Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Got Called Out For Saying Something That ISN'T VERY 2021!

Episode Date: August 12, 2021

Kia ora! Yes, our old producer Heidi put Jono right back in his place after he said something quite controversial in the office! With the news of Jennifer Aniston & David Schwimmer AKA Schwimmerston getting together (potentially?), we called GORE of all places to break the news and see if they cared. Finally, we had vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris on to answer all your Covid vaccine questions. Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Owen 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 John Owen Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the John Owen Ben podcast. Kia ora, 12th of August, it's a Thursday, 2021 is the year, Benjamin Boyce. Wonderful to have you with us. Yeah, nice Thursday, 2021 is the year, Benjamin Boyce. Wonderful to have you with

us. Yeah, nice to be here on the podcast. Having a drink from a place across the road that I didn't really even know existed. We've worked in this building for, what, a year or so? Yeah. And I feel like... What is this, whiskey? An alcoholic drink. Did you know there's a bar across the road and it's open 24 hours?

Yeah. I can drink whenever I want. No, it's a milkshake. It's like a smoothie. But it was... Did it bring all the boys to the yard? Not so far. Just you.

But maybe give it time. And more boys might come to the yard. Are you happy with the boy that's in the yard? Yeah, I am. But it's interesting when you go, we've been working in this place a while, and I'm like, oh, I didn't even realise this place was across the road. It's just your routine.

It's daily routine, and you get caught in it. But, you know, we're human beings, and we operate best under routine, don't we? And so our routine is same place every day we go to for a coffee. And I did note your absence was noted today. Yeah, sorry, I was on the phone. I was sorting some stuff out. And then as I got off my phone call, I looked up and it was just like, oh.

There it is. There's a bar open at this time. I'll have a couple of whiskeys, thank you. Just to pull you through to lunchtime. Yeah, you know. Just a couple. I'm a bit up early, you know. Yeah, you're right.

It's like hour, hour, one o'clock. That's what breakfast hosts always say who are drinking at unacceptable hours. They're like, oh, well, you know right, it's like our one o'clock That's what breakfast hosts always say Who are drinking at unacceptable hours They're like, oh, well, you know, I got up at four So you go five, six, seven, eight Oh, that'll be lunchtime And that's acceptable Exactly, exactly

Anyway, on the podcast today We spoke to a vaccinologist Some serious broadcasting there there Ben Boyce I was proud of you, I was proud of the way you conducted yourself Oh well, I was, you know, I really enjoyed it, it was nice actually, it was a good conversation to have I think at the moment, but there was one time I went to say something, you know when you start

saying something and you're like, I'm saying words some of them make sense, and then I got to the end of it I was like, it was barely a question but to her credit I mean she, she's very smart. She answered. Heather, Patricia Harrison. She answered exactly what I wanted to ask her.

I just didn't really ask it in question. She picked up what you were putting down. I mean, she's a doctor. She's like, okay, this guy's mumbling a couple of words. I think I understand what he's trying to say. Yeah. All right. I can't remember, but it was a shocker.

But you'll hear it on the podcast as well. She's used to fixing humans and fixing interviews. Yeah, but everything you want to know about the vaccine, well, hopefully she answers those questions today on the podcast. Her response to anti-vaxxers I found very interesting. Yeah, me too. So you'll hear that. Hey, have a great day.

We're going to head off to the bar. Yeah, all right. Ross and Rachel are obviously on Friends. They had an on-again, off to the bar. Yeah, all right. Jono and Ben, the hits. Ross and Rachel, obviously on Friends, they had an on-again, off-again relationship. And then the actors, David Schwimmer and Jennifer Anderson, when they were talking on the reunion, said that we're crushing on each other in real life. And everyone was like, oh, could they get together?

And yesterday there was news saying they were dating. We were so excited. Now their lips have become friends. Yeah, we were so excited that we even got a call, this great call yesterday after we broke the news. Schwamiston, now a couple. Your thoughts? Ow!

Bye! Bye! They put a smile on our face. So yesterday we wanted to be like, because we felt like we were on the forefront of this news, so we wanted to spread it around and go, yeah, have you heard about it? We felt the responsibility post-show to tell every New Zealander about this news, so we wanted to spread it around and go, yeah, have you heard about it? We felt the responsibility post-show to tell

every New Zealander about this news, so we're going to phone them individually, one-on-one contact, and we started in Gore, and automotive mechanics, because that seems like the type of location that would be desperate to know this news. Hello, and welcome

to Gore Automotive Services. Gore Automotive, Emma speaking. Emma, guess what? Big news. What? They're together. Who's together? They're back together.

David and Jennifer. Who's David and Jennifer? David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston. Oh, cool. Ross and Rachel from Friends, they're together in real life. Are they? IRL, in real life. Who is that?

That's Shona and Ben from The Hits. Oh, good. Good work. Thank you for the call. I don't feel quite as excited about it as we are. Are we coming on too strong, are we? Yeah, why are we so invested in this? Should we play it cooler?

Okay, go. Okay, hey. Okay, hey. Hey, Rachel. I mean, what's your name, sorry? Whatever you want it to be. Rachel is the character. Yeah, okay.

Hey, Monica. Never guess what, dude. What? They're together, David and Jen. Oh, wow. Hey, Monica. Never guess what, dude. What? They're together, David and Jen. Oh, wow. In real life. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't mean that much to us, but hey, I thought it might be something to you.

We're not that excited about it. Oh, thanks. I'll let everybody know. You tell everyone at Gore Automotive Services. I will tell them. Tell them now while we're on the phone. I can't believe you're calling me. I always get the radio calling me up.

Oh, really? Oh, sorry. Has this been the most disappointing of all the radio station calls? No, no, it's not. It's been great. Yeah, it's been great.

Okay, so go tell everyone. Go tell everyone. We'll wait. I will tell. Oh, no, they're busy working. No, I don't know. None of them are busy working stuff.

If I know mechanics and I don't, they'll love nothing more than to know about this news. They're too busy working, but I'll let them know when they stop for coffee. You make sure you do. Yeah, okay. Sit them down.

Make sure they're sitting down because it may, you know. I will. Okay. Okay, bye. See you, mate. Bye. She was in a rush, wasn't she? That was yesterday.

She kept going, okay, okay, for the last 30 seconds. My fellow, she wasn't quite as excited about the news as we were. You know, Ross and Rachel in real life together after, what, 17 years, I guess. Now, there's been some talk overnight that maybe from their representation that maybe it's not together, they're still just friends. But, hey, I'd like to believe that. I refuse to believe that until those words usher from their lips, okay? Yeah.

And we wanted to start something right now on 0800, the hits, 440. More rumours. More rumours. You keep phoning up unsubstantiated rumours. Just broadcast them. We'll do that recklessly next. No. When you met someone and how long it was between the point of you meeting them and you getting

together. Because that's a long stint when Jennifer and know jennifer and david first probably met to when they've actually hooked up they're in their 50s now 51 52 yeah so it was 17 years pretty much when was friends 94 yeah yeah you might want to just check the maths on that one oh more than that yeah yeah a lot longer yeah how much longer yeah, 25. Something around there. Long time. But yeah, so they're probably going to go grow old and die together. Isn't that nice? Yeah. Now they've hooked up in their 50s.

They're going to die together, a happy couple. So when you met someone and when you hooked up, the distance of time in between. Love to hear from you on New Zealand's Breakfast, 0800 the Hits or 4487. Morning. New Zealand's breakfast, 0800 the Hitzel 4487. Yesterday, we were shook by the news that Ross and Rachel in real life were together, David Schwimmer.

Jennifer Anderson, were they more than just friends? There was rumours going around that they were spending time together in New York. Those rumours may or may not be true. Just give us a sniff and we'll make a couple of breaks out of it. We're still making breaks out of it. I feel like we're more invested

in this relationship than we are our own at the moment. We are really back in these two horses right now. We wanted to start because we figured that they met themselves many, many years ago. They met each other and hooked up many, many years later with nothing in between. My bass was terrible before. I'm sorry about that.

How many? 20-something years? 27 years since the start of Friends was terrible before. I'm sorry about that. It was, what, how many? 20-something years? Yeah, 27 years since the start of Friends. Yeah. Yes, not 17. Sorry about that. Listen, have you heard my maths on the radio? Yeah. No, this show is not known for its maths.

