Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Little Johnny Pryor

Episode Date: April 22, 2022

Hear the audio from the unearthed aircheck tape of Little Johnny Pryor on one of his first radio shows, aged 15! Plus, school holiday advice from Holly Jean Brooker from Parenting Place!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast. Killed up. 21st April, Thursday. Jono, Ben, joined by our Belle Crawford. Do you know, Belle, I obviously see you pushing a lot of the buttons, which you do a fantastic job of. But I noticed that you've got some fancy nails today. I see you moving the nails up and down on the faders. Do you paint those yourself or is that a professional job? No, I go get my nails done. Professional nail? Do you that a professional job? No, I go get my nails done, you know. Professional nail?

Do you get a professional nail? No. Or a diamond nail, which should be called nail diamond. That really winds us up. Why? There's a place called, well, because nail diamond, and we're like, if you want the pun to work, it needs to be, that's just called a diamond nail.

It needs to be nail diamond. Maybe they don't even think about nail diamonds. That's not what they were going for. Maybe they're not even in that target market. But it's a great pun industry, isn't it, the nail? Hit the nail on the head, you know. Just a bit of classic, for those listening, just a classic French tips, you know, and they're a bit

long at the moment. Nailed it. Nailed it. Where do you go? Do you go to the mall jobs for those? You can do. I've just gone back to my usual place in Takapuna on the shore. Do you know, I told my daughter to get her nails did at the Westfield Mall. And I was like, these people in here, there's a toxic, fumed environment, the nail salon, isn't it? They must drive home going, whoo.

Yeah. Crazy. Imagine 10 hours in there today. We should get yours done sometime, Jono, you know? Do you? Because I noticed Israel Adesanya, UFC fighter, he loves a French manicure. Yeah.

He's big on the nails. More guys are going in there, and that doesn't mean you need to get the gels or, you know, fake nails. You can just get them manicured and nice. You know, the guys go in there for a pedi or a mani, you know? Yeah. Just a groom.

Treat yourself. Why not? Treat yourself. I just use the bloody nail clippers at home, to be honest. I'm not going to. Do you the bloody nail clippers at home, to be honest. Do you have specific nail clippers for your fingers? Because you know the bigger ones for your feet. And then there's smaller ones for your fingers, so I didn't realise.

I've just been using the big ones for my feet my whole nail career. I just use the small ones for both. The small little sharp little clippers. For your toes as well? Yeah. But then I sterilise them afterwards and stuff. I bet you do. I bet he does.

They go into the hot, boiling water after. 10-step sterilization program. You want to use, because they never go the right shape. You can always use the scissors, but they need to have the curve in them. Otherwise, they just look manky. Yeah. You know? Funny thing.

Apparently, the moon. You know the moon on your nail? You know the moon, which is sort of the top? It's hard to describe. So it's under the moon, which is sort of the top? It's hard to describe. So it's under the nail. Oh, you mean the bit at the very end, like the tip of your nail? Or do you mean at the bit of... It's on the skin.

So there's a white... See the white half moon at the... Like that bit? Yeah. Oh, yeah. At the bottom of where it joins your finger. Apparently the bigger your moon, the healthier you are. Oh, really?

There's meant to be some sort of thing about lack of calcium or something as well. You can tell by, I don't know. By that moon thing? No, I think if you've got white lines in blue skies. No, white lines on your nails or something, yeah. Oh, really? I was just trying to look at some other nail puns. He's been preoccupied this whole time.

Get Nailed was another one overseas That exists, that's not too bad Jack the Clipper That was quite good And I'm not going to say the full one of this But it's got the word hand And then something else, and obviously they're working They're doing some, they're doing job

Oh yeah And so they've caught that together, that apparently exists That was probably an innocent mistake Yeah, so that exists as well That's Nails and Spa and so they've caught that together that apparently exists that was probably an innocent mistake it was yeah so that exists as well that's Nails and Spa and it's got the thing

at the end there you go so there the other one was the funny one with barbers too there was a salon at the airport

called the Hairport which we just loved we got a lot of joy out of it it still makes me laugh the Hairport the Hairport it was really good

sometimes you just randomly think of it and you chuckle. Oh, we do. We do. All right, podcast today. Had a fun show. Oh, Ben got hold of, well, he already had it, but he managed to get the audio of one of my first ever radio programs

on a community radio station. And he got about half an hour's worth of mocking out of that too, which was good. Yeah, a lot. 30 minutes nonstop. It was wonderful. Some really good mocking. So enjoy that as much as I enjoyed it today.

The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Jono and Ben on the hits. We had a biopsy yesterday. I'm quite a... That sounds full on. It's not actually that full on. No, it's a... I'm a very pasty, mole-y individual.

Very white, covered in black dots. I'm like 101 Dalmatians. And Ben, you know this. A lot of mole, one bit of advice I would give is put sunscreen on in your younger years. Yeah. It really does come back to bite you. I remember my mum saying, put some sunscreen on. But then also the same lady let me burn to a crisp too at age seven or eight.

There were a little bit more blasé back then about it, weren't there? Yeah. You'd go out for 14 hours, the height of summer, mid-January, not a dollop of sunscreen. Come back crispy as bacon. And there was never really, if you did, there was never really that, oh, you should reapply as well, which now we know. None of that conversation now.

No, no, you did right. And then if you got burnt, your mum would be like, oh, it's all right, I'll peel off, you'll have a great tan. Did you suffer the same parenting, Bill? I think by the time I was around, it was a bit more into it. Mum was part of the generation that they'd lather them in baby oil, and she's like all freckling. That was a wild time, wasn't it time yeah yeah so that was her generation so then when we came around she was

like she was so sun smart with us yeah yeah because they would they would soak themselves in essentially cooking oil yeah i would do that yeah on the sun that's crazy little tan children i'm kind of same as you john i've got moles. I always get my yearly mole map photos. And I enjoy doing it because you feel good about being sun smart. But also it's the closest I'll ever get to modelling. So at the end of it, they're like, they're great. The photos are great. I'm like, oh, good.

Let's see the shots. It's the closest I'll ever get to modelling in my life. But they're just extreme close-ups of your moles. Yeah. But you've got to take your wins. Didn't you have an incident on one of your mole photo shoots were you oh I think I turned up

a week early for it that was something and then no there was something but no I turned up a week for it it was a good dress rehearsal did I do something

yeah you forgot underpants or something yeah I remember something weird about maybe I just got raised that from a movie aren't they just taking

like close up photos of that mole? Like not your whole body. Yeah, I think he thought he turned up for one of those body shot shoots. He's got the iPad and they're like zooming in on one particular. It's like you don't know what it is. It's just a bit of skin with a mole on it. I like to turn the lights down, light a chase lounge suite, you know.

Get a ring light up, you know, get the lighting good. Put that soft lens on. Yeah, that's what I like to do. Just make those shots look hot. Maybe I'll imagine that story. Maybe that's in my fantasy. Ben Boyce having a mole map shoot, but for me it's a sultry, he's sprawled over a rug or something.

Scrolling through your feed. Yeah, here's a news bulletin featuring way too much opinion and way too little research. The equilibrium's right off. But Ben Boyce, what's happening? Well, Netflix feels like most people have got Netflix in New Zealand, And way too little research. The equilibrium's right off. But Ben Boyce, what's happening? Well, Netflix feels like most people have got Netflix in New Zealand. But their shares have dropped 25% over the last little while.

An unexpected drop in subscribers as well. Now, they're looking at making a few changes. But some of them might be so popular with some people. So they want to shut down on people sharing passwords. You know how some one house gets a password and everyone mooches off that same person. Huge bugbear for you. Your family's mooching off you.

Did you, because you stayed with your family over Easter, did you confront them about this? Oh no, they're gone. They've gone from mine now. They're gone. They've got their own one they can mooch off now. Did you delete them? I'm just like, yeah, we're starting.

But they've now got their own combined mooching off ones. Oh, they all share off each other. Yeah. Netflix, they're exactly the poster children for what Netflix are hating. They're getting 100 million households worldwide are getting the service for free. 100 million households are doing that. That's pretty crazy. When you think about, you know, for the company, even if they got a dollar for that,

100 million dollars they're losing out on. Well, then producer B-Hump said, you know, the co-CEO, the co-CEO is still getting $45 million a year. So don't feel too bad for Netflix, mate. They're still doing all right. They reckon they were projected to have another $2 million loss.

