Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Remixed "Why Does Love Do This To Me" By The Exponents

Episode Date: December 1, 2021

Remixes are the THANG at the moment so we remixed this Kiwi classic. And we got a large variety of feedback.... Have a listen and see what you think! In today's show we also caught up with new National party leader Christopher Luxon, a self-professed lover of country music. We tested his country music knowledge & chatted about how he's going in the new role. Finally, Ben's dog got a little too close for comfort and bit something that you don't want to be bitten.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, brought to you by Razine, New Zealand's most trusted paint, Kiwi made since 1946. Now a lot of, I guess, classic songs have been remixed with a bit of a modern twist of late. We've been talking a lot about Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, songs like that, songs from artists like that, that have been remixed and you wanted to get in on that. Yeah, I'm turning the tables on the turntables, Ben Boyce. We're dipping our toes into the DJ game, never been here before, how does it feel? Indifferent, I'm not

sure if it's ready for us I feel like maybe Are we too much for the DJ game? I feel like maybe maybe 10 years ago we might have been like okay, now it's like oh really those guys we wouldn't be

Juliet don't agreeiet don't agree don't go right now we wouldn't be the 11 to 12 o'clock slot at rhythm and vines or something would be we'd be like the daytime kicking things off like third stage yeah yeah you're you've got tickets to uh rhythm and vines would you come and see us perform oh like yeah because i work with you yeah yeah i'll give you. I'd give you support. I'd tell my friends, you know, guys, we've got to go and support you guys. Would you stay for the whole set? Um, I don't know. I don't know. It depends, you know. Anyway, we've remixed Kiwi Classic

and we got the permission of the artist, Jordan Luck. It's the exponents song, White As Love. Have you got the original there, Juliet? I can find it. Yeah, White As Love. This song was released in 1994 because we wanted to go back into the archives of New Zealand music. You get a Kiwi classic, you know. This is a Kiwi classic song.

Now, earlier, we haven't played the song. We were about to play it for the first time in just a moment, but you got some reactions from people, and they seemed very scripted and forced, dare I say. I've got reactions, genuine reactions. All glowingly positive. Here, just have a listen to one. If this song isn't playing in the bar when I walk in,

I'm leaving. Yeah. Now, I spoke to my friend Kim Jong-un in North Korea, and he's like, here's how you do it, mate. So, yeah. She'll be healthy, safe, and well, as long as she doesn't say anything else. Oh, jeez.

But all positive, glowing reviews, and even sent it across to our friend Tammy Davis. Now, Tammy, you know him from Manta on Outrageous Fortune. Wonderful man, Tammy. He works, he does the breakfast show on Georgie Femme, Dance Music Station. Oh, yeah, they're the experts in this category. Yeah, this is their world. This is their wheelhouse.

So I thought, you know, before we play it, we should send it over to him to get his review and think you know an honest review or have you you know he's an actor so this is i think this is an honest i haven't heard his review okay well i dare say it'll be honest if it's coming from tammy so he listened to the remix hi john i've been yeah the exponents remix um there's something you should some things that you shouldn't do in life, mate, and that's remix tracks like that. I think I've got to be honest with you, mate. Every year at George's, we play Real Bangers, but this is probably the end of it.

This is the end of the line for me, mate. Don't ever, ever, ever talk or call me ever again. Our friendship's over. Was that natural enough for you? Yeah, that was probably a bit too natural. Somewhere in between would have been quite nice. Oh, right, I'll dial it back. It's either too far, too...

I don't know with you, Ben. Where do I sit? Anyway, we're going to debut it now. This is the remix, the DJ JB remix of the exponents, Why Does Love, on his feedback through on 0800, the hits will take it all. Oh, Texas, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, 4487 on the text. And drop that bass, Juliet. I won't doubt you left me You know I'm hurting for you It seems now that it's over But there is nothing I can do. I don't know. Why does love do this to me?

Why does love, why does, why does love, why does love do this to me? Jackie came, she went away, deep in the valley. Thank you. Why does love do this to me? I don't know Why does love do this to me? I don't know I don't know I miss you. You know that. But when I see you sometimes I'm cut off, yeah, I'm broken

There am I, asking you how you are Maggie came, she went away Deep in the valley, I kissed her that day But it seems I'm thinking of you But I'm still thinking of someone else Well, I don't know Why does love do this to me? I don't know

Why does love do this to me? Why does love? Why does, why does love? I don't know what is love to this to me I don't know what is love to this to me I don't know. Oh, what is love? Do this, do this to me

I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know It is our What Is Love full remix. It is the exponents. It's given the Kiwi classic a bit of a modern twist there

right now now there's some some honest feedback coming through on 44870 I don't read the text for good reason it breaks me

yeah it does he ends up sobbing uncontrollably although to be honest the hits are very very positive we really love working here at this show

because you know they are a positive audience first text awful okay do you want me to keep reading the death of New Zealand music really but no They are a positive audience. First text, awful. Okay. Do you want me to keep reading?

The death of New Zealand music. Really? But no, then we've got nice ones. Is that what someone said? Yeah, yeah. But, you know, they might have been listening to another radio show. Might just be coincidental. We can take it.

We can take it. What a banger, comma legends. Oh, that's good. Someone likes it. I was sceptical at the the start but then i was dancing by the end of it another good text i would normally tell john and ben to give up their day job and this is another one of those days uh you know a lot of a lot of good not too bad okay a varied mix a very nice you know but you're not going to win over everybody oh yeah as an artist no yeah no not everyone loves adele do they people do. A lot of people do.

I don't know anyone that doesn't love Adele. She's pretty much played on every station bar about two. She's very lovable. Yeah, it's a bad example. But there we go. We'll play that again after 8 o'clock. And some good feedback too coming through from people who have listened to it. Natural feedback.

Now that's got to get on the Orange Traffic Light Festival circuit for sure. If this song isn't playing in the bar when I walk in, I'm leaving. There you go. I'm leaving. Did you hear that? Natural feedback. And the bars are open now. So they better be playing that song. We've got Christopher Luxon, the head of the National Party,

joining us very, very shortly. He's had a grilling over the last 24, 48 hours from the media. Yeah, he has. And we're going to grill him even further, the Lux dog. I've got some nicknames. Do you reckon, can I pitch these nicknames to you and you tell me if you think I should pitch these to Christopher Lux?

Okay. You get a nervous look in your eye. Yeah, so I'm thinking no, but when do I say no? I'll wait till, I'll give you, you do it and then I'll say no. Yeah, because I tried toach them to Chris Hipkins The hippo The hippo got some traction Yeah

Marcus Lush was Using the hippo When you used to Yeah Okay Get your lux in a row Lux in a row Lux in a row

A bit of a campaign message Good headline for the Yeah Very good The lux deluxe Lux deluxe Not bad Not bad

Okay What about Your lux run out That would be the headline If you know Things took a turn Lux. Lux the Lux. Not bad, not bad. Yeah, like that. Okay. What about your Lux run out? That would be the headline if, you know, things took a turn. If he goes. That would definitely be a good headline. Some low-hanging fruit for the Herald there if it all turns sour for Christopher Lux. And here's another one.

It's like Toyota Hilux, but the Crylux. Chris Luxon. Crylux. A morphinated name. All right. Luxenberger? Okay, all right. Tell me when to stop.

Okay, now. It is the Hats. You've got Jono and Ben. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hats with Jono and Ben for breakfast. You've got the Hats. Jono and Ben.

Good morning. Thursday morning, 6.06. Now my dog, Bo. Gets a lot of coverage on the show, doesn't it? We've talked many times about the dog. He's very famous. Ben, good morning, Thursday morning, 6.06, now my dog, Bo, gets a lot of coverage on the show, doesn't it? We've talked many times about the dog. He's very famous. Yeah, he is.

It's the dog from the radio. Somebody actually said that the other day when we were going somewhere. It's the dog from the radio. Yeah, it's the dog from the radio. When you think about it, you're like, well, he's not on the radio as such, like he's never been in the studio, like creating radio, but we talk about him so much, it's like it's the dog from the radio. We talk about that radio, but we talk about him so much. It's like it's the dog. We talk about that dog more than we talk about ourselves.

I haven't seen that dog in years, but I feel like I know him. It's like when you feel like you know people just because you've seen them on social media, what they've been up to. That's the same with your dog. Just a daily dog update. Big old Bo. Yeah, the Bo, big, white, fluffy Samoyed, if you don't know.

He's a lot of fluff. He's very fluffy. Are you just constantly vacuuming you don't know. He's a lot of fluff. He's very fluffy. Are you just constantly vacuuming up here? Yeah, there's a lot of clumps, particularly this change of season. There's a lot of... They molt. Yeah, there's a lot of clumps of sort of white. And then sometimes I have to look and go, is there grey hair from me?

Grey hair from the dog on my clothing. Usually trying to work that one out. But yesterday, the dog is very excited sometimes particularly we have to hide his toys he gets very excited because you know if there's a toy around he just wants it's like come on mate it's time to play yeah you know and so he's got this toy it's kind of like a rope thing that he kind of loves and he found it yesterday and i was sitting there and i was kind of like in the middle of something so i was like hey bro i gave him a pat but i said no it's not it's not time to play right now.

It's not toy time. Yeah, but he doesn't understand that. So what he does is he sort of nuzzles on into you. But he always nuzzles in around the crotch region because of his height. And you're sitting on a chair. So he's nudging. And I'm like, sweet. And he's sort of biting at the toy at the same time.

And you can connect the dots of what happened yesterday. So the first time not only did I get a nudge, but I also got a little bite. Really? Yeah, as he was not obviously biting at his toy. He wasn't biting for my butt. It was like, oh. Did that wake you up?

Yeah, it did. It definitely didn't feel like playing around. Well, dogs' mouths, they're not that gentle, are they? No. No, they don't know how to control them. As well as humans do. Yeah, you're right. You know what I'm

talking about. Yeah. It's the weirdest thing you've said, but I do agree with you. I can control my mouth when I'm chewing. You know, you can gently chew.

You haven't come around to my place and bit me in the crotch. Not yet. No matter how playful you feel. You haven't come around. I haven't. I haven't done that. So, you know, that's what I appreciate about you. You appreciate my gentle, caring mouth.

Thank you. That was a weird ending. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hits. The Hits. It is the Hits. Jono and Ben. Now there's a new National Party leader.

His name is Christopher Luxon, and he's joining us right now on the phone. How are you guys? We're doing all right. So how are you doing? Not too bad. Really good, actually. I'm having a lot of fun. I have to say, this is a wonderful debut on the hits.

We always compliment the Prime Minister on her punctuality. She always calls through bang on time. You were 13 seconds early. Yeah. I love it. Well, congratulations on the new job. How has the last sort of 24 hours been? A bit of a whirlwind?

Oh, it's been fun, yeah, but it's been really busy. And I haven't seen my family for a couple of weeks now. I'm looking forward to ultimately making it back home. Obviously, too busy to text or call the family. Is there anything you want to say to them now? And they might hear it. You can pass the message on. I have to say, mate, I thought you are

a very good looking bald man. I saw your meme yesterday. Oh, he did a meme yesterday. Yeah, because there's a lot of people going around, there's a meme going front of the Christmas tree, back of the Christmas tree

and people will put pictures of it. I saw it. And it was one of you at the front looking good in your suit and then we put Jono as the back of the Christmas tree. April 1st, we should do a job swap. Yeah, I love it.

I love it. You know what you've done, Chris, over the last 48 hours is you've given hope to the Christmas tree. April 1st, we should do a job swap. Yeah, I love it. I love it. You know what you've done, Chris, over the last 48 hours is you've given hope to the bald man. Yeah, affirmative action. How has the media been? Because it feels like everyone's trying to trip you up almost with questions about prices of cheese.

That's exactly sort of survival is the idea this week. So not to go too... But the bottom line is like, you know, as everyone's talked about, I'm quite new to politics and i've come from a different world completely and uh you know it's just learning that part of it and um but you're right yeah it does feel sometimes like it's a sort of gotcha game yeah and uh but no look it's been great and i'll look i'll make some mistakes along the way but we've ultimately got a good team and we've got to get them working together as a team and go forward from there. Is one of your first tasks when you are announced

as leader of the National Party to go onto the key, you know, the Pack and Save website and see how much cheese is that week? Yeah. Well, I do know cheese, $11.40, I think. Yeah, no, do well. Well, we've got a couple of more items that would love you to name.

Oh, you can't, mate, you can't do that. No, don't play that. Here we go. Give me a break today. Six-pack of coat hangers. You can't, no that. Six-pack of coat hangers. You can't. No one knows six-pack of coat hangers. A pair of leggings.

Eight loads of ciabatta. $5.40. No, $15. Now, you've had, obviously, a really interesting career. You've been the head of Air New Zealand. You even hung out with Obama, I was reading last night, when he was in New Zealand. Yeah, a big fan of Obama, actually. And when I was living in Chicago, I'd sort of met him once or twice just, you know, as part of a campaign.

And I was really keen to get him out to New Zealand, actually, because I thought, you know, he was a great leader. I admired the way he carried himself and built his team and did all that stuff. And, yeah, just, I mean, a phenomenal job, eh? I mean, he said to me that he'd been photographed four and a half million times in his eight years while he was in the White House. So, yeah So quite something. Who was keeping count? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

But I mean, literally, that guy was being photographed every second. You know, if you think about his life from 24 hours, it's just full on. So no, amazing. You know, really impressive guy. And I like the way he carried himself with some humility and also had good determination for his country and all that good stuff. So, no, great leader. Did you ever say to him that you wanted to lead New Zealand one day? No, no, I didn't actually.

No, we didn't have that conversation. No, we didn't have that conversation. But we did have a great dinner with him, actually. And no, he was just a really regular sort of guy and just exactly what you'd hope. You know, when you meet your heroes, you sort of hope they're going to be the same people in private as they are in public and that's very much the case. I'd crumble at a dinner with Obama.

You guys would be a riot. You'd love it. I'd be the all good guy sitting in the corner like, he hasn't seen anything. But he's taken four million photos of me in the last... Christopher Luxon with us. Now what happens when you are appointed new leader? Are you sort of

ushered into a brand new office immediately? Do you have to change your email signature? No. Well, here's the deal. I've got what we call the Harry Potter office here, sort of like under the stairs. It was actually a sort of, I don't know if it was a broom cupboard or what it was. It was actually so small, we had to take some furniture out to get the desk in. And then all of a sudden, I've arrived this morning actually into what's called the leader's office, which is like this big sort of very formal sort of office. So I actually just sat down at the desk. I haven't got anything in here,

but just chatting with you guys. So that sort of happens pretty quickly. And that's the thing is it just is really fast. They were saying the other night, potentially the worst job in politics being the leader of the opposition. Do you see it that way at all? No, no.

I mean, look, you've just got to go in and determine you want to give it a go. potentially the worst job in politics, being the leader of the opposition. Do you see it that way at all? No, no. I mean, look, you've just got to go in and determine you want to give it a go, and that's sort of partly why I came. And, yeah, look, you've got to take your job really seriously, but never take yourself that seriously. And so you've got to enjoy it along the way, even if it's a bit stressful at times and you'll make some mistakes and you'll deal with a bit of ups and downs. But you've just got to see through that and keep focused on the prize.

I hope this isn't an omen that this is the first thing you're doing in your new office. Talking to us. Talking to us. You are officially the first media I've ever talked to in this office. Oh, there we go. Hopefully it's been a pleasurable experience. It should have been RNZ or something, to be honest. Now, Chris, you were very honest, open in your first speech.

You said, you know, listen, I like country music. I apologise. I don't know why you need to apologize for that. Well, we're going to make country music really popular in New Zealand. That's got to be one of our goals. Mate, don't campaign off that. I know, I know. We've got, what we have here is a list of country songs.

And you have to tell us if this is a title of a country song or not. Great. Okay, here's the first one. I flushed you from the toilets of my heart. Yeah, definitely not. It's a country song. Well. Great. Okay, here's the first one. I flushed you from the toilets of my heart. Yeah, definitely not. It's a country song. Well, apparently it is. Have a listen.

No, no. I missed you from the toilet. Oh, my goodness. I don't know if this is someone playing a joke on us or not, but this is what we found online, so yeah. From 1975, J.D. Blackfoot. Okay, here's the next one. Is this a country song title or not?

Judith, you're gone, but for some reason you're still at the party. No, definitely not. Well done, correct. Well done. All right, next one. How come your dog don't bite nobody but me? I reckon it's a 50-50. I reckon it could be one.

It's a country song. How come your dog don't bite nobody but me? There we go. That one, guys. From 1969. Here's could be one. It's a country song. Come, come, your dog. Are you serious? Yeah. That's funny. There we go. That one, guys. From 1969. Here's the next one. Country song title or not.

Jacinda, you locked my heart down and I'm in alert level love. Absolutely not. No, that's not one. And the final one, country song or not, with Christopher Lux, the new national leader. You're the reason our kids are so ugly. Is that the name of a country song? I reckon that could be, actually. I reckon it's got the sort of, yeah, the storylines that could be.

It shouldn't be, but you're correct. It should be there, yeah. Loretta Lynn, 1978. Hey, Christopher Lux, and congratulations on the new gig. You really seem like you're there for the right reasons, and we wish you the best of luck. And my only thing I feel sorry for you for is that you'll probably have to go and appear on this show a few more times. Yeah.

I'll look forward to it. And I'm going to introduce you to contemporary country music, so we'll turn the hits into country music. All right. You get to pick the song next time you come on, all right? I'll do that. I'll do that. Thank you, guys.

Sounds good. All the best. Have a great day. You too. Good morning. Just gone 8 o'clock. Jono and Ben hanging out with you guys just on a Thursday and it's the last day of lockdown pretty much today, right? The

traffic light system kicks in as of 11.59 tonight. Yeah, next week we're doing something pretty special, Ben Boyce, and I'm glad everyone's going to be out and about to see it, hear it, because there's going to be a news-making event, a shameless publicity stunt. We've seen them before in commercial radio. We'll see them again, you know, just to nab some attention of that wider audience.

That's what these are desirable. Exactly. We make no bones about it, but you could win big if we come up big and make news next week because we're doing two shots at Eden Park so we're going to be on the roof, both of us on the roof of the stands. That's really high up and we're going to be shooting basketballs

down onto the field and if we both nail a shot each, so two shots at Eden Park, we unlock an amazing prize that you could win thanks to Eden Park and it basically has you hooked up for everything at Eden Park in 2022. Now if we nail these two shots, you know, from

34 metres up in the air on top of the Eden Park grandstand, Omicron is going to not come here. I've had word. Delta will say this country's too awesome. Don't bother. Don't bother. Let's give them a rest and that'll be the end of it. So this will cure COVID.

I'm not going to make any bones about it again, Ben. Next week, next Wednesday, Jono and Ben cure COVID with our Two Shots campaign. Well, we could be giving you an all-access pass and $1,000 cash if we do it. But making news, we hope to be doing. And we wanted to know if you listening right now have ever made news yourself. Yeah, have you got any tips? Stuff we can do along the way. Yeah, what's it like when you make the news,

when you make the papers, when you get on the news at night? We'd love to hear from you. 0800 THE HITS or 4487. However you've made news, we'll have that next. Morning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits, with Jono and Ben for breakfast. You're on The Hits, Jono and Ben, on your Thursday morning.

Now, next Wednesday, we're hoping to make news. It's Jono and Ben's two shots at Eden Park. We're going to be both sitting on the roof, very high up above Eden Park, and we have to nail a basketball shot, hence the two shots at Eden Park, onto the field. We have to nail one each. And if we get the two shots,

you could win an all-access pass to Eden Park and $1,000 cash. You can go to the cricket, the rugby, there's the golf, the Parade G9 golf, there's 660s, guns and roses as well. And you can check out all the details, the event calendar at EdenPark.co.nz. It's a AAA pass to Eden Park. I mean, you can't

even, if you wish, just sit in the accounts department in the office and they'll be like, who are you? AAA Pass, sorry. Let me see your spreadsheet. That sort of thing. That's a no-holds-barred pass to Eden Park. But it's two shots for summer and two shots for us to have some shameless publicity next week if we get these shots.

And we just want to know, have you made news? Because we could potentially, you know, we're on the verge of being the front page of the paper next week, Ben Boyce, if this happens. You know, two Kiwi heroes. Probably the greatest thing a Kiwi's ever achieved since we figured out we could burn some couches in Dunedin is land these two shots. So we're going to throw it out to 0800. The hit's on the phone right now. We have Ryan.

You made the news. How? Well, I've actually been born in a car park. You were born in a car park. Wow. And so that made what? Front page news? Page three?

What are we talking here? What was the newspaper? It actually made the press. I don't know if it was the front page or not. But it was also in a magazine called That's Life. Oh. I love that magazine. I love getting it.

Jono would buy it at the airport. Oh, I love That's Life. Yeah, because it would be like, I'm a 36-year-old man and I'm nine months pregnant. Just all of these wild stories about people. But there's actually, you were in there. Oh, yeah, mate. What car park were you born in? It was the Christchurch Women's Hospital car park.

Oh, so your mum got as far as the hospital but not quite inside. Yeah, so basically what happened is she goes into labour and mum and dad jump in the car and then my old man reckons he's got all the time in the world so he stops at work, drops some keys off. Drops some keys off? I might just swing into

the pub here and have a couple with the guys. Oh yeah, just have a couple of you know. And then after there they boosted to the crotchage women's hospital and they see the midwife in the car park and they go, oh yeah, sweet as they pull in there, my mum's sitting there going

I need to drop my pants I need to drop my pants that's the headline of the article no way I need to drop my pants. At no stage when you yell that out in public does it ever end well. I can imagine.

Let it become a headline. You're like, did you have to go with that one? I need to drop my pants. Lady gives birth in car park. Would have been better than I need to be your poor mum. So, yeah. And then they open the door. I come flying out.

Luckily the midwife'swife did catch me. That's what they tell me anyway. I need to drop my pants, and then you came flying out. What was the headline in That's Life, the magazine? I need to drop my pants. Oh, that was I need to drop my pants. What was the headline in the paper? Surely the press would have been a bit better.

No, the press was a bit more. It was first twin born and crushed. Oh, that's nice. That's factual. That one maybe was factual too. I need to drop my... Hey, thank you so much for sharing that amazing story with us. Now, we want to make news next week,

and we want to help you win something pretty cool if we manage to make two shots, two basketball shots, from the roof of the very high stadium of Eden Park. Yeah, that's right, into a basketball hoop, which will be on the field. This is our two shots campaign for summer. It's doing no good for the health and safety and well-being of New Zealand, but it's doing wonders for us in public relations, Ben Boyce. That's right.

Yeah, we're trying to make the news. Let's just get cut straight to the chase. And, oh, 800 of the hits. In fact,. Yeah, we're trying to make the news. Yeah. Let's just get cut straight to the chase and 0800 the hits. In fact, I was thinking you've already been on the news. You're in the newspaper most weeks, advertising the specials at Pack and Save as the stick man. Every week I see him as a full-page ad in the Herald. I take him out, the press as well. Yeah, and we're having some, you know, I'm talking to them about it.

It's me, they're using my image, but apparently it's not my image. Yeah. So, I'll wait on to that. When did you make the news? We've got Ainsley on the phone. You made the news.

I did, yeah. What did you do? I was about eight, and our rose, which was in kind of a small part of Auckland, which was a little bit rural at the time, back in the 80s,

it got tar sealed. So, the local newspaper, it was obviously a very exciting event for us, and we had a party to celebrate and get a cake. The local newspaper obviously thought it was a big deal, and asked to put the party and put me with the cake on the front page. So the story was road gets tar sealed, and did you make the cake, Ainsley, to celebrate? No, I was about eight. I don't think I made the cake. But I think an old lady up the road made tar sealed. And did you make the cake, Ainsley, to celebrate? No, I was about eight. I don't think I

made the cake. But I think an old lady up the road made the cake. She made a celebration tar seal cake. Yeah, a celebration tar seal cake. I think we were the last road in that area to get tar sealed. And I think, like, my parents will say that they've been asking the council for a long time

to tar seal it. Right, so this was a big deal. It was a big deal. I imagine if you lived on the road, so this was a big deal. It was a big deal. Imagine if you lived on the road, it would be a big deal. But, you know, is it a send a reporter out from the CBD? Make a cake sort of situation. What was the headline in the New Zealand Herald? The big deal was that if you were in the local paper, it was colour. The front page was colour. And I remember it because I was in colour on the front page of the board.

You made colour, baby! They splashed you out on the colour printer. Ironically, the thing they were taking a photo of is black, though. The Tarsiel Road. Yeah, I think they were most excited about riding their bikes on the Tarsiel. Oh, how was that sweet, sweet Tarsiel? When did the novelty of that wear off?

Or was it always still like, oh, this is great? No, I think we got used to it pretty quick, to be honest. That's fine. There you go. Tarsiel Celebration Cake, and Ainsley, really appreciate your time for making the news. Well done. No worries. Lou, welcome.

Oh, good morning. Now, you made the news, but we understand it was for nefarious purposes, Lou. Yeah, it was a bit cheeky back in the day, it was. What happened? Well, I was a bit cheeky back in the day, it was. What happened? Well, I'll tell you what happened. Me and my best mate, we played rugby league and we left our small hometown and we moved

up to the big city Auckland there with the pursuit of chasing the dream of playing professional league, maybe for the Warriors. That was back in the mid-90s there, but we ended up starting out playing for chasing the dream of playing professional league maybe for the Warriors. Oh, wow. That was back in the mid-90s there, but we ended up starting out playing for an under-21 side. It was a big club in Auckland throughout the season.

We played good, but we didn't get the recognition that we required, so we came up with this really cheeky plan at the end of the year to go to a trophy shop and grab the two best looking trophies and borrow them and then take them to the photo shop and get our photos taken with those two trophies. Like what, League Legends of the 95 season sort of thing? No, we just wanted to send it back to our hometown and hopefully make front page of the news section there. Oh, so you sent this photo back. Were you two holding trophies back to your hometown? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so what happened is I wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper saying that these two boys were the outstanding players of the season for the team. With our photo there, sent it away, and sure enough, it got printed in the local paper.

With our photo, and pretty much word for word everything that I'd written, because I'd said that I was the manager. Oh, that's so good. Oh, Lou, that is very good. I think that's a great thing about trophy shops is you can just go in and make yourself look like a bloody legend. Yeah, for sure, with a big smile on your face there and nobody will question it. No. We had a friend and she was dating a guy and he would always go off to basketball tournaments

in the South Island and he'd come back with trophies. But what he was doing is he was actually having an affair, but when he was down there, he'd go to the trophy shop, and he'd be like, look, we won the basketball tournament. I don't know how much it cost him in trophies, but it was an elaborate plan. Oh, my goodness. Wow.

That helps me. Lou, thank you so much for giving us a call. Appreciate your time. Yeah, no worries. Thank you. So that could be us next week at Making News if we manage to nail the two shots at Eden Park and you could win big.

Thanks to Eden Park. That's next week. But very soon, we've dropped our new single. Yeah, it's a new single today, and it's getting a lot of good feedback on the text machine. Here's a good one here. Top marks for trying, guys. Otherwise, you'd never know your limits.

I don't know what that means. Does that you'd never know your limits. I don't know what that means. Does that mean we've reached our limits with this song? Yeah, maybe. Well, you be the judge of it. It's up very shortly. It is the hits. You got it, Jono. I'm Ben. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand

was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Now, last day of lockdown, of course, the travel light system kicks in tomorrow and then the borders open on December 15th for summer. There's a lot of debate going around, particularly for people from Auckland, just because you can travel, should you travel? It seems to be a debate.

And Dr Susie Wilds had this to say. The places that people want to go on holiday are places that generally have lower vaccination levels and don't have the capacity to look after people who would be sick with COVID. Yeah, so she was saying maybe this year is not a year for travelling around if you're from Auckland. Well, I guarantee everyone will listen to Susie. Now, we're talking though, up north,

there was talk of roadblocks, particularly, you know, stopping some people from travelling up north. And she does raise a very valid point, you know. If you head to, take Gisborne, for example, they're around about 70% vaxxed, which is under the 90% threshold, I believe. Yeah. And if you do head to somewhere like that,

you could really sink the community if it got out there and there was a huge outbreak of COVID, you'd imagine. But then you're on the other hand, I guess there's some businesses that, you know, want to survive only by tourists coming to the region. So it's a tricky... Well done, Ben.

We've done a good job of explaining both sides of the argument there. It's a tricky one. It is a tricky one. A little yin and yang situation at play there. Well done.

But we're going to head up north right now. We haven't spoken to this man in a very long time. It's our old mate, Hone Harawira. It's nice to talk to you. used to rope you into many many skits No no no I used to think you guys must have been pretty desperate

Oh not at all Hone Hone had a very good comedic sensibility Yeah You made it look too easy Hone How you been my friend? Oh no just crazy We've got vaccinations at our

trust. We've got meetings with the police on border control for Hone. You do wonderful stuff for the community in Northland, Hone, and is there a serious concern about, you know, hey, I'm wanting to get up there

over summer in my Range Rover, eat some cheese at my batch, drink some fine wine, can I do it? Are you double vaxxed? I'm double vaxxed. Yeah, more than likely then, mate. So that's the thing you just, I was reading before you were saying on the AM show, unvaccinated people obviously is a lot different from vaccinated people. Well, I mean, you know, we've been saying that for a while.

We'd like as much protection as we can get for our whānau. But at the moment, the Prime Minister's store hasn't quite come around. But now all of the iwi, chairs, the chairs of all of the iwi in the law, all 12 of them, and more importantly, the chairpersons for all four of the district health boards, counties, Auckland, Waitematā and Northland, have all signed a letter to the Prime Minister requesting that borders be maintained and the only people allowed in are those who are fully vaccinated. Yeah, that seems to be the way that everybody in the north is wanting it to go.

And so is Shilita. I'm happy with it. And I imagine there's a lot of worry, you know, there's naturally worry all around the country as well about the virus getting into the communities and the vulnerable people as well. Oh, we're just more worried about you Jeffers getting out there. Getting some mud on our tyres and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, that's it.

All us Jeffers just want to come and see you. That's the real virus we're worried about. Now, I know you don't live in Gisborne. What are your thoughts about something like Rhythm and Vines going ahead when the iwi in Gisborne have said, we'd advise against it? Well, there's also Northern Base up your way as well, right? I'm not sure about the Rhythm and Vines. I went to that a few years ago.

Did you? I really enjoyed it. Yeah, I understand their concern. I'm not sure how few years ago and I really enjoyed it. I understand their concern. I'm not sure how they're going to manage it. Do you have a message for anyone that could be listening right now that is still a bit hesitant about the vaccine? No, no, double vax

and come and enjoy. It's a beautiful place up here. If you've got yourself covered, then feel free to come. Hone, thank you very much for your time. And I can only imagine a Hone Hardewitter at Rhythm and Vines. Yeah. See you later.

See you, mate. He's out. He's gone, yeah. He's gone. He's busy. He's busy. My body never fully relaxes when I'm talking to Hone. He's always been so good to us, so generous to us with his time.

It's funny the perception you see of people in the media, and then when you actually meet them as people.'s a teddy bear isn't he but then at the same time he's very you know his beliefs are passionate which is what makes him awesome for the community that's right he's doing good things so uh there you go that was a honey hard to winner and uh get out there guys get out there get out there spread it all oh geez that's the message uh your chance uh but have a pretty awesome summer is next. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben.

It is the hits. Jono and Ben. Benny with you in glitter. It is 6.33. Scrolling through your feed. This is where we deliver the first few lines of a news story because we can't be bothered reading the entire article, Ben Boyce. So there's a new National Party leader, Christopher Luxon.

He used to be the head of Air New Zealand. He's now the leader. And it seems to be the last couple of days he'd be doing a lot of media. And it's almost like the media are trying to trip him up with questions. Now, it started on the project a couple of nights ago where the common question of what is the price of cheese? What is the history of this line of questioning? What is the price of cheese? What is the history of this line of questioning? What is the price of cheese? Where did it start? Because

it kicked off once and everyone has been asking it ever since. Yeah, because Judith Collins I think got asked on some, it might have been the project, and she was kind of off. It was a debate. I think it was the debates, maybe. She was off and it was like, oh, she doesn't know the price of cheese, she's lost touch. But you know, cheese comes in many

varieties. Yeah. Are we talking Chesedale slices? Yeah. Are we just, you know, a cheeky little block of Edam? Yeah. A tiny block. You know, you've got tasty aged vintage cheese. You know, like there's all... Halloumi, Camembert, Feta.

I mean, cheese. I mean, what cheese? You name a cheese and I'll tell you the price of it. Yeah. But he got asked this, Christopher Luxon, on the project, and it was a pretty good answer. Yeah. And how much is a kilo block of cheese?

It's about $11.50, I think. Very good. That'll be your Colby. Yes. Yeah, so he did well with that. For once, I'd like them to go, I don't work for the Dairy Board of New Zealand. I'm a politician.

Yeah, I mean, I guess it's to show you haven't lost touch with the common man. Yeah, getting out there and knowing what a supermarket shop would be. But then last night on News Hub, he was kind of grilled a bit more. What is the unemployment rate? 3.9%. 3.4. Minimum wage? $20.

Living wage? $28. No, the living wage is $22.75. What is the median rent? It is $450 a week. $100 out on Trade Me's latest rental price index of $560 a week. What if they told me there's going to be a pop quiz? I would have studied.

I would have studied at least. Yeah, that was Nicola Wilson, obviously, the new deputy as well. $100 out there. 3.9%. Oh, you haven't checked trade me this morning? You know, to turn. But yeah.

I guess it all comes with the territory, doesn't it? Yeah, we're going to actually, he's going to be joining us later in the show, Christopher Luxon,

and it'll be interesting to get his thoughts on, you know, like, was he surprised by the line of questioning, you know? Because as you say, it comes with the territory.

He would have expected that, but at the same time, it feels like everyone's trying to trip them up or get a newspaper click headline. Yeah, I mean, you don't want to be up all night researching the price of

every cheese on offer in the market do you? You're like, ask me the cheese question! She didn't ask me the cheese question! Do you know the minimum wage? No, but I know if you want to buy some brie from Countdown this week you can get it at this price. It's cheese week

at Pack and Save. And that is Scrolling to Your Feed this morning. As we said before, Christopher Luxon is joining us after seven and as the hits, you've got John O'Byrne. It's her 40th birthday today, Britney Spears.

40? Happy birthday. Sheesh. 81, baby. It doesn't make you feel like, you know, like, I know she doesn't feel like she would be 40, you know? No, it does. But then when you really break it down, you're like, well, yeah,

time passes on. I guess people get older. That's kind of how this whole thing works. Yeah, let's do some Spy. Spy, the WhatsApp Spy.co.nz. All right, she's a factory of vulgar gossip, and the production line tunes out scandal after scandal.

It's over to Juliet with Spy. Speaking of Britney who just turned 40, I did see an article pop up. I've got TMZ on my phone as an app and it's usually, a lot of the stuff they publish can be very rumoured, like rumoured the rumour says, rumour says. Sources say.

But one of the things they posted was Britney Spears stops off at petrol station, uses bathroom. And that was just the headline and I was like, wow, we're really going

that deep into Britney Spears' life that we see when she's going to a petrol station using bathroom. There'll be an article on you every day if that was the case,

John. I do. John loves a petrol station bathroom. I am always in a petrol station bathroom. And never buys anything. I always feel like

if you're going to use it, you need to, you know. Every time we're driving together, I'm like, I need to go. I feel obligated. He goes in and buys something. And I don't even need to use the bathroom, just so he would, you know. You feel better about it. Yeah, that's fair. Although, Britney Spears, she's too good for a petrol station bathroom.

Yeah, I know. Isn't she? I know. She'd have very nice bathrooms at her home. Listen, you take your safety in your own hands when you walk into a gas station toilet. Yeah. And another person who's having a birthday is Robert Irwin, Steve Irwin's son. He's turned 18.

He's an identical, isn't he, clone of his dad. He is a clone of Steve Irwin. The way they talk, the mannerisms, he is literally his dad. He goes on all the talk shows in America, right? He brings in animals. Snakes and stuff. Much like his dad would. I know.

It's so cute to see how that's... But it's crazy how he's 18 and then Bindi's got a child. They're so grown up, that family. And in other news, Alec Baldwin is going to be sitting down and giving his first proper sit-down interview since the shooting on the set of the film Rust. So it's going to be on down and giving his first sort of proper sit-down interview since the shooting on the set of the film Rust. So it's going to be on Good Morning America tomorrow, and this is what the guy that interviewed him said about the interview. So it sounds

pretty, pretty go in depth. I've done thousands of interviews in the last 20 years at ABC. This was the most intense I've ever experienced. Well, so raw. I mean, as you can imagine, he's devastated. But he was also very candid. He was very forthcoming. He answered every question. He talked about Helena Hutchins, talked about meeting with her family as well, went through in detail what happened on the set that day. And I have to tell you, I was surprised in many places over the course of that hour and 20 minutes that we sat down yesterday.

An hour and 20 minutes? Yeah. Lengthy interviews. Lengthy interviews. That's like longer than Harry and Meghan's, gosh. But he must go into a lot of detail about everything and all of his thoughts, so we'll probably see some interesting insight

in that interview, probably. Yeah, well, I guess he hasn't really officially spoken, has he? Not really. He had that weird interview on the side of the highway in Canada when the press were following him, and he was like, I just need to get you guys to leave me alone. Yeah, and that's all he sort Not really. He had that weird interview on the side of the highway in Canada when the press were following him and he was like I just need to get you guys

to leave me alone. Yeah and that's all he sort of really said so this is the first one since. Is he going to be charged Alec Baldwin because he's a producer on that film.

Yeah I'm not sure where that's got to. Yeah I don't know where it's got to but I think there are a lot of moving parts and also a lot of people they're doing an investigation

on what like where went wrong but it's hard because you can't pinpoint on one person. There are so many things that, so many checks that have to go through different people in order for something like, you know?

So it probably won't be solely blamed on him, I hope. And that is Spy for the South. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. After seven o'clock on the show, your chance to win free fish and chips somewhere in New Zealand today. That's very exciting. And also, just as exciting if not more

we debut our new song The Exponents Remix just ready for summer, is it good? Is it bad? We'll let you decide just after 7 Jono and Ben or as they're known in the office those two Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast on the hits.

You're on the hits, John O'Ban, 756 on your Thursday. Now, Ben Boyce, your mother-in-law, Joyce, very happy that you made it to the lofty heights of Newstalk ZB yesterday. Yeah, well, we both did. I can't take all the credit. You know, we were on Newstalk ZB, the Yeah, well, we both did. I can't take all the credit. You know, we were on Newstalk ZB, the most prestigious of all radio stations, yesterday. We spoke to the Prime Minister on our show. I don't know. Does she not spend a lot of time talking to Newstalk ZB,

the Prime Minister? You'd think they could just pull some audio from Hosking's interview or something. Yeah, I thought she would be talking to Mike Hosking. I don't know. I wonder why that doesn't happen. Who knows? But she talks to us. Maybe not as in-depth as our interviews were.

Yeah, but anyway, we made news for something. We were talking about her wedding and obviously the restrictions under the traffic light system if it takes place over summer. And we're on the news. And if you listen, I mean, we're all over this news bulletin. Her Gisborne wedding could hit a conflict if the Tairawhiti Gisborne region is still in the red traffic light. That would mean limiting to 100 guests.

Uninviting people is quite awkward. So I haven't actually quite figured out what we're going to do. Yeah. Yeah. I'm the guy with, yeah. That's me. And you did that, yeah. There's some hard-hitting stuff from us there. We should talk to Beavers and Butthead.

Well, there you go. We're grunting on the news to ZB News. I see why Joyce was there. How did Joyce recognise your grunt? Making news. Mate, we're making news. Yeah. What more Jono would bear? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on the hits.

And via the iHeartRadio app. Brought to you by Rosene. New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi-made since 1946.