Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: JONO. HAS. HAIR.

Episode Date: December 9, 2021

ON HIS HEAD! No joke! And it was Ben's daughter who noticed!!! Petition for him to grow his hair out?! We think yes. We also caught up with actor, comedian and children's author David Walliams who has a new book out. Finally, we noticed Mike Hosking in a VERY different environment at work yesterday and it was so amusing to watch. Enjoy the poddy!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. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast, it's Jono and Ben Friday the 10th of December. We've got Chris here from IT, he's just trying to, what he's trying to do is migrate two systems together, aren't you, at the moment, Chris? Yeah, something along those lines. It sounds complicated.

It does sound, it sounds well above my head, and I'm just trying to say migrate systems together like I know what I'm talking about. How is the migration going? It's been fairly smooth so far. Okay. Just not so smooth here. So you're on the phone as well.

You're obviously getting help at the same time. Yeah, yeah. The tech guy's calling the tech line. Yeah, I know. So what they've done, it's a bit of a back story. You have obviously getting help at the same time. Yeah. The tech guy's calling the tech line. So what they've done, it's a bit of a back story. You have two companies, Ben. Two companies and they joined together and both operating on different systems a few years ago.

And Chris and the team decided, you know, now's the time that we migrate and we all operate otherwise. We've made it official. It's like having a separate bank account and then you're like, no, we need to make a joint bank account. You feel like this relationship... Is that right? Is that a good analogy?

Yeah, we feel like this relationship will continue on. It's going to last. We're a bit, you know, like, oh, pay for the centre, we'll split it. You know, we're like, no, things are going well. We've made it through the rocky period. Are we at the, let's buy a dog, you know, or like an animal stage of the relationship? Yeah, I'll throw that at you, Chris.

What do you reckon? The mortgage, are we at that stage? It's pretty serious. It's getting pretty at that stage? It's pretty serious. It's getting pretty serious. Yeah, it's pretty serious. We're looking at a dog. Maybe even some kids in the next couple of years. Oh, wow.

Things are really going well. Anyway, how's your week been? You had a good week? Yeah, it's been a busy week, but it's been fun. It's been fun. We were at Eden Park throwing some basketballs. It was fun, actually. One of those things I think you said when you were up there,

that we had no idea whether it was fun actually. One of those things I think you said when you were up there that we had no idea whether it was even possible. Like no one had, like we tested obviously getting up there, someone had gone up there, someone had thrown down a volleyball and stuff down to the field but no one had actually tried to get a ball through a hoop. And the first time you do it,

you're like Jesus. And it's happened to us a lot in our careers. We were like, oh we'll go and do that. Like we thought we could just go and do kite foiling. Yeah. Which is essentially, you know, you're surfing with a kite on like a wakeboard sort of situation with a hydrofoil on it. We were driving out there thinking that we would be standing up and kite foiling within an hour. Because it looks, well, sports again looks like, oh, so much fun.

Looks like it could be easy. You just hang in there. The kite's doing the work. The foiling, so complicated. And when you get there and they're like, well, these are the professional athletes. They're like, this took us at least 12 months to learn. Yeah. Yeah.

You never want to turn up for those ones, do you? No, no. And so that's what we thought we might have done at Eden Park, but actually it wasn't. What do you think looks really easy but is probably quite difficult? Darts, I reckon, is a sport that they make. You know, when you've got guys who turn up with guts holding pints of beer and

big highlighted high-vis clothing. Yeah, you're right. I feel like that's an achievable sport, but I imagine it's a lot more complicated than it seems. I can't think of too many other examples, but darts is a really good one. Timber bowling? Yeah, there's a lot of tricks. Again, we learn a few more tricks to that as well. I mean, it's one of those sports that anyone can do,

but really to nail consistently. It's probably, yeah. What looks easy but is really hard? I'm going to Google this. Number 20 on the list is marriage. Yeah, I suppose, yeah. It depends on what you think about it. Yeah, you're right.

It does look easy. It's just like, well, you cohabitate with another human being happily for the rest of your life. It's a lot more difficult than it seems. So that was number 19 on the list. Beekeeping. Now that does look like, you know, put on a suit, go and keep some bees.

Although I would say dealing with bees, yeah, I wouldn't. But anyway, yeah, okay. Yep. There's another one here. The saying, easy as pie. Pie, very difficult to actually bake, create from scratch. Yeah.

You know, there's a lot of working mechanics when you're making a pie. You're right. Easy as pie, yeah, okay. That's a good one. Flying remote-controlled helicopters. And that does look so... And drones. Yeah, yeah.

You're like, oh, I could do that. Yeah, but it is a lot more complicated. You're right, that's a very good one. Yeah, we'll give them that one. Coming up with street names, you quickly run out. I never thought of that before. One of the hardest things on radio

is when someone phones up and they're like, oh, can you please not use my real name? I don't want, you know, I don't want to be... Your go-to, I think, is Chantel or something. Chantel Stanton or something. Yeah, it will be want to be. Your go-to, I think, Chantel or something it often is. Chantel Stanton or something. Yeah, it will be.

But making up names on the spot is very difficult as well. Whistling with your fingers is another thing that looks easy, but is. Yeah, I can't do that,

yeah. Your wife is. She's very good at whistling, yeah. Is she a professional whistler? No, but she taught herself to do it and she's really nailed it

and she loves using it at any occasion. Too loud, too loud, anyway. Yeah. Digging. Digging looks... Doesn't digging look like the easiest? I love this list, it's good.

But it's... In movies and TV shows, they make digging look so easy. Yeah. Just like, shovel, throw the digging shovel. Yeah, you're right, but it's... It really gets your cardio up, digging. Folding sheets. Oh, yeah. Folding sheets. Oh, yeah.

Folding sheets. That's tough. Yeah, well, good than that. They do make it look very easy. When you watch YouTube videos on how to fold a fitted sheet, you think you've cracked it, but if anything,

it leaves you more confused on how to fold them. Well, you're trying to follow them, but you're still not getting the same results. Yeah. And that was a list of stuff that looks really easy,

but is actually quite hard. Or using wheelchairs, apparently. I'd like to put radio on that list, but no, it's actually not. It's probably easy. People can come along and make it look hard. Enjoy the podcast. Enjoy your weekend. We'll catch you Monday.

New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben. It is a Friday. Today's the day, Julia. Or yesterday, Julia. It feels like a Friday. It feels like a Friday. We'll produce Julia. It is Friday. Today's the day, Julia. Or yesterday, Julia. It feels like a Friday. It feels like a Friday. We'll produce Julia.

It is Friday. Well done. We got here. Thank goodness. Very, very happy. You know, it's going to be a good Friday when you wake up with a notification on your phone from a newspaper headline from TMZ on my phone that reads, Camel beauty pageant crackdown. 40 contestants busted for Botox scandal in Saudi Arabia.

For Botox in the Camels. You've seen this story. You've screenshotted this and you sent it through to us this morning. You're like, great headline, guys. But, Producer Juliet, you noticed something on Jono's phone under that. Yeah, it was Bee Humps and I. We were talking about this. It says in his calendar, in the notification below, radio, the hits, 6 a.m. till 12 p.m.

We're like, do you need a reminder every day on your calendar? I forget every day to go to work. Who's got that in their calendar to work every day? Like your main job. Like I understand if you're a shift worker or a things. You're like, what am I doing Monday, Tuesday morning at 7.30? I could probably catch up for coffee. That's just a waste of notification.

It's great to have a reminder that you need to go to work. I don't know where I'd be without a bed, boys. I wouldn't be here. I want to remind you about some of the amazing things we've got happening over the next three hours. It's a big show. We've got David Walliams joining us just after 8 o'clock. Very, very funny guy. TV comedian.

He's one of the judges of UK's Got Talent. Now, we need to set the record straight with David Walliams because last time we spoke to him, he made a request for us to do something. That's right. And it got vetoed, and it didn't get followed through, and it didn't get to him. So I don't know if there's some beef there. Well, that's right. Acclaimed children's author now, David Walliams, joins us after 8 o'clock.

As well as that, we've got a whole lot of money to give away. Thanks to the Resine, if you guess what's in the Resene paint tin. Plus the market. $5,000 for the market up for grabs and $5,000 after 7 o'clock. It is a massive show, so please stick with us. It is the hits. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk's Ed Bing.

In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The hits. Yesterday after the show, we witnessed probably one of the greatest the greatest things I think the three of us have ever seen. It was through the window here in the building. Now just to give you a background, we're in a building with other radio stations. You've got ZM next door, Flavours across the road there, Coast next door. But upstairs, it's the holy grail of radio. It's Newstalk ZB.b yeah they're on the same floor

as the new zealand herald it's you know it's a prestigious floor upstairs yeah they put the better class of person up on a higher level and rightfully so as well and there was no better class of person than mike hosking uh the breakfast host on news talk zb now we don't see him you don't see him around the building he doesn't come down to ground level yeah because our our windows from our studio looks out onto reception. We can see reception. And so you see all the visitors coming in and out. But we've been here for a year and a half on air.

Honestly, I have not seen Mike Hosking walk out into the foyer area by reception at all in that year and a half. We work pretty much the same kind of hours as Mike Hosking. We're here at the same time. So yesterday morning, it was about two past nine in the morning, wasn't it? Boom, lift doors open. And we're like, oh, who is this Louis Vuitton-clad specimen just sort of rushing out of the lift door? And we're like, it's Mike Hosking.

It's Mike Hosking. It's Mike Hosking. And whispers went around the office, Mike Hosking's down on ground level. Like, what is he doing? And he looked like he was on a mission, too. He did. He was here. He was on a mission.

He had some purpose. But he also looked very out of place. Yeah, he didn't look comfortable. He didn't look comfortable down on ground level. It's like Ben Boyce when he runs out of hand sanitizer. He's not fully settled in this environment. So then we're like, oh, where's he going? And he sort of wanders in to the mail room,

which is just, you know, it's a glorified cupboard. It's just a big cupboard. And we're like, oh, he's going to be the mail room. All the mail that comes into the building for the radio stations goes in there and people either go collect their mail for you or, you know, they distribute it out. That's the word I'm trying to say. I've never seen, I don't know how he,

he probably thinks mail just appears thanks to the gods of Gucci. Just boom, packages just land in front of him. But he's down there. He's getting his hands dirty, but he's down there he's getting his hands dirty but he's in there for a very long time and he's fossicking around he's looking at every page. You were loving it this was like a spectator sport for you you were standing

up against the window. Honestly like a kid like you know when kids press up to the windows like looking so excited for something that was literally you. The longer he was in there the more happier it was making me because he was just looking at every page. And you could tell he was slowly getting more and more wound up. Because he's an efficient man.

And you could tell there was nine to ten minutes in his day right now that he had not factored in. And he'd probably never been into the mail room before either. Because people usually get his parcels for him. So it got to the point it was ten minutes in there and he didn't find what he was looking for. He went out to reception. He talked to the person. They didn't know what he was talking about. He went out to reception. He talked to the person. They didn't know what he was talking about. We thought maybe, like, thinking about it,

Kate Hawksby, obviously Kate and Micah together, she gets sent a lot of packages. You can see it on her Instagram as well. She's great on Instagram. So we thought maybe, because Kate's on holiday at the moment, maybe it was Kate saying, can you go and pick up some packages for me? And this was adding to his frustration.

Yeah, good to know. But then all of a sudden, boom, out of the mailroom comes this trolley. it's sort of like a supermarket trolley just laden with 20 packages it felt like there were 20 packages on there are they all those for kate or mike or are these like for john and ben and fletchborn and megan and all sorts a lot of packages then he sort of scurries out pushing this trolley waves at us through the window. Yeah, a reluctant wave. Only because we waved at him first. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he goes into the lift and we're like, do you reckon that trolley's coming back up here? Do we reckon he's going to go down to the garage, unload all his packages, and then deposit the trolley back to where it came from? And we all, we hedged our bets and we're like, no, that's just going to be sitting in the middle of the garage. But then five minutes later, the lift doors open.

Boom. And this trolley just comes flying out. Rolling out the door. Sort of rolls to a stop in the middle of our marble floored reception here. And the doors just shut. No one behind it. Just the trolley. Not my problem.

Love it. I love it. That's not my issue anymore. Someone else will clean that up for me. So I don't know if he got them. He just basically took every package from the mail room because he couldn't find the one he was looking for. That's what happens when you're Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. It is a hit. You got a shout out, Ben.

Live free. The summer holiday edition with Škoda. Your chance to win your summer holiday paid for. Call 0800 THE HITS now to get in the drawer. Now we're in a little bit of a pickle here because we were meant to play that before the song started. So we're in a position where they call us. My bad. No, you don't worry, Juliet. We're a team, mate. No one takes the blame.

But, you know, we're in a bit of a position where we have to pad for time. Producer Humphrey was like, can you pad until someone calls through? And I, yes, I can pad. Basically, you've padded about the fact that you've had to pad. I've never seen that being done before. It's a radio first. I'm making a speech. 30 seconds of padding.

And the phone's already going, so there's been enough padding. But I just want to talk to you about a lady that I saw was driving home yesterday down Hobson Street, which I was like, this is a combination of two things that shouldn't go together. She was eating a sandwich, but while also driving one of those scooters, you know, the electric scooters. Oh, right. But she got to the point where she was controlling the handlebars with her elbows and eating the sandwich double-handedly. That's got to go. Those things at the best of times

can be a little bit like. Yeah dodgy. Like you had a bump on the road and you can potentially come off. Yeah but like how busy is your day when you're still having to scooter and consume the sandwich at the same time. Multitasking. Some great padding there Jono. Well done. Let's go to Alex in Christchurch.

Oh. It ends. After all that padding. Talking about padding. We'll go in Christchurch. Oh. And it ends with a hang up. After all that padding, talking about padding, we'll go to Timbo in Wellington. Morena, how are you? I'm good.

How are you guys? You're good. Thank you for calling through and requiring us not to pad any longer. That's why it's great. I love you guys. You guys are awesome.

Oh, thank you. I'm listening to your show. We appreciate it. I've been madly pushing the button for ages trying to get into any competition. Oh, well, you're in this one, too.

Yeah. Yay. Hey, what's your plans for summer? Well, I'm going to spend it with the family. I've got my daughter over the Christmas period as well, and she's hanging out with her new sister and my ex-partner's new daughter. Awesome. And obviously, they're family,

so it's a new environment for her, so she's just getting used to that. But she's loving being a big sister. Oh, that's awesome. Blended family scenario. Well, Christmas is going to be very special for your family this year and her. And also could be special for you.

You've got to have a Škoda for two weeks and $5,000. You can live free without a care in the world. Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. That would be pretty cool. I don't even know what a Skoda is. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's a brand new Skoda Kodiaq 7-seater SUV

so you can take around the whole family over summer if you win that. So thank you so much for listening to the show, mate, and have a Merry Christmas. Yeah, you too, and have a Merry Christmas. Yeah, you too. You have a Merry Christmas and take care of yourselves, okay, over whatever's happening in the world. What is happening here?

Oh, no. Mal and Mo are walking through it, aren't we? Yeah. Love your work, Tim. Have a great weekend. Yeah, you too. All right. The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben.

Been a big week for us. We were at Eden Park a couple of days ago throwing basketballs from the roof, trying to nail two shots down onto the field below. There's an epic video you can catch at The Hits Breakfast on Facebook and Instagram. Give it a follow and you can see this where we get the shots. It's going in.

It's going in. It's in! Oh my goodness. It's a really It's in! Oh my goodness! Like it's a really cool video. Is that from the basketball? It's a very cool

video. There's drone shots. It looks epic so go check it out but the funniest thing and I'm going to play it for you after 8 o'clock today.

I played it to my daughters last night and the thing that Indy was fixated on is hilarious. Like the thing that wowed her the most and like forget about

the two shots. The thing that wowed her the most, forget about the two shots, the thing that wowed her the most is... It wasn't the basketball though. It wasn't the basketball. Juliet, you've heard it, you loaded the audio. Yes, amazing. It's pretty amazing, so we'll get to that after 8.30. Is the fact that Ben Humphrey, producer Humphrey and me put together a basketball game? Well, that should have impressed him. And we're still talking to each other?

Only just. It is a hit. You've got John O'Byrne. He's on his third trimester And about to birth another news baby Ben Boyce The expectant parent Welcome So it's been 20 years 20 years since the first Lord of the Rings movie was released

Released on this day in London 20 years ago And then of course a few days later There was that epic sort of street parade and launch for the movie in Wellington. Oh, that's where they shut down the main road, London Quay, is it? Yeah, it was pretty much across down there, wasn't it? But next to the big theatre there, the Embassy Theatre.

And you remember that? Orlando Bloom had the Huffer T-shirt on we went crazy about. He's wearing New Zealand clothing! And then a few days later, he had nothing on, and we went crazy about that as well. He was paddle boarding with Katy Perry. There wasn't enough material that Huffer could make

to cover what was on that paddle board. They tried to give it its own wetsuit. Of course, Sir Peter Jackson... Looked like a seal. Had winter workshops teaming up. Sort of put New Zealand on the map as far as cinema goes. Didn't it really? And the first one was a real risk because obviously they made all three.

Well, that was the plan to make all three. So the first one, if it flopped, then they were like, oh, we've got two more of these movies coming out as well. So a lot of pressure was on the first one. And we've dined out on it. The Wellington Airport has dined out on it. They've still got Lord of the Rings memorabilia and merch in there, don't they? For 20 years.

I can't believe that. And he's created a whole industry here for the US, isn't he? You look at not only what the movies he's made, but Weta Workshop. James Cameron's come down here as well, and he uses all their facilities. We were talking to Steven Spielberg the other day, as you do. That was so... What a nager. Have were talking to Steven Spielberg the other day, as you do. Oh, that was so, what a name drop. Have you heard of Steven Spielberg? Actually, no.

Yeah. I was talking to my mate, Steve. Yeah, sorry, Steve. He works in a little bit of film every now and then. Oh, who's Steve? Oh, Steven Spielberg. Oh, Steven Spielberg. Yeah.

That's Steven Spielberg, the movie director. Yeah, Bergie. Yeah, Bergie. Yeah, Bergie. We were actually talking to Steven Spielberg. I don't know how we got him either. Steve. Sorry, Steve. And he was paying full credit to Peter Jackson and everything he's done down here.

