Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We've Got Up To $10,000 To Give Away With Our HALLOWEEN SCARE HOUSE!

Episode Date: October 19, 2021

Today on the show we caught up with the leader of the ACT Party, David Seymour. He even managed to sneak in a few digs about Jono's (lack of) hair. We also narrowed down some of the scariest movies that we can get Ben to watch next week, in order to give away up to $10,000. If you haven't heard just yet, Ben hates scary movies. So just before Halloween, we're forcing him to sit down and watch a bunch, and every fright he gets, we take money off the $10,000 tally. Whatever is left will be given away on air the next day! If you have any other suggestions for scary movies, let us know on Instagram @thehitsbreakfast. Finally, Ben and his family have been doing something at home - to do with Squid Game... (It's not as creepy as it sounds, promise). Enjoy the pod!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. Currently it's 9.49, Ben. It's the 20th of October, Wednesday.

We're doing this, you know, we'll listen back to this in 10 years' time. We'll be like, oh, this was 9.49 on Wednesday the 20th. We'll listen back to it, you know. Catch a binge listen to the podcast. When I hit a retirement age in the village, I'm going to bore all of the fellow residents with the old podcasts. Sit around, guys. We'll put on the—

Do you remember 2021? October 20th. We'll put that one on, guys. It was a great one. Yeah. And you wonder if, like, you know, we don't do much risque stuff, do you? No. If they'll look back in 40 years' time and be, well, that was quite prudish, you know?

You know where we are now? We've got Cardi B's doing WAP and, you know, all sorts of stuff. Is that going to be, in 20 years' time, is WAP going to be considered like, oh, they were a bit prudish back then? You know? You know how we look back on the 70s and 60s and we're like, they were just using euphemisms in songs and they weren't actually saying things. Like, imagine...

Like, Beatles was like, I want to hold your hand and things like that. Yeah, just like... And I mean, Lucati B's now saying, do this to my WAP or whatever. I mean, there's been a huge advancement in, you know, sexualness and stuff and risque-ness, hasn't there? So, I mean, 40 years.

We're going to have to move to another planet just to reset. But it is interesting then sometimes, you know, that it's like, oh, it's too far. We're going to write it back, guys, what you've been, you know. Cancel it. Cancel culture stuff. Yeah, so it's probably, like, it'd be interesting to see how things move and progress.

What are your thoughts on cancel culture, Ben? Oh, Jesus, that's quite a heavy one for the start of the podcast, isn't it? You know? Like, yeah, there's some, I don't know, there's good and bad, I can see. And that's a good Ben Boyce answer, you know, to things. You know, because there is a lot of things that we've said and done that should never have been said and done, and it's good that we can learn from those things. I hear you.

Yeah, there's pros and cons to it, aren't there? But you have to be careful with it. You don't want to go too crazy with it. You know, sometimes they're like, oh, David Letterman 40 years ago interviewed... Well, you did an interesting thing, actually. There was something on Paris Hilton where he... Oh, Lindsay Lohan.

Oh, Lindsay Lohan. Sorry, Lindsay Lohan, yeah. He was interviewing Lindsay Lohan about, it's a hard name to say when you've had a few drinks. He was interviewing her about 10 years ago. This was at the height of Lindsay Lohan partying and things, and something

re-emerged a few months ago of like, oh, David Lederman bullied Lindsay Lohan on his show. And they had clips showing it. She was in tears and stuff. Upset. She was crying. It was a tough watch, wasn't it?

That little clip that was circulating. And you're like, oh, Lederman, you're a monster. It's like when they use these little grabs of a documentary about how poorly Britney Spears has been treated. And they cut to us in the studio making a dumb Britney Spears joke and you're like, you're an animal. And sometimes, don't get me wrong, sometimes that has been done and without this, which you're going to get to,

and you're like, oh, Jesus, this should never have happened. But then I watched the whole 11 minutes of the Letterman interview and, yeah, he was making jibes about her drinking and all of her personal situation, but she was laughing along with it. They didn't put that in the clickbait clip. And then at the end, the part where she's actually crying, that's off the back of him going, listen, I've made a lot of jokes about you on the TV show.

I've made a lot of jokes about you tonight, but it shows a lot about your strength of character for you to even turn up this evening, sit here with me and play along. And that's what set her off. Yeah, right. About the strength of it. So it was a compliment that he made her cry.

Yeah. But some monster on the internet had chopped it up to be like, oh, you're drinking, edit, crying. Yeah, very interesting. You've got to be very careful with what we're watching and what we're cancelling. Well, that's right, yeah. It's very easy to go, get rid of it, let him in,

you know, burn him at the stake. Yeah. And sometimes people have made, you know, terrible jokes and would take them, would hopefully take them back

and wouldn't do them again. But in this instance, maybe it wasn't the full picture of what you're saying. Yeah. So just say it. I mean, I'm all for one,

jumping on a bandwagon and cancelling something. But, you know, just get the full picture before we do. I think we've also learnt too, recently, Britney Spears' doco was a good one. But, you know, just get the full picture before we do. I think we've also learned, too, recently, Britney Spears' doco was a good one about how, you know, the celebrities used to be almost like, ah, fair game.

You know, they used to be like... We always used to call it punching up. You're punching up because, you know, they're rich, they're famous, they don't have feelings. But, yeah, apparently they do. Yeah, they're real people. Apparently they are. They're functioning human beings.

Yeah. And they get hurt, too. Yeah, which you can understand. You know, there's some stuff my kids are watching. The Charlie D'Amelio, she's a TikTok star. They've got a reality show on Disney+. And her and her sister get horrendous comments about them. And they're in tears and almost unconsolable.

You know, one of the sister dicks is crying, you know, for these horrible things that people are saying online. You know, it's just like, you know, and people are probably saying them not thinking that it would ever affect someone who's doing well for themselves. On the other end, no, you're right. You're like just like, you know, and people were probably saying them not thinking that it would ever affect someone who's doing well for themselves. On the other end, no, you're right. You're like, well, you've got millions of dollars.

What, you know, what's going to affect them? And she didn't want to do something when it was coming up because she was like, well, what are these people going to say? And it was obviously affecting her, you know? So yeah, very interesting times as we navigate through that. I mean, you can't even bully anyone nowadays.

No, we can. It's hugely frowned upon. We can pick on each other because we've got an agreement. Soon you won't be allowed to. Will you pick on yourself? No, you won't even be allowed to self-bully. Stop being so bullyish to yourself. You'll get called out for that and you'll get cancelled for bullying yourself. That's where it's heading,

Ben. You know it. Politicians, are they still fair game? I don't know anymore. I don't know, to be honest. So that't know to be honest so that's just be nice be kind be kind it's a nice lesson isn't it because you know

kind can be boring though no it's good it's a good lesson it's you know it's yeah and that's where we're going to leave you today yeah be kind

be kind be nice and enjoy the podcast mainly enjoy the podcast though those other things don't worry about oh do do

New Zealand's breakfast this is Jono and Ben on the hits Fiona good morning welcome along to the show it is Jono and Ben on The Hits. Kia ora, good morning. Welcome along to the show. It is Jono and Ben with you on a Wednesday morning, the 20th of October. Snoop Dogg's birthday today.

50 years old. Is he 50? 50 years old. Wow. Yeah. I mean, he's been around for a long time, though, Snoop Dogg. He has when you think about it. But he's doing a wonderful thing where he doesn't really age Snoop Dogg,

does he? No. He kind of hit that sort of 38, 39-year-old look and has just run it consistently. He smokes, what does he smoke like? I think it was like 100 joints a day or something. He's got someone that, and maybe it's urban legend,

but he's got someone that officially rolls his joints from, and that's their job, right? Yeah, full-time. Let's see how many joints does it's the first search that comes up really Snoop you have a day 81 blunts a day 81 keeps him young keeps him young and very forgetful 81 a day like that's a full-time job. He does well to function. And functions so well. Doing so much.

Traditionally, and it might just be a stereotype that those that enjoy the devil's lettuce bin boys aren't that proactive and don't get a lot of stuff done. But for a guy who's sucking back on 81 blunts a day, he's achieving a lot of things. Yeah? Yeah. I feel like he's got to a stage in his career where he just does anything. He's achieving a lot of things. Yeah? Yeah. Wow.

I feel like he's got to a stage in his career where he just does anything. He didn't air New Zealand's safety ad, didn't he, with a puppet? He's very like, no one's ever going to see this. New Zealand's the only place that's all right, so good on him. Yeah, we've got a big show today.

We're joined by ACT Party leader David Seymour. We're joined by Edna, one of the stars from Celebrity Treasure Island as well. Yeah, I do like Edna. Straight shooter. Spades a spade with Edna, and of the stars from Celebrity Treasure Island as well. Yeah, I do like Edna. Straight shooter. Spades of spade with Edna and we got her on after 8 o'clock this morning and also your chance to win two weeks of HelloFresh as well. It's a big show so stick with us.

You've got Jono and Ben in your mornings. Adele's back in the world with new music which is awesome and yesterday we spoke to a really, really interesting lady. She's the UK's number one Adele's back in the world with new music, which is awesome. And yesterday we spoke to a really, really interesting lady. She's the UK's number one Adele impersonator. And she sounds so much like Adele. Have a listen. Oh, listen, get me over there and I can come and sing live for you guys.

What, you want us to pay for your flight? Get me a gig over there. I want to come over there. Yeah, go on. Let's try and do that. She was our case. She was awesome, mate. She was really our case.

If you tuned in halfway through that interview, you would have thought we had Adele. We should have pretended we had Adele had it yeah we should have just lied radio has been lying for decades i've been part of some of the greatest lies you're not actually bored that's yeah this whole time i've said too much uh now maria harriet is harriet is her name and uh we recorded it before the show we recorded maria she's in the uk yeah yeah and we went to play it and we all went to you, John, have you got the intro? Are you good to go to throw to the interview? No, this is pulling back

the curtain. Generally in radio you go, you're live and you go, Maria, how are you? And you start playing the pre-recorded cut of her going, I'm fine, thanks, lovely to be here. So I got in a bit of a situation yesterday live on air where I'd forgotten Maria's name. And you frantically got in a bit of a situation yesterday live on air where I'd forgotten

Maria's name. And you frantically in the space of 10 seconds were doing something, googling on your laptop trying to look her out for something. But you couldn't tell I was padding for time, could you? Well you could when you started going her name is and you started really spacing out your words. Have a

listen. And she travels around the UK as the number one Adele impersonator, full-time gig impersonating her. Her name right now is Jenny. Welcome to the show, Jenny. How are you? Maria. Maria.

Welcome, Maria. Hello. I'm well, thank you. I've got to a point where I'm like, okay,ak a name Out of thin air And who knows You may ever win

I mean it was a hell of a gamble Took a gamble Granted There's a lot of names in the world And it could have been hers It could have been She could have been a Jenny Maybe if I threw to her live

And I said Jenny welcome She might have been confused She might not have remembered Her own name Is my name actually Jenny? I've been impersonating Maria As well well as adele for many years and actually we talked on the podcast yesterday uh which you can catch up on the john o'brien podcast on our heart radio um but we talked about we talked about this moment and then we googled the most common name in the

world have a listen to this muhammad the world's most popular name. Did you know? Oh, I think I have heard that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Most popular name in the world. Oh, I lie. Sorry. Muhammad is third. Oh, okay. Maria is the most popular name in the world.

Wow. Nushi. So Maria, who was the name? The name of the lady. The name. So you could have just gone with the most popular name in the world. And you would have been right. But none of us picked up on that on the lady. The name, so you could have just gone with the most popular name in the world. And you would have been right. But none of us picked up on that on the podcast.

Listen, I feel like, yeah, there's a lot of focus on the disappointing moments in my career on this show. You know, Paul is always highlighting the lowlights. What about all the great moments? Where are those? I haven't done one yet. When they come along, we'll be reliving them. But not the first time speaking of lowlights, not the first time you've screwed up someone's name on here.

We found this as well. Have a listen. When you call someone Anastasia. Can I just say, what is this? What are we doing right now? We're bringing back Jono's Worst of the Week, and it's only a Wednesday. Yeah, have a listen to Jono screwing up someone else's name.

Yeah, we'll go to Anastasia. I'm out of love. Set me free. Guess she's never heard that before. Reference to Anastasia the singer. That's not her name apparently, but it's great to sing Anastasia as well. What is your name? Sorry.

Anisiata. Anisiata. So nothing like Anastasia. Anastasia doesn't get enough shout outs. I'm sorry. Names aren't my strong point. I don't know what my strong point is. You love to know a name, though.

You love to, what's your name? And then you forget it instantly. Yeah, I don't care. You should just say hello. Like, if you just go, she's the world's preemie Adele person. Good morning. It would have been fine.

Oh, no, I could have saved it. No. Yeah. But you went for a name. Oh, listen, you know, you look back in hindsight, and that would have been a wonderful save. She joins us right now.

You could have told me that in the moment. Just don't say her name. Don't say her name. Just say welcome. Yeah, welcome. Well, there's a wee trick for the young players. Next, we've got to hook someone up with two weeks of HelloFresh. If you want to nominate a lockdown legend

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You can head to the hits.co.nz. Anyone who's gone above and beyond during these crazy, crazy, crazy times. We keep saying they're unprecedented times. They are. Well, they are actually unprecedented times. Times like we've never seen before in our lifetimes. I just like saying the word unprecedented. Nominee we've got right now.

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Yeah, we had a baby and we've had a bit of a shit run. So I gave up my job and looked after my family. So two months while everything fell into place. We had a baby in Niku and yeah. So you spent a month with only one, when you had the baby, were you the only one allowed up there? Yeah. So once we were in, we weren't allowed out.

That was for the lockdown, and then we spent probably two months in hospital. Oh, my gosh. And even having a baby on its own is just wild enough, let alone not being able to see extended family to give you a helping hand. Yeah, yeah. It was tough, but it was all good. How's the little boy you had? Yeah, yeah. It was tough, but it was all good. How's the little boy you had? Yeah, yeah.

Jackson, he's awesome. He's doing really well. He's at home now. Oh, that's awesome. Well, do you know Samantha? I do. Yeah, it'd be awkward if you didn't. Because Samantha has nominated you. Thanks to HelloFresh, we're going to give you two weeks of HelloFresh

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No, that's not on you. You just enjoy the free food, all right? Hey, well, thank you for being a legend. Congrats on the bubba, and you keep safe. Awesome, thank you. safe. Awesome. Thank you. Cheers. Cheers, guys. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion.

Mike Hosking on Newstalks at B. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The hits. Big news for housing. Over to our housing update. I love the housing update every week that we do, Ben Boyce. But a national ex-Labour. Bit of a collab situation. They've joined forces, which

is an interesting thing you don't know about Parliament is that actually behind the scenes, a lot of the times the opposition parties work together on many bills. Wow. But you never hear about it. All you hear about is the bickering. No one wants to hear about the good times. They're all getting along. Bishop's hanging out with the hippo.

They're writing up some fun stuff, you know. I guess that's how the country keeps moving forward. But they've joined on a housing issue, which is called the Housing Supply Bill, which will mean without resource consent, you can build a three-story apartment on your property. No questions asked, baby. Yeah. Wait, so you don't need consent to do that?

You don't need consent. Wow. Which is going to cause, I mean, obviously baby. Yeah. Wait, so you don't need consent to do that? You don't need consent. Wow. Which is going to cause, I mean, obviously there's a housing problem, particularly in Auckland and stuff, but it might cause some frustration. I'm going to chuck a high-rise apartment in the backyard. Yeah. 105,000 extra new homes, they reckon, in a decade. This will help.

How many, sorry? 105,000. Oh, 105,000. New homes, yeah. What if it happened to KiwiBuild? What did they do with that? Oh, I don't talk about it. We're not allowed to talk about that.

Have they just done a slow fade out on KiwiBuild? Remember they were like, 30,000 houses a day. And the builders are like, we can't do 30,000. I don't care. We've said it now. Jacinda said it in a debate once. Yeah, well, there's a slow fade out on KiwiBuild. There was a slow fade out.

What ever happened? We've all forgotten about KiwiBuild. Text us, 4487, KiwiBuild, where are you? What happened to you? It was a lovely idea. Before 7 o'clock, some of the more unusual news from around the world. Producer Juliet's beeped out some headlines, and we have to work out what they are.

We'll find out very shortly what those are. Scrolling through your feed. All right, it's time for your daily news update with Benjamin Boyce. He's just prefaced this during that song, saying this is a collection of quirky offbeat news, and he's saving the proper stuff for after seven. I'm theming this one Backyard News from around the world because all the news relates to people's backyards.

All right. And all the proper stuff is coming at you after seven. They never theme the news enough. I mean, yes, they've been running with the whole COVID theme for a while, but we're kind of over that. So this is the backyard theme. Simon Dallow, what's this? Like, flashy Friday, the news theme.

Yeah, so this is backyard edition of the news this morning. And Halloween, of course, is next week. And actually, after 8 o'clock this morning, we'll tell you how you can win $10,000 thanks to Halloween. Yes, it involves Ben Boyce's morbid fear of scary movies which is going to be happening next Thursday. My house at the moment covered in head to toe

Halloween decorations. People love getting celebrated, particularly kids in New Zealand. It's become more and more of a big thing Good thing is the cobwebs now become topical Yeah, you can leave them up not dust for a whole year. But Steve Novak, he lives in Dallas, USA. He goes all out at Halloween.

And on numerous occasions during Halloween over the last couple of years, police have been called to his home because it looks like just a horrific massacre site. I saw this last night. Yeah. Like his decorations. And I say decorations in sort of inverted commas. Oh, yes. He's got like a wheelbarrow full of limbs.

Yes. He's got corpses. He's got loads of splattered blood all over the place. It does look like a scene from. It's a crime scene. Yeah. Yeah. From a crime.

Yeah. The leftovers from the squid game are in his front yard. Yeah, literally. It does look like that. Yeah, so he goes all out and he's unperturbed by the visits from the cops. And he just does it every year because he loves Halloween and he loves putting on a scary show. What do the cops say?

I guess they're probably like, hey, maybe this is a bit, you've gone a bit far. And he's like, hey, this is my property. And they're like, oh yeah, right, we can't do anything. And then we'll see you next year. And also in a backyard edition of scrolling through your feed this morning. To be honest, I'd say there's more front yard news. But all to do is... Backyard news has been an absolute sham from the get-go.

So there's a gardener in the UK, well, a guy who was cutting his hedges. He lives across the road from a pub in the UK, and he was cutting his hedges many years ago, and he was getting a bit of grief from the patrons at the pub. Just, you know, they were drunkenly mocking him. Oh, look at you cutting your hedge. What are your wishes?

You know, so I know what sort of stuff you'd get. Yeah, you know what would happen. So as a joke, he basically shaped the hedge at the front of his property into a giant hand pulling a middle finger.

And just as a bit of a joke, back towards the patrons at the pub. But that's a very long play. They probably weren't there. Exactly. We've been a bit of a time he finished on the hedge. No, no, we've mocked you, mate.

We've moved on. But the hedge has become a bit of an iconic thing in the town that he lives. It attracts hundreds of visitors. Lots of people want to put it on their gram, on their TikTok feeds. But now authorities have come around to him as well. No. Yeah. And what have they said this time, Ben?

It's not appropriate as well. They're telling him to cut it down. But there is a petition in the town that's been started up going, save the Wharton bush. And you can sign a petition to hopefully save his hedge and have it not be cut down. So there's front yard, back yard, a bit of outside news. And all the proper stuff coming at you after seven.

Looking forward to that. It was fun, though. And as it hits, you John on bed She's on The Voice Australia Right now She's also with our favourite Taika Waititi as well It's Rita Ora I saw Taika Waititi

Was part of our Vax-a-thon on Saturday He looked less than enthusiastic About being involved He had a couple of interviews Too They had him at the start And then they had him A few hours later It would have been quite late For him too Because he's in LA Maybe that's why He's less than enthusiastic about being involved. He had a couple of interviews too. They had him at the start and then a few hours later.

It would have been quite late for him too because he's in LA. Maybe that's why he's less than enthusiastic. He's like, it's 11.30 at night, guys. And to be honest, I don't care. I'm in Hollywood. Things are fine for me over here. That was awesome to see him do his thing. Let's find out what some unusual news is from around the world.

Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B***h News. Another news segment. We just had a fun news segment. Yeah, oh my god, I love this. You know, in our post-show meeting, Boss Todd's going to go, now you know you did two news segments back to back. Boy, who will know now, won't he? Well, we've publicly acknowledged it. Yeah.

Okay, but I still love this part of the show. Hey, Hosking, Mike Hosking every morning does news to news to news, mate. Yeah. It's nothing but news. It's true. That's what people want in the morning. I'm sure he's not getting hauled over the coals after nine. Mate, you did too much news. It's the number one show. That's right.

Maybe we should just do more news. More news, yeah. All right, Juliet. Beeped out certain words from headlines, and we've got to figure out the stories. Trump's supporter running for office suggests *** could lower sea levels. All right, what do you reckon, Benjamin? I'm going to say fake tan. Fake tan could lower some sea levels. What do you reckon, Benjamin? I'm going to say fake tan. Fake tan could lower some sea levels.

I don't know why, but I imagine the Trump supporter would be into that. I'm going to say a giant bath plug at the bottom of the ocean. You can just let it out a bit. You know how the bath gets too full and you can... Just a little bit, yeah. But sometimes that gets away on you and you can't plug it back in. I know, it's stressful. Trump supporter running for office suggests removing all the world's boats

could lower sea levels. So his name is Scott Pio and he tweeted it. And then when he got mocked on the internet, he obviously deleted the tweet. He said, not a suggestion, just a thought. I guess his argument is like, if you're imagining a bath and you take things out of a bath,

the sea levels would... To me, it makes sense. Am I an idiot? I see where he's coming from. You see the logic. You take a cruise ship out of a bath, the sea levels would... To me, it makes sense. Am I an idiot? I see where he's coming from. You see the logic. You take a cruise ship out of the ocean. Yeah, but the ocean is so, so, so big. I know, but there are so, so many boats.

That's what the boats want to be in the ocean. Where do all the boats go? So they're like, no more boats. Yeah. How would freight get around the world apart from airplanes? Why is he saying take the boats out, though? Just to solve climate change. Yeah, sea levels, yeah. Where are Why is he saying take the boats out, though? Just to solve climate change.

Yeah, sea levels, yeah. Where are we going to put all the boats then, though? There's a lot of boats. Yeah, there are a lot of boats. That is another issue that he'll have to get to. The next news story. Boss suggests **** for employees getting a new dog. I'm going to say, like, suggest a private area for the dogs to go to the bathroom

because I have a dog and there's nothing the dogs hate more than getting watched while they go to the bathroom. Publicly. And I feel like I'd be the same as well if I had to go on the lawn. I watched Barkley Manor the other night. They were all sniffing all sorts of body parts. They had no shame about that. They're fine doing that, aren't they?

I'm going to say Boss suggests learning from Ben Boyce's dog mistakes when it comes to his employees getting a new dog. Yeah, that's fair enough. Boss suggests Portun comes to his employees getting a new dog. Yeah, that's fair enough. Boss suggests POR-turnity leave for employees getting a new dog. POR spelt P-A-W. Did you like that pun? Yeah, POR-turnity.

Oh, I guess POR-turnity. It reminds me of maternity. Yeah. POR-turnity. But you can get POR-turnity, you know? POR-turnity. Oh, yeah. That's OK.

It's in the round. I'm just disappointed we didn't come up with it. Yeah, true, true. But it actually got, see, I would be like, oh, yes, absolutely. Let's execute this. But it got quite a lot of quite strong opinions on either side. Some people thought that, you know, productivity levels will just go down even further and it puts more pressure on other employees.

But some people said, you know, some people can't have children. So they get animals to sort of maybe fill that void a bit. What's your thoughts and theories on dogs in the workplace? I love it. Do you? Yeah, I just love dogs. Would you bring Bo into the workplace? No. I mean, I would

as a sort of like, he'd love it. He's there for comedic fodder. Yeah, it'd be a shambles. He'd love it. He'd be around talking to everyone. He doesn't like staying in one. Like, he'd put him in the room here. He'd be like, there's people out here. I want to go see some people. Knock it over the water cooler.

Like, I can one day just for, you know, for a bit of fun. He'd enjoy it. But, yeah. But I imagine, you know, dogs, especially with other dogs, it would be put up a shambles. It'd be like bringing a brontosaurus into the office. Bringing both. He'd have a great day. But it'd just, yeah, like, productivity would be down.

Totally. And the last news story. No babies named *** were born in England or Wales last year. I'm going to say Piers Morgan. Definitely no one's calling their children Piers Morgan. I'm going to say no babies were named Prince Andrew. Oh, yeah, that's another good one. No babies named Nigel were born in England or Wales last year.

I actually heard this yesterday, so not a single one. No, so it marks the beginning of the end for the Nigels. So this trend was already sort of discovered in 2016. So a man called Nigel Smith in the UK became aware of this, so organised a big Nigel gathering to bring more awareness to the name Nigel. 432 Nigels attended. They all signed the Book of Nigel to make a list for Guinness to verify their new record.

But I assume that that didn't really pay off because it's still not a very popular name. It's one of those names that is tarnished by the Nigel Nomates. Oh, yeah. You know, that's the thing. And why has it become Nigel Nomate? That's so true. Hang on, my name's Nigel.

I've got plenty of friends. But we are in a phase, aren't we, of, you know, that's an old school name. You're not naming kids Barry and, you know, nowadays it's sort of like... It's a cycle. Stapler and ballpoint pen and things. That's the trend at the moment. Maybe Nigel will come back around one day. Ben Humphrey, but she's Humphrey named his baby Dorothy.

It's quite an old school name, Dorothy. But it's very cute when you call her Dottie. That's very cute. You didn't like it at first when he was brainstorming. No! I'm obviously going to say that publicly to him. Was that the name that she was against? No, it wasn't! It's alright, it's fine now.

We'll discuss this off here. And that's the news and beats for you this morning. All right, fresh from tapping the phones and hacking the accounts of the rich and famous Juliette Spy. So you may have seen yesterday that Emma Watkins, the yellow wiggle, is leaving the Wiggles after 11 years, and she posted a video on the Wiggles Instagram announcing this yesterday. After 11 years performing with the Wiggles after 11 years. And she posted a video on the Wiggles Instagram announcing this yesterday.

After 11 years performing with the Wiggles and nine of those years as the yellow Wiggle, the time has now come for me to pass the yellow skivvy on. Like many people around the world, the pandemic has given me time to reflect on what's important in life. And for me, that means spending a little more time at home something that i didn't realize i was missing out on being away from home

eight months of the year on tour sounds like i'm listening to jacinda at the 1pm press conference it's a heck of a time away though yeah eight months I know. That's a big schedule, isn't it? I know. And, like, when you're caught up in something like that and you just know it's your job, you probably, yeah, like you say, like she says, don't even realise how much you actually need to rest and be home and, like, relax a bit more. When she says you're going to hand over the yellow skivvy,

they get a new skivvy, don't they, for the new member? Yes. I think it's like that. It's not like a rugby team, you know know it's new clothing yeah yeah because I mean that's you know that's nine years of chugging red cars and doing all sorts of stuff who's the new wiggle Jew? So um the new yellow wiggle is Say Hi and they did a little introduction for her on Instagram as well she's 15 right? Yes she's so young young. I love that her name is Say Hi. So it's like, hey, say hi.

We didn't get a welcome song when we joined the hits. Hey, John or Ben. You're right. It would have been lovely. Bit of a devastating departure, no doubt, for some fans of the Wiggles with Emma going. Yeah, I'd say for a lot of people. She was the big banger, right? Yeah, particularly young girls. It's actually 4487 on the text.

Were you upset by Emma's departure? Were someone in your family? Have you been upset by departures from TV shows, from movies, from bands in the past? Who upset you when they left? Oh, devastating departures. This is great. Maybe when Paul left S Club 7. Oh, yeah.

And you just couldn't recoup. You had to take a week off work and you'll leave. Yeah, 4487. I'd love to hear when Paul upset you from S-Club 7. And Jason Sudeikis, he's obviously if you're watching Ted Lasso at the moment, Ben, I know you are. I am loving it. My flatmate loves it too. I think I need to jump on that train. It's probably the favourite show

I've watched in a long, long time. Really? I'm just enjoying it, this show, as an experience. So he reveals that he actually has a different name. His name is not Jason, it's Daniel. And the reason why he doesn't go by his birth name is because his dad is also called Daniel. So when he was a kid, his mum decided to call him Jason

just kind of as a nickname, I guess. So the whole family knew which Daniel she was yelling at. So just called him Jason so they could differentiate who she was yelling at. How often was she yelling Jason so they could differentiate who she was yelling at. How often was she yelling though? That's a lot. Your career in yelling must be pretty prolific

having to change someone's name to go, oh, you need to know when I'm yelling at you. I've always thought that would be hard though if the son and the, the father and the son

or the mother and the daughter have the same name. How do you even, because that does happen. But you just call them Junior. Yeah, Junior. Yeah, I had a friend like that as well. It was David, David Junior, David Senior.

Yeah. Wow, so weird. In hindsight, though, 75% of parenting is just yelling. So I can see where she's coming from. Put that down. No, get off there. You just yell. Yeah, that's the thing, right?

And it gets no results. The more you yell, the less they want to yell. Yeah, yeah, they want to rebel a bit more. Daniel Sudeikis, it's still got a good ring to it, but I quite like Jason. He suits Jason. What's T. Lasso about? So he's a British, sorry, he's an American coach, a football coach,

American football that goes to the UK to coach a British soccer team, and he knows nothing about football. The English soccer. So yeah, it's really cool. He's one of the creators of the show. Came up with the character when he was in a comedy troupe and a couple of the other guy beard who if you watch the show he's now another creator from the show the two were the main stars and the guy that they work with um to come up the show also made scrubs so yeah so if you're a fan

of scrubs you should really like that one it's very good very funny yeah some great characters high recommendation from ben boyce yeah i'm just sure after coming off the back of Squid Game, which was great, but I found it very intense, it's quite nice to go to a show that's like... A non-stressful one. I mean, they still have some drama, obviously. It's not all, you know. We must also acknowledge Ben Boyce has never given a negative review for anything.

I just want a disclaimer. Yes, yes, you're right. He's never negatively reviewed anything. I don't know anything. You name one thing, nothing. That's true. So what are my recommendations for you're right. He's never negatively reviewed anything. I don't know anything. You name one thing, nothing. That's true. So what are my recommendations? Nothing.

And that is five hours hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Joined by Ag Party leader David Seymour after 7 o'clock. We've got $5,000 for you with five words, 5K. It is The Hits. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is Jono and Ben with you.

Just gone 7 o'clock. This is very, very, very cool. Celeste Barber, she's very, very funny. She's from Australia. She's coming to New Zealand as well. It's going to be awesome. It's coming out of a cage and she's doing just fine, thanks, is what she says. Australia's queen of comedy is heading to New Zealand next year.

If you want to see her, she's going to be in Christchurch in May. Then she's going to Wellington. Then she's going to be in Christchurch in May, then she's going to Wellington, then she's going to Auckland as well, and ticket pre-sales go on sale today at 1 o'clock on Celeste's Instagram, at Celeste Barber. Yeah, all your favourite COVID hotspots and the less affected areas as well. Next year, that's fun. Me and my family spend

hours watching her Instagram account. She's hilarious, eh? Very funny. She re-enacts, like, videos of sultry supermodels doing, youels doing sexy, sultry things, but she does her own take on it. Yeah, and pictures as well. Yeah, she's very, very good. A bit of much-needed fun with Celeste.

So if you want to go see her, head to celestbarber.com or Celeste's Instagram, and you're going to see her at Christchurch Wellington in Auckland next year. And I think we've got a couple of double-pasta giveaway. Oh, have you been to celestbarber.com and got those tickets and we're going to give some away? I'll tell you what, celestbarber.com, head along there. Yeah, so we'll tell you how you can win that very shortly with some devastating

news that was dropped yesterday Yeah, we've got a text already saying my two year old was mortified in tears. I can imagine there'll be very upset kids around the world from this, we're going to talk more about it next. It is the hits. Keep safe.

And that's all I have to say. Thanks, Dr. Ashley. New Zealand's breakfast. Some devastating news came to hand yesterday. Now, Emma Wiggle from, of course, the iconic Wiggles. She's been with them 10 years and she's decided that she's going to step away. Oh, this is the last thing we need. In these unprecedented times, Ben, do we need this devastating news?

She came out on social media yesterday and had a statement. And when she describes why she's stepping away, it kind of, you know, it makes a lot of sense. After 11 years performing with the Wiggles and nine of those years as the Yellow Wiggle, the time has now come for me to pass the yellow skivvy on. Like many people around the world, the pandemic has given me time to reflect on what's important in life. And for me, that means spending a little more time at home, something that I didn't realize I was missing out on being away from home eight months of the year on tour jeez there's the friendliest press release i think you'll ever hear

friendliest departure press release but eight months a year on the road you can understand why she's like hey mate i've had enough i'm hanging up the yellow skivvy yeah and she's handed over to a 15 year old i know yeah which is pretty awesome as well. Yeah. But good minimum wage. Who's the old dude? Anthony. Pay him cheap, mate. Get him in cheap,

like a McDonald's employee. But I imagine kids around the world, we've already got it. Cause Emma was, you know, much loved. One of the most loved members of the Wiggles. We had the,

the fortunate opportunity of interviewing both her and, and Anthony over zoom. Didn't we? And it was a little bit of a, you know, Anthony had to figure out Zoom, and we got on there eventually, and then we were pitching some new Wiggles songs to him. So what do we need to know if we were going to ever audition for the Wiggles?

What are some tips you can give us? Come up with a song about any subject because every subject is interesting to a child. Okay, let's go Cafe Salad, Yummy Yummy, Cafe Salad because every subject is interesting to a child. Okay, let's go. Cafe salad. Yummy, yummy. Cafe salad. Yummy, yummy.

Hang on, the cafe salad's $16. Do you really want the salad? Very expensive for a Caesar salad. So, you know, our comedy there, Ben Bush. Made a joke about the expensive price of salads. Yeah, salads, yep. And then he was sort of sitting there, sort of smiling politely.

Bewildered, wasn't he? He was bewildered I thought his screen had actually frozen and thankfully Emma came in and had to explain to him The salad at the cafe is overly priced Oh yes I love how Emma's having to explain

that to him Oh How did he not get that? So maybe she's like, I'm sick of explaining crap to Anthony. I've had enough. I'm out. I'm out. I'm hanging up.

But very upset people. We've got someone on the line right now, right? Yeah, we're talking devastating departures. Paula, your granddaughter, mortified after the news of Emma's leaving. Good morning. Good morning, Paula. You sound mortified. Are you okay?

I'm fine. I knew that my granddaughter would be upset, though, because she absolutely loves Emma. Were there tears yesterday? Oh, there were tears. My daughter-in-law actually said she wished she'd never told her she was so upset. Oh, that's so sad.

She's only two. And she went to the Wiggles earlier, was it this year or last year now? I can't remember. Julia was the same when One Direction split up. Yeah, that was quite a traumatic time. Zayn left first.

They were a foursome for a couple of years or so and then they all split up. She took a week's annual leave. Get over that one. Oh, Paula. I understand. I sympathise. Yeah, go on you Paula. We'll pass on our love to your granddaughter. I know that'll mean a lot to her.

Our love will mean a lot to that two-year-old. Stop mentioning those weird men. But we want to get on to this on 0800. It's devastating departures. Because you do become really involved in a group or a TV show or whatever, Ben. Have you had any over your career?

Oh, look. I know a friend of mine was very gutted when Pamela Anderson left Baywatch back in the day. I wasn't so gutted because I was there for the storyline. But a friend of mine was very gutted about that. There were two very big reasons why I was upset. And a friend of yours. Yeah, a friend of mine was very upset about that. Right. Wonderful storyline.

Yeah, it was a friend of mine. Juliet? Mine was probably just the one direction. I'm trying to think of someone else. Oh, do you know what racked me up was when I saw the Harryry potter play live in london all the characters looked completely it wasn't actually technically a departure but you know when you read something or you watch something and you've got a you've got the look in your head

and they all just were just cast horrendously yeah devastating departures on 0800, the hits. I was a big fan of Shortland Street, still am. And Harry Warner, overnight, was replaced with a different Harry Warner. No one mentioned it. It was like Art Viv on Fresh Prince, same thing. You're like, hang on. Chris Warner didn't even notice that his own son had changed to a completely different boy. You've studied for years and years and you don't even know that's a different person. He's a great doctor. Shocking parent. To completely oversee

that his boy has changed in 24 hours. So, 800 the hits. What departure devastated you from a band, TV show, whatever you can call us right now?

I'd love to hear from you. We've got some wild bean vouchers up for grabs on 800 the hits. Another day at home with the kids. Little tip, it's called parenting,

not babysitting. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Emma Wiggle yesterday left the Wiggles. It was a devastating departure for many Wiggles fans around the world, and we wanted to know on 0800 The Hits, what also, whose departure also devastated you? Oh, for me, like when Farrah, the fourth member of

Destiny's Child, decided to leave. She's like, you'll never make it without me. You started talking, I was like, who's Farrah? Oh, really? What's that fourth? Fourth member of Destiny's Child. And I haven't just Googled that. Okay, that's just how passionate I was about the band Destiny's Child. They weren't the same. They were never the same after

her departure. No, no. I mean, whatever happened to any of them? Nothing. I don't know. I can't think. I can't think, Ben. So we're going to kick it off with Tony and Blenheim. Devastating departures for you, Tony. Characters, band members, sports team players sometimes devastate you. Who devastated you?

Timura Morrison when he left Shortland Street, I stopped watching it. Oh, Timura Morrison. I've been a few years now. He went on to have a very, very successful, still does, Hollywood career as well, but he was great on Shortland Street, wasn't he? Probably wasn't that devastating. When I was young, though,

I didn't realise that he was going to movies and all that. Yeah. Probably wasn't that devastating for his bank account. No. He's like, I've got all speed. You want me in the movie Speed? Yeah, I can do that. Star Wars?

Yeah, I can do that. Yeah. Hey, good on you, Tony. Devastating departures. We're going to go to Sue in Morrinsville. Morning, Sue. Good morning. Devastating departures. We're going to go to Sue in Morrinsville. More in a soon. Good morning. Lovely to have you on.

What was the devastating departure that you had to deal with? It would be McLeod's daughters. Oh, which one of the McLeod's daughters left? Was it either? Claire. Claire. What happened to Claire? She fell off a cliff in a car.

Oh, that's a champagne death. It's a death, isn't it? A literal cliffhanger. Yeah. He acts with her daughter in the back and keeps trying to get her. Oh, jeez, that sounds traumatic. Yeah. She had baby Charlotte and they had a big pothole

and then they skidded across a paddock to the cliff. Oh, God. And then Claire goes over and says, bye-bye. That's, I'm devastated. I never watched the show. Were there tears, Sue? says, bye-bye. I'm devastated. I never watch the show. Were there tears, Sue? All the time. And then Alex Ryan is the other big character,

and he gets crushed by a tree. I tell you what, you want to stay away from the bloody McLeod's farm? Oh, God, no. I'd love to go to Australia and see the tour, but that's one day on the bucket list. Health and safety, you would have a field day at McLeod's daughter's farm. What is going

on here, guys? It's wild. Thank you, Sue. Devastating departures. We'll get Jono on from Marlborough. What have you got, mate? Yeah, good morning. Hey, Paul Walker, when he passed away during, they were filming Fast and Furious. Oh, that was a devastating.

And then they had that scene at the end with the song. Yeah, that was like super opposed them. You know, they made them into a CG item and it was just, yeah, it was really heartbreaking. And it was his brother. Wasn't it his brother playing Paul Walker? Yeah, I think it was. Yeah, you couldn't really tell, but yeah, it was.

They drove their separate ways through the thing at the end. I shed a tear there. Yeah. And then I came back to the next Fast and Furious, and they somehow flew a car into space. And I cried also then, too. The ridiculousness of it. Jeff Bezos would have been frothing at that.

So good. A load of texts coming in of devastating departures. When Jerry left the Spice Girls. Oh, yeah, that was devastating. I've been watching that doco they've had on TV. It's quite, they went through some stuff, didn't they, the Spice Girls? Yeah, a lot of bullying by the media for many years. Yeah, that's us.

Yeah, we're responsible for that. Another text here, 4487. When John Key left the National Party. And that has come from the entire National Party. Thank you so much for your texts and calls. We really appreciate it. I know, I heard the hats. We've got David Seymour.

We've got $5,000. And how you can win $10,000 thanks to Halloween and me watching scary movies. That's all still to come in the next 30 minutes on the hats. Kids, keep up that learning or you'll end up like these guys. Trono and Pan, New Zealand's breakfast. I've been trying not to talk about it because it just makes us sad. 94 COVID cases yesterday. But this afternoon there's going to be a bit of an announcement

what's going to be happening with schools. Chris Hipkins is going to set out a bit of a plan for that. I reckon he's going to come on there and say, open the borders, back to normal. One day you're going to set out a bit of a plan for that. I reckon he's going to come on there and say, open the borders, back to normal. One day you're going to be right, though. One day I'll be right. I've been consistently saying it for months, daily for months. Over the borders, over the borders.

One day it'll hit home. But would you say, as a hazarding guess, they'll send back the vaccinated older children? Anyone under 12, they'd probably keep at home? Oh, yeah, well, I think that's what they've indicated, that there might be secondary schools might go back before primary schools, and there might also be bubbles within schools and stuff that kids may have to adhere to. So I imagine they'll hopefully have a plan they'll announce this afternoon.

Yeah, I've sent my children back about five years, so the sooner they get back into the educational facilities, the better for their futures, Ben Boyce. Now, David Seymour from the ACT Party, he's going to join us next, because there's a lot of frustration going around at the moment, right? Yeah, there is. And, you know, we talk to Jacinda every two weeks, don't we? And you kind of get that side of the argument and what they're achieving. But there is a whole part of this population who are very frustrated right now,

a.k.a. the entire South Island, I imagine. Business owners in Auckland that can't open up at the moment. Imagine if you owned a gym or a hairdresser or a restaurant. You'd just be gutted with the way that this... I'll never be that successful. I can't imagine that. But imagine that. Are you talking to other people? Yeah, I am. But you'd be so gutted that you wouldn't be able to just open up right

now. Absolutely. You're kind of waiting for people to get vaccinated who've had probably a long time to do it. Yeah. David Seymour says he's got a plan to get everyone vaccinated. Alright. He's going to tell us what it is next. Find out in a few moments on The Hits. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben

New Zealand's breakfast on The Hits. There's been some great Seymours over time. Principal Seymour from the Simpsons. Oh yeah. Philip Seymour Hoffman. Oh yeah. Wonderful actor. But I tell you what, there's none better than this man right now. Act Party Leader David Seymour G'day

Mate, that was a hell of an introduction I felt like he wasn't listening to that I know, and I thought, how can I possibly live up to these guys' expectations interview after interview So it's like you ignored the introduction, gave it a second Yeah, kind of rattled him How are you David Seymour, all right? Oh, mate, I'm just thinking about the revenge of the bald, right? So you think about people in Auckland who have no hair for a long time thinking,

I wish I had hair. He's referring to someone here. I'm thinking this is pretty sweet. Now, David Seymour, around the country right now, you can almost sense there's a bit of frustration in the South Island, obviously staying at level 2 in Auckland, being in lockdown for ages. There's a lot of businesses haven't been able to open up.

Seems like there's not really a clear plan at the moment. Are you getting the same frustration when you're talking to people? Oh look, if you've ever been stuck in an Uber with someone who doesn't know how to use GPS and they just make one wrong turn after another, and they say, we're nearly there, we're nearly there.

And that's how the whole country feels right now. I think these guys' GPS must be seriously broken. But I just know for people that have hair in Auckland and need a haircut, people whose business is going broke, need to go to school and lots of more serious things. Jeez, it's just a mess. I mean, I always try and say, look, you know, everyone goes into politics for a good reason and we respect our opponents and these guys just, you know, have a different view,

but they want the best for New Zealand. I mean, these guys at this point, I'm sorry, they just don't have a clue. So, well, wonderful correlation, too, between Jacinda and an Uber driver as well. So we're calling the government the world's worst Uber drivers. They've lost their way at the moment. If David Seymour was Prime Minister, what would you be doing differently?

Well, we'd get out the GPS and say, look, we've got to have a clear end to this thing because people can handle they've got to make sacrifices. We've all been really good at doing that lately, but you've got to know when it ends. So we just say look, on the 1st of December you should be vaccinated

if you're not, that's your problem. And at that point we're going to let people come home because here's the thing, you've got all these people stuck overseas. People who have COVID get to home isolate, but if you're overseas, you've got to go through the hunger games, try and get MIQ,

and if you're lucky enough to get it, you get a 14-day sentence. Meanwhile, if you're a gang member with COVID, they say, oh, no worries, just go home. Try not to spread it if you can, but, you know, whatever. It feels like those that aren't going to adhere to the level rules are never going to adhere to the level rules,

no matter what level we're in. So you kind of just got to go, well, that's a given. How do things move forward? Yeah, but we're now being held to ransom by the people who didn't do the right thing. And it's just costing people and hurting people far too much. Now, you were saying a couple of days ago, I think I read that offering a $250 tax break for the vaccinated.

That's what you would do, correct? Yeah, yeah. Look, you know, tax backs for your vax or something that's still trying to come up for the good. Oh, no, that's good enough. That's good. That's great. I love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. your vax, or something that's still trying to come up for the good. Oh, no, that's good enough. That's good. That's great. I love it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We think that could work. But look, here's the thing. I mean, it's costing a billion dollars a week to be locked down. We're saying, look, if 4 million people, they get their $250, you know, get it back on your tax or you can get the cash straight away now if you really, really want it. A family of four with a couple of teenagers, everyone gets faxed.

You get an extra grand for Christmas. It rewards the people that have already done the right thing. And for the people that haven't, well, they actually have 250 extra reasons. Some people said, oh, look, poor people won't get organised and do it. I said, well, first of all, that's patronising and offensive. But second of all, I'm no economic expert, but poor people love money. Well, that's right.

And how much is this wild plan of yours going to cost? It's a good thing when you're not in power. Should we get the calculator out? What are we talking here, David? Yeah, well, look, I like maths. I mean, I would have rather had look, I mean, I like maths. I mean, I would have rather had friends at school, but I like maths.

And, you know, four million people odd times, because remember that some kids can't get vaccinated. Four billion people, $250, that's $1 billion. And, you know, I just think if it's costing a billion to stay in lockdown

if this gets people organised and we get out a week earlier then that's got to be a good thing. What about the South Island? What do you reckon should be happening then? Because I can understand you, if you're in the South Island there's been no COVID there for ages it must be very frustrating even though they've got a few more freedoms

than we have up here in Auckland but very frustrating right? Oh look, what they should do is get the Wizard of Christchurch, who's recently been unemployed, can you believe they've stopped paying him, make him the president of Te Waipounamu. David, you should have stopped after your $250 one. He's now saying the wizard should be the prime minister of the South Island. Yeah, and then they

could declare independence. If I was a South Islander, I'd say, why are we suffering? You know, basically it's time for them to get out of the Uber. Ag party leader David Seymour, thanks for your time this morning. Really appreciate it. Cheers, guys. Four minutes of act propaganda for you. Good on you, David.

You're only five words away 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Our Game of Word Association is here once again. Match five words with our five words, and you get all five, you win $5,000. Now, I've looked at the research, and nine out of 10 dentists recommend listening to five words for your oral hygiene. Do they?

The remaining 10th dentist has gone, well, the nine of you are idiots. How did you get your dentist license? There's always one dentist saying all those answers. There's one niggly dentist who never agrees with nine other dentists. I'm not going to put my good name to it. You just say you're a dentist. No, no.

Just say you're outnumbered nine to one. Just say that Sensodyne is good for your teeth. No, I refuse. Stubborn. Like that mare in Coromandel. Yeah. Again, let's get Hannaborn. Like that mare in Coromandel. Yeah. Again, let's get Hannah on from Christchurch. How are you?

Hello, I'm good, thank you. How are you? Oh, Hannah, lovely to talk to you. I feel like we've spoken previously, or am I just making that up? I feel like we might have. Yeah. Hannah works in a cafe. You've played in the cafe before, haven't you?

Yeah. Yeah, great. Well, give a shout out to the cafe in Christchurch. What is it? Coffee Culture. Coffee Culture. Are you listening to the hits in Coffee Culture, are you? Yeah, we are today.

Oh, good. What do you mean today? Hold on. Pull the music down, too. What's this crap about today? Don't tell me you got McCormick blasting through those speakers every other day. What's going on, Hannah? Oh, you know, we do when we can.

Do when we can. Hang up on her. No, no. We want to play five words. She might stick to us if we give her 5K. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. She's not a loyal customer, but we'll take her.

Who do you want to send into the soundproof, both Jono, Ben or Juliet? Jono, please. All right, Hana, I'll head on in. That's good. It's probably a wise decision because you're starting to get a bit angry towards you. All right, Hana, you know how the game works? Yes. Here is your first word.

What pops into your head when I say BMX? BMX. Bike. Yeah, that's what I thought too. Cruise is word numberX. Bike. Yeah, that's what I thought too. Cruise is word number two. Cruise. Oh, yeah, I had a couple that popped in as well.

I've got two. Can I come back to that one? Yeah, you can come back to that one. Psychic is word number three. Psychic. Reading. Psychic reading, that's a good option. Tennis is word number three. Psychic. Reading. Psychic reading. It's a good option. Tennis is word number four this morning.

Ball. Tennis ball. So good. And dolphin is the final word. Oh. Dolphin. We got some help in the cafe behind you while they're yelling out, or is it just orders from behind the counter?

Coffee's up. Dolphin. Can I come back to that one? I'll do cruise. Okay, we'll go back to cruise. What are you thinking, Hannah? Either cruise control or Tom Cruise, but I'm going to go with Tom Cruise. Oh, yeah, so cruise, so Tom, yep.

And dolphin. I'm'm going to go with Tom Cruise. Oh yeah, so Tom, yep. And dolphin. I'm just going to go fin. Like a fin. Okay, alright. Dolphin, fin. We'll take that one. Will Jono come out of the soundproof booth and we'll see if we can match five words with you.

Just so you know, the soundproof booth is not a shower, no running water in there. No. It's just so you know, the soundproof booth is not a shower. No running water in there, Ben. No. It was just a naked man standing in a glass booth there for a while. I turned the water off. I forgot to tell you. There's a water shortage.

Yeah. All right. Let's see if we can match five words with Hana. How'd you go, Hana? You feel confident, mate? I hope so. Okay. All right.

Let's do it for the cafe that sometimes listens to the show. Okay. BMX. Do you know what pops in your head when that sometimes listens to the show. Okay. BMX. Do you know what pops in your head when I say BMX? Bike. You'd be correct. All right, one from one, Hana. Cruise is word number two this morning.

Cruise. Cruise ship. Ah, we thought about cruise ship. Where did you go, Hana? I went Tom Cruise. Another great cruise. One of the great cruises. And then we'll go. Another great cruise. Another great cruises. And then we'll go through the other

words. Vodka cruises. Many great cruises throughout history. Psychic was word number three. Psychic reading. Yeah. Tennis. Ball. Ooh, Hannah. And dolphin. Dolphin dive. Ah, yeah.

Dolphin was a very wide open one, Dolphin. That's hard. What was Dol, dolphin was a very wide open one, dolphin. That's hard. What was dolphin? Finn. Hannah, I'm so sorry, mate. Sorry we couldn't do it for you this morning. I see why you don't listen to us all the time. That's all right.

Thank you. Constant disappointment, this program. But you keep safe at Christchurch, okay? Look after yourself and pass on our love to the calf. You too. Yell it out now. Yell it out now. Say, Jono and Ben love you all.

Do it for us. Jono and Ben love you all. Every single for us. Jono and Ben love you all. Every single one of you. See you. Awesome. See you. Have a great day. Another chance tomorrow morning, 7.45. Same time to play that. Don't forget, after 8 o'clock how you can win $10,000.

It's all to do with Halloween and me watching scary movies. We'll explain more after 8. Spy. The What's Up by Docco.nz This is my favourite part of the show. In fact, I binge listened to every single spy update yesterday. Did you? Treated myself.

My favourite episode is when you regaled the story of Khloe Kardashian's ingrown hairs. Ah yes, yeah. That was a standout episode, wasn't it Ben Boyce? One of my faves. Yeah, Julie, it was spy. So Adele, which I love to call Adele, she has revealed that despite, obviously her weight loss has been a huge sort of topic of conversation

over the last couple of years as she sort of released images on Instagram and everyone's like, oh my gosh, she's lost so much weight. Where did she go? Did she do a stomach staple or did she diet? No, she just got so, just so so like she really prioritized working out that was kind of the big thing she worked out i think it was like up to three times a day and she just like became so fixated on it and then obviously probably saw results was like i'm just gonna keep going well that's probably the thing right if you start shedding kgs yeah to keep chasing

yeah yeah and so she says that despite this she still eats mcdonald's at least once a week because that would be her last meal if she was on death row. She said it would be McChicken nuggets with a Big Mac and then fries. That's her three courses, and she eats it at least once a week. It's just her absolute favourite. It's a wonderful combination for the McDonald's menu there. You could top it off with an apple pie would probably be my choice. Or an apple flurry.

Oh, McFlurries are good. For some reason, I'm always gravitating towards the apple pie. I've never had the apple pie before. Bloody good. Is it really, really sweet? That's what I worry about. No, it's lovely. Lovely cinnamon flavour as well.

Would you put an ice cream with it or anything? No, just raw apple pie. I always wondered what the people that have the apple pie, what they have. Who has the apple pie? I'm always like, who has the fillet of fish? I was just going to ask that. Don't tell me. Really?

I don't think I've eaten that one as well either. Isn't it funny you can go through a whole menu, but you never try all of the items from the menu? You get your thing, and that's your jam. You stick to what you like, like Adele does. Anyway, she's got a good combo. Yeah, she does. And Kanye West has legally and officially changed his name to Ye.

So Ye, spelt Y-E, obviously a shortened version of Kanye. He's kind of used it as a nickname. It was the name of one of his albums in 2018. And so he's gone through with legally changing his name to Ye. And it kind of reminds me of, what's that movie where he gets the fake ID and calls himself McLovin? Matt Damon. Super bad.

No. What did you say there? Matt Damon. The movie called Matt Damon. What was your brain there? Sometimes I should just shut up. What are you freaking off? What's he running around the world and they can't catch him

and he's like, catch me if you can? It wasn't that movie though. Was that Matt Damon? No, Matt Damon was Jason Bourne. He had a few IDs. He did have a few IDs. Catch me if you can, I think, was Leo, wasn't it? Oh, was he Leo?

He would have had a few IDs. But this wasn't the movie. This was McLovin, which is super bad, right? Yes, and super bad, yes. He gets a fake ID and calls himself McLovin. Matt Damon. I imagine for the administration around changing your name to Ye, it would just be, would it be worth it?

You've got your bank statements. Everyone's going to still call him Kanye. Drivers, I said, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy's changed his name. Yeah, yeah, a lot of times, right? A lot of times, yeah. I think about seven different times he's rebranded himself. Wow, that's a big commitment. If you could change your name to anything, what would it be?

Ooh, that's hard. Because you're so used to your own name that you're kind of like, I don't think I'd be satisfied with anything else. I'd be like Steamer or something. Steamer. What's a Steamer? Who would it like? What credibility are you getting in the workplace for that name right now?

Steamer's late for the meeting. No, that's your name. That's not like a nickname. Steamer, what do you think? Demand respect. Like a kettle. Yeah. Oh, well, and that's Spy for this morning.

For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Steamer will be talking more after, eh? Yeah, well, you'll tell us how we can win $10,000. We've got that to give away. It's all thanks to me and Halloween and scary movies, and I'm not looking forward to it, but I'm going to do it just to try and win you guys some money. We'll explain more after eight.

It is Wednesday morning. You're with Jono and Ben. Big news announced this morning. Australia's queen of comedy. She's bored. She's sick of being stuck at home, and she's ready to hit the road again. So Celeste Barber is coming to New Zealand with Fine Thanks.

Her tour coming to New Zealand. She's very funny, Celeste Barber. It's been a big few years for me, and I've been travelling a lot and away from my kids a lot, which is really hard for them. The mum we never get to see you. Shut up. I'm off to be a star.

She's coming to Christchurch May, then she's going to Wellington, and then she'll be in Auckland. Tickets on sale today, 1 o'clock, on Celeste's Instagram, at Celeste Barber. General tickets go on sale at 10 o'clock at celestbarber.com. And Celeste is going to join Stace, Mike and Anika this afternoon on the hits which is pretty awesome. I hope they do my dream of the Celeste Barber

shop quartet where you know you've got Stacey, Mike and Anika who can all sing, chuck Celeste into it. That's a great idea. Get those texts, text Peru. You're not even going to text them. You've got other people demanding someone else text someone else. You looked at producer B-Hubs.

You're like, text Peru. He's like, all right, mate. Get him a coffee as well. I've got a texter. I've got somebody to text for me. Text Peru. Text Peru. I even did the hand-waving thing.

Who do I think I am? If you want a double pass, you're going to have to do all the texting yourself. I'm sorry about this one. But 4487. Unless you've got someone who can do it for you. Well, text the hits at 4487 and you can win a double pass to Celeste. Just text Celeste and we might give that away very shortly. Hey, next, $10,000 up for grabs next Thursday.

It involves Ben Boy, scary movies, Halloween. It's a heck of a combination. We'll tell you how you can win the cash in three minutes. All right, it is the hits. Sons of Zion, you're on the Hats, 8.34. Celebrity Treasure Island is a massive show on three nights a week on TVNZ2. And joining us on the phone right now is Edna. And you have to say, Edna, she's responsible for some of the best TV on the program.

And we're stoked to have her on the show. Edna, how are you doing? Hi, good. How are you guys? That was awkward if you were talking about her and she was listening the whole time. I hadn't told her that you were actually listening the whole time, Edna. I was going, please don't lay down on her because she can hear everything. Really nice to talk to you. What's it like watching back?

It's really interesting, Ag. I mean, you guys see about 50 minutes of a 24-hour window, right? So there's actually so much more happening. But obviously, that can only pull one kind of storyline. But I just feel like there's just so many stories happening that you guys don't get to see. And I guess it's not frustrating. It's just, man, I wish you guys were more there. Like, imagine if it was, like, live.

Yeah, streaming live. Have you been stitched up in the edit, Edna? Have I? Probably a bit in the beginning. Like, people kind of They kind of painted me as this like really fierce Character from the get go But they missed out like 99% of the time

That I was just like cracking jokes They've got to paint you know People quite individually otherwise You can't make great TV right So I'll take it Well you're a big part of making great TV I think Because you feel like you're playing the game Some people aren't always you know playing the game You're thinking about things you're making moves And of making great TV, I think, because you feel like you're playing the game. Some people aren't always playing the game.

You're thinking about things. You're making moves and stuff like that. Was that frustrating when sometimes other people weren't doing that? A hundred percent. I felt like a lot of time I could justify my actions where it was like, why do I need to justify my actions? We're playing a game here. Get on board or go home. I love it.

I feel like you've wanted to punch Lance Savali in the throat multiple times. Is this true or not? You get on really well as well. Oh, my God, Lance. I feel like that's definitely like a love-hate relationship. He just frustrated the crap out of me, but he was such an awesome player. I feel like I'm watching a brother and sister bickering. Yeah, just like some awkward cousins

they just hate each other. Well, my daughters, they're so into the show. We watch it every week and they love you. Jono's daughter the other day actually even dressed up like you. She went upstairs and she came downstairs dressed like Edna and I was like, well,

I hope she doesn't have a G-string on. Yeah, well, she's eight years old. Have you ever seen an eight-year-old on a G-string? I bloody hope not. Oh, my God. It's confronting, Edna. But that's what she wanted to do, to dress like a hero. It might be a bit bad then.

Obviously, you would have found many new fans from the show. But at the same time, I was reading on your social media the day you've been blocking people because of comments they made. I mean, that sucks. It does. I mean, I didn't think like me standing up for myself last week was justified. I mean, like we're saying, we're playing a game. And I was a bit, you know, I was threatened. And I was like, well, hang on a second.

We're playing a game here. You should be ready for anything. If you're blindsided, that's on you. A lot of people kind of attacked at me like i was i was in the wrong and i was like well i'm not but i mean i had fun blocking people so yeah i mean yeah i'm just not going to justify at the end of the day it's a game and we're there for charity so yeah it just should be seen like that and an important charity too that's something that's really a very dear to your heart as well for you.

Yeah, it is. A hundred percent. The Stroke Foundation, unfortunately, you know, lost my mother when I was 17. But up until, you know, before she passed away, it was one hell of a struggle watching her for about three years dealing with the side effects of having a stroke. So I just wanted to bring more awareness to it. You know, it's just not simply just the stroke, but it affects like the family and the rehabilitation around a stroke. Yeah, it's a journey that I hope not a lot of people have to go through.

Oh, 17, such a tender age as well for you to go through that grief. Yeah, and I think that also kind of makes, you know, who I am a little bit, you know, more fierce and stronger. Yeah, well. We're enjoying watching you on the show. We were just saying, there's so many cast mates. It started out

and I was thinking, is this thing going to go on for six years? It's like Game of Thrones, there's so many characters. So many characters and I'm sure you probably struggle to remember who was on the island. So we're going to do in a race against time, this is a challenge that will win you half a morrow bar. Okay, so there was 21 castmates on the show, celebrities.

See how many you can remember in 60 seconds for us, Edna, all right? Okay, all right, I've got this. The timer starts now. Wasting valuable time. Come on. Oh, am I just missing? Okay, I've got to name them. Okay, we've got, oh, shit.

Okay, Tammy. Oh, God, who else? Why is this happening to me? Joe. Yeah. JJ. Yeah. Lance.

Tim. Buck. Candy. Bryn. Chris. Tammy. You do well. Jesse.

Joe. other Joe, Ange, Jeff, Anna, Lana, me, Edna. Oh, yeah. You're going so well. Who else have we got? You've got 15 so far. That's really impressive on the top of your head. Yeah. Oh, Who else? You've got 15 so far. That's really impressive off the top of your head. Yeah.

Who else? Oh, what's your name? Juliana. Yep. Who else? You did so well. You did so well. There's so many cast members in that show. You did well.

You got 18 out of the 21 eventually. I mean, you could have just gone Larry, Barry, Gary. I wouldn't have known. I probably would have got away with it too. It's amazing. There were so many of you. So many. Whatever happened to those people?

Is it like the squid game? I kind of feel like that because the more you were on the island, you were like, man, what day is it? Who was even on here? What are we doing with our lives? You just kind of forget half of the stuff. Oh, lovely to talk to you, Edna. Really, really cool.

You're doing such a great job on the show. It's awesome to watch. Thank you. And hopefully we'll catch up with you soon. Cool. Thanks, Tim. You guys are awesome. Talk soon.

Welcome to Two Half-Hast Dads Do a Half-Hast Job. Official title, Tuno and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. Now, the probably rest of New Zealand is sick of us banging on about it, so we haven't been trying to, but it's like day 63 or 64 or something like that in lockdown in Auckland. So, you know, it feels like you've exhausted all the things to do with a couple of young kids at home.

But one of the things that the kids yesterday got into... You're like, pick up the lighter and the cigarettes, kids. That's all I've got. Well, they got into some baking and they do like baking quite a lot, but it was the dog's birthday and no one had remembered but the kids. The kids were like, Bo's having a birthday.

It's the dog's birthday. Yeah, man, the dog birthday does often get forgotten, doesn't it? So we brush over a dog's birthday. To be honest, I didn't know the dog. Had a birthday. The dogs probably didn't know he had a birthday. But they decided, they're like, can we bake something for Bo? And I'm like, well, you can, but dogs obviously can't eat cake.

They're like, no, we've seen something on TikTok. Can we bake it? And I'm like, you can but dogs obviously can't eat cake they're like no we're seeing something on tiktok can we bake it and i'm like oh yeah sure why not and so basically they made these sort of dog treat muffins but they had dog biscuits within them and boy they stunk i mean once you heat dog biscuits oh they put the dog biscuits in the other thing and the dog loved it like he loved it he had a great time for his birthday muffins. But these things, they were very pungent. Because dog biscuits, you heat them up. What is in a dog biscuit? Lamb, bits of lamb bones and things like that. So that was a baking attempt to one.

And it was fine. The dog enjoyed it. Has it tarnished your oven? Has it stained your oven? The house, every time you'd leave and come back in, you'd be like, oh. Is this what we're cooking dog biscuits? It's a lot of explaining to do too.

Pretty random. And then later, Sienna, my daughter, who hasn't even seen Squid Game for obvious reasons because it's a very violent show, she was like, I want to make the honeycomb cookies. There's a game that they play with the cookies. Oh, they have to cut out the shapes. Yeah.

Yeah. And so she went to make that, and I was like, oh, maybe I'll get involved in this, get the recorder out, get some radio. Ben's new cooking show, Getting Baked with Ben. Do the recording. And this is what happened moments after recording it. So how do you make these?

OK, so you basically put a couple spoons of sugar, and it takes a while to melt, so we're just going to put it on boost. OK. Oh, that's going quick. We're just going to put it on boost. Okay. Oh, that's going quick. We'll just add the baking powder. Oh, no. Hang on, hang on, hang on.

Wave the tea towel. Hang on. So in between, yeah, the smoke alarm's going off and the dog biscuit smell, my house was a horrible safety net. What a shambolic cooking show. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Beep, beep, beep, beep. You'd watch it, though, wouldn't you?

And what traumatic cookies to bake as well. Yeah, the Squid Games called Girl Guide Biscuits for a safer option. Could have done Police 10-7 Muffins or something. She gave it to me. She made one for me with a little, it was like a moon shape and then I got a pin next to it so I had to like get my own shape.

You know what happens next? I know, that's what made me worried about it. You've seen the whole series now on Squid Game, right what happens next? I know, that's what made me worried about it. You've seen the whole series now of Squid Game, right? Yes, yes. Oh my gosh, I literally can't stop thinking about it. I finished it maybe four days ago and I'm like, where's season two? Give me season two. So good. Now, I'm not going to spoil anything because obviously, Jono, you haven't seen the whole

thing and there's a lot of- There's already spoiled biscuits. Yeah, there's a lot of questions about, you know, about Squid Game. So I'm not going to get into any major plot things. But the cell phone that the guy has, how long does that last? You never see him charging the phone.

That's something, if you've seen the show, that's one of my major tips. Has he had a cell phone the whole time? There's one of the people that sneaks in there as one of the sort of red people in the masks and stuff. Great battery life. And he's got a phone, he's secretly looking at it at night and stuff, but he's kind of like finding out about the place. I'm like, he's obviously not charging it because he doesn't want anyone

to see the phone. No, he's been double vaxxed. So his body charges it. Yeah. That'll be all right. I don't know if you've read all the stuff I've been sending you on the internet, Ben. Yeah, that's what's happening.

Thank you for explaining that one for me. That is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. It is the hits. Jono and Ben with you on a Wednesday morning. Now Adele's back in the world with

new music, which is awesome. And yesterday we spoke to a really, really interesting lady. She's the UK's number one Adele impersonator. And she sounds so much like Adele. Have a listen. Listen, get me over there and I can come and sing live for you guys. What, you want us to pay for your flight? Get me a gig over there.

I want to come over there. Yeah, come on, let's try and do that. She was hard-cased. She was awesome, mate. She was really hard-cased. If you tuned in halfway through that interview, you would have thought we had Adele. We should have pretended we had Adele. Yeah, we should have just lied.

Radio's been lying for decades. Now, Maria Herriot is her name And we recorded it before the show And we went to play it And we all went to you John have you got the intro Are you good to go to You know to throw to the interview Now this is pulling back the curtain

You know generally in radio you go You're live and you go Maria how are you And you start playing the pre-recorded cut With her going I'm fine thanks Lovely to be here So I got in a bit of a situation

yesterday, live on air where I'd forgotten Maria's name. And you frantically, in the space of 10 seconds, were doing something, googling on your laptop, trying to look around for something. But you couldn't tell I was padding for time, could you? Well, you could when you started going, her name

is, and you started really spacing out your words. Have a listen. And she travels around the UK as the number one Adele impersonator, full-time gig impersonating her. Her name right now is Jenny. Welcome to the show, Jenny. How are you? Maria.

Maria. Welcome, Maria. Hello. I'm well, thank you. I've got to a point where I'm like, okay, for like a name out of thin air, and who knows, you may ever win. I mean, it was a hell of a gamble.

There's a lot of names in the world, and it could have been hers, it could have been, you know, names aren't my strong point. I don't know what my strong point is. You love to know a name, though. You love to, what's your name? And then you'll forget it instantly. Yeah, I don't know what the strong point is. You love to know a name, though. You love to, what's your name? And then you'll forget it instantly. Yeah, I don't care.

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