Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What's Ben Nervous About Today? Too Many People On A Zoom Meeting...

Episode Date: August 22, 2021

Kia ora whānau! On today's show, we delved into the one thing that Ben is nervous about today. There are many things. Ohhhhh so many things that our Ben Boyce is nervous about today. But we made him choose just one. And it was when there are too many people on Zoom, to the point where it stresses him out and he leaves the meeting! Is this justifiable!? We also caught up with Anna Grimaldi, a Paralympian in long jump, who won Gold last Olympics. The Paralympics begin tomorrow in Tokyo and she's competing again, HOPEFULLY SHE BRINGS ANOTHER GOLD HOME! We also caught up with Viv from "Girls Get Off"... Finally... after Ben's embarrassing moment in a group chat. Enjoy the poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Juliette's just removing her headphones from the microphone. Yeah. And now, because I assume Juliette's position after the show, because Juliette does a whole bunch of work, great work after the programme. I'm making it sound like I don't know what you do after the show. Yeah, you do, don't you? Are you asking what I do after the show?

Yeah, what do you do after the show? I write the intro for the podcast. Oh, yeah. So the little blurb that you read. So how long would you say that would take you? Maybe five minutes. Is this a performance review? Yeah, I'm just going to see how you fill out your morning. And then I send our

run sheet out to the people of the hits now that Max has left. Right, so how long would you say that would take you? Maybe five minutes. Awesome, so if I'm 10 minutes after the show you've done both of those things. And then I also eat breakfast after the show and then I do some social media. Yeah, right.

So what are you wanting to know the timings of Julie's boss? No, I was just trying to be like a boss. And where will you see yourself in five years? Probably still on the show. Oh, that's good, because that's hopefully where we get to keep you. Yeah, just don't take a deep breath before you say that next time. Yeah, probably still on the show. It's been actually, in all honesty,

I know there's a lot of Things to be negative about In the world at the moment But it's quite fun Just coming here And doing the radio programme Isn't it With just us in the building

Yeah It's quite enjoyable We do We're very lucky That we're able to Escape our households Aren't we We are

You know Yeah no You do forget about people That get You know I forget about my own family who can't even move

you know and I sort of come home and you're like oh no you poor buggers are actually can't move

you really do enjoy that especially over the weekend that one time where you're like we're all going for a walk

you know that's a cool that's actually something to look forward to getting out of the house and walking

around the neighbourhood I had to film a movie over the weekend with my children they wanted to release a movie

the kids they are just like, oh, we'll film it and we'll get it out today. I'm like, mate. It's a lot that goes into it, right? Yeah. Have you met

Steven Spielberg? I did months to film his movie. So I played you guys the movie. It was shoddy camera work. The editing was questionable. It was my editing debut

as well. Oh, hey, it was a lot of fun though. A little charm to it. Yeah, no, a bit of backyard charm. It's the number one movie in cinemas this week in New Zealand, that one, only because no other movies are actually in cinemas.

I should put a movie poster up outside. Yeah, no, but it's fun, the activities you get to do with the family, isn't it? Yeah, it is. And the days seem, I'm not saying it's in a bad way, but it just seems so long. Yeah, we had a games night and we paired off, drew out of a hat, and then you had to wear costumes for the games night, like team uniforms and stuff. It was fun. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it was a fun little thing. What games were you playing? So we just played board games and bits and pieces, and I had a table tennis thing going on the table and stuff, so it was fun. It was fun. Board games are fun, but there is a point where people lose interest. We were playing Cluedo the other night. Oh, I like Cluedo.

Yeah. I do, yeah. But we just faded out. Oh, you faded out? The Pry household faded out. I can imagine you're not so good at it. I lose interest very quickly. You know me.

I move on to the other thing. But it's actually the family time is certainly one of the joys about lockdown, isn't it? Yeah, it is. It is. We reflect a lot on lockdown today on the show, and as well as at the Paralympics start tomorrow, which we're very excited about. It's going to be awesome to watch.

And we talked to someone who won golf in New Zealand at the last Olympics. She was a wonderful lady. Enjoy the podcast anyway. Have a great day. Stay safe. Be kind. Spread your legs. Scrolling through your feed. See, Benny's got some new merch. Oh, yeah. I did see that, actually. I know Scrolling through your feed. See Benny's got some new merch. Oh yeah, I did see that actually. I know you're always harassing, every time

we talk to Benny, he's always harassing her about her merch. Oh, we got the merch, I've settled down on that because we went to the concert so the kids got their t-shirts. Oh yeah. Every time she came in I was like, I don't think merch is her department. Yeah, because I keep going online and to a thing it was always like, new merch coming soon, it's sold out. And I was like, well when?

So then I thought I'd ask Benny. She's like, Benny, when's your merch available? She's like, ah, well. She's like, well, there's some of the record company kind of deals with that. Yeah, but now she's got a newer new merch. Yeah, but you were demanding answers from Benny. I did. Tough questions.

Me and Hoskin, we ask tough questions. She never gave you those answers, did she? No, she backed out. Why are you avoiding the questions, Benny? When is your t-shirt range coming out? No, she got it out. No, wonderful T-shirts. All right.

This is just like a 1 p.m. press conference with far less people tuning in. Ben Boyce, what's been happening in scrolling? So it is day six, level four lockdown right around New Zealand at the moment. 72 reported cases so far in the community. And one of the things that everyone's talking about today was, what was his nickname? Hippo Beret Is that what it is? The Hippo

We used to call Chris Hipkins the Hippo And I threw it I tried to segue into it in an interview once He was less than enamoured with the Hippo Yeah, the Hippo doesn't sound very flattering He felt it was a slight on his body frame And it wasn't meant to be, right? No

No, we wouldn't fat shame anyone No Ben only hair shames me That's the only shame that goes on on this show Apart from the shame of being on this show John and Ben but There's a lot of shame associated with this programme. But you know then we spoke

to him last week, the Hippo and we pitched him some new ones and Hip Hip Hooray he quite liked. Yes he quite liked that. So maybe he had that in his mind. Maybe he was thinking about other things when yesterday he was at the press conference and Chris Hipkins said this Look it is a challenge in higher density areas for people to get outside and to spread their legs when they are

surrounded by other people. Spread their legs? You can tell as he sort of says spread your legs, you sort of went you know in your head when you're like, did I say that correctly? Did I say something weird then? And then Ashley Bloomfield even gave him the eye. Bloomfield was loving it. The eyes up sort of thing and a little smirk. He's like, oh, yeah. So that probably went.

You'll hear about this on the internet. Hip hip hooray. And poor hip hip hooray was like, oh, hang on. I've done something slightly wrong. But, you know, get out there, spread your legs. Well, it depends. If you want to get out there and spread your legs, spread your legs. Who are we to stop you?

Well, as long as it's done within, you know, like there is obviously. Maybe not level four or level three. Yeah. You know? You've got to do it within your bubble, don't you? Yeah. Can you do it within your bubble? Yeah.

You can spread your legs in your bubble. Well, now I've said spread your legs so much, I don't even know what the proper phrasing was he was trying to say. What was he? Stretch your legs. Yeah, stretch your legs. I can see how he got in there whole. Oh, jeez.

It was as if we couldn't make it any worse. I think we should wrap it up there. Yeah, let's wrap it up there. Yeah, let's wrap it up there. And that is scrolling through. It's only going to go down from here. It is John. That's what he said.

What's the raise of the plug submitting? I'm nervous. I'll tell you what. Now I take photos of the handbrake on in my car. Don't even get me started on whether I left the iron on or not. I turn my phone off at night. I just don't know what it's doing. It makes me nervous.

Yeah, but what if we run out of hand sanitizer? I'm nervous. So nervous. He's the most nervous man on radio. My friend Ben Boyce He's more nervous than a person waiting for test results From a location of interest But he's permanently

How are you during this period in all honesty I try not to let things get away on me The bigger thing Because sometimes you can watch too much news And it can be quite concerning Ben even when there were No threats of any COVID He was opening door handles with his hand inside a t-shirt so his hand wouldn't have to touch the handle it got to the point where i just opened the doors for him

just stand back and relax stand back try to open my door for me uh but something is making me nervous at the moment i don't know if you guys feel the same is uh you know because obviously we've gone we've slipped back into zooms and you know like having a lot of zoom meetings and stuff which i understand we've got to do for work and stuff but then we have zoom catch-ups and we had one on friday night for millennial max which is which's lovely but there was too many there's too many people like too many people on a zoom catch-up there was like 30 odd people it just makes me nervous because it's just an it can be a little bit of an awkward now can i can i wasn't actually going to bring this up on the show, but you turned up late to Max's farewell.

Yeah, because I wanted to be there for Max. It's lovely to see everyone, but I find you, I love a social function in person. He turned up 45 minutes late and he was there for under two minutes and then he just disappeared from the screen. Everyone said, hi, Benny Wave. And then he sat there awkwardly. It's hard for banter.

It's hard for banter. Like, I tried to chat with him. Oh, Laura, what are you cooking? But it's hard to have a conversation. You can't really sort of break away and have a conversation. So you feel like your conversation's for the whole group. And you just sit there all just smiling. Jono, you didn't say it.

You were just smiling. You were smiling at the camera. I just ended up smiling. Everyone just smiles at the camera. I just loved your abrupt departure. No goodbye. It was a three-step process. I went, I muted myself.

