Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Happens When A Couple Disagrees On The Vaccine...!?

Episode Date: September 20, 2021

Ben had a 496th removed friend who disagrees with their partner on the vaccine... Yes, this is a bunch of goss that Ben heard through the grapevine. But what happens in a situation like that!? When a couple disagrees on something rather important... We discuss! Jono got lost in another internet wormhole about which countries in the world have the tallest people on average, and NEW ZEALAND MADE THE LIST BABY! We may be small, but we are TALL. All that and a lot more jibber jabber on today's podcast! Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I didn't tell you, my son was having a drum lesson online on Saturday. He's learning how to play the drums and he threw the drumstick accidentally at my computer screen there. Oh jeez. It's not looking as good.

Yeah, you wouldn't have imagined, you know, what devastating effects drumsticks would have on a computer screen. To be honest, he's actually done me a huge favour.

This thing's been from 2015. It's still hanging in there, isn't it? It's still hanging in there, yeah. So hopefully I'll get a... Can you get insurance on that?

Well, I guess it's a... I don't want to be involved in your insurance fraud, mate. This is part of the evidence. I'm just being investigated. I just need to make it seem like a legitimate story. So it wasn't when you said, I'll just kick this computer and try and get it on insurance? Hey, well, I didn't do the kicking.

You did, buddy, remember? Remember? And you said, what's this for? And I said, don't worry, just kick it. Just kick it again. Just kick it. And then I'll have a natural conversation with you. You did, buddy, remember? Remember? And you said, what's this for? And I said, don't worry, just kick it. Just kick it again. Just kick it. And then I'll have a natural conversation with you. Yeah, you went in and you're like, look at all these bad comments about your new TV show.

Now you're mad? Kick the computer. I'm like, why? It was vicious. You did it. And now this is just reflecting on that, you know, on what's happened. It was a natural accident. I see, I see.

Stuff happens. So thank you. I can give this to the company. But no, I've never claimed anything on insurance before. Never? Never. no, I've never claimed anything on insurance before. Never? Never. Oh, I wonder. It's interesting you've had insurance and you've never claimed on it.

You've been ripping off the insurance companies, mate? No, I've been ripping off before, but no, I haven't. What's been the coolest thing you've claimed back on? Oh, no, I don't. It's not like something I regularly do. I go, check out this jacket man who's got this on insurance. Like, you know, no, I think with a car on insurance. Like, you know, I think with a car and things like that,

you know, accidents in a car. Oh, that's not as exciting as I thought. No. I think I have had a replacement computer once. Oh, a computer, yeah. Much like yourself,

an accident happened, you know. Accidents. It does happen. They do happen, don't they, Ben? Yeah, they do. Insurance companies must always be on guard that they're getting ripped off though, wouldn't they? Yeah. Because you think happen, don't they, Ben? Yeah, they do. Insurance companies must always be on guard that they're getting ripped off, though, wouldn't they?

Yeah. Because you think, you ought to tell them the truth, buddy. Yeah, true. Because it's an easy way to get a new item, isn't it? Yeah, but then you're paying the premiums, right? The excess, yeah. You pay the excess, you pay regular insurance. Yes, you pay for it, yeah.

And I think they call it insurance fraud, don't they? If you do it wrong. Yeah, well, it might be so nervous, those sorts of things. Yeah, it insurance fraud don't they if you do it wrong yeah well it would make me so nervous those sorts of things you know you would not be even if you had done something well not that you would

do anything illegal but you would completely be all above board and you'd be like I don't know I don't know it's almost worth paying full price for it

yeah it would be I don't want to make a fuss they'd be like yeah we're just recording this for training purposes like yes okay I'm insurance fraud

you know but I'd just come out with it I couldn't I'd crack yeah you would crack oh don't worry about it listen I'm insurance fraud. You know, I'd just come out with it. I couldn't, I'd crack. Yeah, you would crack. Oh, don't worry about it. Listen, I'll just keep paying you guys. You don't have to worry about it. So I'm definitely not one to partake in that.

Insurance fraud. Yeah. But I imagine they'd have to be on their game, wouldn't they, the whole time? Those companies. What I find also, too, frustrating, we've talked about this before, is when you go to get insurance on a car,

the multiple insurance things you've got, options are there of the oh but if you pay a bit more the excess will come oh the rental but you pay a bit more on that yeah sorry the rental and it's just like a little but you know if something happens this will be you and me both know nothing's going to happen but if it does don't do the bad it's not going to happen it's not going to happen you're liable for paying off the whole car but if you pay a little bit more, that'll come right down. My favourite one was the guy who was like, mate, you know, we trust you. You're a good driver, but you can't trust the others out there.

And then he got in my head about the others, and I was like, you're right, we can't trust the others. Has he seen you drive? Give me the full policy. No, thank God. He probably wouldn't have given me the car if he'd seen me drive. I'm the one you can't trust out there. You are the other ones

Hey, on the show today, we're celebrating here in New Zealand, in Aotearoa Auckland's about to head into Level 3, they're about to get takeaways You can feel the rumble of excitement, can't you? I think just because it's been five weeks now of just lockdown Everyone's gone a bit lockdown mad You're looking forward to a coffee? Yeah, I'd like a coffee. Yeah.

And maybe some takeaways in the weekend. I think I might avoid the takeaways tomorrow because it's just going to be. Yeah. You know, it's going to be a long line. What I have found is that my regular coffee intake is absurd. You know, at the moment I'm going through fine on two a day. But, you know, on normal times I get up to four, five, six a day. Yeah, I probably don't want to go back down there.

I kind of want to find some sort of middle ground. Pull it back. You don't need, you get to the end of the day, you're like, I didn't need six coffees. No, you don't. I've got caffeine just running. What's coming out is golden. Yeah.

Like it's not. So yeah, let's just take it. I think we get into a habit too where we're like, oh, you buy this, we add it. But then you get into it that maybe we just look after it. Because then you're like, oh God, I've got to just take it. I think we get into a habit, too, where we're like, oh, you buy this. And then you get into it. Then maybe we just look after it. Because then you're like, oh, God, I've got to get to it. But I don't feel like it, but I've got to get this around.

Yeah, there's a lot of coffee. Too much coffee. And maybe the show's sounding more relaxed with less caffeine involved in it, too. We're not as jumpy. Yeah, true. Talking, yelling at you down the microphone. Yeah, it's probably for the better, right? Anyway, have a wonderful day.

Enjoy the podcast. Keep safe out there. Jono's Internet Wormhole. Like that wonderful documentary Finding Nemo. He is lost like Nemo and some fishing trawler has got his hooks into him because he's been baited. Clickbaited again. Now, just a bit of a background how I ended up on this clickbait page, Benjamin Boyce. I was reading an article about a male dog that was living its life out as a female

dog. I thought that was quite interesting. And then next to that was an article on Stephen Adams. So I clicked on the Stephen Adams article. And next to that was an article on the world's tallest man who happens to be eight foot three inches from Turkey. Wow. And then next to that was an article on 25 of the tallest countries in the world. And so now I present to you 25 of the tallest countries in the world. Oh, so this is what? On average. So the people, the people there. The people are the tallest, yeah.

Now, I know you're wondering, where does New Zealand rank on this? Were you wondering that? Well, yeah, I wouldn't say on average would be one of the tallest countries in the world, but that's just a guess. Well, hold your head high, my friend, and duck through that doorway, because we're number 25, baby. Oh, 25. On 25 of the tallest countries in the world.

On average, the average Kiwi man is sitting at 5 foot 9 inches tall. I wouldn't have wandered around town and gone everyone's 5 foot, that's nearly 6 foot and the average Kiwi woman 5 foot 4 inches tall so that slides us in 25, a wonderful place in 2 New Zealand, hold your heads high

Aotearoa, you know there's a bit of stuff we can't be proud of at the moment but being the 25th tallest nation in the world Speaking of heights, topical news we just found out this morning that Princess Diana and Prince Charles were the same height. Yeah.

There's an article going around they were the same height, but every time they put them in photos, it always looked like she was shorter than him. Would he have shoes with the big soles there that you wandered around with? You know if you've got one leg shorter than the other, you can have a shoe that kind of props it up.

Yeah, I don't know. Maybe a double those ones. Yeah, or it's perception in the photos or whatever. But yeah, they'd make it look like it was, yeah. Well, unfortunately, Charles hasn't made the list. Right. But the Aussies, you're probably wondering, where are the bloody Aussies on the list?

Yeah, where are they? They'd be taller than us, wouldn't they? Unfortunately, tie your kangaroo down, sport. They're at number 18. The Europeans, they really like to push the limits, erotically speaking, don't they, the Europeans? Yeah. And also push the limits of the measuring tape. Because the top three countries, tallest nations in the world, are all Europeans.

Oh, right. At number three, why are you going, hmm? I think I would have expected that. Yeah. The Europeans are beautiful. They, right. At number three, why are you going, hmm? I think I would have expected that. Yeah. The Europeans are beautiful. They're tall. They're just amazing, you know? Yeah.

Number three, Estonia, sliding into number three. Five foot eight inches on average, the Estonians. Latvians, on average, are five foot nine. And the number one tallest nation in the world, the Dutch baby. Really? The Dutch baby. Where's America on the list? Oh, God.

What? Did I ask you a question? Did I agree? I just thought, you know, like, just thinking about NBA, and not that NBA is only made up with solely American players. There's a lot of international players that play in that competition. Yeah. He's now a friend.

