Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Offended James Blunt...

Episode Date: November 23, 2021

We had the lovely & hilarious James Blunt on the show for an interview and straight off the bat we offended him with some false information about him! But all was ok in the end. He's a very funny dude & the chat was a lot of fun! We also spoke about the Aussie TV reporter who essentially cost his network $1 million, when he went to interview Adele in London, told her he hadn't listened to her new album yet, to which the record label said he couldn't use the interview anymore. Awkies. Flights to London and no playing back of the interview allowed... So, we threw it out there and asked you guys how much money you've cost your company and we had some ripper calls come through! You'd never want to be these people! Enjoy the podcast!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. 23rd of November, that rattling of plates and cutlery is our wonderful 23-year-old producer Juliette coming in with her morning routine of avocado on vogels. Yes, this time with marmite. Look at marmite underneath the bed. Yeah, great combo.

We had discussed that previously when I did first see marmite being spread on and laid underneath the avocado. It was confronting, Ben. But apparently it's a wonderful combination of flavours, Jude. Yes, yes, and you saw me spread it on without butter, the marmite. Yes, that was the issue. You were like, why are you doing that? But the avocado acts as a very buttery sort of substance

so it's a very winning combination. Makes sense. Sometimes you do. Are you a big spreader of butter on the Marmite combination? Because sometimes you end up with a big black tar mess on your bread that you can't even control. It gets out of control.

Oh, with too much on your knife. Gotcha. It also depends on if the bread is toasted or warm because I feel like if it's a dry bread and you're just rocking some butter and marmite, it just goes crazy. I do like your classic salted high cholesterol butter. That's the thing.

But it's hard to spread onto bread. It is. Do you mean like non-toasted or to spread onto bread. It is. Isn't it? Do you mean like non-toasted or non-walled bread? Non-toasted, yeah. You just keep it out. Put it in the fridge as the downfall, I think. Yeah, that's so true. Keep it in the pantry and the container.

Stay soft. Is that what you do? Do you keep it in the pantry? Yeah. And we've got a special butter little thing. That's really, yeah, I love those things. So you never have a problem with... Yeah, great.

Just easy spreads on. Spreads on easier. I've been worse. You name a time of the day where I can spread butter i've been worse you name a time of the day i can spread butter on anything he'll spread any time of the day now juliet you come in today um pitching a concept for the podcast intro yes uh listen there's no hard and fast rules with the podcast intro any concepts a great concept anything just flies doesn't it we just talk it's one of your favourite parts of the day. Jono can just

endlessly talk. Always the second lease of life with the podcast intro. I get to a point where I'm like that was fun

and then we probably should wrap it up and you're like and another thing and we'll call such and such we'll get this thing going and it's like

we just did a three hour radio show. So true. I don't know who listens to the podcast intro too. I don't even know if they get to our

podcast. That's always my biggest fear. If someone missed out if people people listen, do you know? Yeah, they just go, oh, God, how long is this thing? You know? So that's my worry. That's my worry.

That's why I'm like, all right, we're done. But no, mate, we're bringing people. But people might like it. So give us a text or, you know. Message on our Instagram. Yeah, if you like it or not. Yeah. Yeah, OK.

All right. So the concept today was around Urban Dictionary. Yes. So we had butter chat first. Yeah. Yeah, okay. So the concept today was around Urban Dictionary. Yes, so we had butter chat first. Yeah. And toast chat. So that was two and a half minutes of that. He said it's his biggest fear in life.

It's the podcast intros that drag. So there's this thing that people are starting to jump on, but I don't know whether it's going to take off yet on social media. And if it does, I want to get there first. I've seen it a couple of times today. Yes, yes. Well, we got onto planking early.

Gangnam style, we're a bit too late. Mannequin challenge? Oh, nahi tweaking. We tried to get on that and I think we killed it within a day of people saying, nahi tweaking. Because we were like, oh, we've got to get onto this. And everyone went, little Nas X said nahi tweaking. And we thought, well, this is going to be great.

And jeez, we gave it a good thrashing. And no one used it. Like a horse at the Melbourne Cup. Anything we touch does not turn to gold. So it's this thing where people are urban dictionaring their own name. And if you don't know what urban dictionary is, it's kind of like a comedic dictionary. And so you can Google your own name, and it basically describes who you are based on your name. And so I decided to urban dictionary Jono and basically describes who you are based on your name. And so I decided to Urban Dictionary Jono and Ben.

Would you like to hear the results? So this is obviously separately because they wouldn't put them together, right? No, yes, separately. So Ben, starting out. He is an amazing guy, one of the sweetest you'll ever meet. He is quiet, though, until you get him alone and he becomes the funniest and cutest guy ever. He gives the best hugs. If you hug him, you may instantly fall in love with him. He loves music and will try to make that one girl happy. I feel like there's a but coming, but it was all quite...

You know what I'm concerned about is she's led with you. Which means I'm... That was wonderful. You went against the John O'Ban formula. Which is, you know, it leads me to believe, I've been doing this a while, that I would be the punchline in this scenario.

Well, that was wonderful. Thank you very much for that. I was waiting for it to take a turn somewhere along the line. But he's got a small... You know, something like that. But most of it was lovely. Yeah, it was lovely And I vouch for all of that stuff

So there you go Apart from the cuddling thing I don't know if you're a cuddler Yeah true Oh yeah But not the workplace I think it's a bit weird You know

Yeah that's true And Jono Definition Raddest fucking dude ever Sexy man bitch And that's all it says That's all it says That's all it says

That's all it says Can we beat that afterwards Yeah yeah That's beautiful Yeah so I Can we beat that afterwards? Yeah, yeah, that's beautiful. Yeah, so I just thought, you know, the long contrast of Ben and then Jono. That's actually what's on Urban Dictionary. That's actually, if you Google Urban Dictionary, Jono says, raddest beeping dude

ever. Sexy man. Beep! It feels like Jono's written that. Yeah. I just snuck in there before Juliet had the chance to. Well played, well played. What does Juliet say? Oh my goodness. When you type in Juliet on your dictionary.

Here we go. Let's see. Juliet. Oh, okay. Okay. Juliet is a very fun and classy girl. Juliet are usually one in a million in looks and personality. Yeah, I vouch for this.

She's classy. She is absolutely gorgeous and sexy. I feel like vouch for all those. She's classy. She is absolutely gorgeous and sexy. Are you making it clear? You're not even reading a screen. She is gentle and kind, but is fierce and knows what she wants. Harry Styles should marry her.

She's athletic and in good shape. Her personality is uncomparable to others and hangs out with everyone. It just goes on. It just really goes on. So much good stuff. Her personality is uncomparable to others and hangs out with everyone. It just goes on. It just really goes on. So much good stuff. So yours was one line. I had one line.

Yeah. It was beautiful. And so, one thing that Juliette, who concerns me about Juliette, she's like, you don't know me outside of work.

Yeah. And I don't know what goes on outside of work. Because we think she's very sensible. Yeah. Don't we?

Reliable. I think I am when it comes down to it. But, you know, on the side, you know, it's like you get little tidbits of crazy weird effed up Juliet. We get little snapshots of Juliet on the weekend. We hear little tidbits. Yeah, sometimes.

I'd say your assumptions of me are probably relatively accurate. Yeah, okay. All right. But you just haven't seen me, like, with a drink in hand. You haven't seen me. Oh, no, you have. I have. Oh, yeah, you have. That was Christmas. Yeah, that was All right. But you just haven't seen me with a drink in hand. You haven't seen me. Oh, no, you have. I have. Oh, yeah, you have.

Yeah, Christmas. That was Christmas. Yeah, that was Christmas. I'm still recovering. That wasn't even really there, so. That was in a work function. That was in a work function. All right, well,

this has gone on for six and a half minutes. Ben Boyce's greatest fear has dragged on too long. Enjoy the podcast. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben.

The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. James Blunt, an English singer who's had many, many smash hits over the years. And he's hilarious on social media. If you don't follow him, you definitely need to follow him. He's very, very funny. And today, of course, he's announced, well, just recently, sorry,

he's announced a special Greatest Hits album, The Stars Beneath My Feet, which is out now. And last night we got the privilege of chatting to James Blunt. Yeah, it was over Zoom. And usually these things, you connect up to a Zoom link and you talk to a representative from the record company who then puts you on to an assistant, who then puts you on to someone on the other side of the world who then connects you to the person you need to be talking to.

But we clicked onto the Zoom link and we just saw this man fossicking around in a bookshelf uh in a bedroom and we're like oh is that uh is that james is that james blunt and we got directly into james bunce and it was early too like it was normally these things are running late he was there really yeah we were like seven minutes early yeah it was a really fumbly start to our interview oh hello hello recording in progress is this are you on mute are we on mute you're muted at the moment oh we might be muted are we muted no i can hear you now i can hear you now this is a big surprise we're expecting you to go through some people to get to you you don't need people i don't have there are no people i have no people in my life where are your people

you're james blood Surely there's some people. I can see them in the background. They are in the background. There's Luke is overseeing this. So don't cock this up, guys. Otherwise Luke will step in. No one ever wants to upset Luke. No one wants to upset Luke.

Now, is this an appropriate time for you? Because I feel like we're seven minutes too early. Is that good for you? I mean, you can be as inappropriate with me as you like. Well, we are very excited about your Greatest Hits album, which is out, but you wanted to call it something different. Greatest Hit and Songs I Wish You'd Heard. I thought Greatest Hits and Songs I Wish You'd Heard

was probably a more appropriate title and kind of did its marketing on its own. But the label, just simply more sensible than me. It was actually called the stars beneath my feet yeah that's beautiful it was the other one too close to the bone for the record company i think yeah don't let the audience really know what's going on don't call the band too much blood just a little bit hey uh no i didn't realize this but your actual your name is james blount and did you change it? No. That slightly winds me up, you should say that.

Just a little. We were getting on just fine. I'm sorry, James. No, my name is James Blount. But the true spelling is, you're correct, B-L-O-U-N-T, but it's pronounced Blunt. And so when I went into the music business i took the o out because i thought i'd be on radio shows with people you know in the uk maybe as far as new

zealand and they say hey i think your name is james blount it's not blunt so i've just made it simple for you and i still stuffed it up You went deep and you went too deep. I'm sorry, I thought this is a good question. I've never heard this. Now, I don't know if you read this. We just read this today and hopefully this is true after that last statement. But a man in the UK was just fined for blasting James Blunt at an unacceptable

level. And he was not fined as much as he should be as far as I'm concerned. I think he got away with it lightly. £1,400 or something. As far as I'm concerned. I think he got away with it lightly. 1,400 pounds or something. Because as far as I understood it, when I sell people my music, we have an understanding that you must keep it

very, very quiet amongst yourselves and not admit that you listen to my music. And so it should be with headphones and very much in the privacy of your own home at a reasonable volume. Do you know, James Blunt, we've actually gone to the trouble of getting a giant Bluetooth speaker here.

And so what we want to do is we want to start playing your music. Can you tell us when is an inappropriate James Blunt level? Stop. That's it. And we're out. That's a fine. I knew we'd get on. You seem like one of those, like an awesome person, James Blunt. That's it And we're out There's a pun I knew we'd get on You seem like one of those Just like an awesome person

James Bond That's very cool You know I'm not normally But I've been drinking I've been drinking It's 7.30 in the morning here And I thought I should

Get a little loose for you guys You actually own your pub You bought your local pub I do own a pub in London It's a fantastic 170 year old pub which was being uh sold and bid on to turn into a house or apartments and i thought it's every minor pop star's job to save his local pub and and keep it as the pub um that it is and has been for many years

and i love it you know i'm owning a pub is probably the best thing you can ever do in your life because if your mates say to you hey where should we go out tonight, I'm owning a pub is probably the best thing you can ever do in your life. Because if your mates say to you, Hey, where should we go out tonight? You go, I own a pub. I mean, like,

you know, and we can, and so we go there and, and the booze is, you know, effectively free, but we know we've got a pretty good system there. It's a really,

we really enjoy the place. The license, you know, we've got live music under the, on the understanding that I don't play. And in fact, the license state specifically only allowed to play James Blunt music at five minutes to midnight when you want to clear people out. What is the biggest niggle of owning a pub? I imagine there's a lot of Edmund.

Well, I tell you, because we're quite busy now. It was a quiet pub before and it is a busy pub now. So obviously, it's a struggle. Neighbours will be a thing. You do have to care for the neighbours quite a lot. So I'm on a lot of schmoozing with neighbours. It's me again, guys. That is the hilarious James Blunt.

We've got more with him soon. In fact, we get him to request his own song on another radio station. How does that go? We'll find out. Jono and Ben, the hits. Last night we had the privilege of catching up with the hilarious James Blunt, the English singer who's had many, many smash hits over the years. He's got a special Greatest Hits album, The Stars Beneath My Feet,

which is out now, including some new studio songs and exclusive live tracks. And we actually talked to him. Speaking of Ed Sheeran, the song we're just playing about his good mate Ed Sheeran. Something else that we heard, you made a bit of a deal with your good mate ed sheeran now is this another james bunt uh joke that you're gonna he's gonna teach you to to write music that was a long time ago that was a few years ago um we wrote a song together um in switzerland uh where where i sometimes spend some time uh and he wrote we wrote a song together and so the deal was that I would teach him to ski if he taught me how to write songs.

And I've taught him how to ski and he's very brave and he's done very well. And, yeah, the other side of the deal hasn't necessarily worked out. And so, you know, we've been having – I went on tour with him and we've been having – you know, we had a blast since then. That's been a while back, actually. Yeah. And now Ben was just saying, actually, before we logged on to the Zoom, that when you first moved to Los Angeles, you lived with Princess Leia.

Yeah, Carrie Fisher, the late, great Carrie Fisher. I did. Yeah, with Carrie Fisher, I mean, obviously of Princess Leia fame. She didn't dress up as Princess Leia whilst I was there in that kind of role. But it was the most amazing house in the world to live in. And she's, you know, wonderful and fantastically mad. Hold on, coronavirus. Sorry.

Police you, police you. Coronavirus, we've almost cured it here. Have you ever had COVID? I had it really badly in July. Oh, did you? And it got in my lungs and I couldn't actually speak. And, you know, I was on kind of all kind of inhalers, brown inhalers, blue inhalers, steroids.

And I couldn't speak. And I had the first full capacity gig concert in July for the nation, you know, as if the nation hadn't suffered enough. I was the first live concert. But I had it in my lungs and I couldn't actually speak. But we found a flaw in the virus. Well, I couldn't speak. I could still sing.

Oh, really? Yeah. They need to work on that. So we'll be sending that back to them. Send it back to the PR team. Yeah, exactly. But where we were, Carrie Fisher,

incredible, wonderful human being. And my first album was called probably Back to Bedlam because the madhouse that was there I recorded Goodbye My Lover

in her bathroom where she had a piano as you do in Hollywood and the house was incredible she had chandeliers in the garden

she had a Christmas tree set up 365 days a year and it was a magical place yeah it's like being his grandparents had a bookshelf in the toilet yeah yeah and they had carpet in the toilet that's how you can read

i've just put a book out myself and my book specifically to be read when you're sitting on the oh right uh james but well it's been awesome to catch up with you where i was just ashamed that you had to uh obviously postpone your tour to new zealand but hopefully that will happen in the next week while yeah when you guys when the virus has gone for you guys well we'll definitely be down I was just ashamed that you had to obviously postpone your tour to New Zealand, but hopefully that will happen in the next wee while. Yeah, when the virus has gone for you guys, we'll definitely be down there. Send me a message. And we will take you on, my friend. We will take you on.

Not as in like a fight or anything, but we will be happy to have you in our country. Great stuff. Hey, well, Jono, Ben, great to see you. Hey, quickly before we go, James, we do a thing where there's a radio station next door, and every time we have a huge star on the line, we call the night host, Cam, and see if you'll be able to get a request on his show. For your own song? Traditionally, they probably wouldn't be a blunt station. Okay.

So there's a bit of work ahead of you. To put it bluntly. That confuses me because I haven't ever heard of a station that isn't inter... Well, yeah, that's true. We're all about it. Yeah, we play

nothing but James Blunt on our show. So Cam's his name. We'll just dial through now, Juju. This is hopefully... Cam. Cam's his name, yeah.

So you've got to pretend to be a listener. Well, the answer. ZM, hello. be a listener will the answer zm hello hi mate oh mate is that cam can i can i request a song please yeah sure which song would you like i like james blunt's new single would be fantastic uh it's called love under pressure love under pressure oh yeah by james by james blunt Pressure. Love Under Pressure. Oh, yeah, by James Blunt. I love that. James Blunt is awesome. When I was a kid, we used to go on family road trips

and we'd always listen to James Blunt in the car. Oh, me too. Can you sing any of his songs? Goodbye, my lover. Oh, again. Goodbye, my friend friend you have been the one you have been the one for me cam it's john o'brien calling i think you picked uh again and we've got james blunt with us right now who sounds slightly more australian than the last time we talked to him i was gonna say this accent is going like slightly british slightly australian i don't know what's going on here, but I feel like I'm getting stitched up.

Well, you know, you've got to try. Hey, thanks, Cammy. Thank you, James Blunt. What an absolute treat it has been catching up with you. You keep safe in the UK, and hopefully we'll see you soon. Guys, great to talk to you. Take care. Lovely to talk to you.

See you, James. Yeah, you did that. Yeah. Nah. Yeah, now I do. The home of yeah, now. She'll be right, and at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.

Of course, Adele's special being interviewed by Oprah was on TBNZ2 last night, featured her interview in an amazing concert up there on the hill in Los Angeles. It was amazing. Yeah, it was. Some great moments too, Adele bragging about how much she can bench press and deadlift. What's the highest weight you can press now last summer when I was at my I was at my peak of being able to like I feel like I could have been the Olympics I remember saying to my trainers all the time I'm gonna get I'm gonna get Olympic gold medal next I was like you know on a deadlift we were getting up to like 160 170 wow oh no I'm like I'm an athlete I'm actually an athlete like I'm not even boasting

even the proportions of my body i should have been an athlete if only at school hadn't discovered boys and someone had told me to go and do a bit more pe i love how she's i'm not even boasting well this is exactly what you're doing i love it it's almost like a kiwi conversation how much can you look for the oprah tell all interview how much can he bridge press yeah coming up with Opes. And also there was some other lovely banter that wasn't there. I know the interview

Ben Boyce, your thoughts on it? Oprah's interviewing. Do you think it was a bit of a light dusting of Adele or did you want her to dig a bit deeper? Oh no,

I mean she talked about things that would have been a really sensitive topic like the divorce, you know, like and obviously with the son and the difficult times

and the sort of hole that she's been in, I guess mentally going through that. So I guess they kind of did that. I mean, there's no real sort of – it wasn't like Meghan and Harry. There's no sort of scandal. She's got to tell all or anything. But she is telling all, and she's put it into song, and she was talking about it.

I thought it was really good. And you spoke about Rich Paul, her boyfriend, which I really enjoyed. I met him at a birthday party. We were on the dance floor. And I met him, and then a couple of years later years later we went out for dinner which he says was a business meeting i'm like a business meeting about what we want to hear about a meeting about business what was it about him that drew you to him yeah he's just hilarious and very smart you know he's very very smart it's quite quite incredible watching him do what he does and just the

easiness of it yeah then she uh burpied rich paul 10 times did some squats with him on her shoulders after dinner just to show rich paul how much she could she's like oh yeah you got lebron james in your books well i'm an athlete but the australian there was an australian reporter we spoke briefly about this yesterday now he was flown over there to interview adele much like Oprah. And as part of their package deal, they got the Oprah interview for the network in Australia and he also got his own exclusive interview.

They paid a million dollars for this. But halfway through the interview, Adele said, have you heard the album? What do you think? And he replied with, no, I haven't. I haven't heard the album.

And now, Sony, the record company, they won't give the TV station the footage because he didn't listen to the album. Now now Sony, the record company, they won't give the TV station the footage because he didn't listen to the album. Now, there was a huge clerical error. They had sent him an automatic e-invite to his email with the album on it.

He was suspicious of this email. He didn't open it. And therefore was just being brutally honest that he hadn't heard the album. Now, this is where we all need to agree that lying does get you out of some sticky situations i mean all he needed to come out with was oh what a roller coaster of an album great stuff track seven had me crying your voice incredible track eight made me become

a better human being just some you know vague stuff he could have lied his way out of that situation yeah but i guess in that situation he didn't know that it was part of the uh the criteria he didn't know he was going part of the criteria. He didn't know he was going to be sent the album. So he's obviously mortified the poor guy. He's accidentally,

in some ways, he's cost a lot of money for the company. A million bucks. He was suspended too for two weeks. Yeah. Yeah.

Geez, remember when we tried to get suspended from our old workplace? It didn't quite work. When we said we're coming over here, we said to our boss, you look angry.

You look angry. You want to march us out sort of thing? He was taking it very calmly. No, it's a relief. You're someone else's burden now. Yeah. So what we want to chuck open on 0800THEHITS is how much have you cost the company?

Through accidents, clerical errors. A friend of ours, Dan, he worked for the bank, didn't he? He was meant to give a customer, I think, $100 and gave them $10,000. Oh my goodness. His book just didn't quite balance up. I don't know how thrilled the bank were with that clerical error at the end of the day. It's something we help banks make their money by giving it all away. You don't necessarily have to say your name or where you worked,

but we'd just love to hear from you this morning. We're just desperate. We just want contact with other human beings. That'd be nice, wouldn't it? Oh, and with that, it's a 4487. Back with those calls and texts next. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast.

Talking a little bit about the poor Australian reporter who went over to interview Adele and didn't realise he had been sent the album on an email. And then when they asked him at the end of the album, in the interview, sorry, had he heard the album? He was like, oh, no, I haven't. And they went, oh, well, unfortunately, you can't have the interview.

A million bucks. The TV station paid for an interview that will never air. So what damage have you done to the company? Who knows what reputational damage we've done to the hits over the last 12 months. But maybe, you know, maybe you're... Oh, we've got a text here. 4487, hey guys, I'm leading the National Party and who knows what damage I've done in the polls.

Politically. Now let's get someone on the phone right now. 0800, the hits. James, how much did you end up costing work? Close to $150,000. Oh, what happened? so i'm an engineer but i'm like a uh a fresh engineer let's just say that yeah he's new to the game everyone's got to start somewhere right yeah i thought i was doing something right but i read the brief wrong and so i size like all the stuff

incorrectly and so no it didn't get picked up until halfway through construction. Oh, and it was all wrong. And, like, they were almost, like, done. Oh, James. Oh, James. Could you engineer yourself a tunnel to escape this awkward situation? Is that part of the plan? I'll just say, like, I don't know what I was doing.

And now, have you mucked up anything since? No. Oh, there you go. Redemption for James. Yeah, great. What a story. Thank you so much, James. Hey, Chris. Hey, Jono. Welcome, my friend. Good to have you on. Most amount of damage you've caused at work?

Yeah, just under 100 grand. Oh, no. What happened? I was a plumber working in the city, cutting holes for pipes to go through the floor. Yeah. And you have to catch it with a bucket. And I was the person catching it with a bucket on top of a ladder.

And a bucket filled up with water, water chips, and water and concrete core dropped onto two servers, computer servers. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. And from what I don't know much about computers, but I don't know if water and concrete go well with them. And the water. It's not so much the concrete, it's the water.

It's like a 20-litre bucket of water onto the servers. Oh, God. Of this office So how much did this cost? $92,000 Oh my goodness Are there options to just run out of the building? The boss was standing there

He saw it all happen He was like, oh well Nothing we can do about it now That's a good boss It's not a good job. It's a dreary job, but, hey, it pays the bills. That's the main thing. Are you Australian, are you, Chris?

I am in Melbourne, yes. Oh, you're calling from Melbourne? Yeah, I have been following you guys for a while. I followed you from three different radio stations, from The Rock, The Edge, and now The Hitch. Mate, we'll be on ZB next week. Who knows when we'll pop up. I listen to your podcast every morning on the way to work.

Oh, Chris, well, thank you very much. It's an hour trip, and I listen to that every day. Oh, Chris, that's awesome to have you do that. Thank you. We're on the run from something. We keep moving radio stations. Yeah. We'll keep telling you where we're heading.

I'll track you down. Oh, hey, listen, lovely talking to you. Chris, you keep safe in Melbourne. You too. Get Jackie on. Welcome. Most amount of damage at work, Jax. Oh, it wasn't me, but in the early 90s, I think it was,

I worked for an airline, I won't say who, and a colleague of mine who disappeared very quickly organised for a friend of his that was 40 weeks pregnant to be allowed on a flight. She normally only allowed it for 32 weeks. Ten hours into the flight, she went into labour. Singapore has restrictions about any more citizens. Refused them, asked them to get out of the airspace. They'd had to turn around, go back to London, disembark all the passengers and wait for

a whole new crew. And it cost a million dollars. Oh, wow. A million dollars in the 90s, too. That's a lot of dollars. Yeah, true. 90s a million dollars. Yeah.

She was there with a trillion dollars. Yeah, well. I don't know how they did it, but I think it could have been a doctor's certificate or an exemption or something. But anyway, the woman was 40 weeks pregnant and you're not all out on a plane after 32, I think it is. She was.

And that person just mysteriously disappeared, did they? Yeah. Took a one-way flight to get the hell out of here, buddy town. Jackie, thank you so much for that. I never found out what citizen the Baby ended up being, because it would have been mid-year between Singapore and London, but it was born, yeah. Singapore are adamant we don't want any more citizens.

Don't land. Little baby 737 something. Hey, thank you, Jackie. You have a great day. All right, you too. We've got James Blunt joining us. He's got a new Greatest Hits album. He's so hilarious on social media

Can't wait to catch up with him very shortly It is the hits I have video footage here that I've played Both of you now, Juliet you've just witnessed it too That I took yesterday And this footage it's a once in a lifetime there's little peaks, highlights

in your life and I'll look back on this when I'm in the Ryman village two years from now and reflecting on my life being voiced and I'll go, gee that was a moment this is a sit down grandkids I'll tell you what I saw At any stage did you feel odd just filming it though? Did you ever worry about filming Yeah, I'm always like oh i'll just remember that one

rather than film a stranger no because my issue is whenever i tell these stories ben's like don't believe stop making stuff up for the radio you do make up stuff for the radio yeah this is what it's resulted in now me having to film complete strangers from my car like an absolute pest yeah yeah i see why you do it now but not why you do it yeah it's a risk you take then the police see that like what are you doing man i was like well my mate ben doesn't believe my stories yeah so it's video evidence and then they'd probably phone you and you'll be like no i believe all the stories can you come down and bail them out? No? No. So anyway, I filmed, yes. Disclaimer, I filmed a stranger from my car.

You haven't posted it, which is good. You're not going to post it, which is good. Yeah. Let me just get onto Instagram here. Just delete. No, I haven't posted it. But I witnessed a lady who had two, they looked like cockatoos, would you say? And she had them on leashes, so like you would walk a dog.

Yeah. And she's walking them along the top of a fence, back and forth, just up and down. Like taking birds out for a walk. Yeah, it was like you take a dog for a walk type situation. Yeah, and the fence was quite thin. And I know birds are small, but why that fence as well? It just looks really odd. It's not like it's a thick fence.

Yeah, do you think they look up at the other birds in the sky and go, well, they're doing it wrong. We're meant to be walking. Do they maybe not know how to use their wings? Well, yeah, I guess they're birds that they keep as pets. And so maybe they're getting a bit of fresh air and a bit of exercise, I guess. But yeah. I've seen birds do a lot of things.

I've seen birds fly. I've seen them nest. I've seen birds flipped when I'm on the motorway at me. I've never seen birds walked with a leash along a fence. Is that when you see someone walking a cat with a leash? Well, yeah. Our kids were trying to get us into that. And I was like, no, no, no.

Because our cat does follow us on our family walks for a while, for a good couple of hundred metres. What about walking a cat in a pram? I feel like I've seen that, like stories of maybe like Taylor Swift doing that or something, and that's a little bit strange. Yeah, a friend of ours, Kim, she loves it when we bring it up.

Really? Yeah, she walks a cat in a pram around the neighbourhood. Wow. Sometimes people won't know, and they'll go, oh, what's this little mate? Oh, my gosh. Like, what's a cat? Oh pram around the neighbourhood. Sometimes people won't know and they'll go, oh, what's this little mate? Oh, my gosh. Oh. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, that's one step up from a leeched cat, isn't it? Yeah. A prammed cat. Yeah. I mean, that cat's like living the life, though, isn't it? Yeah, well, these birds are living the life. They're getting walked every day. They don't even have to do what they're designed to do.

Incredible stuff. I've seen a lot of stuff over my life. I've seen Ben Boyce try and jump into a pair of trousers Literally Remember when you tried to jump into a pair of trousers Like Jason Derulo It didn't end well I've seen you get a tattoo of Dwayne the Rock Johnson on your bottom

And I've seen birds being walked along a fence now on a leash What a life you've lived What a well rounded life I'll put that on your tombstone Julia actually, we don't know who's going to go first, but Juliet, put it on his tombstone. We'll put it on the young one. You're not going before me.

As I said, we'll put on Juliet to put it on. At least she'll be around. You might be a bit dithery all the time. But Juliet will put it on there. He saw a bird walked on a leash on your tombstone. And everyone will go, wow, we did it. Interesting dude. Interesting. No, put that on there he saw a bird walked on a leash on your toes and everyone goes wow we did it interesting dude interesting

no put that on my tombstone interesting dude yeah Trudeau Pryor with the shaka with the you know the thumbs interesting dude

rise and shine time to start the um who are we kidding when are the both of you Trudeau and Ben the heads some people are very excited about getting haircuts.

It's happening this week in Auckland. Haircuts for all of New Zealand as of Thursday. Oh, so can... Level 2 can do haircuts at the moment, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah. That means everyone gets to join in on the haircut. Oh, well.

Julia, you booked in. You, what, three weeks delay to get into your hairdresser? Yeah, oh my goodness. My hairdresser must be quite popular because it was all booked out by the time that i got on there but i'm gonna go short guys it's gonna be a shock to the system short or maybe not take a jono price happening um ben i was driving to work this morning and i saw something on the side of the road and i was like you don't see this site every day but when you do it just leads me to think about you know what were the steps that this person took to end up here and it was a giant king-size bed including the mattress oh the whole

thing yeah whole thing just resting on a boom now this boom you know there's usually there's driveways on booms there was no driveways nearby so this was a bed and a mattress resting on a berm. Now, this berm, you know, usually there's driveways on berms. There was no driveways nearby. So this was a bed and a mattress resting on a tree. So it takes a lot of conviction to dump a king-size bed on the side of the road. A fairly main road as well. You know, it's not quick. It's not just chuck it out the window situation. You've got it on the roof.

It's out of time. It's taking it off. Or do you think someone's just walked it up from somewhere and put it out? Because that's what happens in our street all the time. That's what people just do. Instead of going to the dump, people just put stuff out. And it's amazing how quickly people just go past and go, oh, I want that, and pick it up, and they take it away.

Wow, really? You can dump anything. Inconvenient stuff, like a bed, it'll be gone. Wow. I mean, it's the ultimate victory if you were on your way to bedposts. Yeah. Oh, look at this. Yeah. I've got a few your way to bedposts. Oh, look at this. Yeah. I've got a few questions about a bed for me.

I'm like, how long? Who's? There's a whole lot. I mean, maybe that's like a bargain. Yeah, true. Who slept on this? Why are they throwing it out? That's what I wonder.

Why is this sitting here? Because clearly some stuff's going on. But yeah, so if you need a new workbench there's one sitting on the side of the road but I do like the Berm it is a

it's a wonderful dumping ground isn't it and you can guarantee it'll always disappear yeah it's amazing what goes it's almost like

as soon as it's on the Berm it's not your responsibility anymore you're like yep that's me done that is someone else's responsibility you're right

and it's not really dumping because you're like no I'm giving it's an opportunity for someone else to take it and mind you you last christmas or january this year you you put your christmas tree out of the front of the boom and then the street saw it as a signal to dump all their christmas trees where ben's christmas tree was and he ended up with a mountain of i put it outside just go i don't know what to do with this was this a real yes i don't know what to do with this. Was this a real tree? I don't know what to do with this. Put it on the berm.

I'll put it on the berm and then I'll work out a plan of attack later to take it somewhere. And then I came back up later and other people had put their little Christmas tree farm there. I was like, oh, thanks guys. Now I've got four Christmas trees to deal with. It's a good play by the neighbours. This is revenge because you've also been caught red handed Trying to sneak your rubbish Into your neighbours bin on the burn too Yeah

And he made you take it out But it was rubbish day morning Anyway it was a conversation Had things been awkward since then Well it was quite far down the road So you tried to play quite a way So you actually went for a walk Yeah

Went for a walk with my rubbish. Yeah, this is so funny. I put it in there. He's like, what are you doing? I was like, I was putting my rubbish in. I was like, we've got plenty of rubbish going out. And I was like, would you like me to take it out? Thinking that he would say, no, no, it's fine.

But he's like, yep. I can so imagine how awkward you would have felt. You're like, really? Really? Do we? Okay. Are you planning on putting more rubbish in here between now and... An hour before it gets picked up?

You know, you don't actually own those bins. Oh, the council owns them. The council owns them. Really? So in all honesty, you probably could have dumped them. Oh, the council. Hey, talk to Goff, mate. Talk to Goff.

It's his bin. These show producers were nominated for a radio award. Because when you work with these guys, you deserve a medal. Juno and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. Hey, Pekka, you're on from Taranaki. How are you? I'm really good, thank you. Good to have you on.

I think I went through puberty just then as I was introducing you, Pekka. You just called up because you want to live free thanks to Škoda. We're going to give you a brand new Škoda for a couple of weeks and $5,000 over summer. Does that sound like a little bit of pecker?

Oh, yeah, that sounds really good. What would you do if you won this prize? I would pay for my summer holiday. Oh, yeah. Geez, you'd have a heck of a summer holiday for $5,000, wouldn't you? I would, yep. And I'm currently building a house. So house so you know i could use a little bit to go towards to that to that as well oh good on you and uh being from tartanaki you can travel

anywhere you won't be judged you know not like an aucklander fleeing the borders yeah uh spreading their good covid everywhere but uh ben you're just going to go back to saying you're from marston aren't you now yeah where are if I go anywhere. Where are you from, buddy? Marsterton. Marsterton. Originally. Originally. Yeah, well, I'm not lying. No one wants to say they're from Auckland. Hey, Packer, you go and have a wonderful day. What do you do? Me? I work

for Powerco. Powerco? Yeah. Oh, yeah? No follow-up questions? You got any power band to have yet? No, I've got zero power band direction. Well, you are. Ben turns off all the plugs in his house. That's all the power band I have.

Now, working for a power company, is that a normal act from a human being to turn every power point off? I don't. No. She works for a power company, Ben. Yeah, I know. I'm trying not to do it as much now anyway.

Well, Peggy, you are in the draw for that $5,000 and that fantastic Ashkoda for summer, right? Oh, that's awesome. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for listening. You have yourself a great day. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.

Yesterday, Jono, you shared a very awkward encounter that happened to a friend of yours yeah he went to a ballet recital it was his daughter's ballet recital turned up a little later you know pitch black darkness in the theater and uh he took a seat at the end of the row of seats next to his family now as he did this a lovely sweet elderly couple came up and it was that awkward interaction of oh i think that I think that's my chair. And he was like, this is not your chair. This is my family-bought tickets.

We're all in a row. I'm sitting here. They've just moved down because I was late, so I could just slot in at the end. This is my chair. They sort of hobbled off, this sweet, elderly couple. Then at halftime, when the lights came on, he stood up and realised he was sitting in the old lady's wheelchair that they'd parked there at the end of the road.

So he had kicked an elderly lady out of her wheelchair. She'd probably just gone to get a drink of water or something. In the meantime, he slid in there. Really, really bad situation. So, yeah, that was his awkward interaction with a stranger. So we did get talking about awkward stranger. Yeah, the calls and texts have come through since yesterday, so we thought we'd open it up again.

Awkward interactions with a stranger. 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 talking awkward encounters with strangers. I actually stumbled across an old clip of ours the other day. Actually, John, an awkward encounter. It reminded me, we're in America and we were playing some sports on the street for the TV show. And we're in full baseball gear in San Francisco.

And there was, the guy was doing doing and people were like goofing around with us because we're in costume and saw the cameras and this guy started doing these sort of hand signals and i thought they were baseball hand signals because it's what baseball is doing i was like oh sweet and then he's doing the thing you know when you see the coach on the uh side of the dugout sort of communicating with his players rubbing his shoulders you know like curveball this thing so i started doing it back and then i realized after about 30 seconds i was like oh hang on no no he's doing sign language and i felt just the worst moment ever like i'm so sorry my best moment i was like i am so sorry i was trying to explain that you didn't know sign language

i was like well i thought you were doing the part yeah so they took it really well and they understood but jeez I was just like well we think they understood do you know sign language what's the international language

for when they hold up a middle finger oh yeah I think yeah I think that's like sorry all's forgiven from memory I just felt terrible

I'm embarrassed I'm even cheering that story now it was a low point I'm so sorry it's up there with Ryan Segrist high-fiving a blind guy.

Really? That happened. That happened on American Idol where he went to try and do that. Again, just not. And then he had to grab the blind guy's hand and sort of hold it up. Not thinking. Just one of those things. You're mortified.

Oh, yes. You are. So we are talking about awkward stranger encounters this morning on 0800. The hit. She can text 24487. Lee, what happened? I was working on a security guard checkpoint for people going through on their vehicles

and we had a car come in and I was arguing with the guy for like 5 minutes he leaned over the back seat and put his hat on the dashboard turns out it was a police inspector I see you're like mate you can't come through. I don't care who you are. Oh it turns out it was a police inspector. Oh, so you're like, mate, you can't come through. I don't care who

you are. Oh, it turns out you're a police officer. Well, I do care who you are and you can go through. Oh, jeez. Why wouldn't he just say he was a cop from the get-go? It was an unmarked police vehicle. Oh, so you had no idea it was coming. Well, you were doing your job. I had no idea at all. You were following your job to the letter. Lee, well done.

Fran in Wellington, welcome. How are you? Good. How are you guys? Yeah, we're good. We're talking awkward stranger encounters. Yeah, I've got a bit of a goodie. It was pretty traumatic.

Oh, no. What happened? I used to work in a shop. I was just making small talk with a customer, trying to be friendly, as you do. And I asked him if he was enjoying the sunshine because it was a beautiful day down here. And he just looks at me in the eyes, said serious face, and he just goes,

no, I've got skin cancer. And I just felt like the worst person in the world. Well, to be fair to you, he didn't have to lead with the, he could have just done the classic polite New Zealand thing and gone, yes, it's a lovely day outside. How do you recover from the skin cancer bombshell? I don't know. I was like, well, yeah, oh, that's a shame.

Have a nice day. Oh, you meant well, didn't you? And it is a shame to have skin cancer, isn't it? Yeah, it is. It is. Love your work, mate. Have a good one. We'll get Carissa on the phone on 0800. The hit's Awkward Stranger Encounters. Oh, okay.

So I worked retail for about eight years of my life. Ben, we would always come into some pretty colourful customers. It was one of our non-negotiables to always ask our clients out to, you know, if they needed a hand with their purchases out to the car. So I was just naturally packing my client's bag, and I turned around to him and said, do you need a hand out to the car? And we both kind of looked down awkwardly,

and I noticed that he actually had a prosthetic hand, so it ended up being a very awkward ending to our conversation. I can imagine you feel awful afterwards, because it wasn't the intention at all. Did you work in a clothing store, Carissa? No, I wasn't a clothing store. What's the biggest bugbear that shop workers have when it comes to customers? Oh, you know the ones where you've got no price tags up accidentally

and they come up to you and they're like, oh, it must be free. That's one of my pet peeves. Oh, I've done that. I've done that. Maybe you would have done it. Call it. I've done it. Damn it. And now that I'm out of Oh, I've done that. I've done that. I bet you would have done it. Call it. I've done it. Damn it.

Damn it. And now that I'm out of retail, I still do it, so. It's a classic. It must be free. Yeah. Oh, good on you, Carissa. You have a great day. You too.

Thanks. Scrolling through your feed. Like a nosy mother-in-law, he's in everyone's business, and that's why he's the right man to present Scrolling Through Your Feed. What's been happening in the news, Ben? Well, a lot of news. Yesterday there was a press conference at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, if you missed it, she said New Zealand's going to move to the traffic light framework

as basically of December 3rd. 11.59 on Thursday, December 2nd it ticks in. So, yeah, really from December 3rd we're in the new system. And she hasn't really wanted to say traffic light up until now but she reluctantly said it yesterday new zealand will soon move into the covid 19 protection framework or as it's otherwise been called the traffic light system yeah i mean no you know covid 19 protection framework doesn't quite roll off the tongue as the traffic light system but you thought you had a bit of a theory on this, conspiracy theorist Ben Boyce, that she was avoiding this because of the Squid Game.

And she didn't want to be stitched up in the edit by the likes of us for social media. Yeah, a few weeks ago when she announced that Squid Game was at its sort of peak popularity. Red light, green light, popular game in that first episode, wasn't it? And she didn't say that. She kind of avoided saying red light or green light in some way. But we managed to make it work together for a little social video we did at the time.

You hacked her up, didn't you, Jude? Yeah, and it took off on the talk. Yeah, took off on the talk. We'll teach her. So as of basically the end of next week, Auckland's going to become a red light district. So I thought this song from the police is very appropriate Things are going to get very saucy in Auckland

We're going to undo all the good work of social distancing So that's basically what's going to happen as of next week. But is the whole country in red light? Well they haven't officially announced where everything will go. I think that's obviously the bare minimum. Some places may go to orange. I don't think anyone's going to go to green or anything. Because the theory was you all need to be at 90, didn't you,

to transfer to the lighting system. Yeah, but then Auckland is technically going to be at 90, but isn't going to. That was the big argument. They're like, well, hey, hang on, we're already at 90. Does it also depend on the outbreak as well? Yeah, that's the argument that the Prime Minister's come back out with.

Speaking of arguments, you hear her going toe-to-toe with old bee soaps. Barry Soper. Barry Soper, a veteran of parliamentary reporting. 30-odd years the guy's been hanging around the beehive. Yeah, for Newstalk ZB, he's a legend in the game. But him and Jacinda, you know, they're starting to get at each other,

aren't they, at the press conference yesterday and Barry was, well, he was kind of getting at Jacinda. Have a listen. I will come.

Jessica, then Barry, and then Gina. Barry, TVs are on deadlines as well. Jessica, and so did you.

Barry, I'm going to ask for a little decorum. Jessica, and then Barry She carried Barry to the naughty quarter Well because it wasn't the first time A couple of weeks ago She told Barry off

Make provisions Barry He wanted to know if he could go pee inside Oh I don't think I have that grave anymore Damn it And she was like You said make provisions Make some provisions, Barry. So Barry's just getting told off like a 70-year-old toddler in Parliament at the moment.

But Barry's sober. He's got it in for Jacinda at the moment, isn't he? Yeah. He's mowing into her. Yeah. Yeah. But I did like at the start of the press conference when Jacinda yesterday sort of outlined, for some reason, her plans for the week.

Because everyone's like, where are you going? What are you doing? Are you coming back to Auckland? So she kind of outlined, for some reason, her plans for the week. Because everyone's like, where are you going? What are you doing? Are you coming back to Auckland? So she kind of outlined her plans. I may have taken out some of the details of why she was going to places, but it just sounded like she was updating the country on her plans for the week.

First, the week ahead. I'll be in Wellington tomorrow and Wednesday before returning to Auckland on Thursday. We'll be back in the capital on Friday and then through the weekend. There you go. That's a busy week. That's a busy week. That's a busy week.

Vacation. That's what she'll be doing. Hopefully walk along the waterfront maybe Sunday afternoon with Clark. But the good thing is hairdressers are trialling it from this week in Auckland. So haircuts will be happening from Thursday. And as of next weekend, all the pubs and stuff will be opening. A lot of repair jobs, I imagine, from the hair industry are going to be happening over the coming weeks.

I'm looking at one right now. Yeah, I'm wearing a hat at the moment. In need of a big reno. And that is scrolling to your feed this morning. It is the hits. You got John on, Ben? Buy the WhatsApp. Buy.co.nz

All right, time for Juliet Rothel, J Roth, J Dubs, Romeo and Juliet, J Money, J Z, J J Feeney, J J Abrams. Over to you, Juliette. Thank you. So just quickly, the American Music Awards were on last night. Sometimes I get a little bit confused between all the different award ceremonies. I swear there's one for everything. But Olivia Rodrigo made her American Music Awards debut with seven nominations.

She took out New Artist of the Year. Favourite male pop artist was won by Ed Sheeran. Favourite female pop artist was won by Taylor Swift. Taylor also won Best Album. BTS, the K-pop band, they got a few awards as well. But I was looking at the red carpet, I guess you could say, and there were so many celebrities that I didn't even recognise. I was like, are these up-and-comers that i should be aware of but you're slipping into us territory

you know you're like oh hey who are these people who is this you know i don't put some trousers on as soon as you start saying that oh she must be cold that's when you know you do you know what photo i also saw so machine gun kelly who is with megan fox there they've been dating for maybe about a year or so now. On the red carpet, he had his arm around and like hand-holding another woman. And I was like, what? This is really, what is going on? Turns out that's his daughter.

His daughter, yeah. I saw that yesterday. But he looks so young that I'm like, how is his daughter a grown adult? Anyway, that blew my mind. They, what I do appreciate about them is that, you know, it doesn't matter what the location they will just frantically start

pashing each other you would not like these PDAs having been a public campaigner for no more PDAs it's like their tongues they're just like they need to wrestle each other like a couple of snakes fighting for territory

there's nothing we can do about it. We've got to do this right now. They just burst out of their mouths. They can't control them. They're a muscle with a mind of their own, those tongues. That's seriously true. I wonder if they're still in the honeymoon phase. And they do the one where the tongues are like, out.

Yeah. Anyway, the American Music Awards. So I guess in terms of, it probably goes in terms of prestige, you'd go the Grammys at the top of the hill? Yep, for music, yep. American Music Awards, you know? You get down to the gutter of the MTV Awards. And you've also got the Brits as well, I think.

Oh, the Brits are good, yeah. Yes, that's the Brits, yeah. And then the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. They get slime dunked. That's a bit of fun, you know? Hey, well done. You got an award. Now we're going to cover you in goop.

What's it like comparing the hits to Newstalk ZB? You know? It's the gutter. And yesterday we did talk about this a little bit. The Aussie TV reporter who has flown into London as part of a $1 million package to interview Adele. He said during the interview that he hadn't listened. Well, basically the interview was meant to be 20 minutes. It went for 29 minutes. Adele, towards the end of the interview, asked, you know,

what did you think of the album? He said, oh, I haven't listened to it. And basically this has made headlines. Because the record company won't give Channel 7 the footage, right? Yeah, because he said that. And he has now spoken out saying he's mortified, and basically he was honestly unaware he had actually been

emailed a preview of her unreleased album as like an e-card link. Must have looked a bit weird, and he didn't notice it. He said it was the most important email he's ever missed. He is mortified and so apologetic. And there were rum rumors that adele kind of stormed out of the interview um but it was actually the opposite she kind of just asked him

quite casually the internet like it wasn't uh she didn't ask him being like so what did you think of the album um it's just a throwaway yeah so adele probably doesn't even care it's probably the record company that are getting all salty about it yeah and and and she i mean the interview was meant to be 20 minutes, it extended to 29 minutes. They said, he said that there was great banter, she was a hard case as you would expect with Adele. Well, he can say anything, can't he? We're never

going to see it. I know. That's the greatest interview I ever did. I know. You're standing me down? Yeah. That's better than Oprah's. But you'll never see it. But one of his colleagues did say it was very very out of character for him to not have

listened to an album if he's being flogged so obviously I'm sure he's a professional yeah he said he's horrified right about it and it was it seems like he missed

the email yeah I mean it's like it's obviously out of character for him but it's something I would do you know it would be expected of me

oh old numbnuts didn't listen to the album it's cost the company a million dollars. But he's a journalist. He's obviously got some level of professionalism. Maybe it was one of those, you never trust any emails nowadays, see, that come through. Oh, have a listen to Adele's new album exclusively. Could have gone straight to a spam as well, you know.

And like when you got tricked into buying a LeBron James singlet when they weren't even made and you fell for it. Oh, really? Was it a scam? Yeah, the whole website and everything. The you fell for it. Oh, really? Was it a scam? Yeah, website and everything. The next day, gone. Oh, my God. They took the money. Someone's like, oh, you can't buy those.

They're not out yet. I'm like, oh, I have. I went to the website to go and it was gone. Oh, you didn't get a confirmation email? He went to Le Bon James. I did get a confirmation email, but none of it, you know. It was confirming, well done, you've paid for nothing. Thanks for your details though, buddy.

And that is Spy for the South. More you can head to the hitstock.co.nz. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Sean Mendes. Broken up with Camila Cabello. Yeah. Oh, Juju.

Now's your time to swoop. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God, I didn't even think about that. You were sad about that for a second, then you went, oh, hang on. She wanted to hear. It's either Harry Styles, Shawn Mendes, or Bieber, isn't it? Those are your three. Yeah, or a young Leonardo DiCaprio, but he's like 50 now, so I can't really go there.

Yeah, but you're young enough for Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeah, true. That's the main thing. All right, let's do this. It's the price is almost correct. Thanks to themarket.com, wonderful website. We were giving away, every week up until Christmas, $5,000 we're paying for. So all you need to do is go to themarket.com, fill up your gift basket, fill up your basket, sorry,

and we could call you Friday and pay for it. Now, I accidentally went to the wrong website, theblackmarket.com, and there's a lot of nuclear weapons and organs for sale on there. That's not where you want to go. Not the right website, no. Beat the rush and skip the Christmas queues by shopping at themarket.com. But now, thanks to the market, we've got a few $50 coupons to give away. We want to play a game.

Not The Price is Right, the popular American game show. We want to play The Price is Nearly Correct. That's right, because if we say The Price is Right and you get the price bang on, well, then we could be dragged through the legal system. We don't want any of that happening to this show. Welcome from Waipu, Matt Moreno. How are you? Good, good.

Good to have you on, Matty. What do you do? Milk cows. Milk cows. He's a man of few words, but he's got some strong milky hands. Could milk anything with those hands. If only you could milk me.

Sarah, you're on. Yep, hi. How are you in Wellington? Good, thank you. All right, what do you do for a job? I work at Courier Post, so delivering all those parcels. Oh, yeah, a lot.

Very busy. We were just talking about how busy it was, so thank you for all your hard work at the moment. Are you under the pump at the moment, says? It is pretty busy at the moment, yeah. What's your message to the people of Aotearoa? Try and buy all your stuff in one purchase instead of one thing at a

time. Oh, that is some good advice. That really is. Because it would be a niggle you going back to the same house every day for two weeks. That makes a lot of sense, Sarah. There we go. Great message to the country there. Okay, so Ben is going to name an item. Both of you have to guess how much

the item is. The one who's closest will win the $50 voucher. Take it away. Okay, well at the moment I'm looking at a kids digital camera, a pink kids digital camera. Matt, what do you think the price is if you're nearly correct? We'll go with $45. $45, the price is nearly correct with Matt

and Sarah. You're going to chuck in? $65. Oh, Matt has taken that one out. Matt gets a $50 voucher for themarket.com. $19.95 was the camera I was looking at right now. That's an affordable camera. It is. But that doesn't mean the game's over.

We're going to go another round. You've already given away a voucher. No, we've got more. I've just found out we've got more. We can play this three times. We've got three vouchers to give away. Matt could end up with $150 away a voucher. No, we've got more. I've just found out we've got more. So we can play this three times. We've got three vouchers to give away. So Matt could end up with $150 worth of vouchers. Yeah, yeah.

You're on a roll, Matty. Round number two. I'm looking at a Philips XXL Air Fryer. Let's go to you first, Sarah. What do you think are the prices for Nearly Correct? I've got to say $100. Oh, okay, $100 from Sarah. Ben's like, that's way off.

Because I can tell by his, oh, okay. Do you want him another go, Sarah? Yeah, go a little higher, a little higher. $180. Yeah, okay. Yeah, you got a little higher. That's good. You've got to stop making the sound effects, Matt.

All right. That's why I never got that game show job. All right. $180 for Sarah. Matt, what are you going to go with? $300. $300. Well, Matt, you are the closest and the price is nearly correct.

Oh, he's got $149. How much? $649. I hear a lot about air fries. They do range. You can get the whole range at themarket.com. There's ones a lot cheaper as well. And let's go one more really quickly. This is the Lay Z, L-A-Y-Z

Moretz Spa Pool. How much is a spa going for there, Matty? $2,000. Yeah, I think you're in the thousands. Sarah, you want to nominate what price for the price is almost correct on themarket.com? I'm going to say $950. Jeez, that's a cheap spa pool. Well, Sarah, you are $1 off. Sarah, the price is nearly correct, $950. That's a cheap sparkle. Well, Sarah, you are $1 off.

The price is nearly correct, $949. That is a cheap sparkle. Yeah, so there you go. Well, Sarah, you get $50. Matt, you get $100, all thanks to themarket.com. Oh, thank you. There you go. You guys have a knack for guessing almost the recommended retail value of items we listed on our website.

Well done. And your chance to win $5,000 on Friday. Just head to themarket.com and share your shopping basket with us. Taking over all your favorite song intros, Jono and Ben, the Heads. It seems like the whole world is talking about Oprah's interview with Adele. It was on last night on TVNZ. I ran for a couple of hours because it featured at a wonderful concert as well from Adele. It was on last night on TVNZ. I ran for a couple of hours because it featured a wonderful concert as well from Adele

from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and she was up there overlooking the city and performing in front of a star-studded audience. It was an incredible winner. I know. It was really incredible. A lot of studs. Name some of those studded stars, Ben. Oh, you've got Gordon. You've got your Gordon. Oh, list

what annoys me. The Gordon Ramses of this world, the James Corden's of this world. Stud. There's also, there was Lizzo. Stud. Alan DeGeneres. Oh, stud.

Yeah, so yes, definitely star studded. No one can argue with that. I did watch the interview last night and she was Oprah Winfrey as looking magnificent. This is a flawless, that's what Oprah Winfrey, is looking magnificent. This is a flawless, that's what $2.6 billion will get you, a flawless looking face. Not a worry in the world these days, right?

That's right, not even a wrinkle, not even a glimpse of a crevice on that face of hers. But they both wore beautiful white suits. And the whole time I was just very nervous for those white, white suits, that they were even within a 5km radius of a bottle of tomato sauce. You know, if you're in a full white, have you ever worn full? Yeah but they weren't going to bust out like some Heinz tomato ketchup in the middle of that

though. It wasn't a Barbie was it? Yeah, yeah like afterwards if they did that they'd probably change Have you ever risked an all white ensemble Ben? Yeah, a couple of times. Risky risky, especially the first day of a new pair of white sneakers. You're like, uh-oh, uh-oh, you know. It's almost a one and done with a white suit, isn't it, June?

Yeah. Have you gone all white before? No, I don't think so. No, I haven't been married. No, no, I haven't. But yes, that would be very terrifying on a wedding day. After watching the interview a lot, they covered a lot about the divorce, obviously. And what my great fear is,

is that it's inspired women all over the world to get divorced. And have a hit album. And have a hit album. And I looked at Jennifer, I was like, don't you get any ideas, okay? We agreed to be, you know, lonely and not lonely, but miserable together.

The rest of our lives have faded out. But, you know, it was a pretty interesting interview, but we thought we would help you out this morning, if you did miss it, to give you like a, you know, a snack-sized recap of Adele's interview with Oprah Winfrey. Jono and Ben present Adele One Night Only in One Minute Only. Oprah said hello. Hello.

Then welcomed Adele to her special lady garden. Welcome to my rose garden. Adele was filthy that Oprah made her walk to the interview with no shoes on. For no reason. Made my feet hurt walking through all of that concrete. To make matters worse, she was struggling to connect to the Wi-Fi. I don't know how I access it. It's wild.

Then Oprah caught her sneakily plugging into a hotspot and apparently she's done it to others. You still feel guilt? I don't feel guilt. You still feel guilt? I don't feel guilt. I just feel somewhat selfish sometimes. Oprah had to remind herself why she was taking time out of her precious day for this hotspot thieving English woman. Why was this an interview I was interested in?

Oprah confused Adele for her help and demanded she get her sparkling water with a dash of lemon. That's not my job. She was then told it was the chick who sung that hello song. Hello. Adele got offended. I'm still here.

You know, sort of like, hi, I'm still here. She then bragged she had a tea house, and Adele didn't have a tea house. Yes, and because my tea house is here. And that was Adele One Night Only in One Minute Only. I don't know if it quite was the context of a lot of those things. I think she just really meant back to, I was like, of a lot of those things. Actually just reading that back there. But anyway. Yeah, listen. We may have connected some dots.

You know, creative license. We have actually stuff that was said properly. Oh, that stuff wasn't said before? It was said, but it wasn't in that context. We had that before Inspire before 8 o'clock. It is the hits. You got John on bed. You're only five words away from a massive payday it's our game of word association we really love playing this game every morning your chance to win five thousand

dollars if we match all five words with your five words yeah let's welcome to the program from hamilton come on down vicky morena how are you you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Good to have you on. You know, I went to primary school with a young girl called Vicky, and she was involved in a PVA glue-based incident. Oh, really? And the teacher referred to her as Sticky Vicky from that day forward. I thought the teacher gave her a nickname. The teacher did, and jeez, I'll tell you what, that nickname stuck.

Sticky Vicky, really. Have you been ever called Sticky Vicky, Vicky? I don't think so, no. Oh good, well hopefully it doesn't stick after this one. Thanks, Jono. I don't want to plant that seed but I don't... You have, unnecessarily. Alright, Vicky, let's see if we can win you

$5,000, alright? Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Jono, please. Oh, it's the edible way too. Listen, I've just had a test. You don't win, Vicky, $5,000 after all you've... I wasn't talking about this, Vicky. I know.

This is a completely different Vicky. All right, I'm heading into the booth, Vicky. Yeah, good. All right, you know how the game works, Vicky? Yep, I do. All right, here we go. Jono is in the soundproof booth. Your first word this morning is pine.

P-I-N-E. Pine. Tree. Pine. Tree. Pine tree. Exactly what I was thinking. Boogie is the second one. B-O-G-G. Sorry.

B-O-O-G-I-E. Boogie. Dance. Yeah. I like to boogie. One of those ads with the Everson Dale twins. Oh my God, I don't remember them. Oh, you don't?

Oh, okay. That was good. We'll reminisce about those another time. Right now we're trying to win Vicky $5,000. Tesla is word number three. Tesla. Car. Car.

I think I would have matched with all three of these so far. Yeah, I know, on the same lines. Playing a good game, Vic. Next one is fan. F-A-N, fan. Oh, that's a hard one. Can I come back to that one? Yeah, sure.

And dog is the final word this morning. Dog. Cat. Dog, cat. Going the opposite. Dog, cat. And fan. There is a few options for fan.

Cold. Cold. Cold. I think you played a really, really good game, Vicky. Let's get Jono. Unfortunately, we have to get him back out of the soundproof booth. We have to hear from him again. But hopefully the next five words he says will win you some money. Comes out with a big grin on his face.

I thought of a new nickname for Vicky. Tricky Vicky. How's that? I have been called that one. There we go. There we go. It's all as well that ends well. I tell you what,

this fairy tale ending could end with $5,000, Vicky. Let's try and win it for you. How did you go? How did Vicky go? Great, great. She went great. It's all on you now to really screw it up for her. First word this morning is pine.

P-I-N-E. Pine. Are you a fan of actors, Vicky? I'm not commenting at all. Not commenting. Well, I'd say she's not a huge fan of the actor that I'd be thinking of. She might be, but she wasn't. Are you a fan of trees, Vicky?

She can't really comment, but I'd say she's more a fan than trees and of the actor, but that's all I can say and I probably said too much. I'm going to go pine tree then. Well done. I won't be helping you out anymore from here on in.

Boogie is the second word this morning. B-O-O-G-I-E. Boogie. Dance. Well done. Oh, Vicky. Do you remember the ads

with the Everson Dale twins? Yes. Yeah, yeah. The Vingtads. Who you remember the ads with the Everson Dell twins? Yes. Yeah, yeah. The Vingtads. Who didn't? Juliet, yeah. No idea. Anyway, you're back now.

Tesla is word number three. Tesla. Are you a fan of the owner of Tesla or his product? You can't answer that. You can't answer that. I'm going to say car. Oh, this is good. Oh, Vicky.

Talk to us. How are you going? Yeah, not confident about the next turn, but we'll see. This is where it gets a little bit more tricky, Vicky. Word number four, fan. Fan. Oh, this could go in a number of directions, couldn't it? Ceiling fan?

Yeah. Fixer. Cold is what Vicky went. Of course, yeah. Gee, that was a difficult word, Behance. Fan tail was another one. Yeah. And the final word was dog.

Cat. Oh, Vicky! Not again. Have you done this before? Yeah, like months and months ago and I got fourth.

Oh, mate. Listen, I tell you what, we'll send you out some wild bean. That'll almost do nothing.

Well, hey, it's lovely to get some coffee in the morning. But it's not $5,000. No. But it is great coffee and it's almost like drinking $ Well, hey, it's lovely to get some coffee in the morning. But it's not $5,000. No. But it is great coffee, and it's almost like drinking $5,000. Well, Vicky, we need to do this again.

We need to complete this and do the trilogy at some stage and try and win you five grand, all right? Definitely. You keep safe in Hamilton, Vicky. Thank you for listening to the show. Spy next, Jew, what's coming up? Yes, the couple that got engaged at Adele's One Light only have given a bit of a back story about what happened

behind the scenes. I'll play that for you next. It's Justin Bieber. He is of course coming to New Zealand next year in December. Very excited about that. Mount Smart Stadium. It's going to be awesome. Got your tickets? Yeah, you did actually. Pre-sale baby. Juliet, where did you go?

GA was seating arrangements? I just went GA standing, sort of towards the back. You know, I can chill out a bit more now these days. I don't need to be front row. Oh, yeah, because in the past you've... Oh, second row. That was the greatest night of my life. She got access to all areas of Bieber's backstage.

Access to all areas. Access of all Bieber's. And you even got a photo with him where he looks dead inside. Yeah, I know. That was when he was in his... Troublesome years. Yeah, his troublesome I know that was when he was in his troublesome years yeah it was just urinating in the bucket

yeah it was really sad but anyway did he talk to you when you had a photo with him I don't think so no I think I just walked in

I put my arm around him smiled for the photo and then I had to leave yeah you said it was like a factory you all lined up yeah but it was still the greatest night

of my life it was still awesome yeah it was a great photo thank you thank you very much spy the whatsapp spy.co.nz one of the great one of the great. It's still awesome. Yes. It's a great photo. Thank you. Thank you very much. Spy. The what's up

by Doco.nz. One of the great photos. All right. Let's hand over to Juliet with some stories about famous people that you'd probably try and get a sneak peek of

in the toilet. Yes. Yes. You would try and get a sneak peek of Adele in the toilet. Her one night only interview and show

with Oprah. We finally got to see the full thing in New Zealand last night on TVNZ2. One of the highlights of the whole thing, obviously, you know, it cut between the performances from Adele and Oprah's interview. But something a little bit different was a couple got engaged during the show. So Ashley and Quentin, we did talk about this last week, but they have spoken about it from their end. So basically, Quentin, all he saw was an advertisement online for someone who was willing to propose

to their partner in an epic way at one of LA's most beautiful places. They didn't tell him it was an Adele special or anything. He was just like, oh, cool. And them as a couple are quite adventurous anyway. So he just took a punt, really. He took a punt. Yeah. Yeah, and was like, this will be quite an adventurous thing for us to do.

We like adventure. We like surprises. Let's just do it. And so I think he probably would have eventually found out that it was an Adele concert, but he didn't know when he was signing up. How cool was that? Everybody's going, oh my God, this is the best thing ever. She had no idea where she was.

She had no idea. They started out having a picnic in the park and then eventually they got into a car. He put noise cancelling headphones on her a blindfold on blindfold on her um she came up they came up on the stage together this is what happened will you marry me a little ashley in real life yeah yes hello ashley thank god you said yes because i didn't know who i was gonna have to sing this song to next you or him or my gold. So it was a very special moment.

Did she like Adele? I think so. Well, she was crying. She would have been so overwhelmed. Oh, it would have loved to take on, wouldn't it? Oh, my God. And then she sat down next to Melissa McCarthy, who then handed her a glass of champagne to celebrate. She wasn't sure whether there were some shots of her.

She wasn't sure whether to stare at her ring or whether to stare at Adele. She was like, oh, my goodness. Yeah, a lot going on. And it would all be a blur, wouldn't it? Yes. Well, thankfully the whole world had it recorded and they watched it. I know.

And so Ashley and Quinton spoke to an Australian radio show. They asked them if they got to speak to Adele at any other point of the night or whether that was just it. So we actually did have a conversation with her on stage and they did not show that portion. But afterwards, we were definitely bombarded with a bunch of

celebrities. Drake came up to us and of course Melissa had been sitting next to us the whole time and Lizzo and we got to talk with Kerry Washington and Ellen DeGeneres was sitting directly behind us. So it was crazy. It was nuts. Oh wow, there you go. So cool. So it was lovely when It was nice. Oh, wow. There you go.

So cool. So it was lovely when she proposed that Drake comes up and congratulates you. How's that? Isn't it? Unreal. But just taking a punt on an ad that you see online. I know. I know.

I wonder if that ad would have had many people signing up to it or not. Well, obviously, people said Adele's going to be part of it. Everyone would have signed up and wanted to get married. People don't reply to your classifieds, though, do they, Pip? We've been chucking those out weekly. I know. He's an adventurous couple. Adventurous couple.

We're an adventurous couple. We will do stuff. We will definitely do stuff. We work hard. That was a great call. And that is fine for this hour. I'll wrap that up for you. Although Drake won't come up and congratulate you afterwards.

No, he won't. If anything, I'll probably offer condolences. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi-made since 1946.