Sorry, subscribers are going to be lost in the next few months. A lot of that to do with they've got rid of people in Russia because for political reasons. So you can't get Netflix in Russia as well. And A lot of that to do with they've got rid of people in Russia because for political reasons, so you can't get Netflix in Russia as well. And also the fact that Apple and Disney have chipped away at their audience

over the last little while. Got our bloody morals, eh? Like, you could just see, like, if you put your morals to one side, stay in Russia, keep the subscribers up, that would have probably been a serious conversation. Like, how do we really feel about this Russia thing? Like, we're in America.

We're ages away. This is really a thing. Is the Netflix thing going to really change the about this Russia thing? We're in America. We're ages away. Is the Netflix thing going to really change the dial on this thing? It's got nothing to do with it. Because you were saying Vogue, the magazine has pulled out of Russia too. And they have lots of magazines as well under them.

It's awesome what they are doing to make a stand. But you're right, from the bottom line of the company. I mean, I would put my... I'm a horrible person, though. I'd put my feelings aside about Russia. If I was running a business like Netflix, what would you do, Ben? It's a rough thing to admit, isn't it?

It's easy to say here without having a business to say that I would. I'd be out of Russia, mate. I'd be out of there. Yeah, you would all be out of... Yeah, OK, you're saying... I think they get the monthly reports coming along, like, we lost how much? We lost how much? Yeah, well, he said on the Yeah, okay, you're saying. I think they get the monthly reports coming along. We lost how much?

We lost what? Yeah, well, he said on the radio he'd be out of Russia. He'd stick to his word. And masks. A lot of talk about masks over the last few years. Masks are no longer required on public transport in America, including flights. Now, this happened yesterday. Now, the White House wanted to continue this.

They wanted to keep this going, but a judge overturned the ruling. And mid-flight, so there was an Air Alaska flight Happening in America And the pilot came on And announced that the mandate had just been dropped It's over Immediately Congratulations

So he was like It's over Immediately And you hear people go Yeah! And some people taking their masks off mid-flight You built this audio up I thought it was going to be like rapturous applause immediately and you hear people go, yeah! And some people taking their masks off mid-flight. You built this audio up like I thought it was going to be like rapturous applause.

It was like a smattering of three or four people. Oh, I guess, yeah, okay. I mean, it's just been a piece of paper on my face. I can take it off. People taking it off. And I was going around yesterday. We were out in the park yesterday. No one, not one person in a mask.

It's good to see. It's refreshing to see. Well, yeah, I feel like it it's happening overseas you talk to any people that come back from america or australia they're like no one's wearing a mask they're kind of not happening anymore and i feel like new zealand will probably get to that we'll get there i mean no the thing is it's so confusing at the moment no one knows when they should or shouldn't wear a mask so just go out there and don't wear one that should be the general well then a lot of people i notice just have it sort of hanging beneath their chin, ready to strike at any moment. I have one on, I can just

put it up or not. And that is what's making news in New Zealand and around the world. Very shortly we're talking, what have you slept through? We started talking about this yesterday and we got some amazing texts come through after the show. So we thought we might talk to some of these people. Some of the ridiculous things they've slept through, like rapturous applause on

the plane after mask mandates were dropped. Rise and shine. Time to start the, um, who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jono and Ben on the hits. Yesterday we talked about the unusual things that people have slept through. This was off your mum over the long weekend in Northland, letting the family sleep inside the house,

and she slept in a yacht which was parked in the driveway. Yeah, they haven't even taken on the water. They just decided that that was an extra accommodation spot for their house. But when I think about it, I mean, it was her mum that used to sleep for many, many years in a caravan outside a property.

You know, they had a house and they would sleep 15 metres away from the house in the caravan. So that's my grandma and granddad. They would sleep there. I've heard this story a few times and I just still, I'm like, it just renders your bedroom completely pointless inside the house. What did they use the bedroom for?

That was for guests, guests could stay. How many guests was coming? Well, at Christmas time it was probably busy, but a lot of the other time it was just... What was it doing for 11 months of the year? It was just an empty room. With a bed in it? Yeah, a bed.

Made up? A double bed made up as well. You know, nice. And then they had another room with a couple of beds in it. But no one would sleep in it? No, they'd just sleep outside. So I was maybe like, maybe it just runs in her family. And so my mum went and slept outside with my stepdad on a boat that was just in the driveway.

And she slept through a huge storm. You were very concerned for her safety out in the driveway yacht. Yeah, because it was moving about a bit, and it was on blocks of wood, and I'm like, oh my God. They're going to tip over. They're going to end up sliding all the way down to the ocean. So you couldn't have been in a better vessel if that was to happen, but we asked you yesterday, what have you slept through?

Some great calls. A fireworks display for the Yanga. Oh, wow, the whole display? Yes, yeah. How close to the display were you? Pretty close, actually. I mean, you've got to be pretty tired to sleep through. It's essentially like a, sounds like an attack or a war.

Yeah, it does. Yeah. It was a robbery. Oh, so everyone slept through the robbery? Yes, except for me. So there you go was a robbery. Oh, so everyone slept through the robbery? Yes, except for me. So there you go, a robbery. That was quite scary, that one, wasn't it? Yeah, the police were outside, there were guns,

and his whole family slept through it apart from him. He had to deal with it all himself. Guys, where were you? And obviously a fireworks display. Your daughter, Poppy, slept through a Bruno Mars concert? Yep, from start to finish. She saw Dua Lipa was opening up for Bruno. She liked Dua Lipa.

She was happy to see her. But then she was also happy to miss Bruno, the headliner. And he was doing all sorts of stuff. He had bangs and dancing, uptown, funk you up. You know, all his great songs. It's those moments, you know, I've had those moments when you're a parent as well. You're like, yeah, I think you're ready for a concert. Then you go along, you're like, okay, we've gone too early.

We've paid for tickets and this wasn't worth it remember a friend of yours text you and said i saw jonah at the bruno mars concert he was the only person out of 12 000 people sitting down the entire time and it wasn't out of the fact well it was you know mostly of the fact that i can't dance i get awkward dancing and standing and i never know when when i can sit in a concert or stand you know you're kind of standing apparently you're the only one around the whole time just sitting down. Yeah. Apart from your daughter who's asleep.

Yeah. We were the life of the party at the Bruno Mars show. Yeah. We're talking about things you've slept through. Belle, you were just saying on the text, someone's slept through a ride on a hookah jet. Yeah, my sister was two years old and slept through the ride in Taupo.

I've been on one of those before. It's really fun. They do big turns and it goes over her thing. Imagine that. As a two-year-old kid. The hooker jet. Yeah, that's going hard. Yeah, very impressive.

Some great texts and calls coming through. So we'll go to the phones now. So we were going to Paris for the weekend and living in London and my now husband set an alarm clock which he turned off instead of pushing snooze. So the alarm clock went off, you're meant to be on a plane and he turned it off. Yeah, we were meant to be on the Eurostar to Paris.

So he turned it off and when we finally woke up, we should have already been arrived at the Eurostar. We then got into a taxi. He drove like an absolute bat out of hell. And we got there probably five minutes before they closed the gate. But to add to the woes, when we got to Paris,

he realized he had left the engagement ring behind in the cupboard. Oh, this was the big proposal trip. So, yeah, we then had to separate ourselves somehow in Paris, and he had to go shopping and find me a new engagement ring. Did you get the initial ring back or not? Yeah, yeah, well, that was still at home,

which he had got me as, like, a placeholder, and then he had to buy another one in Paris, and then had to buy me a wedding ring as well. Oh, gee, he's had a bloody shocker from start to finish. Now, did he say, oh, I was going to propose to you under the Eiffel Tower, but I don't have a ring? Yeah, he only figured it out once we got onto the train that he had left it behind. And luckily, I'm a shopper, so whilst we were wandering around the Champs-Élysées,

he popped into a jeweler and got it and then proposed on the last night on the top of the Eiffel Tower. Oh, isn't that beautiful? Didn't you propose in Paris or did you? No, Rome. Oh, we did Rome. Yeah. We did Rome, okay.

Yeah, because, you know, the romantic cities kind of do, you know, they do a lot of the heavy lifting in that proposal situation because they're, you know, they're laying the foundations. All you need to say is, can you or will you please? Yeah, so I can see what he was doing there, apart from the whole leaving the ring behind. I put my engagement ring for my wife on a piece of toast.

Oh, well, that's wonderful. It's up there with the Eiffel Tower, yeah, a piece of toast. All right, you guys have a great day, Tammy. Thank you so much, guys, you too. Shari, what did you sleep through? A tornado. A tornado, wow. Are you Dorothy from, guys. You too. Shari, what did you sleep through? A tornado. A tornado. Wow.

Are you Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz? How did this happen? Well, almost. I was living in Western Canada at the time. And so when I went to bed, I went to bed down in the basement and opened all the windows because it was so hot, you know, trying to get a breeze. We were in a slight hollow and it just went right over the top of us. But it can do that.

It can take out one house and leave the one next door standing unscathed. Have you seen a tornado living there? Did you ever see one? Just that one. Just that one, oh yeah. Because I wonder if it's like you see on the movie, you know, like you do see on the movie. The twisters on the movies, yeah. Well, I mean, you can't tell us because you weren't awake for it.

Yeah. No. Sleep through anything else monumental, Shari? The twisters on the movies. You can't tell us because you weren't awake for it. No. Sleep through anything else monumental, Shari? An earthquake. Oh, jeez. If it's a natural event, Shari will snooze through it. Sleep through it, yeah. I do remember a door rattling from the earthquake.

But not enough to wake you. No. Yes, got lost again. Because you mentioned something yesterday on the program, Bell Crawford, about a blogger who claimed that ASAP Rocky has been cheating on Rihanna, his pregnant partner. Spread fake news everywhere. And then apologised saying, oh, listen, none of that was true. I just put it out there.

Yeah. And the internet is a wonderful petri dish of slander and misinformation. No, you don't need to be held accountable. You can just chuck it out there. Well, yeah, there's a lot of fake information out there. You're right. Yeah. And I got lost after we had that conversation in an article on the most absurd celebrity rumors on the internet.

There's 50 of them and there's some wild ones stevie wonder here to stevie wonder yeah well he's not he's not blind mate he's been pretending he's been blind his entire career so this is what the rumor is he's not actually blind he sells some records you know the execs were like hey you pretend to be blind sales through the roof oh my goodness now the only downside to this rumor is that stevie wonder has been legally blind since day one yeah he was born blind unless he's been acting his entire life oh my goodness okay that's a strange rumor i mean it's a big one to pull off isn't it it's a big facade to pull off that you're blind for your entire life you You didn't see any of this.

It slipped once, you know? So that was the first rumor. Now, another one. Avril Lavigne. It's not the actual Avril Lavigne. She died in 2003, mate. What? And they replaced her with someone?

They replaced her with another Avril Lavigne. I was a big Avril fan. Knew every word to her complicated album. But anyway, she had Lyme disease, or she has Lyme disease, and she was really sick. And there was this rumor that she had died and they just replaced her with a body double. Yeah, that the world couldn't handle.

So they just hit, we couldn't handle it, no Avril Lavigne in our lives. So they just got to replace her with a lookalike. And the lookalike's been doing a pretty bang-up job since 2003, I think you'd agree. Talking about complicated, that's literally complicated replacing yourself Do you know, have you ever seen

the Melania Trump replacement which is hilarious like it literally looks like a guy called Gary from the FBI was told to slap on a wig and some lippy and she's following Donald Trump around in all these engagements. It's not

Melania. Have you seen it? I'll pull up the picture. It's amazing. Melania's had enough. She's out and they're like Oh my God. Well it probably was the case right? Yeah he's horrible to her. Yeah the fake Melania Trump. She is a body double. For yeah like a very like I think she's even got a moustache

in this photo. I don't think it was that bad. She's got a moustache and a goatee. You've got a goatee. You should have got it in goatee. So, you know, Avril Lavigne, apparently not the real Avril Lavigne.

There's another great rumour on the internet too about Jacinda Ardern. Got a full back tat. Remember? Full back tat. We asked her that, didn't we?

She's like, no, we don't. No, we don't. 50 wildest celebrity rumours on the internet. I really like this one. Beyonce, five years ago, kidnapped S't. 50 wildest celebrity rumors on the internet. I really like this one. Beyonce, five years ago, kidnapped Sia.

Okay? She caught her swinging from a chandelier, kidnapped her, locked her in her basement. Why? And made her write songs for her. Oh, it's because Sia writes all the biggest songs. Writes all the biggest songs. She's like, mate, come back.

You're working for me. Beyonce's like, I want some number ones. Like, share me your songs. Yeah, and I don't know why just a meeting with the two couldn't suffice hey I've got a lot of money could you write me some more songs yeah I can do that

I will kidnap you lock you in a basement and you'll be a songwriting machine for me and apparently there was a hashtag free seer campaign going on Twitter free seer Beyonce's kidnapping

making her write one number one smash hit songs in a basement and Beyonce's got some her write one number one smash hit songs In a basement And Beyonce's got some great songs So it worked out Alright let's bring on in bellcrawford28 at gmail.com

Apologies if that's your actual email It's a huge slip up on my part Looking forward to hearing from you all Now Kelly Clarkson is about to celebrate her 40th birthday on the 24th, so a couple of days away. And here's what she's planning on doing for it. I am literally so low key. I know it's my big 4-0, but I've had a crazy two years.

So I just wanted a chill birthday, so I'm going hiking with my friends. And that's it, y'all. And doing a dinner with my band. Had to keep the y'all in the y'all. and that's it, y'all. And doing a dinner with my band. Had to keep the y'all in there. I like when they say y'all. Hiking sounds like one of those things you say you do when you're out having a big party. Let's go hiking tomorrow. Oh, good on you.

I was so, I said at you last week, so happy that my 40th fell inside a lockdown. Like it was the greatest present in the universe. You could have gone hiking, y'all. I could have gone hiking, y'all. Ben and me, uh we've got a rule we don't gift each other presents uh ben you sent a lovely email on the birthday that was even a little too much for me yeah uh but you do it's funny you turn 40 and you start to think to yourself what's next you know what do i do now am i going to turn into a reiki healer or you know become a tibetan monk or something what do you think you're gonna do i don't know you don't know but you know, become a Tibetan monk or something? What do you think you're going to do? I don't know.

You don't know what's next? You don't know, but, you know, people with a midlife crisis, I think it's a thing. So many people I know go off having affairs and just change their life to a 180. Because I guess you start thinking about mortality and death and letting go of all your responsibilities, don't you? Jeez, this is deep.

I'm going to become a nudist. That's it. I've just decided now. We always talk about this. They're always playing volleyball and tennis and stuff on the news and stuff, aren't they? Which is good. And you see how they've ended up there. They're like, I've done 40 years clothed.

Let's do the next 40 with nothing holding me back. She has been through a massive divorce. Yeah, she has. It's been really stressful. So I mean, I imagine she'd probably like to have a bit of a party. But after that, she probably just needs a breather. It's probably been quite full on for her. yeah well hiking seems like a sensible solution doesn't it so it sounds fun hiking's halfway through but why are we why have i gone hiking on this podium

yeah and we know that prince harry has visited the queen and you know there's so much they're trying to write scandalous headlines or this is what's happened. Well, I like to just play what is actually happening from the source. This is the latest interview with Prince Harry himself. Being with her, it was great. It was just so nice to see her. You know, she's on great form. She's always got a great sense of humour with me and I'm just making sure that she's, you know, protected

and got the right people around her. Well, you make her laugh. That's what she always says. Did you do it again? Yes, yeah, I did. Both Meghan and I had tea with her, so it was really nice to catch up with her. Boring.

There you have it. Boring? Where's the anger? Where's the angst? Where's the tabloid stuff? It's nice. It's cute. It's just a nice story about a guy catching up with his grandma.

That's lovely. Having a cup of tea. Yeah. No, it is lovely. Yeah, and also they have hired, Prince Harry and Meghan, have hired Obama's former Secret Service agent for security. He's been with them while they've been at the Invictus Games. Harry's actually been asking for more security

since they stepped down from their royal duties and moved to California and petitioning for it and actually said he would pay for it because he doesn't feel safe when he goes back to the UK, which, considering what happened with his mum, it's kind of understandable why he would feel that way. Well, why doesn't he just pay for it then, if he said he would pay for it? Call up Chubb, Chubb Security,

go, hey mate, can I get a couple of guards with me? Why does he need to start a petition if he's going to pay for it? I don't know. Maybe they need to provide it for him at these events or something. Ah, I see. And imagine it's pricey. Imagine even for someone who was a prince.

Oh, so he's saying, I will pay for it, but it's kind of like when you're like, hey, I'll show you dinner one night, but you don't really mean it. No, I'll definitely pay for it. But if you want to pay for it, grab it. Feel free to pay for it, you can. There we go.

I'll put it in the spirit of poor Obama who's wandering around with no security now because they want his guard. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the heads. Almost the end of the non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. Almost the end of the first week

of school holidays. Yeah, that's right. You get home, it's great to spend time with the kids, isn't it? When you get home from this job and hang out.

I had to actually, day one, I sat on my computer for five hours when I got home and I was like, this is not good. This is not good

school holiday parenting from me. But sometimes you do, you have to do work. I mean, you're still trying to work as well. It's the juggle, you know. It's the struggle juggle, isn't it? I don't know what I'm sitting on my computer doing.

But I used to, I was like, okay, we're going to do something fun. So we went bike riding. Now... Normally you just go on an electric scooter and make the kids bike. Well, this is the boat in contention. Because I'm like,

kids, let's go bike riding. And they're like, don't you mean we ride bikes and you stand on a scooter that gets transported thanks to electricity and I'm like yeah that's exactly what I mean

and so we went around the park and did all that jazz oh so you didn't go bike riding no I well I went with them I watched I watched bike riding while I was on the electric scooter

well if you had the option not to use your legs you're always going to pick the electric scooter no man, if you had the option not to use your legs, you're always going to pick the electric scooter. No, man, it's a bit of fun. It is, yeah. But it's fun watching kids bike ride as well, huffing and puffing up hills and stuff.

I'm like, come on, kids. You're holding me back. But I can feel judgment too from people walking and running, you know, along the road and things as well when they see me on the electric scooter and I'm making these two kids train like it's the two of the fronts. We're a family. We're the biking family. I make a family bike everywhere now

because it's like, we go out for dinner, we bike. We go to a free space, we bike. Are you the bike? Are the boys just the bike family? We're the bike family now. What's the radius where you're like, okay, that's too far to bike? I pushed it one time. We were coming back from a friend's house.

I was like, oh, this is a bit far for the bike where you're like we should really be wearing yellow shirts and riding at the Tour de France that's when you're Does anyone want any steroids because I think we're

going to need them to get through this We're not going to get back it's going to take us two to three hours How many k's away did you take It was a long way

in the end but you know in your mind because you're used to driving you're like it won't be that far and then midway through the kids are like

how much longer you're like yeah Well you know be that far. And then midway through, the kids are like, how much longer? You're like, yeah, it's a lot longer. Well, you know what you could have done with, mate? An electric scooter. That would have solved that problem. What I do like too about the electric scooter is it's completely changed transport, hasn't it? For everyone.

Except no one looks 100% confident on an electric scooter. You've never ridden one, Balcroft. Never ridden an electric scooter. Not a lime or anything. Partly like i've known to be pretty clumsy i've had a lot of falls in my time off bikes and things and when i was little but then you know when you're an adult and you do things that you do when you're a kid you're probably not as good but also the other thing is like this is pre-covid all the people that touch them like they're germy

things oh yeah uh i saw a legend going down hobson Street, the main road of the city. No shirt on the other day. Doing a wheelie on one. Really? Dragging his back foot along, and he's like wheeling down the middle of the road, and I'm like, there goes an absolute hero. Kiwi, a mullet flying in the wind. And that's the great thing about electric scooters is they've changed the game when it comes to public transport,

but also changed the game when it comes to ACC claims. That legend probably ended up in Middlemore not too long after that. Warning. Contained dodgy parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono and Ben's Better Man with an exclusive evening with Robbie Williams, Saturday, April 30 in Melbourne. Pretty amazing prizes. You and three others going to see Robbie Williams live end of the month in Melbourne.

Includes flights, accommodation and $500 spending money, but it all relies on a better man to win it for you. Vicky, welcome. How are you? Hello. How are you? We're good. We're doing well, Vicky.

You're a fan of Robbie Williams obviously? Yes, I love him I've loved him ever since I was a kid You don't even use it in the past tense You can still love him He's still there to be loved We want to send you to a concert so you can go You know what I thought?

He might have been gone from my life But he's still there I can imagine you shaking your caboose to bloody rock DJ or let me entertain you there, Vicky. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Now, the only thing that stands between you and Robbie Williams, who you used to love, is your husband, Reuben.

Now, Reuben needs to answer five very personal questions about you. He needs to get five out of five right to basically put you guys even with the top competitors. Yeah. The bar has been set high by some wonderful husbands and gentlemen. Five from five. Now, if your husband rumor gets any less than that, does that make him lesser of a husband? Probably.

You used to love him as well. Yeah. All right. Well, what's the first question, Benny boy? Vicky's, well, your birthday, Vicky? My birthday is 7th of May. 7th of May. Okay. Okay. Wedding anniversary? Yeah, all right. Well, what's the first question, Benny boy? Vicky's, well, your birthday, Vicky? My birthday is 7th of May. 7th of May, okay.

Wedding anniversary? 31st of January, 2019. Well, okay, good. Favorite food? Oh, my favorite food is pizza. I love pizza. That's good food. If I could eat one food for the rest of my life, lock me in for pizza. It's very good pizza, isn't it?

Versatile, you can change it up, you're beautiful. Okay, favorite movie? Do you have a's very good pizza, isn't it? Versatile, you can change it up, you're beautiful. Okay, favourite movie? Do you have a favourite movie that, and will he know this? He might know it. My favourite movie is Dirty Dancing. Okay, he puts Baby in the Corner and other references. Patrick Swayze as well.

No Dirty Dancing nowadays, isn't it? It's all hand sanitised dancing. Socially distanced. Well, no, you can get back to dirty dancing. Yeah. Have you ever dirty danced, Ben? Well, I'm not entirely sure what dirty dance is. These days it's sort of like where Cardi B and WAP are.

It's got dirtier. Yeah, it's got dirtier. I mean, the 2022 version of dirty dancing is borderlining on pornography. And your favourite music group, Vicky, who would that be? Fat Freeze Drop. Oh, very nice. Very cool. Okay, all right.

Well, let's give Ruben a call and see how he goes answering those questions. What does Ruben do, Vicky? He's a banker. He works at AZ. Oh, banking. I've heard of banking. Let's go through. Hello?

Banking, eh? Hey. Banking. It's a thing. It is a thing. We don't have a bank. Yeah, John and Ben here, we don't have a bank, but we have here some questions that are very important to ask you.

All right. G'day, guys. How are you doing? We'd like to have a transaction with you. And firstly, we'd like to welcome your wife, Vicky, who you may be familiar with on the phone. Oh, yeah. I think I know her.

Now, quite a lot of pressure because you need to get five out of five questions right just to remain in the competition to go see Robbie Williams in Melbourne at the end of the month, okay? All right. Here we go. Okay. We could be transferring you on. I'm out of banking stuff now.

You're doing well for a while there. Yeah, yeah. Okay. These are all questions about Vicky. Vicky's birthday. All right. That one would be 7th of May, 89. Well done. Even came in with a bit of a year there too, Vicky,

which I noticed you didn't give up for us. Yeah. Just to put her on blast. A wedding anniversary. What's your wedding anniversary? Well, I got a bit of a cheat code for this one. Here's a tip for all the guys. Inscribe it on the inside of your ring.

31st of January 2019. Do you know Ben's got his tattooed on him, but still forgot one year? Yeah. He went Roman numerals. No one can ever remember Roman numerals. That's right. That's my mistake. Okay, favourite food.

What's Vicky's favourite food? Ooh, um, gotta be pizza. Oh, well done. Anything with cheese on it, but let's stick with pizza. Okay, now we're just over the halfway mark, Vicky. You must be feeling pretty confident. Oh, I don't know yet.

There's a couple of hairy ones to come. Yeah, we'll find out if he's lost that loving feeling with his next question. What's Vicky's favourite movie? Movie? It's got to be something with the old Shwayze in it. Probably the classic, Dirty Dancing. There you go.

And finally, the final question this morning. Favourite music group of Vicky's? Music group? Ooh, group. Well, you can hardly call yourself a Kiwi if it's not Fat Freddy. Oh! You know Vicky too well. Well done.

You nailed it. So you guys, five out of five. Everyone this week has got five out of five, so that means at the end of the week we're going to have to make a bit of a draw between everyone that's got five out of five. So good luck. Does it render this whole competition pointless? A little bit. Everyone who's

entered is also it's in the yeah yeah it's not how I saw it panning out they're all better husbands than I am

well done your next chance is to play tomorrow register right now to go see Robbie Williams at the hits.co.nz so of course it's

school holidays at the moment and my daughters were hanging out with their cousins and they love hanging out with their cousins and they love hanging out with them and they're all, you know, they're kids ranging from 8 to 12 years old.

Good demograph there too. They can all sort of look after each other, play with each other. Yeah, and one of the things they wanted to do, It's awkward when you're the 19-year-old cousin having to hang with the 6 and 7-year-olds. No, it's really cool and it's really awesome the school holidays that we're hanging out together with the family.

And one of the things they like to do, which is a great activity as well, they like to put on a performance. They're like, hey, can we put on a show? So then they go away and they work on the show for a couple of hours, and then they come back and perform. How long's the show?

You know me with stage shows. It's no Les Mis, mate. It's tight and bright. It's good. But they got to the end of the show. They did an Easter story. They'd written it and performed it in costumes. It's tight and bright. It's good. But they got to the end of the show. They did an Easter story. They'd written it and performed it in costumes. It was really cool.

And then afterwards, because my daughter Sienna's been doing acting classes, she was like, hey, should we do some theater sports? You guys, it was like, whose line is it anyway? You guys give us some characters, and we'll start performing as those characters. And, of course, my family are there, and they're like, hey, well, why don't you be Grandma? Why don't you be Ben? Me as well don't you be uh why don't you be ben uh you know me as well so my daughter was me during during this performance and i want to bring her on right now onto the radio uh welcome sienna how

you doing hi how was your uh rendition of your father yeah now this is what we need to talk about because you were like oh this will be fun let's see how sienna plays me in this environment now what were some of the things that you were doing as me? I was trying to stay two metres above everyone, trying to put masks on them. So it was very worried about hygiene and COVID-related things. Oh, so keeping a two metre distance. Yeah.

Was there a lot of hand sanitiser in your play? There was a lot. I was trying to hunt for it, and I lost it at one point. Well, I could hear Sienna going, where's my hand sanitizer? Where's my hand sanitizer? Two metres! You stay two metres! I was like, I was very neurotic. As a character, I was very neurotic. I was like, oh my goodness.

A lot of selfies with people and the pointing face with the open mouth. Oh yeah, they're all, oh! And then you're just like pointing at either the person or whatever the thing is. Constantly you had an imaginary phone in your hand. It was like, as soon as it was me, it was like a hand was up there taking selfies, pointing, doing things,

and then worried about masks, hand sanitiser. I mean, but what he doesn't know, Sienna, is, you know, when you play a character, you heighten it, don't you? Those aren't things he actually, surely he doesn't actually do all that stuff. Sometimes. Oh, yeah. He's actually doing it.

It was a real reflection of anything like my mum, you know, she's wonderful with her emotions. One of my cousins was playing my mum and she was just crying

the whole time. You know, like it was just, it was like a savage Comedy Central roast on the whole family. And so how did the performance go down with the rest

of the family? Were they like, oh, you've just nailed it on the, you know? They were crying in tears. Yeah. Well, yeah, the rest of the family were crying with laughter. A lot of mine were real tears. Oh, crying've just nailed it on the, you know. They were crying in tears. Yeah. Well, yeah, the rest of the family crying with laughter. A lot of mine were real tears.

Yeah, mine were real tears. Mine were just... Might have been the hand sanitizer in my eyes. But I was two metres away from everyone else, so that was good. Hey, thanks, Sienna. You have a good one. Bye, you too. Good filler content, though, doing impersonations of family members.

Oh, some home troops Can come out That was the thing Feels like one of those Team building exercises Your boss gets you to do And then everyone Sort of passively

Aggressively Has digs at everyone else Well that's what It felt like It was like Is that me? Is that what Is that the first thing

You think of When you think of me? And I'm like Oh maybe it is Well maybe there's better games That you could be playing out there Like go to the dairy And get Dad a pack of ciggies or something.

That's what they played in the 80s, right? Yeah. Did you used to do that for your dad? No, he didn't smoke cigarettes or anything. I think he had a pipe at one stage. I remember having to go down and pick them up. It was a trusting relationship from the dairy owner and the parent as well. Yeah.

What was it? Send them down to, well, school holidays they are on, and next we're going to talk to someone who's going to tell you how you can fill in these days. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It is the school holidays, of course, and if you're stuck for ideas of what to do with the kids, young and old, well, we're going to talk to someone who's got plenty of ideas of what you can do. From the parenting place, Holly Jean, welcome.

Good morning. How are you? Good. I'm good. How are you? Yeah, no, good. Good, bloody good. You're in the midst of school holiday. How are you? Good. I'm good. How are you? Yeah, no, good. Good. Bloody good. You're in the midst of school holiday madness, are you? Yep.

It's all on here. Yep. We currently have five children in the house. Five in the house? How many are you responsible for? Two. Two, yeah. So the three you don't have to look after so much. Two and a cat. So what's your tips from the parenting place to help parents

and obviously kids as well get through the next week and a half? I think that it's really cool if we can find a couple of hours or days to slow the pace down. It's so good for kids and we can slow down the pace. The term time is really busy. We're all juggling. The kids are juggling school and after-school activities and social events. And we've got, you know, work.

And most of the parents that I'm talking to are just really kind of run down at the moment. We've had a big term with Omicron. There's been a lot of stresses. And we're all pretty shattered. And I think the kids have that as well. And they pick up those vibes off us. So if we can slow down the pace a little bit and just have some slower days and let the kids, you know, have pajama days and eat pancakes for dinner

and just have days at home where, you know, we don't need to be out spending lots of money. The big takeaway for me here is pancakes aren't a dinner meal. Yeah, man, pancakes for dinner. Yeah, I'm having them for dinner all the time. Yeah. So do you think during this period

it is a bit harder to juggle when you're working and the school holidays? I remember saying to my daughter last night, I was like, I'm just so tired, I need to go to bed.

I need to go to bed. I felt bad for saying it to be honest because she's like, well, it's not my fault you're tired. Yeah. No, it's great.

It's great to be honest too. And I think, yeah, you're right. Lots of parents are working on the benefit of COVID is that many of us are able to work from home now. And that does change things for us in the school holidays. It means that we can be around for our kids and we can be home, but we're not exactly around for our kids when we're working and we've got meetings and pressures.

So it's quite intense when we're trying and we've got meetings and pressures so it's quite intense when we're trying to juggle parenting and working so we just have to look after ourselves we talk a lot at the parenting place about putting on our own oxygen mask first because if we aren't good within ourselves

we aren't able to give out to our kids in the way that they need it so it just has to be those things like getting enough sleep, going to bed earlier, not binge-watching Netflix late at night, and then waking up shattered. You know, trying to eat well if you can, trying to just up the water, exercise, all those simple things that we all know,

but it can be really easy to neglect them when we're really tired and run down, we just get a bit slack. But it does actually make a massive difference to our mental health and our well-being when we try to keep a little bit of balance and we know that it's good for our kids as well. But in terms of things to do in the holidays, I wrote an article, it's on the Parenting Place website,

parentingplace.nz, with lots of different ideas of things to do with your kids for every age group from preschool to primary to high school, just if you're kind of running ideas of things to do with your kids for every age group from preschool to primary to high school just if you're kind of running out of ideas and you are at home during the break but you know a lot you don't have to spend a lot of money in the school holidays there's so many things available but yeah I would just say if you could just like take the pressure off yourself it's been a massive turn question for you Holly now this is something I got into a wee debate with my my kids the other day and their cousins because the four of them were all hanging out together.

And I was like, get off the devices, guys. And they were like, no, we're playing a game on their devices together, collectively. They're like, we're all in this game together. It's Roblox or they're building some rooms. I'm like, oh, you've kind of got me there because you're kind of playing the game together as a group. And if they're doing it outside, well, then you've got no leg to stand on.

And we're outside. Yeah, so I was like, what do I do in this situation? Because, yeah, they are playing a game, you know, not just focused on their own device. They're playing a game collectively. Yeah, I think that, you know, you need to decide for yourself as a parent for your kids what is okay in terms of device time and what isn't okay. I think it's a different, with parenting in such a different context now, and I put myself, you know, in my early years of parenting, I just felt like our devices are just,

they're so bad. I don't want my kids to go on a screen. But, you know, I guess we are living in this era where screens are so much a part of our children's life now. And it's how they, you know, they spend a lot of time on them at school and they socialise on them but it's okay as well and it's really important and healthy for us to put boundaries in place around device time I know that our kids learn by what they see

what we do, not by what we say as well, so we've kind of got to walk the talk as well. Yeah, I mean but there's a parenting tool, how bloody good is the iPad? It's a geez, there's a parenting tool. How bloody good's the iPad? Yeah. Bloody, it's a game changer.

It is a real game. Holly Jean Brook, always love catching up with you from the parenting place. Appreciate it. Good luck for the school holes and we'll see you soon. Cool, thank you very much. See you guys.

Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It is our Game of Words Association. We play it every morning on The Hits. Your words away from $5,000. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning on The Hits. Your chance to win $5,000 by matching five words with our five words. Paula, welcome from Auckland. How are you

this morning? I'm good. Hopefully about to be better. Yeah, good. I mean, how do you want this cash? Crypto, unmarked bills, monopoly money. How do you like us to pay you? Just cash. Just cash. Cold, hard, th money. How do you like us to pay you? Just cash. Cold, hard, throbbing cash is what we like to give away on the radio.

What would you spend five grand on? It's a lot of money. A new handbag. One heck of a nice handbag for five grand. What are you aiming for? Sorry, I'm getting distracted here because I'm looking at a giant crane which I believe would be almost hanging

on the roof of my car bed outside the window. Yeah, I park my car out there. Well, I'm not buying you a new car. Well, you might have to, because I'm just, are you parked there too, Ben? Yeah, I definitely am parked there. It's slightly concerning. I'll give you some Uber money. Sorry. Now they're lifting over giant... It feels like

a prank. A giant prank. Paul, are you pranking us? Now, is that hanging over my car? No, I'm concentrating. If this falls off, I'm not part of this prank. This is a huge pile of, it looks like wood or something, hanging over the top of my car on a crane.

We have to trust them. I just want to win money. Alright, Paula, who's going in the soundproof booth slash also checking their car outside? Jono's going to. Oh, thank you. Good.

Thank you for leading her into that. All right. Here we go, Paula. We're going to see what pops into your head when I say the first word this morning, which is clap.

Hands. Hand? You know, I just want to make... Hands. Oh, hands with an S. Just wanted to make sure that's what you said. Clap hands.

Okay. Give is the second word this morning. G-I-V-E. Give? Take. Take. Give and take. That's a good option.

Dip is word number three. D-I-P. Dip? Chip. Chip and dip. Oh, yeah. You're playing a really good game, poor. Motorway is word number four.

Motorway? Car. Car on the motorway. Oh, that, you're playing a really good game, poor. Motorway is word number four. Motorway? Car. Car on the motorway. Oh, that's probably terrible. It wasn't a bad option, Bill. No. No, it's all right. Lots of cars on the motorway.

And champagne. What's popping into your head when I say champagne? Celebration. Celebration. All right. It's always tricky when you get put on the spot. It's a lot easier to play when someone else is playing it. So easy to play in the car.

Exactly. He's come back from checking his car this morning back in here, John O'Prior. All seems to be all good with my car, Paula. Oh, good. Oh, that's good. Ben's another story. Yeah. I feel like it's right under my car as well.

But anyway, I'm not letting that rattle me. What I will say is the crane is agonisingly close to both of our vehicles anyway. Not for us to worry about. How did Paula go? Paula went well. Really good. It started well. It's the last couple, as always, that we need to come through with Paula for, okay?

Okay. Just think of all the words that you've said in your life, Paula, and let's just make those match with my words right now, okay? Get you a new handbag. All right, here we go. First word we said to Paula was clap. Clap. Applause. What did Paula go?

What did Paula go? Yours was a good option. She went hands. Clap hands. Applause was good too. I didn't even think of applause, but yeah, you did good. Oh, I'm sorry. That was appallering on my part. What were the other four words? Give.

Give. Way. Take. Dip. D-I-P. Dip. Dip. Chips and dip.

Yeah, we'll give you that one. Motorway. Motorway. Motorway. Traffic. Oh, that's car. And champagne. Champagne drinking.

Drink. Not a champagne effort from you, John. No. Paula. That was really bad. It's not your fault. Don't you walk away here with your head held low. This is all on me, Paula, and we love you. Thank you very much for listening.

Okay, love you too. Bye. Cheers, bye. The great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here. Jono and Ben on the hits. I'm very excited about this. Got my hands on a cassette tape. Yeah, that's some dated technology.

Of Jono Pryor's first ever radio show as a young, young, what? He's about 15, 16 years old. He's been trying to, we played this years and years ago, and he's been trying to find a device to play the audio so he can record it into the system. It's been his ongoing bugbear, and he's finally got a cassette recorder from his mother over Easter in Northland.

I got a tape of you doing your Access Community radio show as little Johnny Pryor. It was the start line of such an illustrious career, Ben. Yesterday, I went around the office here at radio. These are people that know radio, and I played it to a few people in the office just to get their thoughts on little Johnny Pryor. No, see what you're doing.

He's trying to put on a positive supporting voice. The main goal of this is the exact opposite. He's like, you know, try to get out there, get some good stuff. All he wants to do is mock. Like, let's just go straight to the end and mock. No, see what the people in the office at radio thought of little Johnny Pryor. Jono Pryor's first ever radio shift. You ready for this?

Yeah. Little Johnny Pryor. Oh, my gosh. Is he 12? Why does he sound like he's from the UK? Take a breath, boy. Imagine if he thanked everyone at the end of the day here. If Hosking left, the farewell wouldn't be this long.

What is this, the thank you session or something? Come on! What's your thoughts? I'm surprised that he works at the Hits and he's had such a great history of jobs and radio. There's lots of cars to be washed down in the car park. There's always other work. I can't believe he's made it that far.

I would have fired him after that first break. So maybe a mixed feedback on Little Johnny Pryor. Mixed all the same. All the same. Not mixed at all. But you'll hear it. Can I just say my name wasn't Little Johnny Pryor. Sorry, it's Johnny Pryor.

You'll hear Johnny Pryor. I just call him Little Johnny Pryor. You've got to stick around for this. It is the hits. The hits. Now, Jono, I've managed to get my hands on a tape From one of your first radio broadcasts Now you thought you threw this away when we worked at a previous station I saw it in the bin and I was like, I'll take this

I threw it away out of pure shame Because you did acquire this audio a number of years ago And I know behind the scenes all you've been searching for For the last three years is a tape player It's the first thing you ask when you came to this company. Have you got a tape player? Two cassettes. They're like, no, we are in the new millennium.

We got rid of all our tape players. So you've been hunting high and low to play this cassette. Yeah. And I found one. I brought one back from my mum's house over the weekend. And so I have for you right now. Well, your first bit of radio. This is the first show that you did.

I set the scene. You're what, 12, 13 years old old a young kid wanting to get into radio i don't know why they let you on with your own show at that age i was such a nerd that i knew from a very early age i wanted to annoy people on the radio sort of eight or nine uh which looking back on it is a it's a treat knowing what you want to do at that age uh but in moments like this, it's also low-hanging fruit for our co-hosts to mock and bully you. Now, can I front foot this? Can I front foot this?

No, I don't want to front foot. Not too much front footing. I'm sort of front footing and go, the technology recording of the tape recorder might make my voice sound a little bit higher than you're okay. You're like 13 years old. Of course you are. You're a little higher.

Okay, so here it is. Jono Pryor, Access Community Radio. This is the actual recording of Jono Pryor when he was young from a cassette. Have a listen. Access Community Radio, 8am. Hello, you're with Jono Pryor. You love that, don't you? Hello.

Play that again. It's so good. Access Community Radio, 8am. Hello, you're with Jono Pryor. Hello, you're with Jono Pryor.. Hello, you're with Johnny Pryor. Hello, you're with Johnny Pryor. Hello. So you're Johnny

Pryor. You've gone by the name of Johnny Pryor there. When did, Johnny didn't come for later? No, I was known

to my friends and family as Johnny for many years. Johnny Pryor. I like Johnny Pryor. You sounded so happy too.

Oh, that was before the solar industry had sapped every last bit of willingness to live out of me. Okay, so this before the solar industry had sapped every last bit of willingness to live out of me. Okay, so this is

little Johnny Pryor. Little Johnny. Thanks so much, Chiru. Pulse Kefala 44 with Bogdan Novak and friends. They should be back here

same time, same place at five o'clock for another great show in the series. And don't forget, coming up next at five past six is the...

Who would have thought that nasally kid would grow up to be the nasally adult you're here today? He sounds like one of those race cars. You sound like you've got that same sort of... Is it the tape technology or is it just the way you... No, this is before...

This is a very youthful Johnny Pryor. He was a happier human being. Hello. Happier human being. Hello. Happier human being. And before the experience of puberty was to hit him. So I didn't sound like a race caller. I get that. Okay.

Well, that's my lot for today. And not only today, that's my lot forever. This was my last shift on Access Community Radio 8 and I am. He's leaving. I only just got to love him. Not Johnny Price last show. How were the lines when the call was coming through? Telling you.

Writing your letters in because back then it would have been like, oh, God, I can't believe you're leaving. Don't let me. Where are you going? Where are you going to end up next? Now, from memory, I went into quite the speech. Quite the speech. Quite the speech. Quite the leaving speech.

Rattling off names of people I wanted to... I want to thank a few people before I leave. I want to thank Leona Breslin, the station manager here, for giving me the opportunity to work on a great, great community station. Also, great, great, great, great community station.

Oh, God, hit me now. It's not often you get to go back and bully the 12-year-old version of yourself. So good.

Roy Slater, Matt Aikison and Mike McDonald for teaching me all the buttons, you know, because if you don't know the buttons,

you can't really operate in there and also I want to bit of a joke bit of a joke bit of a joke bit of a joke

bit of a joke bit of a joke bit of a joke bit of a joke bit of a joke bit of a joke bit of a joke bit of a joke

but then I fainted that's not bad fainted out of the joke it wasn't even a joke I don't even oh god oh that speech oh so good

yeah give you that now to use the buttons. Well, next, we want to see if we can get little Johnny Pryor some work, so we're going to call one of the big bosses here at the radio station and play him Johnny Pryor's audio. Will Johnny Pryor get a job? We'll find out. If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, I got hold of Jono Pryor's first ever radio show back when he was like 16 years old. It's so good. And I want to see now if he would get a job, if little Jono Pryor would get a job here at the radio station. So we're going to make a call to one of our big bosses. Hello, Jason speaking. Oh, hey, Jason. It's Ben from the Hits, mate.

How you doing? Who? Ben from the Hits. Oh, g'day, mate. How you doing? Good start, Jason speaking. Oh, hey, Jason. It's Ben from The Hits, mate. How you doing? Who? Ben from The Hits. Oh, g'day, mate. How you doing? Good start, good start. Always top of mind. It's always good to hear.

I haven't seen you for so long. Oh, I see you're back in the office now. It's awesome. Yeah, back in the office. Where are you guys? I just had a quick weird question I just wanted to ask you for a bit of advice. I've got a young cousin of mine who's keen to get into radio Johnny and he sent me a tape and I just

I wanted to give him some feedback and I just thought well you've obviously you've employed quite a lot of people over the years and you know and you've got a great radio brain I wonder if you can give

a quick bit of advice if I could play you a bit right now yeah sure mate sure sure okay I'll just see if it works through that hang on okay have a listen

Access Community Radio HNO AM hello you're with Johnny Pryor don't forget coming up next at five past six is the German Hour with Wolfgang and the team Okay, have a listen. Access Community Radio, 8am. Hello, you're with Johnny Pryor. Don't forget, coming up next at five past six is the German Hour with Wolfgang and the team. Well, that's my lot for today, and not only today, that's my lot forever. This was my last shift on...

Yeah, so that's Johnny Pryor. What do you think of Johnny Pryor? How old is Johnny Pryor? Well, he originally said 12, but now he's thinking he's more like 15, 16 now, so yeah. I said 12 because it sounded like I hadn't been through puberty. I'm trying to think here. Johnny Pryor would, I'm trying to work out vaguely though how old Johnny Pryor would have been.

Sounds like about 1980s. It might have been about 10 years ago. It was actually from last week's day though. You're putting on the voice though, Johnny Pryor. Does Johnny Pryor have a future in radio? Look,

do you know what he did? He has nice, I'd say warmth. He sounds inviting. He sounds like a nice young man at that point, putting on a little bit of the radio posture of voice. But he did sound like a nice man. I that point, putting on a little bit of the radio boss job voice. But he did sound like a nice man. I don't know what's happened since. This industry's worn me down.

There were no tattoos I could clearly hear on that young Johnny Pryor. He had a full head of hair, too. A full head of hair, yes. I could hear that coming through. That's why he was so happy. I'd probably give that, given he's only 16, I'd probably give that a seven out of 10.

I would use the P word, potential there. There is potential. Hello. Hello, it's Johnny Pryor. What do you think about changing the name of the show now

to Johnny Pryor and Ben on the hits? What do you think? I'm not sure. I don't know. Is Jono really a Johnny? I'm trying to think of other Johnnies. Johnny sounds a little too dangerous.

Is he a Johnny? He's got a little danger to him. I don't have the danger associated. No, no. I think Jono's more your style, not Johnny. Yeah, no. So would I have got a gig back in the day? Knowing what you know now, how it's all played out.

Well, maybe weekend weekend Mid-dawn Or something Or midnight Or six o'clock Well people need a pep In their step at that time Of morning I love how you're doing

In your night shift He was good I like him Who was the person That gave you the gig That's what I asked There were questions Around the community

You're not working On radio anymore That's for sure No clearly There were questions Around the community They're not working in radio anymore That's for sure No clearly There were questions around the community station management That Ben has asked He's like how on earth Were you in a building at that age on your own

And did you choose your own music Or did you follow what we were told to play No we had to follow We don't push boundaries in the community radio station We need to serve the community Not ourselves That's what we always said Did you bring any girlfriends the community radio station. We're there to serve the community, not ourselves. That's what we always said. Did you bring any girlfriends to the radio station at that point?

Do you think, in all honesty, do you think that... Hello, you with Johnny Pryor. Do you think hello, you with Johnny Pryor had any girls around him? The answer is no, Stano. Disappointing, disappointing. Hello, you're not with Johnny Pryor. He's by himself again. Hello, would you like to go on a date?

Stay, no, thank you. Anytime, good luck. See you, mate. Thank you. See you, guys. That person who didn't let you merge probably listens to a lesser radio station. Dono and Ben on the heads.

Now, Apple, you've heard of the Apple Corporation. Oh, is this who you need to make an apology to? I need to apologise to Apple. Now, of course apple uh make laptops cell phones you know they're been around for a while and we were talking last week about you were you were talking about how you have to remember so many passwords in your life and i was saying on my computer i've got this little thing you hold up your fingerprint to i'm like hey you just put your fingerprint up there you don't have to remember a password just put your fingerprint on and on your own laptop it'll it'll do it but then i said there was a huge flaw in the system because my daughter sienna will just put her finger up to it on the password and it'll just go through she paid for something

in the day i said how'd you pay for that she's like i just put my finger on your fingerprint thing oh and then we went into a conversation about how we haven't quite nailed fingerprint technology and uh you know we're nearly there but it's good that we can do it and i even heard it She's like, I just put my finger on your fingerprint thing. And then we went into a conversation about how we haven't quite nailed fingerprint technology. And, you know, we're nearly there, but it's good that we can do it. And I even heard it on ads. They were playing it on ads on the hits as well. So it was getting out all over. Yeah, we're saying the technology is not good enough.

You could just put any old fingerprint in. My wife has done it on my one as well. I'm like, oh, geez. If you've got a fingerprint, you can gain access. How shabby is the security? So I talked about this. Now I discovered last night when my laptop was on, what they'd done

is you can add your fingerprint to basically the password thing. So now, so what has happened is it's not getting recognised as my fingerprint. They've added, my daughter and my wife

have added their own fingerprints. Oh, they've all got their fingerprints on their mucky fingerprints on your system. So there's basically three fingerprints that unlock anything on the system. So they've gone in to my settings and added their fingerprints. Stuck their fingers into your business. And so it's not rethinking its mind.

They've just added their own ones in there. So that's how they got around. So I apologize to Apple for saying your system's shoddy. Well, they've been waiting a week for this apology. Because it's my family that are the dodgy ones, all right? Yeah, well, if you want to apologize, you apologize to Siri, okay? All right. He doesn't even, you know, he doesn't even.

No, no, no. Can I apologize to your Siri? He doesn't trust technology. Do you have a little bit of tape over the camera on your laptop as well? Are you scared you're being watched? Well, I am a little bit scared. I'm paranoid of getting listened to. So I turned Siri off my phone

so she hasn't heard the apology. Can I apologise to you, Siri? You can apologise to me. Hey, Siri, can Ben apologise to you? Uh-huh. Okay, Siri,

I'm very sorry. I'm sorry, Siri. I found this on the web for convert apologise to you. Doesn't get the New Zealand accent. Okay, so again, Apple, you haven't nailed the technology here.

But you have nailed The fingerprint technology So well done You know What I love about Ben Is he's so Nervous about technology He won't even Stand in the same room

As an Alexa He's like They're listening Listening Everyone's listening My daughter got one And I'm like We haven't plugged it in

I'm like I don't want someone Listening to us He leaves it outside In the driveway He's dropping the whole time His tin foil hat on But they don't want I mean to us. He leaves it outside in the driveway. He's dropping the whole time. He's got his tinfoil hat on. But when you break it down, you know,

when Siri and Alexa are listening to you order more commercial-grade hand sanitizer by five-litre amounts, what are they doing with that information? I don't know. Oh, you're such a baddie. You're going to jail. I don't know. Hey, next on the show. Can I also have a crack at Apple

and I will not be apologising for this. I want an apology for them for this. Stop changing your bloody charger cords. Stop now. Madness needs to stop. Yeah, keep the same ones. We all like them. They're fine. And then they try and hide it under the fact of, oh, we're saving the environment. That's what they try and do.

How? Well, they go, we don't put a charger in there, they just put a new cord that you can plug into your... And the new cord doesn't fit. Now, apologise. Scrolling through your feed. All right, this news bulletin, I tell you what, is very light on detail, but very heavy on puns. Ben Boyce, what's happening?

Now, Megan and Prince Harry are big fans of a Kiwi book they have revealed yesterday at the Invictus Games. Megan said that she reads Harry McCleary to their two kids. From Donaldson's Diary. Lily Dodd. Yeah, the Lily Dodd book from 1983. Big fan. Big fan of the book and has read it many, many nights to her kids over the years.

So it's pretty good because it wasn't even like a New Zealand question about, you know how we love to ask New Zealand questions as a reporter. What do you think of the place? What do you love about New Zealand? This just came out of nowhere. We do really like to bully them, don't we, into saying nice things about the country. I remember, did Linley Dodd? Linley Dodd had a bit of an issue with us.

Well, I don't think it was her personally. I think it was her people. Her people. Because we did a sketch, didn't we? Yeah, and unfortunately the Harry McCleary went out of the gate and off for a walk and then kind of. Met a grisly demise. Yeah, of course. Yeah, he was run over, wasn't he? He was run over and that

was the end of our sketch. And I don't think that quite set as well with, you know, a light-hearted, amazing children's book. I can see it. I can see it now. The Dodd people were not too happy. So we took that down from the internet and it only exists now in our minds. We had a couple

of instances of people being upset with legal issues, didn't we? There was a song that we ripped off, I can't even mention the artist And then we got taken to task over there Yeah, we should probably just stick to doing our own stuff Not trying to rip off other people's stuff Apparently there's something called IP Intellectual property, who would know, eh?

And post-Reddit has gone around the world at the moment A US woman has asked for advice and she's been branded ridiculous by her family because she wanted to use her sister's wedding to celebrate her engagement herself. Now, she got engaged a few days out before the sister's wedding

and she's like, hey guys, guess what, I'm engaged. But then her sister's come back who's getting married and said, do not even mention your engagement to anyone, This is about me. Well, you know what seems like the reasonable thing to do? Is take that to the internet. Take that question to the internet. Take that family issue and put it on the internet.

The always really reasonable internet have definitely weighed in on this one. But I thought it was a little bit unreasonable. She can't even mention the fact she got engaged around this lady's wedding. But hey, who's for me to judge? Maybe I could just get on the internet and judge that one. Yeah, if you want to. That's why she's throwing it out to the universe. The good thing, too, is sometimes people join up birthdays.

Why can't you join up an engagement in a wedding? She can halve costs. Yeah. There's an advantage to the bride here. Maybe there's a market for it. They don't want to marry at first sight, don't they? They get through multiple weddings in one evening, and that works out well.

Some of them get married three different times throughout one season. Incredible. That's scrolling through your feed. You can't be next to me. Your memory is ecstasy. I miss you more than life. I miss you more than life. It is the Biebs.

The Ghosts. You're on the hits. John Owen BN, 8.49, Thursday morning. Spy. Know what Thursday morning. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. There's our dear mate, Belle Crawford, with celebrities. And which ones are suffering from fungal infections and so much more?

Belle, what's going on? Oh, dear. Would not be good. Now, there are reports that Will and Jada Smith have barely spoken since the Oscars. Old slapgate. They're not really talking very much. And if they were to divorce, there's all these entertainment commentators coming out now,

having their two cents. They're saying it would be one of the biggest divorces in showbiz history. Bigger than the drawn-out divorce of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, which ended up going through, like, high court sort of stuff. Look, if they haven't spoken since the Oscars, I'd like to say they didn't really speak at the Oscars either. She just kind of gave them that look.

Gave them a side-eye, then he was slapping Chris Rock within five seconds. No, so they didn't really talk much there either. But 350 mil, I think, is what he's apparently got. That's in US dollars, so about 518 million New Zealand dollars. You know what I appreciate about you, Belle Crawford? What? I always convert the money? You're always converting USD to NZD for us, which makes me go, wow, that's a lot of money.

Because otherwise, yeah, you've got to do the conversions. Good perspective. Yeah, no worries. Always got that for you. And of course, she would be entitled to half of that money, so it would be a massive process if they had to divide up. I mean, she's very successful on her own as well. Of course she is, yeah.

But yeah, but a lot of money, a lot of things divide. Yeah, all the men in black suits. Who's going to take all those? There was some great gags going around on the internet afterwards, you know, with those things for men in black that erased. The memory eraser. What will Will Smith do for one of those right now? See, they've had an interesting relationship though, don't they?

Is it open? Is it open? Is it closed? Because she went off for a year with another guy. Yeah, she had a boyfriend. She had a boyfriend. Yeah, because they kind of broke up for a bit

and then she had a boyfriend. But then they seemed to have a very open relationship. Did Will Smith slap him? Not if anyone deserved to slap him. I don't know if that happened. I think he allowed it

otherwise they were going to break up kind of thing. Yeah, had to let it happen. Oh, so he had to be cool with thing. Yeah, had to let it happen. Oh, so he had to be cool with it. Yeah, that was the part of the arrangement. Oh, right. Okay.

Don't you get any ideas, Ben? That's not the normal way around here, okay? No, no, no. It's okay. You start eyeing up Vaughn and Vaughn from Vincent Vaughn. Vincent Vaughn. Vincent Vaughn. I'll just text him and say I can't do the show with him afterwards. Yeah.

He's going to be gutted. Season five of Jada's online show, Red Table Talk, which if I was, there's so many memes like, come on, bring the red table out. We need to have show with him afterwards. Yeah. He's going to be gutted. Season five of Jada's online show, Red Table Talk, which if I was, there's so many memes like, come on, bring the red table out. We need to have a chat about this. Season five's being revealed, and at this stage, no mention of Will at the table. But her first guest is Chris Rock.

Yeah. And here's an idea. It's a little bit feminist of me, but let's stop commenting on women's bodies and people in general. Now, Rebel Wilson has spoken out about comments on her body and weight loss and shut down that she was following a fad diet. She's posted a screenshot of a Daily Mail story on Instagram saying,

this was never my diet, please stop writing this stuff, and that she'd never endorsed any diet pills. Here she was actually speaking, which I thought was really cool about the whole situation. So is that what a woman has to do in the world is just lose weight diet pills. Here she was actually speaking which I thought was really cool about the whole situation. form and change my life and they were like why why would you want to do that because i was earning millions of dollars being you know the funny fat girl and like and being that person you're right what does it matter what does it matter if you're big small short or tall ben no judgment over here oh yeah okay good yeah don't know anything you want to say about my bald head right now i'll leave that one to Chris Rock.

And the Kardashians now streaming on Star on Disney+. How's G.I. Jane 2 looking for you? You going to be in it? A lot of publicity for G.I. Jane 2, which I don't think is actually happening. Well, it doesn't sound like Jane is too keen for it, so maybe I can step into the role. Oh, jeez.