Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What happened to the missing fruit bowl from the Air BNB?

Episode Date: April 4, 2022

Jono and Ben talk about why Russell Crowe was followed by the FBI for a year. And seriously, what happened to the missing fruit bowl from the Air BnB???See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, 5th of April. It's the podcast. Ben, come on in, mate. Hey, back in the studio today. Did it feel weird coming into work? It did feel a little unusual, but then it didn't 10 minutes later. Yeah, that's funny. For about 10 minutes you're like, oh, this is unsettling, you know, but you've got to adjust, you've got to tell yourself, you've got to adjust to things in life these days, and yeah,

10 minutes later it was all forgotten. It was back to normal, right? Yeah, back to normal. It's nice to adjust to things in life these days. And yeah, 10 minutes later, it was all forgotten. It was back to normal, right? Yeah, back to normal. It's nice to have you back in here. Back to the normal scramble of trying to fill up another radio show tomorrow. Jeez, it's relentless, isn't it? At the moment, it just seems like a real, it feels like we're just keeping our head above. But now this isn't of any concern to the podcast, but this is raw, open us, isn't it?

And jeez, I think we're just keeping our head above water at the moment. Belle, you're new to The Fold. Yeah. Are you like, I've never seen a show just keep its head above water so much. This is day two for you. But when you come on air, you've got so much to talk about. And obviously, you know, behind the scenes there's things going on, but it doesn't sound like it when you're on air.

Oh, no, that's good. Well, you know, so you're saying you don't hear the desperation in our voices. No, it sounds like you know what you're doing. Oh, good. We clearly don't. There's a lot of panic going on. It's like a duck. Imagine on top of the water, you know, it's looking calm, but underneath, geez, they're working hard.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Performance. You don't see that underneath. The duck is really just going for it. And I don't want this to be taken the wrong way. Like, this is an honour to do this job. This is probably all the jobs we wanted to do since we were children And I don't want this to be taken the wrong way. Like, this is an honour to do this job. This is probably all the jobs we wanted to do since we were children. I don't know if Belle was filling in on our show. I don't think this is...

This is an honour. Oh, no, it's fun. I don't talk to someone that much. I often work on my own, so it's really fun to work with other people. We're appreciative of you being here. It's awesome. Well, thanks for having me. But, yeah, shit, it's a relentless hole of content.

I don't know. Just non-stop. And I know there's bigger issues going on in the world. But Ben, we've got a lot of... I think we should make it more like seasons, like TV shows. Season seven of John O'Byrne on the hits. You know, it's done. We're done.

How many episodes are you wanting a year? Oh, 12. You know, like a series. You're like, oh, I want to hear more about what's happened to them. Jeez, we come back with 12 episodes and, jeez, they're good. And do they just keep replaying those same shows? Yeah, we don't drop a cellar or anything. They stay on the same.

But they're really good, like everything, you know. How are you going to negotiate that one? Oh, I'm not. No. No, I'm not. Like a daily, weekly radio show in new seasons. That's the thing. But I wonder if other radio shows have suffered the same problem, where you're like,

gee whiz. Like towards the 10 to 9 today, we had nothing. We just kept talking. We had that Russell Crowe story. That was great. Oh yeah, it was an interesting Russell Crowe fact that'll be in the podcast, how he was followed around by the FBI for a couple of years. Well, I don't know why that wasn't big. Well, I know why it wasn't big in news, because the FBI probably don't want to go,

hey, we're following around Russell Crowe. So when did he recently reveal that it happened? No, you know how just old things pop up on TikTok and they're like did you know Russell Crowe was followed around by the FBI? And so I did further research and well I may as well tell you

what it was for. He was the target of a terrorist attack by Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden wanted to take down someone famous and at that period of time, no one was more famous than Russell Crowe. So this would have been probably Gladiator when he won the Oscar or something like that. Yeah, and so the FBI sort of just turned up in a hotel room.

Out of the blue, 10 of them, 10 FBI agents with the cool things on the T-shirts and the vests, said, mate, we're following you around for the foreseeable future. And everywhere he went, they went. But his major concern was, he was like, well, everyone thinks I'm an absolute tosser because I've hired the FBI. They're like, who do you think you are sort of thing.

But everywhere he would go, they would go. Yeah, fascinating. Just one day, they disappeared into thin air. So maybe Bin Laden moved on to someone else. And Russell would have conflicting emotions about that too. He's like, what, am I no longer important enough? Bin Laden doesn't want to assassinate me now? How would you feel if someone told you you were the plot of an assassination?

A bit weirded out by it. Why me, firstly? That's your first question. I'm the FBI. Mr. Boyce, we found that the terrorist organisation wants to assassinate you. Me? Are you flattered? Well, on the plus side, I don't have to fill out tomorrow's radio show.

Maybe I can do my 12 episodes and I'll be done. I guess it's a plus side. Silver lining. Enjoy the podcast today. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. Yeah.

When we come at you with celebrity gossip, we come at you with celebrity gossip hard. Hardcore celebrity gossip. Belle Crawford, what's happening, mate? Well, of course, the Grammys yesterday. Big day. And you can see all the red carpet fashion. That's what I want to see the most at the hitstockco.nz everyone's talking about what justin bieber wore which was this he looks like he's gone and a kid gone into his dad's wardrobe and just put on a massive suit that's way too big it was sort of a style back a lot the a lot of basketballers used to wear probably in the 90s oversized suits and stuff but he looked like he'd

grab something from shaquille o'neal i Way too big. I do follow Bieber on Instagram, and I have noticed just enormous jeans, too, he's wearing on stage. Yeah. Like, massive. Do you remember the origin jeans back in the day from Hugh Rice? This is old man conversation.

Do you remember that? I remember baggy jeans in the 2000s, but no, I don't know what you're talking about. They had, like, maroon-coloured ones, mustard-coloured ones, forest-green-coloured ones. They're coming back. That's coming back in.

They're very... Baggy pants are very fashionable at the moment, yeah. This is the key why I've ridden fashion out if I've worn the same clothes since the 90s, because it's cyclic. Come right around. Yeah. So beavers and baggy clothes, what else happened?

Yeah, well, there was a sneaky dig at the beginning. Now, Trevor Noah was hosting, and he made a dig about Will Smith's Slapgate. It is going to be such a beautiful evening. Don't even think of it as an award show. This is a concert where we're giving out awards. All right. We're going to be listening to some music. We're going to be dancing. We're going to be singing. We're going to be keeping people's names out of our mouths and we're going to be giving out awards. Yeah. Now, the big winners on the night, the jazz pianist i told you about yesterday john patisse

he's behind the soundtrack of disney's soul your kids may love that he was the big winner picking up five including album of the year foo fighters made history with their three wins taking them to a total of 15 grammys which is the largest number ever won by an american band kandia won a grammy for best melodic rap performance but he wasn there. He was dropped from the performance lineup. So he didn't even go at all. No, he wasn't there at all. Is there a category for Best Melodic Rap? Yeah.

They're really subcategorizing things. He's got a lot of Grammys now, Kanye, right? Yeah, he won two just yesterday. Silk Sonic won Song of the Year, which we were playing today. And Billie Eilish and Justin Bieber were said to be snubbed. She didn't pick up any. I'm just looking here. The most amount of Grammys won is actually by conductor George Salty.

He's got 32, but then Beyonce. Beyonce's got like, what's she got? 29? Wow. Jay-Z, 23. Kanye, 24 now in total. He's won more than Jay-Z. Good on him.

If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history. Jono and Ben on the hits. This morning, shaky start. Ben, you might notice that something's aloft about me today. I've got a half-brushed mouth. Not my usual full-rounded brushed mouth. Right. Did you notice that when I was there?

No, I haven't. No, I haven't. Because this morning, and you know, when you're getting ready, every minute's vital, isn't it? Prep time, vital stuff. Every second counts at that hour of the morning. And I was like, well, I might try brushing my teeth while standing over the toilet.

Right. You know, knock down some valuable seconds. I was just asking. But what happens is when you do this is you create an environment where you're not fully concentrating on one or the toilet. Right. You know, knock down some valuable seconds. I was just asking. But what happens is when you do this is you create an environment where you're not fully concentrating on one or the other. And so the hand grip of the electric toothbrush loosened and like slow motion, it kind of just drops directly into the eye of the storm. And it was still going.

So it was kind of like buzzing around. So it went into the toilet bowl. It went into the storm. Uh-oh. And it was still going, so it was kind of like buzzing around. So it went into the toilet bowl. It went into the bowl. Head up, so the brush is facing up, but it's still buzzing around like some sort of automatic toilet cleaner cleaning the porcelain. And then so I pulled it out,

and I didn't put it back in my mouth, obviously. I'm not a monster. That's good. Are you considering it, or is it a new replace the head situation? It's a replace the head situation It's either that or I'll forget and just brush my teeth with it tonight Those are the two options

It's not a replace toothbrush situation I know they're expensive Let's see some things It's been to places I've created the environment It's not like I've dropped it in a public toilet It's mine It's familiar like I've dropped it in a public toilet. But still. You know, it's mine.

It's familiar. Have you done that? No, I haven't dropped anything as such. Although back, I think I've told you this story before, back when we were flatting and making a TV show, the bathroom toilet sort of got to a stage where it was sort of rising. It was kind of like the, you know, maybe it was global warming. I'm not sure what it was, but it was rising. We were like, guys, there's something stuck down the toilet.

We talked to all the people in the flat. There's got to be something. Does anyone know? And everyone's like, no, no, no, I don't know. So we finally got a plumber around. And the plumbers, they do amazing jobs. And he put his hand right up inside the toilet and pulled out a power shell. And he was like, here's your problem.

The power shell had been stuck down there. And then one of the other flatmates was like, oh, yeah, that's right. When I was going for a pee that fell off the top of the toilet, I just thought I'd flush it. At no stage did he bring it up. When he'd bring up the fact that you tried to flush the power shell. We were for weeks going, what is wrong with the toilet? Anyone tried to do anything?

No, nothing. Nothing's ringing. Oh, no, no, no. I can't think of anything. I was like, you didn't bring that up once? Yeah. So anyway, power shells don't quite flush. Okay, so 800 the hits.

Lou Tube, we're going to talk about this. What have you lost down the loo? I know, Ben, for some reason when I'm at your house and the police knock on the door, you frantically flush stuff down the toilet. I don't know what that's all about, but anyway, he always desperately needs to go to the toilet when the police are at the door for some reason.

Anyway, must be a coincidence. So 800 the hits, telephone number. Lou Tube, what have you lost down the loo? 4487, let's get some calls on at 6.30. Next, it is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben. Rough start to the day for Jono, the electric toothbrush.

Down the toilet. I managed to rescue it, though. Don't worry. And we'll replace the head. I've actually put a calendar reminder in my calendar to replace the head this afternoon. Otherwise, I'm going to remember that about two days' time. Oh, yeah.

So, 800, the hits. Lou Tube, what have you lost down the Lou? Donna, you're on from Nelson. Yes. Yes, you're up at it. I dropped some false teeth. It's all set. Yours?

It was my first job in aged care, and in one hand I had the sluice bucket, and in the other hand I had the false teeth, and instead of just putting the sluice bucket down the sluice, I put the sluice and the teeth down the sluice. Oh, no. And so the resident's teeth, who they were, you would have had to explain what happened.

Yeah. But see, I was quite green at the time, so my in-charge did it for me. But what made it worse was I then flashed it. Oh, so it went. There were multiple stages you could have pulled out of this process. And not one of them did you choose to pull out of it. I love it.

No, I just went, oh, oh, yep, okay, I've got to flush it because there's urine down there. I remember a story. I can't remember if it was on the hits or not. Someone phoned through saying their granddad was so tight, he actually lost his false teeth down the toilet. But he went to the abattoir or whatever. And he was like,

if these turn up, can you hand them back? And he kept going every day for like a week. And eventually they turned up and found their way back home. Inside his mouth. I'm sure they went the teeth that I flushed out.

Maybe they were his teeth, but they look great. They look great. Hollywood smile. Shit-eating grin. Good on you, Donna. Have a good one. Thank you. Bye.

We appreciate it. On 0800 The Hits, we've got Neil. Morning. How are you? Not too bad. Yourselves? Yeah, we're doing all right. John, I had a rough start to the day.

He dropped his toothbrush in the toilet, and apparently you've dropped something else in the toilet. Oh, a cell phone. I've lost a cell phone in the toilet, and I lost one and threw it all in the washing machine, and one went in the washing machine. Oh, so multiple times. Oh, terrible, eh? A toothbrush?

How do you use a toothbrush down the toilet? Well, I was brushing my teeth over the doing. I was multitasking, okay? And it slipped in at an unfortunate time but did you did you fish yours out or you just flush it you're like oh there's no point I just flushed the toilet and it went slipped out as I was bending over to do my fly up and it just uh went down the loo with it I'm not going to the septic thing to try and find an old phone so so actually went that flushed right away the phone's gone wow could you still call it because it was still like trying to ring it reception was probably

a bit crappy oh yeah i think it was going for good mate it was uh yep one of the old flippy phones so then you've had this toilet incident and you think you'd learn from that but then you've put it in a washing machine as well yeah well that was the second one that was a replacement one. Threw all my clothes in the washing machine, and my phone was still in my pocket. And does the phone survive after that? No, no, it was a replacement again. Jeez, you're just mulling through your phones, aren't you?

Can you do the rice thing, though? Is that just a... Yeah, apparently, yeah. Yeah, someone told me about rice, or putting it in the fridge freezer or something was a level one, someone should put it in the

freezer. Put your phone in the freezer? So, well, there you go and so any advice you'd pass on to those listening? Don't brush your teeth

in the toilet. Yeah, that's Jono's advice but hey, you've taken it. Hey, Neil, thank you so much for sharing. We appreciate it. Okay.

Scrolling through your feed. It's like looking at the same meme every day and it Neil, thank you so much for sharing. We appreciate it. Okay. Scrolling through your feed. It's like looking at the same meme every day, and it's still bringing you that much joy. A lot of joy. Yeah, all right. If you've come for news and information, well, you've come to the right place. As long as you're not looking for good news and information,

here's something. Yesterday, another announcement. Geez, we love an announcement in this country, don't we? The red light, traffic light is set to continue for a bit longer. Businesses around New Zealand obviously a bit unhappy with that, wanting things to start opening up again. Particularly the hospitality sector, right? Is there still a limit for 200 inside?

Yeah, I think, yeah. And obviously no limit outside. Vaccine passes, as of yesterday, are up to the business discretion, but they're pretty much gone. Yeah, so gathering limits have been removed for outdoors. And indoors has increased slightly, but it's still, I mean, in some bars it doesn't really help out. We were just saying if you were anti-vax, you would have lost your job,

you know, in the previous months. Yeah. So now the unvaccinated can go back into a workplace, no questions asked. Yeah, I think you're right. There's going to be some more good conversations around the country, aren't there? Hey, so listen, things got wild a few months ago. We let it get away on us. Come back.

Come on back. There's so many teachers. Yeah. You know, people who were on the front line lost their gigs. I think there's still vaccines for some of the medical industries and things like that. It's still continuing, right? Fair enough. Well, there we go.

Next week they're going to review the light system, aren't they? I think so, yeah. I think by now it's all white noise, basically. Everyone's just over it. Doesn't matter to you, buddy. You're super immune. You've had it, Ben. Yeah.

And cricketer Ross Taylor, one of our greatest ever cricketers, played his last game last night for the Black Caps after 16 years. Pretty incredible. He'll go out as New Zealand's highest run scorer across all formats. 450 games for New Zealand, 40 centuries across all formats of the game. Pretty incredible, 16 years. Never met him before, but he comes across, he conducts himself as a very unassuming sort of gentleman, doesn't he?

Yeah. He's not out there making a fuss like me, making it all about him, is he? He's just a team player. I loved his family were on the field last night, I noticed as well. Yeah, it was kind of special. A lot of emotion in his eyes, you know, when the anthem played for the final time. He went to the same school for a while. He went to the school I went to for a couple of years, Wadaipa College, before he went to, I think, Palmy North.

He's too good for cricket. We'll take him. You've already got a bugbear with Ross Taylor, though, don't you? Yeah, because there's a wall of people that succeed from the school. So it's always been my dream to get on this wall. Yeah, succeed is probably the key word there.

Yeah, and I've never got on the wall. But Ross Taylor, I was like, oh, how many times are you up there? And he's like, three times. Three times he's got a fight. That feels like, I mean, he had a great career, one of the best, and I love him. But it feels like you're just, you're up there? And he's like, three times. Three times he's got a fight. Like, that feels like, I mean, he had a great career, one of the best, and I love him, but it feels like you're just, you're filling up wall space.

I mean, they could have put you up there. You're a good filler content. Every year they have their AGM, all right? Anyone else we can chuck on the wall of success? We'll put another Ross Tala final up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All in favour of that? All right, who were they playing last night?

It was the Netherlands. Yeah, they look like little road cones, don't they was the Netherlands. Yeah. They look like little road cones, don't they, the Netherlands? Yeah, they look like road cones from a place you can enjoy many cones, actually, over there in Holland. But they did it right, actually, because they're obviously

not a top-tier nation, but they did okay. Well, so come down here, mate. We'll kick your arse and send you back to the Netherlands. When you go with orange as your national colour,

you're making a statement, aren't you? Yeah. You've got to be confident rocking orange. It doesn't suit everyone, orange. Belle Crawford, what are you, a fan of orange? colour, you're making a statement, aren't you? Yeah. You've got to be confident rocking orange. It doesn't suit everyone, orange. Belle Crawford, what are you, a fan of orange? Oh, there's, you know, some of it's sort of trending at the moment. Yeah, you could pull off orange, Belle.

Oh, thank you. Not me, not me, not for me. I'm beige and dark colours, thank you. A bit carrot-y on you, wouldn't it? Yeah. Bieber could pull off an orange suit. Yeah, but they don't have a choice, the Netherlands. That's what they've gone with.

Mainly the first question is, do you want to join the cricket team here? Second question, how do you look at orange? It's Jono and Ben, but FYI, Ben is open to other options. Jono and Ben on the hits. You said forever, now I drive alone past your street. It is 6.51, Olivia Rodrigo. She won three Grammys yesterday at the Grammy Music Awards. I imagine it's a problem. I've never won any Grammys and at the Grammy Music Awards. And I imagine it's a problem.

I've never won any Grammys and never will. But when you win three and you're trying to hold them, it's quite hard to hold them together. And she dropped one and broke one on the red carpet. Well, they sound like they've got a bit of weight behind them too. Yeah, definitely. We'll have more from the Grammys in Spite Entertainment News. And thanks to Disney+, where the Kardashians are streaming on April 14,

only on Star on Disney+. You're a big Rodrigo fan. You watched the documentary, didn't you, last week? I really went deep in some things when I had COVID. I watched some things. I watched... Tell us one interesting fact about Rodrigo. I found her just fascinating.

She's just turned 19, and she's just so in touch with emotions and feelings and you know they talk songs about you know she's been this guy obviously dumped me and i loved him and all this you know so she's really deep she's 19 i'm like i'm as deep as a teaspoon you know like compared to her like it's pretty incredible that wasn't a fun fact no it wasn't it was more about yeah because it was more about the stories behind the songs and you know she's like this the guy broke up and i was in this thing. No one knows more about Rodrigo's track by track. Yeah. Big story. I went on a journey with her through COVID.

There were tears. There was laughter. Yeah. Now, I don't know if you've noticed on our work computer system, which is run through the Bill Gates Microsoft empire. Yeah. Now, I got sent an email through the Microsoft program yesterday,

which was your monthly review from Microsoft. Now, the last thing I need is to be reviewed, have a performance review from my work email program, which I want to front foot and say I don't spend much time on. Okay? But it's given me a blow-by-blow account of what's gone on over the last month, you know, through the month of March.

And out of 24 days, I was inactive. 24 out of the 31 days of March. And I'm thinking, dear God, does this get sent straight to Bogsy, our CEO? That's prior going. 24 inactive days out of 31. oh, does this get sent straight to Bogsy, our CEO? How's Pryor going? 24 inactive days out of 31. I participated in zero Teams meetings, expected no meetings, invited no one to meetings. So I'm like, on this account, I look like the worst employee.

Don't you? Productivity is down on Pryor's Microsoft account. But then I'm like I always feel like a responsibility To send him all my Gmail stats Because I've got a Gmail I'm up to all sorts of stuff Prolific emailer on Gmail

I was like Bogsy have a look at the Gmail stuff Sending all sorts of emails at weird times of the night Mate those stats are through the roof But yeah the old Microsoft ones are not pretty You should have a look at yours Ben Get your numbers up boys Those stats are through the roof. But yeah, the old Microsoft ones are not pretty. You should have a look at yours, Ben. Oh, jeez. Get your numbers up, boys. Get my numbers up.

The sure weather masks make them look a whole lot better. John Owen Ben on the hits. Putin, Vladimir Putin, president of Russia. We all know what he's doing in the Ukraine at the moment. Terrible stuff. And if you think he couldn't be any more of a terrible person, well, he also now has released his Beauty regime which he partakes in

Which is bathing In the blood Of a deer Really? Although when you hear about it you wouldn't expect anything less That's the only way I'd probably imagine Putin bathing in blood But apparently There is a purpose to it

And the fact that uh it does improve your health and well-being but also it improves your love life for those yearning for a partner drenched in animal blood yeah you want a good hose off after that wouldn't you you want to stain your skin wouldn't it yeah i think you come out like looking looking like a Savloy or a Cheerio or something, I'm imagining. But then, I don't think this is out of this world. So Bob Charles, the bloody old golfer, he was hocking off deer velvet or something, wasn't he? That's right. There was some capsules or something like that.

I don't think it was bathing in anything. No, no. You call that, oh, he was swinging his one wood around the place, wasn't he? Through the deer valve? So apparently there are health benefits to it. Health benefits, yeah. But of course, the cast of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer have to perish for those benefits, Ben. Yeah.

But Putin, mate, made love to you for hours. Oh, jeez. All night long. Okay? Wouldn't even get a rest. I imagine there's a lot of beauty treatments that people do try. Or even just doing you know doing day-to-day beauty stuff that could go horribly wrong as well right yeah you

know what i've started to notice the older i get is and i spend a lot of time reflecting on this during my isolation over the last seven days is i've got one singular wayward eyebrow here that you know the rest are all playing the, they're all travelling down the same motorway but this one here just wants to keep taking the off ramp and I can't contain it and then I pull it out and it comes back bigger, stronger, all sorts

it's facing in all directions of the compass, this one here you know, eventually I'm going to be 80 years old with like 6 hairs just above each eye, just all going in all sorts of directions. Belle Crawford's filling in for Juliette because Juliette's left us. You were saying as well, you've had an eyebrow incident.

Yeah, eyebrows and eyelashes. You know how we're all about eyebrows, lashes. Well, you can get eyelash extensions. And when they first came out years back, I got some and I got too close to a heater and they singed off. I saw them disappear right before my eyes. How long were the extensions? You know, a nice little flick out. Fairly long.

And then before you know it, thankfully my eyelashes were okay underneath. But it was scary. I thought it was going to burn my eyes off. Highly flammable lashes. The thing too with eyebrows and eyelashes, when they're gone You really notice them

But you don't give them You got yours shaved off Didn't you Well yeah And it wasn't for a prank Really You came back And you'd been to the barber

And I think the barber Was just like Hey look I can't charge this guy 40 bucks Because there's not much Hair to cut So is there any other

Options Any other places He was like Do you want me to Shave your eyebrows But he said it in a tone That this was common practice Do you want me to Just run the? But he said it in a tone that this was common practice. Do you want me to just run the blades over, he said.

I'll run the blades over the brows. I was like, oh yeah, okay. So he seems to sound like he knows what he's doing. You came back and it was something just a little off with you. Went to most of the musicals that night. I think they had to draw eyebrows on me. One of the cast of Sesame Street or something like that. So beauty disasters, we'd love to hear from you this morning.

Talking your beauty regime, learnt that Putin are bathing in deer blood to keep him healthy, fit, and an absolute machine in the sack, apparently, Vladimir Putin. But, you know, if I was bathing in deer blood, I don't know. I don't know if I'd go public with that.

It could be me and my little secret special time. I'm not going to release a press release about it or anything. No, but an interesting character, isn't he? He is. To put it lightly. He is unique. Yeah, well, we were talking about when he was voted Time Magazine's Person of the Year. That wasn't that long ago, right?

No, 2007 or something. Jeez, time to change. But he did his own photo shoot, and I think he was the own creative director on the photography shoot as well where he took the him and a photographer uh him and his camo army pants shirtless with sort of petrol station speed dealer sunglasses on and him and uh just various poses shirtless around it was a lake riding a horse shirtless sitting on a chair shirtless, anything shirtless.

And he must have emailed those photos to Time and they would have gone, oh, okay. I guess we can put these in a publication. So we're talking beauty disasters. Belle, you had a former flatmate who had a bit of a shocker. Yeah, I reckon this is pretty common. DIY waxing. Honestly, don't do it. It's the worst.

It's so painful. I've only been involved in prank waxing. Oh, it's not fun. Thanks to radio, but yeah. Yeah, just do yourself some favour. Get some laser. It's all good. But she had an incident where she actually had to go to a professional to have the wax cut off.

What, she left it on too long? Well, she couldn't get it off. It was stuck. It was stuck on, and so she had to go get it chopped off. How did they cut it? And she had to ask a family member to go drive it. It'd be like peeling Duracell off a book. Yeah.

Yeah, it's not very – it could rip your skin. It's ouchy. I imagine Winnie the Pooh and Honey would probably have that same sort of thing. Winnie would get it stuck to his – He never thought about the work that he has to do. Parts of Winnie. Well, he's got no trousers on. Has Winnie got no trousers on?

Yeah, he's running an interesting regime. He's got a T-shirt. He's the opposite of Putin. Putin, you know, together, they'd have a full set of clothing. But between them, yeah, yeah. All right, we've got Bex on the 800 of the hits. You had a beauty disaster, Bex?

I did. I heard about these fabulous tanning tools where you didn't have to apply a smidgen of self-tanning creams onto your legs or anything, and thought these would be brilliant. You take a tablet every day, and you get a beautiful golden brown tan. Oh, I've never heard of it. Oh, you take a pill? A pill.

Oh, okay, I've never heard of this. Yes, I did a bit of research because I wasn't sure what these things were going to contain. And it turned out it was just a bit of food colouring, like the stuff that colours carrots and things like crustaceans and shellfish and that sort of thing. Right, so how long were you taking these tablets for? I took them for about a month. Did anything happen? Did you get like an orangey carrot complexion?

After about two and a half weeks, there was a little bit of a tan coming through. And then by the end of the month, I started to look a little bit orange. You looked like jaundice or something. Yep. You had the Oompa Loompa going on there. I did look like an Oompa Loompa, yep.

So how long, once you stopped taking them, does it fade or what happens? It started to fade, but it took a few weeks to fade entirely. I kept walking around with a slightly orange glow. I'm no medical expert, but alarm bells started ringing for me when you said tanning pills. Yeah, I should have known. And so would you go back to the tanning pills? Never ever again.

Oh, fair enough. It's just better to get melanoma, isn't it? Well, no. Hey, thank you so much for sharing that with us. Not a problem. Thanks, Bex. Looked like the Netherlands cricket team for a little while there. Let's get Kate on from Tauranga.

Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Kate. Morning, team. How are we going? Doing well. What happened? It was a beauty disaster. Morning, team. How are we going? Doing well. What happened? It was a beauty disaster. Well, my best friend was going through beauty school, and she kind of needed a model to help her out.

We were doing some, like, eyebrow and lash tint, and I was like, okay, sure, I'll give it a crack. But I ended up getting really quite burned because she left it on too long or something wasn't right in the mixture so I had burnt eyebrows and almost no lashes left. Thank goodness it didn't

scar but yeah I had to draw on everything almost for I think about just under a month. There is a little journey isn't there? I find that with tattoo artists as well. They need to practice on someone. You know, they've got some shaky years at the top of their career,

don't they, the tattoo artists? You're right. Day one, you're not nailing it, you know. Yeah, our friend's brother did it, and he was kind of like the canvas for his brother learning. So, you know, there was some questionable ones over there, and the same with your friend, Kate. You know, it's a path to get to the professionalism

status. So thank you very much for your call. Appreciate it. No worries. Have a good day. Morning Contained Storgy Parenting Advice. Shono and Ben on the hits. Now you promised a hack of parenting proportions. Now if I'm not hacked, Ben, I'm going to be leaving here disappointed. I think this is great even if you're not a parent

just in any household at all. So we were talking the other day about Bluetooth. And you were saying that people that talk on their phone, just wearing a little Bluetooth earpiece can seem like a little crazy. Deranged, yeah. Because they're talking. You're like, who are they talking to? You don't know, right?

Hopefully someone. Hopefully not the voices in their head. But we got one of our kids a pair of sort of Bluetooth wireless headphones for Christmas so you don't have to plug it into the phone they can listen to music or if they go on a run or things like that. So we all know how wireless is. I just want to explain the technology.

Belle were you aware of how wireless is? Did you need more explanation guys? I love that mansplaining it's great. I can mansplain you this guy so the headphones, not plugged in just the headphones. Wow! I've explained it all there for guy. So the headphones, not plugged in. No wireless. Yeah, just the headphones. There you go. Wow. I've explained it all there for you.

So we've got this one of the kids. And I, a few days ago, thought, I'll try these out, give these a blast around the house. But I hadn't even plugged them in. I hadn't even connected them, because you can just connect them to your phone without a wire, guys. That's the beauty of these things. They're wise.

Are you kidding me? What an age we live in. Yeah. But I hadn't even connected them in and then one of the kids the kids were having some discussion I was like oh Indy get out of my room

dad dad and I was like I couldn't ignore this because I'm wearing headphones yeah and I did and I was like and it was a wonderful moment

because my wife Amanda had to go sort this thing out and she was like oh you didn't and she was like oh you didn't hear that because you had the headphones on you're like yeah

yeah and this is great so now when I didn't hear that because you had the headphones on. You're like, yeah, yeah. And this is great. So now when I get home, you just put these wireless headphones, they're wireless, they're not connected to anything, on, and you can just wander around the house. Everyone thinks you're listening to music and you can get out of, you know, like, oh, it's about to rain.

Can you get the washing off the line? I haven't heard that because I'm wearing headphones. I'm listening to stuff, sorry. Yeah. You point at your ears and you do the thing where you don't know what's going on the um the one thing too i like about uh parenting when you first start you get all pretentious of like our child should never lay eyes upon any device yeah we all do it yeah we all do it and then you know within about a year to year and a half the device is probably the third most important parent in any family it's a great day when they can work out how to basically unlock the ipad and

when they're downloading apps you're like mate go go go hard yeah so i'm like hey there's a little hack walk around with wireless headphones or any headphones at all people just think you're listening to stuff and they and you get out of a lot of stuff. The problem is you look like a douche with wireless headphones, but if you could put up with that. I look quite cool, even though I'm not listening to anything

and I'm ignoring the dog barking or the kids arguing, whatever it is. My thing is though, what justifies keeping them in your ears? You know, I'm looking at courier drivers, Uber drivers, truck drivers. Those are people who can have wireless headphones. They can have them them in all day but are you receiving such a volume of calls or listening to so much just these are just listening to us but i'm rather you're listening to stuff but you're

right yeah no i wouldn't be getting enough calls to but to warrant a whole day's worth of wandering around oh he's gone he's gone wireless headphones okay he must be a busy guy scrolling through your feed straight from his mouth organ into your ear holes. This is the news. What's happening, Ben? We're talking a lot about the Grammys, which were on yesterday in LA and in New Zealand. New Zealand tenor Simon O'Neill, he won a Grammy, which is pretty awesome. So he was part, he joined with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

I always struggle with Philharmonic. Yeah. So one of those words is always, it's an R. Kelly's heel for me. So they won Best Choral Performance at the Grammys yesterday, which is lovely relaxing. Just wanted to get the party started. Yeah. And he wasn't actually at the Grammys.

He'd just left to go do some work in Germany, but he got a call at three in the morning. Jet lag. He wasn't even watching. Got a call from his wife going, guess what? You've just won a Grammy. He's like, oh, wow. And he was like, maybe I should have a beer. And he's like, I'm just by myself. Maybe I'll have a beer tomorrow.

A three in the morning beer. But you can see, hey, I've just won a Grammy. So it's pretty impressive. You can't start your drinking at three in the morning. You can end it. Wrap it up around then. From Ashburton. So there you go. How cool is that? So congratulations to Simon O'Neill winning a Grammy yesterday. Well done.

You always hear about all the bloody, the Bruno Marses, don't you? And the Billie Eilishes. Not about the Simon O'Neills. Yeah, exactly. Good on you, Ben. So there we go. And a TikToker over in the UK has revealed the horror of eating. So she was eating some biscuits.

And she realized after she'd had two biscuits that the sort of dark specks on top she thought were seeds uh were actually ants lots and lots of ants all over the biscuits and she uh talked about it on tiktok well i noticed when the flavor started tasting like pennies like i was chewing on coins then i noticed the ant dust on my mouth so oh that's didn't you do that with some raisins? Yeah, I did that with raisins. He was eating them and he was like, why are the raisins moving? Yeah, that was just, yeah.

You ate the whole packet, didn't you? I tried. You know, you open your mouth and you're like, and it's just all around. So that was a really horrible playtime, a recess time at school when that happened. So I feel a pain on this. I did that once with some milk that I thought was milk going into some coffee, and it wasn't quite the milk I was hoping for.

You've made this up. It was just off milk. Oh, right. What did I make it sound like? I think it wasast milk or something Like a sample or a specimen Maybe you're working at a horse place collecting specimens, I'm not sure

I was like, jeez, where is he going with this? I do need to separate my horse samples I've told you that before Five words for 5k You're just five words away from $5,000 It is our game of word association We play it every morning on the hits Five words for $5,000

We tell you five words, you tell us what pops into your head After those five words and a full five match up with ours You win five grand It's the competition that stops a nation People grind to a halt on the motorway And it's caused men, it's very hazardous on the roads But Laura, are you driving at the moment? Hi.

You're not driving? No, not driving. Yeah, good. You're safe. You're safe. You've ground to a halt. You want to win $5,000, don't you, Lazar? Love to.

Now, talk to us about Laura. You know, what's going on in your life? Let's get to know you. Oh, just mum of an almost three-year-old and not much other than that at the moment really she's pretty full-on i can imagine you get to the other side of it though three years old though which is good yeah yeah getting there right now i have a serious question would you like to win five thousand dollars of course? You gave me a serious answer as well. Now you need to decide who you're going to send into the soundproof booth like a disobedient

boy. Who's it going to be? I'm going to go with Jono. All right. Jono's going to make his way. First time back in the studio for us to play the game. So first time back in the soundproof booth for Jono. And so let's rip into it.

Here is your first word this morning, Laura. What pops into your head when I say Channing? Channing. Channing. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Was there anything else you could go with there, Belle? I couldn't think of anything else. It's really hot, but that's two words.

Well, true. Mute is word number two, Laura. M-U-T-E, mute. Deaf. Deaf, oh yes. Drum is word number three. D-R-U-M, drum. Coke.

Sorry, I missed that. What's Coke? Coke, like Coca-Cola. What's a drum? Oh, so not rum and Coke. It's a drum with a D at the start. Oh, a drum. Sorry.

That's right. Bass. Drum, bass. Yeah. That's right. Bass. Drum, bass. Yeah, that's nice. Sorry, that's what confused me. I was like, oh, interesting. The rum and coke, I get you now. Heaven is word number four.

Heaven. Hell. Heaven and hell. And army is word number five this morning. Laura, army. Sergeant. Sergeant. Sergeant. All right.

We'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth and we'll see if we can match all five words. You did really well with some challenging ones this morning. That's not what you want to hear, Jono, coming back out. You didn't tell me you were renting that booth out to the Department of Corrections, Ben. There were two prisoners in there, Scruff and Tugger. Lovely gentlemen.

Now, let's win you 5K. Yes, please. Let's do it, Laura. There were two prisoners in there, Scruff and Tugger. Lovely gentlemen. Now, let's win you 5K. Yes, please. Let's do it, Laura. All right. First word this morning we said to Laura was Channing. Tatum. Yeah. We also would have taken really hot as well, apparently,

but that was the word we were looking for was Tatum. Is he really hot, Laura? Ish. I don't know. Ish? Adding an ish onto Tatum. He's going to be Laura? Ish. I don't know. Adding an ish onto Tatum. He wouldn't be in my top five. He wouldn't be in your top five.

Who's in your top five? Let's leave that for now. Now we're trying to win some money. Top five of the five words coming out of your mouth, Jennifer. That's what she wants. She's not trying to sidetrack here. What are you, our boss, Laura? Mute is word number two. Oh, God, that's what she wants. She's not trying to sidetrack here, all right. What are you, our boss, Laura? Mute is word number two.

Mute, M-U-T-E. Mute, button. Oh, we went deaf this morning, of course. Oh, deaf? Yeah. Yeah, no, that's Laura, I'm sorry. That's all right. All right, who's your top five hot guys then?

It's for another day. Let's quickly rattle through, see how you would have gone with the rest of the words. Drum. Drum kit. Heaven was word number four. Hell. Oh, yeah, nice. And army.

Army tank. Yeah, sergeant. Some tricky words with lots of options. Laura, thank you so much for playing. We really appreciate it this morning. No worries. Cheers, guys. And we will never. We really appreciate it this morning. No worries. Cheers, guys. And we will never find out who was in her top five hot list.

We'll get it back on. If we get you back on to play five words, you're going to tell us, all right? You never know, don't you? You never know. Good on you, Laura. Have a good one. Hey, next, we were talking about beauty disasters about 20 minutes ago, and something's come through,

and it would be remiss of us not to put this call to air. It is terrifying what happened oh yeah stick around for this the hits just talking about 20 minutes ago about putin who's admitted that one of his beauty regimes is uh bathing in a tub full of deer blood um that keeps him young yeah and healthy odd and apparently an absolute demon in the sack being boys. Vladimir Putin. Right. Don't even think about going there.

You wouldn't have the stamina. No, definitely not. Not a skinny little man like you. We were talking beauty disasters, though, weren't we? And this call's come through. Oh, it's amazing. Melissa, you were on 0800 The Hits. What happened? Yeah, so I was in the shower and shaving under my arms. And as I moved from one side to the other, my nipple.

You got your nipple? Yes. Oh, with the razor. I'm holding my nipples now out of sympathy. Yeah, yeah. I think everyone is. I imagine I haven't done it, but I imagine there's a lot of pain going on in that moment. Yeah, it hurt a lot.

I texted my cousin who'd been telling me not long before about her daughter biting her during breastfeeding, and I was like, I think I have a vague idea of what you feel like now. Did her daughter bite her nipple off? No, it didn't bite it off, but it bit, you know. Do you ever to ask, is there a lot of blood in this situation? A lot of blood. Bleed like a sick pig.

It's like a literal blood bath, really, isn't it? You're in the bath with it. What do you do? Do you put a little sticking plaster over your nipple? I stuck a plaster on for a couple of days. Poor thing. Did you almost slice it off, or was it just a gash?

No, it was just, yeah, it was definitely cut, but yeah, it wasn't dangling. Oh, my goodness. It wasn't dangling. I don't know. I don't have any more questions on this. I want to move on. No follow-ups from the dangling nipple?

No. Oh, God. And has it changed your shaving regime now, Melissa? I imagine you'd be a lot more cautious. Yes. I've got quite a wide berth going from one side to the other now. Oh, Melissa. Thank you for sharing that with us.

You got more questions, Giorno? I feel like you've got more. I've got no more. I'm moving on. We lost him at the dangling bit, didn't we? He did. He did. Melissa, thank you for sharing, I think.

All right, you have a great day. No worries. See you, buddy. You too. Rise and shine. Time to start the... Who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Cliffhanger calls is something we like to do from time to time when a listener reckons they have a story that's worthy of a cliffhanger, worthy of two parts. But it's up to you guys to decide if you want to hear the full story. Yeah, and generally these calls are so intense you won't even want to leave your car. Even if you've driven into a pond and it's slowly filling up, you won't be able to leave your vehicle.

So if you'd like to partake in cliffhanger calls, you think you do have a story that is worth hanging over a song, then you can text 4487. But in the meantime, we're going to get Sarah on the show. How are you going? Hello, how's it going? Good. Doing well. Now, you've got a story you reckon is good for a cliffhanger.

It's good for us to stick around for part two? Yeah, I reckon it'll be pretty good, yeah. Give us a little entree. What are we looking forward to here? The canaps. All right. So my in-laws run an Airbnb in the Coromandel. They do pretty well at it but they wanted to go down and stay in the batch themselves so they went and had the cleaners put through

after the last guest at the Airbnb. Went down to the Coromandel, was all good and then they got there and my mother-in-law noticed that the fruit bowl in the Airbnb was missing and she's like quiet about where things are and, you know, she's got all of her ducks in a line but she couldn't find this fruit bowl. So she was like searching around the house for it. So she's quite particular, is she, with these sort of things? Yeah, yeah.

Like she's not one to just kind of, like she's going to notice if something is missing or something is wrong, especially in the Airbnb. Yeah, you do notice a fruit bowl because they're always, you know, they're on display in prime locations, aren't they? Yeah, on the bench, in the kitchen you're going to notice if it's gone but anyway she was looking around the house

couldn't find it and she thought that maybe the previous guest had broken it and then hid it somewhere and just not told them but you know, whatever, it's all good, it's just a fruit bowl but then they were getting ready for dinner that night and then she was sitting at the table for dinner and she was getting the placemats out of that night and then she was sitting at the table for dinner

and she was getting the placemats out of the drawer and then she found the fruit bowl. Oh, she found it? Yeah. There was a bit more to the fruit bowl story. I was going to say, is that the end of the story? I've heard all I need to hear. It's a happy ending.

She's found the fruit bowl. Was there fruit flies? Was there fruit on it? I want to know. Can you not, without ruining the story. I've heard all I need to hear. It's a happy ending. She's found the fruit bowl. Was there fruit flies? Was there fruit on it? I want to know. Can you not without ruining the story but what happens? Was she cut? Okay, so there were three kind of items on slash in the fruit bowl. Is that enough of a cliffhanger?

Oh, okay. So these are new items that weren't hers. That definitely do not belong to her. Okay, okay. So these are new items that weren't hers. That definitely do not belong to her. Okay. All right. That's it. All right. Well, that's where we're going to leave it.

Under the hits, 4487 on the text. We're going to play a song and we'll come back and maybe, maybe we'll hear the end of the story. Maybe we won't. Maybe we'll be dissatisfied that the fruit bowl was found and that's all there was to it. We'll find out how the rest of the story ends next

after Jolie and Pet streams it as the hits. You got John, I'm Ben. We're in the middle of a cliffhanger call where we hear someone's best story and you decide on 4487 on the text if you want to hear the whole story or if you just want to stop it halfway through. And a lot of texts coming through on 4487.

We'll get Sarah back on. Just recap the story for us, Sarah. Okay, so parents and in-laws have an Airbnb. They went back to the Airbnb, couldn't find this fruit bowl. We're looking for it, and my mother-in-law has since found it in a drawer with some items in slash on it.

Now, we were shocked enough to discover that the fruit bowl had gone missing. And so you can only imagine our joy to know that at least it's been found. Not broken as well. It's been found safely. Okay, it's been found safely. Now, everyone on the text are intrigued where this is going, what's going on.

So on 4487, everyone overwhelmingly wants to hear the rest of the story. So continue. All right, so found the fruit bowl, and then inside the fruit bowl there is a king's plant barn like loyalty card there is also a rolled up 50 note and then kind of on the fruit bowl slash like around the edge there is a white powder oh like it could be flour It could be baking powder It could be anything Yeah Well yeah

Especially if they've got The King's Plant Barn Loyalty card too It might be some sort of Garden stuff You sprinkle on your dirt You know It could be yeah

Yeah like that That's throw us a little bit So anyway She ends up Sending a photo Of the fruit bowl With the stuff And flesh on it

To our family group chat So in this family group chat There is All of the Kids And all of the fruit bowl with the stuff and flesh on it to our family group chat so in this family group chat there is um all of the kids and all of their kids partners in this chat so she's like what what is this what have i discovered yeah she's like oh like no worries guys found the fruit bowl but does anyone know what this is or what it means and no one really said anything hey mom you might want to wash that or anything like that. So then I thought it would be really funny to say, hey, why don't you just pick up a little bit of the powder with your finger and put it in your gum?

Okay. Okay. To test, you know, maybe it's your icing sugar. You know, like, yeah. Yeah, you know, and she said, oh, that's a really good idea. You know, I've seen people do that on movies to kind of see what the powder is. And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how you test for what the substance might be. Unless it's anthrax and then you definitely don't want to do it.

Anyway, she's gone there. You've gone there. Anyway, she's got it. And then she does that, puts it in her gums, obviously. And then a couple of hours went by. I get a call from my father-in-law. And he is, like, kind of a little bit freaking out. So anyway, my mother-in-law is dancing on tables in the Airbnb

and he's trying to get her to calm down for dinner but she's just like having a whale of a time and doesn't really care. So anyway, I think I like kind of handily spiked my mother-in-law. Well, it wasn't obviously from you in the first place, but jeez. I mean, I think she had a great time, but I think it was just unexpected. She was a lot more productive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was getting it done.

Incredible. And so has there been any fallout from... I mean, as much as she's a little bit uptight, I would say she does have a good sense of humour. So she saw the light of it and she didn't think it was that bad, but she was definitely surprised that I suggested that she do that. But no, she was fine and everything was fine and I think it'll be a good story in a couple of years' time.

It's a great story now, for us at least. Don't worry about two years. And now she's just trying to figure out how she can feel that good again, I assume. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She might be messaging me later as well. Oh, unbelievable. Thank you so much for sharing that with us.

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I'm great, thank you. Morena. What are you doing, Nikki? You sound busy, sound like you're in a car, multitasking. Yes, stopping kids off at the store, then off to work. Yeah, right. Hi, kids. Hi. How are you? They sound pumped to talk to each other.

Yeah, you happy to be on the radio with your hero? Say yes, yes. Say yes. Say yes. Say yes. The nice man wants to give me free petrol. Just say anything. Agree with anything he says.

All right, Nikki, the game. It's pretty simple. You've already got $50 worth of petrol thanks to gas. Oh, awesome. Thank you. That's where we're going to start. We're going to kick off the pump, and when it runs out of petrol, that's when your time runs out.

So you need to yell stop before it does so, okay? Yep. Now the game will. $50. $87. $105. $143. $198.

$230. Oh, well done. Did you hate the kids? You still there, kids? You didn't tell me your mum was an absolute mad dog. $230. Well done, Nicky. Oh, well, awesome.

Now we need to see where the pump would have run out, so let's go back to the pump. $248 $260 Oh, well paid. Missed out on $30, Nikki. Well done. You played a really good game.

I was really hoping it would go over 200 because I was like 200 is my limit. Oh, you did well. It cost 200 bucks to fill your car up. I've never filled it completely up so I'm not sure. You've got to be driving a truck. Well, you can now. Well done

Nikki. Well played. Another chance to play this afternoon with Brad and Laura at 5.20 and we'll do it again tomorrow morning at 8.20. Can I just say, who's your hero, kids, just once more? Don't, don't. Why are you doing this? Mum. Oh, Mum.

Yes. Oh, yeah. This is a sensible option. They don't own beds. That's okay. That's all right. Mum, no, I'll take Mum. Why do you do that?

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Sure. Sure, there we go. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, my mum, Annie Pryor, thought I knew her. And I came out of her. I don't know if you know how that works, Ben.

Yeah, I know. She played some part in creating this. You've got her to blame. Yeah, right. But she kept the world's biggest secret hidden from me for an entire week last week so she phones me up yesterday annie and this is indicative of that generation and she's did a big reveal on the phone she's like now's the time to tell you jay and i'm like what she's like i've had covid for a week she didn't tell me she's like I didn't want to make a fuss.

You know, and it's so, of that, you know, I didn't want you to worry about us down here. And I'm thinking. Well, you couldn't have done anything, I guess. No, but then she was almost proud that she, but everyone in Christchurch knew. Her mate Jan knew. Dad knew.

The neighbours sent a balloon text going, oh, you're on your day seven you know celebrate i think they even took out like a plane you know the advertising thing behind the plane and he's got covid but uh i i didn't know and she was just like i didn't want to make a fuss and when you worry about me and your dad and she's like i know you had it as well and i'm i feel horrible because i'm like wow jeez i was banging on that we had covered you know i was hoping that we were covered you know i was hoping that we were going to get a new zealand hero headline ben you heard me yeah you were

trying to make it so i was just bullying kids into saying i was their hero just three minutes ago yeah and then she's funny i'm going i didn't want to make a fuss so she's all good now she's got through the she's clear now yeah good yeah but it's it's she's like i'm in the clear there's nothing to worry about now but it's such quick-fire set of emotions to go through because I wasn't worried when you first called. No. No, and then I got worried. But then you stopped being worried.

Then I stopped being worried, and now I'm in the clear. But you're also worried now, what else is she keeping from you? That's right. I went through all of the emotional stages of COVID in about five to ten seconds just with that one bit of information. Do your parents tell you stuff stuff or do they keep stuff? Oh, you know, I'm probably the one that's the weak link in the chain as far as the contacts.

They probably openly tell me everything. Are you not listening? You're not giving anything back? Oh, maybe not regularly checking in as much as I should, but it's a good example of being able to do that. I know Jenny, your mum, she's always, well, the only time you talk to her is when we're phoning for radio bits.

She loves to be called on the radio. It's a good catch-up. It's how we should do it. Full of fake laughter and time checks. That's how we like to catch up. The only way your mum gets news from your personal life is listening to the podcast.

You've told me that. She knows. She binges the podcast to catch up on what Ben's up to. She wants to know what I'm up to. She can go to iHeartRadio every day. There'll be another installment. But you don't like to make a fuss either.

No, no. You're not Annie. She might be finding out that I've got COVID through the podcast. Or I had COVID last week. Did you tell her? Yeah, no, I didn't actually tell her. I told the story. I do try and tell them of these big moments, but I can see how you are of it.

Yeah. I was like, well, you can hear. What else are you keeping from me? Do you really love me? Yeah, I thought she was going to tell you about her and me, but hey, no. Is that why you're getting all nervous? He's like, what's this next break about? What's your mum kept hidden?

What's the secret to your mum? Oh, no, I'm joking. Had to go there. Why am I going along with this? It's my mum. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz.

Listen, I'll be honest. Some of these stories we're about to broadcast may be completely made up, but we don't care. We're going to broadcast them anyway. Bell Crawford, what's happening in Spy? Yeah, so Kanye, he was dropped from performing at the Grammys yesterday. Won two awards anyway, which is pretty epic, but he's also dropped out of Coachella.

He was meant to be headlining the festival, which is next weekend, and organisers are having to fill the spot last minute. You know, people are paying good money. They're flying from all over the world to come to see him, and he's not going to be there. I always feel sorry for the artists that they do get in now because they're like, we always wanted you. But you're like, oh, it's four days out.

I can't, I know why I'm here. Yeah, but maybe he just didn't need to do it. He's got enough money, doesn't he? Yeah. He probably knew that there were going to be all these restrictions on what he could say and how he could act and perform and he probably went, hey guys, I'm Kanye West, I'm doing just fine without you. And maybe a bit of controversy of having him there, you know, obviously some people wouldn't have wanted to see him after everything's been going on. Yeah, he has been harassing Kim Kardashian online,

Pete Davidson's skeet. You know, he got his Instagram blocked. And then maybe, I reckon for him, being dropped from the Grammys would have been like the last straw. He ran skeet off the gram, didn't he? That's what he said, right? That's proudly said. Now, speaking of half-truths and misinformation, I said yesterday, did I have a dream that Kanye and Pete Davidson were going to have a celebrity boxing match?

And you scoffed at me. You scoffed at me and you laughed me out of the voice break, Ben. Well, I did. Well, yeah, you said that had been announced, didn't you? Yeah, it's been announced. And then I was like, I thought, I don't know if I dreamt it or I saw it, because I could vividly see the poster of the two with no shirts on doing boxing poses. And there was.

There was something going around saying they were doing it, but it was in April Fool's. Yeah, and then he'd moved back into that stadium and was training and living in there for the head of the big fight. Maybe that's why he's not doing Coachella. He's training for a fight. Celebrity boxing match. Yeah.

Who remembers Tiger King? Joe Exotic. You know that phase of lockdown 1.0 and we were all baking bread watching Tiger King. Making us feel a little bit better about our lives watching this absolute mess. Jeez we were heavily invested in Tiger King weren't we? Only for a short period of time

but then we moved on. And then Netflix released something cooler to watch. Yeah. Squid Game was the same. We were invested in that. And now we're back again when another series comes out. What's happening with Joe Exotic? Yeah, well, he's planning to marry a man he's met in prison. And no, it's not Carol Baskin's missing husband. It's your birthday.

We're going to party like it's your birthday. We're going to sit and party like it's your birthday. And you know we don't give a fudge that it's your birthday. My favorite part of that is I can read the lyrics as it's coming up and they can see the bad word and they both get a bit shaky about how

they're going to navigate their way through it but fudge is a great option yeah and that's all from Spy thanks to Kardashian streaming

on Disney Plus from April 14th only on Star thank you very much Bill tested safe for listing from home John Owen Bean

on the hits Russell Crowe New Zealand born actor Really Australia have taken them under their big Aussie bosom haven't they? Yeah I'd say he's probably more Australian now than New Zealand We still like to hang on Yeah like when he won the Oscar right We were definitely trying to claim it there

But we haven't nurtured him, we haven't looked after him No you're right He was definitely we were definitely trying to claim it there you know it wasn't but we haven't nurtured him we haven't looked after him you know he's gone over to australia yeah he said he was the child of the tasman or something didn't he i think that's what he said and we were like that kind of means well are you kidding us where do we stand here yeah we get very funny about that don't we our relationship with rusty's complicated we don't know if he's yeah we're into him yeah but i don't know if he's into us so much now. And fair enough, he's gone on to bigger and better things. But I got lost into, you know, Ben, I got lost into a TikTok hole. You know, this is where I, how I ended up camping outside Parliament a few weeks ago. And those camping days, they were regretful.

I'm sorry, it got away on me. But it was a fact about Russell Crowe. And what I love about Russell Crowe is he looks just like the ultimate battler. You know, he looks like he'd know his way around a bottle of red wine and a juicy stink. Wouldn't he, Russell Crowe? Did you know this was at the height of his career? I think when he actually was winning all of the Academy Awards and things, so sort of 10 years ago now. Russell Crowe, he landed in Los Angeles

just ahead, I think, of the Academy Awards or Golden Globes or one of those awards ceremonies, and he checked into his hotel room, and he got a knock on the door. 10 FBI agents. They're like, Russell Crowe, we need to have a chat. And so they go into the room, and they're like, we are going to be following you around everywhere you go now

for the foreseeable future. And he's like, this is bizarre. What's going on? And they're like, we have information, we have intercepted information that Osama bin Laden from Al-Qaeda, you know Al-Qaeda, bin Laden? Yeah. They had put a hit out on Russell Crowe.

They wanted to take down someone famous. Really? So he was the target of a terrorist assassination plot. Oh, jeez. So, I mean, this is a lot to download when you've just checked into your hotel room. Yeah, yeah. 10 FBI agents.

There might be someone going, do you want any more towels or something? That's quite what I wanted. So he said for about two to three years, everywhere he went, he was followed around by 10 FBI agents. And they didn't tell him too many details, and he didn't want to know too many details. So he didn't ask to know too many details. So he didn't ask exactly what was going on.

And obviously, they paid their own way. They sort of would find out where he was staying. They'd book 10 hotel rooms. It must cost the FBI a bloody fortune in hotel rooms. But they followed him around, he reckons, for about two or three years. And he said the problem was everyone thought he was just a grade-A wanker. Because they're like, oh, look at Rusty with his 10 fbi agents and he couldn't say anything he couldn't say why they were following him around and he's like then one day boof they just disappeared in a cloud of smoke they didn't say that where they were going they didn't say it was over they just left from his life and he was like, oh well I guess they're not worried about him anymore

that's fascinating the world of TikTok, sometimes misinformation sometimes amazing stories now I promised the audience that you'd go wow did I well? did I well Bill? I was quite interested

I was fascinated by that story I'm on expectations over here I was fascinated by that story. It was a fascinating story. I want expectations over here. I'm hard to please, aren't you? I know. I just thought you were going to say, well. I was, well.

I was, well, by the story. Now I've forced you into a well. Well, that's genuine. It is that. So you've got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben. Brought to you by Resene. New Zealand's most trusted paint.

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