Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Proved He Is So Out Of Touch With The Gen Z'ers

Episode Date: March 9, 2022

We challenged Jono to call up one of the interns at our company and try incorporate a bunch of the lingo their generation uses into the conversation. "That's Gucci" "snatched" "bounce" and many more. And he absolutely butchered it, as you can imagine. We also found out what Jono's 4 year old nephew thinks of our show, and finally we caught up with Sandra Oh who you may know from Grey's Anatomy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Birds with the Jono and Ben podcast. Hello there, geez, 10th of March. Yeah. 10th of March. What was your cherry wee fact there, Producer B Humps? Was the third of the year gone or fourth? Pretty much. In April, the first quarter's gone, isn't it?

Yeah. We're talking about 2023, I'm like, what? Yeah, there's conversations about 2023 happening now. You do get older and the years just go. Yeah. They just disappear. But when you're young, it feels like a year is about a decade. Yeah, you're right.

You really struggle through 12, 13 years. Winter's coming. Winter's coming? Winter's coming. More cheery stuff. You just tell me when you want to say more cheery stuff there. Tax season, when's it happening? Tax season, there's a pandemic. More cheery stuff there. Tax season? When's it happening? Tax season?

There's a pandemic. Yeah. A lot of cheery stuff that you can talk about right now. Thanks, producer. Now, be honest, you've got a young baby, Dottie. Yes. Hasn't had the vid? Hasn't, no.

Do babies get the vid now? Because obviously if you were vaccinated as a mother, surely that would have a... I think they can pass on, though, right? Well, yeah. Obviously anyone vaccinated or not can get the vid. What was the point of vaccination, then? I'm going to go to Parliament. I'm going to get a tent.

Come on. All right. People need to talk. What are they hiding? No, well, that's interesting. But she does carry... She did get some of the vaccination from my partner, Caitlin, when she got vaccinated.

Yeah. Breast milk. What's the age? Is it five and up? Is it? Yeah. Yeah. Why don't they do under five?

Because they do under five for measles and whatnot, don't they? Chicken pox, don't they? Yeah. Yeah. She's had the vaccination since three months old. I imagine at some stage it'll be an option, but I don't know. No, not really.

Really on in the vaccination stage. I feel like I'm not asking the right people this question. Hey, you are. Like, yeah. Yeah. What would I expect you guys to have answers? I'm sorry for you. You do ask, yeah.

I'd love to be able to tell you why, but I'm sure there's trials, clinical trials going on, and I'm sure when they get those results through, they'll decide. They'll happen. Are you boosted? Yes, boosted. Yeah, yeah trials going on, and I'm sure when they get those results through, they'll decide. They'll happen. Are you boosted? Yes, boosted. Yeah, boosted, yeah.

Apparently that does help against the Crohn, the boosting. Yes, I've heard that, yeah. I was talking to a physiotherapist who's with a team of players, and he was saying everyone in the team who has had it hasn't had their booster. Everyone boosted never had it. Oh, really? Yeah. It's amazing how it kind of goes into households and not everyone does get

it too, I find. Happened to us. We dodged the bullet. But then it's annoying because you're like, well, I'm going to get it at some point. And you did the isolation anyway. So why didn't I just get it then? And then you're going to have to do it again. Yeah. Yeah. Then the person who did get it in the household is clear for four weeks. So if any of us get it, they can still go about their life for four weeks.

Yeah, and that's changing again soon, too. So I think that if you've had it, you're obviously immune to catching it again for a month or so, are you? Yeah, I think that's going to increase. Because at the moment, you're right, it's 28 days. But then it's going to increase to 90 days as well, as far as not needing to self-isolate. So, yeah, I don't know if it means you're immune as stuff again i'm not a scientist but um but i know that the government yesterday said if your household contact you've had it before yeah it's 90 days you won't need to

isolate so get more people out there get out there you know i was talking to a friend of ours yesterday and uh she said they've been six weeks in isolation just with various family members starting then having to go back to day zero. Oh really? With the set up that has been in play up until now. Yeah because they're shortening it down from ten days to seven aren't they? Yeah.

It's a great way to get some time off work though if you want it. I see people are selling negative tests aren't they to people. Yeah. Fifty bucks for a thing you know. Fifty for a negative test. I see people are selling negative tests. Yeah. 50 bucks for a thing, you know. 50 for a negative test? I think it was 50 bucks for a test. I think it was the going rate for that, you know. You get 10 days off.

Or you could just like get a... Is it just the photo of the test? You could just get a ruler and a red felt pen if you really... You know, if you really want to go far. Or fake a pregnancy test and get the whole year off. You know, these are options. These are things you can do. Well,

on the podcast today, we had a fun show. I spoke to a New Zealand guy who turned out a, well, not an international celebrity, but a huge celebrity in Thailand,

in Bangkok, after something he did. A live rescue that happened. That was a caption. That was amazing call. Amazing call. Yeah. And what else did we do,

Ben? We also had you talking like a millennial, live rescue that happened. That was amazing. Cool. Amazing. Cool. Yeah. And, uh, what else do we do, Ben? Uh, we also had you, uh, talking like a millennial, uh, trying to be down with the kids. It was,

it's very funny, but it's not. It's not. It's not dope. No, no. They don't even say dope, do they?

That's what we kind of said. That's what, that dope was around me when I was, you know, of the age and I couldn't even say dope then. So I don't know why I'm trying to say dope now. Yeah, I know. Were you a dope guy?

No. No, I've kind of got, I tried once to go, oh, that was dope. You know, I'm like, oh, that's not me. I get a lot of regret. Actually, speaking of regret, I think that pregnancy joke was something that our friend Sam Smith said, so I'm going to give him credit for that one. So we're regretting saying something that I think Sam Smith came up with, who's a friend of ours. Not Sam Smith the singer, who's not a friend of ours.

I'm not saying we wouldn't be friends. We just haven't met him. Well, you've got yourself in a real Sam Smith hole here. Sam Smith apology hole. Would you like to say an apology to Sam Smith the singer saying that? Yeah, well, you know, like, hey, yeah. Yeah, because I would say we'd be friends with him. We could be friends.

But he's not referring to you. No, I'm not referring to you. He's the most famous Sam Smith. Our friend Sam Smith, who's not the singer. I think it was a little myth that another Sam Smith came along with the same name. Are you saying this Sam Smith, your friend, is not famous? Well, he's not on the level of Sam Smith, the singer fame. So he could be doing better.

Imagine that, if another John O'Prior came along, and suddenly it's like, oh, it's US President John O'Prior, or, you know, something, and he was already doing better. Imagine that, if another Jono Pryor came along, and suddenly it's like, oh, it's US President Jono Pryor, or something, and he was already doing better than you. You're like, I was the Jono that... I don't feel like Jono Pryor is a name anyone would want to name a child. You know? Yeah, okay. It just feels like quite a unique...

It doesn't feel like there'd be many Jono Pryors around. There's a couple, eh? There's a couple. I think we've Googled that before. There is a Ben Boyce. There's a singer Pryors around. There's a couple, eh? There's a couple. I think we've Googled that before. There is a Ben Boyce. There's a singer, Ben Boyce. There's a few. Yeah, yeah, Jono Pryor.

You're good with that. I'll be happy to try and Google that. Oh, look here. There's a Ben Boyce MMA fighter. What is it? Did you know? Oh, well, really. He's an expert in jujitsu.

He's in Auckland. Oh, wow. There you go. He's in Auckland. Oh, wow. There you go. He's in Auckland. See, really, this is what will happen. He'll be someone that will go on to amazing things, and then I'll be like, oh. Ben Boyce, he's at City Kickboxing.

The old Israel Adesanya truck. That's cool. So, I mean, that's good street cred for you. Let's get him on. Eh? Let's get him on. Yeah, we'll get him on, because Israel will be going around like,

oh, I train with Ben Boyce, and people will be like, oh. Shit, he doesn't look that good. You know Ben Boyce? Yeah, he's awesome, isn't he? Let's get him on. Yeah, we'll get him on, because Israel will be going around like, oh, I train with Ben Boyce, and people are like, oh, shit, he doesn't look that good. You know Ben Boyce? Yeah, he's awesome, isn't he? Yeah, you're right. Oh, this is good. This is good for my cred.

You go, yeah, they're like, Ben Boyce? Yeah, yeah, he's great. He's even, there's a podium here, and guess where he's standing on it? At the top? At the top of the podium.

Look at Ben Boyce there. Oh, mate, this is, oh, he's wow. He's way more successful. But you're right, good for my cred. Like, if I could jump on his cocktails and if he's talked about... Imagine how many times he's had the conversation, he's like, hey, I'm Ben Boyce, and you're like,

oh, yeah, I'm Ben Boyce. You're like, oh. I feel sorry for this Ben Boyce. We need to get Ben Boyce on and go, are you the bane of Ben Boyce's life? Yeah, because I imagine I would be. I'd be a pain for him. He's a first degree black belt. Wow. Or is he way more

successful than me? He's great. He's followed by Israel Adesanya. Follows him. They're friends. Yeah. Ben. Ben, this is great. Maybe I reckon you two have to fight for the name. Cage fight. I don't like it. To be honest, I mean to fight for the name. Cage fight. I don't like it.

I'm going to be honest. I mean, I like the name, but I'm, you know. I'm willing to change. You know, I can go Benny. I can go Benji. I can go Benjamin, you know. Like, there's some options here. It's a fight to the death.

Anyway, enjoy the podcast. Have a great day. Jono and Ben. Producer Juliet just spilt coffee On her laptop Just before Just moments before That pink song

Just a few seconds before What a start to the day Yeah Rolling coverage of this event What's happened now Bit of an update Juliet So I've cleaned up the mess And I think the coffee

Kind of just spilt On the side of my laptop Maybe slightly into the keys But not like a Not anything that i'm really super worried about so i think we're good it always feels like the radio studio is a place where we shouldn't bring in drinks but all we do every morning is just bring in liquid into this highly electrical situation especially ones without lids on top yes i know but it's like hard i should

probably get a keep cup because keep cups have i try not to after i was we've talked about this before it's pretty much our last week at the rock it was the last day at the last day and i spilled I should probably get a keep cup because keep cups have a lid sometimes. I try not to after I was, we've talked about this before, it was pretty much our last week at The Rock. It was our last day at The Rock. It was our last day and I spilt a lovely raspberry herbal tea. Yeah, you had your herbal tea phase, didn't you? I was like, mate, this is really ruining our credit at The Rock, coming in with your lovely pink herbal tea. Our last day, I knocked it and it went all through the technical stuff.

Shit. And then I kept going, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Is it all good? Is it all good? Is the text running around? And no one would tell me if it was not all good or not. So clearly it wasn't. No.

Yeah. I mean, you could have answered that question yourself. You've just poured red tea all through the electrical. Is it all good? Sticky red tea. Is it all good? Is it all good? But you want people to go, you know, that's fine.

But no, it wasn't. Do you think any human has ever gone through their entire career not spilling a thing? I don't reckon you'd find anyone. No. No. At least one or two spillages per person. Do you mean like anyone in any job or like specifically radio? Just in life.

No, you couldn't, right? And you can't cry over spilt milk. That was like the first thing I think I ever learned as a child. And I was like, you can't cry over spilt milk well that was like the first saying i think i ever learned as a child and i was like oh not crying over spilt milk who has because you'd be like oh chill yeah yeah okay this is fontana and they've lost a lot like a tanker load that's a lot of profits then i understand the drinking thing as well so i would again you know we've talked about this when they used to have on the plane they used to have those little waters and juices that came in

with the little, it was almost like a tinfoil top and you'd sort of peel it back. But it required a lot of pressure, didn't it, to pull it back. Yes, it would happen and then you'd give it a lot of force and then something would go everywhere. I forgot about those. They stopped doing those for a while there, didn't they? Yeah, that was stressful. What monster invented those?

Yeah. It felt like it was a risky move from the get-go. Have you ever spilled coffee on the plane? When they hand you over, they hand you over a thing without a lid on it. And so you're balancing over, if you're by the window, two passengers carrying your coffee across. And it's handed over them as well. And I've seen some great spillages on middle passenger before. It kind of ruins your day when you spill it, especially on yourself.

First day of broadcasting school, I went to get a coffee before and spilt coffee all over my shorts and i'm sorry but the guy from the cafe was so lovely he gave me a pair of his shorts but i look like mc hammer like like you know my size compared to a normal person and i had to wear these shorts on my first day. I was like, oh, I guess I will wear them. Does the barista have a spare pair of shorts for coffee spillages? I am. Got just the thing for you, pal. Not normally, but it did look like I'd had a terrible brown accident as well.

So I was like, at least I'll wear these baggy shorts. Scrolling through your feed. We're not going to guarantee this will be the best news bulletin you hear today, but it will certainly be one of them. Ben, what's happening? One of the earliest. Can we claim to be one of the earliest? Yeah, well, to be honest, Cade Hawksby's on at 5am, mate. It's just one of them.

One of the earliest. There we go. Definitely not the earliest, but we feel like every day there's some new news around COVID-19, but the isolation period has now been cut. Midnight Friday is going to be cut from 10 days to 7 days for household contacts as well and people with COVID. So, yeah, I guess it feels like you'll be able to get the workforce out there faster,

reducing that just by a little bit. See our dear friend the hippo getting a bit salty that people are throwing their positive tests in the bin and not phoning Healthline to register them. Yeah, there's no point in phoning Healthline. I've done it. They literally messaged me on day 10 of our contact, our infected person in the household saying they need to isolate.

Right, but I guess you're lodging your COVID, I guess, is what they want. The government wants, right? Because everyone loves talking about the numbers each day. There's 22,000. I suppose they'll have no content for the 1pm press conference. Yeah, that's right. If they've got no numbers. We know about doing a TV show for many years.

It's hard to get content. You've got to keep the numbers through. Keep that coming through. Keep that 1pm show alive. And MIQ hotels, they're winding down as well. Just four of the 32 are staying until June. And by the end of June, the current MIQ facilities will be returning to hotels. Wow. So it's all

sort of phasing out. Hopefully this is good. Hopefully this means sort of a step towards the end of the pandemic. So the jet park can go back to being the jet park. The hotel. Where you can just stay if you're in between flights. You've got a layover. Exactly. It could be that lovely relaxing place that we

all know and love. Should be after a good old deep clean in the jet park. Maybe even a rebover? Exactly. It could be that lovely, relaxing place that we all know and love. She'd be after a good old deep clean in the jet park. Maybe even a rebrand. Yeah. The Pet Jark. Because there is a lot of hotels around New Zealand, but that would be the one that probably most know on for being an MIQ hotel. I know. And surely the owners are like, can you stop?

Please just stop mentioning jet park and COVID. And please, it's not doing great things. And this story. Can I say thank you to all the workers? Yeah, you're right. I saw on the news they're going to get awarded by the government, and rightfully so as well. Yeah, you think through putting their bodies and their families at risk, all through this pandemic, working in hotels around New Zealand,

it's been pretty incredible. And the owners of the hotels. We joke about the Jetpack, but they took a hit. Well, true, you're going to work knowing that you are surrounded by COVID every day. That's a, it's pretty incredible what these people are doing. So yeah, thank you for that.

And just quickly, a story that come out, a bottle store. So a liquor shop owner has chased out a thief. As the videos on the, it's going around, we'll put it on our Instagram actually, in the story,

but he's chased a thief out of the bottle store. He asked the guy to take off his glasses because he brought up a pack of, I think, of premixes or something. Yeah, it looked like, you know, your Billy Mavericks or your Codys or something. Yeah, it was a bourbon and cola, I think. And then the guy just took the box and ran out. And then the owner of the liquor store, you can see on the security footage, grabbed some nunchucks and then jumped over the counter, ran out, and then they got the security footage of a few minutes later of him just walking very casually back in with the nunchucks

and putting the box of booze back on the shelf. Yeah. He was cold as ice too about it, wasn't he? Oh, yeah. Just casually. And I don't know what happened outside the shop. They don't have an outside camera view. According to the local paper, he chased him down

and the guy fell over because he was wearing jandals. You can actually see in the video he came back with one of the jandals as well. He's like, you take my barrel 55 bourbon. You take my barrel 55 I take your jandals. What I appreciate in the full length video which I saw last night is the thief comes in so all the display of

the bourbon is not in the fridge and he goes up to the counter and he's like have you got cold ones? He's like, we'll check in the fridge and he goes up to the counter he's like have you got cold ones he's like we'll check in the fridge and he comes back he's all salty he's like you don't have any cold ones oh really and then he runs off like he's getting picky about what he's stealing if i'm gonna steal at least it needs to be cold and where the hell do you buy nunchucks in new zealand oh yeah because you don't know nunchucks if you don't know how to use no i think this guy does know how to use he's a nunchuck guy i reckon I'd be slapping myself in the face

and all sorts with them. Yeah, he's a martial arts someone who's trained in martial arts put it that way, so that's pretty awesome. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. So we've been talking a lot this week about

dreams, people go to sleep, they have their dreams you know how dreams work and a lot this week about dreams. People go to sleep, they have dreams, you know how dreams work. And a lot of times we're finding that people have their dreams come true. Yeah, this was your idea, Juliet. Was it? Oh yeah, it was, wasn't it? Normally I switch off when people start telling me about their dreams. Yeah, me too. Like, you know, people do.