And then I was like, oh, I muted. That's good. And then I was like, oh, turn the screen off just for a second while I sort something out. And so my name popped out. And then I'm like, oh, good. I sorted it out somewhere with one of my daughters. And I was like, oh, I could just adjust. It with one of my daughters And I was like, I could just adjust It's probably easier, it's easier just to end it

You're so anti-sonal But it's just hard, you've got one in one Maybe four or five people at most It's great, let's catch up all of us Over Zoom, that's fine, but too many people Just overwhelms me Any meeting that involves more than three people We are not developed as a human species

To handle a 20-plus Zoom call. It's too much. It's too much for me. Everyone just talks over each other. Oh, my God. Sorry. I'll just record this. Oh, my God.

I'll just record this. Here we go. Is this audio you recorded from? This is it. It's just people either all talking at once or not talking. And when they're not talking it just feels like such a long time juliet the greatest the greatest that she like you you tapped what did you do beautifully so at eight o'clock so the zoom started here we go was this a legitimate

it actually was it actually was i had a family zoom meeting scheduled at eight o'clock so i was like sweet i'll come to max's farewell zoom seven o'clock then eight o'clock i'll tap out and so i said goodbye to everyone i've got to go to a family zoom now i was like yeah because we're all there and it was lovely to see everyone it was lovely but after what i was like oh this is i just don't know i don't know anyway uh you got onto the zoom and then you spent the whole time thinking how can i escape i sort of was like you know because i was i won't burden my family with this because they were enjoying stuff in the lounge i'm having a fun time so i was like i'll go down to the room and just sort of chat to them. It was great.

And then Juliette was like, oh, guys, I've got a family Zoom. Family Zoom. Is that the best excuse for leaving a group Zoom? I wish I had that excuse. Well done. Thank you. You're welcome. It was great.

It was great. Everyone went, oh, great. Enjoy your family Zoom. And off you went. Have you got a better excuse for leaving a group Zoom? 4487 or even house party, any of those sort of apps? Oh, yeah, because I did it last time in lockdown with a whole lot of us. And I was like, all right, I've been there for 45 minutes.

I was like, all right, I'd better go. And they were like, where? Where are you going? I didn't want a follow-on question. But what do you have to do? And I was like, oh, yeah. And I didn't have an answer for that. Family Zoom.

No one's ever going to question. Have you got anything better than a family Zoom? Family Zoom's really good. 4487, you know, someone said to me the other day about partying. As a teenager, you sneak out of your house to go to a party, but as an adult, you try and sneak out of a party to go back to your house. And it sums it up, doesn't it? Well, that's what's making Ben nervous today.

Group Zoom meetings. Too many. Too many. Any more than four. It's overwhelming. It is the hits you got, Jono and Ben. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime.

Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Paralympics kick off tomorrow night, Tokyo. And Japan's going to be amazing. New Zealand's got a pretty strong team heading over to Japan this year. And a previous gold medal winner in Rio joins us on the phone right now. Her name, Anna Grimaldi, long jumper. Hello. Hello.

How are you doing? We have been getting into a deep hole of research about you, mate. Oh, no. Hopefully you didn't dig too deep. No, it's not too deep. You name one thing about Anna Grimaldi and we'll tell you about it. You no, hopefully you don't dig 2D. No, not 2D. You name one thing about Anna Grimaldi and we'll tell you about it.

You ask us to name something. Well actually, I'm going to ask you. Where did you grow up? Dunedin? What are you studying? We know that too at the Otago Polytechnic.

Quantity surveying, right? Did you used to run 200 metres and you got a sore foot so then you focused more on the long jump? Sure, you've gone deep.

But maybe we don't need to do this interview, Arthur. No, no, we really do. You guys just told them. Whereabouts in the world are you now? Have you headed to Tokyo? Are you still back home? No, I'm in Dunedin. Yeah, we're just waiting to go to Tokyo. I meant to fly out on Tuesday, so hopefully that still all goes to plan. But yeah, we're not sure.

We're just sort of waiting to hear confirmation and stuff on flying out, but it looks like it'll still be all good to go. We're just sort of waiting to hear confirmation and stuff on flying out. But it looks like it'll still be all good to go. We're just going to get to Tokyo. And so we can't long jump over there. Are you excited about the Olympics? Because, of course, Rio last time, we were just watching that before chatting to you. What an awesome moment.

You're winning gold in the long jump. I think we've got a bit of audio here for it to play to the listeners. We'll wait for this with some excitement for young anna grimaldi 562 and she's in gold medal position can you believe it she can't and grimaldi has won it for new zealand what a result such a great moment you could see the emotion on your face you jumped what 21 centimeters more than you ever had in your life yeah i know it was pretty like i think i'd been jumping quite well in training before going over there, but it was still bigger than I thought

I would be capable of. So I was super happy and just, I mean, I didn't expect to be winning the gold. I was definitely not the most qualified in the field. So it was pretty awesome to, it still doesn't really seem real. Even listening to that audio, I'm still like, what the heck, that was me. Yeah, 21 centimetres past your personal best. They would have been wheeling you straight into the drug testing room afterwards.

They actually did. Right in there. Like, 21, mate. Exactly. Does that put more pressure on you now, or do you kind of feel like it takes off the pressure? Because, hey, you've won a gold. I mean, that's amazing.

Oh, yeah. I think it probably does a bit of both. I think it's like obviously when I get there they'll be like she won last time so you know look out but I think we've done everything we can there's been a lot that's happened since Rio I broke my foot and had a few years that I couldn't jump and so I feel like it's kind of like a clean slate and it is just what happens on the day. So we'll see how it goes. Now, what I found quite fascinating was that you were obviously born without a right hand, but you have been training with a prosthetic hand

since Rio, and you're saying it's really good in the article I was reading for your balance. Yes, definitely. So we explored getting a better gym arm. So we got one 3D printed here in New Zealand that got designed by engineers, and that's been awesome. But at the same time, we thought, oh, we should try and look for something to run with. So that's been sort of a development

in the last five years as well, that we've added a prosthetic, and it's definitely helping. I definitely feel more balanced, which is cool, because obviously I'm not very balanced missing one hand. Yeah. So you wouldn't have thought missing a hand would affect your balance? No.

Well, I didn't really think it would either. But then when I first started giving long jump a go, I'd land like sideways in the pit and I was like, oh, this definitely is affecting the balance. Oh, because you'd probably end up favouring the side that you do have a hand. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I'd end up rotating and flying around and yeah. What's the rules, you know, for the Paralympics? Are you allowed to have the prosth a hand? Yeah, yeah, definitely. I'd end up rotating and flying around and yeah. What's the rules for the Paralympics?

Are you allowed to have the prosthetic hand? Yes, yes, yep, you are, definitely. I think, like you'll see in my event, there's lots of people that do have two full arms and it's just I think there's just such a wide variety and I think they want everyone to

have the best chance possible. It's better on my body to have two, like to have a prosthetic so you've seen me wearing it over there so I hope it's allowed. I hope to. It'll be like drug test and something else we need to talk to you about. Listen, what an absolute honour to represent the country. I know. So lucky.

And finally on my fact checking, it said in the article I was reading that you're jumping for joy in Tokyo. Who's joy? Why does she mean so much for you? I don't know a joy, but if you are joy, I'm jumping for you. She must mean a lot to you. Just remember that when you're over there. You're doing it for joy, all right? I'm doing it for joy.

And you're doing it for us, too. Yeah, definitely. Hey, Anna, well done on all your success you've had already, and good luck. Good luck. We'll be keeping a close eye. Thank you. A very close eye. We've gone very deep into your biography.

Yeah. A little weirdly too deep. Anyway, lovely to talk to you and all the best for Tokyo. Thank you. There's Anna Grimaldi. She's a long jumper heading off to Tokyo for the Paralympics. It is the hits. You got John Owen Ben.

Here we go. It's AJR. Bang. It is the hits. owen ben 7 31 on your monday morning uh course of masks it's interesting over the weekend you know going out for a walk when you're allowed to go for your walk seeing a lot of people wearing masks which is good it's good to see right a lot of people don't too dear is it mandatory i think if it's i think it's mandatory if you're going what definitely is now if you're going somewhere like a service station or a supermarket or things like that and i think it's encouraged like you're going, or it definitely is now if you're going somewhere like a service station or a supermarket or things like that.

But out and about. It's encouraged. If you can, you should, unless, I guess, people are running and they're finding it difficult. But I feel like it's a good idea that we should all be doing. But there was a couple of weeks ago where we weren't doing it. There was no Delta in New Zealand, and it felt a little unusual wearing a mask if no one else was wearing a mask.

Oh, because you get mask shames. You do. Not anyone shames you, actually. You're just in your head. You feel like people would judge you. Remember I had my last lockdown, I had my glove period, and I would come in with surgical gloves. Oh, yeah.

And that's like when I first met you, and I was like, who is this person? And I would come in with surgical gloves, and I was... Well, I think we all tried to join you for a little bit, and then we were like, oh, okay. We'll give it a go. Safety in numbers. Because those things feel like safety in numbers situations.

You know, when everyone's wearing a mask on a plane, it's like, great, we're all doing it. But if you're the one person and everyone, you know, not now, obviously, but a few weeks ago, you kind of like, you felt a bit awkward. Yeah, it's like a group dance, isn't it? It's like a group dance in a nightclub. Yeah. You never want to come out on your own, but you're all right in numbers. Well, that's what I thought. I was running right now, and you tell me if this is just as awkward,

if there are things you could do, like, if it's more awkward as an individual rather than a group. So dancing, so again, fine as a group, right? But if you get into a dance circle and you're by yourself, I'm like, forget about it. Well, it depends if you're, like, you know, dancing with Jason Derulo. She's going to be fine. Beeb will probably pull off a good solo dance.

I'm going to say another one. Replying all to a work email. Like, fine if you individually reply, but if you reply all to a group, that's another situation you're like, that's awkward, right? Can you suck back the email in a mad panic? No, but like an office email you reply all to, you're like, why did I reply all to? So that's another awkward situation.

Ben does like a reply all to Boss Todd in a todd in a greasy form keep it up todd you're doing walking into a social function a busy bar you know by yourself is so much more awkward than as a group better as a group yeah it's funny that it is it'd be just like that first initial sort of walking in there so that's another one uh starting a chant at the rugby again could have a lot of confidence in your chanting So that's another one. Starting a chant at the rugby again. You've got to have a lot of confidence in your chanting ability, don't you? As a group, it's fine. But if you're the person up there, you're like, no one goes with you.

Oh, Matt, also a Mexican wave. You've got to have a team in the front all encouraging the rest of them. Someone go, turn. Go on, yeah. You need a good conductor. My favourite part of the Mexican wave is when all the enthusiasm for the wave is sort of wavering, to use the term. And some people are still standing.

It's about the third or fourth lap that everyone's just like. You're half still into it. It's like you're just peeing yourself around the stadium. I've done it a couple of times now. Lap six is dead. In a work meeting when your boss singles you out and says, what did you think? And you weren't really paying attention again as an individual.

You know, as a group, that's fine. If he's like, what do we all think? Oh, we're all into it. Yeah, but what do you think? And another awkward situation by yourself when you're posing for a photo and someone stops because you're posing for something and they're waiting for you to finish that photo. For some reason, that feels really awkward because they're waiting

and you're like, just take the photo, just take the photo, you know, to the person taking the photo. That's an awkward situation. But fine if you're finish that photo. For some reason, that feels really awkward because they're waiting and you're like, just take the photo, just take the photo, you know, to the person taking the photo. That's an awkward situation. But fine if you're in a group for some reason. Yeah. How many solo photos are you getting taken of yourself? A lot of me pointing at places. Why do you keep putting yourself in this position?

I shouldn't. Learn from your mistakes. I shouldn't. Anyway, get out there, wear the mask. It's easier as a group. If we all start to fade on the masks, then just take yours off. It's just better for your street cred not to spread Delta. No, no.

That's not the way. That's my message. On behalf of the New Zealand government. No. Save your cred. It's good. I'm saying it's good now. We're doing it as a group.

Yeah, I know. Level three to two, though. We're all going to get a little judgy. Well, let's commit to it, people. Let's do it. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. Jono, New Zealand, welcome along to the show.

Monday morning, Jono and Ben back with you on The Hits. Car battery. The car wouldn't start this morning. It was just great. You have what? You just haven't driven it for... Three days. Three days.

I think you might need a new battery. Yeah, I left something on on Friday. Because I obviously haven't used the car over the weekend. So I went to use that this morning. That's a fun start to the day. And then I managed to somehow spill coffee on myself. I cooked myself a little takeaway coffee from home. And I managed to spill that in the darkness as well.

What was it with you and Monday? First dog poo last week or the week before. It was last week, wasn't it? Any double showers? Oh, you stood in the cat vomit. Mondays are new, they just don't go hand in hand. I'd like to no longer work Mondays, but anyway, we're here today. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast.

So what is this, day seven of lockdown? Day six? Day six. Jeez, the day's dragged, aren't they, when you're in lockdown? I know. Today, though, we're going to get the announcement. What's going to happen? Is it going to be extended or not? We'll find out this afternoon, four o'clock.

Going hard and ooley. Go hard, go ooley. Go hard and ooley. Hard and ooley. Go hard. With Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Of course, it's day six, as we said before, of lockdown.

We find out this afternoon at four o'clock, the big announcement, whether a lockdown will be extended or not. Or whether they'll break off the country into the old North Island, South Island battle or something like that. Yeah, I'm going to make the call again. I reckon we're out of lockdown this afternoon, guys. Oh, it's up to going early, are they?

Yeah, going early. I made the call on Friday. Turns out that wasn't the result I was after. No, but yeah, you've just just gonna keep saying it like those people on tiktok right and eventually you'll be right ever the optimist oh yeah hey you'll be proud of me jude i was a filmed a movie over the weekend did you yeah i did the kids wanted to make a movie and they're like well you need to film it and edit it i had to edit it as well. Oh, really? How did you edit it? Mate, it's a cinematic masterpiece. I edited it on iMovie.

Oh, nice. Rocky. No, I'm just kidding. It took me two days. Two days. It was a day shoot, and then I had to film and edit overnight. And it was a wonderful tale of a little girl, Poppy. She wanted to become a basketball superstar,

but she didn't quite have the skills that were required. Yeah. And, you know, it's a rags to riches story. Oh, she get the skills or no? Spoiler alert. Well, no, she went to her grumpy neighbour. I was the grumpy neighbour and she knocked on the door. She's like, will you help me?

I'm like, no. She's like, please, no, please, no, please. So you were kind of like in Karate Kid, like the Mr. Miyagi sort of, you know. I retired. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was my role. So were you a legendary basketball somebody? Were you?

I was the basketball legend who conveniently lived next door to me. Oh, that's nice, yeah. Wait, don't I look like I could be a basketball legend? No, not particularly, but that's all right. I mean, you're a cast within your bubble, so I guess you got the role. So, yeah, basically the training, it wasn't even a montage, it was like the consistency

of training was she took a shot, got it in, I'm like, oh you're done. That's it. That's all I know. You're good to go. I'm going to go back to drinking beer. I'm retired. So yeah, I had to edit that up and boy, I tell you what, that was a tense situation, Jew.

Oh, I'm glad. I'm glad you got through it. It won't be a cinema release, I understand, at the moment, though, because no cinemas are open. Yeah, it's going to go straight to Disney+. Just in negotiations with Mickey. Just make sure you get your back end all sorted out as far as the negotiation deals go with, you know,

Well, yeah, Scarlett told me, they're stitching people up at the moment. No, I don't know if that's the case. Before 7 o'clock, we want to gauge the mood of the nation. Our lines are always open here at The Hits on 0800THEHITS. But also this morning, I'm very excited about this. Thanks to the campus warehouse. 8 o'clock, we're going to reward an ISO legend,

someone who's doing great work in the community. There's so many people doing selfless stuff that not just are making basketball movies with their kids, they're actually doing some... I mean, you're doing great stuff. Is anyone else in this country making movies at the moment? No. The Avatar's pulled out?

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for them to spend on something special whether you're trying to give a movie industry the shot in the arm it needs or you're out there actually helping people we'll take all it is the hits it is the hits uh john or ben on your mond 6.15. Now, it was pretty much a week ago today. Well, maybe less than six days. Let's say six days ago. He's getting caught up in detail. Don't worry.

Just mow through it. Actually, it's been more like five and a half days. Jacinda Ardern, our Prime Minister, announced that we were going hard and we were going early. Going hard and early. Go hard and early. Go hard, go early. Hard and early were going early. Going hard and early. Go hard and early. Go hard, go early. Hard and early. Go hard.

Yeah, so we thought we'd take some inspiration from the Prime Minister and do a little hard and early quiz. It's our game show, Hard and Early. This is the hardest and the earliest of all the quiz shows in the market. You know, it's the type of questions that Stephen Fry would ask on that program, QI. Yeah. That lady who looks like a school principal off the chase should know the answers

to these questions. That's right. So we want to ask one question. We want to make it hard and we want to make it early. Well, it's already early because it's 6 o'clock on a Monday morning. Tick that box. Now you need to make it hard.

This is a tough question. Yeah, so owe 100 the hits if you know the answer to it. Or just give it a crack. You can go hard and you can go early with your answer as well. We've got some Hell Pizza up for grabs. So when we do reach level three, you'll be able to get some takeaways. The first takeaways you can get will be Hell Pizza. Now this question actually came to, I was doing a house party with some friends the other day.

And then someone went, hey, to actually Chris Mack, friend of the show. He was like, ask a question. What's the quiz question? He got put on the spot and he asked this question and he had this for us. This was his question. Which US president in 1992 was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame?

So US president in 92 was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Are you talking like WWE wrestling? Well, basically inducted into the whole wrestling, yeah, Hall of Fame. So yeah, so it was a US President in the 90s I have an idea But I won't say What my answer is

Because it's not for me to play hard and early I'm already hard and early So I felt, yeah, I thought this was quite good But you get put on the spot with a quiz question I'd crumble, but this was Chris Mack's question So I thought I'd do this Oh, 800 the hits if you know the answer To this morning's hard and early quiz

Which US President was inducted into the WWE Wrestling Hall of Fame? Well, yeah, it might have been the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. It might have been different wrestling back in the day when he was doing it. There's a clue. Oh, so he used to wrestle this person. He used to wrestle. Yeah. Oh, okay, okay.

Yeah, there's a bit of a clue for you. Okay, well, let's go to Emily in Taranaki. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast this morning, Emily. How are you? I'm good, thanks. How are you? Alright, who was inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1992? It was Lincoln. It was? Abraham Lincoln. Yeah, so get this.

