Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Tries To Woo His Wife With Covid Themed Pick-Up Lines

Episode Date: February 22, 2022

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Morning, it's the 23rd of February. It's a Wednesday. We're fresh back and clean, virus-free. Rat test's taken this morning. Put a rod up your nose and then you squeeze that out and then you put that in a thing and you drip it into the tray and then half an hour later you find out that you don't have it.

I didn't realise you had to take a photo of the test result and send it in. Yeah, well 15 to 30 minutes later you don't wait more than half an hour later, you find out that you don't have it. And I didn't realise you had to take a photo of the test result and send it in. Yeah. Well, 15 to 30 minutes later, you don't wait more than half an hour because that apparently could become valid. Yeah, it looks like you have got COVID. If you go 31 minutes over the 30-minute threshold, you're going to go from one extreme to another. Yeah, it was an interesting experience. Because obviously, I've had the test when you go along.

You drive along, you wait in your car and stuff stuff but I thought for some reason this would be lighter on my nostrils but I still found it just as invasive even when I was doing it to myself you know like you watch the demonstration video and like are they really getting it in there yeah you do dig it up high you do it's amazing how far your nostril goes it's kind of like the Wotomo caves up there isn't it just keeps on going and going. And I don't know why you need to go up so high. Like, surely the mucus or the residue from up

the top is dribbling down. It's the same stuff. Well, yeah, they talk about COVID being easily spreadable in the community. You walk past someone or whatever, it's so far up my head. It's hidden in my brain. Then how is it easily spreadable? You're dead right. How's it coming out? But yeah, that was an interesting experience.

Not cheap, the old rapid antigen tests. I owed like 25 bucks a test. Really? So some companies have obviously had to invest a lot in rat tests, haven't they? And the government, they would have been blown off. Imagine. Oh, yeah. Who's the Minister of Finance?

Robertson. Grant Robertson, yeah. How much are we blowing on rat tests? He wouldn't be happy with that. No. He wouldn't be happy about these last few years with the pandemic, but obviously they've kind of had to do it. Yeah. Can you reuse a rat test? I don't think so. But if you're negative before, you're negative again. What's stopping me from using the same photo? Well, your honesty system, I guess, would be a good one.

I always like to get a system and find holes in it. Yeah, but then I guess getting COVID would be the system, you know, spreading COVID in the workplace. But what if I like to write it out? Yeah. I mean, your photo should be maybe subtly different each time. So maybe just take a couple, we'll change the lighting a bit. If you want to try and beat the system,

I don't know why you're trying to beat the system. Like if a worker getting you a rat test, which hotly contested, you know, hard to get. I imagine there'd be a lot of COVID down at the protest. Nah, they'd be riding it out. Oh yeah, I hadn't thought of that. Oh, it'd be everywhere. Apparently a few police officers have contracted

it from working there. Really? But they're not the type of people, they're not going to wait at a testing station, you know. Oh, if you're at the protest. people, they're not going to wait at a testing station, you know. Oh, if you're at the protest. Yeah, they're not shoving rods up their nose doing rat tests in their tents, are they? That's not their jam. I hadn't even thought of that.

No, good point. Well, they can't, but it's a bad look for them too. If they're like, in the mandate, blowing their nose, you know, they're going to look strong. They're going to look... Yeah, that's their thing. It's getting a little heated there as well, isn't it? So it'll be interesting to see how today plays out.

Well, it would be. It's the 16th day of this whole thing. I bet both sides are over it. Jacinda keeps going, go home. They're not listening. They're not going home. She's been saying go home for 16 days. There was something at the loudspeaker this morning.

I think it was Trevor Mallard. He was putting a recording of his voice saying, you're trespassing. Go home. Like this was going to work. Yeah, mate. Well, nothing like that's worked for the last 15 days. I've been always pulling it out on the 16th.

But that was today's little track. He must have a whole bunch of notes down. He's like, maybe I'll try this. Maybe I'll try that. Old man Mallard just keeps giving everything a bash. It didn't quite work. Hey, today on the podcast we played a really awkward game called Contact Tracing

where you rang someone from my phone and I had to work out who it was. It was someone actually very famous. It was, yeah. I'm surprised you didn't pick it for the get-go. No, it took me a while to sort of work it out. When you don't know who's, you don't know who you're calling, then you don't, it's hard to match your voice with the name. Familiar voice. I was like

who's that? And then it was like the name to a first child. I was like, oh, who's that? And then I had to dig for some more details. I got it in the end, but it took me a while. You never remember the names of people's kids, do you? No, not all the time. No. You're just like, how's the little fella?

A little champ. A little champ. You still wanted to grow up. Actually, I thought of you yesterday. I remember we were talking about the Super Bowl, and then one of the guys who played for the Rams had to rush off the field afterwards after they won to go to hospital because he was having a baby.

His wife had gone in the middle of the game. Well, they had a baby boy, and guess what he called it? Champ. Champ. Did he call it Champ? Champ, because they were champions on the day that they became champ. There's a lot to live up to when your name's champ, though. The Jono Pryor name.

Yeah. That's pretty cool. It's like John Legend. I mean, he's really. Yeah. He set himself a very high bar. Yeah, true. Little champ.

I thought it was pretty cool. That's pretty cute. All right. Enjoy the podcast. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Jono and Ben on the hits. Just Juliet back with us today, and we all had to take a rats test before coming to work this morning.

Yeah, there's nothing quite like starting your day with a 10-centimetre rod up your nose, almost just playing foreplay with your frontal lobe on your brain. First time I've had to do it on myself, as opposed to going to get it done at a testing station. And what an experience as you say watching the little instructional video and then looking at the comments underneath from the internet people going i'd rather have covid than stick a needle stick a swab that far up my nose and you're like would you that's why you never read the comments first that's not gonna be pretty well because juliet you're off yesterday, because Juliet had 189 people at her flat on Saturday night,

one of which turned out who had COVID. And so you became a casual close? Well, look, I wasn't sure. I thought I was a close contact, but they were there for maybe about 10 minutes. So it has to be 15 minutes or more. So if open door policy, are you running at your flat? People would just dot on in, have a drink, head home?

So I think, I don't know, technically I was casual casual but i kind of felt like i should have just played it safe which i did and i'm i'm a negative it's kind of the time to do it yeah yeah i was saying my my mate yeah because obviously you have to have your masks everywhere you go going to stores at the moment which i understand and my mate didn't have one he was wanting to whip into the dairy he's out for a walk with his wife and he he was like, I'll just hold my breath. That's what he said to his wife. He was like, it'll be fine. She's like, I don't think it works like that.

It's pretty much the same as an N95, I think, holding your breath. It's a much more affordable version. So obviously he didn't do it. His wife was like, you're an idiot. You can't just go in and hold your breath. And what if there's a queue in the dairy and you're still trying to hold your breath? It'll start passing out on the floor. What's wrong's wrong with this guy oh he's gone the breath holding option yeah but he was like i reckon because if you're not breathing in you know you probably

ever got a chance of getting covered i mean you see the science behind it yeah it makes sense in some level sometimes you see people who are like oh damn i forgot my mask and they just do t-shirt up over their nose yeah like they're trying to hide from a bad smell yeah uh many great options out there but uh yeah so rat tests they're a thing now they're a thing they're part of day-to-day life aren't they yeah and there's huge delays at testing stations i know it seems interesting because for so long they've been going get a test if you've got a snivel you've got a cough uh you know sore throat anything at all just get a test we need people to get tested snivel, you've got a cough, you know, sore throat, anything at all, just get a test. We need people to get tested. And now they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Don't get a test. Don't get a test. Yeah, like only get tested if you need to be tested. So what do you want us to do? I'm flying to Wellington today with coots. Stop the mandates. You are. No, you're not.