He wants to come to New Zealand and see you. Obviously not that badly enough because it's been 20 years since the first movie. I know, but it's a long way away. But Ber he's busy. He's got stuff on his plate. He does. And you may have seen this in the news yesterday.

The plan is for the government to have New Zealand, well, they really want New Zealand to be smoke-free by 2025. And that means right now, I was a little bit confused by this, but that means that the people who are not quite 14 now, 13, 14-year-olds now, by the time they get to the smoking age, they won't be able to buy cigarettes. Right. So from this age onwards, if you're like a, yeah, so that's, they're basically trying to phase

out cigarettes for that age group. So would that mean if you're 15, you'd have one year of potentially smoking cigarettes before it was fair? I'm very confused by how this is. So are they raising the age of it? Basically it's saying, yeah, producer Behemoths, come on in here. I asked you this at the show, and you explained it to me. This is confusing.

It was really confusing. It was like, well, 14-year-olds should be smoking anyway. Yeah, so smokes will still be available in certain stores. I think they're going to reduce the amount of stores that can stock cigarettes. Yeah, they're talking about banning them from dairies. Yes. But if you smoked, Jono, you would still be able to buy cigarettes because you're addicted and... Good.

Good. That's good. But let's say I'm 13 right now. If you're 13 now, by the time you get to 18, you won't be able to buy cigarettes. Ever. If you were 15... But if I'm 38, I can still buy cigarettes. Yes.

For how much longer? For the rest of your life. Oh! So they'll still be on the market. They'll still be there. In a reduced capacity. In a reduced capacity. Don't say, oh, gross. Nice little cigarette companies. For people rest of your life. So they'll still be on the market. They'll still be there. In a reduced capacity. Don't say, oh, gross.

For people that are already addicted. So then, what if you're 15 now? What does that mean by the time? I presume if you're 15 now, you'll be able to buy a cigarette. It's very confusing. Wow! That's weird. So it's quite, you're trying to race to get past the age threshold to continue your smoking career. Yeah, but I don't think you can change your age.

No, you can't. Out of your head. So basically they're going on the idea that if you hopefully get people not addicted at that age and so less people will become addicted as they, you know. Yeah. Well, you know, I saw that pass the law last week and I don't smoke with children in the car now. Which seems good.

You know, like, why was that even allowed? Oh, the kids loved it when the windows were wound up and I was huffing back on a B&H. Yeah, no, it seems like it would be an odd thing to do anyway. It won't be an issue for the 15-year-olds, as you say, Jude, because they'll be all vaping. Yes. True.

Yeah. Apparently vapes are still a thing. Thank you for explaining that to me, because I was very, very confused. That is very confused. But I suppose they can't just go, all right, they're all going in 2025. Yeah, which they probably want to do, but yeah.

Well, it'd be a lot easier for us to explain. Can't they just do that just for commercial radio hosts? And that is Scully to your feed this morning. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Now, there's a really, really interesting show on TVNZ1.

It's on this Sunday, just before 11 o'clock. It's called the New Zealand Agricultural Show. It looks at all things farming, and it stars one of the guys who's huge on social media in the dairy industry, isn't he? Yeah, Tangaroa Walker, who we have met on a couple of occasions. Wonderful guy, and really interesting background. Sort of came from the city and ended up in Southland, dairy farming at a very young age.

And now he's a social media superstar, really. Yeah, and he's on the phone with us right now Hey Tangaroa Good to hear from you buddy, you been well? Been navigating the two child spaces Two double kids, how old now? One's just over two

I understand at the moment you're sitting on the couch watching cartoons Yeah mate Just dialing in on Dogtown I used to do Paw Patrol was a big one uh back in the day yeah you sort of you get quite involved in the storyline of these don't you oh yeah you soon get sick of them though they just play on repeat yeah well ben boys you said you got lost in uh an episode of dora didn't you yeah sort of the kids left actually and i was still like hang on i gotta see what happens here I don't know why you're leaving.

This is a really critical part. I can't find back packets. You know, there's a lot going. Swiper's taking this thing. It's a lot going on. But, Ian Takarau, you've got a really – we had the pleasure of meeting you a few months ago down in Palmerie North for the rural games. But you've got a really, really interesting story. Yeah, yeah, that was cool, bro.

It was cool to meet you guys, and I'm sure hopefully we'll be crossing paths a little bit in the future. Absolutely, mate. So how did you end up in farming in Southland? Well, pretty much brought up in like a tent and lived in caravans and that, like caravan parks and that. And I was

inspired by a guy when I was 11. I've seen what he had and how happy he was and had an awesome family. And I sort of just wanted to be rich. And so I wanted to get into dairy farming at a really good level. And he ended up giving me some advice to move down to Southland. And so that's what I did as soon as I left school, moved down to Southland, thinking that I still wanted to be rich.

But yeah, I got down here and just realized how awesome the industry was and how big the kinners and pow and piles and crayfish are down here. So I was at home, mate. So you've sort of become a spokesperson for the industry for dairy farming, and you're doing a wonderful job representing your industry. We, as Ben said, hung out with you for a while. We milked some cows with you. In fact, you milked a cow into my face, which was...

You asked for it. I did, I did. It was one of the most unsettling but satisfying at the same time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, very good. You've become a bit of a social media superstar for life as well. But you've got a TV show on this Sunday on TVNZ1, 11 o'clock with Alison Pugh, which people will remember. She used to be one of the hosts of Breakfast TV.

So isn't that really cool? What's it all about on Sunday? Yeah, mate. So the egg show has been going, you know, I think it's one of the longest standing shows in Aotearoa, normally attracting around 100,000 people. And for the last two years, obviously, it's been put on the back burner because of COVID. And we thought, look, all these farmers still need some sort of outlet. Let's try and get out to all the screens in Aotearoa and shoot the show.

So the film crew have been unreal. What would normally take around five months to push out? They've been able to smack it out in five weeks. And it was wicked working with Ellie. She's bringed a whole lot of professionalism to my game, definitely. I was like, uh,

maybe I need to do things a little bit differently. Yeah, I bet you went bloody squirting cows into Ellie's face there. Congratulations on everything you have done for, uh, for dairy farming

in New Zealand and you'll continue to do and the show, 10.55 Sunday morning, TVNZ, uh, TVNZ1, you can catch Tangaroa on Ellie,

uh, hosting the Ag Show. That's wonderful. You have a great day, mate. Awesome. Cheers, brother. Look forward to seeing you guys soon. Yeah, you too, mate. See you.

We've got some Spy Entertainment news on the way. Yes, Ed Sheeran nearly knocked out Elton John on the set of their Christmas music video. Actually, no, it's actually worse. He said he nearly killed him, but I just didn't want to do it. Wow. But actually, he did it. That's just dramatic, you know. Nearly knocked him out, let's say.

We'll find out what happened soon. It is he did it. That's just dramatic, you know. Nearly knocked him out last night. We'll find out what happened soon. It is the Hats. Spy. The What's Up Spy.co.nz. We call her Judith Collins around here because she's about to crush us some celebrity careers, Juliet. Did you nearly call me Judith? I did.

Yeah, you called me Judith. Thank you. I'll take it away. So Ed Sheeran and Elton John, they have a new Christmas song out this year. We played a little bit on it. It's Christmas time for you. Well, take it away. So Ed Sheeran and Elton John, they have a new Christmas song out this year. We played a little bit on it. But on the set of the music video and promo videos that they did, Ed Sheeran has revealed that he nearly killed Elton John.

Not intentionally, but this is kind of what happened. Mate, we're doing Christmas promos together. We just shot a Christmas music video. Oh, mate, I almost killed him with a bell. What? On the video. There's footage of I'm dressed up as sort of sexy Santa Claus. And I kick a present.

But the present had a big metal bell on top of it. I showed him the footage of it today because we slowed it down. And the bell flew past his head and would have cracked him in the head. Oh my gosh. The horror that went through my body when it was flying through the air. Imagine that. Knocking out Elton John and killing him

with a Christmas bell. What a way to go out. He died doing what he loved. That would be so traumatic if it did hit him though. You'd be like, oh, you'd feel so guilty. Aren't they dear friends, Elton John and Nature? Yeah, they are.

Pretty sure Elton John calls him every morning just to say hi. Yeah, that's right. He does. And we're like, the novelty would wear off. You know,

a month of Elton John calls would be great. You're right. You get to the stage where you start screaming Elton John's call. You'd be like, oh, I better take this call.

The rocket man's phoning me. You'd be like, oh God, Elton John's calling again. It's a bit like Ben screening Jeannie Boyce's mum when she calls. Apparently sometimes the phone calls are only like 10 seconds. Hey, how are you? Have a good day.

See you. See, he's obviously not a texter. So, you know, he's probably from that generation. Not really a texter. And he would leave a voicemail too. It would backdate the... I find voicemails quite inconvenient nowadays. Oh, hugely.

Like if I miss a call from someone, I'd so much rather they just text me so I can read it immediately, than have to, you have got one new voice message. Every voicemail's from my mum. Every voicemail's, hi, it's me! Then I delete that one. Does she give the time, though? I love how they give the time. It's 3.35!

But you've just had message received today at 3.35. Oh, yeah. They're like, it's 3.35! They don't know how it plays out, do they? They're taking it old school. But yeah, I honestly cleared about six or seven in a row and they all start the same. Hi, it's just me.

Hi, just me. That's so cute. And Britney Spears, she's obviously engaged to her partner Sam, but she has no plans to invite her family to her wedding. So after, obviously, the conservatorship, she's been quite frustrated with her family. I think she wants to sue them as well. And so now that she can plan her own wedding herself,

there are reports that she doesn't want to invite anyone from her family. It would make for awkward wedding speeches. Hey, you remember that time you wanted to sue us? Yeah. If they were doing a speech, you know, the father of the bride. Well, it could be all about culling numbers, maybe,

you know, the expensive things. Yeah, that's true. Actually, on that, after 7 o'clock this morning, 4487 on the text,

have you been to a wedding or have you, the biggest, the most amount of people? Oh yeah, Juliet, your sister. Oh yeah.

So we looked at Juliet's sister's spreadsheet yesterday of all the wedding guests invited to their wedding. It is, it's in the hundreds. We're going to get to this

after seven o'clock, but 4487, the biggest wedding ever, because maybe like Brittany, there could be some beef in the room, you know, maybe she could not invite you.

Yeah, true. My sister might cull me like Brittany's a dung-bath animal. I'm looking at that list and I'm almost like, it's worth starting a family rift so she doesn't have to invite the family. She can shave 50 people off the list.

Yeah, I know. That's the thing. That is Spy for the South. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. That's the thing. That is Spy for the South. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the Hits. It's just gone 7 o'clock. You're with Jono and Ben on the Hits.

In one hour's time, we're going to catch up with David Williams. He's got a new Gangsta Granny book out, which is really, really good, and just in time for Christmas as well as that. Guess what's inside the Resine paint tin. What is the summer-ish item inside our paint tin? And you can win around about $8,000 to $9,000 this morning. Yeah, a lot of big morning of radio

Ben Boyce and I. Yesterday on the podcast introduction, you can catch our podcast on iHeartRadio. We do a little chat beforehand. Yesterday I went on the hunt for some sponsorship, didn't I Ben Boyce? You were a little anxious about this. Well, you just suddenly said the podcast brought to you by Lamborghini. And then I was like, we can't just say that because...

It's the vehicle for the everyman, Lamborghini. Because they haven't actually sponsored the podcast. And you were like, well, maybe they'd want to. And off you did to creating more awkward times by giving them a call. Listen, I know how to smooze the clients, so we phone Lambo. If I get this lucrative Lamborghini deal, who's going to want a Lamborghini? Hello, Lamborghini, Auckland.

Michael speaking. Michael, how are you, mate? I'm good. How are you? Good. It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station here. Oh, wow. You have caught you off guard there, and I'm sorry.

You have caught me off guard. Listen, we're just doing the introduction to our podcast, and I said, welcome to the podcast. I'm Jono and I'm Ben, and we're brought to you by our partners at Lamborghini. And I said, you can't just say a name of a brand that you want to work with and put them into it. Lamborghini probably don't want any association with us. It's a prestigious brand. But Jono's like, what if we get free Lamborghinis?

Wow. You wouldn't be the first one to angle for a free Lamborghini. Would Lamborghini be interested in sponsoring the podcast and or giving us two Lamborghinis? I'm not the brand manager, but I would say they probably can't afford to. Yeah, we're prestigious. It's a very, very tightly run business. Are you talking about we're a tightly run business or Lamborghini?

Yeah, Lamborghini, it's a small family-owned business. Oh, well, listen, you win some, you lose some. Hey, if anything happens in the future and you want to sponsor the podcast as Lamborghini, that'd be great. Okay, sweet. I'll pass the note on. Thank you very much. See you, buddy. Okay, all right. Cheers, guys. See you, mate.

So it's not a no. Not a no. So we could have promote John on being promotional Lamborghinis that go around handing out, you know, cooking sausages outside Bunnings on a Saturday. That'd be nice. As we've talked about, we're looking for the biggest wedding that you've ever been to, or maybe you've had. We'd love to hear from you.

4-4-8-7. Will it beat Producer Juliet's? We'll find out in a few moments on the hits. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now Britney Spears getting married,

and we just heard before, obviously there's some riffs in the family, much publicised, so that may mean a bit of less people at the wedding potentially. Yeah, there are reports saying that she doesn't want to invite any of her family, any family members from her side. I can see why she started that ball rolling with the family, though.

You're sort of widening out to cousins, aunties, uncles, nephews, nieces. Where does it stop? Where does the madness stop? And Juliette, coincidentally, just after the program yesterday, you were showing us your sister's spreadsheet for her wedding guest invite list. It is pages and pages and pages. Different spreadsheets on, you know, how many are on this list? So they first sort of drafted out all the people that they'd want to invite.

It's 301. Wow. But they're obviously going to cull it down, I think, hopefully. Well, yeah, because I guess you'd have your wider squad. It's like picking an all-black squad, I imagine. You need your wider squad. It's like picking an all black squad I imagine. You need your wider squad and then you really start to narrow it down and make some of the tough decisions.

When you have a wedding though, you do invite people that 10 years down the track you probably don't see as much, but it's just this, I don't think there's anything to regret about that. Because it's just a snapshot of where your life is at that moment and who's in your life and who's in your social circles and things like that. Most of my my friends they're not with their partners that they brought to their brought to our wedding yeah yeah that's fine yeah that's absolutely fine time did

you know what are you gonna what's the alternative no you can't bring her because i don't know if we're i can't see you and her lasting for 10 years you know yeah what do you say to someone in that situation yeah and having gone through you know? Yeah, I know. What do you say to someone in that situation? Yeah. And having gone through getting married, you have to feel like you have to make tough decisions, you know? Like, who do you invite? Because you do want to invite everyone, and it's hard.

So now it's a real honor to be invited to a wedding, and I never feel bad if I don't get invited because I know how tough it is. You understand. You understand, yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's so true. It probably doesn't help that our family and Hannah's fiancé's family are both quite large. We've got heaps of cousins, heaps of aunties, and so just the family alone is probably... Well, jeez.

300 people. That's not a wedding. That's a super-spreader event. Yeah, the proper wedding will be on the news, won't it? Yeah. Dr. Ashley Bloomfield will be talking about that one. Yeah, oh, God. It's a small island nation.

It's 300 people. I know. Hopefully you've made the cut. Oh, I hope so. I said, please invite me. And she's like, oh. So we want to check this open. What is the biggest wedding that you have been to, number-wise?

And maybe even cost that was blown on it as well. Just obscene weddings. You can get in touch with us this morning. 0800-THE-HITS. 4487. Love to get you on New Zealand's Breakfast. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hits. It is Adele, 7.15, Friday morning.

We're talking about the biggest weddings. I think I attended the smallest ever wedding. When my wife and I, we actually got married and we were on our honeymoon and we met this American couple at the place we were staying and they were eloping and they were getting married the next day. And they were like, do you guys want to witness the wedding? So we were staying and they were eloping and they were getting married the next day and they were like do you guys want to witness the wedding

so we were like yeah sweet so we came it was just the two of them and us two so yeah it was basically just yeah

a wedding of four did you have to make a speech no I didn't quite get to that oh no I mean all the stories I can tell all the mess

all the time we walked best man witness everything mate one heck of a stag do time we walked. Best man, witness, everything, mate. One heck of a stag do. Time we walked over there to here. Yeah.

Meet you last night. I feel like we've, yeah. What did you, did you, like, it's weird having a two-person audience. Do you applaud? Yeah. What did you do? Yeah, you kind of applaud. Was it smattering? Yeah, it was a lot.

Did you keep in touch with the, how did you go? We did. We went to America a few years later. We caught up with them. Oh, lovely. That's nice. Much ban you keep in touch with this? Actually, we did. We went to America a few years later. We caught up with them. Oh, lovely. That's nice. Much banter? Much banter.

We'd have a lot of, you know, like, there's not a rich history there. But, hey, you know. More of an obligation. Yeah, it was an experience. Were they like, oh, God, that Kiwi couple we asked? Probably. Probably. They come in to meet us.

Yeah. Oh, that's a lovely story, though. But, yeah, Juliet, you just shared your sister's wedding list of how many people? Three hundred and one. Wow. Geez, I'm offended. I'm not invited. I don't even know your sister.

I know. It is. Once you get to three hundred, what's another couple more? Exactly. Exactly. Oh, my God. Yeah, you're going to have to do the colour, aren't they? Yes.

No, I think they will. The best thing they can wish for is another government enforced lockdown. Oh, a hundred. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Sorry, lockdown. Blame Labour. Righty, there's a limit. Yeah, exactly. Blame Labour. Danielle, we'll get you on. You're a wedding

planner. Hi. How are you? From a wedding planning company called osuchstyle.co.nz. We've spoken to you before, Danielle. Yes, we have, a couple of times. With that website, do you put HTTPS colon first before osuchstyle? Sure. Yeah, or do you put HTTPS colon first before Osuch style?

Sure. Yeah, or do you just type in the Osuch style? Now, Danielle, biggest wedding, biggest wedding guest list. What have you seen in your career? So my biggest is 650. 650? Yes. That's a small town.

That's a population of a small town in New Zealand. Yes, and nine times out of ten, when you're dealing with large-scale weddings like that, the couples don't even know half the people that are there. So, yeah, I guess it would be like being in a small town. How did it blow out to 650? And why was that the cut-off? So it was an Indian wedding,

and they do tend to have larger guest lists yeah right i think it's a cultural thing um so that was just the number i think that was the maximum that the venue could hold so that was the number that we went with it would have had 1200 but uh and listen you don't have to give too many details but a rough price of catering for 650 people at a wedding, what are we talking? A lot. I mean, yeah. If you consider that on average a wedding menu starts at about $90 a person, then... Do the math.

What's the average amount of people that traditionally would have a wedding? Are we talking 50? Are we talking 100? Or does it just vary? I think your standard is 80 to 120. Just because most of the venues that we have available, that's what they can hold. But we do find that a lot of guests

or a lot of brides are choosing to have marquee weddings, which allows them to obviously have more guests. What's your advice as a profession now? What's your advice to people who they invite on the guest list? What should be the general rule of thumb, Danielle? It's a bit of a tricky one because, I mean, if the family parents are contributing towards the wedding or even paying for it entirely,

then they will want to have a set number of guests to invite as well. It's just a giant bender for the boomers. Yeah. So specifically, if it's the couple paying for it themselves, then you want to kind of keep it to immediate family and friends. I think that paying about $200 for a person that you haven't spoken to in two years is kind of ridiculous. So you reckon a two-year,

if you haven't seen or spoken to someone in two years, is probably a good cut-off? Yeah, that's, and even, like, a lot of people tend to feel obligated in who they invite. Like, if it's work, colleagues, extended family, plus ones, you know, your second cousin's new boyfriend. So I think, you know, limiting it to people that you actually want to celebrate, that's pretty much our go-to. Also, I mean, if you're working with a budget, your biggest budget

cutting or cost saving is your guest list. So reduce your guest list, save money, have an awesome wedding. That's kind of where we recommend things. Well, you don't want to regret anyone you invite. And I know with some divorces, sometimes you regret inviting the person you got married to. It happens as well. Hey, Danielle, thank you so much for your time.

We really do appreciate it my absolute pleasure have a great day guys get a bit Simon Cowell on your wedding list start culling people like he would on a maybe they should audition

why are you worthy to come to the wedding what talents and skills do you get the golden buzzer and you go straight through or not welcome to two half-assed dads

do a half-assed job official title Toto and Ben New Zealand's Breakfast. Now yesterday, Ben, you took me over the road for a coffee with our producer, Bee Humps. We just want to have a chat to you about your performance. We need to have a quick chat. Can we do it off-site?

Yeah, bring a support person. And we bumped into someone that we knew. And in this current environment, these unprecedented times, you know, 2021, a year, never quite like it, et cetera, et cetera, you don't know. Greeting people is not your forte at the moment in terms of handshaking. Yeah, like as a white guy, I'm a little bit, you know, I'm awkward at the best of times, you know, like, and before COVID,

you know, it was with the handshake. Which way do you do a handshake? You're going for a high five. You're going for a shake. That's the side. I mean, I never, you know, like I've never, I've always been a little bit awkward in those situations. Yeah. So now with COVID, you're right.

It's a whole, well, you know, you're not even meant to stand next to people, let alone shake someone's hand. Yeah. But you've got to range across the spectrum, don't you? You have people who are already back kissing cheeks. I saw people kissing cheeks yesterday. I was like, oh, we're back to you know, but not kissing cheeks. It's sort of when you bang the cheeks together.

Oh, yeah, that's a whole other level I didn't think we were back at, you know. I thought it was green light. We get to kiss cheeks again, but maybe not. No, another banging cheeks stage just here. You're right. But yesterday, the person that we bumped into, you led with, you sort of shunted both your elbows out I saw the first

I was like I'm not going to make this awkward I'm not going to stand back a couple of meters away And go like I'm dancing When I was like the age of 11 In school cure ball or disco I'm like I'll just come straight in with an elbow You walk towards you The people's elbow

Here I go I come straight up And that's not like at all Hey good to see you But the thing is there Now we're in the situation Where everyone's trying to predict what sort of person you are now. Are you back to handshaking?

Are you elbowing? Are you kissing? And you, so you took the charge now. Yeah, I was like, here we go. The receiver of the elbows then goes, okay, well, clearly I'm engaging with an elbow guy here. Yeah. And so then I was. So it's something I traditionally do, but was like handshake i'm not ready for

handshakes yeah okay i don't think the world is yeah you know and so then i'm like okay well everyone's an elbow guy here so i'm forced to i'm i'm elbow i've got my double elbows i'd lead the way right you'd lead the way yeah and then uh we introduced this person to our producer b humps and we're like this is ben and then all of a sudden he's elbowed us he goes in for a handshake with a complete stranger he's never met his palms touching the other palms they're looking each other i'm like what i said we're elbows and he's handshake a guy you've never met and he's like i thought you well and then we said we thought you were there and so this is the confusion everyone doesn't have any idea what to do they need to put it

in the traffic light system yeah they should this is how we greet each other yeah they need to say this is the greeting yeah yeah

because it's good when it's like we all have to wear masks great now everyone feels like an idiot wearing a mask yeah now it's like

oh you're doing this area but we don't oh I'm sure with that like what do I do like I don't know just tell me yeah that's a great call maybe the next

announcement from the government should be the levels of greetings as we work our way through the traffic light system. Say, bro shake, elbows. Then we're down to the cheek kissing, I think. Green. But then you'll get the anti-hand shakers. I'm not sure you don't tell me when I shake hands. What to do?

The anti- hand shakers We got five I just want to pass you Just because the government Says I can't Five words for 5k On the hits You're only five words away

From a massive payday It is our game Of word association We play it every morning At this time On the hits Your chance to win Five thousand dollars

And that'd be pretty sweet For Christmas Wouldn't it We try and hook our words Up with your words, and then they'd make a wonderful word family and live happily ever after with $5,000. We'll go to Kaipoi today.

Yvette, welcome. How are you? I'm great. I can't believe I got through. Well, I can't believe we're talking to Yvette from Kaipoi. You've been going to that doctor and getting those notices to get your exemptions from getting the vaccine there, Yvette? Absolutely.

Good on you. That's what it's all about. That's Kaepo's claim to fame now. Hey, Yvette, you know how the game works? No, run me through it. Ooh! I like this. Risky. Yvette's like, just let's get into it and win me $5,000. What would you spend $5,000 on, Yvette?

Oh, gosh. Oh, there's so many. The list goes on. I'd certainly put some away for a holiday when we can actually do it. That would be lovely. I'd love to go to Rarotonga. Oh, wouldn't we all? Wouldn't we all, Yvette?

Okay, you've got a big decision now. Who do you need to send into that soundproof booth and match words with? Ben. Benjamin Ross Boyce is heading on in to the booth. And I don't know what that booth is going to do during the summer months. Bea, we like to call it the hot box during the summer months, don't we? Yeah. At the end of every show, Ben's like,

should we go to the garage and the hot box? I'm like, well, the hot box is in the studio, mate. I never know what he's talking about there, Juliet. Yeah, no, neither. Champagne Ben Boyce. All Alright, Yvette, let's get into the five words. First word that comes into your head when I say Batman.

Robin. Rum. And Coke. Is it and Coke or just Coke? What do you want to lock in there? Ah, and Coke. And Coke. Alrighty do you want to lock in there? And Coke. And Coke. Alrighty. Briscoes.

Fail. Love it. Love it. Highlighter. Oh, that's a tricky one. Highlighter. Can I come back to that? Absolutely. Of course you can. You can do whatever you want. Christmas is the fifth word this morning.

Tree. Now, there's a little bit of a hiccup on highlighter. What are you thinking, mate? Oh. Highlighter. Yellow. Yellow highlighter. It is the preferred colour. It's out of the highlighter family. Highlighter Yellow Yellow highlighter It is the preferred colours out of the highlighter family

Isn't it yellow? Yeah There was a couple of tricky words in there What are you most nervous about out of that list Yvette? Highlighter Yeah that's the one you think you might stumble on We'll get him out of the soundproof booth Let's do some no holds barred Unbarred, unadulterated winning.

Ben, are you ready? Okay, yeah. We're both wearing very jazzy shirts today. Summery, summertime. Summer, yeah. Festive. Very loud shirts. Is there too much loud going on here, Julia?

No, I like it. I think you guys should wear more of those types of shirts. All right. Vet wants to win $5,000. Did you know that, Ben? Yeah, I did. She's not here to do anything bad to spiders. Let's get into it.

First word that comes into your head, Benjamin, when I say Batman. Robin. One from one, Vet. Ooh. Rum. Rum? Rum and coke?

Coke? Rum and coke? And coke? Oh, hold on. Rum and coke. Coke? Rum and Coke? And Coke? Hold on, hold on. Rum and Coke? Hold on, hold on. Loud shirt, man. You need to make a decision.

Loud shirt with your multicoloured butterflies on it. Now, is it Coke or and Coke? Oh, is this? Oh, come on. I said and Coke. Yeah, I'll lock it in. Coke. Oh.

Yeah, I said and Coke. That was amazing. But then you were like, rum and Coke and Coke, Coke, Coke, Coke. Well, I did. I said and coke. That was amazing. But then you were like, rum and coke and coke, coke, coke. Well, because I never had an and before a word. You need to lock in an answer. Well, I'd lock in and coke. Okay. Cool.

And this would be a timely reminder to get George Michael's 1987 sultry hit. True. Oh, no. No, I'm just reminding. The careless whisper, too. The careless whisper event. We got it. We got it. If any answers slip out of Yvette. We got it. We got it.

If any answers slip out of Yvette's mouth and into yours, well then, you'll need to get a COVID test. Here we go. COVID test. Briscoes. Sale. Ooh. Briscoe sale.

You've matched three, Yvette. Ooh. Now, this was the big word that Yvette was very uncertain about. Highlighter. Highlighter, yeah. Pen? Yellow. Yellow highlighter.

It was a toughie, Yvette. We'll go to the fifth one, which was Christmas. Tree? Four out of five, Yvette. We were close. Sorry, Yvette. Yellow, yeah. You won't be welcome around Kaipoi for a while.

That was fun. We should do that again. It was very close. It was very close. I must get a bonus prize, don't I? Oh, yeah, why not? Should we send you out some hell pizza, right, Yvette? That was fun. We should do that again. It was very close. It was very close. I must get a bonus prize, don't I? Oh, yeah, why not? Should we send you out some hell pizza, eh, Yvette?

Oh, marvellous. That sounds perfect. You have a wonderful weekend. Thank you so much for listening to the show. Thank you. Spy. Go WhatsApp spy.co.nz. All right, let's smack you across the chops with some brutal entertainment news.

Juliet, what's happening in Spy? So Forbes has released its annual list of the world's most powerful woman and some of our favourite celebrities are in this list but topping the list is Mackenzie Scott which is Jeff Bezos' ex-wife. She's like donated billions to charity. Second

is obviously Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States. Oprah Winfrey comes in at number 23. Well, where's the local flavour? What New Zealanders are on the list? Jacinda Ardern. Yay, here we go. She is number...

Depending on what part of the country you are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not sure how everyone's feeling about her right now. Okay, just to re-appropriate your reaction there, Ben Boyce. So Jacinda Ardern. Well, because that's either saying... I don't know. I don't... Well, I don't know where... Some would say, yes. Some would Well, because that's either saying, I don't know. Some would say,

yes. Some would say, ugh. You know, so I'm not sure. Well, let's do it at the same time. I'll be you,

You'll be her. What's the middle ground? We'll both react at the same time. Jacinda Ardern. Hey! There you go. That's covering everyone.

We want to have all the listeners here. Yes, exactly. Very inclusive. So this is her fourth year on the list. Then we have Rihanna. She's number 68, and she's two spots ahead of the Queen. She's obviously been very successful, billionaire status,

done just wonderful things. What is it based off? Is it finance? It's a mixture of just everything. Basically. Influence. Yeah, influence, how much you've made, how much you've donated, who you've influenced, what you you've donated, who you've influenced,

what you've worked on, I guess. How many products you put on Instagram with hashtag influencer. When's the powerful men's list out there? You'll be up there

for influencing men's list. No one's influenced more than me over the last 12 months. There's a... On Instagram with a... The amount of Glen 20 cans

you've sold for detail. And some others, Reese Witherspoon, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Serena Williams. Great list. Amazing. Yeah, worth checking out. There are a lot of people that you probably wouldn't have heard of or you don't know of, but it's quite interesting clicking on their little profiles and seeing what they've done. I'm sure they're powerful

and influential. Yes, and in the Christmas spirit, Jimmy Fallon, Ariana Grande and Megan Thee Stallion have released a Christmas song, but it's a COVID Christmas song. It's kind of like a parody style called It Was a Masked Christmas. Christmas time We'll be in line For a booster For a booster And then my favourite part Was when Megan Thee Stallion Kicks in

But I was like She's a rapper And I don't think Rapping's very appropriate For the hits maybe So if you're interested In hearing She had like a

She would like Put her hand out She had like the Injection needles On her hand Yes Or fingers So good

Yeah the video Is very good It's kind of like A parody style I think they often Release Jimmy Fallon Ariana Grande Do team up For a couple of Parody videos So good. So good. Yeah, the video's very good. It's kind of like a parody style. I think they often release, Jimmy Fallon and Ariana Grande do team up for a couple of parody videos.

Well, you don't hear enough of it, but rapping's very appropriate for Christmas. There should be more Christmas rapping. Correct, and more Christmas rapping songs as well. Get it, Christmas rapping? Yeah. Hey, next we've got a very special guest on the show just after 8 o'clock.

We have spoken to him previously, David Walliams. You'll know him from the millions and millions of books he's sold worldwide, but also from Britain's Got Talent as well, Little Britain 2. And we have... something's a bit awkward, isn't it, from the last time we spoke to him.

Yeah, we'll get into that in just a few moments. Before we chat to him, it is the hits. Warning! This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits, with jono and ben for breakfast razine have got a paint tin with us in the studio and inside the paint and there's a summer-ish item with an item more used in summer we can use it all year round if you guess what the item is after eight o'clock today you can win um just over eight thousand dollars which is an amazing prize

so we'll get to that after eight o'clock. That's really capturing the imagination of the nation. Even my wife yesterday was like, tell me, what is it? And I was like, I don't honestly, I don't know. She's like, come on, you know. And I'm like, I honestly don't know. She was really, and she had like, she was spouting off a whole lot of stuff. And I was like, oh yeah, she's really invested in this. So that's very cool.

Not even Picasso or Van Gogh could have painted a more perfect paint-based competition. No, it's really good. I'm excited because I don't know what's inside this. Yeah, so we'll do that at 20 past eight. Also, before then, David Walliams. We're big fans of David Walliams, children's author. He's from Little Britain, wonderful comedy show, and he's one of the judges on Got Talent alongside Simon Cowell.

He's a huge superstar, and kids love his books. He's got a new book, Gangster Granny Strikes Again, so I'm going to talk to him about that very, very shortly. But last time we talked to him, we played him some New Zealand commercials that we had, like the Mad Butcher ad,

you can't beat the Mad Butcher's meat, and Novus, show us your crack. And he was like, these double entendres, do they actually get on New Zealand Airways? Yeah, and he set us a task, didn't he? I want to do the voice. Okay, can you fix it for it me do the voiceover for

one of these ads oh yeah okay yeah yeah we can do that i want to do i want to do one of these cheeky ads you want to do a shasha cracker on the meat you can't beat the man but can you get me a gig yeah doing a local ad on new zealand radio i will do that okay so get in touch and as soon as you've got a script and everything i'll record it for just i'll do one for your show and it's got to be you know something something really rude okay we will write something up and get it to you this is an absolute and i'll i'll do an ad for your show but it's got to have loads of dude on hopefully i'm praying it will be the thing that takes you off air. So listen, we followed the brief.

We wrote the script. Well, I'll put this on you. Listen, I wrote a script. Of course, if anyone was going to write it. You really went to trouble. I was like, ah, it's something he said. We'll move on. But you're like, no, we'll write this.

We'll send this away. I'm like, okay, he's really got. I wrote it, and it was deemed NSFW. Firstly by me. By Ben, and then I been and then i was all ben who's he and then i went to management and they said no and then i went who are you and then i went to back to david williams as publisher and they're like there is no way we are sending that on to david williams so i was getting vetoed all over the place and i feel like he sent us a task and in his mind he's like they've never sent it through yeah I see that I see that so I feel terrible for that and so next we'll get him to voice it

oh geez all right stick around this is gonna be awkward it is the hits you got Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast it's Jono and Ben it is the hits Jono and Ben in about 30 time, your chance to win a whole lot of money if you can guess what's inside the Razine paint tin. But first, very excited about this as well. He's an international best-selling author. He's got a new book, a sequel to Gangster Granny. It's called Gangster Granny Strikes Again,

10 years after the original book was a best-seller. He joins us on the phone right now, David Walliams. How are you? Hello. How are you? Listen, we understand this is your personal number, and this is a fatal mistake on your part, giving commercial radio hosts your number.

Well, I had no choice but to promote. If that means you having my number, I can live with that. Yeah, you might have to burn your phone after this round of press. Now, David Williams, you probably don't remember talking to us a year ago, but we did speak to you. I do remember talking to you, yes. I do remember it. You know, I've worked through it with a psychiatrist

and I've decided to come to the show and it should be fine. It's taken 12 months to recover. We played you some commercials which, you know, they were laden with... I know, and I said I wanted to do a commercial And then you never got in touch Well, here's the thing, okay So Jono actually wrote a script

Full of double entendres And it got vetoed Yeah, no, it got vetoed And it got stopped by First management here at the radio station Then it got stopped by, you know, your book people But I just want to cherry pick a couple of lines from it And see if you would have done it.

Okay, of course I would. This is the fact that you're a children's author and we're on a family-friendly radio station. All sort of played against this. Family-friendly, that's a big phrase. We'll apply that to you. Hello, internationally acclaimed author, comedian and actor David Walliams speaking.

When I'm in New Zealand, I'm always sure to fetch my radio, grab my knob and turn on Jono in bed. And this is where it got stopped by our management and also your publishers. Well, I now understand why. We've got more with David Walliams very soon. We want to talk to him about the many times he's met the Queen. What was that like? We'll find out in a few moments. It is the hits.

It's the most beautiful time of the year. Jono and Ben, the hits. We got David Walliams on the phone. He's got a brand new book out, the sequel to Gangster Granny. It's called Gangster Granny Strikes Again. But I imagine, David, it would be quite difficult, without giving away too much, writing a sequel to a book where maybe one of the main characters isn't really around anymore. That's right. But then that made it an interesting challenge because I knew I couldn't just repeat the first book.

You know, sometimes sequels are just sort of the first story again with a bit of window dressing. But I thought I'd have to really have a different type of story. So this now is Ben, who's the original grandson of the first book. He is now on the trail of someone who's committing crimes in the style that his granny did. And he has to solve these crimes

or he's going to get the blame. And so there is a big mystery on who this new, the new international jewel thief is. And that's the real sort of fun of the book really so it's pretty different i'm i'm pleased it's different because i you know i've i've written all these books and i've never done a sequel before with the same characters and i've thought

you know i i always would have wanted to push on and do something new so i was pleased i had an idea i felt wasn't going to repeat what i'd already done. You've sold 37 million books worldwide. How many million do you stop and you're satisfied as an author? Well, the thing is, though, the problem is there's always been J.K. Rowling in the world. Yeah, bloody J.K. Rowling. I know, because people go, oh, I knew the biggest children's author around. I go, no. Let me direct you towards J.K. Rowling.

There's also Jeff Kinney, who wrote the Wimpy Kid books. Yeah, he's doing all right. But it's not like it's a competition. It's not like you're listing them all off. Well, my daughter, Indy, she's a huge fan of your work. And I gave her the book two days ago. And I was like, you've got to read this. Because we're talking to David Williams.

We need a review. And she was on a race against time to read the book, and I recorded her last night. Here was her quick review of your book. Okay, Andy, what is your review? Terrible. Hang on. I thought you loved the book.

I do. That was about your radio show. Oh, burn on me. Unnecessary. All right, comedy out of the way. What did you think about Gangster Granny Strikes Again? I loved that it had the Queen in it, and it had lots of unexpected twists and turns.

It's a pretty good review. And the one question she wanted to ask you was, have you ever met the Queen? Have I ever met the Queen? I have met the Queen, yes, on a few occasions. She's very nice, but there's a strange thing where you're told you're not meant to ask her a question so like i hosted this thing the raw variety performance where all these different people come on and perform you know for the queen and an audience and the natural thing

would be just to say well did you enjoy it or you know what was your favorite act you can't say that so i just sort of went thanks for coming yeah i mean you kind of go you look like you're enjoying it but not with a question it's just sort of weird so you can't really have a judgment you know you're so scared of saying anything and you think you're going to say something oh that reminds me i must buy a stamp or something like that you just get really embarrassed you don't know what to say kind of mind-blowingblowing meeting her. But it was very nice. And I got to introduce my mum to the Queen. Oh, that's cool.

My mum has met the Queen twice, but they were 10 years apart. And the second time she met the Queen, my mum was sort of in front of me in the queue to meet the Queen. So the Queen sort of just looked her up and down and obviously gave her a look, thinking, who the hell are you? And my mum went, I met you ten years ago, actually. The Queen was going to go, yeah! Sandra, how are you? I heard a rumour that when you do line up to curtsy the Queen or meet the Queen, that you have to have a breath mint.

Is this true or false, David Walliams? Yes, but you have to insert it into your bottom. And she is to witness it all. It's just a strange quote as well. I mean, we don't question it in this country. Well, no, it's weird, isn't it, this tradition, and we all sort of bow and curtsy and everything like that. Now you've added a suppository to the mix as well.

That's going to be weird. Yeah, I know. That's not actually true, by the way. Is it true that you have an autograph book that you sometimes bust out yourself as an adult? I like getting autographs of people. I'm not afraid to get people's autographs. For example, I got Harrison Ford's autograph as well on the chat show.

I was really excited about that. Yeah, I did the Jonathan Moss show with him, and I was like, oh, my God, it was so crazy to be sitting on a chat show and then meeting your childhood hero. Do you feel pressure, though, with an autograph book if you're on a show like that? You've got Harrison Ford, and you ask him to sign the book. Do you feel pressure then to get the signatures of everyone in the room, so a contestant just kicked off Love Island or? No, that's

I'm very, very sure about that because I also did a show with Will Ferrell who I love and I thought I really want a picture of Will Ferrell and I did tell the other people on the show I'm going to be honest, I don't want you to be me. I want this to be a picture of me and Will Ferrell I don't want the rest of you

and luckily they did oblige. Because I thought, is somebody going to ruin it? I get starstruck, Benny, but I get starstruck every time I see Simon Cowell, even though I see him every day. Well, true. Oh my God, it's Simon Cowell from the TV. You've never seen him.

I've seen him yesterday, but I get a bit excited to see him. And he's probably like, can you stop calling me Simon Cowell from the TV? Has he signed your autograph book? No, he's not actually, but he does sign a cheque every year. That helps.

Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. And I make him pay me a bit more every year. David Williams, it's so nice to catch up with you again. And you'll pretend you remembered us next time we catch up with you. But it's awesome to have your book out there. I did remember you. I did remember you.

And I follow you on Instagram. And I know what you look like as well. I don't know which one is which. No one does. I know what you look like. Nice to talk to you. Thank you, guys. And of course I remember you.

You're very funny. Oh, we had a blast. It was a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun talking with you, mate. You're a legend. Razine, your home of Kiwi-made paints and colors this summer, presents Jono and Ben's $10,000 Mystery Color Mix. We all want to know what the mystery item is inside this Resene paint tin we have in the studio right now. It's a summer-ish item, we understand.

We use it more in summer than throughout the year, but it is used throughout the year. Am I right in saying that, Producer Behemz? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I think it's, yeah, you know is used all throughout the year. Am I right in saying that, Producer Behem? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I think it's yeah, you know, summer holidays, you know, have a bit of fun. Alright, yeah, well it's captured the hearts

of a nation, this competition. A lot of, I've never had more feedback about anything we've done on the show. My wife's very invested by this. Who knew we just had to stick an item in a paint tin to get some results. But that's the noise of it. Do you want me to run through the list of guesses so far?

That'd be great. That would be a free clue. Oh, okay. Because every time we get a guess, we take money off the prize, and every time we get a clue, which we haven't done yet, we take $500 off. So it's none of these items. Jandals, candy cane, bottle opener, sunscreen, zinc, pair of metal tongs, insect repellent, test pot of paint,

reduced cream, rip and dip tomato sauce, paint roller, sunglasses, a bundle of money, or a paintbrush. It's none of those things. Well, I can remember almost none of those things, actually. They've just been listed. But that's what's been guessed so far. We can pay $500 for a clue,

or we can just keep going down this road and losing $100 each guess. We'll kick it off with you, Elise. How are you? Morning. How's the Waikato on a Friday? Pretty good. What do you reckon it is, Elise? What's in that tin? Not a key to a batch.

Oh, a key to a batch. Could it be? It's not a key to a batch, sorry, Elise. Sounds heavier than a key to a tin. It does. I keep saying it's small but it's got a little bit of than a key, doesn't it? I keep saying it's small, but it's got a little bit of weight behind it, doesn't it, this thing? And we genuinely don't know what's in there, which is very exciting.

So where are we at money-wise now? So this next guess is worth $8,500. Okay. Right, so we can also check out to a text poll to 4487 Do we spend $500 on another clue today? You can just text if you think we should do that, 4487 or not.

But we'll go to Amber in Mangatawhiri. Amber, what do you reckon? Is it swimming goggles? Oh, is it swimming goggles? No, it's not swimming goggles. Ah, damn. Nice guess, though. It was a good guess.

Summary item. Renee, you're on for total. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast. The item in the resin paint tin. Oh, hello. How are you? What do you reckon it is, matey? I think it's a cricket ball.

Oh, a cricket ball. Oh, small and weighty. It could be, because I was thinking maybe it could be a tennis ball. I was like, ah, it feels heavier than that. So cricket ball, great guess. Well, cricket ball's very summery. Yeah. Good guess, Renee.

Have we got the winner? We've got it, right? It's not a cricket ball. Sorry, Renee. Jeez, where does that leave us with the tally? 8-4, is it? 8-3. 8-3.

Okay. We'll go to the text. We'll just have a look because we did say should we spend $500 on a clue. People are saying yes clue. Are they? We've had about 50 texts and the majority of them saying another clue. So that's $500 off. So then we're down to

$7.9 $7.8 $7.8 Sorry I should never do on the spots. We should learn from our space. Do we get another clue? What do you reckon? We've never had a clue so let's see if a clue will help us. Let's blow $500 on another clue.

All right, here we go. You can't beat it on a good day. Wellington. Yeah, Wellington. Have we got Wellington in a can? Have you put in a trendy fedora or something inside the tin? You can't beat it on a good day. Is it mad butchery?

You can't beat the... All right, so if you think you know... Is it mad butchery? Can't beat the... Mad butchery. Yeah. All right. So if you think you know... Is it a rotting steak inside there? That's all the guesses we've got time for today, but we'll be back Monday. Same time on Monday. And think about it over the weekend.

What is the choice? All thanks to Resine Paints. Yeah, summer can get pretty hot, so choose your Resine Cool Colour paints and wood stains and enjoy a cooler finish. We'll do this Monday. Hopefully Monday we find out what the summer-ish item is inside the Razine paint tin. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben.

Mmm, coffee and breath. Jono and Ben, the hits. This week's been a big week for us. We went to Eden Park and we threw basketballs off the roof of Sky Sports Stadium at Eden Park to try and nail two shots, our own version of two shots, to unlock an amazing prize. And we got a prediction before we did it whether we'd get the two shots

from a sidekick, Kimberly. You'll get one each. We will get it. Yeah. One of you's going to roll your ankles as well while doing it. It'll be me. It'll be Giotto.

I have a rich history of rolling my ankles. You know, a dozen times a year I'll roll my ankles and come hobbling in here and you'll be like,'ll be Giotto I have a rich history Of rolling my ankles You know A dozen times a year I'll roll my ankles And come hobbling in here And you'll be like What are you But you didn't

You didn't the other night No well Because I was being very cautious But we all were Because we were all Do you notice everyone Was just treading very carefully Yeah we're all worried about it

But she was correct We both got a shot in each But we're like Ah there was no rolled ankle But without a word of a lie I got home Last night And saw my daughter Sienna And she was she was hobbling around and i i was like hang on what's going on here and i recorded it that's without a word of a lie this is what happened

why are you limping because i've got a sore ankle oh did you roll your ankle yeah how'd you roll your ankle i don't know you don't know but you're limping I don't know. You don't know, but you're limping. I don't know. It's really sore. I woke up and then I tried to walk and I'm like, oh, ow. I love it how you're talking over your life. I don't want to hear the rest of it. I just wanted you to tell me. She rolled her ankle.

And she doesn't know how. And I'm like, no. She had it strapped. I'd say she'd been with her grandma yesterday because she didn't have school. And then I was like, what's going on here? She's like, I was like. That is too. I mean, it wasn't up, but I was like within the same.

She obviously saw it in your. Someone rolled an ankle. She saw it in your orbit. And I was like. Listen, to be honest, I love Kimberley. She's a wonderfully very kind lady, but I've never really bought into it, you know. Well, she was correct about the two

shots and maybe she was correct about it but wasn't just one of us. That is freaky. It was freaky. The other thing is a great video of us on the roof with drone shots and everything getting in these two shots. It's really epic. You can see it right now at the Hits Breakfast on Facebook and also Instagram so go check it out

and I played it to my daughters last night because they were really curious to know how it was up there. And I was like, oh, check this out. Look how incredible it was. I mean, this is the moment where you got the shot in. I mean, it was awesome. Oh, oh, it's going in. It's going in.

Yeah! It's in! It's in! It's amazing. And it looks so cool to see it, you know, come down the ball, going from the top of the stadium down to the field below. And I was like, this is incredible. The girls are going to love it. But Indy, one of my daughters, after see it, you know, come down the ball, going from the top of the stadium down to the field below. And I was like, this is incredible.

The girls are going to love it. But Indy, one of my daughters after watching it, was very fascinated by something. Something else impressed her a lot more than the basketball shots. Have a listen. Sienna, thoughts? It's so cool. It's like, I love the two shots.

When did John get hair? It's already important right now, Indy. Like last time I saw him, he was bald. Now he's got like an inch get hair. It's already important right now, isn't it? Last time I saw him, he was bald. Now he's got like an inch of hair. When did he get hair? The thing you meant to focus on is the amazing two shots we got in Eden Park. Yeah, but when did he get hair? Well, he's been growing it a little bit since lockdown.

He can actually grow a little bit of hair. Oh, is he going to have long, long hair now? I don't know, but we're getting off the subject. The topic was how epic the video was. Yeah, it was a really cool video. And the heartbeats, boom, boom, boom, boom. Yeah, when we got the shot in. And Andy, your thoughts?

I'm still talking about Jonah with no hair. When did he get hair? And how did it grow so fast? My hair doesn't grow that fast. The greatest miracle of Eden Park. He's turned up with hair. He was like, he's just got hair. Jono's got hair.

Honestly, honestly, people have been noticing. Max, the man who used to work here, texted me, he's got hair. Sharon actually texted me as well. It's the talk of the town. Honestly. You could grow hair, John. I know, but it's very thin and wispy.

No, it's not. It looks great. Oh, listen. You've got hair. You should seriously keep your hair growing. No, trust me, it was a guest part of this stage. It's Ben's been there. You've seen it.

We did, yeah. You don't want to push it past this limit. Can that be our next story arc? We just see how long John O'Shea can grow? John O'Shea? Yes! So almost more impressive. In fact, more impressive than the two shots.

Maybe that should be our next big campaign. How long can the hair grow? Maybe I'll go into hiding and then just appear in six months. Well, Andy was very very very impressed by that More impressed than the shots But you can check out the video at the Hits Breakfast And Instagram It is Jono and Ben on your Friday

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Hi, Ashley. How are you? I'm good, thanks. How are you? It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. It's lovely to have you on the air with us. It's lovely to be on the air. I don't know why you're calling me. Well, we're calling you because we're doing a little thing with themarket.com

where people are filling up their shopping baskets up to $5,000. Yeah, they are. Once a week. Yeah, they are. Once a week, thanks to the market, we're paying for someone's entire shopping basket. Oh, wow. Now, as you ever so politely answered the phone, we know that you work for the Cancer Society. I sure do.

In Southland. I do. In Southland. I do. And your list of items, your $5,000 worth of items, you were banking up and planning on giving to the Cancer Society. So not even for you. Yeah, that was the plan. There's a few things we need. So, yeah, I wanted to help. Oh, that's such a lovely thing.

There's a new freezer you want to get to put the baking for the volunteers? Yeah, so many things we need. Obviously being a charity, we don't obviously like to buy things we don't need. A lot of things are donated or fundraised for and I just know that a freezer was on the top of the list. You're in Southland, you could probably just leave anything out on the desk in a little freeze. Hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey, back off, Southland. Even in summer. We've done some Christmas baking,

so we definitely need a freezer to pop some of that in. You had a freezer. You had a soda stream and a coffee machine for the volunteers to keep them happy and hydrated. Camera so you could take photos for the clients and a hobby that you're keen to get into. And some festive Christmas decorations. uh decorations to keep a bit of yeah yeah so yeah the camera i want to learn photography so that i can help you know create memory so the camera's kind of for me but i was

going to use it for work so yeah that was my list my my goal is to try and do the best i can yeah it's a pretty cool job and i'm very grateful to be able to help people. Well, listen, we would be absolute monsters right now if we said, well, thanks for your call. You're in the draw. So that's not the purpose of our phone call. No, we want to say that on behalf of themarket.com, they want to pay for your entire shopping basket up to $5,000.

Oh, my God. I can't wait to go tell the girls. Do you want me to put it on speaker? Yeah, put it on speaker. Hold on. I'll just go tell my manager. One second. I'll just say, are you guys all together?

Are you guys, Jono, are you still there? Oh, yes, we're still here. Yeah, we're here. Oh, yeah. I'll just, everyone's here. I'll pop you on speakerphone. So I entered a radio competition to win us a new freezer and a soda stream and things. This is Jono and Ben.

We won! Hi. And we're just here to say you haven't won it just yet. No, shush. You've won. You've won the $5,000 worth of stuff. $5,000! Woo!

That's awesome. That is so good. Well, this really, it couldn't go to a more deserving organisation. Oh, we're so, so grateful. Good on you. I mean, it's so amazing you're so selfless in what you've chosen to help out the community. Well, I'll definitely utilise the camera, but like I said, I want to help clients, so yeah. You're doing great work in the community there in in Invercargill and Southend.

So well done. And thanks to themarket.com. That's all sorted for you, okay? So you guys have a wonderful Christmas and keep up the good work. Oh, we will do. Thanks so much, guys. Thanks for the hits.

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Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. 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 is a Friday, and another good reason to celebrate the fact it's Friday, Sex and the City, the brand new And Just Like That,

the new kind of reboot of Sex and the City, is on the first two episodes drop on Neon and Skygo this afternoon, so you can catch it in New Zealand today. Now, I must just pre-warn you, Ben, last time we did speak to Sarah Jessica Parker from Sex and the City, I just want to tell you that this new series is not a documentary because you were a little confused about the first series. What would the girls from Sex and the City,

what would they think about your wine? Because they were Cosmopolitan fans, weren't they? Carrie drank Cosmopolitans. I think, didn't Samantha drink martinis? I don't remember. I mean, I think they would like it. They'd enjoy it, yeah. Oh, you mean the real people? No, one of the characters. Probably the characters. I don't, you know, whatever. He thought it was a

documentary. Was that not? Oh, really? Yeah, no, shit. So, Sarah was playing a character. I thought it was Carrie Bradshaw. Oh, shit. It's like pantomime

in your country. So yeah, they were just playing, there's a script, yeah. It's not like National Geographic or anything. Okay, Tiger King,

are they actors or were they not? Well, part of me wished they were. Yeah, true, don't answer that one. Hey, join us next week on the show, The Resene Painting. What is the summer item in The Resene Painting?

We have just under $8,000 to give away. We started with $10,000, and each guest, $100 comes off it, but it's back on Monday. Yeah, you can win a whole lot of cash. Have yourself a great weekend, New Zealand, and we'll catch you Monday from 6. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the'll catch you Monday from 6.