He was known for his wrestling skills and he fought for basically a dozen years, had one loss. So he basically when he was in Illinois, he learned to be a lawyer. He took part in the local activity of wrestling. All the men in the town participated, so he felt he should too.

He was kind of smaller than some of the other men, but he fought over, oh sorry, seven years and won 299 out of 300 matches. He wrestled 300 times. Prolific wrestler. And was the president at the same time. I don't know if he was.

No, this was on his way up. So he even beat the local bully, Jack Armstrong. Eventually he became president, and then he got inducted into the Hall of Fame in the 90s. What a life. Yeah, how's that? He did some stuff, Emily. That's crazy.

How did you know that, Emily? How did you know that answer? Google. Oh, well done. It's our Achilles heel, that Google, isn't it? That's why the chase, they don't let them have devices on the chase. Okay, from this day forward, hard and early, we will require no Googling and just pure honesty.

Okay? Well, Emily, we've got some hell pizza coming your way as soon as Level 3s are back up and running. You can get some pizza for takeaways. Sounds good. Thanks, guys. Yeah, keep safe in New Plymouth. How's lockdown treating you, Em? It's good. We're on a farm.

We're isolated. We're good. All right. You go milk some cows. We'll do some stuff, all right? Absolutely. Look after yourself. You too. Next, the mood of the nation. Now the lines are open.

We want to know how you guys are feeling. It's a Monday morning. We're hanging out with you. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. You too. Gauge the mood of the nation. So give us a call right now, 0800 THE HITS or 4487. We just want to find out how you're doing. Maybe today we should find out what your predictions are. Oh, for the 4 p.m. press conference. I love hearing everyone's theories all day. Every time I talk to anyone over social media over the weekend or I'll text them, it's like, oh, everyone's like, oh, I think it's going to be a thing.

Everyone's got a theory. But everyone says it with confidence as well. I mean, really, the only two people who know are Ashley and Jacinda. Yeah, they'll be like, two weeks and they'll be like, how do you know all this? Who's telling you this? What's your general mood after the weekend, Ju? Oh, in terms of what I think we'll be doing?

Just your mood in general. The mood of the nation. Super ZNA. I was just doing... Super ZNA. I went for walks. I was just doing... Super Z and I. I went for walks. I did my washing. I did some cleaning.

I did some baking. Oh, my goodness. It was so relaxing. It sounds like a normal weekend for you, though. Yeah, it does. True. It sounds like no different to any other weekend. I even did some painting.

Did you? Oh, my God, yeah. I wanted to paint by numbers, where if you're horrible at art or painting like me, it basically is like an image image and it's got different colours and different numbers with those colours. So you know where to paint this colour and where to paint this one. And it will end up looking like Mount Fuji, Japan.

Oh wow. So it's like painting for toddlers with the numbered system. Yes. Basically. I've been kind of feeling a little bit like, and it sounds weird saying it, but as far as the food situation goes, it's kind of like camping at the moment. Do you find it's a little bit like that?

You kind of almost ration your food out. You're like, don't use those eggs. I'm saved for something. The kids are like, what? You almost feel like you've allocated meals you're trying to do to get you through to a certain time before you shop again. We've frozen a loaf of bread and I remove a single piece of bread from the freezer when they want to, who wants one piece of bread?

I know, that's kind of what it is. You're kind of rationing out your food at the moment just to keep things going. I wish I was doing that, but I feel three kgs heavier after the weekend. I annihilated three bowls of onion dip in about a 90-minute period. I regret it.

All the onion dip's gone now. I was like, oh, get it out of the way early. Boom. All right, so 0800, that's Mood of the Nation. Let's get it right now. You was like, I'll get it out of the way early. Boom. Alright, so 0800 the hits. Mood of the Nation. Let's get it right now. You can text 24487. What's your predictions? What's going to happen today? What's going to be the announcement? Are we staying in the same levels?

Are we going to change within islands? We'd love to hear from you next. It is the hits. Tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe. And that's all I have to say. Thanks, Dr Ashley. John and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. You want to gauge the mood And that's all I have to say Thanks Dr Ashley How are you feeling today? It is day six We're waking up to day six of lockdown

What's going to happen this afternoon in the big announcement? Do you reckon the guy you write while you're always in the mood Gets a notification going Oh you've got a royalty coming in Oh no, no, they've just played six words in your song. Not enough. Not enough. Sorry, that won't fly.

Interesting, watching Seven Sharp on Friday night, Hilary Barry had to go home from TVNZ because she was emceeing a function that had some, I think one of the bar staff or something had come up. So basically she was a close contact. So she had to go home. Jeremy Wells was just presenting Seven Sharp by himself. But there's so many locations of interest at the moment there's like hundreds it's a wonderful what wonderful play to get two weeks off work though i've been

at a location of interest so if you've been at a location of interest obviously you're asked to go get a test within the time limit they're saying within the time limit because you know like you could have gone there a day earlier or a couple days later they're trying to say within the time limit yeah we're overrun with the um so couple of days later. They're trying to say within the time limit. Yeah, right. Because obviously we were overrun with the... So regardless of your test result, are you still required to stay at home for two weeks?

I think that's what producer Behumps was saying before. Oh, I thought, yeah, that's what he was saying. Is that the truth, Behumps? Yeah, that's what he was saying. Okay, we'll throw him under the bus. Yeah, 14 days, you've got to lock yourself in. That's what he was saying, so anyway. And so when you have to isolate,

do you have to shut yourself in a bedroom away from everyone else in the household? I don't know. I don't know how that works. It's starting to sound very appealing. Let's get the mood of the nation. Chris, you're on from Kati Kati. Welcome.

Yeah, how you going, mate? How's the mood, Chris? Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but if they go from level four to three any time before September, I would be amazed. September? What are we? This is cool. we okay another week away yeah okay well and uh the mumble we're getting from some of the suppliers is it could be three months before we're back to level one oh no this is the street talking cutty cutty three months

let's knock on the door of christmas wow it literally could if it pops up anywhere else yeah i'll keep extending it yes that's the worry isn't it yeah what do you do chris you're obviously on the door of Christmas. Well, it literally could. If it pops up anywhere else, they'll keep extending it. I guess that's the worry, isn't it? And what do you do, Chris? You're obviously an essential worker. Yeah, I do the old foodstuffs to the supermarkets and the cafes and also in the fire service as well.

Oh, mate, you're doing a lot of good work out there in the community, Chris. Will you keep it up? Thank you for the... How was your mood? We didn't get that. Oh, well, getting over it, eh? When I get home, I'm going a little bit la-la at home.

Yeah, well, that's what I can... We were just saying off-air before, we're feeling for people that, you know, like businesses, you know, will they be up and running in a day, a week, and all that sort of stuff? If you've got a business like that, you must be just like, how do you plan ahead with supplies and everything?

Yeah, well, a lot of people have had to ditch a lot of the foods and that they've ordered because it's all going to expire. So, you know, they're losing thousands. I saw that Domino's Pizza actually did a lovely thing. Just before when it got announced the afternoon about lockdown, they basically made all the pizzas up that they could using all the stuff and went around and gave them out to essential services and stuff

because otherwise it was going to go to waste. But I thought it was pretty awesome. Oh, that's lovely. Yeah, lovely thing they did. Hey, well, Chris, you keep safe, okay, you keep safe okay buddy yeah okay guys you have a good day i love your work thank you we'll get craig on uh what do you reckon craig mood of the nation there you go and you're right yeah good mate good craig what's craig's mood oh yeah uh north island and it's staying level four forever really

and uh you're in the South Island. What are your plans? Start a new country. South Island can be its own country. Who would be leader of the South? Richie McCaw or something, eh? You'd probably give him the leader of the South Island. Oh, no, I'll take it on.

You'll take it on. Craig's going to lead the place. Do you feel like you're going to drop down a level in the South, Craig? I think we will, but probably not for another seven days. Seven days. Because they don't really know what's going on down here yet. Like, I don't know how much testing's been done, because it's not on the news.

It's all about the North Island at present. So, yeah, stay in level four for another week and see how that pans out, and then drop down a level. It's easier to stay where we are than it is to bounce back. Yeah, there we go. That's our great words from the president of the new country of the South Island. The Republic of the South Island.

The Republic of the South Island. Really appreciate your time, President. Hey, don't worry. Stay safe, my friend. Alright, we appreciate that. So good. Hey, don't forget, 8 o'clock this morning, if you want a reward, a nice allegiance, someone that's doing amazing work in the community, then head to the hitstock.co.nz and thanks to Chemist Ware we have a 250 voucher for them to treat themselves it is the

hit spy no what's up spy.co.nz listen we may be locked down and she's about to throw down on these celebrities due what's happening in spy mate so ed sheeran has bought a brand new phone four years after getting rid of his old one so So four years ago, you may vaguely remember, he quit social media, he got rid of his phone, he ditched music, he just wanted to live life without any pressure, any work, no social media. And he never bought a new phone since then, even though he's, you know, come back to music and everything.

So he's now bought a Nokia 3310. I don't even know if that's how you say it properly. But it's basically a modern Nokia brick. And this is the only reason why he's bought a phone is so that he can use basically the COVID tracing app, essentially, or so that the government can figure out where he's scanning in and stuff. Yeah, so it doesn't even have any of the apps or anything. No, no. It's definitely a petrol station you're having an affair phone, isn't it?

Yes, it's the type of phone that you can only download Snake on, and that's as much fun as you can get on that phone. So this is his first phone in four years. Yeah, yeah. And then he went on to say that he's so out of touch with social media, he doesn't even know the password to his TikTok account. His people say, oh, yeah, make this video. He'll film it and then sends it to them, and they upload it. He assumes they upload it.

I don't know what you're doing with this content, but have it anyway. He's got his Nokia brick and that's just keeping him happy as Larry. What a great way to live though. But you know, it's not practical for most people. No, you're right. How was his, when he didn't have a phone, how was his wife getting hold of him? True! His mum, his dad. You just have to trust that he was going to be at home at a certain time. He said he'd be home by 8. Oh, he's taking it back to the early 90s, old school, isn't he?

Yeah, he's gone really old school. What if he's got a landline, maybe? Probably. Maybe that's how people can get in touch with him. I suppose if... He probably has email, though, wouldn't he? Yes. You know, like, he might have email and does all that stuff.

I mean, he was over Zoom with us, but someone obviously connected him. Yeah, yeah. That's true. So, old mate Eza Sheza got a new phone, but it's a... No, I'm not going to judge his phone. Also, speaking of artists who aren't on social media much, Lorde has sent an email specifically to her Kiwi fans. So she's another one that's not really on social media much.

She updates people via email. Oh my gosh, what is it with these artists just not being in with the times, eh? I'd love it when you reach that level of fame, eh? Where you can just take it back to the old school. Yeah, well, it doesn't matter for them, right? No, yeah. There's some famous actor who's like,

you can't communicate with him at all. Oh, Bill Murray. Bill Murray. He'd send scripts to his PO box. And I think that's also, it was at Quentin Tarantino too with him at all. Bill Murray. Bill Murray. He'd send scripts to his P.O. box. And I think that's also, was that Quentin Tarantino too? Yeah, and sometimes Bill Murray would say he's missed out on such great movies

that he would have taken because he hasn't cleared his P.O. box yet. P.O. box. His P.O. box. I would have done that. That would have been great. That's the most good thing. Oh dear.

Avatar. Oh yeah. Forrest Gump. I would have been Forrest Gump. That's a flaw in that system. I would have been Forrest Gump. That's a floor in that system. Yeah, that is true. But no, Lorde did send an email to Kiwis only. She said, if you're reading this, I guess you're in lockdown right now.

This thing just doesn't end. I hope you're safe and with people who don't drive you up the wall. I hope you're having some spirited household chats about what's for lunch or dinner. Someone better have done some baking. She then went on to say that, this is quite interesting, in Level 4 last year, because right now she's in New York, last year she locked down in New Zealand with the rest of us, and she said she'd go for walks every single day for about three or four hours and read a book while she was walking,

and she'd say she didn't have to look up very often at all because there'd be no one to look out for, really. So she'd be reading and walking. Three or four hours a walk, that's so good. A Fitbit would have been going off the rectum she probably doesn't have a fitbit though she just counts steps in her head yeah but that's that's the little um message she sent out to her kiwi fans only but she's lucky she's in new york which i assume is probably out of lockdown it feels a bit weird because you know there was a stage where we had all these sports stadiums full of people and then we're looking at the rest of the world

and we're like, you couldn't fathom the rest of the world being in kind of lockdown. And now it's all of a sudden flipped. You look at the sports news and there's like games going on and there's concerts in New York and stuff. And you're like, oh yeah, the rest of the world are kind of doing what we got to do. And do you know what?

It feels a bit, it feels almost even worse for us because the whole world was just saying, oh, that one country's living it fine. Whereas we're now, oh, the whole world is fine and we're probably the only country, apart from, you know, Australia. Bearing in mind, though,

two days ago, New York had 3,500 COVID cases. Oh, wow. They're battling on. They're ploughing on. And that's what you need. You need that can-do battler attitude. It's like, oh, we're out.

We're getting this one again. Yeah, jeez. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to the hits.co.n attitude. It's like, oh, we're out. We're getting this one again. Yeah, jeez. And that is Spy. For more, you can enter the hits.co.nz. After seven o'clock, we've got a big announcement to make.

We'll tell you what that is in just a few moments on the hits. It's Dua Lipa levitating. It is the hits. Jono and Ben. Now, you guys are giving me grief about something that happened on Friday.

Max, Millennial Max, departed the show on Friday. Producer Max, he left. And Bee Humps, our other producer, he got him a card, a leaving card. And you were gifted the card to... I was the first to write in it. And, well, you know, because there's not... Normally this would be a card, you know, a card would be passed around the office, but there's only like the four of us to write in a card. So I was like, what's it?

And it was, even though it was a smaller card, I'll write a message in there. But you were like, you took up too much real estate. He did. He took up prime real estate on the card. He took up almost the whole left-hand side of the card. There was no room for any other messages. I said in hindsight, I ran on an angle, arrogantly ran on an angle too.

Lovely north-facing, seaside views, near an 18-hole golf course, real estate, on the card, which left Juliet, Behemoth and myself, we all had to squeeze our heartfelt messages into one side of the card, Jude. I pretty much had the whole side, didn't I? I don't know, when I look back at it, it was too late. It was 94% Ben. But pretty much had the whole side, didn't I? I don't know. When I looked back at it, it was too much. It was 94% Ben.

Yeah. But then I see what you mean because you also don't want the card to look not full. Yeah, I should have gone half a set. You know, I should have. Angle was a bad choice, guys. Sprayed all over the side of the card. There's only one message that matters here. That's mine.

No consideration for the other tenants on the card. Yeah, apologies, guys. I'm sorry As I said before, we've got a bit of a big announcement this week If you want to win some sweet, sweet cash We'll tell you how very shortly on The Hits It is Jono and Ben with you Just gone 7 o'clock, as I said before

We've got a bit of an announcement to make Yeah, and I mean there is a big announcement happening at 4 o'clock. As I said before, we've got a bit of an announcement to make. Yeah, and I mean, there is a big announcement happening at 4 o'clock today, and we don't want to take the shine away from that. But we're going to. And it's something that will directly affect you, no matter what level we're in, come the end of the week. Now, every day at 7.45 on the show, we play five words for $5,000.

Well, we've decided this week, thanks to a wee bit of arm twisting, that we're going to have a guaranteed $5,000 up for grabs, so it's got to be won this week, because it's been so long since we last had a winner. No, I know, it's like a dehydrated camel making its way through the desert, surviving on just a droplet of

water, which the last winner we had was probably, our last droplet was probably two, three months ago. Yeah, so if we haven't got a winner, we're going to play it every day this week and hopefully we have a winner today or tomorrow or Wednesday or whatever, but if we haven't by Friday and we don't have a winner at 7.45, we're just going to keep playing. We're going to lock down in that

soundproof booth until $5,000 is out the door. So it's got to be one this week. It's our guarantee. So it's in our best interest to get one today and it's done and it's cool and then we move on. That was Ben clapping his hands as. So it's in our best interest to get one today, and it's done. It's cool. And then we move on. That was Ben clapping his hands as to say it's all done. Yeah. Yeah.

That's what we'd like to do, but, you know, because we don't want to end up trapped in there. So we need to win it together today. Let's get it done. Let's get it done today, 7.45. Let's get my five grand. Now, this is just a convoluted plot for us to get time away from our families and spend extended periods at work. Yeah, well, that's why we need to get it done today, families and spend extended periods at work.

Yeah, well, that's why we need to get it done today, John, and just get it done. So 7.45, your chance today. It might be one of the only few chances to win $5,000. 7.45. Now, I've noticed some stuff laying around work, left behind from people who fled in a panic last Tuesday afternoon, and we're going to maybe give away some of those items next.

It is the hits. It's High items next. It is the hits. It's High Hopes. It is the hits. Jono and Ben with you on a Monday morning, 4 o'clock today. Of course, the new announcement's going to be made to what's going to happen with the alert levels, and hopefully it's slightly better than yesterday's announcement from Chris Hipkins, who had, unfortunately, we slip up with his words.

Look, it is a challenge in higher density areas for people to get outside and to spread their legs when they are surrounded by other people. Did you put the music behind that? That was already there. Oh, really? Yeah. Who put the music?

Did the government put the music behind that? I wish. But, you know, looking at spread your legs exercises, too, in the yoga community, there is one called the, you do yoga, don't you? I do, yes. The Upper Vista Konasana, which is a wide-legged, wide-spreaded-legged exercise. So maybe that's what he meant.

You can imagine him going back to the changing room after that, pulling off his mask and having a good, long, hard look in the mirror, going, hippo. Spread your legs. Spread your legs. Come on. Spread your legs. He's going to come back to bite you, Chris.

He has given New Zealand a bit of a laugh, and times when we do need a laugh. So thank you for that, Chris Hipkins. One thing we've noticed around the office here, because there's no one here, just us in our little bubble. And there's other radio shows going on right now, but we don't really see them do we no because everyone's in their own little bubbles right and so the offices

that normally would have sales people promo people uh all sorts even the upper management no one's here middle management management all forms of management they would usually be here doing whatever they do yeah uh but yeah there's no one here. But I have noticed around the place that last Tuesday, obviously everyone fled in a panic mid-afternoon, going there's going to be a lockdown and everyone just left. And people have left behind some items, some pretty important items. I mean, there's a loaf of bread sitting on Matt the intern's desk. He's an intern.

That bread was meant to last him 12 months. I know. How long is the lockdown going to be? We don't know. That bread's not going to be good. No. There's open drinks out there. There's a fridge full of stuff, isn't there, Julia?

