Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Is The One Song You Would Play To Someone Who Has Never Heard Music?

Episode Date: June 17, 2021

Jono has recently been teaching his son about some great music from back in the day, and we then stumbled across the topic "if you could play one song to someone who had never heard music before, what... would it be?" and it honestly made us remember some of the greatest songs in history. Bohemian Rhapsody, Man in the Mirror, Sweet Caroline, we covered 'em all! We also played another game of Liar Liar, and ended up speaking to a woman who is a professional cuddler, and legitimately cuddles people to make a living. All that and more! Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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. And it's the JNB podcast back at ya. Now, um, back at ya. Sorry, I really trailed out of there. You did really trail out, that was good, I found it quite interesting today.
Starting point is 00:00:29 My daughter, Indy, was like, I was like, all right, Dan, because we need a couple of things in the supermarket. And I was like, I'll go past the supermarket on the way home. I was talking about this in the show. We've become the errand guys in the household. Everything that needs to be done, errands that need to be run, we do it.
Starting point is 00:00:43 But I've got a lovely little list here that I took a photo of this morning. She wrote it out, you know, things like milk, butter, and fruit and stuff like that. But I love this. I used to say this as a kid as well. Newsley bars. Some newsley bars. Oh, does she not know it's musely?
Starting point is 00:00:55 I don't know if it was meant to be a joke or not. Newsley bars. I've got newsley bars in there. I imagine that's something that Mike McRoberts or Simon Dello would have. A newsley bar. Just reading the news with the newsley bars. So before the thing, so I've got to get some newsley bars after the show.
Starting point is 00:01:10 Newsley bars are a great name. If they did, Mike McRoberts could bring his own newsley bars out, couldn't he? He could have a signature range of newsley bars, couldn't he? You know, he's very like, he's very fit. What about the Auckland Blues? The bluesley bars? The bluesley bars?
Starting point is 00:01:25 The boozeley bar? Oh, Bar? The Boozly Bar? Oh, alcohol muesli bars. The Boozly Bar. It's just when you're like, oh, he's eating healthy. Oh, no, he's... The Tom Cruise-ly Bar? Oh, Cruise-ly Bar. Tom Cruise-ly Bar.
Starting point is 00:01:39 Yeah, he'd be expensive, though, wouldn't he? He would. I don't know if he needs to do his own range of... But that's a diversification thing he could do. Cruise- bar you know the snoozely bar which has got sedatives in it puts you to sleep sleep yeah you're tired of going yeah jesus a versatile i know maybe we need to get into the muesli bar game you know so there are so many muesli bars out there though when you go to the supermarket like gee that's a well-cated market the old muesli bar market and so many you're like healthy healthy healthy and then you look at the supermarket, you're like, gee, that's a well-cated market, the old muesli bar market. And so many, you're like, healthy, healthy, healthy, and then you look at the thing and you're like,
Starting point is 00:02:07 well, are they as healthy as they, you know? It's all in packaging, I find. Don't you think the design of the packaging really psychologically tricks you into thinking that something's healthy or not? Yeah, and sometimes they'll say a key word or something and then you go, yeah. All natural. Yeah, you're like. All natural sugars made from a laboratory. You're like, but they said natural, you go, yeah. All natural. Yeah, yeah. All natural sugars made from a laboratory. You're like, but they said natural, you know?
Starting point is 00:02:27 Yeah. Yeah, because no one counts on everyone reading the back of the packets. Like I drink just juice and they're like, no additives. And I was like, yeah, well, what's in there already? What's in there already that you thought, well, we better not add any more to this concoction. Fruit juice. Yeah, there's a lot of natural sugars in fruit, right?
Starting point is 00:02:47 You know? So that's kind of the thing. Interesting. And I love the health star rating. I generally find the less stars, the tastier the product. That's my theory. Don't you agree? I like finding a good four star something.
Starting point is 00:03:00 I'm like, ooh, four stars. If I like the taste, I'm like, that's a double win. That's awesome. I had a 0.5 star the other day, and I was like, it, four stars, if I like the taste, I'm like, that's a double win, that's awesome. I had a.5 star the other day, and I was like, it tasted magnificent. I didn't know, but point, like, why even bother putting the star on there? Like, for the company, I'm like, please don't make us put a star on there.
Starting point is 00:03:14 I think part of the arrangement was if you wanted to brandish the star health rating on your product, for example, a Sanitarium or a Kellogg's or whatever, if you wanted to do it for one product, you had to do it for your whole line of products. So, you know, a Sanitarium or a Kellogg's or whatever, if you wanted to do it for one product, you had to do it for your whole line of products. So, you know, a cereal company may have a really healthy granola option,
Starting point is 00:03:32 five star, but they've also got to chuck the bloody, the old chocolate pops on there as well. And sometimes it's all about what you have. I mean, sometimes you are going to have something and you're like, well, I know this is not as healthy as something else. I don't need to be reminded it's half a star.'t shame me with a star rating system i know i know what i'm doing right now yeah anyway uh today on the show uh we talked to someone who had a really really interesting job a professional cuddler gets paid to cuddle full-time good too 100 bucks an
Starting point is 00:04:00 hour yeah not what you're thinking no it's not you think. You asked her that in a nice way. You asked her and it was, yeah. Because I guess that's... I said, how much for... That's how I was asked in a nice way. No, you're like, is it, you know, the people like... Is it sexual? Yeah, is it of any way?
Starting point is 00:04:15 She said, no, I really appreciate you asking that question, but no, it's not. Yeah, because that's what people think. Platonic. Yeah. And it's like, because generally a lot as an adult, as soon as someone hugs you, oh, you think it's on, don't you? Every time you hug me, I'm like, oh, it's on. It's on. And it's never on.
Starting point is 00:04:31 Well, no, it's not. Well, yeah. But hers is purely hug-based for the endorphins. And I can see why. A good hug is a good hug, you know? And I can see why she does it and why people would sign up for it. So enjoy that fascinating chat today on the podcast. It's a.5 star rating podcast.
Starting point is 00:04:50 As a parent, whatever, you need to, for whatever reason, the responsibilities of teaching your children how to become human beings falls on you. I'm trying to push it onto the internet. All right. But there's a certain part that you need to, how to get dressed, how to make your bed, how to scam people on the internet. All the pillars of becoming a wonderful adult.
Starting point is 00:05:10 But also teaching and introducing your children to music, I think is a big responsibility of an adult. And stuff, not stuff that you hear on the radio now, but stuff from the past that they won't hear. You need to teach them about. Yeah, that's quite nice. Yeah, you're right. Classic Bogan rock.
Starting point is 00:05:30 Oh, okay. Now you lost me. And I've taken this upon myself. So every time Oscar and myself are driving anywhere, I'll give him the backstory of the song, and I'll say, this is the band. They've got these other songs, and this is their music.
Starting point is 00:05:50 You're only focusing on Bogan Rock, are you? Bogan Rock. And some quite misogynistic hardcore hip-hop from the 90s as well. But yeah, we're in the rock phase at the moment, Metallica. And I've hit Master of Puppets. So we're driving along the road and I'm playing him this. Because he's learning the drums at the moment.
Starting point is 00:06:11 He's doing really good. He's been playing for three or four years. I don't have a musical bone in my body. That's the thing with the kids. When you get them on early, they can get really good. Children are just so good at learning stuff. You get to an adult, you either can't be bothered or it takes a bit more. I think you get out of practice, but it's as really good as an adult
Starting point is 00:06:28 to get your brain back into that. When I did that Rubik's Cube, it was probably the hardest thing I've done in years and years, but it was so good to actually have a project to get your brain back into that and go, okay, I can actually do this. Yeah, so he's learning Metallica on the drums. He can play Intersemion on the drums. I was like, oh, they've got a raft of other great songs, mate. So at the moment, we're driving down the road listening to this,
Starting point is 00:06:48 and we had the windows down the other day. And I looked over, and the lady looked in, and she gave me that look of like, well, that's not good parenting. You know where you get that look? Yeah. What you're doing, that's not good parenting. Like when you're like, oh, go get the toaster, or the fork or something for the toaster.
Starting point is 00:07:05 Well, yeah, you're like, I'm teaching them about the whole thing. That's music, mate! Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, even one of my daughters is learning guitar, and she's learning a Nirvana song. She's like, have you heard of Nirvana? You're like, yeah, no, I haven't heard of Nirvana. Yeah, it's funny when they think they've just discovered something.
Starting point is 00:07:20 They're introducing you to them. Oh, here we go. Oh, and this. But that's just cool. Yeah. That was actually a really interesting thing they were doing on Newstalk ZB the other day. They were saying if you met someone who had never heard music, any music, any music in their life, what was the one song? If you could only play the one song. Okay.
Starting point is 00:07:38 And this is like they've never heard classical music. They've never heard any genre. It was like, oh, this is not, you know. What are you going to pick? We'll get the songs ready. What are you going to pick? I'm just thinking like one song, one song only, My Humps from the Black Eyed Peas.
Starting point is 00:07:54 It's from a Will Ferrell movie. We come out to one song and one song only, My Humps from the Black Eyed Peas. So someone's landed on earth and this is the song you play them? This is why I don't think Black Eyed Peas. That's why I was so happy. So someone's landed on Earth and this is the song you're playing them? This is why I don't think Black Eyed Peas are even like, ugh. No, I wouldn't. In all seriousness, I wouldn't. But yeah, that was the first one.
Starting point is 00:08:11 Where would you go? It's a really good one. Because there are so many good songs in so many different genres. You know, if you go, okay, this is swing and lounge. This is hip hop. This is pop. This is rock. This is whatever.
Starting point is 00:08:22 You know? You really want to sum up music in ones. I'd probably go Man in the Mirror Michael Jackson Oh okay How are you getting these songs So quickly Juliet
Starting point is 00:08:32 I'm a whiz You are a whiz Yeah What would you go Once You'd go Thriller Yeah Yeah that's a good song
Starting point is 00:08:40 You know She's just started up her beauty At least open the text to this So classic Yeah 4487. There's one the other day we were singing to as a
Starting point is 00:08:47 family, Vanessa Carlson, A Thousand Miles. I mean, that's a Oh, with the piano bit. That's a heck of a jam.
Starting point is 00:08:57 That is so good. We had the car ride, the whole family was singing. They were like, this is a heck of a jam. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:03 Okay, 4487, let's decide on this before 7 o'clock. What is the one ultimate song, if someone has never heard music, that we are going to play to them? And we will play that song before 7. And it's going off. It's actually really interesting. It's going off. Because I think if you go, oh, you could go in genres.
Starting point is 00:09:17 You know, if I went, oh, what's the best rock song? You would have an opinion. What's the best pop song? You'd have an opinion. But what's the best song overall? Yeah, and do you want that song? So you're playing the song to someone who's just landed on Earth. I imagine naked, butt naked.
Starting point is 00:09:31 I don't know why. Their clothes would have blown off as they were coming down to Earth. Yeah, I was thinking like a green sort of alien looking. Clothes or naked? Probably. Maybe not clothes. I want a butt naked alien. Okay, so a butt naked alien's arrived here.
Starting point is 00:09:43 You've got over the initial weirdness of what's gone on. And you're like, hey, man, I need to play you some music. Have you heard music? He's like, no, I haven't. What's music? What's music? First, we'll get you some underpants. We'll put them down to farmers.
Starting point is 00:09:53 Secondly, I'm going to play you music. Okay, one song. I've got one song to impress you with music. What is it going to be? Yeah. And, jeez, a load of great texts coming through. We'll get to Kim on from Tudor, who's dialed through this morning. Morning to Kim.
Starting point is 00:10:05 Good morning. What are you picking, Kimbo? Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, of course. It's an anthem. It's an anthem. You're right. And it almost goes through all the genres of music within that. But then, odd, if you were like, oh, is this music?
Starting point is 00:10:22 You're like, well, not everyone does that. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Great song. I see why you picked it, music? Well, not everyone does that Yeah You know Yeah Great song I see why you picked it, Kim Yeah, great song See why you picked it
Starting point is 00:10:30 We'll put it in the running Neville's on from Red Beach What are you going to lodge for Neville? Hi What are you picking, Nev? Phil Collins, In The Air Tonight Oh, yes Yeah
Starting point is 00:10:44 It's a classic And also, when Cadbury used it tonight. It's a classic and also when Cadbury used it and they had the gorilla playing it on the drums. That's right. I had a stand-up argument with a former co-host Robert. We worked together for many years. Love Robert. But he believes that Cadbury had invested millions
Starting point is 00:11:01 into training an actual gorilla to learn the drums from a rainforest and then fly the gorilla to a studio in Grey Lynn to film the ad for that. He couldn't get over the fact that it was someone in a costume. When you Google best song ever, you get best song ever, ironically. Well, so they've done a good play on that. If you Google what's the best song ever,
Starting point is 00:11:22 that's one of the things that pops up. Yeah, well played, One Direction. I see what you've done there. Well done. Yeah, well played, My Direction. I see what you've done there. Well done. Journey, Don't Stop Believing has come through a couple of times. It's a great song. Don't stop believing.
Starting point is 00:11:33 You know that one? Yes, of course I do. It's another one that spans the generations. Okay, we're going to keep this going. We're going to milk this udder. We're going to keep doing this. Text 4487, the one song that we're going to play to someone who's never heard music. You can text us right now.
Starting point is 00:11:46 It is a hit. You got Jano, Ben? Good morning. Jano and Ben hanging out with you. And we've gotten to this. Don't ask us how or why, but we've gotten to try to find the greatest song of all time. Yeah, we decided at 27 past six that this is what we were going to be doing on a whim. Not planned.
Starting point is 00:12:01 Feels like we were really fast tracking this through. But imagine this. Someone has landed on Earth, let's say an alien species. One of the cute ones, like E.T. or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's like, E.T., go home, go home. Well, before you go home, mate, quickly,
Starting point is 00:12:16 we need to introduce you to something called music. I've never heard music. What's music? He's like, well, do you know, clock's ticking, I need to go home. Okay, well, one song? Can you stay for one song? He's like, I'll give you one song. Yeah. First he's like, what's the song? You explain that, and then you're like, I, do you know, clock's ticking, I need to go home. Okay, well, one song, can you stay for one song? He's like, I'll give you one song. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:26 First he's like, what's the song? You explain that, and then you're like, I'll give you one song. So what would be the one song you'd play? We got this from Newstalk ZB. Great phone topic. Dion, his phone through from Whangarei. You're nominating what? Tribute to Misha Steen.
Starting point is 00:12:41 Oh, that's a good song. It was the best song in the world. Look into my eyes and it's easy to see. One at one make me... Oh, that's good. Yeah, that's a great song. It even says it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:54 Yeah, mate. Jack Black, the man. Yeah, that's cool. All right, that's on the list. I love that. I'll go to Whakatane. Sharon, welcome. Hello?
Starting point is 00:13:03 You're nominating what, Sharon, for the one song we're going to play to someone who's never heard music? Don't Give It Up from 660. Oh, wow. Oh, nice. I'm sure 660 would be honoured for that. Yeah, it is a great song. It is a great song.
Starting point is 00:13:18 A great New Zealand band. All right, we'll keep these coming through. Yeah, we'll take one more. Aidan from Auckland. What are you going to suggest, buddy? Wonderwall by Oasis. Oh, we'll take one more. Aiden from Auckland, what are you going to suggest, buddy? Wonderwall by Oasis. Oh, that's another good one. It's a maybe
Starting point is 00:13:32 for me. It may be the best song of all time. Someone's texting 4487 What about WAP? Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion. It's a good song. It probably made poor alien question humankind. It'd be genuinely Concerned for us
Starting point is 00:13:46 Yeah You probably need to Build up to WAP I think You know It's like Here's where music started It slowly morphed
Starting point is 00:13:52 And then we've ended up here It's one of the biggest songs Of 2020 Now from the top Alright I keep this Coming through Under the hits 4487
Starting point is 00:14:00 Now we decided About 30 minutes ago That we wanted to find The best song of all time And so We're going to do it In 30 minutes And that we wanted to find the best song of all time. And so we're going to do it in 30 minutes and then be done with it. Wipe our hands and move on. Every article, because I've been Googling it, every article you read is obviously they say a different song.
Starting point is 00:14:17 Because it's so hard to decide on what is the best song. Well, maybe one person's best song is not someone else's. But when you categorize it, it's easier to settle down. But narrowing in on just one song that we need to play to someone who's never heard music before. You want to sum up music in a three-minute period. Yeah. What are you going to use? We've had lots of texts and calls coming through.
Starting point is 00:14:34 Sweet Caroline was one that came through before. I mean, the 660 play this on before their concerts, and it's amazing seeing 50,000 people, no matter the age, singing away to this song. It's pretty cool. Yeah, Neil Diamond would be like, well, I'll get some royalties
Starting point is 00:14:48 for those 50,000 people singing my song. I'm sure he does. Let's go to Nick. You're on from Auckland. What are you suggesting, Nick? Hey, morning. Yeah, my choice would be
Starting point is 00:14:58 Guns N' Roses, Sweet Child O' Mine. Oh, yeah. That's a good song. That is a beauty. That's a good song. These are all good songs. These are all, not one done amongst them. You know? You're right, not one nomination beauty. That's a great song. These are all good songs. Not one done amongst them.
Starting point is 00:15:07 You're right. Not one nomination. These are all great songs. Have I gone, oh. Yeah. Apart from when you put my humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps in. You put me in the spot and I couldn't think of anything. I said, Ben, what's your song?
Starting point is 00:15:18 He said, my humps. I went comedy. I went comedy. Let's get Suzanne on. Welcome. You're on. I was going to say where you're on from, but I didn't know, so I just ended up saying Suzanne, you're on.
Starting point is 00:15:29 What's the best song of all time according to you? Imagine from John Lennon. Oh, that is a lovely song. Yeah, very cool. Yeah, it's beautiful. So that would be the one song you play to someone with no music in their life. We'll go to Talia. Welcome.
Starting point is 00:15:48 Auckland, you're on. Hey, guys. Hi there. Welcome. We're on a rushing, for some reason, on a race against time. I don't know why. We could have done more with this. We want our boss to say, you could have done more with this, guys.
Starting point is 00:15:57 Yeah, it'll be one of those moments after the show. But we haven't. We've done 30 minutes with it. Talia, what's the one song you're playing to someone who's never heard music? Bon Jovi, Living on a Prayer. Always. Always? It's a good one to sing in karaoke, but not a good one to listen back the next day and go, oh, Jesus.
Starting point is 00:16:13 Because it's a hard song to sing. And it gets up that high. Wah! When you're singing it, you're like, yeah! But you never know. And then old JBJ, he really kicks it up towards the end of the song where he lifts it up another note. That's a good song, too. Yeah, definitely a good song.
Starting point is 00:16:27 We'll go to Tika Whata. Welcome, Ross. How are you? Yeah, good, mate. Good. So, listen, I'm pretty keen on my hump as well, but if you've got a naked alien standing in front of you, you've got to say, what a wonderful world, isn't it? Oh, yeah, we did now stipulate if you were talking like
Starting point is 00:16:46 what is Ross talking about, a naked alien? We did stipulate that this person who's never heard music is an alien from Earth, landed butt naked. No genre of music had they ever heard. So you're like, we've got one song, only time for one song. Yeah, but we had decided we were going to go to Swing by Kmart and pick up some clothes for the alien first, then sit the alien down to play some music.
Starting point is 00:17:02 Well, yeah, I mean, we could keep this going, but we're not going to. We're going to need to decide now. We're going to go with... What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong. That is a beautiful song. It's had a lot of text votes this morning, actually. It's had about, yeah, it's had the majority of text votes. Should we play that?
Starting point is 00:17:16 We've never played this before on the hits. I would have thought. Should we play it? Should we play it? This is a great way to start a weekend, too. Yeah. Louis Armstrong. Reflect on all the good things in your life.
Starting point is 00:17:24 As Deciders, in a race against time the greatest the greatest song ever not a scientific poll but anyway here we go we'll play it for you now here it is in its entirety the best song in the world question mark maybe it is the hits i see trees of green, red roses too. I see skies of blue And clouds of white The bright blessed day The dark sacred night And I think to myself What a wonderful world.
Starting point is 00:18:31 The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky, are also on the faces of people going by I see friends shaking hands Saying how dare you do They're really saying I love you I hear babies cry I watch them grow, they learn much more than I'll ever know And I think to myself What a wonderful world
Starting point is 00:19:33 Oh, what a song. The best song ever as voted by you. Who were listening in a 20-minute period on the hit. That was really fun. Thank you for all your calls and so many calls and texts coming through for that. It was a lot of fun, and it's so hard to decide. As Louis is like... You wanted to go a traditional singing voice for Louis.
Starting point is 00:19:59 No, but he made it work. If Louis Armstrong wandered into your record company and was like... He'd be like, all right, give it a go. And he'd be like, but you made it. As they say on X Factor, you made it work. If Louis Armstrong wandered into your record company and was like, hey, I want to do some singing. He'd be like, all right, give it a go. And he'd be like, but you made it. As I say on X Factor, you made it your own.
Starting point is 00:20:09 And he made it his own in one beautiful song. It's a beautiful song. Two dads just trying to fill some air time. Some might say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some air time for us.
Starting point is 00:20:18 That is the main thing. John and Ben, breakfast on the hats. Yeah, there's a song, isn't there, called Tell Me Lies. Tell Me Sweet Little Lies. Is that a song or am I just making that up?
Starting point is 00:20:27 Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies. Rhythmics or something like that. Oh, is it Fleetwood Mac? It's Fleetwood Mac. Well, we listened to that Fleetwood Mac song and vaguely remembered who sung it. And then we turned it into a radio bit. Tell me lies. Jono and Vince.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Liar, liar. Tell me lies. Who sings that big? Tell me lies. This is a fun, mate? Tell me, lass. This is a fun game we play from time to time. We get two people on. They each say a statement about themselves, and then we have to work out, with your help,
Starting point is 00:20:54 on 0800 THE HITS and on the text machine, who's telling the truth and who's telling a lie. One person is being truthful, one's not. Okay, we'll get Claire on from Auckland. Morning, Claire. How are you? Morning, good. How are you? Morning. Good.
Starting point is 00:21:05 How are you guys? Oh, listen, I am a little... Do you want to know? No. But I do want to know what Claire's... Brutal. Well, it's all about not lying in this game. To be honest, I don't.
Starting point is 00:21:15 I want to hear from Claire. What's your statement? So I used to be an average fake tanner, but I've just recently changed it in my routine to a more organic, natural way. What I do is eat a couple of carrots every day. I know it sounds silly, but it just helps my complexion. I feel a lot healthier, a bit of a golden glow going on, and that is my hack.
Starting point is 00:21:36 Okay, so Claire is employing a Bugs Bunny diet in order for her to remain tanned. So carrots sort of giving you an orange hue. Healthy skin, I guess. Tan complexion. Okay. So the orange carrots are giving you a tan complexion. I tell you what, I could probably do with a few carrots in my diet then because I'm one of the paciest individuals in New Zealand media.
Starting point is 00:21:59 Okay, all right. Well, that's an interesting thing, an unusual thing. But is she telling the truth or is she not? We'll go to the second caller in Laia Laia. Keely, welcome to the program. Why, thank you. Lovely to have you on. Now, we just had Claire who said she eats an enormous amount of carrots
Starting point is 00:22:14 to remain tanned, to have her skin the color of orange. What is your story? Well, my fact is that I am a professional cuddler. A professional? That's my fact is that I am a professional cuddler. A professional? My full-time career. Your job is... You have the pros. You have the big leagues. Did you say cuddling? Like giving people hugs?
Starting point is 00:22:34 Yes, like giving people hugs. Exactly right. This is your full-time job? Yep. You get paid to hug? I've never been paid to hug anyone. No. I feel like I'm a good hugger. Yeah, no, you're too bony. I mean, maybe your hugs just I'm a good hugger. Yeah, no, you're too bony. I mean, maybe your hugs just aren't as good as mine.
Starting point is 00:22:48 No, they're not. I can vouch. They're not. You know, there's no care and attention behind his hugs. No, they're loveless hugs. He's a skeletal build, and it's kind of like just bones just draping over your shoulders. So I'm part-time. I'm a part-time at best. You know, casual work in the hugging game.
Starting point is 00:23:05 But you're full-time, you're saying. Alright. Those are the two statements. One, carrots to get a sort of orange complexion. Yep. And Keely, claiming that she's a full-time professional hugger. So 0800 the hits. So what do you think? 4487 is the text. Who is lying?
Starting point is 00:23:22 We'll be back with the results after this. We are in the middle of Liar Liar, where 4487 is the text. Who is lying? We'll be back with the results after this. Tell me lie. Liar, liar. We are in the middle of Liar, Liar. We just heard a couple of statements and we'll reflect on those now before finding out who's telling the truth and who's not. We'll start with Claire. Your statement was, Claire? False.
Starting point is 00:23:40 We're going to get you to recap on. Okay, just to drag out the drama, you said what to us? So I said that I eat a lot of carrots every day to help me give that golden glow, to help my fake chance. Okay, so Claire and Donald Trump obviously eating a lot of carrots. But it's all false. It's all fake news. I'm going to guess you a lie.
Starting point is 00:24:04 That is correct. Thank you, Claire, for that lie Thank you for us not explaining The formatics of the game properly to Claire But that's alright we'll move on Keely so obviously You're a professional hugger I am that's true So how does this work
Starting point is 00:24:20 Well human touch Touch is a basic human need We need it just as we need Water as we need air it keeps us healthy Well, human touch, touch is a basic human need. We need it just as we need water, as we need air. It keeps us healthy. So when people don't have access to that, where do they go? What do they do? Well, they call me so that they can have access to safe, healthy platonic touch and incorporate that into their lives.
Starting point is 00:24:39 And it can do a lot of really great things for you. And how long have you been living this hug life, so to speak? The hug life. I love it. I have been doing this for about six years. But people pay you, what, by the hour, by the minutes? By the hug? How does it work? It's by the hour. So I charge about $100 an hour. I have in-person and virtual options. I've been trained with Cuddlist.com, C-U-D-D-L-I-S-T, that's my certification. I have clients from all over, I'm based in Chicago, but all over the United States, and I have some international clients too.
Starting point is 00:25:13 And so where do you hug? I am in Chicago, but I have a studio. So I have a cuddle space or a hug studio, and I host most of the time. And so is it on a bed? Is it standing? Is is it on a bed? Is it standing? Is it seating? Is it on a couch? Well, cuddling can look a hundred different ways.
Starting point is 00:25:34 I would consider a cuddle session if I danced with someone. That is touching. We could do, like, jazz dance or we could do swing dance. That would be cuddling just as much as, like, spooning someone would be cuddling. It all counts. I can see why. Yeah, because it is a nice feeling when you get a hug from someone, a loved one, or meet a friend for the first time. It does give you a good feeling. So I guess you're giving that to people. Exactly right. Oxytocin, the neurotransmitter that's produced, it decreases your blood pressure. It boosts your immune system.
Starting point is 00:26:04 It helps relieve symptoms of depression and anxiety and helps us kind of get in touch and connect with our humanity. Okay, I'm going to, I've just Googled as we've been talking, talking Keely. We've got Keely on the phone from Chicago. She's a professional hugger, full-time job. I'm going to run through the seven types of hugs, and you tell me what is your favoured hug, okay?
Starting point is 00:26:24 You've got a side hug. So that's just your arm around a shoulder. You've got a friend hug. Quick in and out. Hugging from behind. Your hands are around the front lip. Bear hug. A tight hug.
Starting point is 00:26:37 That's a good one. A one-sided hug. The heart-to-heart hug where your chests are together. Spooning is another one. What's your preferred? I love, if we're just talking about hugs in the traditional definition, I love a two-breath hug. It's like the heart-to-heart, but it lasts for two breaths
Starting point is 00:26:52 because the first one, the first breath, you're coming in for the hug. By the second breath, you sink into the hug, and that's my favorite. Now, do you hug outside of working hours, or do you just like, I've been hugging all day at work. I don't need this now. I don't have a capacity. I don't ever get sick of cuddling. I adore cuddling.
Starting point is 00:27:11 I'm off the clock. You're like, are your friends trying to get free hugs from you? You're like, hey, you pay top dollar for that. I don't mean to be rude here. I don't mean to be intrusive. Is there a form of a layer of sexualness about this? And does that sort of slip into a hug session? I love that you asked this question. And one of the things that makes what I do so important, so powerful and so therapeutic is that we are
Starting point is 00:27:38 focusing on strictly the platonic intimacy realm. And one of the reasons why that's so important is because as adults, people don't have the option to just stop in that realm. Most of the time when people cuddle, it is because it's on the way to sex or it's after. And so giving that stop, that presence, they're like, no, this is just cuddling for cuddling sake. Actually, it's sometimes the first time an adult has had that experience in their entire adult life. That's quite interesting. You're right. It's probably one of those things because when you get busy and someone gives you a hug,
Starting point is 00:28:11 sometimes you're like, I'm just busy. I'm in that zone. I need to keep moving. But if you stop and enjoy the hug, I guess, with that person, it can be really good for you. Yeah, absolutely. I know what you mean about things kicking off in the lovemaking. I just need a finger to touch my shoulder and I'm off.
Starting point is 00:28:28 Just any human to human contact. Well, I think that's a disservice to you, right? Because then you are automatically, your body's like, okay, this is what we're going to do. And if it's not like the appropriate time or place, you kind of get hijacked. And this way, you can have the choice. You're more empowered to have the choice in that moment. I brushed past him at work the other day. It was a bit weird.
Starting point is 00:28:48 It's got me kicked out of many meetings. Oh, Keely, thank you so much for sharing what you do with us. It's really, really fascinating. And what a great thing you're doing. I appreciate you. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.
Starting point is 00:29:07 I've noticed something about all New Zealanders is that it's something we take pride in doing. And it reminded me when producer Bee Humps, Bee Humps, our lovely producer Humps, check him out. He came in and he had a new jacket that he had purchased. And I said, well, that's a nice jacket. And he says, do you know how much I got it for? I said, no.
Starting point is 00:29:29 And he said, 90 bucks. I said, that's a cheap jacket, because that jacket's usually 300. He's like, I got it online. Got a bargain, got a deal. And that's what we do as a nation. Whenever we purchase something and someone goes, that's nice, you always come back with do you want to know how much i got it for and it's never showboating or how expensive it is it's always
Starting point is 00:29:50 how cheap we got it for yeah it's like a badge of honor right it is a badge of honor for you not with the complete opposite to rappers and videos who are boasting about their their high end stuff how much they've paid for stuff we're the opposite we want to brag about how we've got a bargain on our stuff yeah how much we saved yeah you're. We're the opposite. We want to brag about how we've got a bargain on our stuff. Yeah. How much we've saved. Yeah, you're right. I went to the gym once and there was I was chatting about that guy. He had a whole new outfit. You know at the gym
Starting point is 00:30:14 you kind of bump into people regularly, semi-regularly and you kind of have quick banter. And I mentioned to him, oh you've got a whole new gym outfit. And he's like do you want to know how much i got it for i said and obviously being in new zealand i'm intrigued i do yeah and he made me play a game which was essentially the format the price is right oh you're guessing i had the guesses
Starting point is 00:30:38 were on me and it puts a lot of pressure on the guesser because he like he got his two fingers and he lifted up his shirt at the shoulders and he's holding this and I'm like I'm guessing he's wanting me to figure out how much this costs. Did you ever shoot the mark again like you did with me and go like $900? You're like oh no. No well I didn't know him well enough to do that gag but then I was quite aware
Starting point is 00:30:58 of not underselling it because clearly he was wanting to boast. Oh yeah true he's probably going to boast he got it cheaply. Cheaply so I was having to play in that sweet spot of like. 10 cents. Oh no mate. You, yeah, true. He's probably going to boast he got it cheaply. Cheaply. So I was having to play in that sweet spot of like... 10 cents. Oh, no, mate. Come on. You've ruined the game.
Starting point is 00:31:09 You know? So I was trying to find a figure that I thought wouldn't have been too expensive but wouldn't have been too much of a bargain. Yeah. And then I went to systematically
Starting point is 00:31:18 go through every item of clothes. So I got the shirt. I did a guess. He's like, nah, cheaper. And then I had to go, wow. And then he held it, you know, pinned up his shorts and I made a guess he's like nah cheaper and then i had to go wow you know and then he held it you know pinned up his shorts and he was i've made a guess he's cheaper and uh he was very proud
Starting point is 00:31:32 very proud and he got everything for an absolute bargain but don't we it's like we've got a whole department store which trades off having a sale the whole time briscoes is never not having a sale it doesn't seem that way the win is if you buy something at full price at briscoes that's when you've won yeah but does that ever happen i don't know i don't know you feel like you'd feel weird being in there and there wasn't a sale i did see this thing online and it was like if something cost a hundred dollars and you got it on sale for 75 you didn't save 25 you still spent 75 i'm like oh damn it don't tell me that but in your head you're like that's a saving it's all psychological isn't it is anything on sale
Starting point is 00:32:10 really on sale I don't know that would be an interesting thing to open up yeah well they say that sometimes the sale price is like they mark things up so much that the sale price is actually what it's worth
Starting point is 00:32:18 I can imagine that would happen all the time I mean you understand that's what happens okay 4487 are you in the retail game is anything on sale actually on sale? Are we saving as customers?
Starting point is 00:32:27 I guess sometimes you wouldn't. Sometimes you would. We'll get to the bottom of this, all right? Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hips. The hips. Now, you know, it's such a cliche for a parent to say, but, you know, kids, they grow up fast.
Starting point is 00:32:42 They do. They grow up really fast, and they're becoming their own little people. The thing with cliches is they're true i know that's such a cliche but you're like well it's appropriate in this situation and they they do they actually grow up quite slowly in all honesty if you really break it down into a day but it feels so fast you know it feels like you know and now you know my daughters are nine and if anything it lags between the sort of the age two to five periods. Yeah, maybe, and then it gets after that.
Starting point is 00:33:07 Those don't feel like they go quick. And it just flies past, and they're becoming their own little independent people. And that's awesome that they get to do that and get to times as a parent, you're like, well, they don't need me as much anymore. They can drive you home from the bar that you go to. I mean, that's great. They can do that. It's what you need then.
Starting point is 00:33:24 Yeah. But at a moment yesterday, dropped my daughter indy off who's nine to netball practice and so it was one of those things i drop off and i'll come back and pick you up later and it's you know it's cool there's lots of parents around and lots of kids and i had a moment and i was like this is a lovely little moment where i dropped her off and i was like i'll see you later on you know off she goes to do a netball practice and then she turned around in front of everyone she was like dad dad and she sort of put her arms out i was like oh he's gonna give me a big hug she's gonna miss you she's gonna be a big hug you've known it as a parent you're like this is gonna be a lovely lovely moment slow motion yeah i was really good a feeling in my head must be love
Starting point is 00:33:57 that music was playing in my head or something like that this is a great miomas she sort of ran across to me in front of everyone and you can see all the other parents go oh this is gonna be beautiful this is lovely did they get their phones out yeah i don't know i thought they're thinking about i thought about doing that and she sort of ran up towards me and she sort of put her arms up and i was gonna be a great hug and then she sort of arms went up towards my ear and sort of cupped around my ear and i'm like this is not what i thought okay and i was like okay so i sort of maybe this is not a hug had you like weirdly gone in for a hug i had weirdly gone in for a hug she's cupping your ear yeah she's like dad dad your pants are quite long i can see your undies i just thought i should tell you pull your pants up pull your
Starting point is 00:34:35 pants up oh you got oh he always has his whale tail poking out the top of his trousers okay okay it was one of those moments because as I was walking away, I was like, oh, this is great. This is going to be a lovely moment. But that is love. That was love. Telling someone that you need to pull your pants up. You need to pull your pants up, yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:54 What is she, a boomer? Pull your trousers up. You've got holes in your jeans as well. Yeah, but I was like, what? I hope you got a discount off those. Oh, yeah, the ones with the holes in the jeans. I love it. You didn't pay full price for those, did you?
Starting point is 00:35:06 You know, you were just mentioning netball. I had to go to netball last night, and it's so cute watching little five-year-olds play netball. But the funny thing is, because they can't shoot the ball up to the height of the hoop, they have these parents standing there holding hula hoops. And the parents have just standing there the whole game holding hula hoops on either end of the court.
Starting point is 00:35:27 They're goalposts. The parents are goalposts. So they're just doing the role of what a pole could do. And then when someone throws the ball, the parent kind of maneuvers the hoop so the ball goes in for a goal. There's a lot of match fixing going on there. There is.
Starting point is 00:35:41 I was like, can I bet on this game? Feels like right now. Forget about betting. Let's get this illegal gambling guys proud of New Zealand if only New Zealand was proud of their channel and been New Zealand's breakfast jeez I tell you what this every morning I was waking up thinking it was Thursday Tuesday I woke up as Thursday Wednesday I woke up as Thursday Thursday I woke up and I thought it was Thursday I was there up thinking it was Thursday. Tuesday I woke up, it was Thursday. Wednesday I woke up, it was Thursday. Thursday I woke up and I thought it was Thursday. It was Thursday, yeah. Because I guess it was a short week last week.
Starting point is 00:36:11 So it always feels a lot longer the following week. Yeah. No, it's funny driving to work at this time of morning. You notice other motorists. I was sitting at the intersection before. There was a poor lady there and she was looking like the life was slowly being sucked out of her soul driving to work at the early hour. I always like to think, what are people doing?
Starting point is 00:36:30 She looks like a CEO. He looks like a dealer of some description. They probably look at me and go, well, there's a homeless man driving a car. Probably. But yeah, it's funny. Don't you find that? Like, why are all these people driving at this hour? Yeah, I think about that too. I'm like, some people
Starting point is 00:36:46 would be, I sometimes see people going for runs at that hour, like in the middle of the town, I'm like, wow, good on you. Up at four, doing that. There's a lady here, Harriet, who comes in every morning at five. Yeah. She works in the office, she's out there running around town. I know, it's pretty awesome, right? She doesn't need to,
Starting point is 00:37:02 but she does. Yeah. Which is pretty cool. Hey, fitness guys. Hey, we've got a big show this morning. One of our favourite games, Liar Liar, is back after 8 o'clock. We get two statements, one of them true and one of them is false, and we need to work out together who's lying and who's not, as well as five grand at 7.45 and plenty more for your Friday morning on the hits. Made to talk words and stuff into a microphone.
Starting point is 00:37:25 It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Made to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. I'm sorry, Ben, you were going to say something? No, you might have been about to say the greatest thing you've ever said on radio. No, I don't think it was. In fact, it wasn't, so there you go. I've forgotten what I was going to say.
Starting point is 00:37:38 Have you noticed, just starting this job, because you finish your home around 12.30, 1 o'clock, that you've become the errand guy in the household do you have to run all the errands yeah yeah but i was kind of doing that before i guess well you're always the errand guy i like running errands yeah no i've got uh i just get lumped with errands like my day just fills up with errands and i'm running like over this week i think i've been to the mall every day and you know you know malls one of my more do you detest my least favorite locations is oh can you put me out some foundation from farmers i need some eye makeup remover can you drop these pants
Starting point is 00:38:16 back to hannah's house i borrowed them three weeks ago and the kids will be like oh you promised if i did well on the exams you get me a poppet thing I'm just, we were busy for three months in a row, you know, working seven days a week. And I'm like, oh, when that stops, time will free up. But your days, no matter what you're doing, fill up, don't they? Well, yeah. Don't you just find things to fill your day up with? Yeah, I guess days do. I guess that's kind of life, I guess.
Starting point is 00:38:42 Yeah. Too many errands to run need to stop off with the errands right you've got a busy day of errands again today is that right yeah more errands to run today back to the mall today to pick up more stuff and it's always just as I'm leaving work I'm like ah great I've got nothing to do today
Starting point is 00:38:58 then I get the errand text of the half a dozen errands that need to be achieved before 3pm when I pick up the kids the name errand though has really been you know branded with a you know like a thing that people don't like you know erin's a nice girl's name isn't it yeah but it's erin but it still makes me think of erin i'm gonna run some errands i've never thought about it like that she keeps saying errands i was like it's like karen isn't it? Karen's had a black cloud cast over it in the last 12 months. Yeah, not the most popular of names, unfortunately, now, due to all that.
Starting point is 00:39:31 You feel sorry for the Karens, don't you? Oh, totally. Imagine if a Jono or a Ben became a thing that everyone was like, oh, you're being a, you know? They are already. Well, true, yeah, yeah, maybe a bad example. But, yeah, I really, really feel sorry for it. Because, yeah, there are some awesome people that I know called Karen.
Starting point is 00:39:47 So why do they get called, oh, you're a Karen? Oh, let's pay homage to them. Name the awesome Karen you know. Karen and then Karen and then there's Karen. And what do they do? Yeah, well, friends of ours. Yeah, they're awesome. They're just cool people.
Starting point is 00:40:00 And we know people at work called Karen. So you kind of go, oh, that's a bit. We were at a restaurant the other day and um there was a thing in there it was like a button you could press to get the order and stuff and then there was a manager one and everyone's like that's the karen button to speak to the manager if you want to be a karen you can press that button i was driving oscar to a basketball training thing my son and his mate was in the car and he's like oh god my mom's being a karen she's phoned the school so it's become the vernacular now it is the kids are using it everyone's using it it's like gangnam style it will never go away real kiwi blokes with soy lattes
Starting point is 00:40:37 shono and ben breakfast on the hits today on disney plus there's a brand new disney pixar movie out called Luca. It's about a boy who has an awesome summer in Italy, but he's got a bit of a secret. He's actually a sea monster. That's a terrible secret to have to hide, isn't it? Yes, if he gets wet at any stage, he turns back into a sea monster. What if he is a glass of water? Well, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:41:01 I don't know if a drinking water is fine. Have I found a plot hole? No, but I imagine like if it rains or if he gets splashed by something. That's a complicated life to lead. I know. So it's a really cool movie. The kids and I really enjoyed watching it. Here's a wee snippet.
Starting point is 00:41:14 We do not go anywhere near the surface. Got it? Everything good is above the surface. Walking. Air. The sky. Clouds. The sun. Whoa. Don't look at it. Just whoa don't look at it just kidding definitely look at it so you're
Starting point is 00:41:31 watching with the kids and really really good but does he picks that do Ram yeah amazing movies but one thing I find is it's always the ones I cry it I don't know why it is that I cry these movies but they always you really start to question your role as an adult when you're crying during a cartoon. I did that during Up. And I was like, why am I crying through a movie where he's attached to hundreds of blues to a house? Logistically, it's not even possible. But even at the start of that one, they get you right
Starting point is 00:41:56 at the feels at the start of it. Oh, well, in 60 seconds. Yeah, and Luca was just the same. The good thing is that you've got 90 minutes to recover from those tears. Yeah, so you don't walk out of the cinemas or... red-eyed and glazing. We spoke to the star of Luca the other day. He's the voice of the main character. He's a 14-year-old kid.
Starting point is 00:42:12 His name is Jacob Tremblay. And we spoke about how emotional these movies are. One thing I do find about them, that I always end up crying at the end of them. You know, does it seem like they have to have that in the movie? I mean, yeah, for Pixar, like, everyone that, like, works on Pixar films are so talented, and they just had to pull on people's heartstrings, so it was really cool to be a part of this.
Starting point is 00:42:32 You know, some dramas don't really get you to cry as well as, you know, Pixar movies. Yeah, that's – I know it's embarrassing. My kids are looking at me, and they're like, what's wrong? I'm going, huh, huh. Do you know – listen, I don't want to talk down your movie because it's a fantastic film,
Starting point is 00:42:47 but he cries in the car after work every day as well. Well, yeah, true. He's easy to set off, Jacob. It's Jacob Tremblay. He's the main voice in the movie, Luca. He's been in a movie, Wonder, with Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson. That's a good movie.
Starting point is 00:43:02 Yeah, it's a really good movie. If you think about jerking, tears. That's that movie. Yeah, he's been in with Brie Larson, who won an Oscar as's a good movie. Yeah, it's a really good movie. If you think about jerking, tears, that's that movie. Yeah, he's been done with Brie Larson, who won an Oscar as well for the movie, and he's even been in a Justin Bieber video. We spoke to him about this as well. So he played a young Justin Bieber as well. This was Justin Bieber's adorable purple years,
Starting point is 00:43:19 where he wore all purple, not when he was urinating in bucket. That's right, and he even got a call, Jacob Tremlay, from Justin Bieber to ask him to be in his new music video. We understand there was a rumor you were in the supermarket once and Justin Bieber phoned you. Yeah, that's true.
Starting point is 00:43:35 I was actually on vacation. We're picking up groceries. And yeah, I get a call from Justin Bieber. It was really certain. Does it come up as Justin Bieber or a number unknown? And you're like, who dis? It was a random number, but it said it was coming from Los Angeles. It was very, very cool.
Starting point is 00:43:54 You know, I went to the car, like, right away because I didn't want, you know, him to hear just, like, the checkout, just doo-doo, like, the whole time. That's pretty cool. How would that be, just, Julia, that would be a dream come true. Don't even go don't even, don't even go, I'm just, I'm so jealous.
Starting point is 00:44:08 She just had her head in her hands the whole time that he was discussing that. Just like I mentioned, Juliet went and learned the drums so that if she ever came into contact with Justin Bieber, she would have something in common with him
Starting point is 00:44:18 because Justin Bieber could play the drums. So embarrassing. What, how long did you do drum lessons for? For like two years. Just to get the... You must be pretty good. No, I'm terrible, I'm terrible. I have no musical talent. So embarrassing. How long did you do drum lessons for? For like two years. You must be pretty good. No, I'm terrible. I have no musical talent. I really could be a long guy.
Starting point is 00:44:30 Did you tell the drum teacher what your main drive was? He still doesn't know. And one last thing we want to play from our wee chat with Jacob Trembley, who's the star of the new movie Luca on Disney+. He talked about how cool, and I never really thought about this, but Disney Pixar do amazing movies, including this one, and how cool their offices are. Have a listen.
Starting point is 00:44:49 You even got to check out the Pixar offices when you did some of your voicing. I understand they're incredible. That was really weird. It was like Disneyland, but in a small space. It was really cool. I think my favorite one though was this one that was decorated like a temple from Indiana Jones. It was so cool. In the office. It was really cool. I think my favorite one, though, was this one that was decorated like a temple from Indiana Jones.
Starting point is 00:45:06 It was so cool. And the office. It was all handmade, too. It's really cool. And then another one was designed like a plane crash that someone had set up camping. It looked so cool. Also, it was really smart because they took a mirror and put it on one side
Starting point is 00:45:22 so it looked like it was long. The plane kept on going. It's really clever. Oh, yeah. Wow, what a person. Smart interior decorating play, that, isn't it? You put a mirror into a room and it appears much larger than it is.
Starting point is 00:45:35 Do you know, I reckon the novelty of an Indiana Jones temple in the office would wear off pretty quickly. Oh, it would become like a normal wall, but it'd still be cool. Who put this temple here? We needed a photocopier. That is Jack Tremblay.
Starting point is 00:45:50 The movie Luca is out today on Disney+. Check it out with the family. It is the hits. You've got John on, Ben. Scrolling through your feed. Oh, yes. If you like your news presented by people who aren't fully aware and aren't fully awake, well, then we present
Starting point is 00:46:03 Scrolling Through Your Feed. Now, yesterday, the Prime Minister and Dr Ashley Bloomfield unveiled the rollout plan for the team of five million to get their vaccinations. So it's going to begin July 28, this new plan. People over the age of 60 can book right now. Their new national booking system, Book My Vaccine, so they can get online and do that. And then they're basically going to work through an age bracket brackets 55 and over will be the next lot from august then 45 and older from mid to late
Starting point is 00:46:30 august and then 35 and older a month later and then basically the general population after that after august oh great i can lock in the uh 55 and over i'll start booking my slot do you know my father-in-law he was out he does he does some charity work. And they were at the Salvation Army packing lunches and things. But next door was a vaccination centre. All right, yeah. And one of the people he was working with, he was like, oh, I haven't booked in for my vaccine. I'll just rock on in there and get it, eh?
Starting point is 00:46:57 And he's like, what? And he just walked in. Got one. Really? No booking required. Really? Well, I think at the end of the day that can happen. Because you know how once they unfreeze them,
Starting point is 00:47:08 they've only got a certain amount of time before they have to get rid of them. So I guess they were doing that at the end of the day. I think some builders on a building site once got some because they were like, hey, we've got a few left over. Do you guys want your... Like spare beers after a party. Hey, you guys want a couple? Which makes sense.
Starting point is 00:47:22 I guess you can use it and get people vaccinated. That makes sense. We knew a guy who had to go overseas for work, and he wanted to do it vaccinated for obvious reasons. And so he sat outside, I think, like an A&E centre where they were distributing it for the whole day. Yeah, just to see if he could get one of the ones that if someone doesn't show up at the end of the day,
Starting point is 00:47:39 he got one. And I imagine once you've had the first one, you're probably in the system. You're in the process. Right. Jacinda Ardern, apparently, today. That's the day the Prime Minister's getting hers. So that'll be all over the news today, won't it?
Starting point is 00:47:51 What is going on with the Stewart Island false negative situation? Oh, and it's now come back as a negative. Oh, it's a negative. Yeah. Jeez, we got wound up about that yesterday, didn't we? There's press covered in your phone. It's like 900 alerts. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:05 So they are offering testing at people in Stewart Island if people want to get tested to see that it's not obviously around there. But it was one of those things. I think it can happen from time to time, a false negative they're saying, particularly in kids. The positive, though, Stewart Island, not part of New Zealand.
Starting point is 00:48:20 So it wouldn't tack up on our tally, would it? We'd still be zero cases. Well, that'd be the thing. The ones in managed isolation don't count for community, right? That's like, well, it's not the community. Stuart Island's not the community. Great Barrier Island also you don't count. Yeah, which is sad.
Starting point is 00:48:34 They feel like they're making their own rules just to make it like zero days of no transmission. Hey, do you mind if I add a story? I know you like to curate the content for a scholarship. I think everyone will appreciate this. There's a TV show being filmed in America right now
Starting point is 00:48:49 called Ultimate Slip and Slide. This would be a fantastic show for New Zealand. We love the slip and slide. Oh, we do. I think I know where this is going,
Starting point is 00:48:57 but yeah, carry on. My problem, my bugbear with the slip and slide though is you don't realise it as a child, but when you do it as an adult,
Starting point is 00:49:04 you put the slip and slide on the lawn and the lawn is rock hard at summertime. You land on it. It's like landing on concrete. Because the thing is you make the mistake of running out towards it and leaping. You're thinking it's going to take cushion like it's a bouncy castle but it's not. For some reason you never feel that
Starting point is 00:49:17 as a child. No, you're right. But over the age of 20 you're like ouch. Slip and slide anyway. Ultimate slip and slide and unfortunately as one of the contestants was slipping and or sliding, they were suffering from gastrointestinal symptoms. And unfortunately, what happens then is your sliding becomes a bit more slidey. And it's just riddled the whole production. Everyone's got it.
Starting point is 00:49:46 They've had to shut down Ultimate Slip and Slide. That was slipping and sliding too much. Thanks to some extra slippery surfaces. I hope they put that one on telly, though. So they're just trying to figure out ways how they can get that. They've stopped it. 40 crew members have all got the high-speed. Yeah, the bayonet start again, don't you?
Starting point is 00:50:07 It rips through it, though. The gastro bug. Jeez, it goes through you. And that is going to your feed this morning. It is the hits. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. The hits.
Starting point is 00:50:20 You've got Jono and Ben. Keep the text going through, actually. We're trying to play. We've decided we want to find the best song of all time. We're going to play it around about 7.20 today, so we need a decision. Yeah. This feels like something any radio station would drag out
Starting point is 00:50:33 over three weeks, but we're cramming it into a 30-minute. You'd be like, countdown for the best song ever. No, we're like, if you're up before 7 on a Friday, you text us, we'll decide to get that. We don't need to put it out for weeks. No, we're not going to make a thing of it. We're not going to have an event at the power station or something. We'll come along and watch it and play the show.
Starting point is 00:50:50 We'll get over and done with quickly. Wrap it up, move on to something else. It's an idea we kind of came up with at 6.25. Rip it off another station? Yeah. Yeah, there we go. That's why I make it a thing. But multiple texts coming through for Louis Armstrong,
Starting point is 00:51:04 What a Wonderful World. Oh, what a wonderful song. Yeah, we're playing one song to someone who's never heard music before. What's it going to be? We're going to decide in the next 20 minutes. Let's see some Spy Coaching. Spy, know what's up? Spy.co.nz Alright, let's hand over to Juliet who was brought to you today.
Starting point is 00:51:20 Who are you waving at? Hey, Cody Mills. Hey, Cody. How are you? How are you going? It's time now to Juliet, the most professional part of this shabby excuse for a radio show, take it away with Spy. So Victoria's Secret has officially ended its Angels era for a big brand overhaul. So the Angels were the big models like Miranda Kerr, Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner. They'd walk down the runway with the big wings for their annual fashion show. I imagine all those wings would be a nightmare backstage.
Starting point is 00:51:45 It would be very inconvenient wandering around with massive wings, wouldn't it? Yeah, totally. So they're doing a big brand recall. They're now calling it the VS Collective, which includes a group of accomplished women who share a common passion to drive positive change. So it's being led by Priyanka Chopra. She's also married to Nick Jonas.
Starting point is 00:52:01 And Megan Rapinoe, I think her last name is, and she's an American soccer player. So those are going to be the faces of the new Victoria's Secret brand, which is quite cool. I want all the malnourished models. Oh, you don't. I do. That's what I like.
Starting point is 00:52:14 I think that was the thing. It was obviously they were getting a bit of heat for not reflecting, you know. Yeah, true society in everyone's bodies, which is really cool to see. It is. It sets an unrealistic expectation for the likes of me, who's like, well, I can never look good in a Victoria's bodies, which is really cool to see. It is. It sets an unrealistic expectation for the likes of me, who's like, well, I can never look good in a Victoria's Secret, you know, little G-string. Imagine you walking down the runway with wings.
Starting point is 00:52:33 No, no, no. It's all about what it took. Sorry. That is so true. I really am sorry. But you just vomited inside your mouth. You just went, uh, uh, uh. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:52:45 Yeah. This is going against their brand overall. You're out of a brainstorm for Victoria's Secret now. I take back what I said. And Kim Kardashian, she's studying to become a lawyer at the moment. And she was asked whether she's still going to post those sultry snaps on her Instagram account
Starting point is 00:53:03 because once she becomes a lawyer, because being a lawyer and then posting those sorts of pictures are quite opposing sort of things. And she said she thought about it, but then she thought, you can do it all, you can do whatever you want. So she might become the only lawyer that has sexy snaps on her Instagram in the world, probably. So she's going to become a fully fledged... Well, I think that's what she's wanting to be.
Starting point is 00:53:23 I did read something the other day that she sadly failed the exam the second time doesn't mean she's out but she was really obviously she would be you'd be really gutted about that yeah i feel like a failure because of that she should definitely keep going like it's something that she's obviously quite passionate about and her father you know was in that so he so she could yeah she should definitely keep going so you can call kim hadashi and get get off a drunk driving charge or something. What sort of loyal work is she having to do? She has a lot of stuff for prisoner reform and stuff. She has.
Starting point is 00:53:50 Really, really awesome stuff. Yeah, totally. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After 7 o'clock, keep this coming through. For some reason, we're looking for the best song of all time. For some reason? The reason is that we're playing it to someone who's never heard music before.
Starting point is 00:54:04 What more reason do you want? This one's coming through a lot. Oh, it's a good song. It is a really good song. It's a beautiful song. Makes you want to cry that song, right? Because it's so beautiful. All right, so keep coming through.
Starting point is 00:54:17 4487 on the text. 726 on your Friday morning. You remember the Gorilla Girl? Gorilla Glue Girl? Sorry, it's hard to say. Gorilla Glue Girl. So she put Gorilla Glue in her hair. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:35 I thought you were thinking like some sort of mascot for Gorilla Glue. No, she was on TikTok a few months ago. She blew up all over the world because she put it in the adhesive in her hair instead of hairspray. And it kind of worked at first, but then obviously she couldn't get it out. And it was quite problematic. And she had to get a... Who would have thought that would have been the end result?
Starting point is 00:54:54 Yeah. Putting Gorilla Glue in your hair. So a lovely plastic surgeon member offered to give her the procedure for like $12,000 for free. Yeah, which was awesome in America. But now the Gorilla Glue girl has got her own hair care line. So she's been working with people to bring her hair back quickly. So, Jono, you might be interested. I'll send you a link.
Starting point is 00:55:14 So, Lloyd, it's plays to get to the end result of getting longer and longer bows. She's working with professionals. We came up with a hairline forever here, which is helping me grow my hair back and maintain it. So there you go. She's got, what a great person to have for this. Are you going to trust hair product from the Gorilla Glue hair girl? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:55:34 She's got a check in history with hair products. She's got merch as well, too, if you want those as well. She's got a hoodie that says, Where's My Hair? on there as well. And Bonded for Life t-shirts, which is quite clever. So, yeah. She's really got all bases covered. She has good on there.
Starting point is 00:55:51 Just from one unfortunate. I love that, where people take this opportunity, like, take something, you know, that was, you know, obviously it was a horrible thing, you don't wish upon anyone, but she's really picked up the ball and run with it, hasn't she? She really is, which is awesome. And you really respect people like that. I do. I honestly do.
Starting point is 00:56:04 I'm like, mate, you're a hanky. She's got a website. Merchandise is, is awesome yeah and you would you really respect people like that i do i honestly do she's got a website merchandise it's like good on you it's an american thing though isn't it they really do capitalize on uh you know just a slither of fame i know they will turn that into a career yeah over here in new zealand would be shamed in bars but you're the glue idiot yeah but this is awesome. So go on. I'll send you that link, Jono, and five words for $5,000. If anything, she should do her own range of glue sticks and things. What's wrong? Team up with Gorilla Glue, maybe. It is the hits.
Starting point is 00:56:35 Add these two men together, and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits, with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Five words for $5,000 on The Hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. The only thing we care about is winning you money. Now I put my hand up in the studio for that segue. You did, you did. I thought you had something important to say.
Starting point is 00:56:55 It was important, you're right. We do, we want to win you some money right now. $5,000 is on the line. It's our Game of Word Association. So let's see if we can do it. Hey, Michaela, how's whakatane this morning? Good morning. How are you? Yeah, good. Lovely part of the country you live in, Michaela.
Starting point is 00:57:10 Oh, stunning. And we've got a beautiful sunrise this morning. No, stop bragging about your beautiful sunrise. What do you do? I work at a holiday park. Oh, great. So you're permanently on holiday. Oh, some would say that, but no, we keep busy.
Starting point is 00:57:25 Yeah, no, I bet you don't. When you're unplugging drains in the communal showers, I don't think you probably feel like you're on holiday, Michaela. Oh, you're starting to sound like you know the job. Now you need to decide which one of us you want to send to the soundproof booth. Oh, I went Ben last time, so let's go Jono. Oh, you've played before. Played once before and got three out of five, Got through last week and then lucky Susan took the call
Starting point is 00:57:47 and she got the five grand. Oh. We got the same answers, so fingers crossed. So Ben has bitterly disappointed you in the past. I haven't beat you down in the past. He's beat you down. Well, you know, it's Five Words Friday today and the alliteration means that we've got to have a winner.
Starting point is 00:58:03 Far, far, far. It's not a guaranteed winner, though. Oh, it's the alliteration means that we've got to have a winner. Far, far, far. It's not a guaranteed winner, though. Oh, it's the alliteration. Hopefully. Hopefully. All right, well, I'll get into the soundproof booth, Michaela. All right, John is making his way over there. Okay, here are today's words, Michaela.
Starting point is 00:58:15 The first word this morning is pantry. Food. Food. Food goes in the pantry. I like that. Charity is number two this morning. Charity. I've got a couple.
Starting point is 00:58:30 Talk them out. Talk them out if you want to or just keep them to yourself. Up to you. Either organisation or donation. Oh, yes. Let's go. Oh, gosh. Can we come back to that one?
Starting point is 00:58:41 Yeah, we'll come back to that one. No worries at all. Sweet is number three and it's sweet. S-W-E-E-T, sweet. Lollies. Lollies, nice. I was going to say sweet as in lollies or candy or something, but I was like, oh, that's kind of influencing what you're going to say. Bleach is the fourth word this morning, bleach.
Starting point is 00:59:03 White. Oh, yeah. Okay, yeah. White. And weekend is the fourth word this morning. Bleach. White. Oh, yeah. Okay, yeah. White. And weekend is the final word. What was that, sorry? Weekend. Weekend.
Starting point is 00:59:13 Oh. Weekend. Days off. Oh, days off. Days off. Yeah. Okay, and we're going to go back to charity right now. Have you any thoughts about charity?
Starting point is 00:59:26 Not many. No? There's not many. No, there's not. Let's just go donation. Donation. I like donation. Okay, so we've got pantry food, charity donation, sweet lollies, bleach white, and weekend days off. They are your five words.
Starting point is 00:59:39 All the very best. I'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth, and hopefully we can match up. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if, you know, whatever anyone else thinks. Just whatever Jono thinks right now. Yep. Come on, Jono out of the soundproof booth, and hopefully we can match up. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if, you know, whatever anyone else thinks. Just whatever Jono thinks right now. Yep. Come on, Jono.
Starting point is 00:59:50 Come on, Jono. Just get rid of my brain for a minute. Yeah. All right, Michaela. It's been released from the dog box in there. It's a literal dog box. There's a family of dogs in there, and it smells like Satan's armpits. But anyway, I'll get over that, and we'll try and win you money, eh?
Starting point is 01:00:02 All right, here we go, Jono. The first word this morning we said to Michaela was pantry. Cupboard. Jono. Jono. Jono, Jono, Jono. That was your second guess. No, I see why you went cupboard, though.
Starting point is 01:00:21 I see it was an option, but food was the one that we wanted. Listen, I've somehow managed to out-disappoint you more than Ben disappointed you. Yeah. At least Ben and I got three out of five. Well, let's see if you would have got three out of five. This could go through charity. Charity. Donation.
Starting point is 01:00:38 Yes. Sweet, as in S-W-E-E-T. Sweet. Lollies. Oh, look at you go. Oh, Michaela, actually. Bleach is the fourth word. Bleach.
Starting point is 01:00:52 I've got two. I go... What? Are you serious? Oh, no. You're serious. And weekend. If you get this one out of all of them.
Starting point is 01:01:09 Saturday. Michaela, so close. Hey, we both walked away three out of five, but that's not quite good enough for $5,000. So sorry, Michaela. That's all good, guys. You guys have a good one. You too.
Starting point is 01:01:22 It's a chance you can play again. Even if you've tried to play the game before, you can ring back up. We don't. I think getting through is the toughest part of the game. Yes, that is, but you've done it twice and you're a hero. You're a beacon. You're a shining light, an inspiration to us all and you go
Starting point is 01:01:37 and have a great weekend to Michaela at the Holiday Park in Whakatane. You too, guys. Thank you. After 8 o'clock on the show, one of our favourite games, Lie a Lie. You need to help out who's telling the truth and who's telling a lie out of the statements. And producer Humphries, he's pretty excited about today's one. Don't know what that means, but we'll find out together after 8. Spy, the WhatsApp by doco.nz. She drinks 34 litres of water a day and I've never once seen her go to the toilet.
Starting point is 01:02:03 I think she might be a camel storing up hydration for a dry, hot summer. I think I might be. You drink a lot of water, Judy. I do. You're very good with it. Giant drink bottle in the studio. And when I say I've never seen her go to the toilet, I'm not like following her around waiting for her to go. I'm just amazed.
Starting point is 01:02:20 You're very observant, aren't you? Your water intake, yeah, it's impressive. So Chrissy Teigen, she's in the middle of a big bullying scandal where some old horror tweets resurfaced, and she made her public apology a couple of days ago, but there are reports now, oh dear God, that she wants Oprah to interview her like Meghan and Harry and do a big sit-down interview.
Starting point is 01:02:40 My initial thoughts are this is probably not even the right thing to be sitting down, like, it's not even a Meghan and Harry situation. Oh, nothing's a Meghan and Harry situation for you. You're a royal fiend. I know. This is like Chrissy's got no legs to stand on at all. Like, what is she going to back herself up with? How do you know she wants an Oprah interview?
Starting point is 01:02:57 Who told you? Oh, this is, you know, reports. Reports. Are these sources? The sources say she's in talks with Oprah. Whether or not that's true or not, but I'm not sure if that would be the right thing for her to do. It's probably good for her to lay low. And the Friends reunion, it's not really over.
Starting point is 01:03:10 They're milking it, just like we did. We did just like that. We got some good milk out of that Friends out, didn't we? Yeah, we did. We really did. There's only a couple of drips left. Ben was still yanking down. I was like, there's a couple more and I held my tongue out.
Starting point is 01:03:25 Oh, it's such a big thing for the world, wasn't it? It was huge. But there's another video that's been released with more unseen footage, and this is with James Corden and the cast. So on the same day as the reunion, James drove them round in kind of like a... Oh, here we go. In like a golf buggy. You know where this is going.
Starting point is 01:03:42 We know where this is going. But good on him, he was there. He was there. Yeah. It was nice. is going. We know where this is going. But good on him, he was there. He was there. They were all nice. And he did a carpool karaoke with them. I was wondering if we could listen to some music. Would that be okay? Yes.
Starting point is 01:03:53 I'll be there for you. Oh my God, he's harmonising. I'll be there for you. I'm just watching it now and they're all singing. Everyone's singing apart from Chandler. Chandler's sitting in the back looking like he wants to jump out of the golf cart and do like a commando roll out of the golf cart so he can escape it. Maybe he's singing, it's not his thing, but yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:14 It is quite awkward. You've got James in the very front, and you know in carpool karaoke, the usual sort of setting would be the celebrity would be in the passenger seat. He's got no one next to him, so he kind of looks like a taxi driver or an Uber driver, or one of those people that you see at those zoos where they drive the kids around and it's that massive... And they do the tourist thing. Yeah. To the left is the
Starting point is 01:04:34 West African llamas. It looks a bit like that, doesn't it? It's kind of awkward to watch, though, because they're not actually professional singers. And some of them vaguely remembered the words to their own theme song. But yeah. And it's from vaguely remembered the words to their own theme song. But yeah. And it's from how many years ago now? The TV show?
Starting point is 01:04:49 17. I mean, they're not singing. Oh, so many years ago. Oh, yeah, 17 when it ended or something. When it ended, yeah. They all wandered around their house singing I'll Be There For You. So the lyrics are probably a bit shaky. Totally. Gordon had it nailed.
Starting point is 01:04:59 He's always got it nailed. Yeah. He always remembers amazing lyrics. And that is the impressive thing of Carpool Carrier. Whenever you see him interview any artist he goes through like nine of their songs.
Starting point is 01:05:09 Knows every word. Yeah. Crazy. We've done a similar sort of thing in the lift here at work where we get artists in the lift
Starting point is 01:05:15 like elevator music. We haven't taken time to learn. We don't learn the lyrics and so we just awkwardly end up mumbling along to Slice of Heaven or something.
Starting point is 01:05:23 He has songs he should know. You're like, I should know this. And I'm like, I know 60% of it. I even forgot the lyrics to the da-da-da part of Slice of Heaven. And finally, our good friend, Hilary Barry. If you follow her on social media, you'll know that there's sort of a running joke about sometimes on Seven Sharp, she gets, you know, the boomers complaining about if she's holding if she's showing too much shoulder or if her cleavage is showing or if she's wearing like a low-cut top
Starting point is 01:05:49 and she just takes the absolute mickey out of them anyway so she has just signed up for tiktok and when updating her profile picture she posted a photo with a top that kind of showed off her shoulders a little bit she looks great and um she was blocked from tiktok from TikTok due to multiple community guideline violations and she posted saying, you know, oh dear, too much shoulder. Is that why I've been blocked from TikTok? Multiple community. I tell you what,
Starting point is 01:06:15 the multiple people in the community offended by this. How much shoulder is she showing in that photo? She does get that a bit on, Sip Sharma, doesn't she? Yeah, I love the way she just goes, you know, comes back at it brushes it off her shoulder
Starting point is 01:06:27 so to speak it's so good they've got a chip on their shoulder and it's to do with their shoulders why bother why does that
Starting point is 01:06:35 affect your day I wish you'd get your shoulders out a bit more Ben I can do if you want you do come over the nice shoulder top
Starting point is 01:06:42 of Monday and that is five more you can enter the hits.co.nz to the nice shoulder top of Monday, okay? And that is five more. You can enter the hits.co.nz. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie.
Starting point is 01:06:50 Yeah, nah. She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. Big weekend of sports. We've got the Trans-Tasman Super Rugby final that's happening in Eden Park Saturday night. Blues Highlanders. Do you know the last time the Blues won the Super Rugby title? Two thousand and three. Do you know the last time the blues won the super rugby title 2003
Starting point is 01:07:06 do you know how long ago that was 6379 days they have been in the trenches it's awesome to see it there and i think we just saw on the tv before about 20 odd thousand tickets 28 000 they updated it 28 000 tickets that's awesome the blues will be like oh what are these who are these what's this noise they're like it's called a crowd it's awesome why why Blues will be like, who are these? What's this noise? They're like, it's called a crowd. It's awesome, mate. Why are they cheering? Are they supporting you? We're usually used to them booing us.
Starting point is 01:07:32 No, it's great. No, hey, just stay. It's a good thing. It's awesome. Isn't it a good lesson in just ploughing on? Imagine how many Mondays over many years the Blues have had to come back from losses and be like oh back to training. Yeah that's awesome. For years. It's well deserved. Now they're in the final.
Starting point is 01:07:49 And cricket tonight as well. The Blackcaps in the World Test Championship final and I'm not allowed to talk about it. No you're not allowed to talk about cricket. I'm already shaking my head. It's on tonight. There's a lot of rain around but that's awesome that the Blackcaps are in the World Championship final for Test Match Cricket. I switched off. Do you know what he's talking about?
Starting point is 01:08:06 No. I didn't say much. I switched off too. Sorry. I didn't bang on about how crap they've been for years or anything like that. Yeah, it's because I've never watched them. No, they're well-deserved. Anyway, it's awesome.
Starting point is 01:08:15 So, great weekend of sport. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the heads.
Starting point is 01:08:25 The heads. And it's the heads. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the heads. The heads. It is the heads, Jono and Ben, Taylor Swift, Blank Space, 8.37 now. For the past week and a bit, we've been on our own little mission. Yeah, we have. We've been on a journey, thanks to Lego. It was a competition between Ben and myself. Lego sent us two of their
Starting point is 01:08:41 grand pianos, 3,662 piece grand piano, one of the most intricate Lego designs in the history of Lego. And I tell you what, after going through this madness, it would have been easier to build an actual grand piano. But what I have discovered through this journey is that I have no time for anything else in my life apart from what currently sits in it and Lego building building lego but i employed child labor the kids got involved my dad he came and stayed yeah i took advantage of the elderly yeah it's a good family activity and we've been in a bit of a competition between the two of us
Starting point is 01:09:16 to see who could build the fastest uh build the piano the fastest and today was the day that we had to bring in what we've got in the Lego competition. Producer Bee Humps has just brought in two Lego grand piano boxes. 3,662 pieces, this grand piano. We're going to be playing for an island each, the North or the South Island. Whoever finishes the grand piano first will win their island. Hundreds and hundreds of packets of Lego. It can go to a school, it can go to a worthy family of 300 people. Strap yourself in.
Starting point is 01:09:50 I did the Millennium Falcon. Now that took you longer to make than it took George Lucas to make the entire Star Wars franchise. Exactly. So yeah. It took me an hour and a half to get to the end of bag one. I won't lie, I haven't seen my family in four weeks. 3,000 pieces of Lego.
Starting point is 01:10:04 I'm not a follow-through guy. You've been very cagey on your construction. I won't lie, I haven't seen my family in four weeks. 3,000 pieces of Lego. I'm not a follow-through guy. You've been very cagey on your construction. Where are you at? But I got up to an exciting part where you plug it in and it starts playing some music. All right, I've connected the batteries. Hey. Only after your wife figured out you needed more batteries.
Starting point is 01:10:25 So I spent about 45 minutes going, why is this thing not playing music she's like it needs six batteries not three batteries so that's been our lego journey building these grand pianos each of us were playing for an island i was playing for the north island john i was playing for the south island and uh the winner of this lego challenge gets 300 packs of these new lego video sets uh which are pretty cool actually uh you can basically kids can set stages pick songs and band members design album covers and much more to bring their very own music to life with these lego packs so 300 packs to go to that island to go over the north north island or the south now you have been very secretive through this whole process about the design of yours you much like sort of team new zealand holding information about their america's cup boats uh so i don't know where you're at with it
Starting point is 01:11:09 but uh this is d-day and it's time now for us to uh both bring out our pianos see who's uh completed okay well here you go well that was underwhelming yeah yeah it's not quite it doesn't quite work for it doesn't quite work for radio, but I see. Yours looks finished. Yeah, so yours looks finished as well. So well done to you. Well played to you. Well built.
Starting point is 01:11:30 No, this is not quite how I saw it going. So where do we do? What do we do? Who wins? Well, if I connect it through my phone right now, hang on, is this going to? So you're playing, the piano also plays by the way yeah it does well mine does can i can i hear a song from yours i didn't put the bit one i didn't put me
Starting point is 01:11:56 so you well hang you didn't put the batteries in so if you weren't batteries included i mean i went and bought some batteries for this because that's part of the process of building the piano is to put the batteries in you would have seen that as part of the where they even had a demonstration about how to put the batteries in the book so i think i won but we've both no no we've both built that we've both gone through the pain of building the piano yeah but yeah this yeah, this is the only one right now. Just because mine doesn't have batteries in it, mine's still completed. I could go over to the convenience store across the...
Starting point is 01:12:30 Yeah, but you haven't. You could, but you haven't. You haven't right now. Okay, so you're saying the North Island's one. Yeah, well, it's clearly... In fact, oh, 800 the hits. No, we'll get the people to decide who's won. Well, clearly the North Island's one,
Starting point is 01:12:40 because mine's playing... Was the challenge to build the piano? Yeah, it's completed. It's completed. Who is the most completed? So? Yeah, it's completed. It's completed. Who is the most completed? So I've completed it more by putting in the batteries. Look at Jackie. Come on here.
Starting point is 01:12:51 Jackie's on from Wellington. We've got a full board here of people phoning through. You've got to vote for the North Island. Yeah, well, you've got to. You've got to vote for it. Yeah, exactly. Well, the North Island's won, right? Because I put the batteries in.
Starting point is 01:13:03 Yeah, that's it. No, that's not it. That's it. There we go. Jackie's decided. I've decided North Island's won, right? Because I put the batteries in. Yeah, that's it. No, that's not it. That's it. There we go. Jackie's decided. I've decided. Is yours playing any music? Well, no, it could if I can make it with my mouth.
Starting point is 01:13:14 But it's the most completed. So, yeah, I put batteries in. Hold on. Nicole's phone's through from Pocono. Just because I haven't put batteries in, have I lost? Yes, unfortunately, you have. Why not me? You haven't finished the instructions. You haven't put batteries in have I lost? Yes unfortunately you have you haven't finished the instructions you haven't finished it
Starting point is 01:13:28 so there you go so if you're from the North Island and you've got a maybe community group or a school that wants 300 of these awesome Lego video packs right now they're all to do with Lego and music then you can go to the hits.co.nz or our social media the hits breakfast and you can say hey want these, and I'll choose someone we'll send
Starting point is 01:13:48 out. Listen, I need to make a heartfelt apology to the South Island. You need to. I've let you down with the lack of battery purchasing. You have. Well, you knew it was. I'm surprised you've done as much as you had, to be honest. Yeah, no, so am I.
Starting point is 01:14:00 And to be honest, it was probably the kids. That's why I had kids. I knew I had kids for a reason. My kids got really like, oh, it's Jono. They really got passionate about it. How's Jono doing? We need to win. And he was like, oh, we need to win this.
Starting point is 01:14:11 I was like, it's actually not that serious, to be honest. And to be honest, Jono's probably not taking it seriously at all. We just need to win. We can't let Jono win. I'm like, well, we can. It's going to be fun. It's going to be an easy win. So that year. Well, well down North can't. It's going to be fun. It's going to be an easy win. So that year.
Starting point is 01:14:26 Ah, well, well down North Island, 300 boxes of Lego, as Ben mentioned. Head along to The Hits Breakfast on Facebook and vote for what school or community organisation you want to win the Lego. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast.
Starting point is 01:14:42 47 on your Friday morning. And it's Friday. Everyone's happy on a Friday. And thanks to our mates at Skinny, we breakfast. 47 on your Friday morning. And it's Friday. Everyone's happy on a Friday. And thanks to our mates at Skinny, we want to make someone's Friday extra happy. Happy. Yeah, thank you. That was a very cute little noise. Can we hear it again?
Starting point is 01:14:56 Happy. I just imagine just a group of little tiny little gnomes singing their song. So we got some prizes from our friends at Skinny, the people who have the happiest customers around. So if you want to give us a call right now on 0800THEHITS and tell us why you're happy on this Friday. Could be heading into the weekend. You could be doing something awesome this weekend.
Starting point is 01:15:15 Or it could be something awesome that's going to be happening today. You know, it's going to be a good day for me because I realise I'm not going to get a parking ticket today. For once I've been parked out on the P30. That's good. That's a positive. And nearly went all week without getting a parking ticket sent to work as well.
Starting point is 01:15:28 All right. Got the bus lane one though. Oh, you did, yeah. Got the bus. Now, my thing with bus lanes is when there's no buses in them, they're just lanes. Yeah, but they're allocated.
Starting point is 01:15:38 They're lanes we should all be able to use. No, that's not what happens. When there's a bus there, I'll move out of the way like an emergency vehicle. You know, but otherwise it's just a lane. You need to get a bus, and then you'll be able to drive the bus lane. It's an unused lane 90% of the time. So if you want to give us a call right now, 0800 THE HITS.
Starting point is 01:15:51 We've got a $100 pack and save voucher and also a $50 Skinny credit as well to give away. I think three happy people, happy customers of our show because Skinny has the happiest customers around. Okay, why are you happy today? 0800 THE HITS. We'll do that next. Want more Jono and Ben? Skinny has the happiest customers around. Okay, why are you happy today? Oh, 800, that's... We'll do that next. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime.
Starting point is 01:16:11 Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Three. Now, thanks to our mates at Skinny who do prepay mobile and broadband across New Zealand. And they have the happiest customers. We want to make some happy customers on the radio. Happy. Have you got the other one too that We want to make some happy customers on the radio. Happy. Have you got the other one too that we love?
Starting point is 01:16:27 Happy, happy, happy, oh. Oh, just some of the catchiest little jingles in the Telco game, Skinny. Yeah, so thanks very much to Skinny. They're great supporters of this radio show. They're our mates at Skinny and they want to pass on, you know, to make other people happy today on a Friday.
Starting point is 01:16:42 Unnecessary too. They've already made us happy by being our friends and they make me happy every time I hear their jingles. So why are people happy today on a Friday. Unnecessary too. They've already made us happy by being our friends. And they make me happy every time I hear their jingle. So why are you happy today? Maybe you just found $10 in your pocket and a pair of pants that you pulled out of the washing machine. Maybe you just turned up to work and the boss said, don't bother coming in today.
Starting point is 01:16:58 You're fired. Oh, that's not going to make you happy. But you're going to get Friday off though. Yeah, true. You'll have quite a long break, I guess. Let's get Kerry on. Welcome to the Hits, Morena. Why are you happy today, Kerry?
Starting point is 01:17:10 We've got some prizes for you, thanks to Skinny. I'm happy because it's Friday and the sun is shining here in Auckland, and I'm going to celebrate a special 10-year-old birthday in Waiheke this weekend. Oh, listen to you. That sounded like you had rehearsed that and were holding a gun to your head. I am happy. That's a really good reason to be happy.
Starting point is 01:17:31 It does sound like plenty of good reasons to be happy. We're going to give you another reason. Thanks, our mates at Skinny. We're going to give you a $100 Pack and Save voucher as well as a $50 Skinny credit. Yay! Thank you so much. Happy, happy.
Starting point is 01:17:43 Beautiful. You happy, Kerry? I'm so happy you've made my Friday. Thank you. Forced her to say that, didn't you? Yeah, I did. Yeah, maybe she wasn't actually that happy, but I can feel her happiness seeping through.
Starting point is 01:17:54 I'm really, really happy. No, she's not. I'm still here. I'm happy. Yeah, we appreciate you listening to the show. How many times can I say I'm happy? Jay, Geron, welcome. Why are you having a happy day?
Starting point is 01:18:03 We've got $100 PNC, pack and save voucher, and $50 credit too for Skinny. Why are you happy, mate? It's my son's fifth birthday. Oh. Yeah, so big one. What's the plan for it? Big birthday tomorrow. Big birthday tomorrow.
Starting point is 01:18:19 How many guests? How many guests? Maybe 70. Oh, wow. 70. Yeah. Wow. How many guests? Maybe 70. Oh, 70. Wow, we're going to give you this $100 pack and save voucher as well as a $50 skinny credit. Hopefully that can help you out for the party tomorrow.
Starting point is 01:18:33 Oh, definitely, yeah. He's five years old. Thank you. He knows 70 people. He couldn't name all the 70 people. I've never known 70 people in my entire life. The family. Awesome, have a great weekend. Thank family. Hey, good on you.
Starting point is 01:18:45 Awesome. Have a great weekend. There you go. Thank you. Gee, that's a wild fifth birthday. Sarah, you're on from the capital. Why are you happy today? I'm happy today because last night I got a full night's sleep,
Starting point is 01:18:56 and the night before my son was sick, and he was in my bed all night, and I got no sleep. So I just woke up after realizing I'd had eight hours. Full night's sleep. Nothing better as a parent than getting a full night's sleep got no sleep. I just woke up after realising I'd had eight hours. Full night's sleep. Nothing better as a parent than getting a full night's sleep. I always thought we should have little sedatives for children. Kid-friendly ones.
Starting point is 01:19:14 No, no, alright, I'm shutting him down. A $100 packet safe voucher coming your way and a $50 skinny credit as well. That's amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you guys for listening to the programme. It's been a fun week Talking nonsense on the radio Really do appreciate you listening
Starting point is 01:19:28 We're back Monday, we've got 5 words, $5,000, $7.45 And on Monday we've just realised something to do with the hits It's a big week next week And I think we need to celebrate In a very unusual way We're going to take things back old school next week We'll tell you more on Monday. Have a great week. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from six on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app.
Starting point is 01:19:50 Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny. Happy, happy, happy, oh. Oh.

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