that we've taken for granted over the last couple of years. Well, I imagine this is going past the 40 minute free limit, right? Oh, so Zoom, yeah,

okay, well then, buy my plug-in Zoom, we're paying for it. Yeah, wonderful. You had to do it, we were having a meeting the other day, we were on Zoom, and didn't you have to pay for extra? Upgrade your credit? It was a meeting and it was blowing over

my free 40-minute limit, and I had sent out the invite, and it was getting to, you know, minute 37, 38, and it was like, if you want this meeting to continue on, you need to upgrade to premium. I can see John O trying to wrap it up too. All right, guys, well, that's good. We'll stick a fork in that. We're done.

We'll come back to that. I started my wrap-ups at the, you know, 10-minute-to-go period, so we had a bit of lead-in time to goodbyes and whatnot. But no, no, it was reaching a pivotal point in the meeting, so I was like, okay, so I was trying to still pay attention to the camera but at the same time putting in my credit card details to Zoom. And now, I've never had a Zoom meeting since going over that 40-minute limit, but I'm running Zoom Premium.

So if anyone wants to have a meeting with me, we can talk about stuff for 45 minutes, 47 minutes, however many minutes you like. You can actually, I mean, it depends on the people you're Zooming with and how much of an inconvenience they may find it. But if you've got a free Zoom and you've got a Zoom link and it goes to the 40-minute period, the call can end and then you all just rejoin with the exact same link and it will start the 40 minutes from the beginning. So you don't actually have to worry about that. But it obviously depends how professional the setting was because you might not be like, hey, guys, can you just click the link again? Yeah.

You know? I wasn't – our relationship with the people on the meeting, you wouldn't say it was a let's end this and rejoin, was it, Ben? That would be like you're tired of us, have you not got Zoom premium? Yeah, it would have been a bit like that, you know, it was a proposal type meeting, you're like, oh, okay, hey guys,

sorry to interrupt, hey, can we all just log off and just rejoin the other, thanks. We would have lost the room, it was a big pitch we were trying to do. Turning up to do a PowerPoint and go, can I just get off your phone? Can I just get your hotspot or something just to use the PowerPoint?

Is that okay? That's your COVID. I feel like I'm on the other side of COVID right now. My seven days drawing towards an end, but you sound like you're sort of midway through your journey. I'm two days behind you in the race, so how are you feeling on Tuesday is where I'm at now. Very congested.

Yeah. Sleeping like an absolute champion though, are you? No, I'm actually not sleeping that amazingly well. Do you sleep during the day? No, I haven't been. I feel tired though. I'm trying to rest and stuff, but yeah. I imagine you. I fell asleep, yeah.

You're probably sleeping the whole time. Oh, yeah. I fell asleep at like on the first day. I fell asleep at like midday. Didn't wake up until 6pm. No, and then I got up, had dinner, and fell back asleep at about 7.30. This is you in the retirement

home. This is Jono in 40-odd years. He's in the retirement home. This is Jono in 40 odd years. He's in the retirement home. This is what he's doing. This is your schedule. The only thing keeping me awake is this job. Otherwise, I would just be spending every moment of my day asleep. Wake up, do some bodily stuff, go back to bed. Yeah, and it's a pleasure to be able to just lie in sleep, you know, when you want.

Ben, you should be enjoying this. You're never going to get these seven days back. Well, I have been trying to, you know, particularly when I wasn't feeling very good, I was trying to rest as much as possible, you know, but yeah. Now, Juliet, how are you going pretending that you don't have COVID? My pretending is really good right now. No, just kidding. I am good I think

I've kind of figured out Like if Jono you caught it off Ben It took about three days For it to kick in for you So if I've caught it off you Jono It'll kick in probably today And I'm just hoping that it doesn't

Well there's been a couple of cheeky little sneezes I know And a slight sniffly nose as well Well, there's been a couple of cheeky little sneezes. I know. You can see that through the Zoom. And a slight sniffly nose as well. I hope you don't have it because it's your last day tomorrow. And we've mentioned it too, but I'm really sorry that we can't actually pick this for your last day. I know. No, I know.

It's okay. Yes, no, it is sad. It is sad. But do you know what would be so weird? Just like being like, bye, guys, and just hanging up the Zoom call. In the Zoom, yeah. Oh, well, I guess we're done with her in our life. It's so sad.

If you want a longer Zoom, though, Jono's got it. He can go past the 40 minutes, though, so you don't have to end. Yeah, we can just keep Zooming all day long. Well, you know, we'll say goodbye properly to tomorrow to Julius. And you enjoyed the podcast today. It was a fun show today. Oh, we gave away, because we're doing this bucket list thing where we're trying to knock off some stuff off our bucket list,

but also your bucket list dreams as well, to a lovely couple. Never been on a plane, and we transpired, found out never been in a hotel. Yeah. Yeah, that was a really lovely moment today on the podcast. Enjoy. The hits. How are you doing this morning, Jon it was a really lovely moment today on the podcast. Enjoy. The Hits. How are you doing this morning, Jono? Of course, we are broadcasting from home.

Both of us have COVID. Yeah, still living in the garage here at the house and just taking so much Panadol. Like, I think I've taken more pills than a granddad in a retirement village. Oh, really? Do you take a lot of Panadol? Not too much, to be honest. Should I be taking a lot of Panadol? Not too much, to be honest. Should I be taking a lot of Panadol?

Well, definitely not as much as you. I have heard about a lot of people having to, you know, to have a few Panadols along the way. Yeah. It's just pills, just like anything. Heart medication, you know, anti-inflammatory pills, antidepressants, everything. I've got them all, Ben,

and I'm feeling like a million dollars at the moment. No, but how are you feeling? You're two days ahead of me. Yeah, I think I'm over the worst of it. I think I'm over the hump. But yourself, you feel like you're still in the trenches. I'm at the congestion stage at the moment. And you just feel tired.

And then when you don't feel tired, you're like, oh, I can get up and do some stuff. Then when you get up and do some stuff, you feel tired again. You know, it's very, is that a symptom or is that just an old man? Well, yeah, but that's the thing. I think it was probably you last week before COVID, but also you with COVID at the moment. I feel like I also want to phone you and talk to you,

be in moan about the Labour government. Yeah, that might not be a symptom of COVID. I don't know. Hard to say. Something we found really interesting yesterday, eh, Juliet, was that when we do the show in the mornings, we do the show, we're also on Zoom at the same time, so we can see everyone and we can connect. And there's a Zoom that we log into. And then it was probably a good half an hour after the show,

maybe even an hour, that I had to record something. So I rang Juliet and I was like, hey, can I pop back on the Zoom? I need to record something through at work. And we popped back on the Zoom and who's still on there? You, Jono, you're still on the Zoom just by yourself, like an hour later. Ready to radio, bro. Ready to radio any time. Ready to radio anytime.

Just staring at the camera with serial murder eyes. Just lifeless. Like everyone had left the Zoom meeting. Everyone had been gone for an hour. You're just still there, just tapping away on your computer. Just like, what are you doing? Yeah, just waiting. It gets a bit lonely about two or three in the morning just sitting in front of the camera waiting.

But at any moment, if you want to start doing radio i'm here for you i think bee humsies we actually got the audio of the moment that you realized i was still on zoom he's still there john is always there are you still there still there too i've come back i came back because i need to aaron was a line recorder were you just still chilling on the zoo? I thought once you'd hung up, you'd done the heavy lifting on the hangar. You're still there. I popped back on and I was like, oh, you're still there. That's so funny.

You can stay here if you want. How do I hang up this thing? Just say leave meeting. I'm going now. Bye. Yeah, I must admit it blindsided us all because all I heard was, oh, Jono,

you're still there. And it went, you know what was running through my head? Oh dear God, what have I been doing in front of this camera for the whole time?

Are you one of these people that don't hang up at the end of a phone conversation? Yeah, it drives Jen, my wife, nuts. Really? She's like, do you think you're too good

to even hang up a phone call? That you need other people to hang up for you. But you know what, Scott? The question really begs. It remains this question. Why were you reconnecting for another Zoom meeting behind my back? Can you answer me that?

Moving on with the show. Let's wrap things up here. This is why I never leave Zoom. You've got Jono and Ben on your Thursday. Just play something, Juliet. Scrolling through your feed. Yes, this is all the latest news and information brought to you by our partners at Kate Hawkesby's early edition on Newstalk ZB.

On behalf of us, thank you for letting us listen to you, steal your topical content in the mornings and regurgitate it here. Now, overnight in Australia, 50,000 people, 50,000 people, which is incredible, gathered together at the MCG, the cricket ground in Melbourne, to pay tribute to Australian cricketing legend Shane Warne, who sadly passed away at the age of 52 in Thailand. That's a sellout for that place, isn't it? Yeah, it's huge. It was a beautiful funeral from what I've seen online.

Lovely messages from his family, former cricket players. And it was full of Hollywood A-listers and celebrities as well, which really just shows how popular and how huge Shane Warne was and loved. He was right around the world. I mean, he had messages from the likes of Kylie Minogue. Blue eyes and a big cheeky smile. Had it, had that style quality and charisma.

Chris Martin from Coldplay had a lovely message and then played a song as well. I think Chaos and Shane were good friends. And you might hear a rooster in the distance, which I'm thinking of as him. Because you were all yellow. Elton John was another one who performed as well. He was mesmerising, he was brilliant and he loved to play cricket and he loved life. There was of, Robbie Williams. And Ed Sheeran as well was another one who performed at Shane Warne's funeral.

Gee, what a star-studded line-up there. That's a great festival line-up too. Yeah, just incredible tribute to an incredible person that obviously just worldwide made such an impact on so many people. But as you say, yeah, so many amazing celebrities as well as cricketers and his family.

Yeah, can I just go back to Chris Martin's one? I don't know what his reference was to a rooster off in the distance. I think Chaos and Shane were good friends and you was to a rooster off in the distance. I think Chaos and Shane were good friends. And you might hear a rooster in the distance, which I'm thinking of as him. I think because if you're referring to someone as a rooster, they're like, oh, you bloody rooster. Yeah. You know?

I feel like Shane Warne is, yeah, he kind of has the same sort of rooster. And aren't roosters really lively, they're loud, they wake up early in the morning, they're like, oh, ready to go, you know? Yeah, yeah. The hair, you know, I always think about Shane Warne's hair, the rooster's got the thing going on the top, you know? Okay, yeah, I guess there's rooster-like qualities there. He lays eggs, does he? Oh, no, they don't lay eggs, the roosters do.

Oh, I see, no, the roosters make... Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, so there you go. A fitting tribute to a sporting legend last night in australia and uh the lovely folk at love honey now they're a manufacturer and distributor of adult products um they've um basically come up with a bit of a survey to reveal the kinkiest and sexiest locations in new zealand and this is based on uh research and data for how many um i guess adult toys are bought by the certain places around New Zealand.

And what have the lovely folk at Love Honey found, Ben? Yeah, I read that. I read that straight from the article, too. I fell into their trap. Someone else had written the lovely folk at Love Honey, and I read it word for word, and now it feels like I'm endorsing them. It felt like you had a personal connection to the lovely folk at Love Honey. No, look, I just read it from the article,

and then I was like, why did I read that out loud? But anyway. At your funeral, I'm going to go, you can hear that rooster in the background. Well, that was my Randy mate, Ben Boyce, brought to you by the lovely folk at Love Honey. I'm sure they're lovely folk at Love Honey. Now, Queenstown apparently is the sexiest and most adventurous place in New Zealand,

which I would imagine was pretty fitting, right? You think Queenstown? Yeah, well, I guess you can bungee jumping, skydiving, skiing, corner canting. Pushing boundaries and all that sort of stuff. So I guess, you know, when it comes to the bedroom. The only problem is you have to pay $250 to do it if you want any of those wonderful attractions.

Wanaka was in second place, Wellington in third, Kirikiri and Mochiwaka are rounding out the top five there for the sexiest and naughtiest towns in New Zealand. Yeah. I think I've spoken before about my one night only in Mochiwaka, which I'm still recovering from. It was about 10 years ago. I hosted a, they don't do them nowadays,

but there was a competition with T-shirts, and for some reason they were hosing them, making them wet. And I was like, this is – Oh, my goodness. Why do you keep telling this story? Anyway. It's like – yeah. This is – it wasn't my competition.

I was simply there as the host. Yeah, but you don't have to keep talking about it. Like, you know? Yeah. But the whole time I'm like, these guys are going to catch a cold because T-shirts are meant to be dry, Ben. Yes. Anyway, it went too much away. This is the second time in two little chats The whole time I was like, these guys are going to catch a cold. Because T-shirts are meant to be dry, Ben. Anyway, it went too much away.

This is the second time in two little chats I'm going to wrap you up right now. I'm just going to say it was a wild play. Where's Auckland on this list? Where's Auckland? It was not on this list, apparently. Not even in the top ten. Oh, we're so vanilla. Yeah, well, mind you, last couple of years have probably had a bit of an impact on connecting with other human beings.

That's true. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. You've got the hits, Jono and Ben. Yesterday, Jono, we always have a meeting after the show. And I was over Zoom this time, and I noticed something at the end of the meeting. I looked at my phone, and I was like, oh, goodness. I had pocket dialed someone, someone we used to work with, Alan, for 38 minutes. 38 minutes.

Are you talking about Ozzy Allen? Yes. Ozzy Allen. We haven't had Ozzy Allen here for months and months. No. How did you end up pocket dialing Ozzy Allen? I don't know. That's one of the mysteries of the pocket dial.

The phone was in my pocket, in my back pocket, and Ozzy Allen? I don't know. You know, that's one of the mysteries of the pocket dial. You know, the phone was in my pocket, in my back pocket, and obviously it's somehow. I don't know. How does your bottom or whatever manage to do this? Because it's pretty incredible. Pockets have a lot to answer for, don't they? I mean, most of the time they play a pretty useful role in our lives. But they can also wreak absolute havoc when they want.

And you know what never screwed us over in a pocket dial what's that was the humble flip phone never once never once did it double cross us with a pocket dial it was loyal and we dumped it hard we see we slapped it across the face harder than will smith chris rock just trying to get a reference in there right i see what you're doing there but yeah but but it makes you question as As soon as you do it, you're like, oh my goodness, what were we talking about? Not that we were talking about Alan at all, but you know, like, what were we talking about

in our post-show meeting? There's 38 minutes of it out there. Yeah, well, they should do like an are you sure function, shouldn't they? Because if you've dialed someone and they're like, oh, you haven't dialed Alan in a while. The phone should think that's not you. Oh, you haven't dialed Alan in a while.

And there should be a thing like, are you sure? sure question mark or even if you've just spoken to someone you've hung up and you've pocket dialed them again again are you sure you've just spoken to this person what else do you need to say this you know like a good point it's a very good idea john i i'd like to apologize uh like uh publicly to my my uh my wife's dad you know am Amanda's dad, but basically because every time that he calls, he's a pocket dialer. He's a very successful pocket dialer. And I often will go, every time he calls, oh, is this a pocket dial?

It's a little game I play. Is it a pocket dial or a real call? Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. But now I'm like, well, I apologize because I've just done the same thing for 38 minutes. This is the same father-in-law who left the voicemail and didn't know what to do. He was a little rattled

at the end of the message. Have we still got that? On this particular occasion, this wasn't a pocket dial. But have we got this audio around, Juliet? This is where he rang Amanda with a new phone. And geez, we love this audio.

It's such a great moment. You have a message received yesterday. Hi, Princess. 22-3. Hope it's a good day for you. Catch you later. What do I do now?

What have you cut it off? I haven't done anything. No. Just stopped. I'm trying to ask you, did you end the call by hitting the red button? I didn't hit anything. Right. Oh, yes.

See, it switched off again. That's good. It sounds like us. The exasperated sigh at the end. It sounds like me trying to hang up from Zoom. I just stay on Zoom. We were talking about this just 20 minutes ago. I don't know how to hang up from it,

so I just sit there and stay on it. What I love about that is the content of the message is just, hi, princess, here's the time. Here's the time. Hope you're well. But then the bulk of the message is figuring out how to hang up. And then, you know, hi, princess, hope you're well. I mean, that's a lovely thing to say, but is it worth a voicemail?

A time check and a hope you're well. So I want to feel a little bit better about my pocket dial yesterday. Have you accidentally pocket dialed anyone? Maybe it's gone wrong. Maybe there's been an instance where you've been talking about someone or something and it's been overheard on a pocket dial. I'd love to have your

calls and texts. Oh, I under the hits of 4487. We'll get to those in a few moments. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. It's Lasting Lover. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben on your Thursday morning. We're talking pocket dials this morning after I accidentally pocket dialed someone we used to work with for 38 minutes while we were having a show meeting.

Do you guys remember anything at all we talked about in the show meeting? No, it would have just been boring. It was quite difficult after the show. You stayed trying to fill today's sheet, wasn't it? It was a bit of a mission. So poor Alan probably heard, oh, God, we've got nothing at 18, 820. Oh, what can we do?

What can we do? What can we do? It's not so scandalous, really, is it? No, probably just like, it would just be wasting huge data on his phone if he stayed there listening to it, listening to the world's most arduous meeting. But yeah, we knew,

we've got some great tips coming through on 4487. My husband works with heavy machinery. He pocket dials me a lot, but every time it sounds like there's some epic battle between velociraptors and a blender or something when he butt dials. I always like it when you do get the odd pocket dial. I always try and listen in. I always try and – you stay on the line for about 30 dial i always try and listen in yeah i always try and you know you stay on the line for about 30 minutes trying to hear someone talking smack about you

that's a pretty juicy gossip all i get is the rustling of trousers you know and some muffled conversation maybe some bodily noises but are you like a hanger on there are you a 30 minute sort of listen if i'm like oh they haven't meant to call me, what's coming up? You know, it's like a... Oh, you're one of those. But then you're playing with fire here because if they pick up their phone and notice that they've been on the phone to Jono Pryor for 30 minutes

and he hasn't hung up and it's clearly a pocket dial, they'll be like, Jono was listening for 30 minutes. Why did he not just hang up? You know what I mean? Then I just go, oh! And hang up. 100 The Hits is our number, and Sue's giving us a call. Sue, good morning.

Hello, how are you? Oh, we're doing well, Sue. It's wonderful to have you on. We understand you have some content for us, which is really good, Ben, because, you know, I'm running for the content. How are you? Yeah, there's not a lot happening when you've got COVID. I'm not getting out and about, which is a good thing for the community,

but not a good thing for the radio show. Yeah, it's good that we've got people like Sue to help us through these dark times, Ben. Okay, so I was in my kitchen and I leaned against the bench and had my phone in there, and I accidentally pocket-dialed my boss. Oh. Oh.

Okay. So you don't know that you've dialed your boss, obviously. No, not at all. And what was it? Can I just ask you, what was the conversation you were having at the time? Well, I'd actually just finished a phone call with him. So I hung up and started talking to my husband

about some certain things regarding his family. Oh, okay. What do you do? Is there any way you can't... Johnny, you've talked about it before. There should be a suck-back function, right? Yeah, I think there should be, definitely.

Because the suck-back function is not great. But everyone knows you've sent that text, you've sent that email, you've sent a message, and you're like, I really need that suck-back. You know, Talkback Radio has a dump feature, don't they, where you can delay everything by 20 or 30 seconds. Imagine if we just had that tool available to us in everyday life. How many situations would be saved? Yeah.

Is this on a voicemail or is he listening in real time to you bagging his brood? I don't know because it wasn't until I grabbed my phone just to check something and it still had his name and the timer was looking over. So I just hung up really, really fast. So what is it? Is it a move country situation? Like did this happen in Australia and that's why you're here? No, I actually didn't last long after that.

I couldn't look him in the eye, so I was like, oh, okay. I think I might leave. Did the boss ever say anything? No, but he did act a little bit differently. I can imagine. I don't normally talk about people behind their backs, but that one time I definitely haven't done it again. That's all the radio industry does.

That's all we do is talk about people behind their backs on radio. Hey, Sue, you're an absolute champion. Thank you. No problem. She's preparing to shove snails and French baguettes into her mouth when she moves off to France. But before we say au revoir, Juliette, what's happening in Spy, mate?

So it has been a big week for Kiwis in the entertainment industry with obviously Jane Campion winning Best Director at the Oscars and now actress and comedian Rose Matafeo is up for a BAFTA TV award so this is slightly different from the normal BAFTAs that have already happened

this year, this is specialising in TV and she is up for Female Performance in a Comedy Series for her series Starstruck So it's the BAFTA awards really take the F out of it, and there you've got the British Academy of Television Awards. True! That's a good point.

It's incredible, though. I mean, huge congratulations to Rose. I mean, you know, she's just gone on to amazing things since leaving our show, Jono. So there you go, Juliet. You'll probably be doing the same thing. Oh my goodness. You're leaving our show tomorrow. Wow. Oh God, it's tomorrow. Oh, freaking out.

So, you know, Juliet, she's up for a BAFTA award. What would you be BAFTA-ing in? What would be your dream scenario? Okay, so you're leaving now. You're going to do your OE. Yep. What's your dream career scenario, Producer Juliet? Okay, I was actually saying this to you before off-air.

I've been thinking about working on the graham norton show would be very cool so if there was some sort of award for graham norton and his team that would be mean i would i would actually like to be like the wine server for the guests like just to get them progressively more drunk that would be my ideal role that's your dream job is getting celebrities more drunk maybe or getting drunk with the celebrities. Then I would be able to chat to them. You know what I mean? You'd be one of these people that bring out the wine and then you'd just sit down next to them on the couch. Anyway, so... Yes. I don't know

if Graham Norton has a role for getting drunk with the celebrities on his production team, but hey, I don't know. Roles are always expanding and changing. Never say never. Well done to Rose. That's magnificent. And we've seen her like on Graham Norton, speaking of which, she's been on Stephen Colbert's show in the US.

She was on Kelly Clarkson during the week as well. She's just killing it. So well done. Very proud. And an update on the whole Will Smith Oscars situation. The Academy has promised to take action, is the only thing they've said overnight over the Will Smith slap.

Jim Carrey is not happy at all with him and how people in the audience reacted. He said he was sickened by the standing ovation after Will's speech that Hollywood is spineless en masse. And regarding Will, he said you do not have the right to walk up on stage and smack somebody in the face because they said words. And he said if he was Chris Rock, he would sue Will Smith for like $200 million. So he was not stoked about that one. It would have been a weird thing in the audience, obviously, watching. Because you probably don't know. Nothing like this has ever happened before.

So you probably don't know how to react when he goes up and wins his Oscar. Well, there's a lot of, yeah, it was a conversation too. Like there were police there, there was security, the organisers of the awards. Anyone could have removed him for that. That's true. If it was anyone else, anyone else walked up on stage and slapped a presenter, what would be the result?

If it was, like, if it was someone who wasn't an actor or an actress, like, if it was someone that no one knew and it was just a rogue person that went up and slapped Chris Rock, like, randomly, they would be escorted out straight away. They would have been shot and then they would have just like slowly dragged their body across the stage and gone on with the show and no one would have mentioned anything. Do you think Chris, here's a question, do you think Chris Rock should apologise? I know Will Smith has. Well, maybe because in some ways he might and he might do this privately as well.

Sometimes we don't always have to have all the apologies play out to everyone. Yeah, I agree. But I think you'd like to hope that he didn't know about Jada's condition when he made that joke. If he did that would have been pretty tasteless. So maybe he would reach out and apologise and say, hey, I didn't know

that obviously she had this condition that of course I wouldn't have made that joke had I known it. Yeah, yeah. And another thing is too, just because they're rich and famous doesn't mean they don't have feelings. Yeah. Us boring normal people think that money and fame

takes away their right to have feelings. Yes. Very true, very true. But, you know, you never want anyone talking smack about your family, do you? No. I know my mum gets very protective of Ben and me whenever there's any less than favourable comments about us on the internet.

Annie. Yeah, she'll jump on and go, well, their shirts look lovely on them. I know your mum, Jenny, likes to just slip into the comments section from time to time to do me an interview. And they're like, what do you know, lady? What do you know, old lady? And that is your Spy Update for this hour. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz.

Now, I know that you've got a spare bed in your house, don't you, Ben? We do, yes, we do. Am I looking at that right now? Is that the spare bed behind you on the tomb? Yeah, we do. Am I looking at that right now? Is that the spare bed behind you on Zoom? Yeah, it is. I notice on your spare bed you don't have a mound of washing because I was about to make a sweeping statement that in every household, the main role of the spare bed is to just hold the giant mountain

of unfolded washing. Do you not use your spare bed for that? No, but now you mentioned it, I probably could, but I haven't. Yeah, that's all we do. And what, because I'm sort of sleeping in a garage situation, and so inside at the moment, my role in the house is the folder, I'm the clothes folder, which I feel doesn't get enough recognition in the washing process, the folder, do they? They don't get any shout-outs. Well, no, you're a very good folder, which I feel doesn't get enough recognition in the washing process, the folder.

Do they? They don't get any shout-outs. Well, no, you're a very good folder, though, actually. You know how to fold a T-shirt really well. Surprisingly well. Are you quite good? Okay. Yeah.

No, he does. Like you would in the store. Like I'd never – I can never get it back in the store. You look at a T-shirt and you're like, I don't know how to do this. You'll hand it to the person working there and say, sorry, I can't do this as well as you. But Jono could and put it back in. Yeah, shout-out to my mum, Annie Pryor, for person working there, say, sorry, I can't do this as well as you. But John, I could, and put it back in. Yeah, shout out to my mum Annie Pryor for that. She's like, no son of mine. That's what a mother always says. No son of mine

is going to go out into the world without knowing how to fold a t-shirt. And I'm like, well, you probably could have taught me a few more useful skills, but hey, folding t-shirts is fine, I guess. I should see some of the t-shirts you wear too. I mean, they probably don't deserve to be folded up. But she, yeah, she's told me how to fold. So, but I'm the folder,

but I find in the, in the process of washing and folding is the person who puts the clothes into the machine, pours a little bit of powder in and pushes three or four buttons. They get so much credit. They're like, Oh, I've done the washing.

Done the washing. But folding takes far more energy and skill. So do you guys split yours up? Does it split up? What do you mean? Well, like I will fold the clothes some days. I'll wash the clothes some days. I'll put them in. You know, like it's... Yeah, we've just assumed the roles.

Jen puts the clothes in, pushes go. Well, you really have got the bad deal on that. Yeah, bad end of the deal. Yeah, but then I've just found that the spare bed situation, I'm like, I don't think anyone's ever slept in the spare bed. When mum and dad come and stay, I'm like, well, you're going to have to

sleep under that 20 kg pile of washing, okay? And what's happening is, because I'm not attacking it at the moment, and it's just piling up. The mound is piling up. The kids are just diving headfirst in, trying to pull out their underpants and socks for the day.

It gets away on you, doesn't it? It does, yeah. The advantage is, too, when it's in the spare room, it's a huge problem when the door's open, but with one simple shut of the door, the problem disappears. Yeah, see, we put it in a basket or whatever it is and it'll sit somewhere. And so what I will do is I'll put it out

in the lounge on the couch and then it's in everyone's sight, everyone's mind, and then you've got to deal with it. It's the thing. If you want it to be dealt with, you put it out in the lounge, you're like, well,

and then you sit down on the couch or whatever, you've got to do the washing. Maybe I should just sneak in there now and just dump it because it's not like Jean's been doing all the heavy lifting this week in the house. I'll just go and dump it in the middle of the lounge floor and go

I might leave a note with it, like a passive-aggressive note or something. Maybe not the week for you to be doing that. I don't know. Now at the moment we've started a bucket list to knock off some things we want to achieve before the end of the year. Not only for us, but for you as well when we want to knock something off someone's bucket list.

Rise and shine. Time to start the... Who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now we've started a bucket list of things we want to achieve between now and the end of the year and things we want to help you achieve as well. Jono and Ben's Bucket List. That's right. So, Ben, we haven't actually publicly acknowledged what you or myself want to chuck into the bucket list on a personal level.

We keep adding to this over the year, right? But at the moment, we want to chuck a few things in from us and from you, yeah. Yeah. I've stated that I would like to go to space. I figure if someone who looks like Pete Davidson can get an invite to space, then surely, you know, I'll find my...

What do you have? I thought you already had. Oh, no, that was Jeff Bezos. Oh, I thought that... I thought when it came back, I was like, oh, Jono had gone to space. I want to be the second bald man in space. Okay? Bezos would have gone up there and been like,

oh, jeez, do they all look like this? Okay, so you want to go to space? I mean, no. Okay, you can put it in. Oh, there's a big one. What's one for you? Well, I've always wanted to break a world record. You know this as well.

Get my name in the Guinness World Records. We've done things in the past. We drove bumper cars at Rainbow's End for 30 hours straight, which is more than the actual world record. So we could have been in there. We couldn't be bothered doing the paperwork though. We didn't do the paperwork. There's a lot of paperwork. It's an absolute

ball. You should get a mention in the Guinness World Records just for filling out the paperwork. Yeah, but we did 30 hours in a bumper car, you know, non-stop. And if someone had done the paperwork, we would have been in there. Yeah, but anyway, so I'd like to get an actual world record. I'd like to put that in there. Yeah.

I wouldn't mind being on something like Shortland Street. You know, I've been a massive fan of Shortland Street for many years. Whenever I say this, it comes across like I'm being sarcastic, but actually I am. I'm a huge fan of the show. So if there was ever an opportunity for me to be on there in an acting capacity, maybe like someone having an affair with Chris Warner.

You're having an affair with Chris Warner? Yeah. I mean, I could pass for a very sick, ill patient. Well, yeah. What's wrong with him? I don't know. He's got some disease, but, you know,

they still have to quarantine me and I don't quite know what's wrong. You could be the, I don't know what your acting ability is really like on a show like that, but you could be like, I'm sorry, you know, he's passed away.

He got here too late. You know, and you could be the person that passed away. I'm the dead person? So I just have to lie there dead? Yeah, I mean, it's still on Shortland Street, isn't it? I want a speaking role. Oh, you want a speaking role? Can I wake from the dead and go,

no, no, I'm not? Can I do... Put that in there? What else for you? Oh, look, I actually wonder, I'd like to watch LeBron James play basketball. Like, I'd love to go watch LeBron James play basketball. And my wife has two brothers in the States,

and we're hoping to go plan to see them in America at some stage. And I keep going, oh, that's not basketball season. Every time she brings up dates. So, hold on. You're wanting to use our radio promotion as a vehicle to get you to America to see LeBron James play basketball. Yeah, yeah. Well, is that possible or not?

Well, here's an idea. Okay, why don't we combine your bucket list wish of seeing LeBron James play basketball and my bucket list wish of going to space and we go see Space Jam? That's a good workaround as well. Anything else you want to chuck in there quickly? Fishing.

I've never really caught a fish. Oh, you haven't either, have you? Yeah, I know you've always mentioned we should go out with Clark Gayford, our mate, but we all know he's in prison at the moment, so we'll wait till he's paroled or something. Maybe he can take us out fishing. Make news is another big one that I think both of us would like to do. Appear on the news somehow but not like

disgraced broadcaster John O'Prior arrested sort of stuff like fun stuff like disgraced broadcaster John O'Prior swallows a watermelon hole or something I'm always a disgraced broadcaster that doesn't change

so yeah those are some of ours we're going to chuck those in try and achieve them before the end of the year but yesterday we had a call from a lady who wanted to do a bucket list dream for her husband. Now this is from Lisa.

He's never been on a plane. He's from Dunedin and now he lives in Christchurch and he's never been on a plane. That was Lisa and her dream was to fulfil her husband's bucket list dream of going on a plane. And we're hoping to make this one come true next.

Jono and Ben's Bucket List. Yeah, geez, one of my bucket lists was getting COVID. So, Ben, we've ticked that off. We're nailing that quite well. How's that dream going for you? The dream? Well, the dream's getting slightly better now. At the start of the week, it wasn't quite as fun.

We actually did have the conversation. We're like, just give it to us. Just get it over and done with. We did say that, you know, and now the universe has answered our call. Tempted fight, didn't we? Yeah, we did. But we are doing our bucket lists and we thought we can't embark

on this journey without fulfilling some of your bucket list dreams. And we're joined again by Lisa. Welcome back to the show, Lisa. Hello, good morning. How are you? Oh, I hope you guys are feeling better, though.

Oh, good. That's what we were hoping for. That's what I was reaching for. It was a well wish. Lisa, yesterday we spoke to you about your husband, who had never done what? Been on a plane. And he's like 45.

45 years old, never been on a plane. Been on a plane. And he's like 45. 45 years old, never been on a plane. Been on a plane. And we said yesterday he's not afraid of flying, right? He's just never had the opportunity to go on a plane. Never had the opportunity. Guess what, Lisa? What? We've got a very special present.

What? Well, should we call your husband? We've got his details. Should we give him a very special present. What? Well, should we call your husband? We've got his details. Should we give him a call? Let's call Colin. Colin's his name. Colin's not next to you, is he, by any chance? He sure is.

Oh, yeah, this is a waste of a phone call. Hello, Colin speaking. Colin, how far away from Lisa are you right now? Right beside her actually Oh God, okay, we've got to just anyway Yeah, okay, well we're here now At least we can talk to both of you at the same time Now Colin, we understand you've never been on a plane before

Yeah, that's right, yep Would you like to go on a plane? I'd love to, yep You've never been on a plane? Never been on a plane, never had the chance to. Well, we're putting together bucket lists, things we want to do ourselves and things we want to do for other people.

And we want to, here at The Hits, pay for you guys to have return flights from Christchurch, where you are, to Auckland. You can stay, you've got accommodation at the Cordis Hotel as well, including breakfast at Eight Restaurant. You get two nights there, you can fly up, you can go on the Cordis Hotel as well, including breakfast at eight restaurant. You get two nights there. You can fly up.

You can go on the plane for the first time. You can stay at the beautiful Cordis Hotel. Oh, my goodness. Thank you guys so much. Well, thank you very much. Oh, nice. Thank you very much. Thank you.

That feels great. You get to experience the joys of sitting next to a screaming baby, being stuck in the middle and waiting and busting to go to the toilet. That feels great. You get to experience the joys of sitting next to a screaming baby, being stuck in the middle and waiting and busting to go to the toilet. I think the wife is going to be worse than the baby. Yeah. And we must big shout out, too, to producer Bee Humps, who had to do all sort of humping to get this across the line.

He put us together yesterday. Thank you very much. He's got the flights together. He got Cordis Hotel on board. It's a five-star, Auckland's largest five-star hotel in the heart of the city, 640 rooms. You can visit cordishotels.com. Beautiful hotel. You guys are going to have a great time there,

and you're going to enjoy your first flight together. That's one of my bucket lists because I've never been to a hotel. Thank you. Oh, you've been to a hotel. Oh, well, there we go. Oh, wow. Oh, nice. I tell you what, if R. Kelly wasn't so controversial,

we'd definitely be playing I Believe I Can Fly right now. We're not. We're definitely not playing that. Given the circumstances, it's not appropriate. It's a shame because that song was appropriate for so many occasions. You guys enjoy that. And the only condition is we'd love to talk to you afterwards on the Monday and see how your first flight and your first, I guess, hotel experience was as well.

Oh, yeah, definitely. Thank you so much. It's made a year. It's made a year. Isn't that wonderful? What does this mean to you both? I can actually pick something off my bucket list. Same.

And, yeah, I don't think I'll ever get the chance to go out on a plane. Oh, Colin and Lisa, this is amazing. And not only are you winners, but also there's another big winner out of this, Air New Zealand, who desperately need bookings at the moment. So everyone's winning. Oh, thank you very much. Thanks, guys, for listening to the show.

Enjoy that. Well, hold the line. We'll get all your details from you. Cool. Okay, thank you. That was actually really cool. That was awesome. Yeah, thank you very much to Cordis as well, and yeah, big shout out to Behance.

Pulling that together in under 24 hours. I know. Finally, he does some producing. Oh no, I was just going to say, we had this thing yesterday, we were like, wouldn't that be cool to happen in 24 hours? And then we come back 24 hours later, it's all sorted. We look like the heroes, but really, behind the scenes,

and you know emily our boss and accordance management uh cordis the hotels as well put that together thank you everyone but we'll we'll swoop in and take all the glory though yeah johnny's bet johnny and ben's bucket list if you have anything you want to achieve off your bucket list four four eight seven is our text we could be making your dreams come true over the year. If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history. Jono and Ben on the hits. Both Jono and myself are in our homes. We're isolating at the moment with COVID.

And after 8 o'clock this morning, we're going to get to some suggestions we've had on social media and we'll get this morning from you guys of things we could do in isolation if you've been through it or if you're going through it right now. Some great suggestions coming through, Jono. Day drinking. I didn't catch COVID off the kids, and I put it down to having alcohol in my system. That's a great message we've got.

And another suggestion, nissing. Make a blanket for each other. Best blanket to the end of seven days wins. How does that sound? That's a great – yeah, because I know you've locked yourself in a room, Ben, isolating, and I've locked myself in the garage. I feel like one of those strange boarders that you'd get into your house to supplement your income.

And once the boarders come to your house and he never leaves the room, the main household kind of get a little weirded out. What's he doing in there? Yeah, and it would definitely be a point of discussion between a husband and wife who were already at odds over whether they should get a border or not. But then on the straight, you know,

and then people come over and they're like, what's your border? Like, we don't know. He never leaves his room. We never see him. That's kind of how I feel at the moment. But what happened this morning is,

was quite interesting because when you wake up, we're in desperate need of coffee, a pick me up. Yeah. But where I get the coff're in desperate need of coffee. Pick me up. But where do I get the coffees in the house? And so I went to put my keys in the door, and someone had left their keys in the door. On the other side. On the other side.

So I couldn't access the house. So I'm stuck there. It's like 4 o'clock in the morning. What are my options here to pick me up? Okay, I could go down the road to like a petrol station and get a coffee, but I can't leave the house. You can't go to a petrol station, no. I can't go to a petrol station.

I could go down to that dark alley with that guy with the tattoos on his neck and get a little pick-me-up from him. But, you know, the family frowns upon that. I don't know if that's on the COVID website either, but I imagine you're not allowed to do that. Not allowed to do that. Or option three was because I have access to the shed, the garden shed.

There's a ladder in there. So I got the ladder. No. And I know that because I can see the window upstairs in the bedroom, we leave it open for airflow. So I'm like, okay, well, now the only sensible solution is to break into my own house.

This is in the morning at what, four o'clock in the dark too, I imagine. Well, it's about after brainstorming, it's about ten past, quarter past four. I spent 15 minutes going, laying out the options, and this was the best. I could have gone down to the guy in the alley, but I thought, you know, this is probably the most sensible option. So I got the ladder, and I really needed coffee. So I could have waited.

I didn't factor in waiting. So I got the ladder and I placed it on the roof and then I slowly climbed on the roof. Now, this is the point where I want to send a huge shout out to all the burglars out there. Because middle of the night, dead quiet and your average human body just stepping and breathing is incredibly noisy. Yeah.

You know, and these guys are doing it every night. You know, they're out there battling away, doing it every night, burglaring places and getting away with it. So, you know,

kudos to them. Anyway, I managed to sneak in through the window, through the bedroom, tiptoe down, get myself a coffee, let myself out, and I didn't wake a soul in the house. It was... Wow. Breaking into your own house is exhilarating.

If you ever want a cheap thrill, break into your own house. It's the closest thing to illegal you'll ever feel. Wow, that's impressive. Next, speaking of impressive, the star-studded celebrity lineup at Shane Warne's funeral. It was at the MCG yesterday. We'll tell you who it was after Pink Willow. It is Cover Me In Sunshine on the house.

I've been dreaming friendly faces. Cover Me In Sunshine on the hats. Scrolling through your feed. If you haven't jumped on your phone this morning, We will And even if Scrolling through your feed If you haven't jumped on your phone this morning Then don't bother Because Ben's already looked through it And seen all of your deepest, darkest secrets Plus also what's in your feed This is scrolling through your feed

Now a crowd of more than 50,000 people Which is just incredible And a fitting tribute for Shane Warne The cricket legend who sadly passed away at the age of 52 in Thailand. That happened last night at the MCG, so 50,000 people were there. Lovely messages from former cricket players who played

with Shane Warne, his family as well and a whole lot of Hollywood A-listers and celebrities had messages and performances. It just shows how hugely popular Shane Warne was around the world. Kylie Minogue. Blue eyes and big, chinky smile. Had it, had that star quality and charisma.

There was Chris Martin from Coldplay who spoke and then played a song. I think Chaos and Shane were good friends. And you might hear a rooster in the distance, which I'm thinking of as him. Elton John performed and had some words to say. He was mesmerising, he was brilliant, and he loved to play cricket, and he loved life. Even Robbie Williams performed as well. And Ed Sheeran too.

Just an incredible line-up of people and just shows, as I said before, how huge Shane Warne was around the world. Yeah, geez, it was just like a line-up of Glastonbury at the guy's funeral. Incredible the impact he had on everyone and 50,000 people to turn out to a funeral world yeah geez it was just like a lineup of Glastonbury at the guy's funeral incredible the impact he had on everyone and you have 50,000 people to turn out to a funeral and let alone the big names like that turning up in uh just what a mark he left on the world what a guy he was and also I'm still confused about Chris Martin's rooster reference I don't know why he's like he's you hear that rooster in the distance that's yeah but I think Shamor is kind of like a rooster he's

like a you know he's a bit of a character's like a, you know, he's a rooster, bit of a character, sort of struts around, you know, got the hair thing going on. Yeah, I can kind of see it. Now, just quickly, Transmission Gully is finally opened. It was opened by the Prime Minister yesterday, and now you can drive on it. It's just out of Wellington. It's 27 kilometres long.

Now, it had a lot of problems with weather, earthquakes, surface flooding and of course the pandemic making things a little bit slower for it to open. And it came in at $400 million over budget. So yeah, just a little bit over budget. Not too bad. They reckon the motorway could shorten peak

journeys by 7-15 minutes. Wow, that's worth it. That's worth every one of those millions of dollars. But it does look incredible and Producer Behump said earlier this morning it's been in the paper for over 100 years. It was first mentioned in 1919 in the Evening Post saying that

we need a road there to replace a new part on State Highway 1 and now it's finally happened just out of Wellington. So if you have driven on it this morning, 4487 love to hear from you. Yeah, it's always fun just out of Wellington. So if you have driven on it this morning, 4487, love to hear from you. Yeah, it's always fun driving on a new bit of road because you're like, well, whose land have we just mowed through here? I don't know.

I don't understand where this has come from. So that gathering bypasses Mana, Paraparaumu, all along the coast there. Yeah, the fun thing too was, did you hear Grant Robertson, who went out to the opening yesterday of Transmission Gully, and he was following behind Nicola Willis, who's in the National Party. Have a listen to what he had to say. It's a pleasure to follow the member. Funnily enough, just as we did this morning on our way out to the Transmission Gully opening,

where the member sped through at Grey's Row, the amber and red light, on her way out to the Transmission Galley opening where the members sped through at Grey's Row, the amber and red light on our way there. What a knack. What a knack. Like, mate. Jeez, he'd hate to drive with you too. As someone who likes to, you know, orange is green, let's be honest.

As someone who likes to take advantage of the orange light, you just don't need people like that in the circuit. What? On TV? Labour, red's their colour, mate. Red's their colour. They love a red light. There you go.

And they love a red colour as well. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from five thousand dollars every morning at this time we have your chance to win five thousand dollars with our game of word association we give you five words you tell us what pops into your head if all yours match up with ours you win five grand let's get helen and her daughter leah on the phone morena how are you morena guys how are you guys we're doing well it's lovely to have have you on New Zealand's Breakfast this morning. You're ready to win some COVID cash.

This is cash. That'll be pretty nice. Yeah, we haven't coughed on it, but it's going to be handed out by COVID-infected radio hosts. So I hope you're okay with that. We're okay. It'll do. Okay. We've tested positive for COVID and hopefully we can test positive for winning this morning as well.

What would you spend 5k on there, Helen? Well, I'm here with my daughter and we need to do some reno on our house. And I think after, like you guys, we've had COVID, so we'd like a little weekend away or something. Oh, lovely. I love how your daughter, Leah, also really wants to do the renos on the house as well. Maybe it's a new bedroom. Okay, who are you going to send into the old soundproof booth this morning?

Leave your heart to the side. Ben. Ben. All right, I'll get away. Get off from the computer. Here we go. Okay, he just takes his headphones off. He's isolating in a room by himself.

And basically we know what the soundproof booth in the studio feels like 21 hours of the day, just sort of sitting there lonely by itself, but Ben cannot hear a word right now Helen and Leah the mother-daughter renovation combo Let's try and win you $5,000, okay First word that comes into your head when I say snap lock Key? Snap lock key?

Oh no, a bag actually. Snap lock bag. Snap lock bag. Yes, great. Word number two is beavis. Sorry, can you say that again? Beavis. B-E-A-V-I-S. Oh, butthead. Beavis buttheads.

Art, coming in at number three this morning. What do you think, Leah? Sorry, can you say it again, Johnno? Art. A-R-T. Picture. Picture. Beautiful. Love it. We'll go on to the fourth word this morning, which is motor.

Car. Car. And word number five for Helen and Leah. 11-year-old Leah, what do you reckon she's going to lock in for jelly? Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. What did you get? Oh, jelly ice cream.

Sorry, I can't hear you over this bloody Zoom. Jelly ice cream. All right. Those are some good words you've locked in there. We'll release Ben from the soundproof booth. Put your headphones back on, Ben. Ben. I'm waving at camera.

He's reading his phone right now. Very distracted. If you could try not to look at Instagram while you're in the Sam Pru booth, because it's really hard to get your attention over camera. Sorry, sorry. How are we going? What are we doing?

We're just in the middle of a live radio show. You're winning $5,000, Ben. All right, here we go. The rubber strikes here. Let's not get distracted, Ben. Let's try and win $5,000. Okay, just treat him like a giant cash piñata and we'll smack the snot out of him,

which is literal snot at the moment. All right, let's do it. First word that comes into your head, Ben, when I say snap lock. Bag. One from one. Beavis. Word number two this morning.

Oh, butt head. There we go, Helen and Leah. How are you feeling this stage of the game? Good. Good. It's a good start. Here we go. We can keep going.

Art. A-R-T. Picture? Oh, jeez. I almost went painting on that one. O-M-G. We are two words away from $5,000. And Leah, the 11-year-old, conducting those much-needed renovations on her house.

Motor is the fourth word this morning. Motor. Bike. Motorbike, no. Helen and Leah, you're locked in car. Motorcar, yeah. Sorry. Bummer, bummer.

Dipping out. We'll go jelly was the fifth word. What would you have done for jelly? Jelly? Fish, jellyfish? Ice cream. Locked in ice cream. Guys, you just missed out.

Three out of five is not bad. I'm so sorry, but you go and look after yourselves. Thanks, guys. Tested safe for listing from home. Jono and Ben on the hits. We are in isolation, Jono. Lockdown was family prison, but this is individual prison for the two of us, right? Yeah, I feel stuck in a room all by myself all day, coughing and spluttering.

I feel like my nana. Do you? I don't know your nana. She likes to cough and splutter and talk to herself in a room all alone. I imagine your dog, Bo, is really reveling

watching you being stuck in the house all alone all day. He's probably like, now you know how it feels like, buddy, don't you? Yeah. I actually had a moment yesterday where I was in a room and a package arrived, you know, got a contact lift package at the door and I was like, oh, maybe this is for me. It wasn't for me.

And it was some wonderful treats that a friend had dropped over. Well, I thought it could have been for me, but anyway, I get a picture sent to me from my kids in the kitchen enjoying the treats. Big smiling faces, big thumbs up. And then I was like, well, maybe there'll be a message that'll follow up saying we're going to leave some treats outside the door. The next text was from my daughter, Indy, going, hey, did you like our pose?

We learned how to pose from you seeing you do it on Instagram. Oh, were they doing the thumbs up, the pointing? Yeah. It's a Ben Boy signature range move, that one, isn't it? That will be hitting the catwalks of Milan this season, the finger point to a product. But, you know, I do have to send a shout out. I know Bea Humps, our producer, he's just recovered from it as well.

He was locked in a room, got a newborn baby there and his partner, Caitlin. A baby out of wedlock. I know you frown upon that, don't you? Not at all. With your traditionalist ways. Says the cat dog. He doesn't like it when we shine the light on the baby out of wedlock situation.

No problem with that. But anyway, the partners, and I'm sure Amanda's doing the same thing, having to do all the heavy lifting in the house, and you go, that's what love's about. Isn't it? That is right. And I go, why haven't I just pretended I've had COVID the whole time? I could have gone out of doing a lot of stuff around the house.

Long COVID. You'll be one of these people with long COVID then for that reason, won't you? Oh, I'm tired enough. No, I still can't do the dishes. So what should we be doing and what should we, you know, what recommendations do you have for us? Because I know right now that we're not the only ones. The many people around New Zealand going through

isolation or have been through isolation. And we wanted to know what got you through it. You know, was it movies? Was it TV shows? Was it books? Was it the Bunnings catalogue? I mean, whatever got you through. We'd love to know this morning. We put it on our social media last night. And there's some great suggestions coming back through. Obviously, people are suggesting day drinking, spin the bottle one. I like this suggestion, Jono. Draw New Zealand back onto the maps where it's left out. We could do that.

That's a great suggestion. Well, that would make use of our time because I feel like I'm waiting. Well, I said yesterday I was watching a guy on YouTube called Coyote Peterson who gets stung by the world's most vicious insects and then just sort of rolls around on the ground and see in screaming pain like it's like watching a cowboy roll around going ah ah and i do i really had to be honest i really questioned what i was doing with my life as i was watching this guy but then i was like oh well at least i'm not coyote peterson

rolling around on the ground after being stung by a wasp or something so that's good putting new zealand on maps it's not included on spin the bottle i don something. So that's good, putting New Zealand on maps. It's not included on. Spin the bottle. I don't know how that's going to work. That's another suggestion that came through in our social media. Maybe we can just hook up over camera or do fun stuff. One thing I did think was quite cool, someone suggested a website called Screener. Hopefully it's a legitimate website,

but you can watch Netflix together at the same time. You could watch a show and I could watch a show and we could be watching it together. Well, I mean, your choice of documentaries on Netflix, really. I mean, yesterday you were like, I watched the Olivia Rodrigo documentary. That was on Disney+, but yes, okay, I did. I'm like, well, I can't really, I watched Coyote Peterson,

so I'm not going to throw stones. So what should we do? We'd love your help. If you've been in this situation, maybe you are in this situation. Let's get through this together. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The two of us in isolation at our homes at the moment for seven days with COVID. Many people doing it right now or have done it.

So we want some help, some suggestions of things we should be doing at the moment. I was actually, without a word of a lie, I was reading Will Smith's book up until a few days ago. I've just put that one down. I'm holding it up for a while. Just holding off. I want to see what the final chapter is. I don't know if it gets quite up to date. I did think about doing a puzzle yesterday,

a thousand piece, and then I put that one down as well. So I want some thoughts, some suggestions. Movies, TV shows, YouTube, books, whatever. What should we be doing in isolation? Isolation recommendations. Just reading the Will Smith book now, has it really changed perspective?

Well, I haven't read it since, but just even looking at it, I kind of went, oh, you know, like it kind of changed. And we all make mistakes and stuff, and we'll move on, and hopefully we'll grow, and it'll be better for this as well. But at the time, I'm just like, okay, maybe we'll just put that down for just a little bit. And he was one of your heroes, Ben. I know, yeah.

I'm a big fan of Will Smith, but, you know, it's how people come back. We all make mistakes. We're all human. It was a slap in the face to Chris Rock and a kick in the guts to Ben Boyce. Yeah. Wasn't it? But what should we be doing, all right? That's what we need to know.

Great suggestions have come through. Someone else was doing a 1,000-piece puzzle, got out of isolation, and is still bloody doing it, so they recommend don't start on that. I'd never go past a 200- or 300-piece puzzle. We've got some actual good suggestions over TV shows. Bridgerton, just don't watch it around little humans. Afterlife, Ricky Gervais, Ozark, Good Place, Reacher on Amazon Prime. Someone texted in 4487,

why don't you text and call people that you've been meaning to get in touch with for a long time? That's a great idea. It's a lovely thought, except they're going to go, well, you're only calling me because you've got nothing else. That's going to be the first thing

they jump to the conclusion of. We'll get Sarah on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Sarah. What's your isolation recommendation? I reckon you guys should learn the Pokemon theme song. Oh. Pokemon, got to have them all.

Yeah, exactly. Have I learned them? Is that it? What's that? Have you learned them? I know it because I've got children who like Pokemon. Oh, well, you know, the next follow-up question from any commercial radio announcer would be, well, take it away, Sarah, with the whole song. Go for it. Oh, well, you know, the next follow-up question from any commercial radio announcer would be, well, take it away, Sarah, with the whole song.

Go for it. Oh, God. Or not. I was like... Like no word ever was. To catch them is my real test. Train them is my cause I'll stop there.

That was very good. That was very good. All right, Pokemon theme song. That's on our list of isolation recommendations. Really appreciate it, Sarah. That's great. Oh, good. Beautiful emotion behind those lyrics as well.

Pokemon. Kate, you're on. Welcome. Your isolation recommendation. What is it, matey? Morning, team. It's got to be the Kiwi classic pressing play on Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit series. Oh, Jono, you've never watched it.

Jono's never seen any of them. This is your chance, mate. This will pull you through seven days and probably the next seven years getting through that. You're not a true Kiwi until you've done it. Director's cut. Make sure you've got it. I've got my DVDs for when I actually get COVID ready to go. Oh, so you haven't watched them yet.

But this is your seven-day isolation plan, though, to watch the director's cut. Wow, that's adding at least half an hour to each film. Yeah, well, it's seven days. Got to make time for them. Yeah, no, good suggestion. The entire Lord of the Rings and Hobbit series to each film. Yeah, well, it's seven days. Got to make time for them. Yeah, no, good suggestion. The entire Lord of the Rings and Hobbit series to knock off. Probably my daughter overheard her saying,

yesterday she was on the phone. I don't know who she was talking to. She's like, Dad's now living out in the garage. But she gave no explanation as to why I was coming out of the game. So whoever the person is on the other phone Jesus, this fractured relationship going on there in the prior household Another fun game I like

to play Ben, I don't know if you've done this, is to pretend that maybe you don't have COVID and keep testing yourself and every single time it keeps coming up the opposite of negative Maybe this one, maybe I've got it wrong, no no and every single time it keeps coming up the opposite of negative. Maybe this one. Maybe I've got it wrong.

No, no, no, no. It's all working fine. Keep your recommendations coming through. 487, we really do appreciate everyone's calls and texts. Get fuelled up with the Hitz FuelGrab. Petrol prices are ridiculous at the moment. So this is such a great competition. You can win, well, you start with $50 gas and you can win a whole heap more, all thanks to Gas Petrol Service Stations.

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Maybe. Okay, so question mark's hanging over the loveliness of Marilyn, but that doesn't matter. You don't need to be lovely to be on this show. Look at Ben. It's true. Hey, Marilyn, gas at the moment. How much does it cost them to fill up your sweet tank? I haven't filled it

all the way yet but I'm gathering it's going to be about 200 bucks What are you riding there Marilyn? We've got a Nissan Murano Yeah right That's the thing, you just fill up the quarter at a time and the last place you ever want to go is the petrol station

because it's always an inconvenience. But it's not easy to fill up the tank and the entire one hit at the moment. But we can help you do that, Mazza. Oh, that'd be good. Do you know how the game works? Obviously, we start the pump. You have $50 regardless of when you pull pin or not. But you have to say stop before the pump ends, before the buzzer, okay?

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Yes. $128. That'll be good. That's fantastic. It's good to walk away with at least something. Now, what we're going to do, Marilyn, this is the point where you find out how much sweet, sweet gasoline you missed out on.

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We're going to have a budget crisis at the radio station. We're not even going to be able to put petrol in our HITS promotional cars. What happened to all the petrol? Oh, we gave it to all the listeners. We can't drive anywhere. We'll just tow them. Well, thanks, Marilyn. We really appreciate you listening to the show.

Enjoy that gas, all right? Awesome. Thank you. Marilyn, can I just say you are lovely? Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, Producer Juliet, you're leaving tomorrow.

You're going off on your big OE, which is very exciting for you, sad for us, but we need to clear the air before you go. And there's something, Jono, you don't know about this, but producer Juliette, she's not very happy about it. I've got a bone to pick with you, Jonathan. She's annoyed. She's annoyed with you, Jono. What's going on?

So I would like you to answer me this. How many years have we worked together? It would be a good two, two and a half. Yeah. Has it been a good two? Has it been good? It's been a great two. I've really enjoyed working with Judy. Thank you. And would you call me a friend? I would lump you in the

friend category. Great. I'm glad I'm not an acquaintance. Frolig. A friend and a colleague. So why do you not follow me on Instagram? Well, I don't know. I don't know. But yes, because you not follow me on Instagram? Well I don't know But yes because you've been Getting into Instagram lately haven't you?

Yes you've got your Instagram account That you very much enjoy nowadays And I went to tag you In an Insta story the other day And then I noticed in my DMs That it only tagged Ben Boyce And I was like why is it not tagging Jono?

And so I went onto a profile and then I went onto a following list and my name was not there. And I was like, Jono does not follow me on Instagram. Now, here's my question back to you. Oh God. Why would I need to follow you on Instagram when I get to experience the goodness

every day in real life? Well, a friendship is not a friendship if you don't follow each other on social media. Have I committed some sort of millennial social crime here? Yeah, it's a social crime. It's a social crime. But I can't follow you now because now it's just going to be a guilt follow.

You're going to be like, he's only following me because I guilted him into it. Well, yeah, true, true. If you want to follow from at Jono Pryor, you need to work for it. Okay. Will my super yacht content over in Europe not entice you to follow me? Do you even know how to follow people, Jono? Yeah.

This might be the core issue. But here's the thing. I'll make a deal. Juliet, here's a deal. Okay? Yeah. I will follow you today. Yes.

As long as you don't leave us tomorrow and go to France. Yes. Oh, I guess I don't need that extra follower. Good try, though, Jono. That was a good try. Yeah, that was my last hope. Ben was, yeah, and that didn't work. Coming up very shortly, very sad news.

A very famous actor is no longer acting. He's not very well. We'll tell you who it is in just a few minutes on the hats. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. Our little radio daughter's off on her OE to work on super yachts in France tomorrow. And Juliet, I just hope you wake the owners up every morning

and give them an update on which Kardashian forgot to brush their teeth today. I will. Don't you worry about that, my friend. Just hope you wake the owners up every morning and give them an update on which Kardashian forgot to brush their teeth today. I will. Don't you worry about that, my friend. So Bruce Willis has said that he has to give up acting. Reason for this is because he's been diagnosed with a brain condition called aphasia. And this is a condition that impedes a person's ability to speak, write and communicate with others. Is it kind of like dementia? It probably seems similar and it probably, I imagine,

it starts out more mild but then gets worse as time goes on. Really sad. So obviously that'll affect his ability to act. Yeah, really sad. I'm a legendary actor in so many, particularly action movies over the years, some of the best action movies.

So yeah, really sad. You were saying, Ben, that over the last two or three years, he's been really smashing out the movies, which have generally been straight to a streaming release, just to bank some money for himself. Well, that was the, yeah, I read that somewhere, that that was the rumour that they had some health issues going on.

So, yeah, it's a bit of a shame to hear that that is actually the truth. Yeah, and Wanda Sykes, who hosted the Oscars along with Amy Schumer and Regina Hall, she went on The Ellen Show to explain how she sort of witnessed and interpreted the whole Will Smith saga. So she had basically just come off stage after introducing Chris Rock, and she wasn't near a screen when it all happened. So she kind of missed parts of it, but this is kind of how she interpreted it. From that moment to when I got to the monitor backstage, I just saw Will

leaving the stage and everything was quiet. And I'm like, what happened? What happened? Everybody was like, oh my God. And then Will just starts cursing. And then someone showed me on the video, it was like, yeah, he smacked Chris. And it was sickening. I physically felt ill. And I'm still a little traumatized by it. You know, I saw Chris, you know, at Guy's party. And as soon as I walked up to him, the first thing he said was, I'm so sorry. And I'm like, why are you apologizing?

He's like, it was supposed to be your night. It was supposed to be you and Amy and Regina. Y'all were doing such a great job. I'm so sorry. This is now going to be about this. Because that's, I mean, that's who Chris is. Chris is, yeah, Chris is a sweet guy. Yeah.

So. It's interesting the take on it when you're there too. And I know a lot of people are going, oh, why didn't they do this? Why didn't they get kicked out? Why not this? Why not this? In a situation like that, which would have been so surreal and unexpected, you know, no one probably really knows

what to do in that scenario and you've got the biggest movie star in the world and you're like do we kick him out he's about to win the best actor award what do we do here yeah yeah right and you couldn't you couldn't plan for anything like that and even in the future you'd think nothing's gonna happen like that again so it's just really a surreal experience for everyone and as Wanda said, it takes it away from everyone else, which is sad. We're talking more

about this other thing than about all these other great performances. Yeah, totally. Julian, I don't know if it's just me, but do you notice that Ben Boyce

has been a bit light on the bald jokes with me this week? Not only Chris Rock learning valuable lessons. I've encountered one since the incident, too. Yes, that is a very good observation. But speaking of Will Smith, the police have been called to his house this morning.

The reason being because apparently someone was flying a drone above his property. And so I think Will must have called the popo saying, get this drone off my property. Everyone's just snooping, you know. The story's down, down in dust. Yeah, I know. It happened. We all blew it up. We really burdened the internet with probably far too many memes and jokes.

I'm done with it. He's apologised. It's kind of a move on situation now, surely? Yeah, yeah, totally. And that is your Spark Entertainment update for this hour. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Next on the show, what we caught Jono doing on Zoom yesterday. We'll shock you.

We'll do that after he'd shared. Well, I don't know. It may have been shocking. Yes, it was very intense. Oh, shocking. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene,

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