Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono has a complaint about Mother's Day

Episode Date: May 8, 2022

We try a new game called The Apple Game and it's a fail, Jono has a complaint about Mother's Day and we send deserving Mums flowers with Mother's Day RedemptionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, welcome along. Podcast today. This is Jono and Ben. The date, it is the 9th of May. Sounds like you're panning out there. It is the 9th. I was just thinking, because we get paid on the 10th. I was thinking, oh, we're a day away. Yeah, monthly, monthly. Jeez, the old monthly pay is a tough one, isn't it? You've been doing it for a while.

Yeah, yeah. You're always on monthly pay now. Yeah, monthly pay. Are you fortnightly? Yeah. Yeah. Jono was always on fortnightly before in our old job, and I was monthly. And he was, oh,'re on monthly pay now. Yeah. Are you fortnightly? Yeah. John was always on fortnightly before in

our old job and I was monthly and he was like payday payday and I'm like oh mate you talked to me in two weeks. I've done both. What do you prefer?

I think it's okay. Fortnightly is probably better. Monthly is okay but you need to make sure you've got other money balanced out because some weeks you're

paying five weeks worth of stuff so you just need to have a bit in the buffer and that's hard for some people. I just feel like once I've got a mortgage I feel like you've just got no money anyway so it doesn't matter. You've just got varying because some weeks you're paying five weeks' worth of stuff, so you just need to have a bit in the buffer, and that's hard for some people, yeah. I just feel like once I've got a mortgage, I feel like you've just got no money anyway,

so it doesn't matter. You've just got varying degrees of no money that's always on the mortgage. Even when payday comes around, I'm like, I just don't really care because it's all going, you know, I'm trying to pay a mortgage. So you never get excited like you did when you were younger and you didn't have a mortgage. Absolutely not.

And your first child will be like, payday, oh my God. Now you're like, oh, it's all good. Food bills. None of it's coming my way. GST, we were just talking about GST. Oh yeah, 15%. Slap that on. Maybe when you first start getting paid though,

that's a fun time. So good, they'll be excited about payday. That was like a low income radio jobs, you know what, we're talking $30,000 maybe. $2,000 a year. Yeah, maybe less. It'll pull you through.

And you were so excited to go shopping at Classics. You spend it all in three or four days. Oh, jeez. And you have a bender that Friday night. I know. And you're like, never again. And then you do it again. And it's like 3 o'clock in the morning, who wants Jager Meisters?

Yeah, and then you just sort of have to keep going for those last few days. Oh, payday four days. I would be used to that now, though. In our industry, you industry, a lot of times it might take months to get paid. I know with some work I do, radio's frequent, but other stuff can be months, two months, longer.

What do you mean, once you've invoiced? Well, it takes them a month. They've got a month's turnaround. Yes, of course. This invoice must be paid in seven days. I always try that. People are like, no, it's not. People aren't going to pay. You're going to take us to court. Is it a that. People are like, no, it's not. People aren't going to pay. Do you know the law?

You've got to take us to court. What are you going to do? Is it a month? Is that right standard? I think that's a standard, yeah. I don't know if it's law, but I sometimes go, this invoice must be paid by tomorrow just to try my luck.

If it's a trade or someone, I'll pay it, but if it's like, yeah, I don't know. Now, I was just reading a lovely text here. Hey guys, great show this morning. You made my Monday morning easier. And that's why I was distracted at the beginning of this. That's nice, isn't it? I was just going to go, here. Hey, guys, great show this morning. You made my Monday morning easier. And that's why I was distracted at the beginning of this. That's nice, isn't it?

I was just going to go, what should we say back? Thanks so much for listening. Really appreciate it. Although the problem with our text machine is, though, because we share the text machine with... Oh, it might not be for us. It might not be for us. We'll take it.

Put John on a bed at the end of it, and then they'll feel, oh, it wasn't for them, but they took the credit. Shall I go, is this for John? Or shall I just go, hey, thanks for listening. No, just take the credit. It's going to get awkward otherwise. We know it's probably now not for us.

Okay, thanks for listening. John on a bed and they'll be like, oh, that was for... That's why we do it. That's why we do it. You make us... You're the reason we get up every morning. Yeah.

Yeah, this is your... Makes it worth it. Thanks so much. Thanks, John on a bed. And they'll be like, oh, that was for Callum and Pete. But it's a little awkward now. Oh, that's right. Hey, podcast today.

Fun show. We talked to Dyer Henwood. He's the host of the new LEGO Masters, Dyer Henwood. Yeah, it's on tonight. How many millions of pieces of LEGO did he say? 2.5 million pieces of LEGO they've got on offer for the people to make their LEGO creations, which is pretty incredible. You forget on that show, Lego Masters,

they're doing it without any instructions. That's incredible to think. So you're like, oh, hey, I'm going to build, for argument's sake, a dinosaur. You're just going, okay, I'm going to freestyle build a dinosaur. Yeah, it's really incredible. And then I was surprised to say, they just pack it straight down at the end of it.

I would have thought they'd go put it up on a shelf somewhere. At the end of the episode, someone dismantles something. Some poor, bloody, some poor 19-year-old intern. Hanging out for payday. Hanging out for payday, having to sort Lego pieces. Anyway, he's on the show today. You go and have a great Monday, all right? Jono and Ben, just like family.

The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben on the hits. Lovely to see everyone. Ben Boyce, you had an enjoyable, thoroughly enjoyable weekend. It was a busy, really busy weekend. Obviously Mother's Day, there was a lot going on.

My mum was down, catching up with my wife's mum and also hanging out with my wife, you know. A lot of family time. And then on Saturday, it was a big birthday for my wife's dad as well. So yeah, there was a lot going on. I thought he must have stuff on

because there was a distinct lack of emails from Ben. Did you notice that, Behumps? No emails from him. I was getting very anxious about the fact. I was like, just need to go. Even last night, we were still out for dinner at night. I was like, just need to get some work done, guys. Just need to send one email.

Yeah, there's too much going on. Yeah, I imagine you weren't that comfortable with not sending emails. No, not at all. It's one of his favourite homies over the weekend. A lot going on, yeah. Anyway, Belle, you had a good weekend. Early dinner on Saturday night? Yeah, we had a dinner at a really cool restaurant that has like $8.

Everything's $8. Lucky 8, it's cool. What a genius idea. Cocktails, food, little like tappers. It was so good. I don't want to out anyone, but I had to take someone home who was a little bit, a few too many beersies.

Did Jono go with you guys? It was a bit weird. Hey, Jono, good to see you. Thank you for tucking me into bed too. Holding the hair I don't have back when I was vomiting into the sink. Appreciate that. I went to, you know, clip and climb. Do you like clipping and or climbing?

Yeah, I like it. The kids love it. It's a great fun place. It's like basically rock climbing, indoor rock climbing. And so I got up there, got the harness on. Very penis-y, the harness, isn't it? Just the humble harness. It really is like a, I'm sorry, picture frame for your groin.

It does. It's sort of everything. Yeah, you're right. It's like a picture frame for your growing. It does. Yeah, you're right. It's hard not to look. And then once you notice it on yourself, you just look around everyone else. You know, all the other adults. You're like, oh, you've got the same, suffering the same fate. Did you get right up the top?

Not quite up the top. My son did. I was like, this is too high. It's really high. You watch the kids and you're watching the kids up there. You're like, wow, that's high. But when you actually get up there, you're like, oh, my God. Yeah, and then there's those mad dog rock climbers,

the hardcore ones with those weird toe shoes that they wear. They're hanging down upside down, like dangling from the roof with two fingers and stuff. Very athletic-looking people. You wouldn't see Pudger or me out there holding on for dear life. But yeah, rock climbers, magnificent bodies too. And they can fill out a harness.

They know what they're doing. Oh, I like in that. Yeah. There was a guy there with like Spanx on. Like just nothing else. Just like a little skin. Again, was it? Yeah, sorry, Bell.

Bell to get the seven-hybrid from Clifton Climb as well. Yeah, yeah. Scrolling through your feed. Straight from the internet and out of his mouth comes the news. You're looking very flustered. I found the mouse. It was hiding under about 19 things on the desk.

He's fosicking through, mate. He looks very stressed out. The most stressed out newsreader in the game. I see someone downloading that at six o'clock. Oh, God. Oh, Jesus. With the mouse. The screen's gone black.

Hey, yeah, the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, she's going to have to isolate at home for at least the next week after her partner, Clark Gayford, tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday. And you were saying, as we were talking about this before the show started, she's done actually really well to avoid it so far because she's just been travelling a lot. She goes everywhere. She's been to Japan.

Her entourage, I think the delegates, while she was travelling in Japan, they all caught it as well. I'm surprised she hasn't had it. So Gayford obviously caught it off a fellow inmate, did he? Oh, here we go. But actually, what I thought I found really interesting, just a couple of days ago, Clark put on Instagram. They've got cell phone coverage in there.

No, he was on Instagram saying, probably the most manic week of filming in New Zealand I've ever attempted. Uh-oh. Yeah, episode two on Instagram saying probably the most manic week of filming in New Zealand I've ever attempted. Uh-oh. Yeah, episode two of Moving Houses at the same time. Basically two episodes of Moving Houses.

Means I've gone to Tairua, Wellington, Auckland, Whangarei, Apipara, Auckland, Gisborne, Mahau, Auckland, New Zealand. It's like the McDonald's Kiwi Burger

songs. Wellington. It's like all those places now. Oh, jeez. Moving Houses has turned into a super spreader event.

Moving COVID. Oh, there we go. It's bound to those places now. Moving houses has turned into a super spreader event. Moving COVID. It's bound to happen at some stage. You can't blame anyone. The two of us have had it. We blame someone. We blame producer Bee Humps. We say you can't blame anyone. You called it the Bee Humps variant.

I did. But actually, speaking of new variants, there's an Omicron sub-variant, BA.5, that's arrived in New Zealand for the first time from a South African traveller. And at this stage, everyone's like, well, what does that mean? Well, it seems like potentially it could mean that some people that already had COVID could get reinfected because it's a bit more easier to catch. Maybe not as strong as anything like Delta, but it's a bit more easy to catch.

Well, we've been wandering around all cocky, haven't we, thinking that we're immune? Not now, not anymore. Is that what you're saying? Well, yeah, I think at some stage. Anyway, I was just reading an article with Michael Baker. Haven't heard from epidemiologist Michael Baker. Yeah. Kind of just, we're like, thanks, mate, we're done with you.

Yeah. And he was on TV in front of his tupper cloth every morning. You're right. He's saying nothing to be too alarmed about. It is just, it was always going to happen. It feels like it's a settled version. It's not going to put the country back into lockdown. Oh, that's good.

That's good to hear. And just quickly, a lot of controversy around. And if it threatens to, I don't think anyone will do it anyway. No, exactly. Dancing with the Stars, you know, obviously the first couple of weeks, Sonia Gray, Eli Matheson sent home a couple of the people That were tipped to win the competition Big bangers Well now there's a new change

Tomorrow night the judges get to choose Who will be sent home Hold on, changing the rules? This was always planned This is almost like an authentic dance competition That's just a sham of a TV show Is that what you're telling me? No, no, it was always planned, apparently,

according to Discovery. It was always going to plan. I mean, let's be honest. One thing that we have learned over the last couple of years is you just can't trust munters. I'm talking about us, the public. We're not like, why would you put all of that power in the public's hands?

They get to decide who goes home. But anyway, you'd be stoked if you're Eli and Sonia. Oh, now you changed it. Yeah. That is scrolling through your feed this morning. I'll go looking for my computer mouse. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Jono, you've got a new game you want us to play. It's called the Apple Game. Is it when I pick up all the apples in the supermarket looking for the ones that they want to take home with me? The crisp ones? I'm like, oh, not that one. Put that one back. Oh, not that one. That's a fun game.

That's a fun game. Another fun game Apple players changing the charger port on all of us. Oh, the Apple technology. Yes, definitely. But that's not the Apple game, okay? So this, Ben, requires you to depart the studio, okay? Now? Yeah.

Well, not just yet. I'll just explain the rules. So when you leave the studio. I need an excuse to leave. Oh, now? Do I need to just yet. I'll just explain the rules. So when you leave the studio. I don't have any excuse to leave. Oh, now? Do I need to go home? I'll see you guys tomorrow. You go home, you eat an apple.

Oh, great. What a game. They say one a day keeps the doctor away. So you leave. And then the three of us, Bell, Producer B, Humps, and myself, we will have a meeting as to who will be the person that will say,

Apple. So one of us has to say Apple and disguise our voice. You have to come back in with your eyes closed and figure out who's saying Apple. Do you have to say it like that? Like in a weird sort of tone? Yeah, like we can all change our voices to try and disguise it.

I tell you what, this smashed it out of the park at a five-year-old's birthday on Friday afternoon. And we'll see what it does at 6.30 on a Monday morning on the radio. Okay, that sounds fun. Okay, so you leave. You leave.

We'll have a little conversation between Bell, Bee Humps, and myself. I have to go. I'll go around there because I can hear you in there. Oh, you can hear us. Okay, he's actually going. You're going quite far away. Yeah. Okay, so, Bell, do you want to do it?

Okay. Okay, you can do that. I have to disguise it because otherwise it's like clearly the only female voice. Or you can go, come on. Apple. Or do you reckon... I have to disguise it, because otherwise it's like clearly the only female voice. Or you can go, Apple. Or do you reckon Bee Hubs? Apple. That's good.

That's good. Yeah, all right. Okay, we'll wave back in. Ben Boyce making his way back in right now. I'm no good at voices, eh? Well, he'll put his headphones on. Now he has to shut his eyes. Okay.

So he can't see anyone's lips moving. This is the Apple game. Okay, I'm here. I'm back in. I to shut his eyes. Okay. So he can't see anyone's lips moving. This is the Apple game. Okay. I'm here. I'm back in. I've shut my eyes. Okay. In three, two, one.

Apple. It's Bell. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh. Oh. But I also think I've got an advantage Because we're in studios There's microphones

Everyone's talking to They're coming into us Yeah okay Shut your eyes again Shut your eyes again Okay we'll go again Purple It's Bella again

It's because he knows With my microphone Yeah yeah yeah Yeah I think I am I'll take my headphones off Okay okay Okay try again Purple

Oh no it's definitely Bell. But it's also where you're positioned because I know she's to my left and I can hear the audio coming. Okay, there's some holes. There's some flaws. It's fun, though, isn't it? Okay, do it again.

Okay. Apple. That's a joke. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is The F*** News. Now, Bell Crawford, we've been working together for three or four weeks now.

You're a lovely lady, but you also go around inconveniently beeping perfectly good headlines. That's your only character flaw, but we do it anyway. It's the news and beeps. How does this work? So basically there's two news stories I've come across. A little bit quirky, some fun little stories for you. And there is one word in the headline that is beeped out and you, Jono and Ben, have to work out what the word

is. Alright. Want to hear the first one? Yeah. Okay. Florida man crashes rare Ford GT because it's a... I'm going to say he crashed the car because it's not a Skoda and he was hoping to win cash and car.

Little plug for 8 o'clock this morning, guys. Just bringing it back. He's in bed with the Škoda team and he's always bringing it back. He's a company man. That's why we love him. I'm going to go Florida Man crashes rear Ford GT because it's a fantastic way to feature in a zany news segment on New Zealand radio.

Well, that is true too. All right, what's the correct headline, Belle? Florida man crashes rare Ford GT because it's a manual. Yeah, he didn't know how to drive a manual. Not many people would now. No, most cars seem to be automatic on the road, right? Yes. How would you go in a manual, Ben?

I'd go okay, because I learned. But I'd say there's a few people even around work when you're like, oh, can you take the work thing? And they're like, oh, if it's a manual, they can't drive it. Can you drive a manual now? Yeah, mum made me, and I used to cry driving around the block trying to learn. I'd literally have tantrums, like, I don't want to do this anymore. Yeah, you don't want to be a sobbing motorist, do you?

It's never a good thing. Yeah, but no, I can drive it. My boyfriend's car is a manual. I can drive that. It's so much easier driving an auto, though, isn't it? It is, yeah. I preferred manual for a while there. Oh, did you?

Remember that inconvenient car I had from 1975, Ben? Old Kingswood. Yes, yeah. That was just, it was kind of all sorts. No power steering, and it had like a pull lever on the side that you'd change gears with. And that car became a giant pain in the arse to park around town. So it wasn't automatic, right? You had to change.

Yeah, you had to change. You had three gears. Three gears. Well, not good on the motorway. Third gear was working hard. Just like constantly a race car in the red, that thing. Ready to go. All right, what's the next headline that has a word beeped out?

Could knowing too many words be your... Could knowing too many words be your... Could knowing too many words be your... Beep. What do you think? I don't know. It could be... I don't know.

I mean, too many... I was thinking it's something to do with the Warriors losing, but I don't want to talk about that this morning. Could knowing too many words be a surefire sign

that you're a dictionary? Could knowing too many words be your downfall? Yeah, and it's to do with playing Wordle. So if you've got a bigger vocabulary, turns out you probably aren't going to be as good at Wordle and you're going to fail more because you overthink all the possibilities and you guess too many obscure words. So you need to know less words. I was at a pub on Friday night catching up with some mates.

People were playing Wordle. People were hooked. And then you got around and most of the people were still hooked into Wordle. I was like, oh man, I did two days. And I was like, oh, I'm done with it now. But that's you though. You're in it now. I was like, oh yeah, I know what that's about.

Got swept up in the madness. He did planking. He did dabbing. He was done in two days. I was like, surprised. People were still doing it. So your group of friends were all just playing Wordle around the place. Oh no, someone else was playing it next to us. We were like surprised people were still doing it. So your group of friends were all just playing Wordle around the place. Oh no someone else

was playing it next to us and we were like are you playing Wordle and then we talked around and a lot of the people were still playing Wordle around. I thought it had disappeared.

Yeah same. There's Quirtle where you can guess four words. Hurdle's quite good the music one where you get like a second of music

and then you get a bit more music. I thought that was quite good. Because the New York Times purchased it off the guy that invented it, right? He only sold it for like a million dollars or something to them. But he was getting very stressed out because basically everyone was kind of ripping him off.

Hurdle, hurdle. I know, and he was going to have to send all these cease and desist letters from his lawyer. So he's like, just sell the thing. I'll get some money. I don't have to worry about it. I mean, we watched Ellen the other day. One of Ellen's final episodes. She was ripping it off.

She was ripping it off. It was called something, five-letter words scramble or something, you know? It was like, five-letter words scramble. It was. It was definitely a word. He's probably come up with one four-letter word that begins with the F and ends with K. The Hits. Jono and Ben.

It's Maroon 5, girls like you. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben on your Monday morning. There's a really heartwarming series coming to TVNZ2 tonight at 8.30. It's created in consultation with the New Zealand Down Syndrome Association. It's called Down to Love, and it follows people with Down Syndrome as they search for love and romance. And one of the cast, who is looking for love, joins us right now.

Josh, good morning. How's things? What's up, Jono and Ben? Oh, how are you? You're a legend, all right, mate? Oh, yeah, I'm all right. Now, are you excited to see yourself on TV. Oh, how are you? You're a legend, all right, mate? Oh, yeah, I'm all right. Now, are you excited to see yourself on TV? Oh, yep. It's a dating show for you, so you went on a date, Josh. Oh, yep.

Who was your date with? Sophie. Sophie. Because we were reading that some of the dates are at really cool locations, like Rainbow's End, Larnac Castle, Romantic Harbour Cruise. Whereabouts was your date? My date was in Kelly Tarleton's. Kelly Tarleton's?

Oh, mate. Did you see some big sharks there? We showed the penguins. Oh, they're cute. Beautiful, beautiful. Now, Josh, we understand you like dancing. You're a big fan of dancing. You like going to the club.

Yep. That's me. That's you. What fan of dancing. You like going to the club. Yep. Yep. That's me. That's you. What's your favorite song to dance to in the club? Every song. Every song. Do you know, Josh, I am the polar opposite of you.

I'm an awkward white guy, middle-aged, and I can't dance, Josh. I need to get some moves off you, mate. I know. Meet me at the club. You can see. At the club. We're going to meet at the club. Well, yeah, because, Josh, you not only like dancing, but you also

like pro wrestling as well. Yep. Who's your favourite wrestler? I've got to ask that. John Cena, Wade the Orton, and Undertaker and Ric Flair. Ric Flair, did you say? Yeah. Ric Flair from the 90s? Yep.

I remember Ric Flair. And Jake the Snake. Yeah. Ric Flair from the 90s? Yep. Oh, that's a... I remember Ric Flair. And he had a... And Jake the Snake. Jake the Snake. Yeah, that was like when we were kids. We were watching those guys. Ric Flair did have an extraordinary amount of flair, didn't he? And there was also...

Do you remember Mr. Perfect? Yeah, he was good. Oh, Mr. Perfect, yep. And he would always do a golf shot and always get it in. It was always. And he was always perfect. Yeah. We did it actually, Josh. We did, Jono ando and I last year we actually fought in wrestling in New Zealand

the two of us were in a tag team and we were meant to be the good guys and when we came out everyone booed I will beat them up you'll beat them up we were the good guys everyone was like who's Jono and Benny everyone was like boo

hold on, hey now Josh We were the good guys. And everyone was like, here's Jono and Benny. And everyone was like, boo. Hold on, hold on. Hey, now, Josh, Sophie, who you went on a date with, has she now become your girlfriend? Oh, you're allowed to tell us that? Oh, okay. Yeah, he doesn't even know.

Don't worry about spoiler alerts. Oh, Josh, it looks like such a lovely show. Lovely to meet you. I can't wait to see the show tonight. Yeah. And you'll have to teach me how to dance, bro. Oh, yeah. Meet me in the pub.

Meet you in the club. Won't say what club, just meet me in the club and I'll be there. Okay, Josh, lovely to meet you, buddy. You have a wonderful day. Yeah, you do. See you, Josh. See you, mate. It was awesome. That's tonight, Down to Love, 8.30 on TVNZ2. Lovely innocence About Down Syndrome

People eh There's a boy At my daughter's Primary school She fell over And grazed her knees And she had to go To the sickbay

And little Sammy Took her to the sickbay And he wouldn't Leave her side Hugging her They're just beautiful Aren't they Yeah

Spy Know what's up Spy.co.nz Time for some SCG salacious celebrity gossip. Belle Crawford, what's happening? Sophie Turner, she's married to Joe Jonas and she was talking about why

she turned an invite to an exclusive after party held by Kendall Jenner who you may know who that is. Have a listen to this. She went like do you want to come? And I just went, no. No. No, I don't.

And I'm like, why? Why do I do this to myself? I would love to come. She's like, no, no, I'm good. No, later. And then I just sat in bed and that passed her and I was like, could be somewhere else right now. Yeah, she wanted to go, but she was just too shy,

feels awkward around her, was a bit starstruck and just was like, oh no, even though she really wanted to go. Well, yes was always an option. But you get frazzled in those situations. I get frazzled too. You did. Remember that time that we had Tiger YTD and Jermaine Clement, they had a movie out and we were meant to be going to the premiere, but we did have work and then work, the thing changed. And so I guess essentially we could go, but you told them this whole thing. They're like, are you going tonight? You're like, nah, we're meant to have work, but then we don't have work and then work the thing changed and so i guess essentially we could go but you told them this whole thing they're like are you going tonight you're like nah we're meant to have work but then we don't have work now so and then you stopped and then they were both like and then

jimmy was like so you can come and i was like oh no no oh so i sympathized with sophie you just panicked yeah i had a full panic yeah and i don't know because ben was looking at me like what are you doing why are you telling them the whole story? He can't lie. Also, there was a mini Spice Girl reunion over the weekend. Only two of them though, Melanie B and Victoria Beckham. They shared a photo on Instagram. So Victoria was dressing Melanie,

which is Scary Spice, for a special event where Melanie received her Royal MBE honours at Buckingham Palace for her work with domestic violence and helping there. And also, so Victoria dressed her, and then she surprised her by actually turning up and being there as well, which was super special. Now, you're a huge Spice... What do you call yourselves? Spices?

I'm a Spice Girl fan. You're a Spice Girl fan? I even flew to London to go see them at Wembley. Yeah, you interviewed one of them. Yeah, Melanie C, the best one, Sporty Spice. So obviously, Victoria hasn't come back to join them on stage, but they're obviously really still good friends. All of them are still friends with her.

They love her. They're very supportive of her career choices. And yeah, hopefully if they do another one, she'll turn up. She's just doing more important things. She just doesn't want to do it anymore, and that's fair enough. As my dad would always say say she couldn't sing anyway who Victoria yeah

why was your dad chiming in on the Spice Girls he took me to the Spice World movie when I was a kid oh was he like was he a classic Kiwi dad

arms folded yeah and he's like oh she couldn't sing anyway when I told her she wasn't going to be at the reunion could she sing

was she the worst out of them I don't know I mean they weren't the best singers but we all love them anyway. That's the thing. They were massive. I mean, yeah, a huge, huge part of many people's

childhoods. Yeah. And that is by, you can get more now, thehats.co.nz Warning, this show contains references to Jono's baldness. Jono and Ben on the Hats. Now on TV tonight, TVNZ TVNZ 2's Lego Masters NZ is going to be on TV.

And to celebrate the warehouse partnership with that program, we've got a $500 warehouse voucher to give away each Monday on the show. Everything is awesome, as they say. Well, probably Monday morning everything's mediocre, but we'll plow on through it anyway. So we put a photo of Lego figurines of Ben and myself. They're cute. They've got little suits on.

I've got some hair. No, we got sent one from the Lego master. And they're like, look, the Lego master's done a Lego version of you. It's just a Lego figurine with the hair pulled off. That's you? They've done a version of you? That's all it is. He's like, how do I get this?

Oh, hang on, the hair. I'll take that off. There we go. That's why I'm the master. Did you get those little things? Yours looked great. Yeah, mine looked great. Mine's just. Oh, hang on, the hair. I'll take that off. There we go. That's why I'm the master. Did you get those little things? Yours looked great. Yeah, mine looked great. Mine's just...

Oh, my God, they're luscious. I've probably got more hair than I need, actually, to be honest. Mine's just... Oh, you just pulled the hairpiece off. Oh, that's good, though. So if you go to our Instagram stories right now at the Hits Breakfast, you work out where Jono's little figurine without hair, and my one with hair is,

which warehouse store it is around the country, and 0800 the hits, you win a $500 voucher. Yeah, so all you need to do is do a search and rescue mission on two three-centimetre Lego figurines hidden somewhere in New Zealand. We'll go to Emily in Christchurch. You're on the air. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast.

Good morning. Thank you so much. Great to have you on, Em. You jumped on the old SoshMed, did you? I think so. She doesn't know what SoshMed is. I have no idea what you're doing. I'll politely laugh though. I think I did. No, you went

to the hits breakfast on social media, SoshMed, that's what Shotto's decided to call it, and you worked out where the little figurines were. Where do you think they are? Which warehouse store? I think they're in Newmarket. And you'll be 100% correct. Well done. Awesome, thank you.

Now, did you think mine was just a Lego figurine with the hair ripped off its head? Probably. Yeah. It looks cute. Built by the Lego master. Yeah, well done. $500 warehouse voucher for you, all right?

Oh, yay, thank you. That's pretty awesome. And from Harry Potter and Friends to architecture and botanicals, the warehouse stocks the perfect Lego set for everybody. The warehouse proud partner of TVNZ2's Lego Masters New Zealand. It's on 7.30 p.m. tonight. Now, your kid's obsessed with Lego. We understand him.

Yes, they are. I've got four children, and my four-year-old is very much getting into it. I keep standing on it. It's great fun. Yeah, that is the joy of parenting Lego fanatics, too. Plus, you're always in charge of the cleanup, aren't you? They never pick and clean them up themselves. Oh, they never do, no.

Also, I'm in charge of getting it out of the vacuum cleaner, too. Yeah, I love that noise. It's so satisfying when it goes up the pipe, a piece of Lego of the vacuum cleaner too. Yeah, I love that noise. It's so satisfying when it goes up the pipe, a piece of Lego of the old vacuum cleaner. Hey, Em, while you get back on that SoshMed, mate, go and have a great week. You too. Thank you so much.

Scrolling through your feed. I can't promise this is going to be the most informative news update. And that's all I have to say on that. There's nothing else I can say. Now, this was on 7 News in Australia just over the weekend. Dramatic footage has emerged uh a reporter was doing a cross on the beach and then he basically just before he was about to go live when they filmed it there was a kid a 10

year old boy from overseas got stuck in a wave and he ran out there and basically and helped uh save a drowning kid just before he was about to broadcast they came back on the air just afterwards they had some footage of him going out and doing it and this was a drowning kid just before he was about to broadcast. They came back on the air just afterwards. They had some footage of him going out and doing it, and this was him explaining it just within the live cross. Pictures behind us, you can see some of the Ambo's out there, but it was dragged out through the gutter. We raced out there. Unfortunately, I had to get my shirt off, which is not a good look,

but we got out there and we looked for him, and then one of the other fellas found him. We got out there and basically grabbed him and pulled him back to shore. He's very lucky. The Amboases are here. The police are here. Pretty incredible, eh? So is he doing that cross

with his shirt off? No, he's not. Because at first it popped up just as a picture. I'm like, this guy looks frazzled. He looked like he had a big night out. Like his shirt's sort of unbuttoned his collars up

and you're like, he looks a bit wet and he's perspiring. You're like, has he been at work drinks or something? Put me on, coach. He'd obviously been out in the water and helped, done a hero thing.

And then didn't you feel like a monster? I did. I was like, come on, mate, bit of decorum. You're on the news. Put yourself together. And then he'd obviously saved a boy, which is very, very heroic. What was his actual story he was there to be reported? I'm not exactly sure.

No one cared about that anymore. Have you ever saved anyone's life Ben? well no, I don't think, not in that regard no, have you ever saved a life Ben? yeah I was babysitting a little boy once and he started choking and I was 15 and I got the food out, did you? time lick, well he was, yeah exactly

he was eating and crying and I was like don't eat if you're going to cry Because you're going to choke And I put my hands in his mouth And tried to get all the food out And then I did a Heimlich and it all came out 15 saved a kid's life Well you're saying that very casually too

And you never want to be crying and eating At the same time do you I'm always sobbing when I'm eating Ben's like pull yourself together in the food court mate And earlier this morning we discovered that the prime minister is isolating at home uh for the next week after a partner clark gayford tested positive for covid 19 uh yeah over the weekend so she has has avoided it beautifully so far for someone who's traveled around the world been to all sorts of every part of new zealand and hasn't caught it yet

she might be immune to it a lot of the Zealand, and hasn't caught it yet. She might be immune to it. A lot of the world leaders have obviously caught it. They made big news. Donald Trump and Boris Johnson in 2020, they were infected. Scott Morrison, the Australian Prime Minister, in March this year. So it feels like, again, we're probably a little late to the party. Aren't we?

Good COVID party. Well, it's not going to get headlines either. It's international headlines. No. If you went early, that was always my theory. Go early. I wanted you to get COVID early. Just me.

Why didn't you get it early? Just to give a PR for the show because I didn't want to get COVID. But I was like, oh, you can get it and get a couple of headlines. Oh, you know, beloved broadcaster. You're like, when we got it, that was your main concern, that when we both got it a few weeks ago, you're like, well, no one cares about it. It's not a headline. No.

It was past the pack. The media coverage, like Hilary Barry goes and gets it now, that's going to be a headline. Not you, Ben. Not me. If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history. Jono and Ben on the hits. On Friday, we were talking about trouble in Toilet Town after a poor intern here at the radio station ended up spending a good hour or two stuck in the work bathrooms because the lock jammed. Yeah and he was too polite to raise alarm bells. Obviously new to the workplace you don't want your first big statement in the office to be a tryst in the toilet. A toilet mishap do you? I mean that's going to

follow you around for the rest of your career. So we've been talking about trouble in Toilet Town actually just over the weekend. An article that popped up. 42% of people would rather clean a toilet than call customer support. That's according to a survey. What are the options? Well, if you're going to have to call a helpline to get on the thing, if you've got to call the IRD or something

like that, most people are like, I'd rather just clean a toilet. But not that you get to Who held this? What was this? It's a survey. Did you hear the Forbes? Forbes magazine ran a survey. Would you rather clean a toilet? Well, Forbes are running it. Anyway, don't question me.

It's a respected Forbes magazine have gone, hey, we'll do a... It's like a headline leadership strategy too, right? This is the stuff I read. Seems like a very strange would you rather. It does, anyway. Okay, so trouble were troubled in Toilet Town. We had some great calls come through on Friday.

Melanie was a ripper on the plane. I already had my pants down and then I realised the toilet seat wasn't that clean. So I bent down to wipe it and I didn't realise that the door had actually gone open. Oh no! So you just bent over and the door...

So... I managed to flash my backside for the whole section of the airplane. Accidentally flashing a whole section of an airplane. With the door bit. Now since we had her call on Friday a lot of correspondence over the weekend

people have also had trouble in Toilet Town we're going to open it up again 0800 the hits telephone number 4487. We've got Maria who got in touch over the weekend. Morning Maria Oh my gosh Oh my gosh, what happened? What happened?

Okay, so what I did, I called into the petrol station. Like, I always go there, get me a coffee. Yeah. And, well, I ordered my coffee and went to the loo just for wheeze. Well, good on you for buying something, because Jono has a habit of just going to the petrol station bathrooms and not buying anything. No wonder why.

He doesn't buy anything. It's like, it's for customers only. But anyway. Well, Ben goes in there and buys something anyway. What do what? He doesn't buy anything. It's like customers only. But anyway. Well, Ben goes in there and buys something anyway. I know. I feel obligated. So anyway, you bought something. You went to the bathroom.

What happened? And then I like sat down. I wiped the toilet. There was a little bit of toilet paper. So I wiped the toilet, wiped the toilet, went to the toilet. And halfway through the business, I thought that, like, okay, check the toilet paper. And there was none left.

Uh-oh. So, what I did was, like, I tense those muscles and half pulled my pants up, like, so, and ran out of the toilet to go get some soot. What? So, in the petrol station? Yeah. Like. Okay. You know, you can put your pants all the way up. Yeah. So you're sort of

half-dressed going around the service station looking for serviettes. Yeah. Did you find any? Yes, I got some serviettes and they're like, check at the counter. She was like, alright girl. And I was like, yeah, there's no toilet paper in that toilet.

Wow, the lady that went before me was like right there. And are there other people in there at this moment? Well, no, just the two of us and the two checkout people. Oh, mate. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. I'm glad. Well, thank goodness you got a us and the two checkout people. Oh, mate. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. I'm glad.

Well, thank goodness you got a hold of the serviettes. Yeah, yeah. Hard out. Yeah. Well, I guess you can grab two. My partner rung me and he's like, well, why don't you ring the petrol station and tell them to bring some toilet paper to you?

I'm like, who? And you don't think of that at the time. And you're like, where were you when I had my pants down crawling around the petrol station? Love your work, Maria. See you, mate. Yous have a great day. You too, buddy.

We're talking trouble in Toilet Town. We've had so many great calls and texts coming through. Like Lee, who had a wee incident on the building site. I was a labourer on a building site. Went to use the site toilet, and the guys put a two-metre skip in front of the door. Yeah, building sites. So couldn't get out.

You'd be nervous about using the lavatory on a building site, wouldn't you, Ben? Would you trust anyone on a building site? No. No. It'd be like having one at the radio station as well, too. It'd be the same thing, right? No, not one of those people

in Hiver's vest can you trust. So 0800 the hits, trouble in toilet town. I know Ben, when the police ever turn up here at work he always likes to rush off and flush something down. I don't know,

what's he got stuff in his pockets he flushes down the toilet bell? Why are you incriminating me? Hell of a day, eh? Ben's voice is actually, I can't imagine him having illicit drugs in his bag. No, he flushes them.

He likes the rules, he seems a bit too jumpy to be his bag. No, he flushes them. He likes the rules. He seems a bit too jumpy to be doing that. Yeah, I'd be very nervous. If anything, he needs something calming. You would be the worst runner, you know, an international runner of sub stores. I'd be so nervous. I even think, Jesus, did I accidentally take an apple from somewhere and have it in my bag if I was going through? He's even nervous with produce.

Let's go to the phones on 0800. The heads are talking trouble in Toilet Town. We have Malcolm on. Now, we understand this is an automatic toilet, and something happened with your friend. What was it? She was out with her three-year-old and was pregnant with her second child and got caught short. So she went into this fairly small automatic toilet, which was located at a very busy intersection,

and got in, sat down, and then the three-year-old decided to push the button to open the door. Yeah, there she was in full view of all these cars that had stopped at the traffic light and had to work out how to get up and then push the close door button without showing everything.

Oh, that is, I mean, they are a blessing and a curse at the same time, those toilets. Honestly, my friend, I've said it a couple of times, went to the one in Taupo, which is, you know, it's like a toilet sent from the future, this one.

And he got locked in there and he heard the voice go automatic cleaning shall start in two minutes and the doors locked on him and he couldn't get out and so he found himself in a spray of antiseptic blue cleaning liquid just coming from everywhere the floor the walls the ceiling it was a shower of blue liquid. And he came out looking like a Smurf Malcolm. Oh, that's awful. What do you do?

Where's the override? Exactly. Where is the override? The panic button that you push. Yeah. Exactly. His skin got stained because it was like a dye. He even went for a swim in Lake Taupo.

Couldn't get rid of it. Oh, really? Yeah. So he looked like one of the extras from Avatar or something for the next two weeks. Hey, Malcolm, thank you so much for calling, mate. Have a day. Okay, cheers. Have a good day.

Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning at this time on The Hats. We tell you five words. You tell us what pops into your head. After those five words, all five match up with ours. You win five grand. Tell you what we don't come across enough nowadays, Ben Boyce.

Enough Freyas. You're never going to meet many Freyas, do you? That's a cool name. That's a great name. And we've got one on the phone from Carpety Coast. Welcome, Freya. Good morning. How are you guys?

Lovely to have you on. Great name. Thank you. Has it done you well in life? It has when people can pronounce it and spell it right. Oh, what's the bugbear with Freya then? Freya, or they put a J in it when they spell it. Oh, Freja.

Yeah, after the Y, you know, that's all right. Oh, that's all right. It's a fun name. It's a fun name. I mean, it's given us at least 60 seconds with the banter as well. Really appreciate it. Freya, what we like to do sometimes, bit of role play, how would you react if we were to say,

you've just won $5,000? Oh, yay! Celebrate! Go out! Feel a little forced. I don't think you'll be winning any Oscars for that. It's very early. It's very early still in the morning And to be fair you haven't won the money

So why would you put on an Oscar worthy performance? I know when you do win the money You're going to give it 110 though aren't you Freja? I am, I am Alright we'll try our best for you that's for sure Okay who do you want to send in as the soundproof both? Jono please Alrighty heading on in Okay, who do you want to send in as the soundproof both? Jono, please. All righty, heading on in.

Okay, Freya, obviously you know how the game works. I do, yes. We've moved away from last week's Mother's Day-inspired words because that was really confusing for all of us. That didn't go too well, did it? No, it didn't quite go so well. So here you go today. Let's see how we can go with these words from producer Bee Humps.

The first word this morning is tupperware. Tupperware. Tupperware. Raw. Coming from my house, I want to say cupboard. Oh. Or drawer. Yeah? Or.

No, I'm going to say drawer. Okay, keep your Tupperware in a drawer, dear. I do. All right. Ram is word number two.pperware in a drawer, dear. I do. All right, ram is word number two. R-A-M, ram? Raid. Oh, yeah, yeah. All in the news.

Yeah, right, the ram raid, yeah. That's pretty scary, that sort of stuff going on in New Zealand. Okay, Beckham is the next word this morning. Beckham. David. Yeah, David. Well, you've got a few options to choose famous Beckhams there. Breakfast is word number four.

Breakfast. Cereal. Cereal. And test is the final word this morning. T-E-S-T, test. Oh, test. Oh, there's a few options there Yeah

You've got the school You've got Along the school lines You've got the COVID world That we live in There's a whole lot of testing Going on these days Test

Let's go Jono likes to put words After that one Sometimes he does Yeah Yeah Let's go Rat I like to put words after that one. Sometimes he does, yeah. Yeah. Let's go rat.

Rat test. Okay. All right, Freya, you did a really good job. There was a couple of tricky words this morning. So we'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth and we'll see if we can match five words with Freya. We had Ben's daughter locked in the soundproof booth last week, remember? Yeah, she came into work. She was like, can I go work in there?

And I was like, oh, yeah, sure. So it was like a little office for her. Yeah, it was wonderful stuff. Yeah, nice and soundproof. Freya, how do you think you went? I'm not putting my money on it. Okay. But you know what?

You never know. You never know. That's right. I don't really even know what Jono's going to say. That's a hard thing. Neither do I. That's what frightens me and also excites me Jono's going to say. That's a hard thing. Neither do I. That's what frightens me and also excites me about every morning on the show. Excites me for what?

Okay. Okay, here we go. I'm going to mix things up for you this morning, Jono, just to be a bit different. We're going to say Beckham. What do you say when I say Beckham? Are you a fan of football or fashion, Frank? Hey, hey, she can't answer that. But she would.

Oh, no. I was going to, you know. David. There we go. go well done one from five uh ram was the next word i'm going to chuck to you ram uh i'll just go ram raid because it's in the news at the moment well done breakfast breakfast breakfast time Breakfast time. Oh. What did you go, Freya? Cereal. Cereal. Oh, mate.

Now, this is the last two, so we get a wee bit tricky as well. Tupperware. Container. Oh, of course, of course. And Freya went drawer and test. Rat test. Ah. Well, not too bad, Freya, but not quite good enough for $5,000 this morning. I'm so sorry. Nah, that's all good. Appreciate it.

You guys have an awesome day. We got your reaction when you said you had won $5,000. Now let's get your reaction. Freya, you've won nothing. Awesome. Wow. That's alright. You're awesome, Freya. You're a champion.

Thank you so much for listening We appreciate it alright See you later Hard hitting interviews And informed opinion Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB In the meantime Jono and Ben On the hits

Wild rumours being spread Around the workplace About me Ben Boyce About you yeah I heard about these And we throw this word Around a lot Besmirching

The good name of Jono We throw it around too But this time There has been some besmirching Hasn't there I had come up to me on friday going did you hear jono hit uh bogsy who's the ceo his car in the work garage and i was like well no i didn't hear about it but also it doesn't surprise me i've seen how you drive yeah i mean i would prefer any other route i'd even prefer did you hear jono's been siphoning money from the company? Spending on all sorts of stuff. Personal reasons. Day spas.

Botox. Hair transplants. You don't like the fact that you've... Knocking into the CEO's car that's personal. Taking money out of the company. That's just business baby. That's not business neither. Your logic is all over the place. It's like you're driving in the garage. But you know

knocking into the CEO's car, that's like, that's hitting them where it hurts. And then driving off and not claiming it. And now these rumours have spread that I've done it. So you didn't do it? You're going to go on the record and say you didn't do it? I haven't done it, no. But I walk through the office now and I hear people whispering.

So where's it come from? Where's all this come from? Well, we've done some investigative work. It's come from our immediate boss, Emily. She's just started this rumour out of nowhere for some reason. I don't know where, but it's gone to the top. Management note. Okay.

So we phoned Emily just during the air break before. Hello, Emily speaking. Emily, it's Jono here. Oh, hi. Now, what's this I hear about you spreading vicious rumours about me to the upper echelons of the radio station's management? Oh, did you not hear it yesterday? Oh, no, it's come back to me. It's looped back round.

A lot of people are saying, oh, my God, I can't believe you hit Boxy's car in the garage. And apparently the source, the core, the core source of the rumor, everything leads back to you, Emily. So I'd like to explain what's happened. Well, I kind of took some creative liberty from that video I think you did down in the car park where you nearly, the driving one, you nearly hit a person. Oh, yeah, yeah. I just turned that into the car for comedic value for the whole company.

Not just any car, though. The CEO's car. Yeah, well, you know. This is on a big group meeting with all the management. And from what I understand, there's a format in these managerial meetings where each of the managers give out $100 to an employee who's done a great job and $10 to an employee who's done a lesser of a job. And I got the $10 one.

And you said I'd reversed into Michael Boggs, our CEO's car, and drove off. You were a comedic fighter, which you're happy to be. But in this case, I don't think you did. Well, I don't know. I wouldn't put it past him. I thought you'd be fine with it. I didn't think I'd...

Yeah, well, listen, the other thing that concerns me about this, Emily, is I have been here for now two and a half years. I've never once received a $100 well done, you've done a good job, you've done a good job prize. Oh, you got 10 bucks, though. Yeah, you got 10. I haven't even got the 10 bucks. I've had my name slandered. I didn't even got the $10. I've had my name slandered.

I didn't even get the $10. Is it just a virtual thing? Is it like a virtual money or is it actual money? Ask Michael. Ask Foxy, then. Are you giving out fake money? I was. The punchline.

I don't know about hitting his car and how he's going to pay you the $10. I don't even get $, but it's fake money. Oh, Emily. Well, thank you very much, Em. Oh, you're welcome. Good luck. Good luck. The good name of John O'Prior, besmirched.

Right there. And you're loving it, too. I can tell you're loving this besmirch and you're sitting there in your ivory tower. Every day. You say just before you said I was flushing illicit substances down there. Yeah, you're always incriminating poor Ben.

Just moments ago. Don't worry, Ben, I got your back. Now you get on your high, thank you, Bell, now you get on your high horse and that, yeah. You broadcast that.

Yeah, it's a rollercoaster. Yeah. That's Cash and Car. Guess how much cash we've stashed in the Skoda's boot and drive it home along with all that money.

If you want that sweet Škoda Kamek Monte Carlo car worth just under $46,000, this incredible car and thousands and thousands of dollars in the boot, you need to guess how much cash is in the boot and only cash keeper Alex knows that exact amount. Has anyone come tantalisingly close to the figure? Well, no. No.

No. Because you know what? When it's down to the cents, there's a lot of things it could be. Yeah, it really does open it up. It enables us to drag this thing on for a few more weeks. Let's get Kelly on from Auckland. Morning, how are you? Good morning, John. I'm Ben.

How are you guys? Great to have you on, Kelly. What do you do with your life? What do you do? I'm listening to you guys trying to win a scooter and some cash. That's my life. That's your life. Fair enough. I hope that would change your life if you won this amazing car. I hope there's more in your life than just listening to us.

Yeah, I'm busy with family, juggling family, and, yeah, trying to declutter my house at the moment. Oh, jeez, I've always wanted to do that. There's a show on TV about that, isn't there, with decluttering at the moment? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's good, and the edit on Netflix, that's pretty good. Okay, Kelly, you could win a brand-new Skoda,

and all of the money that is hidden away in the boot we're going to hand you over to Cash Keeper Alex. Alex. Hello, Kelly. Kelly from Auckland. Please give me your guess. My guess is $20,000

and $20,000 and $22.59. Cool. That's a tough one to write down. $20,000. Wait. Kelly from Auckland. Monday morning. That was one of those figures that does trip you up, doesn't it?

Yeah. Yeah, okay. Say it with conviction. All right. Kelly from Auckland with a guess of $20,022.59. Yes. That is incorrect. I'm sorry. No worry.

No worry. Plenty more chances for you to guess, all right? I'm going to throw you a line. Oh, here we go, Kelly. It's a clue. We've had two clues already. Two ballpark figures. It was higher than last year's guess

and it's lower than the petrol amount that it would take to fill 144 tanks. Very uncomplicated. That figure can sit between $15,000 and $20,000. My calculations must have been wrong then. Interesting.

You were only $22 over. Oh man, I always overspend. Kelly, you're an absolute Kiwi hero. You go and have a great day. Appreciate you time. I will do. You guys, have a great day. You too, Kelly. So between $15,000 and $20,000,

is what you're saying? Yeah, I think I got a text saying that I could say that this morning. Well, you have. You heard it here. Feels like a big leap forward. Might not be able to say that again. So if you're listening right now, you've got a very, very good clue to hopefully win that cash and the car. Next chance at 11 o'clock this morning.

The only way you can get in for that one is on the iHeart app. Download that right now, and Cash Keeper Alex could be calling you back with your next guest at 11 o'clock. Thank you very much, Alex. Appreciate it. Something yesterday, Mother's Day, that I noticed. I think some credit needs to be given

to a section of society that doesn't receive credit on Mother's Day. If it's anyone but the mother, then we're not having this discussion. If it's anyone but the mother, we're not having this discussion. We'll have a discussion during the song and see what happens.

We'll have this discussion on the air. I don't mind the I'm not into hits. You've got Jono and Ben dreams. They're not afraid to use the F word. Be family friendly fun. Jono and Ben on the hits. Hope everyone had a good Mother's Day. The mothers out there.

And we made a bit of an ad, a bit of a fake ad for a mother product that we've put on the Hits Breakfast at the moment on social media. Yeah, it's like a remote control. It's called the Mother Buzzer. It's the all new Mother Buzzer 2000. It's the mother of all remotes. And it's perfect for when you want to mute those pesky, demanding kids. I'm asking folks to go to the movies.

Hello? Mum? But wait, there's more. I usually leave them in the jar of mayonnaise. With one simple push of the mother buzzer, you can turn your shambolic husband into a bedtime story reading Matthew McConaughey. Well, hello there. I'm Matthew McConaughey,

and tonight I'll be reading a special sleep story called Wonder. Oh, he's got a great voice, hasn't he, Matthew McConaughey, and tonight I'll be reading a special sleep story called Wonder. Oh, he's got a great voice, hasn't he, Matthew McConaughey? If you want to see the full version of that, head to The Hits Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook. And thanks so much to Sky City Grand for providing us the set that we filmed that in. I think there's also a mother buzzer at Peaches and Cream. Someone commented on one of our things Going there might be something else But anyway We didn't think about that

We're so innocent Ben It's Mother's Day it's wholesome Are you having a good Mother's Day with Amanda? I did actually we had a busy Mother's Day Breakfast at home with the kids And then I called up my mum for a picnic And then we went out for dinner last night With Amanda's mum as well it was a very very busy day

There was too much going on for Ben. Too much going on, you know. And I got mocked for a restaurant. But the whole table was saying something was yummy. And everyone was like, what are you, four? I was like, oh, that was yummy to the waiter. What was wrong with saying yummy? Exactly. We all say that.

Yeah, oh, that was yummy. And it was like, you don't sound like an adult. So there you go. I got a bit offended by that. The biggest thing stressing Ben out yesterday was he couldn't email. He'd stuff off. There was a lot going on, guys. There got a bit offended by that. The biggest thing stressing Ben out yesterday was he couldn't email. He had stuff on. There was a lot going on, guys. There was a lot going on.

Sienna made a beautiful handmade card as well, I've got to say. Yeah, the girls worked really hard on some amazing cards. And little videos they did as well, little edit videos, which are really cool for Amanda. It's good. It's some lovely jingle. The same bit of a homemade card there from Poppy. It's lovely gestures as well, isn't it, from the children.

But I just want to raise a flag, okay? Because a lot of the time, people that aren't the children are purchasing the present, okay? They're purchasing the Mother's Day present. No, you can't. A lot of the time, they aren't the kids. And then the kids are getting all of the credit for it.

Of course, though, they should. Last time I cheated, I didn't see Oscar, my son, down there tapping and going his credit card. The day spa. You know, the present purchaser doesn't get any acknowledgement. No, he shouldn't. As well, mate, you got a Father's Day. If you want,

you got other days. You got a birthday. It's not about you. Yeah, I know, but the thing is the kids are getting all the present glory, aren't they? Well, they can go down. I mean, my kids went down and they chose something. I was like, you know, they did it. They pushed the thing through. Producer Behart's all the present glory, aren't they? Well, they can go down. I mean, my kids went down and they chose something. I was like, you know, they did it. They pushed the thing through. Producer Behart's got the same thing, don't you?

You bought a... It's like Dottie's... She's won. She's won. She's like, well, she's left us. Drop the ball. This year, guys, she hasn't done anything. You went and purchased...

Did Dottie get all the credit? Exactly. She hasn't got a job yet, you know? Yeah. At the bank. So just acknowledgement today. After Mother's Day. Yes, it's all about the mothers. So just acknowledgement today, after Mother's Day.

Yes, it's all about the mothers. It's all about the mothers. But there's some people who may have purchased presents for mothers that didn't get you, Greg. But the mothers will know that in that situation. They'll know that you've went to that effort. But you don't need to be. Well, I'm just taking time to say, hey, well done, everyone who purchased presents. And maybe the kids too. Well, if you haven't actually purchased a present, or maybe you're a mother with feeling a little bit like hard done by,

next, we've got some redemption for mothers. We'll explain how very shortly on The Hits. Mother's Day yesterday and last week, we both enjoyed catching up with our mums on the radio wishing them a happy Mother's Day and they reflected on some moments from our childhoods.

One that I've just erased from my memory. For good reason, too, I think. Yeah, this is my mum, Jenny. A technique that I don't know if other mothers use this is that you talk to your teenage son about sex when you're driving him to school. He can't get out of the car.

Nothing rattles a teenage boy more than having to do that on the way to school. Your mum. Blindsided. I know. It was a really good speech and I recommend it to other mothers. I contemplated jumping out of the moving car at this age. Yeah, so even my mum saying sex again just makes me feel awkward and nervous.

I imagine you weren't fully focused on your academics that day. Something's changed inside of boys today. So that was my mum reflecting on a moment from my childhood, and then we spoke to your mum, Andy, about a vase that, well, mysteriously was broken, but Jono wouldn't claim it was him. I never broke that vase. So who broke the vase? Did you have an animal, a family pet or anything that would have knocked it over?

Well, Ralph didn't do it. Just that Jonathan placed it completely back again and probably if I had dusted more regularly, I would have noticed. But when I did go to dust, it all fell apart. Definitely broke the vase. The dog broke the vase and then put the vase back together and placed it on the shelf.

He definitely broke the vase. It was the dog. It's hard when you're an only child. You've got no one else to pin it on. It's definitely you, that's for sure. Oh, so that's an admission right there. He finally admitted. Yep, that was it.

There we go. So Mother's Day was on, of course, yesterday, and maybe you're a mother, and you didn't get quite the gift that you wanted, or maybe you forgot to get your mother a gift, a decent gift. How useless are you? You forgot to get your mother a gift, a decent gift. How useless are you? You forgot to get a present. I mean, it seems like there was a lot of good branding done around Mother's Day.

It was a three- or four-week lead-in. We all knew it was coming. It can happen, though, can't it? Yeah, or maybe you were one of those mothers who got those baseless vouchers, those homemade written vouchers, 50 free hugs. Have a bubble bath whenever you want. You never redeem them do you so what we want to do

this morning is we want to do some Mother's Day redemption if you're feeling a bit like you missed out or maybe you forgot for your mother then we've got

the boss's credit card we're going to pay for some bouquets of flowers yeah and if you did forget you can just say oh sorry I was running off you know Los Angeles time

yeah it was Mother's Day in America right now wasn't it yeah like to keep it or Or the courier. The couriers must be running behind. I've sent it. Yeah, some good saving. So 0800 the hits telephone number. We've got these

flowers and it's great play from us as well. We're getting these flowers at cost. It's a day after Mother's Day. Oh, yes. So when you go after Valentine's Day, half price roses. Yeah, very cost effective campaign you've launched here, Ben. Alright, so 0800 the Hits, 4487 if you want these bouquets

of flowers, then you give us a call and we'll make some Mother's Day redemption in just a moment. The great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here. Jono and Ben on the Hits. The day after Mother's Day and we're offering some Mother's Day redemption right now. We have the boss's credit

card. We're going to pay for some lovely bouquets of flowers for people that maybe missed out for Mother's Day and we're offering some Mother's Day redemption right now. We have the bosses credit cards and we're going to pay for some lovely bouquets of flowers for people that maybe missed out for Mother's Day or maybe they forgot themselves they dropped the ball. We have flowers brought to you in conjunction

with our partner Mother Nature. We're going to kick it off with you Kirsten. You forgot Mother's Day you were forgotten about what was the situation? Basically my daughter

has been sick in bed for about four days. And, yeah, I basically was forgotten about. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. How's your daughter? Is she on the men now? Fortunately, she's still sick. Has she got the vid?

I think, no, she hasn't got vid. I've been testing every day. Oh, well, that's hard as well. You know, yeah. So I'm sorry you're dealing with all that right now. So we've got the boss's credit card. We'd love to buy you a beautiful bouquet of flowers to cheer you up. All right.

Thank you so much. Happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day. It's like we're your children. Yeah. And we forgot too. Now we're like, hey, Mum, happy Mother's Day. Love you, Mum.

It's belated, isn't it? Good on you, Kirsten. Well, you have a great Mother's Day today with our bouquet of flowers, all right? Thank you so much. All right, we're going to kick it off with Brittany. Go on to Brittany on 0800 The Hits. Welcome, Brittany. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast.

Mother's Day. Hi. Did you forget? Hi, who's this? It's Brittany. Brittany. Brittany, you forgot Mother's Day. No, my son forgot about me.

There's some sloppy kids out there. It can happen from time to time. People have got stuff going on. There's a lot going on, but it is a little bit. He's at that pre-teenage and he just, yeah, forgot. And then we got grumpy about tidying up after breakfast too. Sounds like me as a teenager. Every teenager.

The old prepubescent kid. Oh, no, no. Well, we're going to give you a bouquet. What's your son's name? Aidan. On behalf of him, we're going to give you a bouquet of flowers. Yay. Happy Mother's Day, right?

Just tell them you'll have to clean them up when they start smelling. Yeah. Love your work. Matt, you're on. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast, Matt. You forgot Mother's Day. How old are you, Matt? This is even worse.

25, mate. 25. Way too old to be useless. Now, what's your mum's name? Her name's Rachel. We're going to go through to Rachel right now. We've got her on the phone. Yeah, I think if we go to line six.

Oh, we've got Rachel there. Yeah, hi, good morning. Rachel, it's Jono and Ben. You're on the radio. Matt, your son's here. A lot to download. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Matt had a few things. I mean, we did come up with it. We didn't formulate a good excuse here. What was the excuse, Matt? What did we forget Mother's Day? Oh, I've been too busy working. No, no, no. Don good excuse here. What was the excuse, Matt? What did we forget on Mother's Day? Oh, I've been too busy working. No, no, don't say that. Don't say that.

Just say, I wanted to wait a day so I could get the perfect bouquet of flowers for you. Oh, yeah. That's what I meant. That's what I meant. Yeah, and so now Matt would love to give you a lovely, beautiful bouquet of flowers. He's sending that to you, all right? Oh, what a treasure. Isn't he lovely?

Did he call you yesterday, Rachel? He actually came over and cooked breakfast But Dad had to buy the groceries Oh, there you go You did deliver something And now he's delivering some flowers as well for you, right? Oh, he's a great kid Thank you so much, son

I love you Love you too, Mum Thank you, guys You're awesome Oh, that was cute That was lovely Adorable Wasn't that nice? That was wholesome Good on you, guys. You're awesome. Oh, that was cute. That was lovely. That was wholesome. Wasn't that nice?

That was wholesome. Good on you, Rachel. You've been my favourite kid. Oh, always been the favourite. Was it me? Oh, was it Matt? Yeah, no, you're not the favourite kid. I thought I might have scraped in there. Just once, I'd love for someone to say that to me. Good on you, Rachel. Good on you, Matt. Have a great day.

Pleasure, guys. Thank you. Jono and Ben. Lego Masters New Zealand coming to TVNZ2 tonight. Such a fun show if you've seen it from overseas versions. And Dai Henwood, the host, joins us in the studio right now. How's it going, Dai? I'm amped. I've been amped since last year when I sort of heard Lego Masters New Zealand was happening. I pushed hard out to become the host.

I've never chased after a gig harder. And I've loved it. It's been so awesome. Everything is awesome, apparently, with Lego. That's what I've heard. That's the song. That's the tune they went with, eh? This has been such a cool gig because I've always loved, you know,

random Kiwis. And this is another bunch of random Kiwis. It's adults who are fully into Lego. Dad and daughter combo. We've got a couple of mums from Christchurch. We've got just mates. This series explores everything of building Lego, how Lego can be used as like sort of therapy

for PTSD and mindfulness and stuff. It's more than just fun, but it is such a cool show because it gets you it gets you excited like even my kids just knowing i was doing it suddenly the old lego that hadn't been played with comes out and so you can watch it then you can sit down with your kids and have a build your uh your cool factor would have shot up through the roof too with the kids yeah but a creed kid creed you got there yeah i'm rocking a nine-year- a six year old So I'm still in the zone Where they're pretty stoked

With me Yeah And then plus It's like Lego Oh Lego Boom Home run What about the competitors

Because overseas We've seen the Australian version We've seen the US version They make amazing things Are the Kiwis Going to buy us away Yeah so I was always

Had that Kiwi thing You know And I'm like Oh no The New Zealand version Where you show up to the first day go oh no you go i built a carrot but the opposite happened we we we obviously like um there's legos out denmark so there are people from lego watching our show checking out what we're doing because we actually have some world first challenges

because we put Kiwi twists on things. Awesome. And we've done things differently. But they watched it and we sort of, of course, were, hey, are we good? Are we good? And they went, look, you're honestly up there with the American and the Australian, which are the sort of benchmarks.

Plus there's all the European ones as well. And they went right from show one These builds are up there internationally As sort of a top level So we were just like wow Such a New Zealand thing Hey are we doing good? Do you like New Zealand? Yeah I'll say something nice about us

Hey just stop texting me Keep filming you're doing fine Now I was reading 2.5 million bricks That's what is on offer for the contestants And as a parent I mean we're all parents here I just go who's picking that up at the end of the day 2.5 million bricks. That's what is on offer for the contestants. And as a parent, I mean, we're all parents here. I just go, who's picking that up at the end of the day? Who's having to sort those out?

Probably not you, Di Henwood. Oh, no. No, I mean, on my rider, I have a team of Lego sorters. So we've got a team of brick sorters because the thing is, all these builds have thousands and thousands of pieces. So we film an episode. Someone's got to pull all those apart, sort them, get them back in boxes, put them back in all the trays in the brick pit. The poor intern's like, this is why I got into television.

Yeah, job in TV. Yeah, we go. I wanted to be a broadcaster. And the other question I had for you, Dianne, I imagine these poor people are building Lego For hours and hours on end Like how long are they doing it? So these challenges

They vary from 10 hours to 24 hours If you get into the final Your bill can be somewhere between 20 and 24 hours Non-stop Oh no, so we have some breaks Have you heard of human rights? hours. Non-stop? Oh no, so we have to have some breaks. Have you heard of human rights? Yeah, there is

basic human rights. Alright. I'd just do it non-stop. Lock them in a cage. No sleeping, just get a day. I walk round, I fill up feed bowls, I plump up some pillows under their desks. They get results.

When that last brick is laid, you can rest. I can't wait to see. I can't wait for Kiwis to see. It's on tonight, 7.30, TVNZ 2. It's going to be awesome. And back it up tomorrow night at 7.30 as well. We're going twice a week, back to back. Get your Lego fix.

Watch it with your whanau. It's primo. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. Now to all the latest stories that we've copied off TMZ. Welcome, Belle Crawford. What's happening in Spy?

Well, there is this body language expert who's been doing some interviews about the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial. You're probably sick of it. It's still going. It's up to six weeks, potentially. Amber Heard has been on the stand testifying. Do they have to turn up every day, the pair of them? Yeah, they do. It's a big commitment.

Six weeks. It's a lot. And they also, one expert says that one of them's not telling the truth because their stories don't match up. So they're trying to work out who that person is. But this was the body language expert. Have a listen. The aggressor is Amber. And if I could go back in time,

if I was Amber's attorney i would have asked johnny depp when he said he doesn't strike women or he's never struck a woman maybe he hit her in self-defense while she was hitting him but in my opinion she is the abuser she's the abuser the body language i love the body language experts when they chime in on like someone's done an oprah interview and they analyze oh i oh, I see they folded the legs there, crossed the arms, stroking the inner thigh. Body language is an interesting one, isn't it? Because you do it without even thinking.

I'm sure if you're trying to deceive someone, you'd probably think about what you were doing or how you were maneuvering. Because I know there's, I was reading an article last week, you know, there's 18 different smiles. 18 different smiles, but only one of them is genuine. Really? The rest we're all just putting on. Man, we're doing that and a lot of fake laughter on this radio show in the morning.

Yeah, it's crazy different laughs. None of them are genuine on this show. That's just what I'll say to you. Case in point. And an update on the Royal Family. Buckingham Palace is putting plans in place to make sure that Prince Harry and Meghan don't exploit any of the Queen's platinum jubilee events they have announced after months of not knowing if they're going to go that they will be there with the kids although they are not allowed

on the balcony with the rest of the royal family all banned from the balcony shunned from the balcony uh they're like good wanted to be inside anyway um and netflix are going to be filming them in the palace well the palace have just got all these plans in place because they're worried that Netflix, even though Megan's little cartoon show got cancelled, that they could be bringing a team with them. Not to like, I'm not putting her down there, but it got cancelled, but then they've still got another contract.

And so they're just putting plans in place so that no Netflix team could come in. You're not allowed to film inside the palace. Yeah, my favourite thing about the Jubilee Just putting plans in place so that no Netflix team could come and you're not allowed to film inside the palace. Yeah. My favorite thing about the Jubilee was they printed some mugs and saucers as they do in the UK. And it was the platinum jubbly. They had a sub stack. But then they became a collector's item because people were like, hey, I'd love to get the platinum jubbly on some plates.

Thanks for that, Bill. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. That is pretty much our show. I hope you have a great Monday morning. We're joined tomorrow with the latest Invicti from Dancing with the Stars. Who's going to be kicked off tonight? What does the script say? What's the new rules? They've changed the rules. It's up to the judges now. They'll join us tomorrow.

Have a great Monday. We'll catch you from 6.