Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: When Admin Run By Dad Goes Wrong!

Episode Date: June 30, 2021

Kia Ora! We discussed Dadmin today and heard some wonderful stories from when dads around the country dropped the ball, or when they were in charge of the admin and it all went wrong. As well as this, we talked about the night show on Newstalk ZB with Marcus Lush. Jono was listening to him last night and noticed something Marcus does that goes against EVERYTHING you're taught in radio. So we tested it out on our show and my god it felt weird! Finally, you may have heard the story floating around about how some kids as young as 11 are vaping. So, we got Dr Kelly Burrows on who is currently studying the effects of vaping as part of a research programme at the University of Auckland. INFORMATIVE AF! Enjoy the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John O and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of John O and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the John O and Ben podcast. Hey guys, Thursday, 1st of July, 2021. J and B, we're back. I'm going to play you some audio today, Ben.

Oh, audio, okay. I went to my son is basketball crazy. Just crazy. And so he wants to learn every facet of the game. So last night I spent three hours at a basketball refereeing course for him, which was really good, actually. So do you become a referee from this as well, or are you just going along supporting him? I was there as collateral

but you kind of learn some stuff along the way Yeah, and full respect to not only basketball referees but all referees. Like hearing this guy had refereed like America at the Olympics like he'd gone to the peak of refereeing just when he breaks down

what he's having to think of the whole time the game's going. How long has that guy been in the key? Three seconds. Okay, you've got to get the ball over halfway in eight seconds. You've got five seconds to throw the ball in. How many fouls has that guy got?

There's just so much running through their head. And then you've obviously got players barking at you when you make a wrong call. You've got the crowd booing. Like any sport. And then you put under scrutiny for big games with television cameras that can slow things down and go, did they get that shot off in time? Did they foul on the thing? You know, all those calls you're making in a

like a, oh, I'm thinking about them. That's the thing, he's like, you know, generally you're only seeing one angle of it, but then over the other side of the field you've got another ref seeing a completely different angle, the crowd sees a different angle, especially the volunteers who do the kids' games. Yeah. And sometimes get abused on the sidelines. I know, I know.

Like, guys, we need to chill out. Yeah. These refs are doing a great job. But anyway, they got into the part of the course last night, which was whistle technique. Oh, yeah. Which I thought you would enjoy. So this is, they're all lined up. And how to blow the whistle.

Oh, that's it. That's his whistle. So this is going along one by one. And yeah, just imagine that on repeat over and over. But his whistle, to be honest, is good. Yeah, it's amazing. He was just like, suddenly he was like a whole other, he was like Mariah Carey,

like a whole octave higher than everyone else. And that was the other thing you don't think about. Like in a crowded stadium he's like, it's so hard to hear a whistle you've got to have your technique down. You just don't think about refereeing. We need to give more consideration to referees. They're out there probably one of the hardest jobs on the pitch. And getting them

copping the most out of it, you know. Oh, buddy, who was the guy there, Wayne Barnes. Oh, yeah. Oh, he made a re-edit. Oh,

and it was, it was the whole country, it's like, but mate, he was doing the best that he could. It wasn't like he was, yeah. And he's like,

you know, many games, most games you get a call wrong, but he's like, that's just the thing. Yeah. You just gotta go, I did it,

I got it wrong, I gotta move on. Yeah. Yeah. Really interesting. And he's like, I have to come out clean shaven, shirt tucked in, respectable haircut, because he's usually got Really interesting. And he's like, I have to come out clean shaven, shirt tucked in, respectable haircut, because

he's usually got a beard. And he's like, that is so all of the players, staff, and management respect him on first look. They're like, this guy looks like a safe pair of hands. Otherwise, they're over you all day, he reckons. Wow. The pros. Yeah.

That was interesting. It was really interesting. All right. I don't know if the podcast will be as interesting. No. Slips away. It's a lot of fun Check it out, there's the hits You know, yesterday you noticed something while listening to Talkback Radio

Yeah, Marcus Lush at night He's a great broadcaster, Marcus Lush He is, he is Isn't he? Something that we could aspire to If you pull your act together, Ben Yeah, it would be nice to be someone It would be nice to someone to say they're great broadcasters, wouldn't they? Yeah, respected No one's ever said that but anyway uh no we've never been

put in the same category as respected have we no no um but last night i heard him talking about anti-vaxxers and he's getting into uh the the touchy subject and obviously that gets the calls flowing through for pros and cons yeah people are people are very opinionated on that one. Yeah, but I think this really, it really took its toll on Marcus because he'd obviously had a barrage of people of like, oh, it's Bill Gates trying to inject his Microsoft juices inside of you, you know, covered all spectrums. And so this was him wrapping up.

But it made me fear that he had gone off air or he'd had a health incident or something, because he just stops talking. Yeah, a lot of texts about the lightbulb guy. And I'll get to some of those when I can. kept it going so that was marcus last year yes that was that was him so he sounds deflated literally deflated the ears coming out of him he's broken didn't he talk about broke him last night in the trenches That was so long. Because on radio, silence just feels like, a second feels like an hour. It's the one thing you're told to never do, is stop moving your mouth. Even if what you're saying makes no sense, just keep your lips moving up and down.

Just fill that airtime with something, commercials, music, talking, whatever. Just something. Just have noise coming out the radio at all times. Can we run a time over that, Producer Drew? Because I think we should try and beat Marcus's record for dead air. No, no, no. So let's go here. Yeah.

A lot of texts about the light bulb guy. One, two, three, four. And I'll get to some of those when I can. Okay. One, two, three. It sounds like a balloon slowly. Do we count the... Well, yeah.

It's still noise though, isn't it? Yeah, there's noise. What do you reckon without noise? Probably 19 seconds. Yeah, it was a total of nine seconds. So we're going to give it a go now. Okay, good luck. I know this goes against everything you've been taught.

Yeah, I'm classically trained. I have a degree in broadcasting communication. I mean, I have to hand it back in if I get... Classically trained. I always wanted to say that. You should have seen his scores in punology. Oh, yeah. Oh, you aced that course.

That was great. So, hang on, but isn't there something that there's a rumour that if we wait too long on the hit, something kicks in? Yes. I don't know how exactly it works, but I think the technology, if nothing, if no noise is happening at all for a certain period of time, it might be 30 seconds, it might be 10 seconds, I don't really know the time.

I think it kicks off with like an emergency CD. Like an emergency Pink song. Pink's greatest hits. Get the party started. So who knows if that would happen if we became Marcus Lush. Okay, okay, you ready?

10 seconds. No noise. Julia's going to time it on her phone. We're going to be silent from now. We're pulling a Marcus Lush. Okay, okay, you ready? Okay, we'll go for 10 seconds. No noise. Julia's going to time it on her phone. We're going to be silent. Okay. From now, we're pulling a Marcus Lush here. Wow. Yeah, we did it. Wow.

It starts off and you're like, it's fine, and then suddenly it gets awkward. Oh, you hit the five-second mark. Oh, yeah did it. Wow. It starts off and you're like, it's fine. And then suddenly it gets awkward. Oh, you hit the five second mark. Oh, yeah, it was five seconds. I was squirming in my seat. Jeez, it just really goes to show how much inane jibber jabber we sped off. And then we go, we'll play that game again, I reckon. We'll keep an eye on Marcus.

We'll monitor Marcus to see if he tops us. Oh, he might come back. He might come back with a 12 seconder. Then we have to beat it. Okay? This is going to end up like tops us. He might come back with a 12 second up. We have to beat it. This is going to end up like 59 minutes. Pure dead air. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those

two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast on the hits. Space Jam A New Legacy. It's a movie fun for the whole family. It's going to be out July 8th. This is slam dunk for all ages. That's what I've been saying. It stars LeBron James, my basketball hero, as well as the Looney Tunes. And it looks like a lot of fun.

And we've basically got $10,000 to give away thanks to the movie. Yeah, we've been putting dads in a jam to get them in the draw for this cash. And what we've found is when we ask them about important dates, they get a little flustered. Because, you know, administration from dads sometimes can be put down the priority list. Dadman. It slips down, doesn't it? It can be.

You're right. Not all the time, but it can be. And especially when they get put on the spot, this is how some of the dads... These are questions about family members and birthdays and the things that they probably should know. And they do know, but when you put them on the spot, they crumble. Your wedding date, please. My wedding date? Yeah. My wedding date? Yeah, your wedding date.

Another easy one. Okay. All right, first question. What's Meg's birthday? Oh, Meg. There's two of them born on the same day. Belle's best friend. Oh, best friend.

Yeah. Things out like high school. I love the valuable seconds they try and buy themselves. Oh, wedding days. Yeah, they repeat back the question because that buys them a little bit of time. They go, oh, okay, my wedding day. You want to know my wedding day? You want to know Belle's birthday. Yeah. Well, anyway. Yeah, best friend, best friend. No, I do know. You know, it's good. You want to know my wedding day? You want to know Belle's birthday?

Belle, anyway. Best friend, best friend. No, I do know. You know, it's good. It's good. It's a lot of fun, and we're putting someone else in a jam, so if you want to register, you can do so at the hits.co.nz. We want to open up this, though.

Dadmen. When dads drop the administration. I mean, dads, they're great at many things. Wearing rash vests on the beach. If they're invited to a social function, they're good at many things. We're wearing rash vests on the beach. If they're invited to a social function, they're good at saying, better check with the boss first. You know, these sorts of things.

But sometimes when it comes to admin, it drops away. I remember one guy, Fawkes, dad took me down to the park to light off some fireworks. I was about eight years old and I can remember this like it was yesterday. And we had a fun time, but the rain started setting in and he was like oh we better light all these

fireworks what i'll do is i'll just light them all in the box at the same time in the box in the box and even at eight years old i was like i don't know about this i don't know about this but you're the dad you're the responsible parent in this situation so So I'll take your lead on this. And he's like, step back. So he lit it. I'm glad you stepped back. He lit it. And it was like a military airstrike on the Gaza Strip.

And the park was surrounded by houses. People were like ducking. It was fireworks going straight towards their windows. And he's like, let's go. Let's go. And we hopped in our 91 Toyota Corolla and drove home in silence oh I'm hoping we hadn't started a fire oh geez all right well that's the uh the sort of examples we want uh when is your dad not really following through with the admin like like they should have

like Jono's dad there one of my childhood memories I remember going being in a friend's house and having his parents having a discussion about how he was one of the dad was meant to do some renovations it was meant to be there was meant to do some renovations. It was meant to be a doorway walking through into the lounge. You haven't done, I remember this. And I was like, oh, this is going down. And then he went out and we're like, what's going on? He came out with a chainsaw.

And in front of us, he chainsawed. There's your doorway. Doorway. And I was like, wow, this is wild. Nothing like a heat of the moment chainsaw incident. I was like, wow, there's your doorway. Now you can walk through the lounge incident. I was like, wow, is your doorway now you can walk through the lounge? I was like, well no one really wants to walk under there

because it's not safe. How did that go down with the other members of the house? I remember we got kind of like, you guys go watch some TV with some ice cream or something. You know, we got put, you know, it was one of those moments you're like, oh, okay. Go take a breather. So, Dadman, when your dad didn't follow through on the admin.

Now, I want to say, you know, not all dads are sloppy. No, I can't take offense to this. Yeah, not all dads are sloppy on admin. It's like saying all bald guys look like the professor from X-Men. Isn't it? Yeah. So, there are some dads. You're pretty good with your admin, aren't you?

I like to think I am. I'm not good with a lot of things, but I'm all right with admin. You're just good at getting stuff off lists, off to-do lists. Yeah. He loves creating lists, and then he loves removing items from that list. How's your dad, Drew? Is he pretty good? He's pretty good, actually.

Davo? There was one time, though, that he bought the whole family tickets to John Mayer to see him live, except for me, because he didn't think that I liked John Mayer. Well, he's like, your body's not a wonderland. Come see John Mayer. And I've never let him live it down. So that was probably the only time I can think of where he's potentially dropped the ball. You got left over here and your whole family went to the Gold Coast.

Twice. What? They went to a movie world on the Gold Coast with my sister. So my mum and my stepdad took my sister over there. And then my dad and my stepmum took my sister over there. Two separate trips. I was like, hey, guys, I love Hollywood on the Gold Coast. We'll get Charlotte on from Nelson. Welcome, Charlotte.

Dadman, when it slipped through the cracks, what happened? Hi, so back when we were kids, my dad was in charge of looking after the entertainment for my brother's birthday party. The entertainment for your brother's birthday, yeah. Yeah, so we were quite young, and he forgot to, so he ended up having to get his friend to pretend to be a clown. But it was just an absolute disaster. Couldn't juggle, couldn't make any balloons, and I'm pretty sure he was drunk. Yeah, no.

When you go down to the pub and pick up your mate and go, can you be a clown for a kid's birthday, what are you expecting? Yeah, exactly. That's very good. I appreciate that. A friend of ours, I remember his dad had to play the role of santa in uh the santa parade oh yeah and he was on the back of a fire truck but before they went out for the parade the fire service just kept feeding his dad whiskey santa whiskey

he's all right now time for the parade oh no and at the start of the parade he was holding on to the back of the truck and they took off and he fell off the back of the parade, he was holding on to the back of the truck, and they took off, and he fell off the back of the truck and fell onto his head, and he's just lying there on the ground. And all he heard was, Mummy, is Santa still going to be able to deliver the presents? It's like, it's not the real Santa. Santa's concussed, kids. He's going to be just fine.

We've got Jenny on from Papamoa. Morning, Jenny. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Hello. Dadmin, what happened? Well, we were having my work. I worked at the supermarket, and we thought we'd celebrate and have our fireworks at my house.

My dad always put on a great party. And so he organized all the fireworks, and he thought, oh, there's not enough here. So he went to his boat, and he got his oh, there's not enough here. So he went to his boat and he got his flare and he sent that off. And next thing, the fire brigade arrived. The flare

had been let off in the middle of Hamilton by the lake. Yeah, we got in trouble. He's like, the people have come to see a show. I need to put on a show. He's a servant. I'm going to give him a show. Really appreciate that. He's put on the best party.

I really appreciate that, Jenny. Thank you very much. We've got Aaron with us on the phone. Dadman, Aaron, what happened? So it must have been maybe when I was 10, probably 18 years ago. He applied for my passport, me and my brother, and I don't know what happened, but he put my birthday down as the 16th of October

instead of the 6th. And no one picked it up. We get to the airport, and I was like, I'll fill out my own card, because it was like the first time I flew and boarding, and I was like, hey, my birthday is wrong. So we just had to pretend it was right and not lie on the documents.

Oh, so you had to commit fraud for the next four or five years you had that passport. Because your dad did some bad dad-man. Yeah, I work for him now, so I've taken over all admin for that one reason. Morning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits, with Jono

and Ben for breakfast. And we're talking about vaping, because it seems to be all over the news right now. And I guess no one really knows the long-term health effects. And kids as young as 10 years old are starting to vape at some schools, which seems shocking. Yeah, now research is just a research program just started at Auckland University. It's going to be a three-year program. And Dr. Kelly Burrows is the vaping researcher from Auckland Bioengineering Institute.

Welcome. How are you? Hi, thank you. Great to have you on. I feel like you should be on RNZ or something more respected, but you've joined Jono and Ben on the hits. Oh, yeah, thank you. Great to be here. Career highlight.

For us, it's a career lowlight for you. I'm going to a grade D celebrity status. Someone's told me, so maybe that's true. D's punching a bit above our weight, too. Yeah, no, we can only dream of D celebrity status. Kelly, anyway, you've done an in-depth study into vaping, and this week, a lot of news about it. 45% of intermediate and primary school leaders said vaping is a problem

in intermediate and primary, which is wild. I know, it's awful. But is vaping bad for you? We've only just started our study. We're only about four months in, but there's not much doubt in my mind that vaping will be bad for people. I think

the question that's just remaining is how bad it's going to be. There's dangerous chemicals in there. There are the flavourings that are added. The heating process can create different chemicals, and there can even be metals coming off the vape device itself and no one really knows what the long-term health effects of those chemicals are yet. No, well, I mean, when smoking kicked off its career, you know,

you could smoke when you were pregnant to keep your weight down. There are ads advertising that. Yeah, I know, there was wild stuff like that and I guess no one really knew the dangers of smoking or if they did, they weren't widely publicised. Yeah, exactly. I do feel like it's history repeating itself a bit. So I think it's definitely going to take another 10 or 20 years until we're like, oh, actually, they're pretty bad for you.

But time's going to be the answer to that, really. Well, they'll look back on that and go, gee, that was a crazy time in history. People were vaping in the office. They were vaping everywhere. Babies were vaping. I know. I know because they can say that there's even second and third hand vape. So with smoking, there's only second hand smoke, right?

But with vaping, there's also third hand vaping, which is where you get the chemicals depositing on surfaces that can then be picked up. Oh, really? So there's obviously the argument that many people say that it's better for you than smoking. Do you agree if you're going to say that is it the lesser of two evils in your opinion? Yeah, that's what everyone's asking. So at this stage, I think what we know so far is we hope that it's safer than smoking, but again, not even that has been proven. So that

judgment's really based on the fact that there are less chemicals in e-cigarettes. So in normal cigarettes, it's been shown to be up to 7,000 different chemicals, whereas e-cigarettes. So in normal cigarettes, it's been shown to be up to 7,000 different chemicals, whereas e-cigarettes, maybe there's 1,000 to 200 different chemicals in there. But again, no one really knows how it's going to compare to smoking. But yeah, at the moment, I think you could say that it's thought

that it's safer than smoking. You keep mentioning chemicals. What are we talking here if you were going to cherry-pick a couple of the big ones? ones? So well the main chemicals that are in the e-liquid are propylene glycol and glycerol but there's also some small amount of alcohol in most e-liquids but then there's the flavouring chemicals. So I think on the market someone measured that there's about 15,000 different flavours you can buy and each of those flavours is made by adding a different flavouring chemical, basically. And it's similar stuff that goes into our food.

So those chemicals are thought to be safe to eat, but nobody knows how safe they are to breathe into your lungs. Do you find it interesting that there's obviously a lot of debate at the moment around the vaccine? There are some people hesitant about the vaccine because they don't know what's in it. But then I would imagine a lot of people, or most people probably vaping, don don't know what's in it but then i would imagine a lot of people or most people probably vaping don't really know what's in that either yeah exactly you don't yeah they won't know what's in that so there's no regulations um that says you have to list what's in an e-liquid at the moment so i think they just say that there's those um propylene glycol glycerol and nicotine and but they don't have to list any

of the other chemicals that are in there they just go and there's some, but they don't have to list any of the other chemicals that are in there. They just go, and there's some other stuff. You don't need to worry about that. Would you, but you're only four months into your study, obviously. Would you, if a friend came to you and said, I'm thinking of stopping smoking, should I vape? Yes. Well, I would say, I think it's a good idea to switch, but you should have a plan to stop vaping as well.

It should. And actually, to be honest, there's other ways to give up smoking. There's other methods, you know, using nicotine replacements, so patches or gum. I mean, my advice would probably be if you've tried, you know, try some other ways first. If you really can't stop smoking using other ways, you know, give e-cigarettes a try, but have a plan to get off them as well eventually.

Yeah, Ben replaced his cigarette addiction with gambling addiction which was very well okay. I haven't done either of those things. A lot of parents will be listening right now, Dr Burrows and what would you say to them? How to curb their kids from vaping? Because I mean

teenagers and smoking have been going hand in hand literally for decades. But then it was as you you said before, John, it was crazy to us to think that primary schools around New Zealand, there are some kids vaping. Yeah, it's horrible because I've got three young kids, primary school age kids, and the thought, you know, if they were to try vaping in a couple of years' time is awful.

I mean, it's a hard one with teenagers because I know, you know, yeah, of course teenagers are going to try things. I mean, maybe it's to be open with them, to try and educate children that they're not going to be safe and that it's not something they should really continue doing. How are they getting their hands on vapes? I have no idea, actually. But there was a TV One News piece, wasn't there,

where they put someone undercover who was underage. And so the dairies and convenience stores are still, you know, they're still selling them to underage kids because there's only a tiny fine. 18, I'm gathering, is the age, is it? Yeah, that's the age now. But I guess you can also buy them online. You know, you just have to click on the box saying you're over 18, but there's no one that checks that.

Yeah, right. Well, look, this has been a really interesting conversation with you. We'd love to catch up with you once you've completed your research. I don't know if we'll still be working here at the Hits Radio Station. How many years? Three. It was three years, wasn't it? Yeah, no, it was three.

But, yeah, we can touch base again as we find out more. Yeah, well, even if it's not on radio, we'll just be like, hey, how did that work out for you? We're no longer at the Hits and stuff. Yeah, I'd like to see if the gambling's still going on as well. Yeah, we'll see how that's going. Ben's lost his wife, his kids. Hey, Dr Kelly, thank you so much for your time.

We really appreciate it. And thank you for what you're doing. It sounds like a really fascinating study. And the results are going to be really, really interesting for New Zealand. Oh, great. Thank you. Have a good day. We apologise in advance.

Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope Oh, great. Thank you. Have a good day. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to write you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Pam, breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads. Kia ora.

I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the B*** News. Now to one of my favourite parts of the show, because it requires very little preparation from us. Juliette's doing the heavy lifting here. What's going on? So I've got some three news stories, and I've beeped out a couple of words. You guys have to figure out what those headlines are.

These are actual headlines from around the world over the last 24 hours, so let's get into it. House for sale in Melbourne is the dream home. If you're a... I'm thinking... I was thinking about this Australian home. I'm thinking it's a bouncy castle, and it's the dream home for a kangaroo.

So if you're a kangaroo, living in a bouncy castle would be amazing. That's. I'm thinking it's a bouncy castle and it's the dream home for a kangaroo. If you're a kangaroo, you'll never get a bouncy castle. It would be amazing. That's what I'm hoping it would be, but I might be wrong. I'm going to say House for Sale in Melbourne is the dream home if you're wanting to live in a country that could go into lockdown at any minute. That's true. House for Sale in Melbourne is the dream home if you're a Disney Pixar fan. I thought this was quite topical for you, Benjamin Boyce.

Each bedroom features a massive mural on the wall with a different Disney Pixar film. So one bedroom has a massive mural of Moana. Another one has cars. And then there's lots of art around the house. And it's got Toy Story. The kitchen's relatively normal. It's not themed. But all the bedrooms.

And it will set you back $1.4 million if you want a Disney- What the Playboy Mansion was to Hugh Hefner. This house is to you, Ben. I know. I remember we were lucky enough to go on a Disney cruise years ago with some relatives that lived in the States, and it's like a Disney boat, all themed to Disney, and there was like a kids' club that the kids spent some time in

when they were young. A whole Disney boat that you couldn't escape. Oh, the characters are there. There's performances. There's live shows. There's all sorts. Did you want to jump overboard? No.

The kids' club was incredible. I wanted to go to the kids' club because every room in the kids' club was themed. There was Andy's bedroom with the kid from Toy Story. There was a Monsters League room. I'm like, I'll go here. Kids can go out there. Ben would have refused to leave the boat.

He tried to stow away on it. Just live the rest of his life out on that Disney boat. Out on the ocean. Mickey threw me off. Woman trying to photograph every single **** in Home County has done over 200,000 so far. I'm thinking she's done over 200,000 videos thinking they were photos. She's like, oh, it's a video. I think that's what she's done over 200,000 videos thinking they were photos. She was like, oh, it's a video.

I think that's what she's done over 200,000 times. I'm going to say she's tried to photograph every single white person doing a serious photo and then taking a silly one directly after. And only consisting of peace signs and tongues out. Be silly, white people. Oh, no, I'll stick my tongue out and do a peace sign. It's always the way. But what photo?

Why do you need that photo? You can always put your fingers in your mouth and make your mouth real wide. Why do you need that photo? Get your jennies out, I don't know. You're not going to post that photo. I don't know. No, no. A woman trying to photograph every single grave in Home County has done over 200,000 so far.

So it's an odd hobby she picked up. She initially started it while trying to trace her own family tree. And now she's spent over a decade taking these photos, keeps spreadsheets documenting all the graves she's taken photos of. And it's also quite nice if there are graves that are looking a bit worse for wear or overgrown, she, you know, fixes them all up. And then she submits all this information to ancestry websites so people can track where their families are.

Oh, what a lovely thing to do. That's lovely. 200,000 she's done. Yeah, at first I thought creepy, but then you swayed me over to lovely. Yeah, yeah. And the final story. US heptathlete Lindsay Flack competes at Olympic trials while

Oh, I'm thinking the heptathletes competing at the trials while still unsure what heptathlete means and how many events it is? How big is that? I don't know. I think it's seven sports in one event.

Seven? What am I doing? How many again? We're not going to get a better answer than that. US heptathlete Lindsay Flack competes at Olympic trials while 18 weeks pregnant. So she had the plan to start a family in 2021 but when the olympics were delayed a year she kind of felt that there was a bit of a crossover there she still wanted

to start a family 18 weeks pregnant went along to the trials but just kind of did as much as she could she knew that she wasn't going to get through to the olympics and then by the time the olympics was going to happen she would be a lot more pregnant, which would be a lot harder. But she kind of just did it to prove to herself and that to other women that you can kind of still keep charging on while you're 18 weeks pregnant. If she gets a medal, that baby's already achieved more in life than I ever will. So the seven events, the 100-metre hurdles, high jump shot put, 200-metre sprint, long jump javelin throw, 800-metre run. Those are the seven events.

And then obviously they have the decathlon, which is 10, right? So even more. Is that a 10? You'd probably assume so, right? It's the 10, decathlon. Decathlon events. Here we go, live Googling. This is what we love doing on the radio.

Hey, it's early in the morning. What else are you going to be doing? Okay, so then you've got the 100 long jump shot put high jump 400. That's on the first day. It goes over two days. Oh, wow. Then 100-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin. Oh, pole vault.

They check the pole vault? You'd think that'd be a hard one just to, you know. Yeah. That's a lot of training. Oh, yeah. That would be a lot harder. And then 1,500 meters on the second day as well just to round it off. Round it off.

Are you tired? Well, you will be now. That's for sure. Wow. And that is the news and beeps. day as well, just to round it off. Round it off. Are you tired? Well, you will be now. That's for sure. Wow. And that is the news and beeps. Yeah, yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah, no.

The whole movie. Yeah, no. She'll be right. And at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hill. Now, we're missing a valuable staff member at the moment, Boss Todd, who is Australian by nature and by birth.

And he's went back to Sydney, his home city, just a couple of Fridays ago. He's a family, right? Yeah, and he's been trapped in the lockdown there and can't get back. So we've been communicating with Boss Todd. You said he might not come back to the end of the year there. So you're like, he might not be back this year.

He might be gone. It's only just 1st of July. There's still a whole six months. When we said goodbye to Boss Todd, I hope you made it count because that might be the last you see of him. He might be dead. RIP, Todd.

No, he's all good. He's good. We've had some wonderful Zoom meetings with Todd, though, as he's been based over in Australia. And he said, you know, I'm really glad to be back here because I get to go to my favourite pizza shop. Now, this was a shop when he was living in Australia. He would go to this pizza shop every day for lunch,

religiously, for five years, because his work was across the road. So much so that they named a pizza after him. That's how loyal a customer he was. Yeah, there's the Todd Pizza or something, isn't there? The Todd Squad or the Toddy Bear. I don't know what they named the pizza. It's either he really liked the pizza or they have one hell of a wine menu.