Great. Oh yeah, I shouldn't ask that question. You know, I did Australia, I did New Zealand, I localised it, had a domestic flavour. This is what you do to us. You always ask questions and none of us knows the answer to them. What's the thing with that? We're like, I don't know, mate. I've just read this article literally

30 seconds before talking about it. What does that mean for the such and such? Yeah, I'd like to throw you under the bus now. Clearly I've been reversed over here. Oh, listen, Ben, I don't know. I could come up with an answer. I'm scrolling through the list of 25 tallest nations now. I'm not seeing them.

I'm not seeing them. It's when you average it out, though. That's the thing. There'd be a lot of short people in America, too. I mean, you're just talking about the NBA. What about the NBA? They've got more tall people than We would have in that regard

But anyway There's a lot of tall people in the NBA But there's probably a lot of short people that bring their national average down You know what? They're not even in the top 25 I've scrolled through Hurriedly I feel like you're just making that up They're not

The top 10 are No, they're not. The top 10 are all Europeans. They're not. No, they're not. You have to look for yourself. We're not going anywhere until you find the answer. Oh, dear. No, no, America, skip out.

That's not to say they're not in the top 30. But this is just the top 25. All right, all right. You sound deflated after this. No, no, I just feel like you've just rushed. Anyway, that's fine. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there, then I backed out.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand breakfast. Now, a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend. Basically, it's a long story. It's a long, long way away from me, but it also means there's a lot of gossiping going on as well for it to filter back to me. I was wondering last wondering last night thinking about this i was like why do i know about this situation like i couldn't identify these people that yeah at all so it's quite good because i don't know them at all yeah but i love the fact that you can go on the radio now and talk

about this a lot of gossip now we're about to fuel we're gonna put petrol on the flames right now of the gossip gossip people will be gossiping about this to get to this gossipy point right now that we're part of this gossip. And we're going to turn it into content. Yeah. So, of course, you know, the vaccine is, you know, there's a lot of encouragement right now to get a vaccine. And in this particular relationship, she's keen,

but he's not keen to get the vaccine. He's just skeptical of it. And I understand there's a lot of people out there that feel kind of that way towards it. And it's kind of got to the stage where it's become such a big issue in their relationship that they may go their separate ways over the fact that one of them is getting vaccinated and one of them's not.

Over the vaccine? Yeah. This is crazy. I was reading an article from a lady who said her father was heavily anti-vax and she went and secretly got the vaccine but she's like if he ever finds out about this he'll disown me it's that serious in some households pretty full noise isn't it so what are they going to go their separate ways through this gossip machine what

have you been hearing it will filter back towards me i don't know i feel quite invested in this relationship that i don't know about can they continue on their relationship from maybe a safe social distance so they don't have to interact they're still together you don't know about. Can they continue on their relationship from maybe a safe social distance so they don't have to interact? They're still together. You don't let the vaccine come in between you. But it's become more and more of a debate these times of the moment. I mean, the Breakers, the basketball team,

yesterday had to mutually part ways with one of their best players, Ty Webster, because he, you know, and they're like on the news last night going, we understand it's his choice, we accept his choice. But unfortunately, that means he can't go into the stadiums and play in the competition they play in because they've got a rule on the stadiums that you have to be vaccinated and travelling is also, so it just can't, it can't work in that instance.

So it's just sad for all parties. I mean, COVID's brought us so much. Now it's even brought us new reasons to argue in your relationship as well. Yeah. Wonderful stuff, isn't it? So could she lie? so much now it's even brought us new uh reasons to argue in your relationship as well yeah wonderful stuff isn't it so could she lie get the vaccine say oh i haven't had it get the vaccine then when he gets covered she can secretly just smile to herself is that an option i think she's like i'm gonna get it and he's like i'm not and it's just like she can't you know like commit to otherwise and doesn't think that that's yeah so it just becomes one of those things.

But I imagine in other relationships, not just about the vaccine, there must be things that people are polar opposites on and still find a way to navigate through, right? Yeah, Julia, you were saying your friend is having an issue too. Yeah, yeah, her parents, her mum is very sort of against it and her dad and my friend tried to sort of reason with her and you know the mum thought oh i thought i had more time to convince my daughter to not get the vaccine but my friend did get the vaccine and it's just been a bit of a bit of a bone of contention yeah okay well that's an interesting topic you've thrown out there ben from this uh i don't think we need to get into

the vaccine debate you know like should you get it or not i just kind of want to know if there if you have different agree different opinions in a relationship, how do you navigate through that? Now it doesn't have to be to do with the vaccine, it could be maybe political parties or it could be like, I guess religious beliefs is something people have to navigate through. If you drop something on the ground do you wait three seconds, do you wait five seconds

to eat it? That's a big thing, isn't it? You don't give it 10 minutes. Where do you sit on that? There's a lot of debate that goes on in households. Are you in a relationship with completely different views on something? I know George Bush, former president, and... You know him, do you? It sounded like I did, didn't it?

I know George Bush. If I just stopped there, everyone would be like, shit, he knows George Bush. Yeah. I read Time magazine as well. Do you? No. But you're George Bush and his wife, who I know dearly, dear, dear friends.

Went to the same class together at school, didn't you? That was Abraham Lincoln, Ben. You always get those two mixed up. But Laura Bush is a Democrat, and he was Republican. Really? And they have many different political views. That's crazy. But they get together.

And he, I was looking even further, is dear, dear friends with Michelle Obama. George Bush. That's cool. Michelle Obama, obviously Democrat and Republican, but she's like, you know, politically, we're at polar opposite ends, but we have one thing where we both want the best for humanity. That's the way it should be, right?

Yeah, that's how they get their shit. What a lovely thing. And that's my dear, dear friend, George Bush. That's classic George Bush. That's why you're mates with George Bush. He just's classic George Bush. That's why your mate's with George Bush. You know, he just wants humanity to win. All right. And that's why I love him. Yeah.

And a lot of people texting through on 4487, my husband and I disagree about everything. Politics, the vaccine, sexism, how to raise our children, fun times in our household. How do you disagree on sexism? Oh, my God. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. She can't talk right now. Apparently she's disagree on sexism? Oh my God. Okay.

She can't talk right now. Apparently she's doing the ironing. You made that up. No, this was her sexiness. Hey, we'll get Sarah on. Welcome. How are you? You disagree about something with your partner? Sarah?

Oh, yes. Hi. Sorry. I caught you off guard there there, forgot you phoned the radio That's alright What do you disagree with? You do the rest Yeah, so I am a central worker So I got fully vaccinated At least a month ago now

And my husband had the opportunity To get vaccinated with me And he just doesn't want to and doesn't feel like there's been enough research on it and so I just respected his decision he respected mine and we get on with our lives oh I thought you were going to say in our relationships on the rocks and on the person you've been talking about there you go and I mean that's that's a way to do it, isn't it? That's a sure way to do it.

I understand. Give and take. Yeah. There's a few people out there. Are you a little bit judgy, though? Low-key judgy, Sarah? A little bit. Hey, good on you, mate.

Go and have a great day out there. You too. And now we've got a relationship coach who's come through to the show, Bridget Jackson, who's from EqualXers.com. Now, Bridget Jackson from EqualXers.com, welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. Lovely to have you on.

Now, you've been listening to this. Can a couple navigate their way through a relationship with polar opposite views on something? Well, the important thing to remember in the first instance is that in your relationship, there is always going to be different views on subjects and topics. And it was interesting what Sarah said. She was talking about respect. So they have, as a couple,

they've focused on their core values of the relationship and their commitment of each other and what goals they have as a couple in terms of agreeing to respect each other's decision that they've made in relation to the vaccine. And the vaccine is a difficult one because it's going to impact the couple in their relationship together and also separately. For example, how they go about their daily lives in terms of going out to restaurants.

For example, you might have to be vaccinated. What countries are they going to visit? Affecting the wider community and their families. So it's a huge difference. We could go to Fiji, except someone's not vaccinated. That's going to kick off a whole other raft of arguments. Yeah, you're right. It's quite a big issue.

It's a lot bigger than what radio station you want to listen to in the morning. Yeah, you're right. It's quite a big issue. It's a lot bigger than what radio station you want to listen to in the morning, you know? Yeah, 100%, but there are some strategies. You know, and the first one is, the biggest one is, for any issue that people have, is communicate, communicate, communicate. That has to happen. And establishing, coming back to establishing the core values of your relationship. What is really important for the both of you for your relationship to survive? You know, there may be some instances where you have to agree to disagree, like Sarah has in her relationship, as your caller mentioned.

You know, you've got to resolve these things by stop and listening, putting yourself in the shoes of the other person, finding the common ground and come up with a strategy and plan. No, but then also secretly knowing that you're right as well. Now, you obviously deal with relationships when they're sort of on the rocks, potentially about to end. What's the moment where you're like,

oh, this thing is done? When do you know that it's cooked? Are we talking about our radio show or our relationship is just passive aggressively looking at me right now johnny well i'm always here if you need me to help thank you yeah thanks he keeps going out we've got my mobile number yeah great he keeps going out at night saying he's working late but we do the same job anyway what's he up to now um so for me i say to my clients you know you've got to make sure that you've you've left no stone unturned in terms of making your relationship work because you want to have no regrets leaving the relationship is it six months five years ten years down the track yeah right and

i've got a program that I work through with people called Should I Stay, Should I Go? So if people are on the fence, I spend a lot of time coaching people, working through, you know, what do you want to preserve in your relationship? What needs to go? What is your life going to look like as a single person

across all of those areas, socially, financially, parenting, all of those areas. And it's really good for them to self-reflect because you don't want to make this decision a snap decision. You really need to take some time to work through it. And if you do want to leave somebody, it's like a job and you really have to prepare for the process. Hey, that's a good man.

And you've got to be amicable. Amicable is the way to go. The way you start in terms of the separation process being amicable is the way you want to finish because high conflict is not the way to go. I work with a lot of people individually who are going through high conflict situations and the emotional toll and the financial toll,

the physical toll that it takes on people is huge. This is why this business exists, because I went through a very high conflict. Divorce cost me huge amounts of money, and I've got four children. And I just wanted to set up a business that had a better and a more positive outcome for people moving forward. Oh, good on you. EqualXs.com, the website. Bridget Jackson, thank you very much, Relationship Coach. And we'll be giving you a call next week,

see if we can book in. How are you Wednesday, 10.30? Thanks, mate. Thank you very much. Have a wonderful rest of the week. Bye. Thank you so much for that. From the socially distantly safe two metres,

stay away. This is New Zealand's Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Now, Producer B Humps is a new father, proud new father, aren't you? Very proud, yes. Has anyone been an unproud new father? Mark, give him a voice. I'm ashamed of my dad.

I'm a bit ashamed of this one. Yeah, nowadays. But little Dot, little Dorothy. Yeah. Beautiful little baby. She's beautiful. Yep. Not sleeping, though.

Yeah, that's the problem with babies. Less beautiful when they're not sleeping, are they? But they're still beautiful. Last night, 2 a.m., was up for an hour. You're just like, just all you need to do is shut your eyes and just keep them shut. That's the thing with sleep. You know, you just trick yourself every night into sleeping, don't you? You shut your eyes, you pretend to sleep, and then eventually you go to sleep.

And somewhere along the line, you don't know how it happens. It goes from pretend to real sleep all of a sudden, just magically. It's one of life's mysteries. And that's all we need to do is teach the babies that just keep your eyes shut, it'll happen. It's tough, though, when you're in the newborn stages, isn't it? Yeah. And you keep thinking, oh, I'm going to be teaching bad habits here

when you plug the dummy in. Or last night I ended up having a wee snooze on me just to, you know. Yeah, that's there. Like, oh, this is teaching some bad habits. Do you do a wonderful job of you pretending to be asleep when you know the baby's rustling? That's one of the greatest parenting hacks, isn't it? You just pretend that you haven't heard something or noticed something or, you know, you do it every morning when you see the cat's maybe left a mess on the thing.

You're like, oh, I didn't notice that when i left this morning exactly yeah the whole family does it when the dog barks in the middle of the night you know that's what they do you know and i know that i have to go out you're like everyone's heard this everyone's got ears but that's on me so we suggested to uh bee humps that he gets dorothy wade sleepy expert who we've spoken to before on the show she's great she's great. Yeah, she's awesome. She was actually Catherine Zeta-Jones' nanny. Dorothy Wade, she's a New Zealander. Why don't we get her in to help you, to help Dottie, Dorothy, your Dorothy, go to sleep?

She's got a great CV, but I just feel like a bit of a plonker ringing up. Like, I don't really know Dorothy. You teed her up for an interview once? I teed her up for an interview, but it's a bit different when you're ringing up going can you give us a hand and then we suggested that maybe to win Dorothy over with a personal angle you say oh we actually

we named our baby after you yeah and then she'd be like oh wow that's awesome of course I'll give you this service and it'll be payable for free and then you said no that's weird, that's weird why would I name the baby after Dorothy Wade when I've only

asked her at Spogner on the phone to interrupt her is it weird to name someone after you know naming your baby

after someone you don't know after a very brief encounter I mean great encounter she's awesome Dorothy Wade

so what we'll do because we want to try and call Dorothy for you and get this sorted that's the type of guys we are giving guys generous selfless so we're just try and call Dorothy for you and get this sorted. That's the type of guys we are, giving guys. Gender is selfless.

So we're just going to call. We're going to do some market research now to see if it's weird if you name your baby after someone you've just met. Okay. So we'll go through to a florist in Vicargill, June. Morning, Windsor Florist. Tracina speaking. Hi, sorry. Who was speaking, sorry?

Tracina. Hi, Tracina. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Yeahina speaking. Hi, sorry, who was speaking, sorry? Trisina. Hi, Trisina, how are you? I'm good, how are you? Yeah, good. Listen, mate, hey, just wondering, what time are you closing today? Five o'clock. Oh, awesome.

Hey, Trisina? Yeah? Do you mind if we name our baby after you? No. Not at all. Is that okay? Yeah, it's more than fine. There's actually only two of us in Invercargill, so let it make three.

So we can do it? Yeah, you can do it. I don't have an issue with that at all. Yeah, you were just so helpful then. I just wanted to name the baby after you. Yeah, no, that's fine. Good call. Everyone's very agreeable.

Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Are you serious? No, yeah, unfortunately it is us. We were doing a social experiment to see if people would be weirded out if we named babies after them. Oh, no, that doesn't weird me out at all because I'm unusual, so it would have been fine. Just even in a really quick, minute interaction,

you're like, yeah, whatever, that's good. Yeah, no, well, actually, I had a guy in here the other day, and he said, oh, how do you spell your name? I actually wouldn't mind that name for my baby if it's a girl. Oh, you've already had this. So that's why I thought, when you said, hey, do you mind if I name my baby after you, I actually thought you were him. This is like an everyday occurrence for you. No, no, I'm Ben. You're amazing.

Oh, that's awesome. You're amazing. Give your business a plug on the radio. Oh, Windsor Florist. The best florist in Invercargill. The best florist in Invercargill. The best florist in Invercargill and they don't mind if you name your babies after them. Yeah, no, we don't mind if you name your babies after us at all. That's not a problem. Oh, that's wonderful. There we go. That's an option. Tick of approval.

Tick of approval. So Dorothy Wade will be giving you a call after the show. And you need to just say that you named your baby after Dorothy. I'm nervous already. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Morning. Welcome along to the show.

And it is a Tuesday. And it is the last day in Level 4 for anyone in Aotearoa today. Yeah, wonderful stuff. Are you excited, Juliet? You doing some fist pumps there? I'm so excited. I think there was a lot of cheers around the Auckland region yesterday when the announcement came through.

Yeah, so good. Took a while to get that, didn't she? That old, you know, just get to it, get to it, get to it. Excited! I think there was a lot of cheers around the Auckland region yesterday when the announcement came through. Yeah, so good. Took a while to get that, didn't she? I know. Just like, get to it, get to it, get to it. Was she giving the vaccine numbers first? Oh, yeah, but also subtle indications. It was like, oh, we have been doing well. And you'd be like, oh, level three.

But then, of course, these are still going. You're like, oh, no, level four. It was a roller coaster. Yeah, she does a great job of dragging those out. I mean, you could shave it. You could edit at least probably an hour off those press conferences. Yeah. Come out, give the numbers. Do we need to hear questions from the journalists?

We can't hear them anyway, they're not mic'd up. No. Walk on out. Yeah. Yeah, the hard facts, but $100,000 and a bootload of KFC was busted at the border. Yeah. Some wonderful friendly, you know, some selfless gang members obviously wanting to drop KFC

to their friends. Yeah. You know, what a selfless act. That's true. What did the police do with the KFC? It was kind of displayed out

on the bonnet like a drugs bust. Yeah, I think they have to do that as part of the evidence for everything. So, yeah. I hope it didn't go to waste.

The KFC? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because they'd obviously got a wonderful family feast option. There was the coleslaw in there as well. Right. The potato and gravy. Someone

was due for a magnificent meal and left hungry. But by the time it probably arrived from Hamilton it would certainly be running at boot temperature, wouldn't it? Yeah. Boot temperature KFC. Refrigerator though, right? Yeah, next day. Cold KFC. Beautiful the next day. KFC is going to be taking a hammering tomorrow

around the 09 region as well as all the other takeaway places welcome to two half-assed dads do a half-assed job official title new zealand's breakfast now of course the last day in level four for anyone uh today then we're almost on the same level tomorrow not quite not quite we're gonna move to level three a lot of you are still better than us We understand that, we acknowledge it But we're coming down, one day we'll get there We'll all be even, one day we can all go to Wanaka Not get knocked on Do you think if our cooking was better

That everyone wouldn't be so excited about takeaways? It's a real indictment on everyone's chef skills I think it's also just the process of it too Getting the food, cooking the food Cleaning up the food everyone knows what you have to do to prepare a meal you're right every now and again it's nice to have something that you don't have to cook that's the laborious bit yeah we can just throw the dishes in the bin i've started just throwing plates in the bin now so i can pretend i'm having takeaways

uh now doing a lot of stuff with the family obviously because we're still in lockdown and last night we put on a movie uh you know, it was probably 8.30 at night. We thought, we'll watch a little bit of this movie. And the girls were like, it was on Netflix. And I was like, oh, it looks a little bit scary. But then I was like, what's 7 Plus? It's like the age group was 7 Plus. So I was like, eh, this will be fine.

And jeez, it was scary. What's it called? It's called Nightbox. Yes, I've seen it. Yeah. And it was good. But I was like, jeez, 7-year-old, 7-year-old is watching this. And it was one of those occasions's it was like it was good but i was like she's seven year old seven year old is watching this and it was one of those occasions where i was watching it and it was

all thanks to the song this music it's about a witch and she captures these kids and they they can't get out of the apartment and stuff like that and it's it's a kidnapping it's scary it's quite full on and then you know it was like after the movie you finished amanda was like oh can you get this thing from the garage for me and i was was like, oh. You know when you don't even need it to help you? You get it from a garage. I don't need to get it from the garage. You want it. Why do I have to get it?

