Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: When Has Your Child Taken Full Credit For A School Project That YOU DID!?

Episode Date: September 13, 2021

We opened up the Parent Credit Line because Ben's daughter Sienna has a school project due, but he has done EVERYTHING. But will he ever get the credit when she gets her mark back!? We knew Ben wasn't the only one who's been in this situation, so we opened up the Parent Credit Line to see what outrageous school projects you've done for your kids. We also caught up with Mama Doctor Jones who is an influencer/doctor over in America, and she's taken a job in INVERCARGILL! Of all places! Anywhere in the world, and with her following, she chooses Invercargill!? We caught up with her to ask her why! Enjoy the poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, it's the 14th of September. Jono and Ben here with the podcast. How are you? I'm doing alright, How are you doing? Good. Seems unusual for me to ask you how you are when we've been in the same room for the last four hours. It feels like when we start this though, it's a new Jono and Ben, isn't it?

It is. It's a new start to the day. Take two on the day, if you will. We've got to the end of the show, the radio show. Now we're presenting the radio show to you in podcast form. Yeah, which is an unusual concept, isn't it? Because you kind of reflect on, how do you think it went today? How was your performance? Me? Live performance appraisal with 10 Boys.

Is this coming with any ulterior motives? No, not a leading question. How do you think you performed today? I was okay. I was okay. Out of 10, what would you have given your performance? Like, hey, it wasn't a, you know. What do I want to say?

Look, I don't want to bag myself, but I don't want to, you know, I'm caught here between like, what if the boss hears this and he's like, oh, he's certainly giving you like a four out of 10, you know? Yeah, but you're marking yourself. But I don't want to come in and go, oh, mate, I'm a nine out of 10. Well, if you had a blinder, say you had a blinder. I don't think I had a blinder. I wouldn't say it was a blinder.

But that's the thing, I think, in a radio show that takes place over three hours. You have moments. You're like, oh, that was good. Then other bits, you're like, oh, I really, you know, didn't offer much. You know, I said this wrong. You know, like, it's a mixed performance. It's like a rugby player over 80 minutes. Okay, what was your high and low?

High, high point from today. This is not ranking yourself out of 10. What would you have said was Ben Boyce's high point from the broadcast today? I don't know. Did I have a high point today? Did I? This is your performance appraisal. I'll tell you my feedback very shortly. Why are you telling me my feedback?

Why don't you do me? What was your high point of me? Did I give you anything? Did I give you anything at all? No, you did actually. You did. I really enjoyed your story about you doing all the work, no, you did actually. You did. You did. There was, I really enjoyed your story about you doing all the work or a lot of the work on Sienna's project,

your daughter, and not getting the credit for it. Yeah, I mean, she's done a lot of work as well, but yeah, but only one will get credited. I would have called that a content spike for you.

Just after eight o'clock. A content spike. Is it contained or is it? Yeah, no, it's contained. We can epidemiologically link it. Is it contained or is it? Yeah, no, it's contained. We can epidemiologically link it. Link it back to me? Yeah, we'll link it back to you. And 6.10 this morning too, you came out of the gates

with a wonderful conversation about how your family's reached peak lockdown with your shared sleeping arrangement. Yeah, I don't know why we're doing it, but we're like camping in the lounge. Oh yes, that was good. So those were my two high points of you. Now you can do some feedback on me. Yeah, I don't know why we're doing it, but we're like camping in the lounge. Oh, yes, that was good. What about you? So those were my two high points of view.

Now you can do some feedback on me. Yeah, well, you brought to the table today a conversation about Nigella Lawson. An observation. An observation, which was a strong, solid observation. Yeah, right. But unusual, probably out of left, you know, where did this come from? I think we were all related to it. You just promised you're like, what would happen if Nigella was calling up a plumber in New Zealand?

With their sultry tones. Do we have Nigella? That was my only slight reservation about it, that we didn't have Nigella. And you were promising, it was you putting on a Nigella voice. But it worked well. Hello, chocolate lovers. It worked well. Yeah, well, it only worked well because the wonderful lady receiving the phone call, she pulled us through that.

Yeah, and you also made me plug the TV show without saying any of the essential words to the TV show. That was quite difficult. Yeah, a couple of high points there. Put a challenge out there. Yeah, a couple of runs on the board for Boyce and a couple for Pryor. So overall, I would have given this show, in all honesty, a solid 7 out of 10 today. All right, 7 out of 10. If we were sitting down with the boss, how did you go?

Out of 10, I would have said it was a 7. A 7, boss. We've got a meeting with boss Todd. Room for improvement, but it's always good to have room for improvement. Yeah, you don't want to go 10 out of 10. We can't do radio better than that. That's what's happening upstairs with Hosking. Every time Hosking walks out of the studio. He wouldn't be giving himself a 7, would he?

No, you can't radio any better than that. So enjoy the seven out of ten podcast today welcome to two half-assed dads to a half-assed job official title new zealand's breakfast uh things are pretty much in lockdown here in auckland and i have actually kind of you know i have enjoyed spending more time with the kids because they're home when we get home in the afternoon and uh helping them out with their school stuff. Publicly, he says that. Yeah. Well, one of the projects my daughter, Sienna, has been working on all term, they had to

choose something at the start of the term that really interested them and they were encouraged to really investigate it and make a bit of a project, a presentation to make to the class at the end of the term. And she was like, hey, I want to make a little radio show. She wanted to make a little, I was like, that's kind of cool. She's like, you've got a little radio show? You can tell me. That's what people say to you. Oh, how's your little radio show she wanted to make a little that's kind of cool she's like you got a little radio show you can tell me that's what people say to you how's your little radio show yeah you want them to say how's your big radio show going but they never do it's always how's your little radio show it's like jacinda talking down to a little radio show put their

sort of hands on their knees and they've been down looking how's your little radio show but it was that's kind of cool because i was like well this is one thing i can help you with because i'm not very skilled at anything including radio but at least i battle away every morning on a little radio show um so we were working away at that and then i've you know because it was like well let's make this little five minute radio show and then i i turned to producer juliet and i got her to help with some of the uh some of the graphics and design for it because i'm not that good with that and then aaron who to help with some of the graphics and design for it because I'm not that good with that

and then Aaron who does a wonderful job of the hits imaging all the audio things you hear I was like can you make me a little intro for this

to help Sienna out it'd be cool we can sort you out so what have you done at this point well I put it all together I edited it together recorded it all up

and got all the stuff together and it actually sounds it sounds pretty cool I mean have a listen to the start of it. This is Sienna with the Hit School Edition. Come in love. Kia ora. It's the Hit School Edition with Sienna.

Thank you so much for tuning in. We've got a really big show today. Pull it down. Pull it down. It's too good. Get it off the air. Delete the footage. You don't need people coming on here making this look easy.

How old is she? 11. Ben, what are you doing? Pull it yourself together. And then you play it on our show? They hear what we've done for the rest of the morning. I was just thinking, you know, from parents around the country like this, when you have, you know, I'm not saying Sienna hasn't worked hard on it,

because she has. She's done all the planning out but myself producer juliet erin we've all put effort into this we're not going to get any credit when it when it goes through when she gets hopefully a good mark for this yeah she's got to get that you know there's parents the kids roll they're like i'll take it from here and that means take it from home to school and get the great marks you're right no acknowledgement to the parents. There should be two scores given, one for the students and one for the parents. Good idea. I don't know why, but I was asked to come in as a dud liberty

and judge like some science fair project at a school a few years ago. And you're like, well, no seven-year-old has made a solar-powered Ferris wheel. But this is clearly all the parents doing. And then all the parents sort of passive-aggressively sort of circle the judges like sharks. Yeah, because they want recognition. I made a Hogwarts, like a full Hogwarts once, out of, like, toilet paper and cardboard and stuff.

But that was one of those classic ones. You were in deep with that. Classic ones, it was like, oh, I've got to make this Hogwarts. It was like, oh, cool, that'd be fun. When, by tomorrow? Oh, OK. And then it gets to, like, 8.30, you're like, well, the kids have got to go to bed.

So who's up late bloody making Hogwarts? With toilet rolls. Panic buying toilet paper. Painting it up and doing this. I get no credit for the thing in the end. This is like someone working on a movie and then they wait till the end of the movie to see their name scroll up and nope. They write right to the

middle of the end, 10 minutes of credits and not once is your name shown. So we want to open up a line this morning, don't we? We do. For the parents out there who maybe didn't get the credit, the parent credit line, we want to call it. And it's not saying your kids didn't work hard on the project, because sometimes they do need help and you're helped through, but you don't get any credit through the back

end. So this is your chance to say, hey, I worked on this science fair project. I bought the solar system and I didn't get any credit for it I built a plane yeah and all a working plane and I think a lot of to the parent involvement comes from well if I don't do it I'm just going to be banging on about you finishing your project for the next five weeks so it's easier for me to just guts up do the project and then it's done yeah put it on my to-do list and we'll do it knock it off so it off. So, 0800 the hits. Have you participated in a school project? Did you not get the acknowledgement,

the credit that you deserved? Well, publicly, we will give that to you now. There's the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Help each other give away. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. And now we want to open up the lines

for parents out there to get some credit for helping their kids on their assignment, because they don't get the credit. Even though you were not saying the kids don't work hard on it, we're saying the parents often chip in and work hard and they don't get any of the credit, right? They're the silent partner. Yeah, like a personal assistant to a celebrity. You've made them look good.

