Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The incident that left a woman in her underpants in the middle of an airport

Episode Date: April 28, 2022

In today's episode we discuss what we are binging and how some of us are binging! We talk to some of our luckiest listeners, and we call another Close Contact!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast. It's the 28th of April. It's Thursday today. We are joined by our Benjamin Ross voice and Belle. You heard it from my mum. Annabelle. Annabelle is your full name. Annabelle Ruby. Ruby. Two great names, Annabelle Ruby.

What do you think of Benjamin Ross? I'm Jonathan Richard Pryor. Yeah, I've heard that one before. He's Benjamin Ross voice. I'm not a huge fan of the name Ross, hey heard that one before. He's Benjamin Ross boy. I'm not a huge fan of the name Ross, hey? No disrespect to anyone who's got Ross as a name, but I just don't know if it suits you. Like, not in a mean way. We work with a Ross too.

Yeah, like, he seems like a Ross. Ross from Friends? Yeah, Ross from Friends. Yeah, but I don't know. For some reason I wasn't, you know. It's fine. I like BRB. It's gonna be right back. You know, that makes sense. Is there a full version of Ross or it's just Ross? Because it's Roscoe, isn't it? But is that a full version?

Or is that just like... Full name of Ross. My made-up one is Rossel. Rossel is good. I like Rossel. My dad's middle name is Ross. It's a family name. It's nice.

Apparently it's not a family name. But it is now because Dad's carried it on. Rostifer. Yeah. Yeah, no, there's no full name of... No. Where does it come from? It's from Scotland. Scottish descent. There was a

Ross clan. Does that make you any more attached to it? No, you know. At least it's got some history. That's fine. You know. I thought about... I actually thought recently about changing my middle name. Not because it really bugs me, but I was just like, I heard someone else that kept my, my mum's maiden name alive, which is Jones. So I was like, oh, cool. It'd be kind of cool to have that as, you know, maybe I'll change it.

But then I was like, oh, BJ, you know, like, oh, mate's going to be BJ, you know, he's changed his name. Oh, please do it. Please, you know, that'll drag us through the next 10 years of radio if you do that. Because we go, because my daughter's name's Indy, or Indiana, the full name. And we were like, oh, we'll keep mum's maiden name alive and we can't call it Indiana Jones. I mean, I like the movie, but it wasn't the reason why we chose it. It was like, she must be a real big fan of Harrison Ford.

You do have to factor in the bullying day with kids when you're naming kids. What did you guys get? What did people say to you for your bully name? Pee Pants Pryor. That was me. There was an unfortunate incident obviously that took place. What were you? The Boycenberry, the Boycy.

Paul Henry called me Boycy when he was mocking me on a TV show once. That's not even mean though. It was the way he said it though. It was when we were working at TV3 in the same building as Paul Henry, and Paul Henry saw you in the cafeteria,

and he was going on a rant with Hilary Barry. Hilary Barry was weighing in on it, too. Did you have ripped pants? No, I had sort of baggy, sort of... It was drop crotch. Drop crotch, yeah. Drop crotch, and he was like, I was in the cafe yesterday, Hilary, and she's like, hmm? She said, I Drop crotch. And he was like, I was in the cafe yesterday, Hillary. And she's like, hmm.

She said, I saw Boise. And she's like, who? He said, Boise. What's his name? We said, what's his name? And she said, do you mean Ben Boise? He said, yeah, Boise. Boise.

And he kept saying Boise in a patronizing tone. And he said, he came in with his trousers. And they were hanging halfway down his legs. And Hillary's like oh no and then they're both just mowing I'm watching it live at home

this is on TV on TV I said A uncalled for but B brilliant out of nowhere too

it's like having a gossip session like they would have at the work cafeteria but you know but on television about a work day like it made so much impact on Paul Henry's day that he clearly noted it down.

I must talk about that on television tomorrow. Book it in at 8.30. Fun show today, didn't we? We spoke to your mum, actually, Annabelle Ruby. Your mum is a prolific binge-watcher.

She has her latest binge binge watcher to show. A lot of people have been watching lately. Yeah, we did say, you know, New Zealand's quickest binger, fastest binger. Someone texted saying they watched all of the Lord of the Rings overnight. Overnight? Overnight. Oh, wow. Did not sleep.

Jeez. Just did the whole thing. Oh. Well, there you go. There you go. Can you beat that? Well, probably not. But you can listen to the podcast. The Annoying Ones Talking Between the Socks.

Jono and Ben on the hits. How's everyone doing today? Yeah, we're doing all right. Yeah, thanks. Six o'clock really snuck up on us this morning, didn't it? It did. It just turned up and I was like, wow. Do you know why?

Because I caught every red light on the way to work today. Oh, did you? I've had a dream run before you get every green light on the way to work today oh did you i've had a dream run before you get every green light yeah and you're like today's gonna be a good day uh but there's gonna be a lot of barriers today obviously obviously red lights do you know one thing i found through um a large part of being a customer for you know the majority of my life you're a customer of of varying things is when a company messages you or phones you and they put the words this is just a gentle reminder in front of what they're you know a gentle reminder which translated is all right idiots you haven't paid your bill again this is a gentle reminder it's the most passive aggressive

two words I think you could find gentle reminder isn't it? you're probably right and I feel like it's it's really not a gentle reminder no that's not really well then why do they say it is then?

just say what they feel yeah because they're trying to keep up a nice facade aren't they? but they're like you know how it works you've been to pay your phone bill every month every month you've been doing this the whole time pay it every month

and so this is a gentle reminder to remind you of your obligations yeah and that very soon can turn to an aggressive reminder sometimes you get that call from Vodafone which is um just like your thing on an automatic payment yet or no? No. So, you know, so, Bill, I don't pay my phone bill. Well, I pay it just, you know, I do it myself. It's not on, like, an automatic payment or anything monthly. So I'm required to do it, remind myself and pay it monthly. I'm not sure why you do this because you're always like, oh, it's Vodafone.

You make it hard of yourself. Yeah, yeah. He's like, it's Vodafone again. I haven't paid my bill. They cut you off? Your phone doesn't work? No, they phone up with an automated voice. It's like, hello, this is Vodafone reminding you

to pay your bill. And that happens every month, but I like the attention. I'm just like, no one else calls me apart from Vodafone saying pay your bill. Never mind your credit rating. Yeah. Have you guys ever been taken to Baycorp? I've had leases, but not, I don't know what, you know. Yeah, I'm too scared. You know, you get that letter, you're like, ooh! What happens when you're on Baycorp? I've had leases, but not, I don't know what, you know. Yeah, I'm too scared.

You know, you get that letter, you're like, what happens when you're on Baycorp? Are you stuffed? Yeah, that's enough for me to get the letter. Why is this turned up? You find, you hear those things of like, oh, you'll never be able to get it loaned ever again. Your credit rating will be bad.

Even getting the letter, as I say, I was paying that straight away. But you're right, if you ignore that letter, what happens next? Well, that's what I do with parking tickets too. Like I get a parking ticket, I don't pay it. You easily forget though, don't you? Yeah, you do. They get lost in the admin of life. Don't pay it.

Then you get a reminder letter saying, a gentle reminder letter, saying pay your way. And then I ignore that as well. I like to ignore that as well. And then you get the third or fourth one down the track, which is this is going to Baycorp. Or Ministry of Justice. Yeah, and that's when you're like, okay, you mean.

I'm going to jail. Yeah, now's the time that I should pay. Now's the time. You've wasted a lot of our office hours on these letters, these gentle reminder letters. I'll pay through now. Scrolling through your feed. Now, this is the news.

And I thought this morning driving in, is news just narking and gossiping? A little bit, sometimes. Is it just what the news is? Sometimes it is. All right, here's some narking and gossiping. I found this a really interesting story. So a guy in Germany bought a secondhand kitchen cabinet, and they bought it off eBay, which is kind of like the equivalent to Trade Me.

He bartered the price down. it was from a deceased estate uh so he bartered it down to basically 240 pounds from 300 and then he discovered 150 000 pounds inside the cupboards the secondhand cupboards now they'd just been sort of they were away and they're stashed away in a sort of box that obviously no one had kind of looked inside the cupboards properly. And yeah, he was very honest. He was very honest in the situation. So he went to the local police. It was revealed it belonged to the people at the estate.

And because under German law, it's an offence to keep more cash, more than 10 euros. Definitely. That's definitely an 80 plus banking system, isn't it? An 80 year old plus. But yeah, just hide it in a box. Under the bed is always a popular option with the grandparents. Yeah, so he returned this. So he returned basically, Oahu is for £150,000.

And he's now eligible for a 3% finder's fee of about £4,000. So he still gets £4,000, but you know. Okay, Ben, so I'm going to ask you this question, and I bet you're going to answer with I'd like to think. I'd like to think. So, okay. You know what I'm going to answer with.

You already know it. You've bought something off Trade Me. It's hiding, you know, over $100,000 in cash. I'd like to think I'd return it. Yeah. But in reality... Well, if I had the whole embezzling thing,

the German law, that you can face three years in prison For keeping more than 10 euro But no one's going to know No one's going to know They clearly didn't know it was in there Who's going to know? How do you know?

I'd just be too scared You don't have any problem Embezzling all the funds you have now I don't know why you'd start stressing If you found money But that's You've always got to do the right thing In that situation

Otherwise you're going to live with the guilt, aren't you? And you're always on edge. You're going to get caught. You're going to spend that money, and then it's going to come back to bite you. This is why we make terrible criminals. And just quickly, another story. I think this is lucky.

I'm not so sure. The guy, he's lucky to be alive after he was attacked by 50 crocodiles. This is a man in Cambodia. Now, he's a crocodile farm caretaker. He had a few beers. He went for a sleep in a hammock above the crocodile pool. He woke up at 1 o'clock needing to go for a pee, crossed a bridge, slipped and fell,

and he fell into a crocodile pool of 50 crocodiles, and he was bitten by five of them. They got him out of there. He's in hospital with a few things going on, but he's lucky to be alive. Can I just say that sounds like the worst possible location for a hammock. It does, doesn't it? On top of 50 crocodiles. I put it on a tree over a bit of lawn. There's only one place for this hammock,

and it's on top of these 50 crocodiles. That's wild. Five out of 50 is not a bad, I guess, if you're looking at stats. Well, true, but you're right. Yeah, the hammock placement's all wrong. And scrolling through your feet is what it is. Hammocks are a dangerous sleeping option regardless, aren't they? Let alone at one o'clock after a few beers over a crocodile pod.

You look at a hammock and you're like, well, that looks comfortable, but it's never as comfortable as you imagine. Your legs always end up on sort of a 45-degree angle, don't they? Yeah, well, true. Yeah. And that's not even over a crocodile pit. Yeah. So that is what was making news this morning,

some random news from around the world. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Rise and shine. Time to start the, um, who are we kidding? When are the both of you? Jono and Ben on the hits. Almost the end of the second week of school holidays.

It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Now, Netflix, it's a thing getting a lot of chat lately. Losing money hand over fist. At the moment, Netflix subscribers jumping off. Because apparently, apparently the sharing of the accounts is the issue. And it's sinking Netflix Yeah, it's one of their big issues

They've also lost about 200,000 subscribers In the first three months of this year Some of it to do with pulling out of Russia But others to do with, I guess, people just dropping off Get back into Russia If I was on the board of Netflix I was like, let's get back in Get back into the Russian market

It's sinking this company Now, Bell, you've been watching a show That my wife's actually watching, Jennifer, too, which is getting a lot of lip service at the moment. Yeah, it was number one over the weekend. It got overtaken by the latest season of Selling Sunset, another popular one, but it's called Anatomy of a Scandal. It's starring Sienna Miller.

It's so good. You literally watch it, and within minutes you are hooked. It's this British drama thriller. It's about her husband who's cheated on her and it's a whole mystery. I just binged the whole six episodes. Now you've got some audio from the trailer here. He's a politician who has an affair with his secretary. The story's about to break.

Sometimes I think I'm partly to blame. And that thing slide Making this right is why, Garibald Me and my wife watched it as well She really enjoyed it I always wonder why politicians and things have affairs You know? Like even stuff goes on at the Beehive

And you're like, how do you think you're ever going to get away with it? Eventually it's going to end badly Well, you know? And like even stuff goes on at the Beehive and you're like, how do you think you're ever going to get away with it? Eventually it's going to end badly. Well, you think so. When does an affair ever end well, Ben? Well, yeah. I mean, maybe on some occasions. I mean, you're managing multiple ones at the moment and they're going all right, aren't

they? That stuff works, let alone, but I'm not a politician, you know? You're getting away with it. But the impressive thing that when you were telling us this, Bill, was you suggested to your mum to watch it and how quickly she binged the entire season of this show. Yeah. We're going to get your mum on next to tell us.

Are you a quick binger? Yeah, but not to what I understand your mum, not to her level. Oh, she's faster than anyone I know. Yeah. Like, I'm happy to watch an episode and go, I'll come back to that tomorrow night or whatever like that. Like, I don't get to the stage that I think your mum gets to, by the sounds of it.

No, she can't stop. I'm still chewing my way through Tiger King. Still slowly getting there. But I'm watching the Kanye West documentary at the moment on Netflix. Oh, you're still watching that? I'm still watching that. Oh, you started that last year. I'm still doing it in, in like two-minute installments.

Yeah. Yeah, he's having a good time so far. But you fall asleep pretty quickly too. Yeah. Nothing's gone wrong with his career at this point. And I think it's going to go swimmingly well. So, yeah, 0800, that's telephone number 24487. We're going to get Bell's mum on next.

New Zealand's quickest binger. Do you think you are? How quickly have you binged a series? You know, legal substances, illegal substances. Just talk binging. How quickly are you doing? Let's keep it around Netflix and other shows. We'll just take any binging.

TV shows. TV shows this morning. Jono and Ben. Talking binging. I'm watching this great new Johnny Depp movie at the moment where he's testifying against an ex-girlfriend. I don't know how it pans out. She's yet to take the stand,

so we'll see how that one goes on Netflix too. To be honest, the only thing I want to binge at the moment is sleep. Doesn't that sound great? I've been watching the Old Enough show, which is really cool, a Japanese show. It's really, really, really fascinating. The episode's probably around 10 to 20 minutes long. They're pretty short, but it involves toddlers.

They send toddlers out to do errands by themselves. Obviously, they're probably monitoring them from a distance, but it's crazy. What, to go get a warrant of fitness and things for the car? Or like the first episode, the little kid's got to go to the supermarket, get flowers, get a curry, get something else, like three items and a 2K walk.

How old are those three? This one's not even three. What are you, three years old? Senator Dickinson. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Like, yeah, and to see the little kid, and he gets two items, you're like, come on, mate, come on, mate. And then he leaves, you're like, ah.

And then halfway on his walk back home, he's like, I've forgotten the curry, and off he goes back again. So you're literally just watching a miniature human being do supermarket shopping. Yeah, but it is really fascinating. And 10-minute episodes. Good for binging, too. Yeah. And that's what we're talking.

The quickest binges. What have you quickly binged? Now, Bell Crawford, who's working here at the moment. Bell's the skipper of the ship. You're pushing the buttons here. We love a nickname in radio, Button Pushing Bell. Bell on the buttons. Nice.

I don't know. We'll work on that. But Belle, you suggested, what's the show you're watching? It's Anatomy of a Scandal. A lot of people have been binging this. When I put it up on my socials, everyone was like, oh my God, I'm hooked. And I like to watch all the latest shows as soon as they come out. And then Mum watches them as well. Yeah, so you suggested this show to your mum, among others.

And Julie joins us on the phone this morning. Morena. How are you doing? We're good. We're good. Now we hear that you've been binge-watching something that Bell recommended. Yeah, I've got a bit of a problem with binge-watching things Bell recommends. Yeah, now what is it?

Okay, so what have you binged in the past? Bridgerton, I watched that overnight and the next day a little bit, the first and second ones. And season two of Killing Eve, I watched that in like overnight and the next day a little bit, and the first and second ones, and season two of Killing Eve I watched in one night. Yeah, because it's like, I prefer to watch a movie than sort of episodes, so I have to watch all of it. Julie, you're smacking them out. You're smacking them out.

Ben, you got caught in a weird Bridgerton hole with your mum, didn't you, and it got a bit weird. Yeah, I came in on a very saucy scene when I was having a cup of tea with mum, and that was a bit awkward, so I left it to it. It's the first series, isn't it? Yeah, it was a bit weird. I came in on a very saucy scene when I was having a cup of tea with mum and that was a bit awkward, so I left it to it. It's the first series, isn't it? Yeah, it was the first series. Julie remembers it.

It was overkill, really. The second one, they were more into facial expressions and nuances. Oh, so they would give a seductive eye to each other, would they? Yeah. A suggestive eye.

It was very intense. Yeah, right. And so, Belle, you suggested what to your mum? Sorry, I always tell her mum's up with the play, but I suggested one that a lot of people are watching at the moment called Anatomy of a Scandal with Sienna Miller on Netflix. It's so good, isn't it?

So what, did you knock that out in a couple of hours or something? How did you get rid of it? Well, I'm doing French or Duolingo, so I did my French last night and I wasn't tired, and so I read some of my novel, and it got a bit boring. So then I thought, I think I'll watch that thing Annabelle told me about, and so I looked up Sienna on Netflix, and I thought, yeah, this is really good. 336, I think, or 338, I thought, oh.

Did you watch the whole series? Well, I left one episode, which I woke up at 7 o'clock and watched. Wow. You are the poster child for binge watching. Yeah, I know. You must be tired. There's a site that I go to. It's called bingeclock.com, and you type in any show.

Oh, really? I'm into it now. And it tells you how long it's going to take you. But I reckon you're smashing it, because I just looked at season two, Killing Eve. It said one day and nine hours. But you did it pretty much overnight. You didn't stop. They account for sleeping.

You don't sleep. No. Only sometimes. Sometimes I sort of think, but if you start something, like I read books very quickly too, Annabelle will tell you, because once I start a book, I just have to do it. Or if I'm missing something, I have to finish it. I can't just like do bits of it and put it down.

My wife's the same. Yeah. I don't want to get bored, and put it down. My wife's the same. I don't want to get bored. I like this Annabelle too. I didn't know you were Annabelle Bell. Annabelle Ruby Crawford. There you go, you're getting the full title. That's what you get when you're in trouble too,

I imagine. I'm so glad she's working with you guys. She's having lots of fun. She's doing a wonderful job. You've raised a beautiful daughter. Thank you, I know. She's wonderful. If you're looking for where any eccentricities come from,

it's not me, it's her. Well, thank you, Julie. The binge queen. We should get Julie to review shows for us. Because as soon as the show comes out She can do a review the next day The next day Yeah you're on Okay you're on

Thanks mum Have a good day See ya Yeah kakite ano Rated M For mildly amusing Jono and Ben On the hits

Now it's no secret I'm a big fan of Dwayne the Rock Johnson I love him You made me get a Dwayne the Rock Johnson Heart shaped tattoo on my behind and we did that last year and Dwayne the Rock Johnson had seen it

he had when we managed to catch up with him it sounds like we catch up all the time but we did an interview it was a five minute interview mate don't

certainly not catch up when we caught up with our good mate Dwayne Johnson he had not only seen it he was promoting a movie he wasn't catching up with you he was peddling

shush he had not only seen it he had a video a movie. He wasn't catching up with you. He was peddling. Shush. He had not only seen it, he had a video of me on his phone with the tattoo. Wait a second. We saw that. Wait a second. I've seen that. I have it. No, I didn't post it, but I sent it to you. Yes.

There you go. So he had that video on his phone. Similarly blunt there as well. She was involved too. Dragged her into this low level desperate radio promo. But something came across my desk here at the radio station. I don't have a desk. Does she make you sound important when you say something came across my desk, doesn't it?

Now, Stacey Lailua, who plays, she's a Kiwi actor, but plays Dwayne The Rock Johnson's mum in the show Young Rock. Yeah. She got sent some of Dwayne The Rock Johnson's energy drink, Zoa. Now, Dwayne The Rock Johnson himself personally sent this. His big muscly fingers wrapped around these cans and sent them to her. Yeah, I saw it. She posted it on her Instagram.

And I was like, oh, my God, that's so awesome. You should be selling these to super fans like myself. And then she dropped some off to your desk. Yeah, to my desk. It came across my desk. There's so awesome. You should be selling these to super fans like myself. And then she dropped something off to your desk. Yeah, to my desk. It came across my desk. There's a Mr. Pryor. Something's coming across your desk now. Because you can't get it in New Zealand.

No. You can't get this energy drink in New Zealand. It's banned in nine countries, New Zealand being one of them, for too much energy and electrolytes. It hasn't got here yet. But you were like, great, these arrived. And instead of just giving them to your friend, Ben, who you love. Well, I wanted to film you drinking them and get your honest reaction.

So I thought, well, maybe we film it and then we can send it to Dwayne The Rock Johnson as well. So see how you're enjoying his energy drink. Now, I also had a 15% off voucher for the Skywalk on top of the Skytower for my entertainment book. So I was like, we might as well use this. So I sent Ben out. So he's 192 meters in the air on the outside of the Skytower with two cans of Zoa energy drink taped to his hands, like something they do in Dunedin with the university students.

And then we were filming, and you had to drink. And they made you lean out over the edge, forward, facing the ground. I know, it was so scary. Have a listen to me up there. Why are you here? If you don't love this, then you don't love Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Ben.

Oh, jeez. All right. It's actually delicious. I can smell what the rock is cooking. It's lovely. Can we go back in? Can I go back in? I'm in underpants right now.

Ah! Shit is as high. Did you realize you were trying to talk to me through a soundproof glass window? Yeah. Can I go back in? I couldn't hear that. No, I couldn't hear you. I just saw you yelling at me from inside the whole time.

Yeah. Now, you did down two cans of this drink, and you came back in looking quite unpredictable. You looked like you weren't in the mood for blinking. These are pre-workout drinks, mate. I was really. How did you get any sleep? Very little.

Jesus, yesterday afternoon, I was fizzing around. Things were getting done. Were you bench-pressing a truck when you got home? Did you feel like Dwayne the Rock Johnson was running through your veins? Here's me afterwards where I came back and saw you in a bit of safety after going out of the Sky Tower. Do you feel electric? Do you feel alive?

I do feel alive. This is how Dwayne the Rock Johnson feels every day. Like that? Like this? Yeah. And partly he didn't wear his underpants. It was the spillage of the drink. Definitely. Definitely. Like that? Like this? Yeah. And partly he didn't wet his underpants. It was the spillage of the drink.

Definitely. Definitely. Ben ran home. And then he got home and realised he forgot his car, so ran back. Carried the car back. Yeah. So a little sleep for me yesterday. Yeah.

Was it hard to get to sleep? Yeah. I was looking at the can. I was like, well, there's a lot of science stuff I can't pronounce on this can like 5,000 milligrams of things that I couldn't pronounce

but well done we filmed it and we've sent it to Dwayne the Rock Johnson so we'll see what happens there we'll have it on the hits breakfast anything else you want to send

across Jono Pryor's desk feel free to to Graham Street Auckland City we'll have the video on the hits breakfast Instagram and Facebook later on this evening

Spy know what's up spy.co.nz we've got hot goss cold goss I have the video on the Hits Breakfast Instagram and Facebook later on this evening. We've got hot goss, cold goss, room temperature goss, all the goss you want. Belle Crawford, what's happening in Hollywood? Well, Meghan Markle's dad, Thomas Markle, he loves to have his fame, doesn't he? He loves to get on the blower, have a wee chat. And he has been on this British TV show saying that he could be the only Markle at the Queen's Jubilee and he wants to meet with Charles. Now this audio, he was recording it in Mexico. It's a little bit crackly, but they still played it on TV.

I really would like to meet with Prince Charles and thank him for walking my daughter down the aisle and also just to meet and talk with him because i think we have a lot in common now we've pretty much both been ghosted by our our children now why on earth does he think the queen will invite him to the jubilee like why he's looted like what's going on we could go along and watch. What do you mean as part of the royal sort of family? That's what he's sort of implying. It's like, how does he think he is? He wasn't even invited to the wedding.

We spoke to his son. He was also Thomas Markle Jr. Yeah. And he seemed like a lovely guy. Ben accused me of clickbaiting him just for trying to get a New Zealand Herald article. How did I clickbait him? You were like, what would you say to your sister if you could talk to her right now?

And it's like, well, why was he telling us on radio? But that's a valid question, though, isn't it? Thank you, Bella. Everyone wants to know that. He's just thinking of what people want. You clickbaited him. He's like, well, he could have just gone, well, I'll be saying it to her.

Well, I'm going to say it to you. And I did say it in that tone. Now, what would you say to your sister? But I understand that Thomas Markle Sr. has said Prince Harry is whipped. Yeah, and I've got some audio of this talking about Harry. He follows my daughter around like a child. He's not a man. I think he's kind of a wuss and always will be.

Jeez. By the way, can I also come to kind of a wuss and always will be. Jeez. By the way, can I also come to the Jubilee? Yeah, please. Yeah. It's a car parking. Where can I park the car? Do you think Harry's whipped? What are your thoughts?

You have no connection to the royal family? Yeah, I don't know. I don't like the word whipped. No. You know, it's like, then is it a negative thing against Meghan? It's like kind of blaming her for the way he behaves and it's just, it's sort of like woman blaming to me. I don't like that.

And it's not going to help the relationship between him and his daughter, saying stuff like that. Yeah, exactly. They've got children. Well, I do have a question for both of you. What would you say to Harry if you were here with him right now? Don't clickbait us, mate.

What would you say to him? We don't know Harry. What would you say to him? Yeah, no, maybe he's just loyal as opposed to being whipped. And also he saw his wife going through a situation where she was mentally unhappy, unwell, and he's obviously had what happened with his mum, and so he's probably just trying to save the situation.

Exactly. That's right. Well, good old Thomas Markle. And we'll see if he gets invited to the Jubilee, which I see Ed Sheeran's going to be performing it. Yeah, exactly. It's going to be interesting. Yeah.

Isn't it? He's going to sing a special song for the Queen that he's going to write specifically for her. It's Jono and Ben, but FYI, Ben is open to other options. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, my son Oscar, he was telling me a story yesterday that it was the luckiest person in the world, and I couldn't really remember the story, so I had to call him off here and

he regaled the tale Hi mate how are you? Good. What are you doing? I'm just chilling with the dog. Yeah we got a dog the other day. Very exciting. How is Milo? Oh he's good he's been crying a bit but yeah. Yeah I'll tell you what

Good. Yeah I phoned yesterday and all I could hear was a dog cry there he is you know he's getting he's just a baby he's just a baby yeah yeah he's learning life hey now you're telling a fact or a story the other day and i was like that's perfect fodder for the radio what was it it was so this guy in america he died dead for five minutes but the doctors brought him back to life. Then he won the lotto at home winning a car. Then the news asked him to re-enact it

for the news station, and he won again, like $50,000 or something. Oh, what, so he went and bought another ticket? So, no, no, so he died. He was dead for five minutes, doctors brought him back to life. He was like, well, that was lucky. I need to buy a lotto ticket. Wins the lottery. The news are like, hey, mate, can we do a story on you? You won the lottery, and you died. He's like, well, that was lucky. I need to buy a lotto ticket. Wins the lottery. The news are like, hey, mate, can we do a

story on you? You won the lottery and you died. He's like, yeah. They're like, hey, just for this, we're going to need another ticket to reenact you winning. So he goes and buys a pretend ticket. Buys a pretend, a prop ticket. Yeah. Then wins the lottery again with that ticket. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. It is. So I thought

it was an interesting story. Hey, thank you, Ozzy. It's all good. There you go. Incredible, eh? Now, I haven't won the lottery or died. None of those things happened to me. So we wanted to open up. Get inside. Oh, no, 800, that's 4487, the luckiest listeners.

You were reading a story about a New Zealand lady. Yeah, this is just through in the news today. So a lady won lotto in August in New Zealand and only just redeemed the ticket last week, eight months later, because she'd forgotten about the ticket. So she just put it in a glove box, because that's, I guess, what you do from time to time.

So she said she'd essentially been driving around with a million dollars in her glove box for eight months, not knowing that she'd won lotto until she redeemed it just last week. The thing I enjoy about luck is it's all open to interpretation, isn't it? I mean, you can consider yourself, I consider myself lucky this morning. I put both my shoes on the right feet.

It's a good day. My trousers are facing the right way for one spin. You know, you can create your own version of luck and feel lucky, can't you? It's like just appreciate things in your life. Just go, oh, this is, have gratitude, and then you can feel lucky. You know? Is it luck that you put your shoe on? I don't know if it's luck.

Competency, isn't it? Yeah, I think you're right, Bill. But I feel lucky. You should. I feel blessed. You should feel like a functioning human. I feel blessed that both my shoes are on the right feet. It's out of his luck.

Oh, geez, guys, I got it right today. That was 50-50. Okay, I don't know if that's a functioning human. I feel blessed that both my shoes are on the right feet. It's out of his luck. Oh, jeez, guys, I got it right today. That was 50-50. Okay, 0800, that's the telephone number. The luckiest listeners. Did you put your shoes on the right way this morning? Yeah, I don't want to say it was luck, though. We'll find out the luckiest listeners. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Now, we want to know the luckiest listeners on 0800 The Hits. Nicole, how are you? I'm good, thanks, and you? Yeah, doing well. We're talking lucky listeners this morning. Not you, though, your father, we understand. Yes, my father's the luckiest person I know by far. He was born on Friday the 13th,

and it definitely served him on the positive side of all that. What's happened? Oh, from when I was little, he won a snooker table in the Playboy magazine. I had to explain that one to my mum. He won a snooker table from the Playboy magazine? Articles. Great articles. That's what they used to say, wasn't it?

So then he had to build a bar to fit the snooker table in because it didn't fit into our house. Right, of course. I get that's the only logical thing to do. Selling it was an option, but no, you've got to build a bar. I get that's the only logical thing to do. Like, selling it was an option, but no, you've got to build a bar. And then he's won a cruise. He's won a luxury train holiday.

Everything he enters, he wins. Wow. So he's won a lot. How many competitions has he entered in? One over the years, you think? Oh, I don't know. I wouldn't know, but in my lifetime,

at least probably 10 to 15 big things. What else has he won? Most of it, I'd say, is probably holidays or weekends away. His number's always 13, and you'll go, oh, Nicole, just take these chips to number 13 on the roulette wheel, and of course he'll win. Jeez. Yeah, he won't play the lotto,

because he believes that's too life-changing if you win it, and he's scared he wins it. Oh, so he's scared of winning. Is that the reason he doesn't play? Yeah. He says it'll change your life well beyond what you know it. Yeah, so he doesn't play the lotto. But everything else he plays, he wins.

Wow, he's so scared of his luck that he's afraid of winning lotto. I know. I'm not scared of winning lotto. I know. I'm not scared of winning lotto. I'd love to win lotto. Yeah, right. Well, that's incredible. And what do you put it down to? Maybe the fact he was born on Friday the 13th.

Not an unlucky number. It's his lucky number. I was on Friday the 13th. Nothing good's happened to me. Maybe you got the other side. Thank you very much, Nicole. Appreciate it. Thank you. Luke with us this morning.

How are you, Luke? Yeah, good, thank you. We're talking lucky listeners. Are you an LL? Yeah. That was lucky listener, by the way. Yeah. What happened to you?

Yeah, okay. So it was the million dollar lotto one. I'm going back a bit. It was the day of the heads and tails. Yeah. I don't know if you remember that. Yeah, yeah. And my wife came to the shower and she asked me, oh, look, did you check the lotto drawer?

I said, no, I'm in the man shed. I was in the man shed under the house, you know. And of course, we didn't check it. And the only time we don't check it is the time that she went and checked the ticket in the lotto store and we won. And she came home and said to me, I've got something to tell you. So all of a sudden, I'm thinking the worst, like, oh, okay, so what's this name-solving, you know?

So no, it was like, well, we won lotto. I said, yeah, well, how much? And she goes, a million dollars. She's a million dollars. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. It was good. That's pretty life-changing.

Can you tell us anything you put the money towards? Yeah, so we went down. So, of course, we couldn't sleep that night. I can imagine. Yeah, it was Saturday night, so we had to think of where we were going to put the ticket on, you know, Saturday night. Oh, I imagine that is so stressful.

Yeah, Sunday, where did we put it? We put it under the pillow, and I just kept it up to here, and we couldn't sleep, of course. So we made an appointment with the bank guy on Monday, and we went down to the bank to pay off our mortgage, and he goes, where did the money come from? And I felt like saying, oh, just a massive money, you know.

But we're very open about it. Yeah. So, yeah, I don't know if I can mention it. I mean, the mortgage at the time was $660,000 So we paid that off Oh that's incredible And what we did for the Christmas We got

$10, $100 bills And we put them in 10 envelopes And we just dropped them off to the random Housing New Zealand Oh that's lovely of you What a great gesture. Now, why did you do it random? Like, if I'm doing anything like that,

I'm taking all the credit. That is a lovely gesture. Paid off the mortgage and... Paid it forward as well, yeah. That's a wonderful, wonderful... And I imagine it set you up. Yeah, yeah, totally. And it just...

One thing I can say is we've got around to it. The long lost friends came out of the woodwork. I can imagine. Oh, yeah, yeah. Who they haven't heard from you in a while. It's interesting that people actually do that, though. Yeah, they do. With their hands out?

Of course. Yeah, but we helped out the family with some cars and bits and pieces and carpet and stuff so yeah, no, yeah. Ben, just know that if you ever win a lotto, I will also be doing that. Ben, we haven't worked together in 25 years but geez, buddy. That's amazing. Sounds like you did some great

stuff with that money and congratulations. I'm glad it all worked out well. Yeah, cheers. Thanks, guys. Awesome station, by the way. Listen to you guys all the time Thank you very much for listening, you keep safe Thanks mate I bumped into a mutual friend of ours At a cafe yesterday

And We had your usual cafe banter Oh COVID How's the work? Hopefully it gets back to normal soon. Back to normal. That's a good one at the moment. Feels like things are getting back to normal.

Oh, it's great to see it back to normal again. Yeah, it's good seeing no one without masks. All the top level stuff. At the end of the conversation, I wrapped it up by going, hey man, you're looking really good. And they were. They were looking fantastic. You know who I'm talking about?

Yeah. He looks magnificent. I think he's an ice bath. Oh, yeah. Does he ice bath? I don't think he's ever stopped looking good, too. Yeah. He's always looked.

He's continued to look. You could just say you've continued to look good and you're doing it today. Yeah. He's one of those guys that for some reason he's getting older but he's looking younger as he goes on and i said well you're looking really good and he said thanks ma'am and i'm standing there going well this is the moment in any conversation where clearly you volley it back you know you say you're oh you're looking good too man you know that's that's how they... But did you want that? Did you want a pity? Oh, you too?

How do you know it was a pity one? I'm looking fantastic. Clearly it would have been. Look, I'm not saying you're not looking good, but I'm saying in this instance, if they didn't volley it back to you, then it would have been a pity one. Did you want that?

It's not a pity one. Who assumed it was a pity one? You're the one who's jumped to this conclusion. Why is it a pity one? I'm assuming it's a pity one in this situation because he hasn't volleyed it back. So now I'm saying, knowing what I know about this friend, it would have been a pity one. Not saying you don't deserve it.

You're looking good too. Don't pull it back now. But I'm saying in this instance, he didn't think you were enough to say it, so it would have been a pity one. So you would have got it, but it would have been a shallow hollow but I even left the gap for him

I was like you're looking good man thanks I sat there in silence going bounce it back baby you know how this works you're looking good so that's all you need to say

I guess he could have the friend could have responded he could have but why were you saying it do you say it just so you could get validation for yourself like did you not mean it I was saying it so you can say it back here you were doing it for validation

i was doing it because i wanted to tell you what i wanted a good looking guy to say you're looking good too you see so you're right pal that's he was only doing it to get it back on him and i didn't get it back so really you're right you could have just said it to him and that your compliment was great it was well received and it was genuine. Yeah, but chuck it back. You had a hidden agenda, didn't you? Yeah, I did. I did.

What happens when you say to people you're looking good? What do they say back to you? I just want to get a vibe here. Are they saying you're looking good too, mate? I don't know how often I'm going around going, hey, g'day, g'day, you're looking good. It's a bit weird, the office situation. I don't, you're looking good. You know, like it's a bit weird in the office situation.

You shouldn't really comment on people's appearance too much, I don't reckon. Oh, Bill, don't be woke. You've got to. Don't be so woke. He gets annoyed because he often calls,

he goes, oh, geez, you look tired today. Yeah, or like people say, oh, you've lost weight and it's like, what, are you saying they didn't look good before? Yeah. That's not what you're saying to people.

I'm saying you're a bit chubby before and now you've lost weight. That's what I'm say to people. I'm saying you're a bit chubby before, now you've lost weight. That's what I'm saying. Ben gets offended when I call him tired. I was like, you're looking tired. Hello,

he gets a bit full in the morning and works long days. You're looking tired today, thanks mate. Well then I'll volley it back to you, so do you.

So do you, you sack of rubbish. Scrolling through your feed. When it comes to news, we're lasting credibility, but first in puns. Ben, this is scrolling through your feed. When it comes to news, we're lasting credibility, but first in puns. Ben, this is scrolling through your feed. What's happening in mate?

August this year, there's one of the world's biggest retail chain stores coming to New Zealand. It's called Costco. It's pretty much in the news every day. Jeez, we're frothing over Costco, aren't we at the moment? $100 million store, they reckon. You can buy everything I was talking about before. You can buy a three-liter bottle of milk. You can buy a diamond ring for $200,000. You can buy Calvin Klein reckon. You can buy everything I was talking about before. You can buy a three-liter bottle of milk. You can buy a diving ring for $200,000. You can buy Calvin Klein underwear.

You can buy TVs. You can buy all sorts. They pretty much liken it to a supermarket, pharmacy, optometrist, cafe, and tie. Even a tie center. It's all in there, and there's lots of products. What is this magical place? Have they just gone, name a shop, we'll put it in this giant shop? Pretty much.

I remember going to one in the States a few years ago with some family that we have over there and it's just incredible. I mean, a lot of the stuff comes in bulk. It's kind of like that Gilmore's and stuff like that. But then there's lots of stuff. You want a TV, you want to get a hot dog for lunch, you want to get all sorts of stuff. If you want 56 car tyres, a lifetime supply of tyres. I get anxiety walking into Bunnings.

This place sounds like you walk in there and you go missing. Missing for five weeks. Yeah, so there's stores in New York, Tokyo, London, and now there's going to be one in West Auckland come August. And they've also got a petrol station. A service station has just opened up as well. I think that's actually open now, Belcroft. Yeah, they're saying it's already open and they're rivaling the cheap petrol price.

Well, they're not cheap, but they're making it the cheapest. So I can drive into this place. It seems like the ideal heaven for the disorganised. Damn it, I forgot my anniversary. I'll get a diamond ring, but I also forgot to fill up the car. And I need to get a warrant, so I'll get some tyres as well. And I tell you what, my underpants are looking a little shabby. Yeah.

All in one spot. It seems like everything's there. I think you've got to be a Costco member to receive the benefits and all. Like a Gilmore sort of setup. Yeah, but I think it's, from memory, around about $50, $60 a year. And then the savings you'd have would probably pay that off

heaps if you're using it. So it's good news for the cost of living. I mean, having stores like this will hopefully bring other prices down as well, whether you go to Costco or not. So that's good news for the cost of living. I mean, having stores like this will hopefully bring other prices down as well, whether you go to Costco or not. So that's good. I always like buying things in bulk. I don't do it much, but when you do, you're like, geez, why have I got 15 kilograms of lollies?

You're a doomsday prepper. Yeah. And as I mentioned earlier, the celebrations for the Queen are underway. It's going to be four days of celebrations from June 5. Four days. 10,000 performers. You can imagine that every single moment of those four days,

you're going to be like, can I just go to bed? Can I go to sleep? Ed Sheeran, Cliff Richard, dancers, acrobats, vintage cars. There's depictions of the Queen's favourite corgis and horses and performances as well. You're celebrating her seven decades in charge as Queen.

25 years old she was when she was first Queen. So seven decades is a long time. I saw a wonderful grab of the organiser on the news last night and he said, 70 years. This only comes along. And then you could tell he tripped himself up because he wanted to say this only comes along once in a lifetime. But then technically, well, it could come along every 70 years.

So then he kind of found himself in a bit of a hole, trying to back out of his... He did a good job trying to, you know, talk it up. But it is impressive. I mean, you'd probably struggle to find another monarch that would last 70 years. It's a once in a... Once in a...

Because she started when she was like nine. Oh, no, 25. I've said that before. Yeah, sorry, I wasn't listening. Yeah, I don't really listen to you, to be honest. No, that's all right. No one does. Five words for 5K.

You're just five words away from $5,000. It's been a couple of weeks since our last winner, so let's try and make one today. $5,000 up for grabs in our Game of Word Association. Jeez, you hear that, Debbie from Te Arawa? He's putting pressure on you. Let's try and make one today. It's been a long time, Debbie.

Well, let's hope so. Let's hope so. Now, Debs, what do you do, mate? Me, I sort of run like a little doggy daycare from my home. How many dogs are you daycaring a day? A couple a day at the moment, and I've got three of my own. Jeez, you're running a busy dog operation. What are dogs like en masse?

Oh, they're adorable. Just adorable. Oh, are they? We've got a little Cavoodle here on Monday, Debbie. Sorry? We've got a little Cavoodle at home on Monday. Oh, cute. Yeah, no, he's like a toy dog.

I say you feel like you need to put AA batteries in his bottom. He's that tiny. You don't know what I haven't. I was thinking this afternoon maybe get a bit more energy out of him. Okay, fine. All right, Debbie, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Jono this morning, please. Okay, let's make it 5K, Debbie.

All right, Debbie, what would you do with the money? Well, we've got an older house, so we're doing a few renovations at the moment, so that'll always come in handy. Yeah, wouldn't it? It would be nice, wouldn't it? All right, Debbie, he's in the soundproof booth. He can't hear anything,

so here's your first word this morning. Jazz. J-A-Z-Z, jazz. Music. Music. Exactly what I was thinking. That's a good option, I think. Swift is the second word.

S-W-I-F-T. Swift. Quick, fast. Quick. Quick. Glad is word number three. Glad. Happy.

Happy. Good. Bath. B-A-T-H, bath. Bathroom. Bathroom. And netball is the final word this morning, Debs. Netball. And some options for that one again.

They always make the options on the last couple, don't they? Yeah, netball. for that one again. They always make the options on the last couple, don't they? Yeah. Netball. Probably sport. What do you want to lock in? Yeah, let's knock in sport. Sport. It's hard, it's hard, eh?

Afterwards, when you get more time to think about it, you think of more words that don't actually pop into your head. But sometimes it's the first word that pops into your head that we correct. Here he is, out at the soundproof booth. Hey, Debbie, how are you?

Oh, well, okay, nervous. Yeah, you know, I was in the soundproof booth, Ben, and I realised we're wearing exactly the same pair of shoes today. We look like twins whose mother refuses to dress them separately. Oh, nice. Get a bargain. Debbie, let's win you $5,000, shall we, eh? Oh, yes, please. All right, gagging for a bargain. Debbie, let's win you $5,000, shall we, eh? Oh, yes, please.

All right. Gagging for the cash, Debbie is. First word we said to Debs this morning was jazz. Jazz. Jazz. Music? Yeah, well done. Yeah.

I was also thinking those jazz cigarettes you like to light up after work as well. I was thinking Utah jazz, the basketball team. But anyway, swift is the second word this morning. Taylor Swift. Oh, of course, of course. Quick. Debbie was quick. Oh, Debbie.

Never mind. Yeah, I don't want to say you let the team down, but... She didn't let the team down at all. Who let the team down? What, you? Yeah, you let the team down. Debbie, don't you start saying I let the team down. Debbie, there's two of us.

Debbie let the bloody team down. You let the team down. All right, let's of us saying. Debbie let the bloody team down. You let the team down. All right, let's look at the last couple of words. Glad. Rap. Happy. Debbie let the team down again. No, she didn't.

Bath was the next word. Bath mat. Debbie, Debbie, Debbie. And netball. Netball game. Oh, Debbie. No, John, I let the team down. Debbie, thanks so much for playing, and I'm sorry we couldn't get you that money for your renovations. Oh, Debbie. No, Jono let the team down. Debbie, thanks so much for playing,

and I'm sorry we couldn't get you that money for your renovations. Okay, thank you. You're an absolute champion, Debbie. You know what we're going to send you? We're going to send you out some Hell Pizza, okay? Cool, thanks. Also delivering beer and wine for you too, Debs. Nice.

That's Hell Pizza, not me. Well, yeah, sounds like you should after you let the team down, Jono. The great thing about listening to this show is that The day can only get better from here Jono and Ben on the hits We play a game called Close Contacts Which we both enjoy because we managed to Find a plug in the studio which goes directly into your cell phone

Now, you know, just to pull back the curtain a touch When you usually call from a radio studio It comes up as a suspicious private number. You're not a fan of answering private numbers. What's he hiding from? So now when we call, it comes from one of our numbers. So I've plugged in your phone. This call is going to come from your phone.

And I get to call anyone on your contact list, and you need to work out who it is. But you don't know who I've called. Yes, this is close contacts. And the irony is we usually have to delete the contact afterwards because things are so awkward so oh here's a good one here's a good one this is topical all right okay don't i get this is the most nervous i get doing this program i don't know i could don't know that you've i would say you probably haven't even called this person i haven't heard you have i got their got their number? I don't know. Let's call them. Hello, Dave speaking.

Hi, mate. G'day, mate. How are you? Yeah, good, thanks. Oh. Sorry, I don't have this number saved. Who's speaking? Oh, it's Jono. Oh, this number saved. Who's speaking? Oh, it's Jono.

Oh, hey, bro. How's things? All right? Oh, good, mate. How are you? Yeah, yeah, good. Just doing some training. Oh, nice.

How's that going? Yeah, yeah, it's going all right, man. Yeah. Yeah. It's going all good. Oh, good man. Good man. What's the training involving? Oh, it's just dancing. Dance training. I'm doing Dancing with the Stars. Oh, it's going all good. Oh, good man, good man. What's the training involving?

Oh, it's just dancing, dance training. I'm doing Dancing with the Stars. Oh, it's butterbeam. Welcome, mate. Hey, Dave, it's Jono and Ben here. Oh, I'm trying to figure out who is this two of these guys. Yeah, well, that's what Jono had to figure out. We play a game where I get Jono's phone, and I go through and call someone from his contacts.

He doesn't know who I've called, and he has to try and work it out. And that's why he was so, it was so vague and awkward at the start. Yeah, I know. I was trying to figure out who this is. I was trying to be friendly. Why has he got Butterbean's number? But you're in the middle of Dancing with the Stars, of course. How's it going?

Yeah, it's going good, man. It's hard, bro. It's hard. And with boxing, you do that one event, and then you have that break, but we're still in it, so we've got to get up again. Yeah, I was going to say, compared to the boxing training, how are you finding it physically? Physically, it's tough, but it's more tough mentally this this stuff

once you've got remember the steps then you've got a um smile keep your elbows up keep your chest up keep your your um you know your shoulders locked in um yeah yeah but at least it's not as painful as being punched in the face too which was true oh it's awesome that you're doing it man congratulations you did so well the first week. And what's your charity? We might as well give it a plug while we're here. Yeah, so our charity is Just Move. So it's my charity, the Just Move Trattle Health Trust,

is what funds all our work that we do in BBM. You know, and the work we do, it's just so much different stuff. You know, there's our food share where we're, you know, helping to feed thousands of people a week. Then we've got all of our health programs, the youth programs, employment programs, our community kitchen. Everything's around education to break cycles, and everything we do is free. So that's what we're fighting for, bro.

That's all I should say. That's what we're dancing for. Yeah, well, listen, you do a wonderful job in the community and a wonderful job on Dancing with the Stars as well. I imagine it's quite a vulnerable situation to put yourself in. The thing that we always talk about is, I'm always talking to youth and to our members

that get used to being comfortable with being uncomfortable. To put yourself out there and work hard. This is what I'm doing now, just practicing what I preach. Good on you, David. Lovely to talk to you, mate, and all the best for the rest of the series. Hey, thanks so much, team.

I'll tell you his number now. Yeah, and to be honest, I don't probably deserve your number in my phone. Why has he got his number? But I'll give that a call anyway, see if he answers. Thanks, team. Take care. See you, David. See you, mate.

Well, I'm glad you didn't get me to phone up a former professional boxer, Ben. That could punch me in the face. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. We do something from time to time called a song to find, where we give ourselves literally a song to find a person on 0800 the hits that may come through with a scenario we want to chuck out there. You chuck out one, Jono, I chuck out another.

Yeah, they're usually wild, you know, stuff that you never think you'd get a caller for. Yeah. But that's the game, Ben. High risk, high reward. And if no one calls through, no reward. Yeah. So I heard a story yesterday from a friend

whose work colleague was on the escalators at the Westfield Mall. Okay. His trouser bottom, so his head chinos on, got caught in the escalators. Uh-oh. The escalators

ripped his trousers clean off. Really? Clean off. He was left. Really? Clean off? Clean off. That story escalated much like the escalators okay you think I'm making this up

well I don't know Belle Crawford who's here doing a wonderful job of running the ship pushing the buttons and stuff we don't need a

well I'm just thinking logistically if he was wearing a skirt or a dress maybe it would work but you've got two trouser legs if one leg gets stuck

the other doesn't so how are they clean going to come off? It has to come off the other leg as well. You're right, Mel Crawford. And as you're saying this, I'm also factoring in shoes as well. The pants have been cleaned off. That's a ridiculous scenario. Have you been on an escalator and it's ripped your trousers clean?

Would you take any item of clothing? Not just trousers, because trousers sound a little bit unbelievable. Yeah, well, I'll take... What do you mean unbelievable? Anyway, 100 of the hits is the point.

Have you had any item of clothing ripped clean off? Okay, that's your sog defy. In the escalators. I'm going to throw one out there based around that show I was talking about earlier this morning. The Japanese show.

It's on Netflix. Old Enough, where they send out toddlers a wild show, they send toddlers two or three years old to go run errands they follow these kids, first episode a little boy walks two k's to a supermarket

to get three things. I mean if you can have a two year old going to pick up your dry cleaning, why wouldn't you? Why else do you have kids apart from to get them to go get your car registration and your warrant of fitness? It seems like a lapse in parenting, sending out a three-year-old

to go and run errands. I guess that's a social experiment right now. They've got cameras and stuff following them the whole way. So you'd think that the kids would be safe enough. Well, I mean, in the 90s, Dad sent me down the road

to get him ciggies from the dairy. That was a thing. So I want to look for a talented toddler. Do you think you have a talented toddler that would be worthy enough to go on a Netflix show? Like, what was the thing that they did that would wow us? So, oh, and the hits, a talented toddler. Do you send your toddler down to Meat Week at Pack and Save to do the shopping? If you do, we want to hear from you.

Or if you have had clothing ripped clean off thanks to escalators, we also want to hear from you. It's a song to find who's going to win today 0800 The Hits. We'll find out after Cold Heart Dua Lipa Elton John. It is The Hits. The Hits. Cold Heart, it is The Hits. Jono and Ben and that was the song that we gave ourselves

to find a ridiculous scenario that we chucked out just before that song started. Jono, yours was? Has anyone had a piece of clothing ripped clean off thanks to escalators? I told a story about a friend of a friend. Made up story. It's not their story. It's made up.

It was on escalators and his chinos ripped clean off. That day the escalators took his trousers and his dignity. He was left trouseless in the Westfield Mall. Belle Crawford, who's doing a wonderful job on the desk, running the desk, has called into question the logistics of losing your trousers clean off. Well, just when you were saying it, I was trying to visualise the situation. And I was just like, well, clean off, it would mean that both legs would need to get stuck for them to both come off. And if one, it would be one leg comes off, the other eggs on, you know.

Okay, well, this is what this game's about. We chuck out crazy scenarios and Ben? Well, a talented toddler. I wanted to find a talented toddler worthy of going on that new show on Netflix, the Japanese show, Old Enough, where they send kids to run errands. They were like two years old, three years old. It's incredible. Now, we have callers.

We have callers come through. Claire, have you had an escalator incident or have you got a talented toddler? I unfortunately had the most mortifying incident on an escalator. Oh, Jono, you won. This is good for Jono, but not so good for you, I'm guessing. What happened? I love the word mortifying as well. This must be great.

So I was at the airport, so excited to finally be able to fly again, leave the country, go meet some girlfriends in Sydney for the weekend. I had checked in, I was treating myself to going to the kauri lounge, was heading up the escalator, and I was wearing a long maxi skirt, which got caught in the side and started literally tearing off my body. Oh, no. What have you got on? No, this is not a personal question.

Well, it is. What have you got on? No, this is not a personal question. Well, it is. What was underneath the skirt? Not very flattering undies. Nothing sexy. A bit of a granny comfort situation. Yeah, comfortable underwear. Sensible, you're right. I was going on a flight.

Yeah, that's right. I wanted to be comfortable. Yeah, fair enough. The last thing you expect was the airport to see. Oh, no. So what happened? Did you manage to salvage any of the dresses, the skirt? So it got to a very inappropriate length for any situation,

let alone the coat lounge. So I had a choice, either bolt, which I obviously didn't want to do and miss my holiday, and what I ended up doing, going to the gift shop and just seeing if there was absolutely anything I could wear. And aside from skinning a teddy bear or a sheep toy, there were only all black rugby stubbies to wear with my nice flowy top and leather jacket. Stubbies?

Well, I mean, the alternative was your underpants. So, I mean, stubbies. You could have got one of those novelty New Zealand tea towels that they sell in there too and sort of use those like a nappy. The mat of New Zealand around my bare butt. Yeah. You know those ones being at the locations all around New Zealand with kiwi fruit and things? Oh, Claire, has it put you off escalators for life?

Yeah, I think if there's an elevator of stairs I definitely just subconsciously tend to go towards them now But it was a great holiday and a good story I guess Well done Claire, that's really impressive You have a good one Cool, thanks guys So I'm going to chalk that up as a win being boss Now a selfish me

A selfish me could end this right now And I walk away with my head held high in the gold medal. Yeah, but I was looking for talented toddlers after watching that show on Netflix, Old Enough, and apparently someone is on the line now. A song to find, we've found someone with a talented toddler. Hi, guys, how are you going? This is Siobhan.

Now, Siobhan, you tell us about your talented toddler. Well, being first-time parents, we thought we'd do the right thing and try and praise our child with rewards if she did something good. So we said to her, she must have been about two and a half, maybe three, and we'd cracked the daytime dry nappies, so got her our nappies, and we're just struggling with the nighttime ones a wee bit. So we said to her, look, if you can go three nights dry nappy, you'll get a treat. So anyway, each morning she was coming out, and she had her dry nappy, and we're praising her, and she had a big smile on her face.

You could see she was so proud of her achievement. Anyway, come to three nights, she was dry. And we're like, wow, we've cracked it. You know, amazing. You know, praised her and everything and gave her a treat. I was cleaning her room and went to put something away in her wardrobe and found all these wet nappies. She'd been getting up in the morning, changing her nappies

and coming up to us with dry ones. You've got a two-year-old changing their own nappy. That's incredible. I have to get Ben to do mine now. Yeah. And taking the praise for it. It didn't bat an eyelid. That's good.

That is incredible. More babies should change their own nappies. It would be a lot easier, wouldn't it, for parents? Wouldn't it be amazing? Yeah. To get up in the middle of the night or anything like that. Yeah. And feed themselves.

We're doing all the heavy lifting for babies, aren't we? Absolutely. Absolutely. They don't appreciate it at the time. They don't babies, we're doing all the heavy lifting for babies, aren't we? Oh, absolutely, absolutely. And they don't appreciate it at the time? I don't appreciate it now either. Hey, yeah, thank you very much for your call. What a wonderful call. Awesome. Plunkett and Mummy Money help support Plunkett this Mother's Day.

Mother's Day is not this Sunday but the following Sunday, and this year we're encouraging you guys to help Plunkett, help mums in the lead up to Mother's Day and Harrowways are getting on board as well and if you want to text mum to 8595 you can donate $3 or

head to the Plunkett website for ways you can support and help Plunkett mums make a difference in this people's life. Sorry for talking over you there Ben. I remember when we became first time parents I think we phoned Plunkett the moment we got home and we just left them on hold

for the remaining three years until we got there they were like you just hold there they're so helpful aren't they the Plunkett line

Mother's Day are you a breakfast in bed sort of guy do you provide breakfast in bed for Amanda on Mother's Day oh the kids

the kids are actually really good at making breakfast in bed are you a breakfast in bed do you like eating your breakfast in bed

no no I wouldn't mean you're up and in bed. Are you a breakfast in bed? Do you like eating your breakfast in bed? No. I wouldn't make it. You're up and out of bed. Let's get up and get into the day, guys. Let's not go back to bed. That's not, we've done that. Let's get up and out of bed. Yeah.

What would you do if I came and bought you, you know, some, an Eggs Benedict or something? I'd put my... It's an obligate. Yeah, no, I'm up. Let's get into it, guys. Let's get out of bed. Where would you like to eat the Eggs Benedict then?

Not in bed. Not in bed. You'll wake up, you're out, you're into the day. Yeah, let's get into it, guys. Let's get out. Where would you like to eat the eggs, Benedict? Not in bed. Not in bed. You'll wake up, you're out, you're into the day. Dylan, welcome from West Auckland. How are you? Good. Yep, good. Mullet doing well in West Auckland there, Dylan?

I've seen it around quite a lot. Yeah, the mullet. There's a resurgence of the mullet, isn't there? They're very fashionable these days, aren't they? Yeah. What I wouldn't give to grow a mullet, Dylan. But we're not here to talk about that. We're here to talk about

your wonderful mother. What's her name? Tara. Tara, yeah. Being a good mum? She's been a good mum. Tell you what, from what I'm hearing,

sounds like she's raised an absolute gentleman. She's raised all our three boys all by herself. Oh, wow. Okay, well, we've got $500 on the line right now, but every ring,

we savagely take $100 off that $500. Do you think your mum's going to answer her phone? I hope so. Okay, let's go through to Tara. What does Tara do there, Dylan? She's a stay-at-home mum. Oh, well, good. Looking after three boys.

Are you the oldest, youngest, middle? Where are you sitting? I am the youngest. The youngest, right. How old are you? 21. Yeah, right. Are you still at home? Yep. All right, well. How old are you? 21. Yeah, right. Are you still at home?

Yep. Alright, well let's hope. Is Tara home? She is. What's the first ring? There's 200 gone. 300 gone. Come on, Tara. Hello? Oh, Tara, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. We have your son, Dylan,

on the phone. You just won $200. Oh my god. We won't tell you how much you could have won. Let's not focus on the negative here. Yeah, let's just say $200. That's great. Just go back and listen to it on the podcast. I will. Happy Mother's Day, Tara. Oh, thank you so much. You're right. Sounding fresh out of bed. Yeah, fresh out of bed. Yeah. Yeah, fresh out of bed's about right.

Would you like us to bring you breakfast in bed? Are you a breakfast in bed person? Yes. You are? Ben's not. Nah, just get up and get into the day, Tara. Hey, well, you got $200. What a great thing to wake up to, eh? Two radio announcers barking down the line at you.

Oh, that's awesome. Got your son on the phone. Dylan, you want to say anything to him? Touching words? Love you, Mum. You're the best. Oh, that's lovely. You guys have a great Mother's Day and enjoy that $200, all right?

Oh, thank you guys so much. Awesome. Another chance to play tomorrow. You can register at thehits.co.nz. Plus Afano, Afina Plunkett and Harraways are helping to make Mother's Day special with exclusive breakfast and bed packs as well. Not for me, but for you. If you like breakfast and bed, it's for the mums. Boxes available to purchase at plunkett.org.nz.

Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. School holidays at the moment. Now, you were just saying before, your wife Amanda made your children do something embarrassing in a shop. And I was thinking, did they have to tell the storekeeper or the store owner who their father was? Yeah, that was going to the store.

Go on, tell them. It wasn't quite as embarrassing as that, because that's pretty embarrassing. But, you know, my wife is a schoolteacher, so she's through the school holidays as well. They've been fun. They've been learning some maths. They've been doing some extra fraction stuff

because, you know, one of the girls in particular was wanting to learn a bit more about it. So they do this from time to time. Did you call them a nerd? Because sometimes you like to use, like, sometimes I like to call them nerds

when they're learning. It's a little joke you do, isn't it? Yeah. So they've been doing some stuff and they've actually been enjoying it, doing about, you know, fractions and percentages and things like that.

Gee, I tell you what, when the kids bring home their homework, it's over my head. I know. I don't know what I'm doing. The good thing is my wife, as I said, is a teacher. I'm going to stay in my lane, guys. If you want me to show you how to post something to Instagram

with a hashtag, that's probably me. Yeah. Or talk loudly over an intro of a song. That's my department. That's my forte. Yeah. I've got nothing. I've got literally nothing I can provide to the education of a song. That's my department. That's my forte. Yeah, I've got nothing. I've got literally nothing I can provide

to the education of my children. But then obviously the teaching went from the home to the mall yesterday. So they came out for the mall and my daughter Sienna was a little bit embarrassed by what had occurred and I recorded her because that's what I do. So that's what dad does.

He doesn't teach you, just records you. I record you. Plays illicit recordings of his children on the radio. And he was seeing her yesterday. So mum made me do maths in the store. So she's teaching you on the holidays. Yeah. And so we went into the store and she was going to buy something.

So she got her thing and it was like 30% off or something. And we went up to the counter and then the lady was like, oh, you've just got to work how much this off. And she was like, oh, no, Sienna can work it out. I was like, what? I can? Are you sure about that? So you had to work it out in the store in front of the lady?

Yeah, and the lady was like, oh, no, it's okay. I can just grab up my calculator. And she was like, oh, no, Sienna can do it. I'm like, can't she just do it on her calculator? It took ages. It took ages to work it out. So I was like, can we not do it here, please? Can we not do this?

You're right here right now. Yeah, so my daughter had to work it out in front of the lady. Well, your daughter's probably like, well, this is the job of the person behind the counter. Yeah, the lady's like, I've got a calculator. I can do it. I can solve this one. We'll be learning about percentages.

Did she get the correct answer? Oh, I don't actually know. You didn't even follow up with the story. This is why you're not teaching your kids. Didn't even get the whole story. I've got enough for a radio chat. That's all I can get about it. I was out after that.

Stop recording. All right, done with you, mate. Back to your maths. Exactly. Back to your fractions. Whatever it is, I don't know. Do the maths on this. Dad doesn't need you anymore.

Yeah. Oh. I just did that in that moment. Yeah, because I... He got what he needed. Yeah, for the radio show. And life he needs, obviously. Exactly.

But for radio, that's enough. That's enough. We won't know what 30% off whatever it is. I don't even know what they bought. But we talked about it on the radio. What a wonderful insight. Spy. Know what's up. She can spy a bargain on ASOS and she can spy a celebrity who's gone AWOL.

Belle Crawford, what's happening? You bet, yeah. I've been working out where Will Smith is and it turns out he's in India at the moment for a spiritual trip. He was arriving at a private airport and people still managed to track him down. He actually looked pretty good. He was smiling for photos

with fans and the paparazzi. He looked pretty happy. He'll be doing yoga and meditation at a retreat and his family are with him as apparently was a pre-planned family trip and they obviously need some time together. I was thinking about that the other day looking at photos online. I saw him posing with someone. I think it was an Uber driver

or someone had taken him somewhere. He's probably in a position where he probably just wants to do the retreat and get, you know, feel a bit better but then he doesn't want to ignore people or look rude because he's obviously got... He's on a bit of a, yeah, he's on a bit of a brand damage tour. And then the dick wouldn't even take a photo with me as well,

you know. So he's probably overcompensating. And there's, I think, over a billion people in India, so there's a lot of people to have photos with a lot of selfies uh have you ever done a wellness retreat i've done like a few like i guess i've been to them through being invited to them through work stuff but i can't imagine you being at a wellness retreat you meditating no being boys i can imagine bell crawford yeah oh yeah but hippie am i not not happy i'm just like the difference between you, we've got a pent-up, stressed-out, neurotic individual.

This is why I need to go to wellness. And you seem a lot more relaxed than Ben is. Oh, really? I was like Belle Crawford before working with you. That was the thing. You've ruined him. And then this is Belle. Fast forward 10 years, you'll be like me, Belle.

All right. We'll get you some lorazepams after the show. That is Spy with the Kardashians. Now, a new episode out today, only on Star on Disney+. Thanks, Belle. Yeah, thank you, Belle. All right, we'll get you some Larazza pans after the show. That is Spy with the Kardashians. Now a new episode out today, only on Star on Disney+. Thanks, Belle. Yeah, thank you, Belle. That is our show. Have yourself a great day.

We'll catch you tomorrow morning from 6 o'clock. See you then. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946.