Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: When Parental Threats Are Actually Followed Through... Oops!

Episode Date: June 23, 2021

Hello hello! Today was a fun one, we spoke about when parents threaten their children, but actually follow through with it... like dropping them on the side of the road and telling them to walk home! ...We also crafted a little stitch up on Ben, he really wanted to speak to a Black Cap after their World Test Championship win. Producer BHumps couldn't get a Black Cap on, but instead got a guy from the office to pretend to be Colin De Grandhomme! Enjoy the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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. Welcome to the podcast intro. High energy in the studio at the moment. Keep the meeting going, keep the meeting going. Keep the meeting going, guys. It's the 24th of June. Now, what is going on? We've got Management Ellen here, Millennial Max, and wonderful Juliet. Don't shrug your shoulders, Juliet.
Starting point is 00:00:28 I mean, I'm not part of the conversation. Okay. Just came in at the wrong time. What are the issues in the studio at the moment, guys? Elle? Look behind you. Yes. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:00:36 So there's a giant, there's about six giant flat screen TVs behind us. Dude, radio at some point a few years ago decided that we needed an extraordinary amount of televisions in the studio. Didn't we? Yeah. And behind us is a whacking great picture of both Ben and myself. And that is too much. But they've tried to split it across the six screens. And it looks like your jaw is dislocated.
Starting point is 00:00:58 Yeah. Was it one of the Muppets? Was it Beaker or whatever it is? It has that sort of mouth that's sort of... You look like a meme. It's a meme. Yeah, like a meme. Yeah, there you go.
Starting point is 00:01:10 Like a meme. Like when you sort of put the fake mouth on someone to pretend they're talking. I look like that. It's a lot of... Alan, do you want my honest feedback? I mean, I'm definitely not a marketing. But I'll fake... I'll pretend I know what I'm talking about.
Starting point is 00:01:21 It's a lot of my face. Very close up. It's too much of my face. Can I give you my feedback then, Dakota? Okay, here we go. You guys are the brand. We need to see the faces. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:01:33 That's a bit of... There we go. That's a marketing spin. That would almost be too much face if it was just on one script, let alone six giant scripts. Yeah. Hey, the future, eh? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:44 Well, you can continue on having your meeting. Yeah, yeah future, eh? Yeah. You know, you can continue on having your meeting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll take it outside, guys. I'll let you back to the radio show. Yeah, you take it. That's fine. Now, Ben, how's your day going, mate? Are you alright? I was going alright, yeah. We're looking forward to our 90s show tomorrow. We're taking it back to where the hits first started, and tell you what, we've
Starting point is 00:01:59 got some great guests coming on the program tomorrow. Some blasts from the past. Simon Barnett. I know. To play Face the Music, which was a game show from the early 90s. Steve Parr speaking game shows from the early 90s. Sailor the Century was a huge show. And he's joining us tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:02:18 We've got Carlton from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. We've got a guy from Boys to Men. We've also got Fran Drescher, the nanny. We've got apparently a surprise that both of us don't know about. No. An iconic person from the 90s as well. So it's going to be a lot of fun. So join us tomorrow from six.
Starting point is 00:02:35 Juliet was telling us a story off air yesterday that we were like, well, this is a champagne phone topic if I've ever heard of it. Yeah, like as people who are parents now, I'm just like, really? This actually happens? It seemed like a questionable parenting decision. It was a different time. How many years ago was it? About 10 years ago, probably. So my family and I, we were over in the States for a family holiday.
Starting point is 00:02:59 And we had just eaten dinner at this little pizza, your classic American pizza place. I can't remember where in America, but it was dark. And I remember my brother, he must have been doing something that was really grinding my parents' gears. Like they were just getting so annoyed. And they were just on, you know, they were just so over it. End of a long day. Yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:03:20 And traveling with young kids, like I can see now why they were just so over it. But he was like, oh, they're weak, I'll strike. And I'll keep striking. So he was probably doing something very, very annoying and very frustrating. And we got back into the car after dinner. We were driving away from this pizza place. And I think either mum or dad must have said, Nick, if you don't sort yourself out, if you don't be quiet, we'll put you on the side of the road
Starting point is 00:03:44 and you can make your own way back to the hotel Like a classic parent threat And parenting's full of empty threats You say them for a period there, you can say them and they work, they're fearful of those threats coming to reality but eventually they figure out, well they've never followed through
Starting point is 00:04:00 on one of these threats And Nick must have been about 13 at the time and growing up, mum and dad have done, they did it to me all the time. They'd threaten me with dropping me off on the side of the road, finding my own way back home. Oh, so that was their go-to. I'll drop you on the side of the road.
