Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The Creepiest Story From A Listener We've Heard All Week

Episode Date: October 27, 2021

We continued to get more scary stories from listeners and my golly gosh the call we got from Tania gave us goosebumps. Creeeeeeepy stuff. We also heard Jono belt out his best version of Adele's new song Easy On Me (hint, it's horrendous). Finally, we caught up with a woman who very recently gave birth in a New World carpark. Surely that baby gets free groceries for the rest of its life! 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. Welcome. It's the Jonathan here, Benjamin over there. We like to start...

The Jonathan. The Jonathan. It's always great when you chuck a the before your name, isn't it? Like the Chad and the, you know,

the, I've got no other examples. It's the Chad. You really got to be pretty confident in your abilities when you put a the

before your name. That's true. You do. The Avengers. Well, you know, they're going to deliver. Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

Avengers. Yeah, you're right. Are they Avengers or the Avengers? They're the Avengers, you know they're going to deliver. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you're right. Avengers. Yeah, you're right. Are they Avengers or The Avengers? They're The Avengers, aren't they? Yeah. The hits. Oh, boy. Tell you what.

Not just hits. The hits. Yeah, really got to pull our weight when it comes to hits. Ben, now this is currently being recorded, just a little time capsule in history, recorded before you embark on watching five of the scariest movies of all time. And you're going to do this non-stop consecutively. You said you're even going to commit to the credits as well.

Watch the credits play out at the end of the film. I feel like those people worked hard on those movies, so they deserve me sitting there while the credits are on. And if anything, the credits, I don't imagine there'll be too many sprites in the credits, so that gives me a little bit of time to, you know, just digest what just went on in the movies. Geez, now we're doing this, sorry, just to recap, for Halloween, Ben's going to do this every Friday,

gets his money from a $10,000 prize pool, which we're going to give away tomorrow, the remainder. Credits, I wouldn't like to be in charge of credits, because I would definitely leave one to maybe 72 people out that should have been in there you know it's like when you start work morning tea there's a birthday situation they start listing

off names. Oh listing in a speech That's your one life lesson you're going to pass on to your children Don't start listing. Don't even because as soon as you do I know people are like oh I see you didn't mention such and such. You know, it's always the way. Even if you list one, I'm like, oh, uh-oh.

It's one thing I'll always remember. If we ever part ways, I'll be the one bit of wisdom. Ben always passed on was never start listing names in a speech. Yeah, like if you're saying a speech at my funeral, don't list it. He liked a lot of people. Like, you know, and then you start. You know, don't do that. Just say he liked a lot of people.

No, because you, as the speech giver, as the orator, you start listing and you think you've got a good list in your head, but then you look around, you see other names, and you start, uh-oh, list them, them, them. I had an absolute shocker one year at a previous radio station we were giving a morning tea speech. I can't even remember what it was. It was, oh, no, it was someone's farewell.

Who wants to say some words? Jono steps up. like a morning tea speech. I can't even remember what it was. It was, oh no, it was someone's farewell. Yeah. Who wants to say some words? Jono steps up. I don't know why, because we're pretty new to this place. Yeah. And we were farewelling. That's right.

We were farewelling the gentleman who looked after the web, social media. His name was Sam. Yeah. And you said like, you were just making a speech up on the spot, but you were also like. Another fatal mistake.

Yeah, but you also wanted to say something nice. Yeah, so I said, Sam, hands down, the greatest social media digital person we've ever worked with. And Sam was awesome. Like, that's not saying that wasn't meant to be a gag. He was weird. You were just like, but, you know, so hands down, the greatest we've ever worked with.

And then I looked over and standing there at Sam's farewell was a digital web person that we had worked with previously. And she was like, what about me? What about me? Where do I rank? And I was like, uh-oh. Uh-oh, I did not see you there. I was just trying to, you know, essentially talking behind your back.

And got myself in a sticky situation there. You're like, oh, you know, you're great. I'd say, first equal. First equal. And then Sam's farewell all of a sudden became about me having to take my way out of this hole I created. It was very funny. You loved it.

It was very funny. You're like, what were you doing? What were you thinking? What were you thinking? What were you thinking? And I said, we. We have a word. So you were loved it as well. Yeah.

It was a funny speech, actually. I remember that one fondly. Fondly. Not intentionally. It was meant to be heartfelt. It was. But office morning tea, fuck, they're awkward. They don't.

You hate office. Everyone's like, oh, it's Janelle's birthday. Everyone stand around and eat banana cake. And you're like, oh, it's Janelle's birthday. Everyone's standing around and eating banana cake. And you're like, oh, mate. Yeah. I've got stuff to do. I don't want to be here any longer than I need to be. That's what I feel that everyone has in their head when they're standing around eating cake off a paper plate.

You're probably right, actually. You're probably in that situation. You're probably better to go send out an email and say, it's Janelle's birthday. There's cake up there for everyone. Go grab it at your own time. Wish her a happy birthday when you see her.

Yeah, let's keep moving. Keep the day moving. None of us want to be here any longer than we need to be. Bronnie, our old boss, she was a wonderful,

wonderful lady, but she would, she loved to make an occasion of anyone's birthday. She'd buy a cake for everyone's birthday. Fuck, we were eating cakes five days a week.

Someday. So much cake. When it was like a double birthday day, you're like, oh, if one cake comes in, another one comes out. To her credit, she really did. At some point, she had to pull, because we ended up with sort of 25 people

working on the TV show by the end of it, and she was like, oh, this cake, man, this has got to stop. We're sinking the show's budget on cake. We now can't afford to hire people. We can't make television now. Oh, very funny. Anyway, let's get you ready for your Halloween marathon.

You can watch it, too. We're streaming it on the Facebook page, too. If you write your name down there and say a comment, you'll be in the draw for the cash, eh, Ben? That's right, yeah. We'll buy you a cake to celebrate if you win. Thank you, thank you. The most terrified breakfast show in New Zealand. This is

Jono and Ben with the $10,000 Halloween scare house starting today at 1. Oh, very husky, husky voice there from Aaron, our producer. The most terrifying radio show in New Zealand. We've got a claim. We can claim something guys. Yeah, great. Is that a great claim?

Yeah. If you just joined the program, we're celebrating Halloween this weekend by making Ben watch the five scariest movies of all time. There's a $10,000 prize pool every time he gets a fright during one of these films. We lose money off the prize pool. We're going to give the remainder away tomorrow, aren't we? Yeah, it's happening around about lunchtime today. I start watching the five movies as voted by you,

the five scary movies, and we've set up a bit of an offer. You know, one of the boardrooms has turned into sort of a Halloween-inspired room. Has this been sanctioned by the lovely Joe Riddell who runs all these sorts of things around the building? Apparently it's been sanctioned, but yesterday there was a bit of drama

that happened in the room. Oh, there's drama? There's high drama in the room, and I think we have some audio. Yes. It almost went pear-shaped before it even began. It was a frightening experience, and it wasn't quite Halloween yet. I'll tell you what it was next. It is the hits.

You've got Jono and Ben. It's group five, payphone. It is the hits. Jono and Ben have a few technical difficulties apparently in Auckland, so hopefully you can hear us if you're on the 09 at the moment. Are we off air? Yeah. In Auckland beehives.

Yeah. What's it? Oh, we're on air. Yeah, we're on air. Oh, we're on air. I was going to say some disastrous things about Auckland there. Yeah, I was going to join the rest of the country so I was slacking off Auckland for a second.

Oh, my God. Auckland, we are off air. Oh, yeah. Oh, we're off air in Auckland. Cheers, bloody Auckland. Come off for the rest of the country holding the rest of it you know we just want to move forward don't we

yeah it's only Auckland it's Auckland's problem isn't it hey here's an idea why don't we vote Auckland out of New Zealand we'll hold a referendum like a new team of 4 million plus Auckland

or whatever Auckland population is yeah for years they've been letting us down with their European cars and their fancy flat whites. Yeah, bring our tarawa down. Besmirching the good name of the rest

of us, right? Yeah, alright team of four million, we'll charge on. Hey, today I'm going to be watching the five scariest movies as voted by you guys. It's going to happen around lunchtime today. We're going to put up a live feed on the Hits Instagram. Sorry, the Hits Facebook. And if you comment on the live feed you can win some of the money that we're going to hopefully give a live feed on the Hits Instagram. Sorry, the Hits Facebook. And if you comment on the live feed, you can win some of the money

that we're going to hopefully give away tomorrow because we've got $10,000 up for grabs. Well, depending on how many frights I get. It's going to be very exciting. And yesterday the room was being set up with decorations and things like that, with cobwebs and all sorts. We came in towards the end. I hung some posters up.

You checked out. You were like, I'll see you guys later. And I was like, he's not going to see us later. I was like, I'm out. I'm no good in those situations. I was a spare prick at a wedding. I'm like, I'm better off at home doing nothing. But then Ben Humphries was in here at like 4 o'clock. I know. Then he texts us. He's like, I've just left.

I know. I was like, yeah, because I was like, we're all sorted. We're all good. No. Well, my wife used to work. I was like, John is coming back later. He'll be right. I came and tied it up at the back end. But my wife used to work with Ben Humphrey. She employed him. She's like, he always does this. Because we were like, well, you know, get some, you know, there's people around here

who can help. And he's like, yeah, you know, get to it. And he's not going to. He's not going to get other people to help. Wonderful, wonderful. He likes to do it himself. Yeah. That's awesome.

Job's not done properly unless you do it yourself. Exactly. Well, yesterday, there was a moment, a bit of drama when I was there and Juliet was there, B Humps was setting up the room and he was like, this is cool, we've got a smoke machine. Oh, yeah. Now, this is the moment I left, actually. I was like, this is a shady smoke machine.

Maybe manufactured for $1.50, $2 at most. Oh, yeah. Well, there's high drama Because we were in the boardroom And work, and it was like We decorated it, and then the smoke machine Started going off and it was high drama Oh my god That's so cool

Oh, no wait It's going to set off the smoke line Oh I don't know Really? Do you reckon? Panic, panic Oh, I don't know. Really? Do you reckon? Panic, panic.

Who would have thought a smoke machine would set off a smoke alarm? Who would have added that together? It went from like a, oh, wow, that looks awesome, to, oh, God, panic, panic, get it out of here, get it out of here. So are we making use of the smoke machine? No. No. Oh, damn. Now, we've just been praising you bee hubs For being an absolute workhorse But at no stage through this process

Did you think a smoke machine Would set off a smoke alarm Well at least we've got a smoke machine Yeah Lights up with Flashes lights and stuff as well Yeah It's actually quite cool

But yeah You obviously can't use it inside With these smoke alarms Anyway it kicks off today We're going to be watching Well Ben's going to be watching Around about 11 hours Of non-stop horror movies and you can win the cash now the only way you can win the cash is by watching the live stream and commenting everyone

who comments today is in the draw for the money tomorrow morning all right so join us from around about midday and as the hits you got john on ben you're on the hits uh john and ben now dale is back uh with new music. He's back for a couple of weeks now, which is awesome. It's a great song. And Jono, you've had this idea that you've been wanting to do for a while. Yeah, for the get-go, since the release of the song. So it just goes to show how much sway I have about getting content on this show.

What are we, four weeks after the release of Being Buried? No, but I'm sure it'll be great. A lot of pulling power. No, but I'm sure it'll be great now we need to do this so here we go what's your idea you know what we do with this show ben we walk in here every morning and uh we just leave our credibility at the door there's actually a lovely little uh cubby hole yeah we put our credibility in there and then pick it up and what's left of it on the way out. And head out into the big wide world. So today we're going to celebrate Adele's newish song. It was new when I originally picked this idea.

Easy on me. When you hear her sing like she was, she's got some pipes on her, doesn't she? She's amazing. She is amazing. And your idea, because that bit is quite hard and quite high for anyone to sing who can't sing like us. You want us to have a crack

at doing it. Yeah but the game is that we won't be singing along to music. Well we will but the music will just be in our ears so we'll be going raw acapella. JMB acapella. This is why I don't want to do it because I'm not a good singer. You're not a good singer. No one's going to want to listen to this.

Hey, listen, mate. When Adele's walking out on the stage in front of 80,000 people, is she second-guessing herself? No, she's not. No, but I'm guessing she isn't, because that's what she's... Well, then don't undersell yourself, buddy. Go in there with the blind confidence that we require to pull this thing off. All right.

Well, this might be the moment we realise, jeez, this whole time I've had the voice of Adele. No one has known. Okay, you go first. I'll go next. Okay. Okay, so where does it start? It starts with the lyrics, feel.

Feel the world. So only Jono is going to hear the music? Yes, so it's not going to be playing through. You listening won't be able to hear. Well, given it's my concept, I can go first. I'll take the bull by the horns. Three, two, one, roll with it. Feel the world around me.

Oh, he's got a heart. I had no time to choose what I chose to do So go easy on me Far out. But on me So, wow. So, yeah. Oh, hell, okay. Stop it, please stop it. Okay, so.

So could you hear the music there? Well, I could, but no one listening could hear it right. No, so you guys have heard the shockiness already. Yeah, we haven't heard it without the music, so we want to listen to it right now. But I think you went through a range. You started almost Adele, and then you sort of went sort of Brian Adams,

sort of Husky, sort of Summer of 69, and then almost shades of Kiri Takanoa towards the end were almost operatic. I'm not an Adele impersonator. I'm Jono Pryor. I'm my own artist. I'll approach the song how I want. Well, you did.

You made it your own, as I'd say on X Factor. You know, someone would say, make it your own. You did. Let's have a listen back to see how you sound without the music because I haven't heard it. You haven't heard it. Feel the world around me. Oh, he's got a heart.

I had no time to choose what I chose to do. So go easy on me. Far out. Wow. Wow. Jeez. You know, there's a part of me going, oh, is this one of those reality moments where the manta turns up and I'm going to be like, he's going to be a manta,

and then he gets on stage and has the voice of 300 angels. But no, I'm just the manta. And your headphones, did it sound good? But, you know, you strip it. Yeah, that's just raw stuff. A bit of production. Sex it up a bit. You know?

Sprinkle some magic over it, you. I'm standing like Adele. How much production do you want to put into that? Is that what we... Like, hello, we're the workshops. We've got something that's going to... Yeah, book out the next six months. Cancel whatever Hollywood movie you're doing

because we have some work for you to do. Hello, it's me again, too. Why are you calling we the workshop? Surely we need a sound engineer or something? A Joel Little maybe? Are you wanting to turn that into a three-part movie? Sorry, Weta Workshop, wrong number. Ring, ring, hi, Joel Little.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Hey, after hearing that, I know I was meant to go next, but I'm not going in now. Oh, what? Well, that's enough. I think that's enough. Yeah. My ears are sore.

Don't be, no. No. We're in this together. No, we're done now. We've enjoyed that. We've all enjoyed that. That's why we've got an and in between our names, so we can embarrass each other equally.

But thank you for bringing that to the radio show, because it was great. Going hard and ooley. Go hard, go ooley. Go hard and ooley. Hard and ooley. Go hard. With Jono and Ben.

New Zealand's breakfast. Now Spanx, the shapewear company, how's this? Their boss at the moment, she celebrated a company's $1.2 billion deal at the moment, and so she's given all her employees, as a surprise, two first-class plane tickets and $10,000 each. Saying Spanx for the hard work, guys.

Yeah, Spanx a lot. Yeah, so how cool is that? She whizzed. $10,000 each and two first-class plane tickets, each employee. Now, the asset's coming on Bogsy here at NZMe. Oh, my goodness. He's done some wonderful things. He has actually done some wonderful things during lockdown.

You know, he gave everyone $100, didn't he, Bogsy? Did you get that in your account? Lovely thing. He's our boss too, Bogsy. You might be listening going, who's Bogsy? Yeah. So the lady from Spanx, in 2000, she started the company with $5,000 in savings. Wow.

You know? But, yeah, so good on her. Spanx, the ones that go up over your belly button. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. They just suck everything in. Jesus, I could go with some Spanx. A lot of New Zealand had a lockdown and we're coming out with some Spanx, aren't we?

Lockdown Spanx. So you can return to normality looking like you've kept yourself in shape. Yeah, exactly. But you're really sucking in and it's tight when you're wearing them. What's the difference between Spanx and Kim Kardashian shapewear? Similar, similar. I haven't tried on Kim Kardashian shapewear.

She's got skims, doesn't she? Hers is probably a bit more like comfortable, sort of active wear, leisure wear type thing rather than like, oh my God, I can't breathe. Oh, so Spanx is like cutting off circulation. Well, yeah, some of their stuff. I think they do other stuff as well. You have to surgically remove

a pair of spanks at the end of the day yeah hey uh next on the show we're going to get into the big announcement yesterday from the government regarding school children in auckland and sounds like there might be some breaking news from the south islands we've got to bring you up to speed next that is the hits scrolling through your feed whether it's an outbreak of covid or an outbreak of back acne, he's got it in this bulletin. Ben Boyce, what's happening? Well, just said before, there's some breaking news out of the South Island.

It has been confirmed by Rachel Jackson-Leese, who reads the news for us in the morning, that two COVID cases in Christchurch notified last evening have come through. Last evening? Well, they're supposed to have come through last evening. Last night? Last evening. They were notified last evening. they're supposed to come through last evening last last night they were notified last evening that's what it seems a little bit of you know a scary thing to sort of have to you know when you've been covid free for so long so how did they how did the old vid get into chicha um one member of the

household has recently returned to christchurch from walkins Oh, no. And they're in the same household. No further news at the moment. Hopefully they haven't been out and about. Naming and shaming? Are we getting their names in the media? No, let's not do that because the virus is the problem, not the people. The virus is the problem. No one goes out and intentionally tries to catch COVID.

That's right. Oh, well, this is interesting. It'll depend where they've gone, obviously, since they've arrived back home. But what are the chances of, like, the odds of coming to Auckland and actually catching it? Yeah, you're right. Like, you would imagine it would be. If you keep all the precautions and you keep, yeah. You would have to wear a mask, obviously.

And I dare say they did follow protocol. Yeah. Like, very bad luck. Yeah. Very bad luck to catch it. Thinking of those people and everyone in Christchurch at the moment, it's not the news you want to wake up to as well. And yesterday, Chris Hipkins, Education Minister,

he announced that Auckland schools, a tentative date for years 1 to 8 of November 15, going back to school, which kind of surprised me a little bit. Just thinking that maybe they'll be waiting until everything was at 90% vaccination. Seems to be when they're going to open up things. But anyway.

Do you think the hippo just went out there and said some stuff? Chris Hipkins. I don't think he's really or they've really not thought this through. Like if your message is get vaccinated, get vaccinated. We can't get back to the summer festies if we're not all vaccinated. Two shots for summer fam. Two shots for summer. They've got a youth commercial now.

When you want to do laps in your car, you've got to have double. They're doing all this. That's the message. But then in the same breath, they're like, we're willing to send out a large section of society under 12 who aren't vaccinated, can't be vaccinated. Get out there, kids. It feels like a bit of a double.

Yeah, it's a little bit unusual. And saying November 15th, it's not 100% locked in. It's going to depend on several factors, including the outbreak and how they can manage the situation. But even like they were like, well, maybe some kids can come on one day and then not the next day. There'll be smaller classes, maybe some outside learning.

Some outside learning? What if it's the weather change? I mean, Auckland, it rains nine times a day, doesn't it? You know? So he literally said they could sit outside on a field and learn. Well, he was saying we'll look at things like outside learning and things like that. He should just make his stuff up. He's going along.

Yeah. He's going along. Because what if you turn up to school and it starts raining at lunchtime? Your parents gone to work. You're like, hey, you've got to pick up your kid from... Oh, hippo. I mean, we love the hippo. But maybe he's just... Well, he's obviously not... It's not all on him. You're like, hey, you've got to pick up your kid from... Oh, hippo. I mean, we love the hippo, but maybe he's just... Well, he's obviously not,

it's not all on him, you would imagine this. And they're working through with the education sector to see if it will happen, but I thought it was, yeah, a little bit surprising used as a parent.

You know, you're like, oh, is this... I don't know if I'd want to send the kids back, to be honest. Yeah, and you're going to have that situation where you've got parents

who probably have to for work reasons if they need to get back into the office, which you completely understand. And then there's probably the other side where parents are like oh no, I'm not willing to send an unvaccinated child out into

the public. Because the teachers are required to be fully vaccinated until... Not entirely yet, right, yeah. I mean a lot of them are but yeah, you're right, that's coming through soon, right? So yeah, very interesting times. It is difficult times. You'd think they would just wait to the 90% thing and then go back to normal. Let's just

write the year off. And for the risk you're taking to send huge numbers of unvaccinated children out into the public, for what, three or four weeks of school? It'd be about four weeks, yeah. You spend the last two weeks just putting chairs, packing up chairs and watching Home Alone. Yeah, it might be different this year, but you're right.

But it is doing a lot of things. I do worry about what it's doing to the kids, not socialising. You wonder what the long-term effects are going to be of this on children. Yeah. So it's a difficult situation there for them to navigate through, and that is scrolling through your feed this morning.

Here on The Hits, it is Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween Scarehouse. I am not a fan of scary movies, but with Halloween this weekend, you guys have chosen the five scariest movies. And from around about lunchtime, I'm going to be watching them in a room by myself at work. And for every fright that I get from the movie, or most likely from my old mate Jono Pryor, I'm sure you've got a few surprises up the sleeve No listen there's some costume changes out there

it could be a Lady Gaga show there's so many costume changes I notice you've bought a number of pants a number of trousers I don't know what's going on or what you think is going to happen inside your trousers and what goes on between your legs and your trousers is between you, that's your business my business is making sure that we

don't lose much money from the $10,000 prize pool. But hang on, is it? Because today you've come to work with a chainsaw. Now, you've never once in the whole time we've worked at The Hits come into work with a chainsaw. I've been fronting. But today you've walked on in with a chainsaw. So what's with the chainsaw? I bring a chainsaw in every day.

It's just you're hyper aware today of what's about to occur. And so you're like, oh, this is the first time I take a swipe card, keys, chainsaw. Never leave home without my chainsaw. You never know when anyone needs to cut something down, Ben. You never know. Do you know, actually, in hindsight, not in hindsight, sorry, a story about the chainsaw. Historically, it was involved in quite a serious workplace investigation.

At our last, remember? Yeah. I lent it to The Edge. They were like, we're having a novelty listener wedding. And they were like, well, the groom is going to put on roller skates, and we want him to cut the wedding cake with a chainsaw. You know, Radio 101 stuff. That didn't have a thing on it, right?

It didn't, yeah. But still, very dangerous. So we put a listener in for roller skates, skating around with a chainsaw to cut the cake. And, yeah, I was dragged into a workplace investigation. Oh, wow. So, listen, no roller skates today, okay? Good.

You can be happy with that chainsaw. But anyway, $10,000 we have up for grabs, and I'll start watching the movies, and every Friday I get from a chainsaw, from a movie, from a movie scene. We'll take money off the amount of whatever's left over tomorrow on the show. We'll give it away, and the only way you can win that money is by commenting on the live stream on the Hits Breakfast on Facebook.

Now, the five movies have been nominated by you. There's some big bangers in there, and we got the voice of Ghostface from Scream to list them off for you, Ben. At the top of the list is Scream. Why do you want to know my name? I want to know who I'm looking at. Number two, it. There was this clown.

Paranormal activity. Hi. It's not a ghost. What is it? The Conjuring. Something awful happened here, Ed ghost what is it the conjuring something awful happened here ed what is it and last but certainly not least sinister do you think these are serial murders i don't know first one i found dates back to the 60s. There we go. Those are the movies.

$10,000 on the line. Every fright we take money away from that prize pool. We'll give the remainder away tomorrow. To be in to win that money, we must reiterate, too, you've got to just join us on the live stream today from about midday and just comment, and you'll be in the draw. So $10,000 on the line, and probably quite a substantial amount of underlying trauma for you that you'll deal with in a few years with a therapist.

I'm a little bit scared about what's going to happen today, but hopefully we'll get through this together. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Just start feeling. Got this feeling in my body. Come on. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben, 652. We've had a few technical difficulties in the 09 region. If you've been trying to listen in Auckland, we're back on the hits, gentlemen, being 652. We've had a few technical difficulties in the 09 region.

If you've been trying to listen in Auckland, we're back on air now, which is good, and to keep up with speed, you haven't really missed much, right? No, and we didn't say anything. We weren't talking behind your back or anything. Auckland? No, we weren't, were we? Not at all. We are off air.

We're off air in Auckland. Cheers, bloody Auckland. Come off for the rest of the country. Holding the rest of it. You know, we just want to move forward, don't we? Yeah, it's only Auckland. It's Auckland's problem, isn't it? Hey, here's an idea.

Why don't we vote Auckland out of New Zealand? That may or may not be us talking earlier. I can't prove that they were us. No, that was us. No, Juliet, you're trying to stitch us up in the edit there. Yeah, classic. Doing what they do on Celebrity Treasure Island. Yeah, exactly. Those poor celebrities maroon Celebrity Treasure Island. Yeah, exactly.

Those poor celebrities marooned on an island. Hey, we'll get into this. Spy. The What's Up. Spy.co.nz. And I spy with my little eye, a fresh-faced 23-year-old ready to read some celebrity news. Jew? So earlier this month, basketballer LeBron James was overheard at a news conference talking

about Squid Game, the Netflix series. I saw this, yeah. And, okay, if you haven't seen Squid Game and you're intending to watch it, there is a little bit of a spoiler, so maybe just turn your radio on. So it was just a bit with him and Anthony Davis, two of the players,

and they were both basically tagging in to a press conference about Talks to the Media, and then they started talking about Squid Game, the two of them. Yeah, and so basically he was overheard saying, I didn't like the ending. I know that they started off about Squid Game, the two of them. Yeah, and so basically he was overheard saying, I didn't like the ending. I know that they started off setting up potential season two, but get on the flight, dude.

Go see your daughter. What are you doing? So that was what he was overheard saying. Now the director and creator of Squid Game has responded. It's quite funny. He said, have you seen Space Jam 2? LeBron James is cool and can say what he wants. I respect that.

I'm very thankful he watched the whole series, but I wouldn't change my ending that's my ending, if he has his own ending that would satisfy him, maybe he could make his own sequel, I'll check it out and maybe send him a message saying I liked your whole show, except the ending and then LeBron James tweeted being like this can't be real very good, very good

what an unusual time to talk through the plotline of Squid Games at the beginning of a press conference yeah they were sort of tagging in for each other as I said, sort of getting up, hey man have you seen the end of the Squid Games at the beginning of a press conference. Yeah, they were sort of tagging in for each other, as I said. It was sort of getting up. They were like, hey man, have you seen the end of the Squid Game? He was like, oh yeah, but the ending. Obviously, yeah. So not really to the media, just to the two of them having a little

chat. Obviously there was microphones there. You got to the end of Squid Game. I'm nearly there. Is it worth it? Yes. I think knowing that a season two is going to be a thing makes the ending least disappointing. I got frustrated by the ending too. Right, yeah. But it does set it up beautifully.

It makes you excited for season two. I'm very excited. I can't stop thinking about it. I just got up to the bit with the old man. Oh, yeah. He was sweet. He was lovely. He was.

R.I.P. I was reading an article on him. He is a very little known actor in Korea. Doesn't even have a manager. Really? Doesn't even. And now he is just getting bombarded with interview requests. So he's like, I've got my daughter, his sweet little, sweet old man.

He's like, I've got my daughter to do all my managing. And so he's doing interviews like 24 hours a day, this poor old guy. Wow. His daughter's his now manager. So cute. So cute. Yes, if you haven't watched it, it is a top show on Netflix for a reason. And Lori Loughlin is now paying for two students' college fees

after the emissions scandal. So she's obviously served her time in jail. She served two months in jail and completed her probation, community service, paid all of her court fines, and now she's kind of looking to really put it all behind her. By smoke screening it and paying for two students tuition

fees. Yeah so she's paying two students college for four years which will cost her over $500,000. Wow. That's nice. Yeah it's good that she said that. It seems like she was the one that offered to do that I tried to find out if she was like asked to do it. It seems like she was the one that offered to do that. I tried to find out if she was asked to do it, but it seems like she was the one that offered it.

With this whole thing, I was like, she's on the scale of crimes. I know, I know. I mean, at the light end. I know. Lady tries to get her child into good university. Yeah. Is essentially the headline.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, that went to a lot of effort, to the fraudulent photos and all sorts of things. People like that have done it. But yeah, but you're right. It is lot of effort to, you know, with the fraudulent, you know, photos and all sorts of things. You know, people like that have done it. But yeah, but you're right. It is crazy, eh? Compared to some other crimes out there. Yes, I know.

Oh yeah, you wanted your kid to have a better education? No, you monster. Go to jail. Yeah, not a proper jail, just a nice white collar one. Yeah, but you're right. It's not breaking the law, but yeah, you're right. Totally. And that is five for this hour.

For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After seven o'clock, we've got $5,000 on the line, like we always do at 7.45 and Julia Roberts yeah that's right she joins us after 7 o'clock we should have probably banged on about that earlier but Julia Roberts joins us after 7. It's L.A.B. in the air it is the hits

Jono and Ben on your Thursday We're heading into the Scarehouse today Ben Boyce watching five of the world's scariest movies to win you $10,000 tomorrow morning. Now, I have a very special guest joining us on the phone. He's from Haunted Auckland. And basically, he's a paranormal investigator of sorts. His name is Mark Woolbank.

Good morning. How are you? Good, thank you. Lovely to have you on. Mark, you're from an outfit called Haunted Auckland. Oh, here we go. Now, we've just got you on to just, you know, it's been only hours away from this horror movie marathon just to hit him with some real facts about ghosts.

Real facts? Real facts, real facts. What have you encountered with Haunted Auckland there, Mark? Lots of bits and pieces throughout the year. You've got to go to these locations to see what you can see. You've got chances of seeing something quite rare, but you've got to go out there and try. That's what we do.

So you believe there's haunted places in Auckland? I hear there's lots of haunted places in Auckland. What do you take along to these places to do the investigating? Pretty much just ourselves and just a few basic gadgets here and there. We take a lot of recording equipment, of course, to try and document something,

like cameras and audio recorders and video cameras and that kind of thing. But we also take gadgets that will help us work through a lot of the common theories about what goes to electromagnetic field meters and atmospheric monitors and things like that that will monitor the atmosphere around you and around the building. Just things like that that we can try and work through a few theories to see what's happening and what might be going on there. Yeah, so what's the scariest... I don't know why I'm asking this,

because I'm going to watch five horror movies, and I hate horror movies today, but what's the scariest story you've heard? Well, there is a place that we've been investigating quite a bit lately. It's the old Lakehouse Art Centre in Takapuna. Yeah. And that's an old building, and we've been doing quite a few investigations there.

We've had some interesting activity there, lights going off and bits and pieces, but there are a lot of stories there about a young girl there, a little girl that's seen on the stairs, and she's often heard running along the Upstairs mezzanine and stuff like that and we've done a few sort of experiments and sessions there and with with a sort of assuming that her name might be Patty because We've got some trigger tests and lots of communications and stuff like that and we seem to be getting the words Patty Becky coming up

So where do you hear Patty? In your audio recordings? Patty, well, we seem to be asking questions and we're getting lots of reactions from our other trigger lights and trigger gadgets that we use for triggering responses and things. Oh, so you're like, did you just go, is your name Patty and pick it out of thin air and then the lights went? No, you go through the alphabet. You have to actually go through the alphabet.

Oh! It's a very long process and it takes a long time, but eventually you sort of get words and bits and pieces. Jesus, it reminds me of when you have to type in your password on your TV, you know, with that remote. Be as tedious as that. So is Patty nice?

Apparently, she played dominoes with one of our team members and the team member lost. She's pretty good at dominoes, and that was a pretty impressive session. That's for sure. That was about a good half an hour session. And again, is that done through spelling and the lights going off? Or how do you play a game of dominoes with a ghost?

That was done through trigger lights. We've got these little pop trigger lights that sort of somehow are being triggered off by something touching them. Like in the case of someone like the ghost that people think they've seen or the spirit of Paddy, there are multiple people who have sort of seen the same thing, and so maybe that's when you're like, wow, this is the same sort of connection, same sort of ghost perhaps? Yeah, possibly.

I mean, there are a lot of places that we've been to that many people have seen just the same thing. Like, for example, Puanui Homestead, which is in the old Halakha historical village. We've done a lot of investigations there, a lot of sessions there, and the common one there is the old grey lady who's seen in the Puanui Homestead, and she's often seen just walking up the stairs,

or she's seen in the top bedroom, which was her bedroom. Does she know she's called the old grey lady? No, probably not. I'm thinking that's a bit of a residual point. Yeah, right, you didn't have to go through the alphabet on that one, my name's old grey lady. I see, also, do you delve into UFO sightings

and that sort of activity? I've always been interested in UFOs myself since I was a kid, but of course they're a little bit difficult to go out and investigate because they just sort of happen and they're gone. Is there life out there? I believe there is. I think there is. We can't be the only ones

in this vast block of space. How can we? No, I was talking about that with my son the other day. He was spouting off some facts he'd learned at school about the solar system. And when you hear that, you're like, well, we can't be the only ones. Well, it's infinite apparently, isn't it? So there's going to be something out there.

Yeah. Well, that's really fascinating. Wonder where we sit on the scale of, you know, advancement. But where do we like... Imagine we went to another system, you're like, wow, they are doing it so much better here. Yeah. No COVID. No COVID.

Pretty low there. No nothing. I think we're pretty low. Yeah. It's like when Ben went to Japan and he's used one of their mechanical toilets. He's like, wow, things are a lot better here. Imagine if we went to another planet, what the toilets would be like. That's true.

Oh, that's really fascinating what you do. Do you know, we did a seance when we were children, around about 11 years old. Did you? Yeah, and you write all the letters around the edge of the board and you've got yes or no numbers. It's probably a lot how you communicate with ghosts and stuff. And we were talking to this ghost and this ghost predicted what i was going to have for dinner spelled it out because like what because it was you know five o'clock in the evening i had to go home and we're at my friend chris lane's house with my friend kevin kim and my friend john mcginnis and he's doing

full names just to verify the story because ben's looking at me like you didn't do this mark will believe me mark's a believer i believe that you didn't do this. Mark will believe me. Mark's a believer. Well, I believe that you did this, but I'm just being... And then I see, what am I having for dinner? And the ghost spout out with a 20 cent coin

that slid around the board, coq au vin. Now, coq au vin... Coq au vin. What is coq au vin? Coq au vin is my mum Annie Pryor's signature range dish, a French chicken-based dish.

Okay, and lo and behold, I went home at 10 years old and had cock-o-von, Mark. Did it spell the whole word or did it just get to cock? It just kind of went, and then it looked at John. I think it might have been going, oh, did you ask me what sort of personality you have? She might have assumed it. Very nice talking to you, mate.

We really appreciate that. Thanks a lot. Even though I've got to head to watch some scary movies later today, you have filled me with a lot of confidence. We're very fascinated, Chet, so thanks for your time. Oh, don't worry. Thanks a lot, guys. Thanks, Mark. The ScareHouse happening today, as well as $5,000 at $7.45, and Julia Roberts.

Yeah, that's right, Julia Roberts joining us very shortly on the hits. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. You're waking up this morning, and you're probably a little bit like us. You always feel a little bit tired waking up this morning. Well, sleeping is something we all talk about, and most of us feel like we don't get enough of it.

Jono, you were saying the other day, you put it quite well. Sleeping is one thing when you pretend, you trick your body into going to sleep. You pretend to fall asleep, and then suddenly you go to sleep. It happens. It's magic. It's really weird. Unexplained mystery of life, isn't it? So I was actually thinking about that last night

as I was lying down in bed. I was like, well, I'll shut my eyes now. In one of them five minutes, I'll be doing what I was hoping to be doing and some stages just happen sometimes it takes longer sometimes it takes shorter but my daughter and the nine years old at the moment is doing some sleep doing a bit of a sleep assignment from school at the moment and so she's uh been looking at sleep facts oh she's gonna be now it speaks volumes about this program that uh the core educational material that you'll hear on offer, more often than not, comes from a nine-year-old girl. Yeah, and I thought it was kind of interesting. I mean, obviously, these are from the internet, but some of the sleep facts around some famous people and sleep in general did interest me.

This one about back in the day and about the invention of the light bulb, how that changed sleeping forever. Before the invention of the electric light bulb, people slept 10 hours a day. Okay, 10 hours a day, I guess because it wouldn't have been light, so that makes sense. Yeah, so right. But before we had lights, we slept a lot longer because there was probably nothing really to do at that time.

When it got dark, you're like, well, it's hard to see, to do anything. Those would just keep... Yeah. That's interesting because eight hours is recommended now. So have we slowly trained our bodies to need less sleep? Well, something that she found out was seven hours is the average American gets a night's sleep. You know, is the average in amounts. They're quite in their night hours, the Americans, aren't they?

They stay up quite late. I noticed because a lot of their TV shows don't start until 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock at night. Yeah, it's late night stuff. So that was the first sleep fact from Andy, my daughter. Here was another one. Leonardo da Vinci slept in 20-minute naps every four hours. Okay, so he had 20-minute naps every four hours. Yeah.

Yeah. The third one, Albert Einstein slept 10 hours per night. Plus, he had regular daytime naps. Jeez, he was sleeping a lot. So that's quite interesting. Da Vinci would only sleep 20-minute naps. So instead of going to sleep at night and sleeping for the whole time, he'd just have naps every four hours.

But mind you, he also created art with his feces. No, that was Picasso. No, Da Vinci did as well. Oh, did he really? They're quite popular in the past. Oh, really? When you ran out of paint, I guess. Oh, that was Picasso. No, no, Da Vinci did as well. They're quite popular in the past. When you ran out of paint, I guess. Charcoal cut. I mean, there's other options.

Don't get me wrong. Yeah, true. Einstein was sleeping a lot at times according to this. 10 hours a day plus naps as well. So you would have thought he would be one of those people that would have been keeping awake for a lot longer. And the final sleep fact from my daughter, Andy. Mariah Carey has 20 humidifiers.

Humidifiers, yeah. Yeah, that word. Around her bed and needs 15 hours of sleep each night. Wow. These are good. I'm going to read a few more out tomorrow. It's 20 humidifiers. Does she have 20 dehumidifiers pumping out? Well, this is what they say. This might not be true. Humid have 20 dehumidifiers pumping her?

Well, this is what they say. This might not be true. Humidifiers or dehumidifiers? Well, this is humidifier, but I would have thought that'd be dehumidifier. She must just wake up with her mouth like a desert. Like she's swallowed a glass of sand. Is that sucking all the moisture out of Mariah Carey? Yeah.

Well, you'd think it would be, right? But for 15 hours as well. That's a lot. She's not, yeah. She'll come out shriveled up like a raisin. Eminem puts tinfoil around his windows to keep out the light to get a better quality sleep. The inventor

Nikola Tesla never slept more than two hours a day. Tesla was what they named the inventor who they named Tesla after. My only sleep fetish is I can sleep at any location at any time. You know, put me in a car, I'm like a baby. A baby you're trying to settle.

I'll be asleep within five minutes. Well, you get up ridiculously early, you do. But you're right. As soon as you stop talking, as soon as you stop doing anything, you just fall asleep. It's my only true superpower. The man that can sleep in an narcolepsy man. At any moment. They were interesting.

I was reading a story about The Rock too. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, only five hours sleep a night. He can just charge on five hours. That'd be lucky, wouldn't it? That you'd be operating at full. What else has he got going on there to keep so fit and successful? He's got his energy drinks, I'm sure. They help Zola energy drinks.

He's just a motivated guy you know too motivation drives him yeah exactly yeah what do you get how many hours do you get oh not many I would say

six if I'm lucky I'm probably about maybe seven on average yeah yeah I try to prioritise it but you know sometimes it just goes

out the window no no yeah the only message this show actually gets out the only important message is children you spend your days now resisting to go to bed to go to sleep The only message this show actually gets out, the only important message is children.

You spend your days now resisting to go to bed, to go to sleep. There's going to be a time in your life, and we're in that zone now, when all you want to do is sleep. Okay, enjoy it. We've got Julia Roberts joining us very, very shortly at $5,000. Up for grabs, it is the hits. Almost as petrified as Ben trying to parallel park. It's Jono and Ben with the $10,000 Halloween scare house

starting this afternoon. It's happening for around about lunchtime today. I'm watching the five scariest movies as voted by you. I hate scary movies and every fright that I get will take some money off $10,000. We'll give that money away tomorrow, whatever's left over. If you want to win, want to be in to win

you've got to just comment on the live stream today kicks off around about lunchtime now Ben you accosted me for bringing a chainsaw into work today yeah well you walked into work and I was like he's got a chainsaw what's going on there well it was a lot of excitement because I came in the elevator as well and I was with

Megan from ZM socially distanced, masks on okay before you start hating online you trolls and i had a bit of explaining to do when you walk into a lift with a chainsaw with someone she was i could i could see the fear in her eyes i couldn't see what her mouth was doing she had a mask on but i could she was like she had questions her eyes had questions particularly in the city office building like if you're just you know rocking up to a forestry whatever they don't have not out of place you know like whatever yeah you're right forest you'd be like yeah old mates come here to do some stuff makes sense yeah but but in the end today like well you've brought

that in with me in mind because i'm going to be watching scary movies and i'm sure the chainsaw will scare me at some stage now you just can't make assumptions my friend you just can't connect dots that this chainsaw is related to your activities today. Don't make it all about you. Don't make the chainsaw all about you. I'm not making it about me. But anyway, you made it. Your only advantage is I don't actually know how to start it. I'm a gentleman who probably doesn't deserve to own a chainsaw.

I don't trust myself. But a lot of people getting behind this campaign Ben, including the one and only Freddy Krueger who left you a video message hello ben i hear you're afraid of scary movies don't be a pussy ben good luck during your horror movie marathon geez he, he cracks himself up, doesn't he? He does.

I mean, the good thing is, too, when you're playing one of those characters, because that was actually the guy that played Freddy in one of the movies, is when you forget what to say, you can just fill it in with laughter. It's like radio. Yeah. Yeah, that's what we do. That's what we do. A bit of fake laughter while you regather your thoughts.

$5,000 up for grabs very surely it is the Hits. You're on the Hits. Jono and Ben, Thursday morning. Breaking news this morning out of Christchurch. Two cases of COVID. We'll have more in the news at 8 o'clock. They haven't ruled out a snap lockdown. We'll keep you up to date throughout the day.

But Skinny, looking for anyone with a famous name out there. If you want to nominate anyone, head the hitstockco.nz if you have the same name if you know someone of the fame of the same name as a famous person and yesterday we caught up with someone who's in the draw to win three three thousand dollars and voice our commercial her name was julia and we didn't know her last name hello how you going not sure of your surname so i going to Google famous Julias, and we'll have a guess. All right. Are you American poet Julia Rush Colter Ward? Oh, I don't know about that one.

She's not the American poet. She'd have the same name as the American poet. Yeah. Are you a French Catholic saint? Julia Ballard? No. No? Okay. Are you clairvoyant Julia Smothers? No. Oh, well there's only one

other Julia. Are you Julia Roberts? I am. Yes, well done. Wow. So are you the Julia Roberts that's on the skinny commercials at the moment or another Julia Roberts? No. No, I'm another Julia Roberts. I'm in Canterbury. Oh, wow.

I've just YouTubed this song, Julia Roberts. Oh, he's got from the Pretty Woman soundtrack. How many times do you hear that joke made, mate? All the time. Yeah. Travel doping. Hey, Julia, I'll stop you there, Julia. I'll hold on and pause that.

How many times have you heard that joke made? A lot. How many times have you heard the song played off YouTube? Through a laptop. Never. Actually, never. No, it's the first. So did you know there was another Julia Roberts with the same name in New Zealand?

Yes, I did, because I'm a skinny advertisement that's on TV. Yeah, I saw it, yeah. I mean, I don't want to talk down your name. It's a beautiful name from start to finish. No, thank you so much. But it is a, you know, it's a name where, it's an ordinary name

where you're getting, I'm not, you know, I don't want this to come up. Here we are. Have I offended you, Julia Roberts? You offended me. You know,

John O's offended Julia Roberts, there's a clickbait headline. Oh, goodness me. No, you know, like, it's not like a, oh, that's an unusual name, not like, you know. Oh, right. A Julia know, like, it's not like, oh, that's an unusual name. Not like, you know. Julia Roberts could be.

Hey, guys, it's still pretty good, by the way. I think it's an awesome name. I would love to be called Julia Roberts. I've got myself in this weird hole. I think what you, yeah, no, but. Do you know what I'm trying to say? Yeah, like. It's not bland.

No. But it's. Yeah, like you're saying it's not a name No. But it's... You're saying it's not a name like Chris Martin's got a child called Apple or something that, you know, there wouldn't be too many apples in the world. Yeah, and if we spoke to a Chris Martin, I'd be saying the same weird thing I'm saying now to Chris Martin as I'd be saying to you. It's a name that you're like, oh, that's a name.

Okay, anyway, you can shut up now. Go play more music off your laptop. So, yeah, Julie Roberts, I mean, have you used it to your advantage or has it worked to your advantage? I mean, what? I think it's more people's surprise. Like when you're doing travel booking or if you're, you know, booking a restaurant or something like that,

they don't take you seriously. Yeah, I was going to say, do people think you're pranking them all of the time when they ask you? Yes, they know. Yes, 100%. You would be. You'd be like, put that booking for the table under Julia Roberts. They'd be like, this person's not going to show up. I love it. I do love it.

And it's a very important name to me because my husband and I have been together since we were 11. Oh my gosh! Yeah, so a very long time. Wow. It was 11 years. How old are you now, if you don't mind me asking, Julia?

Yeah, roughly. 23. Yeah, so since you were 11, that is incredible. Yeah. How adorable. And have you ever spent time apart, or you've been together the whole time? I've been together the whole time.

Wow. Wow. Yeah. That is a cute story. What happened at 11? Like, who was pitching it to who that you should go out? It was him. So we met at Chisnord Intermediate School.

Wow, and you're like, this is never going to last. At the end of the day, yes. Yeah, that's incredible. Oh, wow. That's a long time. He was a Roberts. He was a Roberts, yes. When did you find out about the actor named Julia Roberts?

A very, very long time ago when someone said to me about Pretty Woman. Yeah. Hold on, I've got something here for that. Hold on. To be honest, I have never watched the movie myself. Oh, you've never watched? I've been bringing it up all the time. I was going to say, do you feel obligated to watch any of the Julia Roberts movies?

But obviously you don't. No. No. Are you a fan of julie roberts the actor oh gosh she's amazing she seems amazing you've just never watched any of her work just never watched him no never watched any of her movies that's fine i mean she does some great movies jesus she does she was in a wonderful one what was it with hugh grant and they were like oh oh notting hill oh notting hill i think good. Ocean's Eleven as well and all those movies she was in as well.

Yeah, she's great. She's done well. Live, pray, love. Was it eat, pray, love? Not live, yeah. Live, pray, love. Eat, pray, love. Something in love.

Am I living, am I praying, or am I loving? What are you up to? Are you eating or not? What do you do, Julia Roberts? What does the Canterbury Julia Roberts do? What do I do? I'm a systems accountant for a building company. Hey, I'll tell you what, Julia Roberts.

We are going to put you in the draw to win $3,000. Amazing. Thank you so much. Yeah, $3,000, and we'll get you to voice our commercials as well as Julia Roberts. Yay. Thank you so much. All right, Julia Roberts, you're going to have a great day, eh?

You're on the hits. Jono and Ben, as mentioned before, there was breaking news out of Christchurch. Two people with COVID-19. It's been confirmed. We have more information across the day. They haven't ruled out a snap lockdown, but they just need a few more details about the people. So they're announcing that at one o'clock, are they?

As far as I can tell, that's where the update's going to happen. All right, we'll keep you up to date with that and Rachel Jackson-Lees will be updating the update in just a minute's time. But first of all... You're only five words away from a massive payday. This is a fun game that anyone can win, apart from babies. Babies probably

can't win this. Some would say it's discriminatory towards babies. So that's our rule. That's our line in the sand. We said, no, no, no babies can win this. Some would say it's discriminatory towards babies. That's our rule. That's our line in the sand. We said, no, no, no babies can win this. We're sticking by it. Yeah, it's a game of word association. It's pretty simple to play, but it can be quite tricky to match things up.

And with Halloween this weekend, I think we've got a Halloween edition of Five Boys this morning. Let's go to Thames. Jessie, you're on the air. Morena. Hello. Good to have you on, Jess. What do you do? I'm a phlebotomist.

A phlebotomist? Yep. What's that? I take blood. Ah. Like a vampire. Like a vampire. Yep.

All right. Do you store it for the blood bank and things? No, I work for the Waka Nau DHB at Thames Hospital. There you go. I've never heard that term before. A phlebotomist. Sounds like a cute little children's hippopotamus that you'd read about in a book.

Yeah, I think most people think that just nurses take blood when you go to the hospital for a blood test, but we do. Wow. Shout out to all the phlebotomists. Phlebotomists. What's the plural of phlebotomy out there working so hard during these unprecedented times?

Okay, Jessie, let's try and win you $5,000. You need to send someone into the soundproof booth to match five words with. Yep, I'm going to pick Jono. Okay. Jono. Jono is going to try and win you an enormous amount of cash or. That would be amazing. An enormous amount of nothing.

It's one extreme to the other with this game. Here we go. All right, Jono's making his way to the corner of the room. He's inside the soundproof booth here. As you'll see, it's your first word. It's Halloween themed this morning. What do you think of when I say trick? Treat.

Treat. Seems like only one obvious answer for that one which is good that's what you want jacko jacko is the second word unusual words easy so far we're thinking horror horror a little more tricky now a couple of options popping into my head for horror. What about you? I am going to say horror movie. Horror movie. It's a very good answer, Jess. Ghost is word number four.

Ghost. Ghost. Oh, I've got two. I want to say sheep. Halloween, dressing up as a ghost, sheet. Oh, putting a sheet on over the top. Yes, I got you. Yeah. Yeah. Is that what you're going to go with? Sheet? I think so. All right. Sheet it is. It's tough. It's tough. We say this every day when you get put on the spot though. Yeah. Fright is word number five. Fright. Scream. Scream, good answer.

All right, Jess, you happy with those? I'm unsure about the ghost one. Anything else popping into your head? Or get a lock-in sheet? Yeah, do it. All right, we're locking it in. All right, well, let's get Jono. Let's unlock Jono while we lock those words in, and we'll see if we can match up all five,

and you get $5,000. All right, Jess, let's see. You take blood for a living. Let's see if we can test positive when it comes to winning you some money, all right? First word this morning in our Halloween-themed five words, Jono. Yeah. Trick. Trick treat.

Yeah, well done, well done. Well done, Jess. No, don't say well done to me. I take none of the accolades. Oh, no, well done you. Well done, Jess. No, don't say well done to me. I take none of the accolades. Oh, no, well done you. Well done, Jess. You guys have matched perfectly so far. One from five.

Jacko. Jacko. I've got two options here. One is Jacko Gill. Oh, yeah. Shop putter. Shop putter, yeah. Great shop putter.

But he has nothing to do with Halloween. Yeah. And the other one is Jack O'Lantern. Yeah. Well done, well done. Jack O'Girl would have been an interesting one for Halloween, but yeah, great athlete nonetheless. Horror is word number three.

Horror. Horror movie? Yes. Jess, talk to us. Use your lips to talk to us, Jess. What's going on? Oh, I'm so nervous. This is the one that was tricky for Jess this morning.

So let's see how you go with this one. Ghost. Do you want to know? Ghost. Stop heavy breathing. It makes me anxious I can hear it Sorry Jessie, I know Yeah, I'm trying hard here I'm only going to say this because we've spoken to

One just minutes ago And he did this for a job So I'm going to go ghost sighting That was a tough one There was a few options for ghost. Jess went sheet. Of course, Jess. So sorry, Jess. Final word, just to round it out to see what you

would have got with fright. You go scream. Oh! We were so close. Jess, mate. Four out of five. You don't get any closer. I'm so sorry we didn't work it out.

But producer Ben Humps has just said we've got this new movie animated film called Ron's Gone Wrong. It looks really good. It's in cinemas today in select regions. We've got a double pass to the film and some Ron's Gone Wrong merchandise for you, Jessie. Awesome. Thank you. Oh, sorry. John went wrong there's Gone Wrong merchandise for you, Jessie. Awesome. Thank you. Oh, sorry. John went wrong there.

I'm sorry. Sorry, Jessie. Look, as a make good next time in Thames, I'll come give you some of my blood, okay? Awesome. Thank you so much. All right. Have a great one. What a treat.

Good on you, Jessie. Another chance to play tomorrow, same time, same place. It is that. It's tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe. And that's all I have to say. Thanks, Dr. Ashley. Another chance to play tomorrow Same time, same place It is the Hats It is the Hats Jono and Ben 8.09 on your Thursday morning Hey kicking off today Ben the Scarehouse

We're doing this in celebration of Halloween Ben Boyce publicly has announced That he's terrified of horror movies So we're making him watch the five worst ones in a row, non-stop. Every Friday gets, we'll take money off the $10,000 prize pool. Whatever is left at the end

of this shambles, we'll give away tomorrow morning on the radio. So it's just how, I mean, you could go in there and just be rock solid all the way through and come out with $10,000 at the other side. I'm going to try, but I know, I've seen you brought on a chainsaw today and there's some costumes floating around, so I know that you're going to be adding to the

frights as well. Unrelated chainsaw. On an unrelated note, but anyway, if you want to win the money, you do need to join us on the live stream today. Just comment in the comment section. That's on the Hits Breakfast on Facebook. Yeah, and you'll be in the draw to win the money tomorrow morning. That's how that works, but we play this game every now and then, don't we?

Song to find. Put a lot of unnecessary pressure on the radio show. Yeah, we throw out a scenario each, and we see if we can find a person on 0800 The Hits who can call up and has had this situation happen to them. It's usually based around something topical. So we both back a topic in. What are you going to lead with today?

Oh, really, a cool story I read yesterday. A Christchurch couple, they've made national news after their baby boy was born in the New World Supermarket car park. Now I'm no midwife, but traditionally car parks aren't used for birthing children. We usually

historically use them to rest our vehicles. Yeah, so it seems like the story, our baby Elliot, who's doing really well now. So Mel, she had her water broke, and she was like, we need to go to the hospital. They didn't quite make it as far as the hospital. They made it a couple of minutes up the road to the New World car park, and the baby was born there.

Wow. I mean, if you time your contractions right, you could park in the car park, get in there, do your shopping, come out, pump out a baby, head home, productive day. Do you get to park in the mum's and, you could park in the car park, get in there, do your shopping, come out, pump out a baby, head home, productive day. Do you get to park in the mum's and baby's car park if you're giving birth? Surely. Their husband also had to whip home because he forgot the supermarket bags and came back. No, no.

But one of those situations, you're like, ah, the supermarket bags, didn't bring those. What is the clean-up job after that, too? Well, yeah. Was it inside the vehicle? Inside the car. There's photos online. Yeah, so I went under the hits. Have you been born in a car park or know someone,

or maybe you gave birth in a car park like them? Love to hear from you this morning. It's a real Hail Mary for me, throwing it out there, but I went under the hits. Okay, now I'm going to chuck out the Queen. There's been a lot of talk lately, a lot of Queen shaming lately about Her Majesty. As a child, I never imagined that one day a man would walk on the moon.

Yeah, thanks, Jo. Random walk. No, we never imagined that, did we? And who would have thought that Jeff Bezos would be flying there in his penis rocket? No one ever imagined that. But the Queen, there's a lot of heat on her at the moment. Oh, she's drinking too much. Oh, she's staying up too late.

Yeah. Give the poor thing a rest. She's 95 years old. She's doing so great, isn't she? Actually, speaking of her quips, I was reading before when she came to New Zealand once, there was some protesters that threw some eggs at her that she was riding around in an open sort of car.

And she said later, I prefer my eggs for breakfast, which was nice yeah it was a nice you know she regained her composure and said that so was this straight after the event uh yeah i think it was on say oh wonderful because you never know what to say in those situations that's a great yeah because usually you'd be driving off half an hour later and you're like damn it should have said usually mean you know yeah apparently she said that so very clever so my song to find today being you're looking for someone who was born or has given birth in a car park, I'm looking for a listener who's over 95 years old. Have we got a listener to this radio show older than the Queen?

Now, if we do, I'll just repeat that. Have we got a listener older than the Queen? If so, call us. So, Drew, you just look out for any landlines that are coming through. I will. You know, this topic would be bloody hot fire on ZB between 3 and 4 a.m. Yeah. The phones would be clogged up.

But how about the hits breakfast at 8.13 a.m.? We'll find out in a song's time if we get one of those people from one of those scenarios call through on 0800THEHITS. Stick with us. We'll do it there after Jewua Lipa on the hits. Elton John, Dua Lipa. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 816.

We just gave ourselves a song to find, that particular song to find, someone on 0800THEHITS that had one of the two scenarios happen to them. Yes, so I chucked out as anyone listening that's older than the queen older than 95 years old uh at this current moment no one has called through um so either uh no one's listening who's over 95 years old or they're still dialing still figuring out how to do oh 800 the hits oh yeah you're gonna spell out the words don't you it's tricky it's very complicated so I'll chalk that up as a loss. However, Ben, you regaled a wonderful tale of a topical quip of a lady who birthed a child in a New World car park in Christchurch.

You said, is anyone listening that's been born or given birth in a car park? Yeah. And do you know what, my dear friend? What's that? My dear bony, bony friend? What? The lady in question has phoned through. Mel!

Oh, really? Hello. It's you. Congratulations. Thank you. You sound exhausted. Yeah, little to no sleep last night. Well, thank you so much for talking to us.

This is a story that's made national headlines. Yeah, not quite what I was expecting, but it's a good story to share. Jeez, must have come on quick. Oh, honestly. I mean, they say second births can be fast, but nothing prepared me for that. So talk us through. How did it go from, you know, you were induced, were you? No, I'd seen my midwife in

the morning and she had done a procedure called a stretch and sweep i'll let you look it up i'm gonna google it while we're talking and i'll give you my honest reaction a stretch and what a stretch and sweep stretch and sweep okay you can too, Mel. I went for a walk with our two-year-old to go and get ice cream down to the local dairy, and I was sort of feeling a few twinges, but again, nothing that I really thought was anything, nothing stopping me in my tracks or anything. And got home and sat down on the couch and all of a sudden sort of felt this snap in my tummy, a bit of a pop or something, and I stood up and then my waters just went everywhere.

All right, yeah. So you got in the car there with your partner and you drove for the hospital, I guess, but you didn't quite make it that far. No, no. We, yeah, in the car just all of a, I was like, shit, I need to push. And he was like, okay, I'm pulling over, and pulled into the new world, which was right there, and yelled out the window, somebody call an ambulance.

This is like a movie. I love it. Honestly, it was, I just couldn't believe what was happening. And yeah, within two contractions, he was there and we had nobody. My husband caught him. Caught him?

Yeah, caught him. And a couple of nurses came out from the supermarket. They'd gone over to the loudspeaker and she checked us. My midwife was there within a couple of minutes, and we were fine, thank goodness. Wow, you brought a baby into a whole new world. I know, right?

Yeah. That is incredible. And so what do you do with the umbilical cord in that situation? Well, it was very, very delayed cord clamping. So did you go to the hospital after that, or how does it work? Yes, yeah. So I did go in the ambulance to the hospital just to get some checks and stuff, but it was all fine.

Gee whiz. Well, I tell you what, you'd be taking that car to Wash World after that. Yeah, I think he's looking for a new car. Yeah, you'd be getting the old interior done, wouldn't you? Well, is the baby all doing good now? Yeah, yeah, he's really for a new car. Yeah, but you'd get the old interior done, wouldn't you? Well, is the baby's all doing good now? Yeah, yeah, he's really good, thank you. Oh, that's awesome. So now because you're unpacked and saved, so to speak,

on associated hospital and midwife costs, do you get a cheaper, is it a cheaper service? Not quite. Is that your local supermarket? Is that the one you have to go back to? Oh, it is. Oh, it is? Two minutes from home.

You're going to be like, hey, guys. What an awesome story. There's a great photo on stuff at Kona.net of your car, and you're in the car with the newborn, and you're sort of covering half your face in the car park of New World. Who took that photo? My husband. Your husband?

Are you like, please don't, please don't, please don't put that on social media. Don't give it to stuff like that. It was actually great that he got some photos to remember the moment because it was just obviously so crazy that one of the bystanders, the lady who was on the phone to the ambulance, said, take some photos, this is amazing. That's awesome. Well, thank you so much for sharing us that story.

I was so stoked for you guys that it all worked out well. And you've got a great story to tell. Yes. Yeah. It'll make a great 21st speech. And listen, I've looked up Stretch and Sweep. I've seen the video. Yeah.

Nice. And I won't be the same again. You have a good one, Mel. Thanks so much. Cheers. Crazy, crazy story, bro same again. You have a good one, Mel. Thanks so much. Crazy, crazy story, bro. Yeah. Crazy story. Unbelievable.

So cool. What are you laughing at, Drew? You were just like, crazy story, bro. It was a crazy story, bro. Would you say that was a crazy story, bro? It was a crazy story. Yeah, bro. Hey, next, we've got $10,000 up for grabs tomorrow.

It involves Ben's scary movies. Halloween. We'll connect all the dots for you next. This afternoon from 1, stream Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween scare house on Facebook and you could win cash. It is the hits on your

Thursday morning, 8.28. News out of Christchurch. If you're waking up this morning, two cases of COVID-19 have been discovered in Christchurch as of last night. More updates throughout the day, but it looks like 1 o'clock they'll announce if there's going to be any alert level changes, right? Yeah.

And, hey, far be it for me to scaremonger. But I'm picking a lockdown, snap lockdown. Oh, you don't know that. You don't know that. They didn't do one in Blenheim. They didn't do one in Dunham. Hard and early. Hard and early.

That's been the motto of this whole campaign. Hard and early, Christchurch. All right, we'll find it at one o'clock. Let's hope everything's okay. And yeah, tune into The Hippo and Ashley at one o'clock. Right about that time, I'll start watching my horror movies. Not just the COVID updates. What is more horrifying?

Oh, COVID's definitely a lot more horrifying. But I don't like scary movies and doing it today from one o'clock. And if you want to jump on the live stream stream make a comment while we're doing that on the hits breakfast facebook you could win whatever money's left over from the prize pool depending on how many frights i get yeah five of the worst movies uh of all time sinister being labeled by science as the worst movie of all time don't ask me how science settled on that but you know don't argue with science. At Halloween, of course, this weekend,

I was just remembering a couple of years ago when we were doing an afternoon radio show that I was rushing away after work to go meet up with... Oh, I remember waking up not at 3.30 in the morning. They were good hours. Rushing away to meet up with my wife and kids. We were going trick-or-treating with some friends. And as I rang after work, my wife's like,

oh, make sure you get dressed up. All the adults are getting dressed up. We're all here. And I was like, oh, that's cool. We're raced home as well. Don't have to tell him twice to get dressed up into a costume. Got dressed up, turned up in my skeleton costume, and no other adult was dressed up.

Just the kids and my wife. So, ah, you know, good play for her. Good play for her. But the good thing for you is to uh given your frame they might have just thought oh ben's not wearing clothes today just an emaciated did someone tell them this clothing was optional for trick or treat and so but you would have worn it proudly yeah i'm a costume guy but i did appreciate the play though but unnecessary stress put on your you two rushing from work go home

picking through your car what's the appropriate costume to meet them huffing and puffing and she's like are you schmuck no one's dressed up except for the kids hey next we want to do something involving adele's a new song and see if we can sing as well as adele the answer probably be no but we'll do that next. There's the hits. There you go, mate. I'll never know what second place is. No pain, no doubt. No doubt. Till the lights go out.

Yeah, on the hits, Jono and Ben, Halloween this weekend, and Jono, you're making me watch from about one o'clock today the scariest movies, the scariest Halloween movies. Oh, I'm not making you.

Let's not turn this into a bullying situation. You've chosen to go along with it. I am, to try and win money, whatever money is left over from $10,000. Every fright I get, you take money off the prize pool. The bullying comes in when I use my chainsaw. Yeah. Okay, that's when the real bullying happens. We've got a cool room set up here at work in an empty boardroom, set up

with heaps of costumes and decorations all thanks to Look Sharp as well, so thank you for those, and if you visit Look Sharp in store around the country now, you can get 30% off our Halloween products, excludes costumes, so thank you Look Sharp. Some truly terrifying items in there, one that's almost possessed and it moves, it's mechanical

Juliet, you. Yeah, it's almost like a clown mixed with a ghost mixed, yeah, it moves. It's mechanical, Juliet. Yeah, it's almost like a clown mixed with a ghost. Yeah. Mixed, yeah, that moves. Terrifying. Someone needs to tell these horror characters to oral hygiene. They've all just got shocking teeth. No flossing, no brushing.

They've really let themselves go in the oral department. But Ben, we're just doing a few last minute scares for you. Trying to make you scare ready. Immune to fright so you can win as much money as possible tomorrow. Tanya, we're going to get you on with, apparently, I haven't heard this story, but producer Bee Hump says, the most frightening

yarn we will ever hear. What happened, Tanya? So this was 20 years ago when my youngest son was a newborn. And we moved into a bigger house. It was a rental. And I had a three-year-old and an eight-year-old as well. And when we'd gone through the rental, everything seemed okay. It was fine.

But once we moved in, I was getting really, really bad vibes from the place. And the garage at the back, I couldn't stand to be in there. I got really scared every time I went in, and it was just making me physically sick to be in there. I got really scared every time I went in and it was just making me physically sick to be in there. And we had these glass sliding doors between the lounge and the hallway and I could swear there was always someone standing there watching me. I felt like I was being watched all the time. And out of the corner of my eye, I was always catching movement in the glass. So anyway, one morning I was home alone with my newborn son and he was asleep in the bedroom in his cot. And I could hear a child laughing.

And my other two were at kindy and school, so I knew there was no other child in the house. Oh, jeez. And so I walked up the hallway, there was no one there. Come back into the kitchen, I could hear this child laughing again. Oh, my God. Went up my god hallway nothing there wow come back out to the kitchen and my newborn son started screaming like blood curdling oh and i as i went to go back into the bedroom out of the corner of my eye i saw the side door on the garage opening and shutting by itself.

No. Constantly opening and shutting? Open, shut, open, shut, open, shut. Oh, Tanya. This is 100% honest. And then the automatic door on the garage started going up and it would get halfway up and then come back down. Oh, my goodness. Oh, jeez.

Yep. Anyway, my son's still screaming, so I ran into the bedroom, and his whole cot was shaking like someone was standing there shaking. Oh, my goodness. This is like from a horror film. How did you continue living in this house? I'm covered in goosebumps just telling you about it again, and it was 20 years ago.

I am as well. Did you move out straight away after this? Well, I picked up my son, packed him into the car, and as I went back in to get his baby bottle and his baby bag, I bent over and there was a big tug on my cardigan, like someone was pulling my cardigan, and I spun around and there was no one there. So I ran out of the house and I didn't go back to the house

until my partner got home. But it took us three weeks to find another rental and during that three weeks that it just escalated the cot was shaking all the time the doors I'd be hanging out washing and the side door on the garage would just open and slam shut so hard that I thought the glass was going to break and my two daughters the three-year-old and the eight-year-old, the three-year-old refused to sleep in her bedroom because she said a doll kept laughing at her and keeping her awake. Oh, jeez. You never want laughing dogs when you're sleeping. No, laughing dolls, no.

Oh, dolls, sorry. Or laughing dogs. Or laughing dogs, even more terrifying. And then my eight-year-old kept accusing her of breaking her dolls and her toys while she was away at school, and she never went into her room. So we moved out after

three weeks, and thank God. That sounds like a horror house. About a year later, I went to a psychic to get a reading done. And I sat down, and I'd only been there a couple of minutes, and she said to me,

that must have been really scary when your son was woken up with his cot shaking. And I was like, holy crap. Oh, my goodness. She went on to tell me that it was a little girl inside the house, and she'd climbed into her toy box, and she'd got stuck. And she'd actually passed away, and her father father found her and he couldn't cope with it and he'd actually ended his life in a garage. Oh my goodness. Which we weren't told before we'd moved into the house. But that actually did happen?

That actually did happen, yeah. Oh wow. Thank you for really scaring the, yeah, out of me right now. Jeez, okay. Good luck today, Ben. Yeah, thanks. I thought I might just go home. Yeah, can I go home too? Do you want to go home too?

Maybe we'll just leave. Yeah, I'm out of here. Let's play a happy song or something. Yeah, let's do it. What more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast.

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