Oh, yeah. Harriet from the office texted me the other day. I was like, Juju, do you like coconut yogurt? If so, there's a full jar in the fridge. It's yours. And I was like, I love you. I love coconut yogurt. Thank you very much.

So this is what's happened is people have left behind items because everyone fled their workplaces like a group of teenagers escaping a party when the parents come home uh yesterday afternoon in a mad panic and have left important items behind so this is what we want to know what have you left behind at work oh 800 the hits 4487 is our text on new zealand's breakfast yeah have you done something like uh like a lot of people in the office has and left something behind? Handbags, computers, important documents. I imagine a lot of people left their computers behind.

Oh, I can't work. Oh, yeah, good play. That's a smart one, that. All right, well, give us a call right now. It is The Hits. You got Jono and Ben. Lady Gaga, it is the hits. Jono and Ben, the 717.

And now a lot of people in this office in particular, and I'm sure in offices all around, or workplaces all around New Zealand, when they got the call that we're going to go into lockdown on Tuesday, kind of basically left in a hurry and have left items. They got out there and spread their legs in an absolute hurry and mad panic. And in doing so, and the mealy have left behind some items. We mentioned Matt, the poor intern, a grossly underpaid intern,

has left a loaf of bread on there. Now that bread was going to, he must be pretty malnourished. It's not a day I'm sure he's not getting up in lockdown not thinking about that bread, you know? We're talking about rationing bread before seven o'clock. How you have it in a freezer and you just pull it out single, piece by piece at the moment. Mac doesn't even have that joy right now.

That's just getting mouldy out there. So 0800, that's the telephone number. What have you left behind at work that you really need? Tanya, you're on from Auckland. What did you leave? Hello. So I've actually had to leave my car at work and it's locked up in our garage, so I've got no access to it. Oh, really? So how come that happened?

Yeah, so I went out for dinner with a few friends after work and had a few drinks, so I decided to leave my car at work like I would usually, but I got stuck. Oh, so it's just got to stay there until you can go get it back. Yeah, so supermarket trips have been a wee bit of a mission, but take my backpack with me and off I go. Now, Ben was saying his battery died over the weekend. Your car's going to be, you know all this. I don't need to make it any worse.

So what are you doing? Just walking everywhere. Yeah, I'm getting my steps up Yeah, good on you Can you walk into work and get your car? Or is that not allowed? No, that would probably take me about Three and a half, four hours

From where I'm living Oh, Tanya Well, well Car Who thought a car? Yeah, I never thought someone We're just talking about funny little items Like my favourite hat or something

But a car, that's a problematic one Thank you very much for your call, mate We were just talking about funny little items like my favourite hat or something. But a car, that's a problematic one. Thank you very much for your call, mate. We can help you out in no way at all. I'm sorry, Tanya. Yeah, we can't at all. Julie, you're on from Wellies. How are you?

Hey, how are you? Yeah, doing well, mate. What did you leave behind at work? I left my whole handbag and all my wallet, everything. Oh, no. Everything. Negley. Negley.

How are you paying for stuff? I'm paying with my husband's credit card, actually. That's handy. Well, almost conveniently handy. It's almost like you planned this. I like this. You're like, keep the lockdown going further. Yeah, yeah.

Hey, good on you. Appreciate that. Someone's texting 4487. I left behind my second favourite jacket. Not favourite, but second favourite. You've still got your favourite jacket, but you're right. I've left my computer charger at work. So the computer's dead now and I can't work anymore.

But, yeah, annoying, but also convenient. You know, because you're like, well, I can't work. Can't work. You had the intention of working, too. So you look like a great employee. It's almost genius. Yeah. So the office at the moment, completely empty. We could do anything out there.

Ben, you could go out there right now and photocopy any document you want. Any document? Your heart desires. You name a document. Name one. This ISO Legends nomination form. Yeah, you could go and photocopy that. As many copies as you want How many copies?

20 What about not double sided? You could do that I wouldn't though because I'd want to save the planet But I could and that's the point 5,000 bucks we've got up for grabs Five words for five grand It's a must win week

By Friday if we haven't had a winner We'll be locking down in the soundproof booth until we give away the 5,000 this week. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben? Mmm, coffee breath. Jono and Ben, the hits. It is the hits.

Jono and Ben, as we're all waiting for the big announcement today, will New Zealand continue on? Will we carry on our lockdown? Will our bad habits in lockdown continue as well? You were saying you ate how much chip and dip? Three bowls in 90 minutes. Was this daylight for you or evening? Because you don't eat during daylight.

It was dusk. The day was turning. That's when I come out and forage. Like a little weasel. The naked mole rat strikes again. Strikes again. Where did all the onion dip go? I don't know.

It's a naked mole rat came in, sucked it up, hoovered it up. But all the bad habits that many of us have slipped back into during lockdown, we put them together in a song thanks to Ed Sheeran, who kindly let us use his music. Sure he did. It is his. It is a heads. My bad habits lead to daytime drinking at one.

Conversations over Zoom with no trousers on. Panic buying toilet paper for my loop. I watch Ashley on the news from one to two. My bad habits lead to chips and dip shoved in my face. Letting hygiene standards slip while I watch the chase. You know that I get vaccinated, but I'm locked in my place. Homeschool was shut on day two. It's true. It's true.

My bad habits repulse you. Ooh. Have another drink or two Bad habits until level two Five words for 5k on the hits You're only five words away from a massive payday Yeah, like a recovering alcoholic in the fourth year of sobriety. It's been a long time between drinks, Ben Boyce.

It has, it has. And we'd like to welcome to Five Words this morning in Whangarei, Debra. Good morning. Great to have you on. Debs, who are you locked down with? I'm locked down with a husband and an 8-year-old and an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old. Oh, okay. That's a wonderful little bubble.

Are you enjoying life? Yeah, it's nice. It's not too bad. Oh, that's a wonderful little bubble. Are you enjoying life? Yeah, it's nice. It's not too bad. A couple of texts on 4487, people saying, I don't mind lockdown. Well, I guess if your business isn't affected or your work's unaffected, it's awesome for the family side of things. Yeah, yeah.

Apart from the pandemic that's going on outside your gates, that's the only downside. It's just a little blip. Okay, Debra, you need to decide who you're going to send into the SPB this morning, the soundproof booth. Jono. Okay, Jono, here we go.

Guaranteed $5,000 this week. So, Jono, just get it done now, mate. Just get it done now. You're going to have to stay on Friday. Yeah, that's right. So, if we don't give it away by Friday, we're just going to keep playing it until we do. Giveaway.

All right, here's in the soundproof booth. Here is your first word this morning. It is cashew. Cashew. I'll go nut. Can I just clarify if it's nut or nuts? You just want nut, eh? Oh, I see.

Cashew. You said nut, but I just wanted to make sure. Yeah. I'll just go nut. Okay. That's a tricky one, eh? Were you like, do I put the S on it or do I not? It's got to be exact.

Okay. Gloves is your second word this morning. Gloves. Okay. Okay, yeah. That's hard. Yeah. Gloves.

What pops into your head when you say gloves? I'm just thinking hands. That's exactly actually what I was thinking as well. True. Nothing was popping into my head. It's so obvious. So I think it's good. I think it's good.

But hey, it's what Jono thinks and what you think is all that matters right now. Yeah, I'll just go hands. Rollercoaster. Rollercoaster. Rollercoaster. Yeah. I'll ask my 11-year-old, what do you think about the word rollercoaster? What pops into your head?

He's finding a friend right now. He's not sure. No, it's a tough one. Rollercoaster. Well. Rollercoaster ride. Yep, good. We have got elderly.

Okay. Elderly. Elderly. Elderly. Would I say elderly, would I say grandparents maybe? Oh yeah, that's good. Would I say grandparent maybe? Oh yeah, that's good. Would I say resident? Yeah, when you give yourself so many options,

what was the first one that pops into your head? Resident. Totally resident. But what do you think, Ashton? Grandparent. I think I'll say grandparent. Okay, grandparent. And finally, baking is the fifth word this morning.

Baking. Okay. There's a lot of pressure when you're the one doing it, eh? It is. Yeah, I know. I feel for you. Baking. What do you think when I say baking? Bringing in... Baking. Gonna need an answer. Sorry. Okay. Sorry. Baking. I'm gonna go. Baking. Going to need an answer Sorry

Okay, sorry Baking, I'm going to go Baking Quickly, you've got one, Jesse Baking What have you got? I'm going to say powder Powder

Oh, yeah No, that's a good one All right, all right Let's bring Jono out of the soundproof booth Or the SPP, as you think BVP It was a soundproof booth SPP The SPP Jeez, you think? B-B-P? It was a soundproof booth.

SPP. The SPP. Jeez, that took ages. I got Delta. I self-isolated for two weeks and then recovered. That was a... Were they tough words? They were tough, too. Sorry about that.

No, that's all right, Debra. It's hard when you are on the spot playing the game. That's the common theme when people phone through. It's a different pool game. It is different. It's a lot easier when you're listening to someone else do it. But right now, okay, here is the first word I said this morning, and it was cashew.

What pops into your head, Jono, when I say cashew? Nuts. Oh! Did you? Can you clarify what you said? Nuts. With an S? Yes.

Yes. Why is that? Did you go nuts? Oh, Deborah. Gotta be specific. We talked about it. We said and I should have gone with the S. No, but Cashew nuts both

work. It's just what, you know. There's those ones and these ones. Let's quickly roll through the other ones. Gloves. Hand. Ooh, well done. Roller coaster.

Ride. Ooh, Deborah. You guys are in sync. Elderly. Grandparents. All parents. Oh, no. Grandparent, you were close.

And baking. Bread. You guys are pretty good. Not bad, Debra. You're S's away from four out of five. Oh, wow. We were nearly there, Debra. I tell you what, you keep safe with your whanau.

Cool. Thank you so much. Thanks so much for playing. Another chance tomorrow. Don't forget, we are guaranteeing $5,000 this week, so if it isn't one before Friday, and I hope it is, we will not leave. We will not leave. We will not leave this studio. We will

isolate for however long it takes to give away that $5,000. Alright, it is the hits. You got some Spy next. Spy. No what's up. Spy.co.nz She's like that pesky neighbour peering through the cracks in the fence, you know, the wooden bits, there's little gaps. She's staring

through just trying to get any bit of gossip and salacious scandal that she can. And she's here now with Spy Juliet. So there's a TV series that a lot of people are watching in lockdown, apparently. I haven't seen it yet, but they're calling it the Tiger King of this lockdown. You know how everyone binged Tiger King? What happened to that guy? Oh, God, no. I think he's in jail or something now.

Was it Joe Dirt? Joe Exotic. Joe Dirt was... It was a movie. David Spade, wasn't he, played Joe Dirt? That wasn't a documentary. No, it wasn't a documentary. It was a movie. Similar storyline in some ways, except less big animals. Same

mullets, though. Yeah, you're right. So, this lockdown's version of Tiger King... They're not a documentary. It's not a documentary, and it's got nothing lockdown's version of tiger king they're not a they're not doc it's not a documentary and it's got nothing to do with animals or joe exotic or tigers or anything but it's just the we're comparing it to tiger king because it's the thing that everyone's watching um it's called the white lotus and it's i haven't seen it but it seems like it's a murder mystery series where you've got there's a bunch of people all on holiday I think in Hawaii and it starts out as relatively normal but

as the series goes on, darker stuff keeps happening and I think it's a murder mystery series. It's on Neon in New Zealand. If anyone's watched it, please text in 4487 if it's... Kate Rodger gave it rave reviews on News Hub. I was just looking online. So a lot of

people have seen it and said it's very, very good. So, Ben, you'll be signing up to a free seven-day trial to Neon. It'll be a race against time to see if I can get it done. It'll be one of his favourite hobbies is signing up for a free seven-day trial. Starting a new email address. Let's go, guys. That's a good hack. Creating a new email address.

We actually do pay for Neon at the moment. My wife loves Outlander. She's watching Outlander. I've got it. I've got it, mate. I actually do pay for neon at the moment. My wife loves Outlander. She's watching Outlander. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got it. I've got it, mate. I don't need to do that. I may also be a bit late on this one.

Apparently, the mayor of Easttown is very good. It's got Kate Winslet in it, and she speaks in an American accent, which I saw the trailer and it threw me. I was like, you're British. That's confusing. Just in case you were wondering, Joe Exotic is still in prison. Oh, right. Yeah, still being housed.

He was hopeful that Donald Trump was going to get him out, right? Yeah, that didn't happen because Trump, just before he left, was writing off a whole bunch of his mates who had done a lot of dark stuff and he was giving them presidential pardons, wasn't he? Yeah, I think so. Joe didn't manage to get one, so he's still in prison. He's got a blood immune disorder, so he's at the Federal Medical Centre in Fort Worth. I don't think he's very well, yeah.

He reckons he's not going to survive in prison. Oh, that's sad. It is sad. And in other news... Way to bring the vibes down, Ben. How do you segue from that? Sorry, sorry. In some lighter news, we shall say, is some fans are convinced that Destiny's

Child may be reuniting. And this is because they changed their profile picture on twitter and facebook and they obviously haven't changed it in a while and with this update everyone's thinking oh is this the start of something new um because i think you know when reunions and things have happened in the past people have updated social media or they've posted and that's how it all the ball gets rolling so So what's the profile picture? It's just a photo of them

three. It's just a different, sort of newer photo of them three I think. Not quite 2020. They should have put like Shelly and then put I don't think you're ready, Christian Mark. Oh yeah. You should be their marketing. Yeah we're ready for the jelly. We're ready. Oh my goodness.

Are you ready? If radio fails, you should become Destiny's child's managing director. Social media manager. Well, Beyonce's doing it right

without me, isn't she? True, true. Then her dad says it's definitely not happening. Beyonce's failed. Wait till he hears about the jelly idea.

Yeah, he's like, hold on. Wait till you hear about this post. It's just words. Or they flash up on screen. And then just watch

the comments flow in. So good. And that is Spy. For more you can head to the hitstockco.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, we're doing this all this week. Thanks to our mates at the Chemist Warehouse. We're giving away a $250 Chemist Warehouse voucher to ISO Legends, people that are doing great work

right now to help keep the country afloat. Yeah, we want to reward the people who are out there on the front line, you know, who are away from their families, putting themselves in danger, their families in danger, and the best thing about this is it makes us look like great guys and that's why we do it. If you want to nominate someone, you can head to the

hits.co.nz and you'll find out how there, but after eight we're going to give away a prize to someone, which is someone very deserving. It is the Hits, you can head to thehits.co.nz and you'll find out how there. But after eight, we're going to give away a prize to someone, which is someone very deserving. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. It is the hits.

Jono and Ben, as we all seem to be waiting for the big announcement today. Of course, New Zealand in alert level four until we find out otherwise. Four o'clock today, the big announcement. And also scanning or signing in is going to become mandatory in cafes, busy venues and events at all alert levels has just been announced. So you're going to have to basically sign in,

whether through your phone or manually, in each location you go, which makes sense. What do they want you to know? I don't trust them. I don't trust them. You've been a wonderful scanner all the way through this. If there's one thing that I could say about Ben Boyce at his funeral as he passed on, not many favourable things I would say, but I'd say, jeez, he was a consistent scanner. They go to you, they're like, Jono, you've been mates with him for a good decade.

What do you want to say? You work with him every day. What's some favourable words you want to say about Ben Boyce? You're like, oh, jeez, he was a good scanner. You knew where he was at all times. He scanned in, he did. But some other people wouldn't, he would. He was still scanning.

Even through those months where we were living free of COVID, he was scanning. But in that situation, then get my phone and scan in at the funeral, all right? That's what I would have wanted. I'll scan you into the ground. That's a morbid way to go. Hey, speaking of morbid, we're going to change the tone of the program, Ben, okay? All right. All right.

This is not a bleak, dark program. No, it's meant to be a bit of fun. Yeah, that's right. We've got pink as our color. All right. Represent the color, buddy. ISO Legends. We want to reward some ISO Legends.

As you said before, Jono, there's many people putting themselves, you know, basically in the way. Their bodies on the line. They're things for the country right now. And we want to reward some of those people thanks to the Chemist Warehouse. So next, $250 up for someone very rewarding. We'll get to them in just a few moments on the hits. Oh, you guys are legends.

Oh, you're legends. It's Jono and Ben's ISO Legends, thanks to Chemist Warehouse. You're a legend. Oh, yes, we want to pay tribute to the people working in our central services, whether they're doctors, nurses, supermarket workers, taxi drivers, and the others are ensuring that we're staying healthy and safe while our own Level 4 bubbles continue. I noticed you excluded radio hosts off that wonderful list of professions.

We're not out right now to reward them as ISO legends, but if you want to nominate someone in your community, head to the hitstockcode.nz someone's making a special impact and is doing the hard yards and thanks to our mates at the Chemist Warehouse we've got a $250 Chemist Warehouse voucher to reward an ISO legend

and they can buy something nice for them at the Chemist Warehouse of course they're a central service as well open early and closes late right across New Zealand you can go online or visit in store. And there's some really you know even though it's a shocking time out there for many, it's really great stories do emerge from these situations, don't they? I was talking to someone who's volunteering at a testing centre. They're like, I thought I'd just do my little part.

And I was like, oh, you're a better human being than me. That is so good. That's really good. So we're going to go through to Lisa now, who's been nominated by her friend Natalie. Good morning, Lisa speaking. Oh, hello, Lisa. It's John Owen being calling from the Hits radio station. Hi, how are you doing?

Not too bad. How are you this morning? Good, thank you. Are you a community health care worker? I am indeed. What do you do? I do community-based care. Oh, right. Your job title kind of sums it all up, doesn't it? Yeah. I am indeed. What do you do? I do community-based care. Oh right, your job title kind of sums it all up, doesn't it? Yeah. You're working today? Yeah, I work seven days a week.

Oh wow, so you're doing some big hours at the moment, Lisa? Oh well, I've had around about, I think, six weeks on and I've just had a weekend off, but it's been great. Oh, good on you. Yo, and I hear you're mum to four kids as well? I am indeed. Okay. Name your favourite to least favourite. They're all my favourites. Oh, good answer. Classic mum answer.

They're all my favourite. Now, we understand that you're just doing such hard work out there in the community and you even got to the point where your hands are getting sore from all the hand washing and hand sanitiser that's required for your job. Oh, they're just getting a little bit dry this time around. They haven't got to the point of the last lockdown. What happened last lockdown? Oh, they were really bad.

They were to the point that they were bleeding. I needed to go to the GP and have a consultation last time around, yeah. Oh, shit. They were really bad. Wow. I'd put my Tehran suit on when it got to the point of even having to apply the cream to them. They were bad.

Wow. And so you're on the front line, Lisa. You're out there doing, you must see some stuff. Yeah, we do. We do indeed. But you kind of just got to, you know, some things we're definitely not prepared for. You know, like they give us the, you know, training and bits and pieces, but it's the mental sort of and the emotional sort of stuff that we're not trained to do. Well, I mean, you're not just a healthcare worker.

You're also probably a counsellor to many as well. Indeed you do. So sometimes you've just got to have that kindness at the end of, say, well, would you like a cup of tea or a cup of coffee? Because that goes a long way to some people, especially for not having that one-on-one contact with your family or in times like that. Yeah.

Well, Lisa, you are doing amazing work out there in the community. And your friend Nicole has actually nominated you. We've got a... Oh, Nicole. Yeah, Nicole. Bloody champagne, Nicole. Yeah, well, we're doing something thanks to Chemist Warehouse.

It's called IsoLegends and we wanted to reward people like yourself for doing amazing work in the community, selfless amazing work, and we've got a $250 Chemist Warehouse voucher for you to spend on yourself. Something nice, get yourself something nice in store. There's wonderful perfumes,

there's all sorts of stuff in there. Doesn't sound like you want any more hand sanitiser. No. Oh, that's wonderful.umes. There's all sorts of stuff in there. Doesn't sound like you want any more hand sanitiser. No. Oh, that's wonderful. Oh, that's so cool. Thank you so much, guys. Oh, no, thank you for everything you're doing for New Zealand. We really, we couldn't be, the country couldn't be surviving without people like you. So thank you so much. Oh, I guess we couldn't do

the work that we do without the amazing support of our community nurses that work alongside us as well. We're a whole unit. It's also recognised as well. You might be a whole unit but you're the ISO legend. Thank you. Take the credit.

Take the credit. We're going to give that out to you and thank you so much for everything you're doing. Alright? Thank you so much and thank you so much to the Chemist Warehouse. Isn't she awesome? Another one of New Zealand's ISO legends. If you've got someone that you know that deserves that voucher and a little bit of recognition on the radio,

then head to the hits.co.nz. We'll do that again tomorrow. Listen to the music. Listen to the... Oh, just good, wholesome stuff. Thank you very much. Happy days. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better.

Can't save this battered up old face. It makes you beautiful. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Ben Boyd, you brought something to the table last week, and we've been working hard behind the scenes to track the particular party down. Have a listen to this. This might refresh your memory. Each of my daughters have a netball WhatsApp group, which is just the parents.

So I'm on two of these WhatsApp groups, as well as the radio one. So over the weekend, I saw a netball WhatsApp group, which is just the parents. So I'm on two of these WhatsApp groups, as well as the radio one. So over the weekend, I saw a bit of a link, and it was like a Woman's Day article about these two Kiwi mums that had started an adult toy business. I opened up that article. Yeah, like I said, that one eventually

to the right WhatsApp group. But in the first message, I said, we should talk to these laddies about their adult toys. And I said that. You know all of this, the netball group. Thinking I was sending it to the radio group. But I sent it to the netball mums and their a few dads. So we've tracked down one of the parties involved.

The entire netball group are coming into the studio, safe social distancing, and you'll have to confront them face on for the first time since this incident. I'm glad the netball season's pretty much over now. Well, it is now, thanks to that. We're pulling our kids out of this perverse team. No, we've tracked down the people who run the business. Oh, good.

That was the option that I wanted, not the other one. We'll do that after Sean Mendes on the hits. Sean Mendes, you're on the hits, 8.32, Monday morning. Now, two Kiwi mums have started a business from last year's lockdown. It turned out to be very, very... I was going to say lucrative. Where were you going with this? I was going to say lucrative, but I was like, I don't know.

It seems to be successful. Yeah, have you seen the spreadsheets? I haven't seen the spreadsheets. I'm still waiting on those to be sent through. Yeah, we'll get those figures through to you this afternoon, Mr Boyce. You know when you get yourself into a hole, you're like, what am I saying here? Just shut up. Sorry to the interview.

Yeah. But Viv is one of the owners of the website Girls Get Off. How are you going this morning, Viv? Oh, I'm so good. How are you guys? Not too bad. Now, you did quite a pivot last year, you and your friend, during last year's lockdown. Want to tell everyone what it was?

We did. We did. Well, we were having a few pink gins on the driveway, socially distanced, of course. And Jo, actually, my business partner, said to me, we should start selling sex toys. It's obviously an industry that's... You're like, you're drunk, Jo. You're drunk. She's like, I am home.

Get out of here, Jo. I don't like drunk, Jo. So adult toys was obviously something that you came up with after, okay, and you basically ran with it. Can I just ask, what were the other options before you landed on that? I mean, everyone's talking about it, right? It's such a big trending topic, and more than just that, in terms of normalising female pleasure has been something

we're really passionate about. So it all makes sense to us. So you've started a business called Girls Get Off, and you were the guys that, I don't know if you saw that, but you two, I saw there was a Women's Day notification about an article on you and I was like, we should get you on the show.

We should talk to these guys about the adult toys and I sent it to the wrong WhatsApp group. I sent it to the netball mums and dads. So yeah. And it just said we should talk to these guys about their adult toys. The funniest thing we thought, right, was that when you mentioned that, we were all laughing that all the netball mums probably have them already because that's probably our biggest part of the audience.

But hey, I'm out there normalising it as well. Exactly, exactly. I appreciate that. So what were you doing previous, Viv? I'm more in the social media marketing space. And Joe had a cookie business selling, like, personalized little cookies. Jeez, it's a big old pivot, and with your powerful skills combined, this is a thriving

business. Where do you get them from? I've always wondered. Can you call a manufacturer in China, or? Yeah, we've got amazing suppliers in China, and we're just working with them at the moment to come out with our own line, actually, so that's very exciting. Oh wow is there a whole factory that just specifies in this and children's toys or what else do they do? I'm not sure I'm pretty sure they niche down but I couldn't say. You don't want to mix up the packaging of those ones do you? Actually speaking of mix-ups

I was reading was it your parents that ended up getting one of your deliveries? Yeah, well, when I, when we were obviously doing some sampling after we decided that this was going to be the thing we were going to do, and at one stage I did order a sample and it auto-filled my address and it landed at my parents' house. I just got a video from them saying that there was a very suspicious

package that had turned up and it felt like a dead sausage. Dead sausage. Yeah, because you guys have done so well with the business, our girls get off, finalist in the business awards last year, and as well as that, you've gained international attention for what

you do, so it's awesome. Yeah, and I think for us, again, it comes back to that normalising female pleasure. It's something that's not super talked about, but is actually a really normal part of a healthy life. How many are you selling a day? Oh, it just depends. At the moment, because it's lockdown, we can't ship because we're not essential in level

four. It just depends. On the giveaways, we might be doing 20 more. Wow. At what level does it become essential? Our courier driver texted this morning, actually, and he said, how many packages have you guys got waiting? Surely you're essential.

Well-being. Have you found that since you guys have been running this business over the last year that you have been breaking down the taboos that you sort of set out to do? Absolutely. I think the conversations that we've started, not just with other women on our Instagram page and the people that have been messaging us, but actually just in everyday life, like friends or friends of friends who come up to me.

Everyone wants to chat to me about their orgasms, which is just so great. It's so funny. What a conversation topic when you're out and about. We're in church. Not the time. Yeah, but it's really cool. It's just normalising the conversation, which is what we're all about. Good on you, Viv.

Well done on pivoting, a successful pivot there. Congratulations. All the best for the business and keep up the great work. Thanks, team. Appreciate it. Nice one. That's Viv. Viv from Girls Get Off.

Bit of a pivot there, eh? That's what they're telling everyone to do. That's right. Pajamas all day. Fine with us. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. It is the hits.

Jono and Ben, Elton John and Dua Lipa got a new track together. Dua Lipa feet Elton John, whichua Lipa. Got a new track together. Dua Lipa Feet Elton John. Who's feeding who, though? Who feets who in that situation? Surely it'd be an Elton John Feet Dua Lipa. Yeah, I'd say so. What's it written in there? It's called Cold Heart Dua Lipa Slash Elton John.

I feel like it's more her thing with him. Yeah. I would definitely be feeding if we were gonna do that scenario it would be ben feed jono wouldn't it but it's interesting i guess yeah i'm guessing it was a idea and she's poured him into it yeah but all lyrical content is ej's yeah isn't it he's like oh i'm feeding oh yeah in my own song and i've got the song but it's actually a very cool song we're gonna play it for you in just a second if you haven't heard it. But we thought that when John had already released new music during lockdown, right?

Oh yeah. I'm Dill Danding, which is a, it's a 2021 version of his hit song. I'm still standing. This was him during, they had a concert during lockdown. It was probably about six months ago and he was very happily,

he was getting into it. He was playing the piano at home. Furiously fingers, the piano and the fingers, it was just all, it was a lot going on in Elton's backyard, there was a basketball hoop behind him and he was just loving life but it almost

seemed like he had been to the dentist and had those injections in your mouth, you know that numb your mouth. Yeah, I'd forgotten the lyrics, I'll just get some mum on my way through a few things but anyway this is what they call on the internet i'm dill danding he is just i love his little sausage fingers they're just smashing away at the piano keys. Loving life. It's so good.

Well, here it is now, the brand new On The Hits. It's Cold Heart, it's Dua Lipa, feet Elton John, it is The Hits. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny.