Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The Shows You Should Be Binging Right Now!

Episode Date: August 23, 2021

Kia ora! On today's show, we caught up with Newshub Entertainment Reporter and Film Reviewer, Kate Rodger, on the shows we should be binging this lockdown. Even when we get out of lockdown, we'll probably still be binging them! Since we're on the topic of binging... Jono got into another internet wormhole, this time about Netflix. Did you know that Netflix started before Google?! Finally, we caught up with Sir John Kirwan, and this was a really awesome chat about how we can keep ourselves mentally healthy in lockdown. Stay safe, stay sanitised and good day Aotearoa!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey guys, welcome. 24th of August, it's a Tuesday, 2021, day 6 of, day 7 of lockdown, isn't it? Well, we went into lockdown, isn't it? Well, we went into lockdown this time last week. Yeah. Last night. What? At night. Tonight.

Tonight. Thanks, Julius. This is a vague, vague start to that. I bumbled that. Yeah. Julius is talking in your ears, so no one can hear that but you. I just sound like I'm doing it with a voice in my head that says... You're like, thanks, Julius. He's like, who's he talking to?

But yeah, no, don't sit me locked out. The days, I think I've said it multiple times, drag. Not in a bad way. Here's a little challenge I'd like to do for you. Sorry to jump around here right now. I'd like you to read me something. Choose something from, we've got a woman's day in here. Read something from here.

I'd like you to read it out loud. Now, Juliet, because you can talk in Jono's ears. Now, can you just basically try and distract him? No one will hear on the podcast you coming through, but we'll see if Jono can get through a whole article. So I'm distracting him in his ears? Yeah, while he tries to read something. Read me something I don't know from the woman's day. I'm going to read you a recipe for

spiced Thai fish balls. 500 grams firm wash fishlets. Quarter cup of Thai curry pistachios 2 tablespoons of fish sauce 2 Lebanese kubi kumbas You're in a food processor Julep's singing a lot of lyric

The fish sauce and egg into a combined I don't know how you went Because all I could hear was Julep barking down my ears as well The fish sauce and egg until combined. I don't know how you went, because all I could hear was Juliet barking down my ears as well. Could you hear? She was just singing whap in my ear. That was truly unsettling. Yes, she censored herself. Thank you, Juliet.

So I don't know how you went there. You'll have to review the podcast and enjoy that. You know, you try stuff. It's like an experiment. It might have worked really well. It might have. Might not have, but it might have. It was funnier for me because I got to hear both sides of it, but for anyone else who

wouldn't have heard Juliet, they just heard you sort of... Maybe, yeah. No, maybe... It's like drunk Jono stumbling his way through. It's amazing, like, all the newsreaders and stuff are being talked to in their ears as they're talking as well. I don't possess that skill. I wouldn't be able to pull that off. It's a skill.

It's a skill. You don't even know. It's one of those skills you don't know they're doing. While they're talking, they're being talked at and comprehending information that's going, oh, this is too much for me. Yeah, it's very good. I'm barely struggling to contain this conversation. Now, on the podcast today, really interesting, we've got Sir John Kirwan. He does so much great work for mental health in New Zealand.

JK. He wanted to be called JK. Just call me JK, boys. I keep calling him Sir John Kirwan, and I guess it was probably weird for him to be referred to as Sir John. Sir John Kirwan. You're making it weird, guys. Just call me JK. He's deservedly of a knighthood, though. I mean, he does such great work for mental health he's got some tips of how you can get through lockdown as well as that we're joined by Kate Rogers

she is awesome she's from Youth Hub she's an entertainment reporter and she's got she gets the ball rolling on shows you should be binging during lockdown it's a lockdown special enjoy it on the podcast I talked about this on the podcast and you're like oh it sounds all dodgy it was a wholesome story.

You literally said, you know, I've got shows I watch with my kids, I've got shows I watch with my wife, and I've got shows that I watch by myself in the bedroom alone. Yeah, I do, and that is the truth. But it's not what you're thinking. It's not what you're thinking. But as you said it, everyone would have been like. But I wasn't.

I was just off to, I was, we're beyond that, mate. I'm watching Bridgerton. Yeah, exactly're beyond that, mate. Watching Bridgerton. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Although that's a bit saucy. That's some saucy bits. Too saucy for Ben's bedroom. Not for me in the bedroom. Didn't you watch Bridgerton with your mum?

Yeah, I started doing it because she was watching it and it was a bit. So this is too much for Jeannie and Ben. Too much. We don't need to take our relationship to this level. Yeah. So enjoy the podcast.

New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono, it's gone to eight o'clock. You're with Jono and Ben on the podcast. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. Jono Giscard at 8 o'clock here with Jono and Ben on The Hits. Now we are all in lockdown at least until Friday midnight. So we wanted to know this morning, what shows should we be binging? What are you binging? What are your recommendations? We need your suggestions on 4487.

And to get the ball rolling, we're joined by News Hub entertainment reporter Kate Roger who's going to talk about the show she's binging but first Kate, you're in lockdown, is the love for your family dwindling? Do you know the weird thing, and I know this is a really tough time for a lot of people, but it seems that my children quite like having me

around sometimes and it's a huge shock to me, but I don't know what it is, especially after the weekend. They are in such great form and I'm absolutely loving them. They've just got better and better each day and I don't know how long it will continue and let's just assume that it won't.

But right now, it's beautiful. I just love the family on a serious note. It is lovely, Ty, isn't it? You really get to, well, there's nowhere you can go. I can't escape you. Yeah, forced to spend time with you, which is lovely to her, isn't it? You really get to, well, there's nowhere you can go. I can't escape you. Yeah, forced to spend time with you, which is lovely. Hey, before we go a second further, I need to talk to you boys. Oh, okay.

What have we done? How long do you reckon I've been doing this gig? About 100 years. You guys were pulling around your little buzzy bees when I first started being an entertainment reporter at News Hub. But I've done, what do you reckon, maybe 650,000 interviews with celebrities and movie stars. Do you reckon it's around about that number? I would say. You've talked to everyone.

We've spoken in the past about everyone. You've pretty much everyone in Hollywood you've spoken to, right? Correct, correct. And a little while ago, you and I had a chat on air because you guys were trying to get the attention of The Rock. Do you remember that? Oh, yes. And you were like, yeah, never going to happen. Not going to happen, right?

Never going to happen. Never going to happen. And then I watched without fail. I've interviewed The Rock maybe six or seven times. I have never seen an interview as good, as entertaining, as heartwarming, as genuinely top notch. I've never done one like it. It was the most beautiful thing watching you two

and getting the kind of reaction that you got from him and from you, Ben. I can't believe, Jono, that you managed to get him to sleep with him having no idea. And it was really great seeing your butt. That was the highlight. That was the highlight. Can I just say from a professional perspective

how awesome it was? It really made my heart sing. And well done for getting him as well. That means a lot. I mean, to be honest, the interview I was the least prepared for in my life. So maybe that's a good thing. Maybe that's what I need to do more of. Just turn up and be wowed. Yeah. But afterwards, I was like, I was such a, like, I buzzed out too much. Like, I just wasn't the ultimate fan. I was like, no one does that in Britain. Like, come on, Ben.

We put together a montage of how many times you said i love you and it was it was in the dozens i know i was like oh god what did i do like you've never done that in an interview that's why you're still doing interviews kate roger hey next kate roger's gonna tell us the one show we should be binging this lockdown it is the hits you got jonah and ben it's julepa you're on the hits. You got Jono and Ben. It's Dua Lipa. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben. Of course, we're on lockdown at least until Friday midnight.

Auckland a wee bit longer. And we wanted to know what shows we should be binging right now. Because I love talking to people and getting their suggestions. Right now, I need to get into a show. So we've got, to get the ball rolling, an entertainment reporter from News Hub, Kate Roger. You'll know her from the many celebrity interviews and reviews she's done over the years. And Kate joins us right now. You've been binging your show on Neon, Kate.

Now, can I just say, and I don't get paid by anyone to talk about anything and never have, but Neon really does have an incredible list of shows because they get all the HBO ones and I guess they kind of really clock into me because Mayor of Easttown earlier this year just blew me away. Kate Winslet's amazing. So we're going to talk about The White Lotus.

But if you want to watch a really great, gritty kind of kidnappy murder mystery, then please watch Mayor of Easttown with Kate Winslet. All right. The White Lotus is interesting because I was trying to get that as my Tinder profile, The White Lotus, my nickname. It was already get that as my Tinder profile, the White Lotus. That's my nickname. It was already taken, wasn't it? Right. You want to talk me through the psychological decisions behind that? I just thought the White Lotus

sounded mysterious, cool. My thighs are quite white. Wow. Wow. Sorry, there's an image. You've just had Ben's bottom in your head and you've got my white thighs, Kate Roger. I will never recover. I will never recover.

But it is a great show. It's only six episodes. And I watched the first one and I was like, goodness, this is not what I thought it was going to be from the trailer. And basically, have you watched The School of Rock? Yeah, Jack Black. Yeah, I'm right. Do you remember Jack Black's geeky flatmate, the teacher? Yeah.

This dude wrote The White Lotus. And without question, it's one of the most incisive, searing pieces of satire that you are ever going to see. And he has created a show that he was basically told by HBO, we're going to make a show in COVID lockdown, so let's make it in Hawaii. What can you come up with? And he came up with this idea of going to let's make it in Hawaii. What can you come up with? And he came up with this idea of going to a really gorgeous resort in Hawaii. What a clever bugger, eh? I want

to work really hard, but I want to be placed in a resort in Hawaii. And it's a story at the beginning of a seven-day holiday at this beautiful resort called the White Lotus, and all these incredibly rich Americans come to stay. But what we know from the opening episode is one person in the show will not make it out alive. There's a coffin being loaded onto the plane in the first five minutes, and then we go back in time. So it's kind of a murder mystery, I guess, but so much more to it than that.

It's fabulous. Now, did you binge it in one hit, or did you hit it in weekly installments and separate it with commercials like good old-fashioned network television? Look, you don't dare knock network television. We love it. It pays my mortgage. I'm trying to pull it back to network television. Do you want to say we should put more ads in the Y Lotus?

Yeah, that's the one thing that was missing was commercials and a time to get a cup of tea and stuff. Let's be clear. I clocked into it when their four eps had already dropped. So I did four and then had to wait a week and then another week for five and six. And episode four is arguably the, oh my God, what just happened episode.

So that's kind of how it works. But if you want to go on now, you can binge the whole lot in one hit and it's very easy to do. Awesome. All right, The White Lotus. Okay, you can binge the whole lot in one hit and it's very easy to do. Awesome. All right, The White Lotus. Okay, you've convinced me. I need to watch it.

Kate Rogers. Hey, listen, those are really good tips. Really appreciate your time. You keep safe. I'm just going to go and spread my legs. Thanks, mate. Have a lovely morning. Great to chat to you.

Nice to chat to you, Kate. She's awesome. Kate Rogers. I always feel like she's going to review our conversation, though. Yeah, I give her no stars. Hey, so what show are you binging? What show should we be binging?

We'd love to hear from you next. Kate Rogers suggested The White Lotus. What other shows do you want to pass on to your fellow hits fano? Now, being apart from your alcohol, what are you binging? Well, I'm in the middle of a sort of shows at the moment. So I'm like, you know, like when you get to an end. Are you juggling? You say shows plural.

Are you juggling? Oh, yeah. So i have ones i watch with my wife everyone's watched with the kids and i have one that i watch by myself saying that out loud saying that out loud yeah how does that make you feel that feels all right like me and andy and my daughter we're watching turner and hooch on disney plus really enjoying binging that show you know like but that's not what i would watch by myself in the bedroom. And so what ones are you watching by yourself in the bedroom? Well, I just got to the end of the... That sounds... That's what I was saying! I've got my wife ones, I've got my kids ones

and ones that Daddy watches in the bedroom alone. Get out of here, I'm binge-watching! It's the crowd, alright Will that hard working pizza delivery boy ever just deliver a pizza I didn't even pick up on what you meant

Oh jeez, alright 4487, help us out right now What show are you binging What show do we need to binge What show should I binge in my bedroom I'd love to hear from you next on the hits. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there,

then I backed out. Jono and Ben, New Zealand breakfast. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben, 8.16. We are all in lockdown, and so we wanted to write now, what are your recommendations for shows that we need to binge? I'm quite excited by this.

We'll start writing them down. Kate Rogers said the white lotus before uh she's an entertainment reporter for news hub she's like you need to watch the white lotus that's one on the list you see one of your favorite hobbies is watching trailers i do love it i get sucked into the trailer we've been loading some of them into the system i'm like oh they look so good but the good thing about a trailer is it gives you just enough information to carry yourself in a conversation with someone who's a fan of the show. Yeah. You'd be like, oh, the explosion.

They'd be like, oh, yeah, the explosion. And they'd make anything look good. They could make a trailer of this radio show and you'd go, oh, that sounds amazing. And then you'd hear it and you'd go, oh, they put all the best parts in the trailer. Yeah. I'm collateral on this one,

but we're binging Celebrity Treasure Island. Oh, no, no, what are we binging? What's it called? Love Island. It's the old Celebrity Treasure Island. It's coming up soon, the new one, but we're binging Celebrity Treasure Island. Oh, no, no. What are we binging? What's it called? Love Island. It's the old Celebrity Treasure Island. It's coming up soon, the new one, the new series. I'm just preparing for the new series by watching all of the old Celebrity Treasure Islands. No, Love Island.

Right. Which is just an overdose of fake tan and exceptionally good jeans. Yeah. But I have to pretend I've kept a facade that I don't enjoy the program. But really you do, right? Yeah, because I'm like, what's this rubbish? Yeah, because you could do other things, but you've obviously chose to moan and then watch. Yeah, but I walk around to the kitchen and I catch a little thing.

Oh, what is this? But then I say secretly, like watching just from the kitchen. We'll get Catherine on. How are you this morning, Catherine? Tired. I stayed up too late and I'm on my way to work now. Why did you stay up doing? Anything in particular?

Were you binging anything or what? Yeah, just YouTube documentaries I've been getting into lately Oh, okay What one? I enjoy things like the Real Crime Podcast And stuff on YouTube Or Dangerous Roads around the world Oh, Dangerous Roads

Dangerous Roads, that sounds like a fun documentary It's more like Jono would love Dangerous Roads around the world. Oh, Dangerous Roads. Dangerous Roads, that sounds like a fun documentary. It's not like Jono would love Dangerous Roads. I would love, I love the world's most dot, dot, dot. Like on Netflix, my whole suggested thing is the world's hottest, most hottest serial murderers and things like that. Oh, it's great. Out of interest, what is the world's most dangerous road?

There's one between China and Tibet. Okay. Really dangerous road. Dangerous road. And it also would depend on the driver too, I'd say, in some of those situations as well too. It could be more dangerous than the hands of... Is the road dangerous because of the

other motorists or the structure of the road? Structure of the road, like trying to turn the corners and stuff is ridiculous. And just, like, super narrow roads with plunging cliffs and no things along the side. No barriers. There you go. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

Yeah, those are the world's most dangerous roads. I love it. I love it. The stuff you do in lockdown, eh? Absolutely. How would you know about those roads if you weren't in lockdown? Now you do. Hey, thank you very much, Catherine.

Appreciate it. All right, bye. We'll get Carla on New Zealand's breakfast. What are you binging, Carla? Yellowstone. Oh, Yellowstone. That's the Western one, right? Yes, it is, with Kevin Costner.

It's such a brilliant series. We're just waiting for the next season to come out, actually. The last one ended on such a cliffhanger that we're all waiting on tenderhooks to see what actually happens in the next one. Where can people find that? On Neon. It's on Neon.

If you can subscribe to Neon, you can actually get it on there. There's actually quite a few series on Neon. That's good to know. The Yellowstone, we'll chuck that on the list. Someone's texting 4487 Formula 1. Full stop. So good, full stop. I'm on season three, full stop, for the second time.

Full stop. Formula 1. I imagine that's a series. It's not just Formula 1 car racing and they just started way back at the start in black and white footage or anything. I imagine that's a series. Oh, Jesus. Lewis Hamilton guy's going really well. He's going to be alright. Spoiler alert, he wins a lot of stuff. Yeah. Let's get Felicia on

from Whangarei. Welcome, Felicia. How are you? Not too bad, mate. Yeah, good. Good. What are you doing? Central worker. I work in the transport industry. Oh, good on you. Well, thank you for being out there and working for Aotearoa. Now, you tell us, what are you binging, Felicia?

Out of Banks on Netflix at the moment. Oh, producer Juliet just had the trailer of that that we're loading in. It looks awesome. Have a listen to this. That's my crew. We're the working class who make a living bussing tables, running charters.

And our mission this summer is to have a good time all the time. Guys, I think there's a boat down there. This is my father's. Oh, look like hot people having a party time and then all of a sudden things take a mysterious turn. Would that be right, Felicia? Nah, definitely. Are they still hot, though? Yeah, they're still hot, aren't they?

Yeah, great. Definitely. They stay hot. That one, I think still hot, aren't they? Yeah, great. Definitely. They stay hot. That one, I think, is on Netflix if you want to find that one. Keep these running through on 4487. Love to hear your thoughts on all the shows that we should be binging. Breaking Bad's a good one that's come through a couple of times. Supernatural is awesome, guys.

I've watched on TVNZ On Demand. Talkback. Jason Hoyt's show. Oh, yes. Binged all six episodes in one hit. There you go. Ted Lasso's show. Oh, yes. Binge-dolls, six episodes and one hit. There you go. Ted Lasso's another one on Apple TV. A lot of people say he's really good in the Mirror of Easttown.

I haven't seen that yet. But you were saying the other day Kate Winslet's awesome in that. I think I've watched the first episode, and Kate Winslet with an American accent really throws you up. She's so good. Very good. Tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe.

And that's all I have to say. Thanks, Dr. Ashley. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Now we are in the middle of lockdown, and it can do a lot of stuff to people's mental health. You know, it's very hard to navigate lockdown at the moment, so we thought we'd get an expert, Sir John Kewan, who does such great work for mental health in New Zealand. John, how are you coping?

How are things at the moment for you? I've been anxious to start with, but I'm pretty good now, actually, to be fair. You seem like the type of guy who would get out. You would enjoy the outdoors and get out and doing stuff, right? Yeah, I'm pretty keen to get outside. I actually was at a place

of interest, so I had to go and have a COVID test yesterday, so I'm not allowed out for a couple of days until I find out if I've got COVID or not, but this lockdown's a little bit different for me too. My family's away in Italy. Oh, you're on your own? I've got my future son-in-law here. You've got your son-in-law?

You've got you and your son-in-law? That's a good family bonding experience, isn't it? Future, mate. Future. Let's hope it stays that way. We'll see how lockdown goes. Just watching, JK, you did a really great thing, I think. Put a video message on your social media about how you felt not mentally prepared for this lockdown

and how you're sort of coping to get through it. We thought there's some probably really important tips that hopefully we can pass on to people listening right now. Yeah, I mean, for me um you know like you mentioned i wasn't quite ready for it you know like i was pretty anxious the first night and anyone who understands or been through anxiety that sort of fear of um i guess it was the fear of being not around my normal support system and then how long we're gonna be in this and you get a bit um you know you start there's this negative cycle that you sort of go down. And so it was really important very quickly that I acknowledged that and what I call sit with it.

So rather than fight it, I just said, well, you know, JK, you weren't ready for it. So what do you need to do? And for me, one of the things I learned really, really early in my sort of mental health journey was the ability to breathe. I just started doing some breathing exercises and I just thought, okay, I'm going to put a really decent plan around it and tried to think, well, okay, right, I've been a bit of a lazy fat bastard lately, so I'm going to go for long walks with the dog. I'm going to get back into my cycling, take this time to reflect, look after my body. Just all those things that are really good for

your mental health that actually work. How are you guys feeling? How are you guys? Yeah, to be honest, not too bad, but I've got my family, got the wife and kids. Yeah, and you feel fortunate we get to come into work, even though we're in a little bubble here at work. It is quite nice to feel that sense of sort of, I guess, normality in a way. You know, there's no one else in the office, but just us in a small bubble. It's quite nice for that, for your, I guess, for your mental wellbeing. Yeah, I mean, that's important. It's good that you've got each other, if that's a positive, or that could be bad for you.

I feel like I've been locked down with this guy for about 12 years. Look, guys, I think one of the other interesting things is it's really important to laugh as well. And that's one of the things that I try and put in my day, try and talk to people who make me happy and have a laugh and really just do it day by day, you know, because people are sort of saying, oh, we're going to be locked down for a month and all that sort of shit.

Well, I can't control that. One thing I learned very early is, you know, it's nice worrying about shit you can't control that one thing i learned very early is you know it's nice worrying about shit you can't control so i have a um you know i have what i call a worry map where i write down you know what i can control what i can't control what i can do and what i can't do um and all the stuff i can't control i just let it fly through the brain and don't worry about it you uh we've got to do a john kirwan with us it's. I can just sit back and listen to you talk all day. Yeah, no, so good. You mentioned sort of controlling your environment,

what you can control, what you can't control, and something that you posted in one of your Instagram videos was your intake of the daily media. You can really let that get away on you, can't you? Yeah, look, the phone, the cell phone, is the problem and the solution. I mean, I love it. This morning I can see my family in Italy. I can see my son who I haven't seen for two years. You know, I can and the solution. I mean, I love it. This morning I can see my family in Italy.

I can see my son who I haven't seen for two years. You know, I can read the news. I can look at stuff. But you've just got to be careful that it doesn't control your mental health, right? So I discipline myself to look at the news at one o'clock, take that as the truth and nothing but the truth, and then I get on with it.

I just really limit myself to it. I do remember from your book that I read, you're saying about you used to, I suppose you still do, appreciate the small things. For you, it was a hot shower or a coffee in the morning were two things that you'd always try and take a moment to try and appreciate and sort of slow things down a bit. Do you still do that? Yeah, totally.

That's a big part of my daily mental health plan. The shower is really, really important for me. And I think the trick around that is, you know, don't think about the future and don't think about the past. Just really enjoy the water. And then when I'm doing the coffee, I do it in an Italian percolator. So, you know, it's a bit of a process. I put it on, then I sit down in a terracotta cup,

and I sit there and drink it. And all of us out there that are listening, we deserve those moments, you know? And I think that's important. Sometimes you think, oh, I need to do stuff, I need to do this. But time is something that's been taken away from us because of the modern world. We need to take that back. And sometimes when we get that back

it can be a bit scary as well. So people might be feeling a bit stressed because they've got too much time on their hands. They feel bored. Really interesting hearing you talk, Sir John Kirwan, because, you know... Just call me JK, boys. Call you JK.

Keep going, your official title. JK. You're making me anxious. Yeah, sorry, I don't know. You don't need this now. Is, you know, many people might assume, oh, John's been through his mental health journey and he's come out the other end and he's recovered but no you're still dealing with

patches of anxiety and having to catch yourself which i find interesting well it's natural you know and anxiety depression and those things sometimes there's a lack of control you feel like you're out of control you feel that your brain's running the cutter being anxious is okay because i can control it i can control it with my breathing. It's about prevention. What I want to be able to do is, you know, you've got to be anxious. Anxiety is positive as well, you know, like before you play a game of, you know, sport or before you guys speak or go on air, a little bit of anxiety is good. It's just when it gets into the negative. So what I try and do is make sure that I can control it.

And the other night, I didn't beat myself up about it. I had every right to be anxious. You know? My family's away. We're in lockdown. I wasn't quite mentally prepared for it. We don't know how long we're going to be in. It's okay to be anxious. So rather than fight, I just accepted it and then put

the plan in place, which helped me get through it. Here we go. John Koo and JK. You can check out mentomea.com for more. And really appreciate your time, John. Yeah, I really appreciate it. Good to do it, John. Great job. Congratulations to you guys.

John O's internet wormhole. Uh-oh, is he lost in a giant line of hundreds of motorists politely waiting to get a stick shoved up their nostrils? No, no. He's lost on the internet again uh part of the show i've not tried to hide the fact that i do get lost in internet wormholes clickbait articles you know 32 celebrities who have let themselves go or 68 politicians who have never come back from scandals, these sorts of things. And today I thought this one was appropriate that I got lost in yesterday. That was a side advert on the New Zealand Herald.

It was facts about Netflix you never knew. Oh, right. Okay. And to be fair, the only thing I know about Netflix is it plays some shows. So any fact about Netflix I'm probably never going to know. Yeah, okay. All right, well, tell us some facts. Do you know Netflix has been around longer than Google?

Really? It was established in 97. Google didn't start until 1998, baby. Really? That is fascinating. But it wasn't always a streaming service. Oh, okay. It used to be a DVD mail service.

So the owner or the creator of Netflix, the CEO, he was charged 40 bucks for a VHS copy of Apollo 13 that he handed back late. And he's like, surely there's a better way than this. And so he set up this sort of mail subscription service that you'd be, I don't know, Ben Boyce

orders, what movies do you like mate? What are you watching in your room that you were talking about before? Name one of those titles. Apollo 13, mate. Apollo 13, Ben Boyd's. It would get posted to you, and you'd post it back. They had that, and I think it was called Fat Soul or something in New Zealand for a while there.

I think it was the same, similar DVD. So that's how it kicked off. Then in 2000, Blockbuster, the former video shop. I've heard of it. Remember it? Yeah. It was offered to buy Netflix for $50 million. They said, no thanks.

Videos and DVDs and rental services. Round forever. It's now worth $20 billion. Oh wow. You'd be kicking yourself. You would. But at the time, $50 million is a lot of money, you know, those occasions. Yeah. The other

thing that I found interesting, Netflix employees can take as many days off as they want, as long as the job gets done. They say they like to treat their employees like adults who can make their own decisions. Genius. But then all those tech companies like Google are like, oh, you don't have to wear trousers on a

Wednesday. Who are we to say that your legs should be confined? Yeah, but if they get it done, they get it done, we'll bring in that pitch in. And here's another interesting fact about Netflix that I learnt on my internet wormhole. Do you know there's a job, a team of people, and all they do is sit down and watch everything on Netflix.

That's their job. Well, that's an actual job. I think that team of people is about 5 million, and they're currently in New Zealand. That's the team of 5 million. Netflix faction never knew. Yeah, that was really good. That was Jono's internet wormhole. It is the hits. New Zealand's breakfast.

This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Kia ora, good morning. Welcome along to the show. It is a Tuesday morning. Jono and Ben back with you again. How's everyone going this morning? Going all right. Yeah?

Got my battery sorted yesterday. New battery. Oh, yeah. New battery. Yeah, well, we were telling you that. It's unusual for a battery to die over a 24-hour alright? Yeah. Got my battery sorted yesterday. New battery. Yeah, well, we were telling you that. It's unusual for a battery to die over a 24-hour period. Yeah. So you feeling good now? New battery?

The car's feeling good. My battery's pretty low. Was the AA available? It was. Essential service. If you're essential service, which we are, you know, they get to someone who came around and for social distance, fix the battery. Great. It was very impressive. You had to leave your keys out and, you know, leave the bonnet up and everything like that. Oh, so you didn't interact.

Oh, so that's good. You don't have awkward banter. That's wonderful. Maybe we should do social distancing for the remainder of life. You know, awkward tradie banter is always a tough one, isn't it? And the poor tradies, they don't want to banter. They just want to do the job. Do the job and then go to the next job.

They're going, oh, how's the old Kefluxa down there? Yeah. Go away. Let me do my thing. Isn't it amazing how used you get to no one being around? You drive around. It's like the beginning of a zombie apocalypse movie in some parts. This morning, there was no one on the motorway.

Really? I just started raging at myself just for a bit of familiarity. Do you know what I heard yesterday? It may or may not be true, but there is parking wardens around. I heard that. Monstrous. I don't know if that's true, because we've been saying we can park anywhere outside of work. Ben's just been driving into the foyer through the open sliding doors, haven't you?

Yeah, yeah. Well, no one's around, but I did hear yesterday that on another radio station, there used to be someone saying there was parking wardens around. Of course they are. Well, maybe they're essential service. Yeah, so maybe. They need a holiday. Essential monsters.

What a good... Is that all around the country they've got parking wards? I don't know. That's what I heard. I didn't know. I might be starting a rumour from one thing. So I heard. Anyway, so I started the show gossiping.

But anyway. Hey, this morning, something I do know that is happening. I love how we start the show with half-truths and false information. Go and find out for yourself. We like the internet. This is what we want at this time, just made-up stuff. Hey, $5,000. We've got that up for grabs this week.

Guaranteed $5,000. It's got to be won with our game Five Words for 5K. So 7.45 this morning. Let's all try and win it today so we don't have to stick around for as long as it takes on Friday. So that's all you need to know about this morning. It is the hits. You got John on band. Going hard and early.

Go hard and early. Go hard, go early. Hard and early. Go hard. Guys, I'm going to pull this back. Take two on that. I'm going to pull this because I thought when you were doing it, Juliet just looked at me like, who?

No, take two. Round up. This isn't live. Don't worry. I'll edit this bit out. I was like, do we have a proper opener for this? And then I was like, maybe. This is the opener for hard and early.

Yeah, OK. Going hard and early. Go hard and early. Go hard, go early. Hard and early. Go hard. It's our new game show, hard and early. Going hard and going early.

A hard question early in the morning. She was talking about it yesterday, Jacinda Ardern. She was talking about it yesterday, Jacinda Ardern, saying how we were going hard question early in the morning. She was talking about it yesterday, Jacinda Ardern. She was talking about it yesterday, Jacinda Ardern, saying how we're going hard and early. And then she even said other countries, they're going long and light. Yeah. It's good that she didn't use long and soft, which I thought would have been the opposite of hard and early.

After spread your legs, they don't need a long and soft scandal. The government has just been shrouded in smutty controversy all week. So long and light, I thought. She said, as you know, other countries have gone long and light, but we've gone hard and we've gone early. She got mocked for going hard and early too by other countries. The rest of the world was like, one case and you've shut down the country? But hey, looks like it's the right thing to do.

It does look like it was the right thing. She would almost be like, please, dear God, looks like it's the right thing to do. It does look like it was the right thing. She would almost be like, please, dear God, let there be many COVID cases. Delta, please, spray your rain over this country. Okay, so hard and early. Tough question early in the morning. Ben Boyce, you ask it. And people, your job is to call 0800 THE HITS

if you know the answer. Yeah, yesterday we had a question provided by a friend of the show, Chris Mack from 660, who's very good at coming up with quiz questions on the spot. Well, he's got his own bar, doesn't he? He hosts pub quiz nights. Yeah, so maybe that's where he comes from. He's a very eccentric guy, Chris Mack.

Many layers to Chris Mack. I know. He's very eccentric. He's like a bassist, but he's also an artist. Yeah. And he's a bar owner and a pub quiz. Yeah. And he's a father.

Yeah. Many layers to that wonderful Chris Mac Onion So yesterday we asked a question from him And we found out that Abraham Lincoln Was inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame In the 90s Not WWE Old school wrestling Chuck on a Borat, Mankini

Why have they got the earmuffs in wrestling? Yeah, right. What do they represent? Now, there's a very famous song, which, well, let's hold off the song, actually. We'll sort it the other way around. So this is a question from Chris Mack. Paul Schaefer, who, if you remember David Letterman, the TV show David Letterman, he was kind of his co-host.

Bald-haired glasses. Yeah, he was the Jono to David Letterman, he was kind of his co-host. Bald-haired glasses. Yeah, he was the Jono to David Letterman's Ben. Now, he was a writer of a very famous song. What was the song that he was a co-writer on? A hugely famous song that we all know. 0800 HITS, a hard and early question. Do you know it? We'll get some Hell Pizza out to the first person on 0800 HITS

to tell us. Paul Schaefer, David Letterman's co-star. What was the famous song that he wrote? Give us a clue. He didn't sing it. He just wrote it. Just the author of the song. Did he write any other songs throughout his career, Paul Schaefer?

I don't actually know. That would have been a very good thing for me to research before doing this, but we hardly even... Schaefer had a wonderful career of just not doing much, didn't he? Oh, like as a sort of sidekick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just say some stuff. Play some little musical bits, eh?

Yeah. What a great gig. And he did that for 30 years. He probably did, too. Probably got paid really well for that. Okay, so 800 of the hits. If you know what famous song, Paul Schaefer. It might be too hard, might be too early.

We should have gone long and light. It's so early, I don't think anyone's actually up listening to this game show. We're just doing a game show for three people in a studio. Do you want me to try and answer the question? Yeah. Okay, I'm going to have a go. Was it a song from the 80s or 90s? Oh, geez, that's a really good question.

It was a song sung, well, female voice was singer. It was in the 80s. Released in the 80s. In the 80s. Okay. I'm going to go Whitney Houston, I Want to Dance with Somebody. Did Paul Schubert? No.

That's abrupt. Can I play it for you now? Yeah. Okay. It's raining men. Hallelujah. It's raining men. Paul Schaefer wrote this.

Yeah, Paul Schaefer wrote this. And another guy, two Pauls, actually wrote this. It's raining men. So there you go. A song that you... Right. Why is it raining men? I thought the same person who wrote It's Raining Men

would have also written It's Raining Cats and Dogs and not comprehended what rain actually is.

Maybe that was the first working title of the song, It's Raining Cats and Dogs. Very famous song.

Yeah, great song. But yeah, I didn't know that Letterman's co-host was the writer of that.

There you go. It's too hard too early then, because we went too hard and early.

Did we? Okay, tomorrow. What are we going? Soft and late tomorrow. No, like long and light. Long and light tomorrow. I think it's long and light. Coming up next.

Now, Belinda. Belinda's phone through. Put Belinda on the air, Juliet. Okay. Hey, Belinda. I don't want to say you're about 92 minutes late for this party. Okay. What's the answer, Belinda?

It's raining men. Yay! There we go. We'll edit that together. We'll send you out some hell pizza because you're on eventually, all right? Okay. Good on you, Belinda. Keep safe.

Bye. Bye. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, this is the B***h News. Fun part of the show, this. Juliet beeps out certain words in news headlines. That's all she can do. She can only beep the news.

She can't rewrite the news because if she could, we'd like her to rescript the last seven days. Yeah, probably the last 12 to 14 months, probably. But her powers only allow her to beep out certain words of headlines and we have to guess what they are. Yes, the first news headline is Prince Andrew offered a hundred million dollars to Leave the royal family?

Was that what happened there? I've got Prince Andrew's offered a hundred million dollars to pretend he's not related to the Queen. Prince Andrew offered a hundred million dollars to take a lie detector test live on TV. So there's an investigative journalist who claims he's the only person

who's interviewed Jeffrey Epstein. So he's very involved in all of this. And so he's offered Prince Andrew that amount of money to come clean with a world-leading polygraph examiner. So a polygraph is, I think that's the lie detector or whatever it is, but with a top-notch examiner and on top-notch TV

with a top-notch investigative journalist. It's going to be top-notch. I would run the gauntlet if I was Andy. But does he need the money, though, as a royal? It's $100 million. Even if you're guilty, you're like, jeez, take the gamble. Because you don't know how reliable lie detector tests are. Remember that show Jerry Springer?

Do they take a lie detector test on that? Yeah, a lot of the times. Yeah, you cheated on me with my cousin's dog's brother. You know, some crazy shows. They'd always fight, and then the security would come out, and they'd start chanting, Jerry, Jerry. And then you'd go, what am I supposed to do? Which is a good question.

It's like, what am I supposed to do? Jerry, Jerry good question. It's like, what am I supposed to do? Jerry, Jerry. Do you want me to? Do you want to get involved? Do you want me to like start? Like, it was unusual. You know I'm not up there fighting as well. They're like supporting Jerry.

Yeah. That was crazy. That wouldn't stack up in 2021. No, it was wild. Did you watch Jerry Springer? No, but I've heard of it. I've definitely heard of it. It was kind of like Jeremy Cobb in America, but just, yeah, just, wow.

There are so many Jerrys and Jeremys and Blummin'. Now there's just, all the talk show hosts have the same names. It's quite confusing. Oh, yeah, I know. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Like Jimmys as well? Jimmys and Jameses, yeah.

Yeah, if you had a mullet and two teeth, you could have been a cast member on Jerry Springer. Oh, that's good. All right, next news story. New York woman so obsessed with saving money, she refuses to... She refuses to pay full price on the same stocked item. That's why Bunnings beat it by 15%. That's where she goes.

I've got to go. New York woman so obsessed with saving money, she refuses to scan avocados as avocados through the self-service, instead putting onions through. Oh, they're quite cheap at the moment, avocados through the self-service instead putting onions through. They're quite cheap at the moment, avocados. They are. Two for two bucks, baby. New York woman so obsessed with saving money, she refuses to buy toilet paper.

And that's not the only thing she sort of saves money on. So her justification is she lives in New York and it's very expensive to live there. And so instead of toilet paper, she uses a little spritzer and some soap. She goes into bins and finds whole items. So she doesn't use toilet paper? She doesn't buy toilet paper, I guess.

Yeah, but then also, so she doesn't buy it or really use it. What she does do, though, is she takes napkins from supermarket or like from, you know, if you're going to Starbucks or whatever, she'll get some napkins for whatever she needs. She hasn't bought new clothes in eight years. She washes her clothes in the shower instead of in the washing machine. I mean, I'm all for saving money,

but it feels like that's a whole other stuff. I mean, you love being a publicly loved tight ass, don't you? Yeah. But have you ever not used... No, no. I feel like toilet paper is the one thing I would go, yeah, I'm going to go for that.

I'm going to buy that. Yeah. But you can bidet, can't you? Bidet. Oh, yeah. True, that's true. Maybe she's doing it like that. True, true.

And the final news story. You can now get buried next to... for $2 million. I'm thinking you can now get buried next to *** for $2 million. I'm thinking you can now get buried to the, basically in the middle of town so you can do that joke. I'm in the dead centre of town. $2 million is worth it guys.

Kevin Boyce loves that one doesn't he? I gotta say you can now get buried next to a dead person who's probably worth a lot more money than you when they were alive. You can now get buried next to Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner for $2 million. So it's something that you'll only be able to brag about before you die.

Oh, yeah. If you secure that spot. And then once you're dead, you just, you won't even, you don't even live to experience that. They'll be like, who's this rando? Yeah. But if you want to spend $2 million to get buried next to them two in LA, then you can do that.

Have you got plans when you die? No. The only thing I had was, which I need to tell my family about, was the joke that you came up with. Remember we were talking to those people

that did those, the coffins, with the fun sort of coffins and stuff, and you were like, you should put all the puns on there. Pun coffin,

yeah. So nice to remember that, you know, like, you know, it's really down to earth. Dying to get in here. Yeah,

fill it through of death related puns, and I'd like that on my conference remember that that's what I like I passed it on to my family so at the moment

that's on us we'll look after it that's on you Julia okay great I'll organise that for you hold on hold on what Jonas what now I don't know

if you'll be here like Julia oh I see yes just on the off chance oh so you're saying I don't know so we'll help plan

your funeral okay and then I'll plan Ben's. So I'm the Keith Quinn of this show, am I? I'll start doing Signature Funeral commercials. Going hard and ooly. Go hard, go ooly. Go hard and ooly.

Hard and ooly. Go hard. With Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. It is Jono and Ben with you. Of course, it was announced yesterday that we are remaining in lockdown, the whole country. Things are going to be reassessed for the South Island on Friday. Can I say every time that we've led into a big decision day, I've said optimistically, we're coming out of lockdown, guys. Yeah, you have.

It's all going back to normality. I've done that three times in a row now. Not once has the government listened to me. No, not at all. But the South Island, maybe. Who knows? lockdown guys it's all going back to normality i've done that uh three times in a row now not once has the government listened to me no not at all but um but the south island maybe who knows they might be easing back our levels over the weekend if they get some good news there but we wanted to know uh how you feeling like we are in lockdown for a few days longer we like to gauge the mood of the nation each morning on oh under the hits or four four eight seven and find out how you guys are feeling yes this is the mood of the nation and

it's been interesting to capture the mood of the nation every morning ben it is it is actually yeah a lot of essential workers listening to the show um three of you we appreciate it is that us or is that other people yeah do we count ourselves if we do then there's six in total oh that's good yeah but you can call us 0800 the hits 4487 What's on your mind? What are you doing? How are you working? Why are you up? Why are you listening to this? Yeah Why?

We'd love to hear from you and we'll do that after Well in just a few moments but right now we are all back into the lockdown habits And we've put them all together the bad habits of lockdown that we're all doing It is the hits the hats. From one to two, my bad habits lead to chips and dip Shoved in my face, let in hygiene, sanded slip While I watch the chase You know that I get vaccinated, but I'm locked in my place Homeschool, homeschool, workshop on day two It's true, it's true, my bad habits repulse you

Have another drink or two Bad habits until level two Pajamas all day, fine with us Chono in bed New Zealand's breakfast We are all in the middle of a lockdown We went hard and we went early In other countries, we were talking about earlier, Jacinda Ardern was saying,

they don't go hard and early like we do. Well, actually, I would say relative to what we've seen from other countries, this absolutely is a go hard, go early approach. You know, many other places around the world, you've seen more of a light and long. That's never been New Zealand's take on the way to challenge COVID and get on top of it. Not our take, light and long.

We're hard and we're early. That's an interesting phrasing there. Yeah, I know. And also to go with light and, because you think the opposite of hard is normally soft. Yeah, so you'd sort of go soft and slow. That's probably the approach they've got.

I mean, she's ad-libbing. We're just saying, God, I would crumble under those press conference situations if I was Soft and slow. That's probably the approach they've got. Soft and late. I mean, she's ad-libbing. She's ad-libbing. We're just saying, God, I would crumble under those press conference situations if I was a politician. Oh, yeah. I mean, you've just got a room full of people trying to make you look like an idiot. Trying to trip you up at every single game. Yeah, the journalist trying to just, yeah. And she does well.

Yeah, you'd be like, I just said stuff. And then later I'd be like, oh, sorry, guys. I know that wasn't our policy, but I said it. I said it. I'd say it with confidence to look like I know what I'm talking about. The mood of the nation. I like to do this every morning, just get your calls on air. How are you feeling?

It's like a therapy session with two therapists who have zero qualifications. No, but we do like checking in with you guys. I've got a six-month radio diploma. Oh, yeah, well, there you go. It's a slight qualification, isn't it? Let's get Greg on from Hamilton. How are you, Greg? Yeah, hey. How's it going? And what's a slight qualification, isn't it? Let's get Greg on from Hamilton. How are you, Greg? Yeah, how's it going?

And what's the mood like this morning, buddy? Yep, just getting ready for work. What do you do? So I'm working at Burry Pears in Tarapa. Oh, is the tyre service essential? It is very essential. I mean, you've got to get from A to B, and if your car's buggered... Yeah, well, it's true. All these essential workers need to get to work to B If you can't bug it Yeah well it's true All these essential workers need to get to work around the place

Don't they? Yeah exactly Now we were talking about this at the top of the program Ben Boyce had the gentleman from the AA come over And change his battery And we were saying it's great now with social distancing Ben didn't have to engage in awkward tradey banter And pretend like he knows what he's talking about Is that good for you? That you don't have to engage in awkward, tradie banter and pretend like he knows what he's talking about.

Is that good for you, that you don't have to actually interact with customers and have light banter? Yeah, yeah. They have to stay apart from us. They have to stay outside while we bring the car inside, do the work, and then it's good to be away from them. Yeah!

I thought so. I thought you'd be loving it. You get someone like Jono that's just going to chew your hair off. Oh, this punisher. Thank you so much, Greg. You keep safe, mate. Sweet as. Thank you.

Let's get Rowan on from Wellington. Morena, Rowan. Hi. Good to have you on. Mood of the nation. How are you feeling, baby? Yeah, not too bad. Bit of an early start.

How old are you? I'm 16. What are you up doing this morning? I just thought I'd get up to listen. To us? Yeah, well, I listen to the podcast most days, and I didn't really have much else on, so I thought I'd get up early.

Oh, right. Listen to the Babylon Real Time with all the fun commercials in between. You don't get that gold on the podcast. Yeah, you don't. Well, thank you don't get that gold on the podcast. Yeah, you don't. Well, thank you, firstly, for listening to the podcast on iHeartRadio. Really do appreciate that, mate.

And getting up, did you have to set an alarm? Yeah, I set an alarm, but I get up a basketball one morning a week, so it's not too bad. It's just like getting up for that. You got homeschooling today, bro? Yeah, yeah. It's learning from home. It's not too bad.

Yeah, no, it's kind of, it's amazing how quickly the school day finishes when it's left for you to run the school day. I'm getting home midday. My son's like, it's all done. School's done. Yeah, I usually finish around like 12 o'clock and then have the afternoon to myself. Yeah, I mean, the teachers are really dragging out that day. You're not doing all the work.

I can't figure out which is which. You keep safe. Thanks for listening, Rowan. All right, thanks. I really appreciate it. Yeah or you're not doing all the work. I can't figure out which is which. You keep safe. Thanks for listening Rowan. Awesome, thanks. I really appreciate you guys listening wherever you are this morning around Aotearoa. As I said before, we've got John Kewin. So John Kewin joining us after 8 o'clock. Some of the tips and techniques that we all could

be using to get us through this next two days of lockdown. He's after 8 this morning on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. Now I've just had a little wager with Ben Boyce that he can't include any stories about COVID, Delta or the lockdown. He's after eight this morning on the heads. Now, I've just had a little wager with Ben Boyce that he can't include any stories about COVID, Delta or the lockdown. I wasn't told that. I've just made a bet with him and if he

fails, he will stay in level four for the rest of the year. Okay. There's the challenge. It's going to be lockdown related stuff. Oh, okay. Here we go. We can talk about this. The Wiggles. A lot of people talk about the Wiggles because the Wiggles have now grown

from four members to eight members just been announced. So it's a major cast shake-up. They've added four new members. A move to represent more diversity and gender equality for its audience. A non-binary unicorn as well has been added to the Wiggles.

And I love this. There was a great tweet going around from a guy in Australia, Ben Anderson. He said last month there were only four Wiggles. Now there are eight. And he's basically mapped out how many Wiggles there will be on average month by month at this rate. He's like, we must act now to flatten this curve, people. Spreading quicker than the Delta virus.

We need to crush the curve. This has created quite a lot of chat online. A lot of people saying about how the Wiggles are moving at the Times and now they're waiting also. They're saying it's quite funny. Saying very soon the big red car will be changed for an EV. Only a matter of time, guys.

So they go electric on that one, right? When does Dorothy the Dinosaur become extinct? Yeah, well, true. Talk about moving at the Times. You're right. Our old dinosaur. So the Wiggles, there we go. And it has to be hot organic potato. So they've got four new members.

They're doing a new TV series, which includes the Wake Memes. So I think it's a nice cool move for the Wiggles to showcase a bit more diversity. We had a wonderful interview with Emma and Anthony Wiggle. We did. Now, Anthony's one of the OG ones, you know. It's been 30 years. 30 years this year, the Wiggle started. How's that?

He's the dottery old Wiggle at the moment. He's the Jono Pryor of 30 years. Yeah. And she was having to kind of translate our questions for him. Wasn't she? As if he was her father. And we had, what was the joke? Oh, yeah, we'd sung some songs or something

about, yeah. Was it about like the cafe salad or something? Oh, cafe salad. And about how much we had to pay for the cafe salad or something. And he was sort of sitting there like quite stunned. He smiled, he was smiling politely. And she's like oh it's because cafe salad is quite expensive.

He's like oh! No joke. I mean, no matter how good or how bad the joke is, no joke can withstand someone getting retold. No, you're like, oh, God. Was it that bad that it has to be explained? Julia, we have to explain a lot of the jokes to Juliet after every show, don't we?

Yeah, I'll never forget about the joke you made. It was to do with Dr. Dre, and you were like, oh, I forgot about Dre. And Ben had a giggle, and I was like, what? And you were like, oh, no. And then you guys had a bit of banter about how you had to explain the joke. Now whenever I hear Dr. Dre, I'm like, oh, yeah. Don't forget about Dre now, do you?

And that is Scrolling to Your Feed this morning. It is the hits. You got John and Ben. Another day at home with the kids. Little tip, it's called parenting, not babysitting. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Time now for everyone's favourite part of the show.

Jono reads out text messages. An appreciation shout-out to all the dairy farmers. We'll go a long way, says Campbell Wheeler. Ah, yes. Thank you to all the dairy farmers who still plough on, don't they, no matter what level. Up early. Yeah. Yeah, making sure we. Thank you to all the dairy farmers who still plough on, don't they, no matter what level. Up early. Making sure we've got milk in all the dairy products.

Backbone of this economy. What's radio? The coccyx of this economy. Not the backbone. Maybe like the ankle? Yeah, the Achilles heel. Another text here. Hi, I'm working in Tamaki Makaurau as an essential worker. And did you know essential workers, if you've got the card or the letter,

can go straight to the front of the line at the supermarkets? Did you know that? Really? Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. What do you mean, doctor?

Don't. I've got a letter. Oh, you're one of those people, aren't you? There's people out there that deserve it. Like if you're a doctor, you're loyal. The people that we're going to nominate this morning, if you've got anyone like that for the ISO legend, after seven this morning, we're going to give away $250 at Chemist Warehouse.

I tried to nominate myself. He wouldn't allow it. There's an ISO legend. But now I've got a letter, so I'm going to print that out. We've just got a letter. We've just got a letter. We've just got a letter. It gets us to the supermarket.

Spy. No, what's a spy? Dot code dot nz. All right. Like a cop in a movie. Coming through. Coming through, guys. Here we go.

Well, I see you, Central. I see some words. All right, put me to the front of the line. Jew, what's happening in the spy, mate? So, actor Michael Caine, you know him from Batman, Interstellar. Did you just say? Michael Caine. Oh, Michael Caine.

I can't do the voice. We've got a friend of ours, Dan, can do a very good Michael Caine impression. Oh, Michael Caine. Basically talk like you've got a congested nasal cavity. The butt, man. The butt, man. But when he was in school, when he was learning to be an actor, he once read an acting guide titled Teach Yourself Acting.

And in that acting guide, it said you should never blink on screen. Don't blink whenever the shot's on you. Don't blink. So then, he's just recently come out and said that for eight years after he read this acting guide saying he shouldn't blink, he walked around, not even in movies or any filming, he would just walk around staring at people and not blinking. For eight years, practicing not blinking,

and then he eventually frightened everyone and he got the nickname Snake Eyes because he just would stare at people and not blink. Yeah, well, you look sort of psychotic, don't you, not blinking? And all you're concentrating on in your head is not blinking. So you're probably not engaged in the conversation. No, that's true. That's very true.

You're like, don't blink, don't blink, don't blink. That's very true. But it's a good technique because apparently it keeps the audience mesmerised. Like Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, he did it. So if you watched Silence of the Lambs, he doesn't blink when he looks at people, so it kind of makes him even a bit creepier. Yeah, it was sort of like, yeah, easier right because he's quite an emotional actor because he's about to cry that's probably because he's been holding his eyes open for so long trying not to blink not

blinking is one of those things that when it's like walking that when you don't think about it you just do it but as soon as you start thinking about it it's like when you think about the position of the placement of your tongue in your mouth you're like wow that's weird when you think about where your mouth your tongue is sort of becoming aware of you too yeah why am i thinking about this i was thinking the other day whether it's true or not the tongue you kind of rest your tongue more at the top of your mouth than the bottom of your mouth so i'm doing that right now well you think you'd rest it it'd be like i've been doing a lot of talking i'll be doing all my great talking essential working today i'm gonna rest at the bottom but no it kind of rests towards the top here.

I'd just like to have mine hanging out like a lizard at all times. Yeah, that's fun. Ready to strike. And there's five more. You can head to the hits.co.nz. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. Got me in love.

On the hits. Morena, it's just gone seven o'clock. You're with Jono and Ben. and now it is a big week. Here for five words for 5K, and we'll tell you why right now. Aotearoa, it's been a long time since our last lockdown. New Zealand will move to alert level four. It's also been a long time since we've unlocked some five words cash. Well, this week

the endless disappointment stops as Jono and Ben enter alert level winning. Someone call Chris Hickens and tell him that legs aren't the only thing spreading this week. For people to get outside

and to spread their legs. Man it's not. We're also spreading our wallets wide open. That's right. This week is a five words for $5,000 must win week. Oh my God, yes, yes, yes.

Come Friday, if we haven't had a winner, one of us will self-isolate and lock down in the soundproof booth until the cash is eradicated. And if winning a cluster of free cash isn't your thing, we're sorry to burst your bubble. And just like lockdown, it's all this week. And depending on how we go, we'll maybe still in the booth next week,

possibly the following week, and the one after that. Maybe after that. Well, hopefully not. Hopefully today. At 7.45 this morning is when we give away that $5,000. On a personal level, it would be nice to get it out the door before Friday. As much as I haven't got much to do on Friday, to be honest. We're on lockdown a personal level, it would be nice to get it out the door before Friday. As much as I haven't got much to do on Friday, to be honest. We're on lockdown.

You know, it would be nice to just give it away today and have that one ticked off. It's coming up in 45 minutes. It is. See you, gentlemen. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram.

As was announced yesterday, the lockdown around New Zealand is going to extend for another week in Auckland from midnight Tuesday and for the rest of the country, level four settings continuing until midnight on Friday with an announcement to be made for the rest of the country this Friday. So lockdown is here to stay for this week at least for New Zealand. So we want to know on 0800 the hits or 4487 are you loving lockdown or are you loathing lockdown? Yeah loving or loathing

what category do you sit in? Well personally I do love a lot about lockdown with the family time is great but then there was also like I have family people who feel very isolated through this and by themselves in the bubbles and so you know you feel for those people as well and also friends that affected work-wise about it you know and they can't get

out there and work we're in a situation where we're lucky we work so i feel like those things sort of tip it towards like i don't want the lockdowns to be around for those reasons and also i do enjoy you know being able to get out and about and to do stuff so you're like a little caged bird at the moment and you need to spread your wings boys needs to get out there i'll do it and i mean there's you know like and that's as i say i love the family time it's awesome to hang out with the family but it is something that i'd love to you know i think i'd love to to be able to move through not to be having to do listen i have noticed uh barely zero difference to my lifestyle yeah locked crab lockdown or no lockdown yeah i like staying at home i'm a homebody, I could live locked down

For the rest of my life, happily I've already locked myself down for about 20 years See I reckon that if you could It would be harder for you if you didn't get to come into work Absolutely yeah Because you love chatting to people How would you fill that void? I'd start a podcast or something

Jono Chats. Yes, you would. There would be no theme to the podcast. Just ramblings from a madman. But you know, I don't, I like the slower pace of life. Drew, we were talking about this. It does slow down, doesn't it? Yeah, there's part, like, if we weren't in lockdown, right,

and you spend a Saturday just inside your house doing nothing, there's a difference between that and spending a Saturday in your house doing nothing in lockdown knowing everyone else is doing the same thing. Yeah, there's like a level of peace about it. Yeah, yeah. You're not missing out on that. You just know that everyone's chilling. Like, yeah, it's a good vibe.

Because when life's in normality, there's always something to do. Yeah. There's always something to go out and pick up or do this and do that, you know. Always stuff to do in life. So it's quite nice having that button where no one can do anything and you don't feel guilty for not. I hear, I hear. You know, there's always that anxiety of, oh, I've got stuff to do.

Yeah, I've got to leave my house for you. So a loving or loathing lockdown. We'll just do a quick snap poll here. This is like a Colmar Brunton poll with no credibility, basically. But we've got Sarah, and that's the main thing loving or loathing says i love it i'm spending time with my family and i can work from home at a slow pace which i'm really enjoying yeah i can see you the family time is pretty awesome to be uh to hanging out with the lockdown but then you feel like i mean the south of ireland in particular no no cases there at the moment. So it must be frustrating,

particularly for people that have businesses that are affected, you know, affected greatly by this. Yeah, and some friends of ours, they've got a cafe and they sell baked goods, but the bakery's allowed to open, but they're not sure if they're allowed to open. I think there's some confusion too around small businesses and who

is and who isn't allowed to open. So that would be frustrating. Yeah. Fully get that. Hey Sarah, thank you. You're only calling our Colmar Brunton poll. That's why this one's got no credibility. I think they at least survey two or three people on the news.

That's enough. They just say Ed's going there. 100% of people. Labour are tanking. We asked one person. Unfortunately it was Mike Hosking and he was like, oh they're really tanking and then we didn't ask anyone else. Prefereed Prime Minister Jacinda's dropped by 10 points. We'll move on to the next story. There we go.

So we'll move on. We'll get up and spread our legs on the radio show and we'll get to an Isolation next. Someone who is doing great work for New Zealand. If you want to nominate someone to win a $250 chemist'shouse voucher, we'll do that next. Oh, a legend.

You guys are legends. Oh, you're legends. It's Jono and Ben's ISO Legends, thanks to Chemist Warehouse. You're a legend. We want to pay tribute to the hardworking New Zealanders in our central services, doctors, nurses, supermarket workers,

taxi drivers, you name it. The people out there making sure that we stay healthy and safe while we're in our level four bubbles. And if you want to nominate someone to be an ISO legend to get a $250 Chemist Warehouse voucher, then head to the hitstock.nz. These people are selfless.

You know, they dedicate their time and their days for the good of others. You know, they're the polar opposite of a radio announcer. We're going to go through to Vanessa who's been nominated by her sister this morning at the hits.co.nz Hello, Vanessa speaking. Hi, Vanessa. How are you?

Good, thank you. Hugely popular radio hosts, Jono Pryor and Ben Boyce. Good morning. Don't laugh, don't laugh when he's asked you to. That was serious, but I guess you knew it was a joke. But it is actually Jono and Ben calling. Hi, guys. Hello.

We're doing well, Vanessa. Now, I don't know, has anyone spoken to you lately? I do a lot of FaceTiming with my mum and sisters. Oh, that's good, that's good. You're catching up with your family because you've been nominated as our ISO legend today. It's a play on words for isolation. Oh, really? Oh, my goodness.

You're an ISO legend. Woo-hoo. Yeah, well, you're doing great work out there in the community. And we're giving you a $250 Chemist Warehouse voucherer which you can spend on yourself to get something nice from there. There's lots of lovely perfumes, makeup, all sorts of stuff inside the Chemist Warehouse so you can spend that when you want. Oh my goodness, well I know what I'm doing today. Now what do you do for the community, Vanessa?

I'm, well my title's a medical laboratory scientist so basically I'm, well, my title's a medical laboratory scientist. So basically I'm in the hospital and we do all the diagnostics when you come and get blood tests done. But obviously at the moment as well with the old outbreak, we do all the COVID testing. So have all the machines and everything. You guys go get your swabs done. We receive the swabs and then we process them

and get your results out in record time. You do. get your swabs done. We receive the swabs, and then we process them and get your results out in record time. You do. They get out really quickly, but a lot of cases within a 24-hour period. How many are you tuning through a day in your lab? Well, we are the smaller one. Wellington's the big main one. But we used to only do about 200 a day that we could do. Now that's ramped up to six times that.

And with no extra staff. So we're all just sort of doing long hours. But that's what we do because all the other work, I must admit, has reduced down significantly. So we can just focus on

what's more important at the moment. Now, what do you see when you look through a microscope? And do you see that scary looking graphic that looks like a World War II bomb that they keep having on the news? Is that what it actually looks like when you stare at COVID? No, no. So we actually don't look at COVID under a microscope. No, the microscopes we have can't do that. Right. So all of the COVID testing gets done on a microscope. No, the microscopes we have can't do that. Right.

So all of the COVID testing gets done on a machine. So what we actually look at is grass. So we look at grass and that tells you if you have it or not. Oh, fantastic. Yeah. So all these machines do this amazing thing, put a bunch of primers and probes and reagents and buffers and everything in.

And after two hours, that um virus is present it amplifies it to a point that we can um see it and basically go yep you're positive or negative all right well thank you you guys are doing such amazing work for new zealand i understand uh you're doing it at the moment your partner uh is not living with you at the moment because he's out doing amazing work for New Zealand as well. Yeah, yeah. Yep, he's at Palace College, so he can't be out. But because of that, he has to stay in his own bubble. So here I was thinking, oh, he might come home in the weekend,

and obviously not. So now it's like, oh, no, what do I do? So I am very lucky that I have family, so I was allowed to open a bubble up with my sister. So just basically so I could go to work, really. Oh, well, geez, I'll tell you what. You put it in the hard yards, and thank you so much to our dear friend

and owner of Chemist Warehouse, Dan Carter. He's giving you a $250 Chemist Warehouse voucher to spend. Not all heroes wear capes. Some of them wear lab jackets. Oh, we do. Complete PPE gear. Yeah. You stay safe out there, and thanks again for everything you're doing.

It's such an awesome, amazing work. Awesome. Thank you, guys. It's the best way to wake up today. Enjoy. Thank you. And if you want to nominate someone like Vanessa who you think is an ISO legend, thanks to the Chemist Warehouse, which is a central service,

open early, closes late at night right across New Zealand. For your nearest store or you can shop online, visit chemistwarehouse.co.nz and you can head to our website if you want to nominate someone to be an ISO legend. From a socially distantly safe two metres. Don't go there. Stay away. This is New Zealand's Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Good fun hanging out with you guys.

It really is at the moment. We really do appreciate doing this job at the moment because we are all in lockdown. And hopefully we can get some better news later in the week. Yeah, appreciate your favourable texts coming through as well. 4487, some great texts coming through. People loving the show. Really? I text the show.

You don't want the texts. But they look good. I'm saying some really favourable stuff about People loving the show. Really? I text the show. You took all the texts. But they look good. I'm saying some really favourable stuff about us at the moment. I ended up getting vaccinated yesterday. Oh, you did? Yeah. Sheeple. I was booked in for after

September, but then we were on a waiting list in case any came up a bit earlier and then got a call. It was so exciting to get that call. Like about 5.30 yesterday going, if you can get in the next 15 minutes there are some vaccinations left over for the day so yeah yes i was very excited to go get it you know which is pretty cool so you need to wait six weeks in between that's what they're saying at the moment well they i mean i think they were saying suzy wiles i was saying you say she was saying if you think about one vaccination is better than zero and two is always better than one but if you can wait longer obviously to get the second one except when there's only one pair of trousers what two this is vaccination this is yeah no but two is not

always better than one as far as the vaccination goes there's only one pair of pants there's two people three weeks and do it then she was like that's fine but if you wait a little bit longer now they're recommending six weeks between vaccinations. Yeah, you're not vaccinated yet, you? No, not yet. It's not in the age group now. No, no. But thankfully being over 80, I was one of the first crowd. High risk, high risk.

High risk people. Wheeled me out of the Ryman. The whole, they went out, they were outing, didn't they? For the day, from the retirement home. So it was nice to get out. It was a lovely day. Got to go out. Got a bit grumpy and cold.

I was like, take me home. Sat in the bus waiting for everyone. Chase is on in four hours, I want to sit there and wait for it to start. But I went to a supermarket the other day and that's an interesting experience at the moment, isn't it, going to the supermarket where you politely wait. But I bumped into our dear friend Bryce who works

on The Rock. Oh yeah, yeah. And so a couple of old Dorises were doing our supermarket shopping together. But Ben, we've moved on to a better station. I get to the counter. He slipped some prank condoms into my trolley. Did he? Oh. Lowbrow

smutty gutter shot. I mean, we're better than that. Great from him. Yeah, I slipped some potpourri into his. He's putting classic rock stuff, isn't it? Not us anymore. New chapter in our life.

Yeah, but I tell you, actually, the most stressful thing at the moment with the supermarket is because you know everyone's, it's a slower experience now. So, you know, you've got to put aside about an hour, really. And you can't bring bags and you've got to pack all by the car and stuff right but the uh you can't bring bags yeah oh you meant to take the bags out and pack by the car oh yeah yeah i was about to go on a rant about how stressed i was you know how they put the they scan through the items and you're trying to get them in the bag but then you've also got more items to put on the conveyor belt some people you have to leave your bags outside of the supermarket that i went to the other day everyone

had to leave their bags outside oh really yeah but everyone was packing them in this one yeah well that was the one i went to it was probably depends on the supermarket yeah i think you're meant to oh it's a new world countdown yeah it's a new world it's stressful though isn't it when you're having to put stuff in a bag and you've got half the trolley but you still got to put it on the conveyor belt and you can tell everyone behind you's like come on buddy and you're having to put stuff in a bag, and you've got half the trolley, but you've still got to put it on the conveyor belt, and you can tell everyone behind you is like, come on, buddy, and you're trying to, you're spitting plates. They're scanning faster than you can put it in the bag.

Yeah, right. High stress. Yeah, no more stress. And then prank condoms turn up. You've got to explain those. Next on the show, we've got a guaranteed $5,000 to give away this week. And with that game, five words for 5K.

It could be yours till we won. Next, it is the hits. 5 Words for 5K on the hits. You're only 5 words away from a massive payday. It's our Game of Words Association. We play it every morning around about this time on the hits. It's been so long since we last had a winner. We're like, this week, we're going to guarantee

we'll give away $5,000. So if by Friday at this time we haven't given away, we're just going to keep playing it nonstop until we give away the money. That's right, Ben. One of his favourite hobbies is mounting things, and this week he's mounting a comeback when it comes to five words. $5,000 guaranteed to be out the door this week.

Lisa, you could stop the madness today, though, on the West Coast. Wouldn't that be amazing? Oh, that would be absolutely fantastic. Conveniently for us, we don't want to be locked in a booth for the duration of Friday. So if you could win, that would be most appreciated, Lisa. What do you do on the West Coast, mate? I'm an anaesthetic technician, so I work at Grey Hospital. Oh, you work at the Greymouth Hospital?

Yes. What are the feelings on the coast there about being locked down? Oh, look, obviously being in healthcare, we fully understand the ramifications if we did have a huge outbreak. So, you know, we're totally behind it all, doing what we need to do like everybody else, and we'll get through this like we've done before. Oh, good on you. Jeez, that has put you in front of the journalists at 1pm.

I have another question. Are you the only South African on the West Coast? No, no, because the coast used to have a big mining industry. There were a lot of South Africans that came over for that, and even though a lot of them have filtered away, there's still a few of us about. We're like weeds. We keep popping up. All right, Lisa.

Who are you going to chuck into the soundproof booth this morning to match five words with? All right, Ben. Come on, we can do this. Boney Ben heading in there to win you $5,000. All going well today, and I was looking heading in there to win you $5,000. All going well today. And I was looking at stuff you can buy with $5,000. In the States, you can pay someone $5,000 a year to wait in lines for you.

Oh, my gosh. Could wait for COVID tests and you just roll in at the last minute, take over. Very useful addition to any life. But let's get into it, Lisa. Yep. You know how the game works. First word that comes into your head when I say happy. Sad.

Sesame. Street. Ice cream. Cold. She should have chosen me. I've said all these words in my head. So have I. I'm like, damn, we would have matched up Zoom.

Ooh. Meeting. Mini. Oh, this is tricky. Minnie. I'm going to go Cooper. Oh, like the car. Juliet's looking at me like she's just matched all five words with you.

Is that what you're looking at? Yeah, Minnie Cooper used to be my dream car when I was a child, so that was the first thing that popped into my head too. Okay, is it too late to change? To send Juliet into the soundproof booth. Yeah, that's right. Well, yeah, let's see if Ben Boyce is of the same thought pattern.

Come on out of the soundproof booth, Ben. Do you know what? Juliet matched all five words, bruh. Really? In my head, yep. Oh, shit. Yep. And then she told us with her mouth

that she'd matched the five words. So no pressure head yep oh yeah and then she told us with her mouth that she'd match the five words so she's already essentially won $5,000 from the show I just did because I want to add pressure to him. Happy. Sad. There's a lot of pressure now. That's the same word Juliet got as well. Yeah, I hear that. All right, Sesame. Sesame, did you say?

Yeah. Straight. Oh, yes. Ice cream. Cone. Oh! That makes sense, though. I don't even think about it. Yeah, yeah.

No, I totally don't. What did we say? Cold. Ah! Zoom. Cool. Mini. Mini.

Ah. Ooh. Cooper. Oh! I was like that on Mini Mouse. Oh, yeah. Three out of five. Oh, yeah. Oh, Lisa. either that or Minnie Mouse. Three out of five. Oh, Lisa. Oh, that's okay.

We couldn't do it for you this morning on the West Coast. Very sorry, but thank you so much for listening to the program. We do appreciate your ears. Oh, no problem. And the rest of your body as well, not just your ears. The whole of Lisa. There might be another chance to play on Friday if we don't win it this week, and you could nominate Producer Juliet maybe

Absolutely Live and learn Thanks so much for playing Guaranteed $5000 It has to be won this week It is the hits Alright time now for the latest celebrity gossip From our dear friend Producer Juliet Who refuses to tippy-toe around the tough news.

Maybe if she did tippy-toe around the tough news, it might get her sleeping. Oh, true. So Kanye West has leaked Drake's home address on his Instagram page. Now, if you go and have a look now, it's been deleted. But basically, Kanye and Drake have had a long feud. It's been going on for years and years and years. Not many people know sort of how it started. I think it was they initially shared a manager and then there was some beef that went on there.

And then now they'll like diss each other in songs or publicly talk about each other, you know, on social media and everything. But he posted a screenshot of a map of an address in Toronto, Canada. And that's where Drake is from. And he apparently did this, or he did this after apparently Drake dissed him in a song that's part of Drake's new album. Great prank from Kanye too. Very good. One of the sort of prank Ben Boyce would do to me.

When he'd write my number on a toilet wall saying, for a good time, call this number. And I'd take many people out for a good time. Mini-golf, went to the movies, showed them a fantastic time. You show out for a good time. Mini Golf, went to the movies, showed them a fantastic time. You show us everyone a good time, that's right. But it's interesting, we went on to Kanye West's Instagram afterwards.

He only follows two people. One of them is Kim Kardashian, so he still follows her, and Balenciaga, which is the other brand, the other account that he follows. But he deleted all of his posts, apart from, I think, three or four. So he's not even following his companies and stuff like that. Nah so he's only following like his companies he's probably like I don't

need to you know he's just kind of at that point of caring he probably have a private account too wouldn't he I'd say so for all those you know just for like oh look at the kids they got a certificate for their artwork at kindergarten but he I think Drake claimed that he'd slept with Kim. Oh, was that part of it? Yeah, that was. It was in a song or something. In a song, yeah.

Yeah, they'll often talk about each other in songs and stuff. And so apparently on Kanye's new album, he's had a dig back. Yeah, which wouldn't surprise me. But they're all so subtle, those, that I never even pick up on them. And the raps are so fast that I don't even hear them either. I'm like, I can't, I can't, you know, actually fathom what they're saying in their songs because the rapping is just too fast for my brain. It's like the Taylor Swift fans who are like, oh my god, she's

posted a photo and the roses have moved three centimetres to the right. She's going to be releasing an album of the third month of the third day of the year. That's actually, yeah. Yeah, fans go deep, don't they? Yeah, they do. Don't they? Speaking of Taylor Swift, she did just join TikTok and she's posted her first video.

So if the TikTok people want to follow her, she's on there as well. Weren't you saying Angelina Jolie joined social media too? Yeah, Angelina Jolie just joined Instagram in the last couple of days, and that was to call attention to the suffering in Afghanistan. So she didn't make up her personal reasons. She's just been posting things like that. And I think she's now the fastest person, fastest Instagram user to reach a million followers. Sorry. And it's all because she's wanting to expose

the humanitarian issues going on in Afghanistan. Yeah. Well, people are like, Angelina Jolie's joined Instagram. Let's give her a follow. She probably knew that everyone would want to follow her straight away. Get a message across. I can't wait until she starts posting bloody collagen commercials. Dosico collagen. That'll be her next post. Yeah, or like, watch Chris Hippigan say, spread your legs.

Check it out, it's real funny. And that is five and more. You can head to thehits.co.nz. That hot fire content to come tomorrow on Angelina's account. Pyjamas all day. Fine with us. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 8.27 on your Tuesday morning. Of course, we are in lockdown, and who knows how long it's going to be there for. But New Zealand's strategy. We went hard. We went early. And Jacinda Ardern compared our strategy to other countries.

Well, actually, I would say, relative to what we've seen from other countries, this absolutely is a go hard, go early approach. You know, many other places around the world, you've seen more of a light and long. That's never been New Zealand's take on the way to challenge COVID and get on top of it. You go light and long overseas.

She's shaming the overseas with their light and long strategy. Yeah, ours is hard and early, right? Yeah, although this radio show is probably light and long overseas. She's shaming the overseas with their light and long strategy. Yeah. It's hard and early, right? Yeah. Although this radio show is probably light and long, isn't it? Yeah. Light stuff over a three-hour period. It goes on for probably a bit long.

Yeah, you're right. So John Kilwin is joining us very shortly. He's got some great stuff. There's great advice to pass on about mental health at the moment. Even him, he felt some anxiety around this lockdown. So he's going to talk you through some steps about how we can get through this lockdown together. But right now, let's crank up a little bit of a Darude mega mix with the COVID announcement to get the party started.

It is the hits. This is a COVID-19 announcement. When you're feeling unwell, isolate wherever you are. Isolate wherever you are. Call Healthline about a COVID-19 test. By getting a test, you're helping keep your community safe. Safe, safe, safe, safe, safe. Keep your community safe, safe, safe, safe, safe, safe, safe, safe. This, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this. This is a COVID-19 announcement. Isolate wherever you are.

Keep your community safe. The sure weather masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't save this battered up old face. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. You got the hits, Jono and Ben. That is pretty much our show. Of course, we are in lockdown, but something to look forward to this week, hopefully, for us, is giving away $5,000.

Well, we're going to do it at some stage this week, right? There's no question about it. And if come Friday no one's won our five words for $5,000 game at 7.45 that we do every morning, then we're locking in the booth. We're self-isolating and here's more. Aotearoa, it's been a long time since our last lockdown. New Zealand will move to alert level four. It's also been a long time since we've unlocked some five words cash.

Ah! Ah! Ah! since we've unlocked some five words cash. Well, this week, the endless disappointment stops as Jono and Ben enter alert level winning. Someone call Chris Hipkins and tell him that legs aren't the only thing spreading this week. For people to get outside and to spread their legs. Man, it's not. We're also spreading our wallets wide open.

That's right. This week is a five words for $5,000 must win week. Oh my God, yes, yes, yes. Come Friday, if we haven't had a winner. One of us will self-isolate and lock down in the soundproof booth. Until the cash is eradicated. And if winning a cluster of free cash isn't your thing, we're sorry to burst your bubble. And just like lockdown, it's all this week.

And depending on how we go, we'll maybe still in the booth next week, possibly the following week and the one after that. Maybe after that. So $5,000 up for grabs this week, guaranteed. How long are your hands going to take us? Hopefully we give it away before Friday, right? Yeah, that's the plan. That's the plan because I've got people I enjoy spending time with outside of this room.

Don't get me wrong, I love spending time with you guys. Hey, thanks for listening to the show. Stay safe, stay sanitised and spread your legs. See you tomorrow from six. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys weekdays from six on the hits. And via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast.

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