I have to go down to the garage in the dark. And I was just like, you know, you're frigging like. Why don't we all go down together? We'll take a torch. I had to give myself a little pep talk. You're a grown adult. You've watched a kids movie that's seven plus on Netflix. Surely you can go down the garage without feeling a little pep talk going you're a grown adult you've watched a kids movie that's seven plus on netflix surely you can go down the garage without feeling a little bit scared i've got my phone on

torch looking around it's the age rating that hurts isn't it the seven plus even a 16 plus you could have a bit of cred yeah yeah but the problem is when you watch scary movies with your family you can't show any emotion you gotta keep up a brave face. Don't you, for some reason? And it's like when there's a noise in the house too. I've said this before with my role. For some reason it falls upon me, and I'm sure you too, Ben, you're the suspicious noises investigator. And I don't like investigating suspicious noises.

No, no. It's terrifying. You always go down there and try and make your voice sound like you're 10 foot taller. Who there? And if you are robbing a house you would know that voice you're a prolific robber you've had a good career you'd you would know different versions of who's there who's there you know that's clearly just not your real voice i know you're crapping yourself you'd be like yeah you're, you're right. You're right. Take what you want.

The Google Game. This is where you give us a call on 0800 THE HITS, and you ask us any question at all. You don't even have to know the answer to this question. You just need to give us 10 seconds to Google the answer. So if we can't Google the answer in 10 seconds, then you win a prize. John, I'm going to put you on the spot. Elton John?

Now, Elton John's not. He's delaying his, you know, the concert that's meant to be happening at some stage. Oh, God, the bloody World Tour. Now, Elton pulled pin on that, and I reckon this is becoming the biggest ball ache in Elton's life. He's like, oh, I've got to finish the godforsaken World Tour. So he's meant to come back to New Zealand because he was here, like, just before the pandemic started,

and then he's meant to come back, I think it's 2023. Well, now it looks like the dates may be having to be shifted. What are the reasons why? What's happened to Elton and he's had to shift back, I think it's 2023. Well, now it looks like the dates may be having to be shifted. What are the reasons why? What's happened to Elton and he's had to shift some dates? That's 10 seconds. What has happened to Elton John? What's his name? Oh, he's had a fall and he's injured his hip.

Yes, he had a fall and just hurt his hip. He had to put out a statement saying, Guys, I've had a fall. Official rest statement. I hurt my hip. He had to put out a statement saying, guys, I've had a fall. Official rest statement, hurt my hip. And he's going to be fine, but he's had to delay the start of the tour, which starts soon. And then that means maybe things might be delayed here in New Zealand when he comes at some stage.

Having a fall and injuring your hip, it's an injury dedicated to a certain age demographic, isn't it? I've had an incident, I've had a fall. It's also the dedicated to a certain age demograph, isn't it? I've had an incident. I've had a fall. It's also the same demograph whose main concern about a bath is how they're going to get out of it. I love it when you're in there. They do that. I mean, mum comes over. I was like, I have a bath.

She's like, I can't get out of it. You know, that becomes your main, your major issue is how you're going to exit a bath. So they prefer to stand in the shower. You know, that becomes your main, your major issue is how you're going to exit a bath. So they prefer to stand in the shower. Under the hits, 4487, have you got a question that we can Google and answer? The Google Game. This is when you give us a call or a text, you ask us a question, and we have 10 seconds to Google the answer.

If we can't get the answer in 10 seconds, you win a prize. We've got a prize from the prize cupboard today. Yes, so producer B-Hubsy is going to compile a wonderful prize pack of books, moisturisers, lip balms, you name it. Michelle, your lips could be balmed, alright? Do you want balmed lips, Michelle?

Sorry, what was that? Would you like balmed lips? I have balmed lips, thank you Oh, okay My lips are pre-balmed You shush your lips about her balmed lips, alright? I've come with balmed lips this morning Hey Michelle, this is a fun game that we play

You basically ask us a question We've got 10 seconds to Google the answer Now, 10 seconds is not really considered a long time For preparing chicken Or Googling answers. So what's your question? My question is, can you put a zip into a French seam? There you go, Ben Boyce.

Can you put a zip into a French seam? I don't know what a French seam is. Yes, you can. So a French seam below the zip and clip it so the seam is open above the zip. You might find it easier to do a bottom of the seam before you put the zip in. I still don't even know what we're talking about. What is a French seam there, Michelle? Obviously something to do with the construction of clothing.

Yes, so it's how you construct a seam so you don't have to overlock it. It's a really nice way to finish seams in high-end clothing. I don't know what you're talking about. I work in fashion. Do you work in fashion? You're a fashioner. Not only do you come with balmed lips, you're also fashionable as well. What do you do, Michelle?

I am the production manager for K&K Fashions, a New Zealand family run company That's been around for 40 years Now the thing with fashion I love Is it's just so cyclic Isn't it? You just hold on to clothes Ride them out for 15, 20 years

And they'll be back in vogue, won't they? Yeah, well if you've got all your 90s clothes From back in the day They are coming back Ironically, I do And I've got all your 90s clothes from back in the day, they are coming back. Ironically, I do. And I've been wearing them this whole time. And your 80s shoulder pads? Are they coming back?

Are shoulder pads making a return? They are. Yeah, right. I'm on your K&K fashion website here. You've got some wonderful garments there, Michelle. You should be very proud. Thank you. Oh, Michelle, appreciate your call.

Have a great team. We'll flick you out some lip balm and some other stuff for your balm lips as well, just from playing the Google games this morning. Appreciate it. Thank you. Oh, sorry. I'm beating you fumble. Let Michelle speak. What did you want to say, Michelle?

Honestly, I was just saying thank you. You guys have been keeping me company every morning while I've had to work. Listen, it's a pleasure to do that, and thank you very much for your ear holes. That was weird, didn't it? Yeah, we made it. We totally made this weird, didn't we?

Like, Michelle just, yeah, anyway. We've got some spy entertainment news on the way. Should we move to that? Yes, we can. The Emmy Awards were on yesterday. I'll fill you in with all the big winners and the big moments shortly. Scrolling through your feed. All right, he's like a new

surgeon who gets to the heart of the story. Unfortunately, he didn't pass medical school, so he's got no idea what to do once he sees the heart. Probably vomit or pass out, maybe? Yeah, true. In fright, but this is the news from overnight with Benjamin Ross-Boyce. Well, the big news, the big talk of the day happened yesterday.

Auckland, it's been announced as of 11.59 tonight. We'll move to level three, so everyone's very excited. That means takeaways, takeaway coffee, takeaway food. Also, click and collect as well. A lot more click and collects available around town. Producer Behump's very excited about going to pick up something

for Bunnings. He can click and collect something. He's a Bunnings guy, though, isn't he? He's a very handy man. He's from Fairleys, from Southland. He does all his own renovations around the house. Me, not so much excited about the Bunnings Click and Collects. Juliet, how about you? I think I'd only be excited because I can buy plants from Bunnings, like little house plants.

That's the only thing I'd ever go to Bunnings for. I wouldn't mind, like, maybe some weed killer. I do need to kill some weeds. Oh, God. Have you got rid of weeds in your garden oh that is the most laborious job i had to do that on the weekend i'm like i've turned into my parents sitting here on a sunday afternoon gardening like oh 20 year old me would just be look at yourself in the mirror old man that's what happens uh but it is of course uh going

from level four to level three. And we thought we'd recap just quickly on the level changes. And the song that doesn't really help you at all that we made. Level one. We can have lots of fun. Level two. There's a little less you can do. Level three.

You stop panicking. Level four. Goddamn lock the door. Level 3. Ah, you start panicking. Level 4. God damn lock the door. Level 5. What the f*** is a level 5? No one told me about that s***. To be honest, I think Auckland was teetering on going to level 5.

They didn't know what it was, but it was definitely disgust, I imagine, in the beehive. I heard someone on the radio this morning, actually, on the news suggest that maybe they should have, I think it was a councillor for Auckland, maybe they should have vaccination, the bus, turn up at drive-thrus tomorrow around the place, because people are going to be sitting in their cars for ages and ages. That's a very good thought.

Smart. That is a really good thought, yeah. We've also got a song for the Vaxi bus. Do we play that as well? Maybe we'll play that later on. That's not overkill with the parodies. We've also got a song for the Vaxxie bus. Do we play that as well? Maybe we'll play that later on. Let's not overkill it with the parodies. We've got a lot of COVID parodies. Jeez, COVID, if anything, has done us some wonderful parodies, hasn't it?

You know, we've got to think about the positives. That's true. Not many positives, but that's what I guess. The content has just been flowing. It's a waterfall. And just quickly, David Seymour had another. Does he write these zingers? Does he write these little lines for other politicians?

So James Shaw, of course, the co-leader of the Green Party, he's going over to a climate change concert, climate change conference as part of his government role. And, you know, because he's Green Party, they're saying, oh, should he be flying with greenhouse emissions and all that sort of thing? Or should he be canoeing over? Yeah, and coming back and taking an MIQ spot.

All those sorts of debates are going on. He'd probably stand up paddleboard his way over. He would. He definitely would. But David Seymour from the ACT Party had this little thing to say about James Shaw I thought was very clever. When he's fighting climate change, he's James Offshore. He now wants to fly into the second biggest COVID hotspot in Europe, come back and take up an MIQ space

that could have been for a critical care nurse. James Offshore. How's that? Beautiful. And he's like, could have been for a critical care nurse. Really hammers that home in the end. Probably not, but... Could have been for Barry who's just come back from the Gold Coast. But it's for a critical care nurse, just to hammer home

the point. Yeah, you're right. He's very good at his zingers, isn't he? He does a good job. And I think he spoke to us about it, just saying, on the news they give you five seconds, and you've got to make it count. And he probably just writes little one-liners, has a little brainstorm with the ACT Party and the caucus. What do you reckon?

James, not sure? Offshore? Where are we sitting? Sure thing? Where are we? What do you reckon guys? Put your votes in and then they roll them out in front of the cameras. Didn't he bring a Mr. Whippy van to Parliament? Yes, he did yesterday. I think he bought a Mr. Whippy truck. I think it was just to say how small businesses like Mr. Whippy aren't doing very well. But he invited all the politicians. He's like, David Seymour, yeah, come on down. All the parties can come on down.

No one but the ACT party showed up. It was like David Seymour's birthday, and unfortunately no one showed up at the party. Well, thankfully, there's more than just him in the ACT party now. Otherwise, it would have been a bleak Mr. Whippy visit. At least there's two or three of them there that can lick on a frosty cone. Spy, know what's up?

Spy.co.nz She never wanted this job, but got it by default because Ben couldn't be bothered doing it. It's Juliet with Spy. So the Emmy Awards were on yesterday which celebrate the best of TV which we've all been binging over the last wee while, I'm sure. I didn't see it last night.

But was John and I on Being Good Sports? Was it nominated for an Emmy this year? Daytime. Daytime Emmy. Yeah, different award ceremony. Even though we're on at night. I thought I'd enter us in the daytime. More chance of winning. You're only up against Evil Alan

in the daytime Emmys. We can take her. But the Crown and Ted Lasso were the big winners yesterday. If you haven't seen Ted Lasso, it's about an American football coach who flies over to the UK and begins coaching a British soccer team despite not knowing how the sport works

because American football and then British football are very different. It's directed by and stars Jason Sudeikis. It looks really good. Apparently it's amazing. Yeah, yeah, it is. And it won Best Comedy. Jason Sudeikis won Best Actor in a Comedy.

And then for The Crown, which we all know the plot of. If you haven't seen The Crown, there's nothing like The Crown for picking it up and putting it down. It's all about forklifts, right? It's amazing they can drag a storyline about forklifts out for so long. How many episodes of The Crown you'd be in the 30s, right? I know, it's crazy. But Olivia Colman and josh o'connor so olivia played the queen and josh played prince charles in season three and four um they won best actress and actor

in a drama and then the crown also won best drama overall so was it a full noise award ceremony or was it a kind of a shrunken back version well it was mostly a full awards ceremony. They kind of... Yeah, so they did some COVID protocol, like they did some things to socially distance people. So usually they'd have people in a row, kind of like in an auditorium, but then they sort of decided to keep everyone in their own tables of circles, so

everyone was kind of in their little bubble. So it was a dinner awards show. Dangerous too, because people get swept up in their dinner conversation and the awards show is just like this n, because people get swept up in their dinner conversation, and the awards show is just like this niggly thing that's interrupting you catching up with friends and drinking, isn't it? Yeah. They used to have it at the radio awards. They had a table situation.

It was a nightmare. Yeah, they had to do a table situation. It was a nightmare. You lock them in an auditorium for two hours, which probably seemed like the longest two hours of anyone's life, and then get them out there. I know. You were saying about Ted Lasso.

Now, it's, of course, on Apple TV, the show. And they've got a lot of Apple. Naturally, they have a lot of Apple products used on the show. I mean, iPhones are an easy thing to use and computers like that. But someone's done a breakdown, I was reading this morning. In 29 minutes of the show, there was 36 Apple products. Wow. And then over 74 episodes.

74 episodes seems like a lot. They had 704 Apple products. Jeez. I feel like that's quite a lot of episodes. It is. Yeah, I feel like that's a typo. But anyway, there's 704 shots across the series. So that.

But I guess it's an easy thing. You talk on a phone, why not make it an Apple phone? Yeah, yeah. And they're so common, they're everywhere. It would be controversial if they were using a Sammy or something, wouldn't it? Yeah, true. You know who's paying for this, right?

Yeah. But, yeah, that's wonderful integration, isn't it? I mean, getting integration into TV shows now, it's the future of advertising. Totally. Because no one's sitting down watching a two-minute commercial break nowadays. They should be, though, on network television, Tuesday nights, 8 p.m., TVNZ2. I'd sit through all the ads. But, you know, that's the way to do it now, isn't it?

Cleverly insert them without you even realising. Totally. It's all about brand awareness. And I can't wait to drive home in my Ferrari later on today. Ferrari, the driver's choice. One of the highlights was Seth Rogen. He did the opening speech. And speaking of COVID protocols, the way it was also set up,

it was kind of like a tent. It was in a tent that looked like a room. Yeah, they said it was also sort of set up, it was kind of like a tent. It was in like a tent that looked like a room. Yeah, they said it was a marquee, but I was like, man, this is a flashiest marquee. Oh, like a sort of Carlton Party hire job. Probably those are nice, but this is next level. It's got chandeliers and everything. You wouldn't have known had they not mentioned that it was a marquee. And Seth Rogen sort of touched on this in his speech.

Let me start by saying there is way too many of us in this little room. What are we doing? They said this was outdoors. It's not. I would not have come to this. This is insane. I went from wiping my groceries to having Paul Bettany sneeze in my face. So anyone's going to sneeze in my face, Paul.

I want it to be you. All right. That's all the jokes I wrote. Here are the nominees for Supporting Actress. His voice is so awesome. I know. It's so iconic. He's so good.

That's the best ending to a routine interview. All right. That's all the jokes I wrote. Thank you for politely laughing. It's always hard to segue from something, right? That was a great segue. It was. And that is your Spy Update for this morning.

For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. The Hits. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. I'm in love. On The Hits. Morning. Just got on 7 o'clock.

It is Jono and Ben with you on The Hits. The last day of Level 4 in Auckland. Everyone's very excited about Takeaway Coffee tomorrow. I know people listening

right now, Level 2, are like, oh, we've never had takeaway coffee in three weeks. We've been shoving Gloria Jeans into our mouth for the last two weeks. Is Gloria Jeans a coffee? I think so, yeah. Yeah, I drove past one the other day. Gloria Jeans, a wonderful name, Gloria Jeans.

Hey, well done to the Silver Ferns last night. You see that game against England? Yeah, I started watching that actually after Celebrity Treasure Island. It was good. Really good, isn't it? Netball, fast-paced game. Really good. Wonderful debutante,'t it? Netball, fast-paced game. Really. Wonderful debutante, I forget the name of, but, jeez, she was like 100% at halftime with all these shots. Yeah, that was pretty awesome, actually.

It was a close game at the start, though, but, you know, good win for the Silver Ferns, and they made it look really busy. Yeah, the screens, yeah, they smoked screens with screens, didn't they, in the stadium. It looked packed. Do you know the captain of the Silver Ferns? They go around the Silver Ferns.

They have this community service initiative where they have to go around grassroots netball. And on a Thursday night with my daughter and AJ just playing netball, the captain of the Silver Ferns is there giving them a pre-team coaching session to all the teams. She's the captain. She's too good for that.

But they're out there doing it. Isn't it a wonderful initiative I think the next game Against England Is on Wednesday I think it gets through The series pretty quickly Monday, Wednesday, Friday

And the series is all over Against England So yeah So go watch it Swilferns are awesome So check it out on Wednesday England will be like How was it?

Oh it was good We went and played netball In an empty stadium For about a week Then came home Yeah Next on the show how you can win tickets to Dua Lipa uh she's coming to New Zealand uh end of next year we'll tell you how you can win

tickets in just a few moments on the hits these show producers were nominated for a radio award because when you work with these guys you deserve a medal New Zealand's breakfast exciting news came through yesterday uh not just about the levels changing but the Dua Lipa coming to New Zealand's breakfast. Exciting news came through yesterday. Not just about the levels changing, but Dua Lipa coming to New Zealand. Coming back, 2022 is part of her future nostalgia tour. She's going to be live at Auckland's Spark Arena Wednesday, November 2nd in 2022. And tickets go on sale this Thursday, 23rd at 2pm.

All the info at thehitstock.co.nz. And we've got a double pass to give away to Dua Lipa. Isn't it wonderful to know what you'll be doing in over a year's time? Yeah. We could give you a double pass this morning on 0800THEHITS, but what we really enjoyed was Juliette this morning making a claim about Dua Lipa. That I bloody love her and I literally can't wait for her to arrive?

Is that what my claim was? No, you said you were going to be best friends with her. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She came into the office once and she just looked so cool. And I just think that when she comes back to New Zealand, she should come back here and be friends with me, because I think she would just be a really good person to hang out with.

Yeah, she's friend material. She's clearly friend material. She's one of the celebrities that I'm like, I reckon her and I would get along quite well. It's funny how you have celebrities like that. You're like, you know, if it had all gone down to it, it was just the two of us, we'd have a great time, the two of us. Yeah, totally.

But, you know, to be fair, they don't have to be friends with us minions. No. They're on another level, like the rest of the country is to Auckland, the celebrities are. Chris Hemsworth for me. Oh, Chris Hemsworth. Really? No, I think me and Hemi, we would get on like a house on fire he does a lot of workouts

though and that was yeah boiling it down down my head he's probably like out there you know skateboarding and kite surfing and you know paddleboarding opposite you don't like to leave your house yeah no i know i wouldn't do the activities with him but i'd come with you and him do together because you wouldn't do the workouts with him What would you and him do together? Because you wouldn't do the workouts with him So what would you do with him? Go to lunch He'd pay Everyone would be like, who's Chris?

I'd go friend But I'm there to make him look approachable He can be friends with an ego He is having a wonderful experience But the other thing is He'd be like It seems like he'd be on a whim, that guy as well The other thing, he'd be kind of like

Let's go to Bali and meditate with the monks or talk through the life of the Dalai Lama. You know, crazy stuff like that. I'd be like, you can go off and do that, mate. I'll see you if I talk anything with him, really, other than go to lunch. I'm his lunch mate. Like, I'll make him lunch, drink nine hot agains.

You can pay nine for nine beers for me. Then I'll stumble my way home and you can go off and do all your fun activities. That's funny though. Obviously, there's no secret. I'm a big lover of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. And I'm kind of becoming a little bit like you and your obsession with Justin Bieber, Juliet. You know, you learnt drums. Just so if you and Justin Bieber ever became friends that you'd have a common interest.

Or if I married him. Ben's now taking steroids. No, but I have been. Because we had that bottle of Dwayne Johnson's tequila and I often see Dwayne Johnson getting to the end of the week and enjoying his tequila, so I'm like, maybe I'm going to be a tequila guy like my mate Dwayne. And tequila

for me, like many New Zealanders, is like the regrettable thing you have at the end of the night where you think, oh, why did I have that? And there's always, hey, what's around a did i have that and there's my way through it no i'm fighting my way through it to be mates with dray johnson like sipping on the key and i've gone down to just like a minute bit of tequila and a lot of orange juice really it's just like orange juice with a with a drop of tequila but like me and duane we could have a tequila together and uh that would be our thing as mates but But the ratio's all off. Yeah, well, I know. He'd be drinking, like, probably straight tequila,

and I'd be like, lot of juice, and maybe just a little bit of tequila. So when your mum watered down Raro to get the most out of a packet of Raro. I'm a lightweight, though. You know, he'd drink more than me, but it's okay. So, okay, so Ben's trying to develop a tequila addiction, but really struggling through it.

But this to be mates with The Rock. Okay, so who do you think your celebrity bestie would be why why do you think you'd have a connection with this person and we do have dual leaper tickets to give away a double pass uh for november 2082 i think next year uh yeah so we're gonna make you work for it this morning uh because they're they're great they're hotly anticipated uh tickets uh so who would be your celebrity best friend and why the best reason next gets the double pass to Dua Lipa it is the hits Dua Lipa she's coming back to New Zealand next year November 2022 tickets go on sale this Thursday September 23rd at 2pm for Dua Lipa's future nostalgia tour we got to we got

to chat to her which was awesome last time she was in aotearoa uh 2018 i think it was and i remember you brought up the fact that her dad is very good looking she's got a hot dad yeah that's another reason why i should be my best friend i think she was like stop saying my dad's hot but we're like he is he's hot yeah i spent most of my research time just checking out photos of her dad he's like she's i take him for a ride um but juliet you can't be friends with dual ephraim and be of her dad. She's like, jeez, I'll take him for a ride. But Julie, you can't be friends with Dua Lipa and be like, your dad's so hot. That's going to get awkward, isn't it? Yeah.

I'd have to choose one or the other, wouldn't I? No, but I do think Dua Lipa is like my spirit animal. I think she's really cool. She was really cool, actually. And you're just basing this off... Just the vibe. That's all you've got. That's all us mere mortals have got to base it off.

It's not like we've got together and had a beer with them or wine. Snippets of YouTube interviews. You're like, oh, jeez, I'd get along with that person. Yeah, exactly. Who would be your celebrity bestie, Mark? We've got a double pass to do a leave-in to give away. Who are you chucking out there? Steve Urkel.

Steve Urkel. Jeez. Oh, from... Family Ties? Was he Family Ties? I vaguely remember Steve Urkel. No Urkel? Oh, from... Family Ties? Was he Family Ties? I vaguely remember Steve Urkel. No, it wasn't that. Family Matters, was it?

Family Matters. He was a young teenage African-American actor and he was a comedy actor about 20 years ago. His character's name was Steve Urkel. That's right, yeah. He'd be my best celebrity best friend, I think. How did you land on Steve Urkel? Well, I didn't land on him, but I used to love the show,

so I used to see Steve Urkel impersonations with all my friends. He was like a nerdy sort of character, and he was like, did I do that? It was his catchphrase. He sort of stuck his head out forward and that. So whenever I turned up at a friend's place, they'd go, come on, Mark, give us your best Steve Urkel. It's been on for years.

Well, come on, Mark, give us your best Steve Urkel then. Well, I'm doing it right now, but you probably can't see it. Oh, is it just you poking your head out? Julia White. More of a posing than a voicing, yeah. Yeah, right, okay, Steve Urkel. I got to interview Julia White. Oh, you've met Steve Urkel?

Yeah, I met him. Yeah. And he was the only guy that turned up, he was the only one that turned up in costume as a sort of nudie character, you know,

to really get into the role. Everyone else, it just came in, you know, it was like, that guy, he's that guy. Everyone else turned up

in civilian clothes and he was in character. Yeah. And he got used to, he used to love getting jobs because his parents would go, you get this job, we'll buy you any toy you want. He'd be like, all right, I'll get this job.

I'm surprised anyone turned up for you. Hey, thanks, Mark. You have a great day. We'll get Donna on from Rotorua. Who would be your celebrity bestie, Donna? That would be Oprah Winfrey. Oh, Oprah Winfrey. Oh, yeah.

Oprah Winfrey. You'd probably have to get her surname right. No, probably not. How long have you thought you'd be best friends with Oprah? Oh, many, many years. Like me, she's a straight shooter. She cares about other people. She was raised by her grandparents,

and I'm raising two of our grandchildren who are teenagers now, and that's an interesting concept. Well, good on you. That feels like you've got a lot of stuff you could bond over and talk about if i ever finds yourself lost in rota she's always welcome at donna's house oh definitely all right this is gonna be hard to decide at the end we're gonna put donna on hold right now rochelle you're on for the hawks bay who would be your celebrity bestie hi mine would be billyish. Oh, that's pretty cool. Why is that?

She's cool. Yeah, well, I actually met her just before she kind of blew up and I had a good old yarn to her

and majority of her family. You met her? They're just the most lovely people. How did you meet Billie Eilish and her family? So she was performing

at, I think it was Turning Fork in Auckland and I went to that. There was only like maybe 70, 80 of us that went to the show.

And we just stuck around afterwards, and everyone ended up getting to meet her. And when I went off to the side so other people could go, I ended up just yawning to these two people who were a really great conversation. It turned out to be her mum and her brother. Far out. So you're already besties with her.

Oh, totally. The dream has come true. Now, our producer Humphrey's buzzing us as well, saying you're followed on social media by famous people. Oh, yes, I am, actually. Britney Spears follows me, and I actually had no idea she was following me. What?

A friend of mine was like, do you realise that Britney Spears follows you? I was like, eh? What for? I don't know how it happened. Because she's friends with Billie Eilish. Oh, yeah, sorry. That's what happens when you're friends with as you. I was like, eh? What for? I don't know how it happened. Did you like... Because she's friends with Billie Eilish. Oh, yeah, sorry. That's why.

Yeah, that's what happens when you're friends with celebs. I forgot. Wow, Rochelle, that's incredible. That's awesome. Does Brittany ever message or does she give thumbs up to any of your posts

or any emojis? No, I've yet to get interaction with her, but I did message her and see if she was okay, so I hope she saw it. Oh, wow. Oh, through her whole conservatorship? Yes. Yeah, good on you.

And that's what a good friend does, Rochelle. Thank you so much. We'll have Hayley on the phone from Hamilton, your celebrity bestie. Who is it, Hayley? Morning, guys. I've split it into three categories. I don't know if that's allowed, but I've got my impossible, which is Princess Diana.

Out of the question, but yes. I've got my improbable, which is Princess Diana. Oh, yes. Out of the question, but yes. Yeah. I've got my improbable, which is Cristiano Ronaldo. Oh, yeah. The improbable. I can have a beer with him and maybe learn some soccer skills. Okay. So why do you think he's improbable to have mates with?

Because he's Cristiano Ronaldo. Yeah, I guess he is. Pretty popular. Yeah, right. And then what's the other one? Possible? Yes, quite possible. And it's my mate's John and Ben.

Oh. Into our sweet spot. Playing to our fragile egos. And that'll win you a double pass. Oh, there's a catch. Oh, really? It'll win you a double pass to Dua Lipa. There might be a catch.

You're going to go to the show. I got you. You get to go. Check out Dua Lipa. You're going to go to the show. You get to go, check out Dua Lipa. The catch is you have to take either Giotto or BN. No, no, you don't. Okay. That could be a race.

My catch was going to be that I wanted to star with you on your Good Sports. I think that would be so much fun. Oh, filming is wrapped on that production. If you do a series two, do you do any unique sports?

Or are you just like, no, I'll give it a bash, like us? I'll give it a bash. Okay, great. You come along for a bash. I just saw your injuries and, you know, it looked like fun. Hey, good on you, Hayley. Well done. Enjoy Dua Lipa in 13 months' time, okay?

Have a great day. Okay. Thank you, guys. Oh, there you go. She played us so well there, Hayley. You can catch Dua Lipa, Auckland Spark Arena, Wednesday, November 2nd. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, 2 p.m. Can't wait for that.

It is the hit. She got John on, Ben. Like getting your news from the internet. Half-truths and false information. John and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. We got five words for 5K in about 15 minutes' time. But yesterday, of course, so many of us in lockdown and saw on the gram some of the 660 boys at a football game in America and just 70,000 people at that game.

How incredible was that to be in lockdown and there's 70,000 people? Sounds like a super spreader event to me. But, you know, LeBron James was there. Charlie D'Amelio was there. Conor McGree, Jamie Foxx. I mean, all the celebrities were there as well. It looked incredible. Yeah, the photo that you showed me, it just looked surreal, didn't it?

And I noticed Chris Mack had bought himself a foam beer can holder. Yeah. Supporting the Chargers there. The Chargers, his favourite football team as of yesterday. You know, when you've got a foam can holder, you've levelled up with your support, haven't you? The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't say this battered up old face.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Now we've talked many times on the show about shopping can be an awkward experience, particularly the changing rooms. You always say about the fact that they always ask you how's everything going in there too. Are you alright in there? Is everything okay? Yeah, well I mean

what do you think's going on inside this cubicle? What do you think i'm doing in here yeah is there noises coming out that so they're concerning you okay do you want to call saint john's like what's going on as a as a yeah a guy that often shops with females you know i've been shopping with my wife and my two daughters yeah and your mistress you take her out for a little time sometimes i'd love to treat you you know treat you no that's what keeps it alive. Boy, it's something nice. It's like that scene in Love Actually where Alan Rickman is trying to buy a necklace for his wife, his mistress. Exactly like that.

But you always feel like a changing room lurker too, just standing out. Even if you're there for like, you know, my daughter's in there getting checked. You just feel like you're lurking, you know. So it can be an awkward experience. But I was talking to a mate and he was saying just before lockdown he had a very awkward experience he was going cap shopping he wanted a new cap and he was trying on caps and then he um he was trying them on putting the shop is oh yeah try this one well he was like this is the one walked up the car went to buy it and they were like well there's no barcode on it and he was looking through it and

then this other guy comes up goes oh sorry that's my, that's my hat. So he dropped it on this other dude's hat, who was also cap shopping, and he'd put his cap down. Had he put his cap on the display, though? No, I think just next to the display. Yeah, oh, that's a nice cap. He just put it on, like, trying to get it. That's what John would do. Another guy would be looking at him for quite some time, going,

what is this guy going to do? This guy's stealing my hat in front of me. And then he went up to try and pay for the cap, and I couldn't quite pay for it. But it's one of those awkward experiences that sometimes happens when you're shopping yeah the uh you know you know supermarket shopping now where if you do a uh delivery they can't you can't go out and greet them and one of my favorite things is going out to greet the delivery driver you love light band today oh how's your day been how many deliveries all must be busy out there can't even have any of that and jen my wife's like you got out to greet the delivery driver. You love light band today. Oh, how's your day been? How are your deliveries? Oh, must be busy out there.

Can't even have any of that. And Jen, my wife's like, you've got to stay inside. So I'm in there with my face pressed against the glass. How's the day been? How many deliveries? And this guy's like, just please don't talk to me. I've got a mask on. I just want to deliver this stuff and go.

I was actually researching into other people that have had sort of shopping awkward encounters. And there was a story that someone was recounting online. They had a bit of a cockroach problem in their store and this was in America and the cockroach crawled into the changing room and this lady freaked out and ran out but she had no pants on. She ran out

because the cockroach had crawled in under the changing room. Well that's why they ask you, are you alright in there? Maybe this is where it all dates back to. Because one time this naked lady came sprinting out and we hadn't asked her how she was going. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game of Word Association.

We play it every morning on the show. Match all five words with ours and you win $5,000. It's the shining jewel of this programme, isn't it, this part? It's the rest of the show's just all leads up to this moment. It's like when Jacinda gets out there and starts giving us the vaccine numbers and we're all like, hurry up and get to the COVID cases. This is our COVID

case update. Georgia, you're on from Christchurch. How are you? Hi guys, how are you? You're fresh out of MIQ. I am, I am. Oh, how was that? How was that? Yeah, did you get bored or did you find you could pass the time okay? I did get quite bored towards the end of it.

The first couple of days were alright, but yeah, towards the end of it, it just got a little bit like, I want to be out. You said the first two days were alright, then you got 12 other days that you have to deal with. What were you doing overseas? Working or what? Yeah, I moved over about three and a half years ago and I moved to London

and I was a nanny there for about three years. Oh, you were a nanny in London? That's interesting. And then decided to come back, obviously. Yeah, just done my dash and wanted to come home. Hey, well, welcome back. We've put on a real display for you here in New Zealand and you've joined us for five

words. Have you played this over in London? Did you listen on iHeartRadio? I can't say I did, but I've been listening throughout my managed isolation. Oh, you've been listening in managed isolation. Well, that's good enough. All right, who are you going to send into the soundproof booth, Georgia?

I think I'm going to go with Jono, if I can, please. Oh, you can. You can indeed. I'm going into managed isolation. Yeah, hopefully he'll be in there for two weeks. Unfortunately, it probably won't take that long to play the game. All right, Georgia, he's inside the soundproof booth. Here is your first word this morning.

It is flush. Flush. Flush. Ooh. F-L-U-S-H, flush. Flush. Oh, gosh. Toilet?

Yeah, it's exactly what I was thinking. Same. Producer Julia, exactly. Yeah, so there you go. That's a good answer. Personalised. Personalised. Personalised.

Oh, gosh. These are hard. Personalised. What would you get personalised? It's one I'm thinking. What's that, sorry? Like custom. Oh, like something, yeah, get something custom.

Yeah, okay. We'll go customised. Okay, customised, okay. Beans is your third word this morning. Beans, B-E-A-N-S. Bape, baked beans. Yeah, that's a this morning. Beans. B-E-A-N-S. Bape. Bape beans. Yeah, that's a good one.

Zebra. Or zebra. Zebra. Oh, zebra crossing. Yeah, good. I like it. And Britain. What pops into your mind when we say Britain?

England. Appropriate word this morning. Can I go back to that personalized one? Yeah, of course you can. Can I change it? Personalized. I don't know. I mean, it's so hard.

I don't know what Jono's going to say. I have no idea. But was there one that pops into your mind with personalized producer Juliet? Yes. But then I don't want to lead you. I'm like, okay, yeah. Okay, personalized. Oh, gosh.

I don't know. What were you guys thinking? I don't know if we can say. No. No, if you're driving along and you see something and you might be like, oh, that was personal. No, you can't say that. I can't say that. But that's all.

I don't know what Jono's going to say. I'm going to say that, my disclaimer. But sometimes you'd see. No, I can't. I'm getting the wrap it up sign. Let's go with like gift. Okay. All right.

Okay, gift. Okay. Or plates. Plates. What's that? Sorry? Personalised plates. Oh, plates. Oh, Or plates. Plates. What's that, sorry? Personalised plates. Oh, plates. Oh, funny you thought of that.

That's what I was, but I don't know what, you know, this is all on you. Okay, we'll go plates. We'll go plates. Plates with an S? We're done. Yeah, plates with an S. Okay, all right. Well, let's see.

We're all on this one together. Jono Pryor coming out of the soundproof booth. We got there in the end, Jono. It was a roller coaster. I did realise there was a little mini air conditioning unit in this. Yeah, yeah. It kind of was like those ones in the airplane. It feels like an elderly gentleman with a collapsed lung is going...

sort of kindly on your face. But you went all right, Georgia? I think so. All right. I don't want to say it felt like two weeks in there. It took a long time to get your answers in today, but let's see if we can match up and get you $5,000, eh? All right.

Which is about $500 in English pounds. First word this morning, Jono, is toilet. Oh. Screwed up. I've had a shocker, guys. What's your shocker? Did you give the answer? I don't care what the word is.

I'm going to lock in toilet. If I say toilet, what's your toilet? Oh, guys, I've had a shocker. Let's be fair. He probably would have said that anyway. What was the word? Flush. I would have said royal anyway what was the word flush i would have said royal but i've had to lock in toilet this will be a blemish upon the game you'll be hearing about this from the lawyers no all right personalized is the second word this morning personalized

plates oh good we got there that was that was long and hard i'm debating in that one this time i'll try not to give you the correct answer and just say the first word beans Baked Oh we're three from five zebra zebra zebra ooh stripes

oh Georgia would you lock in zebra crossing stripes is really good too that was probably 50-50 on that one sorry buddy and Britain was the last word

great three from five even with my own goal sorry about that guys And Britain was the last word. Great. Great Britain. Three from five, even with my own goal. Sorry about that, guys. So in all reality, two from five. It's a lot easier if I just give you the answers, though, John. Why don't we do that more often? Yeah, we'll do that tomorrow.

Sorry you missed out on that part, Georgia. But tomorrow you can win when Ben hands out the answers. Hey, welcome back to New Zealand. Hope you enjoy it. Keep safe out there, Georgia. Thank you, guys. Have a lovely day. Thanks so much for playing.

Another chance tomorrow morning. Same time, same place. I'll get it right tomorrow, guys. Sorry. As Adele, she went Instagram official with her new partner over the weekend, didn't she, producer Julia? I know. Rich Paul, I think his name is.

Yeah, from Cotch Sports. He's LeBron James' agent of many NBA agents. So he'd be making some sweet, sweet money off some of those great clients. Who's winning? Who's winning

out of that relationship? Although she would be, you know, she's probably, if I exceed hers. I reckon he's winning. Adele is a catch. Yeah, it's awesome, eh?

It's funny, I think he's like six foot one or something like that and I saw a photo because over the weekend they were at a wedding and just next to LeBron James and it's amazing how small someone I think he's like six foot one or something like that. And I saw a photo because over the weekend they were at a wedding. And just next to LeBron James.

And it's amazing how small someone who's six foot one looks next to people that are almost, you know. Oh, really? The couple of basketballers standing next to him would be like, oh, wow, he looks almost short. But he's like, no, he's way taller than me. Well, we would stack up next to him because I read through my list of the 25 tallest nations before 7 o'clock in New Zealand at number 25. So we would hold our own against LeBron. The average Kiwi, the average New Zealander would. Yeah, so there you go. All right, let's get some spy.

Spy, the what's up. Spy.co.nz. Juliet is like our little sister that our parents had in their 60s when they weirdly realised they could still procreate. And this was the result. Juliet, what's happening in spy? So the Emmys were on yesterday celebrating the best of TV. We did touch on this about an hour ago

that The Crown and Ted Lasso were big winners. Ted Lasso looks like a show that I really want to check out, basically about an American football coach who comes over to teach a British soccer team and coach them, and he has no idea about the the sport of british soccer looks very funny with uh jason sudeikis um but something that i would like to mention is a kiwi director jessica hobbs she won best director in a drama series for directing some of the episodes in season three and season four of the crown so when this headline first came out i was like

hold up did she direct the Crown? But I looked it up and there were a various number of directors and she took some episodes, some other directors took some other episodes, but she was up for the final episode of season four, which is basically when Princess Diana and Charles' marriage sort of starts to break

down. That's awesome, congratulations. Awesome, eh? You've watched The Crown, was that episode better than any of the other episodes? I haven't got that far through the series, actually. I need to get to that series. But actually, I did see on the news last night that her family back in New Zealand watching, which was really cute. Her family in Auckland,

absolutely thrilled. Stunned. We were stunned because she absolutely convinced us that she wasn't going to win. Yeah. And then they named her Jessica Hobbs the Crown. And we screamed. We screamed. We all screamed.

It was very cool. She convinced them that, yeah, no, I'm not going to win. And they should do it. Classic Kiwi attitude. Oh, I won't get it. It is a classic Kiwi attitude. I'm not going to pull this off. Now, here's a question.

Do you find that you'll now watch more of these shows that have won Emmys because they've won awards? Yes. Or do you feel obliged to watch them now? Or did you want to watch Ted Lasso before the Emmys? Well, to be fair, I don't really know. I'd heard of Ted Lasso before the Emmys, and I heard it was quite a good one. But when they won, I was like, oh, I might check out the trailer,

and I watched a few trailers. I was like, this actually looks really, really good. So, yeah, it does make me want to watch it more. I've never watched the Academy Awards and gone, I must watch this French art piece that has subtitles down the bottom of the screen. Have you? Have you watched the Academy Awards and gone, I've got to go and see that film?

Sometimes, but not as much as maybe this one. It feels like these shows are often on Netflix or Apple TV. They feel a bit more like, oh yeah, it's easy enough to watch. I always wanted to enter a show in the Emmys and have a billboard like, yeah, can Jono be in good sports? Just enter it in. We're not going to win. But then you just have Emmy Awards in the Emmys and then you know and have a look at a billboard like yeah can John be in good sports you just enter it in we're not going to win but then you just have Emmy Awards you know really big and then you're entering underneath but you just have beautiful yeah

billboards driving past you it's like oh what Emmy Award do like an aerial 155 and then entering in like you know Tahoma 12 or something but they're like well I must have won an Emmy that show you know sounds good and then when you don't see it up close, it's actually technically, it's like entering. Beautiful. Emmy Award entering. John, I've been good sports. I'll be back Thursday night. Let's put that on the next poster. And after 8 o'clock, some more

Emmy Award entering. Radio. Yeah, so you can do that. Coming up, we have a dispute, which is a friend of a friend of yours. Their relationship's on the rocks over the vaccine. I know. It's dividing people, as you would have probably seen on social media. We'll get to that after 8 o'clock.

It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. As painful as entering a password on your TV remote. One letter at a time. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. 829, New Zealand's Breakfast. 829 New Zealand's Breakfast. I saw this on the news last night. A really interesting story. So there's some owners

of backpackers in Fox Glacier and they got a really strange package in the mail from Texas. Not the sort of package you used to send me back from the UK when you were over there, Jono. Oh, we got an early there too. I had no chance. You were going to send that on me. So they got this heavy package in the mail

and they opened it up and there was a rock inside from someone in Texas and it cost them quite a lot to send the rock. The price that you had to pay to get it to us. They paid $78.50 US to

actually send me a lump of rock. So what happened though is someone had stayed at their backpackers and had taken this rock, quite a nice looking rock, you know, like a nice looking rock and taken it home with them. And then in their life, according to this note they wrote inside, they said, sorry, we took this rock and our life had kind of taken a bit of a turn, bit of bad luck. And so now we want to send this rock back because we feel bad about it and hopefully we'll make some for some good luck some good karma in the world the thing was that the backpackers

uh well they didn't even know it was missing i don't even know that we noticed it had gone um but with its return sort of and there's a story behind it what to do with it? Do we return it back to them? I like that play too. Do we return it back to them? Why? To be honest, it was just a rock. I mean, it's a nice looking rock. They've been living with the gilfs. We took that wrong.

We should have. This is a rock. Yeah. You know you got this speeding ticket because of that rock. And it would have just been clouding over them for the last... $10 is going to cost America to send it back. We we're gonna see their rock back rock consuming their lives to be honest it's a bit of a pain as you want to find a home for this rock so there you go is that a nice rock it's you know like it's quite a pretty it's not like not like a grey sort of whitey sort of shot.

You know, it's not. It's a rock. But it's not like... And they lugged it back in their suitcase. I'll take this home. There you go. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on New Salted Bean.

In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The Heats. Ben, you may have just heard in the news before there was a bomb threat against the White Ferns cricket team, our cricket team that are over there in England at the moment. Very, very scary. They had to cancel training. I don't imagine anything like that that's happening

would just really put you on edge. According to ESPN, the threats have been deemed not credible, but really really really scary so they were meant to tour pakistan along with the black caps were they well i'm not sure i don't think no i don't think the white ferns are because they're in england at the moment but i know that the men and women's uh england team were going to go to pakistan and play um but they're not going now because obviously there was a bomb threat uh against around the time with the black caps that have just gone out of Pakistan.

So it feels like they may be in retaliation to the blackcaps. Scary times too for the players and the families back here for all those cricket players, right? And if anything, it's making it welcoming for other teams to go and visit. These sorts of things. The good thing is everyone is safe and well and it seems not credible. So yeah, fingers crossed

that stays the way it is. Have you done the bloody PECON survey? We keep getting emailed to do this PECON survey. I feel like I'm doing a survey every two weeks for my email.

It's always like, have you filled out this survey for work and there's another work survey. It's a nice idea. I mean, it's a lovely idea. They go around there,

they get everyone's opinions, anonymous survey and you know, you want to make the workplace a better place. It's coming from a great place and I did it. I did the last one because Boss everyone's opinions, anonymous survey, and you know, you want to make the workplace a better place. It's coming from a great place. And I did it. I did the last one because boss told us,

please, for me, would you do it? I'm like, yeah, I'll do it. And then I didn't realize, monthly. Now we're into this whole of just filling out surveys. I did it for the year. It was like, you know, I wrote it off as a charitable donation. I'm done. And then you're like, no, we're going to do it every month.

And I'm not. And then you're like, no, we're going to do it every month. And I'm not a survey guy. I'm not, I don't like filling out forms. I would like to actually, I might campaign parliament for this is to, one day we all fill out a form, and there is one form that can work for any

occasion. And you're like, have you done the form? Yep, boom, you hold it out. It's like a passport. Yeah, a little vaccination passport and a form passport for anything you know whether it's a coffee loyalty card yeah or an insurance policy you've just got this one form so you don't have to fill out any more forms but so i've been avoiding this survey that we're meant to do have you done the survey yes this one's a very quick one though it is very quick it's very easy it's not hard for a boomer and then then I keep the last couple of days, it's like, hi, it's the survey here.

Just a gentle reminder that you are yet to complete the survey. Now, I don't know how many reminders I've had before I've hit the gentle reminder status. Because a gentle reminder is anything but a gentle reminder. It's like, hey, dunce pants, we've emailed you every day for two weeks. You still failed to do the survey. And so now we've hit gentle reminder stage. Does it really ramp up after this? I don't want to know what happens after the gentle reminder stage.

Has anyone pushed it past that or they just go, oh, there's no hope. You win. Gentle reminder is like someone turning up with a baseball bat and going, it's a gentle reminder. But you know, it feels like, well, it's not. It's quite threatening, isn't it? It's clearly not a gentle reminder. I remember that thing we sent you.

Gentle reminder, you might want to, yeah. Do you love your family? Smash a taillight on your car on the way out. You're like, oh, geez, I better do that survey. You know, that's what it feels like. That's what a gentle reminder feels like. It's not a gentle reminder, but they're saying it is. This is why I brought this up.

So whether I needed to actually fill out the survey now, I've had a gentle reminder feels like. It's not a gentle reminder but they're saying it is. This is why I brought this up so whether I needed to actually fill out the survey now I've had a gentle reminder or three gentle reminders actually. They're starting to get less gentle as the reminders come through.

I think we're riding it out now. We're invested in what happens after this. What happens past the gentle reminder phase? I know this goes against everything the company wants. They're doing a great thing.

But we just need to know now what happens. Oh they don't want listen Bogsy the CEO he doesn't want my opinion on you know, workflow and office space. I've got nothing to offer.

Look at me, I barely get myself dressed every morning and drag myself in here, Ben. I did give myself a gentle reminder to get into work each day. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on the hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny.