Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Has Been Gifted Anti-Aging Cream. Is That An Insult?

Episode Date: February 2, 2022

Kia ora! On today's show, Jono is wondering if the anti-aging cream he's been gifted is 1. insulting, and 2. something that even works!? Ben also tried to teach his youngest daughter about old rock music in the middle of a t-shirt shop. We caught up with Hilary Barry and talked about the rude symbol her son mowed onto her lawns, and we also spoke to Holly Jean Brooker from the Parenting Place, on what to do if you're anxious about sending your kids back to school. Enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946. The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome along to the potty. It's the 3rd of February and Ben Boyce, I'm being told you're an international scam artist now. Well, yeah. What's happening, what's happening mate? Oh, this is interesting because it happened a while ago to you. Someone had started up a Jono Pryor Facebook page, and now someone's started up a Ben Boyce one.

Now, I'm not actually on Facebook as such. Oh. And so now they're hitting up some people on the Hits Breakfast, which is saying they've won prizes and they need to reply back. So, Producer Juliet, you're dealing with the fallout of this. So what's the message? So they're basically replying to a bunch of people who have commented on a previous post of ours saying,

check out my profile, congratulations, you win. Yeah. And if you go to that Ben Boyce profile, it has like a link and then you have to put in visa details and all that stuff. Yeah, I've always had people going, hey, do you really need my visa details? Champagne, this would be something you would do.

No. Yeah, this is classic Ben Boyce. It is. Ben Boyce Promotions Presents. Just need your Visa details. It's all, you know. Interesting, though. They said, well, you can win.

No, they just say, you've won a prize. Or maybe they said, I think a couple times they said, you won $500 as well. Very generous guy. Yeah. Very generous. It's kind of weird These little scams It's a numbers game

I like to imagine Some warehouse And you know Some exotic country Just full of Hard working scammers Who are out there It's like a

You know A sales team Yeah They support each other How many today Oh eight Lovely How'd you go with that

Jotter Price scam Oh it got taken down But we started a bit Boy so why not Let's get some traction Good luck with that, buddy. We'll catch you Monday morning, you know. There's like a tally board of who's leading the scam.

It's interesting. A lot of trouble to go to, like, to start a page. Got a sweet elderly couple in Australia. Got their life savings. Oh, that's why you're the best, Samson. Keep it up. Put my name on it. Put a photo on it.

Research. They wrote in the bio being like, the hits breakfast in the mornings, da-da-da, made it seem really legit. Are you honoured? Are you kind of flattered that you've reached the level of low-level celebrity that you'd be using in a very low-level scam? A little bit disappointed.

You know, disappointed. You don't want to upset, you know, be part of that. I found one actually. This would be his worst. Imagine if this turned into a thing and people were defrauded of thousands of dollars and his name was attached to it. That would be part of that. I found one actually. This would be his worst. Imagine if this turned into a thing and people were defrauded of thousands of dollars and his name was attached to it. That would be your worst nightmare.

I found this. I also find that fake ads that sometimes pop up as well. Like this one. I found this one over the break. Breaking. Mike Hosking's career is over. The sources of his wealth become known. And then it says an interview with Hosking was interrupted by authorities as well.

So he's conducting an interview on the authorities of Burson. On ZB, on Newstalk ZB and the authorities of Burson. They burst through the door. Because they've found out where his sources of his wealth became known. And where are the sources of his wealth? Well, basically he'd start up Facebook accounts under for Ben Boyce and Johnny Pryor. Scamming people out of their

visa details. That's how you get yourself a helicopter. That's how you get yourself a helicopter. Well, listen, the podcast today had a very fun show. Hilary Barry talked to her about her son making news for mowing some less than savoury objects into their lawn over the holiday. Yeah. It made news, though, didn't it?

Like Mike Hosking. You didn't hear a lot about Mike Hosking getting invaded by authorities as much as you did about Hilary Barry or her son Mike on the lawn. I thought they burst in dramatically mid-interview.

Who's he interviewing? It's like, who's this guy? What's he done? Mmm, coffee breath. Jono and Ben, the hits. Yes, day two

of, we mentioned yesterday, Invisalign in my mouth. Ben, you know what Ben made me do at the beginning of the podcast intro, producer Juliet? What was that?

He made me do Simple Simon. Yeah, I've got another one for you at the top of the run sheet if you want to have a quick crack at it, because he's got Invisalign in, which are kind of like braces, but with mouth guard version of braces, and you say you sound a little lispy. Yeah, I do, I do. One of Ben's favourite hobbies is making fun of people with speech impediments.

It's not. It's not. It's not. He's put it on his list of hobbies and interests. If you were back, what was that bloody movie with the King, King George? The King's Speech? The King's Speech, yeah. You'd be like, dude, Peter Parker picked a pickle, King George. Do it, do it, do it for us. I just like making fun of you because you always bully me.

Fair enough. You know, it's the foundation of our relationship, isn't it? That's right. Seashells by the seashore. The shells are surely seashells. So she shells, she's on the seashore. I'm saw she sells, she saw shells. See what you've done there again.

A lot of S's. I see where that comes in. You can hardly notice it. So yesterday you had a bit of high drama. Yeah, involving sirens now the most stressed out any motorist can be is when you feel a siren coming up behind you for some reason all logic all road rules completely disappear from your mind you start panicking you're trying to you don't know what to do so What I like is the freezers. Some people just freeze.

Some people park and then they're in the middle of an intersection and don't know what to do. Yeah. So this happened to me yesterday and you can hear it coming up behind you and traffic was busy. And I kind of, I had nowhere to go. I was like, okay, I could go across the road. I can park on the footpath on top of that lovely old lady. What can I do? And it just, tensions are, tension's at an all-time high.

And they do that. That's even more stressful. Yeah, when you get the hunk, hunk. The first thing that's the stress is, like, is it for me? Like, when there's a siren behind you, like, oh, if I've done something wrong, is it a siren for me? You always feel so bad, don't you? Like a badass. And then it's like, oh, maybe it's, I mean, you behind you, you're like, oh, have I done something wrong? There's a siren for me. You always feel so bad, don't you? Like a badass.

And then it's like, oh, maybe it's when you pull over and you're like, yes, they're going past. But sometimes there's that moment you're like, oh, no, I've done something. Nothing makes you feel more like a rebel than you're driving along and there's sirens behind you. You're like, hmm, that's right. That's for me, guys. Also, one of the great moments is when you kind of hear a siren and you're like, oh, my gosh, please don't be coming from behind me on the same road. Please be coming from another direction so I don't have to be in that stressful situation.

And then you just get to sit as a spectator and watch how other people handle it. I imagine you as a nervy motorist, a siren behind you would put gasoline on the fire. Oh yeah, a siren from anywhere. Is it behind me? I'm pulling over and I can just hear a siren in the distance. I tell you what really added to the stress of the siren behind me was also it behind me? Is it behind me? I'm pulling over and I can just hear a siren in the distance. And I tell you what really added to the stress of the siren behind me was also trying to record

the sirens. I was just actually thinking that. I was like, who's got a siren behind them? Hang on, get my phone out, get it onto the record app,

hold it up. That's classic. Yeah, maybe I was actually holding them up trying to get some radio content. If they weren't looking for you, they definitely were after you. They saw you doing there.

Hey, next on the show, News and Beeps, producer Juliet Beeps out a word from actual news headlines. Apparently something to do with Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah, you might be scared. Oh, maybe.

We'll see. I'll delve into it next. Anything with Mark Zuckerberg, I'm scared. All right, if you're on Facebook, maybe you need to listen next. It is The Hits. You got John, I'm Ben.

Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the B*** News. Yes, inconveniently beefing headlines is in her job description. If a lady in Spain has married a piece of steak, this is where you'll hear about it. News and beeps. All right, the first news story. Has now become a professional sport. I'm going to say sitting in your car and crying after work has now become a professional sport

and I'm going for the gold. It's our number one seed. I'm going to go recognising people that you kind of know who are wearing a mask have now become a professional sport. Pillow fighting has now become a professional sport. So it looks very

similar to boxing. So you've got two people competing in a ring And it's actually so much more aggressive than you would probably think They use pillows that look a lot harder than your bed pillows They're not like bed ones And they're kind of standing, you know, facing each other like they're about to box And they just whack each other with the pillows Yeah

And it's now a sport that people can watch and go and see I think it's only in America at the moment I would assume it's not your light hearted slumber party pillow fight that you and me like to do watch a movie

do our nails and giggle and pillow fight just treat ourselves what were we talking about this on or off I think we were still here with the podcast

there's this other wild sport in Europe they slap each other across the face have you seen that? No. They go one for one. Oh, my God.

It's brutal. It is, yeah. You'd end up with just that completely red face. They get rendered unconscious just from a slap across the face. Really? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That is not a sport I'd be keen to do.

Ben and me will be doing that after 8 o'clock this morning. That's what you do on radio. All right, the next news story. Mark Zuckerberg warns against... I'm going to say he warns against posting photos of the view out the plane window when you're travelling anywhere because you look like a bit of a dog. I love it, though. It's all right.

What? I know what you mean. I know what you mean. But you feel like you need to do it, don't you? Yeah. You're on a plane. You're like, better take a photo. There's very few things that wind Ben up, and that is one of them.

I don't know if Mark Zuckerberg has warned against anything he has ever had a hand in creating. Mark Zuckerberg warns against taking screenshots of Facebook Messenger chats. So I saw this headline, had an internal freak out. I was like, this would be great for news and beeps. I can give some good information. But then it turned out to be ever so slightly click-baity. So this is only if you use the end-to-end encryption Messenger. So it's kind of like if you don't want to be tracked,

you can have like a private, private message with someone on the Facebook messenger app. Does that make sense? No, you lost me. So you get private messages on this. So taking a screenshot would what? So taking a screenshot, if you're using the private function, will notify the other person. Because in this function, you can also have disappearing messages,

a bit like Snapchat, if that makes sense. So most people probably use like the normal just message. So let's say we've got a private chat going on and then we all know it's private.

If I took a screenshot you guys would know that it's on mate take a screenshot of. But it's only if it's the like non-encrypted version. You seem very interested in this bit.

Almost too inquisitive. Yeah. Oh, okay. I don't want to encrypt myself, guys. I haven't been sending stuff to management. No.

So they might, okay, no, wow. Okay, wow. And that is the news and beeps for you this morning. Thanks, Ju. All right, well,

I'm off to definitely not contact management right now. Coming up very shortly, the new sunshine capital of New Zealand, is it? Well, we'll find out in just a few moments on the Hats. Scrolling through your feed. Alright, here's some topics to fuel awkward light

banter for the rest of your day. Ben, what's happening in the news? Well, there's a new sunshine capital of New Zealand. We really, we care a lot about this, don't we? Who gets the most sunshine of any of the places? Maybe we should care more about Omicron. Stopping the spread of the virus. But let's lead

with the sunshine hours. This is our news bulletin. So Richmond and Nelson has had the record for many years. There's always a little bit of inter-town banter, isn't it? Like Shelbyville and Springfield. Between Blenheim and Nelson over who is the real sunshine

capital of Altair well now it seems New Plymouth has the new sunshine capital so basically it's been dubbed the new sunshine

capital because it's got the record for the most hours of sun for a single month ever in New Zealand this happened

last month so they reckon they had 358 that was the most unenthusiastic. Wow. Okay. Tell me more.

Let's see if I can win you back. Okay. No, I am interested. 358.6 hours of sunshine were recorded in New Plymouth last month. You're like, okay. But when you work out how much daylight, on average, 12 hours of daylight per day times by 31, 372 hours of daylight. So out of the 372 hours, there was almost 360 hours of sunlight.

Wow! Yeah, no, she's definitely faking that. No! She overplayed that one. Oh my God, that's so interesting. Oh, I love that! The higher you go, the less enthusiastic we know you are about this topic. Moving on from that one then.

I thought it was interesting. Congratulations, New Plymouth. Well done. Anyway, my pasty, milky white skin's getting burnt just hearing about that sunshine, Ben. And the announcement yesterday was, of course, the government shortened the booster. Wow! But the gap between the booster now is no longer four months, three months. You can go get it.

Whenever they shorten the gap, I wonder, is it a supply issue? Is it a logistic issue? Because when they first come out, they're like, you've got to have this distance of time between... It's better for you, you'll get more memory. And then they're like, no, no, no, you know, yeah. And then all of a sudden, oh yeah, no, half a day. Go and get it in the morning.

Get your booster in the afternoon. It leads you to believe what's actually going on. It's probably a supply thing it could be yeah you might be right and i guess you probably want the majority as many people vaccinated with that level of vaccination until you move on to the next one maybe so the country's all moving together and now they just want to get as many people boosted as possible now we're just in a pure act of desperation and panic yeah we're like what it's coming it's coming panic. Yeah. We're like, what? It's coming? It's coming to New Zealand? What?

Do we know about this? Yes. But it hasn't. Really? Well, it hasn't to the extent that they thought, right? 140-odd cases yesterday. Everything's going to be doubling every two to four days or something. Well, the Herald every day tells me there's 50,000 cases coming this afternoon.

This afternoon. No, that's sunshine hours for New Plymouth. Wow. 50,000 sunshine hours. And that is what's making news this morning. No, that's sunshine hours for New Plymouth. Wow. 50,000 sunshine hours. And that is what's making news this morning. Wow, interesting. I thought so.

Maybe not everyone on the team did. Hey, next, we'll tell you how we can win you thousands of thousands of dollars tomorrow and we're going to have

an attempt to see how much money we think we could win tomorrow for you. We'll tell you how in just a few moments on The Hits. Welcome to

two half-assed ads to a half-assed job. The official title, Juno and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. We'll tell you how in just a few moments on The Hits Tomorrow we're going to be at Resene And we're going to be seeing how many paint cans We can stack on top of each other We've set a challenge, it's a really fascinating challenge Every paint can that we stack Is worth $250 Yeah, thanks to our partners at Resene

They're professionals, painters' choice of paint. Okay, well done. Do the actual work. Yeah, do the actual work. Okay, Resene is a huge range of paints, ideal for decorating everything from roofs and decks, ceilings to floors and everything in between, inside and out. So every paint can we stack is $250, which is great.

We'll give that money away unless it topples over and we get no money. Nothing. Zero. Nada. So we're going to involve you in this tomorrow morning. You need to be listening because we're going to be slowly stacking the pile throughout the morning. And we've just had a practice in the studio right now.

We're 10 cans high. It's very tall. I'm saying it's probably another two feet above Stephen Adams at the moment. Yeah. Would you imagine? It's very high. It's very tall. I'm saying it's probably another two feet above Stephen Adams at the moment. Yeah. Would you imagine? It's very high. You were saying, because the first time we've actually tried to stack these paint cans together, they obviously got no paint in them, so they're lighter,

and they don't kind of fit on top of each other. They don't lock on top of each other. Yeah, I thought they would slot into a groove. You know how you get a can of spaghetti, and it just perfectly sits on top of another can of spaghetti. No, Ben. No. Get that thought out of your head.

So I'm going to go for can 11 now, and it's already getting wobbly. It started getting wobbly about can 9. So we're allowed to do a base tomorrow, like a pyramid scheme of four at the bottom, and then we're allowed to put three, and then two, and then one, and then from that one onwards it's just got to be

one on top of another. Yeah. So we will get a few, a wee bit of dollars. How many you got now? This is can 11. Oh yeah, come on,

steady. And I'm standing up on the chair. Steady hands, pride. Oh no! Oh no! Oh no,

okay. But if we had a base of four, three, ten plus, but we wouldn't want any money then, would we? No, but some great sound effects for the radio, wasn't it? Yeah, that was wonderful. Perfect sound effects. Okay, so tomorrow you've got to be listening because as soon as we decide to stop,

then we give the money away, whatever money that we've hopefully won by how many cans we've put on top of each other. Now, you're a safe pair of hands. I think you should be the can loader. Oh, don't put it all on me. You are. You say you love piling things around the house.

You have little piles of books. I do like putting things in the piles. Don't you? Putting them away. If they want me to put it away at Rosina in a cupboard somewhere, then I'm the person to go, oh, let's hide all these cans. Don't you love it when someone in the household starts a pile, then everyone just thinks that they can pile on top of the pile?

That's the pile for stuff. Yeah. Eventually, that just aggravates someone so much that they have to sort out the pile, but all sorts of stuff ends up on this random pile. It just takes one person to take the lead, and we're all in. You're right.

So that's tomorrow. Tune in tomorrow. Thanks to Razine. We could be winning you heaps and heaps of dollars on the hits. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there, then I backed out. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast.

