Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What's It Like Being In A Coma?

Episode Date: September 7, 2021

We spoke to a couple of people today who had been in a coma, and asked them all sorts of questions about whether they could hear noises, whether they "saw the other side", and what they remembered overall. It was honestly very interesting and makes you really appreciate your own life! On quite a different note, Ben had another shituation with dog poo... What two completely different topics! You may remember that just before lockdown on a Monday morning, he realised mid-show that he had stepped in dog poo. Now he's gone and had a similar situation! And he's the cleanest guy we know! Enjoy the poddy friends, it's a goodie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

new to your mornings friends of skinny new zealand's most recommended telco just when you thought you couldn't get enough of jonathan then you can have them anywhere anytime welcome to the jonathan band podcast kia ora 7th of september it's tuesday it's 2021 the year that is, it is 2021 boy it's gunning along isn't it it really is, well yeah we're in the middle of September now pretty much, usually that's an old person thing to say but my son Oscar even said

it yesterday, he's like this year is, woo it's flying by, even with lockdown which feels like it's kind of slowed things down a little bit, you're right it's still September, it's put it on that mode you know when you've got your TV September. It's put it on that mode, you know, when you've got your TV remote and you can put it on minus

with just the double arrows, but facing to the left. That's what lockdown feels like. When usually life feels like triple arrows to the right. I was actually listening to some podcasts the other day, and I didn't realise, because sometimes you hit the button and it speeds it up just slightly on your phone. And I was listening listening to some podcasts the other day, and I didn't realize, you know, because sometimes you hit the button, it speeds it up just slightly on your phone.

And I was listening to these American podcasts of radio. I'm like, man, they're so quick, and they're so snappy over there. It's like, wow. Maybe this is the way to do radio. It moves so quickly. I was going to come to you. I was going to call you and go, this is the way we should be doing it. And then I was like, oh, no, I've got it on, like, basically double speed.

But it took me a little bit with the accents and everything to kind of realize that. We usually do our gisting while it's being said. Sure, but I was like, jeez, I'm working hard to keep up with this. My ears are working hard. You're like, well, these guys are jacked up. I know. I was like, wow, you thought we were annoying. But no, it was you. So that's not the way forward. Hey, we have a really, really interesting show for you today. We talked about a story about a guy who'd been in a coma for 39 years and you threw it out there

and normally when you throw things out there like that you're like no one ever calls. We got two amazing calls of people that had been in a coma and had survived and come through the other side which is, yeah, incredible. And both had very different experiences I guess leading into how it happened you hear on the podcast probably resulted in a

different experience for what they remember, what they don't remember, what happened during the podcast. One guy was run over by a car. He's a pedestrian. Wild story, yeah. It was pretty bleak listening too, but interesting. Interesting, yeah. Yeah, with that lockdown, I was like,

wow, we're really bringing the mood down. Yeah, bringing the vibe down. We need to double speed through our show, that's for sure. You can hit on the double speed and watch us sound a whole lot more excited. But yeah, that's the coma chat today. Don't add another M to that or else it becomes comma chat. The comma chat, yeah. We'll get into tomorrow, the grammatical chat.

How's your lockdown going, Ben? It's going all right. It still feels that whole uncertain period, isn't it? You know, February 2009. But you've raised a very interesting point because as of midnight tonight, New Zealand goes into sort of, again, two stages. So people are going to be in Auckland, and everyone's going to go,

oh, stop banging on about your lockdown. And then everyone else is going to be out and about. Yeah, which is an interesting one. How do you want to, what percentage-wise do you want to dedicate to lockdown tomorrow? Not a lot. As opposed to content. Not a lot, because I mean, people know about lockdown.

I guess we just celebrate the fact that, you know, be happy for everyone out and about, because, I mean, people know about lockdown. I guess we just celebrate the fact that, too, be happy for everyone out and about, you know, going to get their cafe coffees and all the things that we miss. You said before, you're like, I miss going across. You've got a cafe across the road. You miss going there at 9 o'clock. Yeah, I do.

Just even for a mental break. A breather. Just a breather of, like, we're in Essence 5. Not that it's hard work, you know, it's a lot of fun, but you're right, you get to it and you're like, it's nice to go, okay, and then we'll come back and have a plan for tomorrow. But now we're like, just keep going.

Just keep going. Just so we can go home where I've got nowhere else to be. But then we're going to be out of here. We've got to get out early, given the bubble situation. Strip rules around the bubbles, which makes sense. Yeah, they're like, you've got to get out of here early. Yeah situation. Strict rules around the bubbles, which makes sense. Yeah, they're like, you've got to get out early. Yeah, yeah.

So you do need to kind of motor through it. We like to just linger like pests. Who are you guys doing? Yeah. Who are you guys? You're on your computer. Yeah, but not anymore because no one's in the office. We don't actually go out into the office too much, do we?

No. Generally speaking. Just sort of stay in here and, you know. I sat in the office yesterday working on my computer. You had to wear a mask. No one's in the office. It was just you. It's quite relaxing being in a big, you know. I sat in the office yesterday working on my computer. You had to wear a mask. No one's in the office. It was just you. It's quite relaxing being in a big, empty office.

No one's around. Yeah, it's like some serious tax issues have gone down and everyone's fled. And I'm the only one here because they haven't passed the memo on to me and I'm going to get done by the authorities. We'll get everywhere we go. Yeah. Well, enjoy the podcast and enjoy Level 2. It's Beyonce's sweet dream.

She's had her 40th birthday a couple of days ago, Beyonce. So happy birthday to Beyonce. No, she listens to the podcast, but gave it to the listener of the podcast. What do they do for Beyonce's birthday? I don't actually know. Head to the cheesecake shop? Shit, I love the cheesecake shop. Cakes and desserts from the cheesecake shop.

These cakes, they really are. She got one of those big rainbow cakes. Oh, I love the Cheesecake Shop. Cakes and desserts from the Cheesecake Shop. These cakes, they really are. She got one of those big rainbow cakes, you know. Oh, I love them. They look disgusting on the outside, but when you get into the ramp, they're light and fluffy. Jay-Z's like, anything you want from the Cheesecake Shop could be yours. Cakes and desserts from the Cheesecake Shop.

Have you heard Jay-Z on Kanye's new song? Yes. From Jail? Oh, no, I haven't listened to it. So that's the one where he you heard Jay-Z on Kanye's new song? Yes. Jail? Yes. I haven't listened to it. So that's the one where he's got Jay-Z doing a version of it and also DaBaby does another version of it. I think I prefer Jay-Z's one.

Same. It's my favourite song on the album, actually. I've given Kanye's album a couple of listens. Biggest streaming album, I think, of the year. Beat Olivia Rodrigo's. Yeah, Kanye's album. So all the hype. Because it felt like he's been teasing it for like the last decade.

Well, he's been travelling around stadiums just playing the... Yeah, Piazza had a 21st when he first played it. Now he's released it, finally. Do you know what, last night, you know, before all this lockdown happened, all this lockdown business, the biggest problem in my world was the fact that I stepped in dog poop. That was literally 48 hours before it all turned to custard again. You're right. And we put a lot of gravity.

You did an investigation. Where was it coming from? You traced it back. There was concerns that it may have been human created. Yeah, I was worried about that. But we worked out there was a little bit of a, you know, some other dog, not my dog, had left something on the front of our property. Don't you feel, aren't you just disappointed in your fellow human beings when you see that?

Well, do you know who I was disappointed in? Yesterday was my family. Now, yesterday, like, by the doorstep when I got home, there was like a little clump of what looked like dirt. You know where I'm going here right now. And I was like, right on the mat. And so I went to, like, obviously falling off a shoe or something like that. And so I, like, I picked it up with my hands.

And then, you know me, I'm like hand sanitiser, you know, like a guy. And I picked it up with my hands again. I've got a dirt, a little cup of dirt, because it was quite hard and flat. And then you smell it, you're like, oh, no, that's not dirt. And I was like, guys, there's a dog. And they're like, oh, yeah, we knew about it. We're going to clean it up later. Oh, you're like, you're a moz.

And I was like, oh, I just picked it up. I've got it in my hand. You should be on Celebrity Tudor Island with that. Why don't you smell it? Regardless if it's dirt or what it ended up being. Oh, no, I can smell it. As soon as I put it up, I'm like, oh, this is not dirt. I had to get rid of it, dispose of it.

But then once, you know, you're like, I've got to clean my hand. But just in my head, I just couldn't get my hands cleaned up. I was like, wash my hands, sanitise, wash my hands. I was like, oh my God. You've even come in here this morning and done it three times. Is it still sitting with you? It's still sitting with me. It's like, man, it's like you've taken off about eight layers of skit

by washing your hands. You've burned your hands off. You're fine. I'm like, you have no fingerprints now. You could go on the run from the law and no one would be able to change. Is your dog looking at you like, no, no, no. What are you doing? I think everyone was like, they're like, oh, yeah, we knew about that. We're going to get rid of it later.

I was like, well, why did no one get rid of it when they knew about it? In general, though, dogs must just look at humans and go, what are you doing? Because they just go around picking it up with their hands. You're right. They're like, guys, you know where that's just come from? And then we sort of hang it off a belt and keep walking. Don't you sort of

whirl it around in a plastic bag? It is very strange. So there you go. That was my biggest problem before the lockdown and it's still my biggest problem now.

We go on the A to Z of New Zealand. He would have rather COVID. Next, Morrinsville. What's it all about other than Jacinda Ardern? We find out in a few moments

on The Hits. The sure weather masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't say this battered up old face. It makes you beautiful. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Just reading some news, it's very sad that a French footballer, Jean-Pierre Adams, has passed away. It's 73 years old.

But really interesting was that he was in a coma for 39 years. 39 years? What? How did this happen? Apparently it happened, obviously, 39 years ago. Went in to get, it was basically knee surgery. And during the operation there was an anesthetic error. And I saw him go into a coma.

And for 39 years he's been in a coma. And so did they pull the pin on the... I'm not sure how... Or did he just naturally... I don't know. I'm sorry I don't know that, but yeah, but 39 years. That is wild. Just laying in a bed for 39 years.

Yeah, a long time. So yeah, sad news. I'm just looking at the record, the current record for the longest time in a coma. 37 years was a six-year-old girl who just went in for a routine appendix operation same sort of thing 37 years 111 days so he's beaten her wow it's the longest run in a coma have you been in a coma no i'd probably know if you had no i haven't no i haven't no no if you had and you hadn't told me i would have been very surprised it seems like something i would have yeah probably brought up with you i'm sure yeah would have been very surprised. It seems like something I would have probably brought up with you, I'm sure.

Yeah. Would have done a phone topic on it or something. Do you know anyone who's been in a coma, Ju? No, no, not personally. You hear stories, though, like, you know, through people and things like that. But it's scary, isn't it? Yeah, it's very scary. Text64487, have you been in a coma?

Do you actually hear what's being said around you? Yeah, yeah, I wonder that. Can you remember any parts of it? Yeah. I don't think we're going to get anyone. No, I wouldn't. No. I'm throwing it out there.

It's a hail Mary. You know, these are testing times. You've got to try stuff, don't you? Yeah, well, it's very interesting if we do. It's Pink Bad Influencer. It is the hits, Jono and Ben. Now, we mentioned this earlier. Yeah, sad news.

French footballer Jean-Pierre Adams is his name. But he passed away in Paris Saint-Germain. He played for them for many years, the footballer. But he passed away at 73. But he'd been in a coma for 39 years. Now, this was just after he went in as a fit, healthy young athlete. Yeah, for a knee operation. Just to get a knee operation.

There was some mix-up with the anaesthetic, which put him in a coma for 39 years. And so he sadly passed on, but also taking with him the Guinness World Record for the longest amount of time spent in a coma. Even him coming back to reality after that, it'd be a lot to download. He's like, hold on, the last thing I remember,

I came in here as a muscular, tight, young human being, and now there's a lot of saggy parts to my body. Wouldn't you? Yeah, true. Yeah, you're right. Oh, jeez, things have, yeah, not the fit, healthy one, you know, and look like me. Looks like me now. So we actually just threw it out there, you know things have, yeah, not the fit, healthy one, you know, and look like me. Looks like me now.

So we actually just threw it out there, you know, in this game, you chuck substances at the wall and see what sticks, don't you? And we said, has anyone been in a coma? Because we've got a lot of questions. And, Greg, you've come through. Our little angel, Greg in Hamilton, how long were you in a coma for? Yeah, I was in a coma for a week. After what?

After being hit by a car. Oh, jeez. You were a pedestrian, were you? Yeah, yeah, we'll just say that. It's a long story. Oh, wow. Yes. So you were hit by a car.

So that's obviously the last thing you remember, I'm gathering? I don't even remember that. Of the day, I remember nothing. And probably six months, no, five months after, I remember nothing. Really? Jesus. So this has just happened, what, in the last couple of years? 2007. The end of 2007, I was hit by a car.

Technically, I died. I was resuscitated on the side of the road from a firefighter who was nearby and yeah the friends and whatever they called 111 but luckily the firefighter kept me alive and got me back to life

but I didn't wake up I was alive but not awake so do you remember anything from being in a coma? nothing, nothing, nothing. So when you're in a coma, you're just out. You're not comprehending anything. You're not digesting anything. If Ben came in and he was bitching about you, he's like, oh, he still owes me 20 bucks.

Nothing. My friends would come into the rehab place and tell me that I owe them money. Far out. So what's the first thing you remember when you come out of the coma? The first thing I can like going back now remembering is about five months after

there's yeah so there's what like six months of your life that's a complete blank. Go on, yeah. The end of 2007 to his middle 2008, nothing. Wow. Nothing, nothing. Jeez, what does that feel like?

I'm alive, so I don't care. Yeah, but it would be quite scary going, gee, there's a large part of your life that you've just got no recollection of. But it's something I don't want to remember. Like, I know I was in a crap place. I was recovering. I don't want to remember that. So I'm happy I don't remember it. Well, that's probably a good thing.

I'm glad you see the positives and I'm glad you're all good now. Thank you so much. Did you ever meet the motorist? Yeah. Yes, I did. I met her. She just got her restricted. So she was, you know, real, it sucks for her because she'd just got her licence and then just bad things happened.

I ran in front of her basically and, yeah, got hit. And my workmate at the time, she said I went flying through the air and landed on the curb with my head. Jeez. And so you've made amends with the driver? Oh, you know, it wasn't her fault at all. It was my fault. Yeah, long story, but not...

Yeah, well, I'm so glad you're okay. And you can live to tell this story. What a heck of a story. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I really appreciate it. Yeah, that's all good. Hey, take care of yourself. Yeah, look after yourself.

Isn't that wild? Yeah. You wouldn't wish that upon anyone, would you? No, not at all. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben, the hits. Ben, we were talking this morning about a French footballer

who had been in a coma for 39 years and sadly passed away at the age of 73 just a couple of days ago. Now, what we like to do here on radio is, you know, an interesting topic like that pops up. We then go, has anyone else been in a coma? Give us a text, 4487. And to be honest, at 6.30 in the morning, we weren't expecting much. No, but then we got Greg who phoned through and he was in a coma.

Yeah, have a listen. Yeah, I was in a coma for a week after being hit by a car. Oh, jeez. So you were hit by a car, so that's obviously the last thing you remember, I'm gathering? I don't even remember that.

Of the day, I remember nothing, and probably six months after, I remember nothing. Gee whiz. Crazy. And then another text has just called through who we have phoned, but text through, we just phoned back. Roger, you were also in a coma.

Yes, I was. What happened to you? I was in a car accident. My family were going away on holiday. This was when I was about 10 years old. And I hit the back of my mum's seat and head injury and went into coma for about 10 days. Oh my gosh, she's a 10 year old boy. Yeah, many years ago.

Your family must have been distraught. Well, all of us were in hospital but yeah, we're all good now. I mean, this was going back 30 years. Yeah, right. And so, all your family in a coma or it was just you? Just myself, but multiple injuries to my parents and my brother. What I remember from the coma, I do remember dreaming watching my funeral. Oh, really? So you remember parts of it? Yeah, so you do actually dream.

My memory of when I woke up was running out to my mum's wall shouting, Mum, I can talk. It wasn't the first thing I said. The first thing I said was, Mum and my dad. When you actually came to? Yeah. But how did they bring you out? I think I...

You came out yourself. I can't answer. I think I just You came out yourself. I can't answer. I think I just came over it myself. Yeah. So it's just your body goes, all right, it's time to... Because they can put... I think sometimes, you're right, John, they can put you in an induced coma or something,

but sometimes it just happens to people when they're in a coma, I think. And after that, I had to go for speech therapy, learn to do my two times tables again. Wow. So you can remember parts. You can remember dreaming. And so did the dreams feel like reality when you came to? Not when I came to, but they felt very real when you're dreaming.

I mean, I watched my funeral. Maybe you were through to the other side. Could have been, yeah. I've got a glimpse of it. Yeah, you've got a little appetiser. Do you remember anything from the car accidents at all? Just kind of erased from your

memory? That's gone, that's erased. Understandably, I imagine, you know, jeez. Well, technically I was actually asleep in the back of the car. So what was the last thing you can remember about that day? The last thing I remember was saying to my dad,

I'm just going to loosen my seatbelt so I can go to sleep. It was, you know, one of those seatbelts that just went over your waist. Oh, the old champagne. It was a different time for automobile safety. Yeah. It was overseas in South Africa, so. I remember I'd go to my uncle's house He'd just have a mattress in the back of his station wagon

And it would all just roll around in the back of that Yeah Well thank you so much again for sharing that with us That's an incredible story Has it changed the way you approach life Or has it changed your path in life you think? I wouldn't take the accident away I would never actually say I don't want to have that accident because I

believe it's made me who I am today. So yes, I think it has changed me, but I would never take it back. Yeah, I imagine you'd appreciate the little things in life a lot more than others would. Yeah. I think that it's a case of these things happen for a reason and it just makes you stronger. Wow. Well, thank you again for sharing that. That's an amazing, amazing story.

Yeah. You're most welcome. There you go, Roger, who's been in a coma. Yeah. Crazy. Oh, no. She's cherry topic we're delving into here. Yeah, I really appreciate them sharing their stories with us,

which is awesome. Absolutely. And next, how your family's walked out on you. Give us a call. 0800-THE-HITS. Thanks. You're on The Hits. Jono and Ben, on your Tuesday morning at 7.16.

Now, the old lockdown. I know other parts of the country are moving to Level 2, getting back to— You still talk about it today, though, mate. Yeah, we've got one more day. We're all together. All together. I mean, everyone's at your Level 3, Level 4. I mean still talk about it today, though, mate. Yeah, we've got one more day. We're all together. All together. I mean, everyone's at your level three, level four. I mean, what's the...

I don't even think of the last one. We were two levels apart, were we? No, I don't... Yeah, you might be right. Yeah. So what Auckland needed was a giant wedge to drive Auckland between itself and the rest of the country. Yeah.

Further divide. But, you know, there's been no... Jobs pile up around the house, probably around your flat too juliet we're like oh yeah i've got to get that done i've got that done and when it's a normal routine you're like you put it on your to-do list right and more often than not you just never get around to doing you know yeah but now i literally have zero excuse but the jobs i can see right in front of my face all day, every day, but it's just out of pure laziness that I'm still putting them off. I even add more to the to-do list than I'm not getting done.

So you're not ticking anything off your to-do list? Yeah, I got home yesterday and Jen's like, oh, the lawns need mowing. And I literally had no excuse. I tried to think of an excuse as to why i couldn't do it you love mowing the lawns it's your thing yeah i know but it does take time you know it's an admin and yeah yeah it's a weekend activity that's what i said to her she's like well it's essentially the weekend you're at home now you can't go anywhere it's a weekend activity are you finding that have you done mundane jobs yeah you kind of get caught up in sort of doing a whole lot of

monday and monday and then once you you're right once you see, you kind of get caught up in sort of doing a whole lot of mundane. And then once you see something, you're like, oh, no, that needs to be done. Or that needs to be done. And then I got carried away with a water blaster and probably blasted away too much stuff. That table just blasted away the kids. The table used to be oiled, didn't it? Oh, yeah, no, it needed a water blast.

You've taken off all of that. That's a slippery slope, the old water blaster. Because once you just do one little bit, you see everything else he needs doing. You lose a day easily. That's what I find with any job, like vacuuming or cleaning the bathroom. I'm like, ooh, I'm really going to get into the shower and all the little... Because you notice more as you're doing it. Don't start cleaning the walls. As soon as you start cleaning the walls,

you cannot stop. It's an endless job. And then by the time you got to the end of cleaning the walls, the walls are dirty again at the beginning as well. Well, then you start to notice the roof and you're like, oh, I really need to clean those marks off the roof. Do you know a guy we knew once he was a

water blaster and he was working with a younger gentleman who was thirsty during morning tea. And so he went to get a drink out of the water blaster, straight into his mouth, blew his tonsils out of his mouth. Apparently that's a true story. True story. Are you kidding? Apparently.

I mean, he might have been lying to us when he told the story, but he rang up and told us the story. Lewiston's tonsils ended up on the ground. Not a smart move. Apparently. I mean, he might have been lying to us when he told this story, but he rang up and told us the story, yeah. So, yeah. Lewiston's tonsils ended up on the ground. Yeah. Not a smart move. That's what happens when she gets up and water blasts. I need to water blast my insides out.

They're dirty. I've done everything else. Just keep going. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono, good morning. It has just gone six o'clock. You're with Jono and Ben on The Hits. Good morning. It has just gone six o'clock. You're with Jono and Ben on The Hits on a Tuesday morning.

And again, it's the last day that, you know, the rest of everyone outside of Auckland will be in level three. They're going to level two plus or level two delta. The distance is just getting bigger and bigger. And we just stay the same. We're stuck here looking out the window longingly at what, you know, whatingly at, you know, you go live your life. You know, on a plus side this morning, I just figured something out in the car, and I don't know if this happens in all cars.

You know, when you're changing lanes and you use the indicator, if you just tap the indicator, it just does like a three second tick-tock, tick-tock. So you don't have to pull down your indicator fully to change lanes? I don't even know this was a thing. Really?

I've never used that function before. It's good, isn't it? I just keep changing lanes on the motorway all the way to work just so I can keep using the tick-tock. Just give three little gentle ones and you don't actually have to maneuver the indicator back. There you go. So that's a positive note, Ben. Oh, that's great. There's some good news in the world.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, definitely. There is a God. Yeah. Hey, we've got. Yeah, definitely. There is a God. Yeah. Hey, we've got a really fun show for you today. $5,000 up for grabs as we normally do at 7.45 with our game Five Words for 5K. And we tell you how you can win with our new TV show. It starts Thursday night on TVNZ2, 8 o'clock.

And you could be winning $500 cash each week. And Jack Potts will tell you how on the show. It is the hits. You got John on bed. The A to Z of New Zealand. We are calling every town and city in New Zealand. We made it our mission to call every town and city alphabetically and to learn about each place as we call.

And it feels like we've been in the M's for a very long time. A lot of M's. A lot of M's. And a lot of K's too in Aotearoa. But hey, we'll get there. We'll get there. We'll battle on through until we get to the end of this thing. And today we're heading to Morrinsville.

Not to be confused with Morronsville, Ben, where I was my birthplace. In the Waikato, its name, the town's byline is Cream of the Country in Morrinsville. Population of 4,000. And also the birthplace of our Prime Minister. Jacinda Ardern came sliding out of the birth canal of wonderful Morrinsville. A population of 4,000 and also the birthplace of our Prime Minister. Jacinda Ardern came sliding out of the birth canal of a wonderful Morrinsville. And we're joined by Nigel now at this early hour from the Information Centre.

Morning, Nig. Oh, g'day, John. How are you? I'm doing well, Nigel. Hopefully we haven't caught you off guard. No, it's all right, mate. Yeah, no, I'm quite happy. We've phoned Morrinsville. We're phoning every town and city in New Zealand, Nigel, in Aotearoa,

and we're up to the M's. It's mighty Morrinsville, home to Aunty Cindy. That's dead right. That's dead right. She's a Morrinsville girl, no doubt about that. Yeah, right. And the fish and chip shop, she works there? Yes, yep, yep.

Just down the road from us here too, no? She's worked on the main street. We actually filmed something with her in a fish and chip shop before she was Prime Minister, and boy, she could sling her way around a deep fryer. She knew what she was up to. And Morrinsville, now I actually drove through Morrinsville not long ago for the first time.

They've got a huge cow in Morrinsville, like a fake sort of fibreglass cow, like massive. Yes, that's Mabel. It's our sort of centerpiece. It's like 61 cows in town, part of our herd of cows artwork, just to sharpen up the main street, bring people in, and celebrate the dairy industry. That's awesome.

It's a class, yeah. There's 60 cows in the town of the same? Yeah, 60 of them, and all different sort of colors and designs and so forth, celebrating families and businesses in town. That's lovely. The huge community project's been fantastic. Ben Boyce has got a fibreglass cow in his backyard, don't you? I am not quite as big as the main one, but I have actually.

But it's not looking as good. Like, I keep going, oh, it's a summer project, I need to paint it. But I haven't so far. The only times I've been to Morrinsville, and this isn't meant to be a dig in anyway, it's always ended up being by accident. And you're like, oh, I'm in Morrinsville now. Do you find that?

Because there's a cut. There's a cut when you're travelling from down the North Island back to the top of the North Island. There's kind of a route that you don't know you're taking, but all of a sudden you're in Morrinsville. That's right. Well, we are the centre of the Waikato here. We're close to everywhere. We're also the dairy capital of New Zealand as well. So hard to miss us now, John O.

We're a growing town, 15 minutes from Hamilton, 15 minutes from the university. So great location. You won't miss us now, I can tell you that. What's one thing we need to do if we come to Morrinsville? Just see the cows, go to the art gallery. I take back that question. You answered that in great detail. Well, you've got to come to the Morrinsville? He just said he'd see the cows, go to the art gallery. Oh, yeah, true. You did say, I'll take back that question. You answered that in great detail. Well, you've got to come

to the Morrinsville fireworks, the extravaganza, and it's one of the last public displays in the country. It had 8,000 people there last year. It's awesome. They've got Ben Teal fireworks. He did the World Cup fireworks.

It's a fantastic display. It brings everybody out and into town, and that's something to come and visit Morrinsville, absolutely. Sounds awesome. I'm going to move there. Good man.

Well, we've got about 40% of the houses in town are less than 10 years old. It's a growing town. It's a whole heap of, it's a growing young town, too. That's an important thing. Our rugby club's got four teams in it, senior, senior Bs, under 85s and Colts. Schools are bursting. It's a really cool, dynamic place. Yeah, under-85s and Colts. Schools are bursting. It's a really cool, dynamic place. Yeah, get over to Morrinsville.

Jeez, I'll tell you what, we could not have phoned a more ideal person to advertise Morrinsville. I know. Good man, good man. Yeah, wonderful information there, Nige. Thank you very much. Look after yourself. Have a good day.

Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. 6.26 on your Tuesday morning. Now, everyone out of Auckland school. School's starting back up on Thursday. We were just discussing that, weren't we? Is everyone going to be back to their normal routines? Yeah, well, I guess it will be starting to happen again.

Did you see, there was a photo of London. It was pretty much out of lockdown now, and it's London out of lockdown, and it was a six lane motorway just gridlocked for kilometres. Back to that again. The meme was like put London back or something.

It was some funny little meme. I don't know. I'm not going to read it out. You can go find it on the internet. We could remember it though. You connect the dots. Well I haven't quite connected the dots. I don't know what the meme was. There's the settings there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can think of some witty little catchphrase there, Ben.

Check it on a meme. While you're doing homeschooling for the kids at the moment, if there are any kids listening, we've got something pretty cool. Check it out today in today's New Zealand Herald. Jono and Ben's homeschool. It's an activity page right now, and basically surprise money out for grabs as well. So you can get it online at thehitstockco.nz,

some colouring competitions, some other activities as well. You can colour us in. If you could do me a favour and not give me such a blotchy white-pink complexion, maybe just a nice tanned hue. You know, something. Just make me look better. Please, if possible. You can check it out right now at the New Zealand Herald

or online at thehitstockco.nz. Do some homeschooling with us and you can win some prizes. I've been talking about the kids. My kids are doing their homeschool, a lot of fitness activities. Your children getting sent, you know. I had one last week I mentioned where Oscar, my son, had to put toilet paper on his head and bend down, lie on his back and then get back up.

It filled great 60, 70 minutes. It was wonderful. Yesterday, it was as many steps as he could do. 7,500 steps he pulled off. Wow. Yesterday it was as many steps as he could do. 7,500 steps he pulled off. Wow! But he was counting them. Oh, really? In his head. Oh, no. So I was like, how are these steps going?

These sound a little bit... Very shaky. It is the hits. You've got John Owen Benn. It's Rita Ora. It is the hits. General Events 631. Are they engaged? Rita Ora and Tucker Whites. We still don't know.

We still don't know for sure. I was doing a bit of a deep dive on Rita's Instagram account here, followed by Ben Boyce. She's here on the page. Bowden Barrett as well. He's keeping up to date with the area. A lot of New Zealanders invested in this relationship. Very, very much so.

It's a very sophisticated shot. She's very glamorous, Rita Aurora, but a few scrolls down, she's having lunch with Taika. So it's still on. Lovely. That's what I like to hear. Love the Cabanara pasta for lunch I'm looking at here. Some nice roast vegetables

too, seasoned vegetables. So that's the update on Taika and Rita as of today. That's good. Scrolling through your feed. All right, time now for all the news from overnight. He's been marooned on a topical island, feeding on nothing but current events and his stomach lining,

and now he's going to present the news to you. Now, last night on One News, there was a bit of commotion, actually. There was a live interview going on, and the camera person got knocked over in the middle of it and it crossed back to Wendy Petrie in the studio, who was understandably a bit shocked by all that was going on. Have a listen. You know, the hazards are potentially quite high for...

Oh, I'm very sorry. Are you okay? Okay, that wasn't good. I hope that the cameraman is okay, and hopefully we will be able to come back to Professor Sean Hendy. Oh, that's dramatic. There's a lot of screaming and commotion going on. There's some sort of chase going on now.

I feel like, yeah, what I read online afterwards, it seems like the camera people were caught up in something else. They didn't really see what was going on. Oh, so it wasn't people pranking the live cross. No, no, it wasn't people just caught up in something else. And, yeah, fortunately everyone's okay at the end of it. But, yeah, very dramatic, you know. What was the, so what was going on?

Who was chasing who? Let's speculate. What was happening? I don't know. Was there a thief? I don't know. I don't know. Why are you speculating?

In the clip you do see a little kid running before the camera gets knocked down. What was happening? I don't know. Was there a thief? I don't know. I don't know. Why are you speculating? In the clip, you do see a little kid running before the camera gets knocked down. Who was the kid doing? Was the kid thieving? No, he was just running. Why do you think? Why are you going to class? I don't know. I'm just speculating.

It's our job. It's our job to speculate. Our job is to say the facts. And the fact is... Was the lady screaming, thief, thief, thief? No, she wasn't. No, I don't know what was going on they haven't said oh clearly they haven't seen what was going on because they could have they just said hey we're caught up in something that wasn't to do with us and um well glad everyone's

okay yeah the lady actually had to be taken to hospital everyone's not okay but she is okay like that was more of a precaution as well as a question to the camera as well so just really specific timing yeah pure coincidence that was during the middle of a precaution as well. It was a big question to the camera as well. So just really specific timing. Yeah. Pure coincidence. That was during the middle of a live cross. Well, Wendy handled that well. Yeah, I know.

I would have been panicking. I know. I would have just sat there like a stunned mullet. You would have been like, what the heck's going on? And of course. I'd be like, I heard there's a thief chasing. And if you missed it yesterday, the levels were announced again. The new levels.

We've got our level song, so we thought we'd bring it back up level one we can have lots of fun level two there's a little less you can do level three you start panicking level the f*** is a level five? No one told me about that s***. I completely forgot we did that. Yeah, right. Where was that from? That was from a while ago. So there you go. I thought it was important to bring it back because there's been a new level announcement.

We're going to level two for everyone outside of Auckland from midnight tonight. But it's level two. It's basically level two plus. Level two delta, they're calling it. So the face masks must be worn inside. You would have heard from most public venues, including shops, malls, and public spaces. Schools outside of Auckland operating again on Thursday.

And new rules on everyone should be scanning in at level two, as well as a limit of now 50 people for hospitality and events. No longer 100 inside. So that includes funerals, I imagine, 50 people. Yeah. God, you feel sorry for people who have lost loved ones during these times, don't you? They can't mourn. Correctly.

Yeah, and people having weddings as well. I imagine it'd be the same thing, right? We spoke to a lady yesterday who's cancelled, COVID has cancelled their wedding or postponed their wedding four times. They're on to organising the fifth one. Crazy. I know, fifth one. Crazy. I know. I know.

Yeah. And that is... I told you it was crazy, that thief in that live cross you said. I don't know. Why are you saying it's a thief? Anyway, I'll leave it there. And that is scrolling to your feed. It is the hits.

Drax Project Toto. It is the hits John Owen Ben, 6.38, good morning Now the government is set to announce today Whether it's secured more COVID-19 vaccines To keep up with the huge demand that's going on at the moment I noticed they didn't really get into vaccine chat yesterday In the press conference

No that's right, we have the whole vaccine chat covered All the vax propaganda, don't you worry about that bad boys And I heard today, I am pitching for this have the whole vaccine chat covered, all the vax propaganda. Don't you worry about that, Ben Boyce. And I heard today, I am pitching for this, that Jacinda and Ashley both re-enact a live performance of this song at the 1pm press conference today. We've taken it upon ourselves to push out our

pro-vax stance. It was just meant to be a funny song. I've got a stance on this. I was like, controversial. Are we getting vaccinated? Sure, definitely. But we just meant to be making a funny song. Ben's like, I've got a stance on this. I was like, controversial. Are we getting vaccinated? Sure, definitely. But we just meant to be making a funny song. Yeah, that's right. And it's proudly in association with no one at all. No one wants to be associated with this.

Don't tell the Backstreet Boys. But Backstreet's back. Everybody, yeah. Vax your body, yeah. Everybody, yeah. Vax your body. Yeah. Everybody. Yeah. Vax your body right. Vax streets back alright.

We won't run out of vaccine. The worst case scenario is we go back to the plan, which was still 350,000 doses a week going out. Oh my god, I'm vaxxed again. Oh still 350,000 doses a week going out. Oh my God, I'm vaxxed again. Two shots of Pfizer stabbed in my skin. Got a question for you, better answer now. Will I become a 5G cell tower? No.

Am I eligible? Yeah. Am I due a song? Maybe. Am I sexual? Not relevant. And Everybody, yeah Yeah Vax your body, yeah Yeah Everybody, yeah Vax your body right Vax streets back, alright Fellows should be charging the government for that. Tax-funded propaganda. Maybe if we get sued by someone, they can pay for that then,

as that sounds. You can check out the video too. We've got it on the Hits Breakfast Instagram page as well. Thank you, Juliet, for producing a wonderful video. That's okay. Thank you for producing a wonderful parody for me to work with. All right, we've got some Spying Salmon news not too far away. Yeah, there's a bit of drama with the Pussycat Dolls

and a potential reunion tour. I'll fill you in on all the details before seven. All right, it is 6.41. You got the hits? Spy, know what's up? Spy.co.nz. Here to tell it like it is, and if she can't tell it like it is,

she'll just make it up and pretend to tell it like it is. Juliet, what's happening? So, Australian actor Hugh Jackman, he has mourned the death of his father, who unfortunately, very sadly, passed away on Father's Day on Sunday in the early hours of the morning, peacefully. He was 84 years old, and Hugh has kind of described him as his rock. So basically, back when Hugh was growing up, his mother sort of abandoned the family

when they were living in australia and returned to england and so he kind of described that his dad was the one that you know taught him about loyalty and sticking with your family and he was his rock um so really sad news that that has happened um since then since he was a young boy his mum has sort of reunited with him, and it's all good now. Yeah, but his dad raised him, sold her father. Yeah, he was his guy. Sad, isn't it? Very sad.

And on Father's Day, of all days. I know, I know. Hugh Jackman seems like one of those celebs where you're like, jeez, you're a lovely guy. He does, doesn't he? And every time you hear other people talk about him, it's the same thing. It just seems like a lovely guy. Remember he came here and he did something here. He was performing something. Everything you say. And every time you hear other people talk about him, it's the same thing. It just seems like a lovely guy. Remember he came here and he did something here. He was performing something.

That's right. From The Greatest Showman he did something. I think he was doing some show changes and stuff. He just swooped in for a morning for some reason. Do you know what? I was stitched up to go to that press conference and wear one of the outfits from The Greatest Showman and interview him at the press conference. Did you interview him?

I had to, yes. This was on the old show and I was so scared. We don't talk about the old show. But he was lovely. He was so nice. He told me I won the day because I was dressed. Did you guys like the bearded lady from the movie?

That's what we would have made you dress up. That's so true. She was awesome. She was a's so true. She was awesome, that character. She was Kiwi too. She was awesome. Now I'm starting to piece it together because she was the connection to him performing here. Is that what it was?

And she performed with him here. She did. The news story's relaying in my mind. There we go. So you had Hugh Jackman and Tony Street on the same radio show. Too much lovely. Too much lovely. Too much lovely. And the Pussycat Dolls, there's a bit of controversy around this.

They were supposed to be doing a reunion tour before COVID struck. Then obviously that got delayed. And the woman who put the Pussycat Dolls together in the first place and was kind of managing this reunion tour is suing lead Nicole Scherzinger because she's pulling out of it. And basically, the reason for this is Scherzinger wanted to have full creative control and have, I think it was like an 80% share

of all the Pussycat Dolls, you know, profits in the future if they continued on. This Pussycat wanted all the milk. Yeah, compared to a smaller share in the province. So what, do the other pussycat dolls get other dregs? Do they get the, really? Yeah, yeah. So Nicole, I think she initially had 50%, and then she wanted 80%,

and then she was like, nah, well, I'm pulling out if I can't have that. And now they're going to court. Well, I mean, it's kind of a Destiny's Child situation. Who are the pussycat dolls without Nicole Scherzinger? Really? Well, she was probably the one that went on to do the most stuff afterwards. She's the one you know, kind of thing. She dated Lewis Hamilton.

She did The Voice. Mars or one of those. She did some stuff. She's the Ben of the John O'Benn. That's right. He's gone. What is it? What is it?

Just a weird bald man sitting there rambling to himself. So who knows if that tour will go ahead What is it? What is it? Just a weird bald man sitting there rambling to himself. So who knows if that tour will go ahead with, or if it will be as successful without Nicole Scherzinger? I can answer that question. Matter of fact, what do you reckon? Probably not. No, yeah. Sad to say, but kind of how it is.

Well, you've got to back yourself when you're going in for 80%. Yeah. You know your worth. Very true. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After seven on the show, we reward another ISO legend, someone who's doing great work for New Zealand,

keeping us going. If you want to nominate someone, head to thehits.co.nz. I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. Got me in love. On the hits. Morning. It's just gone seven o'clock here with Jono and Ben. Got me in love. On the hits.

Morning. It's just gone 7 o'clock here with Jono and Ben on the hits. Last day of lockdown for those out of Auckland as they head to level 2 at midnight tonight. And if you're looking for something to do today, well, you could try and break this guy's world record. Daniel Scali from Australia. He's got the world record now for the longest plank. You know, the abdominal plank position. You know, when you lie with your sort of elbows on the ground and you're lying.

If I get to 30 seconds on a plank, I feel like I've achieved greatness. Well, yeah, but do you know how long he did it for? Nine hours and 30 minutes and one second. I mean, how long would that feel like you were? Why did he pull out at the one second mark? He's like, that's it, I've had enough. Done for the day. The longest time in the abdominal plank position.

Yeah, so there you go. I was just reading that. It's, yeah, incredible, eh? How long can you plank for? Yeah,

I feel like you're setting me up for something. I'm not trying to set you up. Oh, he's a planker. It's too low. The fruit's too low there, Ben. You know my high brows. Well,

I've never tried to go more than probably like a minute or anything like that. Okay, well try and plank through this next song. The remainder of the song. Yes! Plank, plank, plank, plank, plank, plank.

I'll try, I guess. Yeah, all right. I'm not going to do it for nine hours, that's for sure. Well, can you do it for... What are we playing next, Jude? Believer. It's three minutes and ten. Can you do it?

It'll be bloody hard, won't it? Can you do it through an Imagine Dragons song? Oh, I can try. I can try. There's the hits bloody hard, weren't you? You're doing it through an Imagine Dragons song. I'm going to try. I'm going to try. There's the hats you got, Jono and Ben. You're on the hats, Jono and Ben. The last day for everyone outside of Auckland to be in level three. Oh, legends.

You guys are legends. Oh, you're legends. Jono and Ben's ISO legends. Thanks to Skinny. You're a legend. But no matter the level, there's still lockdown legends. There's still people keeping this country moving. Essential service workers doing some great things out there.

Yeah, really are. And what I'm thinking is too, Ben, what do we do content-wise now? A large part of the country is going to go back to normality. Tomorrow, there's a small portion that's going to be still stuck at level four. What do you do? Like how much airtime do you give the lockdown as opposed to normal life, day-to-day life? This is a conundrum that us essential workers are having to go through. But you can nominate the hitstockco.nz, any legends, lockdown legends who have been helping New Zealand keep moving through these crazy wild times. And we're going to phone someone right now.

Thanks to our friends at Skinny. They get a $500 pack and save voucher. Yeah, six-month Skinny credit as well, which is awesome. Wonderful prize. Thank you to Skinny. Our friends at Skinny, happy, happy, ah-ooh. And we're heading through now to today's nominee. Works at the jet park.

Yeah. Wow. Hello, Ben speaking. Oh, sorry, Ben. Yeah. Wow. Hello, Ben speaking. Oh, sorry, Ben. It's Jono and Ben calling here. I'm sorry to wake you up, buddy. Oh, that's all right. It's never all right.

You're saying it's all right. It's never all right. Hey, you've been nominated by Dion, who's your flatmate. He said you've been doing amazing work for New Zealand. We're doing something called Lockdown Legends, rewarding people who are doing amazing work. You work at the jet park? Yeah, I do, yeah.

What do you do there, mate? I'm just kind of like a hotel assist. I just help the guests out there. Well, I'm sure you're doing not just help the guests, you're helping people who have got COVID and you're really putting yourself in the thick of it. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty full on, eh? I can imagine.

You're seeing it firsthand, you know? Yeah. Just a lot of sick people? Yeah, yeah, a little bit. And I suppose going to work every day, you'd be a little bit anxious. No, not really. Can you just say you are?

No, just for the drama? Yeah, we're pretty used to it now. We've gone through it for quite a long time. Yeah, well, I mean, Jet Park, really. And you've got to give credit to the Jet Park Hotel because from the get-go, the first lockdown, they were all immediately associated with COVID cases, weren't they? And they have ridden this out.

And without the Jet Park, you wouldn't have anywhere for these people to go. Yeah, no, exactly, yeah. Everyone does a great job there. You and the whole team. Yeah, well, it's awesome what you're doing, and we want to reward you with a $500 Pack and Save voucher and six months of skinny credit, just to say thank you for

everything you're doing. Awesome, thank you very much for that. Nominated by your flatmate Dion, who probably has an ulterior motive that he will reap the rewards of this $500 supermarket voucher. Yeah, yeah. I was thinking that as well. Yeah, smart play from Dion.

You want to be labelling all those items in the fridge, mate. Yeah, I will. Ben, nice to talk to you, buddy. And thank you so much for, you know, literally putting your body on the line each day for New Zealand. Awesome. Thanks, guys. No worries. If you want to nominate someone like Ben, who is a lockdown legend,

head to the hitstock.nz. We could be hooking them up with skinny credits, some Pack and Save vouchers. And if you're on skinny, you get a bonus 60 gigs of data to all their capped wireless broadband customers right now. Taking over all your favourite song intros, Jono and Ben, the hits. It is the hits.

Jono and Ben, the 7.26 Tuesday morning, the last day of everyone outside of Auckland being at level three before they go to level two delta, as they're calling it. I kind of feel like here, you know, we're at Auckland, we're like kind of, you said it the other day, it was like you're the guy at home and the girlfriend's gone overseas on their OE.

It's kind of like that sort of situation, isn't it? You haven't quite come to terms with it yet. You're sort of sitting in misery. You haven't left the house. You know, you've got to get back out there at some point. Get out socialising. Your mates are going to come around and be like, it's all right, come on.

But I'm looking at her social media. She's in Croatia. She's doing all this great stuff. She's at the outback. She's drinking snake bites. She's with some muscly Russian guy on the back of a horse. Maybe they just see he's a tour guide or something. Even watching the news last night,

I felt like they were really rubbing it in our Auckland faces. I'm not even from Auckland. I live here now. You're Masterton. Yeah. You really go out of your way to say that you're from Masterton too, especially when we're out of Auckland. No, I'm not. They're like, where do you live?

Ben's like, in Auckland, but I'm from Masterton. Originally from Masterton. Yeah, but last night they were, you know, they were talking about their new level changes. And you're like, oh, yeah, I get it. And then they went out to people at level, you know, out of Auckland at level three going, what are you going to enjoy most about level two? What are the things you're going to be doing tomorrow, you know, when you can do it? Like we know what you're going to be doing.

You don't need to rub it in our chops. And I was like, think of it. You know, I put some of these together and a quick montage for you because, you know, we're here in Auckland. We're sitting here watching you from the other side. I'm excited for the gyms to open. I'm excited to go see my friends. Being able to go to a pub and have a drink.

I'll go out, do some shopping, and probably go for a movie. Probably actually being able to sit in restaurants and enjoy food out of the dining room. That would be quite nice. It's us here in Auckland. We've got our face pressed against the window. Our greasy faces are leaving a mark on the window.

We're going to have to clean that later on. I'll have plenty of time to get around to that. You feel like you're just watching everyone out there going, oh, it's really brought the mood down. But I did. I felt like that last night. They're all, oh, I'm going to go to the movies. I'm going to go to the pub.

Well, if you thought that brought the mood down, next we're going to talk to a man who's been in a coma for a week. That sounds like a bad joke, but that's actually what's happening. That's true. That's actually quite fascinating. Maybe this show is just a reflection of Auckland. Just turn it on. Next week we'll be like, hey guys, that's

Harry Styles. What's the point? Yeah Might as well play some more St. Peter's Jingles Here's the song You got John O'Byrne Five words for 5k on the hits You're only five words away from a massive payday

It is our Game of Words Association We play it every morning on the show $5,000 up for grabs If your words match with our words We play this game every day and we've always said, you know, the ethos of this program is we're not here to change the game, just here to play it. Put us on for a bit

coach, we won't cause a fuss and take us off. Or I would be middling when they do that review in the paper the next day. They had a solid game. Let's get Georgia on from Wellies. How are you, Georgia? I'm good, thank you. Knocking on the door of level two. Yeah, so excited, oh my gosh. What's the first thing you're going to do are you, Georgia? I'm good, thank you. Knocking on the door of level two. Yeah, so excited. Oh my gosh. What's the first thing you're going to do when you're allowed?

Send my kids to school in kinder. And not pick them up for three weeks? Yeah, something like that. They're your problem now. I imagine there's a lot of parents of the same boat, Georgia. Has it been a tough lockdown for you? Not too much this time. The first one was harder. It was kind of a bit better this time. And do you work as well? I don't. I am the stay-at-home mum,

and my partner is the breadwinner. Yeah, right. Okay, so it's been a busy household in Welly for Georgia. Let's see if we can add $5,000 to that fuddy. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Ben, please. Oh, Ben Boyce back in there. He also uses the soundproof booth as a closet at the moment.

He's storing a lot of his personal possessions in there. Sounds like I'm making it up, but that's actually fact. He's also got the skeletons, too, from his closet at home. He keeps those in the soundproof booth. Georgia, let's win you some cash. Okay. What you've got to do is match your five words with Ben's five words. How hard can it be?

Not hard. I can see him taking a big sigh in there. He looks depressed. You're making me sad. Turn around. Either way, you're bringing the vibes down. All right, let's do it, Georgie. The first word that comes into your head when I say raffle.

Ticket. Raffle ticket. Same one as me there. Ju? Yep, same as me. Raffle, ticket. Same one as me there. Ju? Yep, same as me. Word two is eat. Food. Yeah.

Georgia playing a quick, confident game. So far, I'm two from two with you, Georgia. Violin is the third word this morning. Violin. Instrument. Mate, you should have sent me into the sound Are you matching too? Oh me, yeah

So good We've both got three from three with you so far First word that comes into George's head when I say grip Grip Tight Tight? Oh yeah Yeah, tight grip, yep

Nice And the fifth word Veggie Tight. Oh, yeah. Yeah, tight grip, yep. Nice. And the fifth word, veggie. Veggie soup. Veggie soup, did you say? Yeah. Oh. Very good.

You've played a wonderful game. Who are the little sweet voices in the background, Georgia? Those are the kids that need to go back to school, isn't it? How are you going, kids? All right? Say hi, guys. Hi, guys. Oh, you've been driving mum crazy? Yep.

Yep. Looking forward to getting back to kindy? Yeah. Fantastic free-flowing banter there between Jono and the kids. I should host that show. What does the kids say? The darndest things. All right, Ben Boyce, welcome back.

Hey, I'm back. First word. Felt like I wasn't in there for very long. No, Georgia played a solid, quick game. Okay, I'll try and do the same. Georgia's on a mission. She's got three kids she wants to get back to kindergarten. Yeah, so hurry up, level two.

Raffle. Ticket. Eat. I see what you did there. Food. I think it's got to start with F because it's on... You know when you write them down and read the one that... Yeah, no, I get that now.

Yeah, that's how the game works. Violin. Instrument. Oh! Talk to me, Georgia. Use those sweet lips. What's happening, mate? How you feeling?

Oh my God, Ben, please. There's already tears, Ben. Oh, no. I really want to... Grip. Hold. Ah! That was tight.

Oh, yeah, okay. Tight grip. Holding on something, yeah. And veggie. Soup. Oh! Oh! No!

Four out of five. Georgia. Ben! We need to do this again. Is that your husband, Georgia? What's your name, mate? Hold up. Sorry.

Hold up. What do you want to say to Ben? You've had a tough game, mate. Oh, I tried, but I'm so good. I can't wait to shake your hand. Hopefully we get to do it again. You guys are awesome and I really wish we could have won you $5,000. I tell you what, since you guys can, why don't we send you some hell pizza? You can have some takeaways for you

and the fam, okay? Thank you, mate. Thank you, Polder and Georgia. Wonderful game they played. They played really well. Back tomorrow, 7.45, five words due. What's happening in Spy? David Beckham's son is following in his footsteps.

More next. Spy. The What's Up. Spy.co.nz. All right. She's gone straight to the horse's mouth to get this news and also asked the horse for some of that medicine that Joe Rogan's taking too. What's happening in Spy, Ju?

So, Romeo Beckham, who's the 19-year-old son of David Beckham, is following in his dad's footsteps and he's signed his first professional football contract with a club called Fort Lauderdale, which is based in Miami, and it's kind of after doing a little bit of research, it's basically kind of the sister team of

the club that David Beckham co-owns called Into Miami. So, he's part of the same team essentially as David Beckham co-owns called Into Miami. So he's part of the same team, essentially, as David Beckham. He updated his Instagram. There are two football teams in Miami. Yeah, so I think... Seems like an excessive amount of football teams for Miami. Romeo's team is kind of like the reserve team,

so it's more the up-and-coming one. Looking at a photo of Romeo, jeez, he's a wonderful mix of the genetics between Victoria and David, isn't he? I know, I know. What a dish. I know, it's crazy. Is he in your demograph, Juliet? He's 19, so I mean, the older I get...

Be a little toy boy or something for you. Yeah, I think the older I get, the more acceptable it would be and the more realistic maybe. Would it be weird now, you 23 and him 19? I think it could be possible. more realistic way. Would it be weird now you're 23 and him 19? I think it could be possible. Yeah, right. But if I was like 19 and he was, you know, still kind of a tween, that would be weird. That would be weird.

If you were 19 dating a 13-year-old, yeah, that'd be odd. Yeah, that'd be weird. But, you know, with age it becomes acceptable, so I reckon there's a shot for me there. Hey, well, good on him. Yeah. No pressure. No pressure for him getting into football.

You almost would not want to get into football. It's like if Sienna, your daughter, gets into radio. How is she going to live under the shadow that her father has created? Yeah, so true. And Piers Morgan has been in the news a little bit recently for being, his initial

remarks about Meghan Markle received over 50,000 complaints which he then stormed off. You might remember this. He stormed off Good Morning Britain. Has she said anything about you since she cut you off? I don't think she has, but yet you continue to trash her. Okay, I'm done with this.

No, no, no. Sorry. No, sorry. Do you know what? That's pathetic. You can track me, but not my... No, no, no. I'm being...

Sorry. Here we go. It was a great storm off, too. Yeah, yeah. Love a TV storm off. It was a great storm off, too. Yeah, yeah. Love a TV storm off. Oh, it created a lot of chat online. And so he was cleared of all of his complaints from the TV regulator. This was something that he said, which was quite funny, but, you know.

Good day for free speech. Very bad day for Princess Pinocchio. Princess Pinocchio is Meghan Markle's new nickname, according to Piers Morgan. But he's had an encounter with Prince Harry just yesterday. So this is a bit of karma for him. So Prince Harry gave a speech virtually at the GQ Awards, and Piers Morgan was in attendance. But he left mid-show to avoid listening to it.

But on his way out, he walked straight into a window and injured himself, cussing his eye and feeling a bit dazed afterwards. You never want to be the one walking into the glass door or the window, do you? Because it's, for those watching it, it's hilarious. And you don't want to let on that it actually hurts,

you know, because you're embarrassed by those situations. You're like, yeah, I'm good, I'm good. You just want to go away and cry. He's the type of guy that would have a lot of pride and be like, no, I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm walking off. I see you, see you. Yeah, nothing hurts as much as the embarrassment. So when Ben, we've mentioned multiple times,

fell down five sets of stairs at the Warriors game in front of a packed grandstand. Five sets. And I'm like, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. You keep walking. I'm like, I wasn't fine. Bruised body, bruised ego. Act confident and no one will question you is my favourite saying.

And that is Spy. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock, we'll tell you how you can win big with our new TV show. It starts Thursday night on TVNZ2. It's called Jono and Ben Good Sports. We'll tell you how after 8. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the Hits.

Kia ora, good morning. Just gone 8 o'clock. You're on the Hits. It feels like the last. Just gone 8 o'clock. You're on the Hits. It feels like the last day we were all together. Well, kind of together. Yeah, everyone outside of Auckland going to level 2 Delta as of 11.59 tonight. You do have the tone of a guy who's just been broken up with. And now you're just living together just for logistics purposes until they move out.

I understand too. I get it. I get it. I could have done things differently, but I didn't. Could have been more fun. Could have tried more stuff. Yeah. A lot of talk about the vaccines as well in the news.

Chris Hipkins apparently was talking on TV this morning about the new shipment. They're waiting on a new shipment. It was a little bit cagey about the details. I'm sure he's checking the track and trace. We did interview him once and he was. He was literally checking the tracking on it and he was waiting at the wharf for it to arrive. I'm still waiting for something from Culture Kings in

Australia. He's still waiting for vaccines. We've all got our problems with things to arrive. And because there is so much news about the vaccines right now and everyone getting vaccinated we thought we'd bring Vax Street back. No one asked for it. No. No one asked for them to come back. And especially not in parody form.

Yeah. So the Backstreet Boys are back as the Backstreet Boys enjoy. Everybody, yeah. Back's your body, yeah. Everybody, yeah. Back's your body, right. Backstreet's body, yeah. Vax your body right. Vax streets back, all right. We won't run out of vaccine.

The worst case scenario is we go back to the plan, which was still 350,000 doses a week going out. Oh my God, I'm vaxxed again. Two shots of Pfizer stabbed in my skin. Got a question for you, better answer now Will I become a 5D cell tower? No Am I eligible? Yeah

Am I Jew or soul? Maybe Am I sexual? Not relevant And so report my Blue light symptoms from the second shot Everybody Yeah

Yeah Vax your body Yeah Everybody Yeah Vax your body race. Back streets, back all race. From the socially distantly safe two metres.

Stay away. This is New Zealand's Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Hey, Thursday night in two days' time, 8 o'clock on TVNZ2. We've got a new TV show, Jono and Ben, Good Sports. You can rest assured we're going to be banging on about it until it starts on air. Oh, really proud of the show. We go around New Zealand meeting some really, really cool people

who take part in the most unique sports New Zealand has to offer. People that play Quidditch, people that play, well, take part in chilli eating, robot battles, wrestling, strong people competitions, barefoot water skiing, it's all in there. I love how you avoided saying strong man competitions there. Strong people competitions. Yeah, well, strong people is 2021, mate. People can be strong.

People have more walks of life. But this Thursday when it kicks off, if you do watch it, there's a bit of a watch and win campaign going on. Just text your name through to 4487. You can win $500 the following day if we call your name out. And you phone back within 60 seconds. If not, the prize jackpots. That's right.

And one of the first sports, there's four sports in the first episode that we try and take part in. And one we went to in the Wairarapa. We went to Ekatahuna. And they have lawnmower racing, which are like souped-up lawnmowers that go fanging around the track. And when we first arrived, we spoke to one of the locals who does it, and you had a valid point. There was no real seatbelts. Have you injured yourself?

I've rolled. What happens when you roll? This sits on top of you. It looks quite heavy. No, you get thrown off because you're not strapped in. Have you heard of seatbelts? No, we don't have seatbelts. No, why would you have a seatbelt?

Seems like a silly function to add on. Stupid question. Idiot. You're an idiot in Ekata Huna. Get out of here. But the great man that actually literally has the racetrack on his front lawn on the main road of town is a guy called Alan Gray, and he's with us now, a wonderful person. Good morning, Alan.

Good morning. How are you going? Good. How's the bright lights of Ekata Huna, mate? Oh, it's pretty busy, eh? The truth of money just came in. Just, yeah, have a bit of a yak to you, eh? We're flat-tack here. Yeah, what are you flat-tack doing, Al? Oh, always busy in Eke Tahuna, eh? It's a population of 400. It's crazy busy. Yeah, right. But he hasn't said what he's doing. He's just saying he's busy. Yeah, I imagine lockdown

with Eke Tahuna is probably the same as with lockdown or without lockdown. It's probably the same, right? Pretty much, eh? What we did find interesting, we really drilled down on it too, is it's got, you know, 400-odd people, you're saying there, but an adult shop. Is the adult shop still humming along, Alan?

I believe so. I don't know anything about that, of course. It's for the tourists, apparently. That's what the locals told us. Yeah, no, it was good. You guys called in there and caught up with everyone. Yeah, we did catch up with everyone. Love a wonderful service.

Now, something else that was great that we loved doing was taking on the, to you guys and the locals, in a sport called lawnmower racing. Now, how long have you been doing this? 2017 we started. So, yeah, it started in the backyard. So, yeah, it's carried on from there. And, yeah, it's got to what you're going to see.

Did you just think mowing the lawns was taking too long so you had to turn into a race? No, no, it didn't start like that. Your wife sadly passed away from cancer and you wanted to do this for her, to entertain her. Yeah, we just thought we'd just do it on a fun day. Yeah, we thought we'd bring the entertainment to her. Had a paddock, side the house, a couple of mates of mine, and a few people, and just thought we'll get a half a dozen of them, and we'll do a little bit of lawnmower racing. Now they get up to, what do they get up to now?

Oh, 50, 60k. Yeah, very fast on a lawnmower. I don't know if you've been on a lawnmower at 50 or 60k an hour, but it's an experience. Oh, it's terrifying. Especially when there's lots of other competitors on the track. And now it's grown into something that for people from all over the Wairarapa, they'll come and take part in this.

Yeah, we've got club members from Taranaki, Wairarapa, Wellington, even up in Hawke's Bay now, we've got one up there. But we're over 30 club members in a little town like that. Wow. Now, what I find really interesting, too, is the track, the actual race course, it's in your backyard, which is also on the main road of town as well. Yeah, it started off there, and, yeah, we've maintained it and kept it there. And, if anything, we've actually made it better than just a paddock.

It's a proper racetrack now. Yeah. Is there part of you where you're like, well, I could build a house on that? I could get some apartments? Yeah. You know, a high-rise building? But it's not as much fun, is it? It's awesome.

It's a lot more profitable, though, Al. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it would make a lot of money doing that, but hey, you might as well have a racetrack and you're fun, eh? So you do tip on corners and things like that, and so the lawnmower can end up on top of you. Have you had any bad injuries? Yep, we've had a few. But not bad, bad. Was it you that punched something?

Yeah, we've had a couple of incidents of broken ribs and punched lungs. That's not bad, is it? Well, it sounds like a bad... Yeah, I was terrified by the sport. You'll see it this week on the TV show, but I'm just not cut out for But yeah, no, it's all good. Everyone keeps coming back because their idea is just to have fun. We don't

really want to have accidents, but yeah, little things happen, eh? Tell me, we spoke to you, Al and you pitched for Ben and me to make a return to town in an official capacity to celebrate what? 150 years of Egarahuna.

So yeah, we'd like you guys to come back and be part of the town and the lawnmowers will be going there. There'll be all sorts happening in the town, but it'll be good to see you guys back. Oh, that'd be fun. Whereabouts is this happening? In March 2023. Oh, there we go. It's a long play because Alan said, what are you doing in 2023?

And you can't think of anything in your calendar that's going to be clogging up 2023. We're booked in early. You're booked in early. Yeah, John O'Connor goes, I've signed us up for something. It's in 2023. I don't even know if we're going to be alive in 2023. Alan, it was so nice meeting you

and the rest of the community there. We had such a great time experiencing the sport and finding out the meaning behind why you do it. And I can't wait for everyone to see it this Thursday night, 8 o'clock on TVNZ2. No, thank you guys for coming down. It was really appreciated. We actually, every exposure we get on it, it's good.

We really enjoy it. And bloody awesome day, wasn't it? It was. And Ben always says every little bit of exposure is good, but, you know, when he had to answer the police that time I said there was only a little exposure too. Alan, lovely to talk to you again

my friend and we'll look forward to seeing you back in the thriving metropolis of Ekitahuna at some stage. We'll see you then. You can catch Alan and us taking on Lawnmower Racing 8 o'clock on Thursday night TVNZ2. Jono and Ben Good Sports and as Jono said before you can win $500 cash each week with a watch and win.

It's called bribe money. It is bribe money. It is the hits. 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 hits. The hits. The hits. Now, we spoke about this briefly yesterday on Friday, after the show. my guard was down. Tools down. Yeah. I got pranked by you guys, my friends and colleagues.

Yeah. A brutal prank that involved, long story short, I had- A $50,000 bill. Yeah, basically. It was, yeah, I had to boost something. I've never boosted anything on Instagram. That's to pay money to boost a post on Instagram. Usually because the content is such hot fire, it boosts itself.

He chucked some boost money behind it. Yeah, for something through work as well. And then you got Boss Todd to call up after the show. We're all sitting around with some very important information that the company was in a lot of debt because someone had boosted something wrong and it all sort of pointed fingers at me. Have a listen. Have you got enough to cover it?

It might just bounce, I i've got fifty thousand dollars is this a gag or is this legit so you can't recall anything ben because they're saying here i've been checking ben boyce because what does it say here? He looks sus. Is it a f***ing gag? Is it a f***ing gag? Or is it not? That was the hardest one I've ever had. Up until that point, there was a lot of serious conversation. You were flustered.

You were standing up and down. You were checking your phone. Yeah, I was very confusing. So yeah, you pranked me. You got me. And I left work. I'm a little rattled. Still rattled.

A little bit. But this is what happened. So that was probably about an hour later. pranked me you got me and i left work i'm a little little rattled still rattled a little bit but this is what happened so that was probably about an hour later i was at home and i get a call a phone call and and it was a guy on the phone saying hey um he's like are you waiting on a courier package and i'm like yeah i am actually it was something i've ordered ages ago i understand all the couriers are you know like they're obviously busy with important stuff i was like yeah he goes i think your courier's arrived at my place by mistake i'm like okay and he's like oh it's it's like a it's a rear end part it's like and i was like oh here we go and my name is l yeah and i was like oh yeah

oh yeah here we go and he was like well no it's a rear it's like for the axle rear axle of the car it's like it's a rear end but i was like oh yeah okay yeah and i was like has john i put you up to this you see this to the guy yeah i did and and he was like and he was very confused at that stage but i thought well maybe this is part of the prank because i've just been pranked once i'm like john i'm still going at it every day's pranks given with me i haven't ordered anything for the rear axle like no rear end parts i was even for john i was like this is pretty lowbrow something for my rear end i'm like no but as i haven't ordered anything for the rear axle, no rear end parts. I was even with the vagina. I was like, this is pretty lowbrow. Something for my rear end. I'm like, no.

But I was like, I haven't. And then the more I got into this conversation, the more I realized, oh, my God, this is a genuine person just calling up. Just been abusing over the phone. Whatever, loser. Well, luckily I didn't abuse him, but I was just like, come on, mate. Come on. Come on. And he was very confused by the fact that he was just doing a lovely thing.

Long story short, that wasn't even the thing I ordered. There'd been a mix-up. So what did you order for your rear end? There we go. Was the part yours? No. And it wasn't for him. It was somebody else's package, all right?

But as soon as someone rings up going, oh, you're part, see if you're the rear end. And I was like, oh, this is definitely Jono Pryor's lowbrow comedy. And the poor guy got caught up in the whole prank game. Yeah, and this is the collateral. This is the damage that pranking causes. Even when on a legitimate call, someone's just trying to be nice and say, hey, your thing has arrived in the mailbox. I'm like, it's a prank.

It's a prank. All right, mate, thanks for the prank. He's part of the prank. Well, you know, most relationships are built on love. Ours is built on decades of pranking. Yeah, totally. Distrust. Even after the... I mean, once you've had a digger through your house, the trust is gone.

I understand that. I get where you're coming from, mate. So there you go. There's no coming back. There's no patching up this relationship. No, there's no marriage counselling that can fix this. No, we're moving on. Rise and shine. Time to start the...

Who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jodo and Ben. Last night on TVNZ2, Celebrity Treasure Island was on the first episode of that and it looks like there's more high drama

to come. Have a listen. I miss my mum we are being haunted it was the longest night of my life the honeymoon is over i'm a hugger and these jokers you don't do that as teams implode she's going for the sympathy vote and i'm not here for that boy oh hi oh medic. You watched it last night. What were your first thoughts? It was 21 celebrities up north in New Zealand.

I thought it was kind of a lot like Game of Thrones. There's so many characters. Just so many. How many celebrities? 21 celebrities. There's not even 21 microphones in New Zealand. They're all out to get each other. It's very much like Game of Thrones with celebrities on an island.

And I imagine the drama's going to really, really ramp up as it sounds like it is there right now. Do you reckon that all the celebrities, all 21 of the celebrities, or is it just some people walking their dog along the beach and came to have a little bit of a nosey? They're all celebrities, right? No, but it's just a lot of people there.

So 21's a lot. Yeah, it is a lot. Big numbers. I think they start weeding them down from tonight, though. No, I think that's the thing. They start culling them down from there, from tonight. When's this going to end? 2026?

Eliminating one a week? By the time Auckland's out of lockdown. Well, you enjoyed it, though. You said you really enjoyed the show. Yeah, and tonight, I think, the first elimination. So who will go home? Which is always, you don't want to be that first person to go home in those situations. But then you kind of do, too.

I've done my time. I've done my time. I've got my fee. Walk out of here. Pretended like I did some stuff for charity. That's your attitude. That's why they didn't ask you. I'd be happy to be first off.

Wasn't there a famous story about Mark Ellis who did it back in the 90s or something? That's the rumour, eh? That he was like, yeah, I'll do it, but I have to be first off. Really? Yeah. He's like, I want you to pay me, but I'll be first off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Wow. Great play. Hey, he was sipping on pina coladas in the Fijian resort that afternoon. That was the thing. I think sometimes, you know, because they were overseas back then, you wouldn't be able to fly out immediately, so you probably got a night or a couple of nights at a resort. You know?

You're like, great, I'll go back to the resort. I'm done. Well, I think that's what the rumor was about the whole day. They'd just do a bit of filming on the beach, look like they were struggling, go sleep at the sheraton 90s and stuff yeah back at the 90s but no we spoke to our green yesterday he said no it was full on we all stay in these little huts on the beach and yeah like the huts are really um you know that's probably overselling it they're just kind of like a bit of a shelter yeah shelter basically shelter so they're out

there in the elements and doing it tough no good i was back on tonight yeah it's on 7 30 every night until 2029. Or Auckland's out of lockdown. Whatever comes first. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Going hard and ooly. Go hard, go ooly.

Go hard and ooly. Hard and ooly. Go hard. With Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben. And if you want something for the kids while everyone's in homeschooling today,

then you can check out the New Zealand Herald or go to the hits.co.nz We've got a Jono and Ben homeschool page at the moment, so there's a fun little game you can play, like five words, you can help Jono find Ben in the little maze I'm always trying to find Ben He's always getting lost, he's always trying to get away from me, but I always find him

And a colouring competition as well and if you do the colouring competition, you get someone to take a photo of it, upload it to our Facebook page, and you could win one of three $100 vouchers. Oh, great. Now, listen, homeschooling, I imagine the curriculum fell by the wayside early in the piece,

but the wheels have well and truly come off if you're getting them to colour in Jono and Ben. Well, $100 up for grabs for three people as well, and I like someone. Someone's put you with a great hairstyle on mine as well. I'm looking at some of the entries. I was going to say, extra points if you draw hair on me. That would be fun. You look good.

You look good. You've got lovely long hair in this stuff I've got. I've got sort of cat ears as well. And cat whiskers. Because you're going to add stuff to us as well. We're okay with that. So you can go for that. Yeah, well, let's just be careful about what objects you're adding to.

Yeah. Okay? It's for kids, mate. The kids are, you know, keep careful about what objects you're adding to. Yeah. Okay? You know, just keep it. It's for kids, mate. The kids are, you know. Keep it clean, New Zealand. Well, not you. I know, but I can just imagine one of my mates going, look, look what I did. You know, they texted me this afternoon.

Yeah, okay. All right. Yeah. Now, Ben Boyce, you actually cheated in a colouring competition when you were about 10 years old, didn't you? I said the wrong age. Yeah, you know, like I just said the age bracket. He was 10.

I did that too. And he entered a six-year-old's colouring competition at New World and won a voucher. Yeah, it's a milky bar or something like that. Yeah, you can tell he's guilty. The guilt lives with him. It sits with him. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on the hits.

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