Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Spoke To Someone Who Went On A First Date Fully Naked!

Episode Date: October 13, 2021

In one of our frequent segments, Liar Liar, where one person is on the phone telling a true story, and another is on telling a false story, we ended up speaking to Britt who is on a new TV show called Naked & Afraid Of Love. She basically went bush, fully naked, with a bunch of strangers, trying to survive but also trying to build a relationship. We nearly witnessed Producer Juliet swear on national radio for the first time, and we also caught up with former Shortland Street actress Angela Bloomfield (Rachel McKenna), who was recently eliminated from Celebrity Treasure Island. Enjoy the show!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 today, Thursday the 14th of October. Welcome.

Now, Ben Boyce, do you have a system on your phone where you've got that notes function? You know the notes function? Yeah. And you just write down odd notes? Yeah, I do. Yeah, I do have that system, yeah. We're going to play a game right now, okay? I'm going to do a finger scroll on my notes.

Okay. Just so it gets the roll on. Yep. And wherever it stops, we're going to land on whatever note I've taken. Okay, go. Okay, finger scrolling. And it's landed on. Oh, Okay, go. Finger scrolling. And it's landed on... Oh! Here we go.

It's stopped on. Mum calling me woke. Annie Pryor thinks I'm woke. Oh, really? Your mum's getting into it. You're like, oh, Jono, he was on the rock. He was doing stuff. Yeah, she's like, you're too woke. What did you do? Do you know in regards to what? Or just in general? No, she's like, you're like, you're all woke. That's her generation's perception of us. Yeah, she's like, you're too woke. What did you do? Do you know in regards to what, or just in general? No, she's like, you're like, you're all

woke. That's her generation's perception of us. Yeah. I certainly wouldn't consider myself woke. You're aware. I think you are aware. Yeah, I haven't got blinkers on or anything. Yeah. I mean, I know what's wrong, but I'll say

it anyway. You know, I'm aware that it could offend people. Yeah, you do dip your toes more into that area than I do, right? And I can tell too, you're like, this is going to wind some people up. But it never does. No one ever bites. Because I'm like, that's John O'Neill. It's just John O'Neill.

That's the problem. No one's like, that idiot's just saying some stuff. Like if John Campbell went out there and said some wild stuff, they would all be like, well, I just don't have that effect. No, you're right. No, I want that effect. Yeah, you're right.

It's actually surprising when you go the other way. When you say something, like really heartfelt, really thing, you're like, what? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Maybe that is my new shock. That's saying nicely. You do shock when you're like, yeah, I'm like, when you go, you know, seriously,

and I'm like, is this going to be seriously? And it is. I'm like, oh. Oh, is and I'm like is this going to be seriously and it is I'm like oh that was shock that shocked me it's a reverse shock

yeah do you find that they're always this is the old people as well I understand they you know they might call people woke

but I feel like they get targeted as boomers unfairly too you know that creates you know a bit of

animosity towards them I guess in some ways I mean it's boomer all of a sudden it is the name for that generation. The baby Boomers, right? Yeah, for some reason it just got a negative connotation when Chloe Swarbrick said, OK, Boomer.

Yeah, you're right. Yeah. Really swayed in, yeah. I feel that the Boomers are getting a bit of a hard time of it at the moment. Right. I mean, the Boomers, they clanged their jennies together and made us. They did. You know, we've got to thank them for that.

They can't get a bloody video call going without the sound working, but they can do that, can't they? And I feel like, too, if you were of that age, you'd be like, hey, I've done a lot of hard work raising you. Yeah.

And now you're blaming me for the environment. Okay, Boomer. Yeah, now light me up that cigarette and give that to me. So, yeah, let's just take it easy on all generations, okay? Hey, today I'm... No, seriously, Ben. Let's just take it easy.

I thought you said you'd surprise me. You've shot me. On all generations. On the podcast today, a really interesting lady who stars in a Discovery show that's on TV3, Naked and Afraid of Love. She joins us from the USA. 27 days she's been naked. And afraid of love. Yeah and Afraid of Love. She joins us from the USA. 27 days she's been naked and afraid of love.

Afraid of love. Yeah, as well as Angela Bluefield who got voted out or evicted from Celebrity Treasure Island. She's on the podcast as well. Enjoy. It is our game. We like to play called Lie a Lie. We get two people on. One is telling the truth and one is telling a lie. And we

have to work out with you guys on help for helping us on 4487 on the text, which is true and which is not. Did the music throw you a little bit there? A little bit, yeah. Sorry, I was in control of the levels of the music. Did it come in too strong? That's fine. We're here now.

Yeah, I could tell it rattled you and I apologise. Yeah, we've met some really interesting people through this part of the show, haven't we? Last week we spoke to Daniel Craig's stunt du blé. Yeah, the guy who basically puts together all the stunts for James Bond and many other movies. The thing is, we're not prepared for these interviews, and I always walk

away from them going, oh, I should have asked them that. You know? I feel very underprepared for these conversations, Ben. I know. That's the point of the game, though. Sarah, you're on from Wellington. What's your story? Good morning. Yeah. So I was walking my golden lab, Freddie, down on Island Bay, down in South Wellington. And there was this other big scary dog and he gave him a fright and he pulled off the lead and ran away. And I couldn't find him. I posted on the Facebook pages around. He was gone for about a week and then I got a tip off

that he was in Picton out of all places. So I hopped on the Inter-Islander and lo and behold there he was at the dock waiting for me. This sounds like a Spark commercial. You know, reuniting long lost friends It does. It was literally like a lotto ad. Yeah, so your dog was what, politely waiting on the pier in Picton?

I don't know how he got there. The person just said they'd seen a dog that matched the description on the Picton dock area. So I headed over there and there he was and so I just booked the next ferry back and both of us went back. And so were you like from the ship,

were you yelling your dogs? What was your dog's name? Sorry. Freddie. Freddie. Freddie. And was he like, and it was a lovely reunion.

It did feel a bit like one of those like soldiers returning to war stories where the lion jumps on you and stuff like that. It was really beautiful. You've gone into a lot of detail on this story, so if it is a lie, you're a wonderful liar. We've got names, we've got suburbs.

We're going to go to Britt, who's our second guest today for Liar Liar. What is your story, Britt? Hi, I'm Britt and I attended a first date fully naked. First date fully naked? And that's it.

That's my statement. That's your statement? That's all you're giving us? You weren't walking along a beach and ended up in Picton or anything like that? You're like, okay. So how naked? Did the restaurant frown upon you turning up naked? No, no, there wasn't.

It was totally normal in this environment. Was the other person that you were on a date with, were they also naked? They were fully naked as well. Right. Was the chef naked? No. No, right. Don't even try to fry bacon.

Don't even fry bacon naked. No, it's a dangerous game. Sharp objects. Talk about squid game. Yeah, it's a dangerous game. Sharp objects. Talking about squid game. Yeah, that's dangerous. That's up there. Okay, so we've got Britt who went on a first date completely naked. Oh, okay, we'll leave it there.

And Sarah who was reunited with her dog who ended up in Picton, somehow got a ticket on the Inter-Islander and made its way to the South Island. Those are the two statements this morning. 4487, you can text us. Who do you believe? Who's lying? Who's telling the truth? We'll come way to the South Island. Those are the two statements this morning. 4487, you can text us. Who do you believe? Who's lying? Who's telling the truth?

We'll come back with the answer next. Thursday morning, Jono and Ben with you on the hits. We're in the middle of Liar Liar. It is our game of Liar Liar where we get two people on each tell a statement really convincingly and we have to work out which one is telling the truth and which is telling a lie. Welcome back today's guest, Sarah from Welly. Your statement was? That my dog went missing in the south of Wellington and ended up in Picton. Okay.

And Britt, who phoned through as well with a wild claim that, what did you do on your first date, Britt? I attended it fully naked. Fully naked. Okay. Shoes? We're wearing shoes. No shoes.

She said fully naked. Fully naked. The bottom. Not one part of the body. What about a watch? That one part is closed. Necklace, bracelet? Nothing. Nothing. I don't know how many different ways I can say this. Nothing.

4487 on the text. Many texts are rolling through for this one. I think playing in Brit's favour this morning is the American accent. A slight delay on the phone line, some people are saying on 4487 the text. So we feel, and the audience feels, Brit, that you are telling the truth.

You went on a first date completely naked. Ding, ding, ding. Yes! We got it, Sarah, you filthy liar. Sorry about that. Yeah, this dog. I felt sorry for that dog. Little Freddy in Island Bay.

Gee whiz, you had some details there, Sarah. Thanks so much for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right, see you later, mate. And we'll stay with Brit here. First date naked. Yes, isn't that wild?

Was this like a television show? Was it like the Naked Attraction or something? Yeah, so it was Naked and Afraid of Love. Naked and Afraid of Love. It's just been sent through from producer Bea Humps right now. Yes, it's starting on TV3 October 12th, Tuesdays. There you go, Naked and Afraid of Love. So is this a show?

Shouldn't you be more afraid of being naked in public? I mean, don't get me wrong. There were a lot of challenges with being naked. But yeah, essentially the whole premise of the show is hopefully that, you know, being stripped away of everything physically can also help you open up and be stripped kind of metaphorically as well. So really cool concepts of a kind of social experiment, I guess you could say. Did you obviously volunteer to go on the show yourself? Did that take a lot of, was that a big decision for you? I mean, yeah, it was huge, right?

Like I work in the corporate world. I actually, funny enough, work in HR, so human resources. So yeah, I had to think about a lot of things um but yes essentially i volunteered to go on the show um like i said it sounded like a really cool um kind of psychological social experiment right like you're you're being fully vulnerable and how does that change how relationships are formed 16 i'm just reading here 16 16 naked strangers. Are you all living together? Like is that what's happening or how does it work?

Yeah, so we're kind of a community. So essentially it starts off, you're paired with one other partner and then eventually throughout the journey, we start migrating islands and meeting new people and then we all kind of come together as a group and live and work together to you know collect food and to also build these relationships oh so it's like you're in the bush as well being a discovery show they're checking the nature at you as well oh yeah i mean we're you know we're living off of the land we're sleeping on bamboo

we're going out in the morning, typically, and gathering bananas, coconuts, hopefully catching some fish. So, yeah, we're living in the elements, but we're also predominantly focused on building relationships and dating. Now, Britt, you can't see us right now, but Ben gave me a wry smile when you said catching bananas and coconuts. He thought that was a wonderful euphemism, and I could tell by the look on his face. He was like, did you hear that? He gave me that look. And I was like, I'm not lowering myself to your bananas and coconuts.

I imagine, too, being naked as well, you've got to factor in mosquitoes, things that can bite, things that can... Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah, lots of mosquito bites. And for me, I'm allergic to mosquitoes, so they would just, like, swell up. It was not cute. Oh, jeez.

Oh, well, good on you for doing this. Yeah, so crazy. So you're in America, I'm gathering? Yeah, I'm in Los Angeles. Oh, you're in Los Angeles. And where did you film the show? In the Philippines. Oh, wow.

So, Island El Nido. Jeez. And so, how many days are you spending naked and afraid of love? Naked and afraid of everything. Maybe not. It was like 26 or 27 days. Non-stop naked. Maybe you stop getting afraid of love at some stage, though.

But that's a spoiler alert, so we won't worry about that. Yeah, we won't worry about that. So, pretty much a month, an entire month, you were naked in a forest. Yeah, on an island. Wow. It was crazy. Was it cold? I still can't believe I did it.

I can't believe you did it. I'm worried for you, and you've already returned safely. I always wonder, you know, contestants that go on shows like this, do you have a concern about your family, your workmates, who's going to watch it and things like that? Absolutely, yeah. So I was a little nervous having the conversation with my parents, specifically my dad.

My dad was like, I'm not surprised, but I'm not going to watch it. And I was like, touche, Dad. I actually really don't want you to. But then I had to And I was like, touche, dad, I really don't want you to, but then I had to tell myself, like, I really don't care what people think of me anyway. So yeah, this was 26 days naked on an Island.

That's incredible. Well, Brit from a discovery's new show, naked and afraid of love. Thank you for your time. I know being, you'd be naked and afraid of what management are going to say. She'd been in the same boat as Brit to a certain extent, haven't you? Yeah, true.

Britt, thank you so much for your time. Awesome talking to you and congratulations on taking part in this awesome sounding show. Yeah, awesome. Thank you so much for having me. It was a pleasure chatting with y'all. Crazy. Don't get enough kid rock in your day, do you? Yeah, if anything, it was... No. It was... Okay, so that was the hits.

That was the meanest thing Ben almost said. I didn't say anything. No, he pulled out of it. Doesn't even want to be mean to Kid Rock. No, not to anyone. Just be kind. That's what Jacinda says. Classic song, that one, isn't it?

It is. It's a cracking song. Yeah, you can't help but... You're probably judging and despising the song, but you can't help bopping along to it. Yeah. Yeah. Now, Ben Boyce, some serious laptop issues hindering the show. You're probably judging and despising the song, but you can't help bopping along to it. Yeah, yeah.

Now, Ben Boyce, some serious laptop issues hindering the show, this broadcast at the moment. Juliet, producer Juliet, who, you know, at 22 years old, is either surgically attached to a laptop or a cell phone. No one has been working harder in the country, and I would put, like, Ashley Bloomfield and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern up there, but I'd say your laptop's working harder than them at the moment. It's been whirring for three days solidly.

The fans are just going off. It's going... Trying to update. You'd be trying to update it, and it's just not liking it. Oh, my goodness. It just hates it. And I'm like, this is not even an old laptop. Like, sort yourself out.

Come on. It sounds like it's prepping itself and stretching its hamstrings to take off to space. Literally. With Bezos. I think William Shatner's in the laptop right now. No, it's because you get it. What the thing is, and I mean this probably doesn't matter to anyone listening, is you update it.

So I'll keep telling it. That was your opportunity to stop saying that. The rule of radio is tell stories that no one will find interesting. Did you learn that? But it updates. It gets the bar almost to 99% and just stops. Oh, my God, I know. It just stops and it freezes.

And I've left it overnight for the last two nights, woken up in the middle of the night to check it, and it's fucking... No, continue on. That was really close. That was really close That was really close You were really passionate about this Really close

I apologise for that But it was wearing away at multiple points throughout the night I woke up at like 3am, 11pm It was still going You can keep talking but no one's going to forget what you just did I've blagged out.

I apologise. That's the annoying thing. My laptop is away at the getting repaired too. I can imagine the things on that laptop. The poor people having to go, oh God, the things that laptop's seen. You know when you send it away to get repaired, you're like

Is this the right thing? As you slide it into the courier bag, you're like, is this the right thing? But yeah, as you slide into the courier bag, you're like, you know, you're like, I'm sure I've forgotten something. When you go away on holiday and you get there and you're like, I don't feel 100% comfortable doing this right now. Well, because we had a great call. Remember at that time with the person to destroy their laptop? Oh no, I don't remember that.

I remember the time Juliet almost swore on the show. I'm really sorry. I promise you I'm a good person. But I remember this. It was a great call where they got so much inside their head about their laptop and what they'd seen, they destroyed the laptop. When I was a curious 13-year-old, I decided that I wanted to check out an adult website.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Yep. Right. It was a dodgy website. Most of them are. Biddle vouch for that. Not the headstock kind of idea, though.

That's how you get a website. After I clicked off of it, I started getting email alerts and sexual pop-up ads. Oh, no. And so I dropped it downstairs and I hid it underneath our shed. You dropped it through the computer downstairs? Yeah.

What? You smashed your computer and hid it under the shed. That was the only option. That was the only option. What happened to that computer? I don't know. It doesn't exist anymore. When did you find out about clearing your history? I didn't. I was in the moment.

In the moment. You panicked. You panicked. I love it. Smashed the computer. Oh, so good, Sarah. Did they ever ask where the family computer went? No, they generally think that it was stolen.

Oh, Sarah. So good. So good. Time's a die when you have to throw your laptop out. Yeah, such a great call. Welcome to Two Half-Assed Dads Do a Half-Assed Job. Official title, Tuno and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. Now, at the moment, we're in lockdown in the 09 region.

So after the radio show, you sort of head home, and the kids and my wife Amanda are home. And you're trying, I don't know if you're the same, but you're trying to do some work in the afternoon, and the kids, you know, they love asking questions, don so they, I mean, I love hanging out with the kids and they're quite distracting because they're always into stuff and you're like, oh, I wish I was painting or doing something cool like that, but I'm trying to work. But then they start asking you questions and they start talking, you know, and that's great sometimes, but when you're trying to work,

that's tough. Yeah, what do you do? I was like, I'll get back to you soon. Get back to you, just pound them off, do you? Or what are you doing? Well, I tried a hack'll get back to you soon. Get back to you, just palm them off, do you? What are you doing? Well, I tried a hack yesterday, which worked quite well. I put on headphones, but they didn't have anything on, no sound on them, but it just looked like I had stuff away. I was tapping away with it.

They weren't even plugged into anything. It's the ultimate symbol that you've got other stuff going on, isn't it, wearing headphones, you're right. And great parenting hack, Ben. And it's lovely that people can tune into the show for any advice to help them get out of actually parenting. Yeah.

That's great. Because you can be quite selective, too, I found, with the headphones, because you can hear everything else that's going along, and they can go, Dad, Dad, where's the thing? And I'm like, I've got music playing, can't hear you. It's our generation's version of pretending to be deaf. Yeah, yeah. And then other times, something will be going, there you go, hang on a second, no, no, you can't do that, you know, like on a quickly pull no, no, you can't do that, you know, like I'd quickly pull.

And the kids didn't really gauge that, you know. You're like, hold on, you couldn't hear us before when we were asking you for lunch. Do you know the people who wander around with the Bluetooth headphones in their ears? Oh, yes, yeah, yeah. AirPods? Yeah, the AirPods.

Oh, they're talking on their phone, but they talk in a shop sometimes and you feel like they're having a conversation to you. Are you talking to me? Oh, yeah. And then they've got the secret little pod and then they're like, oh, no, they're having a conversation to you. Are you talking to me? Oh, yeah. And then I've got the secret little pod and then they're like, oh, no, they're having a conversation, but they're talking quite loudly.

Anyone with those Bluetooth headphones and wandering around, you're either an investment banker or an Uber driver. Those are the two options. And do they know that we've been laughing and mocking them for many years? I don't think so. No, because they're engrossed in the conversation. They can't hear anything. My mate, he was saying yesterday, I was talking to him,

he was saying that because he's working at home and the kids are at home, he's just like, I'm just playing hide and seek. And the kids think they're so good at hiding places. It's been 45 minutes. They're like, wow, what a hiding place. You guys are amazing. I'm like, that's quite smart.

Yeah, they're raging. They're hiding away. They're thinking, Dad, and you're like, yeah, I looked around the whole house, couldn't find you guys. And you were good at this game. But I cleared 97 emails. And full Zoom meetings. My mum used to put a timer on the microwave. She'd be like, we're all

going to be quiet for five minutes. Go to your rooms when you hear the beep. And I didn't know that later. She was just putting more time on. She was just putting more and more time on. That is a great hack. And I was like, you know, this is the longest five minutes. A complete waste of energy and power. But a good

hack. I was like, yeah, well played, Mum. Because you can put it on 25 minutes. Kids can't gauge how long five minutes is. You're in your room going, ooh, you know. But yeah, it was a smart play, Mum. Smart play. But you know the problem is because your headphone hack works really well at home, but it does the opposite here, because we're wearing headphones right now.

Oh, yeah. And I can't pretend I'm not hearing you. I'd rather be doing other stuff right now. But I've got no excuse because you beamed straight into both of my ears. You can't ignore me. Hey, the TV show's back on tonight. TVNZ 2, Jono and Ben, Good Sports. And next, we talk to a man who made me fear for my life. It's a human time

when things go wrong. You've got Jono and Ben on your Thursday morning. Tonight it's the season finale of our TV show, Jono and Ben Good Sports. 8 o'clock on TV and Z2. We travel the country looking for really people that play unique sports and one of the

scariest sports I think we took part in was wheelchair rugby. They call it murderball. It was full on. It would have been a good addition to the squid game. I know we keep mentioning the squid game. Murderball would have been a great little... We're joined now by one of the

wheelblacks who headed over to the Paralympics. Barney, kia ora. What's good, dude? How are you? Mate, lovely to hear your voice, great work over at the Paralympics my friend Yeah, not the result we wanted but at least I didn't die on court No, you had a blinder of a game

Yeah, you're that first game we played, you were incredible The Americans got in my head a bit, they were singing the Barney theme song I turned around I was about to swear at him and then I realised it was being televised I was like, yeah mate, don't do that Were they saying, I love around, I was about to swear at him, and then I realised it was being televised. I was like, yeah, nah, mate, don't do that. Were they saying, I love you? That one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was their

psychology. That was trying to get into my head. That's some friendly sledging. Yeah. You're like, do you love me, or do you not love me? What was the experience like? Because it's your first time going to the Paralympics. What was it like? Dude, it was insane. I mean, it would have been nice to go to the opening ceremony, but I think we're kind of lucky that we didn't

because I think the day after the ceremony, they had like four positive cases from the ceremony. Oh, jeez. The day after, the entire village had to be shut down and like, what do you call it? You know how they have a monster ink spray the entire place down? Yeah, so it's a deep plane sort of thing. Yeah, yeah.

They had dudes in like big hazmat or similar to hazmat and then they were spraying wherever that person went because there was a massive cluster in the thing. Yeah, yeah, I had dudes in, like, big hazmat, similar to hazmat, and then they were spraying wherever that person went, because there was a massive cluster in the village. I love it when the Monsters, Inc. guys come out and it's a friendly way of putting it. No, but New Zealand was so proud of all of you over there. You guys did really well.

And I remember you saying, because we spoke to you before you left, that the US was the team to beat. It's full of ex-military, ex-soldiers, special forces and things. So fit guys, fit, muscly guys. Oh, absolutely, yeah. They go through a lot of training

as well. I mean, even after their military, when they go into... I mean, USA itself, their strength and conditioning is insane. They literally do able-bodied crossfit. So where you have an adaptive crossfit, where most of us do, but these guys literally go to able-bodied classes. They lift, like, what, 100 pounds? They do, like, bench presses.

They literally bench each other. I saw most of their workouts. And, like, when they play against teams that don't train like that, it's, like, super easy for them because they're so used to pushing heavier weights. Yeah, well, but just an amazing experience for you, too, because, I mean, just weeks before the Games, you just got called up to the team. Yeah, I think when they called me up,

I was munching on a mean-ass cheeseburger, so I was having a mean thing. Well, they're bench-pressing each other in America. You were having a cheeseburger. I was bench-pressing each other. I was bench-pressing my soda. Well, imagine an unforgettable experience. Obviously not the results you guys wanted on the court,

but an unforgettable experience all the same. Yeah, most definitely. It was a great experience. It was great to actually play some actual rugby. I think the last time the We're Blacks went to the Paralympics was 2008. We missed out on London and Rio, so the fact that we actually got the opportunity to go and face these teams and perform the way we did, we're absolutely happy with that.

Yeah, well, you were being called the Jonah Lomu of wheelchair rugby back here. I don't know if that word got back to you, Barney. I actually, I saw that and I was like, oh, man, you're going to put me up against a legend like that. I need to start catching balls on the court because the amount of balls that I dropped on that court was great. Oh, you're being too humble.

You honestly played a wonderful game. It was, you were on fire. Yeah, it was awesome. I don't know how too humble. You honestly played a wonderful game. You're on fire. Yeah, it was awesome. I don't know how we segue from that into us taking the court with you guys, but it is on the TV show. Thursday night, of course. TV's here too. John Ong being good sports.

So not quite the – well, we definitely know USA, but it was a real honour to go out there and to learn the sport from you guys. I mean, I wouldn't say you guys got the strength at USA, but you guys definitely got the mouths to match it. Yeah, we had the mouths. I got sent off twice, and now looking back, I'm like, oh, that's not a good look. I think playing against Jono, Jono makes Ben look a lot more humble.

Yeah, thanks. I've got quite an arrogant presence on the court. Barty wanted to smack the hair, what little hair you had off your head. That was his main goal, John. I called myself the Jonah Lama of wheelchair rugby. I hadn't even played a game. You've got the hair to match it anyway. But no, I remember you knocking me clean out of the chair.

Now, the chair has a seatbelt. Out of the chair, the seatbelt came undone. You just come in at a rate of knots and you think, oh dear God, how it's going to end i think purposely we loosened your belt oh okay and didn't my wheel come off the whole wheel came off yeah you didn't do it yeah sabotage yeah that's one of the tactics we do so when we hit the wheel off you got no control and so the guy can't push and then you turn around and then you got a heavy trucker guy coming towards you and just hit you up yeah right so these are the tactics. The underhanded tactics that I'm hearing about now. I shouldn't have said that.

It's a real, like the sport is, it's exhausting. You're never not moving. Yeah, yeah. I mean, if you are the number one ball carrier and if you stop even for 0.5 of a second the opposition will literally put three or two men on you and then you're stuck for the entire quarter. Yeah, well I can't wait for people to see it tonight.

It is on Jono and Ben Good Sports. And take care of yourself, Barney, and we hope to catch up with you soon. Cheers, brother. Looking forward to it. The Hits and HelloFresh. Pay it forward. I really love this part of the show. We get to reward someone who's been doing great stuff at the moment

helping New Zealand navigate what's been a tricky few months. If you know someone who's been a legend, wherever you are around the country, you can nominate them at the hitstockco.nz and we could be hooking them up with two weeks of HelloFresh delivered to their door. Now you started this little rant you've been on. Was it a rant? A little babble rant. Was it a rant?

Nonsense. I was just setting up what this was. You said, I love this part of the show. What parts of the show do you not love so much? You talked to me about those. Oh, yeah, like, to be honest,

I like most of them. You know, like I do. Something's leading you down, though. You're not being honest. Oh, yeah, I was trying to think.

This is like having to name the child he loves the most. Yeah, I was trying to think. You know there's one you love more, but you're not going to commit to it.

Yeah, there's nothing I'd go, oh, I really hate doing that you know because it is you know it's a fun show what about when the alarm goes off at quarter to four in the morning do you hate that yeah that's the part yeah okay that's the part of the show that i least loved part of the show yeah uh but you can nominate someone the hits.co.nz is the website and you know it's not a very new zealand thing is it to nominate yourself we don't we don't blow our own trumpets here in

altaroa no but you can nominate someone and you can pay it forward and you can go to one of the biggest concerts next year potentially as well for doing that. Yeah, and so the good thing is too when you nominate someone

they owe you something too. You know, you know you've got something over them. That's why I would nominate Ben not to be a good person. I'd just nominate you just so I'd be like hey, you know you owe me that thing.

Going through the Tabitha. Nominated by her sister Vanessa. Apparently an absolute champion. Hello, Tabby speaking. Tabby, they tell us you're an absolute champion. Who's that? You've taken lockdown like a champion, Tabby. Me?

Yeah, you. Oh, I'm sorry. Are you Tabitha or Austin? I am i am yeah you're the champion you're the champion it's john i'm being here we're championing you this morning yeah hey how's it going good you're on the hits this morning uh your sister vanessa you'd be familiar with her yes she has nominated you uh for being an absolute legend. You're an essential worker. And we understand her husband was at police college at the time.

So she was alone with little babies. You had your own kids. You had the babies at your house. You had dinner ready for them. You had them in the page. I did. And you're an essential worker too. I've just started you about a month.

I'll be back to work after 13 years. Oh, well, apparently you really came to your sister's rescue and she wants to thank you. So we're going to hook you up with two weeks of HelloFresh delivered to your door so you don't have to worry about dinners for two weeks. Yes. Yes. Yay.

Do you know the funny thing was I was like, she wants to thank you, and there was silence, and you're like, yeah, well, that's not enough. And then Ben came in with the HelloFresh. You're like, yes. Oh, each day getting up, have I got the meat out? What have I got for dinner? Don't have to worry about that.

It's all sorted for you. No. Obviously, you've got to put it together, but it's easy easy and it's delicious and there you go. It's all yours, Tabitha. Thanks, guys. I'll have to give her a call and say thank you.

Good on you for being a great person. You have a great day. Awesome. You too. Thanks, guys. No worries. The Head Spy with McDonald's Monopoly. Feel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes. You felt like you had your tongue poked out to the side. You were biting your tongue.

You looked awkward as if you felt like you didn't nail that little sequence. Yeah, I felt like it was one of those times where it felt awkward to talk for some reason. Right. Anyway, we're here now. Try not to have too many of those because we are, do you know what we're here doing? Yeah, we're talking. That's the main point of what we're doing, right? Yeah, you don't, like, if we all sit here in silence, then things will certainly become awkward.

I lost confidence in talking, guys. I can no longer do radio. The main core requirement of your day-to-day job. Yeah, I lost a lot of confidence in that. Fail. No. All right, over to our professional, semi-professional gossip monger, producer Juliette. All right, so this is very interesting and this kind of concerned me.

So Adele says the reason she moved to LA, because she lives in LA now, is because London real estate is too expensive for her. For Adele? For Adele. She's Adele. I know. I know, it's crazy. Her net worth is about $177 million, although I don't know what currency that is in,

but still, that's a lot. And she's invested over $30 million USD in LA real estate. And basically, the kind of house that she owns in LA, she wouldn't get the same house in London because apparently, obviously, London is more expensive. Had a look at her house, though. It's beautiful in LA. I mean, if she's investing over $30 million USD in real estate

in the United States, should we have to do something good in London? Does it just mean it's so weird when Juliet keeps saying USD? Or maybe it's just me. Maybe you should stop talking. The one part of your job that we don't want you to do anymore. Now, we looked

at Beverly Hills, didn't we? Just out of interest off air. Yes. A few weeks ago. Just an investment property that we looked at getting on the property ladder. The three of us were trying to get into the Beverly Hills. Oh my goodness.

And the prices between New Zealand house prices and Beverly Hills and what you can get in Beverly Hills. I know. I know, it was Malibu, not Beverly Hills. Malibu. Is crazy. Oh, a cliff top house. Do you know what I like doing?

The ocean bed. When was the last time you saw the ocean from your house? Oh, never, never. There's this website called Zillow, I think it's called, and it's like American real estate, and you can choose a random state in a random location. You can choose Wyoming, like a tiny little town, and you just put your amount of money, like a million dollars,

and it will have waterfalls as part of the house and like an infinity pool, And it's just crazy. It is. And it's all relative to population. Yeah. Isn't it? Don't you find? Yeah.

Like, Juliet, if you were to, I mean, we pay you in Hitzpuffer jackets and promotional sausages. That's Juliet's salary. If she was in Australia, America, London, doing the same job, might get two packs of sausages. I know. Isn't that sad? RIP to the real estate in New Zealand

Did you have you? Because you are We always joke about the generation that you're in that you're not going to be able to afford a house Is that an actual real concern for you and your friends? A little bit It's something I'm not personally worried about because I know in myself that I will be able to get there

I know that sounds really like cheesy but yeah and so if I have to go in like with family or friends to be able to get on the property ladder then I'll do that if you need to buy a house in Malibu with the two of us then we'll do that that'll be fun

we'd never go there but it's cool to say we've got one in Malibu. Oh, we've got a house in Malibu. You should stay there sometime. We've never stayed there. Sorry, you want to say something? No. Okay.

And I was going to mention this yesterday, but we didn't get time. Tom Cruise has kind of shocked fans because he turned up to a baseball game and people were like, is that Tom Cruise or is that not? Someone said it looks like someone who is wearing Tom Cruise's face. He's sitting in the crowd. Yeah, so he's in the crowd. He wasn't in a corporate box or anything like that, which is pretty

awesome. And he said he was just there like, what team do you like? And he's like, I'm just here for the baseball. I was like, such a me answer. Such a you answer. And I'm like, I like that. I don't want to pick sides, I'm just here for the baseball. He's also a you. And I'm like, I like that. Yeah. It's like, I just, you know, I don't want to pick sides. I'm just here for the baseball.

He's also a raving Scientologist like Tom Cruise. So many similarities. But people reckon that Tom Cruise has got facial fillers, like big cheek fillers, and he just looks a little bit plastic surgery-ish. I saw this photo, yeah, and I mean, I want to check how old the guy is, Tom, because he has looked fantastic. Oh, yeah. He is fantastic, yeah. And if you compare it to a photo, I looked at a side- the guy is, Tom, because he has looked fantastic. Oh, yeah. And if you compare it to a photo, I looked at a side-by-side photo from a couple of years ago.

Quite different, quite different. Yeah, 59 years old. Oh, my goodness. He's 59. He's doing so well, isn't he? That's crazy. Go Tom Cruise. Yeah, I mean, you put that face, even his new puffy face, up against my face.

Hey, hey. That is a puffy face. Hey, well, we all have puffy face up against my face. What is a puffy face? We all have puffy face days, mate. Maybe it was just having a puffy face day. Yeah, I don't know. Or maybe he got stung by a bee on the way in. Have you ever seen a Google dog face stung by a bee? Oh, you made me do that last week.

I don't know, yeah. And also Tom Cruise. Oh, jeez. And that is your spy update for this hour. Don't worry, he's never going to hear this. Still was, still was. Unless you tell him at your Scientology meeting. He might do.

Might bring that up. Maybe you will have an opinion on which one he hates more from the show, you. After seven o'clock on the show, we do our version of the Squid Game. It's not quite as dire as the TV show, but it's a lot of fun. It has the hits you got, John. I'm Ben. It is the hits. Jono and Ben on your Thursday morning. The biggest show in the world right now.

Surprisingly, not Jono and Ben Good Sports, but that is on back tonight. TVNZ 2, 8 o'clock. What part surprises you about that? That was not the worldwide biggest show you know one off but the biggest show right now that everyone's talking more about you know uh is uh squid game it's on netflix and everyone you see the memes everyone seems to be talking about it even my kids uh who are 9 and 11 they were like can we watch it because they've seen it pop up you know not seen show, but they've seen people talk about it or on social media.

And I'm like, no, definitely not. Yeah, my son Oscar's the same. So I'm watching it. He's living the story through me. What happened in this episode? A whole bunch of people got shot. Yeah, I know. It's brutal.

It's brutal, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, the show, I'm sure you know by now, a whole lot of people have some gambling issues. They have some problems with money. Basically play childhood games for a lot of money, high stakes, but the stakes are so high that they could die if they don't make it through. Those are some high stakes.

That's like putting stakes on top of a stadium ceiling. In the meantime, we're going to play our own squid game, a more family-friendly version of the squid game. This is the stuff that kids can enjoy. yeah well we phone fish and chip shops around altearoa and we ask if they have squid rings on the menu uh and then we both have a guessing game as to how much a single squid ring is i can see why netflix turned down our show we're gonna do it now hockin take away how can I help?

Oh, hello there, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station Hi How are you, what's your name? Amy Are you in Northland, Amy? Yes Do you serve squid rings on the menu? Yes, we do

Oh, now we wanted to play a quick game, Jono and I There's a TV show at the moment called Squid Game Yeah And so you would have heard about it. Everyone's talking about it. We wanted to play our own version of Squid Game where Jono and I have to guess the price of a squid ring on the menu. Okay, so you don't tell us the price.

Okay. Alright, Ben Boyce, you can lodge your guess first. Look, it's been a while since I bought a squid ring. Can I just start with that from a fish and chip shop? But they are delicious. Oh, they are. So I might be overpriced. I'm going to say $2.20. For a single squid ring, is it $2.20?

Don't answer yet, Jono. Over to you. Listen, I frequent the fish and chip shop. I even have a day dedicated to it during the week, Fish and Chip Friday. And, Fung, whereabouts in Northland are you? Carmo. Carmo. Carmo. Sort of close to the water.

Yeah. The travel time for the squid ring from the port to the shop is lessened significantly. This is taking longer than watching the whole series on Netflix. Just come to an answer, mate. I'm going to say your stock standard is a squid ring at the Hookin Fresh Fish and Takeaway in Northland. I'm locking in 80 cents. 80 cents? 80 cents.

So we've got $2.20 and 80 cents. For one squid ring, it's $1. Oh! Jono, you're the closest, though. But yeah, what happens there? I'm gone. Well, no one wins that squid game. Jenna, have you seen the squid game?

Yes, we watched it last night. Well, you know what happens to Ben now. Not good things. Not good things. Not good things. It's been great. It's been nice knowing you. What a way to go out, guys. Doing what I love, the novelty radio phone call.

Hey, you have a lovely day out there. What's that, sorry? My boss has just walked in looking at me like, what the hell? No, you just tell him you're playing the squid game. We're on the radio. Plug the business. Get a nice plug in for the boss. Hook and take away and calmo.

Hook and take away and calmo. There you go. Go along for you. $1. Good price. We do a lot of good food. Yeah, right. Squid Wing, just one of the many options available.

Hey, thank you very much. Not a problem. See ya. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, don't forget you win $500 just by watching our TV show tonight, Jono and Ben Good Sports. And don't forget you can win a plasma screen TV just by getting vaccinated at the Vax-a-thon this Saturday. I don't know if this is the same in your household, Ben,

but, you know, COVID and lockdown, it's, you know, not considered a very sexy time, is it? No, it's not, you're right. Lost its sex appeal, COVID. Yeah, I think lockdown probably has. It's when people seem to be letting themselves go more. The track pants come on more regularly, the care factor.

The hygiene standards slip. Yeah. There's not a lot of sexiness orbiting COVID. You're not so worried about there's going to be a knock on the door at any stage and someone's going to just pop over, are they? Because they can't. So you're right.

I mean, you know, aesthetically and physically, you're at your lowest, aren't you? People are at their lowest. And the virus has got a branding problem. It's not very sexy in the advertising world, is it? It's a horrible virus. We've kind of got these yellow and white striped commercials

with just graphics on there. And, you know, there's not much pizzazz around it. So I thought that I might try and sexy up COVID. Oh, no. By phoning my wife. Now, I apologise for what you're probably about to hear on this. I apologise for the courting that you're about to hear. So what are you – I don't even know what you're doing here,

but I'll throw it over to you and I'll just listen awkwardly. Hello? Did I ever tell you your heart is a location of interest? Oh, that's good. It's a nice one. You must be a flu symptom because you've got me running hot. Gross.

Yeah, you made that gross. I want to come over there and take your clothes and put some personal protection equipment on top of that clothing. Are you on a Zoom meeting? Yeah.

Yeah, a Zoom meeting. This has got awkward. He's suddenly lost confidence in this. Yeah. I panic purchased... Is that it now? Yeah, there's one more. I panic purchased an excessive amount of toilet paper.

Would you like to come and use some? That's not even a pick-up line. No, that's the worst one. Okay. Back to your meeting. Okay, thanks. Yeah, no good. You're good.

The lover's gone. The lover's gone. Trying to spark up the relationship. In the middle of a Zoom meeting. Couldn't have worked any better. There we go, Jono. You've done your best. You're all out there battling away.

Yeah, we're all out there battling away. These show producers were nominated for a radio award because when you work with these guys, you deserve a medal. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. Really sad to hear that Christmas in the Park is not going to be happening this year in Auckland for obvious reasons.

I don't know what's going to be happening in Auckland this year. Nothing at all. But it's still going to take place in Christchurch, which is pretty cool. That is Auckland's obvious reasons. I don't know what's going to be happening in Auckland this year. Nothing at all. But it's still going to take place in Christchurch, which is pretty cool. That is Auckland's biggest picnic. You're right. We love our picnics at the moment. Yeah, and that's the one that, oh. Very hard to do it with under 10 people, though, isn't it?

Yeah, 73 days until Christmas. Can you believe it? Jeez. Wow-wee. I remember one of my favorite, favorite stories came from Christmas in the park. We were hosting one year for the TV broadcast of it in TV3, and we decided to wear suits top half, and because it was summertime, we were wearing sort of board shorts, togs, on the bottom half.

Now, the scene was set. Over to you, John. I love you. How I've told this story so many times. I love this story. He gets more and more joy out of it every time he hears it. Yeah. So what the problem was was the board shorts were kind of free-flowing

and a bit looser around the waist. This is pre-lockdown, Jono, so I could fit into board shorts. So a fan came up, you know, many of them, Ben, throughout the night. Jono, can we have a photo? Jono, you're my hero. Jono, I named my twins after you. Jono, why don't they put you on the $5 note? Stuff like this, youo, can we have a photo? Jono, you're my hero. Jono, I named my twins after you. Jono, why don't they put you on the $5 note? Stuff like this, you know, everyday stuff.

Just the usual stuff. Yeah, stuff that I get when I go to pack and save. But, you know, one little child said, Jono, can I have a photo with my hero? I said, anything for a fan. You know what I'm like, Ben. I'm humble. Oh, yeah, you are.

You're very much. So he got his mother to take the photo. I wrapped my arm around him. And he said, do you mind if my friend gets in as well? So I wrapped my arm around two children. So there you are, celebrity Jono Fryer getting his photo taken with the big fans. Yeah, I tell you, these kids will change the course of their life. I tell you, I'll never forget because this is what happened next.

So as the mother goes all right ready on three say cheese one two three cheese some little monster no doubt probably vaping or skateboarding up to all sorts of nonsense definitely not a hits list no ran up behind me as i have my arms wrapped around two children posing for a photo pulled down my board shorts. Now this is one of those classic schoolyard, oh, we're down trout,

you know, situations, but stuff that you don't expect as a fully grown adult. And what you didn't also expect was that your shorts and underpants came down. I mean, it was a textbook down trout. So the problem then I'm left to face is I've got my arms around two children. Oh, jeez. No trousers.

And then this photo, the photo, like the photo went at the same time as the bed. So that's probably the reason why there's no Christmas at the Barking Hawk in this year. Now, if anyone sees that photo, you'll know there's a story behind it, okay? Don't make that a career ender. $5,000 for you very shortly. You got that? Gino and Ben, hopefully we can give away some money with this. Five words for 5K on the hit.

You're only five words away from a massive payday. It's our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning around about this time. You can also play it online right now. And if you do play it online and you go well, we may be selecting you to do it on the radio like we're doing with Jackie. Jackie, are you from the internet? Yes, I certainly am.

Good morning, guys. I've heard of the internet, Jackie. Oh, gosh. Exciting. Are you in Gizzy, mate? Yes. I just moved here a couple of weeks ago. Gizzy Hard.

Is Gizzy Hard? Yeah. Yeah, no, Gizzy's pretty cool. I went away for 20 years, came back, and I thought, why did I ever leave the beaches? Where did you move to, Jackie? From Gisby? Hawke's Bay, another good place But the beaches are not as nice

Yeah, Gisby's a lovely place, isn't it? And it has to recover annually From whatever goes on at Rhythm and Vines It replenishes What a place Have you been to Rhythm and Vine, Juliet? Many times Going back this year, hopefully

Double vax, baby Can't get in there otherwise No, Jackie I would probably move away from Gisborne If Juliet's coming over the years You know what, that's Jono and Ben Hopefully we can give away some money with this You're on the hits, gentlemen. Ben, hopefully we can give away some money with this. Five words for 5K on the hits.

You're only five words away from a massive payday. It's our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning around about this time. You can also play it online right now. And if you do play it online and you go well, we may be selecting you to do it on the radio like we're doing with Jackie. Jackie, are you from the internet? Yes, I certainly am.

Good morning guys. I've heard of the internet, Jackie. Oh gosh, exciting. Are you in Gizzy, mate? Yes, I just moved here a couple of weeks ago. Gizzy Hard, is Gizzy Hard? Yeah. Yeah, no, Gizzy's pretty cool. I went away for 20 years, came back, and I thought,

why did I ever leave the beaches? Where did you move to, Jackie, from Gisborne? Hawke's Bay, another good place, but the beaches are not as nice. Yeah, Gizzy's a lovely place, isn't it? And it has to recover annually from whatever goes on at Rhythm and Vines. It replenishes. What a place. Have you been to Rhythm in Vines, Juliet?

Many times. Going back this year, hopefully. Double Vax. Double Vax, baby. Can't get in there otherwise. All right, Jackie. I would probably move away from Gisborne if Juliet's coming over the years. Hey, she gets stuck.

She always comes to me. Oh, thank you. We come to the showgrounds and the buses, so there you go. Oh, jeez, there you go. What a wonderful person. The hits audience, just come and stay at my house. Oh, my goodness. You're so lovely, eh?

You're so nice. I wouldn't let Juliet stay at my house. I like her and I work with her every day. All right. No, no, you're welcome. Anytime. Weirdly. What's Juliet here?

What's Juliet saying? She says you can stay. You're welcome. Anytime. Weirdly. What's Julia saying? Why do weird moments happen on the radio? What is going on here? Sorry, Jackie. He doesn't, eh? So Jackie, Ben's going to be taking Julia home with him tonight. You're not part of my bubble.

We'll have to wait until level two. Yeah, yeah, that's fair. Let's smoke screen whatever just went on. And when you $5,000, Jackie, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? I'd like to play with you all, yeah, that's fair. Let's smoke screen whatever just went on. And when you're $5,000, Jackie, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? I'd like to play with you all, but, you know, today I'll have to pick Ben. Ben Boyce is my favourite name.

I'll have to take myself away from the radio. All right, Ben Boyce is heading into the SPB. Thank goodness we don't hear any more words from him. All right, Jackie, we need to get you to say five words and get those matched with Ben, and we'll win you $5,000. Okay, you ready? Yes. Let's do it. The first word that comes into your head when I

say Sahara. Desert. Yeah. I couldn't think of anything else. No, it's desert. I'm so nervous this would mean so much to win this. Oh, I literally love you. Jackie. You're so much to witness. Oh, I literally love you. Jackie. Yes.

You're so nice. Pepsi. Cola. Cola. Yes. Cassette. Player. Cassette. Tape. No, tape. Can I change that to tape, please? Thank you.

Coat. Coat. Coat. Sorry, C-O-A-T. Well, coat hanger. Mm. Playing a good game, Jack. Never says.

And the fifth and final words Is deep Oh god That made me feel Went into some Not radio appropriate words To be honest What were you saying

Oh Oh we Oh okay Jackie I don't know if I'm on Yeah I think I'm on Jackie's wavelength Oh yeah

Sorry Deep Deep I think I'm on Jackie's wavelength. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Deep sea, I'm going to say. Deep sea. I would have said heat or sea, but I'll go with sea because I love the ocean and, yeah. Deep sea it is. Okay. All right, Jackie. I mean, you did really well.

We'll get Ben Boyce out of the soundproof booth. Oh, gosh. She played well. I can't believe how nervous I am. You're doing well, Jackie. You're doing well. You're holding it together. Ben Boyce, you know what we need to do, mate. You know what your job is, don't you? Oh, yeah. Try and win Jackie $5,000. That's what I'm going to try and do.

Come on, Ben. You can do this. Oh, Jackie. Here we go. Okay. First word, Ben Boyce. Sahara. Desert. Ohara. Desert. Oh, my gosh. One from one. Pepsi. Pepsi.

Oh. Oh, I got two. I got to go max. Oh. No. Never mind. Was it Pepsi Cola? I've got to go Max. Never mind. Was it Pepsi-Cola? It was Pepsi-Cola.

Damn. Oh, damn. Oh, Jackie. Boy, I should have thought about Max. We used to drink it a lot. I don't know why I poked it in my head. Pepsi-Max first. Yeah, that's right.

You've got to do what you've got to do. Sorry, Jackie. Okay, word number three was cassette. Tape. Coat. Jacket. And deep. C. Oh, three for five.

Not bad, Jackie. Not bad, but not quite good enough. I'm so sorry. I would love to have given you $5,000. I know that's good. That's no problem at all, guys, and I hope it goes to someone that really deserves it, and thank you for letting me play anyway.

Let's hope we can do that. Let's get Jackie back and do this again. Yes. Let's get redemption for Jackie one time, all right? Well, Jackie, we're going to send you something. I'm falling in love with Jackie. Oh, she can stay at her house. Oh, Jackie, we'll send you out something, mate.

You hold there. I'll let you stay at my house. Yeah. Somehow that got away. All right, Spy's next. Welcome to Apple, Apple, my man. The hit Spy with McDonald's Monopoly. Peel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes.

Okay, producer Juliet's here to ruin the careers of the rich and famous. With Spy, what's going on this hour, Ju? So you may know the song Bruno Mars featuring Anderson.Paak, Leave the Door Open. Leave the door open. So Anderson.Paak is one of the artists on that song. He's actually got a lot of other really good music. Obviously very relaxed about security.

Yeah. But he has got a tattoo quite recently on his, it looks like to be his arm, that says, when I'm gone, please don't release any posthumous albums or songs with my name attached. Those were just demos and never intended to be heard by the public. So he's got that tattooed on his body so that when he passes away, people know, don't release any of his secret stuff. I always wonder that about artists.

They're like, oh, here's Kurt Cobain's previously unheard, unreleased recordings. I was like, well, there's probably a reason Cobain didn't release them. Yeah. He wasn't entirely happy with them. I know. Imagine releasing your previously unheard, unreleased radio tapes, Ben. Yeah, or even some of the old skits that we didn't put on the TV show. Oh, yeah.

Some of the ones we put on the TV show, we're like, but the ones we didn't put on, you'd be like, well, there's definitely a reason why we didn't. Unless we were working on something, and you're like, oh, that was pretty close to being, it was finished and about to release it. Yeah. I found it astounding when Tupac passed away,

but the guy released another 29 albums. I know, I know, I know. It's crazy. And like Amy Winehouse, I think there was some music of hers that was released after she died and Mac Miller as well, quite recently, a couple of years ago.

Interesting. So please don't release any of my... Well, you probably best just delete, you know, delete cookies, delete everything on that front. Although you don't know when you're necessarily going to die, do you? So you don't know when to delete those. Will you delete my cookies when I pass away, Ben?

Yeah, I guess if someone's got to do their job, I guess it's me, all right? You don't have to look at anything. Just delete them. Yeah, I'll do that. I'll just go, you know, delete all whatever. I don't know what cookies are, but delete them for me. Do you know what? You should get into an internet wormhole, maybe next week or something,

of why cookies are called cookies on the internet. Is that boring? Is that interesting? I've always wondered why they're called cookies. I internet. Is that boring? Is that interesting? I've always wondered why they're called cookies. I'm wanting to know the answer now. Okay. But you can keep going, Ju, yeah. And I did see an article that was quite interesting, and you don't really think about this, but

it was the celebrities that went to school together. So there is a few here that's actually quite interesting. When Angelina Jolie started her first year at Beverly Hills High School, Monica Lewinsky was a junior. Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes had a rap battle in the lunchroom at their high school in Brooklyn. Wow. Did they go to the same college? Yeah, they did.

Jessie J and Adele were in the same year at the same school in the UK. Cameron Diaz was a year behind Snoop Dogg at their Long Beach Polytech High School, and they had mutual friends. They were in the same school. Really? And the late Kelly Preston graduated from Honolulu's school in Honolulu in 1980, a year after President

Barack Obama. You did not know? There's more, but those are just some of the most interesting ones. Did you go to school with famous people being boys? Ross Taylor? Did you? Cricketer was at school at the same time as I was there. He was far younger than me, but already far better at cricket than me. But no one, yeah, I feel that was, you know, that was it.

Big claim if you went to Takapuna Grammar School and Lorde was there as well. Oh, she's there. Yeah, she's at Takapuna. That's right. Jermaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords was there a few years over. He was at another school in the Wairarapa. Yeah, I wasn't asking that question. Oh, okay.

I'm your people. He's from the Wairarapa. Yeah, I wasn't asking that question. Oh, okay. I'm you people. He's from the Wairarapa. That's where I'm from. Yeah, I could say the same thing. I could go, Taika Waititi went to a school in Wellington. I live in New Zealand. That's like me with KJ Apa. He went to a school near my school and had friends.

Near your school, there you go. That were mutual friends with myself. I saw him at Mount Monganui one day. It was like year 12 when all the rage, you all partied there for New Year's. And I was like, it's KJ Upper from Shortland Street.

At the time, he was just on Shortland Street. And now it's KJ Upper from Riverdale. I know. Did you say KJ Upper from Shortland Street? Oh, I nearly did. And my friend's like, Juliet, don't.

Pull yourself together. Well, I think the good thing about widening the scope for that school question that I just asked, it got a few more yarns in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. True, true.

I didn't have much to start off with. Oh, Rasta, it's pretty cool. And that's Spy. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz, and that's thanks to McDonald's. As painful as entering a password on your TV remote. One letter at a time. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast.

And as the hits, Jono and Ben, now all over the gram over the last couple of days, you may have seen it. Did I sound cool when I said all over the gram or not really? Probably not. Okay.

Oh, God. All over your feed, all over social media was Glassons, now the store, the retail store chain, doing activewear. I did see this.

Yeah. I haven't looked at, well, now that I know that we're doing this voice break, I've got the Glassons website open. Glissachi Glissachi House of G My wife will say, House of G

It's a good shop It's your stock standards, get in there get your things, get out But what do you reckon of the activewear I reckon it's quite good, I would definitely buy some of these things, maybe not all the things because the colours just wouldn't look good on my pale skin. Is it just lycra stuff?

Is it a whole bunch of tight lycra? Kind of. Like if you've seen what Skim Kardashian is doing with her skims. Did you call her Skim Kardashian? Yeah. Well, because her brand's called Skims. I was about to say Skims. She's done a brand of sort of active wear as well.

It looks quite similar. But Glassons do do well on making cheaper versions of expensive things. Made from recycled fibres I see on the wear as well. It looks quite similar, but glassons do do well on making cheaper versions of expensive things. Made from recycled fibres, I see, on the gram as well, too. I remember you had a theory for a while, Jono, about wearing active wear because you look sporty. Yeah, well, you can.

Like, everyone, if you turned up in active wear this morning, Ben, I'd be like, oh, you've been out doing some exercise. Or you're about to do it. Yeah, that's the assumption you make. So my theory is you don't do any exercise, but you just wear the acting hat. And you give off the perception of, jeez, you're a fit guy.

I often do that. I often do that, yeah. I mean, during this whole period, Juliet's been turning out to work in active wear every day. I've been like, gee, man, you're fit. You're fit. But with the hoodie, so it makes me look a little bit more sluggish.

Yeah. Yeah. So comfortable. Yeah, I mean, the only thing letting me down was my guts little bit more sluggish. Yeah. Yeah. So comfortable. Yeah. I mean, the only thing letting me down was my guts poking out the bottom of my lycra singlet. Yeah, wear a crop top too, which is a bit unusual. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. Last night on Celebrity Treasure Island, Angela Bloomfield, who played Rachel McKenna on Shortland Street,

was the latest celebrity eliminated, and she joins us right now to talk about the experience. How you going, Ange? Oh, thank you. How are you? It's nice to talk to you. How was the experience of Celebrity Treasure Island for you? Oh, look, it was a long experience. It's just weird shooting something so long ago

and then reliving it now along with everyone else. I reckon it's harder to watch it than to do it. I was going to say, like, because obviously the show, everyone's competing intensely, which, you know, you need to. It's the game. But, like, how serious does everyone take it? Like, they obviously edit in the bits where you're all competing and plotting and planning and stuff.

It wasn't as intense as it's playing out. I mean, in those challenges, you know, people are kind of going for it. But the camp life, which is kind of not featuring as much, is really just cooking rice and washing your undies with a hose. It's just not. And we didn't talk about the show. We didn't talk about strategy as we sat around. We just did that when we were interviewed.

So it does come across as like everyone's healthy and not winning but it's actually not what it was. I was wondering, why haven't they included the hot fire undie washing with the hose content? I know. What was the hardest thing for you being on the show?

Because I imagine you're sleep deprived. I imagine you get really hungry as well. You're away from your families. I reckon probably no contact with family for me. Like feeling overwhelmed

and not having those people that you'd always lean on in those times to sort of regulate you. And being effectively, I was surrounded by people I didn't know. So you don't know them yet to know if they can be that person and also they're overwhelmed as well,

so you don't want to kind of burden them as well. And I imagine you're like, who do I trust on this island? Do you ever look at anyone and go, oh, who would I eat out of these people if survival was essential? Who would you eat? Who would I eat? Someone young with if survival was essential? Who would you eat? Who would I eat? Someone young with a little bit of fat? I don't know.

It's not a shame anyone right now. But you want the meat to be tender. Yeah, totally, totally. Tender and there's there to be some meat there, not like Slim Jim. Would you be quicker to sign up for another series or Squid Game? What would you do? Squid Game? Oh, my God.

Absolutely not Squid Game. Fair enough. There's a bit more than 50K on the line, though, for Squid Game. A little bit. I don't know. I've heard lots of people talk about, like, you know, contestants talk about all-stars and stuff like that, and I'm just like, would you?

I think the assumption is that if you've been there, you would be more clued up, but it's just not like that. When you're there, it's just not straightforward, and lack of food, lack of sleep, lack of connection do really have an effect on people. Well, we've both said, you know, if either of us were to ever go into any survival situation, we would

be useless. Like, I have no skills that I could provide to anyone. I was thinking about that. Like, you two things that have dodged the Dancing with the Stars and the sort of like Treasure Island. Like, how has this happened? Oh, you used to work with Sharon on

the Edge, who does a great job hosting Dancing with the Stars. Every day, she'd be like, do Dancing with the Stars, do Dancing with the Stars. It was like trying to chip away. But we can't dance. I can't dance and I can't survive. Now, we've got some moments from Celebrity Treasure Island. Now, we call this the beep test.

We've beeped out a word and something you've said, and now you need to work out what word you think you said, if you can remember, all right? This is ours and we're f***ing it. This is ours and we're... Is it a win? Like, this is ours and we're keeping it? This is ours and we're taking it.

We're taking it. You're pretty close, though. It was pretty close. I mean, you guys would have said so much stuff. No, this is really hiding to nothing, this one. Here's the next moment from Celebrity Treasure Island. I mean, I think we've been taking, you know, on the chin.

I would say taking it on the chin, but taking the losses on the chin? I mean, I think we've been taking the losses on the chin away. And this is the final moment we wanted to play. Now, this is from Celebrity Treasure Island. They beat this out, so we don't even know what it was.

This is you. Oh, I know what I feel. The other night, I was like... Trying to keep spirits high, but it feels good to win. As soon as I said that, I was like, Ange, don't swear on TV. I don't know what the word used. I don't know what it was either.

I don't know if you noticed this week as well that when they talk about Buck Shelford and Candy Lane they often say Buck and Candy but when they run it together it sounds like Buck and Candy you know like it sounds like people were swearing sounds like Joe Damon was swearing and he wasn't swearing he was just saying Buck oh we got that Jono have a listen

how it's going to work is Buck and Candy and I think they'll pick fucking candy Oh my god You're like what's his problem with candy lame Why is he like candy Why is he swearing about it like that Hey Angela you did bloody well

Yeah you did so well Thank you And thank you for joining us this morning Always love catching up with you Angela Bloomfield Me too, you. Thank you.