Now, I'm going to feel like my parents saying this sentence, and I fear to take any backlash that may come. But I feel like as a customer now you don't even expect to be serviced like a customer there's no customer service that'd be fair to say that's a sweeping statement yeah there's some you know you're almost surprised when you do get customer service nowadays and what in what regard what do you mean like if you phone a phone line or you know you need a refund from a website or something. You go into it thinking this is going to be the world's biggest board.

Yeah, I know actually what you mean. And it's not a slight on the employees because if I was them, I wouldn't care. And when you do get good customers, you're like, wow, okay. What's upsetting you today? What happened yesterday? I've had to phone somewhere. I won't name the business. A phone line.

And I know you had an incident with an 0800 number last week, a helpline. I did, actually. It didn't help you at all? Well, yeah, they didn't help me at all. And I got wound up because they were like, at the end of it, they were like, anything else I can help you with? And I was like, well, no. But clearly the thing I rang up with, that was the that was the one thing not the next thing i wasn't saving something for that oh actually to be honest this one's this one's the one that was just the entree

yeah i really didn't care about that one and this is my point this is my point you phoned that probably knowing that was the exact conversation you were gonna have anything else i could have a night well, the thing we... Anyway. So, anyway, phone to hold line and it said, you know, you are 42nd in the queue. I'm like, okay, it's not a bad queue in the grand scheme of things. It's quite a line. It's a big queue, but you understand. And you're optimistic they're going to chew through the callers and all, you know, you'll leapfrog up to, you'll be in top 10 in the next five minutes sort of thing.

Across the 15 minute threshold okay i've got the phone on speaker i'm doing other things around the house and you can sort of hear the whole music fade in and fade out and you think oh was someone there no okay yeah walk back away uh and then i just keep going i've passed the 25 minute mark and the reason i keep going was for this purpose right here for content for the radio well let's see how long this can go for. How long can I push it? And I crossed the 50-minute mark. Oh, my God. I think I heard Dave Dobbin's entire back catalogue.

Songs you didn't even know Dave Dobbin sung. You're like, wow, he's really... And I saw the sign. They keep playing, I saw the sign. Really? Open up my eyes. Yeah, and well, they weren't seeing the sign that my call was coming. And I ended up being on hold for 92 minutes.

And the reason I stayed for 92 minutes is I see it as a badge of honor. On hold, it's a great topic of conversation. You know, I could bring this up at barbecues. No one could ever beat 92 minutes on hold. Well, I don't know. Maybe they could. If you can, text 4487. That's wild. The longest time you've been on.

Did they actually, did you get your problem sorted? No. After all that. And actually, I was afraid that if they answered the call, because I'd forgotten what I actually phoned about. Maybe that's what they're counting on. Leaving them on hold for so long. Hi, how can we help you?

I can't actually. Three days have passed. I haven't seen my family for a week. We've got some spy entertainment news coming up. Yeah, unfortunately Adele is facing a bit of backlash. God, there are just stories about her every single day. I'll fill you in on what's going on next. And as a hit, she got a chat on Ben.

From Kim Kardashian's new butt cheek implant to Kim Jong-un's nuclear weapon. Juliette, you got spy. What's happening? I don't think I've ever mentioned Kim Jong-un's nuclear weapons in spy, though. You've been a bit light on your North Korean gossip lately. Yeah, I know I have.

I have, haven't I? Although, actually, speaking of North Korean gossip, apparently he did ban people from dressing like him. Like, they couldn't wear the leather jackets and stuff in North Korea because he wore leather jackets. Oh, really? I think that was the item of clothing. But, yeah, he's a little bit interesting, isn't he?

Wouldn't it be great to have that power to be like, hey, I want to be the only guy who's got a leather jacket, so I'm the cool leather jacket guy in an entire country of people. Yeah. What happens if you do have a leather jacket? in an entire country of people yeah yeah what happens if you do have a leather jacket are you oh you'd be executed yeah yeah i got a kim jong-un mask from a costume shop about five years ago and uh i don't know if it would stack up now in 2022 would it a kim jong-un mask a poster as well a flag or something i do too yeah got carried away. Yeah, that's right. Kim Jong-un was standing on a big nuclear

missile or something, wasn't he? Saying, live, laugh, love. And he just looks so... Like, he looks adorable. But the atrocities he commits, I'm like, not this guy. Not this cuddly little fella. If you saw him, you'd do the both

things. Grab your hands and grab his cheeks and do the oh, mate. Alright, can we get back to spot? Yes, we can even... If you saw him, you'd do the both thing. Grab your hands and grab his cheeks and do the, oh, mate. Oh, no. A little bit. All right, can we get back to the spot? Yes, we can. We're in the heart of it. There's your pussy, Kimmy.

Let's go to the spot. Okay, okay, okay. A little bit. So Simon Cowell has had his second e-bike crash in 18 months. You may remember 18 months ago, he was testing out his new e-bike and I think kind of obviously fell off, but broke his back, was taken to hospital, was in hospital for a wee while. But now he's had another one with a broken arm and a suspected concussion.

Apparently he drove over a wet patch and the wheels went under him and then he somehow flew over the handlebars. But holy heck, he needs to be careful on e-bikes if this is his second time. If you're not retiring from your e-biking career after your broken back incident. Yeah. To come back for a second time. I know. They always say it's like riding a bike, isn't it?

You don't forget. He definitely didn't forget how to hurt himself. The problem with e-bikes, we were talking about the other day, e-scooters are going 130 k's an hour. Yeah. It's pretty dangerous, isn't it? And they're used to it. Parents love an e-bike, don't they? My dad loves that. Oh, has Kevin to Parents love an e-bike My dad loves that Oh has Kevin Boyce

Got an e-bike He's like I cycled 3.5k today Did you What did you do To the e-bike Pretty much cycled it Yeah

I think my parents Did the Otago Rail Trail And they were like It was amazing Oh we were on our e-bikes And I was like Oh my gosh You like did hardly any work

That's amazing And then they get They get their back up Speaking of backs If you accuse them Of not cycling Yeah It's still cycling You're still out It's 5% cycling Yeah Your legs are just moving And then they get their back up, speaking of backs, if you accuse them of not cycling. Yeah, it's still cycling.

It's 5% cycling. Your legs are just moving in that motion. And Adele is getting a little bit of backlash. So she posted on Instagram saying that she's performing at the Brits and is going to be joining Graham Norton. And first of all, people are kind of quite dark that she's doing all this but is not able to do her Vegas residency. Yeah, I saw that. She's like, I'm so excited to be performing at the Brits.

They're like, well, what about your Vegas? And all the people that have bought tickets and can't see you. And she also addressed the rumors about her and Rich Paul's relationship, because apparently that was supposed to be one of the reasons why she wasn't going to do the residency. I heard it was in tatters. It was apparently in tatters but we can now say that that is wrong because

at the end of that Instagram post she said oh and Rich sends his love kind of just a little bit of a dig at that. I heard it's not in tatters. It's funny how the curve of, I always find the curve of popularity such an interesting prospect.

She's lovable, has been lovable. Oh, yeah. And then just one incident, the tide turns. Yeah. One incident where she cancels thousands and thousands of people's tickets to a show that was meant to happen and flights that they had booked. And the tide turns. Allegedly over something that was going to happen on stage.

A water feature on stage. Yeah. So let's was going to happen on stage. A water feature on stage. So let's hope she doesn't do anything else. But the reason that she couldn't continue on is because she had all these other scheduled appearances. So if she continued on the Vegas one, it's got a roll-on effect. That's very true. So it's probably easier to can that for the meantime.

And then come back to it later. This is why I should be a tour promoter. Thank you for all the tours. Great tours that you promoted. And that is your Spy Update featuring Kim John Un chat. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After seven o'clock on the show, in 10 minutes time, this is, without a word of a lie, one of the most terrifying things I have ever done.

Like, I was petrified doing this. This is for our... I was too. This is for our good deeds. This was day two of us trying to do 28 good deeds in 28 days. This one. Oh my goodness. Join us after seven.

It's very scary. It's George Ezra, Budapest, 6.56 on New Zealand's Breakfast. How do you think of everyone in the West Coast this morning? A local state of emergency, particularly for the Bullard District, was declared yesterday and more rain and horrible weather coming through today. I heard on the news there's like 600 homes without power yesterday in the Fox Glacier

around that region and they're saying if you feel like you're in danger you can self-evacuate, have a bag prepared in case everything goes bad. Because they got flooded last year Westport, remember? That's right. So those people's homes, if you had a home that got flooded last year, Westport, remember? That's right. So those people's homes got flooded last year. You'd be a bit anxious at the moment.

Yeah, it's a really thing. The NZTA has said, obviously, motorists to take care in the whole South Island today. And it's really unusual because it is summertime and you don't expect there's a wild rainy weather to be happening at this time of year. So I think everyone down that way. Well, we're on the mission to do 28 deeds in 28 days

through the month of February, and coming up after 7 o'clock, what was this? Oh, jeez. Okay. Oh, jeez. Oh! Is that for somebody else? Wrong audio, sorry, Julie.

We won't be playing the rest of that. Why did you send me that? Yeah, that was from our personal files. Right. Oh, jeez. Oh, God. No, the scariest thing that I Why did you send me that? Yeah, that was from our personal files. Right. Oh, jeez. Oh, God. No, the scariest thing that I think we've ever taken part on. Yes.

And it wasn't that. That was enjoyable, even though it didn't sound like it. That's to do with our 28 good deeds in 28 days. Give us five minutes and we'll tell you very shortly. The Hits with Jono and Ben. Now, this month we're on a mission to do 28 good deeds in 28 days. Yeah, and we started yesterday on the 1st of Feb with Lana's overgrown lawns, weren't they? Is there anything that we need to look out for down, because we can't see what's in the grass, what could be in there?

A cat. I say that now, okay, we'll do this very carefully. Alright, we successfully mowed the grass and no cats were harmed in the mowing of Lana's lawn. We did find the MH370 plane though. Honestly, we found a car though, didn't we? We did find a car in amongst the grass. But that felt good. Lana was happy with the service

being boys. But my theory is still the same. If grass is taller than you, starts becoming taller than you, then the grass has taken over the job of a tree, hasn't it, in life. Now, day two, we were both a little anxious about this one. Yeah, this is to help our day from off the leech. And then they do window cleaning for high-rise buildings.

Yeah, through the city. So no matter what building you look at, they'll hang off ropes and abseil down and clean windows. Now, having done this now, I really wonder, do these windows need to be cleaned? Is it that desperate? Surely nature takes care of it, right? Yeah, leave it to nature. You're right.

And I also go, is this the best way to do this job? You know, like five years ago, you wouldn't have imagined us sitting at home in clothes we haven't washed in five days, drinking wine out of a teacup, doing our work. But now that's the best way to do your job, is hanging off a rope. 500 metres in the air, cleaning windows. Is that the best, safest option? I don't know, but they're impressive, though.

What they do is amazing. I mean, they're putting themselves out there every day in the conditions. They are. And so we met Dave at the bottom of the big building in town. Okay, so we're here with Dave from off the ledge. He wants us to help him out by doing a good deed. What is it, Dave? We're going to tuck you guys off the building.

You're going to wash some windows for us. So this is like abseiling down a building and cleaning a window, right? Yeah, on two ropes. Did you hear four ropes? You imagine the mad dogs that do this job, you just imagine that now and that's exactly what Dave looks like. He's got a few tattoos, he's got a lovely big beard and this is a guy who hangs off a building all day. Has it ever gone wrong? Yes, yeah it has a few times. The good thing is Ben Boyce could probably abseil down on some tooth floss

so we're gonna be all right. Does it get windy up there? Is that a stupid question? It has a few times. The good thing is Ben Boyce could probably abseil down on some tooth floss. So we're going to be all right. Does it get windy up there? Look, is that a stupid question? No, no, no. So if it's windy down here, it's even windier up there. Yeah, and it'll be hotter up there as well. So we walked to the top of this building.

And jeez, I don't know how many meters in the air we were, Ben. I'm picking a couple of kilometers. It was a lot. And you look down and you're like, why are there so many windows on buildings? We should just have concrete blocks that no one can see out of. Exactly. It'd make Dave's job a lot easier.

So we're at the top of this thing and you get strapped up in the harness and everything and you're sitting, you have to sit on the ledge of the building with your legs dangling over the building, just looking down going, the cars even look like ants from this height. And then it was like, just hop over. Just hop over.

And you're like, I don't want to. It's really, really scary just making that next step off the ledge, literally. But what was more impressive, we were up high, but the only thing higher was Ben's voice. Oh, geez. This is high. Really high. Nervous? Oh, jeez. This is high. It's really high. Nervous? Yes, very nervous.

Reverse puberty. Back to 12 years old. Yes, so sorry. Very unconfident, I am. Okay, so then we swing our legs over, and you're literally, you're holding on. Your knuckles are wide. You're holding on to the top of the building

as you're dangling over the side oh god oh god and also a little glimpse into the lovemaking lives of both of us there. My knees were sweaty. They were making marks on the windows. I was making more of a mess on the windows than actually cleaning it. Yeah, there were knee smudge marks all over the windows. So as you can tell, this isn't a happy place at the moment.

But not only do you have to deal with the heights and abseiling down, you've also got a bucket full of water attached to you on a rope and carabiner. And that's got the squeegee in it and how you do the windows and things and ben your work was not up to scratch oh you you're gonna have to do better than that as well me yeah that's good he's already back chatting dave that's a written warning i think not happy dave not happy And I wasn't happy Because I abseiled down before you And you were 10-15 metres above me And somehow accidentally

It was an accident A workplace accident His bucket Full of soapy water Somehow landed directly on top of me I don't know how this happened What are you doing? Oh sorry

Well thank you so much for Dave and off the ledge you can catch the video right now, a little teaser of the video The Hits Breakfast, our terrifying ordeal but next if you want to nominate someone or if someone's done a good deed for you in your community, we'd love to talk to them next, showcase what they do

so 4487, who's doing some good deeds? Let's spread a bit of sunshine around New Zealand this morning. It is the Hits. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben Breakfast on the Hits. The Hits. This month we're doing 28 good deeds in

28 days, but we also thought we should showcase some other people doing some amazing things out there. Yeah, we're not only doing God's work, Ben, there's other people I wasn't trying to compare us to these people. These people have been doing it, often thanklessly for many, many years. Who's going to be ranked on the list of

greatest human beings ever? Jesus? Jono, Ben? So someone who's been nominated for doing amazing work in Tauranga, a place called Street Kai in Tauranga. Her name is Tracy, and we've tracked her down. She joins us now. Good morning, Tracy.

How are you doing? I'm really well, thank you. How are you guys? It's lovely to have you on. Tracy, you're just talking good deeds, better myself on a little bit of a mission to become better people. And so we're doing 28 deeds over 28 days through the month of February, and then that's it.

No more deeds for the rest of our life. I don't know if that's the case. Then you're done. Then we. And then that's it. No more deeds for the rest of our life. Well, I don't know if that's the case. Then you're done. Then you're done. That's it. No more deeds. You've been doing something really lovely for the people of Tauranga for a while. How did it all start? Can you tell us the backstory? Yeah, yeah, sure. Look, I was living in Cambodia. I came back. This was in 2017. And a member of my family said, you've got to come for a walk. There's a number of homeless people sleeping on the streets in the CBD in town. You can imagine it was a bit of a shock.

And so anyway, I joined some community meals and it just didn't feel right. So I basically created my own, which we called Milo Night. And the simplicity of that was that I said, what do you need? And the people on the street just said what I would do for a hot Milo, you know, a good old-fashioned Kiwi Milo. And that's actually how we started. And then the Ko Papa just went from there, and it became very simple based around what do you need. And then we grew it because it's now a small registered charity with a small amount of volunteers.

When I say small, six of us, but we do a kick-ass job, if I can say that on the radio. Great. Well, you have now. Yeah, I have now. Now our boss will you have now. Yeah, I have now. Now our boss will kick our ass. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Hey, I expect that for you.

But anyway, we're five years in, and we're really proud of that. And so we're very specific. We're very focused on the people living on the streets, people living in tents. And this is through COVID as well, as you can imagine, in isolation. Often I'm vaccinated. So what we provide is like takeaway chai bags where they have fresh chai, of course, lots of bottled water, baby snacks and bananas and boiled eggs and tuna cans. And, you know, just whatever they say, auntie, this is what I need. And so really the Copapa

is built around that. All based, guys, on that real basic needs that you and I just have in our daily life. Now, I imagine there's a range of personalities out there on the streets. Oh, my gosh. Who's the oldest? Who's the youngest? Oh, this might blow your mind. Youngest are often runaways, sort of in the 12 or actually 11 to 14 age group, young men and women.

God, that's sad. Yeah, yeah, that is bloody sad. Sorry, I'm swearing again. And the oldest that we've supported on the street would be late 60s and also women living in public toilets in their 70s. And believe me, they're all cultures. I mean, they're all Kiwis, but do you know what I mean? They're all backgrounds.

It's not a specific. And can I be honest, guys? Often it's mental health. There's a lot of mental health involved with people on the streets. And so there's a lot of gauging the interaction, just keeping it real. They're very savvy. They're very street savvy. So as long as you're authentic and you're yourself, they're good.

If you're not, they'll just walk away. It can be very challenging, you know, when you've got very young people and then you're then dealing with elders. And right across the board, and I have to be honest, is trauma, you know, mental health and with some, of course, addiction and alcoholism, but that's not true of everyone. In fact, we have found over the five years, mainly trauma experienced often as a young person or teenager, and for the men as well, not just the women, violence and mental health. And it's just a whole accumulation.

They've ended up where they are. And so we just try to meet them as they are. Tracey, listen, a lot of times in your life, you're like, oh, geez, I should help out. Well, you did think that, and you actually did something proactive. Tracey, congratulations should help out. Well, you did think that, and you actually did something proactive. Tracy, congratulations. Lovely story. You keep doing the great mahi out there, and have a good day. Cool.

You too. Keep up the good deeds, eh, bro? See you, mate. Take care. Bye. She's very awesome. Our 28 Good Deeds will continue through the month of February, but coming up very shortly, the Queen.

There's been a huge spelling mistake to do with some of the Queen's merchandise. Souvenir. It's around the Queen's jubilee. It's a shocker. It's a shocker. It's a shocker, but it will put a smile on your face. That's very shortly on the hits. I hand you over now to our news hound.

We're about to let him off the leash, get his nose amongst some bits and pieces and sniff some stuff. And that stuff is news. That's right. Now, they reckon today the Prime Minister, well, the Prime Minister is going to do another announcement today to do with New Zealand's borders. And it sounds like they're already reporting what they think she's going to announce. So they reckon that the borders are going to be open again on February 27, end of the month. For returning New Zealanders and critical workers from Australia, they'll bypass MIQ and self-isolate at home,

and the rest of the world should be able to return from mid-March. That's the hot tip on what she's going to say today. And you can thank Charlotte Bellison, her Afghanistan baby, for all that, I guess. Oh, yeah, in some ways, yeah. She did a great job of highlighting the need not to have MIQ for the most part. Yeah, especially now that Omicron is in the community. Ah, just let it in. Let's get it over and done with.

It's like going to your partner's work do. Let's just get it over and done with. You know you're not going to enjoy it. Just take the hit and then we can move on with life. Do some stuff we really want to do. No one's going to enjoy it, you're right. And the Queen's Platinum Jubilee is coming

up. 70 years the Queen has been reigning. That's amazing. Oh, wow. So commemorate that. They're making some souvenirs. They love the souvenir over there to do with the royal family. Oh, they do like the plates and the teaspoons and the aprons and all sorts. Yeah.

So a manufacturer over there has made over 10,000 teacups, mugs, plates to mark the 70-year reign. The only problem was when you look at the inscription, instead of saying Jubilee, it says Jubilee. The Queen's Jubilee. To commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Platinum Jubilees, that's a good answer. High-grade Jubilee. So 10,000 of these things have been made,

say Queen's jubbly, but they've now become a bit of a collector's item because there's a wholesale clearance UK shop that buys stuff that basically you can bolt that maybe no one else really wants, and now people will be going, yeah, give me all of it. I want the jubbly one.

And so, yeah, so now I've become a collector's item because of the typo. It is easy to do the typo thing incorrectly, especially when you go to a printer and stuff. Wonderful story. My friend's sister was returning from France from her OE, and his mum thought it would be a fun idea if the whole family

had printed T-shirts to welcome her back at the airport. And so she was back and forth with the mall printer where you get your caps done and stuff. And she sent the email, but the email must have autocorrected because she wanted to say bonjour on the T-shirts, which is a nice welcome in front. Bonjour. They had six T-shirts which came back with bone and jaw.

Bone jaw. Bone jaw. Bone jaw. Oh really? So they phone an auto carried into bone jaw. Bone jaw as in J-A-W. J-A-W. And the printer would have

been going oh my god, six t-shirts and so they wore the bone jaw t-shirts out to the airport. Collector's item. I love it. That was so good. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning.

Hey, next, speaking of T-shirts, I had a very awkward, not quite as awkward as bone jaw, but an awkward experience in a shop yesterday with my daughter. Parents hopefully can relate to this next. We'll do that after Justin Bieber goes to the hits. Two dads just trying to fill some air time. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is

it fills in some air time for us. That is the main thing. John and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, shopping with kids, you know, it's going to always be an interesting experience. I don't think it's as fun as watching my parents shop together for clothes, though. That's an interesting experience. I don't think it's as fun as watching my

parents shop together for clothes though. That's an enjoyable experience. Annie trying to buy John a pair of trousers. Oh really?

Now that should be a spectator sport. I'd love to watch that sometimes. I don't need these trousers. Sometimes he does this thing where he

comes out of the changing room and he's like I can't do this and he's like raising his knees up like a marcher. She's like when do you ever walk like a

marcher? He's like the pants don't allow me to march i can't march in case i want to march i want to march uh well yesterday i i took my daughter indy uh down she's 10 years old to the mall she needed a couple of t-shirts and you know to you know she's growing up now so she needs some new t-shirts and did you do the parent thing of like you'll grow into it you buy her a t-shirt tried to do that at some stage that wouldn't fit a 40 year old but what i do because at the moment. That wouldn't fit a 40 year old. But what I do, because at the moment,

you know, you kind of don't want to spend too much time in shops, you know, at the moment to kind of go into a mall situation. You sort of,

you know, you've got your mask on, you're kind of like, let's go. Does everyone have to wear a mask in a mall? Yeah, everyone was wearing

the mask in a mall. Not in the food court area, like you're allowed to take it off to eat and drink, I think. Oh yeah, I don't think

you can catch it then. In the food court area, yeah, it's part of the rules with Omicron. So we're in the shop anyway and I was like, all right, I've got stuff to yeah, I don't think you can catch it then. In the food court area. Yeah, it's part of the rules. That's what happens. So we're in the shop anyway, and I was like, all right, I've got stuff to do. Let's get a couple of T-shirts.

And then we're in, I think it was Cotton On, and I was like, I have these some T-shirts, and they're, look at these ones. They've got things like Def Leppard on, and they've got David Bowie, they've got Rolling Stones. Well, these are cool. Why don't we get some of those?

She's like, well, they look cool, but who are they? Who are these? Who are these? Well, fair enough. Who's Def Leppard to a 10-year-old. Yeah. But they've got them for kids there right now.

And so I was like, but this is cool. This has got, yeah, it's got leopard on it. This one's got deaf leopard on it. And Indy, what I love about Indy, she's like, well, she's like, I'm not going to wear that unless I know. You know, who am I endorsing right now? Like, who am I? And I'm like, fair enough.

She's the one that put out a questionnaire for santa on christmas eve she likes to know what she's going to be a journalist she's going to be charlotte ballast yeah she's going to be in afghanistan calling the government to question in about 10 years time probably so she's one of those people who wouldn't wear a band t-shirt if she didn't like the music well that's what she said she's like who's def leppard i like the picture of the leopard but i don't know who def leppard is so i had to get out my phone in the middle of the store. To see if she liked the music.

And then I was like, oh, here you go. And I played a little bit of Pour Some Sugar On Me. Other people in the store are looking like, is he playing it? What's he playing it for his phone? She's like, what is it? Pour Some Sugar On Me? And she made a great point. Not great for diabetics. Yeah, she's like very wasteful, very wasteful. With the sugar department, she was and she made a great point not great for diabetics yeah she's like

very wasteful very wasteful uh with the sugar department she was like i was like okay right we'll move on from dear flippin should we just get a plain t-shirt it's not for you but i tried i persisted i was like david bowie i was like oh great artist david bowie again i found a song i was like all right let's dance i got to roll so i'm playing this in the store for her and she's So, God's a roll. So, I'm playing this in the store for her, and she's like, how do you dance the blues? I'm like, very good question. Again, I don't know how you... Should have just done online shopping.

At this point, you're like, jeez, I'm having to do a big sale to get a T-shirt on a child here. Yeah, and then finally Rolling Stones. I was like, well, that's Start Me Up. I played her that. And she had a great question again What are we starting up? Like what are we starting up? Are we starting something that's electric?

Are we starting something that's gas related? So I was like well to be honest I did what you said I was like let's buy one without any labels on it Too hard, too hard basket Just trying to put cool retro bands On my 10-year-old kid. That she doesn't know, that I barely know. What other songs from Def Leppard do you know?

You're trying to make India out there support them. But I was just like, that's cool. But obviously not. Hey, next, we've got $5,000 up for grabs. Our game, five words for 5K, but we're going to do it a little different today. We'll see how that works. It's five wordles today.

Yeah. Okay, we'll tell you how it works after this. It is the hits. You've got John on, Ben. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game of Word Association. We do it every morning.

Match all five words, you get $5,000. Today, we're doing five words. Well, five wordles, not five words. So we've taken the last five words on the popular game Wordle. That seems to be everyone's talking about it. It's a little game you play online. And we're going to see if we can match up all five with wordles. Let's see what you're doing there. Yeah.

Sort of jumping on board there, capitalizing on a topical thing at the moment there, Ben Boyce. I don't know if we're going to make it harder or easier. What have the last five words been? Are you looking at the list? Yeah, we'll find out very shortly. Maddy, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Good morning, guys. How are you? Good. How's Christchurch this morning, Mads? It's actually really warm. I think it's like 27 degrees. Damn. Hot day. Well, strap yourself into the cash train because the next destination is $5,000-ville.

Maddie, who do you want to match five words with this morning for five wordles? I'm going to tuck you, Jono, in the booth. Chuck Jono in the soundproof booth. 27 degrees in Christchurch is about 57 degrees in that soundproof booth. Okay, Maddie, we're going to read the last five words that were on Wordle to you.

So this is going to be a little bit different today, so we'll see how it goes. We've got five Wordles for $5,000. They may not be as easy to connect, but we'll see. Yeah. The first word is moist. Moist. Moist. I'm thinking wet.

Yeah, wet. Okay. Those is the second word. This is tricky. moist moist I'm thinking wet yeah wet okay those is the second word this is tricky those T-H-O-S-E those

those what would you say those yeah this is hard yeah those maybe

that or them let's go with that. Those and that. Yeah, that's it. You're playing actually really well. Light, L-I-G-H-T, light. I'm going to go with dark.

Light and dark. Nice. Wrung, W-R-U-N-G. You wrung. Wrung something? Like as in not as in a phone? W-R-U-G-E. I'm going to go maybe like squeeze or twist.

Yeah, that's exactly. Just to get along those lines, you squeeze something, yeah. Yeah, let's go squeeze. And could. Could you win $5,000 by matching five word or C-O-U-L-D? Could. Could. I'm tossing up between, gosh, maybe can, like almost can, or would.

Would Jono go for a rhyme is the question. Oh, who knows with Jono. I still can't predict him. We've been working together for a long time. Let's go with would. We'll just do a rhymy one. Could and would. All right.

Hey, really good effort. We'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth right now. You did actually really, really well. There's a little bit tricky with the wordles. Are you regretting five wordles? Yeah, I am a little bit. All right. The only thing I want to achieve in life is winning you $5,000, Matty.

I put that above more important than raising my children properly. Okay? That would be amazing. All right, here we go. The best word this morning from the last five days of Wordles was moist. Cake.

That's hard. I mean, okay, alright. What did you go? Wet. Wet. Let's go through the other ones. Those was the next one. Those people. Light. L-I. Those was the next one. Those. Those people.

Light. L-I-G-H-T. Light. House. Rung. W-R-U-N-G. Rung. Rung out.

And could. Could. Can. Okay. All right. Okay. Well, we gave it a crack. We tried to nail down on something topical because we thought maybe this would be the way we could win $5, okay. All right, all right. Okay. Well, we gave it a crack. We tried to nail down on something topical because we thought maybe this would be the

way we could win $5,000. Maddie. Yeah. I couldn't disappoint you more if I tried. I'm sorry. Look, it was really hard, so you did good. You did actually really, really well. Thanks, mate.

Are you talking to me? No, I was talking to Maddie. Maddie, you were terrible. I had another chance to play tomorrow morning. We really do appreciate it, Maddie. Thank you, guys. Have a good day. Yeah, keep saving Christchurch.

Spy's next, too. Yeah, a very hilarious story involving Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg. We'll play it to you next. Spy, the WhatsApp spy.co.nz. This is the part of the show that if you saw one of these people walk past you, you'd probably secretly film them and put them on your Instagram account. It's Juliet with Spy Entertainment News. So Tom Holland, who's the latest Spider-Man, also dates Zendaya.

He's in a movie with Mark Wahlberg. In one of the interviews, it was a story that they brought up. And I don't want to explain too much because I don't want to, like, the audio tells the story for you. Essentially, Mark Wahlberg was kind enough to give me a massage gun after I left his house in LA and he drove me back to my hotel. And at the time I was confused as to what kind of massage gun this was, having never seen one before. And I thought it was the type of self-pleasure.

And I thought Mark Wahlberg was driving me back to my house for other reasons other than just being a gentleman. We've been talking about working out, fitness, recovery, all this stuff. You know, I have a company with PowerPlate and we make the best massage guns out there. So I was like, I want to gift you one. He's just kind of looking at me.

And I was like, let me drive you back because you don't have to take an Uber or whatever. I'm driving with this massage gun. And I can't believe the whole time you're thinking that. I'm just trying to have a conversation with you, talking about your family and talking about my kids and what their interests are. What do you think?

Oh, you got to get your head out of the gutter, buddy. So you got one of these massage guns, didn't you, actually? Yeah, and I can see, like, because they come in a case, like a black case. Thank you. Yeah, and if you open it up, you're like, there's all these different instruments and different heads that you can attach to it.

Yeah. So I can see why. Yeah, if no one told you what it was, you'd be like, well, I know what that's for. You know? And that's what Tom Holland did on his way back to Batwell. She massages you into another dimension. Oh, I know, I know.

You turn it up, you're like... You have different settings on it, eh? Like, you can go a little bit, like, gentler if you want to. You can go gentler, yeah. But you can ramp it up to the point where you feel like you're about to have a stroke. And as your quick spy update this morning, for more, you can head to thehits.co.nz.

After 8 o'clock on the show, of course, kids are back at school, and a lot of parents and kids as well might be anxious about going back to school. We're talking to someone, a parenting school, and a lot of parents and kids as well might be anxious about going back to school. We're talking to someone, a parenting expert, for a few tips and techniques to make the school transition a bit easier. Join us in 10 minutes on The Hits. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast.

It is The Hits. Jono and Ben, 10 past 8 on a Thursday morning. A lot of kids, if not back at school, going back to school within the next week. We do love a staggered approach, don't they? Yeah, just like, there's no just one uniformed day. We all sort of slip slowly back into it. I think the drop-dead day, 8th of Feb, last day you can go back. Otherwise you're pushing the limits too.

Chris Hipkins, the hippo's like, no, no, you're pushing it too hard. You're going to have to work up until Christmas Eve. I'll tell you what, yesterday, one of my my daughter sienna came back with a result now this was a school mark and this is the first time that i to be honest i've been heavily invested in a project that she got a mark back from yesterday and did you help with the project yeah we're not just me this is that's what i find with school projects i feel like this is just a competition between all the parents who are pretending they didn't have anything to do with it,

but low-key are very competitive. Yeah, because Sienna wanted to make a little, my daughter Sienna wanted to make a radio show. And I'm like, oh, I can help you with that. And then I roped in producer Julia to help me. Aaron, you know, who makes audio, like, here's a little snippet of it. Like, it sounded great.

Aaron. This is Sienna with the Hit School Edition. Call me in love again. Kia ora, it's sounded great Aaron this is Sienna with the hit school edition Kyora it's the hit school edition with Sienna yeah so this is we made this whole thing with all the stuff that we've done on the show

as the prime minister and stuff we've got results back yesterday and I was more pumped than Sienna was I mean Sienna was like that's great

but it's all like extremely challenging reflective excellent it's all excellent it's all top marks he's actually gone through it all And he's circled

All the positive comments With a felt pen You've done it again So yeah Super entertaining Well produced There we're Julia There you go

I got excellent Yeah I hope this is the start Of something special I've never had this feedback From our bosses I mean Sienna did a lot Of the work as well

But I mean I'm taking I'm taking Well yeah You've even got the report. You've bought the report. It's her report. I put it up on the fridge. Look at this, guys.

Look what I got. You're going to put it on our work fridge. Look at that, boss. Yeah. Oh, very bad. Was she anxious about going back? Yeah, there is definitely a bit of anxiety about it around at the moment,

you know, with, you know, not just going back to school, which is an anxious time for kids, but, you know, your new class, your new teacher and stuff, but also just with the world we're living with, COVID and Omicron and all that going on. Yeah, well, it just doesn't make sense, does it?

It's like a game of Monopoly. When you go and play Monopoly at someone else's house and they make up the rules as you go along. Yeah, right. It kind of feels like it. It's no one's fault. It's all new territory, isn't it? But, yeah, no, it just doesn't make sense.

A lot of it doesn't make sense, sending children back when there's going to be soon, they're saying 50,000 cases a day. But then they've got to do it because, you know, kids need to go back.

They need that social contact. They need to learn. And we put an Instagram poll on last night, really interesting as well. 69% of people are keen to get the kids back to school. 31% questioning it

as far as whether you're, as a parent, you know, you're like, oh, is this the right thing to be doing right now? Mind you, last year we sent kids back to school, but we wouldn't send office workers back. Remember that?

Oh, yeah. November. Yeah. Yeah. That didn't make sense. Like a fun-sized bag of chips. I never have fun. They're always smaller than a normal-sized bag of chips.

Yeah. So if you want to continue to vote on that poll, you can do so on our social media or flick us a text, 4487. And how are you sending it back? You know, I'm all right. I mean, you do everything you can, and, you know, you're always going to feel a little bit nervous about, you know, what could happen, but that's the world that we live in at the moment. But the best thing for them is obviously to be at school.

Yeah. You just, you know, hopefully, you know, they have to wear your mask all day. They have to sanitise when they go into class. All these things they have to do. Yeah. It's a whole new world, isn't it? Yeah, I was a little nervous about it too. But then, you know, on the flip side

it's probably mixed emotions for the kids. Had a lot of FaceTime with me over the last month and a half. Too much FaceTime. I wouldn't even wish this FaceTime upon anyone. But, so on that front, they're probably happy to get back out there. But yeah, it's the masks all day. It's the whole new protocol. What are your thoughts? 0800

the hits. And we're going to get an expert on too, in this issue. From the parenting place, what is the best way to approach the return? We'll do that next. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. Now the kids are going back to school and

we were talking about some of the best tips and techniques to navigate it for both our parents and the kids. Yeah, feedback on the text 4487. Mixed bag about people happy sending their kids back to, feedback on the text 4487, mixed bag about people happy sending their kids back to school. There's some low-key, anonymous, pretty happy parents. They're not going to have to do any parenting from 9 till 3, which is

good, but then other people are deciding even not to send their kids back to school at the moment. Oh, really? So it's a mixed bag on the text 4487. Well, we've got an expert right now to hopefully give us some tips and techniques from the parenting place. Holly Jean. She's not my lover.

She's just a girl who claims I'm the one. Welcome. Wow, what a welcome. That's a very interesting welcome. Unique welcome there, Holly. How are you this morning? I'm good. I'm good.

My kids are heading off to school this morning, so I'm very good. Is this the first morning your kids have gone to school? It is. And what now? It is a really unusual morning your kids have gone to school? It is. And what now? It is a really unusual time to send kids back to school, Holly. Yeah, it is. What's the best way to approach this? Because I know some people will be feeling anxious,

not just parents, but the students as well. Yeah, I mean, thank goodness we had a good summer break, hey, to kind of re-energise ourselves. Do you know what? My, you know, um my you know when I talk about this last week my daughter said to me she's six and a half she was like I said how are you feeling about school babe and she said oh I'm feeling a bit worried about it mom and I'm gonna miss you heaps and I didn't listen I didn't listen well and I said oh you'll be fine you know

school you've been there for you've been there for a year already. You'll be totally fine. Because in my mind, I was just like, oh, what are you feeling worried about? You've been there. We've been around each other. Off you go. Go and have some fun. And she kind of just didn't say much.

And then we do this thing as parents. We do this weird tug-of-war game. They say they're worried about something, and we tell them they shouldn't be. And we tell them that, yeah, we go, oh, these are all the reasons why you shouldn't be worried. But they're saying that they're worried. And sometimes we think that if we talk about it too much, we're going to feed it and we're going to encourage it and make them more anxious. But it's not the case.

The other day I said to her again, how are you feeling about school? And she said, I'm a bit worried about it. I'm a bit scared and I feel like I'm going to miss you. And I said, okay, tell me about that. And she told me about that, that, you know, last term there was a COVID case at school and they had to, she's worried that, you know, she might get COVID and she's worried that she's going to miss me.

And I just listened and I, you know, shared some stories about times when I've been scared. I remember sobbing my guts out the day before I started into media. It was a very long time ago. Yeah, and I told her about that. And I said, you know, it's normal to feel a bit scared and worried. And what can we do about it? And she kind of came up with a few ideas.

And it just was a much better conversation. And she got up the next morning. This was yesterday. She got up and she packed her bag and got it out and made her lunch. It's going to be a bit crusty today. She went early. Yeah, a little bit early. You're like, oh, okay, savages.

Yeah, I know what you're saying, because by pretending that Omicron's not there or COVID's not there and trying to pretend that it's all okay and you go back to school, it doesn't solve the issue at all. Probably being more real about the issue probably lets them understand it, wrap their head around it a bit more. Yeah.

It's such a strange time. You can catch up actually all your tips at theparentingplace.nz. But it's such a strange time. I was thinking about the other day, you know, when we were all sort of kids, you don't worry about wearing a mask or hand sanitizing or keeping social distancing and all those things i think i washed my hands for 15 years and all those things

now that you sort of you know as part of the world that we're we're living in and you have to sort of say to your kids hey we need to take your mask you need to do this you need to think but then you're also worried about i'm worried about how that's gonna how that's gonna affect them you know having to live in this environment and not being like kids and carefree like we all kind of were yeah do you think it's gonna have a long long-term impact on the kids of today? What's happening now? Oh, I'd love to give insight on that, but I'm not a psychologist. Oh, just do it anyway. It's radio. We just say stuff.

Look, we're saying it. No, but yeah, but it is one of those things. I think kids are really resilient, and I think that, you know, there's plenty of times when they're not having to mask up. There's plenty of times when they're at home and they're with their family and they're feeling safe and they're feeling happy and they're free

and they can be in the backyard. Those are the times that kind of make up for the times when they have to follow new protocols. I think that they do adjust. Yeah. Well, listen, thank you for your expert psychology advice over the last five minutes. It's been great.

Actually, really good insight into it. And, yeah, it's not an easy time for the kids to go back to school. But the one thing I do think about is last year when the government said we're sending the kids back to school, for the most part there were no issues. Yeah. So you imagine if it wasn't safe to do it, they wouldn't do it. That's right and for them being around their friends and having that normality of being in school in the classroom

lockdown learning is really hard so it's quite stressful when we're working from home for them to be in class with their friends um that's going to be really great for them socially so i think there's hope we can just focus on the on the positive and we've been through this before, we can get through this again Oh Holly, thank you so much for your time good luck this morning with drop off, alright? Thank you, I need it, thank you Some really awesome tips and techniques there, good luck if you're taking

your kids back to school, good luck to the kids and the parents Just good luck to everyone being boys Good luck to us trying to navigate through a radio show, we've got Hilary Barry coming up very shortly which is very exciting. And what was the thing that her son mowed into the lawn that created national news over the summer break? We'll talk to Hilary Barry about that in five minutes. It is The Hits.

The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't say this battered up old face. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben, 8.30, that is Wake Me Up. And if you're waking up this morning, they're expecting some changes at the border to be happening with the MIQ system, particularly from those coming from Australia. By the end of February, they're thinking, and the mid-March for the rest of the world. Open the gates, you won't even have to be checked by customs.

Just get off a plane, straight off the tarmac into the city. I don't think that's going to happen. Oh, not that loose. Ben, I want to ask some advice from you if you think I'm being sent a subtle message by members of my wider family. I've noticed something as I was in the shower this morning that I keep getting gifted anti-aging face wash. Yes. Yes, they are sending you a message. 100%.

100%. Every Christmas, it's an anti-aging face wash. And I don't know. There's not much you can do to this face. There's some deep crevasses up there on their forehead. I think there's a tour party missing in there somewhere. Might want to send the Westpac Rescue helicopter in there. And I think they're trying to turn my face back to 2012.

It's 2046, baby. This face ain't going back anywhere. No matter how much anti-aging you try and anti-age me, there's anti-lockdown, anti-vax, anti-A. Everyone's anti nowadays. I don't think it's going to work. You can't turn back time? How can they create a product that reverses aging?

It can't be a thing. No. As I'm rubbing this phone in my face. No, it's definitely not a thing. It definitely hasn't worked. Like, I'd be asking for my money back. If anything, it's fast forwarded the process. I'm kidding.

Don't you wonder that about products? They make these claims and you... I think anti-aging is a big call. I think there can definitely be... Not anti-Asian,

by the way. It was anti-aging. Did it sound like I said that? I'm sorry. No, with anti-aging stuff, I feel like it might sort of

semi-slow down the process, but not reverse anything. It's like, you know, it's gone from 60 k's an hour down to 58. It's still above the speed limit. It's still going know it's gone from 60 k's an hour down to

58 yeah you know it's still above the speed limit it's still going still fast tracking you're right maybe just pausing slowly trying to hold you know and eventually the bangs are going to blow. Listen, the only thing, my face is not getting tighter. The only thing I've seen get tighter with age is Ben's tight ass. Every year he spends less and less. I try to. I got anti-aging cream for Secret Santa once.

That was a little bit of a like, oh, oh. Someone having a passive dig. But I i couldn't find the person i didn't know who gave it to me did you use it yeah i tried to but it didn't work yeah but i was like what's it i do love a secret santa present because you know it really lets out a lot of pent-up frustration doesn't it you don't have to you don't have to claim it there's no responsibility accepted yeah it just turns into this weird argument or sort of digs at people and staff members who have annoyed you over the last 12 months.

Yeah, I saw a great thing on social media. You've got to have it now. You've got to have it funny enough to impress the group, but not too funny that you end up in HR. Not too over the top, you know, because there's a timeline of how far you can push it. It's like you're bullying someone, but also at the same time you've paid for a present as well.

Mixed emotions, Secret Santa. Next, she's the mother of the nation who's never once picked me up from netball practice. No, but she did do an amazing thing. This is Hilary Barry. How much did she spend on chocolate fish? Well, she said a chocolate fish for anyone who got vaccinated. Every person who got vaccinated.

She must have sunk her life savings on chocolate fish. We'll ask her how much next. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Seven Sharp are back on the TV at seven o'clock on one. She's fresh back from holiday, tanned, taut and slightly kissed by the sun. Hilary Barry, come on down. Hello, lovelies.

Only one of those things is true. I was kissed by the sun, but I'm not very taut. I imagine you would brown up. You've got lovely brown skin, Hilary. Now, this is a weird angle to start with. No, I take no part in this. I imagine you tan up nicely. Yes, I do.

And yes, this is weird. Yeah. Okay, this is weird. Actually, speakers go 50 shades of different pink, don't they? Something that I wondered, Hilary Barry, is like every time you seem to post something on social media, it makes national news. Do you sit around like over the holidays with your friends and family

and go, watch this, this will be on the Herald in half an hour? Set the timer. Watch this. There you go. It's reluctant to post. I mean, over the summer holidays, I kind of didn't share much because I was thinking,

I just can't be bothered with the Herald picking this up. And people thinking I'm just some attention seeker. Because I'm sure that there will be people out there who think that I actively go to the Herald and say,

oh, here's some content you can make a story out of. Oh, no, we love it. You're so good. It's what people love. People love, I mean, it's so popular. People love hearing about your life. I don't know that they do.

Well, your son over summer, I had a laugh at this. You got him to mow the lawns, and he sort of mowed a sort of rude markings in the lawn. He did. He's at that age where if there's a chance to take the mick, he will. Yeah. And he's very, very lucky that he has parents who have a sense of humour. Yeah, he did not leave it there permanently. He did mow over it again after he'd had a laugh and we'd had a little...

And after the Herald had put an article on... Did the Herald put the CMB on there on the news? Yeah, they did. My son's also prime phallic territory, and he's figured out when he does the, when you can water blast, water blast out a circle, so he does two circles and then

guides it up like a spaceship designed by Jeff Bezos. Why is it about boys and drawing that particular image that they just think is so funny? I don't know. But the other thing I have to admit is no matter how old you get,

it doesn't help but put a smile on your face. Hilary, it's so great to have you guys back on the TV for Seven Sharp. Something you did last year as well, which was incredible. You offered chocolate fish to listeners who could prove they were vaccinated. How many chocolate fish did you have to send out

and how much did it cost you? Well, look, I did put a caveat on it. It was towards the end of our vaccination programme. Although it's still going on, I shouldn't really say that. But it was after the initial wave. And some people were still reluctant or didn't really realise that they ought to go out and get it. So the bulk of people had already been vaccinated

because I'm not so stupid that I would offer a chocolate fish to every person in New Zealand. That's your timing. It was well timed. I'm not an idiot. I'm a little bit silly, but I'm not a complete idiot. So anyway, I said anyone who goes out and has their first vaccination this weekend, I'll send a chocolate

fish to. Knowing that it might be a thousand people or something like that, you know, because you've then got to email into Seven Sharp and da-la-la-la. So there's this bit of rigmarole. So I thought, oh, you know, maybe a thousand people. And I thought, well, how much is a chocolate fish? You know, 50 cents or so?

Yeah, fine. That's, you know, 500 bucks to get a thousand New Zealanders vaccinated. I'm happy to pay that. And I should point that out. I was paying for it. Nobody else. Anyway, blow me down if I didn't work out the postal cost of sending a chocolate fish. Because it's not flat.

It's not a letter. The cost per unit of a chocolate fish was 50 cents. The cost of sending them was $4.50. Oh, jeez. Oh, my God. Anyway, so I worked this out before I knew how many people were sending in and asking for a chocolate fish. And I did kind of say to Mr. B, this may cost quite a bit.

Because I was doing the mental arithmetic going, it's like 1,000 people want a chocolate fish. That's five grand. Why did I do that? Why did I do that? Why did I say that? Anyway, long story short, about 300 did. I imagine that became the bane of the seven-sharp team's life.

There were a few eyes rolled because I didn't ask permission first, and I'm not doing it again. I'm not giving out chocolate fish for boosters. Well, Hilary Barry, it's great to have you and Jeremy back on the TV every night. It's such a feel-good, lovely show that you guys do every night at 7 p.m. It's great to have you back. Take care. See you.

Bye. Bye, lovely. Here we go, Hilary Barry. Next, we've got thousands and thousands of dollars to give away tomorrow, but you need to be listening to the show tomorrow. We'll tell you how next. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right

and at the end of the day. Jono and Ben Breakfast on the Hits. It's the Hits, Jono and Ben, Kings of Leon on your Thursday morning. Hey, tomorrow, tune into the show tomorrow because we are going to be at Resene stacking paint cans. It's a can-can challenge.

And every can that we stack on top of each other successfully, we get another $250 to give away. But if the cans all topple over, we get no money. So we have to, with your help, we have to work out where to stop or not. You're quite good at balancing things. You've got a well-balanced life, well-balanced diet. So I've nominated Ben Boyce to be the official placer of the cans. So we've got some practice tins, practice cans in here at the moment from Razine.

And we gave it a go before 7 o'clock this morning, and it was an absolute disaster. I had a shocker. That's why I am backing you to be the placer. I haven't had a crack yet. But we did get some advice from a guy who has a Guinness World Record in the UK for the most amount of M&Ms, you know, little chocolate lollies. Oh, you've heard them.

Yeah, about 17, an illustrious career in the confectionery game. They're up there with Wonka. Yeah. Five on top of each other. So we balanced five. Here was his advice. Good question. Patience, I reckon.

Don't be too quick with the cans. Make sure you take your time. That's all I've got to say. Now, through the song, you've already balanced about seven or eight of them. Now, they're as tall as Ben already. That's what we haven't factored in, how high they get very quickly. So there would be about $4,000 on the line here. Ben Boyce gently places just gentle hands.

And it's tipping over. It's looking like the leaning tower of paintings. And it's not boding well for tomorrow. Jeez, that's hard. We can do a base at the bottom of four and then three on top of it, kind of like a pyramid scheme going two, one, and then. The problem is I assumed there was going to be grooves, grooves at the bottom of the tin that would slot into the top of the tin.

No. No grooves. That's not groove. They're not grooving. We still could win you money, so tune in tomorrow.