Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Did You Try To Hide From Your Parents When Growing Up?

Episode Date: August 5, 2021

We had a lot of fun this morning talking about the things you used to hide from your parents as a kid. One listener phoned up and said she accidentally got an "adult virus" on her family computer after going on a particular site... What she did with that computer afterwards was hilarious! We also played a bit of a game involving the 5 Olympic rings. Sounds bizarre but have a listen... and it may still be bizarre! We also spoke to Stan Walker & All Black Karl Tu'inukuafe on today's show too! Enjoy the poddy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Owen 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 John Owen Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the John Owen Ben podcast. Okay, Friday, 6th of August, it's John Owen Ben back here for a podcast. End of the week, how are you feeling about your week's

productivity Ben? It's been a busy week actually it's still carrying on after this but no one wants to hear about my you know

my things What has been the most satisfying thing you've done this week? I know you're a guy who likes to tick things off a to-do list

have you cleared your to-do list? It's been a busy week I've had a lot of things on in the evenings as well which you know kind of makes things You're doing it today of course in the evenings as well, which kind of makes things...

You're doing a todayo course in the evenings, aren't you? Yeah, I was going to say evenings. I'm trying to get better at that, which I'm really enjoying that. Only a couple of weeks down to that one, though. But last night, we started the thing on Thursdays, and it's kind of come out of, I guess, kind of laziness from me in some parts. You know, you get to the end of the week, and I was like, so we go food court Thursdays. So yeah. This is a new thing. And so on a Thursday we go,

we go to a different mall each Thursday, late nights, the malls are open late night and you know, the kids can get whatever they want for dinner from the food, you know, from food court, we can get whatever we want for dinner from, or somewhere in the mall.

Last night we did. Food court Thursdays or dad can't be fucked Thursdays. Yeah. The main thing that really annoys me is that it doesn't work. I love things that kind of cleverly work. Taco Tuesdays. Food court Thursdays. Thursdays.

If you're a Cockney British, Dad. Yeah, Thursdays. Yeah, like Fridays would work better, but Fridays, you know, there's always stuff going on on a Friday, you know, so it becomes a thing. Kids get very excited about it. I do enjoy a Thursday night Because you can smell the weekend It does, it feels like that

And you're like, cool, you probably got to Because I've been trying to do that whole thing That Ganesh Raj from Eat Well to Less Was saying, don't buy food for the whole week Go a couple of times a week Because I end up throwing food away So by the time I get to Thursday I'm like, we've got no more meals to cook

Because Ganesh Raj only told me to shop two days ahead. Yeah, so yeah. You're very good at acting on little moments and interviews that we have. Because remember we spoke to that other lovely lady who was like, oh, there's so many pesticides on fruit and vegetables. Oh, yeah, white vinegar. I've been washing my fruit. He washes his vegetables in white vinegar.

Yeah, I do. I think it was white vinegar. I hope it was. That's what I've been washing it with for the last couple of years. The fruit tastes like malt vinegar. It's disgusting. It's the white vinegar stuff. Oh, white vinegar.

Yeah, that's right. Sometimes I get told I've been using too much white vinegar in there. The apples taste like vinegar. Yeah, but I have been doing that. Yeah, I try. I try. It takes the layer of preservatives off the produce. But then I found, I did it once, and I was like, this is just pointless.

But then I found the fruit was going off a lot quicker. Oh, really? Yeah. It wasn't preserved as long. Oh, okay. So I don't care what chemicals they're spraying on. Keep them on there. Well, I did notice that for a while.

I was like, I'm going to buy organic fruit and veggies. One, you're paying a lot more for it. And two, they just don't last. They just, you know, obviously they're better for you, they're pesticides, but jeez. I was like, well, they're gone.

I got these bananas half an hour ago. They're probably brown. I take them home. They're like, hey, shouldn't eat those in the car right now. They're gone. That would stress me out. Having all this food

that's just like ticking time off. I know Sometimes you're like We're not going to eat all that We're not going to eat all that Yeah Yeah because sometimes you do That I'm

Classic of like I'll just go to the supermarket And not like making I'll make a little bit Of a mental note Of what I need to get But sometimes I don't Check everything

So you're in the supermarket You're like do we need Yeah I'll just Yeah I'll get it And then you come home And you're like Oh we already had that

You know And that's annoying Because then you have Double bananas Yeah We've got nine bananas To eat in the next two days I'll get it. And then you come home and you're like, oh, we already had that. And that's annoying because then you have double bananas. We've got nine bananas to eat in the next two days. It's like, come on, guys. Strap yourselves in, kids. Get the potassium up.

We might not be going to food court Thursday. You'll be full of potassium. That's right. Hey, we had a wonderful show this morning. Really enjoyed it. Stan Walker joined us. Stan Walker released his brand new song today. And I had a good time.

Always have a fun chat with Stan he's great eh he's so awesome he just comes in he's got one great yarn onto another great yarn he was wonderful

and also spoke to all black Carl Tui Nukuwafi who he was wonderful too the prop with the moustache yeah he's awesome he's such an iconic character

eh you're like and his life what amazing last couple of years what he was doing. Who's a bouncer? A bouncer in a nightclub.

Yeah. And then I was reading, you know, the Chiefs had a whole lot of injuries. He went back to play rugby too, you know, because his doctor was like, hey, this will be good for your health to, you know. So he played rugby. Chiefs had a whole lot of injuries. They basically went, oh, we're going to six or seven down the list was him. Put him in the Chiefs.

That season he made the All Blacks. How's that? Out of basically nowhere, three months later from starting in the Chiefs, he was in the All Blacks. It's incredible. When they went to him, they're like, Carl, we want you in the Chiefs. He's like, how many before me? And they're like, do you want to know the honest number?

Yeah, yeah. Six or seven before him. I think it was something like that. And they had a whole lot of prop injuries. And then all of a sudden sudden he came out of nowhere. Like props to him. Steve Hansen was like, we didn't know who he was before the start of the season.

He's like, I don't even think the Chiefs knew who he was before the start of the season. But now he's in the All Blacks, and now he's one of our best rugby players. And he told a wonderful story, because he was overcome with emotion his first test, crying during the National Anthem, as you would do. If you were six or seven deep,

that would honestly be the last place on earth you think you would end up. Yeah. Standing on Eden Park. You're right. About to play a test. Yeah. So he was a wonderful catch-up with. So that's all in the podcast.

Have a great weekend. Now the highly anticipated Olympic audio that the nation's been talking about that I recorded on my phone yesterday. Now how long have you been in the radio game for? Long time. The audio game. Since the 30s. So when you're recording something you're

like are these optimum conditions do you think about that there's someone bouncing about basketball in the back here yeah and it's filmed off the tv okay so it's not you know it's murky audio i agree don't take that on the chin take that on the chin so the australia were playing usa in the basketball yesterday afternoon and geez they were doing well they were beating the the americans boomers the boom is my favorite name of all the teams moaning about the millennials all the way through the boomers yeah and they they're up by 15 points but the australian coach uh at one of the timeouts he was mowing into the team where the f is the i i don't know where the i someone lost the eye yeah so uh yeah so apologies for the banging in the background.

That's my son bouncing a basketball. But it was probably that moment too with the boomers, you know, maybe their eyes had gone to the chase at 5.30 at night. They'd been boomers and then they had to go to bed shortly afterwards. You know, that's where the eye is, mate. That's maybe why they lost the game, the boomers. But you're speaking of my son and kids in general,

you know, with parenting, you find yourself sort of slipping into parenting cliches don't you oh i love you stuff like that it's a big cliche but you know one that i've i find myself doing now and i look back to my youth my mum annie prior did it to me too and she would go whatever it is jay just tell me the truth and i promise i won't get angry i don't know why my mum says like 20 carry but you know that's a big period of the you know whatever it is no matter what you can tell me anything come to us and you tell us the truth we won't get angry as long as you tell us the truth but every time i look back on it and every time i told my mum the truth she would inevitably get angry oh yeah that's the thing they did they did because what i'm

telling the truth about is probably yeah it's gonna send it to 120 that's why i haven't told you i'm to this moment that's why it's gotta you can tell sometimes too that when you did i used to as a kid that you would you'd tell them afterwards and they'd try so hard to suppress their anger but you could tell thank you for telling me the truth but you know that yeah then it just sort of segues into a roasting yeah but you just said you just got i let my guard down i told you yeah i should i should have just kept it quiet i should have just kept it on the deal it's one of those parenting things that you just got, like as a parent, you've got no intention of backing it up.

Like when you're driving to a destination, oh, turn this car around. No, you don't. No, you don't. The kids are like, we don't want to go to this person's house anyway. Why don't you? More of an inconvenience for you to turn the car around on the southern motorway. There's no way you're going to do that. You're right. Traffic's a nightmare going back the other way.

So this is what we wanted to open up this afternoon. When you didn't tell the truth and you've been hiding something. Yeah, did you hide something from your fam, from your parents? I remember doing it. We had some friends over when my parents were away and we played indoor cricket in the lounge. And a wonderful cover drive cricket shot from one of my friends that took a cricket bat to the roof and made quite a divot in the roof.

Well, he didn't say anything. Well, that's a shocking cover drive. If he's hit the ball and the bats ended up in the roof and made quite a divot in the roof we didn't say anything if mum yeah it's a shocking cover drive if he's hit the ball and the bats ended up in the roof no it was just a low ceiling so he followed through with it you know yeah and then we didn't say anything and a few weeks later mom's like do you have any idea how that got there no no idea no you know you're like tell me that you know and i should i had uh i should have just said it was a wonderful cover drive and the bat ended up on the roof. Let's focus on the shot.

Now I feel bad about it. Yeah, I feel bad about it. So you never told her the truth? No, but she probably did. Jenny knows now. Do you think she was baiting you? Yeah, I think so. Juliet, you ever kept anything hidden from your family?

No, I was an angel child. No, I'm kidding. I'll have a think. I can imagine you would have been, though. My brother got in trouble once. What did he do? Once. He told mum and dad that he

was just hanging out with his friends in the sleepover but he was actually drinking in the local park underage. Oh, there you go. They found out the truth there. So what have you kept hidden from your childhood? You didn't come forward with the truth. I think it was the great Michael Jackson who once said,

lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. Did he say that? He did. He also dangled his baby over a balcony for a photo shoot too. So I don't know how much we want to read into that, but we'll find out next.

If everyone's been not telling the truth, it is the hits it is the hits john i'm being uh 660 with you now well we want to know if uh you as a child you maybe you know you're an adult now but maybe there were some things that you might not have told uh your parents growing up as a kid or as teenagers and right now we thought well maybe maybe you did tell them eventually, maybe you got in trouble, or maybe you didn't to this day. As an adult, you're like, well, I haven't told them. Okay, Vanessa, welcome.

Morena, you're on from Auckland. What did you keep hidden? So basically in year seven at the end of the year, I got given a cell phone and I got given a number. And I was like, what do I do? And it was all new to me. And coming into year eight, halfway through the year,

I discovered that my siblings, they will get in trouble for getting, for wagging school. And so... Well, that makes sense. Me being me, when it came to like, just like September,

I was still in year eight and I'm just like, what if I write a letter to my school saying that my parents got a new number? The whole thing is they didn't. It was actually my number. So the school needs your contact. They got in touch with you. That's pretty genius.

So for about six years. When the school was communicating with what they thought was your parents, they were communicating with you. Yeah, they were just sending like a text alert out saying, hi, Vanessa blah, blah has missed a period. You're like, all good, all good. Genius. What a mastermind. You kept this up for six years.

I'm 23 now, so they still don't know. The school still doesn't know. So still to this day, they have no idea. My parents don't know the school still doesn't know so like still to this day they have no idea my parents don't even have a radio like that's good

that's good that's good because you've really thrown yourself in it now I have unnecessarily but anyway so I was wondering

why people ring up but I love it I love it I love it about our people but the most funny part was my friends, they would say during school, I can very remember them saying,

did your parents ever get a text? I'm like, yeah. Gee whiz, you've really come clean today. Love it, Vanessa. Hey, thanks for your call. Appreciate it. You have a great day. You too.

Great to have you on. Sarah, you're on from Auckland. What did you keep hidden? Hi. So I kept our family laptop hidden. Your family laptop? What do you mean? Okay, so when I was

13, a curious 13-year-old, I decided that I wanted to check out an adult website. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yep. Right.

Yep. It was a dodgy website. Most of them are. Ben will vouch for that. Not the hitstock.com.au. That's a heck of a website. Although that did get infiltrated the other week. It did, actually.

Yeah, so you checked out an adult website, and then what happened? So after I clicked off of it, I started getting email alerts and sexual pop-up ads. Oh, no. This is a lot for a young teen to take on. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it was. Yeah, and so I dropped it downstairs and I hid it underneath

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

your history? I didn't. I was in't exist anymore. When did you find out about clearing your history? I didn't. I was at the moment. In the moment. You panicked. You panicked. I love it. Smashed the computer.

Did they ever ask where the family computer went? No, they generally think that it was stolen. Oh, Sarah. So good. So good. That's what you do

as a teenager. You're like, I can't back... I've done it now. There's no turning back. I'll tell you what, there's probably been a lot of smashed computers out there. That's what you do. You're like, I can't back. I've done it now. There's no turning back. I'll tell you what, there's probably going to be a lot of smash computers out there. That's for sure. Thank you so much for sharing that with us.

Jono and Ben, the hits. Of course, the Olympics is on right now, and we're doing so well. Our best ever haul at any Olympics ever, which is awesome. And I've got a bit of a game, a bit of a game that we're going to play right now, Jono. And I've even got a flashy intro. And now it's time to play hello hello hello Jono and Ben's five rings so how what's your dream here what's your vision talk to me well the Olympics uh their logo yeah a much publicized logo is about the rings the uh the five rings do you know that I uh learned an interesting fact about the colors of those rings?

Every single one of those colors is represented in the color of every nation's flag that competes in the Olympics. Oh, wow. So all of those colors, you'll find at least one of those colors in every single one of the, what, 208 countries that compete. Yeah, and also, obviously, they're all representing the five different continents that make up the Olympics. Each one kind of is the fight and the interlocking. It's a beautiful message. It's a great symbol, isn't it? Yeah. I've seen some great rings

in my time. Key rings. Yeah. What other rings have I seen? You put them on the finger? You put rings on your finger? Rings of your wedding rings. Rubber rings that you float in. Yeah. I've had some many great rings over the years. The Olympics ones? The most beautiful.

They are wonderful. Now, I want to do a little game, our own Olympic sport, based around the five rings, based around telephone rings. So you can go through the hits. Some of us have seen a text through to the hits recently, over the last sort of 48 hours. And you pick that number, give them a call, and you've got five rings for them to answer.

If they answer within five rings, they win a prize. If they don't, them a call and you've got five rings for them to answer if they answer within five rings they win a prize if they don't well unfortunately you've been disqualified it's a dq and you're out of my olympic rings uh competition you got you got four more years to come back i have been over my 20 odd year career yeah part of some pretty tenuous uh to topical events but i think you may have won the gold medal already. Well, thank you very much. We're getting to the end of the Olympics now. Some of the best ideas have been done. And now you're like, oh, I guess there's something maybe in this.

So we feel like we're talking about the Olympics, you know, because it's still going. Two weeks is a long time. And it's, you know, spare a thought for the radio shows. Try to find different angles every day. So I'm going to pick a number here. If they answer within five rings, I'm still in the competition. Yeah, they win.

And you've got a place. You could be the medalist in this. Okay, alright. Here we go. John O'Brien steps up now for the Olympic rings. There's no name attached to this one. Just a number. One. He's got one.

Two. Will it get to five? Three. Oh, it's now starting to get to the... Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Five. Come on. Come on. No, it's it. No. He's out of the competition.

All right. Do I get another go? No, it's over to me now to see what you might do. It's like the high jumpers You didn't get that qualification I'll see if I can beat you If not, we may have to keep this tenuous game going Can I ask another question? No, no

Questions are making me really nervous Are you making this up as you go along? Because that's my major concern Clearly I am Clearly It's like a high jump Or it's like a for long. Because that's my major concern. Clearly I am. Clearly. It's like a high jump. Or it's like a... One.

Here's Boyce now. The athlete from New Zealand. Second ring. Third ring. Three to five. Oh! Hello, Tristan speaking. Tristan!

It's John O'Bien calling from the Hits radio station. Hey, man. How are you? We're doing all right. You answered the phone. Do I need to explain what he's... Well, yeah. Otherwise, you're going to be are you? We're doing all right. You answered the phone. Do I need to explain to him what he's... Well, yeah, otherwise he's going to be very confused.

We're doing a game, Jono and Ben's Olympic rings. You answered within five telephone rings, so you win a prize. Oh, wicked. So he's happy? He's happy? Yes. Awesome. The real prize is that we actually got an ending to this.

Jono's not on board with this idea. He's saying it's too tenuous. There's a really loose tie into the Olympics. I was behind it, but now I'm losing confidence. No, that's right. He came out with the sport and then also suspiciously wins the gold medal. Yes, I did actually. You're right.

And now for your mandatory drug testing, which will take place during the next song. I'll get a mug from the kitchen. Okay, and it'll be a taste test. Okay, just a declaration. I've taken a few Panadols this morning. You don't have to. Thank you for declaring it. You're too honest.

We don't drug test you. That's fine. You're honest to your fault, Tristan. You're a winner, but unfortunately I've got to do mine. Tristan, hold the line. We'll grab your details. Thank you for being part of this without knowing you're part of it. Awesome, thank you.

See you, mate. Jono and Ben, the hits. Julia says she's going to a drum and bass gig tomorrow night. Pendulum. And I said, they're Aussie, right? They would have had to quarantine. I have no idea. Yeah, no one cares about that.

Anyway, Producer Humphrey, well, Julia's going to a drum and bass gig. Bee Humps, what are you doing this weekend? I'm taking my 15-week-old daughter to her first swimming lesson. Humphrey, while Juliet's going to a drum and bass gig, Bee Humps, what are you doing this weekend? I'm taking my 15-week-old daughter to her first swimming lesson. I thought you were going to her first drum and bass gig. Well, it's never too early to bring them along to a drum and bass gig. That's what I've always said about parenting. To her first swimming lesson.

Now, this is a monumental moment in any parent's life because one of the great joys of becoming a new parent is getting half naked in your togs and jump in a pool with complete strangers and throw babies around. But it actually is. I remember it was a special time. It seems too early. But it's cool, though.

You kind of play around and you kind of like, you grab the ducks and you kind of just sing little songs and stuff. Oh, so it's not like the Olympics. Swim with the baby on your back. Fastest 100 metres. Not quite like the Olympics. They always have fun little songs that you'll be introduced to too, which is like to sort of smoke screen the babies

from this weird situation that they're in. Because babies are probably like, what is this? What are you doing to me? Oh, yeah, because the first time they enjoy it, but then you have to do the, well, at some stage, probably not on day one, you do the whole, we're going under the water here. But they don't, you know, you're like, I'm so sorry, mate. I'm going to take it.

You know, that's it. And they'll look up like, why would you do monster? What was that? What was that? Great time. We were grabbing rubber ducks. And then you do this. You're like, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Are you saying that I should have got a singing lesson beforehand? Well, you do. You all have to. And it's always like 9 o'clock on a Sunday morning. I remember the sorry. Are you saying that I should have got a singing lesson beforehand? Well, you do. You all have to. And it's always like 9 o'clock on a Sunday morning. I remember the one. Do you remember? Did you have to do that one?

You sit them on the thing. You're like, here, on the side of the pool. And you're like, here I am, sitting on a wall. Here I am, trying not to fall. I won't jump. No, no, no. Till I hear, ready, go. That was such a long build up.

You just say, ready, go. Just jump off Even Sierra will look at me like Why are you taking so long You're dragging this out again mate We had Motorboats Motorboats

Go so slow Motorboats Motorboats Go so fast I won't do the rest Again the song drags on Yeah they're dragging Yeah

Fishies in the water Fishies in the water's another jam. We'll jump up with a one, two, three. That's the other thing. You're not only in your togs with people you hardly know, you're in there singing songs with people you hardly know. But it is a special moment. No, it's a lot of fun.

Is it too late to pull out? Just don't wear a G-string bikini like Ben did, and things won't get weird. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Kia ora, good morning. Welcome along to the show. Jono and Ben with you.

Friday morning, it's a good feeling, and it's a good feeling if you've been watching the Olympics yesterday. Some more great results from New Zealand, not only in cycling. Also, Lisa Carrington will bring you an update. We'll update you at some stage this morning Of all the great results And can I thank Lisa Carrington From the bottom of my heart She has been the core

Of my light banter conversations For the last three days Well that'll mean more to her Than the gold medals Everyone you bump into They're like oh how good's Lisa That's how the conversation always starts You're like she's so good

Did you hear she's the most decorated New Zealand And there's just so many flow-on conversations. I've got one for you at this stage. Lisa Carrington, if she was a country, I think she'd be 22nd right now. Yeah, she'd be 22nd on the medal table. The amount of medals that she's

won, if you put her as a country, Would that be for this year or all time? Yeah, for this Olympics. Wow. I think 22nd on the medal table. Listen, if this doesn't get her a 45 year beef and lamb deal, endorsement deal, I don't know what else she can do. They're calling her the goat on the boat, which is pretty awesome. And yeah, no doubt, if she wants it, she'll be Dame Lisa Carrington before we know it,

right? Yeah. She might be like Richie McCaw and be like, oh, no, you know. She would be a humble one. She does seem pretty humble. Not like me. I'd be it, right? Yeah. She might be like Richie McCaw and be like, oh no, you know? She would be a humble one. Not like me. I'd be like, make me Dame. That's not how it works. We've got Stan Walker on the show today. Very exciting.

All Black Test tomorrow as well. We're going to be joined by the All Blacks. I know. It's a big Friday. It is a big Friday as well as $5,000 to give away just after 5 o'clock. Hopefully we can give that away today. It is a hit. You got John on, Ben? Now, I don't know your supermarket shopping habits, mainly because I don't follow you around the supermarket.

Yeah, all yours, Julie. No. But do you go, we were talking about this with Ganesh Raj from Eat Well for Less during the week. I generally will go on the weekend and then get the week's worth of stuff. He said that's not the right tactic. I know. He was saying, yeah, because as he's only well for less,

he was saying that it's too much food. Things change. Life happens. You end up buying a meal out and you end up having wasted food. So three days is about what you should plan for as far as meals go and stuff as well. I've actually been trying that since we talked to him because I would do the same as you. I'd go once a week in the weekend.

It's amazing sometimes you don't even need to go again after the three days because stuff happens. You do end up, you know, like buying a dinner out or whatever it is. You're like, oh, well, that stuff I thought was only going to last three days has pretty much lasted from Monday to Friday. Yeah.

So you're already eating well for less. Yeah. Just from that interview. I know. It's quite interesting. From one tip. Yeah. But, you know know i love the supermarket

so much why wouldn't i want to go every three days that's the other thing as well you're like well i don't want to keep going back well i think it's get it once and get done once and get out of the way but yeah i always what sorry do you go i think i'm a really uh unique human being in the fact that i really love supermarket shopping like it literally gives me peace and i don't know why it's quite nice yeah yeah looking at all. Yeah, looking at all the products. Oh, God. No, as far as all the jobs go, it's quite a good one. You know, like as far as the household jobs go.

Really, when you think about it, like you're like, oh, I want to clean the bathroom and scrub the toilets or do I want to walk around the supermarket and put slime in it? You stay here and do that and I'll go and I'll get the shopping. But you pretend it's a chore. Yeah. But you secretly like it. But yeah, one of the things I find myself doing

is buying all this fruit and vegetable stuff to make me look good. And in my, you know, myself, maybe lying to myself going, gee, you're a healthy guy. You're going to get through this. And then it always just ends up sort of shriveling up in the vegetable bin. Well, I can imagine you don't have the lunchtime.

No. You don't even eat anything at lunchtime or during the day. So it's not like you'd go, oh, I've got an apple and a mandarin I'm taking to work and things like that. You don't do that. No. So that's, yeah. I mean, I saw a nectarine literally shrivel up into dust. It disappeared just from wearing out.

Do you get through all of your vegetables? Oh, quite. Yeah, I mean, quite a lot of them. I love the optimism, though, of the bananas. Whenever you leave the bananas, you're like, we'll make a banana cake. We'll make a banana. How many people have frozen bananas in their fridge? I'm like, we're not going to. I mean, as much as I love...

How many banana cakes have you eaten? And make? Yeah. I mean, I hate the thought of throwing out food. So I like the idea of like, we'll keep it for banana cake, but let's be honest, we're not going to make a banana cake. My mum would. My mum would. Jenny would. She would it for banana cake, but let's be honest, we're not going to make a banana cake. My mum would. My mum would.

Jenny would. She would make a banana cake. Banana cake's delicious too. She's got the time to make a banana cake, you know? And you're only making it because the bananas have turned, and you're like, oh, God, I'm going to make this banana cake. It's like when you have Chinese takeaways. We'll put that in the fridge, and we'll definitely eat that the next day.

I do, but see, you don't. No, Jen's like, you're never going to eat it the next day. I was like, I'm going eat that in the next day but see you don't know jen's like you're never gonna eat the next day i was like i'm gonna eat it the next day you're gonna have lunch four days later she's like you're still gonna eat that chinese yeah no see i do but i get annoyed when i come home and people oh they've taken that to lunch that was my little yeah that's exciting what about the flat you guys store your leftovers in the flat and is it a no-go zone of someone else's leftovers? Oh yeah no, you've got your own shelves. Everyone's got their own shelf and you just don't touch other people's shelves.

It's a good process. Same in the pantry, same in the fridge. It's really good and then if you want to use something else of someone else you just do it and don't tell them. Yeah, I was going to say that probably does happen, eh? You're like, will they notice it or not? Yeah, but it's a good system. Next on the show we've got Tim Beveridge.

He's a wonderful singer, isn't he? He's also one of the hosts on Newstalk ZB. He sang the anthem seven times, I think, for All Black Games, which is pretty incredible. But he's got a new show coming. He's putting together a new show. All to do with James Bond, the iconic music from the films. So we've got Tim Beveridge next with us.

Dean, there's a new show coming to New Zealand. from the films. So we've got Tim Beveridge next with us. Because I care more about what other people say. Dean, there's a new show coming to New Zealand based all around the iconic music of James Bond in the James Bond films. It looks really awesome. It's been put together by Tim Beveridge. He's a singer and he's also on Newstalk ZB as well. And he joins us right now. Good morning, Tim.

Good morning, boys. How are you? You've done a lot. I've done a few, I've had an interesting life so far, yeah, yeah. The ZB thing was something that came along later on when I had kids I thought better get a day job which turns out to be sort of a midnight to dawn job.

A midnight to dawn job. You're a barrister. Yeah. Yeah, for a couple of years, that's why I went to university and studied law and yeah I didn't really like practicing law to to be honest. So I got out and I always wanted to be in the theater. I never did any theater. And then I told my mom I wanted to be in Phantom of the Opera. And you were. You were in the Australian Phantom of the Opera. I really had one of those, I think almost only New Zealanders can be this naive. You know, you just think, yeah, I'll do that. And so I auditioned for some shows and one thing led to another.

And five years later, I went on as the Phantom in the Sydney production and mum and dad and my brothers from the audience. And it was one of those nights just going far out. Well, that is incredible. And so your law career, did you actually defend anyone or do any law work? Yep. I did a couple of years as a criminal defence lawyer. Did you come across Ben Boyce

in your career? Because he was actually, he's been through the New Zealand judicial system. Let's not talk about that. We're here about positive things. You know, you have this sort of thing, where have I seen you before?

So anyway, the music is bomb. Trust me, if I'd been his lawyer, he'd be behind bars So you've made the Sorry, we digress And the music is Bond That's what we're here to talk about Not your community service

Do you not know he did this? October 9th, we're talking about this in Oz As his lawyer, that's a bad sign October 9th, the music is Bond. Now, this is something you put on before. It's showcasing all the amazing music that the James Bond movies have got, right? Yeah. I mean, I've produced quite a few concerts over the last 10 or 15 years.

And I was listening to, I think, Shirley Bassey and a few numbers. And I thought, hell, those Bond songs are pretty epic. And then you realise, actually, all the iconic artists of every generation performed a Bond song. We've got Adele, you know, it goes back to Shirley Bassey, Matt Munro, you've got Chris Cornell. And it's all epic stuff with symphony orchestra, and it's just, you know, we all know the amazing sound of Bond.

And so I had this idea to do a concert with all the Bond themes. You put this whole show together with various artists and an orchestra performing the Bond music. Yeah, it's a huge, it's a mildly scary undertaking, but I have done it before. We've done it a few times. I launched it the first time about 2006, and we've sort of evolved it to where it is today,

and it's in pretty good shape as a show. Do you sing in the production? I do a couple of numbers, because I conduct the orchestra. Oh, right. When you're conducting, is the orchestra actually following you and they're like we know the music the timing actually yeah that's a good question actually well if you ask the orchestra they'll say that they're just following the lead violinist uh they'll be they'll be cheeky they'll just say oh no we're not looking at the conductor but uh look they always look

busy conductors yeah with the bond stuff um if it's mainly, it's a lot of rhythm section with drummer and stuff. So, as long as you're in sync with him, you know, you've got to hopefully know what you're doing. And I still haven't found out whether I do. But, you know, some of the clips sound all right. You can wave that stick around like a boss. You've also done the anthem.

You've sung the anthem, New Zealand Anthem, many times ahead of all black tests as well, right? A little while. Yeah, I've done it seven times. Seven times. I'm not counting, but I think it's around seven. And the All Blacks have won every time, apparently. I was reading online as well. Yeah, I think that's something I write just to reinforce it.

Let's face it, they usually win anyway. They usually win anyway, but you take the credit. I've done that a few times. Amazing honour. That is actually, I would say, I think in terms of nerves, probably the most nervous I've been. Even when I went on as the Phantom, that was a different sort of nerves because I was incredibly well rehearsed. But there's something about the anthem.

It's only two minutes. And if you cock it up, you're going to be everywhere. I actually held my words in my hand just in case. Everyone knows the anthem, but I thought, you know what? I've just got this tiny little piece of paper. Just in case. Just in case because people forgive you for glancing down at your hand. They won't forgive you if you just go, God of what?

What's that again? Yeah, I know. I forgot. And because you've not only got the live stadium, but then you've got the TV audience as well. So it's probably all weighing on your mind when you're singing. Yeah. I mean, it's just the ultimate in real time. There's no do-overs.

And it's really exciting. We've got singer Tim Beveridge with us in studio. There's a new show coming to Auckland called The Music Is Bonds. Now, we want to play you some audio of some iconic James Bonds and see if you know who's who. Okay, here's the first one, Tim Beveridge. My name's Bond. James Bond. Which Bond was that?

Hang on a second. That's semi-recent. Semi-recent. Pierce Brosnan. Yes, one for one. Oh, God. I thought, hell, this is not going to go well. Here's the second one.

Bond. Oh, that's James Bond. Sean Connery. Yeah, two from two. You're doing well. The name's Bond. James Bond. Oh, that from two. You're doing well. The name's Bond. James Bond. Oh, that's Daniel Craig.

Daniel Craig. Are you just telling through the various stages of production over the years? What Bond it would be? No, no. I've been waiting for the George Lazen B1. The next famous Bond, which is this? One thing just led to another. I started in the sport of rowing and found out.

Hamish Bond. Hamish Bond. Wonderful Olympian. One thing just led to another. I started in the sport of rowing and found out I had a dream. I mean, I did dream. Hamish Bond, Hamish Bond, wonderful Olympian. Oh, my God, I was so slow there. I was thinking, is that Eric Murray? Yeah, Eric was rowing with Eric Murray, of course. Just wanted to go into the Olympics the other day. Hey, Tim Beveridge, you can go and see the Music Is Bond. It's going to be on the 9th of October.

Kirite Kanawa Theatre in Aotea Centre. Tickets are on sale now. Yep, they've just gone on sale, Ticketmaster. Taking over all your favourite song intros, Jono and Madness. Just reading about this, I think it's really awesome, and it's a good thing to mention out there today. From today, anyone who gifts Women's Refuge in New Zealand

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And how do you donate? So $20, well, it's just a $20 donation. So you don't have to auction for those things. You just might, by giving a $20 donation, you might be able to win one of those things just by chance. So that's pretty cool. Did you think Ashley Bloomfield was like, yeah, I'll help you out. And then he thought, what have I not done lately? giving a $20 donation, you might be able to win one of those things just by chance. That's pretty cool. Do you think Ashley Bloom feels like, yeah, I'll help you out?

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We've got some unusual news from the world. Next, we'll bring that to you. It is the hits. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B***h News. If you're a fan of news that would usually be hidden away like an embarrassing family member from the main pages of proper news sites, then welcome to The News and Beeps What happens here, Ju?

I find some quirky headlines from around the world that I think you guys might find amusing and I beep out some words, then you have to guess what they are You sent these through last night and you were like, ha ha, lol, these are all from Australia Yeah, I know You sent these through last night and you were like, ha ha, lol, these are all from Australia. Yeah. Australia news. I went far and wide to try and find some other country news, but Australia had the best content for us this morning. Oh, okay. First news story.

Man fills claw machine with **** as lockdowns in Australia tighten. Well, they panic purchasing toilet paper like we did, so maybe it's toilet paper. Okay. I think he's putting it in a machine. And then he's got a flimsy claw machine that kind of picks it up but then drops it off. Violently shakes it off. I'm going to say man fills claw machine

with applications for residency in New Zealand as lockdown times in Australia. Man fills claw machine with individual toilet paper rolls as lockdowns in Australia tighten. We hardly ever get these. So good. The claw machine, we once did. We were all like, well, we'll see how long it would take us

to clean out an entire claw machine. Oh, my goodness. Took a long time, eh? We worked it out that the particular, and I don't know if it's the same for every claw machine, but it was about 21 goes. Every 21 goes, you would get a bit of a stronger sort of grab yeah and then you had three chances at that strong grab yeah and then it would kind of almost

reset as well so i guess luck of the draw if you go along and put two dollars in normally you might be close to you might get you know but if not it's very hard you end up cleaning it out yeah we thought we're going to do it one day at the mall and then they were like they were like guys we're going to close this midnight until we come back the next day and finish it off. We're like, yeah, it did take a while, but we got all the soft toys as well. And what was the point of it? Who knows? For this moment right now, where I can say, you know what?

I was paying dividends. You know what? Takes about two hours. Next news story. Australian Olympian with no sponsors worked at *** to fund her trip to Tokyo. I'm going to say she worked at the Hits radio station out there, you know, so doing sausage sizzles and things like that. Nice.

Out and about person. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, great. So I'm going to say Australian Olympian with no sponsors worked hard at getting exceptionally good at her discipline, so the Olympic Committee would just send her over. Oh, yeah, that's good. Australian Olympian with no sponsors

worked at Woolworths for three years to fund her trip to Tokyo. So her name is Riley Day. She's only 21 years old and she's a 200 metre sprinter. And obviously to go to the Olympics, a corporate sponsorship is what a lot of athletes rely on to fund them to get over there. But she never received that so for three years, hustled, saved every penny,

made it to the Olympics. It's not like she's saving up for a pony or something. It's the Olympics. Or an OE or something. You're right. It's the Olympics. That's awesome. It's not like, you know, it's like she's saving up for a pony or something. It's the Olympics. Or an OE or something. I'm going to put it in. But yeah, you're right. It's the Olympics.

She's representing Australia. I know, I know. And the final news story. Man escapes hotel quarantine using... I'm going to go to the front door of the hotel. Walk straight out. I was going to say using a fake moustache and a can-do attitude. Man escapes hotel quarantine

using bed sheets tied from fourth floor window. Oh, like a movie. Yeah, basically abseiled down in the middle of the night. He did get arrested and charged eight hours later, so that wasn't very successful for him, but there's a photo of it and it's actually quite genius. Someone did that

in New Zealand, didn't they? What's that? When we first had people locked in quarantine, they escaped uh via the sheet oh really yeah the popular sheet yeah you're putting a lot of trust in the uh then you're not tying the cotton yeah and the cotton thread count as well to really hold yeah yeah that's true because if it started ripping and you were midway and what are you tying the sheet to in your room oh that's like the leg on the table of the TV stand? Yeah.

Well, that's right. I don't know. We should test this there. Halfway down, you'd be like, it'd just be easier to say that roof to. I know, I know. And there's the news and beeps for you. Scrolling through your feed.

All right, time for scrolling. Here to save your eyes from reading the news is Ben's mouth. And what a delicious mouth it is. Now, it's New Zealand's largest ever medal hall at any Olympics. That's what just happened last night. And they said on the TV, in the past it's been like, oh, we do it for the sitting down sports. But it's not just all sitting down sports at the moment.

And that's what they said on the TV. That's not me having a knock at anyone. That sounds like they were having a knock though. Usually we just do it for the sitting down. Well, you're sitting down, you're cycling, you're rowing, you're still doing a lot of physical activity. But anyway, trampolining, obviously, tennis as well,

shot put. So there's many different sports this year. 19 medals in total for New Zealand. 7 gold, 6 silver and 6 bronze. And Lisa Carrington yesterday, I mean, how awesome is she? They're calling her the goat on the boat at the moment. She's our most, she won the most medals ever for any Olympian for New Zealand. And yesterday it was a wonderful moment as she took out yet another gold.

And she comes to the line. She is New Zealand's most successful Olympian of all time, Lisa Carrington. Beautiful. That's courtesy of Sky Sports. Thank you. She's amazing. And as I said earlier, if you put Lisa Carrington as a country,

she'd be 22nd on the list of countries for the medals at this Olympics. Wow, that's incredible. Someone was saying last night, I was at Poppy's Netball, my daughter, and saying that Bay of Plenty, the region, was a country. That'd be 11th or 12th. Oh, really? Just from all the athletes.

That's awesome. Yeah. I loved her afterwards. She's like, I love it, but I hate it, this sport. Because imagine it's so physically demanding. And you could tell even if she was exhausted at the end of that race. But it must be just such an amazing feeling, you know, through all that pain to win and to be out there on the podium.

So that was awesome. The problem is she makes it look too easy. She looks like she's just gliding on top of the water. I know. And that's what I think with all Olympians. Like, I was talking to my friends. I'm like, this makes me feel like, God, I'm going to leave radio

and I'm going to train to become an Olympian and I'm going to win a gold medal. And they make it look that easy. They always need a battler out there just to go like, huffing and puffing. For one battler in every race, you go, okay, so that would be me. That's how far behind they are. Yes, just to show. puffing and puffing one battler in every race you go okay so that would be me that's how far behind they are just to show because it's actually we're still waiting on the

battler ben's still like wheezing in the back there but the others are finished they're already on the podium but you're still there out battling he's probably tipped over his kayak upside down he can't get back just to put some perspective in of actually how amazing they are. And the Validrome last night as well, how cool was this? We got two silver medals as well. And Elise Andrews, she got silver and this was such a wonderful moment. I saw it last night on Sky Sport, ironically. But it was a wonderful, wonderful moment. I can't stop crying.

To get a silver medal is amazing. I'm so proud of myself. She's like, I can't stop crying. She just had tears and tears and tears. to get a silver medal is amazing I'm so proud of myself she's just she's good she's like I can't stop crying she just had tears and tears and tears and this was after the race

about 10 minutes after the race and then Campbell Stewart also got a silver as well in the cycling in the tactical points race and he wasn't even meant to be riding

he was a last minute replacement for one of the Kiwi guys that got injured the other day oh the one oh the teams event yeah the teams event

and so he was like, and he said, I did it for him and for my mate and he got silver as well. Incredible. I was in a cycling hole yesterday and my God,

is that the world's most confusing sport when they have like 30 of them on the track. And it's a 100 lap race? Yeah. And then it's like, well, the first one,

he's got a point but then he drops back to the end and then someone else comes in and they're like, oh no, they get two points. Yeah, and then they sprint laps, and they're worth more points, and they have to lap the whole group. Then it's the laser round, where they all reverse and go around backwards. But what I was like, well, why doesn't the person at the front just keep going?

That's what I was thinking. Keep going. You're like, they're already at the front. You're in the lead. But obviously, it doesn't work like that. I'm sure they've got it. I'm sure they understand. Again, you need that battler, and they're like, they're already at the front. You're in the lead. But obviously it doesn't work like that. I'm sure they've got it. I'm sure they understand. Again, you need that battler and they're just...

What am I doing? I'm stuck in the middle here. They keep passing me. I'm panicking. That's what you want. That's the new addition. Maybe it can come to Paris. Is it Paris next Olympics?

Yeah, the battler round. Yeah, you do the normal one and then you have maybe a dozen battlers giving the same event a go straight after. Just perspective. Just to see how it goes. So well done to all our amazing athletes. For Olympic Games that many people were like,

it shouldn't be happening, how cool has it been that it's happened? We were having that conversation before the show. I wonder if the correlation between New Zealand doing so well and having no crowd there, if there's a connection there, that the athletes are performing better because there isn't that extra layer of nerves of doing it in front of a stadium

load of 50,000 people. Maybe. I just made that up. Maybe right. But some sports maybe. Get that out there. Jono Pryor has some sort of Olympic theory. Send that up to the Herald Bee Hub. They don't want it. Jono and Ben.

It's Peaches. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Actually, we spoke to Georgia. You know, we're investigative journalists, aren't we? You can't even say journalists. Whatever the way we are, we're investigating. You know, we're like Justin Bieber.

He buys us peaches in Georgia. If you missed it, it's on the podcast. You can catch it on iHeartRadio. But this is why Georgia grow great peaches. I think for how long that the peaches have been grown in Georgia, the varieties that we grow, the climate, the soil, there's just really very few places that peaches can be grown well. So that was us as journalists trying to get to the bottom of that.

Talking to the guy in Georgia, who was very agreeable. He spent a large part of his day talking to us about peaches. He did. He would have been like, what is all this about? But that was why we... You'll be growing peaches down there in New Zealand. He said, where do you get your peaches from, China? He was quite curious about where we got our peaches from.

Well, I mean, when you're a peach farmer It's your core It's the most you've done Exactly, alright let's see some Spy Alright this is some hardcore Celebrity news, if you want the soft core Stuff well then you're going to have to head over to A lesser radio station, what have we got Ju? So while we're on the topic of Justin Bieber and his peaches

He's called out The media on his Instagram story for sharing photos of him that are old, taken a while ago, and make him look unwell. So he said, there have been countless photos and opportunities for media to pick up other photos, but yet they still run with this particular one,

which is one with him on the red carpet. He has sort of his long, shaggy hair. Oh, he's got a shaved head He's got a shaved head now. That made me look sick and unwell, and it's not right. And at that time, he was battling with Lyme disease, so he did take a while to get healthy after that, and he's just had enough of the media

choosing particular photos. Now, fair enough, too, and if I could please go on record and say all of the photographers that take photos of me, and I look sick and unwell. I knew you were going to say that. Yeah. I would like to say, use Photoshop.

Make me look less sick and less unwell. Because I do look sick and unwell. But, you know, just a light dusting, something, put a filter on it. You do look more tanned in the hits photoshoot photos. Both of you have got a little bit of foundation on, don't you? Yeah. I look good, you know, we're trying to look our best. Very nice.

So if there are any photos of me out there that I look sick and unwell, you'll know why. People are stitching me up. Yeah, okay, sounds good. We'll keep that in mind. And Jennifer Aniston has revealed that she's culled all her anti-vaxxer friends or people that she hangs out with who won't disclose, no matter how many times she asks

whether they've had the vaccination or not. She said it's tricky because everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but a lot of opinions don't feel based on anything except fear or propaganda. So she's literally culled people or people she works with or friends who are maybe posing a risk to her and the rest of the people she hangs out with. Well, it seems like there's going to be a vaccine passport for travelling around the world. People like New York, or places like New Yorker, you can't go and visit there unless you've been vaccinated

and things like that. Yeah, which is a good initiative. And I know that some cafes overseas or movie theatres are sort of all doing the same thing, jumping on board with that. So from today, because many people are like, when can I get the vaccine? From 55 and older from today.

If you know anyone who are 55 and older, you can get in touch and start booking in your vaccine from today. Do you know last week we were at work and I got caught in the middle of a conversation with a vaxxer and an anti-vaxxer. Oh no. And I was in the middle of it. Oh. It was intense. Really? Yeah.

Well, I mean, there's just a clear divide on either side of the line. Like, the vaxxers are like, why aren't you doing this, you idiots? And the anti-vaxxers are like, because of 5G, you idiot. Oh, is that the thing? Was that one of their... It's all connected. I've got a pamphlet in my letterbox about from basically anti-vaxxing things. Really?

And some of the reasons going, why this is, why this is that, you know, just trying to defunct some of the things that are said in the media. No, usually one of your popular catchphrases, which we're going to be releasing a line of T-shirts with, you know, as long as you're happy, is what Ben Boyce likes to say. Where do you sit with the anti-vaxxers? Oh, yeah, I mean, it's, yeah, it's all right.

Yeah, you've really put me on the spot here. What you should do is add to that as long as you're happy and healthy. Happy and healthy? There you go. Oh, if they're happy and healthy, then... Well, then you go, you see, we're bad boy stats. He's passively said he doesn't agree with the antis.

Oh, yeah, it's a tough one. You put me on the spot here. I don't like making... I don't like confrontation, you know that. Shall I move on? I think that is fine. Before you can enter the hits, don't go to NZ. New Zealand's breakfast.

This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Kia ora, good morning. It is the hits. Jono and Ben on The Hits. Kia ora, good morning. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben, as we mentioned earlier this morning, New Zealand's largest ever medal hall at the Olympics. A crack open, a Bernardino if you've still got it, before it's all gone because we have 19 medals for New Zealand. How good is that?

Are you insisting at 7.04am people crack open a Bernardino? I'll put something topical in there as well. It's Friday. Champagne breakfast. Did you get my thing I filmed yesterday off the Olympics? Did you get that with the basketball guy? Yes, I did. The coach.

I did. We should play that. I was in a store. Well, let's not play it straight off your phone because it swears. I was in a store and Jono sent me some audio and I was like, I better turn it up now loud. And then it said the F word a couple of times and some people kind of looked at me and were like,

why is he playing something with... Okay, we'll get Juliet to load this audio, the funny audio of the Australian basketball coach. And it's really good to get so close to the action, but at times the broadcasters must be like, we should not put mics on people. Yeah. Well, I didn't understand the context of it either,

like what he was actually meaning. And there was something going on in the back of your shot when your audio as well someone's like bouncing a basketball or something as well there was a lot going on in your audio as well we'll play my muddled audio next yeah but you're well done new zealand the most medals that we've ever won at an olympics lisa carrington the most decorated new zealand athlete at the olympics yeah so amazing so congratulations to our not decorated like with decorated like with, you know, tinsel and things. Decorated with gold medals, baby.

Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Great to have you with us. I know heading into the weekend a lot of people will be playing sport, won't they? Saturday and Sunday. Yeah. And there's a lot of adults who have children who are asked to coach teams, aren't they?

And for some reason, I've been asked back, Ben. I've had a checkered coaching history. You have. Yeah. I think I was zero from 15. Not good stats. My previous coaching a basketball team, zero, no wins from 15 games. Were you like that Australian coach that yelling at them with obscenities and stuff like that.

Where's the f*** the eyes? Yeah, I was yelling at the kids and I was getting no results. Only team struggling more than me was probably the Warriors. Hey, unnecessary. Unnecessary. Any opportunity, eh?

I just love it because Ben always goes, Hey! Hey! Unnecessary. He says, yeah, guys. That's why I love saying that. But I don't mean any of it. Ben, I've been asked back to coach again.

Another basketball team. Now my daughter is playing basketball. So they ask you back or are they just like, can someone do it? Can you do it? You know, that sort of thing. I had to do that for her. Like I was saying about my daughter was playing a touch rugby tournament. And I was like, I was just there because no one else could do it. It that sort of thing i had to do that for a like i was saying about the uh my daughter was playing a touch rugby tournament and i was like i was just there because no one else could

do it it was a timing thing it was and they just wanted to take tiktok videos on the sideline yeah i mean my major my major thing when i'm coaching on the sideline is like can we stop doing cart wheels yeah like just managing dance moves yeah when the men's focus yeah and it might be a scheduling thing the other parents might can't be asked Yeah, I might have just been in there by default. And I'm no good at it. I'm shocking at coaching. Are you any good? Oh, look, I haven't really done it.

I've sort of helped out with that thing. Even like the scoring, I had to do that with the netball game the other day. There's an app now and one of the parents each week has to score the games next to the parent from another team. But that's like, we can't go off and have shots while your kid's not on the court, you know, and play netball shots. You've got to be there the whole game watching who got the thing. I'm like, that's like we can't go off and have shots while the you know your kid's not on the court you know like play netball shots and stuff you've got to be there the whole game watching who got the thing i'm like that's dedication you know you've got to be there the whole game watching your kid play well yes and that sometimes i get subbed off so i'm like oh cool i can go get a hot dog or something like that but yeah but you're like i'll dedicate you know this is a that's a commitment i just how, like, I've got no coaching expertise, previous coaching expertise, and

I'm sure most of them don't. But all of a sudden when you turn into an adult, you're somehow qualified to be a coach. Yeah. In a sport that I was no good at, really. Yeah. Like I played basketball for a bit, but I literally just sat on the bench the whole time. I could pat the hell out of a bottom.

Like a, you know, know like a well done keep it up you know great motivator you're like bring your bottom over here i'm okay at the moment thank you though but you tell me when you need motivation and i'll get it well you're lucky like some people are good at high fives and two on the bench or the towels i watched that on the nba games as well as the people like the hype people up with the towels and the yeah was that it's a pivotal role yeah it was a great hype guy up there standing up, high-fiving. I was like, do you want to put me on coach? He's like, hell no.

And I was like, good on you, mate. Pat him on the bum. Just keep going. That's a positive guy. Great guy to have on the team for morale. But anyway, I'll keep you up to date with my coaching. So far, we're zero from one. Okay?

All right. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday It is five words for $5,000 We play it every morning around about this time By now you should know how it works It's a simple game Well, we say it's a simple game with word association

But it's quite hard for two people to be thinking exactly the same thing Yeah, and we haven't had a win in a very long time If we were Olympic athletes We would be letting the team down on the medal table. We'd be the opposite of what Lisa Carrington is doing. Right, now let's welcome to the show from Ashburton Kylie Morena. Morning. Good to have you on. Kylie, how's

Ash Vegas this morning? It's a bit wet, but it's not too bad. Mid-Canterbury there. The panther roaming the streets. Now it's your birthday today, Kylie. Yeah, I was just going to say that. It's your birthday. Happy birthday.

Oh, thank you. How old? 22. Oh, good on you. Your whole life ahead of you. Oh, yeah. That's when you know you're getting old. Your whole life ahead of you.

That's what we keep saying to Julie. You've got your whole life ahead of you. You go on. You go on. It's too late for us now. Okay, Kylie. Let's try and end the week on a positive, like a Russian Olympic weightlifter after a drug test.

Tell me, who are you going to send into the booth? Jono, please. Jono, I like this. Jono, because we don't hear from Jono for a bit, so it's quite good. All right, Kylie, here is your first word this morning. It is bolognese. Bolognese. Spaghetti.

Spaghetti. Yeah, that's popped into my head as well. Kiwi is the second word this morning. Kiwi. Kiwiana. Oh, kiwi. Oh, nice. Hat is number three.

Sun. Oh, sun, yeah. I like the way you just go for this. This is good. This is good. This is how the game works. Billionaire is number four. Money.

Money. And nature is the last one. Nature. Nature. Nature walk. Kylie, that was some record time. You're like Lisa Carrington in the kayaks. You really smashed through that.

All right, we're going to bring Jono out of the soundproof booth and see if all those words match. How was that? That was quick timing, eh? I didn't even sit down. I was going to say, it was like a Lisa Carrington. It was just like, just glided through that one. It was good, though.

That's kind of how the game works, because sometimes you can overthink these things. It's really just what pops into your head. Yeah, and thank you, Kylie, because other people who compete in this game leave us in that booth for a long time, and there's a lack of oxygen in there. You come out very light-headed,

so let's try and win you five grand, eh? All right, here's the first word. Bolognese. Bolognese. Spaghetti. Nice. You played a quick game. I'm going to play a quick game.

All right, here we go. Kiwi. Fruit. Oh, you played too quick. You played a quick game. I'm going to play a quick game. Here we go. Kiwi. Fruit. Oh, yeah. Played too quick. You played too... No. Kiwi, Anna was what she went with.

Anna. Oh, yeah, Kylie. Yeah. Unfortunately, that didn't quite work out for five grand. Let's quickly go through them all. Hat. Cap. Sun.

Billionaire. Jeff Bezos. Oh, he's... Nature. Walk. Oh, okay. You pulled it back at the end there, Jeff Bezos in nature walk okay you pulled it back at the end there but not quite enough sorry Kylie on your honour birthday too Jono

hey I'll tell you what Kylie for your birthday we're going to give you probably nothing but thank you so much for joining us on the show let's try and find something for her we've got shampoo packs we've been giving away so many shampoo packs. Do you want some

shampoo packs for your birthday, Kylie? Oh, that would be great. Yeah, we'll do that. Everblue hair and body care. It's valued at $50. Make you smell beautiful and you can get those. Not that you don't smell beautiful now. Yeah, so I get into a hole like that. You can get those from Countdown. We've got some Spy Entertainment news on the way.

Yeah, there's a bit of drama in the Fresh Prince of Ballyha reboot filming. Who remembered? I forgot that they were even doing a reboot, but apparently there's drama. Still a thing. It is a hit. Spy. The What's Up Spy.co.nz. All right, let's talk some smack about famous people we don't even know properly.

What's going on, Ju? So Barack Obama has turned 60 years old. He's looking great for 60. And his wife Michelle wrote a very sweet message on social media with a family photo. Of all your accomplishments, I know that being a present loving father to our girls tops them all.

Thank you for never letting the weight of the world get in the way of being a wonderful husband and father. He's looking great, eh? He's looking good. So Meghan Markle was 40 this week, right? Yes, yes. Barack Obama. Okay, that's 60. Just to show you that you love the Royals.

Oh, God. This weekend, Saturday night, they're both having a party, but separate parties. You can't do both. You're invited. Where are you going to go? Oh, my goodness me. Barack's like, I need your numbers. We're catering.

You know, what do you know? Obama's like, he'd have some big bangers there too, wouldn't he? I think I would actually have to go Obama because I love the royals but I'm thinking that Megan probably wouldn't invite

the rest of the royals to her party what are you going to say to Megan though because that's the thing because she's going to see photos of you at Obama's

on social media well my excuse with Megan is I can say hey sis I've already met you back in 2019 in New Zealand

when I stood for six hours waiting for you you touched her hands yeah I did when I stood for six hours waiting for you. You touched her hands. Yeah, I did and I gave her flowers and she said they were really beautiful and I literally melted. Were they nice hands? As in like, they were good?

Her hands were so petite and so soft. She's literally, like, she is so much more gorgeous and striking in real life than she is in the photo. I mean, she's gorgeous, but you actually are gobsmacked. And Prince Harry, hello, sweetheart. Sorry, don't get me started. Oh, it sounds like you should have gone to that party, but you've made your choice with the Obamas.

You need to really focus in on what gentleman you want to marry because you've got Harry in the mix. Then you mentioned Shawn Mendes today. She's like, oh, Shawn Mendes. David Meeker, the boxer. David Meeker is a new runner. Harry Styles is in the mix. I know.

Bieber. Oh, there are options Bieber there's a lot of options there's a lot of options you know you've got to keep the options open it's a numbers game the more numbers that you have on the go the more successful

you may be anyway and there's a bit of drama in the French Prince of Bali a reboot filming so I actually forgot that they were doing a reboot

is that kind of like the Friends one getting everyone back together from the Fresh Prince I think it's a they did that they did that they did do an interview thing Kind of like the Friends one, getting everyone back together from the fresh breaks. I think it's a... They did that.

I think it's almost a... They did that. They did do that, didn't they? They did do an interview thing. Yeah, I thought they did, but then I was like, did I watch it? Did I see it? Yeah, no, you did. You didn't dream it.

Yeah. Odd dream. Yeah. So basically what's happening is it's being delayed to 2022 because of creative differences within the making of the reboot. Yeah, the problem is there's a bunch of guys, they're up to no good on the set. They started making some trouble. One little fight turned into a lot of fights, actually.

They had to pull out of filming. So the executive producer and the showrunner has left due to creative differences. And so that's just put a hold on things. And so 2022 is when we're going to have to wait. Are you guys... I never watched The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but I know that it's big.

I was a huge fan of the show but I thought that we're doing the reboot, was that a bit more gritty and a bit more like real life? That's right, it was drama. It was more drama in this one. I remember seeing that trailer. It wasn't a comedy you know, sort of like it touched on some serious social issues

don't get me wrong, but it was a comedy show. Yeah, there we go. There's a vague recollection of the Fresh Prince It's probably touched on some serious social issues, don't get me wrong, but it was a comedy show. Yeah. Oh, there we go. There's a vague recollection of the Fresh Prince reboot that we all forgot was happening. Yeah, totally. Yeah, good. And then a spy from Weekend Head to the hitstock.co.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, very excited.

We've got Stan Walker joining us in the studio after 8 o'clock with brand new music as well as one of the All Blacks and OMG I Want One. It's going to be a lot of fun after 8 so stick around. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It's just gone 8 o'clock here. You're with Jono and Ben on The Hits. He's about to go on a 9 date New Zealand tour right around the country.

He's got new music out which we're going to play very shortly. Here's of course Stan Walker. He's one of our biggest stars. Winner of Australian. I'm Stan Walker. Singer, film star. One of Aotearoa's biggest performing artists.

Always love catching up with Stan Walker and he joins us in the studio right now. Kia ora Stan, thanks so much for hanging out. Oh, it's good to be here, thank you for having me. Anytime mate. Literally, we so much for hanging out. Oh it's good to be here, thank you for having me. Anytime mate, literally we could have you every day. There's no pay attached to it but we'd have you in here every day. Now you've teamed up with someone who's pretty big overseas right, on YouTube

on TikTok as well, tell us about it. Selena Sharma, she is a beast. She's only 19 years old man but her voice, it's insane. She kind of sounds like a mix between like if Ariana Grande and Camila Cabello had a kid. Have you met her face, it's insane. She kind of sounds like a mix between if Ariana Grande and Camila Cabello had a kid. Have you met her face to face? No.

Oh, wow. We're just Instagram. Instagram friends and stuff. Yeah, yeah. But she's incredible. Because obviously you came up with the song, right? So do you have someone in mind for it or are you just like, hey, we'll look for someone who could best fit the song? No, we literally got referred to her. Wow.

She's dope and everything like that. And as soon as I heard her voice, I was like, oh my gosh. I couldn't have imagined a better person to do the song with. That's cool. So how do you record when you're on complete opposite sides of the world? How do you record a duet? Well, she goes into the studio over there and I go into the studio

over here and we send the song. So I recorded the song first. We sent it over to her to her she recorded her part sent it back and then we were just going back and forth and then we actually filmed the video clip as well so she filmed it it's summer over there yeah it's winter cold and freezing over here and i shot my parts down in uh whanau river and then i got tricked by my bro to walk two hours up the side of mount taranaki i don't walk nowhere honest to god if i could i would get carried i'm the most unfittest complaining like laziest person in nz nine people carrying him into the studio today it's like i would have had 10 but yeah we had to walk up and i was filming

in the freezing cold i was like man this video yeah we had to walk up and i was filming in the freezing cold i was like man this video better be on because i'm cold i'm annoyed and my legs are sore bro i was in pain so tell me what's the video concept are you meant to be in winter or are you pretending it's summer so you're shirtless on the side of the mountain no bro i was like it was freezing like i was like frozen my jacket and everything like that so she's over there and on the cliffs and in summer you know the contrast because the song is about like you would do anything like the kind of love and it's this how i love like i would die for you i would lie for you i would run through fire for you like that overwhelming mountain for someone well i bloody did i proved it oh my gosh

i will climb a mountain i need to change the words. I will get up there. I will moan about it. All the way up and down. I don't walk for no one. And then I'll moan for months. Well, Stan Walker's going to hang around. We've got a wee game we want to play with him shortly.

But right now, here is his new song. It's called Don't Worry Baby. It is Stan Walker for the first time on The Hits. It is brand new music on The Hits. It's Stan Walker teaming up with Selena Sharma. It's called Don't Worry Baby. Awesome song, that, Stan. We've got Stan with us in the studio right now.

Now, Stan, you've moved from Auckland to small town New Zealand. What's that like? It's a crack up, especially like a small town like Whanganui. Like, you know, people are like, whoa! Oh, stay away! What are you doing here? I don't live here! Hey!

Copy and paste that conversation with everyone in the chat. It's hilarious, eh? I can imagine. And people just yell out. But when I'm driving, I never, like look at people just because I'm like fine I'm driving I don't want to get distracted

this one time I was going around the roundabout this is in Tauranga and like there's roadworks and it was a busy roundabout and I was going around this fella was beeping

like yelling out Stan he was on one of those motorbikes with the little side piece he was going around and he was beeping like Stan I could hear him

but I was like I'm not looking at you I need to drive. I don't like very narrow roads, like roadworks, busy areas. And then in the corner of my eye, I seen the bike start. He went off the road and like smashed into a pole and went flying. Stan, Stan Walker. See, better him than me.

Shame. Hey, Stan, now you once, you know know you performed on the same stage as Beyonce and we were watching that clip before and afterwards you met in Beyonce who's one of your idols

and you were buzzing you had this to say this is the greatest day of my life this is like anything Christmas New Years birthday

whatever this is everything all in one thank you Jesus so you're obviously buzzing which is awesome to see how much joy that brought you

but now you've got engaged. I mean, is it still the greatest day of your life? I mean, where's things right now, Stan Walker? I'm just listening to my voice then. I'm saying to you. You're buzzing, though. You're buzzing. It's so good to see.

I mean, people that see you, I mean, you're a massive star, you know, and people do the same reaction to you. They go, Stan Walker! Stan Walker! Hello! So it's awesome to see you buzzing, you like it was so cool is there a new greatest day of your life now following that is there a new i think i've had many a greater days than that i know that's a big day yeah and i think that's i can't really compare nothing to that

but like i would say getting engaged is one of the greatest day but we did it so rugged really did you it wasn't like it but it was very much me and her. Like, I had planned, like, I was going to tell my mate, you know, she lived in Kuwait. Like, you know, the diamonds over there, they're plentiful. They've got things. I was like, get a ring from there. I'm going to take her to the place that we first met, and we're going to go and do this romantic thing. We're having wines in the shed.

And I asked her to marry me all the time. And I was like, nah, actually. And I got emotional. And I was like nah actually I got emotional and I was like you're the love of my life my best friend got down on one knee in the garage there's no ring then we went and bought a ring the next day went and told her dad I was like oh actually can I marry your daughter but I had to do it in front of her because she wouldn't go away she's so nosy and then I was just like oh actually got a ring um went and got the ring in the car and then Lou put it on I was like it goes so what are we engaged I was just like, oh, actually got a ring. Went and got the ring in the car.

And then Lou put it on. I was like, so what? Are we engaged? I was like, oh, I suppose so. And that was in front of her dad. In front of her dad. But then you'd already, it was kind of a. In the shed with the wines.

Stan Walker romantic. Everyone. Stan Walker, he's got a new single out, Don't Worry Baby. It's out today. We're going to play it very shortly. And as well, he's going to go on a nine-stop New Zealand tour, which will be very cool as well. A quick game I want to play, The Price is Right with Stan Walker.

I've looked on Trade Me. There's a few items, Stan Walker items, which I want to see if you can guess what the buy now price is of some of these items for sale right now on Trade Me. All right, so we've got Stan Walker CD. It's got From the Inside Out as the CD. Now, its condition is used, but it does feature the singles Choose You and Unbroken. It's your second studio album.

What's it selling by now? $2? $4.50? $4.50 by now. By now, $4.50. Not bad. CDs, though, too. Yeah, CDs.

Out of date technology. It's available right now. Okay, a Blu-ray copy of Born to Dance, which you were in, the movie, the dancing movie about an ambitious young man who wants to be a dancer. Buy now. This is slightly, it's used again.

Buy now. How much? Talking DVD. Blu-ray. Yeah, Blu-ray. Blu-ray. I'm going to go $7.20. Oh, $7.90.

Oh, dang it. That is a win. I never even found out what Blu-ray was. I know. Did you? Nah, I think it just was like a flasher version. I don't know. This is quite good.

A brand new copy of your book, Impossible My Story. This is brand new. Brand new. $20. $29.99. Oh, yeah. You're low-balling yourself at the moment. I love it.

Mountain Zion DVD. You win with that movie with the legendary Tim Morrison. It's an ex-rental, but it still plays really well, the DVD. So this is a leftover from Video Easy. Buy now. What are you saying? Oh, I feel, well, this is my favourite film. It's a great film.

That's what Take It Easy was from. Yeah, yeah. How can I say? Yeah. I'm going to. It's used. It's used, though. It's used ex-rental, you know. It's not, though. It's used X rental, you know.

It's not brand new. $12.99. Oh, $5.50. You got too high on that one. Thank you. I mean, you could be making some bank. Cash in, buddy. Stan Walker, so good to catch up with you.

You can catch Stan Walker heading around New Zealand to nine locations. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. That's correct. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. The hits.

It is the hits. Jono and Ben, we've got one of the All Blacks joining us very shortly, which is very exciting, as well as exciting stuff. This. Oh, my gosh. OMG. Love all their exciting stuff. So much exciting stuff on the show. We love it. And OMG, I love all that exciting stuff. So much exciting stuff on the show.

We love it. And OMG, I want one. If you want this fantastic prize, now, Producer Juliet, you were like, you've got to get pronunciation right, correct? I love the way this is said. So this is something, because the hair care, you know, this is something Jono has no part in. 90% of the items we give away on OMG are hair care products.

I ask for all hair care products. Purely so you can have this banter. But today, Producer Juliette... Is a Le Creuset Signature Oval Casserole, 27cm, satin black, valued at $640. Le Creuset. Ah, so if you want... Casserole dish. Now, your casseroles will taste...

Will put other casseroles to shame. You'll have a higher grade of casserole inside your mouth. That's awesome, eh? $640. So if you want that casserole dish and not the hair care products that we have been giving away and shaming Jono with for the previous of the week, then check OMG. They look very nice. They also do a Dutch oven.

Oh, okay. They do. Literally Dutch ovens. Yeah. OMG to 4487. And that could be delivered to you this afternoon. So how good that is. You could be making casserole over the weekend. Which is awesome.

I haven't had a good casserole for a while. It's just as good. Le creuset. Sorry. I love it. I had to say that again. One of the All Blacks joining us next, and you can meet them today. We'll tell you how in a few moments.

You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. This is pretty cool. If you're in Auckland today, you can go and meet a couple of the All Blacks. They're going to be at JB Hi-Fi and Westfield Mall in Albany. 10.30 this morning, they're launching the new Neurotrue earbuds right now. So pop along this morning. They're the official headphones of the All Blacks. Yeah.

Any unofficial headphones. The All Blacks, these are the only things the All Blacks are sticking in their ears. They don't even stick cotton buds in their ears. Only these things. Neurotrue earbuds. And we're joined by this man. As the All Blacks keep the pressure on. Tuinuku Afe.

And close to the line. And over the line. Big Carl. Yeah, Carl Tuinuku Afe joins us right now. Thanks so much for your time. Thanks for having me, guys. Anytime, Carl Tui Nuku'afe Joins us right now Thanks so much for your time Thanks for having me guys Anytime Carl, anytime Now, I know it's probably highly talked about

But your moustache Oh yeah Is exceptional It's a big, thick moustache A moustache I could only dream of growing How long have you had the moustache for? About five years, six years Yeah, I mean I've got a little ginger whispery,

you're like, what's happening on there? No, you're right, see why you have it now. But Carl, a few years ago, you were actually a bouncer before you were playing rugby. Yeah, I was working security with Auckland Live and then just bouncing around different clubs around the city. Now, can I ask you a question as a bouncer? The shoes. Yes. The shoe policy. Every time I walk into a bar, they're like, wrong shoes. I'm like, what?

What's wrong with these shoes? Is he wearing the wrong shoes? What's going on, Carl? Or is it more me as a person? It's the guy with the wispy ginger moustache. No, most of the time it's just a lie, just to get rid of really drunk people. Oh, yeah.

Well, that would say a lot. It's definitely, yeah. Do you kind of pinch yourself when you look at how quickly things have sort of happened for you? You know, as you say, it wasn't long ago you were a bouncer. You started playing for the Chiefs, and I think it was like three months later you were playing in the All Blacks. I mean, that's pretty incredible.

Yeah, no, I still buzz about it. It's been a pretty crazy journey, and it's just pretty cool to have a lot of people I don't even know all around the world being inspired by what I've done. So grateful to hear about all these fans overseas and stuff. So, yeah, it's crazy. The reason you got back into rugby is quite an important message, too. It was something your doctor said to you.

Yeah, he basically said I was setting myself up for a heart attack one day just because I was blown out over 170 kegs. So yeah, it was important for me to lose weight and I thought the best way was to go back to rugby, playing club for Tukupuna on the North Shore. Oh, good on you. I mean, it's so inspiring what you're doing

and seeing you out there in that first all-black Tess. Hey, my dog just said that to me and I'm still kicking, mate. I'm still here. Barely. But I remember seeing you in your first all-black Tess and the anthem was playing and you had tears in your eyes. I mean, that must have been such a special moment. Yeah, I couldn't get over how I was singing the national anthem

about to do the haka in front of a sold out crowd for Eden Park. And not long ago, I was just on the desk working security and all of a sudden I'm wearing a black jersey. I've overwhelmed all promotions. On any other day, you were throwing people out of Eden Park, but this time you're on it. How do you, like, because I imagine, as you said, that the emotion overcomes you. It's such an enormous moment in your life and your career. How do you then go, all right, got to snap out of that and start tackling people very hard?

Yeah, no, the emotion came in pretty hard with the National Anthem, but then the haka kind of woke me up and hyped me back up to, you know, do some work. Well, now today, as I said before, you guys are going to be, a few of you are going to be at Westfield Mall, Albany, 10.30 this morning. People can pop along. You've got these new Neurotrue earbuds. Before the games, what sort of music are you listening to on these types of earbuds?

What style, what genre, what's sort of pumping you up? Or do you like to be kind of relaxed before a game? And before you answer that, Carl, can I just say, being boys, there is some wonderful integration, client integration into the interview. Carl, what do you think of that integration, Carl? No, it was pretty good. Pretty good stuff.

Thank you. So now let's get back to the question about the new and true here, buds. What do you got on? What do you got blasting before the game? You know, a bit of old school Frank Sinatra. Oh, really? Yeah, and I like to be a little relaxed just because when you get overhyped, the last thing you want to do is something stupid to bring me back down,

like a little bit of old school jazz. Wow. Sinatra and jazz. I did it my way. That's cool. That's real. You are doing it your way Now we've got Carl Dwinokuwafe with us this morning

All black, now you're a father Do your kids understand what you do for a job Carl? Starting to My oldest boy, he used to think I played like soccer for years Until he like came to one of our games And found out We were carrying the ball instead

You never told me you did this. It must make it harder. You know, like I know a few of the guys are dads and stuff, but it must be hard when you're away from your family as well, you know, having kids. Yeah, no, it's definitely tough. You know, I'm pretty lucky to have partners that hold it down for us at home, and they kind of make it easier on us. Oh, well, that's awesome.

I'm looking forward to this weekend, you guys taking on the Wallabies. I was also looking online, you've done a little bit of a modelling. You were doing some clothing modelling for, I think, Johnny Big, the store, and you're saying you didn't have cauliflower ears. So when you get cauliflower ears, potentially, is that the end of your modelling career, or what's going to happen? Oh, yeah, I've got cauliflower now. It's probably why you don't see me off anyone anymore.

His modelling contract's been cancelled. As long as you can get some... Oh, here's a tie. As long as you can get some Neurotru earbuds in those ears, though, that's the main thing. Yeah, that's it. Exactly. Jesus, Ben Boyce has been exceptional this morning.

If I don't get a pair of headphones out of this, then I'm doing something wrong. Hey, Carl, it's lovely hanging out with you this morning. Hey, good luck tomorrow night. We've done very little talking about the game tomorrow night. It feels like it snuck up on us, but I'm sure it's not the same for you guys. No, no, the boys have been prepping pretty well. You know, Aussie just came off a good series with France,

so the boys are getting ready. Awesome. Tomorrow night, Eden Park. And, Carl, have a wonderful game. Have a wonderful day. And now we've got your number, we'll keep harassing you. Right. Love you, mate harassing you. All right. Love you, mate.

See you. Thank you. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh.