Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Interviewed STEVEN SPIELBERG!

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

The man who directed some of the biggest movies in history - E.T, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Back To The Future, and so many more, we had the ABSOLUTE HONOUR of interviewing him and the cast of his latest film, West Side Story. Not only did we speak with Steven Spielberg, we also caught up with our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. A project we're working on at the moment is remixing an old Kiwi classic song. There are popular remixes of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams, Cold Heart is a remix from Elton John and Dua Lipa, so it's all the rage at the moment. We've narrowed down our top 3, and got our blessing from one of the artists to make it in full. Finally, we had an epic call for Wow Wednesday today - a man who is in a polyamorous relationship (a 3 way relationship)! Interesting stuff. A good poddy for you today, enjoy & thanks for listening!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, brought to you by Rosene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946. 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. Kia ora, it's the podcast. It's Wednesday the 1st of December. My goodness gracious me, Benjamin Boyce. Who would have thought we'd make it to December? Yeah, well... The calendar would have. The calendar was like, it's definitely coming. It's coming. It's all right. Every year it comes.

Despite the pandemic, it's definitely coming. Life gets faster the longer you're on it. The longer you're living it, it goes faster. You're right. I don't know what you put that down to. It just seems like an incredibly slow start to things through your

primary school years, even some of those early college years. You're like, this thing is life is dragging. But then it just really, yeah, you crank it up at fifth gear, don't you? Yeah. Well, it seems like a stage where, you know, and I say that to the kids, I feel like they're like, alright old man, you're like, you just enjoy this time

because, you know, you'll look back and you'll go, oh, you know, you always want to grow up when you're a kid. You always, oh, I can't wait till I get to that age because I'll get my licence or I'll be able to do this thing or I'll be, you know, but sometimes you're like, oh, you had it good. You had it good. Yeah, I think maybe it's like, when you're younger, you want to be older.

Yeah, 660. When you're older. Someone said that, I can't remember. 660, yeah, that was very, very true. And also you get to go to bed at 8 o'clock at night as a child. Yeah. Which you'd like, right? Jeez. I just dream of waking up when my body wanted to wake up.

You know? Not when an alarm told me to wake up. When your body was like, now it's time to just rise and shine. Yeah. But usually that's quite early now because your body clocks will be stuck. Yeah, your body clocks. Okay, so I readjust my body clock And then have a sweet period of

Oh my body's ready to be alive But we had Steven Spielberg on the show today Yeah not every day we can say that In fact this is probably the only day we can ever say that There's a lot of stuff I couldn't say to Steven Spielberg And I'd love to say it to you now Ben Do you know Steven Spielberg's favourite food Of all time Chicken pieberg's Favourite food Of all time

Chicken pie It's an obscure Favourite food Oh yeah I love a chicken pie I imagine it would be Something sentimental I'd say

Like his mum Would have made it Or it would have been Something a real Home cooked meal I imagine Yeah Yeah

And he prior did a good Chicken pie actually Back in the day Yeah Lovely creamy chicken job Oh yeah Yeah Some mushrooms in there Yeah You can't eat A chicken pie, actually, back in the day. Yeah, lovely creamy chicken job. Oh, yeah. Yeah, some mushrooms in there.

Mm-mm. Yeah, yeah. You can't eat a chicken pie as good, is it? Yeah, you don't have enough chicken pies. No, but Steven Spielberg's reminded us of that. Yeah, and as I said before, I think I said to you, you cut out the lunchtime as well. So you're like, again, you're cutting out a prime period

where you would have pies. I could have chicken pie, you know? Yeah. I'd have pie for dinner. Yeah, but you would, you know? Yeah, no, I do. Oh, you do? You know, we have pie for dinner once every fortnight or so.. You know? Yeah. I'd have pie for dinner. Yeah, but you would, you know. Yeah, no, I do. Oh, you do? You know, we have pie for dinner once every fortnight or so.

Gotcha, right. Yeah. Are you talking like a big family pie? It's your big old freezer job, you know, those ones? Yeah, gotcha. Put them in the old mince and cheese. Yeah, right. Fill up the crew.

Yeah. Get them back out there. Yeah, yeah. And another thing that I didn't get to bring up with Steven Spielberg, do you know who's turned down by film school? Steven Spielberg. They didn't who's turned down by film school? Steven Spielberg. They didn't want him. Failed film school.

And it's always such an inspirational story, isn't it, when you hear, like, really uber successful people, like, oh, they failed in college, you know, but, you know, look at them now. Well, in reality, most people who fail in college fail in life, you know, and that's the harsh reality, Ben That we need to get that out there more often And I say, oh, Kevin Hart didn't pass college Yeah, well, true

But yeah, what about all the people who didn't pass college And are currently sitting there Yeah, that's true They start naming names They're like, okay, yeah, we lost We should have taken Steven Spielberg You know, we should have But all these other people, you know

They didn't do anything Yeah So maybe they I mean, there's a famous story about a Boston radio who listened to Hamish and Andy and said, I don't hear it, guys. They didn't get a job. Really? But that's the thing.

You don't know if the call you're making at the time is going to result 10 years down the track and go, oh, God, I turned down Steven Spielberg from film school. You know? Yeah. Or you have those people leaving a band because they, you know, and you're like, oh,

oh. But then for every person that does leave a band, sometimes those bands don't go on. Oh, it's the keyboardist in Coldplay.

Yeah, yeah, and you've got to make him bang your bank. Yeah, what do we make him bang as the keyboardist in Coldplay?

Yeah, it's a great joke. Someone, I forget the comedian does, saying if he could be any musician, it would be the bass guitarist in Coldplay

because no one knows who you are, but you'd be a millionaire. So you could go. And that's quite true. You'd just have to be really happy with your place in that structure of that band, wouldn't you? You'd just be like, okay, I'm the bass guy. Chris Martin does a lot of the front things. But that allows me.

And I'll be known as the bass guy from Coldplay for the rest of my life, but that's fine. Yeah. I'll check in my bank account account and that's looking pretty good. So I'll keep strumming these four strings, buddy. You might not know my name, but I'll tell you what, I could shout you a chicken pie if I wanted to. Anyway, enjoy the podcast.

Have a great day. We're about to interview Hone Harawira, aren't we? Yeah. Yeah, about what's going to happen up north over the New Year period. And you have a wonderful Thursday. What is it, Wednesday? Now, West Side Story, it's one of the world's greatest stage shows, and it's been turned into a movie by one of the world's greatest directors,

Steven Spielberg. It's going to be out in New Zealand cinemas on Boxing Day. It looks awesome, set in New York in the 50s, and it stars a couple of people by the names of Ansel Elgort, who was in Fault in Our Stars, and a newcomer, Rachel Ziegler, who basically got the job from hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people online. And she was from high school.

Yeah. Just kind of plucked out of high school into the Steven Spielberg masterpiece. And we had the honour of catching up with all three of them on Zoom. So we had Rachel, had Ansel, and then you had Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg, talk to us. On Zoom. And this is how it all played out. First, we asked a good question.

How are you? Good. Lovely to see you. Then we've got Ansel, Rachel, an Academy Award winner, Steven Spielberg, blow me down. I know. I mean, Steven, you said this winner, Steven Spielberg, blow me down. I know. I mean, Steven, you said this was daunting making this movie, West Side Story. I tell you what's daunting, talking to you.

Yeah, listen, I'm daunted talking to my kids, so pay it back, pay it forward. Speaking of daunting as well, Rachel, this is your first ever movie, and there was like 30,000 people I understand going for your role that's what I've been told the number probably keeps going up I heard there's 198,000 it does keep going up so you were you plucked out of high school were you I was I started auditioning when I was a junior and I got cast when I was a senior and and left high school my senior year in April to start rehearsing for the movie.

Wow. I just learned how to tie my shoelaces by the end of high school. And look at you. And so it took you a year to get this role as well. Were there stages you were like, oh, this is not going to happen? No, I always knew I was going to keep trying. And, yeah, I wasn't going to give up on it because it's definitely like a dream role and dream to work with Stephen.

You mentioned it's daunting speaking to him. It's still kind of daunting even though I've worked with him for over a few years now. Do you pinch yourself? Because we're pinching ourselves right now. Yeah, me too. I'm pinching myself right now too. Stephen, is it awkward that we're all talking about you? It's very awkward if you're all

talking about me. It's very awkward if you're all talking about me. Now, this project was very special to you, Steve. And Ben was saying that this was the most fun you've had doing your job since E.T. Well, it was certainly the greatest bonding experience I had since E.T. making a film. I mean, the result of E.T. was, you know, I never thought about having kids. And after working with those amazing kids in E.T., I wanted to have children after that. So it kind of sort of, you know, turned on a whole different sort of gave me an opportunity that I never even envisioned for myself because I was just so busy making movies all the time. And with this picture,

to be able to spend almost as much time rehearsing as we did shooting, over four months of dance rehearsals, singing rehearsal, pre-recordings, we got to know each other really, really well. So by the time we hit the ground running, it wasn't like you show up on the first day, everybody just, you know, you meet in the casting person's office, and then suddenly you're making the movie if you get the part. No, we were together four months working together and trying to work out this very complicated musical and once we started shooting the picture i thought we all had established ourselves as friends and

colleagues oh that's good you made it look our new york looked like the 1950s uh for the set but you could have come to new zealand i mean we're pretty much stuck in the 1950s I mean that's modern for us yeah well good I'm glad you thought it was a modern film yeah like if there's any place you need to uh film back in time just fly to New Zealand uh we've got a wonderful setting although Ansel you have been to New Zealand and you once posted it was the most beautiful place I want to move here but you've now deleted the post it is the most beautiful place well that's with new zealand and when i came last time i met a guy who's almost as fantastic as steven spielberg i met peter jackson and i saw all the bigatures from lord of the rings that was just mind-blowing and he had the war of the worlds jacket in his prop collection which i also saw so that's the connection there yeah large part a large part of our economy is based,

resting on his shoulders, actually. That and Avatar 2, 3, and 4, and also Weta. We have worked with Sir Peter Jackson, Stephen, you know, Jermaine, Clement, Sam Neill, many New Zealanders. Not really a question, actually. No, I say it more of a statement. But it'd be great if you could say something favourable about New Zealand.

We love it. Well, listen, I've never been there been there someday i hope to be there but because of all this technology when peter and i work together in a movie we all we do it through this technology i mean we peter invented something called polycom before zoom was ever invented and i think most of the creative work on tintin was done so long distance but also it was so intimate because it's kind of like we're all in each other's faces. But New Zealand is perfectly beautiful. I have seen all of Peter Jackson's recreations of the World War I aerial stunts he has with this big collection of World War I airplanes and seen New Zealand from Jim Cameron has

sent me pictures of the place and Peter certainly does. And so you're very lucky to live there. Yes, no we are and James Cameron hasn't invited us around for dinner just yet so we'll see in a few times. Now Rachel do you feel like you are on the verge of something massive with this thing about

to hit theatres? A breakdown probably so I, you know, I never I don't take it for granted in one second. I'm so blessed to have this be the vehicle that brings me into the world of Hollywood and also very blessed that I've been surrounded by people who have taken care of me. And because, you know, this industry is filled with a lot of nastiness and a lot of darkness, but I have been able to surround myself with mostly light.

And a lot of that has to do with Steven and the environment that he cultivates both on and off set and i've i've been so so blessed and so thankful so more than just my breakdown i'm on the verge of something wonderful well yeah actually speaking of that environment just quickly i understand there's a tradition first shot last shot of every movie yeah you have some bubbles um does that make for some drunken cast and crew, Stephen, or is that okay? You only give them this much. Good for the budget. That's all they get. Good for the budget.

That's great directing. If the great Stephen Spielberg could please toast to the end of this interview, because we're getting this signal. Over to you, Stephen. Well, I toast you, and great meeting you guys. I've heard about you. Your reputations have gone all the way here to Los Angeles. i'm really happy to meet you for the first time oh that's

lovely i don't know if you're making that up or not but we haven't got time to ask you lovely to meet you all good luck for the film uh it's going to do great things you keep safe thank you how's that steven spielberg uh. And he said he'd heard of our reputation precedes us. Yeah, no, I think it's called being polite and not knowing what else to say, Ben. And he nailed it. He did. He warmed the cockles of our shallow egos.

We'll take it. You can catch our West Side story. It looks awesome. It's going to be in cinemas in New Zealand on Boxing Day. It is the hits. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. We're talking a lot this week about the fact that there's songs like Fleetwood Mac's Dreams.

It's been remixed by Kiwi DJ, Joel and Pitch. There's also Elton John with Dua Lipa, Cold Heart. They've sort of taken sort of classic songs and they've given them a bit of a modern twist. Yeah, and we've decided to take it upon ourselves and to give a kiwi classic a modern twist no one's asked us to do it and uh this is quickly turning into jonah and ben ruin your favorite songs uh but we got so we chucked some out on social last night because by the end of the week we want to you know we want the result to be a remix of a Kiwi anthem that we can all just have a great time listening to over summer.

Now, there's probably some negotiations to go on with record companies and things like that, Ben Boyce. Yeah. Some blessings from artists in question. But this is where we ended up. These are the three finalists. The first one was Mr. Whippy. Really just comes in out of nowhere, the old beat there, doesn't it?

It's a banger. It's a banger, that one, isn't it? Yeah. Juliet, you would see yourself at Northern Base doing what to that? Just going crazy, you know? I feel like it's really cool, but I feel like me personally on the radio, I don't know if it, like at Northern Base or Rhythm and Volume, it would go off.

But on the radio, do you want to hear that every day? So what you're saying is the audience that it would go off to have to be in a certain state of mind. State of mind. To be like, oh, Mr. Whippy! But if we play that every day on the radio show, you might be like, oh, yeah.

I'm picking up what you're putting down. But it's very cool. There's novelty tracks like Crazy Frog and Gangnam Style. They've had their place in the musical charts. There's a place there for them.

I just, you know. Okay, and then Dave Dobbin when he teamed up with Herbs and did Slice of Heaven. This kind of sounds like a Caribbean remix I love it Of Slice of Heaven This is a little sample Yeah, this is demos

Yeah, what we could make the song into So that's very cool too Yeah, and the final one was The Exponents I think it was from 1994 or something. Why Does Love Do This To Me? I don't know. Why does love do this to me?

Why does love, why does, why does love, why does love do this to me? So those are your three options. Those are your three options. And we've got one that's stood out thanks to the voting last night on social. And next we need to call the writer of that song, the composer, and ask if we can have their blessing then.

Yeah. You're worried about being dragged through the courts. Well, yeah, we want to do this, you know, and yeah, it's meant to be a fun thing that we're doing, a fun little journey together. We want everyone to be on board with it. Yeah, and we want to do this, you know, and yeah, it's meant to be a fun thing that we're doing, a fun little journey together. We want everyone to be on board with it. Yeah, and we want to earn millions and millions of dollars in a fun way.

But we want to have them on board with it. We're not trying to make any money out of this. She and my wife had a good idea. She's like, Lance Savali, who's on Celebrity Treasure Island, has danced with, you know, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Beyonce. He's a professional dancer. He's on TikTok. She's like, why don't you get him to do whatever song you land on.

Get Vale to do a TikTok dance to it. And then it will blow up. Then it will blow up. Ben, you know this is a good idea. This is so smart. Yeah. Anyway, this is, we'll brainstorm later. Yeah.

We'll brainstorm later. But next, first things first, we've got to ask the artist if we can remix their song. And we'll do that after this. All right. Here's the hits. You got ito and Ben. I heard them say we're too young And this is all just for fun

Taking over all your favourite song intros, Jono and Ben, the hits. Now, we're on our journey to remix a Kiwi classic song and give it a bit of a modern sort of twist. It seems to be a bit of a theme that's happening with the likes of Fleetwood Mac and Elton John at the moment. Yeah, so we've remixed the Mr. Whippy Ice Cream jingle, Slice of Heaven, Dave Dobbin and Herbs, and also this song from The Exponents.

I don't know what is love, do this to me. I thought it was by Air New Zealand, but apparently a bit more digging. It's by a band called The Exponents and the singer Jordan Luck. And we've done a little demo of what the song could sound like if it was remixed. It's a work in progress, isn't it, Ben? Yeah, but it sounds, well, yeah. I love it. Yeah.

Do you feel the work's done? It's a work in progress. Do you feel the work's done? I feel the work's done? I feel the work's done If you want to say to Alistair Who's worked really hard It feels to me like the work is still progressing I was happy with what he's done

You'd release that? I can't tell any way to make that better But hey, obviously you can So I'll hand it over to you Oh David Guetta over here But we do need to get the permission of one Jordan Luck who wrote the song and front man of the exponents. He joins us on the phone now.

Jordan, how are you? You all right? Too happy. I understand you're on a walk. Are you tramping or something? Yeah, I was doing the Abel Tasman, about three days of that, and presently, though, in a bus overlooking Cable Bay, just out of Nelson, really, and heading towards Polaris Sound.

Oh, beautiful. You know, when I like to imagine Jordan Luck, I like to imagine him in a bus overlooking a beautiful bay. There we are. It's pretty much what you got. That's what we got. How many kilometres have you walked over the last three days?

I think it's not far. Was it a six? Seven? I've already put them on the spot here. Sorry, guys. 24? 24km? That's lovely. I always want to do those sorts of things, but I never get round to it. So I'm glad you are,

Geordie.y well it's apparently one of the easiest uh the um national parks very easy oh you had me at easy yeah it was not strenuous and a lot of it was water taxi oh even better even better it's the walk for us now we are actually here we've got you on the phone, Geordie, for grovelling purposes because we've noticed a trend lately of young whippersnapper DJs with flawless skin remixing classic songs from Fleetwood Mac. And we thought, what if we took a Kiwi classic and remixed it for the ping-a-dropping millennials at Rhythm and Vines. If it happens.

If it happens. Pending negotiations with local iwi. And your songs come through. Why does love? Crankin'. What's the BPM? What's the BPM? Well, that's all I've got.

I barely know what BPM means, to be honest. But do you think that if we gave it to people that were cleverer than us to maybe remix something, we might be able to play it on the radio with your permission? Absolutely, my brothers. Oh, this is way – what a generous man. Now, would you like to hear it or you don't mind? No, no, whack away, crack away.

Okay, great. He's like, I've got hardly any cell phone reception here. Yeah. The story – I mean, why does love do this to me is a Kiwi classic, as Jono said. But when did you write the song? Like, what was the inspiration behind the song? I'm in a place called Plasto in the east end of London and contemplating Kiwiland. And it's basically Pleasant Valley, Jill Deanway, and the breakup of a relationship.

It's a bit, it's an up song, but, you know, lyrically, like a lot of my stuff, it's pretty down. And, yeah, oh, the story about writing it, though, was I was supposed to be showing this other guy a couple of songs I'd written. Every morning, he was a street cleaner. He'd come in and eat our toast at our squat. And the time it took him to make toast, Nick, our vogels,

and then, anyway, in that time, and to make a cup of tea, I was sat down there, and this whole, and why does love came to me about the time that it takes to sing it, it was composed. Wow, that's incredible. Is that the quickest song you've ever written? No, yeah, that's very, yeah, it's fast. That is fast, yeah.

Wow. So was Jackie Yelansa, was it a real person or not? I have still two characters. Do you know what Jackie's doing these days? Yeah. Oh. Yeah, and I'm not going to tell you. Well, she's not walking the Abel Tasman, is she?

She could be deep in the valley. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow, what an awesome story behind that song. Thank you. Oh, well, Jordan, thank you so much for your blessing. You know, we didn't want to get into any sticky legal territory. You know, I'm not interested in finances, but if it does well, you know, I mean, you guys have a 30% cut. Oh, thank you.

There we go. There we go. To be honest, if it does well, we probably deserve 0% of anything. Yeah, exactly. We've done nothing. Jordan, lucky you. Keep safe on your travels, mate.

It was lovely to hear from you. All is for loving. Thank you, listeners. See you guys. Jordan Lark from The Expo. He's giving his blessing that we can remix the song and play it. Not just that,

giving us 30% cut as well. So it's a win-win on all fronts there. Tomorrow, this work will progress, and we'll have a full version of the dance mix of the exponents, Why Does Love. Oh, it's going to be awesome. It is the hits. You got it, Jot.

I'm Ben. I'm Ben. I just feel like day. 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 joined by the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. How do you call bang on time every time? Yeah.

And I was rushing. I was like, I'm going to be a minute late. You have other interviews on the same day. So how does that all work out? Because sometimes we push our limits just slightly. You know, how does it work? Yeah, and then it makes me tardy and I get very upset. First off the bat, congrats for that.

Congrats. Thank you. Now, we need to start. New national leader, Christopher Luxon. Luxon, have you messaged him? Have you put the word, you know, good word out there to him? Oh, actually, I haven't. Luxon, have you messaged him? Have you put the word, you know, a good word out there to him? Oh, actually, I haven't.

But nor necessarily, I think, would he be expecting that. I was on the road yesterday, so caught up with things a little bit after. A little bit after everything happened in real time. Okay, well, you don't have to worry about texting because we've got him on the phone right now. What would you say if we had the Lux on the phone? We don't. We don't. Look, when right now. What would you say if we had the Lux on the phone? We don't. We don't.

Look, when the house first starts, you know, we'll always, you know, say congratulations. You know, everyone's on different sides, but everyone's still polite. I know it would be, it's a competitive game. And humans, you know, and especially politicians as well, you strive, you want to be the best. You must have been a cheeky little... Collins has crumbled. Must have been a little bit of a wry smile last week, Jacinda. Almost came to Judith.

I'm sorry. No, I mean, it's not... I've never been particularly like that. Because everyone comes in to do their best, and, you know, I don't get any joy out of seeing people, you know, have their careers shaken like that. You know, I don't actually – yeah. Oh, you're a better human being than me. There's no way of saying it without sounding like a real girly swat. No, no, but I guess, well, that's, you know,

that's a lovely way to approach it, isn't it? You're all there to do the best for the country. Yeah, yeah, ultimately. We disagree on what the best is sometimes. Now, a lot of talk, you know, we're moving into the traffic light system, but were you surprised over the last few months that so many people would be fixated

on whether you could use a bathroom at somebody else's house or not? Were you surprised? No. Okay. No, not at all. Because I think after we all got used to the alert level system, there were always little things along the way. And so I was used to the fact that there would always be something that you would end up getting into a lot of detail on. So no, that didn't surprise me.

It didn't surprise you. And what was going on with Barry? Barry Soper, he's getting all wound up about alfresco dining. And using the bathroom as well. And using the bathroom. He's needing to run off. He's wanting to ask you questions. He's in a rush to do his radio show.

He's got deadlines. He's got deadlines. He hasn't been held up much. Obviously, this new variant of concern from Omicron, we're going to be hearing a lot more about. What was your reaction when you first heard about this? Oh, well, you know, of course, you know, the goal of a virus is to spread and it will mutate to try and do a better job at that.

And so, you know, Delta followed, you know, Alpha. And so we've had variants all the way through the pandemic. And, of course, we've always said when we announced our plans on how we would gradually and carefully reconnect New Zealand, we always said that we were taking it slowly because of things like variants. So none of it's a surprise. The only thing we're doing now is just waiting until we have more evidence to tell us, you know, how unsettling this next phase is going to be or not.

Obviously, a lot of summer plans could be affected by the traffic light system. Who's, say, 101 on your wedding list, if you can only have 100? Is it Chris Hipkins? Is it Andrew Little? I mean, who are we talking here? Yeah, I mean, you know, I think probably it's that awkward situation. Do you want us to make a phone call? Uninviting people is quite awkward.

So I haven't actually quite figured out what we're going to do. What was the original number? What was the original number on the guest list? We haven't quite finalized all of our plans yet. So it's fair to say that I'm leaving most things to Clark. It's the least involved bribe. Obviously the job is extremely demanding and you can never really switch off from it.

But what happens over summer with you? Can you plan to do anything or are you always on call? Yeah, no, technically I or are you always on call? Technically, I'm always on call. It's my job and continues to be regardless of what time of the year it is. What we'll do this year, because there's been a group of ministers who have been

dealing with COVID all the way through, between us, we'll be the on-call ones for COVID-related things. I'm doing the encore ones for COVID related. So I'm doing the Christmas and New Year shift. But I'll still be with my family. So that's the main thing. Who designed that roster?

I did. You did. You put yourself on. I would have been putting myself off that one. But anyway, that's good on you for doing that. And you've got a lot of moving houses to watch, a binge watch, I imagine,

on TVNZ, Clark's show. And it's fair to say that I'm mostly having to do a bit of on-demand. Yeah. Now, is producer Juliet

going to be running at 120 at Rhythm and Vines over the New Year period, Prime Minister? Oh, well, I'll leave that to R&B. I've said all the way through. But we have all the way through tried to do Oh, well, I'll leave that to R&B.

But we have all the way through tried to do our best to support festivals because it's so uncertain for them, so hard. So we've tried our best to support them. All right, good. Hello, lovely talking to you. Have a great few weeks. I know this is always the highlight of your month, phoning through to the hits breakfast. Always.

And don't be late for your next chat. All right, see you. Talk soon. Rated late for your next chat. All right, see you. Bye. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Wow. Oh, wow.

Can you make Jono and Ben go Wow. Wow. Wow. It's Oh Wow Wednesday. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh Wow Wednesday. Then apparently this call

is going to wow us, Jono. Yeah, these are calls that we take every week that, you know, they leave our jaws on the floor. One time I had to hire a cosmetic surgeon to reattach Ben's jaw, didn't I, to your face? Yeah. Twelve hours of surgery after one call. So amazing. We were speaking to someone in the past who got a call in the middle of the night. She was sleeping next to her husband, and it was her husband's mistress on the phone and she was in labour.

That's right. With her husband's baby. They had no idea. No idea. That wowed us and apparently this next caller has a statement that is going to wow us. What's your statement? In a three-way relationship. You're in a three-way relationship.

Wow. Well, there you go. Wow. I've already said wow. Wow. How long has this been going for? You're in a three-way relationship. Wow. Well, there you go. Wow. I've already said wow, Giorno. How long has this been going for? I've been married 15 years, and I've been with her for 20 years,

and we've been with the third coming up 10 years. Oh, so a long time. It is a long time. So at what stage in the marriage did you both decide, you know what? Let's add another problem. Let's add another problem. Let's add another problem to this marriage. Another problem? Well, yeah, yeah.

We always talked about it from the get-go. So this is a mutual decision from both of you, obviously. And do you all live together? On the weekends, we do, because they both work during the week, so we all work, and then on the weekends, we all live together. So everyone obviously is all cool with this, but there must come into some sort of complications from time to time? There's no complications.

Don't you worry about complications, Ben. No complications. Who's taking the bins out? There's three people now to go, whose job is that? Anyway, I'm worried about those. And so you mentioned you've got kids. They know all about it, obviously? Yep, they all know. Love comes in different ways. That's right, and you can't, you know,'ve got kids. They know all about it, obviously. Yep. They all know.

Love comes in different ways. That's right. And you can't, you know, people are happy. That's why I always say, don't it, Johnny? You know, they're happy. That's what he says when he doesn't want to offend anyone. He says, as long as you're happy. Yeah. And so does the lady that's not your wife, but the third party, can she go off and have

other relationships and you won't mind? She doesn't want to. Well, because you can't get married to two people. The third one wants to change her name for a depot, so she's got my last name. So she's got your last name. So this is a marriage. It's a three-way marriage.

Yeah, technically. Technically, but not officially. Not officially. Not in the eyes of the government. Yeah. But in the eyes of commercial radio, I'll say it's a three-way marriage. Yeah, wow. Because, you know, you've been together for a long time.

I imagine there's been disagreements along the way. How do you navigate through those? Do they, like, two team up on one, or what happens? Yeah, they team up on me. Yeah, right. So you're losing a lot of arguments, Chris. Yeah. And forgive me for being a a little forward here when there's

times of intimacy yeah do you feel like you're having to split 50 50 like you wouldn't want to do a 70 30 split you know and get any you know i'm just thinking about like i'm some sort of trapeze like sort of movement you know there's only so much of Chris to go around. Well, there's obviously plenty to go around, though. So it's a 50-50 split. Yep. You don't want anyone feeling like they've missed out on Chris. Nope. Oh, I tell you what, you've got more stamina than I ever will.

They have more fun than me anyway. You've wowed us. I don't know where to go from this. So that're really interesting And so does everyone The public In your wider family Do they know about the arrangement?

Yep Does anyone judge you? Nope My mates do But nope Even when we go on bike rallies I'm from Because I own a bike

One of my mates Will take One of them on their bike So you know They're not left out Oh that's cool But you live with your wife? I live with one of them on the Z-Bike, so they're not left out. Oh, that's cool. But you live with your wife? I live with my wife.

But on the weekends, you guys all hang out together? Yep. That is... And how did it come about? How did you meet this lady? Was it like you put an ad on the radio or something? Happy couple looking for another partner sort of thing, or what? I met her through Facebook.

That's fair. It's very cool that it's all out there. Okay, would you add another one into the mix? Oh, yeah, could you go for it? I'll try. You'll try. There's more of Chris to go around. Oh, yeah. That's a 33% split.

How many people could you conceivably be in a relationship with? Two's enough. Two's enough, yeah. You've reached your limit. You've reached your limit. And do you meet other couples who are in a similar situation? No. Who knows?

You just don't know what's going on out there, do you? I travel a lot, so my kids have still got two people that they can look up to and stuff like that. Oh, that's wonderful. And so when you're not there, she's there with your wife? Yeah. How big's your bed? It's a king bed. It's a king you, it'd have to be.

And the real estate on beds anyway with two people is complicated, but three on that. I don't think that. It seems like they wouldn't have too many problems, John. I just read between the lines. They'll work it out. Chris can work it out. Oh, that's really interesting,

Chris. Hey, listen, thank you for sharing from Wow Wednesday. Chris, who's in a three-person marriage. And you'll see this going on until the day you guys die. Yep. Yep. Well done. Yep, thank you. Have a great day, Chris. You too.

Oh, really, really interesting call that one, wasn't it? It was, Ben. That's what Wow Wednesday's all about. If you think you've got a call that will wow us, you can text 34487. Next, though, we're wowed. We were wowed in the past tense, weren't we? Oh, yeah, with the legendary director, Stephens.

Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. If you haven't seen the Jonas Brothers roast on Netflix, it's actually quite fun. It's actually a fun way to watch them getting roasted and very 2021 kind of way. Yeah, well, that's always your thing with comedy roasts in this new era of, oh, everyone's got to be nice to each other.

Can't bully anyone nowadays. You're like, how do you navigate through a roast? And you feel they did navigate nicely? A lot better than, you know. Is it like, oh, where's the good old, you know, having a crack at their mum and their health issues and, you know, their fears they've had? Is it any of that stuff?

No, it's more about, you know, no one knows which one, Kevin's name from the band, everyone keeps calling him Keith and Calvin and things like that, you know. It's a bit along those lines. Yeah, it's a family-friendly softball, bro. Yeah, yeah. Is it on Netflix?

It's on Netflix, yeah. Jeez, Netflix are pumping out their old OG content at the moment, aren't they? Yeah. Yeah, I thought they would have been toast when everyone started pulling their stuff off Netflix. A lot of those big companies, didn't they? Yeah, you're right, but they seem to have invested in it. But it's all just Netflix, John.

Can I say, you know, the local networks are investing in local programming. And we were part of a show yesterday that's coming out next year. Jeez, that's why he's one of the greats, isn't it, Drew? Did you just see what happened there? I know, I did. It was wonderful. Yeah, because he was looking at me. I could see a glint in his eyes.

He's like, why are you going on this weird Netflix rant? And he's like, I'll pull us back on track. This is what we're here to talk about. Jeez, that was professional. He looked proud when he was doing it. I was trying to find a connection. Prior, you're losing them. You're losing them.

Yesterday, we had a little spot on Give Us a Clue, which is charades. It's a show that's on TVNZ that's coming back next year. It's charades on steroids. They send you this Bible of the show that you study, and your classic charadesades hand gestures, film TV, sounds like, syllables how many words, you know there's half a dozen there's like 32

there's past tense there's plurals there's on, off and things like that, you know there's a lot of things more hand signals than sign language oh wow we actually got quite caught up in the game, didn't we? Like, you go along there and you're like, oh, it's all fun, it's for TV.

But when you start playing, you start getting really, we were all sweaty and intense and, you know, like. You give your all. Probably looking back on it now, we'll be like, oh, these guys. Oh, God, we let that get away on us. You know? They might have to edit around our enthusiasm. Yeah, yeah. I was quite nervous because they get you to fill out this declaration at the moment

due to health purposes. They're following guidelines and stuff. But one of them was, please alert us if you're suffering from diarrhea. So I don't know what incidents have gone on in the past. Alarm bells started going off for me. And I was like, when is the appropriate time to say that

I'm suffering? Oh no. One word. One word. Oh suffering one word one word oh yeah oh what's he doing here oh he's suffering we've got another one i was like what is going on with the show that you know they put that as a clause in the country this is all very healthy so they are you know everyone had to have a negative test uh within 72 hours of being on the show which is good it gives you some reassurance you know when they're filming in in a pandemic that you know that everyone's doing, you know, health and safe, healthy and safe. But one moment I had, which I didn't realize, Paula Bennett, you know, ex-MP, National Party MP, and is now a real estate agent

and also does a great job hosting the show. She's the host of that show. And so you have to go up to Paula and grab the cards and she gives you, you know, what you have to act out. I didn't realize that my fly had come down. Oh, no. of that show. Yeah. And so you have to go up to Paula and grab the cards and she gives you, you know, what you have to act out. Yeah. I didn't realize that my fly had come down. Oh, no.

That was not healthy or safe. No. And she noticed and she pointed it out in front of everyone, just like a politician, real direct too. She's like,

your fly's down. And I'm like, oh, and it was one of, like, I hadn't worn those pants because I was wearing some nicer pants though,

you know, so I'll wear my nicer, nicer strides, you know, on a TVNZ show, TV One, that's where these are. I didn't worn those pants because I was wearing some nicer pants. I was like, oh, I'll wear my nicer strides on a TVNZ show, TV One. That's where these are. I didn't realize those all through. The fly kept coming down and up and down. Oh, no. And I was like, well, he gave us more than a clue that no one asked for.

You know, you've got Hilary Barry on there. I know. Respected people, Ben. No one wants to see that. Getting on there with your ghoulies out on television. I didn't, it wasn't intentional. Almost pranking. It wasn't a prank.

And every time I'd go up to do a clue, I'd be like, oh no, I've got to pull my, you know, like, yeah, it's not a good look. Not a good look. So hopefully they'll edit around that. Have you got a charades, Juliet? I imagine you'd be quite competitive with charades. To be fair, I haven't played in a really long time.

Then, you know, when you were saying how you got the movie, like the thing, how you act out of a movie and the syllables, I kind of have already forgotten what you actually do to indicate those things. Like, is the syllables, what do you even do? Is that the one you put? The three on your forearm. Yeah, so there's that, yeah. There's play and there's famous person.

There's all sorts, you know. Oh, my goodness. So many things to remember. So now we're good to go. Maybe we'll do the rest of the show in charades. Two syllables. Film. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the B***h News.

This is Juliette Rothel, an extremely professional beeper, but an extremely unprofessional lawyer, given she didn't study law. No. But she did study the art of censoring words from headlines, and we need to figure out what the stories are, Jude. Yes, the first news headline Blizzard traps 60 people in a pub for three days with

****. Without a care in the world. I can't imagine them being like, all the places that you want to be trapped does sound quite good. I know, I know. I was going to say Blizzard traps 60 people in a pub for three days with happy hour lasting 72 hours say Blizzard trapped 60 people in a pub for three days with happy hour lasting 72 hours. Blizzard trapped 60 people in a pub for three days with Oasis cover band.

I said maybe. You know, that's Oasis, right? So it was a pub in the UK, and they've now called this Oasis cover band Snowasis after the recent events. Very good. Great headline. They played games, ate roast, drank beer, and played music. But I was just kind of thinking, for three days,

would you get a bit sick of Oasis cover bands? I mean, Oasis are great. Don't get me wrong. But yeah, 72 hours of Oasis. Did they play nonstop? Did they feel like it? Maybe it was probably part of the entertainment to keep them going for three days.

I imagine they know other songs. If you know Oasis songs, you probably know a few other songs. True. Every morning they sang What's the Story, Morning Glory, Get Ever Enough, Bananam. That'd be fun. Yeah, it would be. Because then you could eat the pub food as well. Exactly. They were well stocked.

They were really well stocked. You'd just probably feel a little bit claustrophobic, that's all. Yeah. But once you got over that, you'd be sweet. You'd definitely be due a triple bypass after 72 hours of living and eating in a pub. Yes, true. Man builds replica of **** as a symbol of love for his wife.

I'd say a replica bobblehead. I've always wanted a bobblehead of myself. Oh, yes. Oh, the fun pop there, that's his new collection thing that he's getting hooked on. I'm going to say man builds replica of his mistress as a symbol of love for his wife

to say she's never going to be as good as you. Man builds replica of the Taj Mahal as a symbol of love for his wife. Now this is pretty epic. It is a scaled down version because I mean building one the actual size of the Taj Mahal would be very expensive and would take a very long time. But this took three years to build. You can live in it so it's not like it's a dollhouse or anything. It's a three-bedroom, has a meditation room,

and it's making headlines because it's a mini Taj Mahal. It is really beautiful, isn't it? Well, that's the story, if I'm correct, I think the story behind the Taj Mahal, the original one, is a symbol of love. An emperor built it for his third wife, I think. Yes, yes. Now, the two previous ones didn't get a building.

Well, it said his favourite wife. So I was like, wow, he's got multiple wives and he has a favourite. Yeah. Wow. And the final news story for you this morning. Tech company will pay you $280,000 to have your face imprinted on... A erectile dysfunction commercial. Would you, for $280,000, would you be the face of erectile dysfunction?

No, I'd do it for $2,000. I just want to sort my problem out. I'm going to say the company will pay you $280,000 to have your face imprinted on Mark Zuckerberg's face so he can get away with even more evil stuff. Tech company will pay you $280,000 to have your

face imprinted on robots. So it's a company called Promobot, and they're making robots to have in hotels, shopping malls, and airports, I guess to, like, assist people. And they want them to have a friendly face, and they'll also use your voice, too. I think they want 100 hours of recordings of your voice, so you could essentially be kind of, I guess it's kind of like Siri, like the person who records the voice for Siri. You'd need need to do that but it would go into a robot instead oh we need to tally

ho on these robots i'm not sure i don't know i'm skeptical this is probably the most boomer thing i'll ever say but i don't know if i trust these robots yeah that's fair that is fair do you trust the road you're 23 do you trust the world being run by robots i think you know my actually my biggest concern if robots took over, it would take away jobs for people. So people would be jobless, right? I'm like, we need people to be employed, not robots. It'll become an us and them situation.

Well, there's already those drones that fly by themselves and decide when they want to fire missiles and shoot people. Oh, so they decide? Not even human controlled. Really? Not even from like a headquarters or anything. Just a drone going round, firing off missiles, Ben.

How does that make you feel? Sleep easy tonight, buddy. I'm quite nervous. And that is the news and beeps for you. I'm not sure about this vaccine either. Oh, no. Here we go. Your chance to have some assorted days not too far away.

It is the hits you got, Jono and Ben. Scrolling through your feed. Well done also, too. We must say congratulations to Paula, who's a nurse on the, she was going to head to the West Coast. She's wanting to live free over summer New Year's thanks to Škoda. Yeah, she's in the draw for $5,000. And, of course, that brand new fantastic Škoda Kodiak, a seven-seater SUV. She could be driving around summer.

It'd be pretty sweet. Yes, he may have to sleep with a nightlight on, but I'll tell you one thing this man is not scared of, and that is some hard-hitting news. Ben Boyce, take it away. Well, yeah, a lot of talk this morning. As of yesterday, of course, there's a new leader in the National Party, Christopher Luxon, now...

The Lux! Is that what people call him? Well, no, I've just started calling him The Lux. Does The Lux work? Shortest term as an MP before being elected leader in any major political party in New Zealand. So, of course, he was the head of Air New Zealand for a while there and now has been in the National Party for not that long and now is the leader and now was all over the news last night as well. Was the National Party at the point where they were just looking around going,

you'll do? Were they looking at the janitor and the beehive? Hey, what are your aspirations? I don't know, I just need to finish vacuuming this floor. I feel like since he's arrived in politics, they've always kind of earmarked him for the leadership job at some stage. Maybe he got it sooner than he would have thought he would have, but it seems like a good change, a fresh start. John Key's a big backer of him, isn't he? Yeah.

And the good thing for us, Ben, purely selfish, I can play Christopher Luxon in any sketches that you have planned for the upcoming future. Oh, you could. You're a Luxon. Any political base. I'm your Luxon. Okay.

Yeah. Now, Christopher Luxon last night was on the project and, of course, 7 Sharp, and he was talking about his strengths and weaknesses, and this is his weakness. Do you have a weakness, Chris? My weakness is actually custard squares and mince pies. Custard squares, yeah, that's a good weakness. Those are good weaknesses.

I haven't had a custard square in... I don't think I've ever eaten a custard square. Well, you're not a lunchtime person, John. No. So you cut that out of the... You can't have it for breakfast. Yeah. And then a dinner custard square, I suppose, is appropriate.

But Mia might raise eyebrows. Yeah. Yeah. But it is a wonderful, it's a wonderful addition to the New Zealand menu, isn't it? It is. The custard square. Is that just like the flaky pastry and it's like custard, but is it slightly harder? About an inch of custard.

A sort of wobbly sort of custardy sort of mass they've got together. That sounds delicious. But yeah, it's pretty good. He also talked on the project. They always love asking the politicians about what is the price of something. Sure. Did they go the price of cheese? Price of cheese.

Because Judith Collins, they asked her before the election, and she couldn't quite get, you know, I think she priced it slightly wrong. So they asked Christopher Luxon last night. Yeah. And how much is a kilo block of cheese? It's about $11.50, I think. Very good. That'll be your Colby.

Yes. And it's bang on. I think before any interview, they send them to the supermarket just to take notes. Cheese? Cheese, bread. Cheese is quite expensive.

Cheese is, yeah. You go to the supermarket and you're like, good Lord, I don't really want to fork up $11 for a whole block, and I don't even go through it. That's why I want to start up Rat's Cheese. You know, you milk the rats. It's a more affordable option.

There's goat's cheese now. Yeah, well, true. We haven't done Rat's Cheese. That's halloumi cheese. There's not rat cheese. No, it doesn't sound that great. And then Christopher Luxon popped across to TV One last night and talked about one of his favourite places to go on the weekend.

I really enjoy some wannabe DIY. I get a fixation on the Ryobi One tool set. I love classic minis, and I actually really love country music, and that's probably not cool, and I shouldn't have told you that, but I really do. Oh.

You can lie now. You're a politician. You don't have to tell us that you like country music. I mean, that's all right. Do you like country music? There's a few songs, actually, I do have on my playlist that I do play from time to time. Producer Ben Humphrey, he's from Fairleigh, said, I like country music? There's a few songs, actually, I do have on my playlist that I do play from time to time.

But you should be in Humphrey. He's from Fairleigh. He said, I like country music. Yeah. Yeah. Thank God. What's the wagon wheel? The official anthem of the South Island, isn't it? Chicken fry.

It's a bloody great jam. It's a bloody great, yeah. So that was Christopher Luxton. Now, it seems like a new chapter, a new era for the National Party. And I was wondering when it was all playing out whether this Bridges rolling scenario was all a big game plan. Bridges goes in, he says he's going to roll, rattles Judith.

She's like, oh what do I do? She's gone. Bridges takes the hit for Luxon. He knows the greater good, put him out front. Bridges will get a big portfolio. You know, talking finance or something. Right. You reckon that was all part of the play? Because it would seem odd to have a leader who's been leader come back in. When's that ever happened?

I know. Have you seen House of Cards? The stuff goes on. Oh, yeah, it does. It does go on quite a lot. It's a complicated game. Yeah, so Christopher Lux, I know that you did a pretty good job yesterday all through the media.

Yeah, it was a good debut. Yeah, so it'll be interesting. I think he's going to be joining us tomorrow on the show so we can put questions to him like, what's the price of a Christmas eggnog? And would you invest in rat cheese? Yeah. Stuff like this.

Those big questions tomorrow. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. They just performed in Manchester. That's 660 on the way to Glasgow, Scotland right now,

according to their social media. When does their world tour wrap up? I think it goes for quite some time. Yeah, well, the first band to play at Eden Park as well, 660. And next week we've got something very special happening. Jono and Ben, first time they're going to be performing at Eden Park as well, 660. And next week we've got something very special happening. Jono and Ben, first time they're going to be performing at Eden Park as well. Next Wednesday we're going to be doing this. Now, this was spawned off, you know the campaign Two Shots for Summer?

We've talked about the Two Shots for Summer campaign a lot on this show. In fact, it's probably been the backbone of the program for the last two months, hasn't it? You want to hear the ads? Yeah. Hey yo, it's Two Shots for Summer, program for the last two months, hasn't it? You want to hear the ads? Yeah. Hey, yo, it's two shots for summer fam. Two shots delivered free. Two for long days and warm nights. Yeah, two shots is the key. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. This is not a government. This isn't brought to you by the government. There's just a lot of talk about two shots right now. We don't want to go down the road of the two shots. They've got their thing. That's fine. Yeah, no, they're vaccinating and also simultaneously keeping us in touch with the youth as well. They've got their thing. They're vaccinating and also

simultaneously keeping us in touch with the youth as well. So that's done. But we're going to do our own Two Shots campaign, Ben Boys, which has nothing to do with the health and safety of the public of New Zealand and more to do with two idiots standing on a stadium roof and throwing basketballs into a hoop.

This is exciting. This is something you've wanted to do for a long time. Yeah. And it's coming. It's our two shots for summer. So what is going to happen? So we're going to be on the roof at Eden Park. We're going to do it next Wednesday.

234 metres above ground. And we get to go. Don't check those stats. Wow. I was going to say that's really high. Oh my goodness. And we're going to be throwing our basketballs down to a hoop down there on the field and uh we've got we stay out there until we make two shots now my question is a shot

each yeah oh it is yeah i was going to say like what if ben gets both in well you know does it require try and get a shot each okay so those are our two shots and we're up there until until until we do it and if we do it eden park have really come to the party. Not only have they let us stand up on their roof or sit up on their roof, harnessed up, and keep shooting basketballs, but they've also given us a prize that we'll get if we get the two shots in. So you can win an all-access pass to Eden Park, and $1,000 cash is what we'll give away on the show. So that means you get two tickets to every 2022 event at Eden Park.

Cricket, rugby, Power AG9, golf, concerts. You said 660 are playing. Guns N' Roses are playing. And Eden Park experiences like the rooftop tour and stadium glamping. So it's pretty awesome, eh? That is unreal. And a thousand bucks.

Check out those bucks. A AAA pass to Eden Park. And also before any All Blacks game, you will be in the changing room rubbing liniment into Sam Kane's groin. I don't know if that's part of the pass. That's how much access this pass will get. All access. All access

to Sam Kane. Name a part of his body, you've got access to it. That's all we guarantee. Hold up your little lanyard. Sorry, Kane. I won it through a competition. Now, open up those thighs. So it requires us making the two shots?

Yeah, which, I don't know Bee Humps went and tested it out yesterday producer Bee Humps and he said something that we didn't factor in

is how hot the tin roof is going to be that we're standing on yeah we're going to be like pieces of steak sizzling on a grill

he's like how hot and also the you know that sort of floats and things move in the air the balls as well so we're going to be

giving it a crack next Wednesday trying to get two shots and then we're going to be giving it a crack next Wednesday, trying to get two shots, and then we're trying to give that away, which is an amazing prize. So thanks so much to Eden Park for jumping on board. And you can keep an eye on edenpark.co.nz for your Christmas event calendar with amazing event deals and prizes launching next week as well. Now, Juliet, a Hollywood movie star just being held up at knife point.

Yes, very terrifying. I'll tell you what happens before 7 o'clock. It is a hit. Now to a collection of news stories that the real news pretends it's too good for. Juliet, what's happening in spy entertainment news? So, Bradley Cooper has revealed something quite terrifying that happened to him when he was in New York.

He was on the subway and at 11.45 during the day to pick his daughter up from school. And he got held up at knife point. So what happened was he had his headphones on and his guard was down. He was obviously so used to being on the subway, like walking around New York. I mean, once you get used to a city and you kind of are in your own space, especially with headphones on, he all of a sudden felt someone sort of come behind him. He looked down, saw a knife. It was a two and a half to three inch pocket knife with a wooden handle.

He remembers thinking, oh, wow, that's quite a nice knife. That is not the thought that I would be having if that happened to me. Unless it was just a stranger going, hey, check out this nice knife I just bought. Yeah, true. That is true. He had his headphones on. He didn't know what the agenda was. Yeah, and I think throughout the whole encounter, he didn't take his headphones off. So he had his headphones on, and he knows that this whole experience would be quite different

if he had taken them off or had them off. So when he realized what was going on, he just kind of whacked the guy. He sort of just knocked him away and just boosted and ran and as he ran the other guy ran but he turned around took some photos and sent it to the police so that is quite a scary story to happen to bradley cooper jeez have you ever been held up a knife point ben no no i imagine it'd be a very very frightening experience yeah i think especially if you've got my mom always says says, if mum's like always, if you're either riding a bike, never wear headphones if you're riding a bike

because obviously you can't really hear traffic. If you're crossing roads, try not wear headphones. Even just wearing headphones, it does actually take away an extra sort of sense if you're out and about. A friend of ours was in a bank when it was held up.

Really? And he said it's just traumatic. Oh, my God. It was terrifying. The whole thing. He said that he worked with an older lady who, she couldn't come back to work. One of the bank tellers. Oh, yeah.

You imagine. Yeah. Because it would be quite surreal, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It would be one of those fight or flight moments, for sure. Yeah.

You wouldn't know what to do. But they're just told to, I think, they don't want anyone to get hurt. The bank obviously don't want their staff to get hurt. Yeah, that's true. She's just got to comply. Yeah.

Scary. But also, imagine robbing a bank. Oh, that would be the thrill. Oh my God, I know. Wouldn't that be thrilling?

That's what someone said to me. I can't remember who. It was like, robbing a bank or robbing a house, you never really think of the point of view of the robber. They would be running on adrenaline.

Imagine it. You need a good old cuppa. Maybe one of your nice sort of cranberry teas that you drink every now and then. Just to calm down after a good day's armed robbery. And Rihanna has been named as a National Hero of Barbados, officially. So she was given this honour during the presidential inauguration. She was born and raised in Barbados in the Caribbean. And National Hero is quite an iconic title for one to receive, I think.

Yeah, I've nominated Ben for the last five years as National New Zealand Hero. It hasn't come through just yet. But one day it will. One day it will. That's great. She's done wonderful things for Barbados, hasn't she? Yeah, she's been a really good ambassador over the years and always been very she's one of those artists that is very true to her roots, which I

really respect. I think she's received I was reading an article, she was almost in the military. She received a lot of military training in Barbados. Now Barb She was almost in the military Really? She received a lot of military training In Barbados Wow Now Barbados is obviously In the news at the moment

Because they've now split from The royal You know the royal Basically the royals Aren't governing Barbados anymore Yeah They've become a republic That's the word I was looking for

Yes Split from the royal family Yeah Oh the queen Did the queen use to run Barbados? Yeah Did she? Yeah

A bit of a check in history as well. But Prince Charles is over there right now. So he was over there as part of the huge celebrations because they're getting their independence at the moment. But I thought, look. By the way, buddy, you can get out of here now. Yeah, but that's why they kind of fronted up and talked about some of the check in history as well.

That's good. What is the check in history? Colonialism. Yeah. History. That's beyond me. is the check in history? Colonialism. Yeah, yeah. Right. History. That's beyond me.

I'm not very good with history. Oh, well then, congratulations, Rhianna. And Ryan Reynolds, too, being recognised in Canada as the national hero of Canada. Canada loves you back. That's right. Catchy song, that one. And I'll quickly just mention that our rower, Emma Twigg, remember her in the Olympics?

She was an absolute machine. Her and her wife, Charlotte, have announced they're having a baby. They announced that on Instagram last night, and it's going to be a little boy due April 2022. She was a wonderful chat when we spoke to Emma Twigg. Yeah, she's freaking cool. Hell of a journey, too, to get back to that Olympic gold. Yes.

She quite the journey, and she credited it all to her partner. Yeah, I know. You just have to train Consistently consistently Over You kind of forget You watch the Olympics And you're like

I could do that I reckon And then you realise That they actually do it As a full time job For the last like 10 years of their life And you're like Actually no

I think I'm going to pass There's no part of me That ever watches this That says I think I could do that I've never sat there And watched pole vaulting Going I could do that I reckon It's like It's like artists, I reckon.

You know when you go to a museum and you see art and you're like, oh, that's so basic, I could do that. And mum tells me, Juliet, that is very insulting to the artist. It's hard work. Anyway. I've never watched Usain Bolt and gone, I could do that. Oh, that's a different level. That is Spy for this hour.

For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After 7 o'clock, your chance to win $5,000. And don't forget Steven Spielberg yes Steven Spielberg he joins us after eight two dads just trying to fill some air time

some may say it's pointless but the main thing is it fills in some air time for us that is the main thing John and Ben

breakfast on the hits now I was saying before the song that Juliet deeply upset me deeply offended me yesterday Ben Boyce and you

know I'm not easily offended am I? Did she call you a poor man's Christopher Luxon? That is very good. Poor man's Christopher. That's going to carry on for the next, how long were you, five, eight years? It might be around for a while.

It's a great day for Ben Boyce. He's got some new comedic fodder. I was just looking at Christopher Luxon on the TV. I said to you, it's going to be great for sketches This is a great day for the show Yeah very true He does look like a big thumb though Doesn't he? Is that how I look? Am I like that?

Yeah anyway But yes I was deeply offended yesterday And it was all thanks to Juliet Now she's not an offensive person And I don't know if you did this on purpose But I got Boomer noted I got Boomer noted Now, I was doing something on my computer

And she wasn't going to be here Okay So then she taped a note to my computer where the keys are for the keyboard. And I'll show you this note, Ben Boyce, just to prove you. It says, when you're talking to the person, the note is, mute the microphone on the computer and, in capitals, turn volume right down. And she sellotaped that. I can see why you do that, though.

Sellotaped that. Because even if he told you, you'd just go, yep, yep. And sometimes you'dated that. I can see why you do that. Salitated. Because even if he told you, you'd just go, yep, and sometimes you'd be like, he's not listening. And this was a technically,

this was a technical issue. And I was like, John, I was not very good with tech. And so I just want to ensure that this goes as smoothly as possible. So I had to remind you. We're a week away

from her leaving a note on my bag saying, remember to take your medication. There's a lasagna in the freezer. Yes. Make sure you thaw it out on the bench. I'll put the medications on day parts. It's the Monday one.

It's the EM. They've got the check. Yep, yep. You've got to do what you've got to do. You know? I mean, nothing makes you feel like there's, is there anything left to live for when you're getting notes taped to things. Yeah.

Aren't you? But I appreciate the gesture. Thank you. And it all went smoothly. So, you know, it was... The note word. But you know, I know how to work email. Yeah, that's true.

No, I feel like... What do you mean, no? Well, I do, but I 100%. Don't you see where I'm coming from right now? Sometimes I'm that text person. So I text Jono, will he remember? Oh, look, I don't want to be that. Yes.

But it's better to be safe than sorry with someone like Jono. Sometimes he's like, you know, remember bringing your trousers for that thing. Or I'll go, hey, I'm bringing in my thing tomorrow. It's like you still need to be mothering. Yeah, you don't want to be the mothering one. Yeah, but he can't help it. Yeah. Well, thank you for mothering me.

No, it's okay. I appreciate your notes and your text reminders to bring in trousers to work. You know, she's not wearing trousers today because I didn't text her yesterday. Oh my goodness. Shamble. 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 this time. We give you five words, you tell us what pops into your head, and if they match up with ours, you win a sweet, sweet $5,000. I know the government spent, I think, $62.1 billion on the COVID recovery program, and we've spent that exact same amount on prize money for five words. So, you know, the cash goes out the door. We've got a lot of it, Michaela, and it could be yours in Tauranga. Morena.

Good morning. Hey, you work at the Tauranga Port? Yeah, yep. What do you do there? Oh, just a little bit of security. Oh, nice. Oh, yeah. Love the old port.

I love it down there. It's a beautiful part of the country, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Not the best today, but it has been. Oh, well, good stuff, Michaela. You need to decide who you're going to send into the soundproof booth. And I must just say, I've noticed around the office, other booths popping up. There's other booths.

Yeah, there is actually. We're waiting for the return of the workers to come back in once the levels are eased. And I just hope, because they are bigger booths than the soundproof booth, that our soundproof booth doesn't feel intimidated by other booths moving in. There's a double-sized one now.

Yeah, there's big ones. So I think those are the booths where we're going to lock the anti-vaxxers when we come back into the office. Is that what's happening? Yeah, just to really make a point of it. But, Michaela, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth to match five words with? We'll go Jono today.

Okay. Jono, there you go, Jono. Today's the day, Jono. Today's the day you can do this for Michaela. All right, Michaela, you know how the game works? Yep. All right, here we go. Jono's in the soundproof booth.

He can't hear anything. First word this morning, what pops into your head when I say beverage? Beverage. Alcohol. Oh, yeah, nice. I like the way you think, Michaela. And I feel like that could be the way that Jono's thinking as well. Yeah.

That would be something that he would say. Low is the second word l-o-w low high low high going the opposite i like it luxon is the third word this morning a topical one luxon if you follow your politics uh national national sun s-u-n sun s-u-N. Sun, S-U-N. Summer. Summer, summer sun. And finally, sign, S-I-G-N, sign. Sign.

Oh. Toast. Toast. Signpost. Oh, yes. I thought you said toast there. Sign makes sense. Signpost. Oh, yes. I thought you said toast there. Sign makes sense. Signpost.

Michaela, you played a really, really good game this morning, and hopefully Jono will play a similarly good game, and you can walk away with $5,000. I feel very good. I feel very good today, Michaela. I can feel it in my loins, in my waters. Some cash flying around in those waters of mine. Let's win you $5,000. If you need around in that, in those waters of mine. All right, let's win you $5,000.

If you need anyone to do security across those waters, Joe, Michaela is the person for that job. All right, our first word this morning, beverage. Drink. Okay. Mate, I don't know what the feeling was I had in my loins, or my waters. We thought this was a sitter for you.

What'd you go? The guy said alcohol. Oh, alcohol. That'll be what he's thinking. Why would I be thinking that? on my waters we thought this was a sitter for you what'd you go the guy said alcohol oh alcohol oh that'll be what he's thinking why would I be thinking that you're always thinking about a drink

oh my oh Michaela oh now I said I felt good now I feel terrible about it okay let's rattle

through the other four low L-O-W point it wasn't a low point it was high Luxon Christopher oh no it was national sun S-U-N hot Point. It wasn't a low point. It was high. Luxon. Christopher.

Oh, no. It was national. Sun. S-U-N. Hot. Oh, jeez. And sign. S-I-G-N.

Sign. Post. Oh, we got one. Michaela, that was all on me, not you. I'm sorry, Michaela. It didn't quite work out this time, but you have a great day, and hopefully we can do this again. That's right.

Thanks, guys. As you say, keep those ports secure, okay? We'll get into some Spy Entertainment news next June. Spy, the WhatsApp spy.co.nz. Now to Juliette Rothel, celebrity smut peddler, and she's about to start peddling like it's the Tour de France. Take it away, Jew. Adele has announced a Las Vegas residency called Weekends with Adele. She'll play two shows per weekend between January and April next year.

I saw this headline and I was like, that surprises me. I feel like... That's an end of career thing. Las Vegas residencies are traditionally... I don't think it is anymore. Is it not? Well, and it's probably in this, you know, these unprecedented times that we're living in, guys.

You know, it's probably a safe bet. Yeah. You know, lockdown one place. Yeah. Got a guaranteed live audience. True. And hopefully with lots of tourists going into Vegas, it's probably a lot of money to be made in something like that.

And she is the biggest deal right now. And it's just a quick flight from LA. It's not that far away. Yeah, true, true. So it's not what you have to... Not too good for the old airpoints, though. You know? She's just doing that short little trip every time.

Oh, no. She's not going to be getting out of the airpoints. A discount air fryer or something or a toasted sandwich maker on the airport shop. That's true, that's true. And the two icons that are releasing a Christmas song this Friday, unfortunately not Jono and Ben, but Ed Sheeran and Elton John. If you just tuned on to that,

Ben did reference us as icons just previous to the Katy Perry song. Yes. Juliet actually doesn't think we're icons. She's saying that with sarcasm. So they've announced they're releasing a song called Merry Christmas. It's coming out this Friday.

And they announced it by doing, you know that scene in Love Actually where Keira Knightley's husband's best friend turns up with the big cue cards at the front door Yeah, iconic scene. Yeah, very iconic scene They sort of did a remake announcing that and there's a little snippet that has been

released Sounds like it's going to be a catchy song, even from that little bit there. You're like, oh, this is going to be a catchy Christmas number, isn't it? Wonderful play on the hits, I bet you we will. I imagine we will. Yeah, yeah. And it's also been announced that Magic Mike 3 is being made with Channing Tatum again. It's called Magic Mike's Last Dance.

And Channing did say the strip of this will never be the same once this third movie comes out. She's Magic Mike hanging up the G-string going into retirement. Hanging up the sequined thong. Yeah. Hell, Magic Mike would be sort of a middle-aged Mike now, isn't he? Yeah. Still battling away. He's still magic, mate.

Still magical. Has he still got the magic I'd say Shaddy Tate still has oh yeah not like us no yeah the way you haven't got the magic

we lost our magic we never had a lot of the magic to be honest oh my god I don't want to imagine that so I haven't actually seen Magic Mike though

so maybe I need to add that to my list of movies that I need to watch no have you seen it no I've seen enough to parody it I think we've made a parody where they tip a milk

all over themselves in the gas station and grind it up against some sort of, you know, like. A lot of grinding, Juliet. Yeah, yeah. But it's Channing Tatum,

so, you know, totally fine by me. And that is Spy for the South. More you can hear to the hits.co.nz. Ben would always call me Tragic Mike,

wouldn't he? Whenever we did a sketch, he's like, look at old Tragic Mike over there that's good i like that it always put a smile on my face welcome to two half-assed dads to a half-assed job official title new zealand's breakfast my daughter sienna came to me uh yesterday and she was like uh there's a book i've got i found uh called bffs how to be a best friend

forever and she was like you and john i should take this quiz to find out if you really are best Like there's a book I've got, I found, called BFFs, How to Be a Best Friend Forever. And she was like, you and John O should take this quiz to find out if you really are best friends or not. It's been like couples therapy, hasn't it? Yes. Couples therapy. I feel like this has made things worse in our relationship. Through a book designed for eight-year-olds. Yeah.

So does this sit on your bookshelf or is there a communal family bookshelf? No, this is one that she was doing some stuff in her room and then she found this book that she'd had from a couple of years back. So she's been putting some questions to us and now here's the next one that I would like to bring to the table.

So, so far, we'll just recap. We'll bring people up to speed. You've asked, you know, the first one was it, what does your best friend,

your BFF, do better than anyone else? And you said, I lose hair better than anyone else, didn't you? And lose beers. And lose beers,

that's right. And I said, Ben gets more nervous better than anyone else, didn't you? And lose bears. And lose bears, that's right. And I said Ben gets more nervous better than anyone else. That's true. That was just one of the many questions. And then another one was, what would you do if you overheard mean things being said about your BFF? What would you do? And I said I'd join in and add fuel to the fire.

So that's where we're at. That's where we're at. Okay, what's the next question? Ben, your BFF tells you he cheated on a math test. What do you do? Well, I wouldn't be surprised, to be honest. Would you be surprised if Johnny Cameron said I cheated on a math test? No, I would not.

I'd be more surprised if he was doing a math test. You're 39 years old. Why put yourself through this? Why did you do this? But, yeah, you're not very good at maths. I know you, that's not a dig. No, that's just a fact. That's a fact.

It is a fact. My son's doing maths tests at the moment and I, he got like 90% or something. Really? Yeah, and I'm like, mate, I'd never reached, I didn't think I'd go, I never got over 50 in maths. Really? Never? That's how bad I am at maths.

That's so funny. Yeah, shocking. What did you guys get in maths. That's how bad I am at maths. That's so funny. Yeah, shocking. What did you guys get in maths? I was pretty shocking too. I stuck with statistics instead of algebra and things like that. Mum would always say, you know, you need to know because, you know, if you're in an environment and you need to do your times tables, your plus, blah, blah, blah.

Mum, I've got a calculator. And now I'm so grateful that technology has advanced to the point where we have calculators even on our watches. Oh, the calculator game. Imagine the calculator industry would be like, oh, they put them on the phone? Yeah. Oh, mind you, Casio, they had a good run. They did have a really good run.

Okay, so that's what you do is you wouldn't be surprised if I cheated on a maths test. Next question. Jono, you hear a rumour about your BFF. What do you do? I feel like you would start this rumour. To be honest, I probably started it, and I'd probably sit in the satisfaction knowing that it gathered some traction,

and it's looped back around to me. But you do it in a way, go, oh, did you hear that, Ben? And you would start the rumor, but make it sound like it came from someone else. Yeah, I do love a goss. I do love a goss. You do love a goss, don't you? I'm a good gosser.

So that's what I do do is I'd gossip more. Gossip more. I don't care if it's not true or not. He loves the gossip. All right, next question. You and your bestie do everything together, so it's only natural that you would want to work together. Here are some fun suggestions for jobs.

Dog walking, babysitting, or volunteering at a charity. None of those excite me. None of those excite me. I thought you were a really charitable guy, John. His dog, have you seen his dog? He's a lot of hard work. You wouldn't do any of those jobsite me. None of those excite me. I thought you were a really charitable guy, John. His dog, have you seen his dog? He's a lot of hard work. Someone do any of those

jobs with me. Whose baby are we sitting? That'd be a bit weird too, eh? Who's the two guys? Hey, we're the babysitters, eh?

Yeah, we come as a duo. Ten bucks an hour. That's so weird. That's a question mark over that one. Yeah, sure,

so I guess none of those jobs are really. And I know, you know, the only charity work you do has to be quarter pointed. So then that is a turn on for you. Don't start this rumor, all right? Have you not? Have you done quarter pointed charity work? I have, but it's not the end anyway.

Our next thing's final statement. Show your bestie just how much you care about them with a homemade gift. You could make Jono a hair hair clip and he could make you a DIY body scrub. A DIY body scrub? Well listen, I'll offer my body up for scrubbing services if you need me to scrub your body. You're entitled to 10

free scrubs between now and Christmas. Oh really? It's part of our free trip. It's 10 through the month of December. That's a lot of scrubbing. So I'm scrubbing your body, really? You'll be red raw. What's that, two to three a week, really? I mean, before we knock off a Christmas holiday,

is that really, it's probably three to four a week. Too much exfoliating. There we go. Where's my hair clip? I've offered my body up for scrubbing. I'll get you a hair clip. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on the hits. And via the iHeartRadio app. I'll get you a hair clip