You've sent them out on the red carpet. You're sitting there covered in ripped clothes and you smell because you haven't showered in three days, but they walk out there and they get all the accolades. Not now. Now's not the time for this, Ben. Now we're going to sing for these unsung heroes. Naomi, welcome from Huntley. How are you this morning?

I'm good, thanks. How are you? Good. You sound like a parent who's been doing the hard yards on the project and not getting rewarded for it, Naomi. Definitely. Talk to it, Naomi. Definitely. Talk to us, baby. We are raising, well, I am raising a lamb for Carp and Lamb Day.

You're raising a lamb, that's a good bit, a live, something that's living. Something that's living, about eight to ten weeks of feeding, walking, training, and then he takes it into school, walks it round a ring and gets everything for it. That's right. But who has been there day in and day out, Naomi? Exactly. Say it loud. I have.

I have. You have, Naomi. Naomi, we want to award you with a medal and it comes in pizza form from Hell Pizza, all right? Thank you. It's an edible medal. And then what happens to the lamb afterwards? It goes out to the farm to become dinner when it's big enough.

That's a circle of life. Isn't this, Juliet? You saw the lion kick. We give away hell pizza at the same time. A lamb one too? It's all a bit unusual. Hey, will you keep raising that lamb and good luck for pet day. Thank you, Naomi. Appreciate it. We'll get Alicia on It's all a bit unusual. Hey, well, you keep raising that lamb, and good luck for Pet Day.

Thank you. Thank you, Naomi. Appreciate it. We'll get Alicia on from Wellington. Now, going against the grain, not a parent wanting to be credited, but you want to credit your mum, Alicia. I do. I think it's about time.

All right. How many years ago was this? Oh, this probably would have, maybe about 20 years ago. Yeah, right. Your parents, what did they do? So we had to do a mammal project, and I decided to do one on the blue whale, and she measured out in string the length of a blue whale. Pulled a paper roll for me, and I got to take the class out and unravel it,

and then in my report it put how much effort I put into my school project. Yeah, were they guilt points? Did you feel guilty? I felt awesome at that age. Yeah, you don't think about it, do you? It's like when, Ben, you entered a colouring competition at age 12 for six-year-olds, and you took it out. No guilt at the time.

At the time, yeah. But now you feel that you need to acknowledge the moment. That's right. And go, I wouldn't have maybe aged myself down even though my colouring was at that level. Hey, Alicia, well done for giving your mum credit for measuring out an entire blue whale with string. Thanks, guys.

All the best. Hey, and Juliet, you were saying your older sister, she... Oh, it was a nightmare. And it's one of those stories of family you never forget. My sister, she was year 13, so she was about 17 years old, and you'd think she'd have a crack together by then, but it was a history project, and she had to

sort of consolidate her whole family tree on both sides, and so mum was up until about 4am the morning it was due, finishing it off for her. Why the night before? It's always the night before. Yeah, I know. Remember I was out looking for worms or something at 11.30 at night. I know, it's the night before.

Yeah, just as they're going to bed, oh by the way, I've got to have this nine worms in a container. When's this for? Tomorrow morning. And they go off to sleep at 8.30. Yeah, exactly. Some traipsing around the garden at midnight. Hey, well thank you very much for your calls. And to all the parents who don't get the recognition they deserve on the school projects,

kia kaha, we hear ya. Intelligent, thought-provoking, stimulating. Three terms that will never apply here. Juno and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Now, Dr Mama Jones, she works in big hospitals in the US. She has over 2 million followers on social media.

When she talks about sexual-related health topics with those followers, and now she is moving to Invercargill. We wanted to find out why and catch up with Dr. Mama Jones herself. She joins us right now over Zoom. Thank you so much for joining us. How are you? Thank you so much. Good to be here.

Recording in progress. Oh, there we go. Are you recording this or we? I don't know. I think that was an accident. Sorry. No, we're about to record this. Recording stopped.

Oh, now it's stopped. Okay. Doesn't think it's worthy. That happens with a lot of our content. Zoom's like, there's no point in this. Now, Mama Jones. Do we call you Mama Jones? Yeah.

Danielle's fine. Dr. Jones. Mama Dr. Jones. Whatever you want. All right. You's fine. Dr. Jones, Mama Dr. Jones, whatever you want. All right. You've got three different aliases, like someone running from the FBI. That's exactly right. Why do you think I'm coming there? That's right.

You've got a really interesting story. You've worked in big hospitals in the U.S. You have over 2 million followers, which we'll talk about online, what you do. And now you're coming to Invercargill. I mean, why Invercargill? So it's an interesting story. We've actually wanted to move to New Zealand for quite a while since the first time that we visited in 2011. We came back again in 2018 but because of some of the way that

translation and medical practice happens we couldn't get over there quite yet and then with the pandemic obviously options for immigration were highly difficult to find and a job I put up there and I interviewed and I really really loved the team that I interviewed with and it seemed like a great fit so it was our way to get in and I think it's going to be really wonderful working at Southland Hospital. Have you googled Invercargill? Like google images have you had a look at the place? You're in Texas originally. 40 degree temperatures in Texas, you know, in summertime. You go to Invercargill.

Invercargill. Yeah, we're actually currently... It is so hot in Texas. We wouldn't mind being there in the cold right now. We spent last winter in the Colorado Rockies, so we can handle the cold. But yeah, it'll be a big change. It'll be a big change for sure.

What a wonderful life experience. Anyway, it's an honor big change. It'll be a big change for sure. What a wonderful life experience. Anyway, it's an honor to have you in our country. You're a superstar on social media. Now, tell us, for those that haven't followed you or seen you online, what you actually do. So I am a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist. I think it's called ONG there. And I do online education in all kinds of different topics from pregnancy to periods to sex ed, currently talking about the abortion ban in Texas because I live in Texas right now.

All kinds of things, answering questions that tend to be taboo subjects, but are really, really important for education. So you do this on social media. You've got over 2 million followers. When did you first decide you wanted to put some stuff out on social media like this? I've actually been on social media in some capacity since 2009 when I was a medical student. And it was really weird back then because nobody was really blogging their way through medical school and giving the experiences then. And people thought it was very unusual. So I've been doing it in some capacity since then. But 2017 is the first time that I got online kind of as this Mama Dr. Jones brand where my goal was truly to be educating and teaching and helping people so really in the way that you see it right now it's been about four years uh obviously you cover all

sorts of all sorts of medicine in your line of work what's one big mistake we're all making when it comes to our health taking advice from people on the internet who have no reason to be giving you advice. Oh, that's my favorite way of getting medical advice. It always ends up that I've got cancer, no matter what it is. It gives me a whole lot of content, but man, there are some really bad actors trying to pretend that they know what you should be doing for your health. What do you think of anti-vaxxers? I feel like this is such a complicated subject. And most of the time this comes from a place of just truly being hesitant

because they've read something probably that misinformed them. And so while it can be incredibly frustrating, especially in the U.S. right now, when we're having such incredibly high and dangerous amounts of COVID, and I've seen people so horribly sick. I try to take an educational view and I do actually follow a lot of people who have spread the bad information because I think they have tactics that I can learn from, take what they're saying and flip it to why it's not science-based and give the people who are hesitant the answer

as to why. And if we're really out to change minds we have to be patient well you've got um four kids is that right and you all had covet at one stage an interesting experience at the time we were living somewhere where we had no friends or family nearby so we couldn't my husband and i both had it so we couldn't quarantine from them because they're eight eight five and four and two at the time and they had to eat and so we had to feed them um and so it was an interesting experience being locked in the house were you quite sick had you ever felt that sort of sickness before i have never been that sick in my entire life i have severe asthma and

i it was both scary and um horrible and at one point my husband and i both were really really ill and i was worried, you know, what will we do if we both get admitted to the hospital? Where will all kids go? What will happen? And it was really scary. Well, yeah, so nice to talk to you. We are so stoked that you're coming to New Zealand and you hopefully will continue to do some videos in New Zealand to showcase what we have here. Absolutely. I look forward to talking a little bit about the differences in maternity care there. I'm very excited to work in a midwife

led system and very different than here. So I'm thrilled. I can't wait. There you go, Dr. Mama Jones moving from Texas to Southland in Vicargo. Isn't that cool? That's awesome, isn't it? And I'm glad we're not making a big deal out of it as well. Yeah, we're very excited. This is Jono and Ben. it as well yeah we're very excited it's john on ben hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion

mike hosking on new salt and bean in the meantime here's john and ben the he's we want to well i want to get talked about our tv show talked about on the biggest radio show in the country the mike hosking breakfast uh he wants mike hosking himself uh to review the show now i know jacinda refuses to go on the show and we're bucking the trend and begging to get on the show. Maybe there's a reason she doesn't want to go on the show. It's because she knows what she's in for, Ben. I don't feel like you know what you're in for. You're talking about this man.

PC bollocks driven by PC media. Self-absorbed, phenol narcissist. Do you suspect anyone above the age of six could not have already worked that out? Not in the post-game, but you should be because you failed us. Cheap, superficial, hopelessly disorganised. What was he? A disaster. You're only doing this because you were caught out yet again. They are single-issue nutters.

There we go. That's the guy you want to review our show, and you wanted to do it on Thursday on his programme, the same day as our TV show, which is on that night at 8 o'clock on TVNZ2. Yeah. Yeah, well, yeah, we're in there now. We've sent the copy of the TV show up to is on that night at 8 o'clock on TVNZ2. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, yeah, we're in there now. We've sent the copy of the TV show up to Mike Hosking.

In fact, we've got a bit of an update for you next. Will Mike Hosking review our TV show? Will we get on Newstalk ZB? Well, I'll tell you in just a few moments. It is the hits. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there, and then I backed out.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand breakfast. Now, on 8 o'clock on Thursday night, TVNZ2, Jono and Ben, Good Sports. That's our new TV show. We go around Aotearoa and search for Kiwis playing unusual sports this week. It's barefoot water skiing, which is so hard to do. There's also burnouts and wood chopping as well on the show this week. It's fun. Fun doing those three things.

And you can win $500 cash just by watching the show on Thursday night as well. Now, Ben had a harebrained idea just to get some talkability for the show that we appear on New Zealand's biggest radio program, the Mike Hosking Breakfast on Newstalk ZB. It was pitched to the boss of Newstalk ZB, Jason, yesterday. We wanted to get on the biggest radio station and the biggest radio show in the country, so we wanted to know what it would take to get Mike to do an interview

with us about a TV show and maybe have him review the show at the same time. Um... I'm taking that as a yes. I actually have very little control of it, I can suggest, but you probably need to talk to Mike about that.

So we sent the link, didn't we, of an episode to Mike Hosking. We've heard through his people that Mike is willing to watch a portion of the show. I don't know how much. Not the whole thing. He might love it and he might want to watch the whole thing.

He might want to binge the whole season. But he is going to make a decision today as to whether he's going to watch any more and whether we can be on his program Thursday morning for a live review with Mike Hosking. There you go. And cast your mind back. When we first came to this company, we towed the man's car. He hasn't spoken to us since. Yeah, true.

Next thing he hears from us, can you review our show? He'll be like, the gall. It's not going to be favorable. But I'm just trying to get publicity. I'm trying to get out there. I'm trying to get the people to talk about the show because we're not on billboards we're not on buses. It's appreciated. I mean if you listen to this radio show every second minute Ben Boyce is just seamlessly

segwaying in a plug for the show but the people, they're texting through Ben the people. No they're not. They're like you sound desperate. You sound desperate. No, that's you saying this. You can't just keep banging on about John Owen being good sports Thursday night at 8 o'clock on TVNZ 2. You just can't keep saying it.

You can catch up on demand at TVNZ. It'll start to wear thin. You can't keep saying that. People will see through the facade. So I want to give you the chance. It's in my best interest as well for the show to be plugged, but I want you to do it by getting the people to plug it

because that way it doesn't seem as self-indulgent. Okay, all right, yeah. So we're going to call somewhere in Wanaka, a couple of Aucklanders heading to Wanaka. I hear they love Aucklanders in Wanaka at the moment. We've got a cafe there. Now you've got to try and get the person to say your name, my name

the time that the show's on at 8 o'clock, you've got to get them to say TVNZ 2, Channel 2 and you've got to get them to say Good Sports, you can't lead them into it too much though so I'm not allowed to say, you can't say it so they've got to say John and Ben Good Sports, they do the plug for you

we come off less desperate it's a win win I'll give it to you. They do the plug for you. We come off less desperate. It's a win-win. Oh, jeez. I'll give it a go because I want to plug the show. Ratchet Cafe, Hannah speaking. Oh, hi, Hannah. How's it going? Good.

Hey, we don't know each other. This is a bit of a random phone call. Okay. I just wanted you to help me out just quickly. Okay. So I'm trying to think of the name of these couple of guys they work together they've done like radio and tv together i was watching them on tv the other day they're kind of a duo one's bald other ones they work on radio and they yeah they do tv they've had a few tv shows

i was watching them on tv the other night and um there's two of them they work together they try and be funny one's bald one's got bad tattoos both got bad tattoos to be honest the other night, and there's two of them. They work together. They try and be funny. One's bald. One's got bad tattoos. Both got bad tattoos, to be honest. The other one's a bit skinnier. The two of them, that's like something. The two of them, they work together. Can you think of them?

Been around for a while. Probably too long. I'm thinking the only names that come to mind is Jono and Ben. That's it. That's it. That's who I was talking about. Yeah. Okay.

Thank you so much I was watching them on TV the other night And I didn't catch the name of the show that they were on You didn't see it by chance, did you? The name of the show? Yeah, it's a new TV show they were on TV, what channel? Ah, well, it wasn't one

And it wasn't three, so I'm guessing it was Two Yeah, and it was on Not seven, but not nine. So it would have to be around... Around eight o'clock. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah.

Basically bang on there. And it was a bit, they kind of did these games. They definitely weren't bad games. They were more sort of, you know, people that would play these sort of things. And they weren't bad. They were probably the opposite of that, to be honest. Jesus. play these sort of things, and they weren't bad. They were probably the opposite of that, to be honest. Jesus, I'm like the worst person to ask because I don't actually watch normal TV.

I'm a bloody Netflix fan. Yeah, I know. So, 8 o'clock. What's the opposite of bad? Opposite of bad. Opposite of bad, good. Yeah, that's it. That sounds right.

And they were doing these games. Oh, is it called Good Vibes? That'll do. That'll do. Jono and Ben, Good Vibes. It is Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Hi. Hi.

I had to try and get you to say Good Sports on TVZ2. Oh, Good Sports. Yeah, but Good Vibes sounds like a far better show. Yeah, we should be doing Good Vibes. like a far better show. Yeah, we should be doing Good Vibes. Jono won't let me plug the TV show now. He's saying we're

plugging it too much. So I had to try and get someone else to do it without saying any of the key words. Oh, right, right, right. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. It's very confusing.

There's lots of download right now. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, super confused by the whole phone call. Yeah, yeah. That's right. So Good Vibes, we should get on to Good Vibes. That sounds good. Yeah, you should super confused by the whole phone call. Yeah, yeah. That's right. So good vibes.

We should get on to good vibes. That sounds good. Yeah, you should start the new TV show, Good Vibes. Good Vibes only. Hey, thank you for coming up with a new TV show for us. That was awesome. No, no, no worries. Not a problem at all.

All right, catch you later. See you, mate. There we go. She was wonderful. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono, New Zealand, welcome along to the show. Jono and Ben with you on a Tuesday.

Rātū is Tuesday, of course it is Te Rewiki o Te Reo Māori Language Week. There you go, got it that time. And yeah, everyone's going to be encouraged to speak as much Māori language as they can this week. And a wonderful amount of musicians turn their songs into Te Reo as well. Yeah, we'll play one for you after 8 o'clock. We're going to do that every day this week. Yeah right, amount of musicians turn their songs into te reo as well. Yeah, we'll play one for you after 8 o'clock. We're going to do that every day this week. Yeah, right. There's some awesome versions going out there. And the whole

Waita Anthems, it's basically like a podcast you can get on iHeartRadio with Stacey Morrison from The Drive Show. You know what I really love about Māori Language Week is it smokescreens from the fact that Auckland's been trapped again in Level 4. Yeah, I wasn't trying to bring that up straight away. Yeah, no, we'll ease into that. Let's smoke screens from the fact that Auckland's been trapped again in level four. I wasn't trying to bring that up should I? Yeah, no, we'll ease into that.

Let's just gloss over that fact. Yeah. It's level four week in Auckland as well too. Who knows how long that's going to be for. Is this longer than the first lockdown for Auckland last year? Apparently at level four it is. Yeah, I think I saw that on the news last night. It feels longer

too. Yeah, it's longer. Because it's hard to remember how long that first one is. Yeah, it's all a blur. You're trying to erase it from your memory, don't you? Yeah, but I think, yeah, they said last night this will be the longest level four that has been had. So I guess it was four weeks last time and maybe a couple of weeks at level three. At the moment it's five weeks level four. I'm a little confused as to why i can't go to my holiday home

in wanaka why is that not allowed you know why does society judge me for wanting to flee the city that's caging me just to go to my holiday home just for a night or two there we've got gnarky neighbors dob on me bloody sh shambles. All I want to do is have a holiday in Wanaka. We've got a big show today. We've got to talk to Dr Michael Baker.

Maybe you can ask him about that today. How do I get to Wanaka? He might be able to help you out as well. How do I stop my gnarky neighbours from gnarking on me?

We'll tell you how you can win money with our brand new TV show John Owen being good sports and will we get the show reviewed by New Zealand's harshest critic Mike Hosking from Newstalk ZB

we'll find out today as well, it is the hits you got Jono and Ben from a socially distantly safe 2 metres stay away this is New Zealand's Breakfast with Jono and Ben another week of level 4 and then it seems like on principle

that things will be going to level three but you know I feel like they were under pressure to give some sort of just dangle a little carrot there in theory if you do all your chores and stuff and your homework you can have ice cream

in theory we're going to do a wonderful radio show today but I can't promise anything if you just put in theory before something it really saves your budget. Some good insurance. We said in theory. Yeah, because there was lots of media yesterday talking about, you know, you said short and sharp lockdown and she was kind of like, well, it was short and sharp

getting into the lockdown and we're going hard and going early. Oh God, I'd fluster in her job. I'd be like, oh yeah, I did. Yeah, no, you're right. Oh God. And then I'd just kind of run away and cry, I think. Sprint away from the podium. At home, I think our fluster in her job i'll be like oh yeah i did yeah no no you're right uh oh god and then i'll just kind of run away and cry i think sprint away from the podium at home i think i think our family we've reached peak lockdown we've been there for four weeks now and now we've we set up in the weekend for some reason we set up some mattresses in the lounge and we sleep in the lounge now

that's our thing we've just all just decided it's just easier now just and i was like wow we're like a traveling family it's just like i was like I was like, wow. Like a travelling family. It was just like, we were camping out in the lounge and I was like, wow, this is us now. Must be awkward when you're getting ready at four o'clock in the morning to tippy-toe around all your family under the mattresses. Yeah.

But yeah, so far I haven't really woken anyone up too. You're still doing it like now. Yeah. We just can't get rolling with it. I was like, how long is this going to go for? And the kids were like, we're enjoying it. Let's do this. That's so cute.

You just turned your lounge into a giant bedroom. Yeah, and also almost like a trampoline park during the day because the kids do nothing but sort of flips and cartwheels all over the mattresses. So I'm like, how long is this going to keep on going for? But I guess you're in lockdown, so you just kind of roll with it. Have you literally played every board game in the house? Pretty close.

You're bored of all the board games? Yeah, yeah. You've done every charade known to humankind? You kind of do. You kind of work your way through the board games. And remember, I like this game. I like Pictionary. It's a fun game.

Pictionary's a good game. Yeah, it is a fun game. It's really good. I just don't know. I don't have the concentration for board games. I'm sorry. Pictionary you'd like. Yeah, I don't know.

You draw a picture and people guess it. It's fun. Yeah, I check out. You know? I lose. They lose me. But it's a game you've got like a minute to draw something. I mean, how much more concentration do you need?

Like, at all. You know? Like, you know, like you on TikTok, Juliet, you lose me at the 15 second mark. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Very short attention span. Imagine people listening to this radio show.

Yeah. You think you'd check out playing a minute. Well, I checked out two minutes ago on this. I'm just still, my mouth's still moving. I was watching with Oscar, we were watching Back to the Future. And he said something very insightful. He said, Marty would not want to come back to 2021. No, no.

Or forward to 2021, as it would be. Well, that was the big thing, I think, last year with the pandemic going on. This is technically where they come back to. And it's bleak. Keep travelling, mate. Keep travelling, McFly. We've got Dr Michael Baker joining us. What I actually want to ask him this morning is, are these lockdowns working?

That's the big question that everyone wants to know. Are we doing the right thing right now? Because we're all getting together, a team of 1.6 million and the rest. And I want to just ask Dr. Michael Baker, how many bloomin' interviews has he done over the last two months? He's done a lot. He has been everywhere. So he's with us after 7 o'clock this morning.

It is the hits. Dr. Mickey B. Jono and Ben. Kids, keep up that learning or you'll end up like these guys. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 6.17. We've got a TV show on at the hits. Jono and Ben, 6.17. We've got a TV show on at the moment.

Jono and Ben, Good Sports. You can catch it Thursday nights on TVNZ2 and also on demand at TVNZ. And we go around the country trying to find Kiwis that play these unique sports. And we've got a review. We've got a lovely review, actually, on the show. First time I think we've ever got a positive review of one of our TV shows. So I don't know why you're wanting to embark on this mission. He's come up with this idea.

Well, that's nice. He's got this arrogance now after one good review. Now he thinks he's going to hand it over to New Zealand's harshest critic. This news. PC bollocks driven by PC media. Self-absorbed, venal narcissist. Do you suspect anyone above the age of six

could not have already worked that out? Not in the false game, but you should be because you failed this. Cheap, superficial, hopelessly disorganised. What was he? A disaster. You're only doing this because you were caught out yet again. They are single issue nutters. He wants to get Mike Hosking from

Newstalk ZB to review the show. Yeah, I want to go on a show. He's got the biggest show in the country, you know? Dangerous. He pulls no punches. If anything, he will punch our face multiple times. Until we can't feel our face anymore. It's part of the wild ride, though, you know?

Like Hosking. You know, he's the biggest show. We want to get some advertising. We want to get the show talked about. So, you know, why not? Is there no concern from you that, you know, he's one of New Zealandaland's harshest critics he's harsher than any mother-in-law you'll come across when it comes to critical criticism but then i kind of like i was like what's husky it's to be expected if he hates it of course he's gonna hate it you know if it was

someone lovely like you know kate roger from news hub and then she was like oh that was the worst pile of you know you'd be like oh that would hurt a bit more. That's a good point. Very good point. Yeah, I see what you're saying. So it was like if my mum went, oh, God, I could not watch your TV show, Ben. That would cut deep. That would cut deep. Mike Hosking, if he was like, that was the worst piece of, you know, maybe I come to expect it from Hosking.

I don't know. I just want to go along for this wild ride. I want to get Mike Hosking to review our show. I want to get on Newstalk ZB this week. And yesterday we rang the boss of Newstalk ZB, Jason Winstanley, and we pitched him this idea. We wanted to get on the biggest radio station and the biggest radio show in the country,

so we wanted to know what it would take to get Mike to do an interview with us about our TV show and maybe have him review the show at the same time. I'm taking that as a yes. I actually have very little control. I can suggest, but you probably need to talk to Mike about that. Okay. Here we go.

So meetings have been had. Emails have been sent. Links to the TV show have been forwarded on. And we understand Ben Boyce. The great Michael... What was his middle name? We found out his middle name. Oh, you went into it, didn't you?

Yeah, it was a wonderful middle name. Michael Noel James III. Hosking III. Hosking III or something. Something like that, yeah. Has agreed to review the show. Not at this stage saying we'll have a slot on his Newstalk ZB program this Thursday,

but he said he will have a look at it. He'll have a look at the show and give us his verdict. It's on Wednesday we find out. If that goes well, we make it onto Newstalk ZB. We find out tomorrow. We find out tomorrow. Yeah. The results come in tomorrow.

What he thinks. And then if we're good enough, we make it onto a show on Thursday. See if we're at alert level interviewing on Thursday on Newstalk ZB. I don't know if that's going to be the case. It is the hits. You got it, Jono and Ben. The Google Game.

Hey, we haven't done this in ages. It's a fun game, this one. Basically, you phone us up, 0800 HITS. You ask us a question. We have 10 seconds to Google the answer. And if we don't retrieve the answer in 10 seconds, you win some Hell Pizza this morning. Here's a question for you. How long was the

first lockdown? How long was the first Auckland lockdown? Oh God. We'll just talk about how it was potentially the longest lockdown now. Oh! We'll never know.

We'll never know. We'll never get to the bottom of that. There's too many articles. When it comes up with 300 articles on COVID. So that's how I could have won. I was just asking you a question that you couldn't Google in 10 seconds. Great tactical play. Great tactical play.

So I don't know the answer to it. I'm curious to know. Well, me too. But I don't want to click through 19 articles. So that's how the game works. It's pretty simple. Simple like that. I was looking at the five craziest questions that are Googled every month.

First one, 90,000 people Google, am I pregnant? Right. That's a good one. How do I get home? 50,000 Google searches. How do I get home? Does farting burn calories? Right. 49,000 a month. And when will do I get home? Does farting burn calories? Right.

49,000 a month. And when will I die? Coming in at number four. The craziest Google questions. Right. Every month. Though you don't seem that impressed with those crazy questions. I was very surprised that people, many people would, like, why would Google know when I,

when, like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like, a couple of those questions seem like, why would people, so many people google those questions and you're like why and why are 49 000 people googling how do i get home yeah like yeah that's what's like 49 000 is even a lot like i feel like i'm not saying you haven't made it up but are you judging them yeah i'm like this is a lot of people go like if they just got uber in my ear you know or you know open google maps yeah or go i've got like cough and

it's leads to bronchitis and all can't you know like they're yeah or go I've got like cough and it leads to bronchitis and all that you know like they're really overestimating Google service aren't they and maybe one day

we'll get there yeah you're right but right now we're not at that moment so the Google Games basically you can win some free pizza

if you're in level two you can get hell pizza 0800 the hits you ask us any question if we can't find it on Google in 10

seconds you win do that next the google game i'm not on top of the world at the moment ben okay what's the opposite of on top of the world at the bottom of the level four i think so it's level four lockdown so the google games we play this fun game every morning it was not every morning but some mornings you phone us up you ask us a question we've got to try and retrieve the answer on google it's a lot of work first thing in the morning it's it's you know especially now 10 seconds uh and you know for people i thought we'd done a pretty bang up job of you know saying what the game was saying give

us a call oh 800 that's also explaining that you get free hell pizza it's on offer, it's just sitting there you'd think you'd think at this early hour you'd get one call just one nothing kick in the face

kick in the face old Taro as if being trapped in level 4 wasn't bad enough now you kick us in the goolies with no phone calls for the Google games. So we'll move on from there. Okay, you want to move on? Yeah. Okay, we'll move on to scrolling through your feed. All right.

Right now or after the fight? Oh, now they... No, stop. Pull these people up. Juliet, we'll go to Angela. Okay. Too late, Angela. No. Too late. Angela. Oh, no.

Too late. You ruined it for everyone. Well, she's the first. I'm driving. She's come through. You've come through.

I mean, surely you want. It's early and I'm going to work. Yeah. Right. And sorry, last thing you wanted

some radio announcer telling you off for not calling. And you phoned out of guilt. I've guilted her into calling. Would you like to give a whole pizza? I did. I felt guilty And I'm like surely someone wants pizza

You're ready to go show where you feel a little bit guilty You're like oh that's a bit sad It's a pity call Angela, you can ask us a question We'll try and Google the answer in 10 seconds Any question What's the best month To do the silly times trick The best month to do the Sealy Times track?

The best month to do the what track? Sealy Times. Sealy Times track? It said October. October, damn it. And a real slap in your face is you don't even win the pizza. No, we're going to. But I am doing the Sealy Times win the pizza. Oh, no. We've got to wish you were here.

But I am doing the Steely Tams track in October. So we win. She's winning because it's the best month to do it. How are you going? What is the Steely Tams track? Can you explain? It's in Mount Cook. It's called the Stairway to Heaven.

It's 2,200 steps. Wow. Jeez, you'll be taking your Fitbit with you on that one, won't you? Nice. Yeah. Getting your daily count up. Hey, well done, Angela. Send you out some hell pizza. And we've got Aisha phoning through on 0800 The Hits.

Morena, Aisha, how are you? Hi, good, thanks. How are you? Good, thank you. What's your question for the Google Games? It's my son's question. How old is Santa? How old is Santa?

Ben Boyce is going. That's a great question. What does Google say? Okay, so it means he was a Greek village, 2070 AD. That means he's a whopping... Well, they reckon Santa is in the thousands, 1,750 years old. So he looks good. He kind of reached a certain age, and he's just been consistent with that look.

Yeah, I mean, a lot of magic going on in the North Pole, you know? Maybe some cosmetic surgery as well, you know? It's like he's, but he hit 90 and he didn't want to age himself down. He's like, no, no, this is as good as it's going to get. This is me, yeah. That's awesome. Well, great question from your son there, Aisha. And well done.

Just after the buzzer, we got the answers. That means you win some hell pizza. Awesome, thank you. Enjoy life. Next on the show. Enjoy life. Enjoy life. Okay. Next on the show. Enjoy life. Enjoy life. Okay.

Next on the show, Jacinda Ardern. Was this a little bit condescending sounding, her message yesterday? Well, we've all spoken about it, and we felt talked down to. Yeah, but I guess it was meant. Her heart was in the right place. We'll get to that next. It is the hits. He's been busy digesting the news from overnight,

and it's all about to come out of one end. Thankfully, it's the end you had hoped for. Ben Boyce, what's happening in scrolling? Well, as we've mentioned a couple of times already, the government decided that Auckland's COVID restrictions would continue for another week at least. And then in principle, in principle, things will change to level three come, I guess,

midnight in a week's time, midnight Tuesday in a week's time. And the rest of the country's levels will be looked at as well. Potentially going down to level one, I guess, as well. The Prime Minister yesterday at the press conference, and I know it was coming from the right place, but did you feel like she was talking down to an entire city in a condescending manner when she said this? To all Aucklanders,

you've done an amazing job so far protecting yourselves, your family and your community. In fact, all of your hard work is the reason that the rest of the country is safe. We owe you a debt of gratitude. I hope you know and feel that huge appreciation that we have

for you and the hard work that you're putting in right now Yeah, she's like you've done a good job but clearly it's not good enough because I'm putting you in lockdown for another week and then the wonderful lady in Christchurch on the news, she kind of doubled down with the talking down

So thank you to the team of 1.6 million your extraordinary efforts are not going unnoticed and hopefully when Cabinet reviews the levels again next Monday, we'll all see a bit more freedom. You'll see a lot more freedom and Wendy, hopefully you'll be able to get a flat white. In the meantime

I'm off to have a Mai Tai at the bar. It is, I mean, yeah, you're right. They do mean it, but it is when people thank you for something that you didn't want to do. You know, that's the thing, you're like, oh yeah, thank you so much for going to see great auntie Janice, you're like, oh yeah, I guess. It's just a shallow thank you. It means a lot to her, you're like, oh yeah, I guess. You know, it's one of those situations. Yeah, it's like, hey, when someone goes, hey, we're thinking of you, you're like, oh, that means nothing. Yeah, briefly you were, and then you're, you're used to saying you're off to get cocktails

or whatever it is. I don't know how this works. And Britney Spears yesterday announced her engagements. Her and her partner Sam Asari, Asgari, sorry,

is his name. They showed off a diamond ring to her 33.9 million followers on Instagram and a pair have been dating for nearly five years. They met on the set

of her video Slumber Party in 2016. You played her love interest then and now it's a dating for nearly five years. They met on the set of her video Slumber Party in 2016. She played her love interest then and now is her love interest in real life. In real life, IRL. Do you think she paid for her own diamond ring? I don't know, that's quite funny because a lot of people go, make sure you get a prenup, get a prenup. People on the internet are telling Brittany this.

Yeah, you've got to get a prenup. And basically Sam, who's quite hard case, says, yeah, we're definitely getting a prenup to protect my Jeep and my shoe collection in case she dumps me one day. So he's like, yeah, no, I've got nine Jordans, mate. Can't have you taking those when it all ends. So you had a pretty tough time, obviously. A very public tough time over the last couple of years.

So that's really good news for Brittany. So awesome. Yeah, well done, Brittany. over the last couple of years. So that's really good news for Brittany. So awesome. Yeah, well done, Brittany. And we're thinking of you. We're appreciative of everything you've been through. Yeah, exactly. And just we want to acknowledge that. Yeah.

All right. Hey, Spy coming up very shortly. June, what's going on? Yeah, Megan and Harry's Oprah interview were nominated for an Emmy. How did they go? Badly. It was nominated for an Emmy. It was nominated for an Emmy.

And the winners. What, for best ratting out your family? I'll tell you more in Spy Before 7. Here's an update featuring people whose faces don't move. Juliet, what's going on in Spy? So, remember the great celebrity bathing debate where Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis started it by saying they only bathe their kids when they... Smell them. Yeah kids when they're dirty or when they can smell a stench.

Yeah, that's the same approach as you take to, I imagine, bathing your dog, Ben. So when you smell it, it's time for a bath. Yeah, very true. So Ashton was then, over the last couple of days, at a football game. So it was like a college football game. And he was one of the panellists. You know how they have a panel like a panel of sort of hosts commentating and speaking about the game in halftime,

and then you can sort of see the crowd behind them through the glass. That was kind of the scene. And as he was speaking, you can hear a very faint chant of people yelling, take a shower, take a shower. The whole crowd was chanting it. I'm working on a new charity project right now. It's called Outside Wine. And the whole idea is take a shower.

You can tell it's kind of thrown him a little bit. He's trying to, you know, avoid it. He's trying to gather his thoughts again. But the whole crowd, ruthless, ruthless towards the extra. And it's always been a dream of mine to start a chant in a crowd, but you've really got to have confidence in your chant starting ability. It's like the Mexican way.

Yeah, you're right. You've got to have other people joining in and go, yeah, I'll go with you on this one. There always seems to be a team of five or ten of you. You've got the same goal. Speaking of American football, we were just watching a clip before the show. So there was a college game over there, a football game, which is massive over there. And a cat had somehow got into the stadium.

And the cat had got caught up above. Now, you imagine Eden Park, the top tier stadium. The cat was basically hanging on at the top of that thing, dangling down about sort of 30 meters above the crowd. And it's quite scary, obviously, for the cat. Quite scary for everyone as this cat was just clinging on by its claws. And they were like, they're trying to grab the cat from up top and they couldn't they couldn't quite grab the cat the cat fell and these people underneath had this flag caught the cat beautifully and the cat was fine and he held him up like a cinder at the end and everyone was like

yes the poor cat a hell of a real deal for the cat and a very happy story i know thank god for that and thankfully they've got you know a few lives up their sleeves, don't they, cats? Well, yeah, like, in theory, the cat should have landed on us. The cat's like, I've got another nine of these. I'll let go. Yeah, exactly. And in other news,

so Megan and Harry's Oprah interview were up for an Emmy Award for Best Hosted Nonfiction Category. And obviously it was a big, big show. I think it got the highest ratings that anyone's ever really seen. Tremendous ratings. Yeah. It lost to an Italian food show, unfortunately, for that category.

And you know Stanley Tukey? He's in, I think he's in The Devil Wears Prada and a few other movies. He's got the iconic glasses. Hunger Games as well. Yeah. So it was his show, Searching for Italy, and it's a food show. So sorry, Harry and Megan. So the Emmys isn't mean, though.

I know. So I was kind of confused because I was like, the Emmys haven't happened. But I was kind of researching. So the Emmys only broadcast a small number of the actual awards on the night. Right. But also, to make it more confusing, there are three separate Emmy organisations. So this one is the Creative Arts Emmy so it's a little bit confusing

so there's still more Emmys to come. Basically I'm looking at Stanley Tucci's show. It's just him slamming back wine all around Italy. How good. What a wonderful show. People would rather that win than the bombshell. Probably. The Queen would have been

pumped it was nominated for an Emmy too. I imagine that sort of thing. Yeah. And that is five and more. You can head to thehits.co.nz. After seven o'clock on the show, we've got five grand up for grabs as we always do. Our game, five words for 5K. New Zealand's breakfast.

It's Jono and Ben. Got me in love. On the hits. Morena, just gone seven o'clock. Jono and Ben with you. Of course, it is hats. Morena, just gone seven o'clock. Jono and Ben with you. Of course, it is Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori Language Week. Today is Tuesday, as we learnt before. It's Rātū or Tūrei.

Two ways you can say Tuesday in Māori. So there you go. Yesterday we got talking about your wife, Amanda, and her pregnancy cravings. And if you were to name your children after her pregnancy cravings, they would have the best names. You guys should be like a power celebrity couple. And they're like, why are they so famous?

Oh, they're so obscure. They name their kids Gurkendjus. Yeah, have a listen. Sienna would be called Gurkendjus. Gurkendjus? Yeah, because she did. And Indy, our youngest, would be what? Strawberry Milkshake.

Strawberry Milkshake. Oh, yeah, that's quite good. Strawberry Milkshake's an adorable little name. So we thought we'd continue this. It was a lot of fun yesterday. So on 0800THEHITS, if you named your kids after your cravings when you were pregnant, what would you call? We had a lady yesterday who had the best call.

Oh, we've got to play that. Yeah. Should we play that next? Yeah, we will. We'll get that on. I've never been pregnant, but it feels like it's a hall pass To eat anything you want Computers, curtains, dishwashing powder It's all fair game and no one judges

Oh they're pregnant, it's fine They're munching on a door handle So give us a call right now It is New Zealand's breakfast, you've got Jono and Ben Like getting your news from the internet Half truths and false information Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast Now we wanted to know, what would be your name of your kids

if you named it after your pregnancy craving? Looking into this yesterday, you know there's no specific reason that they're confined for pregnancy cravings. There's no sort of rhyme or reason according, but over 70% of women who are pregnant actually do have cravings. They don't know why. Maybe they do assume your body's obviously taking a lot out of you to grow a little human being,

that it might be replenishing certain things that it requires naturally, and that comes in different forms. But 0800 the hits. If you were to name your kid after your pregnancy craving, what would it be for you, Bex? Potato fritters. That was my craving. Well, you could have twins, couldn't for you, Bex? Potato fritters. That was my craving. Oh, you could have twins, couldn't you?

You could have potato and fritters. Yeah, well, that's right. Great craving, though. You can't go wrong with a potato fritter, can you? No, not at all. They've got to be the legit ones, though. How many fritters were you nailing a day? Oh, not too many.

I was trying to hold back, but that went well. I do love the mentality of going in. Normally, it's like you get a whole lot of chips, but I'll add extra potatoes on top. In a different form? Yeah. In a pancake form. Yeah.

What do you think about it? And they never, like, if you order two potato fritters, you're always going to get 12 for some reason. Always the deal, isn't it? A good craving for you to get 12 for some reason. Always the deal, isn't it? A good craving for you to have because it's a bang for your buck, isn't it? Yeah, that's right. I appreciate that.

Good on you. Thank you very much, Bex. Appreciate that. We'll go to Taranaki. Briar, you're on the air. If you were to name your baby after your pregnancy craving, what would their name be?

Dirt. Dirt? Really? Yeah, it couldn't be the dry stuff on top. It had to be the wet stuff right underneath. I didn't eat it, but I licked it and I smelt it, and I had to have it with me all the time. And if we were driving around and there was, like,

people doing digging and there was fresh dirt, we had to stop. Pull over. Pull over. Yeah, yeah. What are you, a wolf? It was crazy, but I had to have the dirt with me all the time and the smell of it just oh so good would you do would you swallow any dirt no no no never no don't go crazy come on john but yeah that's it it's funny how the human body works

it's just the yeah yeah it was crazy and then with my my third one i didn't have it as bad but it was there yeah right once you once you're addicted to once you're hooked on dirt it never leaves you right and it made me like like oh it just made my mouth water it's a hard one to shake too because dirt is everywhere yeah yeah it's a hard one to avoid briar really appreciate your call have a good one thank you bye Thank you. Bye. We got a wonderful call. We actually sparked this off closer to 9 o'clock yesterday on the show, and we got this wonderful call from Tracy up north. If you were to name your baby after your pregnancy craving,

what would it be? Carpet. Carpet? Did you eat carpet? No, I licked it. Oh. It had to be the nice, fresh, brand-new carpet samples from the shop. I see you go to, like, carpet court and go,

give me all your samples. Well, at the time, my parents were re-carpeting, and it just smelled so good, and then my mum found me hiding in the bedroom licking the samples. Oh, this is awesome. It was a shame of being caught licking the carpet samples. This is so bad. There we go.

So the parents had to remove all the carpet samples from the household. They're like, no child of mine is going to be licking carpet. That's so good. Which is a fair thing for a parent to be concerned about. If your kids started licking carpet out of the blue. Yeah, but I guess you're pregnant. You understand. You'd be tiling the floors or something, wouldn't you?

All kinds of going on. There's a lot going on. Hey, we've got Professor Michael Baker joining us before we try and give away $5,000. That's at 7.45 this morning on The Hats. These show producers were nominated for a radio award. Because when you work with these guys, you deserve a medal. Donovan Bain. New Zealand's breakfast.

I don't know if you're familiar with Nigella Lawson Yeah, I am The chef, celebrity chef in the UK Yeah, she's done really well Had an illustrious career And I tell you what I tell you who's done well Is Whittaker's

They've got her as the face of Whittaker's Great get for Whittaker's Yeah Isn't it? Yeah She has been well known too For sort of seductively talking in her delivery, hasn't she?

A very seductive manner. Yeah. It's kind of her thing though. I think it's, yeah. Hello, chocolate lovers. She's always like, hello, chocolate lovers. Hello, chocolate lovers.

No, Jellia, you have been good. Yeah, it's kind of her thing. It is her thing. Well, you know, balance that. She can't be like, you compare her to, say have been good. Yeah, that's kind of her thing. It is her thing. You know, I enjoy it. Well, you can, like, balance that. She can't be like, you know, compare her to, say, Gordon Ramsay. Hello, you effing chocolate lovers. You want the chocolate?

Get someone to sub you. Yeah, I mean, that's another option they could have taken. They've taken the one that's more, you know, it's more, I guess it's more pleasant to the yellows. But I don't know when, does that turn off? Does that function turn off with Nigella? Does she, like, phone her accountant? know when does does that turn off does that does that function turn off with nigella does she like phone her accountant she's like hello janine sanders chartered accountant oh maybe i've never heard nigella talk outside of doing an ad or a cooking show or something thank you for assembling

my scrumptious tax returns so uh yeah i was just wondering if what it would be like if uh you know nigella were to book a plumber for example have you got nigella to do this have i got nigella to do this well no i haven't got nigella what would i have nigella you just said i wonder what it'd be like for nigella to book a plumber so i was like oh wow we've got nigella of course i don't know i've got me all right well you'll be on you're not nigella no but it's not gonna be like it's not quite the same as having Nigella do it. Like if you went on the air and went, hello, chocolate lovers,

everyone would go, uh. That's why you didn't get the Whittaker's job. I know. I failed at the audition. Hello, chocolate. Get out of here. Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, if you've got Nigella's number, that'd be handy.

Have you got Nigella's number? No. No, I'm the best thing you can do. Remember when she said, what did she say? When she said a microwave, she was calling it a... Microwave. Microwave. Microwave.

Yeah. So this is Nigella booking a plumber. It's clearly not Nigella. It's just you putting on a voice. Well, you know, just shut your eyes and pretend it's Nigella. I'm coming,enie speaking. Hello, chocolate lover. How's it going?

I was needing some work done on my delectable plumbing system. Who am I speaking to? It seems my pipes are in need of a de-clogging. Yep, go on. I was tirelessly... Don't encourage him. Don't say, don't go on, but he's going, go on. I was tirelessly whacking away at my tortillas with my loose-bottomed cake tin.

Oh, God. And I seemed to have clogged my pipes. Oh, bugger. Could you please send out one of your scrumptious plumbers? Yeah, tell me who I'm speaking to and I can sort that out. You haven't ever avoided to say that, have you? I'm in the mood for this today. They're lucky.

They're lucky. Thank you, chocolate mother. They're lucky. They've had the jackpot. You are lucky. I wasn't expecting this. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, excellent.

To be honest, I wasn't expecting such a positive reaction out of someone. I was meant to be Nigella Lawson. Oh, well, I was just looking at the Whittaker's ad on Facebook. There you go. Hello, chocolate lover. She's so saucy and seductive. Unnecessarily so. We just wondered what it would be like.

Well, John, I wondered what it would be like if Nigella was calling to, say, book a plumbing service or something. Oh, well, we'd love to be hopping over to London to sort that out. Yeah, I bet you would. Well, there we go. That's it. We'll let you get on with your day. That was awesome. You've got to fill in a bit of time before you die, don't you?

Excellent. Thank you? Excellent. Thank you very much. No worries, thank you. A good day to you, chock of lava. Okay, see ya.

Bye. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. And now scientists, they're doing a lot of great work all around the world

fighting the pandemic but there's some scientists in Germany that are also spending their time doing something really interesting. So cow waste, we doing a lot of great work all around the world, you know, fighting the pandemic. But there's some scientists in Germany that are also spending their time doing something really interesting. So cow waste. We talk a lot, particularly in New Zealand, about the waste from cows. We've pinned a lot on the cows, haven't we? We're like, it's all the cow's fault that we, you know, our greenhouse emissions.

But, you know, the cows can't talk back. They can't defend themselves. Yeah. And also the waste going to the soil can apparently have negative effects on the environment as well. So there's scientists over there in Germany that have been basically toilet training cows. And it's actually working. Really? So the cows go into an area each day and the cows, if they go to the bathroom in that area, they get rewarded.

And if they go to the bathroom outside, they basically get the splash of water, which the cows are like, oh. They get a wonderful reward of ending up on our plate. I mean, what a generous gift. They get a food. So, yeah. And apparently 11 out of the 16 cows now go to the bathroom only, not out in the paddock, but only when they go into this area. They like their privacy now.

Yeah. What does the bathroom look like? It's basically just like a little section through in a milking. Imagine a milking imagine imagine a milking shed and they go into their own little sort of section in there and then if they go to the bathroom there they get a like they'll put some food through into this little you know do they go in there to bitch about the other cows yeah maybe so yeah yeah that's a wonderful idea so they're hoping that in more cows of the future will be toilet trained cows portamoose or something like that

hey michael baker professor michael baker he's on the television every five minutes being interviewed uh about how the government is handling this whole situation the uh the pandemic and the lockdown he is going to join us next we have never interviewed him but i feel like he has been interviewed everywhere yeah there's no outlet that hasn't interviewed this guy. He is always on TV. We'll have him next it is the hits, Jono and Ben's 7.25. The show where the masks make them look

a whole lot better. Can't say this battered up old face yet. Jono and Ben New Zealand's Breakfast Also we just found out yesterday from the Prime Minister of New Zealand that the current levels in New Zealand will continue for a week. And then in principle, things look like they might be changing. And to talk more about it, we've got Professor Michael Baker joining us.

So right now, who's in level two? Who's in level two? We're in level four. Morena, good morning, Michael Baker. Morena. Yes, of course. I mean, it's obviously a great improvement from Level 4 and 3. Well, yeah, what do you think?

What are you thinking yesterday? Is the lockdown working, Professor Michael Baker? Like Auckland right now, where we are, we're in the lockdown for another week and in principle going to Level 3 is what the Prime Minister said. Is it working? It is working. I mean, many people thought that New Zealand couldn't stamp out a Delta variant outbreak, and it is succeeding.

It's tough, of course. I mean, it's a more infectious virus, and that means we just have to try that much harder to stamp out these remaining cases. And we are seeing, you know, this is a really frustrating stage. We're getting down to small numbers. We've got this long tail. And so it's really difficult and i'm i think we all are sort of feel it for auckland at the moment because everyone in auckland is doing the really hard work on this looking into your crystal ball michael baker uh what do you sort of see happening over the next couple of weeks well i would see the

numbers of cases in auckland um dropping down the The cases we really obviously want to see the end of are any unexpected cases in the community. We'll still see quite a few cases, but they should all be in context of known cases. So that's not a problem. We're not going to expect to see no cases before Auckland moves down levels. Do we just need to learn to live with it? And when I say learn to live with it, have as many people vaccinated as possible. Is that the way forward?

Well, I think everyone in the world is living with this virus in various ways, but I like to hope that it's on our terms. Yes, ultimately it may be that we do have what's called endemic infection. So you have circulating virus, but I don't think anyone should imagine it's suddenly going to turn into a situation just like the seasonal flu, where it doesn't mean much of a change in lifestyle.

Because if you look at the countries overseas that are trying to live with it, it's not exactly a great situation either. If we look at, obviously, New South Wales and Victoria are heading in that way but that means they're going to be in something resembling a level three or level two lockdown for the foreseeable future certainly right through into next year. I'm hoping we can put this state off as long as possible so that we get really high vaccine coverage and then we can potentially have this virus circulating but on our terms. What percentage of the population do you think we need to get to for New Zealand? You know, what would you be happy with?

Well, I'm hoping that we're getting up towards 90% vaccination. And I think looking at the graph at the moment, the rising rates in New Zealand, it's just going up vertically. And this is fantastic. I mean, we are the fastest vaccinating country in the world at the moment. I went through the drive-through one at the Auckland airport, just flawless. The way it's run and all the wonderful people out there working. So they couldn't make it any easier at the moment to get a vaccine.

I had an idea that there's some people who might not be able to get there due to transport issues or whatever. Why don't you have a mobile van going around, jab it in the arm door to door have i just solved a massive problem michael baker i think you have i've been taking notes i think that would be a great i'm good i hope you're taking overseas sometimes so you can get it outside of walmart or a supermarket and things like that yeah look We have to use all those approaches because there are some people, they have transport problems, they may have needle phobia. There's all sorts of reasons.

And I think we have to make this as easy as possible for everyone. You know how we get jabbed in the arm? Could you jab in the neck? Can you jab anywhere? I'm glad you're not giving my injection. In the neck. I'd rather have the arm than the neck if you've got the choice. Listeners,

they don't do it this way. Don't listen to them. You don't have to answer that one, Professor Michael Baker. I should have stopped after the mobile service. You had a really good idea the first one. Hey, I've got a question though, Professor Michael Baker. There was talk about waiting three weeks between the Pfizer vaccinations and then there was now talk that we should wait six weeks.

Surely having two vaccinations is better after three weeks than waiting six weeks where you're more vulnerable. Like what is the percentage? How much better immunity am I going to get by waiting six weeks? It's a marginal improvement by waiting a bit longer. At the moment, I think it's good that people do wait because it means that more people can get in and get their first injection. So I think go for that

at the moment. And I think the response, you just get a few more antibodies formed if you wait a bit longer. Now on a personal level, mate, I have never seen anyone being interviewed as much as you, Michael Baker. Have you counted how many interviews you've done over the last, let's say, two years? Well, I think the Science Media Centre said I'd done a couple of thousand, and they said, oh, we've stopped counting now.

You've done over 2,000? Because I saw you on the BBC out in the office. I was like, is this guy never not being interviewed? The same day you were on Breakfast TV, we were like, there he is on the BBC. I mean, you're everywhere. I just wish they were all as enjoyable as this. Well, yeah, we were like, is this guy never not being interviewed? The same day you were on Breakfast TV, we were like, there he is on the BBC. I mean, you're everywhere. I just wish they were all as enjoyable as this. We were like, we haven't talked to him. We're probably the only people, media outlet in New Zealand,

that haven't talked to Professor Michael Baker. He's even spoken to Horse and Pony magazine. Do you feel any pressure to make your background looking really good? You know, because you do a lot of Zoom interviews all over the world. Well, you do get conscious of that after a while. There's always the blur function, so it all disappears. We all know about. If your office is particularly untidy, I'll just blur it all out.

Gotcha. Pixelate the background like Police 10-7. Nothing to see here. And, like, how, like, what, because you've got a job as well. How are you juggling both at the same time? You must be working at all hours. Oh, yeah, and lots of things are missing out. My poor family, they're not particularly happy with me.

It's like, leave it down, I'm doing another. There's a BBC on Zoom. I do like them. I'm not trying to avoid them. But I haven't seen them in two years. Where's Dad? He's downstairs doing another Zoom interview with Al Jazeera. Oh, mate. Well, thank you so much

for all the work you are doing, Michael, because you really are handing out very useful information. You're doing it off your own bat, so we must thank you on behalf of New Zealand for the wonderful communication that you are doing. Oh, well, thanks very much, and I know you're in the same business, but really, I think we are so grateful for everything that people in Auckland are doing at the moment. And I mean, is the heavy lifting for the whole

country. I think we can beat the virus and I think everyone knows what to do at the moment. And of course, go and get vaccinated. That's going to make a huge difference. All right. Okay. And you go and see your family okay yeah okay see you michael thanks i'll tell them that you told me to do that yeah what are you doing here see you michael okay thanks bye good to talk five words for 5k on the hits you're only five words away from a massive payday game of word association we play it every morning around about this time. And if you match all five words with the ones we come up with, you get $5,000.

I find it's a fun game the whole whanau can play. Apart from your nana, who's hard of hearing. She might be a bit hard pressed playing this game. But anyone else can play. Lisa, how's your hearing this morning in Invercargill? Very good, thanks. How are you guys? Yeah, good, good.

Lisa, you're a sales rep for New Zealand Couriers. I am. Are they under the pump at the moment, the couriers? Very much so. Yeah, what's the delay, the average delay on a parcel? Honestly, it just depends on how far it has to go. We're doing our best with limited staff, so... Yeah, no, well, thank you very much for all you're doing as well.

It must be a very stressful time for you all. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, you probably didn't need me reinforcing that on the radio for you. You're all good. Just how stressed out you are, Lisa, driving to your job all stressed. Yeah, we move on for that cloud of positivity. Now, Lisa, you've got to pick one of us. John O'Benn or producer Juliet, who's going in the soundproof booth?

Juliet, please. Great choice. Great choice. Now, Lisa, what would you do with $5,000 if you won? Honestly, I'm a single mum of two, so any kind of savings would be amazing just to have some backup funds, really. Fair enough. You sound very deserving.

We'll see if we can get you $5,000. We'll do our very best. Lisa, this morning, here is your first word. What pops into your head when I say EverReady? EverReady. Is that a battery? Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. I don't know what else EverReady is.

Yeah, battery. We'll say battery. Yeah, lock in that. Battery or batteries? This is the question I just need to clarify. We'll say battery. Yeah, lock in that. Battery or batteries? This is the question I just need to clarify. You just said battery? Battery.

Yeah, okay. Whoopie is the second word. W-H-O-O-P-I, whoopie. My son straight away said cushion, so cushion, whoopie cushion. I like it. You sound surprised at that.

Did you not think you would be cushion? I had another whoopie. You know surprised at that. Did you not think you would be cushioned? I had another whoopee. You know the whoopee I have? Yeah, I think, oh, yes, I think I do. Yeah, I think I do. Like a famous whoopee. Yeah.

Yeah, okay. Well, both are famous. A whoopee cushion's also famous as well. Yeah, arguably you'd say internationally the cushion's probably got more coverage in terms of people knowing what it is. Vegemite is your third word this morning, Lise. Vegemite toast. Yeah, good.

Juice is number four. Juice. Juice box. Juice box, nice. And the final word this morning is wharf. W-H-A-R-F, wharf. That's a tricky, tricky word, that one, isn't it? Wharf.

I just have to say ship. Ship came into our harbour, hopefully bringing in a lot of cash, a shipload of cash. Hopefully we're going to get producer Juliet out of the soundproof booth. Well done, well done. There was some shaky words there, but you made it through beautifully. Lisa navigated your way through it. Well done. Okay, Juliet.

Hello. Any reason you chose Producer J-Dog? Sorry? Any reason you chose Juliet this morning? Well, thinking that, you know, she's a female too, so I was hoping for great minds. Yes. Fair enough. I've got faith.

She's the greatest mind in this show. Every time we have a post-show meeting, Boss Todd's always like, well, it's clear Juliet's the smartest one in the room. You know, she's said that multiple times now. Yeah. That's hurting me on the inside. But anyway, enough of my problems. Lisa, let's win you some money, okay?

Okay. First word we said to Lisa this morning was ever ready. Ever ready. Battery? Whoa well done. There you go. Was it wherever I was listening intently to see whether you said battery or batteries and you said it perfectly.

Ben made a thing of it. Because we've lost money for people on that. So we have to make a thing of it. Lisa what's it feel like in your car at the moment? Good? So far, yep. Yep. All right, second word this morning is whoopie.

Whoopie. Ooh. How's that spelt? W-H-O-O-P-I. Whoopie. Goldberg? Is that her name? Did I?

What? What? That was the only thing I could think of. Cushion. Oh, my gosh. Of course. Was that the one you were thinking of, John? It was the other one I was thinking of.

Lisa, I'm sorry you bowed out at word two, but there were two pretty clear answers there. It was a 50-50. Yeah, okay. It was. Fentymite was the third word. Toast. Oh, well done.

Juice. Juice. Orange. And the final word, wharf. W-H-A-R-F, wharf. Ship. Oh, not bad, not bad. Tia, what lovely Lisa from Luscious and Vicargill. You did pretty well today.

Thanks. You know what we're going to do? We're going to send you some hell pizza. You're on level two. You can enjoy it, okay? Awesome. Thank you so much. That's for you and the fam.

Have a great day at work, and thanks for being so good at your job at New Zealand Couriers, all right, and keeping New Zealand moving. Thank you. All right. Thanks, Lace. We've got the Spying Tamer news on the way. Yeah, everything that happened at the VMAs, I'll fill you in next. Spy.

No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. All right, now to a segment that could probably feature in a Netflix doco in 10 years about how mean certain celebrities the media have been towards over the duration of time. But, Julia, what's happening in Spy? So the MTV VMAs are on, which stands for the Video Music Awards, and it's kind of like... Thanks for explaining that for us grandads. Yeah, you're welcome. I would say, I was kind of thinking about this last night, how

would you differentiate the VMAs with something like the Grammys? And the VMAs kind of seems a bit more like fun and more aimed towards maybe a younger audience. And I was looking at the winners, and all of my faves were the winners. I have a newfound love for little

naz x he did an old town road i just think he's the coolest guy ever and he's got some great music um he won best video for his song montero call me by your name justin bieber won artist of the year and best pop song for peaches song of the year was olivia rodrigo's driver's license she also won best new artist and she also performed Good For You, which was very good. She's very good live. She's awesome, yeah. Pits the notes.

I could never do that. So her and it seemed like Olivia Rodrigo and Justin Bieber, the big winners. Yeah, yeah, over the course of the night. And there was a bit of a brawl that you probably read about between rapper Machine Gun Kelly, he's with Megan Fox, and boxer Conor McGregor. Now, this is kind of weird. It happened on the red carpet, and you kind of, all you could really see

from videos is security sort of holding each other, holding them back from each other. Basically, how it started apparently was because Conor McGregor asked for a photo with Machine Gun Kelly. Machine Gun Kelly pushed him away and was like, no, get out of the way. Conor then fell backwards, spilt some of his drink, and then threw his drink at Machine Gun Kelly. And then it all, it was all a bit of a commotion. You wouldn't want to upset someone who's like a UFC sort of boxing fighter,

would you? Especially if you're like an alternative artist. Yeah, no, I mean, if you're going to get in a fight with anyone, like a seven-year-old, you know, is always a good option. Someone that you know you've got a alternative artist yeah no i mean if you're going to get in a fight with anyone like a seven-year-old you know it's always a good option someone that you know you've got a huge advantage over not a ufc fighter you're right no it was it was kind of you don't really see those that happen on red carpet there's a bit of fracas then i saw an interview with conor mcgregor afterwards he's like i don't even know who he was so i don't know why he's asking for a photo with him ah so that could have been a bit made up or something. Maybe a little bit of

controversy. They always like to drop those little controversial moments in, don't they? Yeah, they do. On stage they usually do it. Yeah. They had the kiss, you know, Britney and Madonna kiss. Oh, true. Kanye interrupted Taylor's speech. Miley twerking. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe this is the thing.

We've just fallen into the trap of talking about it. Mind you, if you're Machine Gun Kelly, you're like, hey, okay, so what I'm going to do is you have a little fight with Conor McGregor. Oh, what? An actual fight? You know, I'm just a musician. Yeah, no, you go with the UFC guy. It'd be great.

Okay, he's doing the punch music. He might throw a glass at you or something. It'll be all fine. One of the things I do like following at these sort of awards shows is seeing what everyone's wearing. I'm a sucker for watching the red carpet and the fashion and stuff. People go out there too, right? People really do. And I think today

the Met Gala is on, which is kind of like the it of the fashion. It's not, you know... Yeah, it's where you turn up wearing a fridge or something, don't you? Yeah, literally. Like the world of wearable art. Yeah, that is a very good comparison. So that's on today. So I'm very excited to see all the looks from that.

And in other news, Kate Middleton's little brother got married. His name is James. And no, you know, the internet talks, no photos or paparazzi photos have been released of the ceremony or of any members of the royal family. Contributing to the rumour, maybe, that Kate Middleton is pregnant and hasn't been seen in over 60 days. I personally don't believe the rumour, but that's just me reporting on what the internet's saying. Why would they hide her away if she was pregnant? Well, because you know how she has that, I can't remember what it's called, but she had that condition where she had horrible morning sickness

all throughout her pregnancy. It was really, really bad in the early days for all three of her children. So to have the pressure of the media as well at the same time while you're vomiting is probably not ideal, is it? No, no. So hopefully, well, actually, no. Whatever makes them happy in Ben's, as Ben likes to say. I want another child for the Cambridge family.

But you've got fours a lot, though. They're going to have to get a minivan. Yeah, but they've got plenty of nannies and everything. That's an upgrade to one of those L-Grands or whatever you see. A bigger palace. Just a bigger palace. Yeah. And that is your Spy Update this morning.

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