But he's been that loyal that they were like, mate, you need your own pizza here. So it was up on the wall, it was in the menu and you could order the Todd pizza. Apparently it's still there. You can still get it. Have you ever been that loyal to a business? Well, the guy who's been cutting my year my hair for probably a decade i go see him so every three or four weeks so that's probably you know we've got our relationship with you know you know we know what you know you know it's what i want

it's it and you don't have to have that conversation about the hair unless i want to do something crazy which i haven't done for the past decade you dyed a blonde and you uh i called you ellen degeneres oh yeah that was that was. Yeah, I went over and saw them. See what happens when you go somewhere else? You come back looking like Ellen. You're like, all right, Ellen. Oh, you mocked me mercilessly with that. I quite enjoyed having the blonde hair from it.

It actually looked really good. It did. You look like Draco Malfoy. Look wonderful. There were so many. You just kept listing off people that had blonde hair. Thanks, Simon Bunny from 1994 it just kept going

didn't it thanks Scotty Perry in the dark horse video you know that was awesome it was ruthless I was just like everyone on barrage

just because a guy died is hair but to be fair I have been giving you grief about your lack of hair for many years but you know I guess you do have

that loyal relationship with something like a barber and it probably gets to a point, much like a personal trainer where you're like, well if I leave this person it's going to be like a breakup are you loyal to a business, June? my family is no, my family

extended family, aunties, uncles grandparents, mum, sister when she's back in the country, we all go to the same facialist lady just in Pomsonby there. Oh, you pointed that one out. That lady is facialed generations of my family.

That's where I go in there. We're like, okay. Now every time I drive past, I'm like, oh, that's where Julia goes. Five generations of Rothels have had their face facialed at that place. But you've got great skin, so it's working. It's working.

So, yeah, I'll wait under the hits. This is what we wanted to open up this morning. We want to find New Zealand's most loyal customer. You're quite loyal with the Efficient Chip Fridays, aren't you? Oh, relentless, yeah. It'll be about 10 years of... Pretty much every Friday. Same person.

But I also, like, every time I have exactly the same conversation. Like, I make the same order. I'm like, how has the week been? Has it been busy? Yeah, pretty busy. All right. Okay, we'll see you next Friday. That's how they copy and paste that conversation every Friday for the last 10 years.

But, yeah, so I'd like to thank them for 10 years of clogging my arteries. Yeah, yeah. It's been much appreciated. 0800 that. Can we find New Zealand's most loyal customer? What have you been going to? Whether it's a barista, a cafe restaurant, a gym, whatever. We'll see how many years we can get on the clock.

And we're creatures of habit, aren't we? I think that's a large part of it too. Yeah. Because once you find something you like, you go to the place you like, and you can't unlike the stuff you like. It's a fact of life. Boss Todd, he's in Australia. He's got a pizzeria who have named a pizza after him because he went there for so long.

Every day for five years, he went to that. I had the same situation with a coffee place, didn't I? That's right. And it was a coffee place. It was wonderful. We'd get coffee from there. But then sometimes I would be like, well, we're going to go to this place. And you'd be like, oh, no, I'm locked in.

I'm loyal to that place. I'm loyal to that place. And to be honest, the other place did a superior brand of coffee. So I stuck with that bitterer taste of coffee for many years. But I tell you what, that bitter taste of coffee would be nothing compared to the bitter taste of betrayal for leaving that coffee place for another one. Yeah, good on you. Yeah, so we'll go to Olivia. Are you New Zealand's most loyal customer, Olivia?

Yes, yeah. How long have you been doing what? Where is it? Give us the deets. So I've been going to the same New World in Mount Maunganui for about 10 years now. And when they started to do deliveries deliveries I definitely got in on that but I've

just been so loyal to them that now they know that even if I'm not there, they can go in and just put my groceries in the fridge or in the pantry. They pack away your groceries? What? I dream of getting to this level

I was talking about this the other week. You know, we've got to a stage in society where you don't even have to go into the supermarket. They'll drop it to your door. But still, those painful minutes, taking it from the truck and then packing it away, seem like the worst minutes in a human's life, where I'm like, well, I haven't had to go to the supermarket, haven't had to park, haven't had to wait in line, But still I'm moaning about just putting some stuff in a pantry. And Olivia's getting that done for free thanks to her loyalty. Caroline, you're on from Tauranga. How are you? I'm good. How are you?

Listen, we're a box of fluffies. You're on the way to work and you're a loyal customer. Where? I certainly am. I've been at my gym for 21 years. Wow. And my hairdresser for 24. Jeez. Are you locked into a crazy contract with the gym that you can't get out of where they'll kidnap your family? You're like, it's such a good deal, like if I die. It's just a little bit too cheap these days to move.

Oh, well, good on you. And if you do move, they'll make you do 100 burpees as punishment. Yeah. That's amazing. So you would know everyone. You'd probably have quite personal relationships with your hairdresser and your gym people. Putting the personal on personal trainer. I can't leave. I'd have to start again. Yeah.

That's the thing. You'd be breaking up with your whanau. Yeah. Do you see them outside of those locations? Only some of the gym people, not my hairdresser. Yeah. Be a bit weird, wouldn't it? What are you doing after this?

Going home to my family? Thank you very much, appreciate it Now a friend of ours, Riggsie, has phoned through Morning guys You've been doing something for many, many years now You're hosting a quiz night Yeah, so I've been hosting the Horse and Trap quiz For the last 18 plus years, every Tuesday.

Gee whiz. 18 years. You know, at the Horse and Trap, four of the horses have had to be put down during that time. Riggsie's the only nag left at the Horse and Trap. That's incredible. Every week, religiously. Yep, same jokes as well. Same jokes.

We do the same with radio. So have you missed the Tuesday? Oh, look, back in the day, I'd miss the odd one, but now it's been a long streak, yeah, for 18 plus. I love it, you know, and you see people, they become friends, and there's people who work behind the bar who are younger than I've been doing the bloody quiz there. And, yeah, you start feeling a bit old and thinking, oh, well, people are going to get a bit sick of these jokes.

But now we get a loyal following, and we always have a full house, so I love it. What do they win, the bar tabs and money and stuff like that? Yeah, you get bar tabs, and, you know, it's not who wants to be a millionaire. There's no million-dollar prize, but, you know, it's a Tuesday night and friends get together and have a bit of a laugh and test their mental skills and, you know, it's a great night. I'm gathering there wouldn't be a million dollars on offer

on a Tuesday night at the Horse and Trap if there was a booming crowd. You know, they're a weird breed, quiz nerds, but I love it. Do you call them that to their face? 100%. Nearly 20 years hosting the same pub, Quiz Rigsy. That's a phenomenal effort. Definitely in the running for New Zealand's most loyal customer. Appreciate your time this morning.

Thanks, guys. Great to chat. That was awesome, eh? So many years, 18 years. He must know all the questions now, wouldn't he? Must be a very smart human being. Do you remember you got into a weird web of entanglement with a kebab shop owner oh that's right yeah because i would often go like maybe once a week to the kebab shop just around the road from work you know i'll work and then there was another kebab shop just off a bit further and i'd stop to talk to some people

who were sitting outside that kebab shop just having a conversation and then when the next time i went to my original kebab shop, the person behind the counter was like, oh, I saw you at the other place the other day. I saw you at the kebab shop. He actually hit you up about it. Oh, hang on. No, no, I was talking to people.

But then I felt like I had to just go. You had to explain yourself. Oh, no, I ran into some people. I wasn't ordering. I wasn't, because I wouldn't. I would never eat another kebab anywhere else. Yeah. And he bought nine guilt kebabs just to open them.

And even though I hadn't been, I just suddenly felt, you know, you get flustered and you start, you know, like I had been. I was like, no, no, no, no. No, no,

it's an innocent misunderstanding. I was just there to talk to some people as I walked past. Are you cheating on me with Abra Kebabra across the road?

Yeah, so anyway. So, yeah. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Kia ora, good morning. Just gone six o'clock. It is the first of July.

Welcome along to July, Dry July. Many people doing Dry July. Dry's hard to say. I'm definitely not doing it. Yeah, he's not doing it. He's been slamming them back. I remember I had to do it once. Oh, you've had a loophole, haven't you? Yeah, I've had a wonderful loophole in Dry July because I was like, man, I'm not going to make it through this month. And I think in the first week, day three or four, I found that you could pay fines.

So you're like, oh, I have a beer. You can pay a fine for it and it goes towards a worthy cause. Jeez, I donated a lot to charity that month. I wasn't asked to be an ambassador for... You're not the ambassador that they're looking for. Remember the smoking one? I was asked to be an anti-smoking ambassador, but I was still smoking. Oh. Many years ago. That's right. Because they had gone through all of New Zealand's crap liberties who didn't smoke. Except for me. They never

asked me who never smoked, but anyway. He's not bitter about that at all. Well, hey, we got someone who was smoking. But then the next wave of the campaign was, oh, let's find people who are smoking and want to give up. So I'm literally got a ciggy in my hand going, jeez, I want to give this up one day. But thank you very much for the payment for this campaign. We've got $5,000 is back again on the show. And we're going to get into actually speaking of smoking. After 8 o'clock, we're going to talk to someone who's doing an in-depth study on vaping.

Well, because they've found that over 45% of primary school leaders and principals and whatnot have said that vaping's a problem in primary school. Which is crazy. So that's up to age 9, 10? Yeah, 10, 11, I guess. Yeah, it's probably 11 and under. Yeah, so we talked to her. They just started this study, and the effects of vaping after 8 o'clock.

Add these two men together, and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal van. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Yes, they spent a bit of time at A&E. My daughter Sienna broke her wrist. Oh, that sucks. Yeah, fractured her wrist. You get that call from school, you know,

just before 3 o'clock, and you're like, oh, this isn't going to be a good phone call. Sometimes they might be like, hey, how you going, mate? Just wanted to see if everything was all right. Everything all good? Yeah, you never get those nice calls from school, do you? I reckon schools should call you more often with just positive affirmation. Just to balance things out a little bit.

How's the day going? Yeah, so I got that important little thing. And a few tears had fallen over and landed on her wrist and yeah they were like quite swollen you're like this isn't going to be fun

and so we went to the A&E and you know it's a long process at the A&E you've got to see the nurse you've got to see the doctor you've got to get an x-ray you've got to

you know a long time and I was sitting there probably for a couple of hours in the waiting room on and off in between seeing the medical team

and the hits was blasting the hits was blasting the The hits was blasting. The hits were there. Blasting, blasting. Were you like, I'm the guy. Hey, psst, psst. It's the guy from the thing. Well, yeah, because it was the three men pick up was playing

and then it was going into Stace, Mike and Anika. And so that was fine. But then I realised there was a lot of promos for our show. Jono and Ben in the morning. Mornings are funnier with Jono and Ben in the morning. And there was a lot of promos for our show john omb in the morning uh mornings are funnier with john omb in the morning and there was a sort of young sort of teenager and every time that would promo for our show you're looking at the mouth that said those words that you're hearing you want a uh you want a signature or something every time but then like 10 minutes later be another promo for us.

You look across like, hey, hey, that's you, that's you. And I'll be like, yep, yep, that's me. But yeah, it was great. It was great down the hillside. That was probably the one highlight of a pretty bleak afternoon. Oh, the poor thing.

And you showed me a video the other day. I'm surprised she didn't do it a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. She's learning a new trick. She's very good at gymnastics, Sienna. But self-taught. Yeah, I know. She did do some gymnastics lessons and stuff, but she's trying to do no-handed aerials and

stuff like that. No-handed cartwheels. She can do one-handed ones and no-handed. So I kind of thought maybe she was doing something like that when she injured herself. But no, she was playing a game, sort of a PE game, and tripped and fell and landed wrong. She's got no fear. I remember you bought her a pair of those shoes. I don't know

what monster invented these shoes. Oh, the rolly shoes. With wheels on them. The wheelies were there. So they could be shoes, but at any moment, they could turn into roller skates. At any moment. Is it the ones where you sort of kick your heel and you go sliding down? Yeah, yeah. You see kids at the supermarket just gliding past you. It felt like

it was on the verge of a catastrophe at any moment, those shoes. Yeah, you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah. Do you like walking normally? Or do you like walking with potential rollerblades that could catch you by surprise? Yeah, you're right. I've never invented those, really. She was good on them. Yeah, they actually get kids.

They're a lot better at those things. Yeah, my concern is Sienna has no fear. Do you find that? She's taught herself how to triple backflip on a trampoline. I know, but as a kid, you kind of feel like you're a little bit more, maybe now, she might be a bit, you know. You don't think about consequences, do you? You turn into a pussy as an adult.

I know. But even the difference between when I was taught the single stuff I was doing at 20 to now. You're like, oh, well, no, I couldn't do that because I wouldn't be able to turn up for work or to pick up the kids. Or you're like, oh, you've changed, you boring, bland, white, bald man

fading out on life. Oh, that, very exciting, though. Let's play some music. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. It is the hits with Jono and Ben, 6.25. Of course, it's very cold right Bean, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. It is the hits with John Owen Bean, 6.25.

Of course, it's very cold right here in New Zealand right now because it's winter, but on the other side of the world, it goes without saying, it's summertime over there. Yeah, John, we spoke to John, our US correspondent yesterday. He's in Oregon. 45 degrees yesterday in Oregon. I know, and then even Canada yesterday there, the hottest day on record, 47 point,

what was it, 47.9 degrees in Canada yesterday. On my part of Canada, 47.9 degrees. It is that, you know, when Nelly, he sung that song, didn't he? That's definitely a take off your clothes situation. 47.5. Maybe that's what Nelly was referring to. The roads were melting and stuff over there. It's incredible, yes, the heatwave going on.

Hottest temperature ever in New Zealand was only 39.2 in the North Island and 42 in Rangiora in the South Island. Well, yeah, temperatures had never passed in Canada, never passed 45 degrees before Sunday this week, and now they've got to 47 degrees. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes shono and ben breakfast on the hits scrolling through your feed geez i'll tell you what if you thought the real news was bleak and depressing well you've seen nothing yet here's our news

bulletin well this i found really interesting now so a british engineer uh guy in britain uh during the third lockdown over there he broke a world record a guinness world record there's a guinness world record for everything but this was the most amount of m&ms stacked on top of each other yes the confectionery the candy the chocolate it's stacked on top of each other and the record before him was only four still that's a monumental achievement i couldn't even get two. It doesn't seem like, yeah, I suppose when you break it down. These are M&M's, Ben. Yeah.

You know? So he got five. He got five. So apparently he spent hours and hours and hours until filming it as well, until he finally cracked five M&M's on top of each other, and now he has the Guinness World Record. But it is one of those ones, because people do amazing things. I would have thought, oh, 30 M&M's or something ridiculous.

But, yeah, it was four for many, many years. It was the most amount of M&M's you ever stacked on top of each other. That's the thing. If you think hard enough, you can create a Guinness World Record for yourself right now. Like Juliet, the longest time spent in a purple skivvy jersey. You just have to not take it off for the next 10 years. In a radio studio on Thursday

the 1st of July. Well done, Guinness World Record holder. Me, I always bring in cans of swept soda. Highest consumption of swept soda at 6.39 in New Zealand on a Thursday morning. Well done. So there you go. They get quite specific. Yeah.

Because it used to be like longest fingernails and things like that. You know? Yeah. Longest pubic hair and things like that. There's humans pushing themselves. We looked into doing a Guinness World Record show,. You know? Yeah. Longest pubic hair and things like that. There's humans pushing themselves. We looked into doing a Guinness World Record show, didn't we? Yeah. There's some great records out there, though.

Sorry, there's some epic ones. And there's ones also that would take an epically long amount of time, like the stacking of M&Ms. Because they actually own the rights to those records, too, don't they? Who's that? Guinness. Oh, do they? So I think the people who do them, they become Guinness' records.

I think it's part of the thing if you have a Guinness record, because they have to officiate it. Oh, right. Many times we're like, we're going to get a Guinness record, and then we're like, oh, jeez, too much paperwork. There's a lot of paperwork you've got to go through. Yeah, because you have to have it verified. You have to either have someone there verifying it,

or obviously you have footage that they have to basically check to make it that you haven't doctored the footage or anything. So also, basically, if you can be bothered doing quite a bit of administration, you could probably get a Guinness World Record. Oh, yeah. If that's your thing. You also need to kind of go through some sort of process of breaking a record. What would you have a record for if you could hold any world record, Ben?

I don't know. I feel like, because you're not, and I don't mean this in a, but I'm not talented in any way to go way to go I could do this one amazing thing so I mean we've done ones before that we haven't officially got Guinness record

but you know the longest time in a bumper car just easy stuff just like can you stay here this one location 30 hours is a long time

but we can do this you know there's no skill involved achievable stuff it's just like mental like who would do this for that long

you know like the mental tough long That's your wheelhouse Just being in one location for an extended period That's all we can do Whereas if you're more talented You can probably do the most amount of backflips On a unicycle or something You play in your safe space Yes the hits Live Free Travel Edition.

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Let's get Linda on from Auckland. Morning, Linda. Good morning. How are you, guys? Oh, we're doing well. Wales. Let's get Linda on from Auckland. Morning, Linda. Good morning. How are you, guys? We're doing well. You're on your way to work? I'm actually on my way to the hospital. That's exciting, isn't it?

What's going on there, mate? I've got to go and have an ECG. Well, I don't know what that is, but I hope it goes well. Thank you. Yeah. Is it something that I want to know what it is on the radio, or should I back off now? I think you'd better back off, mate. Back off. Back off. Back off. Thank you. Yeah. Is it something that I want to know what it is on the radio, or should I back off now? I think you'd better back off, mate.

Back off. Back off. Back off. Thank you. He's always prying. That's why I call him Pryor. Always prying for information. Hey, well, after this mysterious operation,

you could be winning $5,000 worth of travel vouchers. Well, wouldn't that be flimmin' marvellous? That'd be great. John, don't ask her where she's going to go. No follow-up questions. Just sit back out of that one. Listen, good luck for your op. I hope it goes well, and you have a wonderful day, Linda.

Spy. No, what's up? Spy.co.nz. I like this. It's just like three gossipy aunts nattering about everyone else's business that they have no business nattering about. Spy.

Jew, what's happening? So one of the greatest children's novels or books, Clifford the Big Red Dog, is the latest one to be turned into a live-action film. Live-action films seem to be all the rage at the moment. Yeah, you're right. Like with The Lion King, that was one with Beyonce. She was the voice of Nala.

Tom and Jerry recently was made more into a live-action thing. They were still animated, but they were in the real world. Yeah, yeah. So Clifford is now roaming the streets. He kind of looks like the size of a dinosaur. Some people think it's unintentionally terrifying. So someone has written, I was hoping for this movie to be a thriller,

focusing on the fact that Clifford would accidentally kill any living being at any moment. After watching this trailer, I'm getting what I wanted. Clifford, no, no, that's it. Oh, no. Clifford! I don't know who that donkey is. After watching this trailer, I cleaning up after the dog. Oh, just... You know, I had to clean up after my dog at home. And it's like... He's Clifford.

He looks like a giant demonic labrador in the movie. He kind of does. That's sort of like rolled in paint or something. You've rolled in red paint. Some people have made like a movie poster, you know, the Godzilla vs. Kong movie poster, but it's Godzilla vs. Clifford. I love it. Because he's that big and just that, like, could destroy anything.

And your dog's very slobbery as well. Yes, imagine the Clifford, you know. Now we've spoken about your dog's humpy nature. What is Clifford humping? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It would cause like an earthquake. It would.

It would. Yeah. It would, wouldn't it? Oh, God. But it actually does look quite cute. Yeah, it'll be fun. It'll be fun for the family. Jack Whitehole in it, is he?

Yeah, he is, yeah. He's a good actor. He's funny. And an original bus, the original bus from the Spice Girls movie, Spice World, has officially been turned into Airbnb accommodation. So this is not the first time we've seen something like this. Remember when they turned the Fresh Prince of Balear house into an Airbnb? So they've done it a couple of times with sort of famous sets,

and I'm pretty sure they rented out the Fringes one as well. Yeah, you could stay there for a night. What I loved about the Spice Girls bus story was the amount of puns that was in the article. Now, Dan Lake, who we know from our news hub, he wrote a great, a very funny article. He's put sort of song pun names. I'll just quickly go through a couple now. So the Spice Girls bus located on the Isle of Wight. So if anyone is keen to go, they will need to really want to be there. I was like, oh, that's good. The bus can sleep up to three people or you could

all jump in the one bed if you want to spice up your life. When making a booking through Airbnb, it just say you'll be there. And I was like, oh, yeah. And the facilities include a toilet, sink, shower, there's kitchenette, mini fridge. But if that's not enough for you, then who do you think you are? It just carries on. I was like, this is impressive. You sound really well. This is so genius.

Are we going to rent out this bleak studio once the show wraps up? What about the soundproof booth? You can stay in the soundproof booth. You can't sit. There's no room to swing anything. You can sit, but you couldn't really sleep. If you lay it down, you could put a little bed in there. You could squat.

You could squat in there and sit with your own deep thoughts. We'll do that. That's a great little marketing idea, Ju. That sounds wonderful. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to theh thoughts. Yeah. Yeah, we'll do that. That's a great little marketing idea, Ju. That sounds wonderful. And that is spy. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. After 7 o'clock,

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Zealand. I live nearby Mount Smart but there's a bit of a hangover of that period where people got swept up in flag madness. Oh, yeah, because flags in particular. Flags. There's houses still covered in flags, and they haven't taken them down. And whoever, many years ago,

told their partner, I'm getting into the Tongan flag business, and they're like, you're crazy. He's like, you stick with me on this. It was 15 long years printing tongan flags waiting for a sale then boom oh yeah exploded and now it could be happening all over again i can't wait for this game all blacks v tonga happening this saturday if you know a huge fan thanks our mates at steinlager we could be hooking them up with a double pass to the game

they need to be a huge fan but not not a big enough fan that they've already purchased tickets. Oh, well, yeah, true. We need that sweet spot. Yeah, well, true. And it's a hit. She got Jono and Ben. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Now, I'm a little nervous about what's happening here. Don't be nervous. Be excited, because it's been an ongoing arc, story arc. A mission for the show, I guess, is you want to get me noticed by my hero, Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Gone to extreme lengths, to the lengths of even permanently scarring Ben's left bottom cheek. I've got a tattoo. Yeah, that you said, hey, if you get a tattoo with I Heart Dwayne the Rock Johnson, he'll hear about it. He'll put a message on his social media.

It'll be amazing. Well, have I got a treat for you. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, he'll hear about it. He'll put a message on his social media. It'll be amazing. Well, have I got a treat for you, and we haven't spoken about this this morning because the team wanted to keep this as a surprise for you and the audience. Dwayne The Rock Johnson has a message for you. I came to this city for the first time. I was playing in the Canadian Football League, playing my first pro football game.

I was so excited. Two days later later I got cut dream shattered sent home with seven bucks in my pocket I was like wait no I gotta play in the NFL eventually those are my big goals that's my dream you realize that playing in the NFL was the best thing that never happened because it got me here so my point is look you're gonna get your ass kicked you gotta get up you gotta have faith that the one thing you wanted to happen oftentimes is the best thing that never happened. So have faith and just keep that in mind and keep plugging away.

Have faith, brother. So what? So you say that's the best. That's not a message for me. That was a message about an inspiring story. Well, no, it's a message from Dwayne the Royal Johnson that I am directing to you. Well, to say the one thing that I wanted to happen,

which in my case is to get a thing for him, could be the best thing that I am directing to you. Well, to say the one thing that I wanted to happen, which in my case is to get a thing for him, could be the best thing that... It never happened. Well, that's it. Well, you've used Dwayne the Rock Johnson to try and make me feel better by saying something happened to him. But imagine all the stuff that could happen now. I'll tell you one thing that's

going to not happen is the tattoo's not going to come off you. But imagine all the wonderful things that can happen now because Dwayne The Rock Johnson hasn't noticed you. Makes for a great story. You know, it's better if he notices me. No, but in 20 years' time, you could be doing inspirational videos. You'll be like, yo, man, I tattooed my...

Life's going to kick your ass, man. But you know, best thing was, Dwayne never got in touch with me. He never noticed me. Because from that point on, I went on and look at me now. I'm manicuring gardens. But yeah, that's music. Can you tell I'm just trying to fade out of this? Because I'm realising the dream is slowly fading away.

We are nicely done with trying to make me feel better with something inspirational that Dwayne had said. But it doesn't make me feel better. It is the hits. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. I went to the dentist yesterday just to get a bit of a teeth clean, a check-up and stuff.

Oh, yeah, scale and polish, S&P. But I found it. One of the more unusual things about going to the dentist because it was around about just after lunch I went, so I'd eaten, I'd had some morning tea and I had some lunch, and then I'm like, oh, before I go to the dentist because i you know it was around about just after lunch i went so i'd you know i'd eaten i'd had some morning tea and i had some lunch and then i'm like oh before i go to the dentist i better clean my teeth oh you want your teeth in top-notch condition before you display them to a professional in that industry it was quite a strange that you do that that you go i was like oh geez i need to clean my teeth before going to show my teeth to the dentist

well because you're like well the dentist is about to do that. Yeah. So are you doubling down? It's like when my wife's always like, rinse off the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher. I'm like, well, the dishwasher's about to do that. Why am I doing it? There's not many other jobs that you would like. I wouldn't cut my hair before going to get my hair cut, you know? You wouldn't have a snack before going to eat at a dish trunk.

No, or do a workout before seeing a personal trainer. But it's one of those things that you feel for some reason. That your teeth need to be in. Because you frantically brush your teeth about three or four times a day. In bizarre locations as well. You were doing a reception the other day. I've seen you doing it in my car at the intersection as well. I know.

So maybe for me it's not that unusual. Your teeth are always in great condition. Yeah, but I get stuff stuck in them, so I'm like, I need to get it. But afterwards I was like, well, that's what the dentist is. Did she go? Does it heal sheep? It heals sheep, yeah. Did she go deep?

It's 2021, mate. I nearly did, but then saved it beautifully. Well done. But then you called it out. Don't call it out. Sorry. Bloody, Julie, you'd appreciated it, didn't you? it out. Don't call it out. Sorry. Juliette appreciated it, didn't she? You would appreciate that, Juliette.

Did she go wide open with your mouth and deep into your mouth? Because what I find when you're lying in the dentist too is you have to become very good at talking with your throat. Well, they ask you questions. You're like, can you understand what I'm saying? When was the last time you had a filling?

You're like... I know. But they understand you. I know. They're like, oh, yeah, well, you probably should come in a bit more for your regular. Yeah. How's work going? Oh, they're laying you off soon.

Yeah. Really good at translating. I remember when the kids were really young and I was working quite a lot we had the two jobs going on with TV and stuff we got a cleaner

for a wee bit to help us out but then we'd find the cleaner's coming we're going to need to make you start cleaning a little bit before the cleaner

we can't have the house messy for the cleaner what will they think well they'll think well there's nothing to clean yeah that's what I was like we're paying someone

to come over. Why are we worried about we can't show the house like this? If anything, make it messier. Take the pillows off the couch, tip the couch over. Yeah, I was like, yeah. Exactly. Rub Marmite on the windows. I don't know why you'd do that, but you know.

Random. Yeah. You did right. Maybe with a dentist. Maybe next time I'll, yeah, I'll put. You need to cover your teeth in tobacco or something. You did right. Maybe with a dentist. Maybe next time I'll... Yeah, right. Cover your teeth in tobacco or something. It's a comeback.

Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our game of word association. We play it every day around about this time, and you can win $5,000. Yeah, it's like our version of Lotto, isn't it? But what we lack in tiny balls, we make up for in words. Yeah.

Vanessa, you're on from Christchurch. How are you? Good morning, guys. Great to have you on. What do you do, Vanessa, for a job? I'm a student at the moment. Oh, yeah? A.K.A. nothing.

Yeah, pretty much. What are you studying? I study commerce. Oh, yeah. Listen, you have? I study commerce. Oh, yeah. Listen, you've chosen a great career. Well done. Sometimes when radio school students come through here, I'm like, guys, this is a bad life decision.

Honestly. If you want to see how it turns out, look at us. Go somewhere better. Spread your wings further. All right. You want to put that commerce to good use and see if you can get $5,000 there? Yeah, that would be good. Okay, you need to send someone into the soundproof booth. Vanessa, who's it going to be, matey?

I'd like to send Jono in, please. Okay. He's a safe pair of hands, we hope, today for you, Vanessa. So he is in there right now. You know how the game works, obviously. Yeah. All right, your first word this morning, Vanessa, is thumbs. All right. Your first word this morning, Vanessa, is thumbs.

Thumbs. Like your T-H-U-M-B-S? Yeah, yeah. Thumbs. Oh, I've got, I'm thinking thumbs up or fingers. Yeah, they were exactly the same two that I was thinking. Yeah. I try not to influence you, but I was going to say, yeah.

Let's go up. Okay. Thumbs up. Good, good. I think that's a good word. Window is your next word. Window. W-I-N-D-O-W.

Window. Another couple. Glass or cleaner. Oh, yeah. Let's go. That's right. Yeah, glass or cleaner. Oh, yeah. Let's go. That's right. Yeah, you're right. Both of them.

Cleaner. Okay, window cleaner. Okay. Yeah, I like that. Glazed. Glazed. G-L-A-Z-E-D. Glazed.

Glazed. Let's go ham. Nice. Yeah, I think you're doing a really good job with these words so far. Every word you've gone, I've gone, yeah, yeah. Okay, frost is the fourth word this morning. Frost. Frost. um mmm mmm mmm

let's go winter winter for frost and finally your final word this morning Vanessa is music music mmm mmm mmm

um oh let's go Like your mmm, mmm. Let's go with, I'm thinking song or radio. Yeah. Or singing. Oh, yeah, of course, yeah. Let's go with Song Song We're going to lock in song

Music Song makes sense to me Vanessa I think you played a really good game With some words that gave you a few options Can I change the frost one? Okay hang on Jono Just block yours one second Okay yes you can

What would you like to say? Can I just change it to cold? Okay Nice Okay alright I can't say that out loud But I have locked that in Because Jono is now in the room What would you like to say? Can I just change it to cold? Okay. Nice. Okay. All right. I can't say that out loud, but I have locked that in because Jono is now in the room with me right now.

Hi. Do you remember? I was thinking in the soundproof booth when we were doing this for a while, we'd have Millennial Max in here filming it. Producer Humphrey would be. It was a two-person camera crew getting on. Now. He'd have a cannon on standby.

Yeah. It was all going. Now they just sort of sit there scratching their armpits. Oh, no... He'd have a cannon on standby. Yeah. It was all going, now they just sort of sit there scratching their armpits. Oh, no, he's got the cannon on standby. There you go. He only pulls the cannon out if we're at word number four.

Yeah. And then he panic grabs the cell phone out of his pocket. Okay, let's get him. We'll still film it, though. Okay, let's get into the words. Some tricky-ish words that had a couple of good options

for the words, I guess, in that regard. That's what I like. You know you're playing into my sweet spot. Okay, so Jono, here we go. That's what I like. You know you're playing into my sweet spot. Okay, so Jono, here we go. Don't let Vanessa down. Thumbs is the first word.

Thumbs up? Oh, well done. Thumbs up to you. Well done. Hey, well done to you, Vanessa. Okay, the second word this morning is window. Window. Window. is window window I'm only saying this because I saw them inside our building

yesterday cleaner oh nice that's good that's good Vanessa start spending that money no no no no whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa stop spending that money yeah glazed jono is the third word this morning glazed g-l-a-z-e-d glazed i've got two do you want me to say what the two are i don't know i don't know i've got donut and ham oh okay okay all right okay i going to go the glazed doughnuts. Not much of a common term here in Aotearoa. I'm going to go glazed ham.

Oh, you've done well. Vanessa. Oh my god. Start spending the money now. Okay, frost is the fourth word this morning. Frost. Topical. It's been frosty weather around the country. And a potential frosty reception if you get this wrong.

Look at me in the eyes, Ben. He won't look at me. Cold? Oh! You went away! Oh my God, Vanessa! Oh my God. The cannon's been dusted off.

Producer Humphrey's walked in with his cell phone. You can do this. Okay, music is the final word. Can we put Vanessa on hold, obviously, because this is a $5,000 word. We don't want the keyless whisperer coming into play. Music. I'd go music.

Jeez. Radio? No, what did you go? What did she do? I said song. Did you say song? We were talking about radio, eh? Yeah.

Oh, you weren't. Oh, no weren't. Oh, no. Vanessa. You did so well. Vanessa did such a great job of saying a couple of options for each one. You're like, oh, yeah. Like thumbs up and fingers. And you're like, they're the best two choices.

Oh, dude, I'm so sorry. That's all right, guys. Thank you so much. You played such an awesome game, Vanessa. Hopefully we get to do it again with you because I reckon next time you will be taking on $5,000. You played well. You played a good game. You can walk away with your head held high.

All right. You walk off to that commerce class. Oh, so close. Another chance for somebody else to hopefully win tomorrow. It is that. Spy. The What's Up. Spy.co.nz.

Give me an S. S. Give me a P. P. Give me an I. I? What does that spell? Spee.

Juliet, what's happening in Spy? So Ed Sheeran and Courtney Cox, we all know that they're good friends. Ed Sheeran's mate is Courtney's partner. And you see them on Instagram together quite a bit. And whenever Ed is in the US, he stays at Courtney Cox's house. He's like their frequent house guest whenever he's... Do you reckon they're like, oh, my mate Ed's coming again. She's like, oh, didn't he just leave a couple of weeks ago?

He'd be like, surely you can book out like a suite. I know. He wants to stay with his mate. He wants to be a burden on Courtney and his mate. It seems like they have a lot of fun together, though. So it's probably, you know... Yeah, true, they probably do enjoy it. I mean, of course you'd want Ed Sheeran staying at his house.

Totally, totally. But he's actually revealed to be a bit of a prankster and he knows how to embarrass the absolute hell out of courtney cox and it involves an amazon alexa you know those things that you can talk to and you get it to do things and it will do things for you and this is what happened and she goes isn't this wonderful this is is my Alexa. I can just order whatever on this. So she walks out of the room and do you know what a gimp mask is? You know, like an S&M leather gimp mask. So she walks out of the room. I go, Alexa, order me a gimp mask. And it goes, OK, Courtney, I'll order you a gimp mask. And anyway, so unbeknownst to me, Courtney's assistant found it.

She opened the post and she finds his mask and instantly goes, oh, I don't think I was meant to see that. Leaves it on Courtney's bed and Courtney comes up and she's like, where did this come from? Anyway, she found out the story and then now every time I go back there, I order her another gimp mask and she has maybe like 12 and then I hide them

in people's bedrooms so they'll go in a drawer and they'll just find this leather S&M mask. He's like that, mate. Is your mate coming again? Is he going to order more gift masks? A lot of punish. It's shocking. Do you get to say to Alexa, order a gift mask, and they just, no, credit card, sort of like a little number

from the back of the thing? Alexa weirds me out. Jen got one through work, and my dad came to stay, and he's very suspicious of all that advanced technology. He put it out in the rubbish bin. Did he? He's like, it'll be listening. I was like, we've unplugged it, mate.

It's turned off. He's like, it'll still be listening. He didn't want it anywhere near him. I don't know what he's saying behind closed doors, but he doesn't want Alexa here again. Is it kind of like a Siri, but on steroids? You must do a lot more if you can

just say, order a gimp mask, and it will automatically do it. I didn't quite master it, but it feels like it's a personal assistant for your household, really. I mean, that's stuff that kids are meant to be doing. They're meant to be getting your gimp masks. That's why you have kids. And on the subject of Ed Sheeran, I also found out that, you know his trademark glasses that

he kind of used to wear, but they were sort of round circle black glasses. He said that now whenever he wears glasses, they're just fake because it's all for show. It's all to keep the whole glasses look going because he's had laser eye surgery and he literally doesn't even need to wear them, but he just wears them for the look now. Oh, it's a branding thing. Yeah. Keep the old Ed sheer and current. Pop down to look sharp, get some glasses.

And obviously trending at the moment is of course Bill Cosby being freed from jail. Moments ago Bill Cosby just arrived home. This has all happened with such lightning speed it's been incredible today. Bill Cosby is a free man.

Yeah, not fast enough that they couldn't get helicopters in the air to follow him home, though. No. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben are with you on a Thursday morning. Thanks so much for hanging out with us. Now, yesterday in Parliament, they were having a bit of a debate, as they like to do.

That's what they do in Parliament, right? And so the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, was joking about the proposed hate speech law change that Judith Collins has basically been saying, oh, you won't be able to call anyone a Karen anymore, you'll get. Which is not what it's all about. But Jacinda Ardern used that to clap back at Judith Collins yesterday in Parliament.

What is her response to Tova O'Brien, who wrote, quote, Jacinda Ardern is wrong about her own hate speech law, completely and utterly wrong. Not only is the Prime Minister wrong about the basic facts of the proposal, she is wrong to shut down debate on hate speech, end quote. Mr Speaker, I also disagree with that statement and I also, as it happens,

disagree with the member's statement on Twitter that somehow it will become illegal to call someone a Karen. That is absolutely incorrect and I apologise. That means these laws will not protect that member from such a claim. Oh, I've got a good response from the Labour Party. Oh!

It's just like a burn festo. It's like a rap battle in there. It is, you're right It's like a rap battle in there It is You're right A very lame rap battle Yeah No rapping But it is The same result

Where you're like Oh you just said something about Yeah And what would it mean Because you couldn't actually Call a Karen a Karen So you just go Hello

My good lady Yeah Rhonda Yeah They're proud of New Zealand Woo Go New Zealand If only New Zealand was proud of them

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast Nothing disturbs you more nowadays Than receiving a FaceTime phone call Jeez, it makes you suspicious, don't you? I remember when FaceTime first came out Everyone was like, oh, I want to see your face when we're talking And, you know, we all love seeing each other's faces But eventually as time wore on FaceTime's turned into more of a why are they facetiming yeah we're that one we were

trying to call someone for work but this is new i facetime you have my face someone like that's weird and then they didn't answer they text back going um did you mean to facetime it was weird and i said yes i did and then they said well that was weird yeah why is facetiming considered well i don't know we just all think it's you've put it in my head now that it's a weird thing but I someone facetimed me yesterday same thing well I facetime you like they want me to see something

that's the thing right they want to see if you're in a like sometimes I use it if I'm in a store like if I'm in a supermarket and Amanda is at home I'm like is this you know these are the ones I find I can't find the you know like it's a good way that but I don't know. Well, yeah, that's a good purpose for it. But when it's someone from work or someone from management FaceTiming me,

I was like, why do they want to see my face? And it's only when you don't know that it's coming, when it's weird. Like if they're saying, oh, I'm going to FaceTime you, then it's fine. Yeah, my parents will want to catch up with the kids and stuff. It's fine. You can see the kids over FaceTime. That's fine. It just made me think, well, maybe they're going to fire me and they want to see me crying.

Press record. I've got 20 bucks on the fact this guy's going to cry. So I let it ring through and then I texted back, did you mean to FaceTime? And they almost need like an automatic text reply in that situation. Did you mean to FaceTime or was that a butt dial? And he said, no, I meant to FaceTime. And then I'm like, hmm.

And then he phoned me. He's like, I just wanted to do FaceTime. Talk face-to-face. Have a face-to-face meeting. And it's weird. It is weird. Like, they delete it off the phone. We don't need it. Because one of my favourite things to do is walk pace when I'm on the phone. Like, I don't like

being, you know, and FaceTime seems to sort of anchor you to one spot, you know. You can't be tidying stuff and not listening to a a conversation because they know they know they can see right yeah what you want to do is anything apart from listen to the person on the phone yeah well when jenny boyce phones you you want to be doing all the vacuuming you know you want to carry on doing that but people can see the rudeness if it's a facetime can't they no and i've got no time when someone's FaceTiming to whip on some foundy, chuck

on some lippy. I can't make the face look decent for a proposal. It's holding the phone up high for the high angle and you look better on a high angle, you know? That was like Zoom when lockdown was happening. You couldn't escape a Zoom. But what were those things we were doing? Those parties? House parties.

You couldn't escape a house party because they would always be like well where you know i've got to go now where where are you going oh see we had friends that would all catch up over you know for like friday night drinks i presume and it was great for a bit but then you get there'd be multiple people it's very hard to have a conversation talking over each other just so you know like i'm gonna go and then they call me out like where are you gonna go there's nothing to do this yeah i know but you guys are doing nothing. I'm just watching you doing what you're doing. Why don't I just do what I'm doing without you watching me?

Yeah, exactly. Welcome to the Space Jam. Space Jam's A New Legacy's 10 Shots at 10K with Jono and Ben. Looks awesome. Space Jam, A New Legacy, fun for the whole family. And we're putting dads in a jam to hopefully get them in the draw for 10 shots for $10,000. You can register at thehits.co.nz. Meg?

Hi, thanks for having me. Lovely to have you on. Meg is a manager for the Auckland female rugby team. Yep, that's the one. Now that's, I tell you what, if I told you about the time that Ben made me do something with the Auckland rugby team, did you want to hear about that, Meg? Tell me about it. Well, he put me in a tackle bag and then team. Did you want to hear about that, Meg? Tell me about it. Well, he put me in a tackle bag,

and then he got the entire squad to tackle me. And it ended in a broken collarbone. But also a pep talk from Sir John Kilwin, which was a pretty awesome moment. So good and bad. We took away good and bad memories from that day. Going to put your dad, Charlie, in a bit of a jam this morning. We're going to ask him some difficult questions for Charlie to potentially take 10 shots at $10,000 next Friday.

Good, good, good. Does Charlie love his basketball? I wouldn't say it was his first sport, but we definitely love the movie Space Jam. They will do. It's a brand new movie, Space Jam, a new legacy, so we'll get a family pass to that regardless, all right? Awesome. Okay, you're saying it's not his first sport. Is it in the top ten?

Yeah, I'd say, you know, top ten. Yeah, good, good. He's definitely sitting at number ten. Okay, we're going to ask you a couple of questions and we're going to put Charlie in a jam to see if he can answer those questions. What was your birthday? It's the 21st of the 2nd, 1992. I understand you've got a brother, Richard?

Yep. What's his job? He the 2nd, 1992. I understand you've got a brother, Richard? Yep. What's his job? He's a builder, by trade. Okay, so this should be an easy one for your dad to know, right? Curly one, have you got a best friend, and what's their name? Yeah, my best friend is Kerry. Has Charlie met Kerry? Yeah, he has.

I'm not sure if he'll remember, but he definitely has. Yeah, well, he should remember. He's your best friend. Yeah, exactly. He's your best friend. Yeah. Okay, we'll go's your best friend. Exactly. We'll go through to Charlie now. Good luck. If he does succeed, you'll be in the draw to take 10 shots

at $10,000 next Friday, thanks to LeBron James, who's sponsored this. That's right. His brand new movie with the Looney Tunes, isn't it? Yeah, he's like, if I've only got this for marketing, well, I'm going to spend it with John O'Bennett on the hits in New Zealand. So thank you, LeBron.

What does Charlie do? He owns a pub up north. Oh, very cool. Yes, hello. Oh, is that Charlie? Yes. Charlie from the pub up north. Yeah, tell us what's happening.

Oh, it's Charlie. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, good. How are you? We're doing all right. Now we have your daughter Meg with us on the phone. Long story short, but there's a couple of questions we want to ask you so you can go in the draw for $10,000.

Oh, crikey. Okay. No pressure, Charlie. Oh, mate, mate, mate. What sort of questions are you going to ask? These are questions around Meg. He wants to vet the questions. Oh, mate, mate, mate, what sort of questions are you going to ask? These are questions around Meg, his family. He wants to vet the questions.

Yeah, yeah. Hey, do I have to do my hair first before we go on video? Listen, I haven't had to do it for many years, mate, you'll be right. All right, next question, what's Meg's birthday? Oh, mate, there's two of them born on the same day. Hang on a minute. I've just got to know where my birthday is. 21 to 92.

Yes! You came through. It's getting a bit hard, mate. It's getting a bit difficult. He was searching deep. He was searching deep. Now, is there anything you want to say

to Charlie Meg as he goes on to the next one well this is your second favourite child job title oh yeah

so second favourite just think that okay Richard yeah Richard what does Richard do for a job

alrighty he's a builder I hope yeah he's a builder I hope yeah he's a builder okay the final question right now

Meg has a best friend you've met her once what is her name oh mate um mate

Meg's got thousands of good friends can you give me a bit of a clue on this is it like her best, best friend or what? Yeah, her best, best friend.

I don't know. Meg, best, best friend? Best, best Canadian friend. Oh, Canadian. Oh, well, that's easy. It's the name of a drink, Kerry. Yeah! Well done.

You guys have got a family pass to Space Jam, a new legacy, the movie, and you're in the draw for 10 basketball shots for $10,000. Oh, that sounds pretty good. Next time you're up here, you better pop in and have a beer the movie, and you're in the draw for 10 basketball shots for $10,000. Oh, that sounds pretty good. Next time you're up here, you better pop in and have a beer. I'll shout you a beer. Oh, we will. We will, Charlie. We'd love to meet you, and thank you, Meg.

You guys go and have a great day. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys weekdays from 6 on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh.