Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Caught Up With Jacinda Ardern, Singer Anne-Marie & Instagram Duo The Inspired Unemployed!

Episode Date: June 16, 2021

A star-studded show! We caught up with Jacinda Ardern, and we discussed the weirdest thing she's done as Prime Minister, & who the most annoying person in her job is... We also caught up with British singer Anne-Marie who explained the story about how she got slapped in the face by a shark in South Africa. The Aussie boys from The Inspired Unemployed also popped in for a chat, and if you don't know who they are, you must search them up on Instagram! Finally, we continued on the chat from yesterday about how your life is like a movie and we had some more cracking stories. Today's a goodie, enjoy!!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Boys, what sort of apple are you tucking into there? Is that an Ambrosia? What are we looking, Gala?

I think it was... Hold it up, I'll tell you what brand it is. Nah, we'll just put it on. Pride myself on gnome Apples. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What? A rose.

A rose. Yeah. Yeah. To a stock extent. There's so many brands of apples nowadays, isn't there? Were we talking about this the other day? Possibly. Different.

We're talking about a lot of stuff. Different types of apples. Let's have a look here. Is it Pacific Rose? What's that? There's Ambrosia. Let's have a look here. Is it Pacific Rose? There's Ambrosia. There's Pink Pearl. Black Diamond. Who knew there was a black apple?

Really? Pitch black apple. There's, oh my God. Pink Lady. I don't mind a Pink Lady. Pink Lady's quite good, so yeah. Yeah. You were saying you began to, we have been talking about it, green apples. That's right. Yeah, I hadn't had a pink lady. Pink lady's quite good, so yeah. Yeah. You were saying you began to green.

We have been talking about it. Green apples, haven't we? That's right. Yeah, I hadn't had a green apple in ages. I haven't had a green apple. Mum used to put them in my lunchbox every day, so maybe I was like, oh, I've got my fill of green apples. My nana, I remember my nana when she was alive,

she used to have a green apple, but now you say it, she used to get the potato peeler, and she would peel off all the green skin around the outside to eat it. So she obviously didn't like the skin of the green apple, but she liked the flavoring of it. It does have a different flavor to it. Okay, let's play a game. One for one, who can name a type of apple?

Oh, jeez, I wouldn't have. I'll try, but I... Okay. Okay. Braeburn. Gala. Granny Smith Pink Lady

Pacific Rose It gets quite hard doesn't it Try not to look at my computer But I'd love to look at my computer right now Envy Oh that's a good one The Apple computer The Jazz Apples Jazz Apples I like The Jazz Apples.

Jazz Apples. Oh, the Jazz Apples. I like them Jazz Apples. The Big Apple, New York City. Pray be. Apple, the daughter of Chris Martin. And the Gwyneth Paltrow, yeah. Ambrosia.

Now you're looking at your computer, aren't you? No. Jonah Gold. You definitely Jonah Gold you definitely are you definitely are McIntosh yeah he is look at his computer Gravenstein

hey we've got a big show for you today apart from talking about apples we've got Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister we had her with some tough questions

about the America's Cup and I think she was expecting that how you like that now Jacinda how you like them apples she actually

she handled it really well yeah she did she was like oh listen we you like that now? How you like them apples? She actually handled it really well. Yeah, she did. She was like, oh, listen, we've put up 100 mil. Yeah. That's all we can do. Yeah. And you're like, oh, fair enough. Over to them.

Yeah. That's all we can do. We don't want to see it go away. Yeah. But that's all we can afford. They're really good at outside. They don't get flustered, the good politicians, do they? No.

I find you catch them off guard when you throw them with quirky questions. Remember leading up to the election and we'd be like, if you were to be a flavour of pancake, what flavour would you be? That really trips them up. But as soon as you go, what's your policy on whatever, they'll be like, well, the housing, we need to put, you know. You're right, actually. It's like, what's your favourite cheese?

They'll be like, what? I guess they're like Colby, maybe. Yeah, I mean, today in the interview we got my son Oscar. He asked a question. What's the weirdest thing you've had to do as a politician? And she was like, oh, I had to open a toilet. Yes, that's right. That's actually a really interesting answer.

To open a public toilet. There must be some bleak days as a local MP. Wouldn't there be? You see sometimes on the side of the building, yeah, this was opened by the Right Honourable John Key, or, you know, wherever it is. Oh, poor bloody whoever it was. This is pollution block.

Helen Clark was out here opening the right honourable. Helen Clark was like, oh, thanks for that. Thanks for scheduling that into my day. It would be... But I suppose it's a nice thing. It's a nice thing. Everyone's like You know Yeah

Now we've got somewhere To go to the toilet I guess Thanks Who turns up Everyone holding on Waiting for you to open your life Hurry up Hurry up

I now Declare Who's opening the toilet I need to go This Who turns up to the opening Of a toilet block? What sort of crowd is that pulling?

Please let me go inside. I've been holding on for the last three days. I'm just busting for a slash, mate. Enjoy the podcast. We'll catch you tomorrow. Is that Jacinda Kate Larela Ardern, the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand, Member of Parliament for Mount Albertson since 2017?

Yes. Yes, it is. Is that what you say? Is that how you introduce yourself to people? I certainly never use my full name. What is your full name after? Is it after a family member? Laurel is my mother's name,

and I was just meant to be just indicate, but when my dad registered me as a surprise, he just chucked in an extra name. Oh, which is a nightmare when you're filling out the customs card on the plane. A lovely sentiment. I have never been able to fit my name into a form ever. Yes, because they never leave enough

boxes for that amount of letters, would they? Well, they probably leave enough boxes for a normal name. Now, Cinder Ardern, it's nice catching up with you but of course there's big news broken overnight. Team New Zealand, America's Cup, saying there's not enough funding. We may not get to keep the America's Cup.

Should we be worried? Well, we had a period of time when we were able to enter in pretty exclusively into negotiations, and we haven't in that time been able to settle things. Look, we really want the America's Cup to be held here. There hasn't been an occasion where you've held the Cup and we haven't hosted. But we have to always make sure that what we're investing in the Cup makes sense for, and holding it makes sense for New Zealanders

and taxpayers. So we've put our best foot forward. It hasn't been good enough for the team, but we'll see where it lands. Okay, so you've low balled. Dalton's come in and high balled. Is there more negotiating over the next 24 hours? Oh, look, you know, as I say, we have put our best foot forward.

We have to have a point, though, where we say we can't justify that for New Zealanders. Really, it's in their hands now, as far as I'm concerned. Your play, Dalton. Your play. I mean, there is good news for the New Zealand economy this week. I mean, Lorde released a new single for the first one in about four years.

I mean, that's always good for the economy. I just, yeah, sure. Yeah, sure. Did Grant Robertson factor that into his budget? Lorde's planning a new single. I don't believe that Treasury models this. No. No, they don't.

Okay, well, maybe the next budget factor in. No, they don't. Okay, well, maybe next budget factor in. Now, I was watching the news on Monday, and, jeez, it was piling on you Monday. You had electric vehicles. You know, there was Hollywood superstars wanting to play you in unsanctioned movies. There was unauthorised biographies. This was a wild day.

How do you come home and unwind after a day like that? It's not very well. No. Yeah, look, it is what it is. I know that sounds trite, but for those things that are outside of your control, unfortunately I can't control what people want to make or what they want to write, and that's just life.

So that bit is what it is. For the EVs, look, when you make decisions and when you do things that need to be done, it is going to attract some debate. But that's the nature of decision-making. Now, I was preparing for this interview last night. You know, we do a lot of preparation for our catch-ups. We read documents.

Like, you get handed documents every night. We get handed them. We read through them. A doss documents. You get handed documents every night. We get handed them. We read through them. A dossier. I get a significant brief before the show. What are they going to ask you? You never thought we'd ask you about the America's Cup, did you? That was a curveball.

A serious one. But my son Oscar was like, what are you doing? And I said, I'm just preparing for this interview tomorrow. And he said, well, I've got some questions. So I handed him my phone. And this is my 11-year-old son Oscar, who has some hard hitting questions for you Jacinda Ardern. What's the furthest planet

we've reached out to? The any planets we don't know about. Any planets we don't know about Jacinda Ardern. I think he might believe you're the head of NASA. I like that the first thing was almost any that we don't know about. He doesn't trust 5G either.

I can tell you that I did not receive a secret file about the aliens when I arrived in this show. OK, good. That's good to know. Knocked that one off. Next one. What is the weirdest thing you've had to do being the Prime Minister? Oh, the weirdest thing.

Oh, my gosh. The weirdest. As an MP, I got asked to open a toilet once. Was it a good one? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it was, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I wasn't just a port-a-loo. Oh, and did the job.

That was nice. I didn't do it. But the offer was made. And the third and final question. Who is the most annoying person in your job? Who's the most annoying person in your job? Who's the most annoying person in your job? You can include us in that too. Just name the one annoying person.

Oh, I don't want to name names. No. You'll make everyone feel... We're not going to say Chris Hipkins out loud. Hey, Chris Hipkins, he's awesome. We love him. I just always love catching up with you. Keep safe.

Thank you. Look after yourself. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with you. Keep safe. Thank you. Look after yourself. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Now, yesterday around about this time, we asked if you ever had anything that happened in your life that would be like straight out of a TV show or a movie,

and we got some amazing calls coming through. Yeah, Tevita phoned through with this bolter. Went to get coffee at the mall, and the coffee shoppers across from a jewellery store. I look over to the jewellery store and there was no one in the jewellery store except for this one guy standing in there. And then I look again and he's behind the counter

ransacking the whole shop. No way! He comes out of the shop, walking towards the exit and then he jumped into a car that he obviously stolen and he had left the bag on the passenger side. What I did, I just ran up to the passenger side and then he jumped into a car that he obviously stolen, and he had left the bag on the passenger side. What I did, I just ran up to the passenger side and grabbed the bag and took off and... Oh, you got the jewels!

Wow! Ran to the police station, which was just around the corner, and ended up being interviewed by the cops for the next two hours. There you go, it's almost worth not saving the jewels, wasn't it? Being stuck in a police station for two hours. A jewellery heist, though. He stopped a jewellery heist, basically. Got the jewels back jewels back uh and that was toveda's story but since then so many texts from people are like oh i've had a moment irl you discovered business in real life yeah

yeah um they uh a lot of people phoning through saying i've had moments in real life that uh definitely could have been in a movie i've always dreamed my dream would be to be proposed to in a busy food court in a mall, and then everyone else who's also eating, you know, the all-you-can-eat Chinese, they all stand up and they're like, whoo! But I think my wife would have some issues with that.

She might do. She might. But if it's your dream, we can make that happen. She'd be like, sit down. She'd start shanking me with the plastic forks or something in the food court. So have you got one? Because as we said, a mountain of texts came through yesterday. 4, 4, 8, 7, 0, 800, the hits.

Next, we're going to catch up with someone who was an actual wedding crasher for many years. How did that work? Before the movie Wedding Crashers. I know. We're going to find out how it'll work next. It is the hits. It's Moves Like Jagger at The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben on your Wednesday morning

talking about anything that's happened in your life that feels like a scene straight out of a TV show or a movie. We had some fantastic calls, as we mentioned before yesterday. Deidre, who many years ago went overseas to the UK and was caught short. About 30 years ago on my OE, I arrived in London and the people that were picking me up were managing a hotel. And when I got there, because my flight had been delayed,

no one was there to pick me up, which I sort of expected because I'd sent a telegram giving them the new time. He sent a telegram. So I go to look up the phone number and there's no such place or hotel in the phone book. So the place I'm going doesn't exist. And what did you do? The 7 o'clock mail arrived with my telegram

and they came to pick me up about 9 o'clock. I just love the telegram. She actually got picked up from the airport in a horse and cart by a man wearing a monocle. There's so many movies now that you watch, even like Home Alone, and how many things that could be saved with the internet or phones, you know,

to text a WhatsApp group. Yeah, like, where are you, Kevin? I'm at home, you left me behind. Oh, sorry about that, we're on our way back. But at the time, you don't realise what you don't have. So you'd make do with what communication you have at that moment. But if you're like, jeez, in 20 years,

this is going to be, it's not even going to be a blip on the radar. That's true. So 800 The Hits, have you had a moment play out in real life? There could have been a scene from the movies, Hello The Rock. Hello The Rock. Hello The Rock.

That was two radio stations ago. Talking about dated stuff. Hello The Hits. Hello, the hits. Mikey, what happened to you from a TV show or movie? It was in the 80s sometime and me and my girlfriend used to crash weddings and funerals. Oh, you were like

wedding crashers? Yeah, yeah. We never got caught. We never talked or anything. We just had the timing perfect. So what was the timing for a wedding? When do you come on into a wedding and crash a wedding? You find a wedding, you go there and then leave it

and follow the cars where the reception is and then you go back when they're having the night one and then away you go. So you catch them at a week when they're vulnerable, later in the evening when no one's really caring about the guest list. Exactly. And the booze was was fantastic and so who are you like who are you interacting with uh everyone a great one well because everyone's at the dance floor everyone's

probably having a good time by that stage yeah that was a great time now you know wedding crash is the movie uh it came out in 2005 so so this is decades before Wedding Crash is. Tell me, would you just spend all of Saturday just driving around looking for weddings? Sometimes it was harder than what it is, because some of them used to notify people when they were getting married, so you just had to look on the paper. And the same applying for funerals, so a whole load of free asparagus rolls, I imagine. Exactly.

Not quite the party vibe for that one, I imagine, but I mean, a wedding would be a... Can we get your... OK, we'll get the two versions of Mike. So this is Mike at a wedding. Let's just say I'm a cousin. Hey, mate, what's your name? I'm Bob Shred.

Oh! Bob Shred! Oh, Bob! It's always an uncle. So would you either pick a name or would you pick someone that you'd know, you'd know probably the name of the couple, wouldn't you? Yeah, well, you get to grips with that, don't you? Yeah.

And you actually start saying, oh, you're into school, blah, blah. You just take stuff from people. What about Mike at a funeral? I can't remember. Oh, I haven't seen him for ages. Look, you guys probably don't even know me,? I can't believe it. I'm like, I haven't seen him for ages. Look, you guys probably don't even know me, but I can't believe it.

Stuff like that. I can't believe it. Gone too soon. Yeah, wow. Before his time. This happened, as you say, we've seen it in a movie with Owen Wilson. Now we're seeing it. It's happened in real life.

Mike, the original wedding crasher. I don't think you'd get away with a lot nowadays. No. It wouldn't be that politically correct, would it? No. No, you're right. No, people would frown upon you crashing weddings. You'd probably end up at the police station afterwards.

Hey, thanks, Mike. Appreciate your call. You take care. Have a lovely week. Keep them coming through. Have you had anything happen to you in real life that could be from a movie or a TV show? Love to hear from you on 0800 The Hits.

It's the Biebs, anyone. You're on The Hits, Jono and Ben. Talking about anything that happened to you in real life that seems like it could have been straight out of a movie or a TV show. Yeah, I remember the other morning I was walking to work and there were clothes strewn. Oh, yeah. Strewn.

I love saying the word strewn. All over the road. Yeah. And they were clothes that looked like they had been in a drawer. You know, they had folded socks and whatnot. Just thrown recklessly in the middle of the road in town. Even a Dyson vacuum cleaner as well. Oh, you brought it in.

It's sitting around outside the studio. I'm like, well, half of it's not there. Yeah, no, but just in case anyone needs any Dyson parts, I don't know, they don't come to you. But I imagine that was probably one of those things where, hey, I'm assuming a relationship disagreement. Yeah. Get out of here. Then throw another one. That's straight

out of a movie. Straight out of a movie. Or that, or someone was being very dramatic about what they wanted to wear that day. No, no. We've got Jay on 0800 The Hits. Jay, what happened to you? Oh, g'day, how are you? Good, thanks. Something from a TV show or movie, Jay? Oh, something like that. jay on 0800 the hits jay what happened to you oh good day hello yeah good thanks yeah something from a tv show a movie jay oh something like that this this one morning i um i was going down to get

some fuel from from petrol station and um i saw this brand new bmw was um getting filled up with fuel and there was um there was smoke coming out the bonnet and i was like whoa it doesn't look too good so i quickly spun around and i um tried to you know lift the bonnet. And I was like, whoa, that doesn't look too good. So I quickly spun around and I tried to lift the bonnet up, but I couldn't. It was way too hot and it was already on fire. Grabbed my fire extinguisher out. That wasn't enough to put it out. Wow.

So, you know, spur of the moment, what do I do? Chuck the old girl into four-wheel drive. There's a brand new beamer. And I pushed it out out underneath the canopy, out onto the main road, then went round the side of it, smashed the side of it, and pushed it into a drain,

and then called the fire brigade, and the fire brigade came out and put it out. The whole thing was in flames. So this could have set the petrol station alight, which would have been disastrous. Yeah, it would have set the whole petrol station on fire. Oh, my God. You must have been freaking out while that was happening, while you were pushing a flaming vehicle away from a petrol station. Yeah, it would have set the whole petrol station on fire. Oh, my God. You must have been freaking out while that was happening,

while you were pushing a flaming vehicle away from a petrol station. Yeah, yeah. Oh, you just got to do what you got to do, you know? Well, you could have just kept driving. That's probably what I would have done. He's like an action hero there. Was anyone else there to witness this, Jay? Yeah, there was, but it was just all a bit of a blur for everyone. The lady was sitting there crying.

She didn't want me to dent her new car. You know, quite a big petrol station. It had a big LPG tank right beside it. Whoa. So I didn't care. I just had to get it out of there. Jeez. And so did you end up swapping insurance details with her

because you put a little dent in her bumper? Oh, my God. What a hero. I dented my number plate, and she didn't even pay for that. Wow, that is... Did you make the news? Surely you would have made the news for that. No, I didn't.

Oh, no, if someone told someone, you know, the news about it, I probably would have, but... Oh, listen, you've made... You don't die for the news, mate. You don't die for the accolades. You've made the Jono and Ben show on the hits, which is nowhere near as good as the news. Oh, I think it's better than the news, actually.

Good on you, Jay. You keep safe. Awesome. See you, guys. They keep rolling on through. Oh, no. Kassania, something has happened in your life out of a movie or TV show? Yes.

Hi. This is more like a comedy slash romantic drama. Oh, so it's like a rom-com, are we sort of thinking love actually type thing? No, not exactly. So me and my husband, ex-husband at that time met online and we kind of corresponded online. He was working in like a cargo ship and he came over to New Zealand whilst working in New Zealand in Wellington. Yeah. We met and clicked and fell in love.

Then he jumped ship for me. Literally. He worked on a ship too. He jumped ship for me, so he really wanted to be with me. Long story short, we got married, but Immigration New Zealand didn't believe that we were genuine enough. Yeah. After about a year of trying to get him a visa, he was deported. And I was in New Zealand, he was in Russia.

I came over there and two months later, I found out that he was originally seeing somebody behind my back. Oh, he was seeing someone else. Oh, so you flew all the way to Russia and then by the time you got there, he had a new girlfriend? Yes. Oh my goodness. What did you do in that situation?

I really, maybe was meant to be. And so then you came back to New Zealand, obviously. Yes. Oh, that's very sad. I don't know. You said it was a romantic comedy. Yeah, well you said rom-com. Did I say rom-com? There's not much comedy in there. It's more like a drama.

More drama, yeah. But everything worked out in the end though, right? So happy? Happy ending? No, not happy ending. But not in the relationship there, but with you now. You're great. You're like, ah, it wasn't. No, still single.

Oh, okay. Not a happy ending. Stop trying to write a happy ending into this drama. I wrote a script to happy ending. Not everything has a happy ending, Ben. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, Kasanya, I tell you what. You've made us happy this morning. Oh, really. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, Kasanya, I tell you what,

you've made us happy this morning. Oh, really? Oh, my goodness. We're going to send you out something. You're awesome, and we appreciate

you sharing that with us. Oh, thank you. Thank you, buddy. Keep safe. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah.

She'll be right and at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hit. That we used to love. It is brand new from Anne-Marie and Noel Horan from One Direction. That's our song. It is the hits, Jono and Ben.

It's the same thing as Anne-Marie. Anne-Marie you'll know from not only our song, but this huge international smash hit, 2002, and many more. And we're very excited. She joins us over Zoom right now. How are you? I'm good. How are you?

We're good. Last time we spoke to you, it was a while ago. You were in the middle of a lockdown. How's things at the moment? Are things now. How are you? I'm good. How are you? We're good. Last time we spoke to you, it was a while ago. You were in the middle of a lockdown. How's things at the moment? Are things easing up for you? Yeah, a bit better. The sun is shining. And yeah, I'm sweating, but it's good.

You're sweating? Yeah, sweating out. Because if I open the window, you're going to hear all the cars in the background. I can't do it. You'll check it out. Listen, for you to have some airflow in your apartment, I think you can open the window. We'll put up with the traffic noise.

We're fine if you want to open a window. It's okay. I'm all right. We are very excited. You've got a new song out with Niall Horan. It's called Our Song. But we have been doing a bit of research, and there's a show in the UK, a radio show,

called the official Big Top 40. And you spoke about wanting to collaborate with Niall Horan quite a while ago, before it even happened, but you got his name wrong. I just want to play that audio right now. Collaboration with Niall Horan. I don't know. How do you say his name? Niall Horan.

Horan. Is that it? Horan, yeah. Wow, I've been saying it with a French accent this whole time. Okay. So how did you go from that to collaborating with the man himself, Niall Horan? Well, luckily he has a sense of humor and he found it funny and that was just pure luck and he actually messaged me

after that and said should we get in the studio i think he could do the rebrand hurrah yeah you guys i wrote wrote the song and recorded it pretty quickly idea, I understand, came to you as you were sort of driving to the studio, is that right? Yeah. That's what happens to me now. I feel like I just look out the window on the way to the session and see if anything catches my eye and see if I can create a story from that. But on this particular journey, a song came on the radio,

which I hate now because it was like mine and my ex's song. Oh, what's the jam? Oh, God. Can I say it? It's quite bad. It's, oh, I won't hesitate. Oh, yeah, Jason Mraz. It's lovely.

It's a lovely song, but I hate it. I hate it for the, yeah, I see why, because it was your ex's and your song. And now your song is called, with Noel Horan, it's called Our Song. So I guess you're creating a song for other people to love and then maybe hate if they break up. Dumb. I didn't think of that.

Anne-Marie, now I was reading about you this morning. You started out as sort of a child actor of sorts, and you were on stage shows at the West End. Yes. At what age was this? I'd say more of a singer than an actor. I can't act. Like if you said for me to go on EastEnders, I couldn't do it.

That was my next question. Yeah, it was. Yeah, I started in musical theatre. So Les Miserables is literally all of it is singing. So luckily I got in musical theatre. So Les Mis, Les Miserables is literally, all of it is singing. So luckily I got away with that. I didn't have to speak. And that was with Jessie J of all people. In Les Mis.

Yeah. Whistle Down the Wind that was. She could already sing like that back then. She was like 11 and she was going, She was doing all that already. Here's a question for you. A friend of ours, Jono, my friend, he was in Leymers in New Zealand, and we went along to watch him, and halfway through the show,

Jono text him, the guy who's in the show, saying, hey, great show, just want to know how long it's got to go. Jono was like, it was quite a long show, I just want to know how long. I just wanted to know how long the second half was going to be. Not rude at all, no. It does drag a little bit. It's very long, yeah. What we love about talking to you is you're so honest, you're so open,

and you even talk about some of your dealings with anxiety and mental health, which I think is really awesome to be talking about these sorts of things. Yeah, I feel like I've tried to do that as much as possible. I think coming into this industry, I just feel like you're expected to be perfect and okay and happy and you're meant to show that all the time. And I was like, well, I'm not. I can't fake it.

So I've been trying to break that whole stigma around being who I am and being okay and have everything figured out because I don't I think when I went into lockdown I got really low and that's probably mainly to do with not being able to tour and get out and do what I normally do and I had to sit here with myself and it was it was hard and I hit rock bottom and I thought I can't get any lower than this. I have to build myself back up and that's when I started talking to a therapist and honestly it's changed my life and I'm so happy that it worked.

And I just hope by speaking about it other people will feel comfortable with it because it's a little bit uncomfortable, it's a little bit weird, but, yeah, it should be normal. Yeah be normal yeah no well i mean it's a brave thing you're doing to share those that side of you as well and you'd be helping thousands mate hopefully hopefully oh well it's so good to always catch up with you uh we really enjoy it just before we go i i was trying to i was researching about the interview and and there was a story that popped up and said ann marie was uh slapped in the face with a tail of a shark in South Africa.

And then I went to click on it. I was like, oh, this sounds exciting. But there was one of those ones you had to pay for the article. I was like, oh. Oh, the premium ones. Yeah. So I was like, well, let's just ask Anne-Marie. What happened?

And I don't have to pay for it. Well, I was in South Africa. We'd gone to show. It was with Rudimental. Done a show. And we were like, right, let's go in the sea. Let's go swimming with the sharks. And we got our wetsuits on and we were basically the shark.

It sounds so fake. This sounds fake, but it's real, I promise you. The shark span around in his towel, just slapped me around the cheek. And I crapped myself. It was scary, but quite amazing. And if you want more, you can subscribe for $4.99 a month. That's right. So the premium divas.

Anne-Marie, our song out now and her album Therapy out July 23. Her song, of course, Our Song with Niall Horan. Lovely talking to you and take care of yourself, all right? Thank you. You too. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast.

I don't think I told you this the other day because we went away the other weekend to Taupo and had a bit of an unexpected, I guess, intruder in the room. Yeah, I say that. I've really over-dramatized what it was. I'm sorry. I thought that I was invited on the holiday and I'm sorry it was weird. I turned up at 3 o'clock in the room. I say that. I've really over-dramatized what it was. I'm sorry. I thought that I was invited on the holiday. And I'm sorry it was weird. I turned up at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Ben, Ben, it's me. Ben, wake up. The family had actually gone. They'd just gone down the road to look at some shops and stuff. And I was in the hotel room. And we had sort of like a sliding door. A ranch door. Yeah, a ranch door.

Very dangerous talking to ranch doors. Yeah, well, I had it open and we were sort of i guess we're close-ish to the lake and uh next thing you know i was doing something in the bedroom and i heard this rant i was like oh that sounds like that sounds like a a duck quack but quite a close duck quack and i sort of walked out and then they just walked inside was just this duck this duck and i was like oh good day mate how you doing he was quite happy just sort of wandering around so i kind of kind of led him to it. But then all of a sudden, I guess the duck realized I was doing stuff.

All of a sudden went, oh, hang on. I shouldn't be here. Yeah, I know. Yeah, birds, when they're out of their home turf, they get a little antsy, don't they? He was fine. And then all of a sudden he was like, oh, no, how? I should be here. I just left him alone.

I was like, oh, you can do what you want. But then they always like, they find their way into a room, but then for some reason they can't find their way out. So the poor thing flew. And I was like, uh-oh, uh-oh, because one side of the ranch slide is open, the other side is like, and then bang. And I was like, oh.

A little bit funny. And I was like, the poor thing is a little bit, you know, you don't want to scare the duck anymore. And he would have been embarrassed as well. Oh, he would have been. You know, when you walk into one of those in front of people, you feel, it's like when you slid down four sets of stairs at the

Mount Smart Stadium, the Warriors in front of everyone. You would have had the same feeling. I just wanted to leave and the duck was like, yeah, just there. Fortunately, he found his way out there and I sort of watched him and he sort of wandered off. I mean, he probably won't be able to play super rugby for a couple of weeks due to the concussion rules, but you know, he seemed fine, but it was a very

unexpected thing to have in the hotel. Yeah, they do like to push the boundary of where they're allowed to go, don you know, he seemed fine, but it was a very unexpected thing to have in the hotel. Yeah, they do like to push the boundary of where they're allowed to go, don't they, the ducks? And birds in general, you're right. They do. They're always just like, oh, can I get in here? Bit of it further and further every time and you need to make a stand then this is not okay.

This is not where you go, right? And so, how was the microwaved duck that you had in the hotel room that evening? I know you've tried to end it on a happy note, but we all know what happened. That was the happy note. We waddled off all happy. It was fine. Sometimes they don't waddle off all happy.

Didn't you get attacked by a duck once? That's right, I did. We were trying to save a baby duckling. And he got his revenge that day in the hotel room. No, I didn't. It was caught in a pool that had been drained for winter. And I was like, oh, I'll go down and help the little duck up. And I didn't know where to put it.

And so I was walking around with it. You took your shirt off, didn't you? Yeah. You were shirtless. Oh, what a hunk. And I cradled the duck in there. Put him in a calendar. Mr. March.

And I found the little stream. And the mother duck saw that I had it. And then obviously thought I had the baby duck for I don't know what. And just flew at me. Just like. I was like, oh, God. There's a weird naked man, half-naked man, stealing my babies. So I placed it gently on the ground and left the T-shirt there

and just ran away. And then he got arrested for running through the park with his shirt on. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now, joining us in the studio, very excited about this, is a couple of Aussie tradies who have turned into social media superstars. They're better known as the Inspired Unemployed. They're all over social media and even on 60 Minutes.

Matt Ford and Jack Steele are known online as the Inspired Unemployed, but in reality, they're very busy making a fortune. That's right. Over a million followers on Instagram alone. Their videos have been seen millions and millions of times. That's right. And they're in New Zealand at the moment filming a bit of content. And, jeez, you guys have been busy.

We have been busy. A bit going on. Yeah, big weekend. Handing out a few invoices. Yeah, well, let's talk about the weekend, because over the weekend I saw you guys were hanging out with 660, like the biggest band in New Zealand. Yeah, I know.

Some here. Good lads. They are legends. You were singing with them, and Machu, the lead singer, what did he say about your singing? Yeah, he wasn't too impressed. He's honest. And then you got tackled by a couple of All Blacks.

Yeah. We got pumped. Yeah, we got pumped. They went really easy on us. Yeah, seriously. They probably went like two out of ten, and it still hurt. Now, I saw you guys on 60 Minutes a couple of weeks ago, and your rise to superstardom has been, well, it probably, for us, seems quite quick.

And people here in the office, Juliet, who we work with, she's like, Oh, my God, I'm going to defecate my pants Once I see these guys Have you become accustomed Or you become comfortable With the level of fame That you guys have now? It's so weird It doesn't feel real Because we're still

Pinching ourselves What's going on It's just hard to Kind of wrap our head around It looks like you just Put a couple of funny videos On Instagram But it's a lot more than that

It's a lot of hard work And you know Creativity that goes behind it How long has the journey Been for you guys To reach to this point i mean we started in europe it just me and falcon for we we plugged away for about six months i think um just going so hard like putting videos up every day so much work went into it so much work that no one sees but then after that it kind of it kind of blew up pretty quick after about a year in yeah it took a while but when it did start to blow up,

it just went real quick. Well, lockdown had quite a lot to do with you guys. You know, I guess people were at home, people were looking at stuff online, and really a lot of people found your videos then, right? Yeah, lockdown was massive for us. That's when it really grew heaps. I think we got like 70,000 followers a week.

Gee whiz. And so when was the point where you're like, wow, this is now a full-time gig? Well, it was Christmas. It was a Christmas holiday. You know how all tradies go on the Christmas holiday break? And we were just taking enough days here and there before that. We were at Boston and he was just like, you can't really come back.

You know, we're taking too many days off. So after the Christmas break. So the start of 2020 is when we stopped working. Yeah, true. We probably had 100,000 followers. And that was the point where we were like, had to take the leap. Holy shit, do we quit our actual jobs and go for this or do we stay and it was still we still didn't really know if it was going to work or not but we just quit and said let's just quit we'll

try and make more videos and then luckily it worked out yeah it's so awesome that you guys doing that and you guys were of course tradies uh back in there now you you know you're making videos and then like you're on the front of like gq magazine or something like that you're modeling for vogue i mean that's, how does that all happen? I don't know. That doesn't work. I don't know. Do you not know how any of this is happening?

It would be a surreal situation. Are you kind of making it up as you go along? Because I imagine you probably didn't know how to film when you first started. I mean, we had no idea how to do anything. Our motto is wing it. We just wing it. We still don't know how to do anything. Just slowly working it out. Full time idiots is how you guys describe yourself which i really like

what's true yeah it's true yeah i know my son oscar he's i want to be a you know a youtube star or a star on instagram and it's actually it's a full-time uh occupation now what would you say to any kids listening who this is their dream just do it do it yeah just experiment and do it and film heaps

and just trial and error I think like you were saying before Jono it doesn't always happen as quickly as some people think it is though right but we'll do

we got super lucky with timing but we actually started in Queenstown filming videos in 2016 that's where we first started making skits and then we stopped

for a few years so we had a bit of backing and knew how to you know we kind of knew what might work and stuff so yeah yeah but some people you know for us we expected 20 000 followers after two years i think that was like a goal i think we had like a million after two years but that's just that's good timing and a bit of luck and hard work yeah exactly a lot lot of work. We work way harder now than what we did doing 40 hours on the job site. You want to go back to being tradies? Yeah. Not physically, but yeah.

All right, well, listen, boys, congrats on all the success. It's really awesome, and long may it continue. Thank you. And this will probably be the last time you see us because we tend to catch people on the way up and then on the way down. Oh, on the way down we might get you guys. Yeah be a sign hour now good luck this might be our way down sorry to tell you this is the way yeah yeah this is how they feel it was nice anyway thank you what's more jono and ben you can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram.

Hey, lovely to have everyone here. How are you, Ju? I'm good. Yeah. We put a lot of work on Ju yesterday. I felt bad. I was still emailing her in the afternoon and she's so polite and good at her job. She's like, it's fine.

I'll get it done. Yeah, I know. I saw you having a bit of a meeting yesterday and you came in with a mat. Oh, yes. A yoga mat. A yoga mat. You're like, can I please go to yoga? No, you're not downward dog on our time.

But we were keeping you here for us, you think? Well, the whole team was in the meeting room and I was like, oop, I didn't realise this was on. Oh, it's lovely of you. That's all right. When you need to yoga, you need to yoga. Hey, yesterday we were walking back to the car park and there was about three police cars through town.

And they were coming through an intersection and they were behind a driver, just a normal driver. And there's nothing more stressful as a motorist than when there's, you know, a siren laden police cars charging up behind. You never know where to go and you need to get out of the way, but you start panicking. Oh, totally. First you think, oh God, are they going to pull me over? That's probably the first thought. You feel a little bit badass, but then you're like, no, pull yourself together. Why are they pulling me over? I've done nothing.

I've done nothing. And then you're right. It's a frantic panic to see where you can pull over. And this poor guy driving all over the intersection. He didn't know where to go. And then the siren's like, you can tell the pressure's coming on. And then after they eventually pass, he had to pull over to the side of the road. He didn't have a breather.

The breather was quite a traumatic little guy. Oh, God, it's a stressful moment. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now, I've spoken about this many times. I love to go to the Royal Oak Mall and use the services of the Mall Massage Centre.

Right. I love the Royal Oak Mall. It's like shopping in Milan. Anyway, I was there last night and Ben always likes to insinuate that I go to the Mall Massage for nefarious purposes. I don't know. You just always talk about going off for a massage. I know where you're going, but most people are like, oh, okay. He's quite open about that. But every time we talk about it, you say, no, I don't know. You just always talk about going off for a massage. I know where you're going, but most of the people are like, oh, okay, he's quite open about that. But every time we talk about it, you say, no, I don't think so.

But then your tone suggests. I don't think so. I know, but your tone. I don't think so. It feels like you have to tell so many stories about going to the warm massage, almost to cover up. Oh, is there? Sure, if you've rung the warm massage, they'll be like, who, what?

No, we don't know who he is. But anyway, that's fine. We don't need to do that because I believe. See what he's doing here, Jim? I believe him. See, he's doing this thing again. I see, I see. And saying he does it, yeah, anyway.

But the lady last night, she was like, oh, you know, you've been coming here a long time. Very loyal customer. And she's like, what do you usually do for a job? I said, oh, we host a radio show and she's like what channel and i said oh we're on the hits and she's like do you do birthday calls i said oh well i'm sure we could do a birthday call if you want a birthday call so if i phone up tomorrow will you do a birthday call i said yeah is it your birthday tomorrow she's like no i was like but you want a birthday call but you can just phone up and we'll just say hello to you she's like no no but

i want a birthday call for herself but it's not her birthday she needs to wait i mean we can do it i mean i'm happy to do it but it'd be better if you waited to a birthday yeah it seems like an unusual dream to have yeah to have a birthday call and it's not your birthday. Yeah. It's like one of your life goals. She's like, I phone up many radio stations for birthday calls. I was like, well, they're probably not saying it's your birthday because then you tell them it's not your birthday. Yeah, true. So if you get a call, be honest with someone wanting to have a happy birthday.

From a legitimate massage place. Oh, here he is. He comes in and we... The birthday special, apparently, which is... Yeah, anyway. John was also in his birthday suit, but that's a story for another time. It's special. It's because it's all a joke.

You get message free on your birthdays. Before 7 o'clock, we were joined by a couple of Aussie battlers. They call themselves full-time idiots, but they have turned from being tradies into, like, basically into global superstars. Yeah, Juliet, you are a huge fan of these guys. I love them. They're so cool.

Okay, we'll just tone it back when they're here, okay? Okay. Just pull it back a couple of inches. Play it cool. Go and have a relaxing massage at the mall, mate. Just calm down. That's a hat shot off there. The Google Game.

This is one of our favourite games. You just give us a call on 0800THEHITS. You ask us a hit. Shut up, Ed. The Google Game. This is one of our favourite games. You just give us a call on 0800THEHITS. You ask us a question. We have 10 seconds to Google the answer. If we can't Google the answer in 10 seconds, you win. Our boss, Craig, he's like, the Google Game, you put it after 8 o'clock. Why do you bury it at 6.30?

He likes the Google Games, doesn't he? I know, I know. But we like the 6.30 audience, Craig. We like to keep them happy. Here's an easy one for you to Google. I reckon you'll find this. There was a wild boar on the streets of which town in New Zealand

over the last 24 hours? Oh, Ben, you'd find that wild boar. Balgloother! Balgloother, needed! Yeah. How scary is that, though? That's a big boar, too. It is, eh? Just like you're like, oh, let's just let the bore do what it needs to do. Yeah, it's one of those instances where you'd be like,

they'd say, go out and do the bore. It's like, oh, do I have to? And you'd try and act brave, but you wouldn't. But this is how the Google Games works. You ask us a question, we've got 10 seconds to Google it. If we can't find the answer within 10 seconds, you win. It's as simple as that. The GGs, as we like to call it. If we can't find the answer within 10 seconds, you win. It's as simple as that. The GGs, as we like to call it.

They also call the horses the GGs, don't they? We're actually going through a bit of legal dispute with the horses over naming rights as to who have GGs, but we'll call it for that at the moment. So give us a call right now, 0800 The Hits. Ask us any question. We've got 10 seconds to Google it. And if we can't, you win. It is the Hits.

The Google Game. Yeah if we can't, you win. It is the hits. The Google game. Yeah, this is fun. Fun game. The ideal game if you like gathering information from the internet but hate using your data. Well, you can phone us right now on 0800THEHITS. You ask us a question. We've got 10 seconds to Google the answer. If we don't retrieve it in 10 seconds, you win a prize.

Let's go some Hell Pizza today, eh? Hell Pizza, best damn pizza and booze delivery. You can get beer and wine delivered with your Hell Pizza order. So if you want some of that, give us a call. As Jono said, on 100 of the Hits, ask us a question. You don't really even need to know the answer. You just have to count on us not being able to Google it. Taupiri is where we're heading right now.

Kelly, welcome to the show. How are you? Good. That's in Southland, isn't it? North. Northland? Well, Waikato. What am I thinking of? I don't even know. It's 6.30 in the morning. I'm sorry. Kelly, you're 14 years old and you're up at this early hour. Why? Because I have to get ready for school. No, that's a good answer. No follow-up questions. Hey, so what's your question this morning? We've got 10 seconds to Google. What do you want to ask us?

How many letters are in the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? Many letters in I'd like you to spell the whole word, Johnno. Well, you have to, don't you? How many letters in the word? That's a really good question.

34 is the answer. What is the longest word in the English language? Just have a look at that. Longest word, English. I know we've got the longest place name, Maori place name in New Zealand, don't we? Yeah, that's right, yeah. Longest word, English language.

Oh, I can't even. Yeah, why are you doing it to yourself? Why are you looking at that? 45 letters is the record. Wow, jeez. Well done, Kelly. You've got some hell pizza coming your way. Enjoy school today.

Thank you. Great chat. 34 letters, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is number two. Second longest word in the English language. And what's that number one again? What is it? We can't at least give it. Is it pneumotrolmalyscroposilis covolanconsis.

And what does it mean? It sounds like something you contracted when we went to. Remember when we posted that promotion and you were like, oh, what's happening? Do I need to go see someone? I was like, yeah. And then the doctor was... He said that we couldn't pronounce it. But he gave you some ointment. What is it actually though?

What is the word? That's what he said to the doctor. What does this mean? Let's have a look. An invented long word which is a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust. So I guess from a volcano? Right. What could happen post-explosion?

Yeah. But even like, you've got, think of the poor person. You've got dust in your lungs. You're struggling to talk and breathe. I think I've got pneumo. What's that, mate? What are you? Pneumo. I can't? What are you? Pneumo.

I can't. What are you trying to say? You're like, I don't know. I don't know what he's got. I'm sorry. I can't help you. I think he's got a very specific lung disease with 45 litres, but I won't know unless he says it.

You need to say it. Otherwise, I can't treat you. Thank you for playing the Google Games. We've got scrolling through your feed next. What's been happening overnight? Well, big news. If you want to know if the America's Cup is going to be here or not, well, there's some big news broke overnight.

We'll talk about that next. Scrolling through your feed. Here's to the news. What self-service checkouts are to supermarket shopping. Kind of niggly and clunky, but you get there in the end. Ben Boyce, what has been happening overnight? Well, the big news story breaking this morning, the Team New Zealand boss, Graeme Dalton,

said it's highly unlikely the next America's Cup is going to be in New Zealand, which is a bit of a shame if that's looking like it's going to be the case. What? Now, the government gave them what? Well, I'm not entirely sure. I think they, there's, basically they've got to come to a deal with the government

by tomorrow, otherwise, because they've got to come to a deal with the government by tomorrow. Otherwise, because they've got an exclusive negotiation period, otherwise they can open it up worldwide to other countries wanting to bid. So it doesn't mean it's definitely not going to be in New Zealand. It's just they reckon there'll be more money potentially offshore. So $100 million, I think, the government pledged. Is that what it is? And I think it's a rumour he wants $200 million or something.

I mean, we all want $200 million, don't we? That would be lovely. But what it does for the economy, and I know it's easy to go, spend the money, there's a lot of other things you could spend the money on, and that's absolutely correct. There are. And that would be a huge conundrum if you are the Prime Minister

or the person in charge of the finances. Yeah, Grant Robertson? Yeah, Grant Robertson, I think he is, yeah. I said that with confidence. I'd be shocking at that job. Jeez, we'd be broke if I was in charge. I'd feel guilty and just give money to everyone. Yeah, because you want to.

Yeah, but it does, when it's running full flight, I was reading in an article, bring in between $600 million and $1 billion to the New Zealand economy. So for a $200 million investment, the return on that investment for the country, tenfold. Yeah, you're right. So you see why it's worthwhile from that point of view, don't you?

But I mean, you know, we've got a housing crisis. There's some huge social issues in the country at the moment that also need to be solved. So what have I said here? I don't know. I've kind of cancelled out both arguments. This is why I'd be a shocking politician. And in more lighter news, there was a dog at Mount Maunganui

over the last couple of days who was taking a walk down the beach. Now, not with the owners. Friends of theirs. The owners had just had a baby, and their friends were like, can we help out with anything? They're like, yeah, you can take our dog for a walk. So they took the dog, Barney, down the beach. They noticed the dog was having a bit of a play with another dog,

wrestling over a toy. The dog came back with a toy in its mouth, and it turned out to be an adult toy. The dog had had. Oh, God. Oh, here we go. So they took some photoshoots of the owners. The dog was quite attached to the toy.

He wasn't letting it go. Oh, when a dog gets a stick or a phallic-looking object in his mouth, it is hard to pull it out. But they are the perfect dog toy. A little soft and rubbery, kind of a bit bendy. You can see why the dog was attracted to it. When you throw it, too, it goes the distance because it gets momentum, doesn't it,

as opposed to just a stick off a tree. And would you like, I mean, these are the people, it's not even their dog, The dog comes back with a toy. You're like, do I want to grab it out of the dog? I don't know where this thing is. Why is it on the beach? How did it end up on the beach?

Where's this come from? I'm just going to let the dog, the dog's happy. I'm going to let the dog have its toy. So yeah, they've got some, some photos. There's some photos online

and they've blurred, they've blurred the object and then you scroll down and they haven't blurred the object. You can go, well, there we go. Well,

when they blur the object, it makes it look like he's ripped off some man's. Yeah. Yeah, it's true. They definitely shouldn't blur the object. You can go, well, there we go. Well, when they blur the object, it makes it look like he's ripped off some man's... Yeah. It's true. They definitely shouldn't blur the object. But it's a far darker story. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning.

It is the hits. You've got John Ombi. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some might say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. John Ombi. Breakfast on the hits.

New video app. It's pretty cool. You can play through. Basically, you can download free Lego video, the free video app, and pick your favorite song, and it can start playing through the system. I don't even know how it works. Witchcraft. But it's awesome.

Yeah. Great feature. And we've actually, good old Lego. Good old Lego. They've set us on a task of really testing our character and our inner strength. Both of us are in competition to build a 3,662-piece Lego Grand Piano. The first to finish wins 300 boxes of this video Lego

for either the North or South Island. Yeah, so that's what? Whoever completes it first, well, yeah. You're representing the North Island. I'm representing the South Island. You've been very cagey on your construction. You haven't been open about your project. Where are you at?

Because we have to hand in the project tomorrow. I've put all the things through the consent forms that have all been signed off by the council, but publicly I haven't gone out and told what I'm doing for my build. I'm going okay, I'm going okay. How are you going? Listen, I won't lie, I haven't seen my family in four weeks i've been in a hole and we only started this last week yeah i was gonna say i don't know things aren't going well i'm probably

gonna have to build a lego house to live in at the end of this project but you know like most building uh i said it was going to be three to four months it's probably going to be a year we're waiting on materials you know the borders is a nightmare the materials are all in the box but anyway okay so tomorrow is the day. We're going to bring in what we've done on the Lego Grand Piano. And as you said before, there'll be 300 of these really cool Lego video packs that will be won by the North or the South Island. What I love is I've just dumped it on the dining room table,

and it's kind of become the family's responsibility now. I brought the box home. I've unloaded it. My dad was staying over the weekend. He got deep into it. I don't think he wanted to fly back to Christchurch. Yeah, it's fine. Once you get hocked in there, it's a lot of fun.

Yeah, it is a lot of fun. We'll see who finishes first tomorrow when we hand in the project and if it'll be the North or South Island winning 300 boxes of Lego and full respect and much sympathy to Ben Humphrey, our producer, who asked to send out all of that Lego. Yeah, that's true. We've got some Spy Entertainment news next. Why Benjamin Boyce and Kristen Bell have something in common,

and it's very cute. All right, we'll find out what it is next. Spy, the WhatsApp, spy.co.nz. Time to head into another K-hole. That's right, it's our hourly update of which Kardashian has made another billion dollars. What's happening, Ju? So, Ben, you know how you, I think you mentioned this the other day,

your house and the way your family communicates has become a bit of a note-taking family. You just leave notes everywhere. Even notes, I noticed this morning, Sienna, my daughter, left a note for herself. Really? She's like, don't forget your rain jacket and your sports shoes from past Sienna was the note.

I was like, I had a little laugh at that this morning. I was like, oh la for this one. So that's good. Well, Kristen Bell, who is the voice of Anna in Frozen and also married to Dax Shepard, she's the same. So her six-year-old daughter, Delta, leaves notes, but they're really passive-aggressive and quite threatening. And so she shared on her Instagram some photos of the notes that her daughter has written.

And one of them was sort of like a snap lock bag with probably a quarter of a small cookie inside with the note, Delta's cookie, don't eat or else. Or Elsa. Or Elsa, there we go. And during a 30 minute hunger strike, which Kristen says, I'm not sure what that means, on her bedroom door was, don't disturb, Delta is starving to death, only mum can come in. So that's the latest from her six-year-old daughter. At least she likes leftovers and things like that. And I love a realistic hunger strike as well.

30 minutes is achievable. You can make your way through it. You still get your point across. You don't starve. You end the day with through it. You still get your point across. You're right. You don't starve. Yeah, yeah. You end the day with a full belly. That's a great achievement. But your notes, yours are relating to food as well.

Don't eat stuff from the fridge too. Yeah, I've had occasional ones of those when a man in my life has got a meal when I've been out. Don't touch. Wanted to keep it for the next day. I mean, valid. Kristen Bell's daughter sounds like she's going to be fun to flat with when she's older. Oh, yeah. You're in a flat.

Do people leave notes in your flat? No, we're past that. First year uni, I think I was the passive aggressive one. Oh, you were a note person. Not knots. I'd just message the chat and be like, who left their dishes? But now I'm a lot more relaxed. I'm chill.

It's fine. Yeah, it feels like you're suppressing a lot of... I'm fine. I'm fine. And Lorde you're suppressing a lot of... I'm fine. I'm fine. And Lorde's music video for Solar Power. It was filmed on Waiheke in a little bay called Cactus Bay. But an Auckland man, he unwittingly showed up to the set while he was sailing around Waiheke.

This was like months ago when they were filming and he didn't really know what was going on. And he didn't realise it was the set of Lorde's music video and he was told they were filming for an advertisement and that he had to leave and then only, you know, last week did he realise that he immediately recognised he's like, oh my gosh, that was the bay that I came across the set looks exactly the same

that was Lorde's music video Oh, because people have been going deep in heaven they're trying to figure out where the beach was. For some reason, I don't know why, we've got beaches all over the show here. I know. But now we've figured it out. Yeah, Cactus Bay. It's on the north side of Waiheke Island.

And we apologise deeply to all of the residents of Cactus Bay, who are now going to be in flux. And finally, rapper Post Malone has spent a hell of a sum on dental work. So you know the dentist is expensive at the best of times. But he spent $2.2 million on diamond teeth. So he's got two 12-carat diamond fangs in his teeth, on his front teeth. If you have a look, it looks like grills. You know how grills, you can get them in, there, like silver sort of coverings for your teeth.

I said, nightmare to floss with diamond fangs, though, wouldn't it be? Yeah, yeah. Oh, you get your bloody spag bol caught in bits of diamonds. Yeah, that'd be a bit of a challenge, wouldn't it? But I feel like only he could suit diamond fangs. Like, he's got tattoos on his face. I mean, they do look great. They do look great.

But I'm imagining the daily admin of brushing and flossing diamond fangs. Count Dracula must have had the same issue. Yeah. You'd mow through the toothpaste. A lot of teeth. A lot of teeth to deal with, isn't there? That's $2.2 million of an expensive trip to the dentist for Post Malone. And that is five from where you can head to the hits.co.nz.

Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben to the hits.co.nz. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. It's now field days start today. Mystery Creek in Hamilton. Of course, there was no field days last year, which is pretty sad. So it's back again after a bit of a break.

Southern Hemisphere's largest agricultural event. I reckon 20,000 to 25,000 visitors over three days. It's the farmers' one day out of year to 25,000 visitors over three days. It's where it's the farmers one day out of year to shop, isn't it? Not one, but maybe five syllables will be said through the whole of Mystery Creek through the entire weekend. I remember

we were doing the afternoon show a few years ago on another radio station. We broadcast from there, which was great, but I didn't realise that, because our show went until seven, we didn't realise that... They shut it at like 4 or 5 or something, and then so we had the last 2 or 3 hours in complete darkness, because it was winter, just with

a security guard who just kept looking at his watch, wanting to go home. Because they had a tent around us and then they even packed the tent down, because we're going to take the tent, because that's so sweet. We were just sitting in the middle of Mystery Creek, talking to darkness. Hello! In a field. Is anyone there?

It was really odd. Please, someone come and save us. Honestly, we were talking and you were like two or three metres away. I couldn't even see you. We're sitting here in a field doing a radio show. A radio's done some bleak stuff over the years

and we've been part of every one of those bleak moments. But, you know, we like farming. We milked a cow. Remember we went to Parmy and milked a cow. Yeah, we did actually. We were milking it into each other's faces. It was just awesome. It was an honor.

We watched that scene back. Well, that's not safe for work. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. A friend of a friend I got talking to yesterday said a lot of his children's mates, they don't want to come and stay at their place anymore

because of a rule that they have in force for the household. Right. That they all go to bed at 7.30 at night. The entire household. The whole family. Mum, dad, kids. And then so when the kids' friends come over, they're like, all right, time to hit the hay, 7.30.

So a lot of them will come and stay once and never return. And he's unapologetic for it. It's like, it's what we do. We go to bed early. They must get up early, do they? Six. Okay, so not super early.

But in summer too. Lights are out when the light is still out. It's like time for bed, everyone. It's an unusual schedule, isn't it? Yeah. I imagine you'd have a whole bunch of house rules going on in the boys' household. Oh, not so much. You're a complex character.

No plugs by the bed. That was one. I don't have any plugs by the bed. It's always lights out at Ben's house. Yeah, I don't like the plugs. I don't like sleeping next to plugs. Why don't you trust plugs? Oh, the electricity. I just don't want to have that plugs by the bed. It's always lights out at Ben's house. Yeah, I don't like the plugs. I don't like sleeping next to plugs. Why don't you trust plugs? Oh, the electricity.

I just don't want to have that next to my head. You know? Like, I just don't know what that's doing overnight. Like, my phone. I don't want to have that sleeping. I don't want to sleep next to my phone. But when did Benjamin Franklin... Hold on.

When did he invent electricity? We've had it for... Yeah, he wasn't sleeping next to it, was he? Like, sleeping next to the plugs with the phone in it? I don't know. It's just a thing. It's just a thing. Yeah, so invented. sleeping next to it, was he? Like sleeping next to the plugs with the phone in it? I don't know. It's just a thing. It's just a thing. Yeah, so invented.

Let's have a look. Okay, so it's been around for hundreds of years. Yeah. Electricity. Yeah. 1752. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying I don't want to sleep next to a plug.

I don't trust it. I just trust it next to what it's doing to my brain when I sleep. If I can avoid having that there, I just don't want to have that there. I know, but then you wander into this room. I know. For God's sakes. What is going on in here? There's a whole lot of broadcasting stuff.

Yeah, you're right. I can almost feel extra fingers growing on me at the moment as the minutes go by. Yeah, it's true. It's true. But, you know, we met a family a while ago who, speaking of house rules, they had a rule at the end of,

well, that was quite cool, at the end of, oh, that was quite cool, at the end of every dinner they would roll a dice and basically they had a system to see whoever got the lowest would have to do the dishes. So it was like that was the system. Oh, that was quite cool. So it was all by chance and stuff. But, yeah, everyone knew, everyone agreed with it.

They also held a nightly loudest carrot crunch competition. They did. Two, which I took part in too. Quite the technique to crunch you, Gary. You think you go, oh, this will be easy, but it's not.

And then there was a thing with the water as well. Was there a trick? It was like, yeah, I didn't quite understand that one, but hey, it was day one

of the tournament. The whole dinner was full of gay. It made dinner fun though. It did, you see. It was really fun. So we want your house rules this morning

on 0800 the hits. 4487 on the text as well. Have you got any unusual house rules? I know I've spoken about this before. My friend was living with his auntie

and when he was a bit younger he was a builder's apprentice and he would get home from a day's building. She had a seven step foot cleaning program

for him. He would take the boots off at the door then put his socks in some slides, walk the slides to a bin which then he would take his socks off on, then still be in the slides, walk to the bathroom where there would be a

foot spa waiting. He would soak his feet in the foot spa. That's wonderful. You don't treat yourself like that nowadays. After a hard day out in the building site. So that was the rule in place there. 0800 the hits hits, the telephone number, the unusual rules. Are you a shoes off at the walk-on? Yeah, we are at a house.

Are you? Yeah, we are. I'm not. And then the more I think about it, the more I'm traipsing around. We did when we had the little kids. You know, the kids were crawling all over the ground. You're like, oh, that's, you know, that's trying. I've never taken my shoes off at the house.

Maybe I should start this off. That's been noted. That is a hit. So you got Jono and Ben. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal van. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. We want to know your unusual house rules that you got going on. Load coming through on 4487 on the text.

When I was in Wellington reading this text, there was a flat that we went to. And everyone who had to turn up to the flat for the first time had to take the owner on in a sprinting race down the street for a 100m race, and for no reason, there was no real jeopardy, no prize or punishment. It was just so the owner could prove that he was faster than anyone else. Was it like Usain Bolt's house? I quite love that, too. You must participate in a 100 metre sprinting race.

I know Bob Marley would do that every week. Every Sunday, Bob Marley would race all his children. Really? In sprinting races. Yeah, and kick their arses. Bob Marley was really quick. He was fast. Yeah, so he was just probably a weekly reminder that,

hey kids, you know, your place. But it gets to the stage where the kids start getting better and better. I know, that's the thing. Yeah, once they hit past that 9, 10 threshold, you really start to have to work hard. I always remember playing my dad at tennis when I was little, and you'd be like, oh, this is good, I'm doing good, and then he'd send down like a Rafael Nadal sort of serve.

You're like, oh, okay, put you in your place. Just a little reminder that, you know, I'm going easy on you. But then at one stage it turned into the French Open. Yeah, exactly. Let's go, Jane. You're on from Hamilton. House rules, Jane-o. Well, mine's about my grandma.

She used to make every guy, because she got sick, she'd force everyone peeing on the floor, so she made everyone sit down to pee. She always made a joke about it whenever they went to go to the bathroom at her house. Oh, so even when you would go with your father as a fully grown adult, he was still forced to sit down to tea. She always made a joke about it whenever they went to go to the bathroom at her house. So even when you would go with your father as a fully grown adult, he was still forced to sit down? She still says it to him. I don't know if he does it.

I mean, I think... Is she watching? Every time he goes to the toilet, he's going to the bathroom and she's like, well, make sure you sit down. I don't want to have to clean up after you. Sitting, sitting. I like sitting. Yeah, like if you can relax in that environment. Why have we been told to stand as guys?

Where did that come in? I think it sounds more comfortable. Yeah, sitting's fun. If you don't have to use your legs in life, I always say take that option. Thank you very much for your call, Jane. Appreciate that. Someone else is just texting 4487 saying they would go to the auntie's house

and she would force anyone under the age of 20, they weren't allowed to sit on the furniture. So they had to sit on the carpet on the floor like cats. I've heard this is a thing from someone else before as well. I don't know who I know. They had to sit on the ground all the time like it was a primary school mat in a classroom. It was really weird.

Everyone's got the relative, too, who likes to leave the plastic on from Harvey Norman on the couch. Just keep it clean, you know, be like, okay. You would have left plastic on a couch for a moment. Oh, I thought about it. Pull yourself together. You're already pulling the plugs out of the wall. Exactly. Thanks for your calls and texts, guys.

I really appreciate it. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about Exactly. Thanks for your calls and texts, guys. Really appreciate it. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. Sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Shono and Penn. Breakfast on the heads.

The heads. The heads. Five words for 5K on the heads. You're only five words away from a massive payday. You play such inspirational music, don't we? What's that other one I was talking about yesterday? Oh, it was the Lady Gaga one, wasn't it? I'm on the edge.

Yeah, it's a good one. It's a good one. We play the hits. Yeah, we do play the hits. It's all in the name. And five words for $5,000 again is all in the name. You can win $5,000 just by saying five words if they match with ours. Hey, Sonia, how are you this morning?

I'm good, thank you. Lovely to have you on. What part of Aotearoa are you in, Son? I'm in Dunedin. We're not even in Dunedin. I listen on through Google. Oh, Google. You can get us on iHeartRadio. I just ask Google to play and it will play.

Oh, I tell you what, that Google, they tell me it's going places. I'll reserve my decision on Google. Yeah, I won't invest just yet. Now, Sonia, the game, you know how it works? I sure do. All right. Five words that you need to match

with our five words. But firstly, you need to send one of us, Juliet, Benjamin, Ross Boyce, or Jonathan Rich Pryor, Richard Pryor. Juliet, always forget your middle name. Elizabeth Clare.

Juliet, Elizabeth Clare. Ross Pryor. Yeah, it's too long. Into the soundproof booth, Sonia. Who's it going to be? John O. Oh, Jonathan Richard P long. Into the soundproof booth, Sonia. Who's it going to be? Jono. Oh, Jonathan Richard Pryor, or Rich Pryor, as he just gave himself a little nickname for.

Or Johnny Dick Pryor. Which would be more apt. He's making his way across to the soundproof booth, and he is inside. So we're going to kick off the music and tell you the five words that could be getting you $5,000. Here is your first word this morning. Solar.

Solar. Solar power. It seemed the obvious thing that popped into my head. Air. A-I-R. Air. I'll go airbrush. Oh.

Oh, okay. Well, Jono, they had to do a lot of that on our photos recently for him, so hopefully that will be stuck in his head. Hawaii is your third word this morning. Hawaii. Oh, Hawaii. Can I come back to that one? Come back to Hawaii, that's fine.

Milkshake. Milkshake. Milkshake. Chocolate. Chocolate milkshake. And website. Website is the last one. Website.

Website. It's a lot easier when you're listening. I know, and sometimes the words give you too many options, don't they? Yes. Or sometimes no options pop into your head, and that's the other thing that can happen when you're playing this game. I'll go internet. Oh, yeah, that's a good one.

That's exactly actually what I was thinking. Same. Now, I think you've done really well. Well, obviously, we've got to come back to Hawaii. I'll say aloha. Ah, okay, aloha. All right. Okay, there are your five words.

We're going to get Jono. Here you go, Jono. Waving at him to come out of the soundproof booth, and we'll see if we can match all five to get you $5,000. Okay. FYI, the soundproof booth is not a shower. No, it's not. All right, I tried that.

No running water. No, it's not. I tried that. No running water. No, no running water. Just a strange pasty naked man in there for a little while. But I've re-clothed, re-gathered. Sonia, you feel good about things? Oh, I'm not sure. It can get a little tricky. It's hard when you're in the moment.

We say this constantly. When you're actually here, you know, you're in the pressure cooker, you're smelling the heat of the kitchen and other clichés that I can't quite think of. It's hard. It is hard. All right, we'll see if we can get you a match, though. Match all five and get you $5,000. Here we go, Jono.

First word we said to Sonia this morning was solar. Solar. Solar power. Very half-hearted. There you go go there's a lackluster i mean you've been doing it a long time jude out of your that's a black mark on your ding game thank you oh well yeah well done we're one from five uh let's just jump around a little bit today he's gonna do this now sonya he lulls you into a false sense of winning here i'm gonna i'm gonna go to the last word to be said to sonya today which was website internet there we go now

we've got two from five he's making me fingers crossed sonya anything you want to say to me right now oh no maybe the uh maybe the words that you mentioned i can't change anything no this is where it gets tricky right now okay we're gonna say uh the second word in the order that you mentioned. I can't change anything. I can't change anything. No, this is where it gets tricky right now. Okay, we're going to say the second word in the order that we gave to Sonia was air. But air is an A-I-R. Not E-A-R. It's an air on your body. It's air is an A-I-R. I have two.

Would you like to hear my two? Oh, yeah. Sometimes when I give two and if one of them's correct, Ben will look away to the window. I'll try and steer you down like a bug. We're going to remind Sonia about the whisper. There's no whispering. Oh, yeah, we do have a rule, Sonia, the careless whisper. Yeah.

That if you do whisper the answer, you'll hear this music. And you're out of the competition. It'll eject you from the competition, but it also gets the mood going as well. It was just strange. You're like, oh, really? Where is this heading? Okay, here. is this heading okay yeah I I have two uh and I'll say them both Air New Zealand is one right and the other one was here Jordan's okay the popular footwear now he's continued to steer me down I haven't tried this is getting a bit odd good poker face Face. Air New Zealand. It wasn't either.

What was it? Airbrush. Airbrush. Airbrush. And we thought because, you know, the last photo shoot we had, there was a lot of work been going into that. A lot of work. I mean, the computers, I think they had to shut down from being a computer after they had to airbrush me.

Oh, Sonia, we were so close. Let's go through the last couple. Hawaii, Jono. Trop me. Oh, Sonia, we were so close. Let's go through the last couple. Hawaii, Jono? Tropical. Oh, no. And milkshake? Yard. What brings all the boys to the yard?

Well, it does, but chocolate milkshakes in particular. Anyway, Sonia, you have been an absolute Kiwi hero. Look after yourself and done is okay. Well, thank you. Spy, the what's up spy is okay. Thank you. Spy. The what's up by doco.nz. We need to roast some celebrities. Juliet, what is happening in Spy this hour?

So one of Meryl Streep's most iconic roles is Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada. And she's now revealed that that was the last time she ever tried method acting. Because she was, in the movie she was like a horrible boss she was one of those really intimidating people that you wouldn't want to piss off and so um like you

are to us very intimidating exactly and so because she was method acting she was acting this way in real life with the date like day-to-day people to stay in character yeah to stay in character and so she said it was literally horrible. She was miserable. And because she was so icy all the time, she'd have to remove herself from all group activity on set so she wouldn't mingle and mix with all the other actors and actresses. She'd hear them all laughing in their trailers and she'd just sit there like an ice queen in her own trailer,

not getting involved because she was so, just like had to be so cold to everyone. She played the character beautifully though. Yes, she did. It would be awkward though, wouldn to be so cold to everyone. She played the character beautifully, though. Yes, she did. It's a great word. It would be awkward, though, wouldn't it? Oh, yeah. I know there was a story of a New Zealand person doing the same,

and the makeup artist was like, this person's being a real prick. Oh, really? But they hadn't been told they were doing method acting. But it continued for the whole time, like an eight-week shoot. Oh, my goodness. Well, that's what you do. You commit to it. You commit to it.

Other people, obviously Meryl Streep's now decided she can drop in and out of character. Yeah, totally. Apparently De Niro does the same thing. Really? He's a method actor. Who else is there? Heath Ledger was a method actor. Oh, really?

Wow. Hilary Swank, Daniel Day-Lewis. There was a story of that movie Suicide Squad where Jared Leto was the Joker. And remember, he got so into it he sent the cast up really weird gifs like so sort of like dead animals and stuff like that you know just to kind of cause he got into

the character of the Joker they're like okay but yeah really committed to the role. It's creepy. He realises it's just a fun play doesn't he? He realises it's not for real. And on the subject of The Devil Wears Prada, it was also revealed that Anne Hathaway's character was offered to Rachel McAdams,

who played Ellie in The Notebook, Regina, George and Mean Girls, three times. They were desperate to have Rachel play Anne Hathaway's role, but she turned it down. They also considered Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and Kate Hudson, and Anne Hathaway was ninth choice for the part. Well, that must make her feel great.

I know. Ninth. I know. We were 11th for this show. So I know how Anne Hathaway feels. Savage, isn't it? Ninth. I know.

I know. But hey, she's done very well from the movie. Not as good as Rachel McAdams would have. Emily Blunt as well, too. That was one of her big roles. One of her kind of breakthrough roles. And I think I heard the other day that she was originally going to do it in an American accent, but then convinced them today to do it in a British accent.

Wow. Because she is British, isn't she? Yeah, so she was like, yes. They even offered the gig to a child fresh out of a primary school play. And she turned it down. Yeah. And, Benjamin, this one's for you. You know your tattoo of Dwayne the Rock Johnson on your behind?

Yes. How would you rate that painful out of 10? Oh, pretty low because it was quite quick. What about the emotional skills? That's definitely 10 out of 10. Well, your good friend Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Well, good friend, TBC. Yeah, we haven't quite got in touch yet.

He's just gone through 30 hours over a period of three days enhancing a bull tattoo on his arm. So he used to kind of have, it was reasonably small, kind of on his bicep, a bull, but now he's had 30 hours worth of tattooing all over his upper arm. That's how big his biceps are. That's how long it takes to tattoo one bicep. Yeah, and he said it was gruelling.

And if you look at a photo of it, the shading and everything is just unreal. So if you compare that to your little heart tattoo of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. But he was inspired by your tattoo. He hasn't said it publicly. Right. Has he got a Neihardt Ben Boyce tattoo on his body by chance? Did he get one of those while he was there? No, he hasn't got Neihardt Ben Boyce.

No, I'm just looking at the new tattoo. There's no love heart with Ben. No, I'm just looking at the new tattoo. There's no love heart with Ben. There's a skull sort of dinosaur looking. No. Nothing. There's a skeleton. Maybe that's resembling you with your small frame, your bony frame. Maybe that's it.

We'll claim that, shall we? Ben, we haven't given up on the dream. You will feature on The Rock's Instagram account. He will notice you. I don't know. As I put my good name to it. And that is five. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz.

Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on The Hits. You're on The Hits. Jono and Ben, on your Wednesday morning. Lovely bit of footage I've just been watching online. So a passenger had left, this is in America, had left their phone in the terminal. And obviously the people worked out that was meant to go on the plane. So the people working at the airport.

And so there's a nice shot someone's filmed of them chucking, basically chucking the phone up to the pilot. Giving the phone to the pilot. Hand out through the window, getting handed the phone. And he can go and give it to the people inside. Caught it one-handed. Yeah, well, yeah, it's a lovely, I think it was more of a pass, you know. You said it was a throw. It's a throw.

Chucking it up to them, you know, chuck it. No, hold on. It's more of a pass. I mean, they might just go, here's an iPhone, new. Good luck with that one, mate. Thanks, mate. I dropped it. Yeah.

But it's nice, though, because, you know, this is really annoying. You've lost a phone on a plane before, right? Yeah, I actually had it on the whole time because I like it. Yeah. But it's nice, though, because, you know, this is really annoying. You've lost a phone on a plane before, right? Yeah. I actually had it on the whole time because I like to. I just thought, why turn it off? Because they say to turn it off. Why? Well, they say it can affect the controls of the plane.

I don't know. I'm not a pilot. I'm not someone who's. I'm going to Google it now. Has a phone on. Anyway, I'd left my phone on, thankfully. They wouldn't tell you if there wasn't a chance that we're doing it, you know? Has a phone on. Anyway, I'd left my phone on, thankfully. They wouldn't tell you if there wasn't a chance that we're doing it, you know? Has a phone ever crashed?

It's about interfering with the... Oh, hold on. They can say it. There has never been a case of a cell phone causing a plane to crash. And in 2014, the European Aviation Safety Agency said that electronic devices pose no safety risk. So what do they say then? For a laugh, I guess.

It's kind of just one of those, why do we tell the time on the radio? People can just look at their phone or the clocks, but it's just something that we've always done. It's something that they've always, you know, put on your seatbelt. I mean, what's the point of a seatbelt really if it turns to custard? Yeah.

Has a phone interfered with planes? According to Bloomberg, the answer is yes. Oh, what have you Googled? Government officials, passenger cell phones and types of radio shows could interfere with the displays on certain types of planes. Yeah, you've got to take that risk if you're how many feet in the air. But has it ever caused a plane to crash? According to the answer is yes, yeah.

Oh, what article have you googled here? So there you go. This is the internet. If you want to find an article to back up your argument, you can. I think that's what we learned. Real Kiwi blokes

with soy lattes. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. And it's the hits, Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. And it's the hits. Jono and Ben. Now, I used to, I think I discovered what is the most enjoyable noise in the world. I overheard and came out a child laughing. A child's laugh.

Isn't it nice? They start giggling and stuff. It's so cute. Like when you tickle them as well? Yeah, when I go around tickling strange kids. No, it's not strange kids. They're not my own. Yeah, when I go around tickling strange kids that aren't my own. Yeah, no, well, you made that weird.

Now, I went and Googled. I was like, what are the greatest sounds in the world? So I've just zeroed in on 21 of the most epically satisfying sounds in the entire world. Okay, now we'll zero in on three or four of those. He's always the format king here when it comes to my countdown. People love my countdown. No, I do. I enjoy them.

Polly Gillespie traded a career off countdowns. Yeah, she was so good at them. They were awesome. I'm trying to get into that game. It's an open market. But she didn't come in and go 464. You know, that was the key. That's why she was so good. Okay, a soda can opening. Oh, yeah. For you, it's a Friday night.

A crackling fire? Oh, is that a crackling fire? Yeah, it's a crackling fire. Speaking of crackling fire, you can do, there's YouTube of just like a fireplace. I put it on at Christmas time. It's really cool. You just put it on YouTube on the TV and it's like two hours of a crackling fireplace. What is your household turning into? You have AstroTurfers grass and manufactured fire on a big screen.

But it's actually really good. I was like, for some reason you feel warm and for Christmasy. I know it's summer in New Zealand, but it feels quite Christmasy. It's like a big screen. But it's actually really good. For some reason, you feel warm and for Christmasy. I know it's summer in New Zealand, but it feels quite Christmasy. It's like a burning fire. I was like, eh, just on a loop for like, yeah, for two hours.

Kids are like, can we watch TV? No. The fire's going. The fire's going, yeah. Are they like, is it interrupted by ads along the way?

No, it's just got to roll into it like that. Non-stop fire. Yeah, it's lovely. Jeez, who wasted two hours of their life filming a fire? Well, yeah, true. Well, I wasted two hours of my life playing the fire at Christmas time.