Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono's Phone Is Blowing Up With Calls From NZ Celebs

Episode Date: February 18, 2022

We introduced a new game called "Close Contacts", where Ben took Jono's phone, called a Kiwi celeb, and Jono had to awkwardly chat with them until he could guess who he was speaking to. But the repercussions of this game caused Jono's phone to blow up! We also heard an outrageous story from Alicia about the circumstances in which she gave birth, and Ben's been caught out by his daughter for faking something. It's a goodie today! Enjoy the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vans with the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, 18th of February. Wow. Yeah, it is 18th of February, isn't it? Yeah, you're right. You've got 10 more days of good deeds to go you brought up on the show today. Yeah, we're doing 28 of them over the 28 February days.

And this actually has been fun. It's been fun. I thought, given our track record, we would have petered out by the 13th or 14th. That's what I would have thought. We start things with gusto and then we just quickly lose interest in stuff and we shouldn't. The key to success is repetition and doing things well and consistently, which is something we don't do. We're like, oh, we did that once and now we're bored of it.

There's probably a lot more. Well, the other bone in contention, and a big shout out to John, our US correspondent in Portland, Oregon. He's got one bugbear with the show. It's that we started a segment called the A to Z of New Zealand, where we would phone every town through the alphabet, A through Z of New Zealand. We were going to do one a day and work our way systematically through the alphabet.

And we pulled out. We didn't even reach the M's I don't think. No. And John is... He's like, come on, pick it up. He even did research for us. Yeah, he's like he tried to give us the halfway pep talk. He was like, come on, here's some more numbers. I've done some research into who you can call here. He put his own blood, sweat

and tears into it. And we did that. We called his numbers and then we picked it out again. I think one day in the future we need to get in here and just start again and just do it and knock it off in however long, 12 hours or whatever, how long it takes us. People can call up, where are you from mate? I'm from Marsden. Great, tick it off the list. People can call us as well as we call them. Oh we just do it in one hit. Just get A to Z, get it done in a day. No, that's not a bad idea. You start, but people call up.

We're like, oh, you've had something from there? Oh, we haven't? You know, at Plus we can call people. Okay. A lot of working behind the scenes while songs are on, but we just nail the whole thing. That's not a bad thought. Get it off our to-do list.

Yeah. You know? That's a, yes. I like those high impact things. Yeah. Short, sharp, you've done it. We could do that. You don't have to stay awake all night.

We just start in the morning and just get it done when we get it done. And if people are calling us up, it's going to be helpful because we're not just bugging everyone. Hey, we're getting a lot of calls coming through the studio. Oh, I'd say probably, I don't think it's for the podcast. Well, should we see? I think it's probably for Lib Free, but you're going to give it a go. Hi, Joe. What are you calling for?

It's Jono and Ben here. You're in the middle of our podcast intro. Oh, I'm ringing up for Fleetwood Mac's The Lies, Lies, Lies. Oh, The Lies, Lies, Lies. I think they've got a winner. Well, they've got someone in the draw for that. Okay. Because we're doing a competition at the moment where we, you know,

we look after your rental mortgage for an entire year. Lib free. Yeah. Yeah, you know that. You're ringing up for it, aren't you? Yeah. Anything you want to say to the podcast audience there, Jo? No, not really.

Have a great day. No, it's Friday. It's Friday. It's Friday, yeah. Well, you said some stuff. What do you mean, no, not really? You had a great message. Yeah.

It was a good message. I love it. Talk to you. Have a great weekend. Cool. You too, guys. Thanks. Bye.

There you go. And that's, you know, sometimes that happens. You talk to too, guys. Thanks. There you go. Sometimes that happens. You talk to the customers, don't you? See, on that occasion, we could have asked her where she was from. She would have gone, no. Where was she from? Do you know? No, I didn't ask. That's not a good start. That would have knocked it off the list in our A to Z

in a day. But anyway. That's a good thought. We might peter out on that thought as well, but there's something for you right now. We had a fun show today. Spoke to a lady, told us an incredible tale of her birth and what she had to do. Like, this is...

Oh, yeah. Unless she was on her own. Like, if she was on her own, I'd be like, okay, I understand why you had to do that. But he was there. Her partner was there. Yeah, it was amazing. As well as the fact that we've had your phone ringing non-stop since the show started.

Yeah, Ben took a hold of my phone. He plugged it in. And it was a game called Close Contacts. So he went through my contact list. And you phoned people. And I didn't know who you were calling. Many of which didn't answer initially. But now they keep calling back.

Going, hey, mate. Sorry I missed a call from you. Yeah. And people are vaguely like, I've probably never called but just got their number in my contact. Yeah, and they're like, oh, what's this all about? And now they're... I think as many think it's a business opportunity. It's the opposite. Anyway,

have a great weekend, oi. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It is your Friday morning on The Hits, Jono and Ben, 606. How's everyone feeling this morning, alright? Going alright. Friday's always a good feeling, you know? Oh, so good. I feel so much more awake today. Ready to take on the day.

It's definitely the best day of the week, isn't it? Don't say that to the other days. I might get a complex about it. Well, Monday gets a bad rap, doesn't it? It does. You know? I'll be here. You know, I'm just starting things off.

I don't have a choice where I go. But, you know, it was like, you know, you could have had very easily the weekend could have been Sunday and Monday, let's say, you know? And then all of a sudden we'd be like, oh was like, you know, you could have had very easily the weekend could have been Sunday and Monday, let's say. And then all of a sudden we'd be like, oh, Tuesday. But Monday gets better. I didn't choose this. You're right. Yeah, no, you're right.

It was right. Let's spare a thought for Monday. Let's not think about it now, though. It'll just make us sad. Let's enjoy Friday. Yesterday driving home, experienced a – this is a first for me on the roads And jeez I've done some stuff on the roads Ben

You know that Wild stuff You have Stuff we can't talk about Yeah Ben doesn't like following me anywhere Because I treat him like he's An undercover FBI agent chasing me

And I'm always trying to shake him off my tail I honestly do feel like he's trying to lose me I'm like I'll follow you out there Then I'm like oh god where'd he go Where'd he go Switching three lanes on the motorway at a time Yeah I honestly do feel like he's trying to lose me. I'm like, I'll follow you out there. Then I'm like, oh, God, where'd he go? Where'd he go? Switching three lanes on the motorway at a time. Yeah.

But yes, so sitting at traffic lights, I was second behind pole position, and there's another car, four cars back. The light goes green, and for whatever reason in this country, we love nothing more than if the first vehicle doesn't take off like Lewis Hamilton in a Formula One race, love nothing more than hitting that horn. Some people are quick on it, aren't they? This is the thing. Like a buzzer on the chase or something.

They're ready to go, yeah? Four cars back from the start line, someone is honking, and light has literally, I don't know, like literally just turned green. Bang! I was like, wow. You've got to admire that impatience. Wow. Yeah. You don't like the horn.

No. He treats the horn like some sort of unusual reptile he's afraid to touch. I want the second option. Just a little, a polite little one. Because sometimes you go for a polite little. Yeah. Mate. There should be a polite horn

And it sounds aggressive and other times it's too quiet Same thing yesterday I was just walking To get one of the kids from school A guy on the horn Someone had stopped kindly To get some people like a family Bikes across the road And they stopped mid-road

But the guy just 20 seconds I was like is that Jono? It wasn't stopped, but the guy just 20 seconds. I was like, is that Jono? Is it Jono? It wasn't you. One of the joys of being a motorist in New Zealand is putting unnecessary pressure on other motorists. Oh, my God. And when you're at the front of that queue at the intersection, you know it's on you. You know all eyes are on you.

It's like when you get stuck in the middle of the intersection and the light phase changes. Oh, I hate that. It's a lonely place. Oh, hate that. It's a lonely place. Oh my goodness. It's a lonely place. Everybody is staring at you. But sometimes they don't even give you the courtesy of honking their horn. They just drive right up to you. I can't move.

Unusually close and just sit there eyeballing you. And you can't look at them. You don't want to look at them. You don't want to look anywhere else apart from that. Oh, good luck driving to work this morning if you are doing that. Next, a Tinder date that ended up with a baby being born. Very unusual one. I'll tell you that next. It is the hits.

Scrolling through your feed. He's the father of two children and one illegitimate baby. And that baby is this news bulletin. Ben Boyce, what's been happening? Well, the latest news is New Zealand's on track to see 10,000 COVID cases a day, which will probably be happening by mid-March, experts predict. And I guess with 1,500 cases yesterday, that's probably likely. You know things are getting spicy when everyone knows someone who's got it now.

Yeah, that's true. Things are kicking off, and that Castle Street outbreak sounds like a blast. Oh, that's happened, yeah. We missed that. And so in Dunedin, it looks like there's COVID spreading around, and it seems like Castle Street had like a four-day, almost, bonanza of a party.

Yeah, it said if you were at this location or this party between like the 16th and the 20th, a party that just didn't stop for four days this is a thing called flow week which is um a flatting o week so all the second year students go down the week before o week and just party for a week straight and then they've got o week the next week after that so they're just partying for two weeks constantly so this is a very normal event so this is like the canapes to the big party. Yeah, it is. But that goes on for four days. Yeah, pretty much.

She's some wonderful stamina there. Maybe not so much now with Omicron. Yeah. Might be a bit wheezy. And an Australian, a 25-year-old Australian, has been hailed Man of the Year in Australia. And so he helped his Tinder date give birth. Now, he'd been on three dates with her.

Their fourth date involved him. He was going to pick her up from the airport She'd been on a work trip And then they were going to go out together After he picked her up Her water broke And he ended up having to take her to the hospital He stayed with her pretty much for the whole birth

And the rest He was a support person And for the whole week He was sort of with her at the hospital Go get her McDonald's and stuff And she said how awesome it was He was there to support him through this So that's pretty cool

So did she put that on her profile? Waters might be breaking. You'd want to know that, wouldn't you? She's still looking for love while she's in there going, yeah, he's all right. It's another option. Actually, you're a doctor. You're probably a...

Yeah. But that's very cool, actually. He stuck around. The people in the hospital actually thought he was the father. But he wasn't the father. But he just stuck around and made sure she was fine. And who knows? There might be a blossoming relationship from this.

Wow. And if not, she got some free McDonald's. So, you know, the shocking thing is this date he took her to McDonald's. Well, no, no. And when she was in the hospital, he got her McDonald's. Oh, because she wanted it better, you know. That was, no, it wasn't like that. Hey, you can bring some restaurant quality food.

That's obviously what she wanted. And that is a... At least a Denny's meal or something. Scrolling through your feed. Before 7 o'clock on the show, you've actually got lost in an internet hole, but a very interesting one. Yeah, because we were talking yesterday

after we heard a song by Dr. Dre or something. Oh, yeah, it was from the Super Bowl. Why didn't they call it the Snooper Bowl? Snoop Dogg. Do it again and we'll do it with the pun. But then we discovered that Dr. Dre's, most of his lyrics in his song D.R.E. were written by Jay-Z. And then we were like, other songs that have ghostwriters

written by famous people for other famous people. Some interesting ones. That's ten minutes away. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben. Brought to you by Rizzo. Hey, this is the Google game.

Great game, this. We haven't played in a while. It's quite fun. You call us up, ask us a question. We've got 10 seconds to Google the answer. If the Wi-Fi is a bit shaky and we don't get it, then you win a prize. It's as simple as that. Should we give it a bit of a test run here?

Okay, Ben Boyce. I'm a huge consumer of soda. Who is the biggest soda supplier in the world? Ten seconds to Google it. Soda company, soda company, soda company. You'd find that PepsiCo is the largest soda

company in terms of the brands it contains. Oh, is it bigger than... I guess because soda being referred to as, like, soft drink as well. Yeah. Are they bigger than Coca-Cola? According to this, according to the first thing that popped up on the Google, you would have thought Coca-Cola would be bigger. You just called it the Google, too.

Let's do that again. Actually, here's one for you. I'll give you 10 seconds to Google this question. What is Google named after? Where did it get its name. What is Google named after? Where did it get its name? What is Google named after? It's the name of the mathematics, and there's a word called Gogol, which was introduced in 1920.

It's a mathematical reference. Okay, I didn't know that. I was just, yeah, well done. I didn't know I had to read it in such a rush. You get panicked, eh? You panic when you're looking, and then you panic read the answer as well. It's unnecessary pressure. So we've had to get our fingers such a rush. You get panicked, eh? You panic when you're looking and then you panic read the answer as well. It's unnecessary pressure. So we've had to get

our fingers all warmed up. Hot fingers this morning. Formula One fingers. Ready to go, Georgia. Welcome. How are you? Good, how are you? Yeah, I'm doing well.

You're in Wellington this morning? Yeah. You're protesting? How's it going? Ah, I'm poor. Not quite there, not quite there. I was saying before, we get such a great reaction on social media from the protesters.

Like our insights are through the roof. We need to be the only pro-protest show in the market. No, we're just neutral. We just put stuff out. They'll get you some hits though, Ben. Don't get me wrong. All right, Georgia, what's your question? We've got 10 seconds to Google the answer.

Alright, who is Granny Smith? Go Ben, who is Granny Smith? Isn't the apple? Yeah, Granny Smith. Is it named after someone? Granny Smith is known as the apple, as the apple cultivator which originated in Australia in 1866. It's named after Maria Ann Smith who propagated the apples from seeding. So she's an actual person, but I didn't get there in the 10 seconds.

Oh, that's really interesting. There is a Granny Smith. Or Maria, was her name. Was she a granny at the time, or did they just sort of age shame her? Maybe she looked old. Maybe she was aging like me. Did you know there's 7,500 varieties of apples? Wow.

So many, eh? They kind of inbreed them, don't they? They take a bit of one and mix them together. Hey, well done, Georgia. That gets you hell pizza. Thanks for playing. Sue. Sue in Morrinsville.

Where's our mate, Sue? Just got out of bed. Oh, freshly woken, Sue. Had your coffee this morning? No. There's a photo of Granny Smith I'm looking at. She looks miserable. It's back in those days, you know, where no one smiled in photos.

Oh, yeah, black and white photos. Yeah, she's like, this is a nightmare. She's wearing like a bonnet that a baby would wear, and she's just like, oh, end it now. She's like Prince Philip was towards the end. Okay, Sue, what's your question? We've got 10 seconds to Google the answer. Who is the most popular Sesame Street character?

Most popular Sesame Street character. That would be, Sue, the Cookie Monster. Oh, really? There was a survey done, and the Cookie Monster was the favourite by about 25%. Really? I would have thought Elmo would have been up there, you know? Yeah, Elmo's lovable.

Cookie Monster's very charismatic, mate. Didn't get a lot of cookies in his mouth, but not eating them. would have been up there, you know? Yeah, almost lovable. Cookie Monster's very charismatic, mate. He's good. Didn't get a lot of cookies in his mouth, but not eating them. They're sort of very messy. Just a lot of wastage. Yeah. Not wasn't digesting many of them.

So Ben Boyce, for whatever reason, feels some obligation to give everyone who comes on air a prize. It's just in his nature. We can do it on air or we can do it off air, Sue, but either way, you're taking home some hell pizza, okay? Thank you. Good on you, Sue. Have a great weekend, eh?

Try to. That's the Google Games. Next, found out some really interesting information about some of the world's biggest songs not actually written

by the artists who sung them. That's next. It is the hits. You got John, I'm Ben. Sam Fisher, Demi Lovato, it is the hits. Good morning. Do bed. Sam Fisher, Demi Lovato. It is the hits. Good morning.

Do you know how many people wrote that song, Ben? No, I don't actually. Four. Demi, Sam. Yeah. Guy called Jeff. Yeah, Jeff was involved. It's always good to get Jeff involved.

And Ryan. Okay. Four of them. And you don't think about it with songs, do you? You always assume that the artist who's singing the song wrote the song. Yeah, well, sometimes they redo songs from ages ago and you don't even know they were an original song. Yeah.

You know, for someone else. And there are things called ghostwriters. Now, these aren't people who put sheets on their head and write songs all dressed as ghosts. They're just writers who don't get much credit for writing the song. But I guess they would make a profession out of it, some of these people. But in some cases, famous singers write songs for other famous singers. Wow.

It happens a lot. We discovered yesterday after the Super Bowl show that Dr. Dre's career, his entire career, he's never written his own lyrics. He's like, I'm not a writer. He can produce music. Boy, and he's made music for so many artists, as you would have seen in the Super Bowl, you know? It's all pretty much his music, right?

But Jay-Z wrote all of his lyrics in the song D.R.E. Oh. Phone Jay-Z, say, do you write my song? He's like, well, you write your own song, you lazy. And so that got in a hole yesterday of songs that were written by other people. Now, Ben, one of your favourite celebrities, in fact, you're reading his biography at the moment, it's inspiring you.

Oh, Will Smith. Will Smith, yeah. This song, Getting Jiggy With It. Who was Getting Jiggy With It before he was? Well, Nas, the gangster rapper, wrote Getting Jiggy Witter and maybe he was like oh it's not quite as this is not for me

it's going to be a bad look if I sing this song this upbeat pop song but he did say he's like Will Smith actually wrote it along with him Nas was just in the recording studio

at the same time and he's like who's this guy having so much fun next door to me while I'm singing about shooting people and getting shot and it was Will Smith so then he spent three days time and he's like who's this guy having so much fun next door to me uh well i'm right you know singing about shooting people and getting shot and it was will smith so then he spent three days in will smith's studio he's like just having the time of his life writing this upbeat pop song

it was wonderful it was the best fun he's had writing a song ever yeah uh rihanna umbrella wrote and by erosion by written by a guy called The Dream Who's written a swag of pop songs Well Sia's the same right? Sia writes a lot of songs for a lot of people Clearly The Dream was left stranded with an umbrella one day And inspired that one Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars wrote Cee Lo Greens This is a Bruno Mars wrote Cee Lo Green's... This is a Bruno Mars song. But then, to make things even crazier, Cee Lo Green wrote Don't Ya by the Pussycat Dogs. Wow. It's interesting too. The song's got to be sung by... Bruno Mars could have sung the other song.

He could have done it himself. But you just don't imagine those people With the song even though he wrote it He also wrote Flow Riders Right Round This is a Bruno Mars Bruno is talented He is

If I could just have one of those songs I'd retire on it And R. Kelly wrote Michael Jackson's You Are Not Alone. Really? Now name two people Ben gets nervous about when I mention them. All in one sentence. R. Kelly and MJ.

Will we have any further comment? No, no. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it was a letter that R. Kelly was writing to Michael Jackson, You Are Not Alone. Okay, all right, all right. Moving on with that.

Some of that was interesting. Some of that we won't delve into. And we'll just keep moving on with the show. We've got some spy on the way for you, Juliet. What is on my spy list? Quickly say something. Jonah Hill, is he engaged? We'll talk about this before seven.

Is he engaged to your mum? That's not a joke. That's true. It is the hits. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-L true. It is the hits. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the B***h News. Here's some news stories that will be used as filler content at the end of the bulletin when Samantha Hayes had run out of proper news. Julia, what's happening?

So I've found some headlines, beeped a couple of the words out, and you guys have to guess what the true headline is. Your first news story. 19-year-old woman learns 13-year-old brother is actually... I'm going to say she learns her brother was six years younger than her. She was very bad at maths and she only just learnt that. That was actually the case. I'm going to go 19-year-old woman learns 13-year-old brother

is actually more annoying than she thought he was. 19-year-old woman learns 13-year-old brother is actually more annoying than she thought he was. 19-year-old woman learns 13-year-old brother is actually her twin. What? So, I looked at this article and was like, how the heck does this work? So, they were both conceived through the same round of IVF, but her brother's embryo was put in the freeze of her five years, and then she was popped in her mum. So, technically, they were conceived at the same time.

But different ages. But different ages and different pregnancies. So they could be twins. Not identical. You know what I mean? Yeah, I see. In a roundabout way, they're twins. This is a richer.

It truly is. In a roundabout way, they kind of are, but they're not. You could say that. You know, we were conceived at the same time. I mean, science could, yeah. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. It's a good claim, though.

It is a good claim. You got us with the clickbait here. Yeah, I know. I read the article, now I'm like, eh. Not as interesting. Okay, okay. I'll learn for next time. The next news story.

Gen Z are trying to stop a war by f***. Like I say, Gen Z, they're trying to stop a war they love their acronyms, don't they? You know, IRL and stuff like that, so they've started one called SWAB, Stop War OK Bitches and that's trending on Twitter and that's how they're going to stop the war, okay? I'm going to say

Gen Z are trying to stop a war by dancing to WAP on TikTok Gen Z are trying to stop a war by flirting with Vladimir Putin on Instagram. Okay. So they're thirsting over Putin by commenting on... So he doesn't have an official Instagram, but there's an Instagram that's got hundreds of thousands of followers

that is kind of under his name. So they think that it might be run by him. We're not sure. They're calling him Vladdy Daddy. War is bad, baby baby let's use words instead and vladdy daddy please don't hurt hurt us this isn't you um and it's literally i'll show you the instagram afterwards um all the comments are just people absolutely thirsting and saying please don't do this to us daddy uh and people are commenting imagine this in history books 50

years from now if this becomes the way they stop the war too, you know. Yeah, yeah. You've got to try everything, I guess. I love Putin for the fact that he is just shirts off, straddling horses, holding guns, fish as well. It's like he's, you know, a 25-year-old tradie on Tinder. Yeah, it does. Holding up a fish with a fishing rod shirtless. And he always looks like he's

wearing sunglasses he got from like the service station on the way there or so ones with flames down their arms yeah some of the world leaders these days my gosh how did we end up with them oh that was very interesting we got some spy on the way for you shortly including uh james bond getting to hang out with a queen yeah he spills the details on what it was like meeting her that's next, it is the hits. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz

And I spy with my little lie, producer Juliette Panic stealing some stories from the internet to read. What's happening? So there was apparently some rumours that Jonah Hill was engaged to his girlfriend. I didn't see these rumours when I was searching for spy, but he has seen them. And he responded on Instagram by posting, the rumors are not true. I am engaged, but not to my girlfriend. I'm engaged to your mom. I know this is shocking, but please respect our privacy at this time. And the location was your mom's house. And then he captioned it, Media, stop writing fake stuff.

It's corny. So that's his, honestly, if you don't follow Jonah Hill on Instagram, he is hilarious. He's really good in that movie. It's on Netflix, Don't Look Up. Yes. Very, very funny in that at the moment.

Love that movie. That is a great film. And such a good commentary on what's happening in the world at the moment. Yeah. Meryl Streep, she's the president of the United States. Yeah, I might have heard of her. Leonardo DiCaprio's in it.

Yeah, he's an up-and-coming actor. I thought Meryl was very good in it. She's kind of like the female version of Trump. Yeah, this bumbling president. And Jonah Hill plays her son, which is sort of akin to Trump getting all of his family into the White House and he's just the world's biggest asshole, Jonah.

It is so funny. It's very good. It is so funny. And Daniel Craig spoke to Stephen Colbert about his time meeting the Queen. So back in 2012 at the London Olympics, he played James Bond and did a sketch where he escorted the Queen via like a helicopter to the opening ceremony. And she sort of jumped out of a helicopter, didn't she, the Queen?

I think they, yeah, made her look like she did. I don't know. I don't know. I hear the Queen does all her own stunts. Yeah. But he spoke about what it was like to meet her and what she's really like in private. And I understand that you may not be able to answer this question,

but I'm going to ask anyway. What's she like in private? Very funny. Really? Very funny. She wants to crack a joke and craft a joke about me can you share with the joke yeah she said we were having our photographs taken as she just went under he's the one that doesn't smile fair enough that's nice nice crack there you go what are the corgis like in private I was rolling around on the floor with them most of the time. That's good.

I mean, they're just there. I think they have their own footman. I wouldn't be surprised. I'm not to be surprised by that. Someone was just looking after them, and they're very friendly. They're frolics with the corgis. That's cool. And she's very funny, very witty.

Because the corgis probably don't know that they're the Queen's dogs, do they? So, I mean, they're probably going around sniffing, you know what dogs do, Ben. I go to your house and Beau sort of zeroes in on a certain part of my body. Imagine if the Queen's corgis started doing that to you. You're right. You can't really, I mean, you can teach your dogs, but not to, you know, dogs are still dogs. They've got their instincts. You're right. And that is your Spy Update for this hour for more you can head to the hits.co.nz

of course Omicron is on the rise around New Zealand and we always talk about close contacts after 7 o'clock we've got a wee game we want to play called close contacts yes where we prank call people and say we've got COVID and you're a close contact and then we get their initial reaction it's raw it's raw. It's real.

No, that's not it. But it does involve awkward conversations to do with close contacts on our own phones. We'll do that after seven minutes. It is the hits, Jono and Ben. Of course, you know, Omicron in the community. A lot of cases yesterday, 1,500 cases. And a lot of talk about close contacts in particular. Yeah, there are.

And so we, well, you, in fact, wanted to play a game called Close Contacts. And I assumed that we'd be phoning people and saying we had contracted COVID and getting their reaction. We're not doing that. And then they can go, no, no, just kidding. While they're sobbing, we're like, no, no, it's all good.

No, no, we don't want to do that. It's got nothing to do with that. That's just the starting point. The name is Close Contacts, but we're like, no, no, it's all good. No, no, we don't want to do that. It's got nothing to do with that. That's just the starting point. The name is Close Contacts, but we're looking at your close contacts on your phone in particular because I have your phone over here right now. There's a lot of fun. I feel... Listen, to be honest, I'm not 100% cool with it.

I'm happy with sort of 78% of the content on there. I just don't hope you stumble across the remainder. So I've got your phone right now, and I'm scrolling through your contacts. And so what I'm going to do, we've found a way to plug your phone in through the radio desk. And this has been a game changer for us. So it looks like, because usually we call from the studio, it comes up private, but this looks like it's coming from whoever's phone. It comes up with your number.

Oh, it's really, it's changed the game for us. So I'm going to call one of your close contacts, someone at random, and you're gonna hopefully have a conversation with the person and you need to work out who this person is and they'll be like why why is johnny calling me it'll be it'll be awkward it'll be fun i can't wait all right yeah okay we'll go through here we go here we go i don't i honestly i don't call anyone apart from yeah you and my family okay okay okay well hang on all right, okay. A lot of people I've found have been trying this during the songs. A lot of people aren't

answering. It's like they're screening your calls. Can we try this other number here? Come on, pick up. Listen, I'd screen myself too. Sometimes I like to call myself and screen myself going, I don't want to talk to that idiot. I'm getting a real insight into it. No one really wants to answer your

call. I might be the only one that answers your calls. Can we try one more? This game might not be working. No one wants to talk to me. Hello. Hello. Hi. How are you? I'm good.

How are you? Is this good. How are you? Is this Jono? Yes. Hey, mate. Long time no hear. How you been, bud? Yeah, really good. Yeah, no, good, good.

How's work going? Work's going good, man. Still pumping along at the project and filmed the first step of seven days last night. Jeremy Corbett. Yes, he's seven days last night. Jeremy Corbett. It's Jeremy Corbett, my close contact. I was nearly asking how's the kids or family? Jeremy, sorry, you're part of a sick radio game.

We're playing close contacts. I've been on both ends of those. Where Ben had all the contacts on my phone, he was calling someone and I didn't know who it was going to be and I had to figure it out. All right. Okay, good.

You're quite good, though. You told your show you were on. Yeah, man. Always working. Always working. Now, not to scare you, you haven't been in close contact with me, and everything's fine on that front. But you have had that call before, just before the project, right?

You had to whip home. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it got before, just before the project, right? You had to whip home, home once before. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I got pinged just before the show. And the story about that was I'd done a big gig at Spark Arena, and someone was there. Anyway, I got pinged, and I had to leave right before the show.

As I was walking to get a test, I thought, well, you know, at least there'll be some publicity, you know? A TV presenter has to leave right before the show. Kiwi hero, national icon. But it was all about Hilary Barry because exactly the same thing happened to her. You can never beat Hilary. She eclipsed me.

She eclipsed me. Did you get any coverage, Jeremy? Nothing. Nothing. You get an interview six months later on the hits about it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. Oh, Jeremy, love your work.

Oh, yeah, back at you, guys. Great stuff. See you, Jerry. There we go. Our first close contact game. You worked out pretty quickly. It was Jeremy Corbett. Yeah, well, thanks to him naming both the shows he hosts conveniently.

Yeah, well, I definitely wasn't. That couldn't have gone any better for me. Here's the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. I'm just walking down these city lines. Yeah, I'm just trying to find my way. That's all she wrote. That's all she wrote.

It's 6.60. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, we're playing a wee game called Close Contacts where I had Jono's phone and he didn't know who, which one of his contacts that I was calling. Yes, we plugged the phone in, so it looks like when we dialed that it's me calling these particular people and I've got to try and figure out who he's calling. And you phoned a slew of numbers before finally someone answered.

How are you? I'm good. How are you? Is this Jono? Yes. Hey, mate. How you been, bud? Yeah, really good. How are you? Is this Jono? Yes. Hey, mate. How you been, bud? Yeah, really good. Yeah, no, good, good. How's work going? Work's going good, man. Still pumping along at the project and filmed the first step of seven days last night.

Jeremy Corbett. Yes, he's got it. It's Jeremy Corbett, my close contact. Yeah, he worked out it was Jeremy Corbett. You can tell the higher the voice goes, the more awkward he's like about why is this guy phoning. Why does he have my number and why is he calling me? The fun thing that I found about this guy, because I tried about 10 different people, your phone just keeps ringing off the hook.

Yeah, I mean, this isn't a victimless prank, Ben. It's going again. Someone's calling back. There is collateral from your prank. Oh, can we answer this? You don't know who this is. See if you can work out this person. Okay.

Hey, bro, it's Di here. I just missed your call. Oh, Di, it's Jono. Now, sorry that you're part of this collateral. Firstly, how are you, bro? Oh, good, man. How are you going? Oh, good.

I hope everything's all right in your life, my man. Yeah, it's taking a long time. We actually were playing a silly game for radio called Close Contact where Ben had plugged my phone in, and I didn't know who he was calling, and I had to figure out who he called. So what's happened is he's dialed all these people in now who didn't answer initially, and now they're all phoning back. Now people are calling him back.

What does Jono want? Yeah, well, you know I'm one of the good ones, mate, because I return the call. Yeah, you're right. Say what you want about Henwood. He's going to return your prank call. This is the gift that keeps on giving this game, isn't it? You're going to be answering the phone and having a lot of nice chats. Yeah, you're going to have to do a lot of explaining.

Depending on how many punishes you've got in your phone book and how many calls I'm expecting at least another six to ten calls

a lot of people were screening me oh lovely to hear from you buddy hope you keep well take care brother that's the result

Ben stuff like that it's still coming through that's so much fun hey on the way for you

we've got another call another call here oh yes you don't know who this is all right see if you can work this out all right this is fun hello how are you hey mate how are you you're pretty good what's going on not much listen can i can i call a spade a spade? No, you can't. You can't. We were playing a game for the radio where Ben had plugged my phone in, and he was calling people from my contacts. It was called close contacts.

I didn't know who he was phoning, and then I had to try and figure it out. But what has since transpired is a lot of people were screening my call, about 10, and now we've got what we needed but people keep calling me back and it's this is Chris Parker yes you got it and this is the prank call that just keeps on giving

I love it how you been Chris? I'm pretty good you don't have this number saved no I can't see my phone he's still got my phone I plugged it through the DS so he doesn't No, I can't see my phone. He's still got my phone. I plugged it through the desk. So he doesn't know who I'm calling. Yeah, from his phone. Yeah.

This is just my daily life because I never save any numbers. And people call me and I'm like, don't know. Oh, so you didn't have my number saved? Yeah, I've got your number. Yeah, because you're a celebrity. You're famous. All the boring, normal people. Just 021s and 027s to you.

Yeah, exactly. Well, Chris, listen, firstly, can I say thank you for being very polite and calling back? Yeah. You're welcome. I'm not doing work at the moment. I thought, oh, God, here we go. Actually, I wanted to talk to you about that. I want to roll with you on it, but we'll talk about that off the air.

We can talk about that later. I love your work, Chris Parker. Thanks, guys. See you, matey. Thanks for the call. We can talk about that later. Oh, love your work, Chris Parker. Thanks, guys. See you, matey. Thanks for the call. Appreciate it. Bye. Such a fun day.

And that's going to continue on all morning. I'm sure of that. It is that. See you, John. I'm in bed. Scrolling through your feed. Here's Masterton's 43rd favourite son, who's probably more like a bastard child, but he has been voiced with the scrolling through your feed.

Of course, the Ministry of Health reported 1,500 cases of COVID yesterday, and the anti-mandate protest enters day 11 in Parliament. No sign of anything really changing there at the moment. If anything, it feels like it's going to be a permanent camping ground. Yeah, I think so. Even the Prime Minister's like, I know this is going to drag on, but I'm not talking to them. She's refusing to talk to them.

She's not going to drag on, but I'm not talking to them. She's refusing to talk to them. But at the moment, it looks like New Zealand sailor Sir Russell Cootes, he's confirmed that he will attend the anti-mandate protest at Parliament next week. In a post on social media, he said that while he is vaccinated, fully vaccinated, he's against vaccine mandates.

Which is, you know, not everyone's anti-vax down there. They're just, I guess, anti the vaccine mandates that are going on. So Cootsie, it doesn't seem like a location that a multi-millionaire yachtsman would blend in. Where's he going to park the yacht?

Do you park the yacht or moor the yacht? Excuse me, excuse me. You know? I mean, there's a lovely harbour in Wellington, but it's a bit far from... Because I know there's SailGP, which was a huge world-class event. Peter Burling, Blair Chuuk competing in that round the world. That was meant to be in Christchurch, I think, wasn't it?

That's right. It was coming through New Zealand, yeah. And that was canned because the sailors couldn't get through thanks to mandates and things. So he's going in there and going, hey, guys, you've made me miss out on millions and millions of dollars. I'm not happy about it. To add to my and things. So he's going in there and going, hey guys, you've made me miss out on millions and millions of dollars. I'm not happy about it. I have to add to my other millions. Oh, good.

You understand frustration from certain things. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of frustration out there, regardless of, not even with just the people protesting. There's frustration out there. And the spread of Omicron. Yeah.

Amongst everyone, the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Yeah. Goodst everyone, the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Yeah. Good times all around, Jono. It's fun. Good times all around. We'll look back on this and go, those were the good old days. Remember those days? They were great. There's that thing. There was a speech. Someone made a leaving speech once

when they were leaving a TV show and they said, you know, everyone goes on about the good old days. Maybe we are in the good old days. And these are definitely there. The good old days. definitely, Jono. And an unfortunate slip of the tongue has happened on the Today Show over in Australia. Now, host Ali Langdon, she was talking about,

they were doing a segment, they were talking about lawns, and she was talking about her cooch grass. Well, now, what she said was technically correct, but it was also cooch is a name for something else, and if you know, you know and her co-host definitely knew. This is like mine. And Daniel, I want to ask because my cooch is dying

and it's and what, like what? And I don't know. What have you been doing to it? If it's dying, it's pretty hard to kill Cooch. It's all over it. Okay.

That's possibly the best segment ever. I still don't understand. We'll have more great stuff after this break if we're still on air. What's the dog been doing to it? Yeah, it was on and then she got the dog involved. No, she didn't.

Yeah, really. Trump, the guy on the other end, was doing the interview as well. I mean, God, how desperate are they doing interviews on lawns? Sounds like something we would do. And that is scholarly theory for what's making news in New Zealand and around the world on these good times.

These great times. Just sing back. These will be those moments. It is that. It's got Jono and Ben. I got accused of faking something by my daughter yesterday. And it was one of those occasions where, and you're probably the same, Jono.

You talk and you fill silences with chat is what you do. And you talk. And sometimes you say stuff that's good, and other times you're like why did I keep talking yeah and that's pretty much this radio show at nine o'clock

you sort of reflect on the last three hours don't you and if anyone was going to call you out I imagine it was your daughter Indy yes it was

it was it feels like you've given birth to Heather Duplessy Allen or Tova O'Brien yeah she's very very diligent but she also loves

to know everything she wants to I can't wait until's very diligent, but she also loves to know everything. She wants to, you know. I can't wait till Indy discovers spreadsheets. She is going to love spreadsheets. She's already discovered Google Docs. She's got it all. I want to buy her her first power suit when she's 10 years old.

Yeah, so Indy, as I said, a very diligent student. She's the last year of primary school at the moment. Even when we had to wait until we got a negative COVID test the other day in the family, I'm like, hey, we need to stay home we had to like, wait until we got a negative COVID test the other day in the family, I'm like, hey, we need to stay home. She's like, what about my education?

That was what she said, first thing she said. And you never want to go, don't worry, it's only primary. Yeah. So true. So she's last year of primary school and before the end of the year,

they were, kids could nominate themselves for house captain, which is like a prefect. And, you know, and they had to put something together, all the reasons why they thought they would be good for it. So Andy was like, I want to go forward with this. And I helped her with a little application.

And yeah, she's doing some really cool things. Did she even use the phrase, I want to go forward with this? Pretty much. That was her tone. She taught me the phrase, I want to go forward with this. Yeah, so she helps out a kid, you know, every lunchtime once a week, she helps out a kid who needs supervision,

she looks after him. Oh my God, that's so cute. She's like a peer mediator, she's a library monitor. She really throws herself into school, which is awesome. So I'm like, oh, she should go for this. So she went for it. And then two days ago, we got a call, I got a call from one of the teachers saying,

hey, just to let you know, Andy. She's been smoking behind the box, she's like, wow, this was unexpected. An out of character. Yeah behind the box it's always the ones you don't think no no i got a call a lovely call from a teacher saying she's been selected as house captain and i was like oh that's awesome you know i was really you know so proud of her and i was really like kind of a little bit emotional when he was telling it he's like unfortunately you can't come in because of covid um but and you can't please don't let her i want it to be a surprise don't you don't let indy know that you know yeah um but she needs to wear her house top on this day

and and stuff so she went into school yesterday and i was really excited to pick her up because i knew and so i was like what happened today and she was like oh big smile beaming that she got house captain i was like oh that's awesome yeah that's great and then i kept talking i was like i was so excited about picking you up because when the school rang the other day, and as I said it, I was like, why am I saying this? Why am I saying all this stuff? But I was just filling the silence. And then Indy was like, oh, so you knew.

So you were just faking that reaction to me that you were excited and proud of me. And I was like, no, I'm excited and proud of you. But she was like, was that reaction fake? Because you knew that. It was just an acted reaction. I'm like, no, I'm genuinely so proud of you. And was like was that reaction fake because you knew that it was just an acted reaction i'm like no i'm genuinely so proud of you and it's so but it was a little bit fake because you had known for 48 hours yeah she's like does mum know too and i'm like oh god yeah she's we're gonna get home she's gonna fake excitement as well oh you've got us we're exposed

and what was such a lovely like heartfelt. I was like, oh my goodness. Yeah, you're right. She's like Heather Dupuisier. She's like calling me out. She should be the captain of your actual house. Run the mortgage repayments. Look after the monthly bills. I think she's going to right now. I was like, oh, there we go.

We've got $5,000 on the way for you very shortly. Five words, 5K. It is the hits. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000 on the way for you very shortly. Five words, 5K, it is the hits. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. Our game of word association, we play it every morning. If we match your five words with our five words, you win $5,000. Heidi, you're on the air. Wow.

Hi, how are you? Lovely to have you on. Let's head into the weekend by making our, bullying our accounting department into transferring $5,000 into your account, okay? That would be pretty good. In fact, how would you like this money? Would you like it to unmark bills, NFTs,

Bitcoin? Just straight into the account. Straight into the account, alright. Now you're a school teacher on the way to work. Yes, I am. How are you as a teacher on the front line with this whole Omicron business? It's pretty interesting. I mean, wearing a mask all the time and that is, you know, lots of fun, really.

And keeping the kids wearing a mask, I imagine, could be challenging. Oh, yes. Definitely. Yeah. It's a long time to be wearing a mask. It's a long day long. Yeah, I can't keep a mask on for five minutes. Yeah, yeah.

You really think about the kids, you know, the young kids wearing their masks all day, having to do that. Well, hopefully you're the only school that doesn't get any cases, Heidi. Yeah, it's fingers crossed. Oh, we'll keep our fingers crossed. All right. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth to match five words with? Jono.

Oh, Jono Pryor. All right. Heidi, you know how the game works, obviously? Yes. Okay, he is Pryor. All right. Heidi, you know how the game works, obviously. Yes. Okay, he is in the soundproof booth. And here is your first word. Let's see if we can get your five grand heading into the weekend. Sofa.

Sofa is the first word. Couch. Couch. Hilton is the second word. H-I-L-T-O-N. Hilton. Hotel. Hilton Hotel. Ferris is word number three. F-E-R-R-I-S.

Ferris. Wheel. Ferris wheel. Yeah. So far I think I've been a bit of a match to 100%. How about you, Ju? Same. Donut is word number four'. Dunkin' Donut, yeah. And binge is the final word this morning. Binge. Binge. Um, I was going to say alcohol or chocolate. That's a very New Zealand answer. I was going to say, um, binge.

You can binge lots of things, can't you? Um, oh, this is going to say You can binge lots of things can't you Oh this is going to be a hard one Yeah I think I'll go alcohol But I think that's not going to be the right one Well you know there's a lot of new stories About binging alcohol So yeah it might be right

We'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth And we'll see if he's thinking the same way as you Hydes Okay Heidi let's do it Come on enough of the soundproof booth and we'll see if he's thinking the same way as you, Hydes. Okay, Heidi. Let's do it. Come on. Enough of the nonsense. All right. Straight into it.

He means business. Here we go. No pussy footing around. $5,000. Let's try and win it for Heidi. Sofa is the first word. Sofa. Couch.

Well done. Well done. Hilton. Hilton. Hotels. What? What. What? What? Did you say hotel?

I was about to hit the dick. Yeah. That's why there was a bit of a delay in the young man. Did you say hotel, Heidi? I did. Oh. You know, he's got a, oh, he's still talking. Again, why do we keep talking?

It was hotel. Oh, I'm sorry.. Again, why do we keep talking? It was hotel. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, rattle through the rest. Ferris. It's all about the plural. Yeah, you would know that being a teacher. Singular or plural. Yeah, that's the base lesson.

Ferris wheel. Yeah. Not Ferris wheels. You don't want to put a wheels in there, mate? Dunk. Oh, jeez, I've screwed that one up for you. Donut. Dunkin'.

Yeah, yeah, we might not have said that But I gave it to you And binge Binge drinking Oh, alcohol Yeah, you were close Oh, Heidi On the same kind of wavelength Yeah

Just a couple of letters off Yeah, we would have been there You could have resigned from your job But that's not to happen You have a great day teaching And a great weekend, Heidi. Thanks for listening. Thank you, you guys too.

Thanks, Eve. Bye. We've got spying tournament news on the way. Yeah, Jake Gyllenhaal has broken his silence on Taylor Swift's 10-minute version

of All Too Well. Finally. We'll talk about that next. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. Getting into the weekend. We're doing well on the cricket

against South Africa and the Super Rugby starts this weekend in Queen the weekend, we're doing well in the cricket against South Africa and the Super Rugby starts this weekend in Queenstown, right? Oh yeah, they've got that little bubble going on, isn't there? Yeah. And I think everyone involved with all the teams have to stay there for three months, so you're talking physiotherapists. Really? Why did you do a list?

I don't know. You just said everyone involved in the team and now you're like... I started with physiotherapists. Yeah, well they're part of the team. Yeah, and I don't know where to go now. Let's go to this. Spy. Know what's up.

Spy.co.nz The ball inflators. They'll be there as well. They're not allowed to leave. We'll hand you over to Juliet, aka Israel Adesanya, who's about to roundhouse kick some celebrities in the guts. So, oh my goodness,

this is something that I didn't realise would happen, but Jake Gyllenhaal has broken his silence on Taylor Swift's All Too Well, the 10-minute version. Oh, so this is the song that she wrote that everyone said was about him, and it involved the scarf. The reed scarf. Was it his? Did he talk about the scarf? No, he didn't talk about the scarf, unfortunately. So he said it has nothing to do with me it's about her relationship with her fans it's her expression artists tap into personal experiences for inspiration and i don't begrudge anyone on that he said he did turn his instagram comments off when the 10 minute version was

released because everyone was just going in on him he did also say at some point i think it's important when supporters get unruly that we feel a responsibility to have them be civil and not allow for cyberbullying in one's name. So that might be a little dig towards Taylor saying maybe, you know, you should have told your fans to, you know, rein it in a little bit when it came to. What I like about the internet is it's always reasonable. People don't jump to their own assumptions without knowing full details of stories. And you can make an ill-informed decision and you can plaster it out there for the whole world to see. Totally. That's what I love about the internet.

And people bully, you know, they bully bullies and they all, you know, they're just like, just stop. I know, fighting fire with fire. He said he's in a good place now. He's got a good relationship now. He hasn't listened to Red Taylor's version, the re-release. Hasn't listened to red taylor's version the re-release hasn't listened to the 10 minute song i was watching a clip yesterday this guy was quite interesting who he must make youtube content or something he's like when people write mean things into his comment section he feels nothing but sorrow for them because he's like how bleak

is your life that the only joy you can get is writing something negative about something you're watching and the steps you have to go through to actually end up in that place. I know, I know. Like, what's the point? It's quite sad, really. And many times when he messages them back and he's like, hey, I'm so sorry you're that angry with life that you have to do this. And they're like, oh, no, no, it's all good, mate.

Really love your stuff. You're like, why did you do it? Because that's the thing, you don't have to comment on this. Exactly. You can just walk away. Close a laptop or whatever. Yeah, but what's fun in not commenting? It makes me feel't have to comment on this. Exactly. You can just walk away, close a laptop or whatever. Yeah, but what's fun in not commenting? It makes me feel better about my bleak life.

Yeah. And Seth Rogen has spoken about when he was younger, he was terrible at dating. He kind of didn't really know the rules and he shared this one very unfortunate but very funny story about when he was 20, he was casually sort of seeing a girl a few years older and this happened.

It was my birthday coming up. And so I asked her to, let's go to dinner on my birthday. And I was like, I'm going to ask her to be my girlfriend. And I asked her around when the appetizers were arriving and she said no. And then I started crying then I was like but also like I was like we need to eat like we can't leave like what

and she was like it's your birthday yeah and like there was a cake coming and so it's like so like I had to sit there. So, if you're watching, kids, don't ask that. And if you do, ask at the end of the meal. Very good. Then you can cry on the Uber on the way home. Yeah. It's the best way. He probably was going in with a lot of confidence, though, you know, thinking he should say yes.

Have you ever had to deny anyone like that? Not in person. It'll be like initial. Just on the internet comment section. Yeah, the internet comment section. A.K.A. when they ask for a second date on a dating app and I'm like, sorry, mate. No, you're a loser.

Nah, not for me. That is Spy for this hour. From where you can head to thehits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, we're going to do a good deed. We haven't got a good deed today. If you've got a good deed for us, 4487 on the text. We could be making a call and helping someone out after 8 o'clock. It is The Hits.

The Hits. That is a great song. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben, 8.05 on your Friday morning. This is Cliffhanger Calls. We get someone to tell a part of their story on 0800 The Hits and then we all decide together if we want to hear the rest of the story. We leave it on a cliffhanger and you decide if you want to hear the end

but we don't know where the story ends as well. So we are invested as much as you are. Yeah, it's like the foreplay of radio calls, isn't it? We do a lot of heavy lifting and then you decide if we've done enough heavy lifting and you want to see it all. That's not how I would describe it. A lot of times Ben and me end up crying in the corner.

That could happen. You can call an Uber home if you want. Let's go to the phones on 0800 of the hits. Alicia, hello. Good morning. How are you today? I'm good. You're in Wellington. I was in Wellington, yes, but not anymore. Where are you? But you've been to Wellington.

We always like to ask people. I've been to Wellington, yeah. We always like to ask people. I've been to Wellington, yeah. You always like to ask people if they've been to Wellington. I was in Wellington once too. Yeah, yeah. Oh, lovely. So Alicia, welcome to Cliffhanger Calls. What you're going to do is you're going to start telling a story and then we're going to stop you at a certain point and leave you hanging

off a cliff. Yeah, it's a show biz term, isn't it, Ben Boyce? Shortland Street do it every night, don't they? You want to tune back in the next episode. Well, do you in this occasion, because we're going to put it out to you guys on 0800THEHITS and you decide if you want to hear the rest of it. Okay, so Alicia, take it away with the first

portion of your story. Okay. I was pregnant and I went into labour. You went into labour, yeah? Yes, yes. I was quite far on. I was going to give birth

and then... Okay, so we're going to stop you there. She was pregnant. She was quite far along. What's the dilation here? What are we talking about? No, let's not talk about that. Let's leave some details out.

This is Alicia's privacy reasons. We might not go into that one. Okay, so this was first child, second child. Not that it particularly matters, I don't know, for the end of the story. But I'm just trying to ask something else that's not Jono's question. She's like, I can tell you. Okay. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, there you go. What he's trying to do, and it's happened a lot throughout our career, is he's trying to smokescreen the horrific crimes I've just committed. I'm like an embarrassing family member. Yeah. I've come through with a deep clean and making sure the place is looking better. All right. Okay, Alicia.

This is the cliffhanger. So Alicia's pregnant. We don't know how dilated. Stop saying that. And she needs to go to hospital quick smart. Okay. is pregnant. We don't know how dilated. Stop saying that. And she needs to go to hospital quick smart. So do we want to hear the rest of the story?

I am intrigued. Purely to get an answer for my question. I want to hear what happens next, but it's not up to us. 0800 the hits or 4487 on the text. Do you want to hear the rest of her story or not? If not, that's all we hear. That is it. We don't even know how this ends. Jono won't get an answer

to his question. And I won't be able to sleep. Which we won't be asking. But 0800 the hits. We'll do that next. Cliffhanger Calls. It's brand new Adele Oh my god it is the hits You've got Jono and Ben in the middle of a cliffhanger call We're back now with

Cliffhanger Call And We had the wonderful Alicia on the phone Just to quickly recap the beginning Of your story Alicia I was pregnant, quite pregnant, and I went into labour. She went into labour.

She needed to get to hospital, and that's where... We left you hanging. So, 0800 the hits. Do you want to hear the rest of Alicia's story for Cliffhanger Calls today? Give us a call. We'll go to the phones now. Martin and Whangarei, what are your thoughts?

Martin? Yeah, mine was my wife went into labour. She was pregnant with twins. Oh, listen, Martin, I think you missed the... We do want to hear this story. I do want to hear this story.

We'll stop Martin's story and we'll come back to him another time. You... Oh, yeah. But we do want to hear this story. I do want to hear this story. We'll stop Martin's story and we'll come back to him another time. Yeah. You hold there, Marty. We'll get Martin on at some stage. It's all right. We've left Martin on a cliffhanger. It's the inception of cliffhanging.

Shelley from Mount Maunganui, would you like to hear the rest of the story this morning? Absolutely. Why not? Okay. Alicia, the crowd has spoken. The protesters outside Parliament have demanded

they hear the back end of your story. It's going to happen. So you're pregnant. You need to go to hospital. You pick it up from here. So my then partner came home and I had to drive myself in rush hour traffic to the hospital. Why did you have to drive yourself?

Your partner was out there. He was sitting in the passenger seat. Does he not have a licence? Yeah he did, he just didn't like driving in Wellington. So I did it. Are you serious? You've driven yourself to hospital to give birth. What's he doing? We had to stop into Pack and Save on the way

so he could go and buy a disposable camera. So I'm sitting there waiting. Can we just swing by Pack and Save? It's meat week. It's meat week, yeah. He could drive, but he didn't like driving in Wellington. I understand sometimes cities is not for everyone, but surely on this occasion, he would have been up for it.

No? No. And you were okay with doing this? I was like, oh, whatever. So as you're driving, are you breathing? Yeah, I was doing the breathe. You're heavily in labour in peak hour traffic. So I got to the hospital.

When we eventually got to the hospital, I gave birth about half an hour later. Wow. So you really was, to answer Jono's question. It's not an answer Jono's question before. How dilated were you? Please don't tell me you had to drive home. I did.

You did? When did you drive home? Two hours. You've got to stay at the hospital for two hours after that. So, yeah, I drove home. You treated giving birth like a trip to Kmart. Yeah. Oh, my goodness, Alicia.

That is an amazing call. And so was Ian the passenger seat on the way home as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Incredible. We just popped down to the beer and grabbed a baby and then you know it's all over

wow that's incredible Alicia I'm so glad we got to the end of that story that's amazing cool you have a lovely weekend Alicia appreciate your time

no worries so good we got to sort out someone's good deed within the next 10 minutes don't we yeah

this is a worthwhile one Ben Boyce stick around it is the hits you got Jono and Ben. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. The old bedtime stories, they're a staple, aren't they? In any household. Well, if you have children, it's probably weird.

If you're in your life, you probably don't read them to your flatmates, do you? No, I'm just kidding. I don't. And Ben, are you the reader in the household, bedtime reader? I was for a long time, but Indy, my youngest daughter, she loves to do her own reading. She's prolific.

I catch her laughing away. What's with that laughter? She's like, I'm reading a book. It's funny. You're like, oh, wow. She's reading the complete works of Shakespeare at the moment, Indy. Years beyond her age. She's way too advanced for me to read the books now.

But why I am the reader, and so at the end of the day, it's sort of 8.30, 9 o'clock. Jesus, we've been up since 3.30. Well, you have. You always get up. My reading is just sloppy. Sometimes I put myself to sleep reading the book,

and I get woken up, Dad, Dad, Dad. And there was a time there where you could skip through six to ten pages and just kind of plot, piece together the storyline on the spot. Ad-lib the storyline. Yeah, that's a golden period when you can work out that you can kind of skip ahead. It's like Lindley Dodd in association with Jono or Ben. We had written it with him.

Out of the gate, not for a walk. He went to the butcher and he came home. Go to bed. Exactly. Wonderful stuff. being right out of the gate not for a walk he went to the butcher and he came home you know that's go to bed exactly wonderful stuff I was really impressed with the world's

fastest reader who would get his bedtime story away in probably about 30 seconds listen to this guy world's fastest reader this is actually reading a book yeah this is a big book too it sounds like he's going over

speed bumps at about 60 k's an hour yeah uh and then he gets to the end of the book he's like we're done and everyone else around him goes oh yeah i'm not gonna read it so i'll take your word for it but the thing poppy she's smart my daughter she's gone into a mode where she's realized well if this useless old man starts reading he he's going to go to sleep. She's even tried reading to me, which puts me to sleep even quicker. Like I'm lying on the floor drooling out the side of my mouth. So now she's like, I want you to tell me a story. Not read a book.

You have to make, and they need to be original pieces of work. So they all revolve around Poppy Pryor. You know, Poppy Pryor, the astronaut, went to space. The other night she went to space in Bezos' rocket. Oh, God. Did you describe it? No, you wouldn't have described it. You didn't describe the rocket.

Too bad. Well, I'm a detailed guy. You know, Poppy Pryor, the president, and Poppy Pryor, the doctor. So I've gone through it rough. I've been doing it for about three weeks. I've told some great stories. Okay, and they do keep me awake, so she's playing a good game last night i'm like

oh jeez i'm my creativity juices i need to do a brainstorm with you guys after the show or something get some other storylines happening but then i was like oh she likes dancing so i was like poppy prior she went off and she danced with beyonce in america and she danced at the Super Bowl with Beyonce and she also danced with Rihanna and then she came back to New Zealand and she was on Celebrity Treasure Island and came second and she's like, are you just telling

the career story of Lance Savali but putting my name in it? And she was dead right. It was so good. I was reading Lance Savali's biography out to her in my head because I had nothing else left.

That's smart. And then I fell asleep. You do your career, you know, like probably for a middling radio and TV show. The TV show got cancelled, still sort of hanging in there. Trying to rejuvenate, get things back going. Yeah, it's not a nightmare, Ben.

It needs to be a happy story at bedtime. Hey, next, we've got to sort out a good deed. If you've got a good deed for us, we need to do 28 in 28 days. If you want us to help out someone who really needs it, text us through on 4487, standard SMS text charges do apply.

You're on The Hits, Jono and Ben, on a Friday morning. In February, we're doing 28 good deeds in 28 days. If you've got a good deed for us, you can hit us up on The Hits Breakfast on Instagram or Facebook. I only tend to go. Not that I'm counting. It's been fun. Don't get me wrong. Not that I'm counting. It's been fun. Don't get me wrong.

I've been enjoying it. It's been great. I feel like you're counting. We have done a wide range of things. Yesterday we did our first deed. We went and mowed the lawns at Lana's place. And I noticed a car there with a bit of the grass growing up on top of it too. So do you want us to work around that?

Yes, please. Is there anything that we need to look out for? A cat. A cat. Day two. Okay, so we're need to look out for? A cat. Day two. Okay so we're here with Dave from Off The Ledge. I'm going to tuck you guys off the building and you're going to wash some windows for us.

Workplace accident. His bucket full of soapy water somehow landed directly on top of me. I don't know how this happened. What are you doing? Rowan. You've got a school camp that you need to pay for. $250 this year that you need to pay for $250 this year We want to pay for your child's camp

Oh I'm crying now There we go so thank you to Aaron Watkinson For that wonderful montage too It's good with the music and everything It's not even the whole thing either We've done a lot of deeds And today's one is very special Isn't it Ben?

So we're going to go through to the mum of the son who shall be receiving the deed. This is Jessica. Hello? Hi, is that Jessica? Hi. Hi, is that Jessica? Yeah.

It is. It's Jono and Ben here from the Hits radio station. How are you? I'm good, thanks. More inner to you. Now, Jessica, your son, Sean? Yeah. Sounds like he's a pretty good basketballer from the message we've got.

Yeah, we think he is. Yeah, good. Well, you have to, didn't you? You created him. He's at New Zealand Development Training Camp. Sounds he is. Yeah, good. Well, you have to, didn't you? You created him. New Zealand Development Training Camp. Sounds pretty awesome. Yeah, yeah.

It was sort of a surprise to us because I'm selected for it. So, right. And I imagine this comes at a cost. Yeah. Most of it's sports nowadays. Well, it is. You've got five kids in title. So I imagine that juggling all their extra activities is probably difficult.

Oh, yeah. Just the four of them. Our youngest is only eight months at the moment, but I'm sure she'll get there as well. Jesus, you've got five. You could actually have your own basketball team now. Starting five? Yeah.

Yeah. The baby would be good on the dribble. There's a basketball gag for you. If people know, if you know, you know. Don't fade out of it, Ben. Commit to it. Commit to it. So, Jessica, how much are we talking here for this basketball camp?

So it's $500 for his actual camp. Yeah, right. It's not covered in the costs, unfortunately. Well, listen, I know money's very tight for many people at the moment. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, well. We're grateful for anything. Well, listen, it would be callous of us to have this conversation with you

and say we weren't going to pay for it. Yes. So we're going to send Sean off to New Zealand basketball camp, okay? Oh, that's awesome. Thank you so much for that. Oh, you're very welcome. The only condition is when he makes the NBA, then we want a singlet.

Oh, no worries. I'm sure he can do that for you. And 10% of his salary. But that's in the future. We can talk about that down the track. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves, but you're right. It's good to get these things in there. Well, you know. This is evidence. This is a signed contract. It's awesome that he's got such a passion, and it's great.

Yeah, it's really awesome that we get to help you with this. Yeah, we love it. He really enjoys it. So, yeah, something he's quite excited to hear about. Awesome. Well, you could say this has been a slam dunk. Don't pay it out of it. Don't pay it out of it.

I'm not going to pay it out of it. Did you like that one? Yeah, thank you yeah good stuff hey uh thanks jessica you hold the line we'll grab your details okay thank you the hits you're on the hits uh jonah and ben uh going on a game show on tv i feel like one of those occasions you're either going to nail or you'll just crumble when you'll be on embarrassing You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. Going on a game show on TV, I feel like one of those occasions you're either going to nail or you'll just crumble when you'll be on embarrassing internet videos forever and ever. Yeah, that would be my major fear.

You end up doing the world's dumbest. Like when they go to the one from Family Feud and the guys are like, oh, man! And those people say like, boobies! I'd be one of those. I don't know what you're talking about, but I love it. But on The Chase, of course, it's a TV show that's very, very popular. My dad loves The Chase.

It's on before the news. Copy and paste that for everyone his age. Yeah. So they do a 60-second quickfire round, and a guy for the first time got every question correct in the quickfire round. He nailed everyone. Have a listen. Benedict Cumberbatch played which Dutch artist in the TV drama Painted with Words?

Sir Van Gogh. Correct. The show's over. Hold on. I only heard the end of it. I can't go through 60 seconds of questions. Just take my word for it. We just have to believe you that he got the rest of the questions right?

He did. You just played the finish line. I played you one question. Hey, today after nine o'clock, if you want to live free, thanks to One Roof, one year of your rent or mortgage paid for the entire year, it is an amazing price, then the song you need to listen to after nine is Fleetwood Mac, Little Lies. Tell me lies, tell me sweet lies.

Yeah, and we're going to do that for a whole year, and by next February we'll become owners of your house, and we're looking to bowl it down and get some greasy property developer in there. Under the hits when you hear it, first call it in the drawer. And then this afternoon with Brad and Laura, they're giving away a key so you can get one of the keys that could potentially win you rent-free, mortgage or rent for a year. Wonderful stuff.

Hey, that's us for the week. You have a wonderful weekend. Back on Monday morning, and a bit of a serious one. We're going to be talking to a man who was shot nine times in the mosque shooting. It's a heroic tale. He's with us Monday. Have a great weekend. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint.

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