Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Today We Bring To You Another Covid Parody Song...

Episode Date: September 5, 2021

Called VAX STREETS BACK (EVERYBODY)! Thanks to the Backstreet Boys! We thoroughly enjoyed making this song, and keep your eyes peeled on our Instagram @thehitsbreakfast for the highly anticipated music video to go along with it... Yesterday was also Father's Day in NZ and Ben's daughters wrote some adorable messages about him in a card, some of which are strangely accurate... Finally, we spoke to a woman whose wedding had been cancelled FOUR TIMES thanks to Covid. Enjoy the show whānau!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John O' and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of John O' and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the John O' and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast, 6th of September, Ben Boyce with a mouthful of muffin. Yeah. Faceload of muffin. I've never seen you eat a muffin. No, Ben Boyce with a mouthful of muffin. Yeah.

A face load of muffin. I've never seen you eat a muffin. No, I did some baking over the weekend. Yeah, what'd you go? Blueberry muff? Yeah, made some blueberry muffins, made some banana bread as well. Never made those items before, but made them with the kids over the weekend. Yeah, it's amazing what you actually do resourceful-wise, isn't it?

Once you have a bit of a forage through the pantry. Yeah. Yeah. If I can go Gordon Ramsay on it for a second, the banana bread was a lot better than, is a lot better than, muffins are fine. Who made the muffins,

be honest? I was involved in both of them, so I can't, I can't shoot. You were in the produce. Oh yeah, like a bit Gordon Ramsay, like,

what is this? And then go, well, I was part of this, you know, so you, I was part of it, you know?

Yeah. What, too dry? Not moist enough? They're okay. They're okay. They're okay. They're okay.

I just don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Like, I feel like we? They're okay. No, they're okay. They're okay. I just don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Like, I feel like we did everything right. We just, they're okay. We followed the instructions. Yeah, they're okay. Like Gordon Ramsay.

The New Zealand Gordon Ramsay. Yeah, it's all right. Yeah, right. So, yeah. So, but you're eating it all. Yeah. It's filling a gap. Yeah, it's filling a gap.

Yeah. Would you sell them at a cafe? No. No. That's probably why. Like, I'd eat them, you gap. Yeah, it's filling a gap, yeah. Would you sell them at a cafe? No. No. That's probably why. Like, I'd eat them, you know. Would you sell your banana bread at a cafe? Yeah, I would have considered that.

I would have gone, hey, you should try this. But I wouldn't be walking into the cafe across the road when it's open and going. My favourite flavour of cake, banana cake. Just a wonderful cake, isn't it? Yeah. Did you ice the top of your banana bread? No, we made banana bread, so we didn't really, didn't do the icing thing. What's the difference between banana bread and banana cake? Maybe't it? Yeah. Did you ice the top of your banana bread? No, we made banana bread, so we didn't really do the icing thing. What's the difference between banana bread and banana cake?

Maybe it's the icing. Because surely it's the same ingredients and texture, isn't it? You'd be right, yeah. Now, let's have a Google. Let's have a Google. Why does everyone make banana bread during this time, too? I don't know. It's one of those things, isn't it?

Banana cake difference. Here we go. There's actually an article written on this. The name suggests the bread's a type of bread met with mashed bananas, while the cake is a type of cake made with banana as the main ingredient. It's still got bananas in it, though.

The difference between banana bread and banana cake is that banana bread is firmer and denser in texture. Oh, yeah. Then it's a distant relative, or close relative, the cake. The banana cake. See, I would of the cake, the banana cake. So I would say the cake, you put icing on it, but then the banana bread, we put a little bit of butter on it

or something, you know? Olive anna? Some sort of... Oh, that's interesting. How long did it take you to bake? Did you do this all in one session, the muffins and the bread? A couple of times. No, I don't think I stayed that long. The banana bread was a mix already together. You just mash the banana and put some oil on and put it around and away it went.

Yeah, Poppy made some wonderful, my daughter made some wonderful chocolate biscuits yesterday too. Yeah, they were delicious, chocolate chip biscuits. Problem is, once they're out on the tray. And they're good when they're hot too. Yeah, they are. Yeah, yeah, you're right. They don't last in the fryer household. Tell you that. Anyway, on the podcast today, Arthur hot. Yeah, they are. Yeah, yeah, you're right. They don't last in the prior household. I'll tell you that.

Anyway, on the podcast today, Arthur Green. Arthur Green, yeah. He's from The Bachelor, you'll know Art. He is getting hotter with age, isn't he, Art Green? Oh, I'll tell you what. I'll find this for you right now. Sorry to take time to get to somewhere on the podcast. That's fine.

Now, it was Father's Day, of course, yesterday, and Art Green from The Bachelor, as you know, New Zealand's first Bachelor. But he posted a photo of his dad, him and his dad. Now, it was Father's Day, of course, yesterday, and Art Green, from The Bachelor, as you know, New Zealand's first Bachelor. But he posted a photo of his dad, him and his dad. Now, we've met his dad before. They used to run the... Martin Bra. Martin Bra.

Hotel. Hotel in Martin Bra. But, I mean, how ripped is his dad? Him and his dad are sitting there in singlets. And they're both like carbon copies of, you know, like... Yeah. Yeah. Look, they are.

Their body types are actually... Two of the rowing eight, you'd say, in New Zealand's Olympic hope. What are they doing there? Working out, are they? Yeah, they're working out together. He said, some of my earliest memories are of my dad working out in his home gym in the garage. So there you go.

So they're working out together. Both are almost the same build. Now, Arthur Green's dad doesn't look like the type of guy who would run a pub. Hey. No. If you imagine a guy to run a pub in Martin Brown. No. I mean, Martin Brown's a nice little boutique-y sort of thing, but you're right. You'd think, you know. Yeah, I'm thinking

like, guys, you know what I'm thinking of. Yeah, the pokies are down. You know, like, polo shirt. Yeah. Guts sort of hanging down. Yeah. You know, it's three quarters of the way down their in the morning. You know, like polo shirt. Yeah. Yeah. Tucked in. Guts sort of hanging down. Yeah. You know, it's three quarters of the way down their thighs.

Yeah. Yeah, that's what I, and that's the publican you want. You may just feel bad about yourself looking at this hot, muscly guy behind the bar, wouldn't you? Yeah, but there you go.

So that just does something. So he's on the podcast today. Yeah, Celebrity Treasure Island is back. Would you do Celebrity Treasure Island, Ben? Well, I'm not a celebrity, so that's mainly the main...

That's the main problem. You've got to be a celebrity to do Treasure Island. It would be one of those things to be cool to test yourself, I think. One of those things. I don't know how good I'd be in any of the things on there, but it would be... I'd get bored. I'd lose... You know what I'd be like. I'd be a nightmare.

We did an escape room and I lost concentration in the escape room. No, but then I think you'd just be all constantly... They'd love you on the TV because you'd be constantly on. You'd be like talking. Oh, I want to talk over here. I want to do this thing. You'd just be... I'd be like the running narrator.

Yeah. Oh, there's a camera on me, mate. Oh, I hit the guy. I'd do a lot of talking. Yeah, you would. Not a lot of problem solving or... Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't find the treasure.

I think I'd say... Like, I imagine if you were on the show for three weeks, I imagine you'd be Jono from the radio and TV. Jono, get out of here. And then you'd get home and go, I hated every second of that. But he never showed it once. Put on a good front. He looked like a showman. Oh, yeah, we're getting up.

We're doing this. Get out of here. That was the most miserable three weeks of my life.'re getting up. I'm going to get high. I'm going to get miserable. That was the worst three weeks of my life. You did right. That's what I do. I put on a wonderful front for the cameras. That's the main thing, isn't it?

It looks like there's tears and all sorts on this. And, you know, I know you have high tensions on it. I guess they want that raw sort of emotion there. And it looks like they get it, according to the promos. Yeah, that would be my fear is I'm'm not handy enough as part of a team member. And also I wouldn't be confrontational enough to make good TV. I'd kind of back off any

disagreements. You know, you're probably right. You go and do that. You go and roll the coconut down that way or something. I don't know. But anyway, have a great show. Have a great day. Look after yourself. Okay? Great show. Have a great day. Look after yourself, okay? All right. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there, and then I backed out.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand breakfast. And as it hits, Jono and Ben, Julie, but don't start now. Of course, the levels, they may be changing. We'll find out at four o'clock today, and you would think that everyone outside of Auckland might be dropping down to level two, level two plus maybe they're talking about?

Well, listen, my track record of predictions has been a bit shaky at best. Every press conference I'm going, we're back to level 0. Not once has Aunty Cindy come through for me on that one. Once I just started to go, guess what, guys? We're dropping from 4 to 0. Whoa, it's never been done before, but we're going to do it. We're confident. Get out there.

So we've inserted the backstreet boys into some uh provax propaganda without their knowledge uh so please keep this a secret from the backstreet boys yeah like it wasn't like oh look to be honest uh we we heard the song everybody uh backstreet's back the other day we're like oh we could make it backstreet's back and that was as far it's a crime that they haven't done it already. So we took it upon ourselves. And so... Yeah, but then the idol's like, we should do the song. And then you're like, yeah, we should sing it.

And I was like, oh, us. And you were like, yeah, no, we could do it. Yeah, no, I... Well, hey, how about this? Why don't we play you the finished version and then we'll play you our attempts at trying to sing it. So this is where we ended up. With someone who could actually sing doing it for us.

This is for all the anti-vaxxers out there. You may want to just turn away for a second. Everybody, yeah. Vax your body, yeah. Everybody, yeah. Vax your body right. Backstreet's back, alright. Everybody, yeah, vax your body right. Backstreet's back, alright.

We won't run out of vaccine. The worst case scenario is we go back to the plan, which was still 350,000 doses a week going out. Oh my God, I'm vaxed again. Two shots of Pfizer stabbed in my skin. Got a question for you, better answer now Will I become a 5G cell tower? No Am I eligible?

Yeah Am I due a song? Maybe Am I sexual? Not relevant And so report my blue light symptoms from the second shot Everybody

Yeah Yeah Vax your body Yeah Everybody Yeah Vax your body right Vax Street's back, alright Vax Street's back.

You see what we did there. That should be the name of the song, You See What We Did There. John O'Byrne's parody album, You See What We Did There. Now, you know, I'm pretty happy with the production on that one. The singing was great. It was all in tune and stuff.

And so to bring you back to the conversation, Ben and I, well, I, I blindly believed that we could sing it back and forth. And so we did. We recorded a version. I've got some examples without music. Yeah. To make it even worse. Yeah.

Thanks, Juliet, for that. You're welcome. But, you know, bearing in mind these even worse. Thanks Juliet for that. Bearing in mind these are raw. They're unmixed. Him being through the production. Kanye wouldn't be releasing this in his album. Would he? Any other sort of stuff? Am I eligible? Yeah, yeah.

Am I Jewish or um? Maybe. Am I sexual? Well, that's kind of irrelevant. And some more. Everybody. That was the best take, too.

Now, poor Aaron, our production engineer, spent three days trying to polish that. Yeah. Three days. It got to the point where, like, geez, I'm engineer, spent three days trying to polish that. Yeah. Three days. It got to the point where we're like, geez, I'm sorry, mate. Not even Dr. Dre himself could fix that up. And, yeah. I thought it was beautiful.

Well, no, you didn't. You were laughing at us. I was filming it behind the scenes. I was like, this is going to go on social media. Oh, God. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. it is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben, just like family.

The family members you're ashamed of. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 8.15 on your Monday morning. It was Father's Day yesterday and before Father's Day we actually did a fun little thing where we called our dads to see who would say I love you back the fastest

and your dad took quite a while, didn't he? Well, listen, I just, Father's Day on Sunday. Yeah. Love you, mate. Oh, thank you for that. Is it ticking time bomb or something? Yeah, no, love you. There's a timer going there for some reason.

I wonder why the timer would be going down there. What would the timer be running for? Probably an explosion, I suppose. No, not an explosion. I said I love you, and generally what do people do in return? Well, they say that I love you too. Yeah, they do, they do. Gone there in the end, didn't he?

But he said they say that I love you too. He's talking about other people. Anyway,ie and john i spoke to them yesterday my dear wish him a happy father's day in real time yeah and uh she was like oh we love you jay and when she answered the phone we made that call on friday she said she wasn't gonna say it publicly oh they tell me they love me all the time behind closed doors they say they say hey i got some lovely little personalized things from uh from my daughters i've got i've got some of them here lovely you know handwritten stuff it was awesome but but they also filled out both and filled out um little little sort of questionnaires on me as well about all about my dad and obviously there's some lovely heartfelt stuff on there well read one

of them oh you know like i love my dad uh more than the universe more than the universe times a thousand which is lovely you know things like that what does that equal well i don't know there's a lot of generics or stuff like that's a big claim my dad is really good at everything you know things like that but you know but it's awesome it's awesome no i'm not you can't even parallel park yeah uh but i thought well i wanted to break down a couple of the uh the questions and more the funniest sort of questions and see if you guys could think of the answer genuine love is not funny is it uh being boys but you know we've touched on that there were some lovely things written about you in there and how long is the list oh well let's go through a couple of them right now okay so my dad's job is what what do

you think they would have put for my dad's job is influencer it could have been one it's to talk lots is what to talk lots is my job according to one of my daughters uh he's very good at uh they said very good at making people laugh which is lovely um my dad's favorite food is hummus i'm gonna go yeah i'm gonna go beetroot hummus elisa's hummus well they've gone for the whole uh food genre healthy healthy my dad's favorite food is healthy. Carrot sticks, celery sticks. If it's a vegetable and you can cut it into a stick, he'll put it in his mouth.

This is my daughter's quiz on me for Father's Day. His pockets are always full of what? What's in my pockets? Chewing gum. Yes. What? What? And number two?

What else would they be full of? Hand sanitiser. Yes, hand sanitizer. What my dad can do better than everyone else. This is one they put, get out of bed fastest. He's up and at him. No one is starting the day quicker than this guy. And the final thing is what my dad likes to say.

One of my favorite sayings. Now, Indy says, this is my daughter Indy, she's favorite saying is wash your hands. That's what my dad likes to say. One of my favourite sayings. Now, Indy says, this is my daughter Indy, she's favourite saying is wash your hands. That's what my dad likes to say. And Sienna, she's gone into quite detail what my dad likes to say. Kia ora New Zealand. Today we have a really fun show.

That's Joto and Ben. That's what her dad likes to say. Jeez, you sound like a barrel of laughs. Wash your hands. Hand sanitiser. Healthy. Obviously, there's some lovely stuff in there, but it doesn't make good radio for you.

No, lovely stuff doesn't make good radio. Oh, that is adorable. That's very adorable. A lot of homemade gifts, no doubt, were handed over to dads yesterday. And they are touching, aren't they, the homemade gifts? Yeah, I'm maybe quite emotional looking at some of the stuff. But then I thought, well, let's go over the comedy stuff on radio

No one wants to hear some guy sobbing about how much he loves his kids at 8.20 in the morning His favourite food is healthy and he loves saying Kia ora New Zealand, today we have a really fun show that's Jono and Ben The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better Can't save this bedded up old face

Jono and Ben New Zealand's Breakfast It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 8.25, as just heard before. Things are looking positive for everyone out of Auckland to be moving down alert levels to alert level 2. Maybe alert level 2 plus later this week, which is good for getting businesses back up and running. I was just reading a text here from someone saying, hey, can you guys just remind everyone that

the alert levels aren't the workers' fault. They're not the decisions of the workers. This lady works in a dental surgery and getting abused by people. I think people forget that, right? Yeah, well, we spoke to a security guard who's at a testing centre, and he's kind of getting it in the neck too from impatient people who've been sitting

in their cars for a long time. Not his fault. No fault no not her fault she just wants to scale and polish your teeth yeah exactly when she's allowed to when she's allowed now we wanted to know this morning because obviously uh you know covid and and you know lockdowns many people have had to cancel a lot of things or postpone a lot of stuff yeah now some may be great some maybe events that you're like thank goodness i didn't have to. I've cleaned a few from the calendar going off. Oh, there's been a couple for me. Yeah.

There has been a couple where you're like, just deleting them out of the calendar feels so good. Yeah. And some have even gone past the point where you're like, well, that can't happen now. No. That event's gone. No.

I didn't have to do it. I didn't go to it. But then there's been some things I'm like, oh, I really wanted to get that haircut. Yeah. It might be a while. You know, there is a few things that you'm like, oh, I really wanted to get that haircut. Might be a while. You know, there is a few things that you like, you know. Yeah.

So 0800 The Hits, what is COVID cancelled? The cancelled culture of COVID. What has it put off? What haven't you been able to do, attend? Whether it's good or bad, we'll take them all. And 0800 The Hits is the telephone number. 4487 is the text if you'd like to get in touch with us. We'll do that next on New Zealand's Breakfast 827.

From the socially distantly safe two metres, stay away. This is New Zealand's Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Now we were talking

cancellations. What have you had to cancel, good or bad, because of lockdown and the current situation? COVID cancellations. Remember when you'd

have Saturday morning sports and you'd have to tune in to ZB for the cancellations? I remember listening to Radio Warrar but back in the day for the same thing sometimes when it's pouring down the only like please please please please be cancelled please be cancelled sometimes on that run you're like oh but other times you'd be really want to play and it'll be cancelled yeah what a journey that was listening to the cancellations on saturday morning

juliet uh covid cancellations your family's suffering one on wednesday yes my dad's 60th is on wednesday and we're going to be going out for dinner. Happy birthday, Dave. Happy birthday, Davo. So instead, mum has prepared meals for my brother and I to come and pick up from her house that we cook all together over Zoom. So we're all eating the same thing, but we're all

cooking it and eating it together over Zoom. Oh, that's a great idea. That's the alternative. What's your mum rocking? Steak, potato gratin. And I think some sort of idea. That's the alternative. What's your mum rocking? What's she's... Steak, potato gratin. Oh, I love that. And I think some sort of dessert. And bubbles as well. So I might be a little bit dusty on Thursday morning.

Juliet's also got a great excuse for exiting work-related Zoom parties as well. She's like, I've got to go to a family Zoom. It's a good excuse. Yeah, use it. It works every time. But it's yours now. We can't take that. It's brand Juliet's got that one. Okay works every time. But it's yours now. We can't take that. It's brand Juliette's got that one.

Okay, what have you had cancelled thanks to COVID? Linda, you're on from Canterbury. How are you? I'm good, thanks. Yourself? Good to have you on, Linda. What got canned? My mate had to postpone her wedding.

How many times? Actually, I've got a terrible memory, but I think this is the second time she had to go. I think it it last lockdown. Oh, that's so gutting, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have to pay full price both times or you get a refund? Oh, I think the price stays the same.

They just change the date. Oh, yeah, that's good. But it's still annoying. I imagine there's some costs that come about because of that. That's a real shame. Well, speaking of refunds, thanks for your call, Linda. You're an absolute legend. Someone's texting 4487.

I was looking forward to taking my children overseas. Last week, the silver lining was three weeks before we were meant to go, I broke up with my partner. So I get a full refund on his trip. That's a great silver lining. I mean, every cloud, et cetera, et cetera. We'll get Stacey on from Christchurch as well.

What's been cancelled thanks to COVID, Stace? Our wedding. Another wedding one. How many times have you had to postpone your wedding? So we are now up to our fifth date. Fifth! Yeah. Why?

It cancelled four times. Yeah, so originally we had planned to get married in Byron Bay over in Aussie last year. And then obviously because of the travel bubble and all of that kind of thing, that obviously got postponed. And so then we were hoping for last September still in Byron Bay, but then COVID kicked off here again. So then we postponed to May this year, still hoping for Byron Bay. And then as it got closer and there was no bubble,

we decided that we would have it in New Zealand and um so it was meant to be in the Coromandel Saturday just been but now we've obviously had to postpone again oh my god four times there must be a part of you where you're just like oh she would just turn into a super spreader event take that get this wedding done wow absolutely better with the backyard but my plants aren't looking healthy, so I don't think that'll be a good option. Sorry to ask a very personal question here, Stacey. Yeah. Where's he going with this? Everyone's on

edge now. Ben's on edge. How committed to the relationship are you going to ask that? You can't ask her out, mate. She's getting married. I know she hasn't got married. Have you lost money along the way? Yes, we have, unfortunately. So in Byron Bay, obviously to secure a wedding, you normally pay

about half in deposit. So unfortunately, we got a few back in Byron, but not obviously the whole thing. And then this time around we're looking pretty okay. We nearly lost money with the florals and stuff because all of that kind of thing is pre-booked. So they go through floral brokers and things like that. So we're very, very lucky that our vendors here have been great and kind of helped us navigate that without losing too much money. So it's just more things now like the boys' suits and things like that

because Regan's brother, one of them's in Aussie and one of them's in Auckland. So obviously if the next state can go ahead but Auckland's still on level four, then he won't be able to come. So it's all those little logistics. Yeah, and has the guest list changed from when you first started planning your wedding? Have you culled friends?

Have friends' partners broken up with them? I think it's more just people like Reagan's ex-army. So with that comes a lot of his friends in the military. So if they're on different exercises, then it wipes a lot of their mouth and things like that. So it hasn't changed too much yet, but we're expecting that it will definitely drop again, I think. If we can go ahead at the end of September. Oh, Stacey has had her wedding postponed four times. She's on to the fifth. Well, they do say

fifth time's a charm, don't they? 5.0 is definitely going to be a big party, that's for sure. Good on you. Well, I hope you get to walk down the aisle one day and give us a call when you do, too. Okay, awesome. Sounds great. As you're literally walking down the aisle, go, oh, actually, before this... It's happening, guys. It's happening. I've got to call Jono and Ben.

Thank you for sharing that with New Zealand. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. New you for sharing that with the New Zealand. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning. Welcome along to the show. Monday morning. Good to have you guys with us. How are you guys? Good. Good. Did you have a nice Father's Day?

Yeah, it was all good. Good day. It's a little different being in lockdown, but I guess it's the same for everyone else around the country. What I find is it gave your family the perfect excuse to provide homemade presents. Where's all the gift vouchers? This is what I came for. Yeah, true. Not a lovingly homemade present.

Yeah. I'll give you this year off, all right, for a good reason. Actually, we'll get into my homemade gifts after 8 o'clock this morning. I want to break those down with you today on the show. You know? There was some heartfelt stuff in there,

which is great, but there's not great radio fodder. Heartfelt stuff. I mean, maybe on other stations it is. I think this is the station they want heartfelt stuff to be honest.

You just don't provide it. Maybe I'll try and do a bit of both, but I really just want to go with the gag stuff. I just want to roast my family. Because they actually do love me. But, you know, that's not funny.

Love isn't funny. No, you're right. It isn't. No, it's just helpful. I want to see how much Ben's kids love him. Yeah. Maybe they do on the station. I don't know.

I'm very confused. We've got a big show this morning. We are rewarding more Lockdown Legends. Lock don't know. I'm very confused. We've got a big show this morning. We are rewarding more lockdown legends. Lockdown could be. Could be all over for, well, level two. Plus maybe for everyone outside of Auckland. We'll find out this afternoon. You'd assume so, right?

It's pretty hard to justify keeping people locked down. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. As well as that, we've got a big announcement to make with our TV show. Hey, you could win some money. We're basically bribing you to watch our TV show and you could win big

and also, maybe this is too much information but I'll chuck it in there anyway Art Green from Celebrity Treasure Island is with us after 7-2 it is a huge show for your Monday morning what more could you want? heartfelt stuff maybe it is Jono and Ben going hard and ooly go hard go ooly go hard and ooly

go hard New Zealand's breakfast 4 o'clock today is when the big announcement from the government about what's happening with the levels outside of Auckland you'd think as Jono said it would go to level 2 but they're talking about level 2 plus 2 plus?

what's 2 plus? basically it's a bit more. This is what I think some of the scientists have come together with some recommendations. So they don't know. I think it's basically telling people to use masks a lot more inside and physical distancing as well. And yeah, I'll get a bit more details for you. I have it before seven o'clock this morning. You sounded good, though. You sounded like you knew quite a lot there. Yeah. I don't know what more details for you. I have it before 7 o'clock this morning. You sounded good, though. You sounded like you knew quite a lot there.

Yeah, well, yeah. I don't know what more details you want. You did well. Yeah, be proud of that broadcasting. I just want to make sure it is, you know, because they've said something. These are not the things the government have said they're going to go on. They've just said that this is being recommended to the government.

Right. You know where I'd like mandatory mask wearing? In my house so I can't put food into my mouth. I'd like government to enforce that. That'd be useful because no one is working harder in my house at the moment than the fridge door. Jeez, that's getting a good old punishing. How about you, Ju, in the flat?

Honestly, I just have not, I don't think I've eaten so much in my life and I have this lockdown. There's nothing else to do. I know, you get bored and you're like, oh, what snacks have I got? You kind of do, kind of base your days around, you know, oh, there's the lunch

that's coming up in two hours, oh yeah, it might be time for a bit of, you know, like just a little filler in between, yeah. You're dead right. You're sort of wandering around the kitchen, you're like, what are you looking for? I don't know, I'm just going over to look. Do you want some of these? You're like, oh, you're right, yeah. You always go back to it thinking new stuff's going to magically appear in there as well, what are you looking for? I don't know. I'm just going over to look. What's up with these? You're like, oh, you're right.

You always go back to it thinking new stuff's going to magically appear in there as well, don't you? Yeah. Oscar, my son, at the moment, he's obsessed for whatever reason with seeing the moment the fridge light comes off as you shut the door. You know, but there's just no, humanely, there's no way to do it. No human can actually physically see the moment the light switches off. He's trying to peer his eyeballs and his nose into the fridge door. He needs to set up a little camera in there. Yeah, he does.

That's the way around it. Then he can see that the hours of fun to be had in the house. He spent about 35 minutes yesterday trying to crack the code. It must depend on the fridge, though, because I had that obsession when I was younger, too. In our fridge, it would just flick off just before you close the door yeah it must depend on the fridge it's one of the wonders of the world isn't it what moment that fridge light turns off the fridge almost always wins that game though doesn't it the light game yeah and the beeping thing i've talked many times about the fridge beeping, but Jesus, all right, we get it.

I know. Sometimes you leave it open because you're doing stuff with it. You're like, I know. I know it's open. It's a dee, dee, dee, dee, dee. I know, but it seems to be getting shorter and shorter. Yeah. Mate, the fridge seems to get more and more impatient with us.

I know. It's like beep, beep. And it flatlines as well at the end of it as well if you leave it for too long. It goes dee, dee, dee. And I'm like, all right, all right. I get it. It's like, yeah, okay.

So needy. I know. It's not like the fridge is not going to work after this. I've left it open for a minute maybe. But anyway, so yeah, it is needy. Yeah. In my household, if there's one beep all I hear is, the fridge is open.

And I was like, yeah, I know it's open. I'm right beside it. Why is it open? Because I'm still putting stuff into the fridge. Yeah. As I said before yeah I know it's open I'm right beside it why is it open because I'm still putting stuff into the fridge yeah as I said before I think I told you this I told

we told our daughter Andy that was going to explode for some reason that was the beep she got very worried about the fridge for a while she's like the fridge

the fridge panicking when you hear the beep I was like oh maybe I should tell her that's not actually a thing yeah wonderful ploy from the fridge manufacturers

to have exploding fridges. We'd be buying many more. They'd be making a few more sales. We've got Art Green joining us after seven o'clock. Celebrity Treasure Island back on your TV tonight. What are they allowed to take? Something I've always wondered. We'll ask him that after seven.

Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the B**** News. Producer Juliet looks at the more unusual news from around the world, the non-COVID related news normally and you beep out a word and we have to guess what that word is. Yes, the first news headline.

Three friends run off after drunken bet. I'm going to hang that the three friends Chris Hipkins, Ashley Broomfield and Jacinda Ardern and the drunken bet was to get someone to say spread your legs on TV. And that was the three friends. That's how I did it. That was the harrowing

back story of spread your legs. I'd say three friends run for Parliament after a drunken bet. Three friends run over 400k at altitude across remote mountains after drunken bet. This is crazy. So when they were all drinking together, they had a globe,

and they decided to spin the globe, point their finger, wherever it landed would be where they would run. And they landed on a country called Tajikistan, which is between Afghanistan and China. It's one of the most remote places in the world. There are these mountain ranges across it. And it took them seven days. It was like an

ultra ultra ultra marathon that they then trained for and did that and they survived crazy crazy drunken bit tagikistan yeah who knew there was a tagikistan i know it's a little in central asia didn't know that was a place but it has a very cool mountain range there. Now, you're running a marathon later this year. Yeah. Would you run 400km in Tajikistan? No. Going to Tajikistan would be quite cool. It looks quite cool.

It kind of looks a little bit like a desert, like the Sahara Desert, but with mountains. How do you even fly into there? I don't know. You probably have to do at least three flights, four bus rides. A lot of commitment by those guys. Well done. I mean, they're drunk, they made some silly promises, and then they followed through on it.

Every time I've had a conversation at three in the morning, like, we should do some cool stuff tomorrow. Not once have I turned up to do that cool stuff. Everyone understands you don't do that. Like in this case, all the guys are going, hey guys, things got away on us, we promised we'd run to this. Did we spin a globe or something? No, don't worry about that, mate.

It's expensive. And the next news story. Singer who voiced Simba in The Lion King turned down... I'm going to go turn down a lead role on the Mad Butcher spin-off The Loin King, which Jono Pryor's been pitching for a while now. A long time I've been pitching The Loin King. The circle of life is just animals being ended so they can be sold for $4.99 a kilo. That's so sad. A singer who voiced Simba in The Lion King

turned down Nala's Tinder request. A singer who voiced Simba in The Lion King turned down $2 million in favour of royalties. So he was just a singer for young Simba so quite a reasonably minor role in the original movie.

And his mum was the one that advised him to opt for royalties instead of that flat rate of $2 million, because at the time Disney had a reputation for re-releasing things. So she's like, what if my son grows up and he's 40 and they're still doing stuff with the Lion King? And obviously the film grossed over a billion dollars, so he obviously made the very smart decision then. How much has he made? He didn't say, but he said it was definitely the best decision.

Definitely more than what he would have made. Oh, for sure. So he can just live off that? Pretty much. Crazy. Smart decision. You know when you hear stories like this. I know, you're like, what can I be made?

And the final news story. Michael Jordan's used up for auction. I'm going to go jockstrap. What is a jockstrap? What is a jockstrap? Let's talk about the sporting jockstrap. Someone's going to say it's jockstrap. Why don't they just wear underpants?

Jockstraps are very confusing. I'm going to say Michael Jordan's used 1998 Toyota Corolla. One careful, extraordinarily successfully tall owner. Michael Jordan's used 1998 Toyota Corolla. One careful, extraordinarily successfully tall owner. Michael Jordan's used underwear up for auction. You're right. A jockstrap. Is it a jockstrap? Well, yeah, that's what a jockstrap is.

It's starting price at $500. It's currently at $1,000. And I was trying to figure out how they even got it. Yeah, and so this was through Michael Jordan's ex-bodyguard. So his family is selling Michael Jordan's underpants. So I don't know how his old bodyguard got hold of his underpants, but it is what it is. That's not weird at all.

Yeah, I know. It's almost as weird as my friend Ben taking Justin Bieber's water bottle. It's up there. True. Underpants is one step further, though. He obviously took them and stored them in his pocket or something. His bodyguard. Yeah.

Shorty Jordan's like, oh, can you not? Yeah, it's a bit weird. It's really weird. How long have you had those for? I don't know. You didn't say anything. I know. So bizarre.

And that is the news and beeps for you this morning. Before 7 o'clock, I was brutally, brutally pranked by the team, but you guys, my friends, on Friday We caught them off guard. Still reeling for this unnecessarily, but we'll get to it before 7 on the hits. Taking over all your favourite song intros Jono and Ben, the hits.

It is the hits, Jono and Ben just reading and I guess it makes sense at the moment because everything's in lockdown but someone bought a house a few days ago without even going through it a four bedroom house in Nelson because because you can't see houses at the moment and I I'm guessing that's happening quite a lot I would have thought people would have been waiting till after lockdown uh but someone's bought a four bedroom house in Nelson uh they bought it from Wellington they were in Wellington they bought the house in Nelson and have never stepped foot in there.

Risky manoeuvre. It feels like if a couple was going into that scenario, someone's really taking a gamble in the relationship. All right. If you're okay, you're doing it. All right. I'm going to do it. I'm doing it.

But you've got, yeah, you can't. And I guess that's happening at the moment. I would have thought they'd be all on hold, the houses, you know. You didn't go to the auction of your whare, did you? No, we didn't go to the actual. I'd been into the house, but it's in that stage where we're looking at houses and we're like, yeah, we're never going to get it. You know, you're. You didn't go to the auction of your whare, did you? No, we didn't go to the actual, I'd been into the house, but it's in that stage where we're looking at houses and we're like, yeah, we're never going to get it. You know, you're in that sort of mood.

Disillusioned. You're beaten down by all the open homes. Much like the millennials at the moment. And then Amanda went to the auction with a friend of ours, because I was working, and then she rings up and she says, oh, we got the house. I'm like, what, what, what? Which one? Which one was this again? And then she, well, we got it. And I was like, how much? How much? Because,? Which one was this again? And then she went, we got it.

And I was like, how much? How much? Because, I mean, anyone could win an auction if they wanted to. Yeah. But the main thing is we got it. Yeah, but how much? How much money is leaving our account and going into the banks? We won the auction.

Yeah, but how much? It took a while to get to that. You know, we didn't want to hear the price and then work back from that. She also applies the same theory with clothes. Look at this. I got the dress. Yeah, but how much? I can dress it up, I dress it down, it's versatile. Yeah, but how much?

30% off. Exactly. Who was the friend that went for the... Oh, a friend of ours, Matt. Yeah, Matt. Matt also moved in, didn't he? Yeah, they're having a lovely time in their house together. I sleep out in the car.

It works for us. I still don't know how much they pay for it. It is the hits you got, John. I'm a bit. Scrolling through your feed. Can I just pull something up? Just as the song was ending. Ben, you shouted to Juliet.

Spread your legs. Spread your legs. Can you find the spread your legs? Audiogram. So this is an unusual sentence for me to hear. Everyone's using it now, right? Yeah, it's just part of the vernacular in Aotearoa now. All right, he's been panic-buying toilet paper

and panic-purchasing news stories. What's been happening overnight, Ben? Well, what a place. Spread your legs. Have you found it? Yes. Here you go. Look, it is a challenge in higher-density areas

for people to get outside and to spread their legs when they are chris hipkins a little bit of a faux pas at the press conference is now on a personalized number plate uh you can get uh sy legs or spread your legs uh it's basically out for grabs so right now you can go to trade me and they're raising money for charity which is nice. As soon as you want to go in and have a good old mock they pull out and they're raising money for charity and you can't do anything then.

None of the voids. Any conversation you want to have around mockery then. When was the last time you saw a personalised plate? There's a lack of them out and about now. There was an era where they were everywhere. Obviously on station vehicles, like the Hitz ones. The Hitz have got Hitz ones.

Yeah, they've got Fits. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, you're right. They don't quite seem as popular as they once... for outside work-related things, right? Yeah, they're all the rage, and then people would be gifted them and stuff for their birthdays. I remember my friend's dad, the family got one and he's like I don't like this

But then he felt a blow you know you've got the trouble on the car. Yeah, he has to put it on. Yeah Yeah, it's right if you got gifted one and you went into it. You what would you do? Yeah? If you are sweet, but yeah, it was like his nickname shunter or something So I don't want to wander around with, I don't like Carl Shunter on the license plate. And then I put in your nickname. He's like, yeah, but it's not a license plate. Today, though, as we mentioned before, four o'clock today, the Prime Minister will decide

if things go down a level for everyone outside of Auckland, and that happens at 11.59 tomorrow. You would think it would drop down to level two, but they have been talking about level two plus. A bit more digging into what level two plus could be. This is what it could be. This has been suggested by scientists. Yes.

You know, you're Michael Bakers of the world. Yeah, it is. A group of scientists have got together, and this is what they've suggested. This is not saying it's going to happen, but they are saying things like mandatory mask wearing indoors, basically limited gatherings to 25 people indoors, because it was up to 50 people, I think, under level two. And not opening things that could be considered super spreader places, such as bars, nightclubs, gyms and churches.

Now, that's been recommended. This is not what is going to happen. We'll find out today. It's going to be a level two plus. I noticed last week there was an article saying, you know, a lot of offices, they're going to need open air flowing through the office. A lot of offices around the place wouldn't have windows that open up, you know, they just rely on the air conditioning system, which I guess would be just filtering around COVID, circulating COVID.

There's going to be an interesting one getting back after this, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, particularly in Auckland, maybe outside of Auckland. Like, South Island haven't had any cases for a long, long time. You kind of feel like, I kind of feel sorry that they kind of caught up in all this. This is our thing. And we're sorry. We are dragging the rest of you down.

I know. You're like, we're not worried. We've done nothing. Has South Island even had a case? They have had some cases. There was that whole bluff cluster and stuff for a while. Of course, yeah. But not many in the grand scheme of things.

None in this currently. None for pretty much close to a year, I think. I reckon the rest of the country just file the papers to divorce from Auckland. Yeah. That's fine. This time. We'll take the kids on the weekend. It feels like that's the moment.

Yeah, it does. Be a better country. Yeah, and that is what's happening in New Zealand this morning. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Rise and shine. Time to start the, um, who are we kidding? When are the both of you?

Jono and Ben. The hits. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben, 6 hits You're on the hits, Jono and Ben 6.37 on your Monday morning Now after the show on Friday My friends, my colleagues and friends are from the show We're in the stage of lockdown, there's only

the four of us here and I thought we were a tight-knit group we'd really come together, but I was brutally pranked You were brutally pranked Out of nowhere It was the end of the week we'd finished the final show uh your guard was down your prank guard was down he's always a bit edgy he's always on high alert as to whether he's going to be pranked or not never know when it's

coming from but it was tools down it was tools down i thought it was you're relaxed yeah so we uh producer b humps is like hey we need to call Todd, Boss Todd after the show. There's something important he needs to talk to everyone about. Something's going on. We're like, oh, okay. So here we go. And as it transpired, just to give you a bit of a backstory, I had to put something on my Instagram account and I had to,

through the company here, and I had to boost it. I've never boosted anything before and it was really confusing me how the whole payment system works. Oh, yeah, it was confusing us hearing you talk about how confusing it was. I'm like, it's come to bill me for this and it's come through and I'm still with this. Now they're billing me $30. Now they're billing me $20.

I don't get it. I don't know if I've done the right thing. So you guys, you know, I came to you guys for questions, legitimate questions going, I don't know how this works, but you preyed on this weakness. We did.

We did. And got Boss Todd involved. Yeah, now Boss Todd, he phoned through after the show friday uh ben was exhausted this is the last thing he was expecting and he phoned through with an unexpected bill which had been attached to uh the hits breakfast social media account so someone from its breakfast admin has boosted a post and did we do an energizer campaign i'm doing something through that's personal,

and I boosted. I had to boost on that for my, but that's coming out of my account. Okay, all right. So. Because I can see she certainly wants it to work, mate. I think she's boosted it by 50 grand. No, but I had to do it personally on my thing.

Mate, I reckon I'm about to get hit. And this is your accounts, because you've got admin on our page? Have you got enough to cover it personally on my thing. I reckon I'm about to get... And that's because your account's... Because you've got admin on our page. Have you got enough to cover it? It might just bounce, I guess. I've got $50,000. $50,000. I'm not going to have to have it

because I'm just going through this email. Is this a f***ing gag or is this legit? So you can't recall anything, Ben, because they're saying here, I've been checking Ben Boyce because, what does it say here? He looks sus. Is it a f***ing gag? Is it a f***ing gag or is it not? No, that was the hardest one I've ever had.

So you were a little rattled After that weren't you I was a bit like well I'm still very confused With the whole boosting thing There's still a part of me going I might have done something wrong So yeah But you know okay Toddy You've had your little fun whatever you guys had your laugh But still over the weekend I'm like guys

Legitimately I'm still not sure What's confusing now tell us what boosting is Does it promote a video Why is it confusing you Do you just pay money to get it promoted I'm still not sure. What's confusing? Now tell us what boosting is. Does it promote a video? Yeah, it promotes a video. Why is it confusing you? Do you just pay money to get it promoted? Yeah, well I thought... What's so confusing about that?

Because they keep billing you. All sorts of weird denominations. I've had $100 bills. I've had about five $30 ones. I've had a $70 ones. Then they add like $70.58. I'm like, where did the $58 come from? The whole thing is very confusing.

And then it says I've spent the whole boosting budget. But I still haven't been invoiced. I'm just, where did the 58 come from? The whole thing is very confusing. And then it says I've spent the whole boosting budget, but I still haven't been invoiced. I'm just very confused. They're just taking money out of my account as we go. It seems like a bit of an odd play from Zuckerberg. Yeah. Does it? Seems like a lot of admin associated with 39 bills.

And then one stage they're like, oh, they stopped it. They're like, you need to pay this. This bill hasn't been paid. I'm like, what? Okay. So I redid my it. They're like, you need to pay this. This bill hasn't been paid. I'm like, what? Okay, so I redid my account. Then I was like, you're good to go again. I'm like, why did it stop you

from taking that $30 out of the account? It's all very, very confusing. Ironically, this might end up costing you $50,000. Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. There you go. You're going to think it's a prank too. That's it.

That's you got Jono and Ben. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The hits. It is a hits. Jono and Ben, a lot of parents around Aotearoa are having

to balance homeschooling with their work jobs at the moment, so we're going to help out for a small part. We've put together a Jono and Ben homeschool page, which you can get at the hits.co.nz or you can find in a few local papers around New Zealand. know, a small part. We've put together a John O'Byrne homeschool page, which you can get at the Hits.co.nz or you can find in a few local papers around the country. This will buy you at least 45 minutes.

Go do the bloody Hits thing. Go fill some time. Get away from me. It looks like a lot of fun. You can get it today in the Northern Advocate, the Rotorua Daily, Bay of Plenty Times, and the Whanganui Chronicle as well. It's going to be in the New Zealand Herald tomorrow, and also at the Hits.co.nz. And there's cashui Chronicle as well. It's going to be in the New Zealand Herald tomorrow. And also at the hitstock.nz.

And there's cash prizes for grabs as well, as judged by us. Kids love cash. One thing I know about kids, they'll work hard for that cash. So if you want to go check that out, you can do that right now, which is a nice little thing we're doing. Yeah, hitstock.nz is the website. Hey, Ju. Hello.

How are you? I'm great. How are you? I'm fine. Thank you very much for asking. You've got Spy coming up. Yes, I do. Piers Morgan has got a new job. More, Ju. Hello. How are you? I'm great. How are you? I'm fine. Thank you very much for asking. You've got Spy coming up. Yes, I do. Piers Morgan has got a new job. More information on that next. And as it hits, you've got Jono and Ben.

Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz Like a real spy, she's come to work in a trench coat. Trench coats, they're just designed for spies or pests, aren't they? In parks. I don't know. The trench coat really goes from one extreme to another. I've always wanted a trench coat. Yeah, I don't

know why, though. It's been tarnished with flashy behaviours in public parks, isn't it? Yeah, look at this. I mean, you get a lot of coverage and easy revealing. Yeah, is that why? I don't know why anyone would... What do you get? What's the joy out of flashing? Not us. Ben?

I don't know why I'm asking you. Don't put that on me. I don't know. I don't know. What are the best results they are hoping for out there? I don't know. Yeah. Should I get into Spy?

Yeah, get into Spy. Cool. So I mentioned last week that Piers Morgan was cleared of all 50,000 complaints by the British TV regulators, Ofcom, after he said all those things about Meghan Markle after her Oprah interview. Now, he has announced that he's got a new job coming up, which is going to be announced in a few weeks. He hasn't said what it is,

but he said he's asked them if I can go, I've asked them if I can go intergalactic. I want to go to outer space. That's a dream and that's what I want to do next. It's a very weird statement to make What was your theory Jono? Maybe he's working with Virgin Richard Branson

I want to actually talk about Richard Branson after 7 o'clock Because you can win a trip to space with Richard Branson I thought I saw his YouTube pop up there I'm Richard Branson I always pop someone YouTube up Sounds like an evil genius Would you like to go to space? I haven't seen those.

Oh, I'll play them for you after seven. I want to be targeted by that because I would love to go to space. Maybe you're not the space type. Maybe you're not, yeah. Damn it. I don't know why I'm being fed space commercials. Get them out of here. And in other news, Chrissy Teigen, she has celebrated 50 days sober.

Very impressive for her. I know our Anika Moa is also on a sober journey. Yeah, I heard actually something Anika talked about the other day on Stace, Mike and Anika. It's awesome that she's, you know, she's talking about these things. Committed to it as well. Yeah, and she had a wee moment, I think, she was sharing where she, you know, was in the supermarket during lockdown

and, you know, obviously feeling a bit like, do I need to go buy something, talk to a person, sort of talk to herself through, you know, they talk through it and good on her for, you know, being strong and doing, she's awesome man, what she's doing. It's very commendable. Totally, totally. How long has Anika been sober for? I can't quite remember, but it's

a decent chunk. I want to say around six months, but that could be very long, but it's been a wee while. And Brad Pitt has said something which I find very funny. It makes me think he's my grandpa. He says he has no style and that his clothes now that he's getting older are all about comfort now that he's older and, quote, crankier.

I'm like, yes, Brad Pitt. But also I'm like, no, you're not old. You don't think Brad Pitt's cranky. He doesn't seem cranky, does he? And he doesn't seem old either. Do you know, I'm starting to prefer comfort over style i really never had style though you've never once had your look oh now i'm in a stylish period yeah and i'm always in a comfortable period you've never once you're like you know i like comfort over style

yeah that's so you know sometimes clothes can be uncomfortable they might look great but you know sometimes they're a bit too tight. Just like me in lockdown, I come in either fat pants and a hoodie every day or leggings and a t-shirt. I like your fat pants and a hoodie combo. You know, I'd love to come wearing this on a normal day, but I think there's an expectation. If they could invent jeans that had the relaxed feel of track pants. Oh, you should.

I've got some with elasticated tops. They're great. Some brothers. Game changer. Game changer. He's wearing them. Oh, there he is. He's some with elasticated tops. They're great. Sun Brothers. They're great. Game changer. Game changer. He's wearing them. Oh, there he is. He's got jean track pants.

Wow. They're great. You would have got many pairs over the years given to you from Hell and Sun Brothers, and you probably never wore them once. No, I didn't. Yeah. And with your theory that your jeans are constantly getting tighter and tighter, they're probably quite a good thing for him.

They've got a drawstring, and they look beautiful. Someone's beaten me to the chase. There you go. The track pants jeans. And that is your spy update for this morning. For more,'s beaten me to the chase. The trap hand jeans. And that is your spy update for this morning. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After 7 o'clock on the show, we're joined by Art Green.

Celebrity Treasure Island is back on TVNZ2 tonight. You can catch it and we're going to put all the big questions to Art Green about what was it like? What could you bring? We talked about some of the celebrities get busted for taking contraband. Did he get busted on the island? We'll find out. It is the Hins. Oh, legends.

You guys are legends. Oh, you're legends. Jono and Ben's ISO Legends. Thanks to Skinny. It's very cool. Those paying tribute to the essential workers keeping the country operating, keeping us moving, and you can nominate someone who deserves it at the Hits.co.nz.

We're going to call a person up daily and reward them with a great prize. Yeah, this is our way of giving back to the community for spreading, not a virus, for spreading joy and happiness, Ben. And legs. And legs, that's right. Don't forget the legs. Hey, we're going to go through today to a gentleman who's been nominated by his partner, working for the New Zealand police as an emergency call operator. That's cool. I've never spoken to an emergency call operator. Sam speaking that's cool. I've never spoken to an emergency...

Oh, Sam speaking. Hello, is that Sam? Yes, it is. Emergency call operator. Yes. Firstly, this is not an emergency. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station.

Oh, hello. Oh, hello. Good morning. Now, we understand you've been doing some great work of now. You've been nominated for... Can you explain what you do for a job?

Yes, I'm just an emergency call handler, so yeah, taking 111 emergency calls. Gee whiz, that must be an intense job at times. Yeah, it is at times. Yeah, I can imagine. Do people prank you?

Yeah, occasionally. You'd hope not, though. No. You'd hope not, though. You'd hope not. I never had the, I never, I could never go through with a 111 prank. Well, no, because it's an emergency line you're tying up. That's right. And so what sort of calls are you getting at the moment, Sammy? Just a wide range of calls.

The usual calls and, yeah, a lot of different new COVID calls and things, but yeah. Do you do this job from home or do you have to go into an office? We do it from the office, yeah. Yeah, right, and you're also a volunteer ambulance officer as well. Yes, I am. Oh, my gosh.

As if one job wasn't already doing enough, then you double down with two just to make me feel more worse about my life. You've been nominated by someone who say you do great work, you remain positive, and you're a huge help to the community. You are a legend by the sounds of it and we want to reward you thanks to our mates at Skinny with a $500 pack and save voucher and six months of Skinny credit as well

just to say thank you so much for everything you're doing. It hasn't gone unnoticed. Oh, wow, that's awesome. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. You're nominated by Stefan and Claudia, by the way. Who are they? Oh, they're my flatmates. They're your flatmates.

Well, what wonderful flatmates. And they can reap the rewards with this $500 supermarket voucher. I see why they nominated you. Selfishly. It all makes sense now. Hey, lovely to talk to you. And thanks again for everything you're doing. Awesome.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. See you, Sam. There you go. And if you want to nominate someone, head to the hitstockcode.nz all day this week. Every day this week we'll be giving away a prize. I'm telling yourself off. Oh, come on, Ben.

You're better than all day this week. Now I have to get disappointed in myself. Skiddy, of course, they're giving everyone that's on their scale. Anyway, Skiddy, no, I'm going to get through. I'm going to get through. Here we go. Come on, Ben.

You got this. Skiddy will help me, the Cap Wireless Broadband customers get through lockdown with free data, 60 gigs of free data to all the Cap Wireless Broadband customers. There you go.

I got it. All right, moving on with the show. Rise and shine. Time to start the, who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jono and Ben, the hits.

It is the hits. Jono and Ben The hits It is the hits Jono and Ben Leon Rimes Can't Fight the Moonlight was from Coyote Ugly that song the big movie and the movies versus TV shows

sorry the 90s versus 2000s movies and TV shows taking place again after 9 o'clock this morning It's been fun listening to that it's been really good

now I know this is risky because I've felt the burn of this sort of content before, but when I bring to the show commercials that I'm being fed on the internet, it's a risky game for me because then it sort of leads back to what you've been searching on the internet. You haven't had a very good track record so far. Not a great track record. One I bought, I was like, oh, you're getting this guy, Bobby Rio, teaching you.

He always adds about how to date and how to pick up all these girls. How to flirt in the office and stuff. You guys getting served these ads and everyone else is like, no. And you never feel more lonely in your life than when you pitch something that you think everyone. You're like, I'm sick of this guy. You're like, what? Who's this guy? So anyway, that wasn't a good track

record. Then there was another one where it was about the colour of your bathroom. My stools. Yeah, yeah, st we all heard that but that streamed over the live stream too that came out over the audio anyway so i'm a bit nervous about this but uh hopefully you uh you're also experiencing this on the internet you're probably uh listening here have seen these as well so richard branson with very futuristic commercials on winning a trip for two to space yes i i have been served this ad i'm with you on this one yeah great so richard branson would you like a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to space and have a listen to it i'm richard branson and i have a once in a lifetime invitation for you

would you like to travel to space well i recently flew aboard a virgin galactic space flight alongside an incredible crew and had the most remarkable experience so i'm watching this video and he's in this futuristic crazy blue space suit which has been sort of bespoke made by under armor or something yeah and you're watching you're like am i actually this is one of those moments we're like am i actually watching this is this a thing to win a trip for two to space are we there i mean there's no better time to gap it from earth at the moment to be honest yeah well i guess in some ways we're there well he's there i mean the rest of us aren't really there unless we can win a competition or unless we're millionaires. You know, like we're not all ready to book tickets.

You know, the bubble hasn't opened up with space yet. We're still waiting for that bubble. Over the border. I don't think space wants our problems. No. But it reminds me of the Willy Wonka years when it was like, come to my factory. It's the same sort of thing, isn't it?

Who would like to go to space? It's a golden ticket. I'm going to enter. I'm going to enter. Would you like to go to space with Richard Branson? I would love to go to space. You've got to talk like that, though. That's the only condition. It also shows on the video, too. You can Google it as well.

His space factory. It looks like something that Bruce Wayne would own. It's like Wayne Enterprises. It's like Batman's cave. It's very futuristic. Well, that's the thing now, though. Jeff Bezos, of course, the Amazon... I've already been to space. Yeah, yeah. Oh, you have.

Yeah, I thought it was you. I thought that was you, but it was Jeff Bezos. But he was, you know, he's the founder of Amazon, and he's already been up there in that rocket that looked very, very phallic. Phallic, yeah, it was. It was like, yeah. Jesus, what were you thinking? No part of the design process did anyone go, hey, does that look like a...

Well, maybe that was the intention to Alola. He's like, if I'm going to go to space, this is the way I'm going to do it. And then maybe he's getting feedback ads about how to flirt better because of the space rocket. I reckon what we need to do is we all need to sacrifice the prize, don't enter Juliet, but we need to send a flat earther up there. And they'll really shut down the whole argument. You go to space with Richard Branson and you look out that window. Once in a lifetime.

It doesn't seem like a once in a lifetime opportunity when you're being fed the ad every 10 minutes. No, that's true. We've got $5,000 on the line with 5 words 5k, that's very shortly, as well as Art Green joining us and as the hits, you've got Jono and Ben. 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. And as the hits. Jono and Ben, 7.23. It was a big weekend for sport yesterday on Father's Day as well. The All Blacks, great victory over the Wallabies last night. And the Warriors ended the season with, you know, anyway, next year.

Warriors fan, next year. Let's move on to next year. Do you know, every year I've been working with him, he's gone, next year, next year. You hold out hope for this following year. It's like us with COVID, isn't it? Next year, we'll get to him, he's gone, next year, next year. You hold out hope for this following year. It's like us with COVID, isn't it? Next year, we'll get to Christmas, it's all gone. Same thing we say to our bosses all the time when they say our performance on the radio is not good. I'm like, yeah, next year.

Wait till next year, guys. A couple of shaky games. There was a chance we were going to come through, but we didn't and we never do. Wait till next year. Hey, next on the show, Art Green joining us. Love Art Green coming on the program because he increases the show's hotness by about 95%.

I'm pulling the average down. Ben, you're holding us up. You keep us just head above water stuff. But Art Green next because he's on Celebrity Treasure Island tonight. Yeah. And you imagine how fewer items of clothing he will have on. Oh, yeah. I'm imagining it.

Yeah, that's definitely a reason to watch. And we'll talk to Art Green next about what it's like filming Celebrity Treasure Island. Art, you're not a piece of meat. Sorry, mate. I shouldn't treat you like that, should I? I don't know, for gag purposes. It is the hits. It is the hits.

John, I'm being on your Monday morning. Of course, we are still in various stages of lockdown right around New Zealand. So great week to be releasing some new TV shows. We've got a new show, actually, John O'Bien Good Sports. It starts Thursday night, 8pm on TVNZ2. We'll tell you more about that after 8 o'clock and how you can win some money with the show.

If anything, government, can you extend lockdown today? Don't drop anyone down levels. In fact, put the South Island back up to four so no one can leave their house. That's right. Yeah, that's what we're campaigning four so no one can leave their house. That's right. That's what we're campaigning for, but purely for selfish ratings reasons. Yeah, not so good for the economy.

Although we're giving away $500 cash when you watch the show, so, I mean, that's... That's stimulating. Yeah. Anyway, we'll get more to our show after 8 o'clock because on TV tonight on TVNZ, to a brand-new series of Celebrity Treasure Island. Right now, 21 celebrities are headed our way. And like me, they signed up for a tropical getaway.

But not this time around. This treasure hunt is taking place right here in Aotearoa, in the far north, and I can't wait. And this series of Celebrity Treasure Island is going to be like nothing you've seen before. Yeah, never seen the treasure on Celebrity Treasure Island is going to be like nothing you've seen before. Yeah, never seen the treasure on Celebrity Treasure Island, not once, but we are joined by one of the stars, one of the celebs, Art Green. How are you?

Oh, good, guys. Do you only sign up for TV shows where you can take your shirt off? Is that something that you do? Because great play if you do, because that's all we want to see. No, actually, I think this has just happened like that,'s all we want to see. I don't know, actually. I think this has just happened like that, but I guess I could probably write that in as a prerequisite. Yeah.

It only shows that they put me on as a, can you please put on more clothing, if anything. Talk to us about Celebrity Treasure Island, because obviously we're going to see the version on television, the drama that happens, and no doubt there's going to be drama, because you've got people at the end of their wits and tired hungry there'll be a few snappy moments does it get awkward when there's

no filming happening oh yeah there are definitely some personalities that clash a little more than others some heated arguments tend to go down once all the camera crews and stuff have left and gone home for the day and we're sort of left left with nothing really to do but talk to one another. Now, the big question, like I watch it and I go, and maybe with cynical eyes, I'm like, is this legit? Or at the end of the day when the camera's stopped rolling and you're going back to a hotel and sipping on cocktails, you know, is that happening?

No, that didn't happen at all. I've heard that happen in like previous seasons. The wild 90s, they were wrapping up the day and sipping on cocktails, weren't they? Yeah. So the celebrities are actually doing it. They're doing it tough. They're sleeping. I imagine it gets cold. I imagine, as John has said before, you guys get hungry. So you're doing it. It's legit. Yeah, it's fully legit. Like we're camping out in these really cool cabin-y hut things on the beach. And, you know, some people kind of struggle with that.

But I kind of was just like, hey, this is great. I'm just, you know, kind of having a holiday on the beach, you know, a little break from the kids. If anything, can this go on for longer? How was that? Because you've got two very young kids. How was that when you were like, hey, Matilda, guess what I'm doing? I'm going off to hang out with celebrities on the beach.

Yeah, it was a very carefully constructed conversation. You really need to come in with a good angle. Charity? Yeah. Charity, 100 grand for charity. That's a good angle, right? 100 grand for charity. I don't know what else I bartered,

but I managed to somehow get her to agree to it. Because at the time, we filmed earlier on this year, and at the time, Maddie was pregnant with our little girl, Autumn. So she wasn't, like, feeling 100%. You know, Milo was, I don't know, going through different sleep regressions or whatever happens at different periods of time. It's all such a blur in the first couple of years.

I can't even remember. But, you know, it wasn't easy for her. So it was a bit of a challenge, you know. I always wonder with those things, like, well, I mean, I pack to go away for a weekend or a week and I'm a shambles. I'm like, what if it's cold? What if it's hot? What if there's a swimming pool?

You know, all those sorts of things. But what can you pack for something like this? Are they strict? Are they saying you can only bring a small bag? I mean, what are you allowed? You're allowed one big duffel bag and you can basically wear whatever you want. I just ended up wearing pretty much the same clothes every day. I think the longest I went was the same pair of undies for four days. All four days? That's a good stretch. Did they give you a mozzie spray? Yeah, they did actually.

They gave us mozzie nets, but we have to kind of hide away the mozzie nets so that we look a little bit like when they're filming. I heard they had mozzie nets. What was the hardest thing for you or any of the competitors? Was it the hunger? Was it the sleep deprivation? Was it the challenge? I mean, what's the hardest thing when you or any of the competitors? Was it the hunger? Was it the sleep deprivation? Was it the challenge? I mean, what's the hardest thing when you're out there?

Right. The hardest thing for me was probably being away from the family, especially at that point in time when I knew Maddie was at home, you know, growing a baby inside her and then also looking after Milo outside her. That was really hard. And it's just, you know, having no communication at all. Like, it's fine when you're away from work and stuff

and you're FaceTiming every day, but having no communication is quite challenging. And then I guess the food situation, you know, I practice fasting for fun. So not having that much food is not really an issue for me. He practices fasting for fun. Yeah. It's just a little bit of fun.

Yeah, it sounds like fun. You do ice baths and all sorts. You just a little bit of fun. Yeah, it sounds like fun. You do ice baths and all sorts. You're a madman, Green. The other question I have to say, and you don't have to say if you got eliminated or if you won or whatever, but when contestants were voted off the island, did they go

immediately? They're boom, they're out, they're on a bus back to Auckland. Yep. As soon as you're out, you're out. You get to say some quick goodbyes, jump in the car with one of the crew, and then they've got your bags for you, and you're just straight on out.

You don't even really get to say more than just a quick goodbye to everyone. Yeah, you're out. See you later. Does anyone end up getting married on the island? Is it like Love Island? Yeah, yeah. Or The Bachelor?

Were there some romances on the island? That it like Love Island? Yeah. Or The Bachelor? Were there some romances on the island? That's another question. Oh! I'm guessing it's not you. Well, I hope it's not us. It's going to be a huge scandal. You know, you've been told

or you'd be like, you knew the game but when I came into it, that's how we met. I've ended up marrying someone else. The Briscoe's lady. That's what you did on this reality show.

Yeah. I, Art Green, always love catching up with you. Can't wait to see Celebrity Treasure Island tonight. And mainly I'm just tuning in to see your torso, okay? And I want you to know that. Okay, thanks, man. That helps me sleep at night. Five words for 5K on the hits.

You're only five words away from a massive payday. Really love playing this game, a chance to give someone $5,000 if we all do it correctly. Jeez, it'd be a great day to win five grand, wouldn't it, on Monday? Really putting the party into Monday. It's like slapping a party hat on something that traditionally you wouldn't see with a party hat on. Like when you take your granddad out from the retirement village for his birthday and you put a party hat on him and he looks like he is hating life yeah he just wants to get back there doesn't he take me back where i belong kate you're on how are you in christchurch this morning good morning guys how are you i'm doing really well you're working from home this morning i am indeed what do you do kate i'm a project coordinator for an engineering company okay i'm going to pretend

i know what that is yeah it sounds very back to coordinating more projects later in the week? Yes. Yeah, see where we go. There's some chat, generic chat about your job. Kate, we understand you would go on a big trip around Altair if you won this $5,000. Yes, I would indeed, yep. Giving back to this fine country by stimulating its economy.

All right, Kate, who's going into the soundproof booth to match words with? I would love Jono, please. Jono! I mean, Boyce has been the choice over the last week. It's been the Boyce choice, but I'll reacquaint myself. There we go. Jono's going to head around to the soundproof booth. He hasn't been in there for a while, so hopefully this is a good opening for you, Kate.

He's shut the door, and we're ready to go. Here is your first word this morning. What pops into your head when I say slow? Slow. Fast. Was that, Producer Juliet, that was what you were thinking? Yep, same with me. Jigsaw is number two this morning.

Jigsaw. Puzzle. Puzzle, yep, puzzle. What are you whispering? I said easy. She's got it in the bag It's only two from five I don't want to jinx it though

I feel like you have Kate, your next word is pet P-E-T, pet Dog There we go Outdoor is word number four This morning, outdoor That's a hard one I'm going to go with is word number four this morning. Outdoor.

Oh, that's a hard one. I'm going to go with, because we've been in lockdown, I'm thinking maybe something like activity. Oh, yeah. Or, yeah, activity. Let's go activity. Outdoor activity. I like the way you're thinking. That's good. And Nike is the final word this

morning. Nike. Nike. Nike. Oh, that's a hard one. Yeah, it's a wide open one, that one, isn't it? Shoe. Nike. Shoe, not shoes. Okay, we're just confirming that. Shoe?

Oh, yeah. Not that I'm thinking you should go shoes. I just need to confirm these things sometimes. Should I? Oh, God. Shoes. Yeah, let's go S. We'll add an S. I just need to confirm these things sometimes. Should I? Oh, God. Shoes. Yeah, let's go S. We'll add an S.

Are you going to add an S? Okay, I feel like I talked you into that for no reason, no agenda. I was just wanting to clarify because sometimes those extra S's have tripped us up. All right, I'm going to get Jono out of the soundproof booth, and we'll find out if you can match all five words this morning, and you can walk away on a Monday with $5,000. Ben, are things going okay at home? I've got a lot of clothes in there.

A lot of Ben's clothing and personal belongings are in the soundproof booth. Yeah, no, I'm living in the soundproof booth. Something you want to talk about? Yeah, living in there. If things aren't okay, you can always come to my house. Not with my, but I can't. Yeah, soundproof booth is probably the best option. It's in my bubble.

How'd you go, Kate? Hopefully all right. Producer Juliette called it early. She's like, she's got it. So it's all on you now, Jono. How early did you call it? Two words in. She's got it.

Just for me to stuff it up. All right, Kate, let's do it. Let's win you 5K. First word I said to Kate was slow. Slow. I'd go fast. Yeah, well done. She's do it let's win you 5k first word i said to kate was slow slow i'd go fast yeah well done she's got it jigsaw jigsaw puzzle no this is where we're this is where juliet was saying she's got it see she's got it see why you said she's good okay you got it and i said no everybody got two words out of five pet is word number three pet dog oh

jokes aside maybe she has got it we got two more words to get your five thousand dollars here we go outdoor is word number four outdoor uh i'll stick with indoor. Where did you go? I went activity. Outdoor activity, which does work. It does work. It was one of those ones that was lots of options, as well as this final one.

Nike. Nike. Nike shoes. Oh, no. Four out of five. Oh, no. Four out of five. Oh, jeez. Bugger. That's all right, guys.

You almost had it. Juliet said you had it. She should have put the word almost in front of it. Yeah, so close, Kate. I'm so sorry. Thanks so much for letting me play. I hope we get to do it again. You were so close.

Fingers crossed. Another chance tomorrow. Same time, same place. $5 get to do it again. You were so close. Fingers crossed. Another chance tomorrow. Same time, same place. $5,000 on the line. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. It's Happier. It is the hits.

Jono and Ben hanging out with you on a Monday morning. Spy. The WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. All right, around here we call her the undertaker because she's ready to bury another celebrity's career and spy what's happening juliet so ed sheeran's song called visiting hours it's his most uh recently released song has been compared to an australian song called stormy weather and the writer of uh the song stormy weather literally couldn't believe it

when he first heard ed sheeran's song was like wow that is similar this is it back to back and then the article that i read this from went to the effort of mashing them together which is another step. It's kind of weird when you hear it like that. The melody is identical. Can't argue that. Not even Sharon could argue that if they put that in front of him in a court of law. But it's quite interesting because

Ed Sheeran wrote this song when he was in quarantine in Australia before performing it at a man called Michael Gudinski's memorial service. He was kind of seen as the father figure of the Australian music industry. So Ed wrote it in Australia and the writer of the song isn't going to do anything

about it. He's not going to sue Ed Sheeran because he doesn't believe that he ever really heard the song. We were saying it must happen all the time. You know, artists would have melodies in their head as we all do from songs that they've heard previously, but not necessarily go, I'm going to plagiarise that song.

Yeah, I was watching this really interesting thing on YouTube as well, where they're breaking down lots of songs and comparisons. And this guy, I thought, sums it up really well when he talked about music. It's indisputable that the chord structure is similar. There's a problem with this, though. And that is that music is more than just the chords that you play.

If music was just the chords being played, every single pop singer would be suing each other because they all use the exact same chords. There's not just the chords. There's the melody. There's the lyrics. There's the instrumentation. There's the rhythm. There's the structure of the song. And also there's the vocals, the's the instrumentation, there's the rhythm, there's the structure of the song,

and also there's the vocals, the vocal style, the vocal tone. Yeah, because some people are getting sued for the same chords, and he's saying, well, it's more than just that. Who wrote the song, Ju? A man called Nick Gill, I think his name is, but the girl that's singing it is a woman called Abby Yayo. He's a radio announcer, this guy. Yeah, he is. Why can't you write a song that Ed Sheeran rips off, Ben? We have something to talk about.

We just rip him off. We did that last week, actually. Actually, no one passed that on to Ed Sheeran. He could sue us. And in other news, it's crazy to read this, but it's been 15 years as of a couple of days ago since Steve Irwin passed away. And Bindi Irwin has, if you follow Bindi Irwin on social media, you'll see many photos of A, animals, and B, her daughter. And her daughter is very cute.

That is a cute baby. There's a lot of ugly babies out there. Let's not lie, but that is one of the cuties. You wouldn't even have to lie when you met that baby. I know, I know. And so Bindi has said that they're honouring her father by her daughter. That is one of the cuties. You wouldn't even have to lie when you met that baby. I know, I know. And so Bindi has said that they're honouring her father by her daughter. Her daughter watches Grandpa Crocodile on the projector all the time.

So that's what they've nicknamed him. And she's got a little khaki shirt on as well, her daughter. So cute, I literally can't. I think that's just part of the gene pool, isn't it? That you'd have to dress in khaki for the entire duration of your life. I know. She says she wishes that her father, Steve, could give her daughter, Grace, a little cuddle. But she knows that his legacy's passed on, which is beautiful.

Sweet. And finally, Lorde was meant to be performing at the MTV Music Awards in a couple of weeks' time, but she's pulled out due to a change in production elements. I don't know what that means. It seems like a bit of a cover-up to me. i couldn't get her plus one in yeah i want to get her mate in there they're like no mate can't spare a ticket she's like well i'm out yeah they played hardball yeah so unfortunately she won't be there but justin beaver will be and i'm very excited he

hasn't performed on or been at the mtv awards for a while i have a question is it going to be in front of an audience or is it going to be virtual? Where's America at with these events? Well, I would say it would probably still be reasonably socially distant, but they'll have people there. They seem to be having a lot more crowds and stuff now. They're kind of the opposite. Remember when we were the ones, you know, gloating about, you know. Now we look above and beyond. 60,000 people at the rugby in Perth yesterday. I saw something on the news last night and they had US college football had crowds for the first time in, you know, almost a year.

And my God, these are just college games. There was like 90,000 people in the same wild seat. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, it was crazy. So crazy. How crazy was it?

It's crazy. That was crazy. And then a spy. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz After 8 o'clock More crazy stuff guys It's a crazy show After 8 o'clock

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You're with Jono and Ben on the hits. We've got a brand new TV show. It starts this week. Jono and Ben Good Sports. And we're going to tell you very shortly how you can win some money. It's really cool. It's a really fun show. We go around New Zealand finding people that are some good sports that play good sports.

Some unusual, unique sports. Yeah, so the name, the title works on a couple of levels, doesn't it? Because they're playing good sports. Yeah, so the name, the title works on a couple of levels, doesn't it? Because they're playing good sports and they turned out to be actually some really genuinely lovely New Zealanders doing this job and it seems like such a cliche. Oh, we went around, we met some really great people. It was great to go and

shake hands. But they're actually awesome people. Yeah, it was really lots of fun. Now people that take part in unique things like Quidditch, barefoot water skiing, lawnmower racing, chilli eating, bathtub racing, so it's a lot of fun. We'll tell you how you can win some money soon. Yep, and also it's going to

be on Thursday night. We haven't seen when it's going to be. It's going to be 8pm Thursday night after Police 10-7, so if we manage to make the wanted list this week, it could be an hour and a half of full coverage on TV2 this Thursday. Now we are plugging the show this week, and we went on Have You Been Paying Attention?

Friday night on TVNZ2, and we got mercilessly mocked. Yeah. Well, out of anyone who has gone through their entire career not making fun of anybody, you and me, I can't remember the last person I poked fun at, I've led a blemish-free career, like Simon Barnett would be jealous of the cleanliness of my career.

It's been a while since we had a TV show cancelled a couple of years ago. It's nice to be back on TV. And then Ursula Carlson, we thought she was a friend of the show. We have her on here every week. Comedian, she had this to say. 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. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben, on your Monday morning. As we mentioned before, we've got a brand new TV show. It starts Thursday night, TVNZ 2.

8 o'clock, it's called Jono and Ben Good Sports. We go on the search of Kiwis that play unique sports around New Zealand. Robot battles, wrestling. A lady pulls a truck, a 10-ton truck. Shana pulls a truck this week. No one had passed the memo on to Shana that you can actually just turn the key on the ignition and they can...

No, true. Law and Bar Racing, Quidditch. Yeah, the people that play Quidditch. Yeah, I know how much you love Harry Potter. I know. Harry Potter. Yeah. Well, basically, if you can hold a broomstick between your legs and run around,

you've made the New Zealand Quidditch team. It's a really fun sport. Barefoot water skiing as well. Actually, when we were doing it, I was like, this sport was just invented by someone who forgot to bring their water skis one day. They couldn't be bothered turning around to go home. You're quite good at it. You're actually surprisingly good at it.

I don't know why. I have no expertise in skiing or on the water. So check it out. It's going to be a lot of fun. Jono and Ben, Good Sports, Thursday night, 8pm on TBNZ2. And if you watch it as well, we've got a We Watch and Win. You basically just text your name through the number on the screen, and then the next morning we read out that name,

and you have 60 seconds to call up and win $500 cash. Oh, there's a carrot being dangled, my friend. You're offering up money for people to watch the TV show. $500 cash is pretty cool. And then a jackpot if that doesn't get one to the next week. So it could go up to $1,000. We feel it's our duty and responsibility to let everyone in Aotearoa know about this programme. So one by one, we're going to be calling them this week.

It's a lot of personal time we're putting into this. Yeah, we're in lockdown, so we've got nothing else to do. And so here's the first call we're going to make. We're going to head to uh it's the random number bluff yes going to bluff batch cafe amber speaking hi amber how are you good how are you good just checking what you're doing thursday night at eight o'clock? I'm not too sure, sorry. What would you usually be doing on a Thursday night at 8 o'clock?

Probably in bed. In beds? That's early bedtime. Early bedtime, but that's all right. Would you stay up for another hour just to watch Jono and Ben's Good Sports on TVNZ2? I might not, but I'll pass you to Gareth. Hang on, you haven't heard about the show.

Let us do the sell. Don't come in with I might not. I probably wouldn't. What? You'd not even like the I'll give it to the first ad break and see if I like it sort of thing? I mean maybe, but then at the same time I'm not so much a TV girl.

Well, the TVNZ on Demand's always an option, too. I used to watch that for Shortland Street, but that was about it. Oh, okay. We're on after, not far after Shortland Street. There's Shortland Street, then Police 107, then we're on. Oh. Yeah, and it's like we go around New Zealand looking for people that play really unique sports like Quidditch, bathtub racing, speed cubing, medieval fighting.

Wrestling. Oh, Jesus. Beer for water skiing. Chili eating. Your lady pulls a truck this week, a 10-ton truck. I mean, there's a lot going on. Ben vomits because he eats too many hot chilies. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, it sounds good. It does. It does. Have we sold you? Yeah. Oh. You. We've got to call everyone in New Zealand.

This is taking a lot longer just for one person. Most people have either said yes or no. Well, you said no, but we've tried to talk you around. I'll say yes. Just to end this. End the conversation. And we will be calling you on Friday morning to see how you enjoyed the show. Okay.

Okay, I'll make sure everyone watches here. How about we send you out some Hell Pizza? We've got some Hell Pizza vouchers, and you can have that while you watch the show. How's that sound? Oh, stop it. That sounds great. Okay, there you go.

Bribery at its finest. There you go. You're right. The pizza was good. The show was terrible. It was bribery and desperation from us just then. I'm sorry. Yeah, it was.

We came along a little too despo, didn't we? Yeah, I know. No, we've come a long way. We have. You hold the line, we'll get someone to send you down some pizza vouchers. Oh yeah, you'd love that. Alright, hold the line, buddy.

One by one, that's the first person off the team of five million off the list. So I hope you guys have got nothing else to do today, because we're going to be playing calls to everyone in New Zealand. Tediously informing them of the show. TVNZ 2 this Thursday, 8pm. Jono and Ben, good sports. Can't wait.

It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben? We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about him. Sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Ben.

Breakfast on the hits. The hits. The hits. Since you've been gone, Kelly Clarkson, it is The Hits. Jono and Ben, 10 minutes away from this. The Hits, 90s versus 90s. Today, it's Movie Monday. The Hits.

Continuing our daily battle, our weekday battle on The Hits to see which is the best era, the 90s or the 2000s. Again, looking at which had the best movie songs. Can I just say I love this mega club mix of Jurassic Park. Yeah, the biggest movie song. It's been a joy and it's been a lot of fun. If you were to pick the biggest movie song, let me

ask you, Benjamin Boyce, what do you think is the biggest movie song of all time? Of all time? Not taking into whether it's the 90s or the noughties. Let's go off the top of my head. Celine Dion, the one from Titanic. My heart will go on.

That's what I was thinking too. Do you know what? I love both of your heads. And I love the top of them the best because you're dead right. Oh, well, yeah. Yeah. It's good. Ghostbusters 2 is the other one.

Oh, Ghostbusters. Da-na-na-na-na. Da-na-na-na. Oh, you know how it goes. You don't need me doing it with my mouth. Who are you going to call? They never gave the phone number though, did they? Oh.

Who are you going to call? Ghostbusters. maybe it was one of those uh word numbers you know that you have to try and figure out the letters on your phone ghostbusters or something yeah you're right they never nailed didn't nail down on that did they yeah well you know you have to do a lot of work you know particularly back in the day you'd have to go to a thing called the phone book registered oh throwback yeah and it's a big fat yellow book say yeah that's right phone books juliet so this is uh old old people regaling stories of when they were younger yeah uh but yes it is the uh the movies uh taking on the movies of the 90s taking on the movies from the noughties in terms of uh soundtracks and ben boyce you're wanting to put one forward which comes as no surprise yeah i want to put a song forward for one of my favourite movie songs from the 90s.

I mean, you know, the song about the movie, and this was a hit song too, right? Yeah, it was. Before Israel Dag did it in the Air New Zealand ads. Which made it even bigger. Yeah, this was a song. Men in Black, Will Smith. Check this out right now, it is a hit. It's Will Smith, Men in Black, from the 1997 movie of the same name.

It is the hits, gentlemen. Ben? Do you know I'm just in an internet hole of Will Smith facts that will have your jaw on the ground. Fact one, he's awesome. Is that number one? Fact number one, he's awesome. Fact number two, Ben Boyce is his biggest fan. But do you know that he's been his adult height since he was 13 years old? Oh, really?

He's six foot two consistently since he was 13. He would have been at 13 going, how big am I going to get? It's tall for a 13-year-old, but you would think, geez, is he going to get like seven foot or something? He can solve a Rubik's Cube in 55 seconds. I have seen him solve a Rubik's Cube. He's very good. That was for the movie The Pursuit of Happiness

where the character needed to do it. And the other one is, he's held the Guinness World Record for the most public appearances in 12 hours, which was three movie premieres in England. The most public appearances. Oh, really? Oh, come on.

Surely that could be beaten. Yeah, that's achievable. The 90s taking on the 2000s again. It's happening in just a few moments. You have yourself a great day, and we'll catch you tomorrow morning from 6 o'clock.