Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Kicked Off Our Own Friends Of Friends Reunion!

Episode Date: May 23, 2021

Ahead of the Friends reunion this week, we decided to hold our own! Not the main cast (because they would never dish any dirt!) but the people you will vaguely remember 😉 Today we spoke to Ross' first wife Carol, she was super interesting and was actually up to play Rachel initially! Non-Friends related, we also spoke to a lady who has had a change of heart and wants to change her 4-year-old daughter's name from Stella to Daisy. Is this ok to do!? Enjoy the podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. 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 guys, it's the podcast. It's the 24th of May, Monday.

Oh, Annie Pryor's birthday tomorrow, 25th of May. Oh, Annie Pry Annie Pariah Yeah my mother She did a lot of the A lot of the Mechanical work In creating this What you're looking at Right now Ben

Yeah she did Her body did all this Okay okay Okay Your mum doesn't like you She doesn't like being On the radio your mum Does she

No Doesn't mean I can't Talk about her She listens to the podcast I know She loves listening to the podcast She'll hear this Say happy birthday tomorrow Annie

Happy birthday Love you Love you Annie Can I say love you Yeah you can say love you Okay Now you had something about her. She listens to the podcast. I know. She loves listening to the podcast. She'll hear this. Say happy birthday tomorrow, Annie. Happy birthday. Love you. Love you, Annie. Can I say love you? Yeah, you can say love you. Now, you had something interesting on the program today, which I thought,

let's do that again for the podcast. There's some interesting facts about something. Did you spurt those out during the show? Oh, is this about the internet? Yes. Yes.

Well, I'll talk about it now. I thought it was, because we ran out of time to talk about this today. Yeah. But we'll talk about it again tomorrow on the radio show, so you'll hear it during tomorrow's podcast. So this will be like a dress rehearsal for this chat.

Yeah, well, yeah, because New Zealand's internet. Now, this is quite interesting. So New Zealand's internet is basically glass fibres contained in four submarine cables that connect New Zealand to the United States and Australia. And so they virtually carry all the communications to and from New Zealand. So for the internet. And so they reckon that there's 20 strands of glass fibre, each about the thickness of a human hair,

that hold all the internet in New Zealand. So obviously they're protected underneath the water. So someone could go down there, dive down there with a pair of scissors and really do us a job, couldn't they? Well, potentially. I don't know. I mean, scissors, you might need something more than scissors, but it's funny, New Zealand's internet.

Secateurs? Yeah, well, maybe, yeah. It's all reliant on this one cable. Yeah, well, there's... Why don't we just get our own internet? No, no, we're not hooking it up. It's like we're, like, piggybacking on someone else, aren't we? Reliantly, it's like when you sign up to my Netflix account.

You're not paying it. You're not the primary. It's like US and Australia. You can cover us on this one. Oh, boy, New Zealand's logged on again. Do your own one. Aussies use all our monthly data. We've got no internet in New Zealand.

I find in 2021 that's wild. That seems unusual. It's really wild. Do you need cables? Can it be done by satellite? Yeah, that's exactly. That seems unusual. It's really wild. Do you need cables? Can it be done by satellite? Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. I was thinking, why is there cables that connect the internet to New Zealand? But they're just sitting on the bottom of the ocean floor.

It seems like, even like a whale. I don't know, would a whale go down there? Yeah, mate. Or some sort of deep sea monster. Yeah, like a crayfish will go. Nemo. Yeah. Nemo could accidentally bump into it. Imagine that, like a crayfish. Nemo. Yeah. Nemo could accidentally bump into it.

Imagine that, the internet going down in New Zealand. But I mean, if it was sabotaged and there was an attack on Aotearoa's internet, the thing you'd be like, oh God, whereabouts on the cable did they cut it? Yeah. Between here and America. Yeah. You'd have to go down and... Well, it must connect in different places along the way,

surely it won't anyway, so it's fascinating. So they must have had a giant boat just unloading all that cable. But the boat would have to keep going ashore to get more cable. Oh, my God. I'd love to talk to someone who knows what they're on about.

Oh, I'm sure you can. I'm sure you can track down... Not that you don't know what you're on about. No, I vaguely read an article and now I'm sort of talking about it right now. But on the show today, our Friends of Friends reunion. That was a lot of fun.

We are talking to a different friend of the Friends cast today and we started with the lady who played Carol on Friends who was Ross's first wife. So, real iconic character. So, it was really cool

to talk to her and that's probably what you need to know. Sorry, I'm reading about submarine communications cables now. I've checked out of this introduction.

Enjoy the podcast. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.

We're doing our own friends reunion. There's not just one happening that you can catch with the main cast of friends on TVNZ2 at 7pm on Thursday night.

There's our own one which is happening right now. What if we told you there's a Friends reunion on Monday? Starring old grumpy neighbour and Russ's fiancée. There'll be some others you vaguely recognize But it won't be Russell Richard It's just all the extra guys Yeah, Jono and Ben's Friends Reunion

With some actors from the show Jono and Ben's Friends Reunion All the ones you barely know Jono and Ben's Friends Reunion Only on the radio. Yeah, it's our semi-legal Friends of Friends Reunion. I liken

it to when you could buy those party pills at the dairy. You're like, this shouldn't be legal. It doesn't feel right, but it is. And that's what we're doing this week. We're going to catch up with some of the friends of the friends each day this week around about this time. And joining us very shortly is Ross's first wife from the show who played the part of Carol, an integral part of the whole series.

And Jane Sibbitt joins us in just a few moments, which will be a lot of fun. And became a gay icon, Jane, as well, because obviously she was in a same-sex marriage on the show, wasn't she? Or same-sex relationship, sorry. And since then, the flow on flow on amount of messages i was reading that she receives from couples who felt comfortable to come out to their friends and family after watching friends is phenomenal oh which is awesome not quite as awesome although it was our singing because we

did some filming we did our own version of the friends iconic fountain scene the other night and we didn't have music to dance around in because they all sort of dancing in the fountain aren't they the cast members yeah so we had to do dancing and we're like oh we've got no one's got a phone to play music so uh what are we going to do and we all agreed that we'd use god's nature instrument our mouths mouth music Ben's dancing away to this. You're loving it. We sound like we've had about nine drinks. Why can I only hear Jono in it? He's very hoggy.

He's the Beyonce of the group. That's right. Ben's Kelly Rowland. And's the Beyonce of the group. That's right. Ben's Kelly Rowland and Producer Humphrey was the other one. I can't remember. But, you know, so that was it.

And then we got interrupted frolicking around the fountain at eight o'clock at night and pitch dark by some nighttime walkers with lights on their foreheads. That's right. You know how they wander around

with lights strapped to their heads? Yeah. They're like, what are you guys doing? We're like, it's best you don't know. Yeah. We'll talk to our own friends at Friends Reunion.

You can catch the interview that we have with Carol very shortly. But if you want to see the actual Friends Reunion, 7 o'clock Thursday night, TVNZ 2. And the castmates get together, they talk about the show, and they even revisit the set for the first time in like a decade. Oh, my God. Here we go. Where's the tissue box?

The cost of friends. Wow. Does Courtney still have her lines written on the table? We've literally just slipped right back. We regret. We have such a bond from this show. Were Ross and Rachel on a break? Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Bullshit. So, yeah, they're answering some of the tough questions, like, were they on a break? Was there a British voice in there? I can't remember a British person on the front.

Oh, you know, don't troll now. Don't you start. James Corden, he's doing the interviews. They need someone to... James Corden's doing... James Corden's great. You don't have a problem with James Corden.

The world's going on about that. Oh, yeah. I mean, someone needs to do the interview with a Friends cast. They're not just going to sit around the couch

and sit there. You know, they need someone to... an interviewer. Another thing Corden can ruin. Is that what they're saying?

That's what the internet... Some people, horrible people. Another thing Corden can ruin, is that what they're saying? That's what the internet, it's ugly. No people, horrible people. I rate Corden. I think he'll do a wonderful job. He's lovely. What was the alternative, Oprah? Probably she would be a great alternative. She'd do a great job.

There's plenty of alternatives, but he's great. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. The Friends reunion is happening this week, so we're doing our Friends of Friends reunion. Jono and Ben's Friends reunion. With the latest on the show. been for breakfast. The Friends Reunion is happening this week, so we're doing our Friends of Friends Reunion. Now, our first guest, very excited about this. She was Ross's first wife

on the show. Carol was the character's name. She's played by actor Jane Sibbitt. She joins us. How's it going? Hello, nice to meet you. Hey, Jane. Thank you so much for taking the time today. We really do appreciate it. Oh, it's so much fun to be here already. I'm having a blast.

Now, I was reading on your website, you describe yourself as an actress, writer, director, producer, mother, photographer, dancer, teacher, lover, friend, sister, advocate, and so much more. I mean, is there any more? Yeah, there's a lot more. It's a lot. Isn't there a lot? I mean, are we all multidimensional beings? I mean, that is any more? Yeah, there's a lot more. It's a lot. Isn't there a lot?

I mean, aren't we all multidimensional beings? I mean, that is a very good point. I could add a few more things to my list of skills. Very limited, Jane. Is it? I'm barely struggling to get words out into this microphone right now. Ben's got some skills. He's a very slim individual.

He can fit children's clothing. Yeah, I don't know if that's a skill, but yeah. When he buys an NBA top, he can buy the kid's size, which saves him a lot of money. But people know you from your time on Friends over here because we're still playing Friends over here. It was just released. It's a new show in New Zealand.

I am so delighted. I look forward to coming down and seeing it myself down there. Because it went for 17 years and you were in only 15 episodes, but it felt like you were talked about a lot more and felt like you featured a lot more in Friends as Carol. You know, it's funny. They are often asking me about why does it seem like Carol was always there and they asked me, they did a trivia question for me

and asked me how many episodes was I mentioned in and apparently I was mentioned in many, many more. So that's why the presence. But I think also just because of the repeats. Now, you're not serious, is it? It has played there before. It has played. We got it the first time around.

We are behind in a lot of things. But this is serious. They just keep replaying it from the start. Oh, yeah. So they'll run it out for all its seasons, and then they'll start again from the beginning. And we've been doing that nonstop for 20 years, and it still rates like a monster. See, I love Lucy of our generation, I think.

It is a big story. And you almost, as a true play, the part of Rachel, it was almost going to be yours. You know, it's a funny story. People have asked me this. I was up for the part of Rachel. I wasn't offered the part of Rachel. So it's a funny story. People have asked me this. I was up for the part of Rachel. I wasn't offered the part of Rachel. So it's a really big thing.

I know a lot of people have been talking about that. Yeah. I was up for the part of Rachel. And that's when I said to my agent, did you tell them I'm pregnant? And my agent said, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Get the part first and then you can negotiate. I'm like, no, I really need to be honest about this up front. I don't want to waste anyone's time.

And of course, that timing wouldn't work out. And I said, but please tell them I want to play the pregnant lesbian, please. They said that that timing wouldn't work out either. So when Anita Barone, I guess, decided to leave the show, they called me up and I had just gotten home from the hospital after delivering my child and they convinced me to come in. Because that was the thing. Another actor played Carol in the pilot.

And then you came over two days after giving birth. It was two days after giving birth. You were on starring in Friends. Yeah. I got home from the hospital and when I got the phone call, could I come to work the next day? And I said, oh, kind of sore, big baby, 24-hour labor. They said, don't worry we'll

make it easy and so seriously when they sent me the pilot over to convince me because i was a little woozy from delivering that baby he's a big boy yeah um when i saw david schwimmer i just said i have to work with this man i cannot believe how talented he is and i you know they said it was just going to be two weeks, but blessedly, how many years later? Thank God you didn't get the role of Rachel, because I don't even know what happened to that lady. I know!

There's no one that... Jennifer Edison's a friend and there's no way I could even come close to her brilliance. She's amazing. I was going to ask you that. Are you still all keeping in contact with the cast? And who are you most closest to? I'm most closest to the woman who plays my wife, Jessica Hecht, who plays Susan.

She and I are the closest. Don't hang out or see the rest of the cast much. I saw Jen last year before the pandemic. But that's about it. We're all scattered across the globe. Jane Sibbitt with us. She played Carol on Friends. Now, I wanted to know, just step away from Friends for a moment.

True or false on the internet, things about yourself. First on-screen kiss was with Johnny Depp. Is that true or false? It's true. Right. So this is 21 Jump Street Days. Is that right? That's correct.

Yeah, it was a beautiful first kiss. Now, when you're doing a kiss on screen, is it your same sort of kiss as I'm doing in person, quite sort of fumbly and... Like, is it... Is it... I always find the tongues end up making a... You know, that odd noise, the kissing noise,

which is disturbing as well. But was Johnny Depp a great kisser, was he? He was a great kisser, and he was a respectful kisser, which means on screen, he didn't use his tongue. Okay, okay. Isn't it true or false with Jane Sibbitt? You do something now called Jane's Dancing Hands. Is that true or false? This is true. What is that? What exactly is

that? What is Jane's Dancing Hands? What happened was I was doing documentary films on healers and one day, one of them touched my head and I went falling back into this state of bliss and when I came out of that about an hour later I'm not a girl who does any drugs or anything like that but I was in this out-of-body state for about an hour when it came out my hands were moving in a really interesting way and since that time I've been able to help people heal some really serious diseases and mend broken bones and stop bleeding and all sorts of emotional and psychological problems too.

It's been, I never, if it hadn't happened to me, I never would believe it. That was not my world and wheelhouse. So that's what Jeans Dancing Hands is. I mean, I've got a whole, you know, website that explains more. Well, that's a lovely thing. Do you think you could do me a favour?

Put your lovely hands up against the screen. I'll put my bald head against the screen. Get some hair. Get some hair. You never tried to grow hair back.

Yeah, try and grow some hair back. I want a full luscious head of hair by the end of the week. Oh, it's been so lovely hanging out with you today.

We really do appreciate that from the other side of the world. And thank you for, oh, you probably had these questions about friends so many times. So thank you for tolerating all our questions. Thank you so much. I appreciate being here. 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. Jono and Penn. Breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads. Really interesting proposition here that we found out over the weekend involving a listener.

Jackie, you're on. Welcome from Auckland. Hello. This involves your four-year-old and a bit of a rebranding. Yeah, it's needed. It's necessary, I think. Yeah. So what are you wanting to do?

So I have a four-year-old daughter, and when she was born, we couldn't really decide on a name, but finally got to Stella. And she's been Stella for the past four years, and now I'm just not feeling it anymore, which sounds terrible. But I think it's important, if I am going to change her name, to change it before school starts. Yeah, right, new chapter.

A lot of Mahi needs to go into a rebrand too because you've had four years of people calling Stella, Stella. Yeah. Yeah, preschool, kindergarten, everything. Yeah. Family, friends. Do you think she feels like she's a Stella? Does she feel like that's her name?

It's hard to tell. She's not a dog, so it's not like she's just ignoring me if I'm saying Stella. But she probably thinks she's a Stella because she's been called it all her life. She hasn't given birth to a dog, Ben. No, but I mean, I was just thinking, yeah, age four, you're probably becoming your own little, you know, you're becoming your own little person. Your own identity, yeah. I mean, the name change thing worked really well for Matt Damon in that documentary when he was running away from the authorities.

Oh, Jason Bourne. Yeah. So it worked well for Matt Damon. And I have a question. Is your child on the run from the law? And is that the real reason for this name change? I don't want to say too much, but no. It's just a school thing.

We had a family member who you who was her choice when she was very little to change her name she came to her parents she said i don't i don't like my name and and they were like well think about it for a bit longer she did think about it for much longer she kept coming back and said this is the name i want went on i think for they they get you know it wasn't like a fad or a phase and then they changed the name because that was the name that she wanted to be called and it's probably a good thing if you do it now that you don't have the niggle of bank statements, driver's licenses, etc.

You'd want to change it later in life. What does your partner think, Jackie? He's not too happy. He was really set on the name Stella. That's why it took so long because he was pushing for that one. So yeah, he's not too happy but I think she just, it's quite a strong name

so I'm looking for something a bit softer Oh right, like Hannah I don't know why I picked Hannah Is Hannah a softer name than Stella? I don't know We're going with well, I say we

I'm going to go with Daisy Oh, Daisy's a lovely name Stella and Daisy are both lovely names Dare I ask it has anyone spoken to Stella about the name change? Not yet. Obviously, I'll put it to her. In a dragon's den proposal.

Yeah. PowerPoint and all. Okay. So, are you wanting us to chuck it out there? Oh, 800 of the hits. Should Jackie change the name? Maybe you've been involved in a name change. Is it worth it?

Was it worth the hassle? Is it okay to change your kid's name? Yeah, make me feel better. Yeah, oh, 800 The Hits is the fine number. I remember having a conversation with my daughters, and they were talking about one of their friends whose parents had broken up, sadly, and then they were changing their names back to the mum.

Mum's made a name. And they were like, oh, can we change our names too? I'm like, oh, no, we haven't broken up, sadly, and then they were changing their names back to the mum. Mum's made a name, and then they're like, oh, can we change our names too? I'm like, oh, no, we haven't broken up. Can I be Indy Swift? Can I be Sienna Staris? I was like, we don't get to pick your last names. It's not like you're going to name them

after famous people. Was she Sienna Staris after Scott Staris? No, Sairis, sorry. Sairis. Did I say Staris? She's a big fan. She's a big fan of 2000s cricket, mate. Or the Black Cats.

Scott Cyrus. Can I be Sienna Fleming after Sienna Fleming, the heat pump guy? You sure can. Hey, that would be an easy conversation. Yes, of course you can. Great cricketer. And I will change my name to Martin Guptill. Ben's a big cricket fan, by the way.

And it bores me to death. Sorry. Cyrus. He's even getting his propaganda in with this. What do you reckon, Jenny? My bed's a bit cricket fed, by the way, and it bores me to death. Sorry. Styrus. He's even getting this propaganda in with this. What do you reckon, Jenny? You've been through this exact process. Absolutely did. We had our sixth child, and we had a French poet, Verlaine,

all lined up for our last child, who was a boy. And we thought, Verlaine, great. And the baby didn't actually suit the name. Like a child's got to actually suit the name as well. You can't just, well, we didn't feel we could just put that name on him. So after six weeks, we actually put it in the Herald as well and announced it as a formal name, Verlaine. Then after a few days, we thought, no.

So my husband and I spent six weeks disputing what to call this baby. I absolutely loved Sian because I knew it meant shining, and I loved the name, and he loved the name River. Yeah. So what we did was we put the two together, Sian River, and he's 27 years old old and his name is absolutely perfect for him I thought you were

going to go Shriver or something when you join them together Sean River's a great name too and a Verlaine sort of sounds like a Nissan doesn't it

the Nissan Verlaine so I understand why you changed it and so no regrets from you hashtag no regrets absolutely none and he suits

that he's great and he's definitely not a Verlaine so hey does he know the story obviously he must do he'd know the story of what his Absolutely none, and he suits it. He's great, and he's definitely not a Verlaine. Does he know the story? Obviously, he must do. He'd know the story of what his original was. He does.

The whole family does. It's a bit of a laugh. I really picked it up this morning and wanted to share it, okay? Oh, thank you for sharing. We really do appreciate it. That's awesome. So you'd say, Jackie, change the name. We'll go to Olivia, who's on from Wellington.

Welcome from the capital, Olivia. Should she change Stella's name at age four? Oh, I don't think you should change it. It's a beautiful name. Oh, you're a big fan of Stella. That's a beautiful name. Yeah, it's quite an old school name. Yeah, a lot of text flowing through. I teach three Stellas. All of them have been

wonderful. Stella's a beautiful name. Don't change it. It's selfish to change the name and other text reads on 4487. So you're saying keep the name, Olivia? Yeah, definitely keep the name. Have you changed your name? No, but my dad changed his

name. Okay, when he was younger or what? Yeah, he did it when he was younger. So his actual initials used to be STD. I shouldn't laugh, but yeah, I shouldn't laugh. Oh, that's unfortunate, yeah.

Yeah, so he hated when the mail used to arrive and he would just see his initials. Oh, I understand. It just used to bug him so much. So yeah, he used to be Stephen Thomas Davey, and now he just dropped the Stephen. He just goes by Thomas. Now, why was his TD so funny?

No, you don't need to answer that. He's just having you on. Yours was almost IRD, wasn't it? Oh, it was IRD. Yeah, I got my first tattoo. I got a tattoo, and it was meant to be JRP, but it was like IRD. So they're just very passionate about everyone paying their taxes.

That's good. New Zealand tax system in general. We'll go to Rosita. Welcome from Auckland. Should she change the name? Should she change Stella's name, Jackie? I think Stella's a lovely name. I think she should leave us calling her Stella.

And if she wants Daisy, maybe she should have another baby. Oh, get another one out there. That's a good reason to have another baby. It's just because you want one named Daisy. Hey, well, listen, most people are backing you up. Leave the name. Four years is quite a long time to run under one moniker, isn't it?

It does sound like it, doesn't it? And that's not her name, Monica. That's... Thank you very much for your calls. Still appreciate it. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Have you got a to-do list? Do you have a to-do list on your phone

where you have the notes? I'm running multiple ones at the moment. I don't know why. I've got one on my computer, one on my phone. And I also started one, I don't know why, last week as well, a paper form as well. I'm like, I had a whiteboard. I'm like, man, I'm running it. Now, forget ones are on other lists. I'm just, I don't know why, last week as well, a paper form as well. I had a whiteboard. I'm like, man, I'm running it.

Now I forget ones are on other lists. I'm just, yeah. But they've all got different to-dos on the list. Most of them have got the same ones, but other ones are like, sometimes they're like, oh, God, I remember that. And depending on what's in front of me, I keep writing them down on that. So I'm really a bit of a... Whiteboard.

Children's forehead. Yeah. Just writing on things. You name it, I'll write it down on it. Need to do it. Yeah, well, so how many things on your to-do list do you think? Oh, there's a lot. On your multiple to-do lists.

There's a lot of things that needs to be done in the next day or so and there's others that are like, if I get to those over time, that's fine. Oh, that's my thing. Like I've got a to-do list, you get five or six at the top of the list. They're the must-dos. You know, the petrols, the pay my multiple fines.

Yeah. Things like that, you know, coming to work, must do. You You know, the petrols, the pay my multiple fines, things like that. You know, come into work, must-do. Must-do. But what happens in that instance is you're maintaining the top six on the to-do list. Anything below I find number six down to number 59, they just get neglected.

They're getting lost in there, are they? They're not getting done. Everything gets bumped. Like, mow the lawns. You were talking about that for a while now. I feel like you've been talking about lawn mowing for weeks and weeks. Oh, no. My lawn's just turned into the Rimutaka Ranges back there. So now it's gone too far.

Visit my Aunt Ruth. She passed away two years ago. Then it was go to Aunt Ruth's funeral. Still waiting. Still need to get to it. No, but don't you notice that though? Your to-do list just gets bigger and bigger. Yeah.

But then you end up not doing anything on the to-do list. Yeah, I guess you kind of, I try and prioritise it into things that need to be done and then things that don't, but yeah, you're right. It becomes just a big, big long list of. I've had call the lady from the bank on my to-do list. She slipped back from, you know, number 23 down to 48 now. She doesn't work there anymore.

No, she got fired. She got laid off. Poor thing. And the other part was the dump. I'd been meaning to go to the dump for about nine weeks. My house is slowly turning into the dump. So I thought if I just turn into a waste refuge centre that, hey, well, it saves me going to the dump and I can take it off the list.

There's something quite nice about putting stuff out the front of your property, things you don't want, and then someone takes it. And I'm like, yes, that's one thing off my list that someone's taken. You know, like an old... Do you just shut your eyes and put things on the burn hoping... Oh, yeah, but things that are still in good condition, you know, whether it be like something of the kids that they may have grown out of, I'll put it down there and it's like, oh, it's gone.

Sometimes as soon as you walk back up, it's like, where did this person stop to put this in the car? I was speaking to my own lawns. I had a friend, my friend Gareth, he was mowing his berm and he went inside. He's like, oh, I need to get some more petrol. Went inside to get the petrol. The lawnmower was still running on the berm

and he came back out and someone was walking off. Also, I thought that was up for grabs as well. Still in working order because it's going currently right now. Anything on the berm, free of game. Free of game. Take it all. Even if you parked a car on the berm. You'll be gone.

That's how it works. It's the rules of the world. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Now, Ben, you said you've had a ring-based incident over the weekend. Well, yeah, this was actually the end of last week. So my wife, Amanda, we were just catching up with a friend at a bar down the road.

It was basically the school disco was on. I told you about this. So we had dropped my daughter, Andy, off at the disco. And then we were like, well, we have an hour 20. Let's go to the pub, like any responsible parent would do. Yeah, that's right. Before pick-up time. Hour 20 turns into four hours. And then before you know it, you left your kid at the disco. No. That go to the pub, like any responsible parent would do. Yeah, that's right. Before pick up time. Hour 20 turns into four hours

and then before you know it, you left your kid at the disco. That happens to the best of us. I was back there on time to pick up my kid. But yeah, so Amanda, my wife, I was a friend of ours. To pick up my kid, I can't even remember their name, but I picked up our kid. Head, arms and legs, it'll do. Came back, is this not

the kid? No, it's back, is this not the kid? No, it's not. Is this not a kid? It's still a kid. Yeah, but it's not our kid. Oh, okay. Give me five minutes. The details.

They're always about the details. But my wife Amanda had a bit of a situation where she noticed her friend was wearing a really cool ring on her finger. She was like, oh, this is a cool new fashionable ring. And her friend's like, oh yeah, try it on. So she did try it on and then got to that stage where when you go to take it off and then you're like, uh-oh, uh-oh, this ring is not actually coming off the finger.

No, no, no, somehow rings seem to go on fine, but don't come off. But panic starts to set in, doesn't it? And I imagine for you being, you know, a renowned tight ass, you're like, well, I'm not paying for this ring. So the only amputation run through your head? At one stage, yes.

I will cut your finger off just so I can remove the ring. It looked very fashionable. This ring looked very fashionable. It was quite a big sort of like, I was vaguely paying attention to the conversation, so I'm not sure which brand. It was probably a Kate Sylvester or a Bo Runger or something like that. But it wasn't, so I started paying attention to the conversation, so I'm not sure which brand. It was like probably a Kate Sylvester or a Bo Runga or something like that.

But it wasn't, so I started paying attention when the uh-oh came into the conversation. That's when it really got you in there. Yeah. And then you start quickly, frantically sort of Googling ways that you can try and get a ring off your finger. There was one like hold it above your head for 10 minutes, hold your hand above your head.

I'll get the blood flow going the other way. It looked like she was constantly just sort of trying to get the waiter's attention at the bar too. I'll get the blood flow going the other way. I look like she was constantly just sort of trying to get the waiter's attention at the bar. Got served a lot of drinks during that period. Lubrication,

we tried a little bit of cooking oil from the bar as well. That didn't work. No, it didn't quite work but eventually it was a bit of soap that, you know,

from the bathroom she'd been behind and just twisting it and twisting it but it was like, I'm like, yeah, all those things

are running through your mind. You're like, are you going to have to buy this ring? It would be a great sales technique for Michael Hill Jeweller, wouldn't it? Come and try this ring on. And then all of a sudden, like, put their hands in a rice steamer or something so their fingers swell up. They'd be like, oh, that's not coming off. They'd be like, oh, that'd be $12,000.

Tell you what's coming off, $12,000 from your bank account. That's a really good idea. Yeah. You start to panic in those situations. You know,000 from your bank account. That's a really good idea. You start to panic in those situations. You know, like you get stuck somewhere and you're like, this is it. This is me forever. This is what's going to happen.

Well, I've always said a man just had his fingers in pies and other people's rings as well, as it turns out. So have you ever put your finger in another person's ring? I know that I have, but it was in a store. And in a store is the worst place that you want to get your finger stuck in a ring because you're like, well, I don't want them to think I'm stealing it if I have to walk out of this place. And then you're just like standing there like, trying to get it off.

I don't know how it goes on and doesn't come off. That makes no sense to me. No, exactly. And the more you stress, the harder it is to get it off. I don't know how it goes on and then doesn't come off. That makes no sense to me. No, exactly. And the more you stress, the harder it is to get off because your finger probably just swells more with the stress. Yeah.

You always read about those odd stories in the odd section about someone putting their head through like the railings on like a deck or something like that. I don't know why. And then they're like,

can't get back out. So A, why is your head through the deck right like the view must be better through here and then I love

the people who squeeze their legs into the toddlers swings at the playground it's like how did you get them in there they're like

I couldn't get out but actually the more important question why did you think this was a good idea and then the fire department has to come down and make it into a sink

that's degrading isn't it can you cut my juicy thighs out of this toddler's swing? Listen, well, that was a wonderful ring tale. Better than all three of the Lord of the Rings in store. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah.

She'll be right, and at the end of the day... Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Our Game of Word Association, we play it every day around about this time. We tell you five words, you tell us the first words that pop into your head. If all five match up with ours, you win $5,000. Yes, this is the part of the show that turns boys into men, girls into women.

It's basically the puberty of radio competitions. I don't know how that works, but anyway, we'll gloss over that. Imogen, welcome. You're on from Christchurch. Hey, guys. How you doing? Oh, doing really well. You're sprightly on a Monday. Oh, yeah, you've got to be, don't you?

You've got to get through the week. Now, I'm going to guess what you do for a job, Imogen. Okay. I'm going to say real estate agent. Ben? I'm going to say lawyer. No, I'm a sales rep. What are you selling? What are you peddling? I sell I'm a sales rep. Oh, what are you selling?

What are you peddling? I sell stock feed for dairy farms. Oh, nice. Yeah. Isn't it interesting what people do for jobs? Yeah. I find that really interesting, but we won't delve too much into your stock feed career because right now we need to find out who you're going to put into the soundproof booth

Imogen. Well, I was going to choose Ben, but I think I might actually go for you, Jono. Oh, okay. Why the last minute change up? I don't know. Jono, you're just sounding really confident this morning. Yeah, he is.

He's looking confident. He's got an air of arrogance almost. He's also got a nice straight back, parading around with confidence. Yeah, right. Jono is heading across to the soundproof booth, and then Imogen, we're going to ask you these five words, and hopefully they're going to match up with Jono's.

Here is the first word this morning. It's, oh, it's a topical one. Friends. Let's go with, I'm thinking reunion or mates. Well, yeah. I mean, I was thinking, you know, I don't want to sway you anyway, but I was thinking because of the friends reunion. But, I mean, yeah, friends, mates also works as well.

So what are you going to go with? Let's go with, let's go mates. Oh, she's going mates. Okay, all right. Ocean is your next word. Sea. Yeah, that's a good one. Daughter is word number three, daughter.

Fun. Clutter is your fourth word this morning, Imogen. Clutter. Mess. Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. That popped into my head. And the final word for 5K is bright. B-R-I-G-T.

Bright. Oh, sorry. I-G-H-T. That's my spelling. I'm not very bright. I'm toss very bright. I'm tossing up a couple of things. Smart or light?

Oh, as in bright light. Yeah. That's good. Let's go with light. Okay, let's go with, uh, let's go with light. Okay, let's go with light. All right, I think you've done really well with some difficult words this morning, Imogen. We're going to get Jono out of the soundproof booth right now. And we're going to see if those five words match up with yours.

Yes, come on around. He's still looking confident, which is good. He's still looking confident. No one told me that all soundproof booth booth's also a changing room for Kmart. It's a wonderful man in there trying on some chinos, and they look fantastic on him. Oh, that's good. Okay, here we go.

This morning, the first word we said to Imogen, $5,000 on the line, of course, Jono. His friends. Reunion. He came in confidently. I have confidence this morning. I mean, Imogen even said it. Said I was sounding confident.

What did you go, Imogen? I went with mate. We did talk out. Well, we didn't influence Imogen at all, but she did talk out. Reunion was a word that she thought of. Yeah. Completely different tact. Yeah. Well, hey, listen.

Sometimes you win $5,000 and sometimes you leave here with absolutely nothing apart from your wonderful attitude, Imogen. I'm so sorry. That's all right. Let's see how you would have gone with the rest of the words just quickly. Ocean. Water.

Daughter. Daughter, son. Yes. Clutter. Mess. Yes. And bright. Light. Oh, three fromutter. Mess. Yes. And bright. Light.

Oh, three from five. You ended well. You just didn't start as well as we would have hoped. Thanks so much for playing, Imogen. It was a lot of fun and hopefully we get to do it again. Thanks, guys. Have a good week. You're a champion. Go and get that stock feed out there to all the people who need it.

I will. To the stock market? No, it's something else, eh? Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal dad. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast.

Bye. Thanks to Disney's Cruella and Cinema's May 27th and all Disney Plus with Premier Access May 28th. Shut up, mate. It's just...

Thanks, mate. Shut up. Well, we wouldn't hear about Disney's Cruella. Julian, we wouldn't hear about this. Julian, she's like a weak bladder, like a giant sieve leaking all of the goss from the world of celebrity. What's going on, June?

So last week you may have seen a bunch of stories and headlines about the BBC interviewer Martin Bashir and his famous interview that he did with Princess Diana in 1995. This was the interview that she's known where she says, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was very crowded. Could we not get the audio of that? Because that was a wonderful reenactment.

You don't need the audio when you have me imitating Princess Diana. Very iconic, famous interview there, right? Very iconic. And it's kind of, they're comparing it a little bit to the whole Oprah interview with Meghan and Harry. It's like that generation's kind of, they're comparing it a little bit to the whole Oprah interview with Meghan and Harry. It's like that generation's version of that interview. But there's just been an investigation that's finished, six-month investigation,

that has just found Martin, this interviewer, essentially guilty of using false and doctored bank statements to sort of help lure Diana and secure this interview with her. So he didn't do it in the official way that you're meant to do it with BBC. He kind of got someone to fake up these bank statements and kind of make him look like a better broadcaster, journalist, interviewer so that she would have an interview with him. So this is what's alleged at the moment.

This is the second investigation, actually. The first one, they found nothing. This is the one they have found potentially something. He's denied it, though, right? Yeah, well, he said over the weekend, he has now said that he never wanted to harm Diana in any way and that he doesn't believe that they did. Everything we did in terms of the interview was as she wanted,

from when she wanted to alert the palace to when it was broadcast to its contents. Prince William and Harry released statements last week. The interview was a major contribution to making my parents' relationship worse and has since hurt countless others. It brings indescribable sadness

to know that the BBC's failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her. And, yeah, but then it's questioning. I was reading a big article about it and there is a handwritten letter from Diana in 1995 when they did the first investigation,

basically saying, nope, I was completely happy with the interview. I trust Martin. Like, I was more than happy and more willing. I was very happy. I have no regrets. And it's a handwritten letter from Diana. So it's a little bit... Well, you go... Obviously, she was happy with what went out.

Obviously, she was happy with what she said, how that timeline rolled out. But I guess the question mark is over how he obtained the interview. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, so it's a little bit... Like, if she didn't want to do the interview, she wouldn't have done the interview. No.

No, but maybe she felt she had no choice because of what they'd discovered. True. I guess that's the thing. True. You should see some of the underhanded tactics Producer Humphrey does to get guests on this show. He tells them that we're Mike Hoskin.

Yeah. And then once they're on air, it's too late. They go, well, why are we talking to these guys beforehand? I'll just have a little chat to John O'Meara before you get to Hoskin. And on a more sort of lighter note, the Friends Union, our note, the Friends Union, the head of the Friends Union,

on Thursday, Matthew Perry has released his own Friends merch based off Chandler's catchphrase that he would do, like, could this be anymore, blah, blah, blah. He would say that a lot in the series, the show. Yeah, it was a famous line of, could this be anymore, blah, blah, blah. That was his blah, blah, blah catchphrase. No, but he a famous line of could this be any more blah blah blah. That was his blah blah blah

catchphrase. No, but he's got a bunch of merch that says could I be any more vaccinated? He's even got dog merch. Could I be any more of a dog? So that's his extra little money maker on top of the Friends reunion out this Thursday. Yes, I'm on his website now, the Matthew Perry

merchandise store. Oh, I love that. Good on Matthew Perry. It's so good. I know, I know. And that is Spy from where you can head to the hits.co.nz. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now, Hugh Van Silenberg, he started something called the Resilience Project. He's written best-selling books.

He takes part in a podcast, and he's done seminars all over the world on mental health, and he reckons he's found the key to happiness. He's coming to New Zealand very surely, which we'll talk more on, but Hughes, thanks so much for your time. Great to have you. Very well, thanks. I'm very much looking forward to chatting to you both. I don't know if it's just me, I've never met a bad New Zealander. We have lots of you over here in Australia, and there's not a bad one. You know why all the good ones are there? Because you keep sending all the criminals back here.

Let's not get into that. Let's not get into that. They're all getting deported. So you've only got the best of us on display. That's why we can never travel to Australia. We're not allowed there. But you're coming here and people can go see you Friday the 2nd.

Tickets are on sale now for the Bruce Mason Centre Auckland. But yeah, tell us about this life-changing moment, because I found it really fascinating. Well, back in 2008, I found myself backpacking around India, having a great time. I was a school teacher back then. I had no money. The school said, yeah, if you come and teach here, you'll get accommodation for free, you'll live with the principal, and you'll get three meals a day. And I thought, beauty. I did no more research, and I just turned up to this village. And I'll never, ever I did no more research, and I just turned up to this village.

And I'll never, ever forget the feeling of shock I felt when I arrived and discovered that there was no running water, there was no electricity, there are no beds, everyone sleeps on the floor. Anyway, next day I had my first day in the school, and it's a day I'll never, ever forget because I met this kid, right, and his name was Stunzen. And I remember after 20 minutes of being with him

just thinking to myself, right, and his name was Stunzen. And I remember after 20 minutes of being with him, just thinking to myself, never, never in my life have I ever seen joy like this before. This kid's so unbelievably happy. And I remember thinking, I was looking out the window, well, they don't have windows in the school. They've got these, like, holes in the mud brick wall. I was just looking across the desert thinking, there's nothing here. How's this kid so happy?

I remember lying on the dirt floor in India, and I was just thinking about, how's this possible? Like, I remember lying on the dirt floor in India and I was just thinking about how's this possible? Like there's people here, they're the happiest people I've ever met and they've got nothing. But back home in countries like Australia and New Zealand, like we have everything. We've got so much and yet we find it,

so many of us find it so hard to be happy and so many of us experience mental ill health and I was like, I'm not leaving here, I'm going to live here. So I actually lived in the village. I saw these really simple, practical things these people did every day that we don't do, like in Australia and New Zealand, because we're too busy.

We're too important. We're trying to work so hard that we can buy a nice car so we can have the nicest house. We can send our kids to the best school, that kind of stuff. But we're missing so much of the stuff that it is to be human, like the stuff that really brings joy, where so many of us are focused on, you know,

if I get this promotion, then I feel happy. If I buy this car, then I feel happy. That's not how happiness works. There's nothing wrong with wanting a promotion and a nice car, all that kind of stuff, but the little things we should be doing every day, they're the things that really feel so joy. But we've become so distracted in our modern society.

And that's kind of what that trip was about, I guess. Now, we're not going to, obviously you don't want to flesh your cookies before the show. I don't even know what that's a saying. I don't care. No, I don't care. All I care is people know this stuff. If people, if someone hears this and goes,

well, I don't need to go anymore, that doesn't bother me. The most important thing is people know this stuff. So the three main things that I saw were gratitude, empathy, and mindfulness. Everyone knows what those three things are, right? But what I saw was these people, they stop their day and they practice those three things every single day.

Like this one kid, right? He's living in a village, right? He sleeps on a dirt floor. He walks half an hour to the river when he wants water, right? But whenever he saw something he was grateful for, I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, he's pointing to his shoes, right?

He's tying up his shoelaces going, sir, this. What he was saying was, how lucky am I? I've got shoes on my feet. Some of the kids here don't have shoes, but I do. He loved it. Like, he just ate. Lunchtime. He couldn't afford to bring lunch to school.

We cooked him steamed rice every single day. And he'd walk around proudly with his cup of steamed rice. He'd just eat lunchtime. He couldn't afford to bring lunch to school. We cooked him steamed rice every single day. And he'd walk around proudly with his cup of steamed rice. He'd just point to it. But here's the thing. In New Zealand, in Australia, we have got incredible things everywhere that we could be dissing, but we don't notice them. We're so distracted by the things that we don't have

and the things we wish we had. Yeah, we've got so much to be grateful for, especially the timeline in 2021. To live in Australia and New Zealand, we're so lucky. Oh, I know. And there's just, I think a lot of it you would put down to, there's just so much noise around, isn't there, in life now, whether it be technology, people's schedules.

You just spend the time rushing. Like, I mean, look, I'm in Melbourne here, and we had the hardest and longest lockdown of anyone anywhere in the world. I read the other day, 124 days, and it was awful was awful but i'll tell you what i learned for the first time to actually just stop and slow down and connect with what really counts you're so right we're so just like you look at your calendar it's like i've got an hour for a year i've got an hour for a day i'll do this here i'll fit that in there we just got to slow down and connect with what really matters in life and what really matters in life i think what really matters in life, I think, two things,

are the people around us, like the people that we love, like just our family, the people who really love us and are with us, but also that we've got to connect with nature around us and pay a bit more love to our natural environment. Well, Hugh, this is really, really fascinating, and we'd love to talk to you longer, but we're a comparison. But we've got to rush off. We've got stuff to do.

I want to get on my phone. Busy, busy. That is just something that I will spend a lot of time talking about is our devices because we're so addicted and it is. We are, you're right. I want to talk about our awful addiction to our phones because I've got some. Anyway,

I'll let you guys know. Oh, no, it's so good having you. And it sounds like an awesome thing that you're doing for the world and also an awesome thing for Kiwis to go check out. The Resilience Project is going to be at the Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland, Friday, July 2nd.

Tickets on sale right now. It sounds like... You've sold me. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. Please do. We'll have a beer afterwards, backstage. That'll be lovely.

Awesome. Nice to meet you, Hugh, and stay safe. Thanks, guys. Thanks so much. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shona and Ben,

breakfast on the hats. Everyone in the world are talking about the Friends reunion, so we thought we'd do a special Friends version of our Google game. The Google game.

Yeah, this is a fun game. It's brought to you by our sponsors, Google. Google, we'll have a microchip inside your head by 2029. That's not entirely true. Google don't sponsor this segment, but we have got some Hell Pizza up for grabs.

The best damn pizza and booze delivery. You can get beer and wine delivered with your Hell Pizza right now. So if you want to win a Hell Pizza, give us a call, 0800 THE HITS, and you ask us a question. Today it's a Friends-related question. If we can't Google it, Google the answer in 10 seconds, you win.

Let's start with Hope in Auckland. Morena, Hope, how are you? Hi, how you going? Doing well on this Monday morning. Are you heading off to work, are you? I sure am. What do you do, Hope? I'm a trade administration.

A trade administration? Now I'm going to keep talking like I pretend I know what that is. Can you describe, what would you say Hope's job is? Oh, are you dealing with the administration of the trade administration? Now I'm going to keep talking like I pretend I know what that is. Oh, you describe, what would you say? Oh, what are you doing with the administration of the trade bit? Oh, okay. Is that right, Hope?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you're right. Listen, that job's so confusing, Hope doesn't even know what it is. All right, Hope, you're going to ask one of us, ask Jono right now a question regarding, about the TV show Friends. If you can't Google the answer in 10 seconds, you win, all right? All righty. What's Ross's monkey called?

Ross's monkey. And what type of monkey too, Jono? Don't you add stuff in. What type of monkey? It was Marcel. It was a white-headed capuchin monkey. A what? A white-headed capuchin.

Capuchin. Capuchine, Monty. A what? A white-headed capuchin. Capuchin. Capuchine. All right. I hope, well, I tell you what, you know how this dance goes. Ben's going to give you

a pizza anyway because he likes to pretend he's a nice guy. You go off and administrate that trade. Have a great morning. You too, bye.

Now, we've got two Jameses on. We might as well mow through both of them. We'll head to Rotorua. James, Ben was in Rotorua. They must be still talking about his tales of the weekend. Yeah, I saw Ben actually. I yelled at him as he walked past. It was you?

He wasn't yelling favourable things. You suck! Thank you, James. No,! Well, thank you, James. No, okay, James, you're going to ask me a question from the TV show Friends. I'll see if I can Google it. Roger that. How old was the ugly naked man who lived in the apartment across the road?

Oh, that's a good one. And friends. Well, when he died or just in general? Sorry, what was that? I don't know. Well, when he died or just in general? Sorry, what was that? I don't know. Great stalling from James. Pulled out the cell phone coverage.

What was that? Well done, mate. You got some hell pizza coming your way, all right? Cheers, lads. Have a good day. Do you know what, James? We've actually got the old naked guy. Oh, the grumpy neighbour. Was he naked?

No, I don't think he was the naked one. I think it was another naked neighbour. So we've got the grumpy neighbour. You can ask him how old naked guy. Oh, the grumpy neighbour. Was he naked? No, I don't think he was the naked one. I think it was another naked neighbour. So we've got the grumpy neighbour. You could ask him how old he is. Yeah, we will. He's on our Friends of Friends reunion after 8 o'clock. We'll take one more, shall we? James in Auckland.

Double Jameses. Your question will get Juliet to Google this one. You've got 10 seconds, Drew. What's your question, James? Morning, everyone. My question is, what coffee brand did they sell in Central Perk Cafe?

Oh, that's a great question. What coffee brand sold in Central Perk? Come on, come on. Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. I don't know. You said it with confidence. The Coffee Bean and Coffee Bean and Leaf released the exclusive

products on July 31st. Limited edition Central Perk products. He's just reading stuff on the internet. Oh, yes. See, what you've done, James, is you've zeroed in on a question where there is no answer for it. Yeah, it's really vague. I actually spoke to the producer. He found it before I went on air, and he said it was called Central Perk Coffee.

Oh. There we go. They had their own brand. Oh, and Producer Humphrey's running his own Google games off air. Hey, James, listen, thanks so much for listening, mate. We'll get you out some hell pizza, eh? Thank you so much. Enjoy the Monday. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime.

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Ben Boyce with Scrolling Through Your Feed. Now a lot of talk about the royal family over the last few months. Obviously Harry and Meghan going to America. There's been a bit of talk over the last week about the BBC supposedly deceiving Diana into their iconic tell-all interview many years ago. But what I want to focus on this morning is something a bit more our show. Prince William.

So over the weekend, he got the COVID jab. And it was great to see him getting the vaccination out there for COVID. But what has got royal fans blushing was his guns. He had his arm up and, jeez, he looked good. Did you see it? Yeah. Yeah, usually Harry's, you know. I would say my type of guy, my cup of tea out of the two royals.

But William, damn, son. You'd have a drink of his English breakfast. Yeah. Some great comments like, I wasn't expecting a gun show this early, but happy I got the invite. Those are my favourites. That bicep though is another one as well.

What a babe. Sun's out, guns out. Hubba, hubba, hubba. So many. Check out the arms. Our Kate's a lucky lady. People are really thirsting for William, aren't they? Kate is a lucky lady.

How did you manage to roll up your sleeve with arms like that? I mean, jeez, everyone on the internet is frothing. Do you know what? It's probably because the royals, you never see the biceps or anything like that. Except for those, you know, Prince Harry Vegas pictures. But, you know, you never see their arms. No, never show too much skin, the royals.

It's the first rule of being a royal. You wouldn't have seen them in a singlet or anything like that. No. In a flat peak cap or anything like that. It looks like the arms photoshopped onto his body. It's very well sculpted. Yeah. It's a very good arm.

It seems like something Michelangelo would carve out back in the day, doesn't it, that arm? And this I found interesting as well. The distance babies walk and crawl is quite phenomenal. So Huggies in New Zealand have done a bit of a survey looking into racking up how much babies move around and they reckon

almost four kilometres a day babies move around. The babies that are obviously the mobile ones that are sort of walking and crawling. So that's the equivalent

of a baby going nine laps of Eden Park or climbing the Sky Towers stairs almost 16 times. How impressive is that? Do they put a Fitbit on a baby or something? Yeah, I don't know.

They reckon there's pretty much over 1,000 different moves per hour from the baby, from crawl steps, commando crawls, leg kicks, bum shuffles, putting to shame the average F45 circuit class as well. So babies, 4Ks. So this is what they travel, or this is the amount of energy they... This is, yeah, basically through all those little moves

and travel, yeah, they reckon they do about four kilometres worth of, yeah, fitness per day. I suppose you never really factor, I've never thought about it. I wonder how many kilometres a baby travels a day. No. It's never sort of crossed my mind. Because they never actually go out for a run as such,

are they? So they're just sort of moving around constantly. But they're covering some ground around the house, aren't they? Yeah, so there you go. That's impressive. Producer Humphrey, is your baby walking yet? Producer Humphrey's just had a baby a couple of weeks ago.

His is crawling. I don't know if it's up to the 4K mark yet. 4K mark. No, you're just in training though? What are you, what, 2.5Ks, 3Ks at the moment? What? Yeah, about that. I saw they had a baby race.

What did I imagine that? At the rugby. Oh, it was at the rugby. They sometimes do them in the basketball. Yeah, they had a whole bunch of babies running around the field. Well, not running, crawling around the field during the rugby on Saturday night. I think, or I might have just made that up. Why did you wake up there?

I don't know. I don't know if you did. Yeah. But no, no, that's right. They'd rolled out a tarp and all these babies were having a running race on it. A crawling race in the middle of Eden Park. Legit? Was it legit? Yeah, no, it's right. They'd rolled out a tarp, and all these babies were having a running race on it, a crawling race in the middle of Eden Park. Legit? Was it legit?

Yeah, no, it was legit. I think the babies were meant to be there. I hope they were meant to be there. Or was it daycare? You're watching the daycare. Maybe I was watching, what was that movie? Security footage. Eddie Murphy.

Oh, Daddy Daycare. No, it was Daddy Daycare. It wasn't the rugby. It was looking in between a lot of rugby. Always mixing those two up. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It wasn't the rugby. It was... Clicking in between a lot of rugby. Always mixing those two up. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Bye. Thanks to Disney's Cruella in cinemas May 27th and on Disney Plus with Premier Access May 28th.

I like the posters for Cruella. Have you seen the posters with Emma Stone around? Yeah, it looks really awesome. Yeah. No, great posters. If the posters are anything to go by, it's going to? Yeah, it looks really awesome. Yeah. No, great posters. If the posters are anything

to go by, it's going to be... The trailer looks really good. I went one step further and looked at the trailer. I was already impressed with the posters. I was equally as impressed with the trailer as well.

The trailer's going to blow my marbles. Yeah, it'll be really cool. Anyway, time for Producer Juliet who's been warming up her axe, a.k.a. her poppy chopper,

and she's ready to bring the successful celebrities down a peg or two. What's happening, Ju? So, as we all know, the Friends reunion is very topical at the moment, and there's lots of stories coming out about the stars. Now, Matt LeBlanc played Joey in Friends. His estranged father, Paul,

said that they have not spoken in nine years and that Matt LeBlanc cut off his dad financially after a dispute over money and a motorbike. So basically, Paul, Matt's father, gave away a motorbike, supposedly Matt's motorbike, and then Matt got really angry about this and decided to cut his dad off. Apparently, he's only sent him one birthday card in his entire life. He said he's always been a mother's boy,

but Paul watches reruns of Friends to stay connected to his son. Isn't that sad? That is sad. It sounds like there must have been more going on than just the motorbike. And that's probably the dad side of the story. There's always two sides. He doesn't reply to my text messages, says Dad Paul. Oh, listen, I know how Matt feels.

My dad gave away my Gem and the Holograms figurines. He says you're too old for these now. I haven't spoken to him in 10 years. Damn. Justified too, I imagine. Yeah, justified as well. But it's sad when that family stuff happens. But like you say, Ben, there's obviously deep-seated issues there.

You'd think so. Maybe that was just like the straw that broke the camel's back. There's probably a lot of things going on behind closed doors. Was he paying for his dad to live? Oh, I think he was definitely financially supporting him. He says he's now on, he lives off social security

and that if it wasn't for his savings he wouldn't really be able to live the life life or like survive or live his current life. And then the article on the sun, they put the dad in a bloody mobility scooter. Oh no. And you're like, that's a great shot though to pull on the heartstrings, isn't it?

He's like, I can walk fine. No, but sit in this mobility scooter. Sad all around. And on some more lighter news, Rita Ora and Taika Waititi we've been following this relationship unfold like you know

the relationship is our relationship literally this is you know a New Zealander it's not a two person relationship it's Taika, Rita

and the nation of New Zealand we love it here this is our marriage are they married? no get married no

but I wouldn't be surprised if they would I feel like I've got a feeling don't jinx it play it cool This is our marriage. Are they married? No. Yes, get married. No. But I wouldn't be surprised if they would. I feel like, you know, I've got to... Don't jinx it. Don't jinx it. Don't jinx it. Play it cool. Play it cool, remember.

Play it cool. But they've moved in together. Oh, my God. They've moved in. I know. They're cohabitating. In Sydney together where he's been living and she's been living recently for The Voice. Moved into, I think, the western suburb into, I think, the eastern suburbs in Sydney.

Great suburbs. Love those eastern suburbs. Nice beach vibes. Yeah, very good. His toothbrush will be next to her toothbrush in the bathroom. And did you see the photos of them kissing last week? They kissed? Yeah.

That's so exciting. I reckon he's held her hand as well. What do you reckon? No, the photo was him kissing while holding her hand. Oh, kissing and holding hands. There we go.

Couple of wins in one shot there. I know. So, no, very exciting. No, no, seriously, this is very cool. That's awesome. It is good

and please get married if you guys are listening. Anyway. Great combo, great combo. Very good combo. Very creative couple they are. She's judging the voice we're saying, aren't you? Yeah.

Voice Australia. You look at that. They'd make good children, those ones. They would. It's always creepy when someone says that, eh? You'd make good kids. You're like, what are you thinking about right now? That's what I was thinking about KJ Upper and his girlfriend, French model Clara Berry.

They're having their first child together. I'm like, that child would be a very good looking child. They would make good kids. Very, very blessed. Well, they've made good kids. Yes, they have. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz.

That is our show for Monday. Really fun one today. Thanks so much for hanging out with us. Our Friends of Friends reunion happening all this week. It's back tomorrow after 8 o'clock. We've got another cast member that you'll barely remember from the show, but we will not forget them. Oh, Carol was a huge cast member. Carol was a good get. Yeah, a another cast member that you'll barely remember from the show, but we will not forget them. Oh, Carol was a huge...

Carol was a good get. Yeah, a huge cast member. We've also got the grumpy old neighbour joining us later in the week. And the person who made the, well, I say the theme song, but it wasn't the theme song. We'll catch you tomorrow. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits

and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh.