Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ronnie From The Killers Dished On His Friendship With Prince Harry

Episode Date: November 4, 2021

We had Ronnie Vannucci Jr join us today, the drummer from The Killers. The Killers have just announced an NZ show at the end of next year, so we had him on for a chat. We also brought our segment The Show Rubbish Bin back. It's where all our bad ideas go, but sometimes we give them a second chance. Ben had an idea where he tried to get his "Bond" back.... his James Bond. Finally, we spoke to a listener who has already got all her Christmas decorations up, and she played us her farting Santa toy. Just lovely. Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Ben Boyce, welcome. Good to be here on the podcast.

It feels like we've got an audience for the podcast today. Yeah, we've got producer Juliette in here having her... Bergen today. Bergen bread. Not Vogels today. Marmite and avocado on toast. Vogels is like the new hottest item in the supermarket. It was sold out.

Do you want to just wait until you finish your mouthful? Come on our podcast? No, you bring it. Yeah, this is the podcast intro. I don't know if you've ever listened to the podcast intro, but it's not good. So what you're bringing right now is great. I noticed you put the Marmite on sans butter.

No butter. I could feel your eyes on me as I was going at it. We're judging, we are. I was just like, I've never seen just raw Marmite spread onto bread. No, normally it would be like peanut butter without the butter. You're right, Jono, yeah. When I put avocado on with Marmite, the avocado, you don't really need butter because it's so creamy.

Gotcha. It kind of balances it out. If I didn't have avocado, absolutely butter. Yeah, I was like, jeez, this is mad dog stuff here. Mad dog. Or I have done it before with my mum, Jenny, where if you had like an upset tummy, she'd be just, you don't want anything, no dairy food. That would be dinner or something.

It would just toast with like no butter, no just maybe a little bit of marmite. Flat lemonade, you know. It'd have to be flat. I don't know why. Annie Pryor would call that comforting toast. So I'll just have a meal of comforting toast and I'll you checked out of dinner tonight, haven't you? You pushed bread down in a toaster. You really have checked out of dinner.

So that'd be it. Just some toast. Now Ben Boyce, I know something, one of the big bugbears for you with this podcast is there's not enough pizzazz in the introduction part. I mean, here we're talking about Juliet

eating toast. Yeah, true. And I know you're a big fan of these U.S. He listens to U.S. basketball podcasts too.

They come in with a lot of hype. They come in with sound effects. They come in with music. Yes, that noise. That's always a big

one. Do one. Do one. Do one. Do one and I'll play the horn. But I don't have the ability to... You're the hype guy. But I'm not that... Well, Julie and me are all support.

But I... Okay, let's start again. I've got a New Zealand accent. I sound like I'm... You'll be great. I'm like... But I can't... Welcome to the podcast.

Yeah, okay. Here we go. Here we go, guys. Turn it up. It's a podcast. Get ready. Here we go, guys. Turn it up. It's a podcast. Get ready. Here we go. Strap your ears on to the side of your heads.

It's the greatest podcast. Coming at you live. Just shouting noises. Roar. Here we go. Talking words. It's the podcast. Live.

Turn it up Jono and Ben here we go turn it up nice and loud but not too loud that it causes you hearing problems later in life here we go the podcast that was actually quite fun enjoy the podcast today we talked to a wonderful lady who's got a Christmas

you've dialed it from 11 right down to 1 we've got a lady to her who's Christmas a Christmas... You've dialled it from 11 right down to 1. Yeah, I've already negative 3. We've got a lady to her who's got Christmas decorations up. She was so funny today. She's got some great mechanical ones. Yeah, she does. A lot of Santas, gassy Santas gracing her house, and she took us through the wonderful array

of different Santa clauses she has. Also, Mike King, too. It's Gumboot Friday today as well for I Am Hope, and he joins us on the show. Very tired Mike. I think we got Mike King up way too early. Yeah he's got a busy day and we're like hey mate get up at 6 for us. He was still running that fresh out of

bed croaky voice. He was probably still up the night before planning for Gumboot Friday. Yeah so Mike King as well have a great day. Good morning New Zealand welcome along to the show. It is 6. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. It is 6 o'clock.

Jono and Ben with you. How are you guys doing? Friday? Good. Oh, yes. Gisborne. Gisborne not looking too good this morning, though, thinking of everyone living there.

A state of emergency. It's a flooding. Huge flooding going on in Gisborne. I was just seeing some pictures on the news before, and even on the front of the Herald, there's a car going along, and they've sort of attached a rope, and someone is kind of on a surfboard. Like wakeboarding. Like wakeboarding from a car. I always appreciate those sorts of people who appear on the news in those flooding situations.

I mean, the last thing I want to do in a flood is to go surfing, you know, surfing being towed behind a 4x4. I'm dealing with other stuff. But I appreciate, you know, they being towed behind a 4x4. I'm dealing with other stuff. But I appreciate, you know, they're good little snapshots on the news. People even went out, you know, surfing. Yeah, there was someone else in a full wetsuit sort of like swimming along on like a giant surfboard as well. You know, you're right.

Those are the people there. They're good. They're great for the news photo. Great for us. We're talking about it now. It's Friday, Ben. You do like to say we're getting the party started early on a Friday, don't you? You like to kick that off at 6 o'clock. I said that last week

and you're like, who's getting the party started at 6 o'clock? Maybe you know. Ironically, Pink next. Oh, is she? Yeah, that song. Okay, well, what? Because I wasn't going to do it this week. I was like, it's too early to get the party started. At 6 o'clock, you've got the whole Friday ahead of you, but if Pink wants to get the party started. You're the only two people in

the universe who want to get the party started at 6.03. Alright, Pink, let's get the party started. It is the Hats. You've got to shut on Ben. Many people saying too early to get the party started on a Friday morning, but not Pink. If anything, she's probably still got the party still going. Do you reckon she's still getting the party? I mean, she's got kids, you know, settled down. She's probably not getting the party still going. Do you reckon she's still getting the party? I mean, she's got kids, you know, settled down.

She's probably not getting the party started as much. I was actually reading, and sorry to dog-league just slightly before, the Queen once got the party started. Now, the Queen has been in the news quite a lot lately about the fact that she's... About her drinking habits. Well, no, you also said, at least, she's not on the greatest health at the moment.

She's 95. She's done amazing. But there was a time that she pretty much partied for four days. Did she? And she wrote about it in her diary. What a legend. It was at the end of She's 95. She's done amazing. But there was a time that she pretty much partied for four days. Did she? And she wrote about it in her diary. It was at the end of the World War and like the rest of Britain, they were out, you know. Four days? Pretty much on and off for four days.

A Buckingham bender. Yeah. And she didn't write about it in a lot of detail. Like one thing, she's like Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly, Pormor, walked simply miles, saw parents on the balcony at 12.30am, ate, partied, bed 3am. You know, it was just a wee snapshot she probably didn't have a live blog or anything she

could do back then so she wrote about it in her diary. She couldn't do Insta posts. Yeah. Living her best life. Yeah. As you would do if you've been in a war and suddenly things are over. Full credit to taking the time to write a diary about it as well. Like, that's the last thing you want to do when you party.

I've done a big day's party. I'll go and write a few lines in my diary. The diary as a kid is always a funny one. You always have best intentions with the diary, don't you? You start well. I remember I was given a Roald Dahl diary book that I could fill in. I'm like, I'm going to fill this thing in every day. It's going to be a wonderful snapshot in history.

At the end of Jan, you check out, don't you? Yeah. You're like, by March, you're like, woke up, went to school. No more detail than that. Yeah. Now, my kids, they're homeschooling at the moment. Given the situation we're in, Ben, I don't know if you understand, but this is a lockdown.

Yeah. I think the rest of the country are sick of hearing about it. Are the rest of the country sick of hearing hearing about it. Are the rest of the country sick of hearing about it? That's interesting. They're probably just living their life, to be honest. They probably don't, you know.

And 4487, should we shut up about the lockdown? Not that I feel like we talk about it all the time. No, I don't think we talk about it heaps. But now we're talking about talking about the lockdown. Yeah, I know.

So 4487, if we want us to stop banging on, we will. But it's been a light banging, hasn't it? Yeah. Just a couple of bangs a morning. We're not thrusting away all morning. We're not Heather Duplessy Allen-ing it. What's she doing?

She's bloody all the time. COVID, COVID, COVID. We try to pretend that it's not around for the most part of the show. Yeah, try and be positive. And yeah, you're right. There's better things to talk about than that. That's right. Anyway, so my son's at home and he's a basketball obsessed as you know

ben and uh so my job as a parent is to play him uh you know practice with him and essentially i turn up get my ass handed to me every day and then move on so you're like a team taking on say the american team at the o Yeah that's right, like the Americans versus the All Blacks the other day I was just there, you know, kind of half-heartedly playing but I know my role in the game but then I, kids just can't

read a room, can they? That's the wonderful thing about children, no matter what room they're in no matter what environment, they're just going to be who they are. At some stage in life we all turn boring and we're like, oh, this is how I must behave in this environment. Yeah, right. You get some awareness.

Yeah. We don't need awareness. Because they're very honest. They can come out with stuff and you're like, oh, okay. But they don't mean it in that way. They're just saying what they, you know. Yeah. Now, I rolled my ankle yesterday and I'm always rolling my ankles.

Is that you? Yeah. It's often limping around. Really? I didn't even notice. Well, I haven't even noticed. No, I'd roll my ankle at least eight times a year. Like, my ankle, I don't know what's wrong.

Somebody doesn't do a lot of sport, to be honest. I don't know how you do it. I'm just like, oh, he must love the drama. He loves people going, are you all right there, mate? Yeah, no, we're all good. Just roll my ankle. The most rolled ankles in New Zealand, these ones. Anyway, I roll my ankle, and I'm on the New Zealand, these ones. Anyway, roll my ankle.

I'm on the ground. I'm going, ah, you know. And he just walks up to me. He's like, jeez, I'm good at basketball. And I'm sitting there in pain. And he's just got no. No, yeah. And then he's like, hey, just sees his old man on the ground rolling around.

He's another rolled ankle for that old codger. And just continues to play. First thing, geez, I'm good at basketball. The other thing, too, is when you're in the bathroom. And that's just another room in the house to the children. When you're an adult, you're like, this is a sacred place. Where are you? I'm just in the bathroom Which, you know, to anyone

Over the age of 10, or not even 10 Anyone over the age of 15, it's like Okay, well we leave them to be That's their time, we'll get them when they come out Do you know if it's going to rain today? I don't know right now Get out, I'm toweling myself off here Next, we've got some

More unusual news from the world. British Juliet has beat down some news headlines, and we need to guess what they are. I always love playing this game. We'll do that next. It is The Hits. Baby, we made it through. Yeah, we proved them all wrong.

You're on The Hits. Jaro and Ben, it is a Friday morning. Good morning. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is The B**** News. She's a one-woman beeping machine on a pointless crusade to unnecessarily censor news headlines. Juliette. Hello.

So you have to guess the beeped out word in your first news story. Critically endangered bird species shock scientists by B***h. I'm going to say I'm thinking the birds are hooking up with the bees because that's how the birds and the bees happen, right? That's what the whole thing is. Oh, yeah. They would shock scientists. Yeah, how does that, logistically, how is that working? The bees definitely outweighed in that scenario.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm not going to go there. It'd be like you making love to Dwayne Johnson. Okay, I'm going to go critically endangered bird species shock scientists by winning bird of the year and being a bat. I know. Critically endangered bird species shock scientists

by reproducing without mating, ignoring males. So it's this bird that's over in the States, and some of the chicks had hatched from unfertilised eggs, and they weren't genetically related to any male. So God knows how that happened. And it's quite good because it's endangered. So they're like, well, there's hope for this species. I mean, for the human race too,

I mean, if ladies could just reproduce without, you know. I mean, do they want the hassle of us? Do you know? This ugly thing that's attached to us? I don't know. If they can do it themselves. Well, maybe they can. It's almost, this is kind of...

Oh, true, you're right. True, yeah, that's a good point. The next news story. Joe Biden flashed by... on route to climate summit. Well, I'm going to say he's got flashed by his groupies, which are probably from a Ryman retirement home or something. He'd be looking down very low.

I'm going to say Joe Biden flashed by flashbacks of fighting in World War I, giving him a huge fright on the way to climate change conference. Joe Biden flashed by large, naked Scottish man en route to climate summit. So his whole motorcade saw this guy. He wasn't, you know, being publicly indecent. He wasn't on the streets just running around.

He was actually in his home through his window, naked, taking photos of the motorcade driving past. So he was in his own home, probably just, you know, very comfortable in his own skin. But his whole motorcade's sore, so that's very good, isn't it? How does he like being described as a large, naked Scottish man?

Hey, I've been working out. It's been lockdown over here for a long time. That's true. And the final news story. Teen solves 300 Rubik's Cubes while... I'm going to say he solves Rubik's Cubes secretly behind his back, like I did to Jono earlier this year. I learned how to do a Rubik's Cube and Jono didn't know that.

Didn't even know. I didn't suspect a thing. The good news is I've forgotten how to do it now, so we're back on the even playing field. That's funny. I'm going to say teen solves 300 Rubik's Cubes while holding on to his virginity at the same time. That's good.

Here we go. Teen solves 300 Rubik's Cubes while riding a unicycle. So I found the story and thought you would be quite impressed, Ben Boyce, because it is quite a challenge doing a Rubik's Cube by itself. But he was riding the unicycle for over two hours and solved Rubik's Cube 300 times. So that is a whole new level of talent. I was really impressed with my son, Oscar. He watched you, Ben, and he was very inspired.

He taught himself how to do it. Really? On YouTube. Kids just learn it so quick. She was telling me. I was like, what's this guy talking about? Oh, he's doing that. You're like, oh, okay, thank you.

And then they upgrade. He's like, now I can do it with one hand. I'm doing these on here. Kids. Stop being so good, kids. And that is the news and beeps for you. Don't forget, after 7 o'clock, we've got Five Words $5,000 up for grabs. If you want to win $5,000, go to The Hits Breakfast on Instagram or Facebook

and get an advantage to help you out at 7.45. Scrolling through your feed. You see him scrolling. You see him writing. He's writing dirty. Ben Boyce, that's a shout out to a 2005 hip hop song by Chameleoneer. What was it, Chameleoneer? Chameleoneer.

Writing dirty. Remember writing dirty? Writing dirty. What ever happened to Chameleon air? He had enough money to retire comfortably. Chameleon bus. Joe Rogan. He hosts one of the world's

biggest podcasts, the Joe Rogan Experience. He's also a commentator on UFC. He used to be the host of Fairfax Day. He's huge. In the media world, he's one of the big players. He's a big dog. We're little puppies. He's a chameleon here as well, right? I would imagine.

He would have a chameleon butt. Now, Joe Rogan was talking yesterday on his podcast, and he launched a bit of a scathing attack on the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. How private is that? Jacinda Ardern? Our beloved Jacinda. Yeah. What's he said about her?

Well, let's have a listen right now. I haven't actually heard this audio, but let's have a listen right now. I haven't actually heard this audio But at the same time listen together Have you seen that lady who's running New Zealand if she even gets asked questions at press conferences people yell out questions heels We're going to shut this down. We're gonna shut this down if you keep yelling out Leaves you like a lady truck ready to decredited press only and so she leaves like she she took the press conference indoors because they were Yelling out about the vaccine program that they have in Israel. And so this guy's yelling that out.

But what about this? Tell us what you know about how it's failing in Israel. And she goes, we're going to shut this down if you keep with a big smile on her face. So the impression was almost Trump with an English Trump. Yeah. It was. It was.

Yeah, he shouldn't have gone accent. He's like at that moment. But I've seen a video and he's sitting there holding a blunt while he's on this rant too. Yes. So I mean. That's kind of his thing though. Yeah, it is his thing. Which, you know, again, I just could not do this show stoned.

Could you? No. No. No. I'd be like. Who's this thing? Afterwards, you know, you see something about Jacinda, you'd be like, what? Who?

Jacinda, did I? Oh, God. You did a really bad impression of her. Did I Jacinda, you'd be like, what? Who? Jacinda, did I? Oh God. You did a really bad impression of her. Did I? Oh God. With like a, sort of a British accent. Oh no,

did I? Oh jeez. She's a good high. You know? So full respect to him for doing that world's biggest podcast while high.

Yeah. Yeah. I'd just be, I'd be a paranoid shambles. I'd be like, are the mocks on? Can they hear me? Hello?

Is Ben thinking about me? He's thinking about me. Everyone's looking at me. Oh, don't go. That's so funny. What's Juliet saying about me? Bye, my girl. And there's a big climate change summit going on right now that all the world's leaders

seem to be at in Glasgow and Scotland. But there's actually a lot of climate change news on, and this I found really, really interesting. I was watching Stephen Sharp a couple of days ago, and it was like things that you can do, and this is one I would never even have thought of. Have a listen to this. Many of us are already doing our bit,

but there's always more we can do, like deleting our old emails and photos, or those computers that run our cloud storage use almost as much energy as the airline industry. Oh! How is that? Just deleting some old emails. Who would have thought that?

Well, that's a lot easier than having to sort out recycling. Why don't I just do that? No, no, I'll just delete some emails. Yeah, but I wouldn't even have thought that that could help the planet in any way, shape or form. The power running those servers. Yeah, how's that? Of course. I'm going to go control all, delete everything.

Delete your family photos of your kids who were born, the wedding day. It's gone. Saving the environment. Doing my part. That is scrolling to your feed this morning. We've got Mike King joining us very shortly. Today is Gumboot Friday, a very important day in how you can help before 7 o'clock on the hits. John Owen Mann, the hits.

Tell you what, he could be the king of my kingdom any day. Come on down, Mike King. Morning, team. How are you? Good, mate. How are you? I am tired. How did you guys get up this early?

I was like, you're sounding 70% awake, Mike. Mate, I'm like, seriously, I set the alarm for 10 past 6, and here I am. In my gumboots. In your gumboots, got your gummies on. It is Gumboot Friday, and you guys do such great work at I Am Hope. For anyone that doesn't know what you guys do and the significance of the Gumboots,

can you explain again just quickly? So Gumboot Fridays, our effort to raise as much money as we can so anyone 25 and under can get free counselling. And why Gumboots? Because having a mental health issue is like walking through mud. And so it's showing our support

for anyone who has a mental health issue. Every time they see someone in gumboots, they know that other people are thinking about them. Now, I imagine a lot of charities like yourself will be missing out on some donations coming in during this unprecedented times we're facing, Mike King. But it's probably, I am hope, it's probably one of the more important ones

during this time. People must be going through some struggles, so to get that counselling must be pivotal for some at the moment. Oh, mate, it's huge. But I tell you what, I mean, this is our second one. We had one in May

where we raised just under a million dollars, but the awareness is, there's more awareness out there now, and we are going to be raising more money in this campaign than ever before. I mean, everyone realizes, I think, the importance of this. Everyone's got struggling kids in lockdown, missing out on their friends and needing someone to talk to.

Parents are frustrated, you know, and struggling as well. So, yeah, people are aware that for the need for this and, you know, Kiwis have really spun them behind. It's been amazing. So what's going on today and how can people help? Look, if you go onto the Facebook page Gumboot Army or Gumboot Friday, it'll tell you everything that's going on. But, you know, we've got some amazing things happening.

We've got a Southland farmer rang us up, you know, about four months ago and said, hey, mate, you know, we've got 11 farms down here. Maybe we could donate a bobby calf to you guys and, you know, probably get $500 for it. They ended up getting $1,000. Oh, nice. We've got the batteries, you know, get in there and, you know, trade your

battery in. I found out this morning that's over $100,000 already. You know, people are just going crazy. Vodafone have got a little campaign going and Harrison's Carpet have donated $50,000. We've got Fisher Fund, who, if you comment on the Gumbo Friday Facebook page,

everyone who comments has $1 up to $50,000. Oh, my gosh. And let's not forget the old chicken leg burger. Oh, Bryce Casey, yeah. I had one yesterday, Bryce. He just was away from work. I mean, I think there were well over 15,000 at the moment. So, you know, it's just, man, it's unbelievable.

Yeah, but Burger King are doing, I'm not Burger King, sorry, Burger Fuel are doing that with Bryce. He's designed a burger and the money goes towards I Am Hope, which is a wonderful cause. Yeah, Bryce does such great things. He's over at The Rock and he does such great things for mental health and supporting organisations like yourself. Yeah, no, it's huge, bro. It's really cool.

Hey, now, I know you've just woken up, Mike, and this is a pretty hard-hitting question for you at this hour of the morning. Would you ever run for Parliament? Now, I'm not talking about jogging there at 640km away, but would you stand as an MP? No, I think I'm much more effective outside Parliament. Once you're in the gang, you've got to listen to the press, and you're not very much of a listener. Yeah, right.

Yeah, no, look, it's a bureaucratic nightmare, and a lot of good people go in there with a lot of good intentions, but you just find out once you're in there that there's a status-looking thing, a big ladder you've got to climb before you can make a difference. No, I would much rather focus on helping kids outside of Parliament do what I'm doing, and I would rather do that for free than go into Parliament and get paid. Oh, awesome.

Gunbootfriday.org.nz if you want to go and visit there, you can make a donation. Mike King, always a pleasure. And hey, thanks for getting up early, mate. Appreciate it. Spy, the WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz

All right, time for the biggest news of the day. The latest on the yeast infection outbreak on Love Island. Juliet, what's happening in Spive? One of our favourite people, Ed Sheeran, he joined Dax Shepard on the Armchair Expert podcast and they got into a discussion about using public toilets. Now, Ed said that he avoids public urinals, sorry, specifically,

because people try to look at his downstairs region. So he said there'll be like 20 urinals. He'll go right to the end, so he's got less of a chance of someone coming next to him. Someone will walk in and come right next to him just to have a look. But I feel like that's the etiquette in urinals, right? You don't go

next to someone if it's empty, right? When Ed Sheeran comes into play, all those rules go out the window. Etiquette goes out the window. I mean, I'm going to have a peek. Would you have a peek? Oh, no, I'd try. No, I'd try.

Dwayne the Royal Johnston's there with his plum tree shaker. No, no, because I respect Dwayne Johnston too much to have a peek. You'd be curious, though, wouldn't you? I'm definitely curious, but no, I'm not. What about just sneaking up behind him over his shoulder? No, I'm not going to be that thing. I would, no. I'd be curious though I'm definitely curious But no I'm not What about like Just sneaking up behind him Over his shoulder No I'm not going to be that thing I would no

I'd be like no No I wouldn't But didn't you Pay next to Dave Grohl Did you It was Dave Grohl I thought also

Yeah the illustrious Paying career I haven't It wasn't one of the Gallagher brothers For Oasis as well Oh yeah What happened

He just hangs out In your room I do Just hoping I get a hook up. Just desperate, eh? I brought my number on the wall and everything. No bites yet. No, one was Dave Grohl was like an album listening thing in Sydney that we just flew over for the day for.

It was at some bar. And he actually came in wonderfully. We were there, you know, doing what you do against the wall. There was three others in there as well with me. And he walked in himself. He front-footed it and said, nice penises. Really? He did.

Really? Came from that. So it came the other way around. Really? Yeah, I was trying my best to have a look at his Foo Fighter, but that didn't work out. And then the Gallagher brother, well, that was when we were over in Europe for work. When we were at some football thing we were at.

And he was there in the toilet as well. Wow. And I was like, far out. What an oasis of groin. I know someone, someone that I actually studied with. She used to live in England. And she heard Kate Middleton pee. So...

Would have been majestic too. Honestly. It would have just been like... So she was at a wedding back when she was a bit younger. This is getting so creepy. She was at a wedding when she was younger. And it was the same wedding. It's like, yeah, we're all going to do it.

This is the opportunity you've got to take. I really respect this. Because they were both guests at the same wedding. She was a bit younger. I think she maybe just married William or hadn't quite married William yet. And she saw Kate go to the bathroom. She goes, oh my gosh, this is my opportunity. Follows her to the bathroom, goes into the cubicle next to her, and here's her pee.

What? For what reason? Well, just so Julie can say that. What was it? I imagine it was very delicate. Oh, probably. Wouldn't it? Imagine if it was.

It'd be like a light rainfall. Wrap it up. Okay, I'll change the subject. Oh, that's wonderful. A royal flush. Yes, there we rainfall. Wrap it up. Okay, I'll change the subject. Oh, that's wonderful. A royal flush. Yes, there we go. There we go. And in other news, probably not as good news as that last story,

but Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have been seen together a second night in a row. We talked about this yesterday. They were on SNL together, Kiss. They were at a theme park holding hands. They had dinner a couple of nights ago, and then last night they were at a private club together, made the conscious effort of leaving separately, but everyone can connect the dots. So that could be a thing.

Oh, well, there you go. He dates a few ladies, doesn't he, old Pete Davidson? He does. He's quite handsome, but gaunt and sort of heroine-y looking, isn't he? Yeah, he is. Yeah. Is he kind of your cup of tea, June? Maybe, if he was a bit of a charmer.

If he had a good personality, maybe. I think he does. I think he looks scary. He looks a funny dude. He does look quite funny, doesn't he? He probably makes the ladies low. That's right. And then a spy for the South. More you can head to the hits.co.nz Did your mate record Kate Middleton? Can we get the audio? We can probably talk to her.

I'm not playing the audio. After 7 o'clock on the show, we tell you we can get free fish and chips somewhere in New Zealand. And if you want to fill up a cart at the market, share it with the hits.com up to $5,000. We're going to pay for somebody's entire cart this morning. The shopping cart will be paid thanks to themarket.com. now we're in again our covered world at the moment and i feel like the news has sort of whipped us all up into a wee bit of paranoia particularly myself over the last year and a

half unprecedented times been boys you are just running at high high paranoia and you have been it's been 24 months of high paranoia for you, hasn't it? I mean, you've just got to... I'm burning off so much energy on a daily basis. I think I've seen him blink twice over two years. Yeah. Now, there was a story on News Hub on the news a couple of nights ago, and I watched it,

and I went, oh, that's me. There's other people doing what I do, and it's all to involve touching, you know, do you touch door handles or not? Yeah. It's become a thing for me now. I try and avoid it at all costs. Sometimes I'm way outside work for three hours just so I don't.

Can someone open the door for me? Yeah, like it's become a thing. We've spoken about it before on the radio program that what you like to do is you put your hand inside your shirt and you use your shirt as a layer of protection. And sometimes I'm like, mate, I'll just open it for you. Yeah, pull yourself together, boys. Pull yourself together.

Like the amount of doors I've opened for this guy in the past. He definitely owes me some door opening when all this thing passes. But it's not just me. Have a listen to this. This is from News Hub. Some of us are now social distancing our hands from handles. There's a range of styles. The sleeve, the elbow, even the knuckles are getting a rare workout. If you're guilty of any of this, so is some of our News Hub team. And house reporter Lucy Warhurst follows Rapper Ice Cube's advice.

What she was doing there sort of... Oh, she backs up into the door. Yeah, if you can. I mean, obviously, depending on which way you're going through the door. Yeah, it's very hard to do. Kind of twerk the door open. A pull. It's very hard to do. Kind of twerk the door open. A pull door situation is very hard to do in that instance, but a push door you can do from, yeah.

I'm even doing the traffic light buttons for Ben too. He won't go near those. He won't touch those. But it's one of those things sometimes people talk about using your little pinky for some reason you feel like that's another one. There's less disease. Or your back of your knuckle or something like that. I don't know why it is. You're still touching it, but you feel like that's that's less disease or your back of your knuckle or something like that i don't know why it is you're still touching it but you you feel like maybe

that's the way around it so forehead i haven't done you could use your forehead because that's kind of a safe zone you know weird but you don't you don't lick your forehead or you know it's no there's no entry point but you could touch your forehead then i'm true but then just try not to touch it for you. He goes head first into the door. What is he doing? $5,000 up for grabs after 7 o'clock. If you want a wee clue to how you can win, head to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram, Facebook.

The words are up there in our story and you can get a wee advantage before 7.45. Jono and Ben's Friday. Thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Are you okay, mate? What are you pointing at me? What's going on?

I can't hear anything. You can't hear anything? My earphones are working. Oh, now I can. He looked panicked. He was pointing at me. And the light had gone off. The red light had gone off that tells me I'm on air.

I'm like, am I even on air? Are you guys trying to unplug me? I've hit something with my knee, but it's all back and working now. Are you okay now? Yeah, I plugged it back in. All right. There you go. Well, the good thing is the audience couldn't tell

that there was anything going on. I kept pointing to you going like that. You're like, what are you putting me for? Did you just hear the talk? Because I can't, and you're like, are you all right, mate? Yeah. Thanks for bringing that up.

Yeah, that's my fault, actually. I'm like, I'm not doing any heavy lifting here. Don't you put your job on me. All right, now we're sending the bosses credit card around the country. We're doing it each Thursday and Friday on the hits. It's all thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Yesterday, we shouted free fish and chips with Heinz Tomato Ketchup

for two hours between 12 and 2 in Christchurch and Castle Street. Hundreds of people came down and enjoyed free fish and chips. Have a listen. Jason, absolutely fantastic, beautiful day in Watsatahi, Christchurch. Free fish and chips, how good are those? Amazing, man. They're the best I've ever had. fish and chips, how good are those? Oh, amazing, man. They're the best I've ever had. Brilliant.

Yeah, really good. Oh, it's amazing. Just amazing. Thank you. How about that hindsight? It's absolutely pretty good, isn't it? Oh, I love it. Oh, great stuff, Louis.

I think we added about 5,000 kilograms to the Christchurch's gross domestic weight after yesterday's free fish and chips. We're going to be sinking the country. Not COVID is going to be sinking the country. The weight of the population after this campaign. It goes on for a month. If you want to enter, thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup, we could be shouting your town free fish and chips.

And today, we're heading to Nelson. We'll tell you exactly where next. And it's all thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Takes your chips, burgers, and pies to another level. You can get free fish and chips. We'll tell you how in just a few moments on the hits. Get up, get up. John and Ben's Friday.

Thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Free fish and chips. It's happening every Thursday and Friday in a different town or city right around the country for the whole of November. All thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Between 12 and 2 today, we're giving away free fish and chips in Nelson.

Oh, jeez. You couldn't get a better combination of foods, could you? Where the land meets the ocean. Yeah. Fish and chips. It's great on a Friday. So you love it on a Friday.

Yeah. I do like the alliteration of a fish and chip Friday. I've had that consistently for a number of years, and Ben Boyd's been playing a fun little game with you before we talk to today's fish and chip shop owner who's shouting the town for two hours. It's the pun run. You're a big fan of puns, and I

give you a clue as to what the punny fish and chip shop could be called. Okay, go. And you try and get it. Okay, if J-Lo ran a fish and chip shop don't be fooled by the rocks that she's got. She's still Fishy from the block? Jenny from the dock.

Jenny from the dock? Jenny from the dock. It's a wonderful fish and chip shop but the name of this next shop is the Sands fish and the dog. It's a wonderful fish and chip shop, but the name of this next shop is the Sands Fish and Chip Shop. It's in Nelson, and we're joined by the owner, Roy. Hi, what are you doing in the other country? You should be here. It's awesome.

Yeah, mate. We wish we were there. Hey, I hope you can make it. I'm being bloody marvellous. Oh, listen, I don't know if Aucklanders are too welcome anywhere in the South Island at the moment. Just tell them you're from somewhere else. They won't know.

How is it in Nelson today, Roy? Absolutely picture perfect. Oh, it's always a great place, Nelson. I always feel like you are on. I don't know how you'd live there because I'd feel like I was permanently on holiday. Well, it is. Yeah, I'm over from Oz. So I've been here 11 years and been here.

My partner, Bruce, and I have had the shop 10 years, and yeah, I love every day in it, every single day. There's a lot of hippies and dream catchers I find in Nelson, don't you? No, no, that's tactic. Oh, no, I did not say that. It's somewhere else, it's not here. Well, thank you so much for being part of this and helping provide the... No worries, buddy, no worries at all.

What we also did, we encouraged people to get vaccinated. People who got their first vaccination bring their voucher in, their blue card, and we gave them free fish and chips for that. So we ended up doing 262, I think it was. Oh, wow. That was massive. Yeah, it was great. The Sands Fish and Chip Shop.

So today, from 12 till 2, thanks to Heinz, free fish and chips for Nelson. Now, given that you've just told us you've been giving away free fish and chips to vaccinated customers, is the business okay? Like, are we singing your business here? Going absolutely great guns, bud. I don't know whether you're familiar with the Side Trip Advisor. Yeah. If you have a look on there, we're actually rated number one in the country.

Really? September last year, we got an award. We're now in the top 10% of restaurants worldwide. What? You're fish and chip shoppers? We're the only ones in the country to get that award. Wow. On trip advisor.

Look at that. Fish and chip shop Nelson. Whereabouts in Nelson are you guys located? Tahuna Beach, right opposite the beach. Oh, Fishery Ships. Within two minutes, I'm on the beach if I walk across the road. Stop it. Why don't you walk across now and we'll time it?

This will time it. I've got Shane and Lydia from Raglan Roast, which is two doors down the coffee shop. Absolutely superb coffee. I've got about a hundred coffees to give away. Oh, today's West Wales Ace oh today as well is this today you've just done it we're so gutted we can't get there we'll have to come visit you next summer in nelson too easy also moana kite surf i've got um half a dozen vouchers for paddle boards all today from 12 till 2 free fish and chips free coffees if you like paddle boarding and standing up while you're paddle

boarding with your shirt off with a wonderful torso, do that as well. Go and visit Roy. That's wonderful, mate. Thank you so much. It's more than welcome, buddy. And what I'm going to do, I've just decided on the spur of the moment, until the end of November, I'm also going to continue the first Vax free fish and chips. Another

wild thing. Free vaccination fish and chips until the end of December. The end of November. Sorry, end of November. Get it together. To the end of 2029. Free fish and chips for everyone. Good on you, Roy.

You're an absolute hero. Thank you very much for your time. No problem, guys. You have a great day. We will. And if you're in Nelson, head along to the Sands Fish and Chip Shop in Nelson. Free fish and chips between 12 and 2 today, all thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. It is the hits.

Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some might say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, the show Rubber Spin is something that we like to look into from time to time. It's when we throw our terrible ideas in, and now again we get a chance to resurrect an idea. Yeah, you know, we do use the recycling bin quite a lot as well, if you've heard a lot of our recycle content. But in the past, some ideas that have been in the show Rubbish Bin, Celebrity Pleasure Island.

Oh my goodness. Let's leave that in the show rubbish bin. Celebrity Pleasure Island. Oh my goodness. Let's leave that in the bin. You haven't even heard the format. We just watch celebrities marooned on a five-star resort and have a pleasurable experience. On and on. I put that one in the bin already. The mace.

The mace. It's like the chase, but every answer you get wrong, you get sprayed with a can of mace. I didn't mind that one, but no one there. No one with health and safety. Yeah, it was a bit of an issue. Anyway, Ben wants to put one forward today. Jono and Ben's show rubbish, Ben.

So what do you want to, well, I know what you wanted to bring to the table and for weeks I've been vetoing it, almost tipping into months I've been vetoing it. But yeah, I know what you're bringing, but explain to the final listener what your idea is. Okay, so James Bond has been an iconic movie character,

been around for many, many years. And like a while ago, you know, a few weeks ago, there was a new movie released with Daniel Craig. It's the final time he's going to be James Bond. Now, this seems a few weeks old because it is, because I've been pitching this idea for a few weeks. If you said you'd be saying, nah, nah, nah. It keeps popping up.

Well, not just me. This has been a team. We've been unified in our nose. So I do realise it's a few weeks behind where, you know. So imagine this was three weeks ago. We've just released the new Bond movie, Daniel Craig, Final Time, and it's sad that he's not going to be James Bond anymore.

So I thought what we could do is we could call, like, a property manager, someone that deals with rent, and we could ask for our Bond back. But hang on. You can see why now you're vetoing this. But hang on. He did the exact same performance in our meeting. But hang on.

Hang on. What happens? I'm losing confidence in it now. Don't lose confidence in it. So we asked for the Bond back, and they're like, well, what, for the rental property? We're like, no. Oh, no, it's bad. It is bad. I see why now.

It's going to be great. Daniel Craig, can you help get him back? They're going to be all right. They're going to be very confused. Oh, you're right. You're right. No, but don't put it out loud. No, we're here now.

We'll do it. But I feel, yeah, okay, no, let's here now. We'll do it. But I feel, yeah. Okay, no, let's do it. Let's do it. It could work well. You know, sometimes you do throw things in the bin by accident and you then have to go sifting through all your sloppy rubbish to find them. So this might be one of those moments. Now, we're going to phone, she's a property manager.

You'll know her from the show Renters. Oh, okay. You know Prue? Yeah. I feel like she might at least give you the time of day, but you can't say who you are. Oh, okay. So I'm just like, I want to get Bond, my Bond. You deal with Bonds, okay.

Yeah, so this is Prue from the TVNZ 2 show, Renters. I've got her number, and we'll see what's... She runs a pretty hard-nosed campaign when it comes to rental properties, Prue. She's very good, isn't she? What about on-the-spot prank calls? About to find out. Hello?

Oh, hello. Is that Prue? Yes, it is. Oh, hey, Prue. I'm just wanting a little quick bit of advice, just really quickly. Do you deal with bonds? How do you mean do I deal with bonds?

Would you know much about bonds? Because I'm just... Who are you? Sorry. Sorry, my name's Ben. Sorry, I should have said that. I'm just trying to get my Bond back. Right.

From whom? I guess from the movie company. What? Because Daniel Craig's no longer part of the Bond franchise, so I'm just trying to get him back. I was a big fan of Daniel Craig as James Bond. Right. Right.

I see. Yeah. Yeah, and so I thought maybe you, because you deal with, I'm back here, Jono, come in here, can you help me out? Prue. Prue, it's Jono and Ben. Oh, hello. Sorry.

Oh, that was a surprise. No one pre-warned me of that. No, no, no, I should have. But Prue, just to give you a back story, Ben has been pitching this James Bond idea To phone a property manager For weeks And for weeks we've been saying this is the worst idea

Radio's ever been graced with And I was like, okay, I'll give you a trial run With Prue from Renters To see how it goes Oh, that's right I noticed there was no laughter from your end I do beg your pardon No, I'm going That's right. I noticed there was no laughter from your end. I do beg your pardon.

No, I'm going, meh. I'm going, who is it? Because I do get a lot of very unusual calls. Oh, do you? More unusual than that. Oh, yes, unusual. Just a bit of a customer satisfaction survey. How would you rate your prank experience with the John O'Benn program out of 10? Look, I think out of 10 you're doing

you're exceeding 12. Oh my god, did you just hear what happened? I don't know if you know what you're part of. Can't help me get Daniel Craig back though, can you? No, I can't darling, sorry. It would be nice. It would be nice, wouldn't it? But hey. Yes, I'd

quite like that. You'd like to manage him, wouldn't you? Oh, I wouldn It would be nice. It would be nice, wouldn't it? But hey. Yes, I'd quite like that. You'd like to manage him, wouldn't you? Oh, I wouldn't mind managing him. Managing his property. His real estate. Oh, I wonder if he's got a little bit of a whack on a riverfront somewhere. I don't know what that means. Oh, I could look after him. But would it meet healthy homes?

Oh. Or would he be a little bit leaky? Okay, okay, we're going to wrap this up now. Now I'm going to wrap it up. Okay, darling. See you, Prue. Love your work. You're only five words away from a massive payday.

It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning at this time on the show. We say five words, you tell us what pops into your head and then one of us plays exactly the same game and if all five of ours match up with all five of yours

you win $5,000 and that was a wonderful wonderful summary of the game. It was too it's even better when you said it was a wonderful summary of the game to

let the audience know what a great summary it was. I was proud of myself for that one because some days I do not you know 100% job of it and that day I was like yeah really good. But the audience needs to know not, you know, 100% job of it. And that day I was like, yeah, really good.

But the audience needs to know it as well because otherwise they'll just take it for granted if you don't say it was a wonderful summary. So let's see if everyone sit in that for just a couple of seconds. Wonderful. Yeah, there we go. That's a good summary. Jake, you're on from Wellington. Lucky Legs 11.

He's 11 years old this morning. Hey, Jake. How are you doing? I'm good. How are you? Good. What's happening today? Off to school Hey, Jake. How you doing? I'm good. How are you? Good. What's happening today? Off to school? Yeah. Where do you go to school, buddy?

Hut Intermediate. Hut Intermediate. What do you want to be when you're older, Jake? An All Black. An All Black. Nice. Imagine if we're talking to the future All Black captain right now. Could be. Yeah, and we'll probably still be here, to be honest, battling away.

We'll dine out on this for years, Jake. But $5,000? Gee whiz, it's almost like... Too much for a kid. It's Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk cash for an 11-year-old. What would you spend it on? Probably save it so that me and some of my family can go to the

2023 Rugby World Cup. Is it France? I think so. Oh, easy to think about his family as well. Jeez, we want to win this money for you this morning, buddy. Who do you want to send away so they can't hear what your answers are? Jono, Ben, or Producer Juliet? Jono, please. Alright, Jake, I'm going to

do my best for you, my man. As opposed to other days where what happens? Jake, he is in the soundproof booth. You know how the game works. I'm going to say a word. What pops into your head when I say Rome? Rome.

Probably Italy. Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. Podcast is word number two, Jake. Listen. Listen. Oh, good game so far. Producer Juliet's nodding away. Daisy is word number three.

I'm going to go flower, please. Oh, good options. Who's on to it, this guy? Yeah, you're smarter than me and you're 11. Gown is word number four. Can I have you to go dressing? Nice. Dress.

Dressing. Dressing. Oh, yes yes of course Dressing gown Yeah I get you now And spinach Is word number five Spinach

Green Greens or green? Green Green Are you a fan of spinach Being 11 What's your thoughts And feelings towards spinach?

Disgusting Disgusting Alright we'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth, and we'll see if we can match all five words. As he said before, he's going to try his best for yesterday, which is good. I haven't seen his best so far.

I've been working with him for over a decade. To be honest, I haven't been trying my best for around about 12 years. I'm waiting for that day, and today's the day. This is the moment. I do my best, Jake. I do my best talking on the radio. Let's do it, buddy. All right, first word we sent to Jake this morning was Rome. What do you say to that? I do my best, Jake. Do my best talking on the radio. Let's do it, buddy. All right.

First word we sent to Jake this morning was Rome. What do you say to that? I'm going to say Italy. Yes, and you'll be correct. Podcast is word number two. Podcast. I always just think of, and I don't want to lock this in, but only the people in this room will appreciate this.

I always just think of podcast intro because it's all we have to do. I'll give you a little hint. Jake wasn't thinking of our podcast intro. Yeah, that's the first thing on our to-do list after we finish every show is the introduction for the podcast. Podcast show? You dipped out straight

away. What did you do, Jakey? I did listen You listened to a podcast? I said I was going to do my best and clearly I didn't Was it good enough? Daisy was the third word Flower? Yes, well done

Gown? Gown? Would you go dressing? Oh, dressing gown And spinach Vegetables Oh, we did. And spinach. Vegetables. Oh, we did very well, Jay. He had green as well.

Oh, good answer. Buddy, you played a good game. I was an absolute disaster. Three from five. You were very close. Let's do this again, Jay. You've been lots of fun. Thank you.

We're going to get you a Ron's Gone Wrong tickets and merchandise to the brand new movie. It's in cinemas where you can go to cinemas around New Zealand. Ron's Gone Wrong. So you enjoy that on us, all right? Okay, sweet. Thank you. Good on you, Jake. Have a good day at school.

Spy next to you. Yeah, you can stay in the Sex in the City apartment thanks to Airbnb. I'll tell you how in just a few moments. Spy. Go WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. All right, let's hand over to Producer Juliet, the only steady pair of hands this shaky ship has to offer.

What's going on in Spy, Jude? So if you're a fan of Sex and the City, Airbnb are renting out Carrie Bradshaw's apartment, New York apartment. It's not obviously, sadly, the real apartment or set. But then what the hell are they renting out? They've basically recreated it inside an apartment. Oh, I read this one. I sent it to you, but I just went, oh, this is amazing.

I didn't read the full article. You got headlined again, mate. Yeah, I know. So it looks exactly like that apartment. It looks exactly like it. It's for $31 a night, which is pretty bloody good. And it comes with, like, everything. You've got Carrie's closet with all her clothes.

You can just, like, get dressed in all of her clothes. Guests will receive a virtual welcome by Sarah Jessica Parker herself. Oh, wow. Which is really cool. I don't know if it's live. Like, it's narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker, so you probably can't talk to her. You'd think she'd commit to turning up to every welcoming of every guest.

You get a photo shoot in the apartment, so you get, like, professionally styled and then have your photos taken. So it shoot in the apartment, so you get professionally styled and then have your photos taken. So it's in New York, obviously. Yeah, it's in New York. And then you get to go have brunch and Chelsea shouted for you as well. For 31 bucks?

Yeah, it's pretty good. What a bloody bargain. Why is it so cheap? I don't know. There's always a catch, isn't there? But it's pretty good. I mean, if anyone in New York's listening, which I don't know if they will be,

but you could stay in Carrie Bradshaw's apartment. You could have sex in the city and it's pretty good. I mean, if anyone in New York's listening, which I don't know if they will be, but you could stay in Carrie Bradshaw's apartment. You could have sex in the city in Sex in the City. Fornicate inside the apartment. Well, Ben Boyce, you've mentioned it before, you got dragged around New York by your wife wanting to find the Sex in the City apartment. The stoop. The stairs that lead up to the Sex in the City stoop.

The famous stairs. I think nowadays they've got like a sign saying private property keep off because everyone like us would go around and go, get a photo. Stop stooping. I think nowadays they've got like a sign saying private property keep off because everyone like us would go around and get a photo. Stop stooping. I was like oh jeez they all look the same

these houses to me. I was like this will do what's the scene is? We're in New York who's going to know? But it was like no we needed to find the exact one.

I can imagine there's just going to be a lot of partners dragged along that don't want to be in the Saxon City apartment and there's going to be one enthusiastic side

of the relationship this would be you and Amanda. But then I talk to the basketball stores and all the relationship. This would be you and Amanda. I talk at the basketball stores and all sorts of stuff. Remember you did a wonderful

thing where you came back and you had bought her a LeBron James single. It was a New York Knicks zipper.

I know it well because I see it in the wardrobe that doesn't get worn but that's fine. The Knicks have turned themselves

around. They're a good team this year. He keeps wanting to dress his wife like a sporting mascot. That's love. That is love.

And Jay-Z, so he joined Instagram. We were going to talk about this yesterday, that Jay-Z had joined Instagram. He was promoting his new movie that he's producing called The Harder They Fall. But he's now quit. So he joined and quit Instagram within a space of 24 hours. He got 2.4 million followers within the day.

Yeah. The only person he followed was, of course, his wife, Beyonce. She followed him back, but now he's gone, burgers. So that's it. Yeah, that's it. Done. Yeah. But, I mean, David Attenborough, last year, he joined Instagram,

and I think it was the fastest-growing Instagram when David Attenborough joined, but then he quit two months after he joined. He was totally like, oh, this is too young for me. I can see why he quit. He publicly always says he's dealing with a lot of problems and he's like, oh, I'm maintaining an Instagram account. I know. But someone could do that for him shortly.

Maybe it's just another thing to think about, right? I love in the space of 24 hours he went, not for me. Yeah, but you're like, have you got two millions of it? I would dream of two million followers. At least he did a little promo for his movie. That's probably what he wanted to do it for. So good on Jay-Z. Well, if he wanted to promote it, he'd probably keep the

Instagram account. Unless it was an accidental deleting by one of the kids, maybe? Maybe. Oh, alright. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, we've got a big announcement from the Killers.

We're joined by Ronnie from the Killers as well and we clear someone's shopping cart at themarket.com if you want to head to themarket.com. Up to $5,000

you can put in that shopping cart. Share it with us at the Hits and we could be paying for that after 8 o'clock. It is Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

It's Jono and Ben. On The Hits. It is The Hits. Good morning, Friday morning. Jono and Ben with you. Thinking of everyone in Gisborne, as you just heard in the news, local state of emergency continuing today. So much rain they had on Thursday. 200 millimetres of rain,

which is basically the equivalent of a month's worth of rain in a single day. It's still raining today. A lot of roads are closed. A lot of families having to evacuate their house. So it was scary times there. Yeah, and I've seen the wonderful Kitty Allen, who's from that part of Aotearoa. She's been fronting the news, and she's had that jacket on.

You know how she put on that jacket when we, there was a tsunami warning a few months back and she put the jacket back on. It's like a superhero cape. The high-vis jacket. The government-issue jacket. Someone was also going on a wakeboard behind a four-wheel drive being towed along. So someone was having a bit of

fun in the water we saw on the news before but for some others it's a bit scary. Yeah, but we do appreciate those moments we mentioned. It provides just wonderful little five, ten-second little grabs on the news. You know, we could talk about it, and it looks like everyone in Gisborne's having fun. Yeah.

Never mind the disaster to everyone's houses. Now, yesterday on the radio, we spoke to an adorable lady named Lizzie. She's 103 years old. It was a really lovely moment. Have a listen. You're our oldest listener. Am I really lovely moment. Have a listen. You're our oldest listener.

Am I? You are. Well, apparently. We understand it's your birthday today. No, it was yesterday. Yesterday? Did you have a cake with 103 candles on it? No, no.

She's in that room. Yeah, you need quite the lung capacity there too, Lizzie, wouldn't you, to blow them out? I would have blown myself out. She was so cute. She sent through a photo of herself as well. She looks fantastic. She looks so good.

The company signed her up for a 10-year contract. That's how good she is looking. That's how confident we are in Lizzie. So, yeah, that happened yesterday. It was a wonderful moment. Yeah, but that was because you won a wee competition that we had when I was throwing out the idea of who had their Christmas tree up. And you won it. You won it with Lizzie, and that was something different.

I was trying to find the oldest listener. But then after the show, we got all these texts coming through saying people have their Christmas decorations up, have their Christmas trees up. As I say, he's had a loss. He's had a loss. He's redeeming himself. He's had a loss, but he's tried to the next day come back and go, hey, remember

what we did 24 hours ago? Well, it was actually a success. I gave you the win with Lizzie. I made the cute audio again, but now I'm going to claim some of that win next. We're bringing back some of these people, and if you've got a Christmas tree up, Christmas decorations, I want to hear from you next, because people, I've had a win too. They were early for

Christmas, but they were late for your phone topic mate i will do that next you're on the hits uh jonno and ben it is a november 5th today so early november and we're like is it too soon for people to have up their christmas tree and their christmas lights that's what i wondered yesterday yeah and we've kind of you've reached that moment in the calendar year where you've either got them up too soon or you've taken them down too late. You know, if they're still sitting there from 2020 Christmas. Just let it ride out for another year. Yeah, so have you inappropriately decked the halls already? Are you already sucking face under the mistletoe?

That's what you want to know this morning, isn't it, Ben? Yeah, the calls and texts, they're coming through, aren't they? They are, my friend. Sophie, you've already got your tree up. Yes, I do. It seems very early. Is this what you normally would do? No, I'm usually a grinch.

I don't put it up till the day before Christmas. Oh, why have you decided 2021's the year to be organised? Not really organised. I just thought I'd put it up and call it a year. Yeah, well, I feel the same. I thought about it, but I didn't go quite as far as you the other day. No, you know, I put it up in October. October?

Oh, wow, because we, I think it was July, we wanted to be the first radio show to start playing Christmas music, and we spent a whole hour of a show. That was before lockdown, before things took a turn, yeah. Yeah, playing Christmas music. Yeah, I was listening, I was cringing. You were cringing, and now you've got your tree up. Yeah, don't judge us.

You could easily just leave it up for two. Some people just leave them up all year round. I thought about that. Yeah, I don't imagine it will come down before March. Yeah, well, once you're at March, you're pretty much on the home stretch anyway, aren't you? Yeah, ride it out. Good on you.

Well done. Sophie, welcome. You've already got the decos up. I do. We do. When did you put them up? The weekend before Labor Weekend. Okay, October seems to be.

Is this a Christmas tradition, get them up in October? No, it's going to be though because I have my 19-month-old son and I freaked out a little bit about COVID cancelling Christmas so I thought oh well I'll bring Christmas to him early You know just putting up decorations and trees which you know another caller said the same thing that they did, they just wanted the year to end. Just putting a tree up in your lounge

doesn't make the year end any quicker But it makes it feel like it though right? Have you noticed a mood change? It feels like it Is it nicer? Yeah I have, we're playing Christmas carols and my son we go out in the morning, and he calls out to Alexa to turn the Christmas lights on, and it lights up the whole lounge, and it's quite lovely, really. Have you got Alexa running your Christmas system?

We do. Oh, my gosh. This is a high-tech operation you've got. It's my sister. My sister's amazing with all that stuff. I just have the baby, and she makes it all happen. Oh, well, that's why. Not even Santa would have Alexa running his lights in the pole.

Too much technology for him, though, right? Yeah, he wouldn't be able to get his head around it. Hey, Sophie, you keep safe in Wellington. Yeah, you guys go up there. We're all thinking of you. Oh, thank you, mate. Get Julian from Waimati. You got your Christmas decorations up already, Jules?

Yeah, some of them. Oh gosh, that's one of the toys going off there. Which one? Oh, rocking around the Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is a happy holiday. We'll turn that off. Right, so yes, we've just moved here

and I love Christmas so I started in October. Wow, that's good. That's the same as Shannon before. Can I just, I think I have the same decoration as you. You recognised it straight away, John. Yeah, is that a gyrating Christmas tree? Yes, it is. Oh, I've got it.

What colour nose has it got? Oh, is it red? Yes. Yeah. Our one sort of gyrates its pelvis around Very seductively, doesn't it? Yes, that is one of about 35 I've got Oh my goodness

All different Can we hear another one? Okay Who would you like What would you like to hear? Oh, well, you know We've got What about Farthing Centre?

Hey, alright, alright, why not? Not too early for Farthing Centre Oh, hey Where is he? I feel like I can't say no to you. Ah, there he is. I'll grab him. Take him with me out of the way of the bird. Jeez, you've got a lot going on in your house.

Birds, decorations. Yes, two dogs. Right, here we go. Here we go. Oh my God. Who came up with this? I mean, who was like, you know what? That's a little John O'Prior idea That one

It seems But what I love about it Is it just seems So unnecessary Yeah It's like We need something We need a gift

There's a couple of worse ones But early in the morning For that What else have you What have you got What else is going on Geez Another one that

You press your finger And yeah Okay alright We won't worry about That one That's a dark one is it Yeah another dark father one that you presses your finger and yeah okay all right all right we won't worry about that that's a dark one is it yeah another dark father yeah no we've got a lot of decoration a lot of lights oh there you go julie with her gassy centers

uh and why marcy thank you so much you've been wonderful okay guys love your work jul Thanks. Bye-bye. How amazing was she? People already celebrated Christmas. That's so cool. Hey, we've got a big announcement from the Killers and we talk to Ronnie from the Killers very shortly. It is the Killers. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. And a big announcement from the Killers. They're returning to New Zealand next November.

So it's very exciting. They're going to be playing in Auckland and Christchurch. Spark Arena, Christchurch Arena. And from next week, from Thursdays. Thursday, tickets go for pre-sale, and then general public tickets happen on Monday the 15th of November. All the details at the hitstock.co.nz. How cool is that?

Very cool, and even cooler right now. We're joined over Zoom from his home in Las Vegas by drummer Ronnie Venucci Jr. What are you doing? I'm walking around. UPS just showed up with some stuff. Oh, what did you order? Oh, I think we have two very important things,

wine and, like, baby stuff. We are very excited to talk to you. We're very excited you guys are coming back to New Zealand next year. You've been here a few times. I love where you live. A lot of people say that, but I truly have thought about it. My wife and I have thought about relocating there and doing life there because we really do love it and love what you guys do.

Love your work. Thank you. We'll take the credit there. We shouldn't take the credit for it. Do you know nothing New Zealand loves more than a famous person saying they would love to move here, and you saying that, I promise you, will become a newspaper headline. Google Ronnie Venucci killers New Zealand.

It'll be a newspaper headline, I'd say, in about 24 hours. If I could just get a good deal on a house, you know, just let me know. We'll do another article. Ronnie Venucci, good deal on a house. How many bedrooms are you after? What are you looking for? Indoor or outdoor yeah no last time you came here as well you got i was reading last night a great review uh when you performed here in new zealand but you bought someone from the crowd which you do quite often to play the drums on stage a girl named amy

and apparently she was amazing but for you as the drummer this is risky because if they do a better job than you what happens then oh well you, that's why you got to keep practicing. Right. More often, there's a lot of people like it's happened before where I've had to peel some people off because for whatever reason, they weren't cutting it. But yeah, physically removing somebody from your, there's no bigger high than physically removing somebody from the drum i mean it's to be fair to the audience it's a risky move from you guys going who wants to come up and play drums you're gonna have a varying everybody's at risk everybody's at risk now mr brightside i mean such a great hit you've got so many great hits but was it true it was the first

ever rehearsal that that was written on and that's the it was written and it's the only song that you guys have played in every single killer show that sounds about right it's nuts man i need some champagne after champagne what time is it over there it's time for champagne i think it's like almost three it's definitely to be honest with you i've had champagne already today oh not long ago yeah the landscapers were here and I try and whenever they're here and I'm here, I try and get them drunk.

Is that a good idea? What's the landscaping like after being drunk? I wait till the blades are put away and wait till all the heavy air is sort of the end of the day. It's not many gigs that would be offered champagne while they're landscaping, too.

They must love coming to your house. Yeah, they do. That's got to keep them happy, man. There's a lot of people out here. You end up with some sloppy landscaping towards the end of the day, but the job gets done. Now we understand that Prince Harry, yeah, Prince Harry is a massive fan of the Killers.

Prince... Oh, yeah, yeah, he comes around. I haven't seen him in a few years but yeah he's around all the time that's great you're very you're very casual about uh prince harry turning up yeah he comes around so i didn't grow i didn't grow up with the royal fanfare he was just sort of over there part of the royal family but you know we we you know we don't have kings and shit over here we've got bullshit elected officials over here so we don't have kings and shit over here. We've got bullshit elected officials over here.

So we don't, but that kind of thing that never really touched me in the same way. And that's why we get along. Because I just treat him, you know, like a bro. Yeah. Does he, I hope he pays for tickets for the show. I hope you don't have to compliment. Yeah, I give him 10% off all merchandise. Yeah, you're getting a little bit of a discount, mate.

And so would he come and hang out backstage with you afterwards? Yeah, he drinks all my beer. But the champagne's for the landscapers, so he knows that, right? Yeah. Hey, Ronnie, we can't wait to see you guys here next year. Likewise, man. We can't wait to see the landscaping, the results of the landscaping as well. If you can send us photos. I'll send pictures.

Yeah, that'd be great. Hope it goes well. You keep safe over there, buddy. You too, guys. I'll send pictures. Yeah, that'd be great. Hope it goes well. You keep safe over there, buddy. You too, guys. Thanks for your time. That's awesome. Ronnie and the Killers coming to New Zealand November next year. All the details are thehats.co.nz.

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it's mandatory to invite Jono and or Ben over for your family Christmas. Yeah. And also, we receive two high-definition flat-screen TVs. Yeah, those are all T's and C's, little small font thing, right? So yeah, go to themarket.com, as Ben mentioned, fill up your basket, and we'll pay the bill. And for those baskets that we don't pay the bill, well, they just end up sitting there at the checkout, don't they?

With the operator going, WTF, bro, you've got $5,000 worth of stuff here, you're gonna pay for it or not, the lines backing up behind you. So we're gonna call today's winner, I think he's getting a few items for the household. Hello? Hello is that Lynette? Yes it is. Heyette. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits Radio Station. Oh, hi. How you going? Good. Happy Friday, firstly.

And the second thing is you've gone to themarket.com. You've created a wish list. Yeah. Well, let's go through some of the stuff you've got. So you've basically got a fridge freezer worth $1,500. You've got flowers print as well, some artwork. You've got a rug. You've got a mix master.

Did you know I'm watching what Ben's reading here and he's missing out some pivotal words just because he can't pronounce them. I would like you to start from the beginning and pronounce all the words. I don't know if it's everything. I do. I do.

Lynette does. I don't know how to pronounce. Okay, so go for it. No, but look, No. I do. Lynette does. I don't know how to pronounce. Yeah, okay. So go for it. No, but look, you've got a Madea 540. When you go into a 545 litre cross-door fridge freezer worth $1,599. Well, yeah. Like a Chanel flowers print by Chic Artworks worth $349.

Aladdin rugs. Okay, that's one. Anyway, you know what you've got, Lynette? Your products are $5,000 in your cards. You've got a lot of stuff with difficult-to-pronounce words in it. Okay? And what's the total value of all of this stuff? I didn't actually count the total.

Well, I'll tell you. It's about $4,445. Oh, wow. Yeah. And do you know what? What? We can't pay for that. What? No, we can. Oh, wow. Yeah. And do you know what? What? We can't pay for that. What?

No, we can. We can't pay for everything. No, we pay for everything. All of that. Everything. Everything, including the stuff I couldn't pronounce. It's all coming your way thanks to themarket.com. Oh, my God.

Thank you guys so much. We're going to lot $5,000 on that basket, all right? Oh, my God. Thank you guys so much. That's pretty awesome, eh? I mean, fridge, all right? Oh, my God. Thank you guys so much. That's pretty awesome, eh? I mean, fridge, freezer, you know, new rug. I mean, you've got some big-ticket items. Oh, yeah.

All for my house, too. Every time you open your 545-litre fridge, freezer, who are you going to think of? You guys. Oh, and themarket.com. Hey, thank you so much for listening to the show. We really appreciate it. And, yeah, thanks for taking part in this.

Awesome. Thanks, guys. So excited. Hey, thank you so much for listening to the show. We really appreciate it. And yeah, thanks for taking part in this. Awesome. Thanks, guys. So excited. Oh, that's awesome. If you want to beat the rush and skip the Christmas queues, you can shop at TheMarket.com. And don't forget to get on there, TheMarket.com. Share your wish list up to $5,000 with us at the hitstock.nz.

And we could be ringing you up and fumbling our way through some of the prices and the items that you bought. But more importantly, paying up to $5,000 worth of stuff just in time for Christmas.