Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Is The Best Movie Of All Time?

Episode Date: November 10, 2021

We're on a mission to expand Producer Juliet's movie knowledge. She hasn't seen a lot of the classics and she's now compiling a list that she needs to get through. So we discussed the movies she needs to add to her list, and we even consulted with movie buff & friend Doug who has seen over 6,000 movies in his life! We also caught up with Lindy who accidentally found herself in the middle of our 5 Words for $5K competition the other day. She accidentally dialled us when she was trying to win Six60 tickets on another station. We tried to do a make-good with her but it ended up being a shambles all over again! In this podcast too you'll find our interview with Thomas Markle Jr, Meghan's half-brother. However, we've got a mini podcast episode with that on it so you can check it out there too! Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, Kia ora. It's the 11th of November, Thursday.

Jonathan here, Benjamin there. It's the podcast. Wonderful to have you with us. An exciting show we had today. Yeah. Jeez, there was a lot going on. It was exciting for us as well because we, you know, sometimes we go oh, you know, this could be happening and we kind of play it like we're a bit of a shambles. But

today we actually didn't know if an interview was going to happen. We were told yesterday we had Thomas Markle Jr. We had lined him up to talk to him because he's in a big brother show in Australia at the moment. Megan Markle's brother. Yeah. And we were like, oh, great.

So we went away, researched some stuff for that. We're like, cool. Well, these are the things we want to talk to him about. We came in this morning and producer Bee Humps was like, oh, I don't know if we're going to get him. And he came through. Markle answered the blower. Yeah, because we messaged him on social media and he was a little confused as to why he was on our show tomorrow. But anyway, being the guy he is, being the stand-up guy he is, Thomas Markle asked the phone and we spoke to him. He did, didn't he? Yeah, he did. It was really interesting.

He doesn't hide anything, does he? You can ask him either. Yeah. And he'll answer it. He was obviously very open about his feelings towards his sister, Megan, and her relationship with Harry before the wedding. And now things have changed. Isn't it funny how you judge people? How the media can sway an opinion on something. The media has a very powerful role to play

and sometimes, and I'll put my hat in the ring and say we're a bit reckless with it. Yes, you are. I'm part of the media. Yes, I'm not so shifting blame here, but you love it. You love it.

I heard her saying something like it's truth. Yeah, I'm a little reckless with it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going shifting blame here, but you love it. You love it. I heard her saying something like it's truth. Yeah, I'm a little reckless with it. Don't get me wrong. I'm not going to stop being reckless. Do you ever think about that, though? No, not really. I mean, everything I say, no one takes seriously anyway. That's my issue.

You know, if it was Hosking saying the stuff I'm saying, then there would be issues. You get disappointed that you're like, what, I'm saying this stuff? Even when I try and do something genuine and nice everyone's like oh he's saying

this oh you know I love my wife she's a great lady oh he's just saying this after 20 years of doing that

it's hard to change that yeah you're right I can never be taken seriously on Newstalk ZB or anything no I always think

you're doing a gang title to the audience as well I was like what's the joke here it's coming no seriously you're like whatever mate hey the audience as well. It's the joke, yeah. It's coming. No, seriously.

You're like, yeah, whatever, mate. Hey, big day, big day today. Black Caps. Hey, good. The Black Caps are in the final. Jeez, you were happy. We were on air as the Black Caps were in their dying overs against England in the 2020 semifinal. And Ben Boyce threw the window because we've got a giant pane of glass here that looks out into a foyer.

And then there was another fellow cricket fan from Radio Hauraki who came out. And he, Mike's his name, and he was pumping the air with his fists. And then he sort of started humping the air. Yeah, he went quite sort of rusty. But then you were also joining in. I was like, this is like a National Geographic. Are these two doing it? Are they going to hook up soon?

You were both sort of air humping. Very happy because, of course, England was the team that, you know, that we had that. So I don't want to go back to the 50-over World Cup, but anyway. Seems like the Black Caps really step up in the moments they need to step up. I'm no expert. No, but they've done really well. They're a really successful team for a country that's not, you know,

you look at England, India, Australia, they're a huge cricketing population. So are we the Test World Champions? Yeah. And we could be the 2020 World Champions. And we obviously lost on a boundary thing in the World Cup as well, you know, like in the finals. So we pretty much could have all three of the premier cricketing forms of the game.

Yeah, I mean, we obviously, England are the 50-50 World Champions. But, yeah, it's kind of cool. It's cool for New Zealand. Cool for, yeah, because there was times in the New Zealand team. There were some low times. But hey, you know. Yeah, you're a big cricket fan. He's a big cricket fan.

He's a big fan of the Warriors, this guy. Yeah, the Warriors. Well, hopefully we'll get this Warriors story at some stage, you know, when things come back. Have you got a Warriors jersey? Yes, I have. Yeah, I've got a Warriors jersey. What's their new kit like?

Have they got a new season one? They've got a new sponsor this year. It's Puma. So I don't think they've unveiled the kit and the 24 jerseys that we're wearing here. You know what I love? I love when the All Blacks are like, we're unveiling our new jersey. And every year I'm disappointed. It looks exactly the same as the last 30 years.

They're like, oh, this is slightly different. You're like, oh, is it? Oh, yeah, I guess so. But you're right. They don't go for drastic sort of like, this season we're going with a green colour or anything like that, do they? I mean, there was the big for all

when they had AIG put on the front of it. Yeah, yeah. But no one was happy about that. Imagine if they came out like, we've got a new sponsor, it's Calendar Girls or something. Then you wouldn't be happy, would you? Yeah.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Enjoy the podcast. Enjoy the podcast. Wrap it up. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show.

Thursday morning, Jono and Ben with you. Great, great, great, great. Ben Boyce, he's happy this morning because he gets to come in here and turn on international cricket. We've always talked about what a big fan of cricket he is. Bores Juliet and me to death. Put the sound off. Put the sound off. We're not doing amazingly at the moment. we've always talked about what a big fan of cricket he is. Bores Juliet and me to death. But, you know, we'll enable him. Put the sound off.

Put the sound off. We're not doing amazingly at the moment. It looks like England are just slightly kind of ahead, if you know. Yeah. So, anyway. Anyway, I'm trying to ignore. You'd be a shocking commentator. We're not doing amazingly.

They're just slightly. I want to be positive about it. But, yeah, one of the things when you're a cricket fan, then no one's really. It's not like rugby or football, you can go, who's winning? No one's really winning until the game's over. And then sometimes even then it's a draw. Yeah.

Really? Yeah. At this stage you'd say England's looking better than we are, but hey, hey, you never know. I get very confused as to what's a replay and what's happening in real time. Yeah. Because it's on mute. And all the guys out and you're like, no, no, that was 10 minutes ago.

That was just a replay. It's bamboozling me, Jew. Yes. Guess what? What? You're going to be run off your little feet today, mate. We've got a crazy show. Strap yourself in. Ben and me will just sit here and do nothing and say some words, but boy, you've got a big morning. It is a big show. We've got free fish and chips

for Wellington. We'll tell you how you can get hold of that today. We've got free cash, but boy, you've got a big morning. It is a big show. We've got free fish and chips for Wellington. We'll tell you how you can get hold of that today. We've got free cash, $5,000 and we've got a free interview for you with Thomas Markle Jr. Megan Markle's brother. Now, we're a little shaky as to whether Thomas is going to answer the phone according to producer Bea Humphrey. There's been some

confusion from Thomas. He didn't know he was booked because we put a thing on social media last night saying, we've got this guy on the show, and he goes, news to me. Yeah, sounds great. And then we're like, when is it? We're like, tomorrow. Very confusing, because he's on Big Brother, basically Australia, Big Brother VIP.

But then he's gone home to America. He's in Oregon. Yeah. So the time difference is... I don't know. We're 80% confident Thomas Markle will be on the show this morning. It's going to be a fun one. Now stick with us.

It is the hits. You got John O'Bien. Welcome to Two Half-Ass Dads to a Half-Ass Job. Official title, John O'Bien, New Zealand's Breakfast. Yeah, they're a 660 takeover on the hits on Saturday. You can win tickets to their six stadium tours. So make sure you check out 660 on the radio on the hits this weekend.

Yeah, what are they? Pulling a bit of a shift, are they? A 60 hour job, are they? Yeah. On the weekend it goes six to 12, 12 till six, doesn't it?

It'll be a 660 shift or something, wouldn't it? It'll be six hours, 60 minutes, which is seven hours, but you know. Is it the entire band? Are we paying them all

for this? Just a couple of members? I think the whole band are getting involved. It's going to be a very costly shift for Boss Todd. but it's worth it, you know? the whole band are getting involved. It's going to be a very costly shift for Boss Todd. But it's worth it.

Yeah, it is worth it. It's great to have them on the station. Now, I don't know if you've been to the old wash world. You know, the 24-hour car washy job

you put your... Is this one you do yourself? Yeah. Type thing, yeah. Have you been there? Oh, not for a while. You love it.

I do love it. You always go, you always talk about going to the car wash. How much is it to get your car washed there? I've never been before Well this is the thing I have put an obscene amount of unnecessary pressure on myself

To try and bring down the dollar value of what it cost me to wash my car Now you put a set of coins into the machine And it's just a soapy violent mess you're just scrubbing and what like you know so and my goal i don't even know why i've set this goal but it's to knock off more dollars as every time i go so i can do it the cheapest quickest possible way but what has resulted is just a high-pressured race against time not only high high pressure from the hose, but also pressure I'm putting on myself. And I left yesterday, and I was like, because I got it down to $8. It's not bad.

Wow, that's pretty good. Ten was my record up until that point. Gotcha. And that is the Usain Bolt of car washing. I'm going, and then I left, and I'm like, why am I doing this to myself? Yeah. What a pointless exercise. It's a race to, yeah.

I probably look like an absolute lunatic. And I got in the car and I'm like covered in multicoloured soap suds. The interior is all soaked. So you wouldn't go through one of the ones that you just sit in the car and it washes around you, you know, that fun experience. I get bored. I get bored sitting in there. What?

Yeah, I just like doing stuff, you know. But you could get your phone. You could clear some emails and all sorts of stuff like that. No, it's just one of those scenarios. I'm like, why am I doing this to myself? In life, you're like, this is just, I'm going to get on my deathbed, and I'm like, the amount of stress I cause myself just washing a car. For $2 probably.

For $2, yeah, exactly. Take your time, guys. As long as you can sit in. You might be trying that. Just get on with the go. It's kind of guys. As long as you can sit in. You might be trying that. Just get a go. It's kind of fun. But you put a countdown clock on anything, and it just adds an unnecessary amount of pressure to something, doesn't it?

Yeah. When you're like, actually, let's just stop the clock and just do it. Take your time. Yeah. Be relaxed. I've always wanted to own one of those. I think they'd be very profitable. You reckon?

Oh, yeah. I don't think I've ever used one. They're always heaving. Yeah, but they are busy. Yeah. Yeah. But you're right, they're always busy. All you've got to do is just go in there and fill it up with some palm olive every day. Well, it's true. There's probably not a lot that you have to be there because everyone does it

themselves. Yeah. I'm sure there's more to it than just putting palm olive in it. What's the job? I just put some palm olive in there. Then I go home, just count my millions. They all come in coins. And at night, go and collect the coins. Yeah, that's my gig.

I reckon that'd be a great business. If who owns a wash world, text us. You don't have to come on here, but text us in and go, thumbs up or thumbs down as to whether you're making a buttload of cash. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the F*** News. Now, this is the part of the programme where we inconvenience producer Juliet to find some news headlines, where she inconveniences Rachel Jackson-Lees, our newsreader, to read those headlines, and then she inconveniences the headlines by beeping words out.

Yes, and your first news headline? WhatsApp is about to change c*** with enormous app update. All right, Ben, what do you think the headline is? Oh, I'm going to say WhatsApp is about to change to WhatsApp. Are you serious? This is exactly the same answer I came up with. We have been working together for too long. I thought, geez, that's a good answer.

Well, I got it first. You shouldn't have thrown it over to me. WhatsApp is about to change groups with enormous app update. So I don't know if you guys use WhatsApp. Actually, yes, I know Ben does because he had that blowout. I'm on there too, mate. Oh, I thought you were. Don't forget about me.

You're now getting good because you can reply back because often you'll just reply and then you have to work out what is he replying to? Which one of the 30 messages has he replied to? Yeah, because I'm talking about something that had been three days previous. Now you've worked out that you can actually click on that one and use it. Reply specifically. Yeah, well, Juliet said you can just swipe right on it,

and then that looks like the message you're actually referring to. Yeah, which helps it run out. But to make things a little bit more complicated, it seems like you'll be able to create groups within groups with this new update. So I know that it says that it's quite similar to the platform Slack, which I know that some companies and businesses use, where you can have groups within groups. Apparently, I've never

used it, but it's kind of similar to that. But I just see a lot of problems and people accidentally sending messages to the wrong groups within groups. So it would just make it so much more complicated. I know you've spent a lot of time explaining what it is. I still don't know what they're doing. I'm just getting my head around the old swipe right

and you can reply back to an old message. Yeah, no, that's fair. It's just going to be probably a bit more complicated now, well, it seems. We had a moment where obviously someone had left the show to go to another job, but you had to delete them from the WhatsApp group, which is fair enough.

They're at a new company now, but it just seems so savage. It's like, Juliet has deleted this person. Oh delete max yeah bye max bye max does max get a message going he's been savagely uh removed from your life yeah been removed from the group it's like what's he done i hope not the next news story hospital accidentally used toilet water for please tell me it's not drinking water please i'm gonna go hospital accidentally used toilet water for... Please tell me it's not drinking water, please. I'm going to go hospital accidentally used toilet water for the annual slip and slide fundraiser.

Hospital accidentally used toilet water for drinking for nearly 30 years. 30 years? Yeah. Oh my goodness. Accidentally for 30 years. I know, so this happened in Japan and it was a hospital at a university where students were studying.

And apparently 30 years ago, the tap water pipes were put in incorrectly, and they were connected to the toilet pipes. Oh, no. So they were drinking like... Not sewage water, but like the clean water that flushes through. Oh, right, the stuff that sits at the top of the... Yeah, yeah.

But no one got sick over the 30 years, so that's probably quite good. But just the thought that sits at the top of the... Yeah, yeah, but no one got sick over the 30 years, so that's probably quite good, but just the thought that it's connected is not very pleasing. You hear some things about airplanes, don't you, and the water they use on airplanes. Oh, really? Yeah, you do. Okay.

I'll let you do the Googling on that, because I don't want to, you know, the airline industry's already struggling. I don't need me weighing in on them. And the final news story. Almost a third of couples admit to arguments over which partner is... I'm going to go as the busiest.

We've talked about this before. This is a conversation I have with my wife and you have with your wife. It's like, oh, I'm busy because I'm doing... Oh, well, she's busy. She's normally 10 times busier than me, but I like to pretend I'm busier than I am. I had an argument last night about that. I'm like, I'm definitely busier than you right now because I was running around being busy. But then it stops because our job is we just say some words, don't we?

Almost a third of couples admit to arguments over which a partner is doing something that they don't agree with. Almost a third of couples admit to arguments over which partner is greener. So who is more eco-friendly? Yeah, so it was a survey of 2,000 couples, and, yeah, one-third of them get into discussions about who has better eco-habits, and they also, you know, throw digs at the other partner,

being like, oh, you didn't recycle that. Sounds like a Green Party AGM. Yeah. Chloe's like, I'm greener. James Shaw's like, oh, I put some recycling out today. Yeah, but you flew to Scotland. Yeah. Marama Davidson's like, oh, I put some recycling out today. Yeah, but you flew to Scotland. Madama Davidson's like, I planted a tree.

Maybe they're planting all the trees for that. For Instagram. Take a photo of your pet and plant a tree. Maybe they're doing that. I know, controversial. And that is the news and beeps for you this morning. Intelligent, thought-provoking, stimulating. Three terms that will never apply here.

Tuna and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Now, we've spoken a lot on this program about Mittens the cat. The Mittens the Wellington cat. Yeah. Famous cat. Yes, we even called out, remember, it was in a hair salon at the time. It got the keys to the city. Oh, the cat.

The cat's got the keys to the Wellington city. It's a famous cat that roams around central Wellington. We phoned the hairdresser and the hairdresser was like, oh, she's a little bit of a pest. She just wanders and sits in chairs and stuff like that. But the cat is very famous in Wellington. We phoned the hairdresser and the hairdresser was like, oh, she's a little bit of a pest. She comes in all the time. Yeah, wanders and sits in chairs and stuff like that. But the cat is very famous in Wellington. Well, now the cat's moving to Auckland.

The cat is with its owners, of course, but the cat's moving out of Wellington. Does Mittens know what's happening in Auckland? Because, you know, you can't just roam free around this city. No, no. There's restrictions here. Stick to your bubble, Mittens. We've got some guidelines here, mittens.

Yeah, but the cat that had the keys to the city is no longer going to be living in Wellington. Yeah, right. Did he actually get keys to the city? Well, he did. Yeah, like we did. We got the Topo keys to the city. Remember when we sailed to Bouncy Castle across the lake?

The mayor gave us the keys, but it didn't open any doors. No, we tried. We tried breaking and entering into all the houses, but yeah, it was a bit of a facade, wasn't it? Turns out the keys to the city aren't literally keys to the city. Maybe it needs to be a swipe card to the city or something. That's right. Taking over all your favourite

song intros, Jono and Ben the Heads. So Jono and Ben and now thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup we're doing something very cool every Thursday and Friday in November. Jono and Ben's Friday. Thanks to Hein Ben's Fry Day. Thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. It's thick, rich, and absolutely delicious.

A lot like Jono Pryor. Thank you. You're not so bad yourself. One of those three things is probably more like you. And I'll leave you to decide which one of thick, rich, and absolutely delicious you are. I'm going to say absolutely delicious. Oh, there you go. That's what my mother would tell me.

You're absolutely delicious. Free fish and chips is. That's what my mother would tell me. You're absolutely delicious. Free fish and chips is happening every Thursday and Friday right around the country in a different location. And today, between 12 and 2, thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup, you can get free fish and chips in Wellington. Yeah, now Wellington used to wind blowing in their face. Well, how about we blow some fish and chips right inside your mouth? That's right.

And we're going to be doing it at the Sea Market in Cuba Street, and we're joined by the owner of the Sea Market in Cuba Street. His name is Dion. Welcome to the show, Dion. Thank you so much for doing this today. Yeah, we love doing it, mate. We're happy to be involved. These guys have been awesome down here.

They've been showing massive support for us right through, and through the last couple of years as well with everything that's been going on. It's been super, really. It's good to give something back. So you've got the Wellington Sea Market. Now, it's going to be at the Cuba Street store today from 12 till 2, free fish and chips.

I know Cuba Street, relatively tight sort of street, isn't it? So you're going to have a line halfway down the road, I'm picking, Dion. It's going to be halfway down the road and around the corner, so get in early. We're just up the top of Cuba Street and sure everyone knows where it is. And there's a bit of seating

outside and everything, so it'll be a good day and people can enjoy a bit of fish and chips outside. Now I struggle, one of the big things for me when it comes to cooking is juggling everything that needs to be done and you want to time it all so it all sort of comes together in the end on the

plate, all the various ingredients. Is there high pressure in the fish and chip kitchen? You're sweating over the deep fryer It's a bit of a juggle, it can be stressful at times I actually used to do the Friday night rush back in the day. You've got to time

it perfectly. You've got to put the chips in a bit earlier, wait till the last minute, throw in the fish, add the squid rings and you're good to go. But it all works itself out in the end. But then you've got the phone orders coming through as well. Oh mate, you're trying

to serve somebody there then the phone orders. You've sort of just got to roll the dice and work with it. Usually the customers are pretty good about it. No, it's very cool what's happening today. I can't wait. Well, it's a shame we can't be down there to take part, but something we do like to do, you know the show Squid Game. It's on Netflix, big show.

We like to have our own version of a squid game where Jono and I try and guess the price of squid, a single bit of squid at your fish and chip shop Are you doing a calamari ring there are you? We are doing a calamari ring What do you reckon the price is? Okay Ben you can lock it in I'm going to go

Central City, Cuba Street, rents high Bit of a premium It's probably really top quality stuff I'm going to go $1.40 $1.40 for your single calamari $1.40 are you guys both locking in the $1.40. I'm going to go $1.40. $1.40 for your single calamari? $1.40? Are you guys both locking in the $1.40? I'm going to go a bit lower.

I'm going to say it's above the dollar threshold, I believe. Which is still a great price. You're not getting a wild 80 cent piece of calamari there. I'm going to say $1.20 there, Dion. You're bang on. $1.20. He wins this good game. You're the winner.

$1.20. We'll send a package of fish and chips up to you guys. bang on. He wins this good game. You're the winner. We'll send a package of fish and chips up to you guys. Dion, lovely to talk to you today. Cuba Street, the Wellington Sea Market from 12 till 2. Thanks to Heinz Ketchup. Free fish and chips for the whole city. Strap down the deep fryer, mate. Awesome.

Thanks, guys. And shout out to the Wellington people. You guys are awesome. Thanks for all the support. What a good guy, Dion. There. Thanks, guys. And shout out to the Wellington people. You guys are awesome. Thanks for all the support. What a good guy, Dion. There you go. The Sea Market today, Cuba Street, Wellington,

from 12 till 2, thanks to Heinz Ketchup. Put some free food in your mouth. I drove past a sign on the way to work today. It said free physio. But every time you see free, you're like, that's not free. There's strings attached. No, no strings attached.

Get along there and get some of it. Scrolling through your feed. All right, there's no story too There's strings attached. No, no strings attached. Get along there and get some of it. Scrolling through your feed. All right, there's no story too heavy for this guy. And if there is, then he'll just leave it to the real news readers to deal with it. Ben Boyce, this is Scrolling Through Your Feed, the news from overnight. Well, Auckland and Waikato schools will open again from mid-next week. That was the announcement yesterday from the government. Primary and intermediate pupils going back

sort of on a part-time basis. The different schools, I think, are coming up with a bit of a plan how it best will work for them to keep some of the classes a bit... Well, not together. I guess not together at the same time. Also going to have to wear masks from year four and have ventilation in the classrooms

with all the windows open. It's an interesting call. We spoke to the Prime Minister about it last week. I just feel like there's just a huge risk compared to the rewards. Now, I know what they're weighing up. They're weighing the social impact on the children. Yeah, because you think about that. It's been three months, pretty much, plus you take another month or so,

then another month for holidays. It's pretty much five plus six months where the kids haven't gone to school at all. Yeah, but you know, we are allowed to interact socially outside, you know, so social interaction can take place. Yeah. I just think the risk of sending a huge section of society out unvaccinated, I mean, you could have a huge outbreak in the under 12s. Yeah.

And again, yeah, I know it doesn't affect them as badly historically, but it could still affect enough of them to put pressure on the ICU. Yeah, that's true. I guess they're banking on the fact that vaccinations are very high and they are going to be wearing masks and have ventilation as well. So it's not like, you know, with the windows open and everything and them being outside. I mean, I'm sure they've done all the heavy lifting on it. It just doesn't make sense to me.

It feels like it's a recipe for disaster. Right. In my mind, but who am I? Because I was reading an article that one in four UK schools have shut in the last four weeks with outbreaks. Really? With under 12s, unvaccinated children. Yeah. So, hey, mate, time will tell.

Well, that's true. Yeah, you can kind of see it from both sides. I mean, I'm sure, you know, there's a lot of parents out there that are nervous and there's a lot of parents out there that are nervous, and there's a lot of parents out there that will be looking forward in some ways to getting the kids back in a bit of normality. You know, because I do wonder about what it's doing to the kids' mental health, you know. Yes, you can see your friends outside, but

it's not the same as being in a school environment and learning. Yeah, well, each family has their own issues, don't they? And that's life, you know, isn't it? We're all just navigating through, baby. Yeah. And Will Ferrell, now, of course, he was in the cult Christmas movie, Elf, that many people love watching around about this time of year.

Well, his original costume, the elf costume, was just sold at a Hollywood memorabilia auction, and someone paid $422,000 in New Zealand dollars. Yes. That's New Zealand dollars. Why is there so much money surrounded with this movie? He turned down $40 million to do a sequel. Yeah, the costume they thought going into it

was going to get about $40,000 US dollars. That's what they thought it might fetch, an iconic costume. But someone, who they don't know who, paid over $400,000 New Zealand dollars for that iconic costume. So there you go. Listen, I mean, I like the movie Elf. Yeah, so I love it. I mean, but out of all the costumes you're going to buy as movie memorabilia,

what are you spending $430,000 on, Ben Boyce? Oh, jeez. The notebook from the notebook. You know, I always love taking notes. Be handy to put some notes down, you know. Pick up bread and milk and things like that. You know, that'd be handy. The mankini from Borat.

Yeah, it's another one. I would spend $4.70. Summer coming along. $30,000 on that. And that is scrolling to your feed this morning. Spy. The What's Up. SpyDocco.nz.

We're up to this part of the show already. It's time for Spy. I tell you what, and what we lack in James Bond in a tuxedo, we make up for with producer Juliet in track pants. Yes. What's going on, Juju? So, Lorde's New Zealand and Australian League of Her Solar Power Tour has been postponed until February, March 2023

due to COVID uncertainty. So it was initially meant to go ahead in February next year, which is quite soon. I think this is like four months away. But they just thought it was too risky at the moment with not knowing where COVID would be and whether we will be able to have big events like that. Got to probably try and keep it in the summertime, though,

because a solar power tool is hard to do in the winter. Yeah, I don't know how they'll charge the generator. Electrically plugged into it, you know, it's not quite as, you know. Or nuclear powered tool. Might be going against everything. Well, thatically plugged into it. It's not quite as you know. Or nuclear powered too. Might be going against everything. Well that's an

interesting call. Given too 660 have locked in March. Yeah. Only a few weeks later. I know. Lorde's obviously a

bit hesitant on pushing play. They're really very hard to do at the moment. What about all those big banger concerts? Are they at the

back end of the year are they? Yeah like Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish and stuff more towards November of the year are they? Yeah like Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish and stuff more towards sort of November of the year yeah. Because I suppose if she delays this it's a domino effect on the rest of a world tour right?

So she's probably supposed to put this part of the world on hold and then do what she can in other areas. And then she'll come back in and do it at the end right? Yeah and the thing is I should be a tour manager. You should. But she said that starting the tour in new zealand was always really important to her so like while the rest of the world seems to kind of be opened up a bit more she didn't want to do you know the states or the uk or something before

she came to new zealand because she just wanted to start in her home country um she said they fought this decision for a long time but she'd much rather play when it's like actually 100 certain and we're actually over COVID, whenever that will be. I know, fair call, Lord. Fair call. You leave us here to rot, mate. You go spread your wings overseas, do whatever you need to do. Yeah, but all tickets, if you've bought a ticket,

they all are valid for the postponed show. And the Squid Game... For once, I'd like a concert to go. This concert's not happening. By the way, all the tickets that you bought, they're not valid and we're going to need you to buy new tickets. Be controversial. That would be very controversial.

And Squid Game, what are you doing? Ben's giving fist pumps to a guy from Radio Hauraki because we've just won the cricket. Yes. So Ben is silently pumping his fist while Julia's trying to read stories. A professional would carry on, Julia. Yeah, but I wasn't sure if you were indicating to me or if there was something going on.

I'm just really passionate. The guy from Hauraki is air-humping. He's humping the air right now. It was a private moment between the two of us. So we won the cricket, did we? We did. We're in the final on the T20. Ben was also gyrating his pelvis.

I was like, what is this? Is this like a mating ritual? What's going on here? Good Lord. Okay, so Squid Game, it has been confirmed for season two. You may have seen that yesterday. I was going to bring it up yesterday,

but I kind of thought it was pretty common knowledge that we all assumed that it would be happening for season two. Bit of a no-brainer, you would have thought. I mean, it's such a successful show, the biggest show on Netflix,

and a genius play by the writer to leave it at the end. I won't say exactly what happens, but alluding to the fact that there's going to be more. Yeah, yeah. You can wrap it all up. It sort of went, oh, you know.

So that's genius too. I am crawling to the finish line on Squid Game. Oh my gosh, you're still not through. Yeah, I'm still battling away. I'm in the trenches. I'm like one of the players trapped on the island. What episode are you up to? I think I'm nearing the end of the year.

I don't want to spoil anything. What game are they up to? But they've just done the glass walking game. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the guy and his brother, they've had their thing. Yeah, right.

Oh, yeah. Am I nearly there? You're getting there, mate. What do you mean I'm getting there? Like, how much longer? Not too much longer. I think you've kind of watched it a little bit too late.

Have you done the marbles? Has the marbles come into it yet? Yeah, I've watched the marbles. Oh, the marbles. Okay, yeah, cool. Am I near? Is the light at the end of the tunnel? Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very good. Does the person that you think is going to win, win? I've watched the Marvels. So sad. Am I new? It's the light at the end of the tunnel? Yeah, it's very good. Does the person that you think is going to win win? I'm not going to say. No. Tell me. No. Tell me.

There might be people who are listening who are still watching. No spoilers here. But the director did say that he battled between two endings and if you've seen the ending

you know that it's like what? And it's quite frustrating but he chose to make that decision so it would open up for season two should it be continued on. So well done. Yeah, it's well done.

Well done. And that is a spy for the South. More you can hear to the hits.co.nz. Now Ben's going to go off and air hump his fellow cricket fans. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Thursday morning, just gone 7 o'clock. It's a great morning.

New Zealand, the Blackcaps are into the T20 final. They just beat India. Sorry, England. They just beat England to get into the final just before. Very excited about that, so that's pretty cool. Ben keeps saying, get up, get up. Is that what you say? Get on up or get him up there.

What was your catchphrase there? It's like I'm talking about something else there, doesn't it? It's like me giving myself a pep talk. Oh, my God. So that's very cool news. And just after 8 o'clock on the show today, all going well, we're going to be joined by Thomas Markle Jr. Now, this is Meghan Markle's big brother, half-brother.

And ironically, he's on a show called Big Brother. Yeah, in Australia. He's going to be joining us. Now, he made news just before the wedding between Meghan and Harry where he sort of penned a letter, an open letter, that didn't say some very favourable things about Meghan and Harry and the potential relationship between the two of them. Yeah, well, more so Meghan, right?

He doesn't think too highly of his sister. And so, yeah, producer Bee Humps has teed up Thomas Markle to have a word with us, although he's a little hesitant as to whether Thomas Markle's going to answer the phone. Now, this is just due to the fact that on social media last night, we said, hey, we've got Thomas Markle on the show. And then Thomas Markle messaged, and he said, news to me. Yeah, he's like, sounds good. When's this?

And we're like, yeah. It's tomorrow, mate. He's like, oh, news to me. So he's on board. Hopefully that's happening after 8 o'clock today, because on Big Brother, the TV show, he's kind of written a new letter for megan and harry have a listen guy that she was married to the first time she just walked all over him and dumped him that's cold blooded that's stone cold harry's on the chopping block next i'm gonna write a letter

to megan dear megan and harry the first thing i want to say to both of you is... Shit, he loves his letters, doesn't he? Yeah, well, they made him do it. They made him do it on the show. Yeah, it was a part of it, which great producer play. Oh, great producing. Great soulless reality TV producing. We all know why he's there.

Just talk about your sister 90% of the time. That was one of the challenges. Write a letter to your wife. Oh, I can see what you're doing here, guys. Write a letter to a sibling, specifically a female one who might challenges, write a letter to your wife. Oh, I can see what you're doing here, guys. Write a letter to a sibling, specifically a female one, who might be married to a royal. Yeah, that's your challenge, yeah.

So hopefully he's joining us after 8 o'clock this morning. Thomas Markle Jr. It is the hits. Mmm, coffee breath. Jono and Ben, the hits. Now, Producer Juliet, you said the other day that you hadn't seen as many movies as you thought you should have seen, and you really want to start seeing some of the classics so you can get some jokes, get some references. Yeah, I just don't want

to go through life not seeing a lot of just the big banger movies that people talk about, you know? But, you know, every time Ben suggests a movie to you, you're like, oh yeah, I must watch that. And, you know, when you're saying, oh yeah, I must watch that, your face is saying, I'm going to do anything but watch that. Ben's trying.

He's trying. He's even to the point where he's now dedicating two breaks of the radio show and got a special guest on to help you in your crusade, producer Juliet. Yeah. A dear friend of ours, Doug Dillman, he actually edited our last TV show. Doug's a wonderful man.

And we found out a fact about Doug that he's seen over 5,000 movies. He's the guy to talk to if you want a movie advice. Yeah, so this is how important this is to Ben. This is how dear it is to Ben's heart. So Doug, it's lovely to have you on, buddy. Very good to be here. Very good to talk to somebody

outside of my house for the first time in 12 weeks, something like that. How many movies have you watched over lockdown alone over the last three months? Well, I've got something kind of embarrassing, which is on my 48th birthday, I decided to watch 48 films. So some of those were short films, but, yeah, I mean, it's definitely been over 100. So you're in the 5,000s, aren't you,

in terms of the amount of movies that you've watched? Don't tell anyone. I think I'm over 6,000 now. 5,000s, aren't you, in terms of the amount of movies that you've watched? Don't tell anyone. I think I'm over 6,000 now. 6,000 movies. So, Doug, just how many movies on average, when it's not your birthday and you're on a 48-movie marathon, how many would you watch on a Wednesday, a run-of-the-mill weekday? Well, you know, I'm heads down working right now, so it's like only one a day, you know. But, you know, two you know you know two nights

not not too uncommon but it also depends i do watch a little bit of telly as well so successions on right now you know would you watch the same movie again or you're like i've kind of done that now i need to watch new new movies or would you like to sort of mix it up uh i mix it up but i'm probably more a new movie guy i'm always like you know because i got into it just discovering like hey i haven't seen this and this this is great, and this is, that's great, and this is great. So I'm always like chasing the next hit, you know, whereas my wife's more of a, I know I like this, so I want to watch it again. So mix it up. No, always chasing that high, isn't it?

It's like a bloody, he's like a meth addict, but it's with movies. Probably a lot more costly, too, watching so many movies. If I haven't priced it out, I'll trust you. Now, Doug, do you have a favorite genre? Do I have a favorite genre? I've been really getting into documentary lately. There's just so many great stories and great characters, and there's stuff that you could never get away with in a fiction movie,

but then you see it in a documentary and you can't argue it because it really happens. Yeah, right, so he's in the docos at the moment. I suppose you would go through waves of what you're preferring yeah i mean we've just come out of october so that's a great horror season of course and um i i love it all though so doug's in the in the middle of organizing an online film festival uh because obviously a lot of people can't get out to movie theaters at the moment which we'll talk about very shortly but firstly we thought that you could offer Juliet some advice as to what movies she needs to see.

Because we've discovered you've watched almost nothing, Juke. Well, I feel like I haven't watched a lot of the classics. Like, I don't really understand a lot of references. Like, for example, Castaway. I know that everyone yells Wilson, but I don't know what that is. You know what I mean? So, yeah, I just want to start a list of the classics or ones that I can join in on the banter with.

Yes, she's missing out. All right, Doug. You want to be up with the pop culture, basically. Yes, yes. She's not getting half of our show. And tell me something. Do you subscribe to Netflix? Do you have Disney Plus?

Do they pay you enough that you can rep movies one-on-one? I do have Netflix. It's my parents' account that I share with them. Okay, great. So we've got some options. So I'm going to start with a little obscure one. Have you seen Jurassic Park? Welcome to Jurassic Park.

Oh, I haven't seen Jurassic Park. No, I haven't. Oh, you need to see this. And I know that's a classic I need to watch. Is Sam Neill Kiwi in there as well? Yeah, no, I haven't. Yeah Park. No, I haven't. Oh, you need to see this. And I know that's a classic I need to watch. Is Sam Neill Kiwi in there as well? Yeah, no, I haven't. Yeah, yeah, Hometown Connection. So that's probably an important one.

That's on Netflix. What about the Jurassic Park 2, 3, 4? You know, they keep making the parks. They're still making them, right? They keep going. You'd think they'd get the idea after a while, wouldn't you? It's not seeming safe, but they, you know, I mean, if you get into it, you can keep on. That's the thing.

Like, when you get into movies, you can go any direction. It's like, do you want to see more of the actor? Do you want to see more of the director? Do you want to see more people get eaten by dinosaurs? Whatever you want, there's something there for you. Alright, so Jurassic Park, the original. We'll start with the OG. What's the next one, Doug? I was going to say this other little film

called Back to the Future. Are you telling me that you built a time machine out of a DeLorean? The way I see it. No. Is that the one with the car? Yeah. Oh, yes. The one with the car.

Yeah, no, I haven't seen that either. Fox, Marty, bad Marty McFly. Yeah, it's a good one. Again, they made three movies of that one, so you could stop at any stage. They did. I think one and done's fine with that franchise. Let's go to one that's not a franchise that's a little more recent, Game Night. We're taking Game Night up a notch.

No. Oh, Game Night rules. This is the one where you start getting to make references that impress other people because Game Night, one of those films that 20 years from now, everybody's going to be like, that's the best film ever, and nobody saw it when it was in the theater. Really? Game Night, one of those films that 20 years from now, everybody's going to be like, that's the best film ever, and nobody saw it when it was in the theater. Game Night. Well, we're learning.

These are some great suggestions, Doug. Thank you so much. Now, also, we just want to plug your film festival you're running online. Where do people go for that, mate? Just Google Auckland Online Film Festival. It's just a last-minute replacement for the New Zealand Film Festival, which canceled here. But it's 200 films that are on Netflix or Amazon Prime or VOD.

We got a subscription to DocPlay, which is a local documentary service that you can do 30 days for free. Lots of options. Oh, Doug, you're a wonderful man. Over 6,000 movies he's watched. Movie Doug, we'll catch you up soon, buddy. Have a good one. Thanks. Cheers.

All right. Well, that's Doug's suggestions. Very good. Add them to the list. Do you want to add? Let's make a list. Let's make a good list of movies. Oh, 100 of the hits.

4, 4, 8, 7. Movies that you think producer Juliet needs to watch. A bucket list of movies. The mu-wum. The must-watch movies. The mu-wum. That works. It definitely does.

Oh, 800 of the hits. Okay. What should Juliet see? And she's going to dedicate time to this. She's going to watch it. Yes, I will. And she's going to come back and review them. Mmm, coffee breath. Now we want to know this morning

what movies should producer Juliet watch? You haven't seen that many movies and you want to watch the greatest of the greatest. The iconic movies, right? The ones that I can go through society and go through my life and understand all the references and say I've seen that. Now we just spoke to Doug, a friend of the show,

who's watched over 6,000 movies. I didn't even know there were 6,000 movies even made. He must be even dipping into Ben's amateur catalogue. Maybe. There's like Celebrity Measure Island, Measure in Ireland, I know, what film titles you're doing at home, mate. But Doug's watched them all.

He suggested some good ones, Game Night, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, You Must Watch as Juliet. Yeah, yeah. I used to be the character on the show, Ben, who hadn't watched much. But I thought I hadn't watched much. And then until I met Juliet and I was like, well, I ain't seen nothing yet because she ain't seen nothing yet.

Yeah. I do love movies. And so this is going on quite like, oh, you need to see this. You need to see that. But as far as references go, I reckon you should see ones like Fight Club to get some references. It won't spoil what happens there. And maybe Sixth Sense, another one.

I think we've got a little bit of a grab from the Sixth Sense. I see dead people. The ones that people say. Yes, I've heard of that one. They kind of talk about things that potentially happen in those movies, and it would be good to be on the same page with those. And he ends up with the guy's dead the whole time. Okay, all right, all right. Really? That wasn't what we were trying of talk about things that potentially happen in those movies, and it would be good to be on the same page with those. And he ends up with the guys dead the whole time. Okay, all right, all right.

Really? That wasn't what we were trying to talk about. Yeah. Wow. Well, mind you, if you haven't seen Sixth Sense by now. Well, she hasn't. Yeah. She hasn't.

And then you've just given away the whole thing. Wow. Oh, that's a plot twist. Yeah. You don't see it coming, but you will now. Okay, okay, okay. Let's get Shelley on from our monganui. Welcome, Shelley. Morning, guys. Good's get Shelley on from Mount Maunganui. Welcome, Shelley.

Morning, guys. Good. The must-watch movies for Juliet. Oh, My Best Friend's Wedding. Okay. Oh. She's reminiscing about it now. She is loving it.

All you're just talking about, going to your best friend's wedding. Julia Roberts, of course, best friend's wedding. Yeah, that's a bit of a classic with George. So, yeah, that's worth watching. Yeah, well, Shelley seems to love it. It's bringing her back happier times. She even goes a wheezer. All right, best friend's wedding.

It's just Juliet's response. Yeah, love it, love it. Thank you. Any others, Shelley? Pretty Woman. Oh, yeah, Judy Roberts. Yeah, Pretty Woman, the iconic movie. It is, yeah.

Richard Gere in her. He takes her under her wing. Oh, really? That's a wonderful movie. Have you not seen that either, Juliet? No, I haven't. I've heard of Pretty Woman, and I know that Julia Roberts is in it, but I haven't seen it, no.

I know you are, baby, aren't you? Yeah. Hey, Wheezy Shelley, we love you. We'll send you out some wild bean, all right, so you can go and get some coffees. You have an awesome day, guys. You too. You too.

I hadn't seen many movies, but I have seen Soul Plane with Snoop Dogg, who kept, he's the pilot of a plane. Oh, dear. A plane laden with cliches and stereotypes and stuff. But the whole time he's in the cockpit, he's smoking cannabis. Flying a plane.

Clearly no drug testing protocol at this airline. I don't know if it's a movie that you need to put at the top of your list, but you can put that on your list. And make no one any say, hey, Snoop Dogg, are you flying this thing? Yeah, I am. Well, maybe can you put that out, please? We'll get Sue on. Morrinsville, welcome.

The must-watch movie for Juliet? The Labyrinth. Oh, The Labyrinth, the iconic David Bowie movie. The David Bowie, yes. Yeah. Does it still stack up today? Because I sort of started watching a little bit with the kids, and I was like, oh, this is a little creepier and odder

than I remember as nostalgically as when I was a kid. The 80s. The 80s, Ben. The 80s. All I remember about that is, you know, he tries to kidnap a baby or something. Does he? He's infatuated with a baby.

It goes into a lab rat. Yeah. And then his very penis-y pants. Really? Geez, I mean, you could see Bowie's lab rat through that movie. Poking through those tights. We've got some great texts coming through. We've got Toy Story.

You must have seen Toy Story, haven't you? I think I've seen, like, I don't remember the original? I think I've seen, like I don't remember the original I think I've seen the third one maybe? Yeah. Let's just start with number three. Okay. Work your way back. We will see Infinity and Beyond! Anchorman. Anchorman's another

one that's come through on the text. Yes, I have seen Anchorman. Very good. I'm getting up my appetite looking forward to a little afternoon delight. But I didn't know that that was actually a song before I saw the movie. I thought they'd made it up for the movie

and I was like, this is brilliant. Afternoon delight was a very boomer way of saying hooking up in the afternoon hours. We'll get Justin on from Fungard. Welcome, Justin. How are you? Kia ora. Kia ora to you, my friend. Must watch movie for Juliet. What she got to see, buddy? Shawshank Redemption.

Very good movie, eh? Very good. And Forrest Gump. Yeah, two bangers. Shawshank's Morgan Freeman, isn't it? Yeah, Morgan Freeman. Tim Robbins, yeah, very good movie. Forrest Gump as well. Tom Hanks. And then can I put Tom Hanks in another prison movie as well

to add to your list? Green Mile. Green Mile. Green Mile's another good movie as well too. I've heard of that, yes. The guy from the Green Mile's passed away, isn't he? Yeah. Oh, yeah, no, great.

Well, listen, we've named about 20 movies. I can't remember any of them. So good luck watching all those, Juliet. Liz has just phoned through. We must get Liz on. She wants to nominate one. A must-watch movie for Juliette, Liz? Yeah, that would be Dead Poets Society.

Oh, Dead Poets Society. Oh, Robin Williams. He's a teacher at a school. Yeah, that's a very good movie. Okay. Yeah, it's amazing. It's one of those that makes you think afterwards and just really is impactful.'s about a it's about

a prep school all boy prep school in the east coast of the u.s and this teacher comes into the school and is a bit unorthodox and pushes the boundaries a bit seen at the end where they all stand on the desk and they're all teared up on that one oh all you all you need to know is oh captain my captain that's right that's right from the scene at the end it'll make sense if I'll do teared up on that one. All you need to know is, oh, Captain, my Captain. That's right. That's right. From the scene at the end. It'll make sense if you've seen it.

Thank you very much, Liz. Appreciate it. Hey, thank you for your calls, guys. This went off. It's the most popular thing we've ever done on the radio. Techs are rolling in Juliet. So now you must commit to watch all of these. Okay.

And we're going to get a blow-by-blow review Monday morning. All right. Sounds good. It is that. So you've got Jono and Ben. Welcome to Two Half-Assed Dads Do a Half-Assed Job. Official title Jono and Ben. New Zealand's Breakfast. Great to have you with us

on New Zealand's Breakfast. Thank you for hanging out. Thomas Markle Jr. All going well. We're going to have him after 8.30. There's a little bit of confusion from Thomas' end with producer Bee Humps. Mind you, knowing producer Bee Humps, he could have, you know, he says, Look at that. Look at that look on producer B Humps. Mind you, knowing producer B Humps, he could have, you know, he says, I don't know. Look at that.

Look at the look on producer B Humps. As long as he's offended. Did you say no? Yeah. I would be offended by the way. I haven't even finished this sentence. Of course, knowing producer B Humps. No one heard the back end of my sentence.

Knowing producer B Humps, you know, he could have, you know, done his job properly as he always does. As he always does. I guess. And maybe it's Thomas' fault is what I was going to say. Oh, geez. We'll find out.

Megan Markle's older brother hopefully joining us after 8.30. One thing I've discovered over my many illustrious years of parenting, Ben Boyce, what a wonderful career, parenting career so far. I think I might retire, actually. That's how it works, right? You've done all you can to the end there, right? It's like

You gave that a bash Yeah You know Five year turnaround Five years in a job Isn't it That sort of thing Yeah it's a good

Five year plan right Yeah You know There's two roles Three roles that fall on me I've spoken about it Before publicly On the suspicious

Noises investigator Right Also the battery Replacement operator Okay Operations officer If any batteries Need replacing

Any toys Dad can you put the batteries in? That's your, okay. Yeah, triple A's, double A's, those weird square ones, you know, the DVs and all the batteries. And the other one is blowing stuff up. So I'm the blow-up person, you know. Like exploding?

Not like a Taliban-y type of way. Oh, jeez. What are you doing? Just using my mouth to blow up objects. So inflatable toys, balloons. Right. Just in the lung capacity required. No, they don't tell you about this at parenting school.

By the way, you're going to spend a large amount of your time blowing stuff up. And I haven't blown much up in my life. I don't have a good lung capacity. I thought you would. You're full of bloody hot air. Here we go. I wasted't have a good lung capacity. I thought you would. You're full of bloody hot air. There we go. I see the finish line on that one. Five people had texted in already, Ben.

Damn it. But I just had, I got off a marathon balloon blowing mission and my lips were hurting. You know, and you don't want, also you don't appreciate about the balloon blowing is the tying of the balloon. also you don't appreciate about the balloon blowing

is the tying of the balloon. Because you're wrapping it around the double fingers. And then you're getting the other finger in there. And it can be a very painful experience for your lips and fingers by the end of it. So this is what you're complaining about right now, publicly. Well, there's other stuff you could complain about. This is the most important one.

Yeah, right. And the big bad wolf. I could give him a run for his money now. I've been enough training. I could blow those pigs' houses down if he needed a hand. Yeah, because we had to blow up something for a costume the other day. You were very lacklustre in your effort.

It's because I'm all blown out. I've got no more blowing left in me. You want me to blow your car? I'm not going to blow anything. Okay. I think we'll wrap blowing left in me. You want me to blow you? I can't. I'm not going to blow anything. Okay. I think we'll wrap that up right now. What are you wrapping it up for, Ben? Are you not going to talk about blowing our balloons?

I feel like we're going into territory that's not for this family-friendly show, so we'll just keep moving on. Hey, your chance to win $5,000. Blowing up this conversation. Yeah. If you want to win some money, your $5,000, go to The hits breakfast instagram facebook today's words are there formulate a plan give us a call on 0800 the hits even if you played

the game before you can play again so give us a call shortly and hopefully your five thousand dollars will be given away this morning 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 do it every morning at this time on the hits We tell you five words, you tell us what pops into your head, and if your five words match with ours, you win $5,000. It is the biggest competition we have running on The Hits alongside

How Long Is It Gonna Take For Us To Play The New Adele Song Again. Let's get Kylie on from Tauranga. How are you? Good, thank you. Kylie, what do you do, mate? I'm a nurse. Oh, nurse. Busy at the moment, I imagine, for you. Kylie, what do you do, mate? I'm a nurse. Oh, nurse. Busy at the moment, I imagine for you, Kylie? Yep,

I think it's going to get busier, but yeah, it's busy. Well, yeah, it might get a wee bit busier by the way things are going. What would you spend $5,000 on if you won? We've got a bit of stuff we want to do to set up for summer outside our house, so probably put it towards that. There is summer hanging on this.

Summer is hanging in the balance. Two shots for summer, fam. You know all about that. We've got five shots for summer basically right now with five words. Okay, Kylie, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Jono, I think. Oh, okay. I'm going in.

It's all on you, Jono. Summer hanging on the line here right now for Kylie. Jono is in the soundproof booth. Kylie, you know how the game works? Yeah, I do, yeah. Have you had a look at the words or not? I didn't get a chance, no. Oh, okay.

So you haven't formulated a plan. We'll see how this goes. It might work to your advantage. Here is your first word. It is Rolex. Rolex. Watch. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. this goes it might work to your advantage here is your first word it is rolex rolex uh watch yeah that's what i was thinking too saturn is the second word saturn that's in planet planet jesse juliet how's kylie going so far good can i just confirm did that planet have a uh did that have an S on the end, or was it just planet?

Just planet. No S. String is word number three. String. S-T-R-I-N-G. String. Quartet? String quartet? Oh, string quartet. Oh, like as in the classical sort of music. Hmm. Okay. All right. Now, you're banking on Jono also thinking along your lines.

Anyway, we can come back to that one. But at the moment, it's a very smart answer. Brain is word number four. Brain. Brain food. Brain food. And fuel is the final word this morning. Fuel.

F-U-E-L. Fuel. Petrol. Petrol. That's good. That's a good one. So you're happy with all the other words? I think so.

I hope so. Yeah, well, you've done well. It's very hard when you get put on the spot like this. I think you've played a really good game. And we'll get John out of the soundproof booth and see if he can match up. All right. Working on my five-year plan in there, guys. It's looking all good for JP.

Oh, good. Up until 2027. All right, Jono, here we go. Let's see what pops into your head when I say Rolex. Watch. Yes. Kylie, let's win you $5, Rolex. Watch. Yes. Kylie, let's win your $5,000. Saturn.

Is the second word this morning? Saturn. As in, like, your silk Looney Tunes boxes that you used to wear? Well, no. How's it spelt? S-A-T-U-R-N. Oh, planet. Yeah, not as Saturn as in that. wonderful uh material wasn't it yeah they would

always ride really high up your bottom wouldn't they those yeah that was inconvenient uh string is word number three this morning string g oh i was right it took me a while to process that. The guitar string. Yeah, the guitar string. You couldn't have gone polar opposite to what Kylie said. Where did you go, Kylie?

What did you say, John? I said G string, as in, you know, the guitar string. And you said string quartet. What do you mean polar opposite? It's a musical instrument. Well, you're true, actually. What do you mean polar opposite? It's a musical instrument. Well, you're true, actually. What are you thinking of? What have you got in your mind? Oh, sorry, Kylie.

Maybe I've got a higher brow of answers. Sorry, Ben. I don't know where you're sitting. Brain was the fourth word this morning. Brain teaser. And fuel was the final word. Petrol. Oh, three from five.

Not too bad, Kylie, but not quite good enough. I'm so sorry. That's all good. Thank you very much. All right, Kylie. You go be a good nurse, all right? And we'll try and do better at radio. Cool.

Okay. Thank you. See you, mate. Thank you so much for listening. And someone else's chance tomorrow morning. Five words, 5K. It is the hits. Spy.

The WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. Every day she puts her good name on the line in the name of celebrity smut. Juliet, what's happening in Spy this hour? So every year, you may remember, it comes around once a year, People magazine do the sexiest man alive. And Jono Pryor's sexiest man dead list as well.

We all look forward to that too. Full of bad taste, yeah. Last year it was Michael B. Jordan. The previous year, John Legend, Idris Elba, Blake Shelton, Dwayne The Rock Johnson, all very good-looking men. And this year it's been named as Paul Rudd, the actor Paul Rudd. I like Paul Rudd. He's cool.

He's a very good actor and he's very funny, but I don't know if I'd call him sexy. He's a good-looking guy. He's good-looking. Yeah, maybe I just... But you probably maybe associate him In that comedy space With his characters Yeah

Yeah I mean But what are they factoring in Maybe it's the all round package Yeah You know Can he make you laugh That's a lot isn't it That ticks some points

Doesn't it Yeah That's very true Rudwin's on that front And he's a handsome little devil He'd be what In his 40s or so I would say so

Yeah I mean He's pretty ripped Into Ant-Man You know He's pretty You know He's been working He's been working out hard, you know, as well. He's 52. Wow.

52, yeah. Gosh, he looks pretty good for 52. Jeez, what are you trying to do, mate? You trying to get a bloody sugar daddy, are you? What's this pitch? You know, sometimes some, like, older men DM me on Instagram. They're like, hey, do you want a sugar daddy i'll offer you five grand i'm like that say yes god damn it five grand five grand yes i don't know

what we're paying you here but five grand is a lot of but yeah i know but if they could deposit the money into my account without me having to do anything just put the money in. I'll say I'm your girlfriend. Yeah, whatever. Whatever. Yeah, whatever. But yeah, no, sexiest man dead. Okay, let's focus on this this year.

No, let's not. Okay, I'm going to lock in a James Dean. Oh, yeah. No, that's fair. James Dean Elvis would give you a run for your money. Elvis, you know, in his earlier years.

Yeah. He'd give you a run for your money. Do you like Elvis? Yeah, because it feels okay playing in this space, but sometimes you play a little too close to sort of recently departed

and I'm like, oh, you get something to see when I say like Heath Ledger. Yeah, I know. He probably would take it out.

Can I nominate someone? Yeah. River Phoenix. Yes. He's quite good looking, isn't he? He is sexy.

It's so weird that you put it like that. No, I'm deadly serious. Okay. Just because they're dead doesn't mean No, I'm deadly serious. Okay. Just because they're dead doesn't mean

they're not sexy, Ben. Okay. Oh, God. I feel like you do this every year, don't you? He does.

He does. Every time you bring up, you know not to talk about people's sexiest man alive. This is what it leads to.

We should just record this conversation, play it again in 12 months. But I go, please don't do this.

Oh, here we go. We all know the roles we need to play on this little pantomime. We should play it again in 12 months. But I go, please don't do this. Oh, don't do this again. Oh, here we go. No conversation can be placed. We all know the roles we need to play on this little pantomime, don't we? And it's going to be on tour this summer. Now that Lord's cancelled her tour, I'm taking this on the road. And Bear Grylls has done an interview talking about how he once fed Prince George a live ant. And it was his first insect that he'd ever eaten. He was talking about it on the telly.

And just as we were chatting, a stream of ants went across his feet, and him and me kind of looked at them, and he looked at me with those amazing wide eyes, and I said, come on, we've got to eat one. And he went, really? And we ate, and it was a privilege to give the future king his first ant, and his eyes lit up as they do with anyone when they're out in the wild and they face a few fears and overcome them. So, good for him.

Prince George ate an ant. That's a big move from Bear Grylls, isn't it? Yeah, I love how Prince George, he was like really? But saying it like Prince George was enthusiastic about the ant eating, but Prince George might have been going, really? You know I'm a prince, I get fed pretty good food. Yeah, that's true.

I mean, you go to kids' birthday parties these days they're gone are the fairy bread and the sausage rolls and stuff like that. You know that'm a prince, I get fed pretty good food. Yeah, that's true. I mean, you go to kids' birthday parties these days, they're gone are the fairy bread and the sausage rolls and stuff like that. You know it's all for this, and you're like, oh, what's all this? You're literally feeding someone an ant. Imagine that. That's the bad thing. I mean, being friends with Bear Grylls, you just could eat anything. Some hungry dad would go, oh, have a fossack around in the garden,

see what you can find. See that power pole? Start nibbling on that. Anything is fair game for beer grills. You flushed. Why did you flush? There was a little liquid in there. You could have, you know.

Well, shortly William and Kate came back and they were like, you fed our child what? Oh, just some ants? Yeah. Very irresponsible, but good on you, beer grills. Love you. Washed it down with a cup of urine. And that is Spy for the South.

For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. Got me in love. On the Hits. Just gone eight o'clock.

You're with Jono and Ben on the Hits. If you're in Wellington today, thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup, we're putting on free fish and chips. How good is that? It's going to be

at Wellington Sea Market at Cuba Street between 12 and 2 today. So get on down there. It's going to be at Wellington Sea Market at Cuba Street between 12 and 2 today. So get on down there. It's going to be awesome. Dion, we spoke to him earlier. Dion who owns the place and he's looking forward to it. He's got extra food. He's got extra chips.

Some fish. They nominated themselves from the ocean. They're like, hey, we want to be part of this, guys. Drag us out. This hour is going to be huge. All going well. We've got Thomas Markle Jr. Now he is Meghan Markle's older half-brother. He's on a show, ironically called Big Brother in Australia right now

and he joins us, all going well, about 8.30 today. Now he made big news just before the wedding of Meghan and Harry. He kind of wrote a letter which was sort of circulated around, an open letter to them. Didn't say very favourable things about Meghan, but he's written a response, a new letter on Big Brother. Have a listen.

I'm going to write a letter to Megan. Dear Megan and Harry, the first thing I want to say to both of you is... We'll find out. Oh, is that a classic TV trailer teaser? Yeah. Done a wonderful job with the build-up music as well. Thomas Markle going to be joining us. I with the build-up music as well. Yeah, Thomas Markle

going to be joining us. I love it how we're like all going well. We're the only show who goes all going well we're going to be joined by and it's because we're not sure

if Thomas Markle's going to answer the phone. Yeah, but due to time he's in America. Yeah, we put something on social media last night and Thomas messaged us and it was a surprise to him

that he was on the show. Yeah. But he said, hey, happy to do it. But it's news to me. that he was on the show. Yeah. But he said, hey, happy to do it. But it's news to me. So Thomas, all going well. Yeah. Will be with us just after 8.30.

Thomas Markle Jr., Megan Markle's, we're going to talk to Megan Markle's brother. All going well. All going well. All going well. Yeah, we're going to mow in on her. All going well. Well, no. Who knows what he has to say about her next.

Turn the lights off. Turn the lights off. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now, a couple of days ago, we had a very confusing moment for all parties involved on the radio. Yeah, it was. So we did the five words competition, 7.45 every morning.

You name five words. If they match with our five, we'll give you $5,000. And we do it live, obviously, and we had a caller and we lost connection with that caller. Midway through, as we were about to play the game, right? Yeah, and so then we went to the next caller

who was put through and there was confusion. Lindy was her name. Lindy from the Hawke's Bay and she had no idea where she was or what she was doing. Lindy, you need to decide who you're going to send to the soundproof booth.

Ooh, I'm undecided. Oh, well, if you could make a decision, that would... Just don't go research like an anti-vaxxer. It would move things along. Jono, Ben or producer Juliet, who would you like to send away so we don't hear what's happening?

Okay, the producer. Producer. Tell me, who were you like to send away so we don't hear what's happening? Okay, the producer. Producer. Tell me, who were you hoping to call? The radio station played the songs about tickets to 660. Oh, okay. So, yeah, yeah, Lindy was a little confused. She'd be put through to the wrong station. Live on our show, we weren't giving away 660 tickets.

We were playing a game. She actually rolled with it pretty well for someone who didn't even know what the game was. Yeah, somehow we, it's our fault, we had directed Lindy into oncoming phone traffic. She was the wrong way down the phone traffic motorway and she was travelling

all by herself and it was very confusing. Now here at the Jono and Ben New Zealand Breakfast Experience, we don't want anyone to be left confused, do we? We want to be the most confused people on this show. That's what we do, okay? And so we thought we'd need to make good. Here is Lindy's experience.

Previously on Jono and Ben. Uh-oh. Oh, technical difficulty. Competition chaos. All right, we're going to go to Lindy. Who was I to send in? To who? To who?

Thanks in turn to some muddled button pushing and lacklustre producing. The radio station playing songs among tickets to 6 in. To who? Thanks in turn to some muddled button pushing and lacklustre producing. The radio station played a song to win tickets to 660. Oh, OK. No, that's definitely not us. High drama as Lindy from Hawke's Bay accidentally ended up in the eye of a cash prize storm. You've found yourself

balls deep into a $5,000 competition. With the only real winner being utter confusion. I think I'm from the wrong radio station, but never mind. Temp is flared. I've got it now. Lindy, you can stop talking. Lindy was left bamboozled.

What radio station is that? And producers were fired. Eh? Yeah. Sorry you had to find out that way. But today is redemption day, as Lindy from the Hawke's Bay gets what she came for. That's right.

We've done some work behind the scenes, and we've got to make good for Lindy. I don't want to say this is going to be the greatest moment of radio of the year, but I think it's going to be. We've got a huge surprise for Lindy, not only have we worked on some tickets and band members. We've got it all. It's going to be a big moment.

I can't wait to do this. Join us next. Lindy is not going to know what hit her. Well, hopefully she'll know a little bit more than she did the other day. Yeah. But next, we're going to change Lindy's life. Oh, it's going to be awesome. Stick with us.

After 6.60 on the hits. It is 6.60, White Lines. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. 6.60 are about to go on tour around New Zealand well next year it's happening 660 Stadium Tour

around about February March and yeah we weren't giving away tickets for 660 but we had someone get put through to our radio show

called Lindy we just played it to you before who was trying to win tickets she got live on our show while we were in the middle of a conversation we were confused

she was confused everyone was confused she was in the middle of our five words We were confused. She was confused. Errol was confused. She was in the middle of our five words competition, wasn't it? So she was phoning up for a competition. It was just the wrong competition. She was misdirected. Sometimes when the traffic lights are out, you know, and you've got the junior police officer guiding traffic,

they were a bit shaky that day and they sent Lindy down the wrong path. And here's what happened. Lindy, you need to decide who you're going to send into the soundproof booth. Oh, I'm undecided. wrong path and here's what happened. Lindy, you need to decide who you're going to send into the soundproof booth. Ooh. I'm undecided. Well, if you could make a decision, that would move things along. Jono, Ben

or Producer Juliet, who would you like to send away so we don't hear what's happening? Okay, the producer. Producer. Tell me, who were you hoping to call? The radio station played the songs about tickets to 660. Oh, okay. So that was it. Anyway, Lindy ended up playing the game,

but alarm bells should have been ringing for us when she said producer. Yeah. She actually did really well for somebody who had no idea what was going on. But anyway, behind the scenes, we were like, we went away, and we were all a bit like, what happened there? Lindy was probably feeling the same thing. She wandered around all day going, what happened there? We wandered around and we wanted to make good. We, you know, you never

want any customers to leave unhappy or even confused. You know, a lot of people leave confused from their experiences with us, but for some reason we didn't want Lindy to leave confused. We thought, even though we're not giving away 660 tickets, we should make that happen for Lindy. So we've done a great lot.

Producer Behumps has done some great work behind the scenes getting us a couple of tickets. From the promoter. And yeah, what we want to do is, it's the redemption call where we give Lindy what she came for. So we're just going to dial through to the Hawke's Bay now. This is exciting. Hi. Lindy.

Yo. Lindy, it's us. Who's us? Your old mates. What old mates? Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. Oh, hi. Hey, how's it going?

Yeah, all good. Hey, we're sorry about the other day that you got put through in the middle of our competition. We're sorry about that. It would have been very confusing for you. You handled it like a pro, but we're sorry about the other day that you got put through in the middle of our competition. We're sorry about that. It would have been very confusing for you. You handled it like a pro, but we're sorry about that. No, that's all good. So what were you actually phoning up for? I was

phoning for 660 tickets. You were phoning for 660 tickets and you got put through to us? You got put through to the wrong show. Yeah, yeah. Very confused. What? I ran this morning and I won 60 tickets.

Oh. Oh, did you? Yeah, yeah. You got them? Yeah, I got them. I won them this morning. Oh. Oh, okay.

Okay. Oh, this is awkward. Because we'd managed to organise some tickets as well. Some tickets, that's why we were calling. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, we were going to look like we were we'd managed to organize uh some some tickets as well that's why we were calling oh really yeah we were gonna look like we were like oh we talked because we weren't even giving them away as you know it wasn't our show but we're like we went we went to the trouble of you know getting them off the promoter and we had chris mack from the band 660 what yeah well i'm not surprised it was a wrong call. No one really calls John or Ben on purpose.

But look, for your troubles, I'd love to give you a double pass for the Hawks Bay show to come see us play if you'd like to. Oh, that'd be primo. Thank you. So now she has four tickets. Do you want four tickets, Lindy? Yes. She started with zero.

She's ended up with four. What? Primo guys Yeah it is Primo It's Primo for you Lindy It's Primo Guys it's Primo We've called in a favour From Chris Matt We don't have many favours

With Chris Matt We used it for this But anyway it's fine We tried to create An emotional piece of radio Lindy you want me To be crying Primo

She doesn't cry She just just says primo a lot. This has been a champagne Jono and Ben production. Glad I was here for it. Chris Mack is like, what was I just a part of? Yeah, Lindy, everyone's as confused as we were when we first started. Lindy, enjoy the concert. It's going to be awesome. 660 going all around the place.

Six stadium shows, which is going to be awesome, eh, Chris? Yeah, primo. It's going to be amazing. It's 660 going all around the place. Six stadium shows, which is going to be awesome, eh, Chris? Yeah, primo. Oh, it's going to be amazing. It's going to be the best tour we've ever done, the best show we've ever done. We're bloody pumped. Yeah, some would say it was going to be primo, Chris. Primo.

Why didn't I say that? But something that is primo, you guys are going to be on the hits this Saturday as well, a bit of a takeover. Yeah, we're going to be taking over the hits all day, and we're giving away like a bunch of double passes, which is honestly going to be primo.

That's going to be good. Lindy says that's just going to be good. That's not primo. Lindy's got her tickets. Oh, Chris, are we paying you for the shift, are we? You've never paid me for anything. All right, we're going to back out of this one. I love you, Chris.

Thank you. And thank you, Lindy. And thank you, guys. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on New Salted Bean. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The Heads. Thomas Markle Jr., he is Meghan Markle's older brother,

half-brotherother and we thought we had him. We put it on social media yesterday. It was all lined up. It was that we were having him and then he messaged us back going Oh, news to me. News to me. Those were his words and so it's left us going do we have Thomas Markle? So all morning we've been buying our self-insurance much

like Jacinda and the government buy themselves insurance when they go in principle ahead of any decisions that could be happening we've been saying all going well like Jacinda and the government buy themselves insurance when they go in principle. Ahead of any decisions that could be happening, we've been saying, all going well, we're going to have Thomas Markle. So if it doesn't come through, we say,

well, it didn't go well, clearly, because we said all going well. You can catch him on a TV show at the moment on TVNZ On Demand. It's called Big Brother VIP, filmed in Australia with Caitlin Jenner. He's on that show. Yeah, and so Thomas, he's been opening up on the program about his relationship with Meghan.

He wrote a letter to Meghan, an open letter, just before she was marrying Prince Harry, and it was pretty scathing, you know, how she'd sort of stitched over her first husband and that she was only there for the fame and money, things like that. And now there's been a bit of redemption from Thomas Markle Jr. on the show. I'm going to write a letter to Meghan.

Dear Meghan and Harry, the first thing I want to say to both of you is what? Is what? And that's what we don't know. We want to find out. That's why we want to call him. So we're going to go through to him now. I think we're going through to America, Juliet. Hopefully Thomas will answer.

If he doesn't, we said all going well, remember? Yeah, we put it in principle. Thomas Markle Jr. Hello? Hello? Hello, is that Thomas Markle, the junior edition? This is the real Thomas Markle junior edition. Oh.

Hey, well, it's good to talk to you. Thank you for your time. We weren't sure with the time difference that we were going to get you. Yeah, it's like 3 o'clock in the morning. Where? Over there? No, I'm just kidding. Oh, jeez.

No, no, no. Oh, it's lovely to have you on, Thomas. Thank you for joining us. We've been teasing you all morning. We said all going well, all going well, because last night we put a thing on social media saying we had you on the show, and you replied saying news to me.

We're here now. That's great. That's the main thing. Yeah, that was pretty funny. I think everybody kind of forgot about it, because I did, and I was just like, what? Hey, no, New Zealand gets left off the world map a lot. So we're an easily forgettable country, Thomas.

Yeah, where is it? We have got him. We've got him. Thomas Markle Jr. Hold there, buddy. Stick around. We want to talk to him about the letter he wrote for Megan and the new letter that he's written.

What is the biggest misconception about him as well? We'll find out very shortly with Thomas Markle Jr. on the hits. We've got on the phone with us right now Thomas Markle Jr. He is Meghan Markle's older half-brother. Speaking of big brother, he's on a TV show in Australia called Big Brother, Big Brother VIP. You can catch on TV and see it on demand. And Thomas, we understand you wanted to come down here to be on the show, but not only be on the show, check out this part of the world.

Yeah, that's kind of the gist of it, you know. But, I mean, gosh, that was my intentions when I was down in Sydney for the show. You know, too bad the lockdown happened because I really wanted to get around. I wanted to definitely go to New Zealand. I have a very sweet girl that I used to go out with there named Marion Moore. Shout out to Marion Moore!

Shout out to Marion Moore, yeah. Did things seem well with Marion Moore? Oh, no. I definitely wanted to catch up with her and visit. Yeah, but she's such a nice girl, you know. But it didn't happen because of lockdown. But next time it will. Oh, well, yeah.

Well, why did you decide to go from America to Australia to be on the show? I mean, what was the reason behind you wanting to be on there? Well, I kind of got asked to come down and do it. So, and in my mind, I thought, what an amazing opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime incredible opportunity to show the entire world who I am, the real guy that I am, and above and beyond all the stuff in the papers. So I'm so happy I got to do that.

Big Brother VIP was like the best experience of my life. Oh, that's good to hear because, you know, the media have portrayed you and your family in a certain way. Us filthy, gutter scum, low-life, soulless media types. You've made an apology on the show. You've written an apology letter to Megan and Harry because initially you wrote one that was, you know, scathing, I guess, towards her. Are you regretful of that first letter? Well, yes, in a way I am because, you know, there could have been a lot of crossed hair communication where things didn't come across right. And I was in shock when I got a reply back, you know, the intentions why I wrote that letter. You know, I asked, I reached

out to the palace with a friend of mine who was an attorney and just asked to get the paparazzi away from me. I have a private life and I got a response back from their PR people at the palace saying distant family, and she doesn't know those people. So, yeah, it kind of hurt my feelings, so I wrote that letter in very quick haste. And, you know, but above and beyond everything, I mean, the things that have gone on for the last few years, I mean, enough is enough. I mean, yesterday was yesterday and there's, it's never too late to say you're sorry. It's never too late to start over and it's never late, never too late to embrace your family again. I mean, cause you only have one family and that's the whole idea and the

intentions behind what I did there on Big Brother. Have you spoken to Megan Markle, old Prince Harry? Nope, never. And the offer still stands. I would love to meet Harry, my brother-in-law. And I think if he came and hung out with me and my friends for a while, he'd probably put a smile on his face again. Well, you're... I mean, Meghan's life has changed dramatically over the last few years, but your life as well.

I imagine there'll be a lot of media attention on you, a lot of tabloids, as you say, a lot of paparazzi. How has it changed? Well, yeah, like I was talking about earlier, I mean, you go from being a private citizen, just walking through life and everything's fine, and then all of a sudden people are taking pictures of you and writing stories making you look bad,

and just for headlines. So I'll tell you one thing, it's a real big learning experience. And there's no instruction booklet. Nobody told me how to deal with it. I just had to learn on my own. So right now it's just a lot better because I know who to talk to, what not to say, what to say.

And so it's better now. If we had her on the phone, what would you say if we had Megan Markle on the phone? We don't, by the way. We don't. We're not that big a show. Yeah, we're not all that organized. We didn't even tell you you were on the show. Well, hang on, guys.

Hang on, guys. She's sitting right next to me. Let's ask her. What would you say to her, Thomas, now? I would say, you know, Megan, you know, the past is the past. You're my sister. You know, you're my family. I love you no matter what.

I don't always approve of things that happen and you do or whatever. But, you know, let's just make amends, you know, and please, by all means, please call dad, you know, definitely call dad. And he loves you more than anything. And he would love to see you and his grandkids oh my god uh thomas and marco jr with us on the final you were just on uh australian big brother vip with caitlin jenner and a whole lot of big celebrities over there uh was it was it tougher than you thought i read there was like 80 cameras they're filming you the whole time was it you're doing your own washing you have to ration your food it seems like a quite

a tough experience. Yeah, you know, I kind of had to prep for that before I went on the show, you know, because, you know, you can't walk around grabbing yourself or, you know, scratching your butt or picking your nose. So you have to, it takes a lot of preparation. But it was great. It was a great experience. Oh, good. Because you just think about what you do around the house,

and then imagine 80 cameras on you. Yeah, I'm with you, man. I'm scratching all sorts. You can't just lay on the couch and do an albunny and put your hands in your pants. No, it's a bad look. It's a bad look. What do you do? What do you do for a job, Thomas?

Well, primarily I've been in the custom glass business the majority of my life. I do high-end custom mirrors, shower doors, and amazing shelf systems for a lot of high-end celebrities. Beverly Hills, Malibu, etc. Oh, really? Okay. What celebrity have you had looking at themselves? Looking at themselves? Let's see. We've got Charlie Sheen. We've got Carol Burnett. We've got Roger Dangerfield. We've got Tori Spelling. We've got, oh, who else did I do? That's a famous glass, mate. Yeah.

What was Charlie Sheen doing with that mirror back in the day? Oh, gosh, we all know what that was. He was going through a lot of mirrors. You not only wanted them on the wall, but you wanted them on the tabletops too. Hey, Thomas, we've only spent a few minutes together, but you seem like a really nice, genuine person. And, you know, looking at this, when you step back, I'm really sorry your family was dragged into the eye of a media storm.

And it's never nice to have family issues anyway, but let alone have them play out on the international stage. Yeah, yeah. That's something that you just, you know, I mean, a lot of my friends have always told me, don't read the comments. And that's very important. You just don't read the comments because, you know, it can mess you up in the head and it can get you down.

I know who I am, and I know the type of person I am, and I know who my family is, and we're just a normal family like everybody else. It's just unfortunate we had to play things out in the media like this, but we have ups and downs like everybody else. Well, we hope the family can come together at some stage, and it seems like it's great that you're putting your best foot forward in that regard as well.

Yeah, well, thank you so much. I mean, I really put a lot of thought into what I wanted to do and accomplish on that show and portray who I am. And so I think I did a good job, you know, and I pretty much left the ball in Megan's court. So I really hope that she reaches out. And if she doesn't, I've done my job anyway. I planted the seed, extended the olive branch, and those were my intentions, to show who I am and to do that.

Oh, listen, lovely to meet you, Thomas Markle Jr. You keep safe over there in America, okay? And you keep installing those mirrors in famous people's homes. Okay, buddy, thanks a lot. I appreciate you guys having me on, and have a great day out there, alright? All right.