Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We're Preparing Ben For His Scary Movie Marathon!

Episode Date: October 21, 2021

The preparations continue. More scary stories, more movie suggestions, and even a novelty quiz by Jono. All in preparation for Thursday where Ben has to watch 5 scary movies in a row. On today's show we also got pranked by Michael J Fox... And Ben's been caught doing something his wife seriously doesn't approve of. 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. Hey guys, it's the 22nd of October. Jonathan here, Benjamin there.

You know what this is all about. It's the podcast. Welcome along to it. Ben. Yeah. Long weekend. Long weekend. Labour weekend.

Yeah. Labour weekend. Reading about the history of Labour weekend earlier today. Now, it seemed like it started in America. Oh, no, Canada or America and the same sort of holiday has come to New Zealand. Around the same thing where people were working long hours, often 12 hours a day, seven days a week,

and then they went, hang on, hang on, this is too much. Those are some long, long hours. Yeah. Seven days a week, no reprieve. Sometimes kids as well, too, back in the day, back in the old days. They didn't frown upon child labour back in those days. I don't know when we started frowning, but why can't they get out there and work?

If anything, they've got more energy than we have. Yeah, start them young. Everyone's like, oh, we lock them in factories and we do this. It's like, mate, they are productive. You're right. Give them something. They can just keep going. Why are you still, you know?

I'm like, I'm tired. I need to sit down. They're like, no. Not a seven-year-old. They'll keep making stews But in New Zealand it was in the 1800s as well, you'll say Samuel Parnell was the guy that sort of... He was the campy

obviously a bloody lefty commie union member, but no rightfully so, he cut it down from 12 to 8 hours and jeez they rejoiced They partied didn't they, they partied they had parades and all sorts, so they were obviously very happy about it. Even at that stage though they were doing a six day partied, didn't they? They partied. They had parades and all sorts. So they were obviously very happy about it. Even at that stage, though, they were doing a six-day working week,

weren't they? Eight hours a day is what Samuel cut it down to. He's like, hey, mate, eight hours a day. Parnell would only dream of a three-hour radio show. Imagine Samuel Parnell. What do you reckon Samuel Parnell's thinking about, you know, like these days when you're always on Zoom, you're always on computer, you're always, you know, would he be like, oh, wow.

These guys are still working, guys. Yeah. Yeah. He'd be like, put the devices down. I think Sammy was saying. First he said, what is a device? Explain what that thing is. And his mind would explode.

Yeah. He'd probably take a few weeks to actually get over that, wouldn't he? Yeah. We'd come back to him in a month and be like, Parnell, you ready? And he's just flicking through Instagram, looking at booty shots of female rappers. And he's like, hey, what? Oh, we're going to talk to you about the work day, Parnell.

He's like, oh, yeah. Yeah. He's like, what do you reckon, mate? These phones, are they dragging our day out? And they are. They are. You're right. They are.

You can't turn off from work now. No. You actually have to. You have to stop yourself from... If you're in a job that involves... Not every job involves computers or being on the phone and stuff like that. I'm sure if you're on a farm, you're working long hours, but you can't... But still, you can run your farm on your phone.

And if an animal needs help during the... Just go, oh, mate, I'm not going to be back here until six in the morning. Parnell got me an eight hour day. Yeah, they're going to have to keep working. So you're right, there's no job you really can switch off from. No, not nowadays. I respect those households that are like, we're a device free household. Sound like Michael McIntyre there. But you know,

don't you respect those people that just put the devices down? Yeah, my wife's tried to implement it in the weekends with the kids, but I'm the weak link. Oh wait, you're a device guy. You love your device. You can tell the kids are looking at me as I'm scrolling through Instagram. They're like, Dad, come play, eh?

Dad, I'm drowning, eh? And they're like, come here, he's getting to do this and we can't. It's like, because she can't tell me what to do. I'm an adult, it's one of the benefits of being an adult. That's one of the benefits of being an adult. Scrolling through meaningless Facebook and Instagram posts. But yeah, well done to those people.

Hey, we've got a big day in New Zealand today. We're announcing the lighting system, the green light, orange light, red light system when it comes to the road to recovery out of this crazy, crazy time. Unprecedented times. I don't think introducing a new system is going to help anyone. No, I think everyone's a bit confused when they try to mix things up. By the time you're listening to this, you probably know what the system is and you'll probably be confused.

But the risk I fear the government has is when they come out and they announce the system. It's like the picnic thing. They just opened up Pandora's Box and all the journos want to do is create a hypothetical situation that completely fucks their system. And they do it

every time. So starting a whole new level system. They can stick with the alert levels and just add to it, manipulate it, massage it. But now they're coming up with a whole other system. And they would not have thought about every scenario. I mean, they railroaded them with the toilet question. Who can you use a toilet with the picnic thing?

And that threw them. Yeah, where people are over and they could be outside, they couldn't go inside. You're right. So now they're going to be like, well, what happens in this scenario? Wouldn't do it. You were saying before,

just come out and go, and that's the light system and just run away yeah just announce that and say no questions today I've got to go I've got important things we've got stuff to do

email meeting yeah because I always like the moment where she and I don't think she does that for any like malicious reasons

but she goes I'll defer that one over to the director of health to Ashley and poor Ashley's like oh okay yeah you know yeah he's throwing in the bus I'd like him for once to go and poor Ashley's like oh okay yeah you know

yeah he's trying I'd like him for once to go and I'd defer it straight back and then they have this passive aggressive and I'd like to defer it

back to the Director General you and I would be like that I really think you should answer this one well thank you but I feel like

you explained it better in the meeting before we came out there you go anyway that's going to happen and we'll see what shambles that creates. Enjoy the podcast. New Zealand's breakfast.

This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning, New Zealand. It is a Friday morning, just gone 6 o'clock, and it's a Friday heading into a long weekend, so a couple of reasons to feel good about today. And it is a fun show for you today. Just after 7 o'clock on the show, we got pranked.

It was a savage pranking too. We're still sort of coming to terms with it all. Two guys that have, you know, had 10 years of illustrious pranking. It doesn't feel nice to be pranked on, does it? I can see why people got frustrated with us pranking them. A prank involving Michael J. Fox. Of all people. Yes.

And that is at 7 o'clock this morning. Your chance to also win $10,000 thanks to me watching some scary movies for Halloween. We'll have more on that very shortly. And Paddy Gower, journalist from Newshub, of course, joins us after 8 o'clock with something really important. He's trying to help out a New Zealand family

get closure for, well, it's a really devastating loss and something that we can all help bring, you know, bring something to this New Zealand family that's gone through quite a lot. It's an easy fix, isn't it? We'll just sign a petition. Yeah, and it seems like a no-brainer, but we'll get more on that with Patty. We've got Franken, we've got Patty, we've got cash. It's a Friday. Woo!

That was most unenthusiastic. It was like Luster, wasn't it? Yeah. Sorry. It's Friday at 6 o'clock. I'll try and pick it up next. Yeah, it is. It's your go, John and Ben.

I was reading an article that Rihanna's got new music coming out. Did you know? Oh, that's very cool. Because I thought maybe she was, you know, because obviously she's a billionaire. She's got fashion lines. She's got clothes. Everything. Oh, you thought she would have checked out

I would have if I'd become a billionaire, I won't lie Yeah. But yeah, no, she said Whatever. So you think of Rihanna music Okay, Ben? Yeah. You think of umbrellas Yeah. You think of working? Yeah Diamonds. Yeah There you go. You think of all that stuff We'll get that out of your head

Oh really? This is going to be completely different Oh wow, I guess that's a testament to, you know, just showing you really love something. You know, like she's obviously got enough money to survive for many lifetimes, but, you know, doesn't need to do music if she's got a successful clothing line and a whole lot of other business ventures,

but still wants to do music, which is awesome. Reggae, a lot of reggae, apparently. Oh, yeah. You like reggae? You like Bob Marley? You love Bob Marley? Old Snoop Dogg over there huffing and puffing away He voted yes He's not saying he didn't

I haven't seen which way I voted on that I saw a lot of arguments pro and against I know it confused me there Speaking of confusing Annie Pryor, my mother, she's just got onto Facebook. So I have a grave fear that if Facebook rebrand and change their name like they're talking about next week,

she's going to, this is going to really bamboozle her. Do you think that's the reason why they've changed? Because your mum's got onto it? Oh, God, now Facebook's officially done. It's cooked. But they are thinking of a rebrand, aren't they? They're getting a lot of hate at the moment, Facebook, God, now Facebook's officially done. It's cooked. But they are thinking of a rebrand, aren't they? They're getting a lot of hate at the moment, Facebook,

over allowing hate speech to happen on their platform. But anyway, Annie, much like Jenny Boyce, your mum, catches up with what's happening in my life through podcasts, Facebook videos that we post and things like that. And she must be a bit behind Because she was looking at the God knows why The live stream of the non-stop five words thing We did about three weeks ago

Oh really? Oh she's gone deep But no one watched that live stream We had one view in Christchurch And it came from Annie Catherine Pryor Wow that's really Yeah that's a real catch up situation isn't it To go back to that We had one view in Christchurch, and it came from Annie Catherine Pryor. Wow. That's really, yeah, that's a real catch-up situation, isn't it, to go back to that? Yeah, and she was like, oh, you said during the live stream,

I can't even remember what I said during the live stream, she said, you're suffering from chronic headaches at the moment. I was like, oh, you're vaguely, I just said stuff, Annie. And she's like, you need more hydration. And I was like, well, you're vaguely. I just said stuff, Annie. And she's like, you need more hydration. And I was like, well, if this was a grave concern, I was mentioning this four weeks ago, I probably would have suffered a serious medical emergency by now. So you need to get up to date daily on the podcast, Annie,

with what's happening in my life. We haven't followed that through as much. The headache storyline. No. I mean, Jenny, she binges all the podcasts, doesn't she? Your mum. She does. She loves, like, when I go on a road trip, she loves driving. Oh, that's so cute. Loves going on road trips.

When I go on a road trip, I listen to five of your shows back there. You're like, oh my god. No music. Just us. What we're doing right now. I've never even listened to five of your shows. I don't even listen back to what we're doing. This thing we're doing now, we will never listen back to it.

I'm sorry you have to listen to it now. In real time. We'll tell you how you can get hold of some of our money we've got to give away, all to do with Halloween and me watching scary movies. We'll tell you how you can win that. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B**** News. This is where producer Juliet

beeps out words for news headlines and this is where Jono and Ben sometimes come up with mildly amusing alternatives to those headlines. Sometimes we struggle and to be honest it takes a while to get to the real story but eventually we land there. We do and the first news story

starts OnlyFans account after its TikTok got banned for posting nudes. I'm thinking that's my mate Jono Pryor. It was a race to that, wasn't it? I know, that's why I went in first. Yeah, you went in early. Yeah, thank you.

I step back from this one and hand it over to you who probably don't have an answer. Well, I'm going to make up one now. I'm going to say the Queen starts OnlyFans account after her TikTok got banned for posting nudes. I like that. Museum starts OnlyFans account after its TikTok got banned for posting nudes. I like that. Museum starts OnlyFans account after its TikTok got banned for posting nudes. So obviously if you go to a museum, especially quite famous pieces of art and sculptures, like we mentioned recently, like the Statue of David, involves nudity. And so a museum in Italy.

Tasteful. Yes, yeah. It's not like offensive nudity, I would say. But a museum in Italy started on TikTok showing off their pieces and their art. But TikTok... You don't want to be showing off your pieces on TikTok. But TikTok blocked it, even though it's art.

And some of this art is like 3,000 years old. So, you know, you'd think it would be fine. So the museum took it in its stride and started an OnlyFans account being like, well, if we can't have it on TikTok? Here's David in all his glory I felt sorry for David We've spoken about that before

David was not in his prime when Michelangelo was chipping away at that, was he? Oh, he's right. TikTok are quite harsh on that. The clip that we did when Dwayne the Rock Johnson, obviously I'm a big fan of him, and you guys got me to get an iHeart Dwayne the Rock Johnson tattoo

on my left butt cheek. It keeps getting taken down from TikTok due to breaching community guidelines. Yeah. My left butt cheek is, you know. Well, I mean, hey, if David's ghoulies can't be on there, mate I don't know why you think your butt cheek's got right of passage Yeah, like, in the grand scheme of things

I don't think it's quite as bad as David, but anyway, yeah The next news story Job interviews are daunting enough But these police recruits were grilled by I'm going to say by the whole entire Paw Patrol cast The toughest cops out there I'm going to say these the whole entire Paw Patrol cast. The toughest cops out there. I'm going to say these police cops and their job interview were grilled by the internet comment section.

Ah, classic. Job interviews are daunting enough, but these police recruits were grilled by Morgan Freeman. So in Alabama, where these job interviews were taking place, residents are occasionally asked if they want to be on a panel when they interview cops. Don't know why, but occasionally they're asked. And he, Morgan Freeman, volunteered

because technically he owns property in Alabama, so he's considered a resident. So he was like, yeah, I'll join. And so imagine turning up to an interview and Morgan Freeman sitting there on the panel. Apparently he sat back quite quietly, but I almost feel like that would be more scarier that would be quite weird you'd be sitting there going oh my god you're like can i get a photo why is morgan freeman here how much do you charge for a traffic infringement it would be a long

interview too because he's quite yeah he's not in a rush, Freeman. He's 84 now. Wow. Yeah, I know. Again, he's aging beautifully. He's in that Shatner, those wonderful Shatner years. Yeah, exactly. And the final news story.

Airplane drops on Windsor man in his garden. Oh, I'm going to say the airplane drops cookie or cassava chip. I'm not sure which decided between the cookie or the cassava chip. I'm going to say they dropped those boiled lollies from there. Like a lolly scramble. Airplane drops sewage on Windsor man in his garden. That's the opposite of lollies. Yeah, not a very pleasant experience for this man. His whole garden, garden umbrellas and him were all covered apparently.

The dumping of the dump um happened quite central in windsor and if you've been to windsor that's where like the castle is and it's quite a touristy town and there are lots of houses sort of around it um so you'd think that they'd probably go to a more remote place but also usually planes dispose of it once they've landed it's not like yeah it's not like when you're your ships, if you're in the middle of the ocean, you can let it go in the ocean, but it's quite different for a plane. They would usually get rid of it after they land.

But I don't know why they did it. The plane toilet has the... I mean, we suck on this radio show, but nothing sucks more than the plane toilet. I mean, that suction on that thing. No matter how old you get, or how much of an adult you become, that still terrifies you. Yeah. how old you get or how much of an adult you become, that still terrifies me. I know.

Oh my God. I know. Suck you out through, you could get sucked through that tiny little hole. Yeah. Very powerful. Scary, scary.

So a literal S-storm blowing down on this poor guy. Yeah, jeez. Terrifying. I didn't realise planes did that. No. Can they do it over the ocean? Probably.

Probably not meant to though, right? Apparently, one thing I did read is usually they'll freeze it but if that dropped on someone it would be worse

just a giant block of water I know I know I don't know that is news and beep yeah Ben Boy's terrified

of horror movies he's the show scaredy cat and I am as well but for the sake of this Halloween Scarehouse. Yeah, Ben Boy's terrified of horror movies. He's the show scaredy cat, and I am as well, but for the sake of this, we're saying he is the only one. But what we're going to do is lock him in a room. He's going to watch five of the world's scariest movies in celebration of Halloween next weekend. And there's a $10,000 prize pool each Friday. We lose money off that prize pool.

Whatever's left over we give away next Friday morning. Ben, nominations coming through thick and fast for some of the scariest movies that you should be watching. Halloween H20 and Deepest Creepers. Any of the Nightmare on Elm Street.

Oh, that's the Freddy Krueger ones, right? Freddy Krueger, yeah, very scary. Conjuring. Oh, I haven't seen The Conjuring because I don't like scary movies, but I hear it's very scary. Oh, yeah, so over the weekend, you want to compile a list, and you're going to present that to me on Tuesday. Yeah, the top five.

So it's going to be sort of, we think on average, around 11, 11 and a half hours of nonstop horror movie watching. Oh, jeez. It's going to be the most frightening room since you were locked in a therapy session with your wife and your ex-girlfriend. It's going to be very, it's terrifying for you.

I'm sorry to even put you in this position. I'm sorry to put you in that last position too. I just thought it would be fun for you to talk those issues out with both of those people. So, 0800 the hits. I don't know why we're doing this again, but why not? We're here. So tell us what is the scariest movie you've watched that I should watch?

And we'll get some of those for you next. It is The Hits. You got it, Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween Scarehouse. Yep, Ben Boyce, five of the world's scariest movies is voted by you. He's going to watch them in a row.

Every Friday he gets, he loses money off a $10,000 prize pool. The remainder will be given away next Friday in celebration of Halloween. That was a really succinct set up of what this whole thing was. I know we've been kind of figuring out how to say it the tightest way. That was actually really good. The tightest I've ever, I've done it all week. I understood it. I think everyone understands what's going on.

But right now we need to decide on the five movies that I need to watch next week. Yeah, there's a sick, and Julia, you're part of this, a sick subculture of people who just love to be scared. Yeah. Yeah. Well, like when I'm watching a movie, I'm scared. Like I'm like, oh, I hate this. I hate this.

But I always go back. Like, and I always Kind of want the Adrenaline rush It's weird Have you seen Spookers Yes I love it

I see I used to want to Work there People love Yeah love that That's a If you don't know That's an old

I think it was It was a mental Asylum Yeah that you Can go through now And basically there's People that jump out And scare you

Yeah And that's the whole Thing you pay money To do that We did it for The TV show Remember that And the director

Would just keep Going to me Walk in the room And I'd be like Nah Like walk in director would just keep going to me, walk in the room, and I'd be like, nah. Like, walk in the room. I was like, I don't want to walk in the room. I know what's happening in there. Yeah. And it was like all full of just negotiation with the director of the TV show and me just going, I don't want to walk in there. I can't. I don't want to because I know there's going to be a fright

in there and there always was. The scariest thing Ben has seen this week is a celebrity voted off Treasure Island. And that was enough for him. Yeah. It was devastating enough. So we're going to go to the phones on 0800. The hits are your nomination, Jade. What are you suggesting? I think Ben should watch Sinister.

Tell me about Sinister. It's a psychological horror. A little bit gory. But I'm a big horror movie fan. So all the a big horror movie fan, so all the other suggestions are sort of, you know, they're all right,

but Sinister, Sinister will scare you. Right, so Sinister is the horror fan's horror. Yes, yeah. Well, let's chuck Sinister into the mix. You know, we've had your Nightmare on Elm Street. Yeah, your classics, your traditional ones, right? Your grudges, your rings, your screams. But you think sinister's the way to go?

I do. Talk to us about your love of scary movies. Like, why? What is it about them, Jay? Oh, I don't know. I started watching horror movies when I was a kid. And yeah, I just kind of grew up with them. So it started with shocking parenting.

Yeah. And then you grew up. I mean, you sound like a reasonable, lovely human being. What do you do for a job? Thank you. I actually work at Now Broadband. Lovely person, but loves being scared, do you? Yeah, I do. I do.

I'm just reading about Sinister right now, and so it was inspired by a nightmare that one of the writers had after watching the movie The Ring. So they watched a scary movie, they had a nightmare, and that nightmare became the movie Sinister. Give us the plot line in a couple of sentences. So a horror writer moves into a house that's kind of haunted by a being, I suppose.

Without giving too much away, there are children involved. I think I've seen this. Juliet's a bit of a psychopath too. I'm watching the trailer on mute and I recognise a lot of it. I think I have seen it. It's terrifying. Okay. Well, it's over to you, Jono.

It's from the producers of Paranormal Activity. I'm watching the trailer over Juliet's shoulder. Okay, look, we could put Sinister Ford. Jade, thank you so much for your suggestion. You have a great day in Christchurch. Perfect. No worries. You too. All right, we'll put Sinister Ford, Jade, thank you so much for your suggestion. You have a great day in Christchurch. Perfect, no worries, you too. Alright, we'll say a big moreno to Pania. What scary movie are you putting forward for Ben to watch?

The Grudge. I don't know much about The Grudge, but I hear it's very scary. What's it about? Father that kills his wife and son. Oh, jeez. Not like someone that got the promotion at work, and you're like, oh, jeez, I have got a grudge against them. That's the sort of movie that maybe I'd watch.

A competitive work environment film. Oh, that idiot got a job. Climbing the corporate ladder. Yeah, you know. Which is frightening in itself. You're right. That's something I'd watch, but that one sounds, ooh. There's some monsters in the corporate world, Ben.

Yeah. And all I know about the grudge, because, again, I haven't seen it long with Ben, isn't there some sort of lady with dark hair who sort of crawls around on the ground? Yeah, no, she lives in a cupboard. She lives in a cupboard? Yeah, well, once she's got a hold of you, she's never ready to go. No, no, no. Once she's out of that cupboard.

See why they keep her in a cupboard. Yeah, okay. Have you seen it, Ju? I think I saw it years and years ago. I don't really remember the storyline, but I used to be terrified of the grudge when I was a kid, yeah. I'm looking at a picture of her now. She's very pasty.

You're using too much white foundation on her face there. Yeah. Very pasty. And the noise that she makes. Oh, yeah, the noise. What's the noise? It's like... That's right, that one.

Oh. It sounds like Ben when he's taking a selfie. Makes the same noise. Ben's got a photo noise whenever a photo's being taken. Also, maybe I like the grunge. We'll check it on the list. We really appreciate it. Well, I don't appreciate it at all, let's be honest.

It was only released last year. No, it's quite an old movie. They've done a remake or something. There's a 2020 version of it well do you want to watch the original or the 2020 or the remake well neither really but yeah we'll put it on the list if you want if you want to decide on the 5

most scariest movies you'll help us decide you can head to the hits breakfast on Instagram and over the weekend we'll compile the list and then you can tell me on Tuesday what I have to watch next week it is the hits you got, John. I'm Ben. Scrolling through your feed.

All right, time for Scrolling Through Your Feed, brought to you by Ben Boyce in association with his partners Copy and Paste. Take it away, Benjamin. Well, yesterday, New Zealand, unfortunately, had 100 cases, new cases of COVID-19 for the first time. The first time since the virus has arrived on our shores in February last year. Seems like a good time to send the kids back to school. Yeah. But 10 o'clock today, yeah, that's right,

10 o'clock today, which seems unusual because we're used to having like a 1pm announcement from the government or a 4pm announcement, but it's 10 o'clock today. It looks like they're going to unveil a bit of a plan, a traffic light system. A traffic light system is what they're talking about apparently, and it's when it's going to be used

and what vaccination targets is going to happen and maybe a bit of a roadmap for getting out of this thing. It's all going to be announced at 10 o'clock today. Maybe they want to shoot off early for the long weekend.

That makes sense. Let's wrap this up by midday today, guys. Cheeky half day. Yeah, get Monday off as well. You know, you're right. I see why they want to do that. What is the traffic light system? Do you know?

So it's got to, from what I understand, it's going to replace the alert level system. Really? That's what I'm reading. But I guess no one knows 100% until it's announced this morning. Okay. I know they've implemented it overseas, haven't they? Yeah, right. The epidemiologists were saying we need to do the traffic light system.

Last week they had a meeting with the government. So I guess if it's like normal traffic lights, you get orange and everyone just goes. Yeah, fang through anyway, eh? Hope you don't get caught. What's the rule? If you get out of the intersection by the time it turns red or something? Mum always told me that.

I was like, I don't know if that's... Does it actually roll? All it does is make you try and drive faster through an intersection. And speaking of the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, well, yesterday she was on a it was basically like a Zoom call with the Prime Minister of the UK, Boris Johnson,

that went everywhere. It was just kind of like a bit of a press release. It felt like a very forced, scripted sketch of some description where we've done a deal with the UK, and I think we're winning out of this deal, aren't we? It does seem like that. It's a historic free trade agreement

that New Zealand has now got with the UK and under the agreement, export tax will be eliminated on 90% of New Zealand products, including things like wine, honey and onions. Who knew onions were a big thing? Wine, honey and onions? Yeah, those are some of the things. Oh, those are big bangers, aren't they?

Oh, that was some of the things that they mentioned. What about beef, lamb and meth? Those would be up there. But one thing I really enjoyed was Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister. He came to the Zoom call, the video call, with a lot of rugby puns. Have a listen.

For our partnership with New Zealand, and we're absolutely thrilled that we seem to have driven for the line. We've scrummed down, we've packed tight, and together we seem to have driven for the line. We've scrummed down we've packed tight and together we've got the ball over the line and we have a deal and I think it's a great deal. We have bought a ball

referee rugby rugby rugby. Watching that because we watched that yesterday and it felt like Boris Johnson was grossly underprepared for it And he had notes down on the desk that he was kind of making up as he went along And he was like, it's a historic day for New Zealand And with this deal, which is the deal about the... The onion

The onion, the trade, rugby, pass the ball. But Jacinda Ardern came back with her own little rugby analogy as well. And look, I loved your use of rugby metaphors, but if we were going to continue that on, then naturally it would conclude with the All Blacks winning. And I know that New Zealand feels that way. Put that in your ruck, Johnson. And that is Scrolling Through Feed this morning.

Don't forget, after 7 o'clock this morning, how we were brutally pranked by Michael J. Fox. Yeah. I thought he was a nice guy. It happened. Michael J. Fox. Everything I've seen of him, everybody stitched us up.

Oh, no. How that happened at 7 o'clock this morning, it is the hits. Spy, know what's up? Spy.co.nz Alright, let's get producer Juliet in to get the celebrities to feel the wrath of the raffle. Juliet Raffle.

Thank you. So Elton John has revealed the Kiwi artist that he would be interested in collaborating with. So at the moment he's currently promoting his new album, The Lockdown Sessions, which he recorded. Most of them, I think, are collaborations with a bunch of different artists. Now, we've heard the Dua Lipa version. It's a remake of one of his earlier songs.

Is that the whole album? He's got artists to remake his songs? I don't know if that's quite the case, though. It's a mixture, I think. So there's going to be some of the older songs, but then a bunch of new songs. But with a lot of young artists, like Nicki Minaj, Lil Nas X, Miley Cyrus, and then older artists like Stevie Nicks. So it's kind of a mix, and he's done it completely during lockdown.

Is I'm Dildanding in there as well? I'm Dildanding! Can we play a little bit of this? If you haven't heard I'm Dill Danding this has been the backbone of this show for the last six months. It's audio of Elton John playing live at Lady Gaga's Let's Save the World event or whatever it was

and they cross to Elton, he's in his driveway he's got a piano furiously playing I'm still standing But not quite nailing all the execution of the words I'm Dill Danding Yeah, yeah, yeah Outstanding. But not quite nailing all the execution of the words. Just giving it his all, eh? I'm still danding.

You can kind of make out 70% of the lyrics. He might have gone to the dentist before, you know, got the injections. Who knows what went on. I'm still danding. But he was on the project last night on TV3. Yeah, so this is a little clip from the project where he talks about the Kiwi artists that he would like to collaborate with. But there are so many, you know, Benny I love very much

and very many other New Zealand artists there that I've actually had on my show and interviewed on my show. There are so many great New Zealand acts to do stuff with. I mean, I always would love to do something with Lorde, obviously, but it was impossible. It's always great to work with young people, new artists, old artists, because you always learn something.

Great answer from Elton. You could tell he was trying to think of another New Zealand artist, and he pulled Lorde out. He did really well. He did actually say when he first heard Lorde, when he first heard Royals, which is obviously his debut sort of single,

he was like, how did you even do this? Like, he was really impressed with Royals. Wow. So, very cool. From what we've heard, you know,

little drips and drabs through people who have met him, Machu from 660, Benny as well, we've spoken to both of them, just he loves supporting young artists. It's so cute.

It's like he's your grandpa, you know? Give him back to the industry. What have you given back to this industry, Ben? Nothing. You just take, take, take. Suck it all up. Take it all up. Walk out the door at the end. I hate young radio people.

If anything, they could steal his job. I feel threatened by them. Keep them out. Don't give them a swipe card. One of the big shows at the moment, one of your favourites, been Ted Lasso with Jason Sudeikis. Oh, yeah. So there's two seasons out at the moment.

So they're in the middle of doing season three. They're in the middle of shooting that. It's interesting because they talked about it. I've been reading up a lot about it. I've been geeking out about it. But they talked about when they were writing it and creating it, it's almost like a Star Wars style original trilogy.

So that was the plan to have three series. So I wonder if they'll get to the end of three series and feel like they've completed the storyline or not. Right, right. Well he did, because he did get asked, you know what interviews are like, they're like, oh do you think another movie will come out, or there'll be another season, da da da da, and they always have to give a generic answer.

He said, I feel like a real coach when I have to tell folks, you can't look at season four, we're in the middle of season three. We can't worry about the championships, we're in the first round of playoffs, you know? Which is a very good answer. He's really assumed the role. Yeah, yeah, very good. Well done, Jason Sudeikis.

So it's not all written. They haven't written all of the seasons. No, Series 2 is now on Apple TV, and I think right now they're looking, yeah, they're doing Series 3. So they've got, yeah, essentially the three first series done. The US traditionally can milk out things wonderfully. Like The Office in the UK

was only I think six or seven episodes, wasn't it? Yeah, two series of six, I think. Yeah. It's a 12 in total, I think. And The US Office

just kept going, took on a life of its own. Wow. Just morphed into, I'm watching it on Netflix, it's never ending. Stop, Will Ferrell comes in at one point.

Really? He's sort of like the boss for a while there. Oh, wow. So there's lots of good shows to watch at the moment. I'm still struggling what to pick next

after Squid Game, so maybe I have to give Ted Lasso a go. And I'm Dill Danden. And that is five and we can head to the hits.co.nz. After seven on the show,

we got pranked by Michael J. Fox. Oh, and John. So John was on theed by Michael J. Fox. Oh, and John. So, and John was on the project. Michael J. Fox was pranking us. We'll find out what happened after seven. 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. Morning, and now Michael J. Fox, huge actor, one of the greatest actors ever. Back to the Future, such great movies, Family Ties, Spin City. And we're going to really pull back the curtain here right now. About a week ago, we got offered an interview with Michael J. Fox, and we were very excited about it.

Yes, we were like, yeah, we will take that. We will definitely interview Michael J. Fox. They said it was going to be over Zoom. We're like, even better. We get to see his face, he gets to see our face. Yeah, incredible. And so we had a week of preparation leading up to this. face he gets to see our face yeah and so you know we had a week of preparation leading up to this it was meant to happen after the show yesterday

uh and so then we sat down in front of the computer and uh usually with these things a representative from the movie company or record company comes on and they're like hey uh just so you know michael j fox will be with you in about five minutes i'll connect you through you've got 10 minutes they give you all the sort of t's and C's, the do's and don'ts. And then you wait through for the actor or the musician, whoever we get to talk to. We're waiting for that. But the scene is set.

Okay, so we're sitting in front of the laptop. And it turns out our friends at Skinny, friends of the show, friends. I thought they were friends. They had something to do with this. So here's how it played out. He's there. Okay. All right had something to do with this. So here's how it played out. He's there. Okay. All right.

All right. Yeah, excited about this. Mike Fox has entered. Oh, Michael J. Fox. This is so exciting. Watch all three Back to the Future movies over the weekend. Here we go. Hey, guys.

Hello. Hi, mate. How are you doing? Yeah, good. Yourselves? Good. It's John and Ben here We work on the Hits radio station in New Zealand

We've just got an interview with Michael J Fox shortly That's right, yeah, that's right Looking forward to it, should be good Yeah, I was just saying to Jono I watched all three Back to the Future movies in the weekend How many interviews has he had today? Oh no, the first one today Cool talk

No, really when you guys are far away oh will we will you relay the questions to him how's this work do we ask you guys just ask the questions and i can answer you but do you is he on the other line it's me i'm michael j fox i Pukikohe from the Skinny Famous Faces advert Is this Were you expecting someone else? Yeah we were expecting, we were told

we were talking to Michael J Fox They're meant to be our friends at Skinny and this is a sham I mean I don't write many questions but bad boys how long did you spend on questions? I watched all three movies of Back to the Future again. They're great. So that wasn't a chore, but I did actually, I found out some stuff.

Michael J. Fox, J is not his middle name. Like, that doesn't start with J. Andrew's his middle name. Where'd the J come from? He's just another actor. Oh, no, why don't we ask Michael J. Where'd the J come from? You're actually Michael J. Fox, obviously not the actor.

That's my real name. I'm Michael John Fox. Do you know, actually, when your background came up, I'm like, this is very unprofessional for a movie sort of... I won't lie. I did not give it away. So, like, obviously you've been Michael J.

Fox your whole life. Did your parents name you after the actor, or how did that work? I'm doing an interview now with you. Why are we continuing this on? Why do we have to speak to Michael Jackson? I don't know. I'm just interested now.

Okay, I've prepared some questions, and now I'm making up questions. Yeah, no, the movie came out after I was born, so there's no link there. Right. And that's the end of the interview. Well, hang on. Yeah, I guess pretty much. So we're having a famous name. Is there any benefits, though?

No, I mean, there's benefits. Obviously, being on the skinny ad, that guess pretty much. So we're having a famous name. Is there any benefits, though? Oh, no. I mean, there's benefits. Obviously, being on the skinny ad, that's been awesome. But it's mostly sort of a – That's the main benefit. So it's been a bit tricky at times, though. I lived in the States for a couple of years, and over there you have to have your full name on your credit card.

So every time I try to organize something on the phone and try to order something, I'd get to my name part and then I'd see a click at the other end. Well, you seem like a lovely person. How did you get involved in pranking us into thinking that, you know, all this happening? Why is this happening? I took the blame down to another lovely person.

So my wife's friend saw something on Facebook where they were looking for people with famous names. So she signed me up without telling me. And then the next thing I know, I got a call. You're pranking john o'brien for some reason i got a call from this agency and i was a bit hesitant at first but i went and did it and it's been great oh well there you go so uh what is this an ad for what are we doing i don't know what we're doing here i thought we were talking to michael j fox the

actor obviously clearly we're not but i'm gonna i'm gonna ask some of the questions because i prepared some questions i'm gonna ask the questions you're gonna do your best at answering them, I guess, now because that's what we're here for. You could just delete them. No, I'm going to do them. He's not putting his labor. Hard labor. Okay, so you're filming Family Ties while doing Back to the Future at the same time. So you wouldn't have got to sleep much, I understand.

Right. Yeah, that's true. Next question. Okay, your middle name is actually Andrew Yes Good, okay Oh, okay, Back to the Future It's set kind of

It was from the past looking at the future Which is pretty much now But we don't have hoverboards like in the movie Thoughts and feelings No, no, yeah Did a little skateboarding during high school I'm going gonna wrap this up you seem like a lovely gentleman i'm sorry you got roped into it what was you know i'm sorry

we got roped into that well played skinny and michael j fox hey look after yourself buddy you keep safe no worries thanks guys so that was us talking to michael j fox from the skinny commercials yes he's in New Zealand His real name is Michael J. Fox We thought we were, well, why would we think I don't know what the opposite of happy happy are you is But I'm it, right now, Ben Boyce We thought it was going to be the actor Michael J. Fox

That was actually Michael J. Fox All the planning that we went into that They probably could have just got Michael J. Fox For an interview Yeah Yeah, our friends at Skinny are pranking us really good there while we went into that, they probably could have just got Michael J. Fox for an interview. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, our friends at Skinny are pranking us really good there. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better.

Can't say this battered up old face. It makes you burn in fire. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. You're on the hits playing all naughty's music this morning. It is 7.17 on your Friday. Long weekend as well. That's very exciting. Oh, it is too. Labour weekend.

The long time between drinks isn't there between the old QB and the old Labour weekend. Is Queen's birthday the last one we celebrate? I think it is in the calendar. Oh, yeah, it would be actually. I shouldn't chuck live calendar questions at you, Ben. I'm sorry. No, don't. No, don't.

Don't do that again. I've actually been researching a bit about Labor Day, so I'll bring some of that information on why we celebrate this before 8 o'clock as well. I've reached I think it's somewhat of a disappointing stage in life. And I'm sure many people do reach it.

Is that my body for some reason only enjoys stretchy clothing now. I'm a stretchy clothing like I'm opting for comfort over style at the moment. I imagine that everyone's body

probably prefers that but most people where they have some no anyway they have some what? What was he going to say? Carry on. Yeah so I'm going like complete comfort over style now. At the moment, it's fine.

We're in lockdown, but there's got to be people back at this office. But it's this line that really, you know, once you cross this line, it's not far until you're wearing sensible footwear, you know, sensible shoes and khaki shorts that are three quarters down your leg. That's when you've reached full comfort mode. And it's not fashion. They can't make fashionable clothing comfortable, can they? I mean, I can't.

I'm not going to be able to walk down the Met Gala in my track pants and my polo shirt tucked into my track pants. No, you're right. Do you like comfortable clothing over fashionable clothing? Because you're quite a fashionable guy. I do like going home and going, you know, like I like going home in lockdown, I like to put on a pair of track pants, whatever it is.

But then I wouldn't go like anywhere other than walking around the block, I wouldn't wear a pair of track pants. Would you wear track pants to work? I try not to because I'm like, no, it's work. Let's get in the mode for work. It's work, work, chino. We take social videos and things like that. I kind of are aware that, you know, you don't want to look like,

yeah, it's work, you know. Back in the the day people would have to wear ties and suits and stuff so at least i could do is probably not wear track pants to work i'm still lucky enough to wear a cap from time to time and things like that but i'll try not to wear a cap for the elephant as well yeah you know i don't know what it is about my body it's just not liking the weight of clothing being a fan of like to be honest you know tissues with holes in it all sorts of stuff over the years you got given so many clothes yeah when we had helen stone brothers and then who knows what happened to those fashionable clothes yeah who knows yeah but we went to we went to a building the council building and there was a photo on the wall of all of the council employees from the 1960s in three-piece suits. Yeah.

You know, wearing tuxedos, sort of, you know, had the waistcoat, jackets, top hats. Jeez, they held fashion in a high regard back then. If they were alive now, they'd be like, guys, what have you done? Secondly, why are you all not allowed to leave your houses? Yeah, that's a whole thing to get your head around, right? Why

this thing called the internet, this great gift you've been given on the internet why are you just twerking on TikTok? Guys, do you know what we did back then for you? And this is what it's become? Some guy turning up to work and ripped track pants?

We've disappointed previous generations You would, some guy turning up to work and ripped track pants. We've disappointed previous generations. You would, you're right. Hey, we've got $5,000 up for grabs at 7.45 like we do every day. Five words, 5K, it is the hits. Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween Scarehouse. Ben Boyce, petrified of scary movies. And we're getting the top five scariest movies as voted by you to celebrate Halloween next weekend.

He's going to watch them all in a row. Every Friday gets he loses money off a $10,000 prize pool. The remainder will be given away this time next week on the show. And Ben, you're going to get the heebie-jeebies, aren't you, through this? Which sounds like something that we should all get vaccinated against. Yeah. But the idea that we thought yesterday would be good is to build up immunity from scaring, from frights. So to put yourself in scary situations so that when they come in the movies, they mean nothing.

They mean less. And we hold on to more cash. Yeah, that's right. We've got a scary story. Jeez, it was a heck of a scary story yesterday. Have a listen to this. A friend and I, we moved to Thames and lived in her mum's apartment. We were listening to some music and then we had to turn it down

because we could hear someone walking up the hallway. It was really, really crazy because we were like, there's only us two there. And then next thing we heard the chain on the door so that went to bed i was lying down my blankets right up to my chest and i could feel something grab my legs next thing you know i was down the end of my bed with my blanket still up to my chest but i was at the end of the bed i'd physically been pulled right down so that's lizzie whozie who suffered the fate of an

ankle-grabbing ghost. I don't want anyone fiddling with my ankles when I'm sleeping, let alone a ghost. So that was frightening. That's why we're doing Scare Ben right now. Did that help you out yesterday or traumatise you? I don't know what way.

That definitely made me a lot more scared about this. Just to think that that... You're like, it's just a movie, just Yeah, that definitely made me a lot more scared about this, just to think that that, you know, because you're like, oh, it's just a movie, just a movie, but that sort of stuff's going on. Yeah. But that's good. If you hear these real-life encounters, when you're watching a movie, you can just go, oh, it's just a movie. You know, it's nothing compared to the ankle-grabbing ghost.

So, 0800 the hits. Scare Ben right now. You can text 24487 any stories that might give him a fright and prepare him for next Thursday's Halloween-a-thon. Alright, let's do this New Zealand. It is the hits. It's really getting bigger and bigger at Halloween

isn't it? There's a house around the corner from mine. Jeez, they have gone all out. Corpses lying on the front lawn. Well, I hope it was a Halloween. Otherwise, I drove past a scene on the way to work this morning. But, yeah, they've really done a good job. Good job.

I might double-check that on the way home, actually. Ben Boyce, next week, next Thursday night, is going to watch five of the scariest movies in a row. Around about 11 hours of non-stop horror film watching. Every Friday gets, he loses money off our $10,000 prize. We give it away next Friday. And we're preparing him. In preparation, scaring Ben.

So anything you want to do to scare Ben to build him up for next Thursday's challenge, you can do right now. I'll give you something, Ben Boyce, okay? Yeah. I heard. You know how your contract's up in a couple of years? Yeah. They're actually not looking to renew it at the end of this week.

Oh, yeah. There's a board meeting today. That one's a little close to the bone, that one. But anyway, okay. Actually, you might not even be here next Thursday. Why are we still doing this? We've got dear friend of the show, dear, dear friend of the show on 0800. That's right now. Zoe, how are you? Hello. I'm good. Thank you. How friend of the show, dear, dear friend of the show on 0800, that's right now, Zoe. How are you?

Hello, I'm good, thank you. How are you? Yeah, good. We've got many dear friends, dear, dear friends around the country. I'm the dearest. Yeah, yeah. Well, I don't know if you are because you're about to tell a scary story and I'm not a big fan of scary stories. Welcome to Scare Ben. Yeah. Okay, this will scare you, Ben.

Oh, jeez, alright, go for it. Here we go. So about five years ago, I worked in Palmerston North. I lived in a house that was next to the hospital. And it was a house that used to get rented out to kind of hospital staff. Big height and everything. You know, there'd be somebody new staying there every, like, couple of weeks, couple of months. Anyway, so I never really liked it in that house it felt like a chill quite often I feel quite cold just like the ceiling of the house wasn't very nice

and then one night I woke up and there's just this girl at the end of the bed with dark hair and she just stand there and I had a boyfriend at the time and I used to wake him up and he'd be like oh my goodness can you see that there's somebody like at the end of the bed and he used to just think I was nuts oh sorry could he not see he couldn't see her no he thought I was crazy that relationship did not last um yeah because he's like I'm going out with a crazy lady who thinks he's a girl standing in the end of a bean but I used to see this girl with like dark hair just like the shadow of her but she used to be in my bedroom quite frequently at night time if i woke up i would just kind of see her standing there and a few weeks after this started happening the land

lady came around to collect some post and i just started talking to her and she was like oh how are you finding living here and i was like to be honest be honest with you, I was like, it's because my house is a bit haunted. And she went, wife is a ghost. And she's like, what do you mean? She's a ghost. And she's like, what do you mean? And I was like, oh, you might just think I'm nuts, but I just see this, like, shape of a woman with dark hair quite frequently. Turns out, two years previously,

a similar story from a similar person that was staying at the house. And she had like a woman come around to like exercise the house. Oh. She was walking past the house and texting her and being like, oh, is there any housemates that you've walked in? Like there's a girl with dark hair in the window. No, no, no, no. So I didn't live there much longer. I moved out.

Oh, dear God. She was probably white as a ghost. She's like, I could have been charging this girl rent for about 30 years. That is terrifying. Sorry, no longer a dear friend for telling that story. And the most frightening thing was, how long did you have to stay in Palmerston North for? I still think I was only there like a year.

I lived in a few other houses. I think I was only there like a year. I lived in a few other houses. I must get out of farming. Good on you, Zoe. You keep safe. All good. I will do. Why are we doing this?

Terrifying stories out there, aren't they? You can keep them coming through 4487. Next Thursday, hopefully, we'll win $10,000 for you. We've got five grand up for grabs next it is the hits you've got John and Ben it is the hits playing all these music this weekend

celebrating the long weekend it is Labor Day on Monday which we were just researching before it started in New Zealand in basically in the 1800s

where they celebrated the eight hour working day yeah because they were going 12 hours a day seven days a week jeez they were gunning it back then stuff. Yeah, because they were going 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Jeez, they were gunning it back then, weren't they? Stuff was getting done.

So they were having a lot of parades, a lot of celebrations, and that's how it all happened. But, you know, did their pay get docked because they were working less hours? You'd think so. It was all thanks to a gentleman called Samuel Parnell who championed the eight-hour working day. But many of them would have been like, bloody Parnell knocked four hours of pay off, mate.

You know? Yeah. Yeah. All right, well, let's get into this. Five words for 5K on the hit. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Okay, let's end this week on a high beat. Let's try, let's end our eight-hour day on this.

Parnell would be like, we're only doing three hours. On radio, yeah. Yeah. He'd be like, what are you guys doing? That's all right. We're only doing three hours. On radio, yeah. Yeah. He'd be like, what are you guys doing? Don't say on radio. We're only doing three hours. So you know how it works. Game of Word Association.

Match our words with your words. All five and you get five grand. Dean, you're on from Tauranga. How are you? Dean. Dean, you're there. Yeah, I can hear you. Hang on.

Welcome. How are you? Are we involved in something else? What's going on, Dean? Oh, I'm just heading off to work But I've just pulled over Oh, lovely to have you on, Dean What do you do for a job?

I work in the healthcare sector Good on you, my friend This weekend, three days off, baby What are you going to do to celebrate? What are you doing? Well, I'm going to go around to a mate's place for breakfast to watch the game, All Blacks game at 8.30. Oh, that's Sunday morning, right?

Sunday morning. In America, yeah. Probably get up the mountain maybe at some stage. Oh, lovely. Take a photo at the top without your shirt on? That's what you need to do, right? Yeah, okay. It's a beautiful part of the country there, isn't it?

So you live in a wonderful place, Dean. Now let's win you $5,000. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? I'll play with Ben. All right, Ben, you're heading into the SPB already. $42 million has gone out the door this week, and we'll see if we can chuck another $5,000 on top of that. Dean, five words that you need to match with Ben.

He's just gone into unmanaged isolation into the soundproof booth. Okay, here we go. The first word, Dean. Bieber. Justin. There's no other, is there, Juliet? No, no other. There's only one Bieber in Juliet's life.

Yeah. He actually took up a large part of your life, didn't he? Oh, embarrassingly so. Yeah. Regrets. Nah, no regrets. No regrets. Hashtag no other. There's only one Bieber in Juliet's life. Yeah. He actually took up a large part of your life, didn't he? Oh, embarrassingly so. Yeah. Regrets. Nah, no regrets. No regrets. Hashtag no regrets.

Oh, some regrets. But we won't touch on that. Most of your teenage years. Does he take up much of your life now, Bieber? Oh, like I follow him on the gram, listen to his music, but not as much as the past. Yeah, not a full hundy now. Nah. Down to 30%.

Yes. Second word, Dean. Long is word number two this morning. Long. Long. Short. Nice. It word number two this morning. Long. Long. Short. Nice, gone the opposite there. Second is the third word, confusingly.

Second. Can I come back to that? Absolutely, mate. Drinks, word number four. Drinks. Oh. Drinks. Drinks, shout. drinks, drinks, shout. Shout, shout drinks, yeah.

Website. Website, well, internet. Yep, I had internet too and we'll jump back to word number three which was second, it's toughy. Can't even say end. Oh, Second. Well, I'll go. Second, that's a hard one.

You could go, like, I don't want to put words in your mouth, Dean, but you could think, like, in a race situation. Oh, yes. I wasn't even thinking that. I don't know what you were thinking, Ju. I was thinking it's a measurement of some description. Second. Oh, yes.

You know? Yeah, the second hand of a clock or something. Oh, second in the race. Second... I hate putting pressure on people, Dean, but we're going to have to have an answer. I'm sorry. Second hand.

Oh, that's the best one. That's easy. That's good. Yeah. Oh, awesome. I'd be happy with that one. Let's get Ben Boyce out from the soundproof booth. Oh, he's just slung the door open.

It was like a reveal from stars in your eyes. Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be trying to win $5,000. Let's do it. Dean played a champagne game. He wants to take $5,000 to his friend's house Sunday morning To watch the All Blacks, Ben Boyce Okay Word number one was Bieber

Justin, well done Word number two was long Weekend I should have said that Sorry, I was thinking long weekend Dean when the opposite went short Which was good Dean, it's hard when you're in the moment

But when you hear other answers You're like, of course Word number three was second Hand Drinks Drinks, that's a really hard one Bar And website Internet Drinks. Ooh, drinks. That's a really open one. Bar.

And website. Internet. Three out of five, Dino. Not bad. Well. Not bad, but not quite good enough. I'm sorry I let you down, but hopefully we get to do it again, all right? Fine, Ben, sure.

Dean, you're a Kiwi hero. Keep your head held high. Love your work. And God bless Aotearoa. He's gone on one of those wrap-ups. We've got some spying salmon news on the way. Yeah, Dax Shepard did something very strange to Kristen Bell. Very strange. I will tell you what it is next.

Playing nothing but music from the early 2000s this morning and throughout the day, that's Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out. It was a tune, a heck of a tune, that one, right? Yeah, you kind of forget, don't you? Yeah. Very cool, very cool. Whatever happened to Franz?

I don't know. Are they still doing their thing? Don't know. Okay, I would Google if I wanted to. I don't know if it's one way you find out. Yeah, if it is. Spy, thewhatsappspy.com.nz All right, these celebrities are more nervous

than a ceiling fan store owner with a comb over. Juliet, why should they be sitting on the edge of their seats, these celebs? So, Kristen Bell, actress married to podcaster and actor Dax Shepard. They've got two kids together, one called Lincoln and one called Delta. Slightly unfortunate name nowadays, but I'm sure that'll pass, we'll all forget about Delta sometime soon

I was thinking the other day also coronavirus has sort of stopped, we've all stopped saying coronavirus, haven't we? Yes, true, true At the start everyone was like, well coronavirus, coronavirus And also, we probably developed to call it COVID-19 but we've dropped the 19, haven't we?

Yeah, it's just COVID. COVID. Because remember it started in India, and then no one wanted to blame India for it. No. So they rebranded it to Delta. Yeah. Wow, weird.

Anyway, so they've got two kids together, and when Kristen was breastfeeding, she revealed that she had a blocked breast duct, aka mastitis. And what she got Dax Shepard to do... Oh, no. Yeah. Did he?

Yeah. And they talked about it. I mean, I understand you're doing stuff for your partner. It's awesome. But talking about it, they're quite open, aren't they, about everything? And this is a little clip of her describing what happened. Oh, my God.

So I said to my husband, I said, we need you to suck this out. We could talk about it. We could be weird about it. Or you could just go ahead and nurse. Right? Did he? Yes. And did it work?

Yeah, he pulled it out. He had. An incredible latch. He had a cup next to him. He was pulling out and spitting into this cup. And I've never been more in love And I've never been more in love. I've never been more in love. They're an awesome couple, eh?

Unreal. So open with everybody. I'd be like, do you want me to go get the Dyson? You know, that would work, wouldn't it? Chuck that on there. That story just makes me not look forward to the day, maybe one day I have a child.

There's so many mothers around the world. I didn't realise that that actually happens. It's one of those things that people don't always talk about in that situation. Oh, God. It's just another stage in a relationship, isn't it? You still love them. Yeah, you've just got to do what you've got to do. I'd do that for you, Ben, if you were clogged up.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Wonderful. And, okay, now I have a story that I saw on the internet yesterday. And it might be a bit old and it might be a bit boomerish, but I really enjoyed it and I really want to share it. So Billy Joel, old mate Billy Joel, he never

sells tickets to the front row for any of his shows. So they're always empty, right? So instead he reserves them and has his road crew bring down fans sitting in the worst seats right at the back of the stadiums to claim them. So he apparently got sick and tired of all the bored rich people staring up at him who could afford these front row tickets.

So now he gets the true fans who would never ever dream of being front row to be front row. And so when he's playing to them, he knows they're excited. He knows they're really keen to be there. And I'm like, that is such a good idea. People would be just fizzing. You'd be like, front row, Billy Joel. Honestly, so smart. Didn't Bieber used to do something similar?

And it was like, the guy would sort of go out and hand out tickets. Weirdly, an adult guy would be like, hey, you want to come into the Bieber show? And he would hand tickets to little children. Yeah, I think what happened was, what they'd do is they'd go out and to fans who didn't have tickets to the show, they'd be like, we've got these tickets, but we're one short, so one of you is going to have to miss out. And there was footage of this girl being like, I'll miss out, like it's fine, you guys go. She took one for the team, but secretly he was like, okay, sweet, you're the generous one,

come with me, and they took her backstage to meet him, so she was rewarded for being very smart as well. And then he sings to them on stage, doesn't he, like one less lonely girl? Imagine you on that stage, Juliet, a 14 year old Juliet being sung to by Bieber.

When I witness someone else from the crowd be the one less lonely girl at a New Zealand concert, I have never been more jealous in my life. I'll end that bee. I'll end her. I'll get her in the car park on the way out, kneecapping. Oh, God. And that is five and what you can get at thehits.co.nz.

Thank you, producer Julia. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. I mean, I'm the hits. Just got 8 o' Ben. Got me in love. On the hits. Just got 8 o'clock on your Friday, heading into a long Labour weekend. Now joining us right now on the phone is Pata Gowra. You know him from News Hub.

Great journalist for News Hub. Last weekend he was hosting the Vax-a-thon and it was involved in an awkward moment. Well, not just trying to do TikTok, but also trying to get the Prime Minister to DJ live on stage Fair to say that I these days always defer now to Clark so if you're desperate for a DJ I'm going to get Clark to take the job He's an actual DJ

He's an actual DJ Come on up brother I've got nothing to offer and I feel very like I shouldn't be touching another man's decks here so all I got and all you're getting is this. So good. Paddy Gower joins us right now to talk about something very important.

Paddy G, how's it going this morning? You all good? Not bad. Just put down my TikTok for a minute. You might have known I became a bit of a TikTok influencer over the weekend. That's another box ticked on the old career. I saw it on the Vaxathon. You did a great job, boys.

It must have been a really cool experience to be part of. And it was pretty hectic, chaotic, and a real rush, and I never thought at the start of the week before the Saturday that I'd be presenting a Vaxathon, and I never thought that I'd present a Vaxathon. I certainly never thought I'd dance on TikTok, although some people have said it wasn't dancing. Mind you, to be fair, I don't think the government knew they were going to do a Vaxathon on Monday either, mate.

We're all making it up as we go along, Paddy, but you did a wonderful job. A lot of time to fill, though, isn't there? So much time to fill, and that's why I actually did that tick tock dance not once twice especially when you try to get it was me to go down before the six o'clock news and then i looked at i looked at my watch and i just finished it it was still 5 55. and we had absolutely nothing else lined up again and it was and so yeah just had to do it again let's go for round two baby i guess you would have had more time had the Prime Minister done some DJing. You almost got her to do it.

It wasn't that awkward. I was just like, jump on. It's a Vax-a-thon. Everyone makes a fool of themselves. But what was absolutely brutal was that she threw Clark Gaifert under the bus. Oh, it was savage. He came up. He was the most sour

DJing I've ever seen. You can tell there was definitely a conversation in the car on the way home, eh? I think there was, eh? It was awkward. Well, Paddy's going to hold there because he's going to join us next to tell us about something very important, how you can help out a Kiwi family. And we all need to help this family out.

Stick around. It is important. It is the hits. Now Paddy Gower from News Hub, a journalist that is still with us on the phone. Yep, great man Paddy Gower and he's putting his weight behind a really worthy cause at the moment Paddy. He's championing for a young Kiwi family and I'll probably do a shocking job of explaining the details Paddy.

But what's going on? Yeah, well, her name's Paige, and she's 18 months old. And guys, she is the only girl in New Zealand, the only child ever in the history of New Zealand to have her mother put down as, quote, not recorded on her birth certificate. So her birth certificate, where it says mother, she just simply has not recorded. Now, everyone listening will be saying, how can that be?

How can that actually be? And I'll tell them, she has a mother. She has a mother. Her mother's name is Kat. And unfortunately, she died before this child was born. Little Paige was a surrogate baby. Kat couldn't have a baby, so her egg and her dad's sperm, Kyle, were put together and put inside one of their friends.

Tragically, Kat died before the birth of Paige through a shock death, and she wasn't alive to see this beautiful little girl born. And the dumb rules that we have in this country around surrogacy and adoption mean that the mother has to be alive to do the adoption. So after a surrogacy, when the baby's born, like beautiful little Paige was, you actually go and have an adoption ceremony. And because her mother wasn't alive, the people down in Wellington have just put her down as not recorded.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it's just not fair, guys, for this little girl who's got a mum. All of her genetics are cats. Every single part of that egg, she was just carried by a friend, which is a really nice thing to do. And now the family, quite rightly in my view, I don't know what you guys think, but want her mum's name on the birth certificate. Oh, totally.

And they probably want closure, I guess, in some ways. This will help their family heal, getting the mother's name rightfully on there. And you said online too, Paddy, no one in New Zealand would oppose this at all. There's no reason why the mum shouldn't have her name there. Yeah, and you're right about the closure, Ben. It's like emotional torture for them. They've got enough on their plate as it is, so this guy Kyle is out, you know,

raising a little girl on his own without a mother and he's got a lot of explaining to do to her. You guys know what an 18 month old is like, it doesn't take long until they start to know everything. And he's got a lot of explaining to do to her as it is, without having to sort of say I ain't on your birth certificate, you know, your mum's name's not on there. And the thing I've really liked about it is without having to sort of say i ain't on your birth certificate

you know your mom's name's not on there and the thing i've really liked about it is the surrogate family that were their friends who were doing a favor to them who believe that everybody has the right to have a child and try to help them they're being brought into this as well and it's actually the surrogate father so to speak the husband of the woman who carried the baby who's doing a lot of the fighting get this put right he's just a a really, really good bugger, and he wants to get it put right, and he's fighting for this as well. So what did the government say? Has it gone to the Prime Minister's office? This guy Josh, who is the surrogate father, has sat in his own time and written letters to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Leader of the

Opposition, the Minister of Justice. He's written letters to everybody. He's pushed and pushed and pushed the case and got absolutely nothing back. They just say, we can't change it. It's against the law. We can't change it. Oh, my gosh. And this guy, Josh, deserves credit.

I think he is just an amazing guy, Josh, who has got out there and fought. Paddy, you mentioned Josh. We've actually got him on the line now. Josh, welcome. Morning, guys. How's it going? It sounds like you're a bit of a selfless saint, my friend. Oh, I don't know about that.

I'm just doing my bit. Very frustrating, I imagine, for you and the family. Yeah, very much so. If losing Catherine wasn't enough of a blow to then have to be dealing with this as well as, yeah, pretty heartbreaking and frustrating. So how many responses have you got back from the departments and from the government? I've had one from the Internal Affairs Minister where she pretty much just said that the law doesn't allow for it

and that was the end of that. Paddy, have you spoken to anyone? Yeah, I mean, I'm about the same as Josh and I've just got to give a huge hug over the phone to Josh, because I honestly just think he's the man for getting out there and fighting for this. I'm used to this kind of thing. Josh is a diesel mechanic. He's got other stuff to do and a family to raise, and he's been taking this all on board himself, guys. He's just bloody awesome.

Oh, Josh, you're doing great work. Now, how can we help, Josh? Because everyone listening right now and ourselves, we're like, we want to help. Is there anything we can do? Yeah, so there's a petition going on change.org. We're currently sitting at, I think last I checked, about 38,000 signatures on that. We're pushing, we're hoping to push for about 50,000 plus, all going well. I don't see why we couldn't get there by the end of the weekend.

And then from there, we can then take that petition to the government and say hey look we've got all these people behind us yeah and you can you can simply just go onto a change.org uh and just type in page p-a-i-g-e and it'll come up tell them you know why why it means so much to to page I mean you know you know we're better than anyone or as or as good as anyone. Why does this mean so much to Paige, mate? Yeah, look, for someone down in Wellington who, at Internal Affairs or whoever signs off on birth certificates and that, it's not really much, you know, but for Paige and Kyle, it's everything. You know, you think about the flow-on effects of what not having a mother

on your birth certificate means as Paige grows up, things like trying to get a passport, trying to get your driver's license, all these things where you have to use your birth certificate as proof of identity, that makes things incredibly hard for her as she's growing up through her teen years and all that sort of stuff as well. But also just the fact that, I mean, Catherine's her mum, you know, and as far as we're concerned, it's really that simple. Yeah, well, I mean, hey, well, you and your partner are wonderful New Zealanders as well, for not only what you did for the surrogacy, but what you're doing afterwards as well. And we hope it all works out in the end.

Change.org.nz, you can just type in Paige, it'll come up. We'll check it on our It hits Instagram as well. For anyone that wants to go there right now, it hits Breakfast on Instagram. Yeah, let's get over 50,000 signatures and get this thing changed for Young Page. Yeah, cool. Hey, thanks, guys.

Also, just one last thing. Paddy, mate, far out. I don't even know what to say to you, mate. The fact that you've gotten behind this for us and for Page is just, yeah, mind- you, mate. The fact that you've gotten behind this for us and for Paige is just mind-blowing, really. You've done such an amazing job and we can tell you're really passionate about this

as well. I'll never stop saying it, mate. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, no, that's all right, mate. It's an honour for me to try and help you guys. An absolute honour. Awesome, guys. Thank you. Thank you so much for your time. Let's get to 50,000 signatures,aland thanks for that guys and you can go to change.org and just type

in page and you can help out a family who really need our help let's do this new zealand it is the hits tested safe for listening from home keep safe and that's all i have to say Thanks Dr Ashley Now we've spoken about this a couple of times On the show I have some figurines In the lounge at home Surprises me he publicly admits it And he's done it time and time again So it's clearly there's no shame

Well people come round they're on display We're talking about you know like I've got some figurines From the Simpsons, Toy Story, Mickey and Minnie the you know like i've got some figurines from the simpsons toy story mickey and minnie deadpool you know basically just picture a seven-year-old's bedroom yeah and that's what ben's got that does it gets into marital discussions with my wife yeah she's like hey you know she's exactly what you said it's not a it's not a seven-year-old's bedroom it's the lounge but i have figurines in there and you know like i like my figurines you know i like them i like whatever you're into ben people spend the thousands on art while i spend you know money on a little figurines yeah

and at the moment i've been getting into those um you would have seen them around there but the pop pop vinyl toys i've just started just dipping my toes into that when we we were filming the tv show juliet and we've we did a segment inside like a pop culture store. Oh my God, those ones, yep. Sorry, I'm just looking up those pop idols. There's some of the movies that have got sort of bigger heads. And there's all like Harry Potter, there's The Simpsons. Very cartoon-ized.

There's NBAs, there's musicians. You know, you basically name it. They've made a figurine. I saw the beginning of this addiction in the shop. It was like, ooh, ooh, ooh. And he walked away with, it was about six to ten that night. And I was like, wow, that's enough to last your lifetime. But no, clearly not.

That's just the beginning. He's chasing the dragon now. Very distracted filming that night at that store. But yeah, I was buying these. And I bought a couple the other day online. And they arrived. And I was the only one that sort of got the courier package. And this is great.

I can take out the figurines. And I could straight away without even putting figur put the figurines in my pockets bring them inside and then the boxes i can put straight into the recycling bin to recycle and i was a great i'll put the figurines on the shelf and amongst the other figurines blend them in blend in my wife amanda will never know uh that i bought i think this time it was a duane the rock johnson figurine and a mich Jordan basketball. So they're up there on there. In terms of midlife crises, this is pretty,

I mean, he could be having an affair. He could be buying a Lamborghini from the 90s. So, I mean, it's pretty safe. What things am I trying to hide up, hide away? I'm not in an affair. It's just figurines. You're at the safer end of a midlife crisis. Yeah, but I got busted the other day because a man and my wife,

the recycling had obviously got quite full, and so she went through some of the boxes just to flatten them a little bit, and she opened up a box, and inside the box was my figurine boxes. Oh, so you hid the box inside another box? Inside like a fish fingers box or something? She just came inside just holding up the empty boxes going, Oh, no. Huh?

That is so good. And when they do that, you, because you don't have a story planned. No. Fingers box or something. She just came inside just holding up the empty boxes going Oh no. Huh? Huh? That is so good. And when they do that, you, because you don't have a story planned. No. They catch you off guard don't they? You always do that. She's like, what's this? And you always do that. Eh? To buy yourself full time. Some kid must have put it in there. Eh? And then she went over to the shelf and now there's a little game that we play at home that these figurines just seem to be

falling over. Like the, you know, like so I go past and the figurines are always on the ground. Like they've been knocked over by a gust of wind or something. And so I have to pick them up. It's like when a cop knocks your taillight out just to give you an infringement notice. But I thought right now I just wanted to test because they had been sort of a week. I haven't brought it up on radio because, you know, but I feel like we're past it. So can we call my wife Amanda and maybe we just say Dwayne Johnson figurine

and see what their reaction is. Okay. What's the purpose of this call? I just want to see if everything's good now. I feel like it's going to inflame the situation if anything. You sure we can hang up? Maybe I should. Hi, good morning. How's it going? Hi, how are you?

Good, good. Hey, I just wanted to say three words to you this morning. Dwayne Johnson figurine just uh duane yeah like what what they they're pretty cool right you there you know when she's fine you know when she's filing divorce papers reason for divorce, figurees. That's the crap. Yeah, that's the other thing. She's like, you're filling up landfills.

No, I'm keeping the prayer. I'm keeping it, if anything. You're not going anywhere. You're filling up our house. I say to my daughters, you want this? This is me. My ear, let my hand down to you. They're like, oh, I guess so.

All right. Is it too much, Amanda? Yes. Terrible. Do you hear this sound? Is that the figurine? It's the more falling over. Why don't we return on Tuesday?

We do a giveaway of some of them. I'll get rid of all of them. Yeah. No, they're my figurines. They're my figurines. We can do like every corner wins a figurine. Yes. You can throw in Simpson my figurines. They're my figurines. We could do like every corner wins a figurine. Yes. You can throw in some Simpsons figurines.

What about you and Barney from The Simpsons? Hang up, hang up, hang up. That's a great idea. No, but not for me. Your chance to get a $10,000. It's all to do with Halloween. We'll explain how next. Jono and Ben's $10,000 Halloween Scarehouse.

$10,000 on the line it's happening next week of course Halloween is next week and Jono you're making me watch the 5 scariest movies as voted by you listening and every fright that I get will take some money off the $10,000 and next Friday we'll hopefully have a whole lot of money to give away yeah and I mean you really, you made a fatal mistake

you showed weakness, you never show weakness made a fatal mistake. You showed weakness. You never show weakness in a radio show, Ben Boyce, because you know that radio show's going to capitalise on that weakness and it was your fear of horror movies. You came back after last weekend saying you were watching one with your wife. No! Dad! Dad!

So that was Amanda recording that, by the way. You didn't record yourself and You threw yourself under the bus. No, no. But yeah, I couldn't watch. So it doesn't bode well for next week. Yeah, so we'll see how much money we do have. But I wanted to prepare you because you're going to hear, geez, you're going to hear a lot of screaming.

Those movies are just filled up with screams. I always wonder, too, in history, I like to think about the origins of things Who was the first person to scream? And everyone else would be like, what? What was that all about, mate? What are you feeling inside for that to come in? Who decided, okay, that's the one

That's the noise we're all going to make as a race That's going to signify that we're terrified It could have been like, oh, whoa It could have been any noise But you're right, now it's the noise that you're... Synonymous. It is. So what I know about a radio audience is when they're driving to work or school they just want to hear blood curdling screams.

And I'm going to play a game with you, Ben Boyce. It's Team Scream! So Juliet, producer Juliet, has pulled some of the world's most famous screams from some of the world's most famous screams from some of the world's most famous horror movies, and you need to figure out which is from which movie.

Okay, well, this is going to be hard because I haven't seen a lot of the movies because they terrify me. I knew this. I predicted this. That's why I've created a multi-choice format. Oh, God. Okay, an A, B, or C format. Here's the first one.

Ah! Ah! Okay. Oh, jeez. Now, or C format. Here's the first one. Okay. Now, was that Jacinda Ardern learning the latest case numbers? Juliet when she discovered Justin Bieber was getting married? Or the lady from Nightmare on Elm Street? Well, I'm kind of locking Nightmare on Elm Street, but the other ones could be possibilities.

Well done. It's Nightmare on Elm Street, but the other ones could be possibilities. Well done. It's Nightmare on Elm Street. Congratulations. Here's the second one. That blood-curdling scream. Yeah. What movie is that featuring from? Is it Drew Barrymore's Screaming in Scream?

Could be. Is it Ben Boyce learning of a worldwide hand sanitiser shortage? Oh, yeah, definitely possible. Or is it the South Island learning that they're going to stay in Level 2 for another four weeks? I'm going to mix things up here. Is it the South Island? Very close. Right.

But it was Drew Barrymore screaming in Scream. And apparently that is the second most popular Scream out of any horror movie. Oh, really? Now, Ghostface was the villain, you know, with the distinctive mask from Scream. We just found we're talking to the actor who played Ghostface and the voice next

Tuesday. How will we know? He had a mask on the whole time. I guess the voice will know the creepy voice. Alright, the third and final one. Is that Chris Hipkins literally trying to spread his legs? Right, the third and final one. Is that Chris Hipkins literally trying to spread his legs? Juliette, when Facebook and Instagram went down, or is it from The Conjuring?

Well, I'm going to go Chris Hipkins. Spread your legs, it sounds like a scream head make. Wrong, it was from The Conjuring. I've just realised this is a shocking game show. But thank you for playing along and getting some of the answers wrong. And finally, we have one more scream. This is the most frightening of them all, the most terrifying. What is that from, Ben?

Is that the grudge? No, it's not the grudge. I know where this is from. This is when you secretly recorded me. This is the noise I make when we're getting photos. It's my smiling, but I make a weird sort of noise. He doesn't like the awkward few seconds it takes for the photographer to take the photo with their cell phone, and so he fills in dead air with...

Stuff nightmares are made of. Next week, the scare house trying to win you $10,000 in celebration of Halloween It is the hits you got Jono and Ben Playing nothing but music from the early 2000s Today it is the hits you got Jono and Ben Hooking someone up with some HelloFresh If you know someone right now that's doing amazing work some HelloFresh. The Hits and HelloFresh. Pay it forward. If you know someone right now that's doing

amazing work and you want to reward them, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Yeah, we've been giving away two weeks of HelloFresh to so many people. Not once have we been invited over for dinner, Ben. Not once. There is a lockdown going on for us, but yeah, you're right. Is this the last day of it? I think it is the last day of it, so

thank you, HelloFresh. We say goodbye fresh to you you today but it's been wonderful and we're going to call a young girl who's uh who's living in auckland nominated by her mother hello georgia speaking hey georgia how are you good how are you they tell me you're stuck in auckland in a flat all by yourself. Yeah. And are you going, who's this strange man who knows this information about me? Kind of. Yeah, it's John O'Bien calling from the Hits radio station.

How are you doing? Good, thank you. Hey, Georgia, you're studying at AUT? Yeah. I know this, you know this. So this is information you're probably familiar with. But your mum has nominated you because you've been a bit of a hero

during this unprecedented time. Yeah. You've decided not to come home. You're not from Auckland. You live in Tauranga. You didn't come home because your mum's immune compromised. She's staying with your elderly grandmother

and you're like, guys, it wouldn't be responsible for me to come back and compromise your situation. Yeah. That's awesome of you. So you're living in a flat. All your flatmates have gone home. Yeah.

So you're by yourself except for the pigeons, we understand. She really went into detail. Have you honestly started making friends with pigeons? Yeah. That's not healthy. That's unusual. I can imagine that many, many Aucklanders right now are over it, and that's an understatement.

I'm sure you're the same. So we wanted to hook you up with two weeks of HelloFresh. It'll be delivered to your door, so that's meals sorted on HelloFresh. Oh, yay. Awesome. Mums, eh? They're always looking after you. Yeah.

Always telling a little too much detail, though, the mums, eh? Yeah, you're like, mum, did you have to put that pigeon bit in? Exactly. Too much. What are you studying there, eh? Yeah, you're like, mum, did you have to put that pigeon bit in? Yes, exactly. Too much. What are you studying there, Georgia? I study fashion design. I never think or two about fashion. Do you? Ben always questions that I don't.

Yeah, what's fashionable at the moment? Masks. Oh, masks, yeah, true. Masks, I can notice in something like the Met Gala, they were often matching the mask with their outfit. Yeah, yeah, some people didn't even, like, the masks that they were wearing weren't even, like, true. Masks, I can notice in something like the Met Gala, they were often matching the mask with their outfit. Yeah, yeah. Some people didn't even, like, the masks that they were wearing weren't even, like, protective.

Oh, yeah. They looked great. That's the main thing. They got COVID, though. To fire out some items, you tell me if they're trendy or not. Are they yay or nay in the world of fashions? All right. Crocs.

Oh, yay. Definitely. Yeah, they've got, they almost went through a stage where they weren't trendy, but now you see. All right. Crocs. Oh, yay. Definitely. Yeah, they've got, they almost went through a stage where they weren't trendy, but now you see Justin Bieber's got Crocs. They're all there. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Big rips in jeans. Oh, nay. Oh, nay. Yeah, yeah. Rips are going out. Rips are going out. What about sort of flared sort of trousers?

Are they back in or are they still out? Like only the people that can pull them off. That's the thing sometimes, people can make something look fashionable even when other people can't. Yeah, like see, I could wear the same clothes as you, Georgia, but you would pull it off and then be like, oh, this guy clearly hasn't been shopping in 20 years, you know, that would be the

what about a rash vest? Oh, you mean like sunproof, but not that fashionable. Like a sun-protective sort of thing? Yeah. Tell you what's not fashionable, melanoma. Okay, here's one for you. A grown adult wearing

a bucket hat, because I'm trying to wear a bucket hat again. My kid's with him, and I'm like, can I do this? Can I walk out of the house wearing a bucket hat? I think the only people that can pull them off are Kiwis. If anyone else were to try, no. Yeah, right. Okay, so I can baby give it a go.

I'll be throwing in a bit of my wardrobe. After this focal. Hey, well, lovely to talk to you, Georgia. And what a wonderful selfless thing you're doing for your family, and hopefully lockdown is all over for you and all the other Aucklanders pretty shortly. That is our show for a Friday. Have yourself a wonderful long weekend.

Next weekend, of course, is Halloween, and we're going to be back with $10,000 next week. That's right. Ben Boyce watching five of the world's scariest movies back to back. If he has a scream or a fright, we lose money off the $10,000 next week. That's right, Ben Boyce watching five of the world's scariest movies back to back. If he has a scream or a fright, we lose money off the $10,000 prize pool, but we give the remainder away this time next week. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits

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