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, 2021Jono 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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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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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,
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?
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?
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.
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.
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,
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
family, Vanessa
Carlson, A
Thousand Miles.
I mean, that's a
Oh, with the
piano bit.
That's a heck of
a jam.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
Yeah
You probably need to
Build up to WAP
I think
You know
It's like
Here's where music started
It slowly morphed
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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,
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,
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Made to talk words and stuff into a microphone.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The movie Luca is out today on Disney+.
Check it out with the family.
It is the hits.
You've got John on, Ben.
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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
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?
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,
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.
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,
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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,
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
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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...
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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Gee, that's a wild fifth birthday.
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