Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Spoke To Someone Who Explores Paranormal Activity In New Zealand!

Episode Date: October 27, 2021

In the lead up to tomorrow, we're hearing more and more creepy stories. We caught up with James Gilberd who's from the New Zealand Strange Occurrences Society, who investigates paranormal activity in NZ. On the back of this, we spoke to Bianca whose family had a terrifying experience with something supernatural. On a different note & to lighten the mood, Jono had a very funny observation about the TV show Love Island that his wife watches. Enjoy the poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast intro. Brains Trust is in here.

When I say the Brains Trust, producer B Humps. Morning. Morning. He's just planning Ben Boyce's ScareHouse movie marathon this Thursday. You are watching five of the world's scariest movies in a row for Halloween. And every Friday you get your lose money off a $10,000 prize pool, which we'll give away on Friday, the remainder of. Now, I was actually just reading on Ladbible.

They have done a similar thing overseas where they've looked at the scariest five movies, and three of our five were in there. Well, we got the voice of Ghostface from the Scream movies to announce the top five movies today that have been voted on. Three out of the five. What two are we missing out of interest?

A scientific study carried out in the UK got participants to watch 50 of the best horror films ever made. Oh God, that's your worst nightmare. Yeah, I know. The results show which movies elevated the average heart rate and tracked the highest spikes of each movie to determine which films had the biggest jump scares. So these are the five that they decided from the 50 people That were the five scariest movies

That gave them the most frights Number five, Paranormal Activity Is the one you're making me watch That's in there Number four, Hereditary Which is not one that we are watching But you gave me the bios for these, didn't you? Number three, The Conjuring

Which is one you're making me watch Number two, Insidious And number one, Sinister Which you're making me watch as well So I think there's three Three out of the five I'm watching. Someone suggested The Human Centipede. No, I've never watched The Human Centipede. I know the plot line to it.

It is grotesque. Scary for other reasons. Yeah, so he sews one mouth onto another's, and it was just constantly feeding itself. Yeah. I'm gathering. So the first person has a mince and cheese pie. And it was just constantly feeding itself. Yeah. I'm gathering. So the first person has a mince and cheese pie. And then the other one.

Eventually it passes. Anyway. Yeah. Who opted in for that centipede? Imagine being eighth on the centipede. Is it that many in there? I guess it would be. I don't know.

I've never seen it. Have you seen the human centipede bee, Hams? No. It sounds just traumatic. But we're not making you watch that. Not making you watch that. But we spoke to the guy who does, as I mentioned, the voice of Ghostface in Scream.

He was Roger L. Jackson. Wonderful. Amazing voice, yeah. He was the actual voice talking to the actors on set, and they kept him away from it. You like scary movies? He liked Drew Barrymore and that, so he was actually having a conversation with them at the time, yeah.

Yeah. We found out a fun fact when she was filming that scene is they didn't unplug the phone, so she kept dialing 911 and screaming down the phone. Yeah. And they were like, well, they sent the police out, I think, as you would do. Yeah.

Turns out it was a movie set. Roger, I always like talking to voiceover artists because you get their, because he's not just done the scream voice he's also been on the Powerpuff Girls on Cartoon Network

he's done a number of other things but you get all their voices yeah because that's they know what you want yeah I know we know we want to hear them

even when we were like the scream thing we're like what was it like did you get into character and he just started getting into character you're like scary yeah and you're like

yeah that's what we want that's what we came for we knew it we knew it you always feel like you're talking to multiple people though when you talk to a voice character. You're like, scary. Yeah, and you're like, yeah, that's what we want. That's what we came for. We knew it. We knew it. You always feel like you're talking to multiple people, though, when you talk to a voiceover artist. You're like, I think the conversation was six different people here. Anyway, enjoy the podcast.

You go and have a wonderful Tuesday. It's a short week. Yeah. Let's look on the positive of life. Glass half full. Yeah, maybe day 70 of lockdown. But we're here. Yeah.

Let's get into it. All right. Positive. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning. Welcome along to the show. It is a Wednesday.

It's a short week. So that's a good feeling. We got to Wednesday already. It's nice. We were talking about that, weren't we, Juliet? Yes. It's weird because there's so much to do this week that I'm like, I want the week to go quickly.

But I'm like, we're running out of time. Yeah, well, we're embarking on this wild mission tomorrow night. Ben Boyce watching five of the world's scariest horror movies in celebration of Halloween. Every Friday you get your lose money off a $10,000 prize pool. A lot of behind-the-scenes admin, you know, dealing with decorations, broadcast equipment, live streaming. How much of this are you doing?

I'm listing them off. I'm listing them off. You're part of this. But I'm not part of the organising because obviously it's all... I'm surprised you know what needs to be organised, Jono. I'm doing the listing. That's an important role. And I say it with confidence. You know, live streaming, organising, decorations.

There's stuff to be done. None of which I'm doing. You know the deal. Yes, so $10,000. It wouldn't happen if I had to do it. Hopefully we'll get a fair portion of that money to be given away for you guys on Friday morning. Yeah.

Well, actually, if you don't know what the movies are, we're going to play you some audio. We spoke to the guy who was the voice of Ghostface in Scream, Roger. Roger L. Jackson. Yeah. movies are we're going to play you some audio we spoke to uh the guy who was the voice of ghost face and scream roger roger l jackson yeah uh and he's going to list off the five movies i was looking into sinister which is one of the films and scientifically proven to be the world's scariest movie really can't argue with science unless you're an anti-vaxxer you can argue with science all you want then you definitely can't argue with science. Hey, a big announcement from 660 today. We've got Machu. He's the lead

singer of 660. He's joining us on the show as well. That's very exciting, this announcement, so stay tuned for that. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Harry Styles, Watermelon Sugar on your Wednesday morning, 9 past 6. Jono and Ben with you on the hits now, as we mentioned. And we've mentioned many times this week.

It is Halloween this weekend. And I'm going to be watching the five scariest movies of all time, as voted by you guys. And every fright that I get, well, you guys will take some money off a $10,000 prize pool. Whatever's left over on Friday, we'll give away. Yeah, wonderful campaign. Start to finish. I'm very nervous about it because everyone gets inside your head too

yeah even my son Oscar I've mentioned before obsessed with Halloween like his dream holiday is for me to take him to the Day of the Dead in Mexico right he's gone deep into it he's like we've got to get over to Mexico for the Day of the Dead is he the kind of guy that would like to go to Spookers or would that

actually kind of freak him out no he bit? No, he'd enjoy it. We don't let him watch horror movies because he's a child. It'd be shocking parenting. But he just can't wait for the day. So he's living this whole journey vicariously through me, Ben. I sent you a text yesterday, he's like,

oh, Oscar was researching Sinister and he got into the Science article about how they tested the heart rate of viewers watching the movie and that's why science has proven it's the most scary. So he's loving it. He's loving it. I'm not really loving it as much as him, but hey, I'll give it a go tomorrow and we'll see how we go

trying to get through these five scary movies. Well, we've got you a couple of messages from some of the world's most famous horror movie stars. Now, these are the actual actors from the movie. We don't half-ass it here on The Hits. And have you heard of Friedrich Kruger? Freddy Kruger. Freddy Kruger himself.

Nightmare on Elm Street. Iconic, scary character. He has left you a video. This sounds like I'm setting up a gag But this is actually Freddy Krueger Hello Ben I hear you're afraid of scary movies Don't be a pussy Ben

Good luck during your horror movie marathon. Make sure you don't fall asleep because Freddy's gonna get you. Oh, how sweet. Fresh meat. One, two.

Freddy's coming for you Oh jeez, so that's Okay, that was a very pleasant message Yeah, to wake up to So we've got the video He's the sort of guy that'd leave a voicemail message Voice message on your phone Wouldn't he be like, oh here he is again To be honest Freddy, the message dragged a little bit towards the end

The most frightening thing is how much we had to pay for that message That's the real Halloween scare. And the clown from It, Stephen King's movie It, which is one of the films that you're going to be watching. He's even, he's got one of those, he's dialed through.

Run, run, run, run. Good luck watching your scary movies, Ben. People call you a clown, but you have nothing on me. I'll show you a clown. I can teach you how to float. Come. Come float with the clown.

Jeez. Look at that clown. That is frightening. Yeah? That video. The only thing winning out of that clown is Maybelline with the amount of lipstick that clown uses on its face. I was thinking, like, these poor people. They're actors, movie actors but every time some schmuck

wants to send a message to their mate they have to probably spend about 45 minutes putting on makeup, lipstick foundation just for a 10 second novelty message but they're getting on board, the big players Kruger and the clown from it. Okay it's happening tomorrow

your chance to hopefully grab some of the money on Friday if I can get through these five scary movies. It is the hits. You got it, Jono and Ben. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben, 6.16 on Wednesday. You're just saying something to me as that song was playing from Kid Rock, that he's one of the

highest selling American artists of all time, Kid Rock. Of all time? All time. I mean, I know that was a hugely popular song, the one we just played. Yeah, blindsided you. You said of all time. You said all time and you kept saying all time to me. Well, you think about all the, anyway, anyway,

I mean, yeah. I mean, there's great artists out there. 27 million albums the man sold. He's got a big audience over there, Ben. That's how Trump got into office, my friend. Anyway, so a good old Kid Rock, eh? And he says, I'm not wealthy, I'm loaded. Scroll through your feed. But he does it.

You know, a nice thing Kid Rock does, he never charges more than $20 for his concert. Oh, really? So that everyone can go and see him. How is he so wealthy, then? He's got a Weaselly heart of gold. That kid rocker right here to bring you the news that you need to hear. And if you don't need to hear it, well, you can just use that volume button to turn it down.

Ben Boyce. Well, yesterday, the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced a bit of a sweeping vaccine mandate in businesses, especially in the hospitality sector. So it's going to affect about 40% of the population, the working population. They'll have to be double jabbed or face losing their jobs. So places where you need a COVID vaccine certificate, the staff are going to have to have one as well,

which I guess seems to make sense. It does make sense on the surface as well. I mean, producer Bee Humps, he's raised this issue a couple of times, so I feel like he's trying to get it on the radio. I'll be your mouthpiece, Bee Humps. I'll spit your propaganda out. He's like, why isn't the government, this is a fair question, making it a law that every government worker who comes under, you know, a bureaucrat,

also needs to be double-vaxxed? But they're focusing on private industry. Well, it could be extended to other areas, they say, yesterday. But right now it's gyms, barbers, hairdressers, where customers are expected to have vaccine certificates. The people working there are going to have to as well. That'll make sense. And it sounds like today there's going to be a bit more of an announcement on MIQ.

They reckon it might be likely a shorter stay for some returning Kiwis, and eventually they might scrap the MIQ system altogether. A bit more of an announcement on schools as well, particularly Auckland years 1 to 10 where they'll be allowed to return to text the class. A few announcements on the horizon today. I got my vaccine certificate yesterday. Sent to me. You have to text

off your details with your NHI number. Who knew you had an NHI number? I don't think the vaccine certificates were out until the end of November. What's this thing I got sent? I think it's just verification that you got it. I don't think it's the official certificate. Oh, is that not a certificate? Oh, I thought I was special. No, because they haven't

actually got them out yet. They keep going, when are they going to be out? You've had all year to do it. And they're not going to send the first one to you. Or maybe they are. A guy who was just

spouting off kid rock facts. Let's get him the certificate. I think it's going to be like an app, like you use your COVID app on your phone. What's the point of this document then? Well, I don't know. You're the one that applied for it's going to be like an app, like you use your COVID app on your phone. What's the point of this document then?

Well, I don't know. You're the one that would apply for it, I guess. But you can also at the same time. You can get them to go overseas and stuff. A letter to say if you're going overseas. Ah, right. Maybe that's, yeah. I felt like it was something I heard in the news and I was like,

I've got to get onto that. So I got onto it, but it turns out I don't even need it. Well, you might do if you're planning on travelling overseas. No, I'm not planning on going anywhere. I'd just love to stay in this room. And Sir Paul McCartney, of course, from the Beatles. He loves his fans, but he apparently hates selfies. Now, it's not for a reason.

He's not like he's never taken a selfie. He's just a boomer. He's like, to be honest, it just looks poor quality. The background always looks a bit blurry, and I look miserable. He's like, I'm happy to have a chat. If anyone wants to come up and talk to me, I'd love to have a chat. I love meeting my fans. But I don't sign.

I've decided not to sign anything anymore, and I don't really want a selfie. So does he say no? Yeah, he just says no. He had a great line, too, to basically go. It always struck me as a bit strange people wanted my signature. It's like, here, can you write your name down on the back of this receipt? And he's like, why? We both know who I am. That's what he said. That's quite true.

True, and you know, you do look at your selfies, and they're blurry. You've got a shaky photographer a lot of the time. A lot of times it's a mum who doesn't know how to use the phone, and there's always that bit of... Or a nervous fan that's a bit shaky and stuff. When you watch them getting photos with musicians and things as well.

And sometimes they don't have the camera ready to go. And there's the awkward seconds where they're looking for the camera. You can get fumbly. It's like being boys at the beginning of a lovemaking session. Eventually you come through though, don't you? Now Ryan Reynolds actually got a photo, a famous photo with Sir Paul McCartney back in the day. So he has taken selfies before and

I loved Ryan Reynolds' post on the photo. He said, have you ever had a dream to meet somebody so badly and somehow it comes true? You're welcome Paul. That's what he said. So that's very cool. My favourite celebrity photo is someone was having a photo

and Jerry Seinfeld was sort of ushered off to the side. It was with Matthew Broderick, the actor. Matthew Broderick, so Sarah Jessica Parker's husband. Yeah, who's an actor, you know? He's had an acclaimed career. Ferris Bueller, yeah. And a fan wanted a selfie with him and he was walking down the road with Jerry Seinfeld, his friend.

And the person who was taking the photo said to Jerry Seinfeld can you move out of the way, not knowing who Jerry Seinfeld was. So you've got this photo of this fan just hugging Broderick just smiling from ear to ear and then just an awkward Jerry Seinfeld standing up. Still in the background holding a shopping bag like a supermarket

bag trying to keep out of the way of the photo. Just looking miserable. It's so good and that is scrolling the way of the photo. Just looking miserable. It's so good. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Howdy Dad. He's an internet superstar and he's got a great invention for summer. He's going to talk to us about this. It's out today. He joins us before 7 o'clock on the hits.

Mmm. Coffee breath. Jono and Ben. Now one of the most iconic things in Wellington is the bucket fountain. But there's been a bit of a robbery to do with it. Have a listen. Well, the taps have been turned off after thieves struck Wellington's beloved bucket fountain.

One of its yellow buckets has been missing for almost a month and so far there are no clues to its whereabouts. Someone's taken one of the buckets. This is the news that we want in New Zealand. You know, we don't want this pandemic rubbish of 1pm press conferences. This is what should be leading New Zealand news. A small country at the end of the world. A bucket's gone missing from the bucket fountain.

Let's launch a nationwide investigation. The most ungraceful fountain ever, eh? How it just sort of fills up and then suddenly... Just dumps. But it's very iconic. It always concerns me how it ends up frothy. How does the bottom of it always ends up frothing over? So I'm like, what is in there?

Well, speaking of what is in there, of course, Wellington was, you know, it's Middle Earth. They love banging on about Lord of the Rings. The iconic movies were made there. And the guy, Elijah Wood, who played Frodo on Lord of the Rings, he had this to say on a U.S. talk show many years ago. So we climbed the thing, and once we got to the top, what else is there to do but urinate in it? In our bucket fountain. Oh, you monster.

You monster. And then he just left. There was this parting gift. This is what I think of you New Zealand Well to be fair That's all the liquid is in there actually It's not even water Next on the show Jordan Watson

He's How To Dad Internet sensation Jordan Watson With his quirky parenting tips He's taken off over the last few years Well now How To Dad is going to Teach us how to do interviews because he joins us very shortly with his new business that he started. A new invention.

And we've actually got a product in here. It's very, very cool. We'll talk more about this next on The Hits. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there and then I backed out. Jono and Ben, New Zealand breakfast. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. It is the hits, Jono and Ben. You'll know How To Dad, Jordan Watson, by his hilarious videos he puts online.

What's it do with his parenting? Yeah, g'day and welcome to this instructional video on how to talk to a baby. And now he's got actually a really, really clever invention to do with jandals, the footwear that Kiwis love wearing over summer. And he joins us right now, Jordan Watson, How To Dad. Good morning, how you doing, buddy with jandals, the footwear that Kiwis love wearing over summer, and he joins us right now. Jordan Watson, howdy dad. Good morning. How you doing, buddy? I'm good, mate. Yourself? Yeah, no, we're doing well, we're doing well. Have you started

a jandal business now? I have started a jandal business. It's come out of left field, but it's taking the nation by storm. Now, listen, we've known you for a number of years. Yeah, we used to work together on John Owen Bain, the TV show, and now you've just surpassed anything that we've ever achieved in our lives. You've done really well. If you

had said to me years ago, hey, I'm going to start up a jandle business one day, I would have gone, Jordan. But I've looked at the website and these are genius. They're pretty damn slick and you guys have known me for many years. I live in jandles. I'm a jandle professional.

And the thing that all Kiwis can agree with is we hate it when they blow out. So when you think of a jandal, you know the little plug at the front? It's usually tiny, and that's the thing that unplugs, which we call a blowout. And so the idea came, why don't we just make the plug bit way bigger so it can't pull through? And that's what we've done.

It's the shape of a classic Kiwi bread tag, the old plastic bread tag shape, and it's strong and you can't pull it through. Your little arms, guys, you couldn't pull that through. How much did you pull? I saw it on the website. You were trying to attempt it with your bigger arms, trying to pull it through.

You couldn't do it. It really is a genius invention, and it's really cool when you look at the bottom of the jandals. You've sent us some now, so thank you very much for that. It looks like the bread tag at the bottom, but it's just the plug for the jandal. Yeah, we've given it a classic nod to the bread tag. So, yeah, at the bottom, it looks like looks like the bread tag at the bottom, but it's just the plug for the jandle. Yeah, we've given it a classic nod to the bread tag, so at the bottom it looks like

there's a bread tag clipped on there, but no, that's actually a thick, sturdy, way bigger plug. And I can even pick my kid on the website, you'll see me holding my kid up. She's holding the straps, and we had a photographer here and I was like, I hope this works, and picked her up and we had to do it about 10 times, and she's dangling from and it doesn't unplug. Dangling from a

jandle. Can you handle the jand well she literally can wow i love that i love that demonstration it's like when they started cooking rocks in a frying pan on an infomercial you're like well this has got nothing to do with the strength of jandal but this can hold a small child this jandal and just in case there's a raging river one time and you know you have to hold your kid up you could hold them by the hand but the moisture gets a bit slippery so if you rip your jandals off you say hold on to this and you get them across that raging river. So where can

people find these jandals, check them out and how can they order them? Apparently they're on pre-order at hairsgolden.com, there's men's and women's sizes and there's four different little strap colour options so it comes in a fancy little box as you guys would see in front of you. So it's a cool little thing to get in the mail.

That's awesome. It's come at a really good time too because, obviously, for good reason, the bread companies no longer seem to be using the plastic tags, the plastic bread tags. Oh, you would have loved that news, Geordie. I know. Well, part of us, it was all a big coincidence, but at the same time we were thinking,

this is great kind of educating the world about New Zealand, reminding them how we use the classic bread tag to fix a blowout. At the same time, we didn't want people to think that these were like part of some kind of bread company merchandise. So there's definitely no affiliation. This is a legit product. So no bread has crossed hands? Best thing since Flossbread, mate.

No, no bread. Nothing to do with bread. just a bloody golden idea. Because the design of the tag, when you think about it, unintentionally has always been there to save the jandle. I know. This is what we've said. I've joked about it in our little meetings behind the scenes when we were designing these. How has no one thought over all the years of jandals

and jandals blowing out to make the little plug bit bigger? And that's, look, I don't want to take away from what we've done, but that's all we've done. No, you're doing God's work. You know, your top of your jandal crack and that plug just falls out. Well, we've made it so it won't come out. Ring, ring, ring. Hello, is that Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the Year on the phone?

Yes, it is. I think ring, ring. Hello, is that Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the Year on the phone? Yes, it is. I think it is. I think it is. Are you nominating yourself or am I nominating on behalf of you? I've tried many times. I've tried the last week. It says you can't nominate yourself. I've tried to make up a mistake.

Ben's got a bit of a game we want to play with you, Jordan Watson. How to Dad. We figure that you've been doing this dad thing for a long time now. You must know the punchline to almost every dad joke. So we're going to start a 60-second timer. Ben's going to set you up. You have to try and finish the punchline, okay? Okay.

I'm down. I'm down. How do you organise a space party? You plan it. You plan it. One, two, one. Do you know that milk is the fastest liquid on earth? It's pasteurised before you even see it.

Pasteurised. What's Forrest Gump's internet password? Something shrimp. One Forrest run. What do you hear about the man, did you hear about the man who fell into an upholstery machine? Yes, he is now fully recovered. Yes, yes.

Why didn't the melons get married? Because they can't. Oh, what is it? What's that fruit? Because they can't elope. Can't elope. Yes, there we go. What do you call a fake noodle?

Spaghetti. An imposter. Why are skeletons so calm? Nothing rattles their bones. Oh, well done. Nothing gets under their skin. We've got time for one more. And why are elevator jokes so calm? Nothing rattles their bones. Pretty good. Nothing gets under their skin. We've got time for one more. And why are elevator jokes so good? They work on so many levels.

There we go. Hey, Jordan Watson, howdy, Dad. Now, a jandal proprietor. Yeah. A jandal peddler. He's got his own jandal empire, and you can head to here'sgolden.com, the website, and buy yourself some blowout free jandals. Did you think about calling them with your name

being Jordan, Air Jordans, or was that already taken? Oh mate, again, you type that in and Nike's straight up here saying, mate, get off. Shut your computer green. Because there's air, there's nothing covering your foot too. Yeah, Air Jordans. A chance to win $10,000 tomorrow, we'll tell you how

next. Jono and Ben's $10,000 tomorrow. We'll tell you how next. It's happening. It's happening tomorrow, isn't it? Getting a little bit nervous about it, to be honest. It was a half-hearted ooh. It was before 7am. But tomorrow night, Ben Boyce is watching all five of the world's scariest movies. You've voted on them.

Non-stop movie marathon. Every Friday gets, loses money off a $10,000 prize pool. This Friday, we're going to give away the leftover. So what would be a figure that you'd be happy to give away? $9,995? I mean, the more money, the better. But yeah, even giving away a grand, I mean, I'd be happy with. Hey, no, don't.

A grand? Yeah, well, that's still a lot of money. If I said to you, I'll give you $1,000, I'd be happy with. Hey, no, don't. A grand? You want this for a lot of money? If I said to you, I'll give you a thousand bucks, you'd be like, oh my God, that's awesome. Yeah, I'd be like, how much did you have at the beginning? No, I want to know how much you've got a thousand out. Do you want the grand or what? Yeah, thank you. But yeah, what did you start with?

No, I don't know. All I'm saying right now is I've got a grand. Do you want it or not? Go off it to someone else if you don't. We've got Roger L. Jackson, sorry, we spoke to yesterday. Famous actor who was the voice of Ghostface in the Scream movies. You know when he's talking to Drew Barrymore at the beginning? Yeah.

What's your favourite scary movie? Yeah, that guy. Oh, you do it. You do it. Sorry, I played that too early. Yeah, shall I do it or Roger do it? Oh, it was quite good when he did it. Yeah.

I think he did it better than me probably. But we spoke to him yesterday and he did us the honour of announcing the top five movies that you're going to be watching. At the top of the list is Scream. And I have to say, that's the right answer. Number two is It. The next movie in Ben's list of terror is Paranormal Activity. Next, for those who aren't traumatized enough yet,

The Conjuring. And last but certainly not least, Sinister. Here we go. So those are the five movies, and there was actually something done on Landbible yesterday where they posted a scientific study carried out. Fifty of the most scary movies that people watched, and they had heart rate monitors, and three out of the five that I'm watching tomorrow are on that top five list. Oh, my goodness.

So they're all, yeah. What other ones did they have on there that we don't have Hereditary oh yeah I've heard of that and Insidious oh yes as well

have you seen Insidious I think I have years ago but I think I spent majority of it like I can't remember it because I spent majority of the movie

with my eyes covered so well yeah so it's happening tomorrow apparently around about midday-ish

I'll be on the live stream watching the movies until the evening. Because it takes a while to watch five movies back to back. And if you want to win some of the money on Friday, whatever's left over, you need to comment on the live stream. Just get on there at some stage. Just say anything.

Just comment. That's the only way you can win is by commenting and then listening on Friday morning on the show. So we can't show the movies, obviously, for copyright reasons. So you'll be watching a man watching movies. You'll be there as well? What are you doing? I've got some stuff to do tomorrow. But you'll be there.

That's the main thing. But Ben Boyce starts tomorrow and it's going to go well into the night. I reckon maybe 10 hours of non-stop horror viewing. Yeah. Are you going to watch the credits? Oh, I feel like these people worked hard on the movie. You want to know who the third production assistant was on Scream, don't you?

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you want to give them the credit they deserve. So from start to finish, the world's scariest horror movies tomorrow and winning you $10,000, hopefully. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Spy. The What's Up.

Spy.co.nz. All right, time now to talk some smack about celebrities to make us feel better about our miserable lives. Juliet, what have we got? So Keanu Reeves, he's kind of proving again that he's the nicest guy in Hollywood. That's what they all say. He's genuinely...

Yeah, they do, right? He seems just amazing. One of the nicest people. So he has just wrapped filming John Wick Chapter 4 and he presented each member of the stunt team with $10,000 Rolex watches each. So every person on the stunt team got gifted that watch to that monetary value.

Lovely, but how do I know my watch from Jono's watch? How do I know if it's mine? Well, they got personalised messages on engraved on the watches as well. This is a very leading question. I actually read that and I thought it would be a good question to ask. In what situation are you and me both being handed

Rolexes from Keanu Reeves? I put mine down and I said, was that my one or was that your one? Personalised message engraved. That's pretty awesome. What a wonderful gesture. Although, you know, is this one of those situations, Ben, where I know you don't like being gifted a card. You're like, I'd rather the $5 you spend

on the card. Would you go, Keanu, how much was this watch? He'd say $10,000, and you'd be like, can I have the money, please? Is this one of those situations? Yeah, it's an interesting, it's a good play by Keanu because he's engraved it. So that means you can't, you know, if you're going to sell it,

it's already got, hey, Jono, thanks for the stunt work, you know, like, you know, and you'll know that someone who's it's already got, hey, Jono, thanks for the stunt work. And you'll know that someone who's selling it. So good play. Lovely gift. I'm going to go out there and say I'd rather the $10,000. Really? Than a watch from Keanu Reeves.

Correct. How about you? You're probably right, actually. I mean, lovely. I could get a $20 watch from Keanu. I guess. I can look up the wall and see the type on my phone. Oh, that's true. But it's a Rolex.

But I can't look at the wall and get $10,000. I just don't think I could pull off a Rolex. Like, you want to be the guy with the Rolex, you know? You ever like, oh, that's... Yeah. I feel like only, like, boomers can pull off, like, wealthy boomers. Yeah, Jay-Z can pull off a Rolex. Yeah, yeah, very true.

And the creator of Squid Game reveals, I'm not that rich. It's not like Netflix paid me any bonuses, despite the show earning Netflix $1.2 billion. And the stress of making it somehow cost the creator six teeth. I actually should have researched into that. I'm not sure why. Poor oral hygiene.

Wasn't flossing during the filming. I think it was just the stress to deal with it. But it's a very good point because you think it's been so successful the show. It's hugely successful but the person who made it, they wouldn't have got any more money for that first series. No, they just sold it for a fee to Netflix obviously.

But now obviously going forward things will hopefully work out well. He said he's not wealthy wealthy but it's definitely enough to put food on the table. And he suggested that once Season 2's out, maybe he'll be as wealthy enough as the winner of Squid Game. That's right. Maybe you can put caviar on the table. Yeah. Maybe you can buy a watch for Keanu Reeves.

Yeah. Keanu, you want a watch? Yeah. No, he's like, I'm the watch guy. Thanks for watching Squid Game. Well, have a watch. You know, so you do. Have a watch. Have a watch Have a watch

Well that's good Good on him But the problem is though For the Squid Game creator And a lot of musicians fall into this as well An artist could spend 10 years Writing and perfecting songs for their debut album Which takes off like a smash hit

Then there's the pressure of the second one Which you're doing in a shorter period of time, Ben Boyce. The pressure is on. So he spent, I think, 10 years working on the script and getting it denied and coming back and tweaking and ended up with the result that we see now. And now there's the demand. Pressure's on. And that is Spy for More. You can head to the hits.co.nz.

After 7 o'clock on the show, $5,000 like we always do. And Jason Statham. How's that? Just come through. An interview with Jason Statham. That's happening just after 7 o'clock. It is the hits. New Zealand's breakfast.

This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning. Jono and Ben with you on a Wednesday morning. Just gone 7 o'clock. Halloween is this weekend, and tomorrow, as voted by you, I'm watching the five scariest movies back-to-back. And every fright that I get, we take money off $10,000. And whatever money we have left over on Friday, we give away on the show.

And the only way you can win some money is to go watch the live stream tomorrow and make a comment. Now, some of horror's greatest characters have heard about this, and they're coming through and offering messages of support. Now, this is actual Freddy Krueger, who played Freddy Krueger in the movies. Yes. Actually.

Hmm. Hello, Ben. I hear you're afraid of scary movies. Don't be a pussy then. Good luck during your horror movie marathon. There you go. Looking at Freddie's face, he's really checked out of his skin care regime. Hasn't he?

No moisturiser, no exfoliating. We'll put that video up on the Hits Instagram at some stage today. It's actually very frightening. He looks terrible. And the make-up and the masks and stuff. that video up on The Hits Instagram at some stage today. It's actually very frightening. Yeah. And the makeup and the masks and stuff, just the preparation time. And if anyone walked in on him doing that, he'd be like, what are you doing, mate?

You'd be facing more questions than Jacinda at a 1pm press conference. Hey, next on the show, Jason Statham. Yeah, Jason Statham joins us. That is three minutes away it is the hits you got john on ben it is pink you're on the hits john on ben you would have seen this back on the tv the ads for skinny uh and where they have the famous names people with in new zealand with famous names of

famous movie stars famous famous sports people. Musicians. Yeah, it's a really great campaign. It is a great campaign. I mean, they tricked us last week into thinking that we had an interview with Michael J. Fox. Now, we didn't know this was the New Zealand Michael J. Fox. Hello, mate. How are you doing?

Yeah, good. Yourselves? Good. It's John or Ben here. We work on the Hits radio station in New Zealand. We've just got an interview with Michael J. Fox, surely. That's right. Yeah, that's right. No, really, when you guys are far away.

Will you relay the questions to him? How's this work? It's going to be too hard if you guys just ask the questions and I can answer. But is he on the other line? It's me. I'm Michael J. Fox. I'm Pukikohe from the Skinny Famous Faces advert. Yeah. It's not nice being a victim

of a pranking little did we know that was to launch a week campaign to find other famous names and you can win $3000 and voice a commercial of ours and yesterday we spoke to a Tina Turner

who do we have? we know Tina's your first name, we don't know to a Tina Turner. Who do we have? We know Tina's your first name. We don't know your last. Turner. Tina Turner. Tina Turner. Certainly the best. Oh, my goodness.

That was Tina Turner. How cool was that? And we just kept trying to crowbar, you know, what's love got to do with it? And she's like, absolutely nothing. This is just, I've just got the same name as the lady. But if you have a famous name or you live with someone who does have a famous name, you can win $3,000 this week.

And yesterday after the show, we spoke. We didn't know who it was, but we knew their first name was Jason. G'day, mate. How are you? All we know is your first name is Jason. We don't know the back end. I'm going to guess Derulo, Jason Derulo. Who would I guess?

Gun, Jason Gun. Jason Gun's a good one. No, mate. No, Jason Statham. Oh, Jason Statham. Wow. Yeah, always get pulled up for it. I tell you, I was really disappointed in myself.

I could not think of any Jasons. Sorry, I'm sitting in that moment right now. Jason Statham. Yeah, man. This wouldn't have bugged you your whole life because Jason Statham, it feels like, has probably been the last 20 years maybe? Yeah. Yeah.

As soon as you get on the phone calls these days, it's just like, oh, you're not, huh? And it's like, no. No, you're like, why would Jason Statham be phoning Bunnings? And putting on a really convincing New Zealand accent, too. Exactly. Because he has a great sort of British accent and stuff as well, Jason Statham. Do you feel obliged now to be a big fan of his work?

Oh, yeah, mate. I've seen all his movies and everything. Yeah, I follow him on Facebook and stuff. Yeah, I mean, he's bloody good, Statham, isn't he? He's a great action hero, eh? Yeah, mate, I like his movies.

And it was a diver. We learnt about this. He was at the Commonwealth Games, came to New Zealand and was like a diver in the games, which is pretty awesome. Yeah, mate.

Yeah, I think it was like 89 or something, the New Zealand Games or whatever it was. Well, of course, Jason Statham knows all this. His name's Statham. And I tell you,

he's the only man That can also look mean And terrifying In a pair of Speedos As well Jason Hey you I wouldn't want to try Me in a pair mate

All I got was His bald head And mate And a hairy chest That's the only similarity Between me and Vin Diesel As well What do you do Jason?

Oh I do My own business for Crew Cut, doing lifestyle boxing. Oh, right. That's my dream job when inevitably this radio thing finishes. Yeah, mate, you never get sick of the office.

Jason stays them lawnmower and Jason stays them movie star. Bit of a difference. That is really good. Well, I tell you what, Jason, we're going to put you in the draw to win the $3,000 and also become the voice. Awesome, my friends. Thank you very much.

Good on you, Jason. I'm looking forward to it. You have a great day. Same to you guys. Have a good one. How was that? Jason Statham. Jason Statham from New Zealand.

Not this Jason Statham from the movie. This is the only option. If you snap those fingers at me again, I'll f***ing break them. Yeah, that Jason Statham mows baddies down and our Jason Statham mows lawns down. That's the only difference. So yeah, if you do have a famous name, you can win

3k. Just head to the hits.co.nz We've got $5,000 though. That's up for grabs in around about 30 minutes time. It is the hits. You've got John and Ben. It's love on' time. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. It's Love on the Run. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben, 7.17.

Now, it's been a time lately where a lot of binge watching's going on. I know you've been watching Ted Lasso. I got to the end of that, and I'm very upset. When you get to the end of a show you've been enjoying, you're like, oh, what now? What now? What now? What now? What is there to live for, Ben?

But I just started watching Ted Lass. He's a very lovable character, isn't he? Yeah, he is. He is awesome. About an American football coach who goes to coach a team of English footballers. And I tell you what, there's a difference between the game. There's not a difference in the way you coach. Yeah, well, that's kind of, I guess, the message.

Yeah, no, he's a wonderful character, Ted. Anyway, I've spoken about this before. My wife, Jennifer, she's obsessed with the Love Island franchise. I don't think I've ever watched Love Island. How does it work? It's just like Celebrity Treasure Island with more butt cheeks and penicillin. Right. I would imagine.

Are they trying to date? What is the point? I think the game is you stay on as long as you're with someone. You're not necessarily hooking up with them, but you need to be partnered up with someone and the further you get on, you owe your $50,000, you know, whatever you're doing.

But I had mentioned it before and I was very judgmental of Love Island when she was watching Love Island UK. I'd stomp around the house like an angry 70-year-old. What is this rubbish? What is this rubbish? But then slowly it gets its claws into you, and then you find yourself just sort of watching from the kitchen,

slightly. Sort of like huffing and puffing. Oh, nonsense. Oh, is she with him now? Okay. Turn on the history channel. Something. But, you know, I like to think that I'm above Love Island,

but I'm not. If anything, I'm beneath Love Island. I'm below it. But after watching Love Island and, you know, looking at that villa, she's afterwards a bit in need of a deep clean, Ben. Oh, so they all live in a house. Yeah, they all live in, like, an exotic villa.

And you'd probably be safer staying at the Jet Park Hotel. Catch less anyway. But they have gone to Love Island, Australia now. So they do different versions, USA, UK, and Australia. And what I love about this is we've all been in this situation where we all try to appear that we have a grasp of the English language. You know, we do it every morning. We're pulling in words out of thin air, but you can't stop yourself and go,

actually, that's not the right word I was wanting to, that wasn't the word I was needing to use. Especially when you've got cameras on you and you're not used to that situation, it'd be quite terrifying. A lot of pressure, a lot of pressure. And I just, I'd like to spare a thought for these Love Island contestants. The place is, it's picturesque when you turn up. And this girl couldn't have put it in better words. The villa is, I can't say the word, picturesque. Is that the right word?

No. Picturesque. No. Yes. She nailed it and then doused it herself. It's still chumming the edit though. Is that the right word? No Picturesque No Yes She nailed it And then Down to herself Stitch up in the edit though

Yeah I didn't need her to go Yeah No Hang on She said picturesque They could have just said It isn't there

Yeah Oh Stitch up in the edit I said it And then that bit Wasn't for camera I said the right words Yeah

I might have guessed If it was the right words Yeah But the main things were It it emerged from my lips. Now, the next one was, oh, there's a bit of drama on episode one. Okay. A girl kissed another girl's boyfriend. Oh.

Okay. And she went to openly admit her faults. And she wanted to get across that she didn't initiate the kiss. Jordan and I have just kissed before. But I didn't insinuate it. He insinuated it. Yeah. So she didn't insinuate the kiss.

And then the other girl, the girlfriend's like, well, you didn't insinuate the kiss. So she thinks it's the word that's meant to be used. We do it every morning. Oh, Chris Hipkins. It happened to him. Remember, spread your legs was a prime example of saying something and then going, is that what I meant to go outside and spread your legs?

No, it's stretch your legs. But he couldn't think of the right word. And he just carried on. It happens to politicians. Look, it is a challenge in higher density areas for people to get outside and to spread their legs when they are. Yeah, see? Same thing.

You can tell he was like, it's not quite the right word. But you've got to plough on. You've got to keep going on. Happens to us all. You're right. And the next one here is revolving around geography. And now one contestant was explaining where he was from in Margaret River in Perth to his girlfriend.

And she got a little confused. What are Western Australian people like? I don't even think I've met anyone from there. I'm from Perth. I haven't always lived in Perth. I went down south. Have you ever heard of Margaret River? No. Me and geometry always lived in Perth. I went down south. Have you ever heard of Margaret River? No.

Me and geometry, we're not friends. Now I've done the maths on that, and I'm guessing that her and geography don't get along either. Well, maybe she was just saying something like the end of that conversation and then just starting up a new conversation. By the way, maths. Maths is not my thing either. We're all sharing where he was from

that's right she's like full stop new topic yeah I get it I get it and then finally I love this one this guy's like

I'm not even going to try and think of words yeah I'm in December are you yeah so I'm Sagittarius I'm a Scorpio

I've got no idea what that means that's awesome I'm good with these people putting themselves out there I love them that's why I make for great TV I've got no idea what that means. That's awesome. Look at all these people putting themselves out there. I love that. That's why it makes for great TV. And I don't know if they found love. Do they find love?

Well, that's the major prize. Along with a boost in your Instagram followers and $50,000. That's right. I love the flirting in that, Julie. It was like, I'm Scorpio. Trying to relate. I have no idea what that means. It's true Trying to relate. I have no idea what that means. It's true.

Star signs. I have no idea what that means either. So good. It is the hats. You got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween Scarehouse. It's happening tomorrow. I'm watching the five scariest movies as voted by you guys.

I'm not a fan of scary movies, and I'm going to try and sit through all five. Try not to get too many frights. Try not to close my eyes. And you guys are going to take some money off, $10,000, that we have to give away, depending on how I react. Yes, every fright you lose money from the prize pool. Whatever's left over this Friday, two days away, we'll give away the cash. Now, if you want to be in the draw to actually win that money,

you need to comment on the live stream tomorrow. We're going to be filming Ben Boyce watching these movies as we go for about 11 hours or so. All you need to do is comment on the live stream. You're in the draw for the cash. What a great carrot dangler to get you to tune into the live stream. I can see what we've done there. It's a great play. But the five movies you are going to be watching as voted by you were announced yesterday

by the voice of Ghostface from the movie Scream. At the top of the list is Scream. And I have to say, that's the right answer. Number two is It. The next movie in Ben's list of terror is Paranormal Activity. Next, for those who aren't traumatized enough yet, The Conjuring. And last but certainly not least, Sinister.

Yeah, so those are the five movies I'm going to have to struggle my way through. Did you put Scream in the list because you got him to do it, or was that always on the list? Do you want full transparency? No, I think I know the answer. Scream is a very, very iconic movie. Great movie, but it probably gives you a few frights. Hey, guys, did you want...

Now, pull down the music. It's the warm-up act. Did you guys want the ghost face dude doing the movie announcements? Well, that was amazing. So nice play of getting him to do that. It's a pat your back, pat my back situation. I see, I see. I had to do some despicable things to get him.

Okay. And just putting his movie on the list was only one of them. But we are going to be looking at a lot of terrifying characters tomorrow, Ben. And just because these despicable people, their major hobby and interest is murdering people, doesn't mean they're not looking for love. So have we got some love music

here anywhere around, Juliet? I know you asked if I needed any more audio just before the song finished and I said no. Now I've come up with more audio. Yeah, you'd like some love music. So Ben, what I'm going to do is I'm going to read out the Tinder bios. Is this appropriate? Yeah, it's beautiful, June. Tinder bios of

some of the most horrific horror movie characters. Oh, so they're looking for love. They're looking for love and you have to try and figure out. They're just misunderstood. Okay, yeah. I grew up in Haddonfield, a lovely little suburban street. Me and my older sister Judith used to have a lot of fun. You know, usual brother and sister, back and forth, until one day I murdered her.

Oh jeez! Things got a little all-keys after that, so I went away for a little bit, found myself, and then returned 15 years later to murder some more people. In fact, about 170 over the years. My hobbies and interests include masks, kitchen knives, and Pilates. Come on, take a stab with me. I'll leave you dying with laughter. Oh, is it like Mike Myers, Halloween? Boom! Mike Myers from Halloween!

Did you know that mask, the original mask, is a mould of William Shatner's face? Really? Really? They're just kind of screwed up or something? Or is that? I don't know. I think they must have gone, hey, Shatner, put your face into this putty. Why?

Don't ask any questions, Shatner. Wow. That was not his 90-year-old face, obviously. It was, you know, a Star Trek face. Fascinating. Who knew that? Yeah. Painted white on the mask.

Next person looking for love. After decades of systematically slaughtering people in their sleep, I'm now finally ready to settle down. Oh, Jesus. That's so wrong, but it's funny. My weaknesses include not being able to look at my face in the mirror, and thanks to my hands having great difficulty opening jars and door handles. My hobbies include terrorising entire towns and making people mysteriously disappear.

Not one for fashion trends. I've had one jersey which seems to have done me well over the years. I have one daughter, Maggie, who's a counsellor for troubled teens. However, she stabbed me in the abdomen and put a pipe bomb in my chest, which exploded. We tend not to talk anymore. Swipe right if you want to know more. Please don't be offended if I don't swipe back, because my inconvenient hand won't allow me to swipe screens.

To be honest, it was quite the mission even typing out this biography. Freddy Krueger. Freddy Krueger. Freddy Krueger! Yeah, Freddy Krueger with the jersey, the distinctive black and red jersey stripes that he wears. And Freddy Krueger has even left a message for you. Hello Ben. I hear you're afraid of scary movies. Don't be a pussy, Ben. I hear you're afraid of scary movies. Don't be a pussy, Ben.

Good luck during your horror movie marathon. Who wouldn't want to date that guy? It's all happening tomorrow. And as I said before, you can watch the live stream. We'll be kicking off, let's say, from 1 o'clock tomorrow onwards. And if you watch the live stream, leave a comment. You could be winning some of that 10 grand prize pool. Hopefully on Friday it is the hits.

Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. By now you should know how it works. It's our game of word association. We play it every morning at 7.45. We tell you five words. You tell us the first things that pop into your head. Then one of us play the same game.

If all five match up the same as what you've said, you win $5,000. Morena Louise, how are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Great to have you on. We're putting our money where our mouth is. It's very unhygienic, but that's what we're willing to do to win you five grand. What do you do?

I'm a caregiver. Oh, very nice. Oh, good on you for caregiving. It's a selfless industry, caregiving, isn't it? Oh, it is. And I'm very poor. Oh, well, don't start putting the guilt on us, mate. You've got to care for our feelings as well, Louise.

We're going to feel awful if we don't get you this money, but what would you put 5K towards? Well, some to my daughter for dialing the number for me every morning. And the rest to finish my shed. Oh, what sort of shed are you building? Oh, it's a car shed. Ben's got a shed at home too. He grows

some stuff in there. Are you going to grow anything in yours? Ah, no. No. You need to say no in those things, Ben Or else people think that you're Do you reckon I need to still? Just for your good name

Hey mate, just Every show's a defamation case against you You can take me through I've worn him down Say what you need to say Yeah, we'll move on It's not true Who do you want to send into the soundproof'll move on. I think it will work out it's not true or not and if not, oh well.

Hey, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth, Jono, Ben or Juliet? My daughter has decided that we're going to send Ben in. Good. I need to have some time out.

He's going to the soundproof booth. We're considering you grow some stuff in there as well, don't you? With that special light in there. All right, five words.

Let's see if we can get you matching with Ben and win you $5,000, Louise. Okay. Okay, the first word that comes into your head when I say parrot. Bird. Bird, yeah.

Do you know we have, oh, it's beautiful. We've got these two rosellas, which are parrots. Oh, cute. And they sit in this little tree in our backyard, and they don't move. Like, you get very close to them. I've been filming them like a pervert every day. They're very adorable. Okay, the next word on the list is Norton.

Norton. As in N-O-R-T-O-N. Norton. Come on. You know. Motorbikes? Yes. There are Norton motorbikes.

Were you thinking of something to do with computers, Ju? No. I was thinking of someone, but. Okay. Yeah. It's word number. Can I actually just wait on that one? You want to come back to Norton? Yeah.

Yeah. To be honest, Ben's not much of a motorbike guy. Yeah, true. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. If that gives you any clues. We'll go on to word number three.

Apron. Cooking. Melbourne. If that gives you any clues We'll go on to word number three Apron Melbourne Australia Yeah nice Are they out of lockdown now? I think so Word number five was inflatable Louise Balloon Number five was inflatable, Louise. Okay, balloon.

Balloon, all right. And then we'll just jump back to number two, Norton. We'll say Edward. I don't know. I don't know. Oh, yeah. Okay. Edward's good. Okay, we'll go with that. Yeah, there's a couple of Nortons in the entertainment biz

Aren't there Oh Kate no we'll change it to Graham Can I change it to Graham I was trying to lead you down that path Hopefully it was the right path to lead you down We've gone motorbikes to Edward to Graham Alright Louise we'll get Ben Boyce out of the soundproof booth. We're trying to win you $5,000.

Okay, I hope so. Oh, Ben, what a roller coaster. Word number two you're going to have fun with. Oh, really? It wasn't the first thing that came into my head, but then Juliet was mouthing it to me, and I was like, ah. Okay. Word number one you need to match with Louise, win the caregiver $5,000.

Parrot. Parrot. Parrot. He said parrot. Bird. One from one, Lou. Norton. Norton? Norton.

Ooh. I'm going to go with what popped into my head first because I was just watching the video of us on the red chair. I'm going to say what popped into my head first because I was just watching the video of us on the red chair I'm gonna say Graham well done oh we had Norton motorbikes we keep Morris Edward Norton Norton antivirus the antivirus software yeah I was always the disc we need to put it the Norton antivirus. That's why I looked at Ben. I was like, Norton? There's an antivirus software. I was just watching, yeah, us on the red chair on Graham Norton. Oh, that's good. Okay. Apron.

Cooking? Oh my god. Louise and Ponganui. Three. Here we go. Here we go. Three from three. What should you do, Ponganui? Word number four. Melbourne. Victoria. He's narrowed it down to the state.

She went more at a country level. Australia, yeah, well, that's another, yeah. Yeah, all right. Word number five is inflatable. Bouncy Castle. Lou, hold your head high. You did well. You started well.

That fell apart. Yeah, it did. The wheels fell off. Three out of five. You did well. You started well. They fell apart. Yeah, you did. The wheels fell off. Three out of five. You go and look after yourself, all right? Thank you so much for listening to the program. Thank you. All the best.

Someone else has another chance tomorrow, 7.45, to try and win five grand. We were close, but not quite good enough today. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. If this was radio 15 years ago, we would have made producer Juliette Mary five listeners inside a wheelie bin by now.

But instead we get her to read out celebrity stories every hour at Spy. So some sad news. Ed Sheeran has confirmed his wee 14-month-old daughter Lyra has also contracted COVID. So Ed announced a couple of days ago that he has got COVID. He didn't say whether he was vaccinated or not, but you imagine that his daughter isn't because she's only 14 months old. So now they're both isolating together, but you just feel for the poor girl. I mean, 14 months old and struggling with something like that.

And as parents, you'd just be mortified. He would obviously feel some responsibility bringing it into the household as well. We actually spoke to him last Thursday night. People aren't the problem. The virus is the problem. Yes. Not the people.

Yeah, that's the virus. Because you can't. I know the virus is the problem. You can do everything you can, and you can just be unlucky. But I like to blame people. That's one of my favourite things. That's what Dr Ashley Bloomfield says, right?

Yeah, well, he can say all he wants, so I'm still going to blame people. No, what Dr. Ashley Bloomfield says. He can say all he wants. I'm still going to blame people. But you would. You would feel responsible. I know it's a virus and it's not his fault. You would feel a bit guilty regardless. Man, this is on me. We actually spoke to him last Thursday night.

We were playing the interview on Friday for his album launch. And we mentioned yesterday he looked like a bus had run over him. And then reversed back over. Yeah. And we're like, you look exhausted, mate. Yeah. We all like put it down to 14 hours of interviews, which he was doing, which would exhaust anyone. Or maybe just talking to us is exhausting enough.

Yeah, well, that too. But obviously, yeah, it sounds like he was dealing with COVID at the time as well. He didn't know. Just awful. Awful. He's still going to carry on doing his commitments from... Yeah. I mean, he was due to go on SNL, I think,

so they're probably scrambling for a solution there, but he's doing what he can from home and via Zoom and performances and interviews from home. You can listen to a run-down Ed Sheeran on our show Friday morning, the poor guy. And The Crown Season 5, they're in the middle of filming and planning and doing all that. I think we're up to Season 4.

I'm still in the middle of Season 3. I haven't that. I think we're up to season four. I'm still in the middle of season three. I haven't fully caught up, but it's my lockdown goal. And you're a big royalist, too. I thought you would have watched it. I was quite late on that train, wasn't I? But they have said that season five will depict Princess Diana's famous interview that she did with Martin Bashir in 1995, where she kind of exposed all, I guess you could say.

And this was the interview that was kind of, I guess you could say, Harry and Meghan's Oprah interview was sort of kind of equivalent. The same thing. Although the Bashir thing, there was some controversy surrounding about how he obtained the interview, right? Yeah, and how he kind of went through illegitimate ways. And so Prince William kind of spoke out about it a while ago and saying that you know he didn't agree with how it was obtained and he wanted it no one to

really he wanted to be dropped and the fact that the crown is now going to be going into detail about it probably doesn't really go with what he's saying. It is my view that the deceitful way the interview was obtained substantially influenced what my mother said the interview was a major contribution to making my parents relationship worse and has since hurt countless others so they're kind of going against william's wishes but i guess well harry is involved with netflix obviously but not probably at that level to be able to that's true make big decisions like that on shows he so he's not involved with it. But it's interesting, yeah. So if he sent the CEO, is it Ted Sarandos, if he sent Ted an email,

would Ted reply or is he not at that level? I'm sure Ted would reply. He might be like, hey, man, my hands are tied. I can't, you know, I can't see what, like, the producers of the show, this is the, you know. Like, there's only so much you can do in that situation. Yeah, yeah. And that is Spy for the South. For more only so much you can do in that situation. Yeah, yeah. And that is Spy for the South.

For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. How does the Crown stop from being sued? Is it like these are events loosely based on what we know? Yeah. Is that how they... Yeah, yeah. Because they have conversations where they're watching, and you're like, huh?

How do you know that that was the exact conversation you were going on at the time? All the events and all the general things and the relationship with the Queen, with the various Prime Ministers and stuff, it's based on reality. Yes, they've made a lot of stuff. We should say everything we say on this show

loosely based on reality. After 8 o'clock, we're going to talk to a real-life ghost hunter. It's all ahead of Halloween. Someone in New Zealand that investigates paranormal activity as well as that big announcement from 660. We've got Machu, lead singer of 660, joining us about 8.30 with a big

big announcement. It is The Hits. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. Good morning New Zealand. Thanks so much for hanging out with us this morning. Hey 660 have a big announcement. They've got a stadium tour that's set to save summer. Machu from 660 is going to join us to talk more about that in about 30 minutes' time.

He's in the middle of his world tour at the moment as well, isn't he? No greater world tour than the Delta variant, though, but 660 are giving it their best world tour at the moment, so we're going to talk to him in the States just after half eight. But, of course, it is Halloween this weekend. And tomorrow I'm watching the five scariest movies as voted by you guys, including It with the Scary Clown. And you got a message from the clown, It, the clown, Pennywise.

Run, run, run, run. Good luck watching your scary movies, Ben People call you a clown But you have nothing on me I'll show you a clown Oh, jeez I tell you, it sounds like he's got some respiratory issues, doesn't he? Doing a couple of squirts on the Ventolin

The old it clown But anyway, we'll put those videos up on our social media. The costumes are just magnificent and finally something more pasty than me on the show. That white clown. Now to get you guys in the Halloween spirit and also to get me a bit more freaked out, we're going to talk to someone next who's

a real life paranormal investigator. That's right, in Wellington. Wellington paranormal, but in real life. But not the actor. I think this inspired the TV show, this business. And we're going to talk to James next about his very strange occurrences that he had in his job, but it's the hits. It's the Chainsmokers. You've got New Zealand's Breakfast.

John O'Byrne with you. 8.13. Hey, tomorrow, Ben Boyce embarking on a movie marathon of sorts for Halloween. Five of the scariest movies. You've voted for them. He's going to watch them all in a row. Every fright loses money off a $10,000 prize pool. Whatever's left over, we give away on Friday.

Now, if you want to win that cash, too, you must comment on the live stream tomorrow. And just to make it even worse, to get me really in the mood for scary movies marinate them up uh we're talking right now to someone who investigates paranormal activity and ghosts here in new zealand from the strange occurrences society james gilbert uh how are you good to have you in the show yeah hi how are you we're good nice to talk to you now you and your wife uh wife founded something after a pretty scary experience in the 90s. Oh, yeah, back in Whanganui. I mean, not the only scary experience we've had in Whanganui, but it was one that kind of kicked off the strange occurrences paranormal investigation thing.

So what happened? We were in a hotel and something got us both up at one o'clock in the morning and seemed to kind of come at us from the end of the bed. And if it had just happened to me or just happened to Denise, well, you'd put it down as a nightmare. But it happened to both of us. You'd be like, don't be silly, Denise. Well, yeah, it's just a nightmare to go back to sleep.

But as it was, we couldn't go back to sleep. And we're sitting there trembling and sweating and carrying on, and we just eventually had to up six and leave. Oh, in the middle of the night, you left the hotel? Yeah, we left by about 2 o'clock, 2.30. We couldn't... So what was it? What did you see, or what happened?

Well, it seemed to be some sort of dark shape came at us from the end of the bed in the night. And I have a distinct memory of physically pushing the thing away. I thought it was a man. Denise thought it was a big dog. And we couldn't settle. Anyway, we couldn't explain that. And we had to flee in the middle of the night. So I wrote a check, as you did then, and left it on the coffee table.

And we couldn't relax until we got back to Wellington. And so that's the start of the New Zealand Strange Occurrences Society. And can I just say, in the heat of the moment, for you to take time and write out a cheque and go, thank you. We'll still, we had a shocking night of sleep, but we'll pay you for it anyway. That was very polite of you, James, too. Yeah, well, I thought so. We did write them a letter and just, you know, if anything else happened in that room.

It was rather a Stephen King situation when we got there. I mean, Wanganui was completely deserted. And we went and we booked it. We got in and there's literally this little old lady behind the desk. I don't think they had any other guests that night. It was really, really quiet. It was New Year's Day. It was so quiet. It was e Year's Day. It was so quiet.

It was eerie, and everything was just set up for something weird to happen and something weird did happen. You didn't have TripAdvisor back then either, too. No, no. Google. So you've started this society now, and you investigate sort of, I guess, paranormal activity. What sort of places have you been to, and sort of what do you do for your job? Well, my day job

I'm a photographer. Paranormal investigation is not a job or a career. It's not a profession in New Zealand. It's a hobby. I guess it's a hobby. We don't get paid. I think I've had $20 in 15 years out of it. Someone write you a cheque? Yeah. So you're advising no one go into this industry?

No. No. There's no money in it. Not here. You can make a career of it in some parts of the world. What do you do? Do you spend all night at a scary sort of haunted place? We have done. I mean, frankly, I'm 58 years old now. The all-nighters are few and far

between. We did an all-nighter in an old hotel in a place called Patia, famous for the Patia Maori Club. They were a religious family. They're Mormons, and they're very nice, and we stayed with them. We did an all-nighter there, and that was a year ago.

I haven't done one since. Now, what do you take? Is there equipment? Is there tools? Oh, of course there is. There's toys. You know, it's all the gadgets that you see on TV and then some got the electromagnetic field readers and a heat camera like they use to detect COVID cases at the airport. Cameras that work at night, all that stuff.

Look, it's interesting. What we're trying to do is record the location and see it in a way that you can't see with your own eyes. And what we do not do is we do not use those gimmicky spirit box things that everyone seems to use now. You know, you go to a place and they throw up these random words and people seem to think they're something to do with the location. Well, can I use the word bullshit? Yeah.

You did already. I just did. Yeah. And normally what we're trying to do, we're not trying to prove that they have a portal to Hades in their bathroom. What we do want to actually do is sort of de-escalate the situation rather than escalate it, if you know what I mean. So we work through everything systematically,

and it's like, look, this window's inclined to slam. When your heat pump goes on, it closes the bathroom door. This other thing, we don't know what that is. That could be a slam. When your heat pump goes on, it closes the bathroom door. This other thing, we don't know what that is. That could be a ghost. We like to remain fairly open about it, but we try to be rational and de-escalate rather than hype things up for people and then they want to leave their house.

Well, this is why you haven't got a TV show, James. You need to go in there and do a little bit of bullshitting, hype it up, wind them up, then leave them. Tell you what, I'd like a TV show. If anyone's actually listening and wants to do one, I've got a mate in Auckland who would also like to do one.

We'd also like a TV show too, James. But you guys are banned, right? Yeah, pretty much. What about, you know, all ghosts? Are they painted with a stereotype that they're all nasty and mean, but surely there's some good ones out there. Yeah, well, I intend to be one.

I mean, there's that saying among kind of ghost people, you know, assholes in real life, assholes in the afterlife, you know. It's a famous saying, so not much hope for me when I'm in a ghost. No, no, I'll probably steer clear of you. I'd advise people to leave. James Gilbert from the New Zealand Strange Occurrences Society. Now, tell us, too, you're looking for some young people to get out there so you don't have to do the all-nighters.

Yeah, that'd be good. I'll just check in at, like, 9 o'clock in the morning with a couple of cups of coffee. We've actually found some young people. We've found that they actually haven't got the stamina. Oh, really? But you're not paying them either, James.

No, that could be something. Yeah, yeah. That could be something to do with it. I love your work, mate. Thank you so much for your time this morning. Thank you. That was great. Thanks for doing this. Really, really interesting. James Gilbert, a paranormal investigator. I couldn't do that. You know, I wanted to place all night.

Plus, your investigation skills are shoddy at best. You put yourself in that category. What crimes have you solved? None, you're right. Just as we were talking to James, someone's text through Bianca's text through about a story involving a house she's purchased.

Ghosts in her daughter's bedroom? Oh don't, no! We'll get her on next. No! Ed Sheeran, who's going to be on the show with us on Friday. At the moment, him and his daughter both have COVID. So hopefully you get a speedy recovery for both of them. That's right, Ben.

Now, Halloween this weekend, and we're preparing by making you watch five of the world's scariest Halloween movies. One of them sinister, scientifically proven to be the world's scariest movie.. One of them sinister, scientifically proven to be the world's scariest movie. Science got into it, mate. Science rolled their sleeves up. What a waste of science's time. We could have been trying to get... Why don't we get some bloody vaccines

for the under 12s, eh? No, no, we figured out what the scariest movie was. So thanks, science. Yeah, sometimes science spends a lot of time doing things that science... Do science stuff. You're smart. You're smarter than this, guys.

Pull yourself together, science. But yeah, the movies that you're watching, every fright you get, you lose money off a $10,000 prize pool, and we'll give away the remainder on Friday. If you want to win it, you've just got to comment on the live stream tomorrow. And the stories, the ghost stories, the paranormal stories coming through thick and fast. And Bianca actually takes one in. Morning, how are you, Bianca? Hello, how's it going?

Boo! Ah! Oh, yeah, got it. Got it. Now, apparently you've got a scary story to tell me in particular that I don't want to hear, but at the same time I am curious. Yes, I do. here but at the same time i am curious yes um i do so we brought a house um about eight years ago hundred year old little bungalow house started renovating and we started seeing um all sorts of

spooky things popping up um like leaks in the roof and uh the floorboards here coming through there because the gaps in the floorboards stuff like like that? That's right. That's right. So we started renovating and moved our whole range out and taking photos and stuff. And we looked back at the photos when we back then printed them off. And there was all little orbs all around our daughter, who was about three at the time. So, yeah, there was a whole lot of glowy bulbs floating around. Everything in the house moved. Like, I'd put my keys down, and then they'd end up on top of the fridge.

What? There was a scary vibe that the house would put off, so I decided to get the house blessed. And the guys came around with their sage sticks and did their thing. And afterwards, they turned around and told me that there was things that were hiding under my daughter's bed that come out from under the bed, playing her curtains and the toys,

and then head back under her bed again. What the glowy balls would. She would wake up during the middle of the night and she would say that there was things standing next to her bed and just the feeling that you would get from walking into a room was cold and hairs on the back of your neck would stand up. Oh my God. So after you got the house blessed and they discovered these things they think was in there, did any of those problems happen again?

No. So it all went away after these people came around. Another situation where when we were kids, my friend's mum passed away. And so this was 20-odd years ago. And we, yeah, obviously, we're living in there, and we found her business card from when we were kids and pre-her passing away in our sofa. Where were they stored in the house?

Oh, in the couch. The timeline of you purchasing the couch and her passing, you never would have crossed paths? No. Oh, goodness. Oh, the business The business class. So what was her job? Real estate agent.

Maybe she was like, this is the one house I couldn't sell. This was a wonderful indoor-outdoor flow. And so what happens when they come and bless it? What's the actual process? What are they doing? I think they're just telling bad spirits to leave the property, waving their sage, stick around, doing something to bless them,

just, yeah, get rid of the bad vibes that's going on there. Alright, so politely, guys, do you mind? Yeah, guys, there's people here. Yeah, they just want to board us. They're like, you're going to come and give us 48 hours of notice to come on the premises? Tenancy Tribunal.

So they So we have since discovered as well, since talking to a couple of people, that, yeah, there was a few deaths and what have you that have happened in that place as well. And one lady we were talking to recently, she's a real estate agent, and I told her where I live, and she was like, oh, that house. I was like, oh, yeah, this house. Yeah, where I live and she was like, oh, that house. I was like, oh, yeah, this

house. Yeah, right. So it's got an oh, that house reputation. Yep, that's it. It seems like the beginning of one of the movies Ben's going to watch. Oh, no. Yeah, well, when things come out from under your bed and playing your curtains and you just felt like you turned your lights off and you felt

like you were getting watched. Yeah, well, they didn't put that on the description of the house, did they, when you walked through the open home? No, they didn't. All right. Hey, Bianca, thank you very much for your call. You keep safe. You too.

Good luck for tomorrow. It is 6.60, all she wrote. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. 6.60, big announcement. 6.60 Saturdays, the stadium tour edition happening next year I just added an edition in there but it's going to be awesome, March, April next year, they're going around stadiums around New Zealand, all the

details at the hitstockco.nz we've got a double pass right now if you want to win, just text 24487 Okay and joining us from the States where he just sung the National Anthem at the All Blacks frontman Machu Walters welcome, good morning, how. Welcome. Good morning. How are you?

Good, guys. Yeah, all good. How you doing? Yeah, we're doing well. You're in, woo, yeah, the USA. Yeah, I am. Are you in Washington at the moment? No, I'm back now, but I was in Washington yesterday.

Yeah, you sang the anthem Ben was saying. Yeah, I did, man. That must be pretty cool. Yeah, pretty cool for you. I mean, you grew up playing a lot of rugby. You love your rugby, and then you're performing the anthem, Ben was saying. Yeah, I did, man. That must be pretty cool. Yeah, pretty cool for you. I mean, you grew up playing a lot of rugby, you love your rugby, and then you're performing the anthem in America before an All Blacks test. Yeah, and honestly, man, it's like the most nervous I've been before a performance.

It was hard. Because you'd be used to, I imagine there's still a certain level of nerves when you perform with the band, but they're kind of there, your teammates are there. Yeah. And then this, you're just standing with a microphone in the middle of a field in a giant American stadium. You're on your own.

Exactly. That's it, man. Usually I look around and I see Chris and he's stuffing up just as much as I am. Yeah, because you can't turn around and be like, oh God, I've forgotten the words of God. Someone whisper them to me. We have been very jealous while following you guys over in the USA. You know, while we're in lockdown, you guys are off playing gigs.

You're at sports games. You're courtside at the Knicks the other day. I mean, for the NBA, that would have been pretty cool. That was epic, man. I've never been that close to a game. And the Knicks, man, that's my team now. I've got a hat. Once you've got a hat, you know you're officially locked in for life.

Now, you've had some gigs over there in the States as well. And actually, we have to say, there's someone that listens to our podcast. His name is John. He lives over in the States. He came to your New York gig. And we're like, oh, you should take a sign that said, John Owen Ben, say hi. And he held it up.

And after he held it up, someone yelled out, John Owen Ben, suck. It might have been Chris. It probably was, to be honest. It could have also been Jono and Ben rock. It might have been misheard. Yeah, true. One syllable. So are you travelling with the fam, with the whanau?

Yeah, I've got my partner and my daughter over here at the moment. Oh, how's the newborn travelling? Surprisingly really well, man. She's quite chill, touch wood. Always nervous going onto a plane with a baby. You're like, uh-oh. You're that guy. Yeah, man.

Hey, now it's not summer in New Zealand without a 660 concert or a tour, and it's pretty exciting. You guys have just announced six massive stadium shows across Aotearoa. Yeah, dude, real exciting. From what I'm told, it's the first nationwide stadium tour. That's going to be really epic. Why that's cool is, you know, last year, years before, you kind of have to scale the show depending on the venue.

Not everyone gets the kind of equal experience, but this time now with all stadiums, we can just take that circus on the road. It'll be the same show every time. We're playing in Rotorua for the first time. That's going to be epic and mclean park and napier i'm told is the first time a concert's been there so there's a lot of real cool firsts to be excited about no it's something that we can all look forward to we're sitting here in the trenches at the moment but we can look forward to this in 2022 it'll be it'll be amazing you must be starting to run out

of firsts to do like you're taking a lot of firsts off your list. Yeah, it's kind of been a little bit harder to find reasons to go out. You'll be like, the first band to sell out a Bunnings store. Give us ideas. Any idea. Bring it to the brainstorm. We are very excited about that. We'll put all the details of the hit stock kind of in there,

and we've got a double pass to give away very shortly. Before we go much, I just want to throw a couple of the most Googled questions about you and 660 to you before we go. Okay. Okay. I won't go net worth. I'll leave that one out of there.

Is Machi Walters married? I'm not married, but I'm engaged. There you go. Machu Walter's brother. A lot of Google search about your brother, Nico. Oh, yeah. Obviously very successful.

The uglier brother. The uglier brother. Now, is he younger or older, Machu? He's younger. Oh, right. And are you always offering brotherly advice? I keep an arm's distance there. I never know how much to say and what not to say, you know.

It was very cool you brought him on stage at Eden Park to perform his hit song with you, Not My Neighbour, which was pretty cool. Yeah, man, I loved it. That was probably one of my favourite parts of that show. When I heard people talk about that show, that was just a really special moment. So, yeah, I was stoked about that whole thing.

I bet for your whole family to see that in a sold-out Eden Park would be amazing. They were loving it. Tears were flowing. Everyone's hugging about the moment. It's not often your family can take videos of you selling out a concert with both of the children up there on stage. Does he ever present songs to you and you're like,

mate, that's a dud, and then you go and secretly take it and turn it into a number one hit? No way. We share ideas of music all the time so he knows that i'm there for him to give advice and we'll always be honest and he does the same i show i share him and play him everything before it's released as well oh awesome and our last couple of most google questions this is on 660 okay let's rattle through these is 660 a new zealand band yeah yeah yeah that's a fun uh is 660 movie on net let's rattle through these. Is 660 a New Zealand band? Yeah. Yeah, that's the one. Is 660 movie on Netflix?

A lot of people Googling that one. Nah, but we're working on it. It should be. Finally, is 660 splitting up? That's what people will put in as well. Not yet. Not yet. But when it happens, it's going to go down in flames.

It'll be the first. It'll be the first. That's a first. It's always good to catch up with you, buddy, and take care over there in the US. We can't wait for you guys to hit stadiums around March and April next year. Thanks, bro. See you guys later.

See you, bud. And if you want a double pass to one of the six gigs, 4487 will give that away very shortly on the hits. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't say this better than a whole face. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. It's almost the end of our show. Tomorrow I'm getting a little bit nervous because I'm doing this.

Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween scare house. I don't know why I'm in the branding as Jono and Ben's. You know, Ben's doing all the heavy lifting on this. He's pretty scared of scary movies. so we've compiled the top five scariest. Thanks to you, he's going to watch all five every Friday he gets and lose his money off a $10,000 prize pool and whatever's left over we'll give away Friday. I watched one the other night.

I think I was telling you about this on Netflix. With my kids, it was seven plus. Like, that was the age group. For seven, you have to be older than seven. And I got the night box. It was so scary. I had to go to the garage and get something afterwards. I was like, can someone come with me, please?

Everyone's like, no, go to the garage. And I was like, oh, I don't want to go to the garage. You know, it was, yeah. I was like, are kids getting a bit tougher these days? Because I was like, jeez, it was, yeah. Are they consoling you during this process, your children? It's all right, mate. Yeah, a little bit, yeah.

Can you sleep in my bed tonight? Yeah. Anyway, we've got the voice of Ghostface from the Scream movies to actually announce the top five films that you are going to be watching tomorrow afternoon slash evening. At the top of the list is Scream. And I have to say, that's the right answer. Number two is scream. And I have to say, that's the right answer. Number two is it.

The next movie in Ben's list of terror is Paranormal Activity. Next, for those who aren't traumatized enough yet, The Conjuring. And last but certainly not least, Sinister. Jesus Jesus I tell you what That guy has got the world's scariest voice Doesn't he? It's behind when my mother

She's not angry she's disappointed It's the most frightening voice So those are the five movies you're going to be watching Sinister as we've mentioned scientifically proven To be the world's most frightening film And we've got a special message for you, Ben. From one Frederick Charles Kruger.

Hmm. Hello, Ben. I hear you're afraid of scary movies. Good luck during your horror movie marathon. Here we go, Freddy Krueger. So it's happening tomorrow, around about lunchtime, I'll start watching the movies.

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