Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Have A BIG Guest Joining Us Tomorrow!

Episode Date: June 9, 2021

Hello! Today we announced the huge guest that joins us on the show tomorrow, he's up there with the A-listers! We also caught up with Mitch James and Shaan from Drax Project who are going on tour together, and we played a fun game with them involving lipreading and soundproof headphones... Finally, Jono's got a bugbear with the work email system that he just can't figure out. #Boomer. 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. Hi there, it's 9.21. As we're recording this on Thursday the 10th of June,

I'm Jonathan Pryor. And I'm putting some headphones on and now I'm with you right now. Welcome to the podcast. You said that, didn't you? You got Beats by Dre headphones. Now they, Dr. Dre, would be really disappointed in the state that they are currently sitting on your ear holes. I need to get a new pair actually. They're done up with gaffer tape.

Yeah, they've had a hard life. Do you think that when Dr. Dre invented those headphones, this is what he was intending? Don't think so. No, I don't think they were part of the design process, but yeah, I do need to get a new set of headphones. You've really stuck with them for, you know. Yeah, I really like them. I really like them.

And now when we put other headphones on, it feels unusual. Your ears do become adjusted to certain brands of headphones, don't they? Yeah, yeah. Which is weird because you don't wear headphones any other time in your day. And my ears, they work they? Yeah, yeah. Which is weird because you don't wear headphones any other time in your day. And my ears, they work fine. Oh, right.

I wonder what it would be like just doing a radio show with no headphones because it's like a builder turning up without a hammer. Yeah, I see what you're saying. You'd feel naked, wouldn't you? Well, because you do like to hear. I mean, you've got to obviously hear the callers and you hear the bits of the music that we talk over, the annoying parts that we talk over.

And hearing you come through, it just feels different. It feels like you're working. You're in radio mode. When the headphones are on. One time we should just go blind, no headphones. See where that takes us. Yeah, let's go. We'll do the show without headphones.

You're right. Talking over all the songs and the ads and not really listening to callers. Even talking in the studio without headphones feels weird. Yeah. Okay, we'll continue now just talking without headphones. I don't know. You question the level you're talking at. Am I talking louder or quieter now when I haven't got the headphones on?

I'm not sure. I feel like I'm trying to talk louder, but I don't know. But my wife, Jennifer, says whenever I get home from radio, I'm like, hi, guys, how's everyone going? Oh, right. Shouting. Yeah. It's probably because you had headphones on.

It makes you very deaf. Jeez, I think I've slowly been losing my hearing over a long period of time. And it would do. You put these on every day. Let's not think about that too hard. But you're right.

The thing that makes me rest easy when it comes to hearing loss and any ailments is like, well, by the time it really kicks in, technology will just be magnificent, won't it? You know, like a hearing aid right now, tiny already. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Soon they'll sew on some new ears. They'll do an ear transplant.

Or maybe. For someone who lost their ears in an accident. I'll put those on me, so I'm not that stressed about it. We've got a big guest joining us tomorrow on the show, and we're very excited about that. We're off to do the interview now, or very shortly. Yeah, at Eden Park on a big screen. Yeah.

Yeah, it's very lavish and somewhat unnecessary, but it's what Ben demanded. Yeah, that's right. He demanded a big screen in Eden Park to be hired out. They're like, oh, we've got the Super Rugby, so I don't care. Okay, cancel the game. So yeah, we're going off to do that very shortly, so that's very exciting. You'll find out who that celebrity guest

is on the podcast. And the worst first date ever. We spoke to a lady who's now husband, and they have a family. An unorthodox first date. Weird call from him. Doing this particular task. I guess it was probably his thing, you know, like.

I'll take her to enjoy what I enjoy doing, but it's not everyone's thing. And it definitely wasn't her thing after what happened. So you'll find out what happened on the podcast. Big guest joining us. We've got an interview with a big guest tomorrow, which is pretty awesome. Yeah, and if I could ask you politely to hush those sweet, beautifully chapped lips, Ben Boyce. How often are you chapping? Never. Never? No, I can't remember the last time. It would pretty awesome. Yeah, and if I could ask you politely to hush those sweet, beautifully chapped lips, Ben Boyce, how often are you chapping? Never.

Never? No, I can't remember the last time. It would be years. They look wrinkle-free and flawless, those lips. But anyway, I've really got into a lip hole here because the reason I ask you, Ben, to hush those sweet lips is because we proudly present this. This Friday, the king of chit-chat.

Let's start the show! Chats to the kings of chit-chat. Shocking bits of radio. this. Graham will be beamed in live on the big screen for some reason. Huh? Tasting his new wine with Jono and Ben because, hey, it's 5 o'clock somewhere, which actually means it's 8 a.m. here, so, yeah, make of that what you will. Join Graham Norton in the interview that drove him to drink. Lots and lots of wine. Why didn't you say so? With these two Sauvignon plonkers, Jono and Ben on the heads. Pretty awesome.

Graham Norton joining us tomorrow. We're doing the interview at Eden Park, and it's all thanks to Envivo Wine. Graham Norton's got tomorrow. We're doing the interview at Eden Park. And it's all thanks to In Vivo Wine. Graham Norton's got another collaboration with In Vivo Wine coming out, which is I think 10 million. 10 million bottles they've sold worldwide of Graham Norton In Vivo Wine. Huge success story. Yeah, it's awesome.

So they're going to be coming out with a new wine together, I think, by the sounds of it. Looking forward to talking to Graham. Last time we had any interaction with him, we were in London, Ben, a couple of years ago. And I was lucky enough to weasel our way onto the red chair, the famous red chair. Which I think every New Zealander has been on.

You know, like I think you have to do your OE now and that's like your eye. It's part of it. As soon as you arrive at Heathrow, they look at your passport, well, you're heading off to the red chair. So we got to do it and we were backstage

waiting in a line of people because you don't know what's going to happen when you get on there if you'll get to tell your story. It's very nerve wracking and you're next to

all these other people and you're like what's your story? And they're like I'm not telling. Everyone holds on to their story. Now on the couch that night

it was an amazing couch for Graham Norton. I think there was Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Charlize Theron, Coldplay was sitting there, Seth MacFarlane, who is the creator of Family

Guy. They were all sitting on the couch as well as Graham Norton. So it was quite a daunting sort of scene to sort of be part of. Yeah, very nervous. And then so you sit on this chair and then we were like, oh, let's go in fun jackets. Oh, we were in uniform. Jono and Ben, we had matching sort of jackets. Red crushed velvet jackets.

Like suit jackets? Like, yeah. Suit jackets, a suit and tie. We looked like sort of school kids, really, because we had a little emblem that said Jab at Jono and Ben at 10 at the time. It looked like we'd escaped from a prestigious British education facility.

So you sat down on the red chair, and this was your moment. You were dressed in the jacket, looking like you were wearing a school uniform and Seth MacFarlane, who was the creator of Family Guy, was on the button to see if he wanted to hear your story or not. This is what happened. Hi there, Graeme. How are you, mate?

Nice prep school uniform. That was it. Bruisel. Those were my three seconds on the Graeme Norton show. Hey, Graeme. How are you? He didn't even answer. Seth MacFarlane just said, hey, nice prep school uniform and then flipped you back on the chair. Can I, full disclosure here, I was kind of happy for it,

low-key happy for it that the jacket took the brunt of most of that because I was grossly underprepared and I didn't actually have a story. I was actually walking up to there still trying to make up a story in my head as I was sitting down. So Seth actually saved me.

I got to sit down straight after you dressed in the exact same outfit as you. I was like, oh, this is not going to be good. So I quickly took the jacket off and shot. I think I made a joke about Seth MacFarlane's movie because we had sheep and we're being from New Zealand to try and win him over. And I eventually got to tell my story.

Hi, my name's Ben. I'm from New Zealand. Okay. Okay. Oh, they're loving you, babe. So a couple of years ago, my granddad had an eye infection and asked me to put eye drops in his eye. So I grabbed them from the top of the fridge, put about six or seven drops in, looked down, realised they weren't eye drops, it was super glue. I took about six of those for him to surgically separate his eyelids.

Oh, yeah, he sleeps now with one eye open. No. One of them over. But then I still got Seth MacFarlane still flip me back as well. Did he? I'd flip you as well. I think I did, yeah.

Yeah, he savaged that MacFarlane. I didn't get to walk off. Yeah, what we want to do, 0800 the hits, is we want to prepare ourselves for our Graham Norton interview tomorrow by doing our own version of the red chair. The plum- plum coloured seat.

Or the pink sofa. For copyright reasons. Basically, you tell us your red chair story. What it would be. And then we will decide via the means of a buzzer. Producer Juliet. That's about it. I pointed at Juliet like, play a buzzer. So they know what a buzzer sounds like. So if you get to the end of your

story without hearing the buzzer, you'll win today. So your best ever story, what you would tell if you were on Graham Norton's show, and if you get to the end without hearing the buzzer. It's a buzzer. It's a fly. Just to bring you up to speed. Why don't we give you a $100 supermarket voucher? Oh, that's cool.

I don't have one, but we'll get one. We'll get one. And we'll give it to you. We'll give it away. So give us a call right now. What would be the story that you would tell if you were on Graham Norton's red chair? And if you get to the end of it without hearing the buzzer? He got Graham Norton on the program tomorrow

in his only New Zealand interview. Yeah, thanks to In Vivo Wines, which is awesome. He's got a new wine coming out with In Vivo Wines. And we're preparing, getting match fit for Norton by doing our own version of the red chair. In no way associated with Graham Norton's red chair for copyright reasons. No, no.

Red chair. copyright reasons. Red chair. Red chair. New Zealand vision. New Zealand vision. We'll get Jennifer on. When you hear the buzzer, you're ejected from the chair. And if you make it all the way through,

we're going to give you a $100 supermarket voucher. Jen, take it away. All right. So my husband and I met on a blind date. Oh, joy. Wow, that was quick. My husband and I met on a blind date. Oh, Jono. Hey. Wow, that was quick. Didn't even get to the part where he tried to blind me.

Oh. Oh, you won't even know now, Jono. Oh, no. You won't know now what he did. Oh, I want to know. I'm sorry. I did it for comedic purposes. Now I regret it, Jen. Well, this is the thing.

You can let Jen win. I got one voucher. So do you want to? It's a big decision. What's going on in the background, Jen? Oh, sorry. That's my kids. I'm dropping them at school.

Oh, do it. All right, all right, all right. Am I reversing my buzzer? Let's give her a second chance. If you buzz before the end of the story again, Jen's out. But if not, you can carry on. Sorry, my bad. I was trigger happy.

All right. So my husband and I met on a blind date and he gave me two black eyes on our date because he took it a little bit too literally. So basically we went off-roading and my seatbelt malfunctioned and he decided to show off and drive through a puddle and hit a

tree stump in the puddle and I went flying. Oh my god. What, into like the windscreen? No, he has a Daihatsu Rocky, so it has like a, it's like a convertible at the back half and so it's like a lip where the

fibreglass connects and I basically went face first into that. Oh dear god. How'd the seatbelt malfunction? Oh my goodness. But hey, I mean, I got two little, cute little boys out of it

and we've been married nine years now. Who knew those black eyes were going to lead to a wonderful marriage? Yeah, I like to say that he knocked

some sense into me. Thank you very much, Jen. Well, you got to show the new story. Yeah, well done.

You're going to win the $100 supermarket voucher. Awesome. Good on you. You're going to feed the two100 supermarket voucher. Awesome. Good on you. I don't need the two munchkins. You go drop those screaming kids off at school. Love your word, Jen. Well, that's the end of the read. We've got more.

But we can't... Oh, yeah. Should we take one more? Well, you can't get to the end of it. Otherwise, it's on you. Okay. Connor, you're on. What's your story for the red chair? Oh, look, I think there's a couple of lads. There we go. We've got to have more vouchers.? I think there's a couple of lads. We've got no more vouchers. I'm sure it's a great story.

We've got no more vouchers. We're going to have to put on that one. I'm going to have to find something for Connor though. Sorry, we've run out of prizes too. We'll sort you out something, Connor. Thanks for your call, mate. I appreciate that. On the way for you, we've got Mitch James and Sian from the Drax Project joining us

in about 10 minutes times. It is the Hits. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Shono and Penn. Breakfast on the Hits. The Hits. We've talked about how you love Ladbible. Oh, yes. I love Ladbible.

Lads, lads, lads. The greatest website ever. How would you describe Ladbible? It's, okay, it's like news, but it's fun news. News for lads. It's interesting. I guess that's what it probably started as, but it's not actually. It's probably just amusing news from around the world.

Yeah, amusing news and not always actually amusing. It's just like interesting stuff that you're like, I don't want to hear about the government on the Herald and're like i don't want to hear about you know the government on on the herald and things like that who wants to hear about the government it's entertaining news yeah right so it could be called stag do news like you get all the lads together check out this news and they're all like oh that's probably what it started like but as you say right now it talks about all things all over the world i mean it has unusual news the other day we talked about how it was covering someone who was on a mission to park at every supermarket car park

at the supermarket, to park in every space. If you like Ladbible news, you'd love the Joe Rogan podcast. But today they posted on their Instagram account how New Zealand has reached 100 days without community cases of COVID. So this was probably a bit more newsy for Ladbible. Would you want to hear about that, though? You like the humorous stuff, though. Well, no, but that's interesting because it relates to New Zealand.

Yeah, and it said in the comment, it had a picture of Jacinda, and it said, New Zealand's showing the rest of the world how it's done. And then it had the sort of hands, the praise hands up there as well and a New Zealand flag. And so I thought it was nice. It was nice. And there was a lot of comments underneath. I thought, should I read the comments or should I not read the comments?

And I was like, I'm going to read the comments. Never read the comments. Never. Even if it's about New Zealand. Never read the comments. You read the comments about yourself. Does it ever end well? No, no.

But I actually quite enjoyed some of the comments. Because obviously the post was about how New Zealand's done so well. 100 cases without COVID in the community. And then here's two of my favourite comments. Wow, the most isolated nation in the world avoiding infection. Show us how it's done, please. I love that. Let's call a spade a spade.

We've got the bulls. A huge advantage. Huge advantage being here. And then another one as well, which is along similar lines. Breaking news, a small island that no one travels to with a population of a small city has no COVID. Which, when you put it in perspective again, that is kind of what it is.

I mean, yes, it's great that we're doing so well. We're all very braggy about it, though, aren't we, here in New Zealand? I know, but when you break it down, and that's how the rest of the world are like, yeah, well, it doesn't make sense. But then I'm like, we've got all this stuff sitting in the quarantine hotels. Do we just ignore that? Do we even mention that?

Yeah, but that's not in New Zealand. But it's in New Zealand. It's like suddenly hotels are not part of New Zealand. It's literally in a hotel two blocks from us. It's not in New Zealand. Oh, what? That's not parquet. So next time you go to a hotel, can you walk out with a TV? It's not in a hotel two blocks from us It's not New Zealand Oh what, that's not parquet So next time you go to a hotel, can you walk out with a TV It's not New Zealand

No, the law's applied International What laws are these? Oh that's good, congratulations though, it is wonderful news Obviously not that great if you're in the UK No They're not seeing it as a great achievement I guess I put it into perspective. Hey, next on the show...

They probably would have gone when Sir Edmund climbed the mountain. Old man climbs little hill. 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. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, Jono, you've been on a mission to

find New Zealand's most annoying toy. This is as far as our parents and the parents' opinion. Yes, and there's been some beauties that have been submitted during the week. Ben, you brought a new one to the table today. Literally, it's on the table right now. Yeah, this is one that, again, all these things, when you've got it yourself, it's so much fun. This is Bop It.

Oh, yes. Bop It. Yeah, and you start doing Yeah Bop it Twist it Pull it Bop it And then when you Oh

Focus Concentrate Score Three And it just keeps going Like when the kids have got it Or someone has got it You just

You know And when you've got it You just keep playing it Over and over again And it just keeps talking to you That's also a great Method Ben applies to his lovemaking. Bop it.

Twist it. Pull it. High score. It does also say I'm going to sleep. Too many innuendos. We've got Kurt on from Hamilton. Welcome, Kurt, to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you?

Yeah, not too bad, mate. Yourself? Yeah, good, thanks, buddy. You want to submit New Zealand's most annoying toy? What is it? Oh, yeah. Look, my parents think they're hilarious and they buy my young fella all the loudest toys in the world,

but they've got one that they've got from where it's a bath toy and it's a little shark. And when the water goes over the sensors, it plays Baby Shark on repeat the whole time. It's like Torchy would give a prisoner of war. That's terrible, yeah. So I let it run out of batteries pretty quick, but I popped some in so you could have a listen.

Oh, you've got it here. Thank you, Kurt. There, no worries, here you go Oh, that's the batteries running out It's like the Megamix of Baby Shark Yeah Oh, that's a fail, isn't it? Baby Shark It's almost more annoying

when it's stuttering like that It doesn't actually stop, it does that constantly but he won't get us to take it out of the bath either. Oh, Kurt, thank you for submitting. That has got the annoying song and the repetitive nature of it too, so that does get extra

points for that, Kurt. Thank you for your entry. Danny from Pongatawa. Welcome, Danny. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you guys? Doing well. New Zealand's most annoying toy. Have you got it? Oh, Lego. Oh, Lego. Of course, if the kids weren't playing about with it and the dad comes in the room,

he's ready, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Oh, stepping on the Lego. Yeah, like little knives on the floor, aren't they? Yes, yes, exactly. Thank you very much, Danny. Appreciate that. We're building Lego at the moment, a 3,662 piece piano. It's a competition. Did you get any further last night?

I did actually get a little bit further. Not too much further, but I got up to a I think we got some audio of that. It's the exciting part where you plug it in and it starts playing early days, but it starts playing some music. Right, I've connected the batteries and we're only early days in it, but I think we can playing some music. All right, I've connected the batteries and we're only early days in it but I think we can hear some music.

Hey, happy birthday to me. Yay. Only after your wife figured out that you needed more batteries. Don't need to tell me about that. Yes, I spent about 45 minutes going, why is this thing not playing music? It says it should be playing music at this part. What have I done wrong?

I was like, man, have a look at it. And I started, because I started pulling things apart and everything like that, going back my steps. And she's like, it needs six batteries, not three batteries. I was like, okay. Oh, you look quiet in the cheap seats. I'm recording some radio. We've been past that.

And then I'm recording some radio here, mate. We've been past that. And then I was recording radio. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Drax Project teamed up with Mitch James. They're on the road next week to a touring New Zealand in June and July. The first Auckland concert already sold out. We've got Mitch James and Sian from Drax Project.

Nice to have you guys in the studio. Good to be here. G'day, guys. Now, Nice to have you guys in the studio. Good to be here. G'day guys. Now you guys, you're both headlining. Well, Drax Project, Mitch James, you're kind of both headlining. I mean, who's really headlining? I mean, you need to battle it out. It's just a family tour. Right. You know, there's

no one in charge. So does this one person get the final slot one night and then it reverses or how does it work? I personally think I'll make everyone cry and then the recovery is on Sian and the boys. I'm going to put you through an emotional rollercoaster. I know Ben's got tickets.

I'm going to send you through the ringer. It seems like a wonderful combination. Yeah, I mean, I suggested it to the boys a while ago and yeah, I'm just super glad that we finally got to do it because it was always a bit of just something we talked about. How cool would that be kind of thing? And yeah, it finally sort of came to life. And a weird time for you, Mitch James, though.

Because last time we talked to you a couple of weeks ago, you were like, I'm off to LA. I don't know when I'll see you again. And then you're back. So yeah, I got a phone call three hours in from my manager, goes, you have to turn back. And the next flight was about four days later. So in that four days, almost died in a car accident.

And then, yeah, got on the plane and a couple of very long, hard weeks in quarantine. And yeah, here we are. What happened with the car accident? I was in the car and my mate was driving and he was speeding and there was this cliff at the end of a road. And so he was speeding and hit the brakes,

the car locked up, smashed into this metal barrier and we're probably about 30 to 40 centimetres away from rolling off a 300 metre cliff and obviously shooting death. So yeah, I was lucky to be alive. Everyone okay though? Physically, we're okay. Yeah, yeah. But the trauma still exists.

Oh, totally. But yeah, it was full on. He's been through a lot to get to this point. Yeah. You know, you got to come guys. Yeah, totally. But yeah, it was full on. He's been through a lot to get to this. Yeah. You know, you got to come, guys. Yeah. Trust me when I say I'm going to give you everything. Oh, yeah.

Now, Mitch, we know backstage that you used to, I don't know if you still do, you used to request a framed picture of actor Morgan Freeman. Yes. Why was that? Just weird banter. Just something to do. Does Drax Project

have anything like that, Sian, that they request backstage? No, man. We're chill. We're not weird. No, man. We're chill.

Give us a room. We're chill. No, nothing. Nothing. Just kind of like maybe a water or something. Just a couple of waters. What, like a towel?

Do you want a towel? A couple of towels, some kombuchas, you know. And everything's chill. Everything's chill, yeah. Now, you guys all sort of really started, I guess, musically busking. Yeah, you know, Mitch James, Drax Project, you guys. You know, like, did you guys have a go-to song?

Like, what was your go-to song that you would play busking? What brought in the cash? Yeah. What was it? My number one cash money was Thinking Out Loud by Ed. Most requested was definitely Wonderwall.

That was the money maker. That's when the coins started dropping. Yeah. And how about you, Sham? What was the money maker for you when you guys were busking?

I think it was, I think back in the day when on the saxophone it was thrift shop, you know. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Ben's next question was, how much tax did you both pay from the you know idea mitch james and sean frontman from the drax project with us in the studio touring uh june

and july go see them they're going to be awesome before you go we've got a little game we want to play yes now we've got three facts written each about you two. Now, you've got to tell them to the other person. You can tell your own facts. But we're going to be playing music loudly in the ears of the person who's trying to understand what's going on. So a bit of lip reading is required. So Juliet will put the headphones on with the music on.

Sian, you can put the headphones on first. Sian, you've got music? You've got music playing? I got music playing. You can't hear? What's the vibe? He's going to say something. He's going to say a fact

about himself. Three facts, one by one. We'll see if you can work out what he's saying. Oh, okay. Mitch James, first fact that Sian's got to read your lips about.

I have a tattoo of Conor McGregor. I have a... Honestly, it looks like you're saying I have a soiled underwear problem. That'll do. that'll do. And that is my first fact.

Okay, second fact. I can't hear him. That's the point. That's really difficult. I got to open for Ed Sheeran. I go home and cook fish. That's a fact. And you're right again. Bang on.

Okay, the last one. My music gets used on Home and Away. I made the music for Home and Away. Oh! Wait, was that what he said? Pretty close. Pretty close. No way that's what happened.

His music gets used on Home and Away. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, we've got a shout-out from Drax Project. He's going to be reading three facts on him and Away. Yeah. Okay, we've got Dashaun from Drax Project going to be reading three facts on him and band right now. And Miss James has to stare deep into Dashaun's lips here. Are we good? He can't hear him.

He's got music blaring. Miss James can't hear what's going on. Are you ready? Are you ready? Ready. That's thumbs up. I used to sing barbershop at college. I like to pop and lock at college.

Bro, that is exactly what I said. No, I'm just kidding. It was close, it was close. Okay, number two. Okay, I'm ready. Okay. In concert, I like to play the sax. I've got six goats and I like to game.

All right, number three, I'm ready That's amazing I don't know how he got that out there How did he get that? I'm pretty sure I got all of them right So let's not repeat them back

and just say that you did That game brought me a lot of joy It did Sian from Drax Progeek to Miss Change you can catch them on the road very shortly

got all the dates up at the hits.co.nz hey thanks for hanging out boys always a pleasure boys cheers you guys are great thank you

Jono and Ben or as they're known in the office those two Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast on the hits a bit flustered at the moment

this week you might have actually heard it coming through the radio too what's wrong with him is he flustered giving off an air of flusteredness?

Because work asks you to reset your password. I don't know how often it happens, but it feels like the time in between drinks becomes shorter and shorter. Yeah. Don't you find that? It does. It happens quite regularly.

I'm like, why? Who's trying to hack into my work emails? Yeah. And it gives you the five-day countdown. Hey, reminder in five days, you need to reset your password. And you're like, I'll get to that tomorrow. Four, deny it again.

Three, it's getting close. It's on your radar. Two, one. And then you get to the point where I'm sure everyone who works into the IT department is like, you idiot. How much more warning can we give you to change your password?

Literally, it messages you every day for five days non-stop and you still haven't done it. So now I'm in the zone where I can't reset a new password to get into the Wi-Fi or the emails here at work. Oh, so you've gone past it, have you? I've gone past it and I can't be bothered going to fix it. So I'm just tethering off my phone at the moment on my laptop. I've been slowly trying to turn this

into Producer Juliet's problem. You have been moaning about it quite a lot. Almost like putting on a little performance, like a stage show. You want to go, oh, look at the password. Well, I find she's like, oh, go sort it out. I was like, it's fine. I'm like, do I need to get tech down?

And you're like, no, no, no, I'll be able to sort it out. I'm like, are you sure? But my main issue is with it it's got into your old password and you're like john opryer1234 and they're like create a new password john opryer12345 and they'll confirm the new password 12345 not strong enough and then you end up adding another number and you go up to sort of nine, ten. Your password's not strong enough. Try creating a stronger password. So you say without a word of a lie, I was Jono, at symbol, prior, dollar sign,

exclamation mark, backslash, backslash. You know, this password was so complicated, not even the Russian hackers could get into it. That's the thing, you're not going to remember it. That's the thing, I couldn't even remember it. And then they're like, this password is not strong enough again. Michael McIntyre, the comedian, does a great bit on it. It's like they shame you.

They're like, weak. You're like, weak. And it's true. You get shamed by the thing. I'm one step away from doing it in Cantonese or something. It's tough. Why has the universe put this on us as a human race, resetting passwords? It's got to the point where it needs to be now.

It needs to be Face ID on computers for passwords, I reckon. As long as they can see. You do it on your phone. It should be online too. I agree. I've got a document that sits on my desktop with all of my passwords. I've got 28 different passwords. So if anyone wanted to assume my identity and go into ASOS and buy some slacks, they could.

It's all there. Too many passwords in life. How many are you running? Oh, a couple. But the computer now has got the fingerprint thing, which is awesome. So you just tell your computer to remember it, and it'll remember it, and you just put your fingerprint there. Half of them I don't even know. As long as my fingerprint touches the thing, it's like password just enters in like witchcraft.

Genius. I don't know how it works. That's so good good but then what happens if you have to get a new laptop i know well that's the problem but right now it's like you just got to type it in and all of a sudden the fingerprint option comes up what happens if someone steals your finger oh i hadn't thought about that that's a possibility machine-based incident you know where maybe where i'm grinding something in the garage or something. Someone finds a finger on the floor. Oh, okay, I'll see what this does. Where does this get me? Oh, great, I can buy some NBA singlets.

Here we go. Oh, some hand sanitiser. Got a password for a hand sanitiser. Commercial distribution centre. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben Breakfast on the Hefts. The Hefts. Now we have

Breakfast TV on on mute in the studio. It's one of our favourite things is trying to figure out what they're talking about on Breakfast TV.

They have inserted a broomstick into the cast. Yeah, which is Manny McLean, the weather operator. The weather operator. The weather man. The weather.

He operates the weather. He's like, oh, it'll be sunny here today oh a little bit of rain over here I think the south needs a little dousing but he wanders around

with a broomstick and we've created a very complex backstory as to why he needs that broomstick we talked to him about it said it was sent to them by a viewer

that's right that's right but also what popped up today on mute it looks like New Zealanders can go to France now without having to

basically to go into quarantine when you get there oh great so lockdown you have to do quarantine when you came back but France is opening up

basically to vaccinated tourists around the world from particular green zone countries and we come in come as part of that we were green but so you're saying we still have to do the two weeks

on the way back you'd have to do it on the way back at the moment and I think you have to be vaccinated. I'll just get a cross onto the Royal Oak Mall. Just exactly like going to France. They say it's the French cuisine of New Zealand. Oh, you get a lot of culture.

The Royal Oak Mall. You get it all. Do you want a baguette? I'll get you one from bag and save, mate. This is just like that news show 60 Minutes with 59 less minutes. It's Ben Boyce presenting the news from overnight scrolling. And we're talking right now about big news for Aucklanders. Auckland has just been crowned the world's most liveable city.

The world's most liveable city? The world's most liveable city for people who don't want to live in houses. Yeah. So this is something that happens every year. The Economist Intelligence Unit basically come out with the world's most liveable cities. It's quite an intense name for just a survey company. Yeah, they like to go by EIU as well, if you don't want to say we're also from the Economist

Intelligence Unit. They would definitely have lanyards with the logo and their name on it. EIU, let me in. What are you going to do? I'm going to ask people questions in here. But they basically, every year they look at the rankings of cities and there's many things that they factor into

it, but obviously Auckland and New Zealand, as we've spoken about already before, we kind of get through because right now in the world, New Zealand's one of the best places to be as far as handling the pandemic goes. Oh, I see. Here comes the tall poppy knocker. What?

Here he comes chopping, swinging his axe. You're saying Auckland's won it by default this year, are you? I'm not saying by default. I'm saying they've won it because New Zealand is one of the best places to be in the world right now. We've done a great job controlling COVID-19. And that was one of the reasons right now that... Just let Auckland have something for once, Ben. For once, let Auckland get something.

Because a lot of the other cities that were normally in the top 10 have sort of plummeted down because obviously there have been lockdowns in various stages throughout the year. So, yeah, it's basically Auckland number one, Osaka, Japan number two, and then there's a lot of Australia and New Zealand throughout the rest of the top 10. Adelaide, Wellington at number four. Then we go back to Tokyo, Perth, and then Melbourne and Brisbane sort of round out the top 10 as well.

I was wondering how far down the list you was going to go there. Oh, no, actually, I skipped ahead. It's also, I'm sorry, apologies to Geneva and Zurich. I was wondering how far down the list you was going to go there. Actually, I skipped ahead. I'm sorry, apologies to Geneva and Zurich. I kind of skipped over you guys. Because it felt like the list was taking too long. It was. It was. I thought, no, geez, he's in deep here.

Is he going to mention Geneva and Zurich? No, now you say it. I feel like we should mention all 140 countries in order. But the way you listed it, I don't know who came where. You just listed a bunch of cities. I said some names. I said some names that are in the top 10.

You guys work out which the order is. That's our job, isn't it? To figure out. The main thing is Auckland number one. Yeah. Auckland number one. And Wellington number four. So there you go.

That's good. And it's kind of weird when you say the most livable cities in the world because obviously everyone goes on about Auckland's ridiculous house prices. Well, it's also the fourth most expensive city in the world to live in, did you know? Auckland. Right. That's crazy.

We're just behind like New York and Sydney. Wow. Which it doesn't seem like it should be. No. No, but no, you're right. Given where we're located in the world. No. Oh, well, thanks, Ben, Given where we're located in the world. No.

Well, thanks, Ben, for that vague recap on who came where in the most livable cities in the world. Next, we're going to look at some news headlines, and we'll beat out some actual words. Have we got a wee taste of what's coming up? Las Vegas woman crushes three with her thighs in 7.5 seconds for world record. Okay, we'll find out why. It's super rogue, guys. It is a hit. So you've got Jono and Ben.

Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is The B**** News. Now we'll hand you over to producer Juliette, who goes under many names. Jay Roth, Jay Rothel, Miljoo from Millennial Juliette, Juju, and also Deirdre Stanton, but that's for tax fraud purposes. So over to and also Deirdre Stanton, but that's for tax fraud purposes. So over to you, Deirdre.

Thank you. So I've found some rogue headlines from around the world, mostly from Ladbible, my favourite website. This brought to you by Ladbible.com. Ladbible, sponsor us. And you guys have to guess what the headline is. And the first one is... South African woman claims to have given...

I'm going to say claims to have given Biltong a go for the first one is South African woman claims to have given I'm going to say claims to have given Bill Tong a go for the first time and question what is actually inside her mouth. I'm going to go South African woman claims to have poisoned the All Blacks rugby team back in 1995. That's an outdated story but one that

New Zealand rugby fans won't let go of. South African woman claims to have given birth to 10 babies. So all in the same pregnancy. This is supposedly a new world record. The ones? Yeah, so in the one pregnancy, I think she gave birth at 29 weeks. It was a C-section.

But the reason why she claims to and it's not she has is because the government can't find her and so they need to like figure out if this is legit she was um the doctors told her she was pregnant with six but she's claiming that four were not scanned but photo of her she looks like it is insane how big her belly is fitting all these little babies inside but 10 babies she's not a dog who's given birth to a litter of puppies. 101 Dalmatians or something. Well, it seems that way, doesn't it?

That is insane. How does the body even hold? I don't know. Honestly, crazy. We'll take her word for it. Or that Bible's word for it. Next news story. US Navy uses a d*** to refuel a fighter jet in midair for the first time.

Okay, I'm suddenly refueling on unleaded 91 for the first time. They usually have been using premium, but they're like, hey, it can go just as well with 91. Just save some money. What is the difference? I don't know. I don't know. I even mixed it up.

Yeah. I'm going to say US Navy uses mobile's pay at the pump to refuel a fighter jet mid-air. US Navy uses a drone to refuel a fighter jet in mid-air for the first time. So it's not your classic drone where it's quite small and makes it annoying. I don't care about it anymore now.

Savage. Now, if you look at the drone, it actually is like the size of a plane. It looks like a bit of a plane, but it's just not. It's still pretty cool. Yeah, it's been controlled from the ground, which is quite a breakthrough thing if they're needing to fly for a long amount of time.

Now, did you know, here's one for the 5G tinfoil hats. I was reading an article on the weekend that there are drones already out there that can self-decide if they're going to kill someone or shoot at a building in war. On their own. Not with even a human pushing a button. The drone makes

the decision. That is dangerous. That's too much. Yeah. Isn't it? Yeah. Where does that lead to? I don't want to think about that. Drones that just operate themselves. Yeah. It's like a movie. Yeah, yeah. It's like a movie. Yeah, like Terminator or something when the robots come back to, anyway.

Dial it back, guys. Sure you weren't watching a movie? Watching Terminator? All I do and I are, we just use drones for pervert purposes. Oh, no. And you fly them over the beach and stuff. Oh, dear. You liked that, did you?

Well, those are the good old days. And the final news story. Las Vegas woman crushes three with her thighs in 7.5 seconds for world record. This is a really rogue news story. I'm going to say she's Las Vegas woman crushes three as seen on TV Thighmasters with her thighs in seven seconds. I was saying maybe her cell phone's just confused how to play Candy Crush. True, true. I was saying maybe her cell phone's just confused how to play Candy Crush. True, true. Las Vegas woman crushes three watermelons with her thighs in 7.5 seconds for world record.

Wow. Yeah, so she kind of just put them between her legs and just crushed them together, and now she wants to teach watermelon crushing classes. That's her new venture after breaking a world record. Seems worthwhile to get a student loan for. Yeah, very true. Oh, hey, yeah, we're talking about her on the Hits Breakfast. Exactly, and that is the news and beeps for you. Have you ever used one of those thigh things at the gym

where you push the thighs and the thighs go out really wide? No, I haven't used one of those. I've seen them. I've tried them once. This is very erotic. I don't know what I look like using this, but she clearly has been working hard on them thighs. She has.

Spy. The What's She has. Spy. The What's Up. Spy.co.nz. All right, time to hear about how celebrities' lives are better than our miserable ones. Juliet, what's happening? So Harrison Ford has been seen in his Indiana Jones costume. I should probably play Indiana Jones.

For the filming of the fifth movie in the franchise. So they've started filming again, and the first snap of him back in his costume has been revealed. And I read that when a young fan went up to him in his Indiana Jones costume, he told this young fan, oh, no, I'm Harrison Ford stunt double. You don't want my autograph.

You don't want a photo with me. Just to deflect from the attention, which was quite funny. And they're filming it at Bamberg Castle, which is in the UK. And nearby residents have been told to expect the sounds of gunshots and explosions while they're filming. So imagine having a knock on the door being like, oh, you know, you're going to hear some gunshots and explosions around the place. But it's okay. We're just filming. That'd be quite off-putting and scary, wouldn't it, if you were living near the film set?

Excuse my ignorance, is Harrison Ford still the main... Yes. I think, yeah. Yeah, I think so. There was one a few years ago, he was still the... He's still the main voice. Yeah. He's 80.

Yeah. He still looks good, though. He's looking good. He definitely is. I was about to make a gag about Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Colossal Bag, but then I was like, he looks fantastic. He does look really good. So don't make those sorts of ageist jokes, Jonathan.

But he seems cold as ice every time I've seen him interviewed. Really? Have you seen him interviewed on chat shows and stuff? Oh, no. He sort of acts like he wants to be anywhere else apart from being asked questions on television. Well, he's had a long career. He's probably very over it, to be fair. He's like, oh, I'm too old for this.

Is he still, is he Callista Flockhart? They were married. Yeah, I don't know if they... Julia's like, who's Callista Flockhart? I've never heard that name before. She was on a TV show back in the day. Should I know who she is? Ally McBeal was a big TV show.

Massive. And they were together, but they're no longer together? Have you seen Indiana Jones? I think I've seen the first one like years ago. I don't actually know like what really happens. I haven't followed along, but I know that, you know, the general. A very iconic scene where there's that massive ball rock that he's running away from and stuff.

Yeah. There's a ride at Disneyland about it. Yes, I remember that ride. It was very cool. And in other news, Kanye West has seemingly moved on from his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. He's now been seen hanging out with Russian model Irina Shayk, who is Bradley Cooper's ex-partner.

That's the one we're all like, leave her for Lady Gaga. And so Kanye West invited her to France and so they've been seen frolicking in a lovely park together in France. So that's probably a new romance for Kanye. I'd love to frolick in France. Wouldn't that be nice? It would be. You were saying before you'd rather go to the Royal Oak Mall and get a baguette. So where is it? You've changed within, how, that was 15 minutes ago.

Yeah, no. I don't need to go to France. Actually, I want to frolick in the Royal Oak Mall. You can do that. The problem is when you reach that status of fame and celebrity, if you break up with someone, you can almost guarantee they're going to move on with someone just as hot as you.

Yeah, I know. If not hotter, you know. That's the thing. Kim Kardashian will do the same. She'll move on with some bloody GQ model. Yeah. They're all good looking, aren't they, in that Hollywood area? That's the thing.

When you break up with me, you're guaranteed to move on to someone better. By default. And that is five more. You can head to the hits.co.nz. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Just gone seven o'clock on your Thursday morning. Good morning.

Jono and Ben with you. Now, we've got five words joining you. 7.45 this morning as we do every morning. Five words for $5,000. Last week I was complaining we haven't had enough winners. This week I'm complaining we've had too many winners because on Friday we gave away the $5,000 in the must win. Ben, you were locked in the soundproof booth for hours.

Yeah, a couple of hours. And then yesterday, Jono, we had a win with you in the booth. The final word this morning, $5,000. Celebrity. Celebrity famous? No! Are you serious? Susan!

$5,000! $5,000! Wow! Thank you so much for that. Jeez, I tell you what We're giving away a lot of money More money than a shabby money lending outfit Except we're not asking for the money back

It's all yours It was pretty awesome Great for Susan yesterday And it could be great for you today You can just go at any time can't it 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 Hitch A New Zealand was proud of that. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. A bit of a Lego-making mission at the moment. A competition between Ben and myself to win Lego for either the North or South Island. And building a 3662-piece piano. A grand piano.

Yeah, in the trenches at the moment, I won't lie. But what I find too is when you mention Lego to people around the office, sort of one out of every five guys will be like, it's safe, this is a safe place to talk about Lego. And then they start showing you photos on a photo stream of all of their Lego creations, like it's some dark secret that they're afraid to publicly admit. I've got Stano, who works upstairs. He's a big fan of Lego. I've talked to him about it before, yeah.

He's got a photo album on his phone. That took me three days. That took me two days. That's 5,000 pieces. And they're all stored. He has to keep them in the attic, though. He's not allowed to keep them in the main house. Oh, really?

That's the satisfaction of making a Lego. Yeah, and we're in the middle right now of the Grand Piano. And last night, this was very early days, but it was one of those bits where you had to connect some batteries and I was like, better do this now because I don't know how complicated it comes. Yeah, managed to do it later. You know, well, you better put the batteries in.

So I did that last night. It took me about 45 minutes to work out this little sound bit, but I've actually started playing some noise. All right, I've connected the batteries and we're only early days in it but I think we can hear some music. Hey! Happy birthday to me.

Yay! Only after your wife figured out that you needed more batteries. Don't need to tell me about that. I'd put in three and not six and that's why it wasn't working. But I started taking bits apart. You're like, why is this not working?

Going back steps. And I'd realised I didn't put enough batteries. Surely you would have said put in six batteries. Well, no, when you opened the thing up, it just looked like I had three. You had to open it up and then the other. So it was underside and the top side. Oh, well, thank God Amanda, your wife,

was there to look after her little man child. Yeah. That's the thing. Guys, they never grow up really, do they, to be honest. There'll be a lot of people living there with, living in houses across Salt Hedo with man children. Look at me, I mean, I've dressed like a teenager for my entire life. Haven't changed.

I'd feel weird putting on a suit. You know? Yeah. So, what we want to know right now on 0800 The Hits, are you living with a man child? Are you cutting the crusts off your man's sandwiches as you send him off to lunch? Are you living with a guy who wanders around with a Toy Story 4 backpack every day?

Ben Boyce. It was a wonderful film series. It was. It was great. One of the best. One of the greats. Unashamedly And figurines too

Which mysteriously keep getting thrown out of your house Yeah, well yeah But it's not about me right now It's about other people You should have thrown those figurines out a long time ago Well, a lot of them I bought recently They're still there They're there proudly

Okay, so 800 of the hits Are you living with a man child? You can dob them in right now. Are they still playing with toys? Are they still watching cartoons? Whatever. Many great texts coming through on 4487. Someone else, another person, Ben,

who's a 42-year-old man that this lady lives with is a huge Toy Story fan. Oh, there you go. She's Toy Story. Ben's got the Toy Story 4 backpack that we've talked about. Yeah. Yeah. I love it.

There's only one Woody you should be having as an adult man in your life, and that's Woody Harrelson. All right. Wonderful actor, Woody Harrelson. Wonderful actor. The star of many great movies, and you should be watching those instead of Toy Story 4. But we'll go to Rachel in Christchurch.

Welcome. You're living with a man-child, Rach? Yes, I am. Why are you living with one? So I actually have to lay out my partner's clothes the night before, otherwise he'll wear some very weird combinations. I love that. Now, is this more him needing you to do this

or you not wanting him to send him out in a pair of striped chinos and a flower shirt? Could be, Could be. Could be. No, we've had a couple of friends who have come up to me before and have kind of been like, um, did you see how he was ready this morning? I was like, oh God,

why? Does he just jump into the cupboard, shut his eyes and just grab anything? Yeah, I think he just wakes up so tired that he's like, eh, we'll just see what fits. Yeah, love it. Do you put him to bed at 7 o'clock in his Lightning McQueen pyjamas as well? He'd probably love that.

Oh yeah, I would love to go to bed at 7 o'clock in cosy pyjamas. Bed drew, come true. Thank you so much for sharing that with us, it's awesome. Amy, you're on for Wellington, you're living with a man child. I am living with a man child. Why is that? He is obsessed with Lego and toys.

We have a Lego garage, and he's got toys unopened from the 80s that are still in their boxes. I think we just became best friends, I think. He has toy shops borrowing his Lego displays. Wow. Has it come in between you and your husband? Sometimes when he goes and spends money on Lego

when we could be doing other things with it. Yeah, like a hobby. You've got to have a hobby. Some people spend thousands on Harley Davidsons or sports cars or things like that, you know? But it's expensive. It's not cheap Lego, the big sets. Amy's like, we've got a mortgage.

I know. Can we stop building Lego houses and pay off our real house? And there'll be four different sets of the same thing, just different sizes. But they're all different. They're all different in their own way. Thank you for your call. Love it, Amy. Really do appreciate it. Listen, men, they never really

grow up. They've just got elongated periods where they pretend to be an adult during the day. That's how it works for them. Well, thank you very much for your calls. Really appreciate it, New Zealand, the man and childs. We should do that again. Yeah. Yeah. Throw them under the bus, I say. That was a lot of fun. On the way for

you, $5,000 is up for grabs. Five words, 5K on the hits. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning at 7.45. Five words for $5,000.

Just match your words with ours and you win 5K. I tell you what, yesterday we had a winner, unexpected winner. I was the most surprised. Oh yeah, you were in the soundproof booth and you matched. It was awesome. The final word this morning, $5,000.

Celebrity. Celebrity famous? No! Are you serious? Susan! $5,000! $5,000! Wow!

Thank you so much for that. Oh! Susan, very happy. We had a winner on Friday as well, and Boss Todd had five words for us after the show. Meeting in my office now. I don't know. Was that six words?

I'm not good at word count on the fly. That was five. That was five. Landed in a one. In my office now. Yeah. Just goes to prove, though, it can go at any time. That's right.

At any moment. And just because we won yesterday doesn't mean it can't be won today. That's the beauty of this game. So if you want to play it and you want to win $5,000. If we have a winner today, we're going to have to start selling everything in the studio. It's what happens. It's what happens. Three of us are going to be talking around one microphone tomorrow.

We're going to have to sell it all. Andrew, the hits. If you want to play five words for $5,000 next. There's a stranger in my bed, there's a pounding in my head Glitter all over the room, pink flamingos in the pool I smell like a mini bar, DJ's passed out in the yard Bobby's on the barbecue, this a hickey or a ruse Pictures up last night, ended up online, I'm screwed Oh well, it's a blacked out blur, but I'm pretty sure it ruled Damn

Last Friday night, yeah we danced on tabletops And we took too many shots, think we kissed but I forgot Last Friday night, yeah we maxed our credit cards And you kicked out of the bar, so we hit the boulevard Last Friday night We went streaking in the park Skinny dipping in the dark Been had a menage a trois

Last Friday night Yeah, I think we broke the law Always say we're gonna start Up and go This Friday night Do it all again This Friday night, do it all again. This Friday night, do it all again.

Trying to connect the dots. Don't know what to tell my boss. Think the city towed my car. Chandelier is on the floor. Ripped my favorite party dress. Warrant's out for my arrest. Think I need a ginger ale. That was such an epic fail. Pictures of last night ended up online.

I'm screwed. Oh well. It's a blacked out blur, but I'm pretty sure it ruled. Damn. Last Friday night. Yeah, we danced on tabletops. Yeah, we took too many shots. Pretty sure it ruled. Damn. Last Friday night. Yeah, we danced on tabletops. Yeah, we took too many shots.

Think we kissed, but I forgot. Last Friday night. Yeah, we mixed our credit cards. And we kicked out of the bar. So we hit the boulevard. Last Friday night. We went streaking in the park. Skinny dipping in the dark.

Been head of a measure tw a trois last Friday night. Now I think we broke the law, always say we're gonna stop. This Friday night. Do it all again. This Friday night. Do it all This Friday night Do it all Again Do it all This Friday night

I-F-T-G-I-F-T-G-I-F-T-G-I-F-T-G-I-F-T-G-I-F-T. Yeah, we danced on tabletops And we took too many shots Think we kissed but I forgot Last Friday night Yeah, we mixed our credit cards And we kicked out of the bar So we hit the boulevard Last Friday night We went striking in the park Skinny dipping in the dark

Then had a menage a trois Last Friday night Yeah, I think we broke the law Always say we're gonna stop Oh, oh, oh It's Katy Perry, Last Friday Night, and it's the hits. John or Ben, this is 41. You're only five words away from a massive payday. That's our Game of Word Association. We give you five words. You say the first words away from a massive payday. That's our Game of Words Association. We give you five words.

You say the first words that pop into your head. If your five words match with our five, you win $5,000. She's 40 grand given away so far in this competition. Since we started in January. Wow. What a wonderful journey of debt that it's been. Only halfway through the year. Oh, wow.

Okay. Oh, wow. Wow, that's a lot of... Yeah, I love it. That's what I love about the game. You know, you could win at any stage. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. That's a lot of... I love it. That's what I love about the game. You know, you can win at any stage. Hey, we'll get Jane on from Kaitaia. Welcome, Jane.

Good morning. Morning to you. They call her the Queen of Kaitaia. That's what they tell me. Yeah, you got there absolutely spot on. Now, we don't know what you do for a job. I'd like to play a game. Try and guess what Jane does for a profession Ben

What do you reckon? I'm going to I'll chuck one out there I think you're a professional graffiti artist Who goes out under the cover of darkness And your name's actually Banksy Yes Oh we found Banksy

Oh there we go I don't need to guess Jono just nailed it Hell of a stab Now let's see who you want to be in sync with. Who do you want to send to the soundproof booth, Jono, Ben, or producer Juliet? We'll roll with Juliet this morning. Oh, dear.

Now, no pressure. You're the only one not to have a win in the last week. Oh, gosh. See, that's my theory. Yeah. Keep it going. It's a good theory. Like, I had a win on Friday.

Jono had a win yesterday. Juliet, this today could be the day. It's a good theory, Jane. Yeah. It Friday John had a win yesterday Juliet this today Could be the day It's a good theory Jane Yeah it's kind of like The All Blacks rotation policy Get a fresh pair of legs in there That's right Yeah that's the one

Alright take your legs in there Juliet I'm going to have to come Push the buttons Oh yeah Patricia Juliet making her way To the soundproof booth This will be shaky So if I hit that

Dramatic music There you go Alright Jane She is in the soundproof booth Your first word this morning To match with Juliet Is Pursel

Pursel P-E-R-S-I-L Pursel Washing Washing Not a bad answer Yeah I do love a fresh

A fresh Pursel load Don't you I think quite like the smell Of fresh Pursel I don't like it I don't know if I love it We met a lady Who ate washing powder once. That's right.

It was her pregnancy craving. I don't know if she's still with us. No, hopefully she is. Hollywood is your second word this morning, Jane. Hollywood. Sign. Oh, the iconic Hollywood sign. Makes sense.

Yeah, I like what you're thinking there. Judge is your third word. Judge. Oh, judge. Let's come back to that one. Okay, alright. Knife is the fourth word this morning. Knife. Sharpener.

Knife, sharpener. Okay. And the final word is name. N-A-M-E, name. That's all. Name. First. Oh, first name.

Yeah. Okay. Good. Well played, Jane. We're coming back to the third word, judge. Judge. Any thoughts on judge? Judge, judge, judge.

Listen, the longer you take to answer this, I'll start judging, Jane. Oh, judge. Oh, that's going to just throw us, isn't it? Let's just judge X Factor. Oh, yes. Yes, okay. That is something that Juju might say. Exactly.

You're right. Sort of the left field thinking that Juliet would approach this game with. Alright, well, they are your five words. Yeah, well done, mate. Well done. That was not bad.

What? I was thinking, oh, Judge Judy, but... You can change it if you want. Shut the door, Juliet. Get back in there. Yeah. Yeah, let's just roll with Judy.

Okay. Last minute change. Last minute change. Last minute change. All right, we're going to put that in there. That's all. We'll see if Banksy lives to regret that. Come on out now, Judy. Oh, I'm back in there?

No, no, no, kidding. She's out now. She's all running around with some pace. All right. Okay, best of luck, Juliet. Jane did really well. Word number three, she was a bit shaky on. She changed her mind about 22 times.

Okay. Well, it was a toughie, though. It was a toughie. All right. Let's see if you can match five words with Jane. First word this morning. Pursel. Washing.

Waiting for Jono to find the sound effect. Jono was waiting to find the sound effect as well. Well done. Correct. Okay. We're going to go with the second word in the water. Why not Hollywood

Hollywood Boulevard You were kind of I mean you were literally in the right area Jane went with Hollywood sign Oh true Sorry Jane Don't worry about it Let's see how you would have gone with the rest of the words just quickly Judge I went with Hollywood Sign. Oh, true. Sorry, Jane. Damn it.

No, don't worry about it. Let's see how you would have gone with the rest of the words just quickly. Judge? Judy. Oh, that was what we changed. Really? That was what we changed. Yes.

Knife? Fork. Sharpener. And the final one, which was quite a tricky one, name. Oh, that is hard. Maybe like, it's a bit weird, but Nick, like nickname? Nick? No.

That's the only thing I can think of. I like Jane. It's been lots of fun playing with you this morning. Jono's kept playing the sound effects. Thanks so much, Jane. Oh, jeez. Jono's behind the desk as Julie. Anyway, Jane, love your work, mate.

You go and have a good one. Good luck tagging tonight, okay? Cool, cool. Thank you. Keep safe. There's Jane. Spy. Know what's up.

Spy.co.nz. All right, it's time for Ben and me to care about what the Kardashians are up to. I want you to put on a convincing performance this time, Ben. You've been a bit lacklustre. That's the last series, though, isn't it? Yes. Yeah, on E. But I think they're going to be continuing on's the last series, though, isn't it? Yes, yeah, on E!

But I think they're going to be continuing on another platform. Oh, do you think we'll still hear from them afterwards? Oh, well, maybe. Thanks for feigning a little bit of interest there, mate. So, two updates

on two very famous relationships that we're all very invested in, or maybe just me and maybe New Zealand. First one is Taika Waititi and Rita Ora. So he's commented publicly for the first time on his romance with British singer Rita Ora.

And the paparazzi photos. So the paparazzi have caught them a few times holding hands, kissing. And then there was the three-way kiss photos that they had with actress Tessa Thompson. They look like a photo of everyone coming back to my house, you know, when you say that. And then when everyone gets back to your house, you're like, why like, everyone come back to my house. You know when you say that?

And then when everyone gets back to your house, you're like, why did I invite everyone back to my house? Some people actually were speculating whether they sort of staged that three-way kiss to sort of throw the paparazzi off a bit or like as a prank. You're right. They could have done that, even knowing paparazzi were there. Yeah, yeah. Knowing that it would probably make them absolutely froth for those photos.

But he did say, I was doing nothing wrong. I think in the world of the internet, everything goes away pretty quick. And also, is it a big deal? No, not really. I was doing nothing wrong. It's fine. He's right. Totally.

Totally. Everything goes away pretty quick apart from that video of Ben, which I haven't been able to delete. I'm sorry, mate. I'm trying my best. Talking to Zuckerberg. That's unfortunate. Yeah, no. Fair call. He was I'm sorry, mate. I'm trying my best. Talking to Zuckerberg. That's unfortunate. Yeah, no, fair call.

He was doing nothing wrong, really. But didn't they say he got reprimanded by Marvel? Yeah, apparently so. Yeah, but then him saying he did nothing wrong, then he probably didn't. It's like he says. Internet moves quick. Marvel probably moved on quick. He's probably moved on quick. Who pulls you into the meeting of the Avengers

to sit you around their big table? Have to fess up to Iron Man? Yeah, sorry, Iron Man. I'll let the team down, mate. And the other relationship that we like to hear about now is the reuniting of J-Lo and Ben Affleck. So they dated in the early 2000s. She lives in Miami on the east coast of the States.

Now she's moving to the west to LA for a fresh start with Ben Affleck, where he lives. Oh, really? So she's moving, jumping ship to the other side of the States to probably be with him, which is very exciting for them. That's lovely, isn't it? And that is Spy, from where you can head to the hits.co.nz. Everyone's very excited, apart from her ex-husband, who's probably less than enthusiastic about the move.

Oh, A-Rod, yeah. Yeah, poor old A-Rod. Mind you, A-Rod was up to all sorts of nonsense, wasn't he, apparently? He'll be okay. He's had a pretty successful baseball career. Don't you worry about A and his rod. He'll be fine. Just fine.

After 8 o'clock, we've got a very exciting guest that's going to be joining us on the show tomorrow. Oh, yeah. We're going to announce this person. Did anyone guess it on social last night, Ju? I don't think they did, but they kind of did guess in the round. Like, they've got

that level of celebrity that we've got, you know? They're guessing in the same area. Honestly, the biggest guess we've had since we spoke to the Briscoes lady.

Yeah. It'll be up there. Oh, yeah, it's very cool. We'll tell you who it is after 8 o'clock. It is the Hits. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone.

It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. We spoke to a guy who's never drunk a cup of coffee in his life. Yeah, he was like 40 years old, never drank a cup of coffee. And now he's like, I've too far gone now. Now it's my thing. I've never tried it, never will try it. I get that it's his thing because at parties everyone's like, what?

You haven't, you know, it's a wonderful conversation. Would you have one now? No. Yeah, wonderful conversation starter. And if he has just one, then that conversation's blown to smithereens. How much money do you think, if he actually had money for him to... What, to have a coffee? $100,000, would he have a coffee? I reckon he would.

Oh, yeah. I wouldn't invest $100,000. Are you saying that I would? No, I'm just saying, what do you think it would take? I'd say $2.50. Would you have a coffee for $2.50? No, okay, well, I'll get on with my life. Oh, no, but I was just thinking what it would take for him to suddenly go, oh, I'll take

it. What would it take for you to start smoking? Okay, if I gave you $50,000, would Ben Boyce become the face of Benson and Hedges? Oh, no. Cigarettes. Delicious, natural cigarettes. cigarettes No not the face You wouldn't become the face? I don't want to be the face of smoking

What about the voice on the edge Just like I've been smoking for 22 years No no So no representation of cigarettes What about From taking up smoking to suddenly being the face of smoking That's a huge leap That's a huge leap. That's a huge leap.

The face of smoking. I don't want to be the face of smoking. Okay, so if I... The punchable face of smoking. No, you're a lovable face of smoking. But I wouldn't want... That's why me as Big Tobacco would get you on board.

I'd be like, this guy, he's going to win the people. He's going to win the kids back. Hey guys, you thought about smoking? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We lost the kids. Now we can pull them back with this guy. Not for me.

Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Shona and Ben, breakfast on the hits. We spoke about this early, early this morning, but Auckland has been awarded the world's most livable, the world's most livable city. Juliette's scoffing. She's an Aucklander and she's scoffing. How? Honestly, the price of everything here. Also the

world's most shankable city if you go to Queen Street on Saturday night. Yeah, so basically they do this every year and I guess we got through, you know, New Zealand got through because in the world right now it's one of the best places to be because of the, you know, surviving the pandemic getting through that, navigating our way through

that really well. Auckland won by default is what Ben's saying. Well, well. So you're saying the work of the team of 5 million have allowed Auckland to win this. And Wellington are number 4 too. But a lot of the top 10 are made up of just Australia and New Zealand, which is great. But again, it's because

right now they are livable cities. Okay, name something we love about Auckland. One thing. The harbour. No, it is a beautiful city. And you can see a lot of that beautiful city when you're sitting in traffic every morning for hours. He didn't manage to name something, though, did he?

I said beautiful city. Oh, beautiful city. That's a very vague statement. Yeah, beautiful harbour. I was agreeing with Julia. It's lovely. What would you like to say about that? I'd like to say all those lovely people that we meet by the casino, Ben, when we walk over.

Oh, yeah. Those lovely people who they sort of hug in a costume. At five in the morning. It's lovely, isn't it? Yeah, they're nice. They give you a sip of their drink. Wonderful. Wonderful.

We've got a brand new MG SUV with cash in the back. Yes, if you want to win, by now you'll know exactly how you can win it. Guess the exact cent, how much money

is stashed in the back and the MG SUV and the cash is all yours. Yeah, you can win the cash and the car or the car or the cash.

You know, we're not going to discriminate what goes first much like I did with Jono and Ben. I demanded, didn't I Ben? That's right, you can win the cash and the car. Or the car or the cash. You know, we're not going to discriminate what goes first, much like I did with Jono and Ben. I demanded, didn't I, Ben? That's right, you did. Boss Todd's back in here with his piece of scrap paper with notes of a madman written down on it.

He does, even on his hand as well. You've got notes on your palm of your hand too. I've done the Ben Boyce thing. I've got it tattooed there, I think. So this is the crunch time. This is crunch time. How close have we been to the exact dollar figure, Todd? Look, see, when I say that, people interpret it as a clue.

Okay, well, we got very close in the last, since we've been in higher and lower, I do believe one person landed, all the cents were wrong, but they had four of the first numbers in a row right. Let me have a check. One, two, three. They had the first four numbers right. The number after that they missed by one, and then they had the sense wrong. Todd literally has a figure written on the inside of his palm.

Please no one tell him about cell phones and the fact you can take notes on those. Oh, well, with everything that's gone on recently, you know, don't put anything on an app or encrypt it or anything like that. You can't trust it. You can spoil your international trade, eh, Ben? But look, I think it could go off today.

Keep playing along. We will load up this morning all the guesses from yesterday and pointing out whether they're higher at the time or we said lower. I have a quick question. You said one person

had four digits in the right order. Yep. Did you tell them that? Or no one knows? No, we just say higher or lower. Gotcha. So we won four digits in the right order. Yep. Did you tell them that? Or no one knows? No, we just say higher or lower. Gotcha. So we won't know exactly who said it yesterday. It's tricky, isn't it? Alright, our 100th hits. If you think you've got it to cash in the car, it could be yours very shortly.

Neen? Yes? You want that car? Pardon? You want that car? I won the car. Yeah, you won the car. No, you need to go through to Boss Todd to guess. Oh, that's not how the competition works? Janine doesn't phone up and confusingly says,

I've won the car, and I agree? No, well, as far as I know, that's how it works. We don't know what the exact amount is. Have you got it in your head, Janine? $15,000. Oh, it's round there. So what we'll do, hold on to your precise figure. We'll hand you through to the work garage.

Boss Todd will take your guess, all right? It's a beautiful-looking car, isn't it, Todd? Janine, would that be looking good in your driveway? That would be looking lovely, yes. Oh, wonderful, wonderful. Now, the cash as well. So you get the car, the cash. Any ideas what you'd do with the cash?

Spend it. Spend it get the car, the cash. Any ideas what you'd do with the cash? Spend it. Spend it. Good stuff. Good stuff. On fun things like jewellery and wine and holidays, okay? Absolutely. All right. You just tell me how much cash I put in the back and it's all going to happen. Go for it, kiddo. Okay, $15,980.97. Wow. Okay, $15,980. And how many cents?

97. 97 cents. I can see you've been playing along with the clues. I have. Janine, you've helped out a lot of people. Not so much yourself, I'm so sorry to say, but are you ready for this? Yes. Janine, I'm saying higher.

Higher. Higher than $15,980.97. And if you know what the lower number was, you would absolutely be frothing right now and jumping on that phone at 11.30. Very excited. Tomorrow we're joined by a big guest. Thanks to Envivo Wines.

And if you missed it earlier, here's who it is. This Friday, the king of chit-chat. Let's start's who it is This Friday the king of chit chat Let's start the show chats to the kings of chit chat shocking bits of radio thanks to Envivo Wines in his only

Aotearoa interview Graham Norton will talk exclusively to Jono and Ben mainly because they've lied and told him they're Mike Hoskey

The Prime Minister she is running for the hills from the middle of Eden Park Graham will be beamed in live on the big screen for some reason. Tasting his new wine with Jono and Ben

because hey, it's 5 o'clock somewhere which actually means it's 8am here so yeah, make of that what you will. Join Graham Norton in the interview that drove him to drink lots and lots of wine. Why didn't you say so? With these two Savignon Plonkers Jono and Ben on the heads. Very excited about this

happening tomorrow and as I said we're going to Eden Park to talk to him on a screen. A Zoom and Ben on the heads. Very excited about this happening tomorrow. And as I said, we're going to Eden Park to talk to him on a screen, a Zoom call over on the big screen. He's beamed in on the Samsung big screen, and we're in the middle of Eden Park, which all seems very ludicrous and unnecessary, but that's what we are, Ben. We're ludicrous and unnecessary.

These are our demands, not Graham Norton's. We want to see him on a big screen. We only do it in Eden Park is there any other conditions 50,000 people need to be watching this as well we want a packed

stadium but it's very exciting so thank you so much to Ambevo Wines they've got a new wine coming out with Graham Norton as well very shortly

yeah listen I wouldn't usually bang on about this but we've got 40 seconds to fill until we hit 8.57 when we need to time out the rest of the show Ben

Radio Awards is tonight and producer Juliette and Bee Humps are up for Producers of the Year. Yeah, that's awesome. I'm going to be very croaky tomorrow morning. I like the way you've already said that now. That's good. She's pre-warned me for weeks.

She's like, I'm going to be no good on Friday the 11th. Don't die off. Don't die off. No, I can't. You know, if you piss up, you show up. That's what they say. That's what they say. I don't know.

Or sometimes you don't. You end up sleeping during the love. Go home early. Take a day annual leave or something. But anyway, have yourself a great Thursday. We'll catch you tomorrow. Jono and Ben on the Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny.