Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Wants To Own Jeff Bezos' Phallic Looking Space Rocket

Episode Date: October 6, 2021

And Ben wants to be Justin Bieber! This spawned off a question Ben's daughter posed, which opened up a very interesting conversation about who you'd swap talents with if you had the opportunity. We were also joined by PM Jacinda Ardern to discuss all the new rules with having picnics! Finally, Jono is hoarding something in his household and we reckon he's not the only one. Even if you're not a hoarder. Enjoy the poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. It's Wednesday, the 6th of October. Jonathan here, Benjamin over there.

Ben Boyce, you've just been playing to me something off your Instagram account, which I feel would be mildly interesting for the podcast listening audience. Oh, good. I like mildly interesting stuff. That's what we aim to achieve here. It's like one of those things. They have them from time to time. It's like that dress that you're like, what color's the dress?

And people see different colors. Well, this is an audio. And like Laurel Yanny. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yanny, Laurel. Laurel Yanny. And depending on what age you were or how your ears worked, you could hear different things. Your ears worked, all's right. Yanny, Laurel. Laurel, Yanny. And depending on what age you were or how your ears worked, you could hear different things.

Your ears worked, all that stuff. That ear science stuff. I was aware, like, who's calling someone, is Yanny a name? Is Yanny an actual name? Well, I could hear how people could hear Yanny. These things bloody go coming hard. They've got high impact. Everyone's affected by them for about 24 to 48 hours.

They just disappear from existence. Yeah, you're right. So you've got the latest one. Yeah, this is the one that goes through, and it basically goes, what do you hear when you hear this chant? And now it ranges. Why don't you read them out one by one, and we'll listen to it as we go. Okay, so do you want to play the chant?

How did you see this working? My dream was you play it first. Okay. And then you go, what did you hear? Okay. Okay. Hang on. Lobsters in motion.

Lobsters in motion. Lobsters in motion. Lobsters in motion. Right. Okay. And so what are the options? Okay. So the options are Bart Simpson bouncing.

Yeah, I heard that. Rotating pirate ship. Play it again. This isn't my receipt. Lobsters in motion. That is embarrassing, which seems to be the one that I commonly hear the most. Lactates in pharmacy. Baptism piracy.

That isn't mercy. Lactating piracy. Lactating piracy. Lactating piracy. Bart Simpson bouncing. I hear Bart Simpson bouncing That isn't my receipt That isn't my receipt

I hear them all Yeah well there's some people were saying on the comment section of it They're saying they can hear them all depending on what they're reading It's like their brain sort of gets tricked into hearing it I guess Well when you were listening to it and I didn't know what the options were I couldn't pick anything out of it. And then as soon as you put them in front of my eyes...

Yeah, you're like, they're saying that it's embarrassing. You're like, oh yeah, of course they are. So there you go. It's one of those things. You won't. You'll forget about this tomorrow. Yeah. But right now, that was of the now. Is it sweeping the internet yet? Was it light dusting? What's it doing? It's light dusting.

Do you think it'll gather momentum and start sweeping? I don't know. What did you think? What was your... You said it was mildly interesting. It is mildly... Yeah, well, I don't know if it's causing the division of that dress or the Yarny Laurel situation.

It's my fear for it. I mean, it's great content. Don't get me wrong. Yeah, we'll find out. At the moment, 567,000 likes on the post. Oh, maybe. Take back everything I just said. Maybe it's turning from a lot.

It's already sweeping. We'll find out. On the podcast today, Jacinda Ardern, we put some of the tough questions, and we did actually put some tough questions towards Jacinda Ardern. We said her name correctly in the moment too, you can rest assured.

We also put together an amazing picnic hamper that someone won, and we talked to Lance Savale who is on Celebrity Treasure Island. He's awesome on that show but he's just had an amazing career, hasn't he? You heard of Beyonce? I've heard of her. He's danced with her. Yeah. Danced on stage

with Beyonce. He's a professional dancer. Have you heard of Rihanna? I have, yeah. He's danced with her. Have you heard of Cher? Yeah, I've heard of Cher. He hasn't danced with Cher. Have you heard of Cher? Yeah, I've heard of Cher. He hasn't danced with Cher. Have you heard of That Is Embarrassing? Baptism! Pharmacy!

Have you heard of Lactates and Pharmacy? Baptism! Pharmacy! Baptism! Pharmacy! Have you heard of Baptism! Pharmacy? Okay, stop now.

Enjoy the podcast. Baptism! Jono and Ben, the hits. Now, today, of course, is the day we get to have a picnic It's a teddy bear's picnic seems like an appropriate song today because it's basically it's 50 days Auckland's been in lockdown and now we get some

form of freedom and the main thing we can talk about is being able to have a picnic Picnic and have a pee too, those seem to be our two major concerns The old narc line is they better be ready to take some calls because the NARCers are going to be out in force, aren't they? Every picknicker needs to be two metres separated from each other.

Even in the same, if you're hanging out with another bubble, you're right, you need to be separated as well. If you're having two bubbles, ten people all spread out two metres apart, that's taking up a lot of square metreage of a park. Yeah, yeah. It's going to be a great day for... And looks ludicrous. For picnics and also Karens around the country right now.

I'm getting, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go to a park just so I can narc. Not even for a picnic. So I can sit in my car and narc on everyone. Yeah, well, so yeah. So the bathroom thing obviously is a bit of a debate as well. You know, like if you have people over, you have to have them outside. You're only allowed one out of the bubble.

And it seems to be contradicting bits of advice. Ashley Bloomfield, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, and the Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson yesterday said that you could allow someone to go to your bathroom as long as you weren't like milling around in the toilet. But then on one news they had this to say. If the weather turns, party's over. You can't take it in sight.

As for when nature calls, public toilets will be open, but you can't use the loo in someone else's house. So keep that in mind. Now, I love it how there's concern about another person being in the toilet. If I came to your house and you stayed in there, I'd be like, I've got a little bit of stage fright, mate. Sorry. Can you just leave me to do what I need to do on my own?

I'm guessing it's all like... Why do they have to stipulate that? You're all going inside with them. So I guess you're the only one that would be allowed to go inside would be the person going to the toilet. So I couldn't be in the lounge or anything like that as well. I'm glad we've cleared up the ethics around using someone else's toilet. Yeah, but I'm still not clear about it. So we've got the Prime Minister after 8 o'clock. I'm glad we've cleared up the ethics around using someone else's toilet. Yeah, but I'm still not clear about it.

So we've got the Prime Minister after 8 o'clock. I'm going to ask her that. What we wanted to do though is we wanted to give away the ultimate picnic pack. The ultimate picnic hamper. And we want you to create it. So what we're going to do is we've got a budget. Producer B. Humps has given us $100 to spend at the supermarket. You just phone us up.

0800 the hits. You tell us what item you want in the picnic basket. We'll look at the budget. And whatever fits into that $100, we'll give it away immediately. That's what we're doing. Building the ultimate picnic. You like picnicking, don't you? Yeah, as a kid.

We used to do it all the time. Families, you go to the beaches, you go to the parks. I'll do it with my kids. My problem with picnics is no matter what position I lay in on the blanket, I can never find true comfort on that hard ground. It's like trying to sleep on an airplane seat. You can never get that one position where you're comfortable in. Well, your main problem is you don't eat lunch as well, too,

which kind of takes out a big part of the picnic. Just sitting on an uncomfortable stick watching other people eat. Yeah. So, 0800 the hits. You can add an item to the picnic basket, and if you do, you'll be in the add an item to the picnic basket and if you do you'll be in the running to win the ultimate

picnic basket. Let's do it New Zealand. Alright. We're building a picnic together and then you can win it. We're next. 0800 the hits. It's love on the run.

It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. We are building the ultimate picnic hamper because today is the day we get to have a picnic. Jeez, who would have thought we'd get excited about having a picnic? I don't want to nitpick the picnic, Ben Boyce.

But, Julia, you raised a really interesting point yesterday. What did I say? You said something about the idea of a picnic. Yeah, you can finish it off. The idea of a picnic is always more successful than the picnic itself because things blow everywhere, you get food all over yourself. I mean, you need to factor in dogs. Yeah, my dog peed on another person's picnic blanket once

and there's no coming back from that. Yeah, again, he keeps blaming this dog for all these incidents. But, you know, you've got to factor in seagulls, ants. You've got to pick a blanket, though. In that case, here are the ants. Yeah, true. And other animals. Generally, when I like to eat, I don't like to fight with nature.

Right. You know? Nature's won already. I've got the animal in my sandwich. Oh, God. Don't need to keep battling with it to have a meal. Now, what we're going to do right now is we're going to compile the Ultimate Picnic Basket with the help of you on 0800THEHITS.

We've got a $100 budget. B-Hubs has given us. We'll put the items in the basket, both Ben and me are on the supermarket website. Julie, it's going to tally up when we reach the $100 limit, the basket's gone. Okay, we give that away to someone, right? That's right. We're going to kick it off with a bit of a bonus contention to start off with.

I'm going to bring Natalie in from Pukakohe. Morena, Natalie. Morena. Good to have you on. And Gail from Long Bay as well. Now, both suggesting similar items, Gail, Natalie. Good morning. Good to have you on. And Gail from Long Bay as well. Now, both suggesting similar items, Gail and Natalie. Gail, you want to chuck into the picnic basket? A bottle of Moe. Bottle of Moe. Now, Natalie's coming with a more affordable option of a bottle of?

Lindau. Lindau. Sartain. Saint Blanc would be good. Yeah. So you've got Lindau v. Moet there, Ben Boyce. Oh, yeah, so Moet you've got, well, you could go $72 bottle on the website I look at, or you can get a smaller bottle for $38, but either way, it's a lot in the budget there, John.

Yeah, and I'm just going to look at Google Lindau here. What are we running a Lindau? A bottle of Lindau, $12.99, a lot more affordable. You have to chew your way through it, but you'll forget about it by the end of the bottle. Yeah. So what are we going? Are we going 12 or V72 here? I'm saying two.

There's two bubbles. You're allowed. There's two bottles, Lindau. One for each bubble for each bubble. How's that sound, Jono? So that's, Gail, unfortunately your moe hasn't made the cut. Never mind. Never mind.

But you can hold there because you still might win the basket. We'll know the champagne won't be up to taste, but that's all right. So what's that? $25. Never mind. Never mind. But you can hold there because you still might win the basket. We'll know the champagne won't be up to taste, but that's all right. So what's that? We've got $25. $26. $26. We're going to go to Carla from Tuakau. What are we chucking in the nation's picnic basket, Carla?

A nice fresh bit of salmon would be all right. That's about $8, I think. $8 or $9 for a piece of fresh salmon. Fresh salmon. Well, by God, the hits audience has exquisite taste. Exquisite. You see your countdown and you buy some black sesame. Your crackers are $1.70 to go with it.

Perfect. Oh, I used to work on the rock. They would have just gone, let's get $100 worth of Cody's. Yeah. Okay, well, here's a nice ocean blue smoked salmon, the hot smoked. And there's $12. Just chuck that in. And you want some crackers, let's say $3 in for some crackers as well.

Carla, your salmon's made the cut. We'll move on to Brian from Greymouth. What are you chucking in the picnic basket, Brian? A couple hundred grams of shaved ham. Beautiful. Shaved ham. Now, we haven't got any bread or anything yet. Yeah, yeah.

But that's all right. A lot of meat to digest. Shaved ham, $14 for a kilogram. A kilogram, yeah? That's a lot of shaved ham, isn't it? But why not? Chuck it in. $55 is our total so far.

Okay, let's get some buns as well, like you say, Jono. Yeah, well, there's no... We'll go to Paula. Welcome from Levin. What are you adding to the picnic basket, Paula? A bottle of kombucha. Oh, we're hanging up on Paula. Oh, no!

Put her in, put her in. Kombucha! Mate, kombucha's great. How much is that? Well, Jono, you go kombucha. I'm looking at the buns right now. Let's go chuck a couple packs in the buns. $8.

So there you go. Kombucha is sending us back $4 there, Paula. Well done. Martin from Christchurch, you're adding what to the picnic basket this morning? One of those nice cheese platters with all the different cheeses and crackers. Again, just beautiful. This is a magnificent. When I turn up to a picnic,

I just add a bag of chips into the mix and think I've done enough. Yeah, well, because you don't eat lunch. That's why. This sounds like a wonderful picnic. Cheese platter. There's a cheese selection, three cheese selection for $12, $13 right now. So we'll chuck that in. Are you happy with three different cheeses, Martin?

I'm happy with that. Does it come with the crackers as well? Well, I think Carla got some black pepper crackers in there with her salmon as well, so we can combo them both up. Oh, perfect, perfect. He's decided he answered, has something to eat too. Chucking a kilo of grapes too on the text 4487, that's 11 bucks as well.

And where are we sitting at, Ju? We've got $9 left. Okay. Chocolate. We've got the Prime Minister waiting for us on line 12. We'll go to her. Jacinda, sorry, you've just phoned up. We're creating the ultimate picnic hamper right now. That's OK. That sounds like a priority.

You go back to it. Yeah, no, that's fine. But what do you want to add into the mix? We've got $9 more to spend to reach our $100 budget. $9? Yeah, what are we chucking in? The Prime Minister's choice. The cheapest chardonnay you can find.

Oh, a cheap chardonnay. All right, we'll add it with a cheap Chardonnay. There we go. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The hits. By the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who nominated a $9 bottle of Chardonnay

into the nation's picnic basket before 8 o'clock. Jacinda, welcome. Good morning, how are you? We're doing alright, how are you? I don't even really drink Chardonnay. Yeah, we put you on the spot there. You panicked. I just thought, what does Auckland need, to be honest?

Probably a drink. Yeah, she panic purchased Chardonnay. We've all done it before. How are you going, Jacinda, alright? Oh, not too bad. More worried about how everyone in Auckland is doing. Yeah, well the road map out of Auckland, does it lead to open roads or does it lead to a dead-end street?

I mean, where are we sitting on this roadmap to out of Auckland? We're going – for out of Auckland, do you literally mean a road? Well, no, I was just thinking in the plan, the three-step plan that, you know – He's tried an analogy. It hasn't quite worked. It's quite confusing, right? I totally switched immediately to whether you were asking me about the regional boundary. Yeah, you're like, I can't leave Auckland yet, idiot.

We are going to have to be careful, and so that's why we've really just signalled, obviously, what we're going to do is the first move. I just wanted to give Aucklanders a bit of a sense that rather than the usual where we just flip straight from three to two, this has been

a harder outbreak. And you'll see after seven weeks of really hard restrictions, we haven't managed to get those cases down to zero. So it does mean we have to be really careful. And that's why you'll see that the stages are all about how do you move down into what we usually get to with two. So we're going to have to take it slow. Hey, taking economics, the economy out of it,

taking politics out of it, purely on a health level, what would Dr Ashley Bloomfield have ideally wanted Auckland to stay in level 3, 4? How long? No, what we presented was what came from the public health team. Almost, I can't think of, apart from the odd time where we've had different views on where we use face masks, we are very, very careful about ever doing anything that Dr. Bloomfield and the public health team don't recommend. Yeah, right.

What we stand up on the podium and share is almost always exactly what they have advised. Because Susie's saying she's gutted. Susie Wiles. She's like level one as we knew it over summer, you know, last summer. It's never going to happen again. Well, I think just what Susie's expressing there is that this outbreak, and look, I can't speak for her, but, you know, everyone wanted to see those restrictions managed to get those cases down to zero.

But it has been much harder this time. I'm gutted we haven't got to zero yet either, because that would have been much, much easier. So have we given up on that, Prime Minister? Have we given up on zero and eliminating COVID? Well, we've always said elimination was a strategy that we used while we didn't have vaccines, right? Because we had no other way to deal with the fact that COVID was with us than ultimately trying to get rid of it entirely because we didn't have vaccines to keep us safe. So that's why we use those really harsh restrictions.

And when we first had this outbreak, we still didn't have enough people vaccinated. So we used the same tools we always did and exactly the same thing. It has been harder this time. Lots and lots of reasons for that, not least Delta. But we always said we wanted

to transition away from when we had cases from having to use three and four. If you're going to do that, then that transition is something that really this outbreak has sped up for us. Using the vaccine more, getting more people vaccinated so that we can use that more than we use restrictions. I know you're in a really difficult position because a lot of the cases, if we're calling a spade a spade, are due to rule-breaking rule-breakers, gang members who generally don't conform with society. How do you get those people vaccinated?

Well, actually, we have the same conversation we have with everyone about vaccinations and how important they are. And we just, of course, use other people rather than just us talking about that as well. But, you know, I do think that we will get vaccination in lots of communities that we otherwise might not expect. And that's got to be our job, you know, leave no one untouched because it actually affects all of us

when people choose, if they choose not to be vaccinated. So a lot of people are confused about, I mean, it's the picnic situation or having people over. We all understand it's got to be outside and socially distanced. It has to be outside. But then the bathroom thing seems to be a contradiction about Kenya. I know a lot of people have asked me about the bathroom. No, I'm really clear on this.

The reason is the bathroom thing is only because when we said don't go inside and then someone said, well, what about, or if because when we said don't go inside, and then someone said, well, what about, or if there's, just don't go inside. Don't go inside. So don't go inside. Okay, so Jono comes over. Keep it nice and simple. Don't go inside.

And if, look, you're really stressed about whether or not this is going to be manageable, just be in a park or a place where this isn't going to be a dilemma for you. How much do you love all the journos picking holes in your plan? What if it's windy outside? Can I pee in a bush? You know what, if you stick to the, just people understand the principles. The outside thing is key.

You know, this is the only way that this can happen safely. It's because of, you know, ventilation, basically. Just quickly before you go, Prime Minister, we've got a lot of people listening from the South Island. There's obviously there hasn't been COVID there for a long time and no one can leave Auckland. How come they have to stay currently in Level 2 at the moment? Can you sense frustration

from the South Island on that regard? Yeah, and look one of the reasons is, same reason that we've got those restrictions in Hamilton and Palmerston North and Tauranga. While we have an outbreak in New Zealand, you know, everyone's at risk because no border is hard and fast. This prevents us having to go into heavy restrictions if we find cases. Yesterday, the threat of Producer Juliette not being able to go to Northern Base if she's not vaccinated.

Do you think that's going to hit home with that generation, Prime Minister? Well, it's actually regardless. It's just something we need to do to make those events safe. I think a lot of people will appreciate that if they're at an event with thousands of people, knowing that other people around them are vaccinated, and it's just going to add that extra layer of safety. So lots of other places, lots of other countries have done it. It's been something that

supported them being safe with COVID and so we should learn from that. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, thanks for your time. You keen for a picnic later or are you a bit busy? I'm stuck in Wellington. Why would she want to be in your 10 person bubble?

I'll put together a nice picnic anyway. Your household's 10 people max. Keep it distanced outside. Thanks, Jacinda. Thank you. See you. Another day at home with the kids. Little tip, it's called parenting, not babysitting.

Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. My daughter, Indy, has been watching a show on Netflix. It's a little bit like it's it's for kids it's called creeped out but it's still some of the concepts i'm like are you okay with this but yeah but it's it's fairly fine i think i've watched creeped out when i've been uh slack parenting and just walking through the lounge oh that's a that's an interesting show for a child to watch keep watching kids i haven't got them onto squid game yet but we'll build them up to

what is the squid game it's kind of like that. It's the biggest show on Netflix right now. Yeah, I keep seeing it. It's from Korea, right? Yeah. It's kind of almost Hunger Games-esque in some ways. Futuristic, quite scary, creepy. Is it like a survival of the fittest sort of thing? I've only seen the first episode, but that's kind of where it's headed.

Sounds like it's a fun one for the kids. No, not for the kids. No, not for the kids. But on this show, Creeped Out, they had this one where, well, they had this scenario and she came to me afterwards with the question about the scenario and I recorded it because that's what I do. That's what Ben does.

I'd be disappointed if there wasn't audio of this. Although I seem to explain it better than she did. Have a listen. Okay, so you have to have an ability, but you have to take it from someone else and they have your ability, so you, to take it from someone else, and they have your ability, so you, like, swap. Okay, so hang on. So I can choose anyone in the entire world?

Yes. Okay, and I can take their ability? Yeah, that's right. And they are left with my ability in the same thing? Yeah, exactly. I think I explained that a lot better than you. Thank you. But what if you've got no ability Like I wouldn't like

I'd look at you and I'd be like You'd choose For me I was like first for some reason I thought Justin Bieber So I was like I would take his singing ability His talent And he would be left with my singing ability Oh your singing ability Yes I'm just looking at one ability of,

and then I was like, oh, like I like basketball. Like, can I take LeBron James' basketball ability and he'd be left playing like I would play basketball really badly sort of thing. And I feel like that's actually the- That's a movie, isn't it? That's the premise of Space Jam, I think. But yeah, so what would you be?

Like, if you guys got to take anyone's ability and they had to have your equivalent ability in the same thing what would you be i was like beaver would be quite good because i'd love you know be great to be able to sing do you look like him then or you've just got his voice ability just the ability but then you you know you're a middle-aged man are you going to kick start your pop your pop music career who are you marketing to oh okay? You're not part of my group, eh? The haters? They always said there'd be haters in the music industry. Just started in the music industry.

I was like, this is weird old guys. You can sing really well. Baby, baby. Mate. I can sing. And then poor old Bieber, he's out there singing like me. He goes, ooh, ooh, ooh. You know?

So you can get to pick anyone. It might be guitar playing. It might be your ability to take an amazing photo. I mean, whatever, you know? Oh, yeah. You know? I would... Write a book.

J.K. Rowling, you could have her ability to write a story, you know? I would take Jeff Bezos' ability. You like Jeff Bezos? Well, I look like him, let you say. You know, then I'd have his ability. What ability? What would it be? To build a penis shaped rocket And fly to space

That's a cool thing He's a billionaire That's so smart His ability to earn lots of money I want to do the same thing now You can't be Bezos I'm saying Bezos would be His his ability to work hard and get to the top and all that sort of stuff.

Yeah, well, cancel that out. Just take the money and glory at the end. Okay, fair enough. All right. I would probably go Beyonce's dancing. Oh, yeah. Purely. I don't really care about whether I'm a good dancer or not.

I just would like to see Beyonce attempt to dance on stage if she could dance like me. It's just terrible. So imagine going to a Beyonce show and she's just shocking at dancing. You'd be dance on stage if she could dance like me. It's just terrible. So imagine going to a Beyonce show and she's just shocking at dancing. You'd be like, she'd sing, she'd dance. Yeah, but she just can't dance. Do the Beavers and the Beyonce's and the Bezos's, do they have a say in this? Do they have to agree to taking out?

Not as far as I know. It's all on us to decide and they get lumped with the swap. Really, really bad deal for them, right? Yeah, it's definitely a win-loss situation. Oh, great scenario there for Mindy. There you go. Nice and early for your Wednesday morning. And then do we all end up killing each other and seeing who survives?

That's definitely another show, but that could happen as well. Sleepy Treasure Island is on again tonight on TVNZ2. It's a huge show, and one of the stars of the show is Lance Savale. And we wanted to basically get you guys to know a bit more about him because he's done some incredible, incredible things that we want to talk to him about. And he joins us right now. How's it going, Lance?

What the hell is going on? What is up, buddy? How are you? I'm doing, yeah, I'm all good. It's shit weather, but it's all good, bro. Are we enjoying seeing you on the TV every week, three nights a week? Oh my God, how hilarious is that, bro? I loved it.

I was reading in an article about you in the Celebrity Treasure Island that you watched, you did a bit of research, and how far of one episode did you watch of the last series? Bro, I watched like, oh, probably like half an episode. Well, and then you checked out. Yeah. I don't know, it wasn't my cup of tea, but like, yeah. I didn't really have a strategy.

I was just like, I kind of just fooled everyone, thinking I had a game strategy, but really I didn't. Was it harder in any way? Well, you probably didn't give it much thought by the sounds of it, but was it hard? I mean, what was the hardest thing? Being hungry, being emotional? What was the hardest? Oh, dude.

Like, frigging, when you watch reality TV shows, you're like, oh my God, they're so emotional, blah, blah, blah. But when you get separated from your world, put in like this stupid pirate show and get like everything stripped away from you and all you have to deal with is just people and like your emotions are heightened and everything it's actually real intense man but it's like it was such a good experience like i would do it again for sure yeah you just wouldn't watch it i love watching it but i just think that season was just a little bit whatever. Well, it was a really great season. You're awesome on that.

What's it like when the cameras aren't rolling, though? What happens then? Bro, it's the same. They're like, all right, good night, and then they just leave, and we're just sitting there twiddling our thumbs, listening to Buck tell us stories about the Navy and all that. We're just like, Uncle Buck, we've got to go to sleep, bro. Well, you've become a fan favourite on the show.

You're really standing out, Lance. And maybe it's because you give zero stuffs about the competition. Honestly, I have no idea. I'm the crappiest captain. All I do is just delegate. I'm just like, so what do you guys think? They discuss and then they make up their mind and I'm like, sweet. Now Lance, a lot of New Zealand

getting to know you on the TV show and getting to know your story room. I know we've talked about this before, but an amazing story, hey, you just pretty much went to LA off your own bat to become a dancer. Yeah bro, just went over there, did my dance thing, danced for who I wanted and all of that, but now I'm trying to be

a DJ. I'm going to release some EDM music, some doof-doof music, bro. Oh, so this is the new thing for you? Yeah, bro. It's going to be a crazy summer. Joined by Lance Savali from Celebrity Treasure Island and also an internationally acclaimed dancer. Because you've toured the world with some of the industry's biggest names. Who have you performed with?

Chris Brown, Rihanna, I came to New Zealand with Usher, Duke Coachella, Beyonce, the Super Bowl with J-Lo. You're rattling them off like these aren't... Justin Bieber, Janet Jackson, I mean everyone, right? Oh, bro, I have to brag about them now because my knees don't work

the same as what they did like two years ago. Oh, you've got old man knees now. Yeah, bro, that's why i'm doing the dj thing it's easier on your knees because you like you uh rihanna's people got in touch with you recently about going back over for something and you're like oh no no it was because of your knees yeah it was for the savage fancy show i just decided to turn it down just to work on my music. I mean, we've all turned down a Rihanna fashion show at some point. It's my favourite show to do. It wasn't an easy decision, but I just had

to bite the bullet on that one. I imagine because you're such a very relaxed demeanour about you and very approachable, Lance, I imagine these huge stars would love you. Do you get along with them all? Yeah, I do actually. I think I just treat them like a human. I know we come from a small place, so these big people are like, whoa.

But I'm just like, I don't know. I just look at them and just relate to them in a way rather than being like, oh my God, can I have a photo? I don't know. You do the New Zealand thing and do a sneaky one off to the side. A hundred percent, bro. I definitely was doing that my first year. And so someone like Rihanna, you sit down, you have a conversation with her.

What are you talking about? I don't know. Random shit? Yeah, it depends. With Chris Brown and Rihanna, I got to build a relationship because we were on tour for so many years together. So it's more of like a family away from family kind of thing. So we're in each other's face every day. So it just becomes natural to have a conversation or say hi or have lunch and dinner together or go to the after parties together.

You know, obviously you've been at the Super Bowl with J-Lo, as you said before. You performed at Coachella with Beyonce. Do you get to a stage where you don't feel nervous when you're out there performing? Or is there always some nerves before a big dance like that? Honestly, I love feeling nervous, bro. If I feel

some sort of nerves, I feel like I'm in the right place, you know what I mean? Yeah, right. Do you think you could teach two awkward middle-aged white guys how to cut some shit? To be honest, bro, if we're talking about Jono and Ben, a definite no.

Alright, right by the chat. I was going with just some friends of ours. Other awkward middle-aged white guys If we're talking about Jono and Ben, a definite no. All right. I was going to say some friends of ours. Other awkward middle-aged white guys. Oh, yeah, yeah, no, they'll be sweet. Yeah, they'll be sweet. Oh, lads, it's so good to talk to you. And we are loving you on Celebrity Treasure Island. Have you found, I mean, you haven't been out and about,

obviously, because we've been in lockdown, but you're finding a lot of people, like, wanting to ask you about it? Yes, bro, yes. A lot of white people, and I love it, because white people don't know who I am. Middle-aged white men, they're like, did you win once?

And I'm like, I hope so. And then all of a sudden, those middle-aged white men want you on their radio show? On their white radio show? On the hits? I'm doing something right. We had you before, Slippery Treasure Island, right?

Oh, Lance, you're an absolute champion, mate. Really love catching up with you, buddy. You keep safe, alright? You too. Shout out, brothers. Thank you. See you, mate. Now, I've noticed something about an abundance of an item that I have in my household. And I'm sure you're probably the same, Ben. You, Juliet, you probably have the same situation and you're listening as well.

I don't know why I have so many cups. So many cups. Mugs. Glasses. Right. And they all sit on a shelf and i only ever use the front row of them well people do have their favorite cups and anything behind that the reserve cups the reserve grade cups they don't get any lip action they just sit there gathering dust i'm only ever using one cup putting in the wash putting it back why do i have so many cups well guys people come over um but at the moment that's hard i mean if they're outside and then stick to their bubbles maybe i've never had 56 thirsty people turn up to my house

yeah my wife's a big fan of like there's a cup there's one cup in particular it's like a cup of tea cup it's you know so we've got like 20 other like mugs you know they all for me they're all like function they do the same job yeah but you're only using the same thing i mix it up i do mix it up you give all the cups a bit of a bit of bed boys live action i haven't used this black caps one for a while i'll pick that one up you like to make them all feel valued i do i got the one that someone gave me that says uh as seen on tv with our faces on it the john and ben as previously seen on tv do you pull them out for special occasions? Have you got occasion cups?

Oh, we've got, we actually do have some nice sort of old, sort of crockery from Amanda's Nana that was in the shelf. And we're like, let's start using that. Because otherwise it just sits there. So we'll have like little, I feel like we're playing a little tea party every now and again as a family. That's the thing is we always have, we've got too much cutlery as well.

Oh, really? God, the amount of spatulas I have. Really? I don't know. I don't have six to eight spatulas. Are you talking about the flippers? Like the flip pancake? Yeah.

Not really. I don't know why. I don't know why we thought we needed so many spatulas. But we spoke to Moses from Sole Meo, the operatic group, and he has chosen to live a minimalist lifestyle. Really? Which is he just basically got rid of everything in his life and has like one knife one fork one cup one plate and that's what

he lives off and he finds it's you know you'd be exhilarating wouldn't it but also like we come around what are we doing oh we all share the knives and forks. Okay, I'll finish my meal. I'll have a bite. I'll hand you over the knives and fork. Yeah. I find that accidents do happen sometimes with glasses and so you have to replace them in that situation. You're not obviously replacing yours by the sound of it. No, they're just stockpiling to a point where when I die,

the kids are going to have 1,500 cups that they're going to have to work their way around. Here's a question for you, and kids are going to have 1,500 cups that they're going to have to work their way around. Here's a question for you, and you might want to get involved in 4487. Which way are you storing them? Are you going cup up, cup down? I do go cup up, but the ones I'm not using become a wonderful one-bedroom apartment

for moths and dead flies that somehow make their way into there. So you've got like an open sort of... All of my fabulous cups are on display. All of my cups. You've never seen so many open sort of... My fabulous cups are on display. You've never seen so many cups? Yeah, I only use one of them. But gee, if I ever need it anymore...

So you have yours all up, yeah, like... Yeah, they're on display, but yeah, the problem is if they're not face down, then, you know, things fly into them, Ben Boyce, but then you get a dirty rim. If it's face down. You're compromising it. i'm a downer i've i i have my cups down that but then but then in my flat it's like some people some of my flatmates

just put them up and i'm like oh it kind of annoys me when they're not all the same this is the problem you got other people's morals coming into the same living space up but we're not where there are there are behind closed doors wait So the cups are up, but they're behind. They're not on. So it's not like the moths are going to fly in. Oh, I see. That's smart. We like to keep our cups behind closed doors.

They're hidden away. We're ashamed of all those cups. Some of them we are ashamed of, to be honest. How can you be ashamed of cups? Some of them, I don't know, regrettable ones. But some of them we keep them away. So we like to keep them outside. Who has purchased a regrettable cup? What makes know regrettable ones but uh yeah but some of them we keep them away so we like to keep them out of sight purchased a regrettable what makes a regrettable cup is it one with a

there's no bottom to it so you pour it in it just goes straight out prank cups they are regrettable welcome to two half-assed dads do a half-assed job official title as a parent i'm i feel like i don't many skills that I can pass on to my kids. You know, like I'm not a handy person. I can't do anything great with computers. Hey, you get on your hands and knees and you pick the leaves up off your AstroTurf lawn. That's handy. Otherwise those leaves will just sit there.

I make radio each day, you know, where I can talk. Like I can hold a conversation. The problem is most people can talk. I can laugh at jokes that aren't funny. That's probably the skills. I can't really pass on. But I felt like I had a moment the other day where I passed on something to one of my daughters and I could see her face light up and I was like, hey, this is a parenting moment.

But then after I thought about it, I thought, well, maybe it wasn't a great parenting moment. So that's why I wanted to talk to you guys about it because birthdays. I want to talk about birthdays. You know, birthdays is one of those things i get i don't know i just i'm not really a big celebrator of birthdays myself um i don't like getting cards i'd rather people just you know spend give me five bucks or something what do you like what does make you happy i don't like birthday cake i don't know like i love i love giving gifts to other people do you like celebrating other people's birthdays i don't know you don't like zeroing in on don't know. You don't like zeroing in on, you don't want the attention. He doesn't want the whole office singing a drawn out,

drooled happy birthday. But then I had a little, what I thought was a little bit of a birthday hack I've used before. When you buy someone a present and maybe you get it at a cheaper price, but then the tag says it's more expensive than you paid. Now and again, I'm like, oh oh we'll just leave that in. But

there's moments where I forget. You leave the price tag on. Sometimes when it's more. So it looks more. So if you had something on sale for $19.99 but originally it was $39.99 you're leaving that tag on. Oh wow, been bought $39.

Well I mean it's a good way for them to then know what they've got to volley back to you in terms of value. I've done that occasionally, you know, when the price tag of the original price has been left. I imagine that becomes a big bone of contention in your relationship. Normally I just quickly wrap the present and off it goes. And, you know, my wife hasn't seen it. But my daughter bought a gift for her friend online.

It was like a bucket hat or something. She got it on, you know, a bit cheaper. And I was like, hey, when she was wrapping it, why don't you leave the price tag on? She's like, but I didn't pay that much. And I go, yeah, I know. And she's like, but it looks, and you could see her face just go, more than I paid for, yeah.

You could see the realisation in her face. You've done well. You've taught your kids the art of lying. It's a great trait. I had that little sense of pride as my daughter used to look back at me, but then afterwards I was like, you're right. I've basically just taught them something that wasn't a great life lesson.

But it's a great skill. Lying just gets you out of so many situations. You're not saying it's what you paid for it. You're just saying that's what the price was. It's a suggestion. Of what it was. Not saying you paid for that. I mean, being transparent, you probably crossed that out and write what you actually paid if you were being completely honest yeah i'll take the price tag off but um i always love that moment in the present opening uh extravaganza there when

someone realizes that they've left the price tag on and they all they awkwardly hunch in as the person's opening and go oh and they're trying to scrape it off with their nail and everyone's watching they're like i know what they've done, left the old price on, embarrassed about it, my mum's a stickler for that, you'll hear, oh, and then she'll go, what are you doing, why are you still massaging their present with your fingernail, and we all know what's happened, but it's, I got in trouble the other day, I left my tag on a piece of clothing, you were giving me grief for it. Oh yeah, you still had the tag on. Not with the price on it, though.

But yeah, like, you were wearing the clothes and still with the tag on. I still had the tag on. I still had the security tag as well. I've got to stop shoplifting. That's my thing. You know those ink things on the clothing? How they're like, oh, you take this, you try this, ink will explode all over the clothing.

The security tag. Oh, yes. Does ink actually explode over the clothing? Or is that one of those rumors that it wasn't just a retail rumor that they've got us all running scared of that if we take this we'll never be able to use it that's very good if you're in retail and you know four four eight seven on the text uh we got the promise because otherwise i've got a lot of shirts i can just rip those tags off i've just been holding fire because i thought they were going to cover the name

scrolling through your feed all right now to a news bulletin that was crassly slapped together during that, I feel like, dancing song. Ben Boyce here scrolling. Well, today is, of course, a little bit of freedom, a slight bit of freedom for Auckland. They're calling it Level 3 with picnics. Seems to be the big thing at the moment. But the big question rolls around this. Should I stay or should I go now?

A lot of people wanting to know what the bathroom protocol is. That's the big question right now, because obviously we know that any gatherings between bubbles have to be outdoors. So there's a lot of, and I was trying to get my head around it yesterday. I thought I had it all sorted, but I've now since heard contradictory advice. So One News last night, this is what they said on One News. If the weather turns, party's over. You can't take it inside. As for when nature calls, public

toilets will be open, but you can't use the loo in someone else's house, so keep that in mind. So they're saying you can't use the loo in someone else's house. New Zealand Herald is saying Ashley Bloomfield said it was okay, as long as it wasn't a gathering. Grant Robinson on the AM show yesterday. So can someone use the toilet at one's house or what?

Well, I'm pleased that we've started with the biggest of the issues of the COVID-19 outbreak, Ryan. Look, obviously we want people to stay outside. I think as Dr Bloomfield said yesterday, we're not expecting there to be gatherings of people in the toilet. But if people need to go, no doubt they will manage that situation. Ben's always gathering with other people in the toilet. But if people need to go, no doubt they will manage that situation. Ben's always gathering with other people in the toilet. I never knew what it was for. Now I know it's a thing. They don't expect it, but it happens at parties a lot, Jude.

Oh, yeah. So where's Ben gone? Why are there six people all crammed into that cubicle? Whatever, whatever. Yeah, so getting your head around all these rules is very confusing. And like, I was thinking about it yesterday, the fact that people are going to go to the park

and the two bubbles are going to be there, but if they're having a picnic, I guess they've got to be social distance, right? They do, yeah. So they can't be on the same blanket. They're meant to be wearing masks unless they're eating and drinking. And then kids having playdates and social,

it's like... That sounds like a fun time. Yeah, but how are they going to... It just seems like it's all down to the individual to police that. Tell you what I want to do. I want to go to the park, sit on a blanket by myself, talk to my friend two metres away, and then yell at the kids to keep away from each other

for about an hour and a half. But there'll be hundreds of people out today if there's nice weather all around Auckland because that's what's going to happen. I mean, it's so easy to pile in on the government here and what their gesture was a nice one they're trying to create a little bit of freedom yeah a little bit it's good for mental health to catch up with people obviously yeah i understand that but there's there's a few holes in that dam that they're slowly trying to plug up with you know how they do like on a um looney

tunes cartoon with the corks, you know, they've got their toes and they've tried to cover up all the leaks but it hasn't quite worked out. Like, I saw someone message it's great that we can all go out and socialise but isn't getting business up and running probably a priority? As opposed to having weird picnics with people two metres away?

You can go on a boat, you can go fishing as long as it's within two bubbles. Definitely a Clark one he slid in there. But then you're like, well it's hard to social distance on a boat, you can go fishing, as long as it's within two bubbles. Definitely a Clark one he slid in there. But then you're like, well, it's hard to social distance on a boat. You know, like, it rains, are you allowed to go inside the little area, or you have to keep it outside? Yeah. You know, like, there's so many things, you're like, how does this all work?

But you're right. I guess they've just said, we'll give them picnics, and everyone's found 100 loopholes and 100 questions. Why did we open up that picnic box? Damn it! Who came up with the picnic idea? They're definitely losing their gig. It's a Chris Hipkins thing.

Get out there and spread your legs and have a picnic. No, I don't know if he came up with that or not, but we will put questions to the Prime Minister after eight o'clock this morning, so if you've got any questions, I'm going to ask her about the toilet situation. I know that we shouldn't be bothering the Prime Minister with this, but this is a big thing that people want to know.

It's like if Jono comes around to my house and we're outside and social distance, does he have to pee in the bush? Or is he allowed to go inside? Well, he never lets me in the house anyway, because I wore my shoes in there once. I haven't been invited back in. Oh, that's true. You can pee in the bush. If you've got any questions for the Prime Minister, he's joining us after

8 o'clock this morning. 4487 on the Hits. The Hits and HelloFresh. Pay it forward. This is really awesome. We're rewarding some lockdown legends at the moment and if you know someone who's doing great work for New Zealand or even just doing great work at home just keeping things moving and

holding it all together which is tough at the moment then you can nominate someone at the Hits stock card and we'll hook them up with two weeks of HelloFresh delivered to their door. Jeez, you don't have to worry about dinner for an entire fortnight. There's still a level of concern there about the preparation of the food. Don't get me wrong. You can't just check out completely. You've got a little bit of heavy lifting.

But, yeah, it's a wonderful prize to give away. And I tell you what, it's worth bursting a bubble for, I'd say. If whoever wins next, I'm going to potentially go and move in with them for a couple of weeks. And Ben Boyce, I do have a question for you. Yeah. Can you nominate yourself? Because

last night on the hits.co.nz I went on there and nominated myself as a legend, but I noticed I've been plucked out of the... We've got to get you off Instagram. Dad's got Instagram now. Yeah. no one's picking up my nomination. You're messaging all sorts of celebrities, you're DMing people. Entering competitions.

We're going to go through to today's nominee. Very worthy winner who's out there in the community. Hello. Oh, well, well, well. Megan herself. Yep, that's me. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. How are you?

Hi, I'm good, thanks. How are you going? Are you busy out there vaccinating people, are you? Yep, we're in our mobile bus and we're a bit busy. Are you in the bloody shop bus? The shop bus? Shop bus. No, so I'm part of, it's called Fano Aura Community Centre,

and we've got a Tachanoni vaccination clinic. You're running your own rogue bus? Yeah, we're a rogue bus. A rogue bus system. Oh, now we wanted to name the bus the Chariots of Pfizer. Yeah, that's a good one. Why don't you name your bus Chariots of Pfizer, because we felt it was a bit late for that one to be nominated.

So you can claim that name? Yeah, we actually came up with one. It's Valerie the Vaccination Bus. Oh, that's nice too. Yeah, I like that. It's far friendlier. Hey, listen, Megan, we've been told to call you by Kim. Apparently you're an absolute bloody legend.

Oh, that could be true. That could be true. That could be true, yeah. The word's getting out there. Yeah, working very hard on the front line, vaccinating the people, which is awesome. And because of that, because you're a lockdown legend, we want to hook you up. Thanks to HelloFresh.

Two weeks of HelloFresh coming your way. Oh, awesome. Thank you so much. So every mouthful you can think of us, okay? For the next two weeks. How many of you are on the bus there? We have on the team five of us at the moment.

Say hi guys. Hi! You are all doing God's work out there. What do you want to say to people who haven't yet been vaccinated? Just get amongst it. Get amongst it, yeah. Get amongst it.

Hey, thanks so much for all your hard work you're doing for Aotearoa. We really do appreciate it. Awesome. Thank you, guys. And if you want to nominate someone, head to the hits.co.nz. And you could also get, for paying it forward, you'll go on the draw to win some tickets to one of the biggest concerts of 2022. But it's all thanks to HelloFresh, delivering fresh ingredients

and easy-to-follow recipes right to your door. HelloFresh.co.nz The Head Spy with McDonald's Monopoly. Peel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes. Tell you what, if you thought your job was tough, imagine having to read every news story about the Kardashians, day in, day out. This lady is in the trenches.

Sometimes I try to avoid the Kardashians. Day in, day out. This lady is in the trenches. Sometimes I try to avoid the Kardashians. What's happening, spy? So, Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood played Frodo. He has revealed that director Peter Jackson designed an orc in the original films to look like Harvey Weinstein. Now, the reason for this was because Harvey Weinstein put Peter Jackson through a bit of hell in the early days. So Peter Jackson was allowed to direct Lord of the Rings under Harvey Weinstein's production company and supervision, but they didn't work well together. They had very different views on how they wanted the films to look. And the movies didn't, like they nearly didn't happen because Harvey gave Peter Jackson this kind of ultimatum.

So he said, he gave Peter the opportunity to pitch the films to other production companies, but the rules were he only gave him one weekend to do it, to sign and seal with another production company. And whoever agreed had to make all three films at once rather than starting with one and seeing how that went and then making the other two and so harvey weinstein obviously thought there's no way in hell that this is going to work because he's only got such a small time frame and no one's going to agree to do three films um but new line cinema agreed and worked

with peter jackson and then they made all the films. And so when actually making the films, Peter Jackson was like a big beep-boop to Harvey Weinstein for putting me through this. And so designed one of the orcs to look like him. Really? It's like him, but like a drastically, you know, it's very enhanced and made a lot uglier, but based on Harvey Weinstein's face.

Interesting. Got a hustle from Jackson over a weekend. To pitch an entire franchise to a new company and get that signed i know and most production companies came back and said no there's no way in hell we're gonna do three because that's a huge commitment financially yeah it would be massive huge yeah so it's really interesting i like that doing that series on netflix which is behind what i forget the name of the movies that made us yeah and it's all the basically all the shit that goes on behind the scenes.

Really? And you're like, how do any movies actually end up being finished? Is that just because so many people? It's just drama. Oh, wow. And you get too many cooks in a kitchen. Yeah, too many opinions. Who was, speaking of Sir Peter Jackson, was it Ben Barrington who's on Shorten Street?

He's got a great story. He was telling us about how he was basically an extra on Lord of the Rings, and he was acting, thinking he was doing his best acting. He was getting his big break. He was like, I'm going to give this my all. Get noticed. And this massive battle scene with hundreds and hundreds of people for Lord of the Rings.

And then Sir Peter Jackson's like, stop, stop, stop. I want to talk to you. And he's like, ooh, I've impressed him. So this is in front of heaps of people. A whole crew. He's like, what are you doing, mate? He's like, acting, acting, great acting. He's like, no. He's like, you know, the whole crew. He's like, what are you doing, mate? He's like, I'm acting, acting, great acting. He's like, no.

He's like, you've ruined the shot. Whatever you were doing was wrong. Apparently it was... Just roasted him. Oh, my goodness. Apparently he was acting too much. Oh, my goodness. He's like, whatever you're doing, do the opposite of that.

Oh, that's so sad. You'd hope that you'd be in like a really Really well done makeup and disguise That no one actually knew who you were Yes you'd be deflated after that Yeah You wouldn't be giving it your all in the next take I'm just sad at the back guys That's so sad

At least you made it on Scotland Street Exactly it's awesome As painful as entering a password on your TV remote One letter at a time. Jono and Vee and New Zealand's Breakfast. Now, I know we're in school holidays at the moment, so this is not affecting New Zealand right now, but it will in a couple of weeks.

There's a story in the UK. A school has banned parents from wearing their pyjamas when dropping their kids off in the morning. So it's gone. Parents were turning up, not all parents, but a few, you know, in slippers, pyjamas when dropping their kids off in the morning. So it's gone, parents were turning up, not all parents, but a few, you know, in slippers, pyjamas. Oh, parents were wearing their pyjamas? Yeah.

Oh, not the children. Not the children. I always love seeing a parent in pyjamas because I think, well, at least I'm not as low as you. It makes me feel better about my shallow self. Well, that's basically what the school have said. They've said, look, it doesn't take too much to put some clothes on and come to school uh now some of the other parents are into this idea others are like we'll let them wear what the heck they want if they want to turn up to school

in pajamas does it really matter i like the thrill of doing this but just dropping them off not getting out of the car because the thrill is will anything could go wrong at any moment you know your cat your friend was in his underwear and had an accident. It was a towel. He just got out of the shower to drop his partner off. He's like, I'm not getting out of the car. I'll get in with a towel. He had an accident and had to stand out and have a conversation

about insurance. He's like, I'm just wearing a towel. It's thrilling. And it's far safer than having an affair. So if you want to put some excitement in your life Just drive around in your car in your underpants Five words for 5k on the hits You're only five words away from a massive payday

It is our Game of Words Association We play it every morning, 7.45 We give you five words You tell us the first things that pop into your head And then we play the same game One of us plays it And for all five words match you win $5,000. Let's bring Hayley on from the Tron.

Welcome to the show, Hayley. Good morning, guys. I've been training hard for this last Thursday. I listen to almost every game. Oh, we did the nonstop must-win five words last Thursday. Is this Hayley from Hamilton? It's Hayley from Hamilton. Hell yeah.

Happy Hayley from Hamilton. The three H's. Now, Hayley, I had a dream last night about you and giving you a lot of, I know it's weird, a very specific dream, and giving you $5,000. I actually dreamed about you guys too. So if you were going to send anyone into the booth today, I've had an epiphany. Oh, really? Well, I felt like you were going to carry on there, Jono.

Oh, did I stop mid-sentence? Yeah, but it's not up to you, Jono. No, who's going into the booth, Hayley? Jono, please. I feel like I bullied her into that. Was that in your dream? That she was going to see me into the booth? Yeah.

No, it was actually you that were going to win the fight. But anyway, I don't know why you were in my dream as well. Jono's making his way to the soundproof booth. Obviously, you know how the game works, Hayley. I do. All right, here we go. Here's your first word this morning. Mister.

Mister. M-I-S-T-E-R. Mister. Mister. Or you could go M-R for a mister as well, right? Mister. I've got two. One is missus and one is minute.

Oh, yes. They're two very good options. I'm going to go with missus, please. one is missus and one is minute oh yes there are two very good options i'm gonna go with missus please okay missus uh wand is the second word w-a-n-d wand magic so far so good hayley picnic a very topical word today picnic um a picnic basket or picnic hamper you just gave away oh yeah you're right maybe hamper please okay uh pineapple is the first uh fourth word this morning pineapple pineapple lump oh yeah great yum And lotion is the final word. Lotion. I was going to go body lotion. I thought you just said sun lotion. I don't think we call it that.

Body lotion. Okay, all right. Hey, well done. You did really well there. I think you've got a good shot here, but it all depends on Jono, and he had a dream last night. Did you put a mirror in that booth? Because I had a good shot here, but it all depends on Jono, and he had a dream last night. Did you put a mirror in that booth? Because I had a good, long, hard look at myself, Ben, and I feel confident. You feel confident? Yeah.

How did Hayley go? I think really well, actually. It's all yours to lose. She's done all she can. This was in my dream as well. Ben was saying this to me as well in a threatening manner in my dream. Alright. Mr. is the first word this morning-i-s-t-e-r mister or you could have m m-r is the other word we thought mister

i've got two one is a simpsons character okay yeah and i'm assuming that's not it, because you went, oh, okay. Oh, no, I was just like, yeah, I'm a very good actor. You said that in the manner that it's definitely not Mr Burns. Did I say it in a way that had never been brought up before? Okay. I'll go, and then the other one's just gone the opposite, so Mrs was the other one.

I'll lock in that. Yes! Well done. Mr Burns. No one's spoken, Mr Burns. Second word this morning is wand. Magic. Ooh, Hayley!

Picnic is word number three. Picnic, Jono? Only because we made one about 20 minutes ago. Basket. Oh! I thought you made a hamper 20 minutes ago. It was a basket 20 minutes ago. I thought we put together a hamper too, Hayley.

It was a picnic basket. Isn't this in your dream? It's both. It is both, but I thought we put together a picnic basket. I can't remember what was in a hamper. Maybe we were putting together a hamper. But it's still a basket. I get it.

Oh, Hayley. I'm sorry. It's okay. What about the other two? I also disappointed you in my dreams as well. I'm sorry. What about the other two? I also disappointed you in my dreams as well. This happened too. Pineapple. Lumps.

Lump. And lotion. Body. You were close. Close. You were so close. It was an S in a basket that let us down. Hey, Hayley, have a great day.

Thank you so much for listening, and hopefully we'll get to do it again with you soon. Thanks for letting me play, guys. Have an awesome morning. You too, mate. Appreciate you listening. The Head Spy with McDonald's Monopoly. Peel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes.

All right, this is hardcore celebrity news at its hardest. If you want the softcore stuff, then tune in after 8 for Jono Pryor's softcore celebrity news. In the meantime, the hard stuff with Juliet. What's happening? Very important hard stuff. Adele is, in fact, releasing new music. So the other day I mentioned that Mysterious Billboards

with just the number 30 had been popping up around the world and people thought that this might be Adele because historically all of her albums have been named a number. And also, who else could afford an international billboard campaign? Yeah, that's very true. You'd put that on Adele's team, wouldn't you? Yeah, yeah. And so she has posted a snippet to Instagram and Twitter

with a sort of tune of what looks like to be a new song. This is all she's released. Love it already. I know. I'm crying already. It's called Easy On Me, and it's going to be out on the 15th of October, so literally in like 11 days or 10 days or something.

Do you think she's going to continue to do the age thing? I think it would be cool if she did. No, Elton John, I was just thinking before, his albums would be 74 at the moment mick jagger would be 78 it would be quite funny but i think as an artist like it would be quite cool to look back on your life and be like i've got all this collection of music and i just know exactly when they all were yeah which is you know a time stamp in history isn it, for you? But, I mean, you get to 78, most of the songs are moaning about skateboarding kids, the buses are late. Why are the ads too loud on the chase?

My joints are sore during the winter months. That's very true. So very exciting for that, and I'm sure an album will follow as well after that song. Britney Spears has also thanked her fans for the Free Britney movement for changing her life. She said she's basically been crying two hours straight because of it and because of her fans and constant resilience and freeing her. Jesus, a lot of crying.

Two hours straight crying. I know. Non-stop crying. Yeah, well that's what she said. I guess in this case she's happy. Super happy. It's also been said that her new lawyer has had people come through her house and sort of sweep it for bugs and surveillance and sort of hidden cameras and things like that just to make sure that she will live a fully private life from now on.

Yeah, you'd be paranoid about that, wouldn't you? Oh, yeah. Did they find any bugs? Oh, I don't actually know. I just said the report was that they were going to do that. So with spying allegations apparently. Hopefully they don't find anything, but it's a good

thing to do. And if they do find actual bugs, rent-a-kill is always quite a good option. Yeah. Do one of those big bombs, get rid of it all. And so she gets full control as of now. She's free. So she's got a temporary sort of financial conservator, who's expertise is in finances,

but eventually he will hopefully step down and then she'll be free. Does she talk to her father? I don't know. I would doubt from now on she would have much communication. It's pretty awkward. Yeah. Family Christmas and stuff, you'd be like, hey, so.

How about that $60 million fortune? Here's a gift I bought and I didn't have to run it past you. Yeah, I know. That'll be an interesting family. You know how the families send out the emails of what they've all been up to for the last 12 months? Yeah. So, managed to acquire my $60 million of debt. Although you probably already know that already.

And that is your Spy Update this morning. Thanks to McDonald's, you can download the McDonald's app and play and win prizes with the Monopoly game at Macca's. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is The Hits. Kia ora, good morning. Just gone to 8 o'clock. Of course today is the day that Aucklanders after 50 days in lockdown have

a little bit more freedom. Basically it's picnics. Picnics and social gatherings outside and just after 7 o'clock today we put together the ultimate picnic basket slash hamper, depending on what word you want to use in five words. And this was some of the suggestions we put together. A bottle of moe. Oh, Linda.

Linda. Sarting. Sainte-Blanc would be good. A nice fresh bit of salmon would be all right. A couple hundred grams of shaved ham. A bottle of kombucha. Oh, we're hanging up on Paula. Oh, no.

Paula, right? Paula's one of those nice cheese platters. Oh, lovely. Yeah, great taste there from the hits audience. Cultured pellets phoning through on 0800 Hits. And we're going to give away the platter, too. The basket, the picnic basket. Gail, who phoned through with a champagne suggestion.

It's been decided you've got a picnic basket, Gail. That is excellent. I'm so looking forward to using that. Yeah, you head out to Long Bay, sit on the beach. Been on the beach every single morning for a walk since lockdown started, and it'll be nice to have a picnic there. There you go. Meet with 10 friends and all sit strangely two metres apart on your separate blankets.

That's all right. It'll be a lot more comfortable strangely two metres apart on your separate blankets. Yeah. That's all right. It'll be a lot more comfortable after we've drained the wine from the picnic basket. Oh, enjoy that. Thank you so much for listening to the show, all right? Yeah, cheers, guys. Thanks very much. Really appreciate it.

Next, we have the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. We're going to put some tough questions to the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Like, why is the South Island still in Level 2? Well, why is everyone outside of Auckland and Waikato still in level 2? It seems like a fair question. How do you vaccinate gang members who don't want to be vaccinated? Can you use someone else's bathroom? And also what would she put in a picnic hamper? Actually, we asked her that once. She phoned through before.

This is her answer. Jacinda, sorry, you've just phoned up. We're creating the ultimate picnic hamper right now. What do you want to add into the mix? We've got $9 more to spend to reach our $100 budget. $9? Yeah, what are we chuck to spend to reach our $100 budget. $9. Yeah, what are we chucking in? The Prime Minister's choice.

The cheapest Chardonnay you can find. Oh, a cheap Chardonnay. All right, we'll end it with a cheap Chardonnay. There we go. No, $9 Chardonnay. You're blocking your nose and shutting your eyes with that one. Jono and Ben's McDonald's Monopoly. Peel and win.

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and you can play it right now. $107 million in prizes and we play it virtually each morning. You ought to guess where we are on the Monopoly board. Jeez, we're going to win some great prizes. Vouchers for treadmills, vouchers for shopping, vouchers for vouching if you ever need anyone to vouch for you in a couple of years' time. We've got it all right now and we put a clue on the Hits Instagram last night, a visual clue, but we also have a vocal clue from Ben.

The marabou limit. The marabou clue. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200 is the first clue this morning. And normally people go to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram. Give it a follow if you go there. And you can get those clues. A really, really helpful clue.

Amber. Yes. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast. Where are you? I'm in Hamilton. So I've, you know, we've obviously joined in lockdown with the Aucklanders. So I feel like I know the answer to this because I feel like it's relevant. Yeah, right.

Welcome to the party, firstly. Yeah. Thank you. What's the answer? Well, it's Mount Eden Prison, I think. And I feel like I'm in prison. Yeah, well done. Lockdown has that bit of the same feeling right now.

You are correct, so let's find out what you've won. Okay. Ah, it's a Weber Original Barbecue, the kettle barbecue from Weber. So that's pretty awesome. That is so cool. What is it? I always hear about Weber's and people love it, mate. You bought a lesser barbecue and everyone was was like why didn't you get a Weber

I got shamed I'm terrible with meat but we'll see how we go I don't even have a Weber but I joined in on the mockery with you it's your mob mentality stuff I'm sorry Ben, I mocked you for your BBQ hey Amber well done on that BBQ you're not in prison, you can go out and have strange picnics

with 10 people it's a little bit weird because I've got a three and a half, half month old, and I'm like, oh, do I go out and about? So I'd probably put myself in my own prison. Yeah, right. Have an indoor picnic. Cook your barbecue on the inside. Or go to Weber.

You go to Weber now. Well done. Enjoy that. Have a great day. Thanks so much for listening to the show. And you can download the McDonald's app to play and win prizes with the Monopoly. The Monopoly game at Macca's. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime.

Some might say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. Almost the end of our show. Now, one of the things I enjoy about watching little human beings grow up is they have no concept of what it means to throw someone under the bus do they no no idea they no idea of the repercussions you know the damage to

their brand being known as someone who throws someone under the bus yeah so poppy last week did her schoolwork and it was on me to take photos of it upload it and put it on like a shared google drive right now you know the weekend got away on me you know doing what yeah just beer stuff beer stuff you're not really a safe pair of hands in that regard no i mean you know me uh yeah would you trust me to upload your work no anyway uh it came tuesday she's like did you upload the work and um i said no i hadn't darling and she's like all right give it to me i'll do. And she typed the email to her teacher. Hi, Mrs. Rope, here's my work from last week. Sorry it's late.

It's all of my dad's fault. All of my dad's fault. Well, whose fault was it? Well, it was all my fault, but you don't have to go and publicly state it was my fault. Oh, she was an honest excuse. Yeah, pinning it on the old man. Now, can I chime into this email exchange and go,

hey, well, to be fair, you know, I was six beers deep. Oh, yeah. To be fair, I don't know if it was such a great look. Not really helping yourself out there. That's pretty much our show. We'll catch you tomorrow. Tomorrow we have someone claiming to be James Bond's stunt double and someone who claimed to be a 25 millionaire overnight.

One's telling the truth, one's telling a lie. That's tomorrow on The Hits. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh.