Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Spoke To A Lady Who Married Her Gay Best Friend Just To Get UK Residency!

Episode Date: September 8, 2021

Kia ora whānau! Today's show was a really fun one. We played WOW WEDNESDAY, and asked for any calls from anyone that could wow us. And we had someone who did not disappoint. She married her gay British best friend just to get permanent residency in the UK, and it actually worked. But there's a part to the story that is TOTALLY unexpected! We also caught up with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern - does she have a personal stylist? Finally, Ben's daughter is doing a spelling bee, so Ben put Indie and Jono head to head on some difficult words. Enjoy the poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Owen Benn, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of John Owen Benn, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the John Owen Benn Podcast. 2-2-2-1-2, it's Wednesday the 8th of September. If you say 2-2-1212, it makes you feel,

it makes you appear like a sound aficionado, doesn't it? But I have no idea why I'm saying that. Yeah. I know it's for testing the mic. I don't know exactly what it's testing. No, just that it's going and stuff. But yeah, I always wondered why that was the thing that they landed on, going, oh, just count one, testing 1212.

Can I, should I Google it? Why do they say testing one, two? Here we go. Why do they say testing? Actually, when we say one, we naturally produce a low vocal frequency. And when we pronounce the T in two, we are producing a high vocal frequency. By saying one, two, one, two, we are producing a high vocal frequency. By saying one, two, one, two, we are therefore checking if the microphone and sound system are responding as they should to the high and low audio frequencies.

There we go. There is an actual reason behind it. Crazy. There you go. You learn the internet. What would we have done back in the 90s there? We'd have to go to Encyclopedia Britannica. We would have, I would have been.

In Carter, maybe. I would have given up before. I would have gone, oh, it's interesting. You know, like. It's not that important. Yeah, but it's nice, and I'm glad I know that now. You're right. It's so much easier just to type that in, and away you go.

To gather information. But, you know, it's still not that important. It's not going to change. No. The way that we approach life. No, it wasn't like i'll go down the library find a park go inside the library you're really back in the day you really have to weigh up the level of what you're winning wanting to learn and if you can

actually be fucked going to learn that was the you know and you really you look back at your nostradamuses uh and all of those people. Einstein. Look back at those people and go, wow, the stuff they came up with. But then they also had the advantage of being the first to invent that stuff. So they kind of made the rules, you know. Yeah, true. He's just gone E equals MC squared. Everyone's like, what does that mean? He's like, oh, a bit of this, a bit of that.

I'm sure he showed his workings,'t he you know how'd you get there oh look trust me on it guys i'm smarter than you all but who worked out mathematics yeah i know there's so much stuff when you break it all down hey you're like jeez some people back in the day were doing some wonderful things and now we just take advantage of it by going, oh, God, I can't bother watching a 20-second video on TikTok. That's what we're like. Yeah, I know. We're so impatient as a generation now, aren't we? Yeah.

So I don't even know if you got to the end of that. Like, as a podcast intro, you might have already moved on. We might have lost you. That's the generation we are. I tell you, Einstein would have stuck around. He would have stuck around. And he'd stick around for the podcast, wouldn't he? Yeah, because, well, no, he'd probably be listening to something like Radio New Zealand's podcast.

Whatever that stuff you should know, whatever it is. But he would know it all. Oh, yeah. He's like, yeah, but just stuff I already know. Just to hear it and go, yeah, I knew that. Just to tell people, do you hear about that? Yeah, no, I know that. I don't even think he'd be a Joe Rogan sort of guy, Einstein.

No. Who would he have listened to back in the day? Radio, no, I know that. I don't even think he'd be a Joe Rogan sort of guy, Einstein. Nah. Who would he have listened to back in the day? Radio New Zealand would have been good. He would have wanted him to be learning more of the world's newsletters. Because he already knows everything. Yeah. Yeah. He probably doesn't know everything.

But he was pretty smart. Jeez, he was frazzled though, wasn't he? In his appearance. He looked frazzled. Jesus, his hair. No tender love and care to the hair. He was busy. Jesus, his hair. No tender love and care to the hair. He was busy. He was obviously busy.

It looked like his hair was permanently in a wind tunnel. It did. He's having Boris Johnson look like they're both permanently busy, right? Yeah. Maybe it's a sign of genius or something. Yeah, yeah. A dishevelled look. Yeah, you're right.

Maybe it is. It's like, oh, he's busy. Yeah. So we've got a busy wee podcast for you today, haven't we? Today on the podcast, catch up with Mike King. Doing a wonderful initiative right now. Helping out a lot of the youth of New Zealand. So yeah.

He's offering a free thing for the youth of New Zealand. If there's one thing that I know, if something's free, take it. Oh, this is actually really worthwhile. This is awesome. Jacinda Ardern as well. She joins us. I asked her, does she dress herself every day?

Yeah. And she's kind of like, well, yeah, I'm a growing adult. But I was like, surely she'd have a stylist or something. Obviously not.

Obviously not. I don't believe her. I reckon for big events they would go, oh, you should wear this or whatever. You know, or this is.

She must have been given like a wardrobe of like the prime ministerial wardrobe. This is your wheelhouse. Maybe she gets to mix and match, pick and choose whatever she wears in that wheelhouse. I can't see her whipping down to the Westfield and shopping, you know. Like she probably doesn't have time for that. Yeah, she's not ordering off Posty Plus or anything.

She probably needs to, oh, I need some new stuff. Maybe you're right. Maybe someone goes down and buys some stuff or texts us some photos. But she wasn't willing to tell me that. No. Yeah, the hard questions, eh? That's what you get on this show. New Zealand's breakfast.

This is Jono and Ben on the hits. It's just gone eight o'clock. You're with Jono and Ben on the hits. We've got the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, joining us very shortly. And New Zealand, or everyone outside of Auckland, are level two today. Last time we spoke to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern,

feels like you need to say Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern every time you say her name, she said she was still going to live level 4 rules Just out of solace to her fellow Aucklanders We want to see if she's stuck to her word And last time she had a coffee That was the one thing, one coffee But she's not a big coffee drinker So she shared it with the team

They tipped it into the little cups to share it around A takeaway coffee To have like three drips of coffee each She doesn't drink much coffee How does she not drink coffee? In that job though Oh my goodness You could be drinking seven or eight coffees

We only work till nine and we have eight coffees She's working 24 hours a day She joins us next But it is Wednesday Can you make Cano and Van go? Wow. Wow.

It's Oh Wow Wednesday. Want to see if we can get a call through on 0800 The Hits of something that can wow us. Yeah, anything you've got that happened in your life, can you wow the nation? Every time I see Wow Wednesday written in our run sheet, I always think that I need to come dressed in a rubbish sack with condoms or socks or something for the world of wearable arts it happened one

week it was weird i'm sorry it's a yellow it's what wednesday guys what a world of wearable arts can we wow you next we'll find out it is the hits, John Owen Bain, 8.09, Wednesday morning. And it's a Wednesday, so we do this. Wow, oh, wow. Can you make John Owen Bain go wow? Wow. Wow. It's Oh Wow Wednesday.

Pretty simple game. You just got to phone us up with a story that will make us go wow. This is the type of story that would be turned into a Netflix miniseries. Maybe one or two episodes on Netflix, would you say, Ben? Yeah. Or a cheeky one-hour doco or something. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and joining us on the phone right now is Stell.

Wow, Wednesday. What are you boys up to? Battling our way through a radio show, but apparently this is where you come along because you've got a cool wee story that's going to wow us, apparently. Yeah. I was in England on my OE, as you do, and

I got to the end of my two years and I didn't want to go home. So I was talking to my friends and said, what do you guys do? I said, we've just married our best friend.'t want to go home. And so I was talking to my friends and said, what do you guys do? What do you guys do? Oh, we just married our best friend. Oh, to stay longer, you married a... Obviously someone with a British passport. Right.

So that's what some of the world's greatest marriages are based on, just overstaying. Right. Okay, so this was... And so, yeah, we decided to get married, and so we did that. And we went to the Chelsea registry office we got married but on the way there we decided to enjoy it to the fullest extent so we

decided to take something that made us more happy Right, okay. Is it like how being you like hummus and that makes you happy? Yeah, yeah, I like that. Yeah, I guess you're in the mood. Disco biscuits. Right, yeah. Yeah, okay. So off we went. We turn up at the registrar's office and they're running late,

which is not good for our disco biscuits because, you know, they're already happening. The disco's already started. It's already started. It's halfway through. And so we used to sit there in the office with the registrar and do a bit of a, you know, hello, how are you? Yes, my father does this for a living.

My mother does this for a living. And we are just absolutely amping. You're amping. Yeah, okay. And so they're grilling you on an interview and they're asking you questions. Kind of, yeah. Because the guy I was marrying

was a six-foot gay bald man. So they're trying to find out how legitimate this wedding is. So we sat there trying to convince him and we sort of get out of that meeting and I'm like, I don't know if we've pulled that off. And it's like, yeah, we could be in some serious trouble here. Because it is actually against the law to do that.

Right. Who would have thought? Yeah. And so as we're sort of like talking about this amongst the guests, one of my ex-boyfriends who, you know, I had several of them there as, you know. As witnesses. Okay. You've got all the exes there. Yes, they're all for it. They're all up for it. All several of them. And one of the guys is an accountant and he goes, you know what, that registrar is my neighbour. I'm like, what?

Really? He goes, yeah. And he's having an affair with the girl down the road. I said, you need to go and talk to him immediately. You need to tell him that that's where he has to go through and that nothing can stop it. Oh, my goodness. Wow. We've never heard back, so we actually got away with it. So that was the thing that made it legit.

That was pretty much it, yeah. So you got married, blackmailed someone. Some registrar, yeah. Blackmailed a poor registrar. And are you still married to this man? Yes, I am. I kind of decided to come home about, I don't know, 36 hours

before September 11th and arrived home. Went to bed that night and woke up to 9-11 and kind of went, nah, I'm staying here. And so where's your husband now? He's in England. Have you still got his number? I haven't got his number.