You're like, I don't care, this is not real. Why am I invested in this story? You were there, but you were saying this thing. You're like, okay, cool, you know. I guess you must have been there sort of situation, yeah. And I always wonder, can you control or manipulate yourself into dreaming about certain things? Do you have any control about what you dream of?

I always, like sometimes when a dream ends, like a Shorten Street cliffhanger, you're like, oh, oh, you want to go back and pick it up, but it doesn't happen. You want to fall back asleep. You can't go back to that same dream it seems do you want installments of your dream like a sort of a series and i'm like i'm done with that one i like that i binged that one last night yeah yeah sometimes you wake up on a very pivotal moment you're like what happened yeah you'll never know debbie joins us thank you for uh being on the show de Debs. Thank you. Dreams. You had one. It turned into reality. Yes.

Martin Luther King, he had a dream, didn't he? Yeah. And so did Debbie. I did, yeah. What was your dream, Debbie? Well, I dreamt that my daughter was pregnant. So this is quite a few years ago. So I rang her, and she said, no, I'm not.

So long story short, I've got a 21-year-old grandson. Oh, wow, and you predicted it in dream form. Yes, and that's not the only thing. Oh, Debbie's like, hang on, there's more. Debbie wrapped you up there, but you've got more. You like that entree? Now for the main. What have you got, Deb?

I also dreamed about my daughter, and I dreamt that I saw her laying on the ground, and I thought, oh, my God, this is terrible. I thought she was dead. So I rang her, and she wasn't. But what had happened was that she'd been attacked, and she was knocked out. Oh, my God. Who was she attacked by? Just

someone she didn't know. Just random. She was just walking. Oh my goodness. Walking home, yeah. When it comes to my daughter and family, I do tend to have some, you know. Yes. Something in your waters, Debbie. Good waters. Absolutely.

Thank you, Debbie. You have a great day absolutely good waters thank you debbie you have a great day okay thank you thank you that was awesome bye now we have rod on the phone hot rod hot rod rod and reel good morning rod cam rod con rod you name it he's got every rod nickname in the book push rod okay rodders so tell us uh you had a dream and it actually... I had dreams for about two years that I'd wake up after it that people were chasing me with a chainsaw and trying to cut my legs off. That is terrifying. And then I bought it, or I had a chainsaw,

and across the road they were actually getting rid of the boundary trees. Right. So I started using my chainsaw and I ended up going vroom like that, and it cut across and just missed my kneecap. Oh, so you almost predicted your own legs being chopped off. Absolutely, yeah. Oh, my goodness. But you were the frightening person chasing yourself,

cutting your own legs off. It must have been. Did you ever think about it when you had the chainsaw before it happened that day, going, oh, I've had this dream about a chainsaw? No, I never thought about that. Never thought I'd cut my leg at all. Two years leading up to that moment. Absolutely, yes.

And then what happened after the chainsaw incident? Did you have any more chainsaw-based dreams? No, I had no more. That was the finish of them. Freaky. It's funny. Every time I hear this, I'm like, wow, this is, you know, it's like a sixth sense sort of thing, isn't it? Did you know

that mostly we dream in pictures? So the majority of dreams aren't sort of moving or no sound. Oh, right. That's what you're saying. Okay. Well, right. I'm glad you didn't cut your leg off. I am too. And just as well I had a brand new chain on it because it was a clean cut

because chainsaw chains normally make a mess of a leg or a cut. Yeah, yeah. No, I've got a chain. I don't know why I have a chainsaw. Yeah, you have, haven't you? I don't feel like I'm an individual who should own a chainsaw. And we lent it out for a radio promo once and it got into a bit of an HR issue there, Rod.

Oh, okay. Yeah, we had some winners getting married and for some reason they said, and it got into a bit of an HR issue there, Rob. Oh, okay. Yeah, we had some winners getting married, and for some reason they said, John, can we borrow your chainsaw? And then I didn't realize what they were doing with it, but they gave the chainsaw to the groom who was on Rollerblades. It's a radio wedding, obviously. Yeah. And he was due to cut the cake with it.

You'd taken the chain off, though, hadn't you? Like it wasn't, but still. Yeah, if you want me to say I took the chain off. Oh, I took your head, okay. Okay. Yeah, that's what I did. I took your you, like it wasn't, but still. Yeah, if you want me to say I took the chain off. I think you had, okay. Yeah, that's what I did. I think you had, okay. You wouldn't want the chain off and going, slipped off your upgrades or your gates, would you?

No, no, that's what HR said. Yeah, that's what they said. But hey, Rod, you're an absolute champion. You go and have a wonderful day. Yes, thank you. You too. Jono and Ben. Talking about dreams, when they've turned into reality,

and I tell you what, there's some great calls coming through, and it's a dream come true having this lady on the phone. Olwen, what happened? So when I was a child, I had this recurring nightmare, and I would wake up and I would be very frightened and I would go and climb into my parents' bed. And this went on for a couple of years and eventually my father got a little bit annoyed

and thought I was using it as an excuse to get into their bed and said I wasn't allowed to anymore, but mum still let me creep into their bed. Mums always do that. I'm trying to get the old kids stay in your bed situation, but they're always ending up there and I'm always ending up on the couch downstairs. Happens. That's the best place for you. So this dream kept happening. So then we were going on a holiday and because I suffered from car sickness, mum and dad always made up a bed in the back of the car for me. During the trip, I woke up and I sort of looked out the window and I started screaming and dad slammed on brakes and jumped out the car,

mum jumped out the car and my brother and sister and what's going on, what's going on. And I was screaming and saying, it's my dream, it's my dream, it's my dream. And my parents were trying to sort of console me and calm me down and find out what on earth the problem was. And I kept pointing down to a river. So the road actually came down to a very low-level bridge. And I kept pointing at the bridge and screaming, it's my dream, it's my dream. And then while this was happening, there was a flash flood and the flash flood took out the bridge. And in my dream, we were on that bridge. So this dream you'd been having for a number of years

featured this bridge that you then just saw out of the blue one day. Yes. Wow. We were traveling and I recognized it from my dream. Oh my goodness. And I had for many years after that dream, I still could taste the water going into my mouth and my nose. In my dream, we were all killed.

We were drowned, which we would have been. We would have been on the bridge if my father had not stopped the car. So, wow. And your screaming made them pull over. That is eerie. That is, that's eerie. That is so eerie. Have you ever had anything like this? I mean, that seems like you wouldn't have this occasion happen again, but nothing like

this has ever occurred to you since? Not dreams, but I've had experiences. I was in England and I was catching a helicopter over to the Scilly Isles and I was working, I was a nurse and I was held up and raced to the aerodrome and as I got there the helicopter was taking off and that was the helicopter that plunged into the sea and everyone was killed on board. And you were meant to be on it?

I would have been on it. Jeez, wow. You've got some special stuff going on there, Owen. I have, and then a third one, I was meant to be in a hotel in Thailand and changed my mind at the very last minute and decided not to go and cancelled on the 23rd of December. And the hotel that I was going to be staying in

was washed away in the Boxing Day tsunami. Oh, my goodness. Oh, and this is wild. And I bet the next one you're going to say is you were actually meant to be calling up Gary McCormick on More FM right now, but you decided to go with the hits. And who knows what could have happened if you ended up with McCormick. That is really interesting, Owen.

Hey, well, thank you so much for sharing that. And you go and have a wonderful day. Thank you very much, guys. Take care. We're just saying we love that song on the hits. We always feel like dancing. Wake up in the morning. Been lost on the internet last last night a lot of discussion

particularly yesterday about how expensive things are becoming uh petrol supermarket goods rent mortgages you name it inflation at an all-time high but not a crisis according to the prime minister okay uh and so what i got into a list of expensive things that'll make us feel better about paying for all our expensive things. Oh, it makes me so bad. Things are more expensive than what we're having to deal with. Things are more expensive than petrol.

Apparently there are. Wow, okay. I have got an idea. Why doesn't everyone, every business, just one day have a big sale and we just get everything we need for 12 months? It's just a mad day. You know, we just fill up the car, get all your supermarkets.

But what happens if you run out of petrol? We just try and make that petrol last over a 12-month period. You've got to be economical with it, Ben. It's just a mad day of just stockpiling. You're not hibernating. We get all we need for 12 months. Everything's on sale. Apart from Briscoe's, they'll be doing it every day.

So if you go to the Ritz Carlton Tokyo, you can get a cocktail for $25,000 NZD. $25,000. Just one cocktail? I don't want to put my NZD anywhere near that cocktail. But the $25,000. Just one cocktail. I don't want to put my NZD anywhere near that cocktail.

Wow, yeah. But the $25,000. Do you know what makes it so expensive? It's got bits of diamonds or something. It's a diamond martini or something. It seems like diamonds could choke or cut when digested, but hey. We spoke to someone on the radio once. They had the world's most expensive shot from the shot glass,

and as he was carrying it back, he dropped it. It was worth thousands or something, wasn't it? Yeah, he was like, oh, no. That's so sad. It was in Dubai or something. You think you're paying too much for your car? Well, spare a thought for David McNeil, who spent $70 million on an Italian Ferrari.

It's a classic Ferrari, making it the most expensive car in the world. It's just Mike Hosking's runabout. It's his weekender. You'd be getting finance on that one, wouldn't you? $70 million. And as soon as you drive it off the lot, $5 million depreciates. It's only worth $65 now.

Next one, pure donkey cheese. The most expensive cheese in the world for $1,700 a kilogram. Now, there is a... It doesn't sound advertising. No. It is made from the cheese of the milk of Balkan donkeys, and a team of farmers, 20 specialised farmers, spend their days milking 200 donkeys.

That sounds like a dream job to me. I haven't even milked one donkey, but 200 a day. I feel like you're questioning what you're doing with your life If you're milking donkeys But hey, if you're making money like that Maybe we're in the wrong game Well I hope it's milk I'm sure it is

And the most expensive piece of steak This is just one piece of steak $458 One bit of steak Oh that's the one you ordered that night when we had that meal and we all split. Yeah, that's right. He ordered the steak that was meant to be shared and he had it all himself. And then we all split the bill, shall we?

We went to a steak restaurant. I ordered a steak that apparently was for seven people and I ate it all myself. And then he gets all toey that we split the bill at the end. Yeah, I know. That's where, yeah, exactly. It's always been a bone of contention. It's a pressure point in our relationship. A hot button. Keeps coming up.

We've been through counselling. And that is Jono's internet web. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. So that's Bas Graffiti. It is Ed Sheeran 657. We've got some Ed Sheeran, 657. We've got some Ed Sheeran news in Spy.

Yes. She's the Dalai Lama of drama. Jew, what's happening in Spy, mate? I'm actually going to save the Ed Sheeran story until just before 8 o'clock. Still on Spy, still coming up, guys. Still coming up, Spy. Don't think you're going to get Ed Sheeran content over 4-7.

You're going to have to keep listening if you want to hear the sharing gossip but it's pretty good. So Courtney Cox has revealed that she doesn't remember filming a lot of the episodes

on Friends and it's funny because... Neither did Chandler. Oh, I said to Chandler. I like Chandler. He was one of the best characters. Yeah, but it's funny because when you Google this story,

so many of the news outlets say, Courtney Cox doesn't remember being on Friends. She doesn't remember Friends. Like, it makes it sound so dramatic. But it's just, yeah, I was reading this. It's just about incidents. We can 100% go along with that. There's so many times where people go,

you did this thing on Jono and being on the TV show, and you're like, oh, you vaguely remember something you did. I can't even remember what we did at ten past six this morning. You see why she was watching something on the Friends reunion and going, oh, yeah, what? Yeah, because they did a total of 236 episodes, and the reason when she realised she couldn't actually remember a lot of the episodes was when they did the Friends reunion,

because they'd referenced things, and she'd just have no idea what they were talking about. And she said she should have watched all 10 seasons before doing the reunion to kind of jog her memory. Yeah, well, to be fair, it had been, what, 10 years since they'd done it? And then they're like, hey, remember this little moment? She's like, vaguely, I guess. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I understand that. So even Sometimes Certain episodes

She'll watch She might catch A certain episode And even watching it She won't even remember Maybe with you guys You might watch something That you didn't

And be like Oh that's right I kind of remember it But she just straight up Has a bad memory She says my memory's shocking A lot of mine's due to Alzheimer's Actually old age

She's kicking it That's her Get little pockets of memories Yeah And as your quick spy update for this morning. Lazy. I know. Gosh, that Ed Sheeran story will be good before 8 o'clock.

Yeah, can't wait for that. You're running late, stuck in traffic, and now you have to listen to this. Jono and Ben on the hits. Juliet, who has publicly announced she's never going to leave the show, has just kind of discovered something about Juliet. That's an in-joke because she is going to leave the show. Yes, she discovered something about Juliet. That's an in-joke because she is going to leave the show. Yes, she is.

April 1. She's going to France on her OE. We're hoping it's a big April Fool's prank, but I don't think it is. I'm cool with it. You cool with it? Well, yeah. I'm happy to be pranked.

But it sounds like she is actually leaving us. We're finding out some dark secrets about Juliet on the final runway to her ending. And that is her abundance of nicknames. How many have you got? Because we call you Jew. And then there's Juliet, obviously, your birth name.

People call you Juju. Juju. Some people call me Jules. Then my family is, the bulk of it comes from family. So Etsy is one of the main ones, because if the end of Juliet is like et and then it's like Etsy.

It's funny how things kind of develop. Etsy sounds like some sort of travel documentation you need to fill out. Well there is a website called Etsy and then that gets

drawn to ets and then my mum sometimes calls me Etsy Spaghetti or Spaghetts or Spaghetti or Eddie Spaghetti and that's probably

the majority of it. She's got more aliases than the Tinder swindler. You're doing well. Correct. Thank you. You're doing well. Well, I've got, what have I got? I've got Jono, J-Dog, Jackhammer.

You try and give yourself names all the time. John John Silver. No one calls you any of those things. Idiot. Loud mouth. Yeah, those are the ones I've heard before. Narcissist. I thought JP. Yeahot. Loud mouth. Yeah, those are the ones I've heard before. Narcissist. JP?

Yeah, I knew JP. You sometimes put JP on your emails. He thinks I shouldn't put JP on emails. He's like, I see you saw it off of JP then.

Sometimes I randomly call you Joannathan, like Joannathan. I try to get JAPES going, like J-A-M-P, JAPES. You can't pick your own nickname. Yeah, that's the thing. That's what I've found out.

Yeah. I tried for a while because obviously, you know, I've got various degrees of Ben going on. Benny, you know, whatever thing. People call me that. But then I tried to get, like, because Benjamin, I was trying to get, like, Benjamin going on or stuff like that, but it didn't quite.

Was that when you had dreadlocks? Benjamin. Yeah. I call you Rolls, boys. Yeah. Every now and then. People sometimes call me Boise, but but it always says that they take it. It's like when someone calls you Champ or Pat, you know.

Hey, Boycey. Hey, Boycey. It says that you're taking the piss, you know, or something. Sometimes you'll go also under the nickname Jono. Yeah, quite often, actually. That's probably the most common nickname. Or people will go Bono and Jen and flick it around. I like that one.

So we want to take this open. Have you got a name that has multiple incarnations? Can we find a person with the most amount of nicknames in Aotearoa? You can call us. 0800 The Hits is the telephone number. 4487 is the text. Give us a call. Most amount of nicknames on New Zealand's breakfast.

The great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here. Jono and Ben on the hits. You're on the hits. It is Jackhammer and Ben. Is that what your nickname was? I'll go with Jackhammer. Johnny Jackhammer or something like that. Is that what you tried to give yourself a nickname for?

Yeah, I'll be Johnny Jackhammer. I'll roll with Johnny Jackhammer. Yeah, that's good. The Jackhammer and Ben. Yeah. Sounds like we have a lot more cred. Yeah, and it's what this show is dying out for. It's just an ounce of credibility.

So the Jackhammer. Someone call marketing. We're in need of a rebrand. We'll do a reshoot this afternoon. I'll hold a Jackhammer seductively. Jesus. I'm leaving at a good time. You are, Julie.

It's a jackhammer. So after the person with the most amount of nicknames in New Zealand, we discovered, Juliette, about six to eight nicknames you go under? Yeah, I'd say so. Are there any you don't like in your lineup? No. I think I'm just so used to them. Like if it was a new nickname that came in now,

like at this point in my life, I'd be kind of like, what? Yeah. But because a lot of them are childhood nicknames, I'm just so used to it. Some people get very particular about their name and how it's pronounced sometimes, don't they? And then shortened versions of it. Like Jen, my wife hates Jenny. Call her Jenny.

I can get some results if I fire out a Jenny. So we'll go to the phones. We'll kick it off with Kasanya in Wellington. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How many nicknames have you got, Kasanya? Oh, quite a few. Yeah, roll them out. Okay, I've got...

My name is Kisanya. I've got Ksenichka, Keka, Kikusia, Ksusha, Ksunchik, Shory. Seven!

Wow! Seven in total. What's... Where are you from, Kisanya? I'm Russian. Oh, you're Russian. Seven in total. Where are you from, Kisanya? I'm Russian. Oh, you're Russian. Seven nicknames. And jeez, you must be worried about what's going on back in your part of the world. Yes, very.

Yeah, it's terrible, isn't it? Hey, well, seven nicknames, that's a good start. That's a great start. You keep safe, Kisanya. You too. Thank you for listening. We appreciate it, Sam, mate. Yeah, all the best. Abigail, you're on from Auckland. How many nicknames have you got? Take it away.

I've got about 10, I think. I've got A with one B and a Y. Abby with two Bs and a Y. Abdominals. Abby with an I. Abby with an EY. Abby with a double BIE. So a lot of these are pronounced the same, but written differently.

I like that too. So yeah, it's when people write it, you know, but everyone uses a different version. A with a B, E, Y, A, B, ab and abster. Abster. I like it when people have the thing and then they make people spell it out. There was something I saw online, the guy we know, Mark, and he's like, it was Mark with a C, got them to spell on their coffee,

and they spelt C-A-R-K. It was Cark. On his coffee cup. He's like, Mark with a C. He got them to spell on their coffee, and they spelt C-A-R-K. It was Cark. On his coffee cup. He's like, Mark with a C, so they spelt Cark. There you go, Cark. Enjoy your flat white. It's like the C was at the end of the, anyway. That's great, Abigail.

We've got a text here from Lexi saying her dad, Charles. This is on 4487 if you want to text us. Her dad, Charles, is known as Chuck or Chubs. And his whole life I've been calling him Chubbs until recently at his 60th birthday I found out where the Chubbs nickname came from. Oh. It wasn't his body frame.

Oh. Oh. Oh. This is a roller coaster, isn't it? Something a daughter never wants to find out. Okay. Patrick, we'll take one more. We've got a little bit of time.

How many nicknames have you got, Paddy? I've actually got quite a few, actually. All right, this makes me nervous, but let's go through some of them. Ben was like, the last thing I want is guys phoning up for this. I am mostly known for Pat.

That is my most common nickname. Paddy as well. But school friends, they might excessively call me Mad Dog Pat. Yeah, this is where it starts to turn. All right, you're one. Pat on the head. Pat on the head, that's a good one. Pat on the head, I like that.

That's good. And you guys did with the TV show called Postman Pat. Yes. That's good. That's another one. We're up to six now. And also, so my name is Patrick. So Trick Daddy so Trick Daddy.

Trick Daddy? Trick Daddy. Oh, Trick Daddy, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And also Trick Dog. Trick Dog, yeah. Yeah, right. You've got about eight so far.

That's good. And also Trick Star. You could do Pat Dad Ass. All right, we're wrapping both you and patrick out right now you're done hey uh thank you so much we're gonna pick you out some hell pizza and wolf's book we really appreciate it have a great day awesome cheers cool thank you and it's 7 30 you're on the hits john on being that is train, Jobs of Jupiter, and uh-oh, that was our song. One year, no rent, no mortgage. The hits, live free.

With oneroof.co.nz. It is an amazing prize. You rent all your mortgage paid for an entire year. Thanks very much to oneroof.co.nz. And we're going to chuck someone else in the draw to potentially get a key from Brad and Laura this Friday afternoon. Shall we get Hidini on the radio? Welcome. How are you?

Yeah, hey, Bart. Good, good. How's things, Ben? Oh, doing really well. Thank you very much. Mate, speaking of nicknames, another one I go under. Hidini, you're in this draw. It's going to free up mortgage or rent payments for an entire year.

You're going to have some spare change weighing you down. What are you going to do with it? Well, to be honest, I'm thinking about putting some away for a little bit of overseas travel when this pandemic finally sorts itself out. Where would you go if you could? Always had an African

safari on the list, the old bucket list, so definitely something I'd love to get into. Wouldn't that be good? He wants to go and visit the cast of The Lion King. That's amazing. That would be incredible. Well, that't that be good? He wants to go and visit the cast of The Lion King. Yeah. That's amazing. That would be incredible.

That would be. Well, that'd be money well spent, Hirani, and good luck tomorrow. Brad, Laura, could be calling you, and you could have one of the five keys that could unlock that money. All right, my friend? Sensational. Thanks, man. Hey, guys, have a great day.

It's all thanks to OneRoof.co.nz, thousands of property listings across New Zealand. But next, you wouldn't read about it. If you've got an amazing story that you think has only ever happened to you, then you tell us. We type it into Google, and if we wouldn't read about it, you win. We even read the latest EasyBuy catalogue, and if we don't read about it in there, there's no page unturned with this competition.

Last week, Deb phoned through. Harrowing tale about her husband. My husband, he's an avid aviator. He's had the opportunity to learn to fly. So, yeah, he started to learn to fly. And I was at home with our two little ones at the time and got the heart-stopping phone call there's been an accident. But he's OK. The plane was this brand-new plane,

and the instructor got his foot stuck in the pedal and actually got the plane wing caught in a fence and flipped it upside down and they landed on top of the fence. Crazy. He had to cut the plane instructor out and you would probably question the instructor's credentials after that one. Everyone worked away all right, and we couldn't read about it, could we? But that's how it works. So 0800THEHITS. If you think you've got a story that wouldn't be on the internet and we couldn't read with our own eyes,

then you need to get on the phone right now. 0800THEHITS. You can text as well, 4487. We'll do that after Justin Bieber. Anyone, it is 7.33 on The Hits. Dance with me under the diamonds. Shout out to all the unpaid Uber drivers dropping the kids off in peak hour traffic. Jono and Ben on the hits.

We're doing You Wouldn't Read About It. You tell us a story, something that happened to you in your life. If we wouldn't read about it, you win. Yeah, Marco, what happened? Well, I had just broken up with my longtime girlfriend and ended up in Taiwan. I wanted to become a monk, and then I kind of got asked to leave

because I obviously wasn't suited to be a monk. What was holding you back from being a monk? Oh, no, I just couldn't meditate, basically. Yeah, I just couldn't get to that zone where monks should be at. And I was all about doing stuff. In Taiwan, they do things, monks are different. They actually go out and do things for the community, taking care of old people and things like this that part was all about but the meditation part in the morning was

just not me at all yeah no i wouldn't be ben either you couldn't be a monk no you wouldn't make a good monk no you wouldn't you'd like there's stuff to do guys you know you'd just be you'd be writing a to-do list for all the monks and they're like mate this is chill out time yeah so you're an you're an almost monk. Yeah, and then I left. He asked me to leave for a year, and then if I was serious, come back again. And then so I ended up in Thailand, long story, and ended up getting a job at a university as a lecturer.

And then one of my first students, her father was the boss of this rescue service, ambulance service. And she invited me to go out with them. And I did. And then I ended up just loving it so much. I thought, well, this is such a cool thing that people, you know, volunteer so much of their lives too, that I decided to get involved. And then after about 10 years of training and things like that, I ended up founding my own ambulance service, the Bangkok Free Ambulance, and then just went on from there. Just like I've been through everything that's happened in Asia

in the last 20 years. I've been in tsunamis and coups. I've been through three coups now. Protests. You've probably seen that on TV, actually. Big protests there. Yes, a big protest there. Yes, in Bangkok. Yeah.

Now, Thailand, it seems like the Wild West. You must have seen some stuff over there in your job. Yeah, yes and no. You know, in some ways, it's more advanced than New Zealand, and in some ways, it's like, yeah, the Wild West. Are there guns over there? Oh, yeah, the Wild West. Are there guns over there? Oh, yeah, absolutely. During the protests, we have a friend who has a lot of guns,

and he comes around and gives us all a pistol. Oh, jeez. You can imagine medics driving around with pistols to protect themselves. It is absolutely the Wild West. I've been shot at, and my friend, two of my friends actually, sitting next to me have been shot. Oh my goodness. Yeah, all the time. I've lost a few friends through guns. And yeah, it's a terrible thing in Thai society is the amount of guns that are around.

In your line of work, you would help car accident victims or people who've had heart attacks and things like that and all for free? Oh absolutely yeah, all for free. So you became a bit of a celebrity over there we understand. Yeah well I ended up in this car Mercedes had run over a few people and two of them

were trapped under the car and I was there first and they were screaming in agony because of the pain and also of the hot exhaust on top of them. So I managed to get a group of bystanders, convince them that we could lift this car. And it was a Mercedes, too, a heavy European car. And we did it, and we got these people out from under the car.

And there happened to be a reporter there at the time who documented it all with his camera. And the next day, I was on the front page of the news. And then after that, it snowballed into this huge media blitz on me, mostly because I was a foreigner. And they said, oh, this foreigner's working for Thailand. They're very, very nationalistic, proud people, you know. So to have a foreigner working for them,

they kind of like really, you know, lapped that up. And so I was on TV shows and newspapers and just everything. Just like, oh. Just looking like a bloody legion lifting a car, too. Like, if you wanted to be in the news, you'd want to be lifting the car off some people, don't you? Exactly. Yeah, just get out there and start lifting cars.

All right, well, for you wouldn't read about it, we need to search on the internet to see if we wouldn't actually read about it. So, I don't know, what do we Google? Legend who almost becomes monk, starts free ambulance service, gets shot at, Lifts car off. Becomes national treasure. New Zealander. There's quite a lot for me to type.

And has anything turned up? Hang on. I have a feeling there might not be. Yeah. What's it got to do? Someone else done all of this. Mate, it's come up. CNN.

You heard of CNN? I have heard of this? Mate, it's come up. What, CNN? You heard of CNN? I have heard of CNN. Yeah, they've done it. A whole article on Marco, the amazing story of Marco. So, but technically he doesn't win because we have read about it, even though it's about him. Yeah, you're right. It's a New Zealander.

It's gone to Thailand. The amazing story of all the stuff that he's just told us about. It's already on CNN. Yeah, well, we've heard it all. We've heard it all. We don't need to read about it now. Oh, Marco, sorry you don't win because we did read about it for once.

Thank you so much for your call this morning. Congratulations on everything you've done. And what are you doing now in New Zealand? I'm teaching at a school in esport. Oh, awesome. Yeah, it's great. Loving it. Oh, good on you, Marco.

Well, congratulations on a very full life and may it long continue. Thank you very much, mate. You too. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It is your chance to win $5,000. We do it every morning.

Five grand on the line. Just match all five words with ours and you'll win $5,000. Shirley, come on down from Cambridge, Morena. Morning, Shirley. Shirley.na. Morning, Shirley. Shirley. Shirley. Shirley. Shirley's here.

How are you, Shirley? I'm good. You're a legend. Are you ready to get some cash in your account, Shil? That would be wonderful. Okay, because you've got to name five words. What are five words to describe Shirley? I'm 79 years old.

I'm 79 years old. That's five words. We'll take that, Shirley. This has been a wonderful first date. I would love to see you for a second one. Thank you so much for listening. We really appreciate it, Shirley. Now, who do you want to send in to the soundproof booth? Jono, Ben or Juliet?

Ben. Ben is going in. Do you listen to this every day, Shirl? I have done, yes. Have you tried to get through before, mate? Every day since you ever first started it. Wow. For two years you've been doing this, Shirley.

Pardon? You've been trying for two years to get on. That's right. Well dreams can come true Shirley. Here we go. Thank you. What would you spend 5k on if you won? I've got a lot to do in the house and my washing machine's on the way out. That would be nice. Oh she wants a new Fisher and Paykel. No it's an old Samsung. All okay. I won't get into washing machine debate with you, Shirley. First word that comes into your head, Cheryl, when I say Barbie. Doll.

Nice. One from one from Shirley there. East is word number two, Shirley. East. East. East. I'll come back to that one. Labrador.

Coming in at word number three for Shirley from Cambridge. Dog. Dog. Avocado. Dip. Phone. Phone call. Yeah, I was going to say phone call as well, Shirl.

Now, Shirl, you played a wonderful game. We'll just go back to word number two. East, you wanted to have a second crack at. Yeah, East Timor. East Timor. Shirley from Cambridge. You can tell she's a veteran of this game. Not in life, though.

You sound, what, 21 years old, are you, Shil? Yeah, I wish. Yeah. I'll be coming to your 21st, that's for sure. Okay, Ben, you need to match five words with Shirley. She wants a new washing machine. Oh, okay. All right, cool.

Okay, doesn't want a Fisher & Paykel, wants a Samsung replacement, okay? Okay, okay. First word that comes into your head, Ben, when I say Barbie. Doll. Shirley, Shirley, Shirley. East. West? Damn it.

Shirley Moore of an international palate said East Timor. Oh, East Timor, of course. East West works as well, though, Shirley, doesn't it? Yeah, sorry, Cheryl. We dipped down on word number two. We'll go to Labrador. Dog. Avocado.

Guacamole. Dip. Shirley said dip. Same thing. We worked like that. Same product. And phone was the fifth word this morning. Phone.

Call. Now, Shirley, apart from a washing machine what else do you need in your life i need some new lino oh did you say hell pizza did you say hell pizza did you hear her say hell pizza no i think she said new lino oh i heard hell pizza well we can make that dream come true surely and sorry what else did you say a will Smith book? You've got his latest book as well, Shirley. That's on us. Hey, Shirley, hopefully we get to do this again. We were pretty close to winning today.

I'm sure next time we'll gnarly. All right, you have a great day. Okay, thank you. See you, mate. Love your work. You guys are awesome. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben.

Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. Julie, having worked with you for the last couple of years. Firstly, it's been great and I hope it never ends. She's not going. She's never going to leave us. She's never going to leave us. Because she did say the other day she was leaving in April,

but it was a gag. Yeah. That was a joke. Yeah, I think it was. But I have, in all seriousness, picked up on some of the terms that you use from time to time. You know, I would say these are probably terms that millennials could and sometimes do use.

And the TikTok generation, I would say. Like that Scoochie fam. Yeah, see, I can't say that Scoochie fam. I don't have the street cred to pull off that Scoochie. Or like, you know, that's lit. I really struggle. Those letters coming out of my mouth don't feel right. Lit.

I can't. I don't look comfortable saying it. I'm all nervous. And you sort of over accentuate the word. It doesn't roll off naturally, does it? It's like when Ben goes IRL, in real life. I have to say it afterwards. I can't just say IRL.

I just go in real life. I know what it means. So the mass general population gets the acronym. So really you've shortened a word, but then you've made it longer again. In fact, even longer by saying the shortened version. But also wanting to look in touch by using it. It's a conundrum. Yeah.

But, you know, there are a few words floating around. We found a list of a few. And we thought actually, me and Juliette and myself, we thought we could do a wee experiment today. Don't look at me when you're saying a wee experiment. To see what it would be like if you could, i feel like you could assume the role of millennial and maybe you know keep in touch with the kids you know you could so we could call someone who works at work who's a millennial um kate yeah i've got kate's number here i've never called

kate davy in my life but if you start to use all these millennial terms and phrases, you could get on like a, she'll be like, Jono, he's lit. He's down. Was that bad? It just sounds so funny. He's in touch. It's good. You can talk about work stuff.

This is just a work call, but you're also trying to use some millennial terms. Do I have to keep it 100? No cap. No cap. No cap. Do you know what that means? Yeah, don't even ask me what that means. That's how he types his emails. No cap.

Yeah. No, they're all caps. Oh, yeah, true. All cap. Jono Pryor, all cap. Okay. Here's the words. I'll hand them over to you.

Okay, here you go. Okay. It's a long list of words that I'd never use. You just use a few of those and see how you go. Okay. It's a long list of words that I'd never use. You just use a few of those and see how you go. She's going to be very confused. Hey, Kate. Hello. Extra.

How are you, mate? Good. How are you? It's Chono here from work. What's up? What's up? Bounce, bounce. So How are you, mate? Good, how are you? It's Chono here from work. What's up? What's up? Bounce, bounce. So, what are you doing? I'm working from home. Oh, lit. How's that going?

Yeah, pretty good. Shook, shook. What are you guys doing? Oh, salty as... What? Just... Hey, are you planning on coming in any stage soon? Um, I can.

That's Gucci. That's Gucci. Snatch. That's Gucci. You got some young people lingo you're testing out, have you? Keep it 100, babe. Yeah, keep it 100, babe. Can't even. You can't even. You can't. Damn. It, keep it 100, mate. Can't even.

You can't even. You can't. Damn, that's... It's pretty close, though, eh? That's a thirst trap. Okay, it's Jono and Ben here in Julia. We'll just see how Jono would go, you know, using some millennial, some cooler terms. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I coined onto that pretty quickly. Yeah, you did actually. Listen, was it as cringy for you as it felt for me? I feel like if you gave it a bit more gusto behind it, it would have been good. He wasn't super confident. He kind of mumbled it up. Snatch.

Yeah. And maybe if you'd actually strung it into an actual sentence rather than just keep it 100, mate, then it would have worked out a bit better. Oh, well, that shook, man. All right. Yes, that was so great. Extra, extra.

All right, we're going to bounce. Okay, thanks. All right. Peace, swole, out, meet up. I think I need to leave sooner than April. Julia's like, can I work for another radio show? If anything, we've affirmed her choice to resign wasn't meant to be the point

Jono and Ben just like family the family members you're ashamed of Jono and Ben on the hits Jono you've come to work today and you've gone you've told us you've had someone critique the show which always makes me nervous yeah it's my nephew, Bo.

Bo Billy. He's four years old. And he's come into grips with what we do for a job. I still haven't come to grips with it. No, I don't know what it is. It takes a while, but I understand. I don't think our bosses know what we do for a job. I keep going, what do you guys actually do?

No, it's more like, what are you doing? In that tone. So, Bo is, he's trying to sort of, he's trying to figure it out. And yesterday my sister-in-law Susie, she sent a video. He just started during a commercial break there watching TV. He just started rattling off for some reason our job descriptions. Okay. And what you do and what I do.

Okay. So this is four-year-old Bo Billy just explaining our roles and our... So like, um, so Jono

Ben is like Jono's helper. So that's first off the bat. Okay. Okay. Oh, yeah. Can I say

you've never helped me with anything? So you're failing in your role. And he goes on. He you're failing in your role. And he goes on. He goes on to clarify your role. Ben is actually an assistant. So Ben is an assistant with Jono.

So I'm more your assistant. Hang on. Ben is Jono's assistant. He's clearly saying it. So hang on. So it shouldn't be Jono So I'm more your assistant Hang on Ben is Jono's assistant He's clearly saying it So hang on So it shouldn't be Jono and Ben It should be the Jono show With an assistant With an assistant Ben

Now I need a coffee And my dry cleaning dropped off Yes Mr Pryor I guess this is how it was Again I've never received any assistance from you Well I didn't know until this point That maybe I was the assistant That it was need to be. No one's

told me to do any of these things. You are the Ashley Bloomfield to my Jacinda Ardern in a press conference. Now, if I get any curly questions, I'm going to throw you under the bus. Get out there, assistant. You can take this one. But what? Ben helps work do funny stuff

and Ben helps Uncle Jono work. I do help with a lot of work, especially after Christmas parties and stuff. Here's your pants up, mate. We'll get you out. Here you go, isn't it? Tuck in your shirt,

get back out there. Alright, we'll hide this scandal. Don't worry, I'll smoke screen it. He does help me a lot. He does help me a lot. That's four-year-old Beau with our job description. That's adorable. But at the same time, it's a little weird to find out that this man... Are you wondering what I'm going home and telling my family what you do? Yeah, so anyway, I was talking to my assistant, Ben.

They'll be happy calling right now. Hold on, it's just the PA. What do you want? It is a hit. She got Jono and Ben. The annoying ones talking between the songs. Jono and Ben. The annoying ones talking between the songs. Jono and Ben on the hits. Hey, yesterday I filmed on Seven Days, the TV show.

Is it on tonight? It's on tonight on TV3. Got a very late call up because I think, you know, and I think I almost talked the guy who rang up to talk to me out of it. I was like, me, me, you've got me to be on the show. Why the late call up? I think there's a lot of, was like, me? Really? You've got me to be on the show? Why the late call-up? I think there's a lot of COVID going on. A lot of COVID going on in the world.

How many calls before they called you? That's what I'd hate to think. I'd hate to think. But I was real honoured to be on the show because it's such a great show. And who knows how much of it will be. Were they like, you're always our first choice? Oh, yeah, definitely.

There's 19 people out with COVID. 35 other phone calls I've made beforehand But it's great You know, you were the next one on that list Hold on, someone else is calling through Oh no, no, Ben Hurley can't do it either Okay, you're definitely our first choice It was actually pretty cool to do it

Because I haven't done it for a while It's been a long time And last time, I don't think I said many jokes I just looked like, geez, I'm having a great time They had lots of shots of me laughing and smiling. It was like... Yeah, I've only done it once too, and I just felt like I forgot that I was meant to be doing stuff on television.

I felt like I was at a comedy show. Yeah, you're like, that's really funny. That's great. I may as well have just been sitting in the audience, watching it and enjoying it. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. But something really unusual happened on the way down to Seven Days, and I don't know if it was an omen or not

but driving through like residential Auckland and I saw a chicken without a word of a lie a chicken crossing the road like the end of a chicken that just

I was like that looks like a chicken crossing the road and then just saw it get to the road and I sort of watched as it went into a property that didn't look like

it should be in the property and off it went you're like the comedy gods are shining down i am gonna be on fire i was like is this a good omen or bad omen or are you hallucinating i mean what is this this is i've never seen this happen before in central auckland did it clearly got to the other side safely it did it got to the other side safely i know no word why it was you know i didn't get to settle it and go hey why why did you cross the road? The mad butcher was sitting behind you in traffic going, that's $9.99

crossing the road right there, $9.99 a kilo. You know, I wondered if other things like if I'd gone to a bar and there would have been a priest and a rabbi and a minister in there, you know, I didn't have time to test that out, you know, if a courier come and I'm like, knock, knock, who's there, you know? It's the courier, I've got

your package. Oh, what's the punchline? This weird product you ordered off the internet, I guess. You know the chicken crossing the road joke and how it's kind of like, why did the chicken cross the road to get to the other side? Apparently, the actual meaning is... It's quite dark and sinister, right? Yeah, the chicken goes to the other side because it goes to heaven. It goes to KFC.

The other side. The other side. To get to the other side because it doesn't make it across the road. Because I to KFC. The other side. The other side. To get to the other side because it doesn't make it Because I always thought it was just a joke that didn't make a lot of sense. Yeah, I know.

But it does now. It makes a lot of sense now. It's one of those things, jokes, that I struggle to remember like actual jokes. I can hear a joke and be like,

oh, that's funny but to actually have it retained in your brain is hard. We did it a while back. Remember that we wanted to have one joke for the show? Can you remember it? Yeah, I can remember parts of it.

About the naval ship. Yeah, yeah. What do the, what's the country? I think it's the Swedish battleships. Why do Swedish battleships have QR codes on them? Yeah, yeah. So they can Scandinavian. There you go. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Swedish battleships have QR codes on them so they can Scandinavian.

There you go. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. It's the only joke I can remember. That and a weird one about, what's his name, William Shatnow. Oh, yeah. Do you know that one? I remember that one.

That was the first joke you ever told me. Don't do what my dad does and go, do you know this person? No, I'm going to tell you anyway. That's what you're doing right now. Why not? Juliet knows it. Yeah, should I tell her? No. I reckon going to tell you anyway. That's what you're doing right now. Why not? Juliet knows it. Yeah. Should I tell it?

No. I reckon. Well, there's a split response there. I was like, no, do you want it? You've heard it. You know it. What about new audiences? New audiences. It's not good.

Think of the new audience. It's like involves. Mum and dad are fighting. What do I do? Oh, God. Okay. So William Shatner, you'll know him. He recently went to space and miraculously came back alive.

To be fair, the joke was quite dated for a long time, but now we've got a lot of topical reasons you could tell this joke again. Yeah. This involves Stevie Nicks. Yeah, I'd like to thank Jeff Bezos for bringing Shatner back into the zeitgeist and Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac who's had her songs remixed nowadays. Yeah. So if you don't call this topical, Ben, I don't know what you're good.

So did you know that William Shatner and Stevie Nicks had a secret marriage back in the day? No one knew about it. And for a while there, she was known as Stevie Shatner Nicks. All right, okay. Mate. I was just too late for me to put me on seven days

let me tell that comedy goal on seven days I'll get some laughs tonight it's Jono and Ben but FYI Ben is open to other options Jono and Ben on the hits now there's a brand new movie coming to Disney plus tomorrow it's called Turning Red we both watched it with the kids a few days ago

it's really really good it's really funny it's about a little girl who turns into a red panda when her emotions take over is everything okay i'm a gross red monster look at me stay back this happened already happened already? What did you say? It's an animated movie and it stars the voices, well, Sandra Oh, who was Christina on Grey's Anatomy and Eve in Killing Eve. So big TV star. And then you were just saying, Rosalie, the young actor, she was just the demo voiceover. Yeah, so apparently they bring in someone to do the demo voicing when they're trying to animate it at the start, and often they will replace those voices later,

and they were like, this kid is amazing. We can't think of anyone else to do this voice of the character May, and so she got the gig, which is pretty awesome. So we got to catch up with Rosalie and Sandra O. A couple of days ago, Jono, you were at home, and you joined the Zoom, and I think you were quite surprised that you even made it through with the technology. Have a listen.

Hi, welcome in. Please say your names and your outlet and you can begin. Hello, we're Jono and Ben from New Zealand. Hi. Hello. Hello. Am I on? You're on.

I can see. I can't believe I made it here. Yeah. Look, Jono's at home. We refuse to work together, but very nice to meet you guys. Congratulations on the movie. It was awesome. I loved watching it.

Thank you. Now, in New Zealand, we have animals. We wondered what animal you would turn into if you were in New Zealand. We've got the kiwi. That's a bird that can't fly. We've got the kea, which is a parrot that rips off window wipers from cars, and we've got lots of sheep. Which is the one that rips off window wipers?

I was going to think of that. It's called a care. It's called a care. We'd be a family of care. A care. Just ripping off things. Ripping off things. Off of automobiles.

This movie was incredible. Rosalie, you play a character whose favorite boy band is a band called Four Town, which was written by Billie Eilish and her brother, wasn't it? Yeah. Do you have any favorite boy bands from the 90s, Sandra? From the 90s? No, because I will say that I predate the 90s boys band.

My boy band kind of like basically in the junior high time, when you're just going in through your tween into your teen stage, is more kind of very, very Brit pop. But I will say because they were all very beautiful members of Duran Duran, that was who was on my wall. So for 90s, for the 90s, I would say for me that's, I had passed that stage already and I was fully into grunge. Rosalie, anyone for you? Are you sitting there going, who the hell is Duran Duran?

Probably. Deidre has mentioned that band so many times i still haven't had the chance see she's so lucky she's so lucky there's so much she can like listen to you're like all right here we go again duran duran cedric i understand you stole a rug from gray's anatomy did you steal anything from this movie a microphone maybe when you're doing the voiceover that's very funny that's that's that's that's deep cuts that you remember that i stole uh and it was one by the way i would did not steal they gave it to me okay because i asked for it um uh from this i might have like something left over from the booth you know for the majority of this recording we did it during the pandemic uh and so when we first started the big part of a recording, both Rosalie and I were basically sent a booth that we had to kind of,

well, other people helped us, you know, put the booth together. And it was really like recording under a bunch of duvets. I don't think I have anything left from that, no. You didn't steal the pop sock or anything from the microphone? No, no, I didn't. You guys are a great sport. We'd love to chat all day, but we can't. Congratulations on the movie.

New Zealand audiences are going to love it. It's a real feel-good, family-fun movie. Thank you. Thank you. Spy. No what's up. Spy.co.nz. All righty.

We'll hand you right now over to producer Juliet. Here's what the famous people have been doing, the famous people news bulletin before the real people news bulletin at 9 o'clock. So Ed Sheeran is not a happy man because an unreleased song of his was played in court without his permission. So if you don't know why he's in court, it's basically because another sort of smaller artist thinks he plagiarised a song. This was the original song.

Who's that guy again? Oh, I don't even know his name. I should probably have his name. Sammy Switch, I think it is. Sammy Switch, that's right. Comparing it to... There's a comparable... There's a comparison there.

For a little bit, but not for the whole song. But anyway, they're in court right now and he's having to go through. He's in there, Ed Sheeran, he's in the court at the moment. I was reading last night, he's singing stuff like he was singing Black Street's No Diggity and Nina Simone's Feeling Good to demonstrate how common the melody is between those two songs. Is it a court case or just an opportunity for the lawyers and the judges to get Ed Sheeran to sing for them?

You want to sing this song as well? I guess I can. Do that one you do with Justin Bieber? But yeah, so an unreleased song that he wrote in January last year was accidentally played because his co-writer's laptop was plugged in and his lawyer, I think, accidentally started playing the song and Ed Sheeran looked at his lawyer and was like, where did you get that? It's a song I wrote

last January and I don't think he was very happy that maybe an unreleased song has been played without his permission. It sounded like it was being played off the guy who produced that song in question and the new song and obviously they played the wrong file on the laptop. I would do something like that. I'd be like, sorry

Ed Sheeran. All flustered trying to shut the lids, you know. Oh, I would do something like that. I'd be like, sorry, Ed Sheeran. Oh, God. All flustered, like trying to shut the lids, you know? Even, like, what I found really interesting reading the article, not only that Ed Sheeran's there, but they've also got, like, some voice memos that Ed Sheeran had sent around the time of recording. And now on court, they're like, what did this mean when you said that you need to change this bit in the chorus because it sounds a bit close to such and such?

You know, it didn't say a song. Is this a song? You knew about the song. And he was like, no, I was talking about another song, you know, Black Street's No Diggity, where he said that, yeah, and he said we should change it there. But they're like, oh, this isn't a question. You've heard this song before.

I feel like why would Ed Sheeran need to copy a song? Because he's so good at songwriting himself that, like, he can just, like, there's no, it's not like he's a bad songwriter and needs all the help he can get. It's like he's so creative. Like, he wouldn't even need to copy well. And a lot of the same chords are used in the same songs. Yeah.

You know? And he obviously believes that he hasn't ripped off a song or else he wouldn't be turning up to court and probably wasting thousands and thousands of dollars on a lawyer who keeps playing music that he's not meant to play. Yeah. Yeah, true. Totally. So hopefully. Should have bloody got Karen Harding, defence lawyer.

Yeah, so hopefully we'll have a result of... Get him off a drink driving charge as well. But I wasn't even drinking. Fuck, Karen Harding. So hopefully we'll find out the result of that in the next few days, but I feel like it will come away with a win. I don't know, I'm not the lawyer, I'm not the judge, I don't make the decisions.

Oh, you wrapped it up with some confidence in you. Yeah, we'll see. Then you fade it out. Oh, and there's a place to be in Sheeran, or is it someone else's song? I'd say. Here he is ripping off someone else. No, it's Shivers and it's you, Sheeran. Great song, it is the hits.