Hey, next on the show, a bull swam 80 kilometres. It sounds like a load of bull, but it's a true story. I'll tell you what happened next on the Hats. Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the Hats. Now, let's do some news. Scrolling through your feed. You're a little bit lost there.

You've got a fumbling around. Yeah. What's going on? That's what we're doing right now. Yeah, we do a little bit lost there. You've got a fumbling around. What's going on? That's what we're doing right now. Yeah, we do a bit of fumbling. Here's to the news. What the pack and save stick man is to supermarket markets. Skinny and affordable.

And that's why we have him. The protests outside Parliament yesterday, things were getting a little bit tense. There was a car driven towards police. There was also some stuff that they think might have been acid chucked at police. Now this is back fresh off some feces being thrown

at the police as well. And, you know, the police are just doing their job. And for the most part it seemed like it was a pretty peaceful protest until things ramped up over the last sort of 72 hours.

Yeah, a few little incidents. It'll be interesting to see what happens today with those protests. We had a fun like parody song written and ready to go and, you know, we'd paid the guy to sing it. And then yesterday, devastating news with bloody acid attacks

and cars running in. We're like, oh, maybe this song's not. It's not quite the time and place for a fun- Mate, we'll drop it one day. For a fun, light parody song to do with the protests. But it's made news, not just in New Zealand, the protests, but around the world. And John Oliver, who does a big show overseas uh he was talking about us oh come on new zealand

playing james blunt and barry manilow clearly is not going to cut it here you're not going to move on people this angry with the actions of a bad wedding dj yeah so even he was uh having a crack at that what the what trivett me Mallard was trying to do, playing all the music across the loudspeakers. Now, Producer Behemoth was saying pre-show that some of the protesters are saying the person who drove the car into the police

was a plant, an actor, hired by the government to make the protesters look bad and evil. Well, yeah, that was on the news last night, actually. So, yeah, that was on the news last night, actually. So, yeah, that was a theory that was going around a little bit. So there's a lot going on in Parliament at the moment, isn't there? A lot to get your head around.

It does seem like a lot, like sitting around the boardroom table and Jacinda's like, go with me on this one. We hire some actors from background talent. They've got acid. Everyone's like, what? And they throw the acid at the police. They're actors, but is it real acid? Yeah, it's real acid.

We need to make an impact. Plus, we'll get a guy in a rental car, actor again, who's going to drive into the police. And they're like, does he hit the police? Yeah, he hits the police. Is he an actor as well? Yeah, everyone's an actor. And they're like, that's a great plan, Jacinda. We're in.

And also, this is a remarkable story. there was huge floods going on in westport uh one in 100 year floods that were going on just a few weeks ago a bull that was grazing in a paddock on a farm was swept about 80 kilometers down the water and survived 80 kilometers uh now the farmer obviously realized he was the bull was missing thought oh, we've lost this bull to the farm A week later he got a call from another farmer Going, I think your bull's at my place Just grazing with the other cows in the paddock Because he recognised it from the tag, the air tag number

The bull was swept along in the water Went down a 10 metre high fall Like a waterfall And then went 80 kilometres down the water swimming Just floating And survived, yeah Survived 80 went 80 kilometres down the water swimming. Just floating. And survived. Yeah. Survived 80 kilometres of swim down the water.

And then was just hanging out in the paddock to see some grass with some inmates. Like nothing had happened. Isn't that an incredible story? Imagine him just sort of coming out of the water, almost like James Bond, where Daniel Craig emerges from the ocean. He's like, guys, you won't believe. What a day. Sounds like a Pixar movie.

Yeah, incredible story. I would say a loadable, but it actually was literally a truthful story. Hey, next on the show, your chance to win big. We do a thing called the Google Games. We'll explain how in three minutes on the hits. The Google Game. This is where you ask us any question at all. We have 10 seconds to type it into Google and try and come up with an idea.

Here's a little trick that I learned on Google, though, Jono, have you got Google open up on your screen? It would probably be appropriate if I did right now. Hold on, let me open up a tab. Yes, go. Right, do a barrel roll. Do a barrel roll. Hit that into Google.

Yeah. Oh, the screen starts spinning around. Yeah, there you go. That would have been a good tactic too because you wouldn't be able to get an answer in 10 seconds. Gives you a bit of vertigo. Well, that's a fun little trick, isn't it? There we go.

So we've got 10 seconds to get the answer to your question. Now, my wife's like, 10 seconds is not that long. And I said, it's satisfactory. All right, it's what you do with those seconds that counts, Ben. You say, Bob could run 100 metres in that time. He's achieving stuff, getting world records. We can get answers in 10 seconds. We'll get you on from Tauranga.

Vanessa, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Good morning. How are you going? Oh, we're doing well, Vanessa. It's great to have you on. Now, we're going to trawl through a sea of misinformation and NFT commercials to get your answer. What's your question? How long would it take you to run around the world if you did a marathon a day?

Oh, jeez. Go, Ben. Come on, fast fingers. He types so fast he's got no letters on his keys. It's a long question. 42, you'll be done in 2.5 years. Two and a half years. Wow. Two and a half years. Wow.

Two and a half years, but I didn't quite get there before the buzzer. And I'm surprised. I did say during that, Ben has typed so hard on his computer, the letters have worn off his key. Furious typer. Yeah, D&C for some reason seems to be the ones that really, anyway. Is I&K in that mix as well? Maybe, yeah.

Well done, Vanessa. You win. We're going to give you some Hell Pizza and Will Smith's new book. It's a good book, yeah. Is I and K in that mix as well? Maybe, yeah. Well done, Vanessa. You win. We're going to give you some Hell Pizza and Will Smith's new book. It's a good book, actually. It's a really good book. Oh, amazing. Thank you so much. Yeah, you can use your eyes to read that.

Enjoy that. Vaughan, you're on. Welcome from New Plymouth. Yep. Which part of the brain controls emotion and thinking? Oh, they have a which part brain emotion thinking is the... Is the... Ah, ah, ah. The nervous system.

My weight patterns. What? You're just reading words that are on the screen. It's the prefrontal cortex, guys. That's what I was trying to say. You didn't even need to Google that. I didn't. No, I could have just rolled that off, but well done, Vaughan.

The prefrontal cortex, like the control center to the brain, it guides all of our actions. There you go. We're learning stuff as well as panicked 10-second Google. That's how the Google game works. We'll do that again next Wednesday on the show. Coming up very shortly, we talk to a Kiwi comedian who's got a new TV series coming out this week, and he found the lead actor by costing a kid at the show. Coming up very shortly we talk to a Kiwi comedian who's got a new TV series coming out this week

and he found the lead actor by accosting a kid at the movies. Yeah. It's a wonderful story of maybe the police should have been involved in this. I think we'll get Pax Asati on before 7 o'clock. It is the hits. Warning, this show contains references to Jono's baldness.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Comedian Pax Asati, he's got a brand new show. It starts this week on Prime and Neon. It looks really, really good. It's called Raised by Refugees. It's inspired by Pax's own childhood. Yo, man. Checking out Sarah, huh?

There's no point in trying. She's not into guys like us. Guys like us? Brown guys. You boys excited for your new schools? I wish we didn't have to move here. What was your old school like? Pretty similar to this one.

Except it wasn't so. What? And to tell us more about the new show and how we found the lead actor joining us right now is Pax. How you doing, buddy? Good, mate. How are you? Yeah, no, doing well, doing well. Very excited you've got this new show coming out. It are you? Yeah, no, doing well, doing well.

Very excited you've got this new show coming out. It's going to be on Neon. It's going to be on Sky. It's going to be taking over the globe, playing on CNN, I hear, as well. Fox News, all of it. Yeah. It looks awesome. I mean, it seems like you put a lot of, you said, blood, sweat, and tears. I was reading into this.

Yeah, I have. I would say that this is the thing I care about the most that I've created. I've never cared about something this much before. What about the children you created? They're like a good force. Of course, that follows you, sort of your family, the story of your family being in New Zealand, growing up here. How much is legit and how much has you sort of added a bit of gst on top say this nothing in the show has come out of thin air every single thing comes from uh some reality there's some there's some serious

messaging there as well of you know what it was like to come to new zealand as a refugee and how you were treated by people and some of it's like really, it's jaw-dropping. Yeah, and a lot of those moments that make you go, holy cow, are the real ones. Have you said that you're in it, Jono? Well, Ben Boyce, I haven't seen my scenes with you. So I'm, Pax plays his dad on the show. Yes.

And he works at Bruce's Appliance Hut and Bruce is a fumbly sort of accidentally racist white guy and they said well who better than John O'Brien I was like I've written an overconfident white dude

where can I find a bald overconfident white dude and then I accidentally switched over to the hits. And I was like, there he is. There he is. Such a briar. Although, you know, he doesn't have a great track record of shows being on and not getting cancelled. So that's the only downside to having Jono on your show.

This one will be different. I can feel it. But it does look awesome. And, of course, finding a young version of yourself was obviously quite tricky. And you found the kid that plays you at the movies I did yeah we had so we had 200 kids apply

a few middle aged grown men as well overconfident bald guys again I'll play a young Pax I'll play anything and Jono actually got to the final 15 he was really close so we got down to the final 15 and then my wife and i were at the movies we were watching wonder woman and there was a group

of kids in front of us in the in the row in front of us and when gal gadot first came on the screen who plays wonder woman one of the kids stood up and started clapping, I assume at her hotness because she has a very high level of hotness. And the whole theater started cracking up. Then throughout the movie, he started cracking jokes. And in my head, I was like,

the movie theater is going to be so annoyed at this kid. But he was getting laughs. It was like a gig and he was crushing it near the end of the movie my wife was like you have to talk to him and i was really nervous because i was like this feels weird i'm like hey i'm walking up to him be like hey kid you want to be in my tv show and he was gonna be like what is going on but i went up to him i talked to him about it i told him that i'm making a tv show he was really confused his friends were looking at him like get out get out i could tell that it was confusing so i said hey kid just give me your

mom's number and i'll leave you alone she gave his mom's number it's so weird i gave his mom's number to production he put in uh audition tape i was shocked that he did i didn't think he would and he became the kid he was the one one. Wow. Oh, my gosh. That is a hilarious, slightly call the police type story. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's how you do your casting in New Zealand. Yeah, yeah, that's how it goes sometimes. It's like the kid that is going to play you is some kid

who hasn't even heard about the casting call and has never acted a day in his life. Now, you know know you've taken a huge gamble there like no previous experience so day one of filming you must have been like dear I've put them on the line I've put my cooners on the line here. Yeah the nerves really kicked in

when he was asking like the most basic questions like do I have to learn my lines and I was like dude you have the most lines in the show. You have to learn them. Can't wait to see it. It looks amazing.

Raised by Refugees. It's going to be on Prime. It's going to be on Neon. Pax, thank you for doing this, and it looks amazing. So well done. Thanks, guys. Thank you so much. If you're a guy here for romantic advice, you are in serious trouble.

John Owen Bean, On The Hats. You're On The Hats, Wednesday morning. John Owen Behan with you. That is Kelly Clarkson or Kelly Buran, as she's changed her name officially too. Do we have to change her name on our computer system there with the title of the song? Yeah, I was just wondering that. Do you have to update everything? Kelly Buran Need Clarkson?

Can we do that every time she... Maybe that's the way to go, but she has officially changed her name after just going through a bit of a divorce. Well, I'll email her and just see what she'd prefer to be known as from now on. Okay. Now, Level Read. We're in a new phase of this whole pandemic situation, aren't we? And last year, I tried to spice things up in my relationship by phoning my wife and just dropping some covid covid pickup lines in there

some delta pickup lines you must be a flu symptom because you got me running hot are you on a zoom meeting the romance was torn apart by a zoom meeting uh it wasn't the time turns out on her for answering the phone to you though during that. And to be fair to her, she probably didn't know what I was going to be firing down the line. But it's hard to keep romance alive during these times, isn't it? Yeah, especially with social distancing, right?

It is. It's becoming a chore. You have to be creative. Yeah. So there's a new phase we're in now, red light, phase two. And with that comes a whole load of new jargon, doesn't there? Stuff that we weren't using in 2021 there's all 2022 jargon now.

So what we thought we'd do is we could combine some of this, some of these phrases that we hear every day with a bit of sexiness and me. I mean, it's a combination that is undeniable. Now, warning, we want to send out a bit of a disclaimer here.

This call, it may result in some unplanned pregnancies if you're listening to this. It's going to get you hot. You're going to be wanting to take a rat test after this. I want a social distance from this call, but anyway, you give it a go. Hear ya. Hello?

Good morning, Mrs. Pryor. Yeah. It's the love doctor calling. I have some bad news. We've just got your rat test results back. Mm-hmm. Am I married to a rat? And you've tested positive for undeniable sexiness.

Wow. I've just got off the phone to Healthline. Apparently your heart is my location of interest. Oh, dear. Now, would you like to go on a romantic mandate with me? I'm in isolation now. Just let me get my lines out. He works hard on these.

Okay, how's that? So when we go on this man date, if things go well, hopefully we can make close contact. Or it probably sounds more like casual contact at the moment, to be honest. What else have we got here? I've just checked over my

scanner, and all my contact tracing leads back to your bedroom. Uh-huh. Finished? See you soon, hot stuff. Okay. All right, there you go.

Tell you what, it doesn't get hotter than that, Ben. That's right. You might want to put... Can I go now? Yeah, you can go now, yeah. Okay, bye. I go now. If you sat politely through those.

Oh, that worked out exactly how I saw it working out, to be honest. We've got some spy entertainment news on the way. Disney is moving into property development. Weird, I know, but we'll talk about it next. It is Benny, Super Lonely, it is the hits. I know I've fucked up, I'm just a loser. Spy, know what's up. Spy.co.nz

She took a rat test this morning and tested positive for celebrity gossip, Juliet. I'm glad you didn't just stop after saying positive. Welcome to Spy Entertainment News. So Disney is moving into property development. The Walt Disney Company has announced that they will be putting their Imagineers, what they call some of their staff,

to the task of designing residential homes, which will be built outside some of the Disney resorts. They want to do it because they want to bring experiences to people beyond what the theme parks bring. And some neighbourhoods will be designed for over 55s. So it could be like a... A retirement sort of place. You live there?

Yeah, you can live there. Or can you just stay there when you visit Disneyland? Well, probably both, actually. Wow. So you can have Mickey just reaming you just stay there when you visit Disneyland? Well, probably both, actually. Wow. You'll probably read something. So you can have Mickey just reaming you all day, and then when you get home, and it's like when you went on the Disney cruise, Ben, you could not escape the Disney madness. We did.

Yeah, this is probably a while ago before, obviously, the COVID pandemic, but it was amazing. Wow. It was pretty incredible. There was like a slide, a water slide outside the boat that would go through like a clear tube around. Like it was crazy. Like there's a pool like Mickey Mouse shape. It was just...

Mickey everywhere. Yeah, name it. It was there. Wow. I just like to imagine a real stressed out Mickey as a property developer. Oh, these builders are just supply delays. It's all gone up.

Inflation. This is the sort of Mickey Mouse operation, isn't it? This is a supply chain nightmare. Oh, God, I know. Buster, It's all gone up. Inflation. It's the sort of Mickey Mouse operation, isn't it? It's the supply chain nightmare. Oh, God, I know. Get that jib up. Just reaming all the buildings. Goofy.

I mean, do you want a guy called Goofy building your house? No. No. Oh, well, good on them. They've slowly taken over the world, Disney. They really are.

They've done wonderful with that streaming service. Oh, yeah. It's got everything, doesn't it? And it's got all sort of like adult stuff. Well, not pornography, but you know. No, but you're right. That's probably next week.

Pam and Tommy, that's a show all about the tape. That's on that platform in New Zealand. Who's the guy? Is it Bob Iger? Who owns Disney? Oh, right. I think it is, yeah. Yeah, might have made a name up there.

Bob someone anyway apparently he's a very good manager yeah are you angry for a job here I feel like you are well I can help build houses you know

this radio thing might not work out and bad news if you dislike Baby Shark but good news if you love it

because they are turning it into a full length movie that's the story of how they tried to use Baby Shark to get rid of the protesters the feature length But good news if you love it, because they are turning it into a full-length movie. That's the story of how they tried to use Baby Shark to get rid of the protesters. The feature length. Yeah. Well, the music video is the most watched YouTube video in history,

and the movie's set to be released next year. They haven't released any details on what it will be about, but I imagine it will just follow. Mainly because they haven't thought of what it could be about. So we've got a baby shark. We'll start with that. I kind of imagine it to be about. So we've got a baby shark. We'll start with that. I kind of imagined it to be a little bit like Nemo, like an

animated just like underwater, about the family and everything like that. We've got a baby shark. Oh, isn't that movie called A Shark's Tale?

Okay, alright. It's got to be different from that. So they're obviously still in the brainstorming process. Yeah, yeah. So if your children

love Baby Shark, then you've got a full-length movie coming out next year for them. I'm looking forward to that. Or maybe a short five-minute mini feature, depending on where the script lands. And that is your Spa Entertainment News Update for this hour.

For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. In five minutes' time on The Hits, we're talking walking out of a job. Has it happened? Are people listening right now? Just quit. Up and quit. We'll find out in five on The Hits. The annoying ones talking between the songs. find out in five on the Hats. The annoying ones talking between the socks.

Jono and Ben on the Hats. Hey, we were just talking yesterday after the show, weren't we? Looking at Jacinda Ardern and thinking, why doesn't she just walk out of that job? If I was her, I'd be in the middle of my cabinet meeting and I'd be like, I'm just going to go

to the toilet. Not come back. And I'd walk out the back. Oh no, I'd probably have the middle of my cabinet meeting. I'd be like, I'm just going to go to the toilet. Not come back. And I'd walk out the back. Oh, no, I'd probably have to walk out the front through all the protesters. And never return. And they'd be like, what happened to the Prime Minister? Prime Minister Pryor. Went to the toilet, never came back. He just left.

Yeah, I mean, it does come with the job, I guess, to a certain extent. But a full-on job, nonetheless. Oh, and she's had a rough run of it. You know, in terms of events that have taken oh and she's had a rough run of it you know in terms of events that have taken place that she's had to deal with obviously the mosque attacks a pandemic over the last two years yeah it's interesting uh tover o'brien uh from whatever clark's up to it was um was interviewing uh her at the end of last year and pretty much put it to her going um you know why do you do this job have a listen do you ever get sick of it or how long do you think you've

got in you have you got another term in you? You know, regardless of the fact that you can't anticipate what you'll come up against in this job, I still consider this to be the greatest privilege of my life. To be the person who is able to steward New Zealand through that time, despite the difficulties that it presents, I still consider it an honour. Oh, well, there you go.

And, you know, she said she's not here for a good time, she's here for a long time. Never go in for a long time. Yeah. Not here for a long time, but here for a good time. It's the guy in the Hawaiian shirt at a party saying that. I'm not going to be for a while, but geez, I'm going to make an impact. Gary's drinking out of a shoe or something in the corner of a bar. She probably just wanted to get into politics, kiss a few babies,

you know, hide a few politician sex scandals, get out there, get a cushy job overseas at the UN. I don't know if you saw this the other day, she posted something on her social media about what Niamh was saying to her, and I thought it was quite cute. Niamh said,

Mum, I wish I could be like you and do all the amazing things you do. And then Jacinda replied with, OK, what are they? And Niamh said, stay up late. It was one of the ones. So that's really putting into perspective what her daughter thinks of the amazing things she does. Actually, Poppy, my daughter, they had to fill out a questionnaire

of what does your mum and what does your dad do? And Poppy's like, my dad has the creativity of a five-year-old and a brain of a chicken those were my and also is that a good thing she's like read into that what you will but you'll be off talking about jacinda this morning and you know as you say john i like she could just quit just walk out it's an option i would have and i don't think anyone would think any less of her if she did at the moment if she went oh yeah you know what i'm done i'm done i did it as a waiter when i was

at uh yeah for our lizley race course for many years i was uh well not many years actually uh for many months many months but probably many days i was a waiter there and uh halfway through the halfway through the shift i I just walked out. And I know it wasn't honourable. I know it wasn't the thing to do. I know I left the team in the lurch, but I didn't care. And I walked out,

and there's some poor lady there, probably still sitting there waiting for her spaghetti bolognese or something. Then the worst thing was, I'd walked out mid-shift. I thought, this is going to make an impact. I'll be hearing from someone. And the next time I heard from someone was five days later when they'd rostered me on for the next shift.

Get him back. He was good. He walked out halfway through. Definitely, if I was on TripAdvisor, I would have been complained about with that service. Have you walked out of a job, though? That's all you wanted to know on 100 The Hits this morning. 4, 4, 8, 7.

Have you just walked out? Have you? No, no, I haven't. No. I worked in a plug factory for a summer I stuck that one out so oh 800 the hits

have you walked out we'll do that next if they were the internet you'd want to clear this history Jono and Ben on the hits it is pink

you're on the hits Jono and Ben on your Wednesday morning we're talking about if people have just up and left their job just walked out yeah Jean you've done this.

I did. I did. Yeah, best thing that I ever did, actually. I was working for a major telco company at the time and it was, you know, it was just 0800 abuse me. Every second client would just call up to swear in your ear. Yeah. It's one of my favorite things to do after I finish work is just phone 0800 numbers and

just unwind, you know, on the person, unleash on the person who's answered the phone. Yeah, I think that's honestly what people do. They just get out their stress at the end of the day on the 123 call centre. So what did you have to deal with? Well, I'd had my millionth customer throwing in my ear, and I think by that point my eyes just glazed over, and I was just staring out the window as this guy was yelling at me, and I thought, gosh, it's a beautiful day outside, and the sun's shining, and people look happy out there,

and I'm miserable in here. So I just quietly took my headset off and just walked out, and my boss looked up from her desk, and she said, where are you off to? I said, I'm going home. She said, when are you coming back? I said, I don't think that I am. And I just walked out, and that was the last I ever saw of that building.

Right, almost too casual. Yeah, it was. I think I was on the verge of a mental breakdown at that point. Oh, you poor thing. Everything had just sort of gone a bit numb. You know, it was really scary after it dawned on me once I got home and told my husband and saw the look of horror on his face when he realised we had a baby on the way, we had a mortgage to pay, we had no backup income.

He was working at the cinemas, so his job wasn't cutting it either. And what happened to the guy who was on the phone yelling at you? Did you ever close his case? I'm sure he continued yelling for at least the next 45 minutes before he realised no one was listening. Yeah, and another thing. So what happened afterwards? You quit your job, you had the realisation that you had quit your job,

and then what did you do? Well, I had to do a side hustle. I applied for other jobs that didn't have any luck. The market wasn't very good at the time. So I just started a bit of a side hustle, which was on Trade Me, and just between friends and families. I was already an artist in my heart. I wanted to be an artist.

And so I started painting and I started sculpting and doing what made me happy because I think that's what I learned from having such a miserable job is all the money in the world cannot make you happy. If you work eight hours a day, it's half your life, right? And if you don't love it, what's your life worth?

So I did what made me happy. I did my art and people paid me to do it. And I was amazed. And it just grew from there. And now I have, over the last 14 years, I've grown a business. I own Hamilton Life Casting Studio. We've had our own studio set up.

My husband saw the freedom that I had. He ditched his job and has become an artist with me. So he is now a freelance animator and artist and we share the studio space together. Isn't that wonderful? And you know what? It's inspired me. I'm done.

Ben. Oh, thank God for that. Hey guys. No, no, it was a joke. It was a joke. Sorry, I'm back. I'd already accepted your resignation though, so it's done. I'm back, I'm back. Oh, you're back? Yeah. Okay.

It was kind of like a... It's a nice outside, though. You might want to enjoy it, you know? That's a really inspirational story, Jean, and so you're happy now? I'm really happy, yeah. And actually, we've done a lot of good from it as well. It's not just for ourselves, but as a branch of our business, we grew a New Zealand registered charity called Angel Pass.

So we actually have helped hundreds, if not thousands, actually, of families throughout the Waikato with our free charity service. So it's something that when you do what you love, it has this knock-on effect that just influences so many other people. And so it's grown bigger than I could ever imagine. And I'm so happy. And I get to work with my best friend, my husband, every day and be at home with our five kids. Yeah, we're loving it. She's five kids. Wow, where are you guys?

Well, we're at home together all day. Yeah, I'll tell you what. You're a pump in the mouth. Now, Jen, what would you say to someone who's driving to work at the moment, stuck in traffic, going, oh, I've got another day of this? I'd say turn around, go go home have some more babies enjoy your life you know if you're not if you're not happy it's amazing what you what you can achieve if you're put in a position where you have to achieve something so i was in

a position where i had no money no options i had a baby on the way, what else am I going to do? I would have never started a business had I not been in that position. But if you put yourself in a position you have to sink or swim, well, you're going to swim. Well, there we go. I reckon there's a lot of people who are not going to be turning up to work now after that wonderful impassioned...

You've got to think things through financially. No, no, Ben, no. Maybe you can start a side hustle. Don't care what you do. Jen said turn around. Develop into something that you want to take over. But anyway,, Ben, no. Maybe you can start a side hustle. Don't care what you do. Jen said turn around. Develop into something that you want to take. But anyway. Even if you're on a one-way road on the motorway, turn around, go home, and make

a baby. Hey, Jen, thank you so much for sharing that story today. And well done on everything you've done. Thanks. Thanks very much. You're a legend. Have a great day. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's Lady Gaga, born this way. You're on legend. Have a great day. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's Lady Gaga, born this way. You're on The Hits.

Good morning. It is 7.28, Jono and Ben. Close Contacts is a game that we've just started playing. It's not quite as COVID-y as it sounds, but we get each other's phones. We plug it in through the desk, and you get to call someone in the contacts of the other person's phone. They don't know who you're calling.

You have to work out who it is. Last week, you grabbed my phone, you scrolled through the contacts, and dialed through to, well, I didn't know who it was at the time, but it turned out to be Jeremy Corbett. How are you? Yeah, really good. Yeah, no, good, good. How's work going?

Good, man. Still pumping along at the project and filmed the first step of seven days last night. Jeremy Corbett. Helpful when they name their profession and jobs and shows they host. So, Ben, today I have my hands wrapped around your cell phone. And, jeez, I tell you what, this is the dastardly things I could do right now. Yeah, I know. There's a lot of trust I'm placing in you right now.

Well, I know I couldn't trust myself. You know, you go to some weddings and they'd leave disposable cameras on the table. I was that one. I was that guy. But, geez, you've got a disorganized contact list. Yeah, I know. When I went across to another phone company and it all doubled up. It's one of those things I need to clear it out, but I haven't.

You've got like, for one person, you've got five different numbers for them all it's like a man who doesn't want to be traced this contact list all right okay here's one this is a good one are you gonna make a call okay you're gonna try and figure out who we're dialing here for your close contact it's a ringer in voice yes it is it is indeed how are you my man i'm good how are you good what's what's going on well i'm just currently standing in the kitchen yeah and uh feeding my little daughter autumn some cashew butter oh nice how nice. How old's Autumn now? She's eight months. Okay, good, good. Only child of yours or how's the other kid of yours?

Yeah, yeah. So we've got a little boy Milo. He's two and a half. Gotcha, gotcha. He's eight here today and he's doing really well. Oh, nice. So what else has been happening with you? Oh, not too much, really.

We've just been really enjoying summer. When you say we, what do you mean we? We've been enjoying summer. We've been enjoying summer? Yeah. Hilda and I have been enjoying summer and our kids. What's that, sorry? My wife, Maddie, and I have been enjoying summer.

Oh, it's a heart green. It's a heart green. Sorry, Jono. It's a game we play. Jono's got my phone. He's rung, and I don't know who he's called. And I have to try and work out who it was, hence the weird questioning. Sorry, who's this on the phone?

It's Art Green. Art, what's Ben doing? Oh, sorry. Don't come in and do this. You're part of this. You've got my phone. It's Ben prank calling you again, Art? You guys are always

prank calling me. Yeah, sorry, I was just out getting a coffee, and then I come in and he's... He's lying to you, Art. He rang the... Oh, jeez. Classic. What I loved about that is just the complete vagueness of conversation. Art Green

with the great hotline combo. We've just been enjoying summer. Yeah. Who's we? Who's we? Who are you talking about? I'm like, is he like suffering some sort of brain injury?

It's just a light dusting of all the events. Art Green, love your work. I'm sorry about that, mate. I'm sorry to drag you into this. You're better than this. A light dusting of all the events. Oh, Art Green, love your work. I'm sorry about that, mate. I'm sorry to drag you into this. You're better than this.

How are you guys doing? Oh, we're doing well. We're just playing this silly game, close contact. And I'm sorry that we made you be part of it, Art. Yeah, we are. He grabs my phone, he calls the number at random, and I have to work out who it was, and it was you. I don't know why I've got your number, and after this i definitely won't be having your number i'm sure i'm sure i'm surprised i had your number on here well now change numbers are

if anything this has been an awareness campaign mate you're not wrong i love your workout green lots of love to the fam mate yeah right back at you guys oh that was awkward that was okay it's horrible to play back again next week oh geez well at least i get your phone next week that'll be fun we've got five thousand dollars up for grabs in 15 right now though ed sharon shivers and as the hits jonathan ben 732 Jono and Ben 7.32 Jono and Ben Just like family The family members you're ashamed of Jono and Ben

On the hits I just had an awkward conversation With Art Green Thanks for that That was awkward No worries Good way for him to wake up Art Green

I hope he's got his shirt off right now I'd just like to imagine him With his shirt off Oh man yeah I wouldn't wear a shirt if I was him At no point in my life It's illegal for that body To have clothing on it I hope he's got his shirt off right now. I'd just like to imagine him with his shirt off. Oh, man, yeah. I wouldn't wear a shirt if I was him. At no point in my life would I. It's illegal for that body to have clothing on it. Now, Ben, you yesterday turned up an hour early for something.

It was over the weekend. It just reminded me of that awkward conversation with Art Green. This was an awkward moment. You like to be organized, though. You never like to be late. Your tardiness stresses you out. You're always like, five minutes early is on time. I'm like, 15 minutes late means it's stressful and exciting.

I hate that feeling. Like if I could go to the airport, you know, when I was going to the airport, I'd happily go an hour or two earlier. That's the thing. Like when we have to fly together and we're flying out on Saturday, he's like, should we go out Friday? Friday afternoon, just so we don't miss the thing. When we have to fly together and we're flying out on Saturday, he's like, should we go out Friday? Friday afternoon, just so we don't miss the flight. But there are times where it's fine to be early and it's good,

and I like that. But on the weekend, it wasn't. It was a real awkward one because we were rushing. As a family, it was like 3.30, we're going to go around to a friend's house. There was other people going. I was like, come on, guys, we don't want to be late. Come on, let's go, let's go. He had them packing from 7 o'clock in the morning.

Yeah, the family all there. We're cutting a little bit fine for 3.30, but we just got there around about the right time and opened the door, and my mate was in a towel. He was just in a towel, like freshly come from the shower. It took a while to answer. Unless it was a clothing optional party. You know? And he opened the door, and he was like, hey.

You know when someone opens the door with a hey and i was like hey how's it going and then you sort of sort of darts around and your whole family's at the doorstep good to see you it's like great to see you and then you sort of like this is sort of a weird vibe to start off you know someone inviting you around then he says you were like oh are we meant to be coming around today i'm like yeah yep and you're like was i meant to bring the kids because they're like yep yep i was like okay well did we get the time wrong is that yeah it was an hour later we were meant to come around so what are you doing that situation that's the thing i in

this occasion he's like come in come in but it's not it's not the right environment to come in like i ended up vacuum cleaning you know because you're trying to help them get ready for oh so they hadn't had every all the food out and things like that you're kind of sitting behind the curtain of a sort of a magic trick you know you're part of the whole thing you know you kind of see that you're like i don't need to see this no it's just awkward all the jazz and pizzazz in there and you should have just weirdly waited in your car just so hey the boys are still sitting outside we And you should have just weirdly waited in your car. Just so, hey, are the boys still sitting outside? We're going to go back out and wait in my car, yeah.

So that was one time I'm like, it wasn't good to be early. Like an hour early when someone bites you over. I accidentally did it the other morning when I just woke up automatically and had a coffee. And then I looked at the clock and I was like, Jesus, it's one o'clock in the morning. So then you're in a race against time. Did you not think to just look at your alarm clock or your phone and be like, is it?

You know what it's like when you wake up. You're just an autopilot. And so I was in the thrilling rush of having to try and get back to sleep before the caffeine kicked in. Gee, that's it. I tell you what, if you want to push your body to the limits, that's a great little test. We've got $5,000 up for grabs. That can be yours next. Our game, Five Words, 5K. It is the hits. You've got Jon5,000 up for grabs. That can be yours next. Our game, five words, 5K.

It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben, $7.39. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning at this time on the hits. It's a lot of fun to play, trying to match words, the first things that pop into your head.

And if you match all five without five, you'll win a five grand. That's the most exhilarating part of the show, behind waiting for our rat test results, isn't it? This five words. Grace, you're on from the Manawatu. How are you? Good morning. How are you? Good.

How's Parmy? Not too bad. A bit overcast, but that's pretty standard. The turbines? Yes. Always windy here. Always there. You don't realise how big those things are, eh?

We drove past. Were you in the car, Juliet? No, I wasn't. Oh, okay. It's been a family holiday without Juliet in the back. But we were driving past and you're like, they are enormous, those wind turbines. Huge, aren't they?

How on earth did they even get them up there? I don't want to think about it, Grayson. I know you don't want to because you need to focus on winning $5,000 right now. What would you spend the money on? Well, I've just had a wedding, out of Grayson. I know you don't want to because you need to focus on winning $5,000 right now. What would you spend the money on? Well, I've just had a wedding so probably just recovering from that to be honest.

Oh, okay. Fair enough. The weddings are expensive so hopefully we can win you $5,000. Who's going into the soundproof booth? Ben, please. Ben Boyce is here. He's not here to change the game. He's here to play it today because if we change it, it'll be confusing. Great. When did you get married, Grace?

First of January. Well, congratulations. Thank you. Let's win you $5,000 so it can be our wedding gift for you to put in the wishing well. You know how the game works. First word that comes into your head when I say Ed. Sharon. Yeah, that's pretty much I think what Ben would say as well.

Or unless he said Ed O'Neill, the actor from Modern Family, who's also a wonderful Ed as well. Do you like Modern Family? I do like Modern Family, yeah. Overtake. Word number two. Pass. Third word that you need to try and match with Ben.

What would you say when I said scone or scone? Jam. Jam, scone Don't have enough scones in my daily diet They are so good when you have them too So good Do you have scone fan grace? I think for now and then

Yeah, it's not a go-to But when you have it, you always enjoy it Dessert, word number four for you Desert actually Oh, desert, sorry Yeah Desert, actually. Oh, desert, sorry. Yeah. Desert, sorry. Oh, desert.

Um... The first one was sand. Sand, yep. That would be an obvious one. That's good. And we'll lock off the five words with stream. This morning's stream. Oh. Um... words with stream this morning stream stream we'll go water water yeah good work good

work let's get boys out of the soundproof booth two days in a row he's let down women and children women and children. Women and children went first, but won nothing. They came last. Ben Boyce, let's win Grace $5,000 to pay for her wedding. First words, when I say Ed Sheeran, that pops into your

head. When I say... When you say what? Ed was the word. Sheeran. Sheeran was what I'd like to lock in then. This is a lot easier when you give me the whole thing. Keep going. That's good.

When I say Palmerston North, what do you say when I say Palmerston? Is it Palmerston? No, no, no. Overtake, word number two. Overtake. You want to give me the second word? I'd love to. It'd make Grace's job a lot easier.

Pass. Overtake, pass. Yeah, okay, pass. Good. Two from two there, Grace. One of them job a lot easier. Pass. I can take a pass? Yeah. Okay, pass. Good. Two from two there, Grace. One of them was a gimme. I'll still count it. Yeah, go on.

Take it. Scon or scone. We were talking that you don't have enough scones. They're very delicious. But what's the word that comes into your head? Jam? Put jam on a scone? Jam.

Oh! He's on fire. Grace. Scones are good. Two words away from $5,000. Word number four, desert. These are one of these words that can go anywhere.

I'm going with what popped in my head first, but road, desert road. Not far from your eye, the grace of desert road not far from your either Grace the desert road is it no it's not and

we go along the sort of like the hot sand sand yeah and the fifth word was stream life

water three out of five you played a solid game Grace you hold your head high and look after the manua too for us alright thank you have a solid game Grace you hold your head high and look after the Manawatu for us alright? Thank you have a great day. Yeah thanks for listening

appreciate it. Spy next you? Yeah Britney Spears is releasing a book a tell all book all the details next Right now though catching feelings it is the hits you got Jono and Ben 753 Spy know what's up spy.co.nz This part of the show actually got a 59% approval rating in our show research,

which means 41% of you are about to have a miserable three minutes. But grin and bear it. Juliet, what's happening in Spy Entertainment News? So Britney Spears has signed a $22 million book deal for an upcoming tell-all memoir. Apparently there was a massive bidding war between a bunch of publishers on who would release the book and it's one of the biggest book deals of all time behind the Obama's books which was $89

million combined for those two, for the two that they released. So she's going to talk about her rise to fame, her conservatorship, her family and it's going to be basically a big tell all and we're going to find out probably a lot of information from it. I know you're reading Will Smith's book at the moment, Ben Boyce.

You like books, don't you? Are you going to read Britney Spears' book? It would be fascinating if Spears' ever is a tell-all. Yeah. It would be a bit disappointing if you paid $22 million and she didn't go and see any of those things, wouldn't you? Yeah. She's just like, oh, I'll talk about that another day. I'll just get you to, when you do spy updates, you just tell me what's in the book.

Okay, yeah. I reckon you'd be an audiobook type of person, John. Yeah, you could do that. Audiobooks would be an easy option. The last full book, and I've said it before, I read was The Witches by Roald Dahl at age eight. That was a great book. That was a great book.

I thought, well, there's going to be no better books. I might as well stop there. Yeah. I know Matthew McConaughey for his book. He is the voice of his own audio book. So if you choose to read it or listen to it. Yeah, well, the Will Smith one's on audio. Oh, is it?

One of Fitzwill Smith as well. So that would be pretty cool. That would be cool. Very cool. Well, you'd be disappointed if it was some other one reading out. Yeah. In West Philadelphia, I was born and raised. Oh, he's this nasy guy.

And Michael Bublé has revealed in a new music video that his wife is pregnant with their fourth child. In the music video for I'll Never Not Love You, it kind of shows Michael and his wife recreating a lot of famous movie scenes. How the baby was made? No. They recreate the rain scene in The Notebook,

the I'll Never Let Go scene, Jack in the Titanic. And at the very end of the music video, they walk out of a grocery store and you can see her belly. She probably is probably about at least six months pregnant. And so, yay, they're having a fourth child. Congratulations, your dear friend, Bublé. Awkward if I've said that and she's not.

But all the articles say that she is. Do you know the facts that she is? Maybe she's just had a lot of white bread. If you look at it yourself, and all the articles say it's a big reveal, so let's just... Oh, Juliet. It's helpful, man.

Taking a gamble here. Savage spy this morning. I know, and that is your celebrity entertainment update for this hour. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Hey, after 8 o'clock on the show, we do a wee segment called Liar Liar. We get two people on. One is telling the truth and one is telling a lie. We've heard that someone is claiming to be a dog groomer for Brad Pitt.

And the other is a world record holder involving their hair. One is lying, one is telling the truth. Let's work it out together in about three minutes on the hits. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono and Ben's Liar Liar. This is when we get two people on the phone on 0800 the hits. Jono and Ben's Liar Liar. This is when we get two people on the phone on 0800 The Hits. Both claim to be telling the truth, but only one of them is actually telling the truth

and one is a liar. We need to work out which is the truth and which is a lie. Hi, the human lie detectors are in play and you are also in play as well listening. We're going to kick it off with you, Rebecca. Welcome to the show. How are you? Yeah, having a good day. Great.

Good to have you on. Come at us with your statement. I hold the longest ponytail with the world record. You hold the longest ponytail with the world record. Okay, now I'm going to pick. Can I go early off the gates here? Well, you can, but hey, we'll follow things on a bit further. Because wouldn't you say I hold the world record for the longest ponytail if this was you?

I'm just picking a little slip up. Well, maybe she's done it purposely to throw you off the scent. Yeah, I've done it purposely. Yeah. Yeah, definitely have it. Okay, how long is it? It's six metres long. Six metres?

Six metres. Your hair is six metres long at the moment or is this previously? No it is currently What I just wouldn't give for ten centimetres of that six metres. It's just a little bit Just a smidgen. Six, okay, do you want any more questions? How long have you been growing it for

Rebecca? I haven't had a haircut since I was about six so a long long time probably about 30 years. 30 years. How do you wear your hair? Plaited, bun, out sometimes if I'm feeling fancy. It's got to be a little bit annoying, would it be?

Yeah, especially in the heat. All right. Have you ever been trapped up a tower and had a prince yell, let down your hair? No, I'm not a prince, sir. Okay. Six meters, the world's longest ponytail. Okay, so you're already saying that's a lie, John, but we haven't heard our next statement. But again, you could be doing a good performance here.

We'll chuck you on hold, Rebecca, and we'll go to Erin. Welcome. What is yours? Hi. Mine is I groom Brad Pitt's bulldog. Oh. Brad Pitt, the actor, the famous actor, or Brad Pitt from, I don't know, like... The Mechanics in Tarapa.

No, Brad Pitt as in Hollywood Brad Pitt, as in Ocean's Eleven, Brad Pitt. And what would you do to his bulldog? Oh, we would give him a bath, trim his nails, clean his ears. Would Brad Pitt come in with his bulldog? Sometimes. So this is what? I imagine you were working overseas at the time, unless he really loves a place in New Zealand and he quarantines.

Yeah, living in Los Angeles and working in Hollywood. Okay, right. Now I don't believe you either. There's two of you I don't believe. Maybe I need to be a little more trusting. What do you reckon, Ben? Oh, jeez. I really want the second one to be true.

Where it's confusing me is sometimes when Producer B Humps gets one of these people on, is they've got like an American accent or they're phoning from overseas and you're like, well, clearly it's. Yeah. But now they're both Kiwis. Alright, well 0800 the hits, we need some help. 4487 on the text. What do you reckon? Which is the truth and which is a lie? We'll be back.

Hey Ponytail Lady, what was your name again? Rebecca. Oh good, okay. But Brad Pitt Bulldog Lady, what was your name? Erina. They remember their names. Well done. You guys would be great accomplices in a crime if you're being interviewed by the police. We'll find out who's telling the truth, who's telling a lie

next. It is the Hits, Jono and Ben 8.13 and Fancy Life. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the Hits. Jono and Ben's Liar Liar. We're Ben's Liar Liar. We're back with Liar Liar.

We've just heard two statements from two callers on 0800 The Hits. One is telling the truth and one is telling a lie. Rebecca, what was yours again? That I hold the world record for the longest ponytail. Longest ponytail in da world. In da world. Have you heard of the world? It's a big place.

Yeah. And it's a big-ass ponytail. Six-meter-long ponytail. All the world. Have you heard of the world? It's a big place. Yeah. And it's a big-ass ponytail. Six-meter-long ponytail. All the things that pony... John Key would have a field day with that ponytail. Remember, he was all about the ponytail, wasn't he? That's right. That's right.

Remember when that was the biggest problem in New Zealand? John Key gently taking a ponytail. Geez, we got wound up about that. Now we've got a pandemic. And, Erina, your statement was? I groomed Brad Pitt's bulldog. Okay. We need to decide.

Ben, where are you sitting? Because the text machine is definitely favoring one over the other. I'm saying that I'm going to go bulldog is telling the truth. And I hope it is. I really hope it's telling the truth. I'm going to stick with the majority because that's what I do. I'm a sheeple. You know, I've got vaxxed and everything.

4487, the majority are saying the world's longest ponytail is lying to us. It is a lie. It's a lie! All right, Rebecca. Which I knew it. I knew it. You didn't sound like you had a long ponytail, Rebecca.

How long is your ponytail? It's in a bun. It doesn't really fit into a ponytail. It's that short Yeah, right So this whole time The whole time You've been lying to us the whole time

Well, thank you very much for trying to trick us We appreciate it That means, Irina, you're telling the truth Yes, I am 100% telling the truth You groomed a Brad Pitt's bulldog How many times did you groom this dog? I would groom Jacques, was his name I would groom him once a week

Once a week? That is a clean dog. Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, he had a few skin issues going on, so he required a medicated shampoo that needed to be done once a week. So he would come in quite frequently and have all his needs tended to. So was it just Brad Pitt, Spooldog? Was there other famous people?

You're obviously working in Hollywood, I understand? Yes, so I was working in the bottom of Hollywood Hills. And yeah, we had quite a lot of celebrity clients that would come in. Brad Pitt was one of them. Kristen Bell, Katy Perry. What sort of dog did Katy Perry have? She actually had a cat called Katy Perry.

Oh, great name. She also has a dog called Nugget. But she used to come in and buy $400 or $500 worth of cat toys for her cat, Kitty Purry. That is a seen amount of cat toys, too. When cats, they have a disdain for humans. The cat probably spends most of his time over at the neighbours. Did you have to be quite secretive? At the time, you wouldn't be able to go around and talk about, you know, hey, Brad Pitt.

What would you say? Hold on, can I just say were you what is she meant to be saying to Brad Pitt why is she talking like she's whispering and going hey Brad Pitt I loved you and uh uh Mr and Mrs Smith you're great you know like was there sort of things you had to abide by yes absolutely so anybody that worked there we were told because of the high profile people that used to come in that we were not allowed to ask for autographs, ask for photos, things like that. Because they used to come to us because we were, you know. Discreet. Must have the same thing at the dog room as I go to because they haven't once asked me for an autograph or a photo. So I guess that would be the policy there. It would be.

Don't look Ben Boyce in the eyes. I was wondering why. Is it weird they hadn't asked me? So yeah, I get that. be the policy there. It would be, yeah. Don't look Ben Boyce in the eyes. I was wondering why. Is it weird they hadn't asked me? So yeah, I get that one. It's respect. But you know, also, we weren't allowed to take photos with their pets either, purely because if there was a leak and the photo got out, then there's potential of being sued by that client.

There were all sorts of things like that. John, I had an idea for paparazzi, where you took photos. It's a magazine of celebrity dogs. Celebrity dogs. So a celebrity would come out, Brad Pitt would be walking his bulldog. You just take a photo of the dog. Not Brad Pitt, but you just post that. The paparazzi would have worked well.

Do you reckon there's a market over there for the paparazzi? Oh, I don't know. Possibly. There's some pretty famous dogs over there. Yeah, there are some famous dogs over there. What I love about the paparazzi is you couldn't prove it one way or another. You're like, who's that? Oh, it's Jack Nicholson's chihuahua.

Well, yeah. We don't print the celebrity, we print the dog. You can't tell me it's not his chihuahua. What a fascinating place to work. Did you find the dogs or the cats or whatever had an air of arrogance about them? Not really. You know, they were pretty

well-grounded dogs, I would say, for the most part. They definitely were spoiled. In some cases, not in this particular job, but we'd actually have to shut down the whole salon for them to bring in, which was the case of Brittany Murphy. We had to shut the whole entire premises for her. Oh, really?

Yeah, and then they would run late, quite late, two hours late, so we'd be waiting around for two hours and then they would run late quite late, two hours late so we'd be waiting around for two hours and then they would bring a bunch of sushi for us to apologise. Yes, well I know speaking of being boys too, he demands the dog grooming service shuts down for his arrival as well. And he's like, sometimes he's like

he says to me, I've got them to shut down the business and he's like, I'm not even going in today. That's the joy of it. He's just got them to close their business. Some sort of sick prank. But I bring them in sushi, so it's fine. People want to get their dogs right now groomed by the same person that would groom Brad Pitt's dog.

Whereabouts are you? I'm in Auckland on the North Shore in Northcote. The hands that have touched Brad Pitt's bulldog. That's amazing. He could have a Brad Pitbull. Why doesn't he have a Brad Pitbull? Brad Pitbull would have been great. Incredible what Kiwis do overseas.

Yeah, such a cool story. Thank you for sharing with us. That was awesome. Yeah, absolutely. No problem. And all the best. I'll have to bring my dog in, shut down your business one time

and bring my dog in. In fact, can you shut down for the next two weeks and maybe one of those days you might bring the dog in. Yeah, and just make sure you bring sushi if you do. Yeah, no worries. No worries. might bring the dog in. Yeah, and just make sure you bring sushi if you do. No worries, I'll bring that in.

Thanks Erin, you have a great day mate. Thank you so much. Jono and Ben. You've got Jono and Ben and we're doing 28 good deeds in 28 days throughout the month of February. A deed a day on average and we've had a lot of fun so far, bringing a bit of happiness to

some people. Three good deeds over the weekend. Would you like us to wash your car? And we'll pay for it as well. The other one was Ganesh Raj, a lovely lady in Christchurch who needed some plans for her meals. Six kids in the whanau. Today we're going to make a pad thai noodle stir fry. Thanks to Countdown, we hooked her up with a $500 voucher as well. Sunday we shouted McDonald's in the drive-thru.

Can we get five apple pies, please? Is there a receipt there, mate? Folks take a lot more on the receipt. Can we grab a receipt? And the last good deed that we did over the weekend, cleaning a dog for Riley. You've sprayed me three times with a hose. Yeah, no more hose-based deeds. Neither of us can be trusted with a hose in our hand.

So there we go. That's just some of the stuff that we've done so far And today we're about to reward a baby with some vouchers And if I know babies, they love vouchers, Ben So we're going to go through now Good morning Good morning, is that Karina? Yes, it is Hey Karina, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station

Good morning, guys Yeah, you sound, I's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, good morning, guys. Oh, yeah, you sound, oh, I'd say 60% awake. Yes, oh, well, I'm sitting here having a cup of coffee. I've just finished the shower, and I'm just waiting for the somebody to get up. Oh, they're going to get up, and there's two radio hosts phoning you, and you're probably going, why? Why?

Why? What's with this madness? Yeah, like, what's going on? Well, a couple of weeks ago, you played our game Five Words for $5,000. We got a wee replay of a moment when we were talking to you about what was going on. All right, John, are you heading off to the soundproof booth, and we'll see if we can match Five Words with Karina. What would you spend the money on, Karina?

I've just got a newborn. He's under two weeks old, so I would love to go and buy him some, treat my baby, and probably save some more, so save the rest. Congratulations on the newborn. Hopefully we can win you the $5,000. Hopefully. Fingers crossed. That was previously on Jono and Ben. Yeah, now we didn't win the $5,000. It would have been great, Jono, if you'd

come through for Karina then, but you didn't. So I'm sorry, Karina. Yeah. But we're on a mission at the moment, Karina, to do 28 good deeds in 28 days. Oh, cool. That sounds awesome, guys. And we've been thinking about, you know, our conversation we had with you,

and we did a bit of phoning around, and thanks to our friends at the warehouse, we want to give you a $1,000 gift card, a gift voucher to spend on your newborn. Oh, my God, guys. Sorry, I'm just having a moment of joy right now. Yeah. Well, that's okay.

No, it's okay. As long as you're not angry. I'm, like, crying with happy tears right now. Yeah, we had a power cut a few weeks ago, like, last week, and I had no power for five days. Oh, jeez. Yeah, with my newborn, it had a power cut a few weeks ago. Oh, like last weekend, I had no power for five days. Oh, jeez. Yeah, with my newborn, it was a struggle when the big cyclone happened. Yeah.

You feel as if it made my day. Like, I want to jump up and down. I've never won anything that big or that extravagant before. Oh, you're very welcome. Yeah, well, we're sorry we didn't win you the $5,000, but we thought $1,000 from the warehouse for you to spend on your baby is pretty awesome. Oh, that is cool, guys.

Thank you very much for that. Yeah, I'm stoked. I'm just speechless. I'm glad it's going to be put to good use. And, you know, when your little baby grows up, it's always a memorable moment when you win your first radio competition, isn't it? You go back in 2022, you won a competition, and then your baby will go, well, what's radio?

And you'll have to explain what radio is. Like, son, the radio is getting about you to buy these for you. They're good guys. Yeah, well, I'm glad it's going to be put to good use, and it sounds like you've been through the ringer lately. Yeah. So some happy news. Oh, thank you, guys.

Thank you very much for that. You're very welcome. You hold the line. And the warehouse has Baby Month kicking off March 1st with big deals for your little ones. So head along down to the warehouse, and thank you for giving us that awesome voucher to pass on. And if you want us to help you out with a good deed,

4487, just text through to the studio.