I haven't got his number. I so wish I did. But he's your husband. Yeah. It's hard to do a long-distance relationship. I can say that we never consummated the marriage. Right. So you got married in front of all of your ex-partners.

Yeah, my friends, my buddies. And bullied a man into signing a marriage licence. Wow. There you go. Wow Wednesday. They've wowed us with a wow Wednesday. Hey, well, thank you so much for sharing that story. No worries, anytime.

What a story. What a heck of a story. Marriage a convenience, much like ours. And the love's gone, hasn't it, Ben? He's always, he's like, I'm working late tonight. I'm like, we do the same job. Why are you out so late? I'm here waiting for you.

Hot cooked meal. Every night, Ben. What's happened to us? Anyway. Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister, joins us next. It is the hits. Cover me in sunshine. It is the hits.

Jono and Ben, 8.16. We've got the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, joining us now. Punctual Ardern back at it. Never late. Didn't want to let you down. Sometimes a touch tardy for the one o'clock. Yeah. Oh, you are, yeah.

And then you talk for 12 minutes about, oh, we're doing well. And you're like, just get to the thing. What are we? Are we moving levels? What's happening? Sorry. I just speed that bit up as well. It's like a whole TED Talk up there from you.

I'm like, I want a level. What level are we at? I know I've got everyone's attention for about three minutes until that information is out there. Yeah, then you lose it, right? Then you lose it. It's like a compliment sandwich, is it? The feedback sandwich that you give every day. How you been, Jacinda?

Oh, not too bad. How are you guys? Oh, we're doing all right. Now you've been securing a whole lot more vaccines. Is that like shopping for clothes on ASOS? You've been out there going hard or what? But much, much more stressful than that. It's very complicated.

And for a really good reason as well. You've got to make sure that everything's in order from the regulations just so we can ensure that everything's proper. So, yeah, it's a very complicated thing. How do you actually get vaccines? Do you have to deal directly with Pfizer and Moderna and all the companies yourselves? Well, as we've said, what we've set up an arrangement for is for Pfizer because that's what we're using in our rollout. But it involves the country you're doing the,

have the arrangement with. And also you do have to have the drug company as well. So yeah, it's complicated. Yeah, I imagine it would be. And then the shipping is very complicated. You guys must be on tenterhooks when it's on the ship. Oh yeah, yep, yep. Sometimes I get sunk head photos of them on the tarmac and things like that. I imagine, I was thinking

about that last night. You have so much to deal with with your job and you've had so many sort of things to navigate over the last few years as well. Do you ever have moments where you're just like, oh, I'd just like to sit and watch Netflix and have a cup of tea and not worry about things? Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think it probably wouldn't be natural if you didn't have those moments. I'm always reminded that I'm never doing the job alone. There's always a lot of people who are helping with everything and also I know I look back on this time and think regardless of what's happened it will be the greatest privilege of my life so yeah i remind myself of that every day you don't want to look back and regret anything

i wouldn't imagine no no no no i think everyone goes through life trying to make sure that they live life without regrets it doesn't mean it's not the same as things you're doing differently but can you ever just whip up the road to the dairy without telling anyone? No, no. The closest I've got is sometimes in the summertime, I forget a little bit that there's people who want to know where I'm going. So sometimes I'll go out for a walk and I'll be 200 metres up the road and realise that for the first time in a year I'm by myself. And then I have to text someone.

Yeah, is it weird not being by yourself all the time? Yeah, yeah. The people that are always with me are so great, though, so they always try and give you a bit of space, but it is a bit unusual, yeah. Now I have another question, too. This may seem very menial, given everything that's going on at the moment,

but I looked at you on the news yesterday, and you're always impeccably dressed, Jacinda do you pick out your own clothes every day because that would be another thing on your to-do list that you probably can't be bothered doing or are they done for you do you know what's so hilarious about you saying that i stepped out of the house this morning and in the stark light of day realized that i have a massive stain down the lapel of my jacket. So I'll be without a jacket today. That'll be my first question. Where's your jacket, Prime Minister?

Yes, no, of course, every day, not just in lockdowns, I do indeed dress myself like all of the other grown-ups. What a stupid question, John. Well, can I just say, you're doing a good job of dressing yourself. Keep it up. Everyone out of Auckland is, of course, Level 2 today.

What are you hoping to see to maybe bring Auckland to Level 3 next week? What are you guys really hoping for? Yeah, so, again, just whether or not we've got the sense that it's contained. Is this our one shot? This is our real one big shot to really kind of eliminate Delta, you know, and get on back to where we were a few months ago? Well, the one thing I'd say is that actually we're doing really well. Delta is extremely hard.

And there have been countries who have done that. It is tougher than the others, but we are still doing really, really well. Does the country go back to normality once we've stamped out Delta, or is that not actually going to be feasible? Oh, yeah. I mean, I was talking to our public health team the other day. I mean, when we announced a Level 2, it wasn't for the rest of the country. It wasn't with the view that everyone would be there forever.

So that's our goal still, is to get a bit of normality. But while we've got that, we have a job to do. We have to vaccinate as quickly as possible. So to anyone who hasn't booked a vaccination yet, please do that, because that's the thing that will help us if we ever again have cases of Delta come up. That's the thing that will help us being spared a lockdown. So you'd be happy if the majority of the country

was vaccinated, then we could go back to... Yeah, then we could go back to trying to making sure that we didn't have to use lockdowns if we had cases emerge. We have other tools that we can use. Our goal is elimination here.

And we've said we'll keep under review, you know, our strategy going forward. But right now we've got to get rid of it and we've got to vaccinate. And vaccination in the future will be the thing that means we don't have to use lockdowns in the same way. You'll be interested to know a big vaccination centre's just opened up across the road from us here in town, Jacinda.

Oh, yeah, that one, so we moved one because it's got more capacity. So it means we can vaccinate more people there. So that's an inner city one, I think. Yeah, it is. A lot of people in hazmat suits loading stuff in yesterday. It looks very... It can do up to, at my recollection, about 1,000 people a day can go through that one,

so nice and convenient. How do you know that? Yeah, you must have so much in your brain that you're just like... And you've got to dress yourself. Yeah. Jacinda Ardern, thank you so much for your time. Are you doing anything?

You got anything you need to do at Level 2 that you're like, oh, I need to get my hair done Or anything like that, I suppose you've got no time for that I've been at level 3, I'm still living a level 4 life So a bit of solidarity for Auckland at the moment Good, and you keep doing that You keep feeling bad for us, alright

I absolutely do, don't you worry My sister's up there having that same experience With everyone And you're hearing it from her Oh yeah, I do. I appreciate your time, and thanks again for everything you've done. Take care, everyone.

Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on New Salted Bean. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The Heats. Have you got opinions about stuff? No, I can't. What's your opinion? You asked me what do you want an opinion on?

The, I don't know what I really care, to be honest. That's my problem. opinion? You asked me, what do you want an opinion on? Um, the... I don't really care, to be honest. That's my problem. I don't care about this opinion. I'll ask you something. I'll say something big in the world and you'll say something. It's cut to the chase. Let's just get

what we're here to do and then move on. And that's as much opinion as you'll get on this show. I'm just going, I don't care. What does it matter? Hey, listen, level two for a lot

of the country today. And hey, congratulations. Yeah, it's great. You're a better part of New Zealand than Auckland is. That's for sure. Celebrate it.

Embrace it. A lot of businesses opening up today. And Ben Boyce, one thing they say about this show, well, they've got no opinion. That's the first thing.

Second thing they say is, geez, they've got no opinion, that's the first thing second thing they say is, jeez they've always supported small business yeah, yeah, I think they say that small business supporters, the backbone of this radio program, so we thought right now I'll give you the chance to advertise your business if you're open again today, whatever you're doing on the radio, 0800

the hits is the phone number, now we can't give away free ads that are 30 seconds long we're not allowed, the sales department would frown upon that, they is the phone number. Now, we can't give away free ads that are 30 seconds long. We're not allowed. The sales department would frown upon that, right? They would frown upon it, but we can sneak under the radar with a cheeky 10-seconder. This doesn't show up in the system. No. You know, the sales manager in his wonderful Giorgio Armani suit won't pick up on it.

We get away with it, you know, for the battler, for the little business. So the only stipulation is there's got to be a 10-second plug. So it could be like, you play Ben,'ll play a caller oh okay hello the hit so what do you want to advertise uh i want to know what your opinion is don't have strong opinions okay well secondly i just want to advertise uh jerry's gigalos open back back for business oh yeah oh yeah what else what you got a few more seconds uh gigolos for any occasion, funerals, weddings, parties. That's your 10 seconds, but thanks very much for that, and thank you for going for something that was

not quite as PC as I'd hoped. But that's a very poor example of how it works. You advertise your business, get it around the country, and hopefully we can get business moving again. 0800 the hits. It is business time, literally. Thought we'd play this. Seems appropriate. Oh, this is a song. Fly to the Concords. It is the hits. It is business time, literally. Thought we'd play this. Seems appropriate. Oh, this is a song.

Flight of the Conchords. It is the hit. Oh, what a tune. It is Flight of the Conchords. It's business time. There's one for everyone operating business. Level two. It is business time for everyone in New Zealand outside of Auckland today. And things are back open again under slightly more restrictions,

which we understand, but it's good to get business moving. So whether you're dusting off the computer keyboards, wiping down the hammering machine, or blowing off the combodulator, whatever job you do, you can plug your business right now. You've got 10 seconds. That's the only stipulation because we need this to slide

under the 30-second commercial radio benchmark. It won't show up in the sales reports at the end of the month. So call us right now. You've got 10 seconds. It's business time. It's business. It's business time. Logan, you're on with your 10 seconds. Plug the business that's back in business. It's business time. Logan, you're on with your 10 seconds.

Plug the business that's back in business. Yeah, mate, we certainly are back in business, and we are glad to be back. AB Kiwi are open here in Wellington for your security and your cabling needs, either commercial or residential. Oh, beautiful. Actually, you timed that perfectly, Logan.

That was really good. All the information you wanted to get out, you got out? Yeah, mate Well done, Logan He's one of those guys that'd be like, I can voice my own commercials And he does a great job And he nailed it Yeah

Well, you keep safe in Wellington in Level 2, Logan Will do, mate You guys enjoy yourself, mate Thank you very much It's business time It's business It's business time. And at your level two.

Take it away, Annette. You've got ten seconds. Hi, it's Annette here from the Leeson Coffee Company in Leeson in Canterbury. Come on down and get a nice hot pie that we baked here and fresh, fresh coffee. You've still got another four seconds. Oh, another four seconds. And anything else you want. Oh, a hot coffee, a pie.

Oh, jeez. Could you do us a favour, Annette? Yeah. Can we just hear the coffee machine? Just a little bit of it. Oh, sure. Hold on. I'll just go on down the front.

Oh, yeah. Two seconds. Hold the phone up to it. I will. Hold on. Yeah, great. Here we have Zach making coffee. Hi, Zach. Hi, Zach.. I will. Hold on. Here we have Zach making coffee. Hi, Zach.

Hi, Zach. Stirring it. Yeah. There we go. Oh, there we go. Just a tear. I could not wait. I was expecting, but I heard a cup, and it was good enough.

It's all I needed. Thank you, Annette. You keep safe. You've got to pay more for the OnlyFans account for coffee. Oh, good. Thank you. Keep safe, Annette. All right. It's business time. Only fans account for coffee. Oh, good. Thank you. Keep safe, Annette.

All right, it's business time. It's business. It's business time. And Krishnan, you're on from Hamilton. You've got 10 seconds. See you. Oh, gone. Didn't want to plug Plus 90. Too much business going on.

Too much business going on. We'll stick with the Waikato. Jodie, welcome. It's business time. You've got 10 seconds. Plug away. Who doesn't love a good's business time. You've got 10 seconds. Plug away. Who doesn't love a good sausage in ya? Give Right's Meat Market

a check on Facebook and we will get delivered fresh, beautiful meat to your door. Has the mad butcher had an illegitimate child? Because I think it's Jodie and we just met her. I was like, did she say what I thought? She just said that. The Right's Meat Market.

Jodie will look after you there. Awesome. Have a great day, Jodie. I appreciate your call. Thanks, Wood. Enjoy level two. Yeah. That was fun.

We should do that again. Yeah, we can do that again tomorrow if you want to advertise. Flick us a text. You can give us 4487 and we'll get your business on tomorrow. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is

the B**** News alrighty Rachel Jackson-Lees she chalks this up at the end of the year and her tax return is her charity work so thank you

Rachel Jackson-Lees our newsreader what's this Ju? I find some news stories from around the world and beep out a couple of the words in the headline

and you guys have to figure out what the true headline is but you often don't really go for the true headline do you? No, no. All right today we'll be serious today definitely. Okay the first news story I found. A festival for is taking place in New York City. I know this one actually. Do you? Yeah I do know this one. It's a parking warden festival in New York City called Rhythm and Fines. It's a big festival for parking wards. I know this one.

That's the answer, guys. I've got nothing better than Rhythm and Fines. Are you sure? We're locking it in. Okay. Well, can I play legitimately? Okay, yeah. Okay, I'm going to try and play the game properly this morning.

All right, not going for a gag answer. No, go for your Rhythm and Fines stuff, which was very good, though. I'm going to try and play the game properly this morning. All right, not going for a gag answer. No, go for your rhythm and fine stuff, which was very good, though. I'm going parky, a festival for... You can't say parky, guys. You're parky. Okay, so it's a festival. You go to Rhythm and Vines, but it's parking waters. Okay, I know. Mine's not the answer.

I know it's not. I'm going to go people who have been vaccinated. It's a festival for them, and they show their card, and they can get them for free. Oh, wow. A festival for bald people is taking place in New York City. You knew it all along. Yeah.

Stitcher. It was right under my hat. That's so funny. You know, as soon as I saw this article, I was like this is very low hanging fruit, but I know it will play right into your comedic heart. Yeah, so it's a bald fest. It's a bald fest, and it's a celebration for owning your own fate. People who are losing hair, receding hair, bald alopecia, bald allies, and bald-owned businesses.

It's the opposite of Fashion Week, and it's being held in New York City. What do you do? Do you just turn up and be like, are you bald? You know, unite with the baldies, the fellow baldies. Multiple bald people in one location is odd. It's an odd sight. Just looks like a bunch of Voldemorts hanging around the place. It does.

You know, when me and buddy Vaughn from ZM are in the same room, it's odd. You know? You've both got your hats on. It's an odd look. You need to put sunglasses on. Too many baldies in one location is creepy. All right, the next news story. Hack will stop spiders invading your home during mating season.

Oh, I'm going to go closing the doors and windows. That's a nice little hack. Will stop spiders coming inside. I'm going to say drowning an itsy bitsy spider out using spouts and rain. Oh, yeah. And a popular children's rhyme is a great hack of keeping spiders out. Lemon hack will stop spiders invading your home during mating season. So I don't know if any of you guys knew this, but spiders can't stand the smell of citrus.

So if you find you get little white tails or daddy long legs around the house, you can just kind of rub lemon peel or vinegar or something. They hate vinegar as well as peppermint over windowsills or any areas that you find spiders and they'll stay away, the little buggers. I didn't know that. I've got a lemon tree. Yes! A highly publicised lemon tree that

I was meant to bring lemons in about a year ago for all of my wonderful colleagues here and I have yet to do so. That would be very good use of the lemons. And the final news story, couple use *** instead of flower girl for their wedding. I'm going to go couple use a the lemons. And the final news story. Couple use instead of flower girl for their wedding. I'm going to go couple use a bald person.

Because I feel like that might be the answer for comedic purposes. Instead of flower girl. I'm going to say couple use dog to play legitimately. Couple using their dog instead of flower girl. Couple use beer boy instead of flower girl for their wedding.

So he went down in front of the bride instead of what a traditional flower girl would do and handed out beers to the guest while throwing flower petals everywhere. So he kind of covered both bases, got the party started early, so everyone could have an alcoholic beverage while watching the ceremony. That's all anyone's wanting during the nuptials. When do we start drinking? When do we lay the hammer down? How wanting during the nuptials. When do we start drinking? When do we lay the hammer down? How long do the nuptials actually go on for?

I've never really been to a wedding recently. They can be as quick or as long as you want, I guess. Yeah, I've been to ones that have been sort of 15 minutes and ones that have been an hour. But then there's always that period after the nuptials where you have to talk to people. Let's just do what we came here to do. How quickly do you move from the ceremony to the reception

where the party starts? Those are the laggy minutes. Some couples are like, you're straight into it. But then other couples, it's like you're hanging around for an hour waiting for photos. Yeah. Oh, wow. We drink straight outside our...

Straight outside drinks and then you can go to the reception. That sounds fun. Because you're right, there's that period where you're like, can we leave and go to the reception fun that sounds fun because you're right there's that period where you're like can we leave and go to the thing now you know and it feels rude

starting without the cappy cappy yeah doesn't it the show where the masks make them look a whole lot better can't save this

battered up old face it makes you beautiful Jono and Ben New Zealand's Breakfast have you guys been watching a lot of Netflix lately yeah we've been watching a lot of Netflix lately? I've been watching a lot of it, yeah, watching all sorts.

It's amazing what the platforms you watch when there's not a lot, you know, you're in lockdown. Do you think you've watched everything that you wanted to watch? Obviously there's, you know, oodles of content out there, but do you think you've done with your streaming viewing at this stage? No, not necessarily. Because you've resorted back to network television watching Celebrity Treasure Island. You know, that's where you've got to, so it makes me believe you've watched a lot of stuff. I know, the

family, the family, we had a talk last night as a family because we watched the first one and then they were like we need to watch again tonight and I was like, guys, this is a big commitment. It was like the chat we had before we got the dog. Who's picking up all the... I was like, this is three nights a week, guys. This is, you know, we're going to do this as a family. Are we in as a family? And everyone's agreed we're in, so we're in. this is three nights a week, guys. This is, you know, we're going to do this. Are we in as a family?

And everyone's agreed we're in, so we're in. It was three nights a week. Three nights a week, so we're in there at the moment. So that's your new viewing. We'll see you in seven weeks. Yeah, I was watching, I don't know if you've seen the documentary on Netflix, but it's about Dr. Dre and this record exec

or producer, Jimmy Iovine. It's very, very good, eh? The Defiant Ones. Yeah, it's awesome. Have you seen that? No, I haven't. It's about Dr. Dre and this record exec or producer, Jimmy Iovine. It's very, very good, eh? The Defiant Ones. Yeah, it's awesome. Have you seen that? No, I haven't. It's really good. You should watch it.

Okay. So Dr. Dre's obviously a musical path, and this guy produced a lot of massive rock records, and they kind of, their paths crossed. And eventually they ended up making Beats, the headphone company. Oh, Beats by Dre. Beats by Dre. Got it.

So that all came about where Dr. Dre had a conversation. Do you know that idea came in 10 minutes? What? Dr. Dre had a conversation with this guy, Jimmy Iovine. He's like, oh, the sneaker company wants me to do shoes. And he's like, I know nothing about shoes. I wear the same pair of clothes every day. He wears the same shoes he's got at Nike Air Force.

Ones. Ones, yeah. He's just got millions of them. He's like, I just wear the same thing every day. And he's like, well, you don't know anything about shoes Or no sneakers You don't know anything about sneakers But you know stuff about speakers

And that was it Then he said in two days They were testing headphones And away you go Then they sold it to Apple For 3.5 billion That's crazy 3.5 billion

But the problem I have When I'm watching these inspirational documentaries is I walk away and I'm like, I'm going to go do stuff. I'm going to go change the game. I'm going to do headphones, whatever it is, you know. You get too inspired. You're like, pull it back, mate. You know, you're just a low-level radio host in New Zealand.

You can't change the world. Yeah, well, they probably had a lot of finances behind them already. They were at that stage. But that's the dangerous thing with those, Doc. They get you too inspired. Get home yesterday to Jennifer. I was like, we're getting into headphones. About headphones, why would you copy what?

I mean, you do use headphones, granted. But Dr. Dre, they've already done the headphones. You've got to find a gap in the market You do know about headphones I mean in this instance Why don't you give TED Talks to inspired radio students Is that going to make any money? Don't make a suggestion

and then laugh after it too late and she's like Is the video I was going to watch that yet idiot? You do need to find something that branches over, you know, like, not just, don't focus just on radio, like, because they, you know, focus out, everyone can wear a pair of headphones.

What I did find really inspiring in this inspiring documentary that I was going to go out and start a headphone empire was when the music, the turn of the music industry where it all started going from CDs to streaming. Yeah. And this guy was just like, we need to change. We need to pivot.

This guy, Jimmy. So he's like faced with a problem, and he goes and finds a whole new direction. Yeah. Mate, I'm inspired, Ben. We're doing it, baby. What are we doing? I don't know, baby.

But if I just keep saying we're doing it, baby, stuff's going to happen. I don't know what we're doing. We might be doing News and Beeps next. I don't know. Who knows? But we're doing it. That's the hits and Beeps next. I don't know. Who knows? But we're doing it. It is the hits.

You've got Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Kia ora, good morning. It is a Wednesday morning. It's a big day. Level two for most of the country today. So enjoy your newfound freedoms under the new strict level two rulings.

But enjoy that today. So schools aren't open, are they? Not till tomorrow, but things today like, you know, the cafes and barbers and hair salons, if they want to, they can open up under the new restrictions. Is it an open day or a prep day for these people?

I think they can just get in there. That's it? Yesterday was the prep day. Yeah. Done. Yeah, they're into it. They're open. Yeah, they're into it, mate.

They're into it today, yeah. Call us. Yeah. Text us. 4487. What's it like in level two? I it, mate. They're into it today, yeah. Call us. Text us. 4487. What's it like in level two? I don't know. I had one of those mornings this morning, you know, when you are getting ready,

but you're not actually digesting or processing anything you're doing. And I walked out of the shower and I was like, I can't even remember soaping myself. And then you start to question. And then you start to smell yourself. You came to work with like a huge stain down the front of your top. Yeah, I know. So maybe you got your clothes on in the shower or something. I've got a soaking wet top.

Yeah. Maybe that's why you didn't soak yourself. Maybe I got dressed before the shower. Yeah, I don't know. Doing things all out of sorts. How are you, Juliette, this morning? I'm good, thank you. Yes, very good.

You're never not good, are you, Juliette? You're always nice and bubbly. Yeah, yeah. What if I was like, yeah, I'm pretty average today, guys. Six o'clock in the morning. That's the thing on radio. You can't actually show your true feelings on radio. You've always just got to be happy.

We can't turn up one morning and be like, shit, I'm having a shit in my life. You know, you couldn't have three hours of that. Not three hours. I mean, you can delve into it from time to time, but you're right. It'd be bleak. So put on your happy face. I have mowed through these next three hours.

It is a Wednesday. We've got Mike King joining us after seven o'clock. A wonderful initiative that he's behind to help some young Kiwis through lockdown. As well as Jacinda Ardern after eight o'clock. $5,000 and a chance to win with our new TV show. What more could you want?

Well, maybe level two everywhere. It is the hits. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. The hits. Good morning. It is 6.28. Now, Ladbible is one of your favorite websites, Producer Juliet.

I love it. Surprisingly, it's Producer Juliet's favorite website. But I follow it on Instagram and they actually had a post that's going really well and it's basically a whole lot of fake texts from famous people and it's

like you can choose to reply to only one which one are you going to reply back to oh okay say it's your text so they've got Margot Robbie saying when are you buying me a drink is the

first one they've got the rock Dwayne Johnson saying ready to go hard in the gym brother yeah you've got Gordon Rock, Dwayne Johnson, saying, Ready to go hard in the gym, brother? Yeah. You've got Gordon Ramsay going, Food's ready, just need the idiot sandwich. So you've got all these famous people.

They've even got Michael Scott, who is the character from the TV show The Office, saying, We're filming a parkour video, you in? And KSI, who's a rapper, saying, I need you in a feature, you come into the studio. So you can only reply back to one. Ooh. There you go. Well, I know your answer. Even though I'd be terrible. Why, you come into the studio. So you can only reply back to one. Oh.

Here you go. Well, I know your answer. Even though I'd be terrible at the gym. Why would you go to the gym? I could even lift weights with The Rock. Maybe you could like towel him down. Yeah, I'd still go to the gym with The Rock. Provide refreshments. Yeah, like I'd love to work out with The Rock,

but I definitely wouldn't be using the same weights as him. Yeah. I don't think he'd have weights that I could lift in this gym. But anyway, that's what I would do. But it would be weird because would you work out next to him? Probably next to him Or would you just be like on the treadmill over in the corner? How does water's working out mate?

Well just give it a go, I'd just want to do that But what about yourself, what'd you do? Would you food from Gordon Ramsay? Would you go out with Margot Robbie? Michael Scott you do love The Office I do love The Office But my parkour skills are lacking It's a dangerous thing isn't it? I wouldn't imagine him do love The Office, don't you? I do love The Office. But my parkour skills are lacking. Yeah.

That's the only... It's a dangerous thing, isn't it? It is, yeah. I wouldn't imagine him having watched The Office, that character. They're not that good at parkour. No, no, they're not that good at parkour. But, yeah, no, parkour, I feel like you need some level of expertise when it comes to jumping from building to building.

Yeah. What were the other ones? You got Gordon Ramsay. So, you know, would you like something cooked by Gordon Ramsay? Idiot sandwich? He's got food ready for you, mate. He's going to get just abusive over dinner, isn't he? Am I helping him cook the meal or am I just sitting there waiting?

No, he's got food ready. Oh, food's ready. Yeah, food's ready. By the time I get to Ramsay, though, it's going to be cold. All right. I'm really reading into it. Man, we need an answer to wrap this up. Okay, we'll just wrap it up anyway.

I really regret bringing that up, to be honest. Jesus, answer it. It's not a real situation. Oh, you know, Gordon, man,

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it's, it's, it's, there's just an annoying Jono interrupting with dumb questions. Ben Boyce, what's happening in scrolling? Well, let's go non-COVID-related news today. I think everyone's a bit fatigued with lockdowns and COVID. Hey, we're level two. They're back to normality. They don't want to hear about our problems. Well, so I'm going to this story first. Now, a while ago we spoke to a guy from Auckland,

Jeff Upsom is his name, and he's known as the penis painter. Now, you remember him? He goes around basically potholes around Auckland. And originally he started just spray painting a bit of a circle on it so the council would do something about it. The council weren't doing anything about it, so he ended up painting phallic symbols around it. But those phallic symbols were getting results

because the council, they acted on them for some reason. Yeah, we spoke to Jeff a while back. I do apologise if I have offended people. I mean, I know there's going to be somebody out there who's offended, and I do apologise. I am very sorry, and that's not my intention at all. The only way that I really know

to get that road fixed. Anyway, I know. He's just been issued yesterday with a formal warning by police for his stunts and has also said that it could be, if he continues to do it, punishable by three months imprisonment and a fine of not exceeding $2,000 as well. If he continues, but he's obviously contemplating whether that's the last he'll be doing of that or not. Imprisonment seems like a fair punishment for some... Yeah, it seems quite extreme. I mean, that's obviously the extreme...

Isn't the prison system under pressure? Yeah. What are you in here for? Oh, mate. Mate. You'll never guess. Just trying to fix some potholes on the road. Took an unorthodox approach.

This story, a really interesting story. So overseas in Italy at the moment, the police have stopped someone, sorry, a tobacco shop worker at the border. Now, what happened is a lady came in and she had the winning scratchy ticket. Basically 500,000 euros. Oh, he didn't.

So, yeah. So she handed it to the guy working at the counter. He sort of checked it and goes, I think this is the winning ticket. Took it to the boss just to clarify that it was a winning ticket or not. Just because I guess you're not. You're like, wow, someone's actually won 500,000 euros. And the boss just ran with the ticket, got on his little scooter, and is taken to the border.

Now, he's been stopped at the border. He's been detained, but he doesn't have the ticket on him. So then now they're like, has he lost the ticket? What's happened to the ticket? Is the original person going to be getting their money? This is like the plot line to that lotto ad with the lady on the scooter in Bali. Yes, I was just thinking that. It is.

Now, my big bugbear with that is someone generously tucked the ticket into her cast. Breaking who fixed her arm, yeah. Fixed her arm. The nurse did and Bali did. And then so she sent the nurse something. But it looks like she's just sent her a thank you card. Yeah. No financial reward. This lady's just won first div on lotto. And she's made sent her a thank you card. Yeah. No financial reward.

This lady's just won first div on Lotto. And she's made sure that you've got the money. It wasn't for her. Yeah, you're right. And she sends a thank you. A thank you card? Yeah. Well, where's the cash?

What? Where's the cash? That's what the nurse would be saying. Do you know what I just did for you? Yeah, you're right. Again, not a real thing, though. Not a real thing. You'd get caught up in that. I think we went to the trouble of bringing Sonia

Gray from the Lotto, who presents the Lotto. She had to inform me it wasn't an advertising agency came up with that idea. Yeah, I'm getting really deep this morning, aren't I, in all these hypothetical situations? Unnecessarily deep, and that is scrolling through your feed this morning after 7 o'clock on the show. If you've got young people in your whānau,

this is something really, really important. Mike King does great work for mental health around New Zealand. He has a new initiative to help out a lot of the youth in New Zealand, especially getting through some difficult times. We'll explain more with Mike after 7. Jono's internet wormhole. Uh-oh, he's more lost than Google Maps without a Wi-Fi connection. Been lost on the internet again.

And today I mentioned the start of the show, so I got lost in the Defiant Ones documentary about Dr. Dre selling his thing to Apple. And I got into an Apple hole. Oh, about the company. About the company Apple. Not about Brayburns and Granny Smiths or anything like that? That's coming tomorrow, my friend.

And there's too many apples on the market now. There is a lot. Jeez, there's a lot of apples. Yeah. You go to New World Countdown, pack and say, there's about 12 different varieties to choose from. Yeah, there's a lot. How do they make all these apples have sex with each other?

How do they keep making new apples? I don't know. Back in the day, you said green or red. Those were the two options. Yeah. Yeah, you're right actually. No, we'll get to the bottom of that at some stage. But yeah, this is Apple the company.

Did you know that Steve Wozniacki, who's one of the co-founders, he's kind of the hairy guy, isn't he? When you look at Apple. Yes. He's the hairy guy who's on stage and he launches the new iPhone in front of a giant screen. He sold his special science calculator to fund the beginning of Apple. What do you mean? He had a special, like, I know, Casio. The high-end Casio that you get.

Oh, yeah, really nice. Yeah, a really nice one. Well, that's really nice then. Yeah. I would imagine. He's a genius. I'm imagining he's not just running your basic school calculator. He might be using his phone now.

Probably iPhone. So that was a bit of a shit fact. I'm sorry about that. Next one. 90,000 employees. Apple. Wow. Internationally, that is a lot of people.

85,000 of them, I think, are children in factories. That's a lot of employees. 90,000 of them, I think, are children in factories. That's a lot of employees. $90,000 all up. The company's cash on hand, if they wanted to pull money down, $155 billion. They could give everyone in the United States $490. Really? Wow. Everyone, wow.

It's an interesting thing. It's kind of like once you're in the Apple system or if you're in the Samsung or the other, it's very hard to kind of move in between. Once you've chosen the bloods of Crips, you're there for life. It's like that with Apple or Android. You tried to combo the both. I did try. Yeah, I did because I'd be set up with Apple and then I had a free phone and I was trying to get it. Just, you I did try, yeah. Impossible. Because I'd be set up with Apple, and then I had a free phone.

And I was trying to get it, and just, you know. Just, yeah. And then Apple released more and more products, like the watch and everything, and you're like, do I need this? And then eventually you'd get it, and then you're like, oh, gosh, it just syncs up, and it's just another thing that I'm just stuck in. Or they release something, and you get a new plug. You're like, oh, cool, I've got a phone with a plug.

Oh, but it doesn't work on my last thing. Or like, why did we change? Why isn't there just the same plug for everything? Why does this computer not work with that? It's almost like they're wanting us to buy more plugs for some reason. Yeah, my computer doesn't have a USB thing. I'm going to have to buy a dongle for that now. So anyway, Apple's got us by the plums, literally.

There was a third co-founder, apart from Jobs and Wozniacki back in the day, Ronald. And Ronald Wayne was like, I don't see much in this, I'm opting out. So he left after 12 days and they paid him out $800. If Ronald was still in the business today,

Ronald would be worth $60 billion. Wow. Imagine how much Ronald gets it in the neck from his Ronald Wayne family. I've just searched Ronald Wayne's net worth. It's $400,000 at the moment. Oh my god. Wow. Every argument in his family

would be like, yeah Ronald, do you remember the time you could have been worth $60 billion? Poor Ronald. And if you smoke next to an Apple product and it breaks down, that makes the product null void. You can't get a refund on it for some reason. I don't know how the

computer's narking on you for smoking around it. It's probably nice. There you go. Apple facts. A bit of Apple moaning about technology in the middle there from all of us. It was all there this morning. It is the hits. You've got Judo and Ben. She's our little radio daughter who we love like a colleague.

We see at work every day in a professional capacity. It's a very unusual relationship. Juliet, what's happening in Spy? So J-Lo and Ben Affleck, Benifer, that they like to call them, are reportedly considering eloping instead of having a lavish wedding ceremony. Now, we don't know if they're engaged for sure, but Ben was seen jewellery shopping at Tiffany's, which kind of started speculation.

J-loping. J-loping. That's a good way of putting it. But I was doing some research, and they actually ended, the reason they ended or postponed their initial engagement back in the 2000s was because of excessive media attention surrounding their wedding. And so you can kind of see why, if these reports are true, why they would want to elope if they want to get married

because they won't want a repeat of the last time. Do you know J-Lo's been engaged five times? Really? Five times. I wonder how many of those she's gone on to marry. Was she married to Alex Rodriguez? No, they were engaged too. No one would have been engaged more than

J-Lo, surely. Has anyone listening been engaged more than J-Lo? 4487. Oh, just chuck it out there. It's an O-Level text poll. I know what you're doing. I know what you're doing. What am I doing? Classic radio. Oh, no one would have done that. Has anyone been engaged more than Jennifer Lopez?

I'm just chucking it out here. Engaged five times, married three times. So Ben Affleck and A-Rod were the ones that she didn't end up marrying. But Ben Affleck could be the one she ends up marrying very shortly. I was reading this about Ben Affleck the other day. Him and Matt Damon, very close friends, but I didn't realise

they were like childhood friends. They lived like a block from each other. Back in Boston. What a famous little neighbourhood. That's so cool. If you were growing up in that neighbourhood now

you'd be like well is there pressure for me to become as cool as these guys? You'd be like is that my path now that I live there?

Because he's a die hard Boston Red Sox fan. I think Matt Damon is as well. Have you seen Gone Girl? Yes. Great movie. He was in that.

And the director, David Fincher, wanted the character, Ben Affleck's character, to wear a New York Yankees hat. And he halted production for three weeks. He's like, I'm not putting that hat on. No way. Really? Three weeks, they shut it down. Oh my gosh.

Yeah. And he didn't have to wear the New York Yankees hat. Three weeks seems like an excessive time. It's a big negotiation. Are you going to wear the hat? hat? Three weeks seems like an excessive time. It's a big negotiation. Are you going to wear the hat? No. Oh, my God.

But he's a character. He's a character. Yeah, but anyway. That's how diehard a fan he is. Yeah, well, I understand. Yeah, okay. No, you don't. You don't understand. Three weeks.

Yeah, three weeks is a long time. That is. That is. And the team of Jackass, Jackass? Jackass, they have racked up over $24 million in hospital bills during their career. So this has been researched, and this is just over 79 injuries recorded by six members of Jackass. But that was only sort of an estimate, and that only accounts for the injuries suffered by the main cast. And so if it was actually realistic with all the extras, the real number could be closer to $38 million in hospital bills from the mall.

Geez. The ACC would be having a field day in that investigation. And Johnny Knoxville alone, he's sort of the leader of it all. He comes up with the biggest bills of over $8 million alone. That's crazy. Like, why would you put yourself through that? And then that's the cost, you know? It's the risk reward factor, isn't it?

And when it comes to Jackass, there's a lot of risk. And not much reward, I wouldn't imagine. Well, financially, I'm sure those guys are doing a lot better. You know, Johnny Knoxville's doing okay, I'm sure. But he's putting his body on the line. I know, but if you were like, hey, mate. Oh, no, you probably would, wouldn't you? I'll give you a house if you just stand in front of this bull blindfolded.

Would you do it? I'll buy you a house. What sort of house? It's a nice little three-bedder. I'd say yes in the current climate of my generation. Yeah, so you would stand in front of a bull after 8 o'clock, Juliet. Oh, no. And a bull, head to head.

Oh, dear. And that is your Spy Update this morning. For more, you bull head to head oh dear and that is your spy update this morning after more you can head to the hits.co.nz after 7 o'clock we've got $5000

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Jono and Ben Good Sports New Zealand's breakfast it's Jono and Ben on the hits just gone 7 o'clock you're on It's Jono and Ben. Just gone, 7 o'clock, you're on the hits, Jono and Ben. Well, just Ben, Jono's just gone to the bathroom. He's gone to the bathroom with 10 seconds to go.

He's just like, I'm going to go to the bathroom. We all kind of went, and that's where we're going. I wonder if this is actually playing in the bathroom right now. Well, yeah, if it is, you'll see him come running back through the glass. If it's not, it might be another radio station playing in the bathroom, then he'll be just enjoying his bathroom time. Should we call him? Yeah, let's do it.

He probably won't. He'll probably screen our call. Blocked number. Yeah. Very shortly, we'll be joined by Mike King. He's got a wonderful initiative at the moment. Yeah, so we need to stick around for that. But we'll find out if John is going to answer us.

That's the call from the bathroom. I wonder if he took his phone to the bathroom. Oh, is he going to screen us? Dad! No! Oh, there we go. Jono Pryor. He may or may not be back. We'll find out as well as that, how you can win big with

our new TV show, It Starts, Thursday night on TVNZ2. Jono and Ben, good sports. But Mike King is up next. It is the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben on your Wednesday morning. And it's no question that it's been difficult for many people around New Zealand

with lockdown and uncertainties going on at the moment. And Mike King from I Am Hope is doing a wonderful initiative to help out a lot of young people around New Zealand with some free counselling. And here to tell us more is Mike King. Good morning. How are you doing? Morning, brothers. How are you? Hey, we're not too bad.

How's things for you in lockdown? Busy, busy. All of those chores around the house had a bit of tornado damage. So out there with the chainsaws, ha-ha, annoying the neighbours. Wah-wah! Now, what's your time you start the chainsaw in the morning? Because, you know, some people get really early. They're sort of 8am-ing it.

Yeah, no, I'm an 11 till 3 guy. Oh, that's good. I like you as a neighbour. That's good. Yeah, a bit of a sleep in, a bit of a think about it, coffee, look at the stump for about an hour. Yeah, and then rip into it. I love it.

Gentlemenly, 11 till 3 hours. Yeah, that's me. You, of course, do such great work in New Zealand, Mike, with I Am Hope. And Gumboot Friday, you've launched, basically because of Gumboot Friday, free online counselling services for Kiwis under 25 years old. Yeah, it was something that we've been thinking about for a while But with the lockdown it really brought it into focus And so it's a really simple solution

You go to gumbootfriday.org.nz Click on find a counsellor Instead of putting your location on Under the location bar is a little tab It says online counselling Just click on that button Look at a counsellor that you like, click on them and they'll be in touch with you inside 48 hours. It's a really, really simple process.

What a great service, because it would be tough for many people, this sort of lockdown. Well, yeah, for young people in particular. They're cut off from their networks. Often they use their networks to share the things that they're going through and hear stories back from their friends going through the same thing. And that's not available to them. And for a lot of young people, they find it really hard to talk to the people that have

the most, their parents, about it, knowing that their parents are struggling and they don't want to put their problems on. So someone neutral is really good. So this is just a really handy solution for young people. I mean, it's not the giant fix. It's just a small jigsaw piece in the puzzle of mental health in New Zealand. I know you're not a counsellor as such, but you do a lot of great work around mental health. Are there any tips that you can pass on that you've learnt to maybe help people, particularly as John I said before,

in Auckland that are still in lockdown and don't know when we're going to be getting out? Yeah, I think the best thing that we can do for people right now is to listen. You know, one of the big faults of humans is we want to fix everything. If someone's in trouble, we want to fix it. And if we can't fix it, we run away. Well, quite often people don't want your advice. They just want a friendly ear to listen. And the second thing that we can do,

particularly for young people, is to show a little bit more vulnerability. Share our worries, share our doubts, share our fears so they know that the things that they're going through are perfectly normal. Quite often when we try and put a brave face on in front of our kids, they feel quite weird thinking that they're the only ones that go through problems and they're living in a world of perfect adults.

So, you know, often the best way to help a young person is, you know, in moments like this to share the things that you went through in your childhood and the things that you're worrying about now. There's no, probably, there's no, I imagine, one answer for this question, but what are some signs that parents, both us being parents, that we can look out for in young people to know if they are struggling? Well, if you've lost communications with your kids, if they're not coming to you and talking about the things

that they used to talk to you about, the things they used to feel comfortable talking with you about, sometimes the best thing you can do is go in there and admit to them how much you miss those things and is there anything that they can do. And again, create that space where it's okay for them to talk about their problems because you're talking about yours. The one message I have for all parents out there is be kind to yourself. There is no perfect parent out there. Stop comparing yourself to other

parents and thinking you're getting it all wrong because at the end of the day, no one's got it right. No one. We're all struggling. We're all trying our very best. So, you know, try and focus on the positive things that we're doing and, you know, sit down there and let the negative stuff wash over you and try and do better next time. Oh, great advice, great advice. It reminds me of when you first have a child and you're like, my child shall never look at a screen for its entirety. And then within about a year and a half. You judge how the parents are doing it. Where's your bloody iPad?

I've paid a lot of money for that. What's your iPad? That's so true. Well, Mike King, always love chatting to you. Could listen to you for hours, mate. You can head to gumbootfriday.org.nz. Free counselling for anyone under the age of 25. I'm on your site now.

Very easy to navigate. Very simple. Love you guys. You too, Mikey. Take care of yourself, buddy. There you go, Mike King. He's awesome, mate. He's a good guy.

Kiwi Bank, New Zealander of the Year. Talking to Kiwi Bank's worst customers of the year. They're always phoning me about my overdraft. Hey, next on the show, I want to put you to the test. You don't know about this, Jono, but I want to put you to the test and find out if you're smarter than a nine-year-old. Oh, I thought I'd put you to the COVID test.

No, this one's not up the nose. It's just a test, and we'll put you two next on the hits You're on the hits, Jono and Ben now of course still trying to do a bit of homeschooling at the moment Are you still giving it a crack at it? Well you know I'm probably more relief teaching I'm definitely not a full time teacher Every time you know, I've got me more relief teaching.

I'm definitely not a full-time teacher. Every time I do it, I'm like, I'm sending my kids back, you know, three years in their education journey. Most of the time, they're actually a lot better without me. I just come and go, oh, I'm trying to get, you know, like I'm probably not the, you know, I'm like, you've got it. You've got it. You just carry on. But yesterday, my daughter.

I can't figure out if I'm dumb Or I've forgotten what I was taught at school And they teach maths in a completely different way now Did you learn that or did you not just learn the proper way? I don't know, I learned how to write boobies on my calculator And that was a win for me in maths Yesterday my daughter Andy, who's nine years old They're doing a spell-a-thon So they happen to learn quite a lot of words

When you chuck an a-thon after anything It means a long haul. There's like 50 words that she has to try and learn, and then on Friday we test her. But we're doing a bit of a test run yesterday with some of the words. And some of the words I was like, I'm touch and go with a couple. So I thought right now I might bring Indy onto the show. Indy should be on hold right now.

Are you there, Indy? Hello? Yes, hi, I am. How's my might bring Indy onto the show. Indy should be on hold right now. Are you there, Indy? Hello? Yes, hi, I am. How's my little mate, Indy? I'm good, thank you. How are you? She's so polite. Now, Indy, actually, speaking of your mate, Jono,

remember when you've said you've basically sworn to never swear? So you're never going to swear in your life. And Jono, he stitched you up, he played a trick on you last time you were on the radio putting beeps to make it sound like you swore and I played it to Indy later, have a listen to this This is you, this is you Yes it is me, yes

Can you just do that? Oh, Indy Jono How could you? You were my friend Anything else you want to say Indy! John, no! How could you? You were my friend. Anything else you want to say, Indy? Um. No, not again!

Again! When will it start? John, no! Indy joins us back now. Yeah. Yeah. Our relationship never recovered from that, did it, Indy? No.

The beeping scandal. You've opened it scandal Why did you open up these words? I shouldn't have, I'm sorry I wanted to put you to the test Indy, and have a bit of a practice But I also wanted to put Jono to the test Right now A spell-a-thon Indy, I'm going to ask you three words

I'm going to ask Jono three words And we'll see who's the victor Do you want me to go radio or do you want me to go... Do you try? Yeah, okay. Do you try? Well, I'm sorry. Would you like him to try, Indy? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. Alright, so these are words from

her actual nine-year-old spell-a-thon. Who's this word for? We'll start with you, Indy. Sincerely. Sincerely is on the list. Sincerely. S-I-N-C-E-R-E-L-Y. Oh, well done. Okay, Jono, these are words from the list. You can check the list. No stitch up.

Grammar. Grammar. G-R-A-M-M-A-R. Well done. It's on, Indy. One for one. Just put that on the scoreboard. Lightning, Indy. One for one. One for one. So just put that on the scoreboard. Lightning, Indy. Lightning. L-I-G-H-T-N-I-N-G.

Well done. Got the extra little N in there. Nice work. Hold on. L-I-G-H-T. Lightning. Isn't it E-N-I-N-G? According to this list, it's N-I-N-G.

Do you want to spell someone else's word? I've double checked that. She got it right. It wasn't your-G. Do you want to spell someone else's word? I've double-checked that. She got it right. It wasn't your word, but if you want to have a crack at it. I was going to launch a protest. Now I'm backing out of my protest, Indy. Okay. Convenient, Chotto.

Convenient. C-O-N. Yes. V-E-N-I-E-N-T. Oh, he's done well. He's done well. He came through. That is two apiece.

I almost launched a protest that didn't need to be lodged. Okay, Indy. Fertilise. Fertilise. S-E-R-T-I-L-I-S-E. Well done. So this could be all tied up, and we'll leave it here if it is. And again, I'm choosing words from the nine-year-old's.

Here we go. Here we go. And honestly, tortoise. Tortoise. That's a word from the legit list. You can have a look. I was going to go something ridiculous, but I was like, no, that's just, you know. T.

O. If you get this, it's fine. R. T. Yes. O. Yeah. I.

S. E. Yeah! There we go. O-I-S-E. Yeah! There you go. I was thinking hard. After T-O-R-T, it was a little bit of a gamble. I was just plucking letters out of the air. And for your final one, lightning.

No, no. Well done. Well done. You came through. But, jeez, I was like you yesterday, John. I was like, jeez, I want to get these wrong When did they take the E out of lightning? Indy, well done

You're going to smash your spelling test on Friday Thank you Good luck, alright Jeez, she's a sensible wee thing At nine, she's making better decisions than I am at 39 We've got five words up for grabs Five words up for grabs We've got $5,000 up for grabs, that's 39. We've got five words up for grabs. Five words up for grabs.

We've got $5,000 up for grabs. That's better. With our game, five words for 5K. That's very shortly on the hit. Mmm, coffee breath. Jono and Ben, the hits. And it's Wednesday morning. Jono and Ben with you.

Now, the vaccine. It looks like the government may have secured a few more vaccines coming through to New Zealand. It's been a huge rush to get vaccines of late. And Producer Julie, you were saying there was something quite funny online from a huge Instagram site. Yeah, SHIT, you should care about. They're very big, millions of followers.

One of the girls behind the Instagram account was going to get her vaccine yesterday. They're all in New Zealand, aren't they? Yeah, they're from New Zealand. And she said, live tweeting my vaccine, a thread. And she said, soundtrack en route to the vaccine. Hit me with your best shot, Pat Benatar.

Sex on Pfizer, Kings of Leon. We didn't start the Pfizer, Billy Joel. Pfizer work, Katy Perry. Set Pfizer to the rain, Adele. How to save a life, the fray. Shots, LMFAO. That's good. That's a good one. Once they cracked the fire, Pfizer got into a good hole there. They got it before us because we love a good parody song, don't we?

Do you know my mum keeps another thing that's outbroken during this pandemic and lockdown is my mum sending me funny emails. Emails, yeah. Emails, yeah. So she's got one here. It's a great blessing to be at home with the wife over these last few months. We've caught up on everything I've done wrong in the last 20 years. That's from Annie Pryor. That's a great blessing to be at home with the wife over these last few months. We've caught up on everything I've done wrong in the last 20 years.

That's from Annie Pryor. That's from your mum. She's kind of burning herself. From my dad's point of view. But she's like, this will put a smile on your face. Unusual. But anyway, something that we hope will also put a smile on your face is our song that we made.

All to do around vaccines at the moment. Yes, Backstreet is back. Yeah, it's taken off quicker than the Delta strain. This one. Turn it up. Everybody, yeah. Vax your body, yeah. Everybody, yeah.

Vax your body right. Backstreet's back, all right. We won't run out of vaccine. The worst case scenario is we go back to the plan, which was still 350,000 doses a week going out. Oh, my God, I'm vaxxed again. Two shots of Pfizer stabbed in my skin. Got a question for you, better answer now Will I become a 5G cell tower?

No Am I eligible? Yeah Am I Jewish or un? Maybe Am I sexual? Not relevant And so report my blue light symptoms from the second shot

Everybody, yeah, yeah Vax your body, yeah, yeah Everybody, yeah Vax your body race That street's back, alright Taking over all your favourite song intros, Jono and Ben, the hits Now this Thursday night, 8pm on TVNZ2 We've got a brand new TV show called Jono and Ben Good Sports

We travel around the country and we meet up with people who play very unique sports uh some of the sports that people take part in things like we've mentioned before quidditch quidditch barefoot water skiing medieval battle robot wars speed cubing there's a lot of people doing some unique things yeah lawnmower racing's another one but we went to a chili eating competition a spicy chili eating competition and uh entered that scott's bonnet 150 200 000 scovilles oh jesus these are big are we ready no oh hell is burning in my mouth oh we're gonna man down man down yeah it's not pretty it's not it's just ironically the chilli eating competition is the opposite of chilling It is Yeah Just

It felt like someone had lit A little gas barbecue Inside my mouth Oh it was incredible And the people that just We'll talk more to the organiser Right now Because the people that do it

And got so much further than us Are incredible Clint the organiser Joins us on the phone now Morning how are you? Good good How are you? Now you have

You've got your own Chilli empire I guess Fire Dragon Chillies Is the name of your business, right? Yep, that's the one. Been going for 13 and a half years now. Started in 2008 as a business. Pretty much travelled the world, got hooked on chillies, came home, and, yeah, couldn't really find anything hot enough.

Just started growing mine and making a few sauces and playing around and, yeah, probably turned into a business and yeah. What you've explained there are the steps to becoming a drug dealer too. Go around, give it a little dabble wasn't strong enough stuff there. This is legal though, this is legal. Started a business. Now

Clint you also run the chilli eating champs as well which goes all over the country, the New Zealand chilli eating champs. One of which one of the heats we got to, I won't say enjoy, we got to participate in. Gee whiz, it's a whole other level. Yeah, I think you

got through four chillies, didn't you, man? Which is what you predicted. You said if you get through four, you're doing well. I think I vomited on the end of the third one. Ben managed to do the fourth. Yeah, but it's a heck of an experience. I mean, people just, can you train yourself to get better at eating chillies or is it something you're kind of almost born with?

Well, people say you can train and, you know, build your tolerance up over time. To me, I think you're kind of born with it or without it. Some people just don't really feel it like most of us mortals kind of do. You know, our champ this year, he got through 40 chillies in the final. Now, these are the world's spiciest chillies. And they get spicier and spicier as the competition goes. That's incredible. Yeah, we try and keep making them hotter as we go.

Salt, fresh chilli in the season, which, yeah, be sort of end of the year, summer. Any chilli-related products to go and see, Clint? Hey, lovely to meet you, which, yeah, be sort of end of the year, summer. Any chilli related products to go and see, Clint? Hey, lovely to meet you, mate, and you keep safe. Yeah, mate, awesome. You guys look really good, man. Handled it well. There we go. There's Clint, who you'll see on the TV show tomorrow night, TVNZ 2, 8pm.

It's going to be John and Ben, good sports, so chilli eating, wowee. Wowee. That's a heck of an experience. Five words, $5,000, that is up next. Your chance to win $5,000 in a few moments. sports so chili eating wowee yeah that's a heck of experience uh yeah five words five thousand dollars that is up next your chance to win five grand in a few moments five words for 5k on the hits you're only five words away from a massive payday our game of word association we play it every morning at this time on the hits uh we tell you five words you tell us the first things that pop into your head and if your words match up with ours, you'll win $5,000.

Four out of five the last two days. You did really well over the last couple of days. Yesterday was intense. I felt bad about that, though, because it was so close. Four out of five ain't bad. But it's not as good as five out of five. So it's actually pretty bad in the grand scheme of things. But Tracy and Tipuki Morena, how are you?

Good morning. I'm fine, thank you. Hopefully you're not vaccinated against winning a buttload of things. But Tracy in Te Puke, Morena, how are you? Good morning. I'm fine, thank you. Hopefully you're not vaccinated against winning a buttload of cash. I hope so too. Do you know a buttload's an actual measurement? Is it? Yeah. In old English times they would measure, it would be 477 litres of wine

in a barrel. A buttload. Who would have thought that? Now you're on an orchard in Te Puke. Are you doing kiwifruit, are you that? Now, you're on an orchard in Te Puke. Are you doing kiwifruit, are you, Tracy? No, I work for an orchard management company, Edwards Peony Consulting. No follow-up questions? Hey, Tracy, who are you going to send into the soundproof booth today

to match five words with? Jono, please. Okay, safe pair of hands. Jono Pryor. Yeah, I feel like you're due a win, Jon please. Okay, safe pair of hands. Jono Pryor. Yeah, I feel like you're a win, Jono. Yeah, you can do this. I've moved my clothes out of the soundproof booth. There you go.

You've got plenty of room in there. Things have been at home now. Oh, no, they're in my car. He is in the soundproof booth. Tracy, here is the first word. What pops into your head when I say Shortland? Shortland. Street.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Blues is the second word. Blues. Brothers. Oh, old school. Yeah. I like it. Peppermint is the third word.

Peppermint. Tea. Yeah, peppermint tea. That's what I was thinking for that one too. Yum. Beam. Oh, that's an interesting one.'s what I was thinking for that one too. Beam. Oh, that's an interesting one. B-E-A-M.

Beam. Beam. Floor. Oh, yep. Good. Good, good. Good work, Tracy. And finally, court.

C-O-U-R-T. Court. Court up. Different spelling of court. Yeah, that's the only thing I mean. Yeah, so it's more like that. Oh, sorry, how did you spell it? C-O-U-R-T.

Oh, court. Yeah. Tennis. Tennis. Oh, tennis. Sorry, I'm very deaf. Sorry, I'm glad you re-spelled. Yeah, I know. I was like, oh, court up does work, but it's a different court right there. Yeah. Sorry, I'm glad you re-spelled me. Yeah, I know.

I was like, caught up does work, but it's a different court right there. Yeah. Hey, nice work. There's some tricky words in there, some tricky ones for me as well, too. I think we all got through this together. And hopefully you can be $5,000 richer. I'm worried about the beam. I'm almost wanting to change the balance.

Oh, hang on. Hang on, John O'Prior. Just hold one second before you put your headphones back on. You want to change that? No. Tracy? Yes, please. You want to change that? Okay.

Changing that one. No worries. Okay, Jono is back in now. There you go. You can take your hands off. That was more fumbly than awkward than a date with Ben Boyce. What was going on there? It was like when parents want to swear around kids.

Earmuffs, put your earmuffs on. But you know the hands don't work well as air muffs. The kids are hearing everything. Yeah, alright. Okay, let's try $25,000, Tracy, okay? Start things off with Shortland. Shortland,

Jono. I've got four options in my head. Oh dear. Shortland Street. Yeah, well done. I'm going to go word number three, and I'm going to go peppermint. Peppermint. Tea?

Nice work. Now we're going to have to pop back to word number two, because this one did have a few options in my head Let's see if you're thinking the same way as Tracy It's blues Blues Clues He went more modern

Than Blues Brothers Oh Blues Brothers A classic movie Tracy I vaguely remember They have hats on Dan Aykroyd John Belushi A classic movie. Tracy, I vaguely remember. They have hats on. Hats and glasses, yeah. Dan Aykroyd, I think. Oh, no.

John Belushi. Sorry, Tracy. I'll take it. Sorry, Tracy. That was some tough ones. The last two were very tough as well. Beam. Do you want to B-E-A-M?

Beam. Go balance. And court. But C-O-U-R-T. Court. Oh, no. No, no. It's uncatchable.

Tennis. Oh! Oh! What did we get? Four. Four out of five. Oh, we are knocking. We are knocking on the door of a victory.

Oh, Trace. You can taste it. Tracey, you go and have a great day. Yep, thank you very much. Really appreciate you listening. Thank you. Oh, we're getting close. We're getting close.

Your chance to win five grand tomorrow could be you. Spy. The what's up. Spy.co.nz. The only tea producer Juliet drinks is celebrity, and she's here with some celebrity news. What's going on in Spy, Ju? So Australian singer Guy Sebastian has issued an apology

on a Provax Instagram post that was published onto his Instagram account. So it's a bit strange that he's sort of issuing an apology for encouraging people to get the vaccination. But it's quite confusing. But basically what I've gathered is, so there's this campaign that the Australian music industry is running called Vax the Nation, encouraging people to get the vaccine so that life can return to normal and that live shows can happen again in the music industry, festivals can happen, and it can all go back to normal. And so a post was made on Guy Williams' Instagram account with... Guy Sebastian.

Sorry, Guy... I think Guy Williams is Provax as well. Always trying to spread their Provax propaganda, aren't they? Oh, so many guys around the place. So, yeah, the post was made on Guy Sebastian's Instagram with the big hashtag VaxTheNation on it. He deleted it and then posted this sort of minute-and-a-half-long statement condensed down for you on the radio.

The campaign was posted to my page without my direct involvement. And whilst I, like everybody else in my industry, I want things to get going again. It is not my role to communicate in the way that that post was communicating. I would never, ever tell people what to do when it comes to their personal health choices. So it's... But he's part of the campaign. Yes, so he's part of the campaign. But it almost seems like he doesn't want to be the one

specifically telling people to get vaccinated, which is interesting because so many public figures are encouraging vaccinations. Yeah, like delving a bit deeper, it is a wee bit confusing, this whole situation, but he's saying he's got people that he knows that can't get the vaccine for health reasons. But then there's the argument from other people going,

oh, that's fine, why don't you just say, if you can get the vaccination, do. i understand some people can't for health reason but if you can do if that's the way you want to be if you're a part of that is he endorsing getting the vaccine by being part of the campaign regardless exactly but maybe he doesn't want to be the face of that campaign i guess even though he says he's double vaxxed and it reminds me of when i was asked a few years ago to be part of the Stop Smoking campaign while I was still smoking. Same sort of thing. You're torn.

You're conflicted. You want the money. Yeah, I want the money from the government to tell people to stop smoking, but, oh, jeez, I love cigarettes. Were they going to encourage you to stop smoking as part of it as well? No, what they'd done,

they'd done a couple of incarnations of the campaign, and they'd run through everybody who didn't smoke and then they went I was in the phase of, you know, the third tier of trying to quit, thinking about quitting. They're like, if you could just say you're thinking about quitting, I'd go, yeah, I could say I've thought about quitting. I think you could smoke a cigarette while doing the advert, yeah.

I got paid in cigarettes. Oh dear God. Don't smoke and get the vaccine, people. But I haven't smoked in many years, I want to say that. And my life is better for it. I thought you were going to be like, better. No, it is. It's a costly process now to smoking, isn't it?

40 bucks a pack or something. Wow. Is that what it's at now? Yeah. That's crazy. Don't know how we got here. Sorry. No, that's okay.

And that is I for more. You can head to thehits.co.nz. Oh, legends. You guys are legends. Oh, you're legends. Jono and Ben's IsoLegends. Thanks to Skinny. There's one thing I've been enjoying doing on the show, that's saying the days of the week,

which I like to do. It's Monday today, Tuesday, Friday, the weekend's here. What you do, you know, through lockdown, you know, you do start to lose track of the days of the week. So that's where I think that helps. But something else I've really been enjoying, thanks to our mates at Skinny,

is rewarding lockdown legends around New Zealand. People are doing amazing things. There's so many people out there just selflessly doing incredible things for New Zealand. I know, this is the part. This isn't my least favourite part of the show because it makes me feel like a terrible human being when I hear about all the great stuff people are doing.

But you can nominate anyone you know that is out there. Putting it all on the line to keep New Zealand running, keep Aotearoa running. The hitstock code on NZ, you can nominate them and thanks to our friends at Skinny they won a $500 pack and save supermarket voucher. That's awesome. That's a lot of shopping. That's great

and six months Skinny credit and we're going to call someone deserving right now. Going through to a lady who works in a pharmacy, but not also selling multivitamins, but vaccinating as well. Rachel speaking. Rachel. Rachel.

Rachel. Morning. Rachel. Hello. Rachel, whenever you go to town at night, you always hear someone yelling, Rachel, at the end of the night. Rachel, where are you?

Carrying their shoes. I'm here. This is too common. Hiya. Well, Rachel, it's Jono and Ben calling. It's Jono and Ben calling from the H of the night. Rachel, where are you? Carrying their shoes. I'm here. This is too common. Hiya. Well, Rachel, it's Jono and Ben calling us. Jono, Ben. Calling from the Hits Radio station. How are you doing this morning?

I'm well, thank you. How are you guys? Good, good. You've been nominated by Lockie. Who's Lockie to you? Well, my husband might say he's the son-in-law, but I'd say he's my daughter's boyfriend. That's a wee joke we've got going down.

Oh, it's your daughter's boyfriend. There's a wee joke we've got going down. Oh, it's your daughter's boyfriend. There you go. So Lockie has nominated his mother-in-law. Obviously getting in the brownie points there. Yeah, I reckon it is. He's trying to get on side with me. What a greaser.

I know. I keep telling him he's got an expiry date. And it's coming up soon. Well, he might have extended his expiry date here. it's coming up soon. Well, Rachel. Well, he might have extended his expiry date here. He's nominated you for our Lockdown Legend today. Thanks, our friends at Skinny.

And you're going to get, because of the amazing work you're doing, a $500 Pack-a-Safe voucher and six months of Skinny credit. Oh, wowee. That is absolutely fabulous. I'm so delighted.

And shout out to you, Lockie. You're a good boy. Thanks for nominating me. Now, tell us what you do, Rachel. I understand you work. And shout out to you, Lockie. You're a good boy. Thanks for nominating me. Now tell us what you do, Rachel. I understand you work in a pharmacy in Ashburton. Yeah, so I am an owner-operator, but we were the first clinic to actually have the vaccinations, the COVID vaccinations in the pharmacy.

So right back in April, we sort of started on track to get that going, and now we do about 600 vaccinations a week. And this morning, I'm off to Talley's, you know, frozen foods. So we're off there to vaccinate their crew. Awesome. We did a mass vaccination of 600 people a couple of teams ago, which was really cool for our community. So, yeah, it's busy, but it's really valuable because, you know,

we're doing good for New Zealand Well you are indeed, you really are doing good You keep it up eh And thank you so much for being So selfless and keeping New Zealand running The vaccination centre has just opened up Across the road from us right now Get in there, make sure you get your jab boys

I'm an anti-vaxxer But not a good time Not a good time to bring that up. I've made it awkward. Let's not spoil a good day. We've had a lovely moment. Thank you so much. I'm very humbled.

Thank you for all the work you're doing. We really appreciate it. Okay, thank you. And good on Lockie, eh? Wonderful, wonderful. He's an expirer. He's doing all right. Still on the shelf there, Lockie.

If you want to nominate someone, you can head to the hits.co.nz. We could be hooking them up tomorrow with a $500 packet safe voucher, six months of skinny credit, and skinny right now giving a bonus 60 gig of data to all the cap wireless broadband customers to enjoy. It is the hits you got, John. I'm Ben. The hits, 90s versus noughties. Today, it's Grammy Award winner Wednesday.

The hits. That's right. We're dividing the country even further than the level system. Yeah, and the 90s are taking on the 2000s, and we put a couple of old school 90s and 2000s photos of us on our Hits Breakfast Instagram story. A couple of great bowl cuts by both of us in the 90s. Yes, your one. Both Jenny Boyce and Annie Pryor clearly had whipped out the cake mixing bowl before

we went and had those photo shoots. I was at a rugby one. For some reason I was the one holding the ball in the middle of the front. Oh really? I had no qualifications to hold the rugby ball but I was there. Maybe they're like he's got a nice haircut, mushroom haircut. We'll embarrass him for years to come. But it is Grammy Award winners

from the 90s and 2000s. You vote for your favourites after 9 o'clock this morning and speaking of Grammy Award winners from the 90s and 2000s. You vote for your favourites after nine o'clock this morning. And speaking of Grammy Award winners from New Zealand, Kimbra, we had her in the studio a couple of months ago. And of course, she won a Grammy. Go to her. She did a song with him. And she got presented her Grammy by Prince.

It was Beyonce. There was Jay-Z in the audience. So many stars. And we asked her if she got to talk to Prince. Yeah, meeting Prince was a huge deal for me, especially because his death, you know, was hard on me. Yeah, to have been able to have some interaction with him before his passing was pretty massive.

Did you talk to him about music? Prince has kind of made connections with me through other people, so he loved my record and he picked a favourite track on the Golden Echo. So we've never sort of spoken about it directly, but Prince is, you know, people have passed on things to me that are part of his camp. How amazing is that? Prince.

Prince, wonderful. Yeah, she won a Grammy. And got Prince to, Prince, yeah, incredible. Yeah, good stuff. So it's the Grammy winners today for 90s versus noughties. So we're going to play this. We'll play the song that she won a Grammy for, Kimbra. Somebody that I used to know.

It is the hits. You've got John Orban. Goatee, Kimbra, Somebody that I used to know. Of course, that won a Grammy Award. And after 9 o'clock today, we're looking at the best Grammy Award winners from the 90s and the 2000s. We've just been seeing some audio. Wonderful friends, Matt and Jerry Gerry over on Radio Hauraki

asked the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, a massive question this morning. Unrelated question, Prime Minister. Out of the two of these following people, who do you prefer? Who's your favourite, John or Ben? You know, I don't think that's like separating John and Yoko. I see them as one and the same. Yeah, so do we.

We were just interviewing them, and we couldn't split them apart either. Okay, no, that's good to know. Thanks very much. Probably Yoko and John isn't the greatest comparison. No, I'd go John in that situation. I'd go Yoko. Thanks very much, Prime Minister. Thanks, guys.

She didn't pick one Yeah She could have gone with It's like Bert and Ernie Or something When she went John Noggin

She was like Maybe not the best But Champagne Ardun Never answers the question Why is she hiding from I want to know Who does she prefer Why won't she ask the question

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