Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Drew A Winner For Our Halloween Movie Marathon And We All Cried!

Episode Date: October 28, 2021

After last night's Halloween Movie Marathon, we ended up with exactly $5,000 to give away! It was intense calling out someone's name but Ange who won was incredibly deserving and got us all so emotional! In today's show we also discussed how the Covid lady has been replaced, and Ben's wife has bought EVEN MORE of something that Ben reckons they already have plenty of. Enjoy the podcast!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. Welcome, guys. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben. Having you here, it's really good. You can have him anywhere, anytime. I always go, welcome, guys, but I know some people get offended

when you refer to, you know, all genders as guys. Yeah, I know you don't actually mean it in that regard, though. No. No, I know, because you always just go, you know, hey, guys. Sometimes, I know you don't actually mean it in that regard though. No. No, I know because you always just go, yeah, hey guys. Sometimes I get offended, sometimes when I call females mate too, that comes, that winds up a couple, they're like, mate?

Mate? I think it's just you calling anyone mate they're like, don't pretend you're friends with me. You're mate. Not friends with you. Yeah, Jennifer doesn't like when I call her mate. Sometimes it's just because I say mate so much you're like, right, mate. You're a legend. It's one of your favourites too, isn't it?

Legend, mate. Yeah, that's all I've got in my vernacular. But anyway, welcome to the podcast. Great show today, I'm not going to lie. I'm going to put my good name to this show, Ben. It was a lot of fun. I mean, it's not every day that you get to give away $5,000. That was all to do with me watching some scary movies.

But it was actually one of the most emotional, more emotional pieces of radio we've been part of, giving it away to a really deserving winner who really, really appreciated it. It was actually really cool. Yeah, and I mean, we just voiced an ad for Briscoes and that was an emotional part of Radio Cruise too, wasn't it? They're having a sale, tears rolling down. But she was, yeah, you saved Christmas, she said.

Yeah, which is pretty awesome. Not often someone says to you, you saved Christmas. If anything, you've ruined Christmas in the past. Yeah, you've kind of ruined me a little bit. It's here this Halloween, making me watch all those scary movies, but I'm glad it went to something good. But even last night, I was just thinking before, we got home last night, kids were asleep,

and I was still a little bit... You're like, are my children going to murder me tonight? Well, just a little bit shaky with the whole thing, and then my wife was sort of coming, I went to bed, my wife was sort of coming in, she turned off the whole light, which we sometimes leave on for the kids. I was like, oh no, leave it on!

She's like, the kids are asleep. I was like, oh no, just leave it on for the kids. I was like, it wasn't for the kids. It was for me. She's like, we normally just turn that off to the... I was like, no, no, leave it on for the kids tonight. Kids, you never know when the kids... Yeah.

The thing is, because you watch five of the scariest movies, but they all played in their own field. So you got such a huge landscape of frights. You had the suspense, you had jump scares, you had real-life scenarios based on true stories. So you covered such a broad spectrum of the horror genre. I know, I did. It's not like you just focused on a crazy clown.

It was like, no, no, there were demonic children. There were real-life stories of families disappearing. So it was all sitting inside that little head of yours. Even the paranormal one, which was all filmed on pretty much Handycam. Which we researched. $28 million budget paranormal activity. I still don't get how that happened. Where did that $28 million go? If I was a movie exec, I'd be like, Barry, we gave you, you know, we budgeted $28 million for this movie.

And you've delivered back a product which was all filmed on Handycam. I mean, that's what kind of made it more scary. But you're right. They were like, what? Whose house was this, Barry? And it turns out it was the director's house. So, okay, so did you, so where did the 28 mil go? Well $27 million to hire the house

that we needed for this film set. Because they were like oh I hope they've poured it all into the special effects of you know the demonic character that was troubling them. But you didn't even see that. Did you? No. So the money didn't go towards where the workshop costs or anything.

Where did $28 million go on that movie? Great movie, don't get me wrong. Yeah. And it grossed $190 million. So if it's an investment later, you'd be like, oh, well, great. Well, it all worked out in the end. You're lucky this time, mate. But, you know, next time.

It'll be hard to help you go through the budgets with you, you know, your Excel spreadsheets and checking where you spent the money. Yeah, but what was the most frightening out of all five? Conjuring for me. That's the first one I'd go. That was intense, just intense all the way through. You couldn't relax at any moment. No, whereas the other ones kind of had their, not relaxing bits, but they were kind of.

Yeah, your breathers. Yeah, your breathers, you know, and your builders. But yeah, for conjuring for me, I found very, very scary. But at the end of saying that, they were all scary in their own right. And it paid off in the end because we had a deserving winner. Yeah. So it all worked out in the end. And as well as that, we had Ed Sheeran.

I just forgot about him. We've been a couple of months into the podcast intro. Imagine Ed Sheeran. You know, it's not every day you talk to Ed Sheeran. And we talk to him. He's on the podcast as well. And he apologises to a Kiwi fan for something he did. That's how nice the guy is.

He's willing to make an apology for something that happened at a concert. And that's in the podcast. You go and have a great weekend. Godspeed. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. Good morning, New Zealand, and welcome on to the show. Just gone six o'clock.

Jono and Ben back with you on the hits. We've got a big show today. After yesterday, you made me watch five horror movies in a row. The scariest ones is voted by you. For a chance for people to win some money, we'll let you know exactly how much money we have up for grabs very shortly. Yeah, because every fright you got during the movies, you lost cash off the $10,000 that we started the day with.

Let me tell you this. We don't have $10,000 to give away. No, but we never would off the $10,000 that we started the day with let me tell you this we don't have $10,000 to give away no but we never would have had $10,000 I mean it's I can't go through the five scariest movies

with no frights I don't like scary movies but we have a whole lot of money and how you can win it very shortly you look like a changed man yeah

isn't there something different about him Jew he looks tougher yeah he does look tougher a bit more mysterious don't feel tough I was even scared going to my car last night

after. Yeah. To be fair, so was I actually. I was just double checking around my shoulder. Oh yeah, because I was parked in the car park and I was like, I probably should have come down here with Juliet. Yeah, I was thinking that as well. I was like, oh. And then it was kind of empty with a couple of cars around. Yeah. But I didn't wait for it.

You left me stranded. The main thing is it crossed my mind. That's not the main thing. That's not the main thing as well. As well as that, we've got Ed Sheeran joining us. He's got a new album out today. And 8 o'clock this morning, we catch up with Ed Sheeran, which is always fun. All righty.

Cash, Sheeran, and some other stuff. Oh, and all 90s music today. We play nothing but 90s music. Just to get your party started on Friday, it is The Hits. What a great tune to kick off your Friday morning. It is The Hits playing Nothing But 90s music today, 10 past 6. But of course, yesterday I was taking part in this. Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween Scarehouse.

I'm not a fan of scary movies, and Jono, you knew this, and so you made me watch the five scariest movies, as voted by the listeners. Oh, yeah, what a monster. I made you sit in an air-conditioned room in a lovely seat and watch some blockbuster movies. Yeah. Well, I mean, I didn't have much to complain about in sitting there watching movies all day. If I remember correctly, I bought you all your meals.

I over-refreshed them. He said there's too many refreshments. watching movies all day. If I remember correctly, I bought you all your meals. Over refreshed him. He said there's too many refreshments. That was his only complaint. I had to keep going to the bathroom. Well, that wasn't my only complaint. That was my complaint as far as the catering went. It was almost too much.

I'm over hydrated. Oh, sorry. Sorry for keeping your fluids up. But we had a room at work. It was a boardroom and you guys did a great job of making it look spooky in time for Halloween. Have a listen.

Welcome to the room. You've done a wonderful job. Well, not you, but someone else has done a wonderful job of decorating this. Yeah. Thanks to LookSharp, okay? If you could just thank LookSharp. Thank your sponsors. My partners, LookSharp.

Well, it looks great. It looks terrifying, but it looks great. Still yet to thank LookSharp. Thanks, LookSharp. Jono's partners, LookSharp. Still yet to think, look sharp. Thanks look sharp. Jono's partners look sharp. Jono's partners look sharp. There's cobwebs. If you want to look sharp, make sure you've got a look sharp in association with Jono

Pryor. Sorry back to you. There's scary lights, there's scary lights, there's werewolves, there's monsters, there's spiders, there's everything in here. That's right and also along with look sharp I'd like to thank my partners Graham Norton and Envivo Wines. And also my other partners. What were my other partners?

Oh, my God. Hell, Peter, that's right. They were great partners as well. Unforgettable partners. You felt like you really got a whole lot of wheeling and dealing going on. Too many partners, baby. So many partners, I even forgot about one of them. No, but thank you.

Anyway, we had this room filled with these wonderful props from Jono's partners and i was in there watching five scary movies people could watch it don't tell my actual partner jen i've got partners she won't be happy multiple partners multiple partners uh so i was watching the five scariest movies as voted by you back to back and as you would imagine with someone as squeamish as me there was a whole lot of frights not go i'm not even going on from what i was seeing on the screen but it was from Jono dressing up in various costumes and scaring me throughout the movies. The kid sees the other. Oh shiz! There's a little sass out there are you okay for water? Oh no no Nancy no.

Oh shiz! Oh shiz! Just sitting there almost lifeless. Oh shiz! Oh shiz! Oh shiz! Oh shiz! Oh shiz!

Oh shiz! Oh shiz! Oh shiz! Oh shiz! Oh, jeez! Just sitting there, almost lifeless. Oh, jeez! Oh, fuck! Oh, my God! Thank you for your 90% swearing. Just pulling out at that pivotal moment as well, and all those swear words. Yeah, you kind of realise that midway through,

you're like, oh, jeez. Yeah, well done, Ben, well done. I oh, geez. Yeah. Well done, Ben. Well done. I thought overall he held his own quite well, Juliet. Yeah, he did quite well. So the game was, we started with $10,000, every scare, every fright. Some of them were manufactured by myself. I'll take that

on the chin, put my hand up. Every fright, you lost $100 off the prize pool. Yeah, but it started with the movie Scream. And after the first movie, you were quite disappointed that I had so many frights. Okay, Ben, Scream, movie number one's just over. How are you feeling? It was quite intense.

Okay, so Bee Humps, producer Bee Humps wants to come and he has a message. We're one movie down and we've got $900 already gone. Oh, and that was meant to be the Walmart one. That was your canapé. Here's a message for you in regards to the money. We're going to start again. We're going to start again? We're starting again. Put $10,000 back on the board.

Oh. Because we can't give away $2 tomorrow morning. Otherwise we would be broke. So at the end of the movies, at the end of the five movies we were left with, it actually felt like You guys had scripted it It was $5,000 left over That's right

Exactly So if you want to win that There was thousands of people That went on to the Hits Breakfast yesterday While the live stream was on And put their name Or put a comment on there

We'll pick out a name Just after our Ed Sheeran interview Just after 8 o'clock this morning And you'll have 66.6 seconds To call 0800 THE HITS And you'll win $5,000. Now, let me just say, it might not be too late to go and make a comment on the live stream. It's still on the Facebook page.

Who am I to say? Oh, that's a good way. You know, last-minute entries, if you want. Maybe you didn't join us for the journey. There's no grudges held. No. We could have watched the grudge, actually. Oh, yeah.

But well done, Ben. Proud of you. Well, yeah, okay. I haven't watched any of the footage back, but I'm sure I handled it very well, very confidently, like everything else in my life. Ed Sheeran and $5,000 to give away. That's after 8 o'clock this morning. And nothing but 90s music this morning.

It is the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben playing nothing but 90s music this morning just to get the party started nice and early. It is 6.18. Scrolling through your feed. Someone said it's too early to get the party started. Yeah, I feel like it is a little bit.

You keep saying get the party started. I'm like, mate, have you looked at the time? Yeah, I know. Juliet, are you? I mean, you're a party, but are you ready? No, not quite. No, it probably does feel a little early. It feels like even if you're partying from the night before at this time,

you'd be like, well, it's time to call it quits. Yeah. Wrap it up. As soon as you saw people out there jogging, you're like, oh, it's time to wrap it up, guys. It really is. Let's get the party started. Ben Boyce.

I was like, it's Friday. I was trying to get in the Friday spirit. We've got a big show. Yeah, I know. Even 9 o'clock this morning is too early to get the party started. Get your day done. Maybe knock off 3 or 4 in the afternoon and then get the party started. I'll tell you why we should get the day started with.

Some news. News and information. What have we got, buddy? Well, yesterday there was a couple of people announced with COVID in Christchurch. Christchurch is remaining in level 2. I missed a lot of news yesterday because obviously I was watching five horror movies in a row. So it was interesting last night about 11 o'clock going through and going, well, this happened and this didn't happen.

I'm pretty sure they were going to put them in lockdown because there was word that they were roaming around Christchurch for a row. Yeah. So it was interesting last night about 11 o'clock going through and going, well, this happened and this didn't happen. I'm pretty sure they were going to put them in lockdown because there was word that they were roaming around Christchurch for a week. Yeah. Obviously not knowing that they had COVID. And I thought there'd be some concern about that. But the good news is the, you know, there's a silver lining, isn't there? That a few more Cantabrians went out and got vaccinated yesterday. That's a good thing, right?

Maybe we should just do fake little COVID cases. Oh, in Vikardal, I hear there's five there today. Yeah, and people go out and get vaccinated. MIQ rules, new rules coming in from November 14. So a seven-day stay for MIQ returnees, which will come into effect from then. So anyone flying from overseas spends seven days in MIQ. They get tested three times, day zero or day one, day three,

and then day six before they go. And then they have to go home, isolate for three days, and get one more test on day nine. That needs to be negative before they can get back out there. Well, that's good. Well, I know what we've learned through this whole pandemic is that you can trust people to go home and self-isolate. That's what we've learned.

But it makes sense. I mean, how long can you ask? I mean, how much longer can you ask people to come back to New Zealand and stay in a hotel room for two weeks? And it frees up a lot of rooms too, by this, even by halving it. So you get more people allowed to come home. Yes, I think they'll get more people coming home, which is ultimately a good thing, right?

And Phil Collins, you all know Phil Collins, has many, many hit songs so he's now going to be questioned under oath in regards to claims his ex-wife made about him now his ex-wife claimed some things that he didn't shower or brush his teeth for an entire year oh my goodness so she's come out and she's like oh bloody phil was not brushing his teeth and not uh not sharing the grounds for divorce? Well, this is all part of it. It's been very messy, and you don't wish that upon anyone, and particularly to have something play out so comfortably. Messy as in hygiene habits were messy?

Yeah, and so now he's set to take part in a film deposition where he'll be questioned over these claims. So he's going to have to answer under oath, is it true, Mr. Collins, that you didn't shower or brush your teeth for an entire year? Was it like a New Year's resolution or was it like a bet? A bet you can't shower or brush your teeth? That's horrendous. And how are they going to prove? They're going to

need someone in the room with them going, okay well you're going to have to blow your breath on... Hopefully he's now flossing twice a day and all those sorts of things. I would just love to reach that level of fame where you're like, what did you hear about Jono? Doesn't shower.

Well, that's you now, but you don't have that fame. No, I'm just a grubby bastard who doesn't shower. Phil Collins' ex-wife is now remarried and she claims that Phil Collins verbally promised her half of everything. So that's what the court case is all over.

But at some stage we're going to be talking about, all we want to know about is did he brush his teeth in here? Yeah, that's what the commercial radio shows are cherry-picking out of this court case. I'm sure there's many other points to argue. Now, he's not well. Didn't Phil Collins come here and he sort of hobbled out on stage? Oh, that's really sad. Or am I making that up? A legendary, legendary artist, yeah.

Yeah, apparently he's looking a little frail now. Well am I making that up? A legendary, legendary artist, yeah. Yeah, apparently he's looking a little frail now. Yeah. Well, listen, a divorce is never nice, is it? No, particularly a public one too,

you know. Yeah. Sorry, I really put the vibes down and I was trying to get the party started. Yeah, he's like, let's get the party started.

Now a bit of divorce settlement. Yeah, I really haven't got the party started. I don't know where that sits on the party scale this morning now. Let's just play some more 90s music. Next we're going to talk about World party started. I don't know where that sits on the party scale this morning. Now, let's just play some more 90s music. Next, we're going to talk about world famine.

But don't forget to get that party started. Oh, geez. All 90s music today on The Hits. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. 628 on your Friday morning. Of course, we're trying to race to 90% vaccinations to get out, to get into the green light system at the

moment, right? Or the red light or the traffic light system that they didn't say was a traffic light but we're all saying is a traffic light. You know the one. Canberra. Canberra at 90% vaccination. Well done, Canberra. And they're trying to get to 99% in Canberra. They're trying to be one of the most

vaccinated, if not the most vaccinated city in the world, which is pretty... Do you know, Queenstown, I think, is taking the lead at the moment in New Zealand, isn't it? Wow. Yeah, they're trying to pit all of the regions

against each other in some sort of competitive, but no one's buying into it. Like sort of Top Town back in the day where they sort of get the regions against each other. The problem that you have, though, is the ones, you know, the tail. You'd imagine most people that wanted to be vaccinated are vaccinated by now in some form, first or second shot.

Yeah. You'd assume so, right? Yeah, you'd think so. They couldn't have made it any freaking easier. Oh, yeah. You listen to a press conference. It's like, stop saying vaccination. Yeah.

Get vaccinated. Get vaccinated. I watched a clip on the news at the Vax-a-thon, and there was this gentleman walking past outside where they were doing one of the Vax-a-thons. He goes up to the reporter and goes, what's going on here? And she's like, it's the Vax-a-thon. What's that all about?

I was like, dear God. Oh, but maybe, I don't know. I mean, the Vax-a-thon was the last minute idea, though, wasn't it? Yeah, but he didn't know what was going on, though. Oh, in general for the... Just in general. Oh, okay. And she's like, everyone's getting vaccinated.

There's a pandemic. He's like, oh, go on in then. So we got vaccinated. Oh, good on them. Which was a great end result. It's a little concerning to know that there's people out there... People just live their life, I guess. Yeah.

So I guess the point was, everyone who would be vaccinated probably has been, you would assume. How do you get the ones that are the anti-vaxxers you're not going to convince? The ones who have just like can't be bothered. They're your only hope. But how do you convince them to go and get vaccinated? Oh, well, actually, we've got some audio from some of the new campaigns that are targeting people. They've tried to do what you're saying there, haven't they?

Oh, they're trying to tap into. Yeah, we've got that for you after 7 o'clock, all right? Oh, special treat there, okay. We weren't meant to tease that, but I'm going to. I'm going to tease it. At 6.31, you've got Shadow and Ben on the hits. Yeah, it's Ben Bargain Me. Hey, we're doing this thing with Skinny, speaking of famous people.

If you've got famous names, basically, they've got a little campaign, don't they? When they've got big stars, I sort of... is brad pitt but it's not brad pitt it's an affordable brad pitt from thames or something fronting their campaign so we're looking for uh famous names this week to win three thousand dollars and also front hour and voice our radio commercial so far we've spoken to a tina turner who do we have we know tina's your first name. We don't know your last. Turner. Tina Turner. Tina Turner. Certainly the best. Oh my goodness.

She was like, every time I mention my name, everyone goes, you're simply the best. And we did it. We did it. I felt bad afterwards. She's like, you don't know how many times that I've heard that. We thought we were original. We had nothing. Then Jason Statham. All I got was his bald head and, mate, that hairy chest. He's a lawnmower.

Yeah. Yeah. And today, Ben, something very close to your heart. I know he's one of your big three alongside Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Kevin Hart. It's Will Smith. Hello. G'day, guys. Yeah, not the... No, I'm a big fan of Will Smith And I'm going to say you as well

Thanks for that Were you born in West Philadelphia? No, no, not quite, born in South Auckland South Auckland, right, you went up to all sorts of shenanigans on the playground Some guys, they were up to no good No, no, no, no, that wasn't me. All right, there's no similarities, Ben. I'm sorry, I'm trying.

So full name William? Yes, correct, yeah, yeah, for sure. But has everyone always called you Will? Because there's a few options for William, you know, for a shortened version or a longer version. Yeah, growing up when I was in trouble, I was obviously William. Mates called me Willie. But trying to make

it a bit shorter and keep it a bit formal I felt Will was probably more appropriate and I just happened to have the last name Smith so it works pretty well. But every day people must be making references, radio shows wanting to talk to you. Yeah, it's just a

normal day for me to be fair. Where has the name taken you? Has it got you anything free? Disc to you? Yeah, it's just a normal day for me, to be fair. Where has the name taken you? Has it got you anything free? Discounts? Yeah, because I work in sales, so it's quite a good icebreaker, to be honest. So if I'm calling someone or I meet someone, you know, telling them my name's Will Smith

and they have a bit of a giggle, if I'm having to call someone up and they ask you what's your name, I typically just say, oh, I've got the same name as the actor, Will Smith, and they ask you, what's your name? I typically just say, Oh, I got the name, same name as the actor, Will Smith.

And they have a bit of a giggle and so on. So it's actually worked pretty well, to be honest. Yeah. So it's that point you're like, you've hooked him in. Memorable. Memorable.

And then reel them in for that big sale. Get them across the line. What do you do? I sell software. All right. And now you're a fan. There's two guys who don't know. No follow-up questions for us. Obviously, are you a big fan of Will Smith movies?

Yeah, he's got some good ones, to be honest. Oh, I can't think of any off the top. Oh, Bad Boys was pretty good. Oh, yeah, Bad Boys. Yeah, Men in Black, a good family for movies. Did you own the album Big Willie Style? No, no, I didn't actually, but I've listened to it a few times over the years.

Yeah, he had quite a good music career, Will Smith, didn't he? Yeah, he's actually been successful in multiple mediums. That's why you love him so much. Big Willie Style, did that have a hidden meaning? Maybe, maybe. Now I'm a grown adult. You know sometimes when you look back on The Simpsons and you're like, ah.

That's what that means. Am I having an ah, Big Willie style moment right now? And, sorry. And I've got no more questions. One interview with Will Smith and you've got no more questions. I've run out of questions. Was Will Smith around your whole life? Yeah, so what am I?

I'm 37 now So it's not like I was named after him I think when the Fresh Prince came out Was that like late 80s, early 90s? Yeah Yeah, he's pretty much been around my whole life You've been living under his shadow for your whole life Imagine if you got to meet him one day Oh no

Exactly You'd say, hey. I've got the same name as you. That's cool, that's cool. Hey, well that's awesome. Well the good news for you my friend is your name's got you on the draw to win $3,000 and that's all thanks to Skinny and you could be voicing

our new radio ad. Oh, that sounds brilliant. Put your good name to it. Yeah, for sure. Are you willing to put your good name to our radio show? Yeah, we'd give Are you willing to put your good name to our radio show? Yeah, we'll give it a crack. Have you ever listened to our radio show? Don't ask me that. I have, yes.

Oh, great. Hey, love your work, Will. You keep safe, and we could be calling you Monday with $3,000, my friend. Awesome. Sounds good. Spy. The WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz.

Time for another smutty smearing of celebrity names. Jew, what have we got? So Adele has announced her first two concerts in I think it's about four years. And she's performing in Hyde Park in London in July next year. But people are a little bit miffed at the price that you have to pay to go and see her.

So general admission begins at about 90 pounds, which is 170 New Zealand dollars. And I've been to Hyde Park before and attended a concert there a few years ago. And it's huge. You could be like a kilometre away if you don't get there early enough. And you can hardly see the artists. Obviously, the speakers are loud enough to hear. And they'd have big screens, wouldn't they?

Yeah, yeah. Is it a giant park? What, do they put a fence around it? Do they? Yeah, I think so. Yes, they do. Yes, they do. Great opportunity to just sneak in. Yeah, I think so. Yes, they do. Great opportunity to sneak in.

Yeah, I know, I know. But then if you want to get the best of the best front row, centre stage, it's about $1,000 New Zealand dollars for Adele. Standing? Yes, standing, yeah.

And so some people are like, I'm torn between trying to get Adele tickets or waiting 40 years until her hologram is in concert for a third of the price, which is fair enough. Would you pay $2,000 New Zealand to see Adele? Oh, no, that's $1,000 New Zealand. Would you pay $1,000 to see Adele, stand and see Adele?

No, but I'm quite tight with my... Yeah, true. But I'd pay to see Adele. $1,000 is... It's quite a stretch, isn't it? Do you know he's so tight? Because the NBA app, which I've somehow been conned into buying because I signed up to a three-month deal,

and then it's just flipped over onto my credit card for a year. That's on you, mate. That's not on them. Yeah, no, that's my fault. I don't blame the National Basketball Association for that. If they were the terms and conditions, you would have clicked away. Yeah, but Ben, he found a 10 minute feature where you pay 2.50 for the end of the game the 10 last 10 minutes of the game but the problem is some games go into overtime and sometimes you keep paying more it's like the pokies you're just putting

in more money yeah so i mean that's you know if that's easy to go by he's certainly not willing to pay a thousand dollars to stand to see a deal I'll pay money for one song, just one song for Adele. Can I pay for the song? That's so good. I'll go half of... That should be the future of concerts, hey? You pay a small price and you get to choose what song it is. Can I go the first chorus of Take It Easy On Me

and the last bit, the big bit of the Hello one here? That is very smart. And there is going to be an adaptation of The Lion King, but completely in Te reo Māori. So the auditions are open now, and they're welcoming people with all levels of fluency. People who audition just need to be eager to learn and embrace the language. It's going to be premiering in June of next year,

in line with the Matariki celebrations. That's awesome. As well as the te reo Māori version of Frozen, which is in the planning stages as well. So if Reo Māori version of Frozen, which is in the planning stages as well. So if you want more information about auditions, if you reckon you'd give it a good crack, you can visit the Matewa media website and auditions close

on the 1st of December. So get practising and audition. Is it going to be a live stage show? I don't think so. I think it's a movie. Oh gosh, I should have read that probably. Yeah, recording that. Overdubbing the movie. Oh, that's great. And all the songs will be in Maori too, so a completely Maori version of the Lion King. They've done the Moana version as

well too, which would be very awesome. Yes, they have. So that's really cool. And that is Spy for the South, and where you can head to the hits.co.nz Did you go to the Lion King show with a hit on? Yeah, I was there. I paid for one song. Just to coon up and tut up. Then we're out. Okay? that's all

oh yeah no I'm done now okay go he tried to sneak in the beginning of the circle of life I was like one song

one song only after 7 o'clock we got $5,000 up for grabs with our game five words for 5k don't forget we've still got

Ed Sheeran and five grand to give away after eight and that's that tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe. And that's all I have to say.

Thanks, Dr. Ashley. John Owen Penn. New Zealand's breakfast. Ben, yesterday we spoke to someone. Really interesting story. Christchurch couple. They were about to have their second baby. And Mel's water broke.

And they were like, we need to get to the hospital right now. They made it as far as the New World car park. So she gave birth in the New World car park. Have a listen. Sat down on the couch, and all of a sudden, sort of felt this snap in my tummy, and I stood up, and then my waters just went everywhere. All right, yeah.

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

and yelled out the window, somebody call an ambulance. There we go, new Will delivering shopping and babies. Click and collect too, I think that's right. So amazing story, in the car park. You know, he did antenatal classes before, you know, having my kids, particularly

the first one, and you're like, oh, and sometimes... Second one, you didn't care much for it. You kind of go through it, you know, the first time. We know what we're doing. But even like, through the classes, I was like, you didn't care much about it. Well, you know, you kind of go through it, you know, the first time you understand. We know what we're doing. Yeah, but even, like, through the classes, I was like, you know, you want to learn about it, but then during the birth, you're like, well, there'll be professionals. There'll be professionals things around

until they got someone like Mel coming in to talk and they're like, oh, yeah, we had it, and it happened in the house. You're like, oh, my goodness, this could happen without the medical professionals. I shouldn't have glazed over in that class. Yeah, exactly. Did you?

Yeah, so a lot of that stuff was washing over me. Yeah, I was like, oh, maybe I should have paid more attention to this just in case I'm the person responsible. I'm not a person responsible for that sort of thing. No, it does. It does. We were wondering,

is she the only car park baby? Are there more out there? Babies born in car parks? Surely there can't be that many. Yeah. Usually the only screaming you hear in a car park is someone road raging that their car park's been fleeced by another driver. But maybe there's

other people out there who have either been born in a car park or given birth in a car park. Now, two thirds of the people in this room, we're kind of out of this. Juliette, unless you have something you want to share. No, no children from me and I plan to... Have you ever been born in a car park yourself? I wasn't born, no, I wasn't born in a car park and I don plan to... Were you born in a car park yourself? I wasn't born...

No, I wasn't born in a car park. And I don't plan to have a child in a car park. But I guess no one really plans it, do they? No, exactly. Well, I mean, this doesn't bode well for our phone topic. Can I just go out and say if, you know, none of us have an example. Yeah, but we're just three people of many listening right now.

So hopefully 0800 the hits. We'll see how we go. 4487 is our number if you want to text us. Babies born in car parks. We'll do that after a 90s throwback. It's Hanson. It is The Hits. Playing nothing but 90s music this morning.

It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Hey, we're talking about car park babies. A very specific topic. Really focusing in this morning on a Friday. You know, were you born in a car park? Have you given birth in a car park? And boy, an influx of calls.

Would you believe it? I would have thought it. We chucked out the radio phone topic, Hail Mary. Yeah. And other Marys came calling. Ironically, her name's not Mary, though. Her name's Kelly. Were you born in or did you give birth in a car park?

I gave birth in a car park. Wow. When was this? This was 12th of January this year. Ali, were you born in or did you give birth in a car park? I gave birth in a car park. Wow. When was this? This was 12th of January this year. Oh, right. Recently. And there's the result.

There's the result. There's the result. The car park baby. What did you do? Did you name the baby Little Wilsons or something? We were almost going to name her Mabel because she was always born at Mabel Bay on the Coast Road. But managed to make it to Punah Kaike in the cafe at the, the car park at the cafe there on the way down the Coast Road. So we live in Westport and Greymount where our big main hospital is for the West Coast is a minute and a half away. Borders broke at home and I sort of thought, oh yeah, we've got a couple of hours, we'll head on down to Greymount. And 45 minutes later she was born in the car park.

Oh, wow. And I imagine when you're birthing a child in a cafe car park, you're creating a scene. Does a crowd form? Fortunately, it was the middle of the night. Oh, good, yeah. Because as a crowd pleaser isn't a baby being born. But, you know, it's probably quite a moment for you. You're like, jeez, I'm quite vulnerable here.

I'm in a position where I don't want 20 strangers peering through my windscreen looking at me birth a child. Were you in the car or were you actually on the gravel car park? Actually outside of the car because I couldn't sit down. It was far too uncomfortable. So I was standing outside the car. My volunteer firefighter husband was on the phone to 111. Unfortunately, my mum, who's an ex-nurse, was there with us.

Oh, that's handy. I was going to say, how do the people around know what to do in that situation? But you had someone who was an ex-nurse, so that's handy. Yeah, my delightful mum. So she got to deliver her first granddaughter. Oh. She got to deliver her first granddaughter. That's a really touching moment.

So were you doing it standing up? Yeah, I was standing up. Oh, is that a technique? were you doing it standing up? Yeah, I was standing up. Oh, is that a technique? Can you do it standing up? Obviously. I didn't really want to sit on the tar silt. Do you assume what, like a sort of a quarter squat? Yeah, pretty much.

From what I remember, it was kind of all a bit of a blur. I can imagine. Jeez, your legs would have been burning, wouldn't they? How long did this take? Not very long. My mum had said, no, I can't see anything, Carol. And I was like, you might want to check again. Oh, wow.

And she was so... Oh, well, that's what a great moment. And it sounds like you had the perfect teammates there with you, too. Oh, I did. I did. I probably couldn't have planned that much better, marrying a fireman and having a mum as a nurse. Yeah, I'd be no good in that situation, Ben.

No. I'd be like, dig on, dig on. What do I do, what do I do? I was just Googling it. Hang on. Oh, no, oh, yeah. Should we film it for Insta? Yeah.

How to make a baby. No, that's it. I've gone back too far. Well, good on you, Kelly. You keep safe there on the coaster, right? Yeah, we will. All right, Janine, we'll get you on from New Plymouth. Another one.

Another one. So many. You birthed a child in a car park, J-Dog? Yeah. Yes, I did. It was a brand-new company car, my husband. Uh-oh. He's like, I don't know the company car.

The company car. Were you in the back seat, front seat? I was in the back seat. The company car? Were you in the back seat, front seat? I was in the back seat. Oh, the company car. He would have had a lot of explaining to do. Well, what did work say about the company car? Were they all right with it? They were awesome.

They were actually really, really good about it. It was a Holden Crewman. Oh, yeah? So, yeah, only relatively new on the WA roads at the time. Oh. Yeah. You soiled the crew I did Now where were you? What car park? We were actually, we'd made the hospital the entry

So we were under where people get dropped off Oh right, so you were like at the front door of the hospital They were Convenient car park Out of the hospital. They were, yep. Convenient car park. Out of all the car parks you could end up in, it was probably the most helpful. Yes, it was, yeah. So people from the hospital came out to help,

or did they go, you're not inside yet? Yeah, my husband had been on the phone. No, so the doctor and midwife were down there waiting for us, and a busload of old people and one of the ladies decided it was a good idea to poke her head in and say hello to me. Oh, that was the thing. You had spectators?

Yeah. Yeah. What did she say? She popped her head in the car? She popped her head in the car. The tailor had been born just, she was lying on my tummy and the old dear asked me if it was my first.

And you're like, thanks, random lady. I'm just going to cover up my legs right now. Yeah. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. We really appreciate it. This morning we're playing nothing but 90s music to get you in the Friday mood. It is the hits.

You've got Jono and Ben. Gwen Stefani, very talented. I saw her on the documentary The Defiant Ones. You know, the Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine one. Is that your really inspirational documentary? He talks about a lot, eh? You get it, mate. You watch the documentary.

About inspiration. And then I was just giving Ben some inspiration from Kevin Hart too. You did. I was watching that just during that No Dou just giving Ben Some inspiration from Kevin Hart You did I was watching that Just during that No Doubt song You know Kevin Hart Don't live in the past

Don't live in the hurt of the past Ben Okay You know life goes on Whether you're sitting back there And seething with that hurt You've got to keep moving forward Have you reached a level? Yeah

A level yeah I don't know what There's always another level to reach Okay mate Okay Don't be happy with what level you're on Does that work with the COVID settings as well? The COVID levels? If anything you want to go back a few levels Yeah, well, there's always another level to reach, okay, mate? Okay. All right? Don't be happy with what level you're on. All right. Does that work with the COVID settings as well, the COVID levels?

If anything, you want to go back a few levels. Speaking of COVID, though, we had noticed something. Now, for many, many months, in fact, in the last year, we've been hearing from the COVID lady on the commercials on TV and radio. You know this one? This is a COVID-19 announcement. Getting tested at alert level four. And we know the ads.

Even the distinctive little musicals. Yeah, she was soothing. She was calm. She had it under control. It gives me PTSD. Like, literally gives me shivers to, like, April last year. It just reminds me of that. Yeah.

Well, I wonder if that's part of the reason why it seems to be at the moment the COVID lady has now been replaced. She's gone. It seems to be. I don't know if this is a temporary thing or what. We don't know the details, but at the moment there's this. There's a new one. Let's have a listen. Let's get back to doing the things we love.

The government has announced the next stage of the COVID-19 response plan. Auckland will move to this new framework Oh, and he sounds like happier He's like, you know, there's hope, there's joy And the COVID lady I've just actually, sorry, someone's just texted I heard the COVID lady was an anti-vaxxer

She wasn't She only told them that about 12 months into the project You what? Yeah, but should I have mentioned that at the beginning? I didn't think it was a conflict of... But, you know, she'll be like, hey, thanks, government. I was with you through the trenches. Yeah.

Delivering the bad news, telling everyone to stay at home, be kind. The difficult time. That was on me. And now you're rolling the... I'll take it from here. Thanks, love. I'll give you the traffic light system. Yeah.

I bet she's alert level filthy right now. You know what I have noticed too and I really enjoy? Obviously we're trying to tap into Juliet's Market, get you guys double vexed. For summer, right? For summer, so if you want to go to your festies. Yes, come on New Zealand.

But some of you are dragging the chain, let's be honest. So now, have you heard or maybe seen The new government youth campaign That's how you spell youth Y-O-O-F of course There's a new youth campaign to sort of Tap into that market and get them double-shotted

Have a listen to this Ayo, it's two shots for summer fam Two shots delivered free Two for long days and warm nights. Yeah, two shots is the key. Two shots to gather whanau. Two shots to share feed. Two shots to have a single...

Oh, Jesus. I mean, maybe it's working. I mean, you're not really target for that. I know, but... Yeah, you called us youth. Yeah. Since you're saying youth, you're like, oh, mate, do you need a hand with your Skype

turning on the video or something? I was youth once and i know all the time i always responded to adults talking like youths i thought that's another youth fellow youth i'll tell you what i was just thinking while that played i'm going to give you a little bit of homework on monday i want to hear you voice and your coolest style exactly same ad and we'll play them back to back and see if you can do a better job of attracting. You have to be as cool as you sound. Exactly what she said. And I'll try and gently bully young people

into getting vaccinated. Is that what you want me to do? When you're sucking on that vape or unhygienically drinking out of your mate's shoe. Double shotted bra. Summer fam. No matter how, listen,

as a message, no matter how hesitant you are, if you're young, about getting the vaccine, don't worry, it won't be anywhere near as bad

as what you're putting into your system at Rhythm and Binds. Okay? We can guarantee that. Yeah, we can. Yeah. Hey, we've got $5,000.

It's a game we play every morning at 7.45. Five words, 5K. That's coming up very shortly. dollars it's a game we play every morning at 7 45 five words 5k that's coming up very shortly it's an easy game to play uh we'll do that in a few moments but don't forget all 90 song this morning on the hits word for 5k on the hits you're only five words away from a massive payday now we're literally going against everything that that song stands for giving away more money and creating more problems for you. That's what we're doing here on a Friday. We do it every morning, too. Yeah, it's a game of word association.

It's really easy to play. We say five words. You tell us the first things that pop into your head after those words. And if all five match up with one of ours when we play, all five of ours when we play, you win $5,000. Now, welcome to the show, Yvette. How are you in New Plymouth this morning? Very good. It's Friday. Oh, you just can't be bad on a Friday, can you?

No, you can't. And it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day. So hopefully we can win 5K and make it even better. Oh, good on you, Yvette. Now, Ben Boyce or Jonathan Richard-Pryor, either one of us will put our bodies on the line for you, Yvette. That's how far we're willing to go for you. And sit inside a box for maybe 30 to 60 seconds. Who are you going to match with today? All right, let's go with Ben.

Ben. All right, I'll head to the soundproof booth in the corner of the studio. Oh, he's a good-looking man. I like to call it the hot box when Ben's inside there. Also for his high consumption of the devil's lettuce as well he can't hear me saying that right now so he can't do me for defamation while he's got his lips wrapped around a bucky let's get into it a bit you need to match five words with ben boyce if do, we'll give you $5,000 today, okay? Okay. The first word that comes into your head when I say haunted.

How? The next one on the list today, and I'm starting to get there's a bit of a theme developing, Producer Humphrey, is spider. Web. Word number three, Yvette in New Plymouth this morning for five words. Witch. W-I-T-C-H. Hat.

Nice. Mask. Coming in at word number four. A mask. Um. Ooh. Mask, mask, mask, mask. Can we go back? Yeah, no, we can come back to that one.

Cool. Candy is the fifth and final today. Flop. Candy what, sorry? Candy floss. Floss. And we'll just hop back to mask. Uh, mask.

Uh. Ooh. Um. Okay, what would Ben say? Um. Mask. He does love a costume, doesn't he? He does, yeah.

He might. What would he say? Um. Probably bear. Mask's a tough word. It is because there's many. You can choose from many. I'm just thinking, what mask would... First word I thought was skeleton.

Okay. Yeah, right. Okay, nice. You did really well there. Halloween-themed five words will get Ben out of the soundproof booth. And the most frightening thing is probably our accountant looking at her spreadsheet right now, not wanting to give away the $5,000, but Ben, you have the look of a man who could make YVETTI in New Plymouth very rich. It's a Halloween theme, okay, mate?

Okay, Halloween. Oh, yeah. So get in the mind of Halloween Alright Haunted House Spider Web

Witch As in Oh, like as in a A witch Yeah, options for that one, aren't there? witch as in... Oh, like as in a... A witch. Yeah. Oh, options for that one, aren't there? I just...

First thing I thought of was the hat. Hat. Ooh. Ooh. Oh, witchcraft was another one I almost went with. I had broom. Ah. Yeah, that was my second guess.

Yeah. Or hunt for some reason. Witch hunt. Oh, yeah. Why, that was my second guess. Yeah. Or hunt for some reason. Witch hunt. Oh, yeah. Why, Vettie? Talk to me. Three from five. We can do this.

So an actual five, you get five grand. You feeling good, Yvette? I'm just a bit funny about this word coming up. Okay, mask it was. Mask is the fourth word. Mask. $5,000 on the line. Let's see. Mask. $5,000 on the line. That's a hell of a...

Scary? Scary mask? As soon as you said I was like... Skeleton. A tough word though. Yvette was really struggling with it. It is a tough one. I thought you were going to go scream mask.

Given we spoke to the guy from here. Yeah, yeah. Candy. I didn't, all right. Okay, all right. Candy was the last one. Lane from True's Right. No.

I'm thinking Halloween. Halloween. Halloween candy. Oh. Oh, no. Three out of five today, Yvette. You did well, mate. Hold your head high.

Real high. All high. All day. well mate hold your head high real high all day walk around with your head unusually high get people talking behind your back thank you hey now Behem are we announcing

the big news for next week in regards to five words is that a thing we're doing hey next week Yvette's gone she's like done with us the big news

next week with five words because we're having a conversation after the show you say we're having a winner in ages And we want to give you The words

The night before we do Five Words So you can formulate a plan Us too? Us too as well, we all know the words too Oh so we can come into it with a Not like we'll agree on what words we're going to say afterwards No, but there'll be an advantage You won't be caught on the spot and having to work on the fly.

That's cool. So we'll put those up online every night next week, and you'll know the five words before the next day's game in the morning. A little bit of an advantage. Sounds good. After 8 o'clock, Ed Sheeran joins us. It's just moments away. And if you put a comment on us watching scary movies yesterday,

you could win $5,000. We'll pick out a name after 8 o'clock. It is the hits. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The hits. It is the hits.

Jono and Ben, 8.29 on your Friday morning. Yesterday we did this ahead of Halloween. Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween Scarehouse. I hate scary movies and you made me watch them and we got the guy from who was actually on screen one of the movies that I watched yesterday, Ghostface.

It was the scary, scary voice and the guy in the mask to announce the five movies that I had to watch. Have a listen to this. At the top of the list is Scream. Why do you want to know my name don't want to know who i'm looking at number two it there's this paranormal it's not a ghost what is it the conjuring something awful happened here, Ed. What is it?

And last but certainly not least, Sinister. Do you think these are serial murders? I don't know. First one I found dates back to the 60s. Yeah, so we started with $10,000 in the prize pool. Every fright that Ben got, every scare, $100 came off that. And we've ended up with $5,000. And, you know, I'll admit some of the scares may have been thanks to me.

A lot of them. The kid sees the other. Oh, jeez. There's sarsing out there. Are you okay for waters? No, no, no, Nancy, no. Oh, sheez! There's sass out there, are you okay for water? Yeah! Oh no, no, Nancy, no. Ah! Oh, sheez! Oh, sheez! Oh, sheez!

Just sitting there, almost lifeless. Oh, sheez! Oh, sheez! Oh, fuck! Oh, my God! It was a wild ride. Yeah. People watched it on the live stream and quite enjoyed just seeing you give me frights.

Yeah. And well done to. It was a wild ride. Yeah. People watched it on the live stream and quite enjoyed just seeing you give me frights. Yeah. And well onto you on not fully committing to swearing as well. Just pulling out just at the finish line there. Almost did. Just that last little sound.

He's kept it safe and family friendly. What an unusual job we have, you know, making you sit down and watch some movies. Yeah. In 2021, that's where radio stunts have ended up. Rob, we have, you know, making you sit down and watch some movies in 2021. That's where radio stunts have ended up. 1996 radio, be looking at 2021 radio and going, what's going on, guys? You've just, what's happened? But the big thing is you've ended up with 5K.

And that's a substantial amount of money, huge amount of money. And if you commented on the live stream yesterday, maybe even if you jumped on there this morning on the Facebook page, we could be reading out your name next, and you could have five grand going into the weekend. Yeah, we'll tell you the name in just a few moments. We'll do that after another 90s throwback, because it's 90s day here on the Hits. It's Mysterious Girl.

It's your lucky night. Peter Andre along with my blubber and his party money. Playing nothing but 90s music today. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, that's a throwback from Peter Andre. Dear friend Peter Andre. He's one of the few people that follow us on social media and just so generous with his likes.

Always doing the laugh, crying emojis. Peter Andre, love you, bro. He's probably one of the people that has commented to win this. Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween Scarehouse. Yeah, so what we did in celebration of Halloween is made a show resident anxiety guy, Ben Boy, sit down and watch five of the scariest movies known to the horror genre. There's Scream, It, Paranormal Activity, The Conjuring, Sinister.

Oh, they're all just a roller coaster. The Conjuring was probably the most scary I found in particular, but they all had their elements. Scream had huge frights, so did It. And going to my car afterwards last night was just a... Yeah, I mean, we left you... I mean, you looked, you looked a little frazzled,

didn't he, when you left? He was like, eww. I mean, I was like, we watched horror movies, they got the car, someone's in the back seat,

someone's in the back seat. You know, just all day, you'd be messing with me on the live stream, people watched that. Even, you came in with a chainsaw,

but it was a chainsaw that wasn't going for safety reasons. You're playing music over, but it still gave me a fright. Yeah, it was a Bluetooth speaker and then I came in with a chainsaw, but the gave me a ride. Yeah, it was a Bluetooth speaker,

and then I came in with the chainsaw, but the thing was, the Bluetooth speaker was on the other side of the room, and I was holding the chainsaw to your face, and you're like, well, that's clearly not going. Yeah, have a listen. We've got health and safety not using an actual... Radio pranking in 2021.

Yeah, you know it works when the guy's laughing at you. There's a chainsaw in your face, mate. Yeah, it wasn't going. So $10,000 is what we started with. Every fright that I got, we took $100 off. And it managed to work out, just by chance, to $5,000. It would have actually been a lot less, but you took off the first movie for me. You're very generous.

And it would have been, actually, we ended on around about $5,100, but there was one final last fright in the movie Sinister just before the credits. I know, the face pops up. Yeah, exactly. So it's very scary. Okay, so the deal is that if you commented

on the Facebook Live, you're in the draw to win this $5,000. We're going to read out a name. You'll then have 66.6 seconds to call back. Yeah, we tenuously tried to tie in 6, 6, 60. You see what we've done. If you don't, we'll read out another name. name, the first name and a winner of $5,000 Nicole

Borland The timer starts now, Nicole and two flailing radio announcers will try and fill in 66.6 seconds. Yeah, so give us a call. Oh, 800 hits right now and you'll take home $5,000 It almost feels like we planned to give away

$5,000, but I didn't we planned to give away $5,000, but I didn't plan to know how many frights I was going to get. Oh, 800 the hits, Nicole Borland. We have $5,000 waiting for you right now. If you don't, we'll move on to the next name, and we'll keep doing this until finally we have a winner. Until maybe Halloween comes around on Sunday night. In hindsight, there's quite a big floor in this format. I noticed we haven't taken down the decorations.

We've got to look sharp. Can we just leave them up like the cobwebs and people just think they're bad dust on the ceilings and things like that? Or do we have to take those down today? When I was driving into work today, because we finished so late last night, I was like, oh, this is like Christmas

where you just can't be bothered packing down. Or a party you're having. You're like, you should do it. It's so good if you do clean the night off. Yes. Because when you wake up in the morning, you're like, thank goodness I've done that. That's what my mum always tells me. All right.

Eight seconds. Eight seconds. Nicole Borland, $5,000. No one tell Nicole, but she has just lost five grand. $5,000. It's just gone big. I'm so sorry, Nicole. Which means we go to another name. And the second off the list is Ange Story.

Your 66.6 seconds starts now, Ange. You commented on the live stream yesterday while Ben was in his horror movie marathon. We got thousands and thousands of comments on the live stream. It was really cool. People really enjoyed not only watching me squirm you getting frights but we also did like a movie watch along where people were watching The Conjuring with me in real time okay it's pretty cool let's go to the for the phone is ringing Ange Ange

Ange! Ange! Ange Story! Oh my god! Ange Story! Ange, is it you? Yes, it's me. Oh, you got through. Congratulations.

You have got $5,000. Oh, my God. Oh, you sound just over the moon. I'm so over the moon, buddy. I'm so tight right now. Oh, Ange. I watched every movie with you yesterday, Ben. Oh, you stuck with me through the whole. Because a lot of people were watching movies.

A lot of it was kind of like a simulcasting thing. Ang, this sounds like. Ang, you're making me cry. Jeez. It sounds like it means so much to you, this money. Oh, it's incredible. It really, really. Like, I didn't even know what Christmas was going to be this year.

This is just amazing. It's amazing. Oh, it gives us so much joy to give that money to you. It sounds like you will really appreciate it. Thank you so much for watching. Oh, it's everything. I would have been happy with $100. Oh, you've got $5,000.

Oh, my God, I can't believe it. It's Christmas. Ben, you saved Christmas. Yeah, you did. Just by watching movies. My four babies are going to just, yeah can't believe it. It's Christmas. Ben, you saved Christmas. Yeah, you did. Just by watching movies. My four babies are going to just, yeah, this is amazing. Oh, Ange. Wow.

I'm tearing up here. Yeah, I'm so happy for you. That is so awesome. That's such a nice feeling to do that for you. Oh, thank you, guys. I love you, Jono and Ben. Oh, we love you too. Thank you for hanging with me through the scary movies

and you really enjoy that money, all right? Oh, thank you so, so much. Who knew that campaign would end in tears? I know. Both of us have money. Oh, what a winner. Pull yourself together, Pryor. Come on.

Me too. Must be the air corner there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the cobwebs from there. Yeah, yeah. All right. Is this filming us? 90s, 90s. Oh, what from there. Yeah, yeah. All right. Is this filming us? 90s, 90s, a lot of song.

What a tune. Here we go. Another day at home with the kids. Little tip, it's called parenting, not babysitting. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Yeah, on the hits, Jono and Ben. I think it was about this time last week.

I was talking about a little thing that we have at home that causes many discussions between my wife and I about the fact that I own figurines and they take place in the lounge. Yeah, there's a lot of them and you keep sneaking them in. He's now got into the Funko Pop figurines. So he's got a new, it used to just be straight run-of-the-mill Simpsons figurines. There's a few tour stories, there's Deadpool, there's all sorts. And now I'm getting into the,

you're right, there's the pop. He's growing up, you know. Brashed out into the Funko Pop. I mean, once you open that door, there was a video I saw online. This guy's got, he's got like thousands and thousands of them. And I'm like, oh, you know.

I did see the beginning of this addiction. I was there when you walked into a store and you're like, what are these? You see that, he's like, what are these? And then I just saw him like going around just like scooping them up with his arm and just put piling them into a bag and i was like this is disastrous mate so we were i have this meth pipe this is probably a better it's probably a safer option uh so i am yeah i'm into i'm into these figurines it does cause a few problems because they're um you know they're in the lounge at home and my wife will

knock them down from time to time. She'll go, oh, there was a gust of wind today. That's what happened to this. Interesting we don't have windows in the lounge. Yeah. But I just wanted to give my wife a call right now because she was like, you know, she's very quick to judge me about what I've got in the lounge. But I want to give her a call, and we'll give her a call and see if we can just talk through something that I want to bring up.

Have you ever thought about having these conversations in private? Well, there's no time, mate. We've got to do it on the radio. I'm an open book. Good morning. Matt is speaking. Oh, hey. How's it going?

Hey, guys. How are you, mate? Not too bad. I feel like I have a care of duty here. You're on the radio? You're on the radio right now? Oh, hi. Hi.

Hey, look. Hey, I know we spoke spoke and I don't want to bring up old things. What was that Kevin Hart inspirational quote you read out earlier? Oh, yeah, you can't sit in, oh, jeez, I've forgotten it all. Something about the past. Oh, the trauma of the past. Life goes on without you and if you keep sitting in that, you know, in those hurt moments,

you're never going to move forward. Thank you, John. So we were talking about figurines last week in the lounge, Amanda, you know, that I have a few figurines. Yeah. So, you know, we're moving on from that. That week in the lounge, Amanda, you know, that I have a few figurines. Yeah. So, you know, we're moving on from that. That's in the past. In the words of Kevin Hart, that's in the past. It's in the past.

Are you still sitting in that hut, Amanda? Oh, that's because they're in the bin. Did you notice? Well, I wanted to bring up something on the radio right now. I'd like you, if you're at home at the moment, could you take a walk down to the bedroom for me? Could you just go walk down to the bedroom? What have you done?

No, I haven't done anything. Have you thrown my plants away? No, I haven't done it. No, I just want to know if you're in the bedroom? Yeah. Now, can you look in the bedroom and now can you count and be honest, how many dogs, obviously you have dogs in there as well. Someone's at the door.

Can you go in the bedroom and can you just count honestly how many display pillows that we have now in the bed like how many cushions that you have purchased count them out loud let's go through them right now 15 15 and I'm proud of them

now hold on here I've been all through this figurine madness We've come along for the journey June Yes we have We've been team Amanda haven't we Yes We've been like you're married to a seven year old boy However

You know 15 display pillows None of which we were told about Yeah these are cushions that have to be placed on top Next to the pillows the cushions Oh these aren't even your headrests. Oh, no, you don't put your head on these things. So you add another two to that. There's 17 pillows on your bed.

This is the thing I just noticed the other day. I was like, what are these figurines? I mean, we've just got... How much real estate on the bed are the display pillows taking up? They must be covering the whole surface. Well, I have got like a little sun trap, so they sit on the little seat as well.

So they're not all on the bed. Oh, I see. But as they're on display, they're always on display for who, I don't know. For a matter. But they're there. Well, whoever's at the door. Yeah, you should probably go get that. The dog's barking.

He wants to see the display, Philip. There are a lot of people talking about it. Show him the figurines too while you're at it. See if he likes those. All right, Amanda. You're falling over. Have a great day. You'd better go answer the door.

Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now, Ed Sheeran, he's got new music out today. He didn't know about our 90s day on the hits. No, he's ruined it. Come on in here and ruined it. And yeah, Ed Sheeran, we spoke to him actually last Thursday night, didn't we?

Now, this was all before the news about his COVID came out because the next day he pretty much went public and said, oh, listen, I've tested positive for COVID. So he's had to go into self-isolation with his little bubba. Yeah, I had 14 hours of interviews when we caught up with him that day. And we've caught up with him before. We love Ed Sheeran. But you could almost tell it was, you know, it was quite exhausted.

And now with the fact he had COVID, you're like, oh, I can tell why. And then having to talk to us. So that's even more taxing and exhausting. But it was actually one of the coolest chats we had. A really, really insightful chat we had. We found out a whole lot about his wife and his family. And here it is for you now when we caught up with Ed Sheeran over Zoom. Here we go.

Here we go. Can we see him? Can we see him? Is he there? How are you doing? Yeah, not too bad. How are you doing? Yeah, I'm good.

I'm good. I'm glad to be doing promo. You don't sound it. You sound exhausted uh it's do you know what it's been a uh this is like the week before the album so the schedule's pretty in intense and there's also a uh a baby in the equation so it's um yeah it's yeah you're in the trenches, you poor bastard. It's not the struggle is real, but it's the juggle is real, and I'm trying to juggle both. Yeah.

Ed, you know, we've spoken to you a few times, and we love you like a brother who probably wouldn't give us his cell phone number. But do you know what I've left tonight to come to you? It's nighttime in New Zealand. I've left my wedding anniversary dinner to come and talk to come now I have a commitment to you and I have my wife Jen on the phone and I listen I just promised that

my mate Ed Sheeran would pay the bill for our dinner so Jen Ed's here hello I just said you would pay you'd pay for the dinner Ed as a mate good do you know what if you want to send the dinner read as a as a make good i wouldn't i would you know do you know what if you want to send a bill to warner new zealand they will get that paid i told you gene i told you it was good for it um can i just say thank you for being such

a strong uh strong rock um to your husband and um uh we all appreciate uh wonderful people like you in our lives that support us in our work whatever so I'm sorry that he left the anniversary dinner but I'm sure he will make it up to you and thank you so much for being an amazing human oh he just did thank you oh there you go insurance saved my marriage yeah John I forgot a gift but that was a great gift yeah oh thank you but I but but honestly man our jobs are not possible without strong people like that. I mean, necessarily choosing like me over your your wife uh for instance but it's a uh she she understands that sometimes work has to come in and yeah it's uh she's she's great basically well it'd be hard for you in that regard too i mean you

know you got to go away on tour for months and months at a time i imagine you know being a new dad does that that would obviously affect the way you'd look at going into tours? I wouldn't tour if I couldn't take my family. Oh, I'll take back that question then. Stupid question. I wouldn't do that. Yeah, I just wouldn't, I just wouldn't do that. But I will say, like, the promotion of this album has been pretty intensive and pretty heavy.

And it would not have been made possible without cherry being amazing like every now and then like if i'm she'll never let me go sort of like nine ten days without seeing my daughter so if i'm if i'm going to spend any time more than that she'll fly to meet us with lyra and whether it be los angeles whether it be new york whether it be paris or italy and like she'll come out and sort of take days off work and come with lyra so i get to spend time with them so she's um she's great it must be really hard at times what does what does cherry do cherry uh works for a company called deloitte um and she works in sustainability for them she is uh um yeah she's she's amazing she's basically saving

the planet and um helping helping Deloitte go green, helping other people go green. She's managed to make our entire house this sort of eco village. And yeah, she's great. She's great. Do you ever get, did Deloitte ever ask

if you can play their Christmas party or anything like that? Who do we know that knows someone? There's a separate, there's a separation there. I mean, sometimes Cherry gets emails from people at her work being like, can Ed do this? Can Ed do that?

But like, I'm her husband. I'm not like her client. Like, I just, I wouldn't speak to her anywhere. Like if I knew someone who's married to someone that could do something for me, I wouldn't be like, hey. I think there has to be a professional separation there, I think. And everything, you know, I have a manager and that's what my manager's for. So Cherry will always be like, this is my husband's manager's details.

If it makes business sense for him, he'll do it. There's us catching up with Ed Sheeran. We've got more with him next. In fact, we get him to call a Kiwi fan who called up her radio show, had a really great story, but had a wee bit of a bugbear with Ed Sheeran. You're not your bullshitting, mate. That was her reaction. Yeah. When Ed Sheeran

talks to her, he has to make an apology. He does. We'll do that next. We'll do that after new Ed Sheeran from his new album Equals. It is Shivers. You got the hits. It is new music from Ed Sheeran, it's Shivers He's got a new album that is out today right around the world It's called Equals And we caught up with Ed Sheeran the other day over Zoom

It's always so good to catch up with Ed And we got him to make an apology in part to a Kiwi fan You'll hear that in just a moment Well, we are excited about the new album Equals, of course You've done Plus, you'll hear that in just a moment. Well, we are excited about the new album, Equals, of course. You've done Plus, you've done Multiply, Divide, but you don't, I was reading you failed Math, so why all the mathematical album names? It was more, you know, I'm a massive Coldplay fan,

and Coldplay, every time they have an album, it's like an event and they change the way they dress, the stage show changes, they paint their guitars differently. The whole feel of the album is one thing. And I could say, like, Viva La Vida to you. And you would go, OK, yeah, I remember they were doing this, this and this. And it looked like this and the show looked like this. And I sort of wanted to do that, but with symbols and colours.

So I really wanted to get to a point where I could put a billboard up anywhere in the world and it would just be a color and a math symbol and people would go Ed's got a new album coming out and I feel like with Divide it was that it would just it was just these big blue posters with a Divide symbol and be like oh because I've seen Multiply and Plus I know that he's got this album so it's the same with the same with um Equals and it's I just wanted to have yeah basically moments of um mate you're a marketing genius. You came to New Zealand a couple of years ago.

You played about 87 shows or something. It felt like you were here for a long time. We loved it. It was great. We painted a mural. We maybe came on a little strong and you haven't been back since. But one moment we wanted to play for you, we spoke to someone. Her name was Tina and she rang up our radio show a couple of months ago, and she got engaged at your concert in Dunedin.

And it made national news, as anything like that would do in New Zealand. We don't have much news here. But we want to just play you what Tina said to us. No, unfortunately, Ed Sheeran didn't sing our song. What was the song? What were you hoping for? How Would You Feel. And he came up to me and he said, oh, baby, Ed Sheeran didn't play our song.

I said, it's okay. This was an amazing experience anyway. So it then turned out that he was about to play his last song, the most unromantic song Ed has, which is Sing. And then he got down on one knee and proposed to me in front of a whole crowd of people. So that was her proposal. Oh, man. She probably came a year too late because Howard, you feel, used to be in the set

like every single day. But, you know, sometimes songs just kill a crowd. Yeah, I know where you're coming from. She had this whole other experience. Well, she didn't know she was going to get proposed to. They just were waiting for their song because that's their song. We spoke to her a couple of months ago.

Would you mind if we called her and we'd just get a personal apology from Ed Sheeran about not playing her song? To Tina, yeah. To Tina. Can we call her? Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. Okay.

Hopefully she answers. Ooh. This could be a gross waste of Ed Sheeran's time. Yeah, sorry, Ed. Hello, Tina speaking. Hello, Tina. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits. How are you doing?

Oh, I'm not too bad. How are you fellas doing tonight? We've got good to hear from you, Tina. We haven't spoken in a couple of months, but we did keep your number after the Ed Sheeran story you told us. Oh, true. Yep, that was one epic story. Yeah, it was. Listen, we've got

someone here who would like to make an apology. Hey, Tina. Ed Sheeran here. We are actually on the phone right now. This isn't like a pre-recording. Sorry I didn't play. How would you feel? You're not. You're bullshitting, mate. No, I'm not bullshitting. We have Ed She feel? You're not, you're bullshitting me.

No, I'm not bullshitting. We have Ed Sheeran on Zoom. Oh my goodness me. Oh, well, Tina, I'm really sorry I didn't play it. But thank you so much for coming to my gig. I do, I do. I'm just happy that one of my songs is your song, basically. That's great.

Oh, I tell you what, myself and my now husband, because we did get married, we just absolutely loved that song and we fell in love so quickly. So it was always going to be our song and it was our first dance at the wedding as well. Oh, the first dance song as well. There you go.

Oh, Tina, love your work. You have a great night, okay? Will indeed, absolutely. Thank you so much, Ed Sheeran. We love your work, man. Thank you, guys. Hey, listen, Ed, always fun hanging out with you, mate. Well, thank you.

Thank you so much, guys. And I'm sorry you had to miss your anniversary dinner, but hopefully you can get back and give us some good love. Give us some good love. So Ed Sheeran said, I'm not good at love, Ed. No, yeah. I'll try. I'll try. I'll try.

You know what? There's a Jamaican dance hall remix of my song, Shape of You. It's called Equal Rights by Ishauna. Yeah. Type that into YouTube. Look at the lyrics of that and let that inspire you tonight. Okay, all right. All right, all right.

I'm going to be trying my hardest to Ed Sheeran tonight. Ed Sheeran, lovely to see Sharon, tonight. Eat, Sharon. Lovely to see you, mate. Take care of yourself, and we can't wait for the new album. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast.

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