I don't like it to be. Are you working hard on getting us some good maths? Yeah, I don't know what it's known for. So I thought maybe maths could be the thing. Well, no, we've lost that this morning. So we want new calls on our 800. That's when you met your partner first and then until you hooked up with them.

How many years in between? We'll start with you with Donna in Rotorua. Morning, Donna. Good morning. Morning, Donna. You met when? We first met when we were 16. We were actually both born in Wellington and then moved to Rotorua.

But we met when we were 16, and briefly, and then I married somebody else when I was 19. And then my current husband, Jeff, he used to come around and do electrical work for us over the years. Then when my marriage broke up, we were drinking at the same bar. So we actually hooked up, got together when we were 40. Wow, so 60 to 40 and sparks flew. From the electrician.

Literally sparks. There's something about a plugging in. Oh no, we'll just leave that there. Hey Donna, that's amazing. And you happy? Absolutely. He's my second husband, but I call him 2.1 because he's the best. You've upgraded like a phone.

Oh, yeah. He's lovely. I'm very lucky with him. Good on you, Donna. That's wonderful. Get Sharon on from Auckland. Morning, Sharon. You met when?

What age? Good morning. 15. 15. Okay. He was my first little love heart flutter, but we lived in different countries. And, you know, I lived in Zimbabwe. He lived in South Africa.

It was never going to work. We all got married and went our separate ways. And then I just finished working with Robbie World Cup here and going through a divorce. And he happened to see my mom in my photo. And he was like, oh, Sharon, yeah. And he contacted me. And I'm like, who's this creepy man that's texting me? And he was like, oh, it's Barry. I'm like, Barry who this creepy man that's texting me? And he was like,

oh, it's Barry. I'm like, Barry who? You know, who the hell is this person? Yeah, you never want a random Barry texting you

in the middle of an idea. It's Barry. Who? And then you went down with someone you knew from way back in the day. Yeah, and we got together

and it was like time had stood still. It was just, it's almost like Taylor Swift's love story. You know, it's just weird. And, yeah, he followed me to New Zealand, and we've been together ever since.

And he's just an amazing, big bear of a person. And he's just wonderful. Big on. I love Barry. You just talking about Barry. I wish you'd mentioned me after so many years. That's awesome. So there you go.

42 years you guys got together. That's wonderful, Sharon. Appreciate that. Lance, we'll get you on from Taranaki this morning. When did you first meet your partner? So I was at primary school. I was five and she was three. Okay, five and three.

And nothing happened in between. You rekindled when? So I was 20 and she was 18. Oh, many years later. So you didn't go to the same school or anything, obviously, after primary. We went to primary together. Her parents were actually the principal and the other teacher. It was a little small school.

And they moved away for about 10 years. And then in the early 2000s, the school closed. So we actually met up when they had a big party as the school was closing. And, yeah, hadn't seen each other for a long time and decided we quite liked each other. Yeah, 18 years later, five kids later, we're going strong. Oh, good on you. Wasn't this a wonderful topic of love, hope, aspiration? I was trying to get some cheap gags in there, but I couldn't.

It was too lovely. Yeah, it was lovely. Good on you, Lance. Appreciate everyone sharing those wonderful stories with us. Good, wholesome fun. Hey, I can lovely. Good on you, Lance. Appreciate everyone sharing those wonderful stories with us. I think you feel good. Good, wholesome fun. Hey, I can see why people do this now. Why did we resist for so many years?

Well, I see Simon Barnett traded it off for many years. So good. It is a hit. More lovely stuff coming up next. Yeah, you're right. It is a hit. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of.

Yesterday in the office, wonderful Heidi who who worked here but had a baby, and has now returned to work. Heidi came back to the office yesterday. Oh, you got called out. This was a wonderful moment. This was, I think, the greatest moment of my life. In front of a busy office. It was a busy office.

So Heidi's in at work. She's in at work. She's back, as you say. You went over and had a chat to her in front of everyone. Everyone's in the office. And she in at work. She's back, as you say. And you went over and had a chat to her in front of everyone. Everyone's in the office. And she had a bandage around her wrist. And I was concerned. I said, Heidi, what has happened?

And she said, I burnt myself. And then at that point, that was, this is where you made your mistake, right? Yeah. I said, on the oven. And she comes back with. It's a question. On the oven. On the oven. she comes back with it's a question on the oven on the oven well oh you got when someone says they've been burnt you go oven maybe a close

second if it's you know the season barbecue potentially i'm not going were you jousting on a high wire over volcano and then there's there's all sorts of stuff you could be anyway she'll be a mechanic she could could be working on a hot engine. She comes back with, oh, why does it have to be in the kitchen? You're sexist. And that's when you can tell. Even the typing stopped in the office. The typing stopped.

Heads turned. And, you know, when you're labelled a sexist in a packed office. My favourite moment. Especially a radio at the moment. Not a good time. My favourite moment was just seeing the look on your face when you had realized what you'd said was in fact a bit sexist yeah and then i just now i'm not sure later heidi was like well actually yes it was it was the kitchen i burnt myself on in the oven she let me sweat for a few minutes

there you know and unfortunately women have been unfairly stereotyped into kitchen-based duties over the years. So that's, if you weren't aware of it, that's where the comedy comes in. Thank you for mansplaining that one to me. I appreciate that. Thank you. I wasn't explaining to you, I was explaining to Juliet. Just in case you

didn't get it. Alright, I think unless we said, I know normally we try to go around three, but that's what I think I'm pulling out of that one of that chat. It's out of Swift, Bad Blood. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, a couple of weeks ago, was down south with the family and there's In-Round Queens.

I love it. You've been regaling wonderful tales of your South Island trip. And I like, it's like Captain Cook returning from his adventures. Still backing on to that. Gather round, gather round for another tale. I think I need to check off my to-do list now that I'm back. I just wanted to investigate one more thing, if you don't mind me regaling this story.

Oh, you can keep regaling. I love it. Sit down, Juliet. It's another wonderful tale from his southern adventures. Down in Queenstown in Arrowtown, there's a wee chain of candy shops, some sweet stores, remarkable sweet shops, and they're awesome. The kids loved it. I mean, it's a whole store full of candy.

It's incredible. Yeah, so we went to a couple of those, and every time I was in the store, you know you have a song stuck in your head, and it was 50 Cent's song, Candy Shop. In the club? Oh, no, in the candy shop. Okay, that'd be more appropriate. Yeah, Candy Shop.

And I was... I take you to the candy shop. I let you lick the lolly shop. You're a good girl, don't you? So I keep thinking, I'll take you to the candy shop. Every time I was in there, I had a candy shop. You're singing the song? Yeah, in my head.

And then I was like, well, hang on, 50 Cent in the song, he's saying, I'll take someone to the candy shop and then he's saying I'll let you lick the lollipop and he was like well hang on in this, they haven't paid he hasn't paid for that you're going to have to pay for that before you start licking it that would be my response

as far as I know having been in the candy shop a couple of times in a couple of locations, you can't just walk straight in and start licking lollipops. Yeah, it's like going to the supermarket, and when you start eating the produce and stuff when you're walking around the supermarket, you've got to pay for an adventure eventually.

I feel like that's the case, right? Willy Wonka had the same approach in his factory. Remember, he was letting everyone go crazy. He had the 50-cent theory that, you know, everyone could go crazy, but then that lady blew up like a big purple. Maybe that's what can happen if you don't purchase first. So I thought maybe just to tick this off my, you know, to get this off my list so I can stop

regaling tales of my South Island adventures. We might call one of the candy shops down south and find out a 50 cent could just walk in and start licking lollipops. Michael, Sweet Shop Amber speaking. Oh, hello. It's John Owen Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Hello.

Hello. How are you? Good. Stop sounding so hesitant. We're here on comedy-based reasons. We are. Well, firstly, I came to Arrowtown a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful.

It's beautiful there. And came into the candy shop, the Remarkable Sweets shop. Yes, you are. It's so wonderful. It's wonderful. Do you have a wide variety of candies? Yeah, you could say that. We definitely do. Everything you think of a candy, they've got it.

Licorice. Yes, definitely have some licorice. We've got different types from around the world. From around the world. It's amazing. Gob stoppers to stop my gob. Pretty much, yeah. Anything that you can shove in your mouth.

I should have got some for Jojo. But all I could think of when I was in there was the, I don't know if you know the 50 Cent song, Candy Shop? Yes, I do. And so take it to the candy shop. Now, I just thought, you can't obviously, without purchasing anything, you can't just try the lollies, right? The candy.

Yeah. So I was like, well, 50 Cent couldn't do that without purchasing. He's missed a step in the process. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. And it's not his place to go, hey, welcome to the candy shop, look any lollipop you want. No. Because as far as I know, 50 Cent is not a lollipop shop.

He's not a lollipop shop proprietor. No, he's not. But you can try the fudge there, though. You can give samples of fudge right without paying. Yes, you can. Yes. I'll take you to the candy shop. I'll let you have a sample piece of fudge.

Yeah, would that be better lyrics? Yes, that would definitely be better. Oh, good. Let's all sing that together over this new song. Okay, here we go. Three, two, one. I'll take you to the candy shop. Yeah, I'll let you have a sample piece of fudge.

Doesn't quite work as well as the original, but it does work for legal purposes, right? Very, very much so. And are they licking the lollipops then putting them back?

No, they have to pay for them afterwards, but you still... Yeah, unfortunately with lollipops, yes, you have to. Is it a lick and pay situation with a lollipop?

Wish it was, but unfortunately, no, you have to. Hey, you've been such a good sport. Thank you so much for tolerating us, firstly. You were very polite.

For so long. You giggled politely and awkwardly at the right moments. We really appreciate it. And your stores are amazing. If anyone's down in Queenstown or in Arrowtown, not only check out the wonderful scenery, but go on and check out the remarkable sweet shop. It is awesome.

Definitely come down. Have a sample piece of fudge. Yeah, but no licking lollipops until you purchase them. Glad we got to the end of that. Now someone's texted in 4487 I don't believe 50 Cent is talking about lollipops in that song Ben. Is he not? Which makes it all the more disturbing that you were singing that out loud

in a candy shop. Well here you have a look at what they're talking about according to this text. I don't want to believe it. Not 50 Cent. You got Jono and Ben. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. A lot of news around the vaccine and a lot of questions fighting around. So we thought it would be good to get your questions and put it to someone who knows a lot more about it than we do.

Yeah. We're joined by a vaccine expert, vaccinologist. I don't know if I've just made up a job title there. Helen Batousis-Harris, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Oh, good morning. I'm all right. I'm all good.

What are your credentials, shall we say? Because I feel like I'll go later and go, oh, Helen said this. And they'll go, who's Helen? What's Helen? Who's Helen? Oh, I think vaccinology is fair enough. I did do a PhD in vaccinology, but I don't think that makes you the expert. But probably 23 years in vaccinology, but I don't think that makes you the expert.

But probably 23 years in the patch, probably. Yeah, 23 years she's been playing the game, vaccinology. I didn't even know that was a thing, and I just made up the word. But it turns out, thank God, it is Helen. We've got you on this morning. There's obviously a lot of questions floating around around the vaccine and stuff. And I've asked Ben to just put aside his crazy 5G anti-vaxxer theories for this interview, just for this moment, Ben. Stop throwing me under.

It's not what I believe. Anyway. Firstly, what do you, as a vaccinologist, want to say to an anti-vaxxer? Back off. Short and sweet. You're really going to contribute to making a bunch of people sick. And, you know, don't think the world's got time for it right now. Well, that's, yeah, I guess I can sense a bit of frustration.

I can understand there would be frustration around. But there is, you know, there's people talking about it going, oh, well, if it doesn't stop you from getting COVID, why should I get it? What do you say to those people? There's a lot of, I absolutely understand people's, you know, concerns and that you might not be feeling very confident about at the moment. And I think that is absolutely understandable. And there's some really good places and good people that you can get answers for. But please just be careful on that internet.

Is it true that the virus is chasing down the vaccine, like i.e. Delta? It doesn't actually protect you from Delta? No, you get quite good protection against Delta, thank goodness. There's a little bit of reduced effectiveness observed against that particular variant. But it's still doing a great job of keeping people out of hospital and from getting dead, etc. So that's good. That's a win. Yeah, well, you had some great stats. I saw it.

I know. I'm apologies for doing this on the same week because I didn't realise until I was researching last night that you did pretty much the same thing on the project a couple of days ago on TV. But you had some really good stats around the states and the percentage of people vaccinated and non-vaccinated that are getting sick and in hospital. Yeah, well, they've got about,

where did they get to with their coverage About you know in the 60s 60% it does vary depending What state you're in And over 99% Of the people that are landing in hospital Are not vaccinated So it's really doing a good job

Of keeping most people Pretty safe You hear all about the different companies The pharmaceutical companies that are getting into the vaccine game, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, AstraZeneca. What is the most successful? Yeah, well I think some of that will still remain to be seen in the long game. I mean I think the mRNA vaccines but the Pfizer and the Moderna,

they see a very, very high bar in terms of how protective they've been able to be. I've seen some discussion that the protection from perhaps the viral vector or the AstraZeneca might be a little bit more long-lasting. I'm not sure yet. So we might yet see some of these others producing some slightly different features than the mRNA, but the thing is, all the ones that

we've been using are almost equally as effective against severe disease and death, which is pretty remarkable. Now, at the moment, excuse my ignorance, have we got Pfizer in the country, do we? Yeah, yeah, that's our one, Pfizer. Put our chips in with the Pfizer campaign. We did, we did, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We hedged our bets at the beginning, but then we decided to act mainly this horse. Now, of course, a lot of people uh who who are against it or hesitant are saying that they feel like they've been rolled out quite quite quickly these vaccines and kind of almost experimental what do you say to those people well yeah rolled out quite quickly is is absolutely right um they're not experimental um experimental phase is over uh but we don't stop studying them. So I think that's the thing to get clear. No vaccine, even if it's been around for decades.

You always study the vaccines and these ones we need to keep studying for the entire time that we're using them and we're learning a lot as we go. But experiments were done before, we did experiments before they went into humans and then we did the, technically the experiments were done on tens of thousands of humans before they were authorised for use.

Put out into the market. We've got Helen Patousis-Harris with us. She's a vaccinologist of 23 years. If you've got any questions, 44870800, the hits will get you on next with Helen. We'll find out, can vaccinated people still spread it? Do kids need to be vaccinated? And will we need yearly boosters will get you on next with Helen. We'll find out, can vaccinated people still spread it? Do kids need to be vaccinated? And will we need

yearly boosters? All that and more with Helen next. Oh yeah, stick around. It is the Hits. You've got John O'Byrne. And it's Maroon 5. You're on the Hits. John O'Byrne 817. A lot of talk around the vaccine for COVID-19 at the moment. So we thought we'd put some questions to a vaccinologist.

Yeah, Helen Patousis-Harris back with us. Helen, really appreciate your time this morning, mate. Thank you. You're welcome. Lovely questions coming through on 4487. So many great texts. We're going to kick it off actually on the phone first with Lisa. What do you want to ask Helen, Lisa?

When will it be safe for kids to get vaccinated that's a very good question as many listeners right now have parents uh parents uh you know so when would kids be uh because it's 16 and over right now helen isn't it yeah well they actually they've given um given the tick in new zealand down to 12 now because those studies have been completed. We're not actually recommending it yet because we've really got quite a lot of slightly older people to truck through first. So that starts to become a matter of prioritisation. So down to 12 in terms of having permission to use the vaccine and trials for the younger ones are still ongoing. Now, someone's texted in 4487, and this is actually quite poignant

because we're hearing a lot of conversations about people who are like, oh, you can just walk in and get it done. You can walk into a chemist. Some of them are distributing it. And someone's texting going, my father's 60, had a heart attack around 10 years ago, and they understood that people with health problems would be contacted early, but no one has contacted them.

What do you suggest they do, Helen? I think they need to reach out. And indeed, there's a lot of clinics that are taking people, you just have to walk off the street, and they're quite happy to give you your vaccine. Also, there are a whole lot of numbers if you don't like computers to ring or also online just go on there and book it for yourself if you've missed out if people haven't reached you yet. So not that you want to send hordes of people into chemists though

but if you're not in the demograph at the moment which is eligible can would you suggest maybe checking with a chemist or someone that who is distributing it to see if you can get it? Yeah, I mean you can sometimes walk down the street and see clinics advertising and so you know, why not pop in and also those big clinics that have been set up around, and you can find

their locations on the interweb as well see if there's something near you so there are ways to, more and more actually than there were before. They sort of seem to be growing by the minute. Rebecca, you're on from Christchurch. Good morning, Rebecca. Your question for Helen, our vaccinologist.

Our vaccinologist. We don't own you, Helen. I was just wondering, is it going to be, so will we need like yearly boosters, kind of like how we always get notices around the flu vaccine? Is that kind of going to be the same for the COVID one? I think we might need at least one booster during this period where the virus is still really running pretty much out of control all over the world. But once it gets dampened down,

those variants are going to really, it's going to limit their ability to crop up. So we might be able to stop worrying so much about that. So it might not be quite yearly as we go forward, but maybe in the next, you know, over the next 12 months, that might be a reality. Thank you very much, Rebecca. What about travelling?

A vaccine passport seems like something you're going to have to have and be fully vaccinated if you're going to be, in the future, be allowed to travel to other countries, right? Yep, yep. I think that's, well, it is a reality now, and I think probably that will grow as a reality. It's not the first time we've done that. We do have yellow fever as an example.

Some countries won't let you in without proving you've had a yellow fever vaccine. So it's not a first. But yeah, that might be quite important. If you have had the jab, can you still spread the virus? Some people who've had the jab can still spread it. Yeah. So some are actually quite well protected against doing that. Others, you know, so they can pick it up, not know it,

be quite perfectly well and maybe still contribute to spreading it. So just to summarise for everyone who just tuned in right now, a final message for anyone that maybe has been a little hesitant, isn't sure, what do they need to think about? Think about themselves, think about the New Zealander in the world when they go towards the vaccine?

Yeah, I think it isn't all about you. You do have to think not just about your own sort of community around you, but also, yeah, I'm afraid the rest of the world, we're really all in this together. And I think if we can almost, almost everybody can get this done, I mean, we can get out of this.

It's not a half-pie effort. It can't be a half-pie effort. You've all got to get in there. Some champagne closing statements from Helen Patousis-Harris. Hey, Helen, lovely talking with you. Thank you very much for spending your time with us. You've really increased the IQ level of this show, doubling it instantly over the last 10 minutes. At least.

Yeah, appreciate it. I'm glad to talk to you guys. You haven't answered my last question. It wasn't even really a proper question. I just kind of said some words, but you knew what that meant. But I thought we did a good job of fumbling our way through the interview, Helen. I mean, you've probably been interviewed by RNZ, you know, your Jessie Mulligans, your Hoskings.

Where do we stack up, Hal? Oh, 12 out of 10. Oh, yeah. Great stuff. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Hosking. Put that in your Maserati and burn it out. Dr. Helen, we really appreciate your time and passing on your expertise to our listeners this morning.

Thanks so much. You're welcome. See you. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. Morning and welcome along to the show. Jono and Ben with you. Thursday morning, just gone six o'clock. Jeez, I was driving to work this morning

and you look up to the sky and you're like, what is out there? It's deep. I should have been looking at the road. But there's a lot of stuff out there and you're like, surely we're not the only ones. I thought you went to space. Was it you? Or was it Jeff Bezos? Ah, it was Bezos. He's always getting me confused for Bezos. I thought it was you up there.

You and your penis rocket went up to space, didn't you? I thought it was you. Hey, actually, speaking of the space race, Elon Musk, what have we heard before? Producer Behem's. Do you know he's South African? Yeah, I knew that. Oh, okay.

I didn't know that. His mum moved to Canada or something. I don't know why I know Elon Musk's biography. There you go. Because you're Jeff Bezos. Because I'm Jeff. I'm aware of my competition, my friend. You watch out, Branson.

I've got my eye on you, too. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk's Ed Bean. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The hits. So sometimes Jono, we have a go at you Edmund, sometimes we do. You're the first to bring it up though. Edmund is not my strong point.

I haven't yet defined my strong point but it's certainly not administration. We had something that made us laugh yesterday, Podesta Juliet, was this is good even for you. So you've been gifted a present. Yeah. As we all had been at it, we were at a TV, the TV show we were making,

we were at sort of like a wrap party, an end of the TV show party, and we all got given little presents. Yeah. And moments after receiving the present, you left, and you left the present there and the card the lovely card as well I mean yeah

Is that because you didn't want it? No it's just I'll be like I've got to do that thing and then it'll just drop from my mind immediately and it drives my wife Jennifer insane. She's like oh can you go and get to you know build the bins in and I'll be like yeah I'll do the bins and then I'll be like, yeah, I'll do the bins.

Oh, no. And then I'm like, three seconds later, like a goldfish. It's just gone. I love it. So, listen, I knew I'd received the gift. I liked the gift. It was a drink bottle. It was nice.

It had a card touching message on the card. I read the card. Yeah, and I put it on the table. I said goodbye and walked out. I walked out. They're like, oh, there, that shows his love towards the gift. Very insulting. I could see how you'd be offended.

Yeah, like, did he not like that? Actually, the gentleman who gave me the gift then texted me later that evening. He's like, did you leave your drink bottle behind? And it's like, he knew I left my drink bottle behind. But did you leave your drink, like a leading question. What did you say to that one? Oh, whoops. Yeah, did I?

I was like, sorry, mate. I'll come round and get that. You haven't. You won't. It'll be like the lemons you promised to bring in. Yeah, did I? I was like, sorry, mate. I'll come round and get that. You haven't. You haven't. You won't. Yeah. It'll be like, the lemons you promised to bring in. Yeah, my bloody lemons. Did you see the photo of the lemons I sent you?

She told you, like, so this was like a year ago. You started, you went to give away lemons on the radio, and we pulled you back, because you're like, you're admin, you're not going to bring in lemons. Firstly, bring the lemons in, and then we'll give them away. You're like, so much lemons, abundance of lemons. Who wants lemons? Producer Juliet myself was like, I want lemons. We're like, so much lemons, abundance of lemons. Who wants lemons? Producer Juliette and myself were like, I want lemons.

We're like, yes, we'd love some lemons. You're like, yeah, I'll bring some in. I'll give them away. You haven't. But then you taunted us with a photo or a little video over the weekend going, hey, look at the lemon tree, guys. There's lots of lemons. It's flush with lemons, isn't it?

Can you please bring some in? OK, I'll bring some. All right, you got me. This has been going on for 12 months. Three seconds later, he'll forget. Okay, I'll bring some. All right, you got me. This has been going on for 12 months. Three seconds later, he'll forget. No, but every time I see the lemon tree, I go, oh, I must do that. But then I never go and do the physical act

of picking lemons off the tree. And I mean, we had that shocking towel scandal that followed us over from the Edge radio station. We did. Didn't we? Yeah, well, you'd promised to give away, oh, but again, abundance of towels. I'll give you a towel. Beach towels because I said every Christmas I just get

given half a dozen beach towels from various people. So that time we went through the process of giving away towels to people that never received their towels because you never brought them in. And then they followed us to the hits. Yeah, going, where are the towels? A little girl wants some towels and every day she asks her mother,

where is my towel? Jono's sending me a towel. And then we loved poor producer Humphrey with the he's like I was no part of this. It wasn't his mess to clean up. Didn't you get hold of Briscoe's or somewhere? We got some towels made up

printed with the Hits logo so we got some marketing out of it. Yeah great. I think he got like he bought them a lifetime supply worth of towels. So who's the real winner at the end of the day? My sloppiness has resulted in a lifetime's worth of towels. Yeah, you know that saying, when life gives you lemons. Well, actually, I don't know what happens when you give them lemons because I'm still waiting on mine.

Cover me in sunshine. Shower me with good time. The A to Z of New Zealand. Something we do, well, every day or two on the Hits radio station is call a different town or city in New Zealand. We're working our way slowly through every town and city in New Zealand alphabetically. Feels like we've been in the M's for a long, long time. I tell you what, we're moving through the M's slower than my nana

driving to lawn bowls on a Wednesday morning. It is taking its time, but today we're heading to a town that I've never heard of in Taranaki. Mokau. I've never heard of it, and now I have, and I'll probably forget about it by nine o'clock. But it seems like it has a permanent population of 400 people. Sadly, I wasn't granted access to the non-permanent population figures, something they're obviously clearly trying to hide. But yesterday we phoned Mokau in the primary school there,

and we spoke to a lovely lady. Good morning. How are you doing? Good. Do you know what we're doing? No. Okay, I'll give you three guesses. Have a guess. I have no idea. Okay, that was your first guess. I have no idea.

Second guess? Some kind of competition. Oh, no. No, no. I don't know. In a way, it's kind of a competition that we've set ourselves. We're trying to call every town and city in New Zealand. Okay.

Yeah, we're doing it alphabetically, and today it's your turn. M. Yeah, M. Yeah, you got it. So we are actually a school. We are Makoya Primary School in Makoya, which is like 10 minutes from Hawera. Oh, great.

So it is a place. Now you tell us about your wonderful area. Our wonderful area? Yeah. Okay, so we are a small little rural school. It's the cutest little town you've ever seen. We have a school role of 28 children. They're the most fantastic school you've ever seen. We have a school role of 28 children. They're the most fantastic school you'll ever find.

The kids run around barefoot. We play. We work. It's just like really down to earth. Fantastic principal. The principal is also the teacher. Awesome. You sound really passionate about it. It's really cool to talk to someone who sounds like they love what they do and can see the kids

loving it too. I'm actually one of the office administrator and teacher aide, so I get to work with the kids as well. Oh, wow, you're doing it all. Now, only 28 children. Now, do us a favour. Name all children from naughtiest to least naughtiest. I can name them all, but I'm not going to name them in the naughtiest to least naughtiest. Yeah, she's not falling for your tricks, mate.

You love them all, don't you? I do love them all. They're fantastic kids. You say they play in bare feet all the time. Do they do this through the winter months as well? Because there's some hardened rural kids out there. Gosh, you know, it is freezing cold outside, and these kids will be walking around in shorts and T-shirts,

and I'm like, are you guys not freezing? I mean, I'm from South Africa, so I'm always cold. This is the thing. Kids don't feel the cold. I put my daughter up from school. She's in like a singlet and swimming togs. That's an exaggeration. But she just doesn't feel the cold.

And at some stage, you turn into a full-blown pussy, don't you, when you're older? I know. I think when you get older, you definitely feel the cold. Plus, we had lots of snow on the mountain. Yeah, and they're still in shorts and T-shirt with snow on the mountain. With snow on the mountain, they're still in shorts and T-shirt. I think if you're under 10, you don't feel the cold. But as an adult, you know the repercussions if you go out and you're not dressed warmly.

Oh, I'm going to get a cold. I'm going to take time off work. Yeah, definitely. You know, we're getting older, so we get sick a lot easier. So, Makoya, how long have you lived there? And why did you end up in Makoya from South Africa? So, my husband got a job in Taranaki. And yeah, so I got a job here at Makoya, 10 minutes from Hawira.

No traffic, like seriously, no traffic. No, I believed you the first time. When you said no traffic. Have they heard of cars? Oh, well, we've got lots of cars here. Yeah, no, no. 10 minutes to work, ten minutes back. It's like super easy.

Oh, and whereabouts in South Africa are you from? Cape Town. Oh, nice. Geez, you're really down. You've upgraded population, haven't you? Yeah, we definitely have. What is the population of Cape Town? It'll be in the millions.

Yeah, I think so. We're taking over New Zealand by the next century. Yeah, you're meant to be living on the North Shore of Auckland, aren't you? I know, lots of Capetonians that side, eh? Oh, well, lovely to talk to you. What is the population of Cape Town, Jono? The Cape Town, five million. Oh, there you go.

There you go, and now you've gone down to literally five. Yeah. And so would you suggest that we visit Macoya for a day? Yes, definitely. Come around, you'd love it. Yeah, right. What can we do there? Oh, well, tell us more about what you guys do.

Oh, that's a good deflecting there. You've got nothing that you do there. Good at that, yeah. Well, we love traffic. Do you have traffic there? No traffic. I don't know if I want to come. Hey, lovely talking to you.

You keep safe. Thank you, you too. Take care. Bye. Oh my gosh. Thank you. You too. Take care. See you, mate. Bye. Bye. Oh, my gosh. OMG. Yes, OMG is back, and we've got two options at the moment. Each day you get to choose between two fantastic prizes,

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Back to you in this year. So, yeah, yeah, Xbox Series S, valued at $550, or an iPhone 12, valued at $1,500. Pretty amazing prizes. Pretty good choice. Pretty hard choice to make. And as I've been doing, I've been making you do some choices as well, Ben Boyce. Yeah.

Okay, here's one for you. Option A, you have to hop around on one foot for the remainder of your life. Life? Okay. Option B. Everywhere you go, you have to squat for the remainder of your life. Squatting or hopping? So what? Can I sit?

No, you have to squat. So I'm like, maybe I'll do the hopping option. You can walk and then when you stop, you have to squat So like I'm like Yeah I know I'd hold on Because then maybe I'd do the hopping option Like you can walk And then when you stop You have to squat Oh okay No I'll go the hopping

Would you go the hopping option I think I would actually Go the squatting option Oh would you Because if you hop too long It would probably just like Mess up your whole foot And leg

Can I alternate legs hopping Oh You can alternate hopping That changes the game I'm not a monster You're not just committing to it. Oh, sorry, mate. You said they're on their left.

And you're like, oh, yeah. Yeah, no, if we can change legs, I'd probably go hopping. Okay, so you're going to go hopping. You're going to go hopping. All right, well, it starts today from nine for the rest of your life. The rest of your life. Good luck. I'll be keeping a close eye on that one.

Yeah. It is a hit. So you've got Jono and Ben. Scrolling through your feed. All right, time for scrolling through your feed. John O'Brien proudly presents Ben Boyce, proudly brought to you by his partners Purell Hand Sanitiser and Extra Sugar-Free Bubble Mint Gum.

We both got click baited yesterday, didn't we? There was headlines going around going, New Zealanders prepare for a short, sharp lockdown. Oh, yeah, you get served the notifications on your phone. It's a classic play from your news organisations, isn't it? Just, you know, one sentence that sets you into a frenzied panic. And then you're like, what? Then you read through, looking through, and it's like Chris Hipkins.

What's he saying? He's like, prepare for a short, sharp lockdown. Ashley Bloomfield was there. And he did say that. That was the truth. But he said if delta gets into new zealand we should prepare for a short sharp lockdown but you know to handle the situation but we're not having a short shot no no we're not having a short shot so the notification would

have been better served saying if delta arrives we will have a short sharp lock yeah and we will understand that you know but then the problem being we wouldn't have clicked on the story no they wouldn't have had a win. Yeah, right. So we had a win. Yeah, so that's the thing. Prepare for a short, sharp lockdown if Delta arrives. Delta, actually, speaking of Delta, you know, obviously,

we're talking about this the other day, but, you know, the people called Delta. That's a name. Until recently, that would have been, you know, a name that would have been, you know, provoked lovely thoughts and stuff. But now people are like, oh, it's, you know, sort of associated with the Delta variant, right?

What other names provoke lovely thoughts for you, Ben? All sorts of names. What about Juliet? Does that provoke lovely thoughts? It does, yeah. What about Jono? Yeah, but in America, there's obviously an airline called Delta as well

that has been for many years. Of course. Yeah, much like Corona the beer. They suffered sales, didn't they? Which was idiotic. I don't know why they would suffer sales because clearly they haven't anyway. So a lovely little story, Delta the airline

because there was basically a lady on Twitter who his daughter was called Delta. She was very young and she was saying that she's obviously suffering a bit of a bad time at the moment with her name out there. And so Delta the airline sent her name out there. It's the Delta, the airline sender. A lovely package of awesome stuff as well. So that was really nice. Oh, that's nice. What, not a flight? Just a package.

What was the detail? All flights are tough. Like one of those kids' tickets, those packets, you know, their colouring books. Yeah, well, no, I was tough with it. It was like, yeah, there was nice stuff in there, mate. Just take my word for it. A cute package. Lovely package. But yeah, no, it would be tough having Delta as a name. There was, remember SARS? You might not remember

SARS, Juliet? To the turn of 2000, I think, which was respiratory disease too. And there was a drink in a black can called SARS. SARS-Pyrella. Yeah. And that, again, hit with sales issues as well.

I didn't mind me some SARS-Pyrella. it was like a creaming soda oh is that what it was yeah i remember seeing it but never actually uh never actually it was one of those drinks that for many years you're like what is that but i tried it one day and it was like you were just saying before speaking of all things to do with uh lockdowns and miq and covid the australian the the Olympic athletes, some of them are going to have to be quarantined for how long? 56 of them, yeah. So for a month, 28 days. Wow. Because 56 of them live in South Australia,

56 athletes from South Australia. But to get there, they have to go from Tokyo to Sydney. Now, Sydney being the issue, so as soon as you land in Sydney, you've got to quarantine for two weeks. So they won't even let them transfer at the airport. They're just like, you have to go into quarantine. Which seems unusual.

We were just talking about that. Just go at the airport, jump on the next flight. Get straight on a plane, don't hang around. Yeah, I'm sure there's a reason for it. But then when they get back to their home state, South Australia, for example, then they have to quarantine for another two weeks because they've come from Sydney. Oh, no. Hey, thanks for winning us a gold medal. then they have to quarantine for another two weeks because they've come from Sydney Oh no! Hey thanks for winning us a gold medal

as a reward we'll lock you in a room for 28 days That is tough And that is scrolling through your feed this morning, we've got some more quirky news from around the world next Producer Julie was having very cryptic conversations with Rachel Jackson-Lees

our newsreader today, about these. Yeah, it was a conversation that I was like, what is this about? What's going on? I think it was to do with the news and beeps. We'll find out next. I hope so. It is the hits you got, John Ombed. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B***h News.

This is where Julia beeps out certain words from headlines and no one has manipulated the news more than her. Not even Fox News. No. In the US. What's happening today, Ju? All right. You have to guess what the beeped out word is for this news story. Study finds that crabs are excited by...

Now, I'm assuming this is the conversation you and Rachel Jackson-Lees, who was reading the headline there, our wonderful newsreader, came in and had... Rachel Jackson-Lees burst open the reading the headline there, our wonderful newsreader came in and had. Rachel Jackson-Lees burst open the door. She's like, Juliet, this crab situation, what do you want to do about it? And you were talking in tongues and we didn't ask any questions. Basically, the crabs get excited

by something and it's the type of excitement that, you know, it's that type of excitement. I'm thinking the crabs are excited that people are finally getting to know them. That discovering behind that tough, hard exterior, there's a soft underbelly in there, you know. That's what I'm hoping, you know, the crabs, you know, they'll be tired of that for a while. I'm going to say study finds crabs are excited over catchy show tunes from Disney movies like Under the Sea. Study finds that crabs are excited by plastic waste.

So these crabs are loving this plastic waste. Basically, waters off the coast of a part of England contain this chemical that comes from plastic pollution, and these crabs are like, hello, baby, and come up to this plastic waste, which is obviously bad for them. Oh, really? Yeah, it's almost being mistaken as food as well for some animals so it's not very good. Well I told you we should

keep jumping in the ocean. This is the thing the crabs love it better. The dolphins they're not that big fan of it. It's not good for them. It's not good for the environment but there you go. The top have been revealed. Sorry can I go back to that last one? Yeah.

Who did the study into the crabs' excitement levels with plastic in the ocean? Good question. Good question. Who spent time... They know we've got a virus. These people are obviously intelligent scientists. Couple of university students, it says. Well, they're not...

Yeah, I guess in university you're kind of filling in time. Yeah, you're just filling in. Anything to make a news story. All right, the next one. The top b**** have been revealed. Well, I guess if we're talking about it, I reckon it's either the top celebrity saying nice things about New Zealand or the top Olympic medals per capita.

This is what I'm hoping it'll be because it's a New Zealand article. I'm going to say the top twins for 2021 have been revealed and they look the same as the top twins from the last 30 years. But looking great. The top Bogan baby names for 2021 have been revealed. And some of these are absolute crackers. And it's more in the way of the spelling for some of them. So you've got for boys, London, but it's spelled L-U-N-D-Y-N-N.

Love it, love it. You've got fish, but spelled F-Y-S-H. Jackson, but without the O, it's an I. And then you've got Crash and Legend. And then for girls... Legend. If I have another son, I'm going to call him Legend. You're so...

But Legend spelt L-E-D-G-I-N-D-E. And for girls, you've got Charlotte, but it's spelt S-H-A-R-L-E-T. Trinity, Wednesday, but W-E-D-N-E-Z-D-A-I. And Zachwellen. Like a mixture of Zach and Jacqueline. They just morphed their two parents' names together, didn't they? Yeah, they did. And the final news story.

Best man ordered to leave wedding by bride after... I'm not going to say after a detailed speech about the les, les, les on this tagline. Alright, time. Time to go. I'm going to say best man was ordered to leave wedding by bride after she caught him writing a card and throwing it on top

of a pile of presents, pretending that he had bought them a present, but the card had detached from the gift. Ben Boyce. I had no idea that you could do, but I haven't done. Best man ordered to leave wedding by bride after risky joke and speech backfires. Ooh, I was close. Yeah, yes, you were close.

So he had done a speech, but he struggled to say anything about the bridesmaids because he didn't really know them that well. And so he winged it and said, Bridesmaids, I'm a bit short of time here, and I don't really know you all, so I'd just like to say that five out of six of you look stunning today. Figure it out amongst yourselves.

And then the whole room went dead. One of the bridesmaids started crying. And then so he went up and tried to apologise and then noticed, because he didn't know them, that one of them in particular was perhaps... Not the same as the others. Yes. And so she was obviously very affected by it, and the bride was not happy and told him to leave, that one of them in particular was perhaps... Not the same as the others. Yes. Right.

And so she was obviously very affected by it and the bride was not happy and told him to leave and that was a very bad mistake on the best man's behalf. Very awkward. And that is not... He should have looked at his comedy photo before saying... I mean, it's a funny joke. It's a funny joke.

Yeah, but this is later in the piece. Surely you've gone through a lot of... Yeah. Wedding ceremony stuff. Anyway, to get to that stage and not know who the... I know. Awful. And so any best mans listening, do not do this. Has anyone... Actually,

4487, text us. Have you ever seen anyone ejected from a wedding? What did they do? How were they unceremoniously dumped from the ceremony? I'd love to get your calls or text 4487 0800 the hits. It is the hits. You got John O'Byrne? I'm on top of the world.

I'm on top of the world. Spy. Know what's up? Spy.co.nz There's a little girl, Juliet, had a dream of becoming a surgeon, and now all she does is rip the hearts out of all of the world's most famous people with Spy. So, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have a son called Chet

Hanks and he's got half a million followers on Instagram and He's doing better than us. Good on you Chet Hanks. He's kind of like a rapper as well too, right? Yeah, part time rapper I guess but he posted a video

on Instagram basically going on a bit of an anti-vax rant, even though both of his parents, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, were hospitalized because of COVID. I think they were one of the first sort of celebrities to come out and actually say that they had COVID back in March or April. It was in Australia, wasn't it, too? Yeah, they were isolated in a hotel and getting over it.

And so Chet Hanks posted this video on his Instagram, basically going on a bit of an anti-vax rant, but he kind of lured people in. I've been kind of on the fence about this for a while. That's why I've never spoke on it. But with the amount of people that I know recently that have gotten COVID and with like the numbers rising, I think it's important for me to say like,

I got the vaccine. I suggest to all my followers, you guys make, set an appointment and get the vaccine first thing. I don't fix it I never had Colvin yeah stick to me with that needle it's the month blue to get over it okay if you're sick stay inside I'm tired of it I love his psych right rag pull there from chief but quite a long play like we're saying earlier before the show you know it's about 30 seconds into it.

So people probably watched. You know, some people, the internet generation, you move on quicker. You might have just gone, oh, well, he's pro-vaccination, and then moved on. Not the psych took too long, in my opinion. It was a long, yeah, it was a long bow, wasn't it, to get to the psych. I mean, Juliet, you're the internet generation. You would have given that five to seven seconds and gone, oh, Chet Hanks obviously saying get vaccinated get vaccinated yeah but you didn't wait for this i've been kind

of on the fence about this for a while that's why you want to respond oh yeah i was running the site a lot of people that i would do the whole thing yeah this time i just wanted the cycle hang on it's coming i'll wait for it i got the vaccine not yet i suggest they got my followers still waiting for the site yeah yeah first thing oh well you'd think his dad would be like mate saw your stuff out yeah because they had covid it's an interesting stance to make i mean everyone is entitled to their own opinion but interesting stance to make when your parents have gone through it yeah they're really really sick chet looks like the type of kid who, whenever Tom Hanks gets a call, he would answer the phone with, what's Chet done now?

He does. Doesn't he? He's like, what's Chet done now? He looks like one of those rebellious sort of sons who seems so different to the lovely Tom Hanks, you know? Interesting, interesting. Anyway, and Leonardo DiCaprio, we know he loves his yachts and he loves his parties, but a yacht worker who worked

on the same boat that he was once on revealed what he was like when he partied, and she said he's a wild one who loves a cigarette and a Bloody Mary, and they had to make sure he had a drink in his hands at all times so that he was, you know, not without a drink. Who stipulates this? Does Leo go on the boat and he's like, you must make sure I have a drink in my hand at all times?

Or it became like rumour that Leo's got to have a drink in his hand all times. And then so he's probably like, oh, people keep handing me drinks. I've got drinks in my hands at all times. I don't want drinks in my hands at all times. I don't want to say no. It was very hard when you're water skiing off the back of the boat and stuff to be holding a drink

in the back of your hand. Not now, guys. Not now. That's true. And there are models all around him all the time. So drinking DiCaprio's hand, models around him

having a good time with a cigarette in the hand as well. Maybe now a vape, though. He might be at one o'clock in the morning like, Mr. DiCaprio,

here's a drink for your hand. He's like, I'm sorry. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah yeah oh well hey good on him he keeps getting older and they keep staying the same age totally and that is spy for more you can head to the hits.co.nz we won't fade away new zealand's breakfast it's jono and ben jona good morning just gone seven o'clock breaking news breaking news this is very It's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. Got me in love. On the house.

Kia ora, good morning. Just got on 7 o'clock. Breaking news. Breaking news. This is very cool. Tip Top Bakery in New Zealand have announced that their little plastic bread tags that you're used to seeing on the top of loaves of bread are going to be no more in their company. They're going to use 100% recyclable and compostable bits of cardboard.

That's really nice. But, you know, this is a really nice thing. But I was just to say to you guys, my mum, Jenny Boyce, she loves keeping those. Why on earth does Jenny Boyce keep the bread tags? Just in case. Just in case. There's a lot of stuff just in case.

If you're new to the show, Jenny Boyce, she's not a thrower out of it. No. And she even collects crumbs from cakes and stores all of the crumbs from a variety of cakes over the years in one container. Yeah, the little things that say not, you know, silica gel things and, you know, like from... Oh, that you get in shoes and things. Little containers of those. She's got, like, you open up drawers and she's got inside the drawers are little containers with all, like, the bread tags, like, the little things, those little twisty things.

You name it, there's stuff there. Doesn't she also have the little soy sauce fish sushi, the little fish that come with the soy sauce when you get takeaway sushi? Just in case. Saves those. She's put mouthwash in those, a couple of drips of those for this. You never know when life throws you a situation where you need a mini pack of silica gel. That's what I've always said.

And Jenny Boyce is- I love looking in the drawer and then seeing something like that, and then like half an hour later go hey mum do you have any mini packets of silica gel she's like yes yes I do do you have a

hundred because I need a hundred I don't need any but I just wanted to know I just saw them in the drawer before but yeah she gets really

excited when she thinks that you need them God forbid the day that Jenny moves on I'm like I've told her what

are you going to do I can't wait to get rid of all this stuff. I mean, obviously I can't, I can't wait for it, but you know,

like, I'll wait till then. But the day after. I can wait, but I'm like, Mum, I am just, there's just so much clutter.

I'm going to sweep through this house. Just stuff. Just stuff. Well done, Tip Top, turning plastic bread tags into paper ones.

What are we going to, we were saying also, what are you going to do with your jandals when they blow out over summer? Oh paper ones What are we going to We were saying also What are you going to do With your jandals When they blow out over summer Oh yeah What are you going to put on those Yeah but

But it is an awesome thing That they're doing Sunday morning Sunday Sunday Well let's give away Some money hopefully Five words for 5k On the hits

You're only five words away From a massive payday It is our game Of word association We play it every morning at this time. Match your five words with our words and you win $5,000. All right, get ready for some no holds barred winning. Annabelle from Wamaru, Morena.

Hello. Good to have you on. You're a dairy farmer, Annabelle. Yes, I am. Can you give us the sound of a cow? I don't mind if it's out of your mouth or out of a cow's. The ones that I'm near are too far away, but it's moo.

There we go. Lovely stuff. Convincing. I love it. What would you do for five grand, Annabelle? What would you do for five grand? What would you do with five grand? Sorry. I think I would take my partner on a wee holiday up north. Lovely. I can hear birds chirping there. Tell me what you're looking at

right now With your eyeballs I'm looking through some trees At the sunrise Lovely orange Beautiful The birds are chirping There's a cow on the back Animals making noise

If they could hear a sheep bleating We wouldn't get a more New Zealand call right now This is so good Alright Annabelle, who are you going to send into the soundproof booth? You have three options. You've got Jono, Ben or Producer Juliet. Jono, if that's okay. That's okay with me. That's okay with you, Producer Juliet.

Yeah. Honestly, I've spent so much time in that soundproof booth, my wife's starting to wonder what's going on between me and that booth lately, but here we go again. He's going across to the corner of the room and as soon as he gets inside the soundproof booth, we'll get into the five words for 5K. here we go again he's going across to the corner of the room and as soon as he gets inside the soundproof booth we'll get into the five words for 5k here we go all right all right annabelle here is your first word this morning what pops into your head when i say the

word fanta fanta fizzy nice okay shade is your second word s-h-a-d-e shade or who you're going to throw some shade at sale sale did you mean oh like uh like you say oh i suppose it doesn't matter oh like so yeah okay so yeah i got your shadow or shadow or shadow oh hang on now yeah what would you like? I will go shadow. Okay, shadow. Sorry, was the first one Santa? Yeah. Yeah, perfect. Yep. Wheat is the third word.

W-H-E-A-T, wheat. Birds are still chirping. Birds are telling you what to say. A little birdie told you to say what when I said wheat? It's a sheep Are these sound effects you're playing or is this actually just going on in the middle of the farm? This is amazing I'm so sorry

No I love it It's great I love it, this is awesome, I can listen to this all day, it's so cool Wheat bag Wheat bag, oh yeah there's a farming term there for you, I love that Boat is the fourth one, boat. B-O-A-T. Boat. Sorry, what was that?

Boat. Boat? Yeah, boat. Water? Water. And the final one is Lego. Lego. Building.

Lego building. All right, there were some tough, tricky words with a few options there, Annabelle, but you did a really good job and beautiful circumstances too. Lovely. Jono is out of the soundproof booth. We can talk about this until the cows come home, and they have come home, Jono. Hello. We had a lot of wonderful animal noise still continuing.

You missed. Oh, you've got the soundtrack to the barnyard back there. Yeah, it was great. It's like talking to Dr. Dolittle. Okay. Oh, you've got the soundtrack to the barnyard back there. Yeah, that was great. It's like talking to Dr. Dolittle. Yeah. Okay, how'd you go, Annabelle? You feel all right? Yeah, good, yeah.

Always tough when you play it on the radio, though, isn't it? It is. Totally. It's a lot easier when you're listening to someone else, and you're like, oh, you should have said this. But when you're playing, it's very tough. All right, well, let's see if I become your cash cow, and you can milk my

udder. Alright, first word we said to Annabelle this morning was Fanta. Fanta? Orange. Oh, Annabelle. Mate, when he said it, I was like, yeah, I know that's going to be wrong. What did you...

I said fizzy. But that's just what bobs your head. That's how the game works. What did you... I said fizzy. Fizzy, yeah. Oh, yeah. But that's just what bobs your head. That's the game. There's drinks, soda. There's about half a dozen for Fanta. Oh, Annabelle, I'm so sorry.

But thank you so much. You provided us with a wonderful farmyard experience. It was great. Hey, you're so welcome anytime. That was awesome. It was great for us city dwelling folk to experience the farm. And not get muddy shoes or anything like that too. This is how I like the farm.

Just through my ears. Maybe we'll do this more often. Just ring up a farmer. Hey, Annabelle, hold your phone out. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. That's nice. You can charge top dollar for this phone call. I really appreciate it, Annabelle.

Thanks so much for listening. You have a great day. Hey, thank you guys. You have a good day too. You keep safe, buddy. Spies next, Jew. What's happening in the world of celebrity, mate? We've got a you, guys. You have a good day, too. You keep safe, buddy. Spies next, Drew. What's happening in the world of celebrity, mate? We've got a boomer teaming up with a Gen Z-er.

I'll fill you in on what's happening next. It is a hit. You got a shot on, Ben? It is a hit, sir. John, I'm a Ben. Spy. The what's up. Spy.co.nz.

All right. Given the news yesterday, you can strap yourselves in for daily updates on David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston's relationship from now until the day we die. Juliet, what's happening in Spy? Well, speaking of Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer, we did mention this earlier in the show, but both of their reps have come out and said

that the rumours aren't true and that they're not actually together, which is breaking all of our hearts. What do those reps know? Yeah. I know. Do they think they represent them or something? Yeah.

Yeah, that'll be devastating if it's not true. I know. I think it's what the world needed to hear, you know. The world's stock prices went up yesterday. Yes. We found out that the NASDAQ, the NZD, everything went up. Yeah, I know. And now it's just plummeted just like COVID.

So, Boomer Alert and Gen Z Alert, two of probably the most successful artists at the moment and back in the day, Elton John and Dua Lipa have collaborated on a song. They're both Brits, so they both probably know each other quite well. Now, there's a couple of boomers who do collaborate with the Gen Z every morning, Ben.

Oh, true. With Juliette. It works. It works. Totally, totally. You're right. You've got some old minds and some new minds. of boomers who do collaborate with the gen z every morning with uh juliette this is a fun thing totally totally you're right you've got some old minds and some new minds and it just works wonderfully forgetful ones and um so they've released well they're going to be releasing a song sorry together on friday called cold heart which is basically a remix of elton's songs Sacrifice and Rocket Man. That sounds lovely. Yeah, it sounds cool.

It's great that a whole new generation will get to experience this on pingas and nightclubs. And it'll do the same thing that I did to my dad when I was like, oh, this song, you should hear that. He's like, that was a cover, that was a cover, that was a cover. You know, and I'm like, really? Yeah, your dad got quite offended. Yeah, and I would do the same thing to the kids. I'm like, have you heard this? And they're like, oh yeah,

it's a cover. Blending two songs together is clever though. The lyrical content of both. Yeah, genius. One of my favourite Elton John moments, and this was from, I think they did like a global fundraiser. It was Lady Gaga saving someone. And they cut to Elton John at his house in the UK,

and he was performing I'm Still Standing. Giving out his all on the piano, wasn't he? Elton left everything out on the floor, didn't he, on the dance floor here, so he's in his yard because it's, you know, pandemic, and he's playing the piano like an absolute animal, and he's singing I'm Dildanding. Have a listen to Elton.

I'm still standing after all this time Back on the piece that's got my life Without you on my mind I'm still standing Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm still standing I'm Dill Danding. He is.

He wasn't quite nailing all the words in his own song, but he was giving it his all. He looks so happy, too. He does look so happy. Like a happy little child. He's 74 now, though, Elton. Is he? 74.

So, I mean, we can forgive him for not, you know, for singing I'm Dildan. Maybe his falsies fell out. We were talking to Ed Sheeran, weren't we, a couple of months ago, and he was saying that, because Elton John, remember, he was playing the Friends with Courtney Cox from Friends. How did that all happen? Because Ed Sheeran was there, and Ed Sheeran said,

oh, Elton loves anything that would go viral. He hadn't even seen Friends, but Ed was like, this will go viral. He's like, I'm in. He didn't even know who Courtney Cox was. He's like, who's this lady's house I'm going over to play some song I've never heard from apparently. Hold Me Close, Tony Danza or whatever they were singing. That's right.

I'm going viral, I'm going to do it. So that's pretty cool. So good. Elton John is a wonderful character. And that is Spy for More. You can head to thehits.co.nz Taking over all your favourite song intros, Jono and Ben the Hits. That's Jono and Ben. Today's OMG

I Want One prize. We're about to announce that. Oh my gosh. OMG. This is pretty epic today because of course OMG is back and it's got a twist. You get to choose between prize A or prize B. Let's find out what today's two options

are. Thank you Jono and Ben. Today it's your choice. Who's got two thumbs and would look great with Prize A? You! With the brand new Xbox Series S console. Or set those thumbs to candy crushing

work with Prize B. A new iPhone 12. Text OMG to 4487 now to get in the draw. There we go. Back to you in the studio. Two great prizes, an Xbox or a phone, and depending on where your maturity levels are

is probably where you'll sway for the prize. Yeah, so if you want one of those, of course you do. It's epic. OMG, I want one. Just text OMG to 4487, and you can make your choice, and this afternoon you can have one of those two things. Yeah, Stace, Mike and Anika will give you a bell. You choose between option A or option

B or option B or option A, depending on how well you know your alphabet. Yeah. That's pretty awesome. We'll have another great prize up for grabs again tomorrow as well. Now Ben, there's something that you want to take up with a local proprietor in the South Island running, you know, just a humble ma and pa candy shop.

He wants to take him down. It's a savage takedown of small business. There's a couple of candy shops down south, and I went to these. They're great. But in there, I thought of someone else. I thought of a famous person, and I thought, could this famous person do this particular thing in the store? Because this person always talks about or sings about doing it.

And we want to put it to the test next. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Please don't go. 6 660 please don't go it is the hits uh jonathan ben on your thursday morning now i'm not sure if you suffer the same fate being boys or maybe you're listening uh if you're raising little human beings the constant stress i find is when you're purchasing clothes or whatever that you're wanting to think you know two or three years ahead into the future. Yeah.

Yeah, because you're wanting to get the most out of that purchase. And school uniforms, jeez, they're expensive, aren't they? School uniforms. I know you, is Sienna in a uniform? Yeah, first year in the uniform this year, actually. Yeah. And so you bought her, like, a uniform that could fit a 25-year-old real estate agent.

Yeah. I did. Like, to be honest, I couldn't do it to her at the end because we put it on and she said, I was like, oh, it's too big. You look like a kid dressing up as an adult. Yeah. And I was like, I can't do that to you. It's your first year of it to me. I'm going to have to just go, okay, we'll buy one actually that fits you.

But then in doing so you're like well this isn't going to be round in 12 months you know they grow so quickly the stuff i was going to buy would have been too big for me you know like i would have been you know resawing in the stuff well what's one of the underrated perks of being an adult is you no longer outgrow your clothes you know that's a great joy that we don't appreciate you don't put on a pair of shoes and sort of have to do the little thing you put down there and you're like, oh, will I grow it? Or the thumb at the back? Oh, I've got a little bit more grow in there, you know?

You know, you can just fit into what you fit in. We need to appreciate that more as adults. Don't we, but yeah, Oscar's, he's playing basketball and so I had to get him some basketball shoes and I'm like, well, I don't want to churn through, you know, a pair of these every season. So I've gone and bought him shoes that I think might even be three sizes

too big for Steven Adams. He's running and his feet are coming out of the top of the shoes. And I'm like, just tie the shoelaces tight. Just so I can get a few years of joy out of them. So I don't know what the point of this was. No, but, you know, you're saying as an adult it doesn't really happen, but it has kind of them. So I don't know what the point of this was. No, but you're saying as an adult it doesn't really happen but it has kind of happened. We've got

matching suits. Fat shaming again, Drew. Yes! Workplace bullying. Is this bullying? Are we in a workplace? Okay, HR, get ready. Here we go. I'll explain the story and you can stop me at any stage if I'm wrong.

Now, when we had the TV show a couple of years ago, we got given matching suits for the TV show, very kindly from Hell and Stone Brothers. And so now I bring them along when we need suits. So we did this photo shoot for Five Words the other day. I brought them along. We're getting matching suits. And then you're like, have you pranked me?

Have you taken these in more? I was like, no, these are your pants. This is your size. And you're accusing me of pranking you. Every time he brings these trousers out, they get smaller and smaller. Now, I'm starting to get suspicious that he's going to a tailor every week. You know, I am a sewer, so. Yes.

And you're just taking them in by like sort of a centimetre every time. To the point now where I can't even do the top button up. Now, I know, it's definitely not me. It's the pants. They're shrinking. All right? Yes, and I'm not going to weigh into that conversation because we are in a workplace, and it's the hits.

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