Starting point is 00:04:13 Yeah, and they never had. So Nick was like, I'll take this as an opportunity to wind them up even more. And so they did. He did. And then they just got so frustrated that they literally were like, Nick, stop, get out of the car. And so he was like, what? And Nick, stop, get out of the car. And so he was like, what? And they're like, get out of the car.
Starting point is 00:04:31 He's like, in America? Are you making me do this? The kidnapped capital of the world? It's night time, I don't know where I am. And so he got out of the car and I remember looking back, we shut the door and I looked back at him and he was standing on this little grassy area.
Starting point is 00:04:45 Oh my goodness. And I was like, oh. That's the last I'll ever see of my brother. And I was so, I was so worried and so shocked and so confused that mum and dad hadn't actually done this. But like there was a roundabout up at the end of the street. And so they did, they did drive off, but then they turned around.
Starting point is 00:04:58 Oh, it's a matter of minutes. Yeah. But imagine for you guys, you'd be like, oh my goodness. I was like, oh. Did that sort them out for a wee bit? I think it must have. I reckon he would have gone back in the car and just would have been dead silent for the remainder of the ride home. Oh my God, I can't believe you did that.
Starting point is 00:05:13 I think the whole car probably would have been going, oh my God, I can't believe you did that. Even your parents, I can't believe we did that. We were probably all silently, quietly relieved that he was actually just safe and that we got him back, to be fair. I remember when I was young, my mum would be like, I i'm gonna give all of your toys to the kids in africa and i kept going well the logistics of sending the toys the international postage yeah do you even know anyone in africa are you just going to address it to kids in africa because that's not going to get to them yeah when i drilled down and thought about it and no not one of those toys got sent over there do you do any threats?
Starting point is 00:05:46 Oh, yeah, I'm probably the same as you, though. You would say something and then the kids now work out that, he's never going to do that. I like the, don't make me turn this car around. And you're like, well, you turning the car around is probably more of an inconvenience to you than it is us. Plus, you know. We don't want to go on this stupid trip anyway.
Starting point is 00:06:02 You're on the southern motorway, there's a median barrier. Logistically impossible. So, 0800 the hits. This is what we wanted to go on this stupid trip anyway. You're on the southern motorway, there's a median barrier. Logistically impossible. So 0800 the hits. This is what we wanted to chuck out this morning. 4487 if you'd like to text us. Parental threats that were actually followed through on. Maybe this was when you were growing up. Maybe you're a parent now and you actually backed up a threat.
Starting point is 00:06:19 Would love your calls and texts this morning. Get in touch with New Zealand's Breakfast. You know what I enjoy is the classic countdown. I'm going to give you until one. And it's a slow measured psychotic countdown. Five, four. And no one ever finds out what happens when it gets... But I notice if they sort of get a vibe that the child's not budging,
Starting point is 00:06:42 they start counting down in halves. Two and a half. Two and you're like, well, this is an inconsistent countdown you've started here. We'll go to Rowan. Welcome from Beachlands. Parental threats that were followed through on.
Starting point is 00:06:55 How are you, Rowan? Oh, g'day, mate. Yeah. Yeah, good. You phoned the radio station. We caught you by surprise. Off guard. What was the parental threat, Rowan?
Starting point is 00:07:06 Yes, I did follow through on it. So I was a solo dad looking after my four kids. And, you know, by their description, I was a bit of a sergeant major. But that's the way I could make it work. So, you know, rules are there to be followed. So anyway, one of my boys who was... That's what a sergeant major would say. He was 18 at the time, young Darren,
Starting point is 00:07:30 and he had just started working and he thought that gave him, you know, the authority to just go out and stay out all night and party up. And I said, no, you're still young. You've got to give your boss a fair go. You'll be home by this time or I'll lock you out. And so anyway, he pushed the boundary.
Starting point is 00:07:46 He came home and I'd locked him out. So he spent all night outside. Yeah, he went around the house banging on the walls and the windows and trying to get one of his siblings to open up. And I was going around the inside of the house telling all the siblings, do not open any door or you'll be outside with them. And he froze his nuts off
Starting point is 00:08:09 and he subsequently calmed right down and decided that he was going to do what Dad had asked. Oh, you followed through, Rowan. Followed through. Gave your son hypothermia, but that's the lesson you learned, don't you? He still loves me.
Starting point is 00:08:26 Oh, good on you, mate. And I'm sure you do all of them, Rowan. Thanks for your call. Appreciate that. Hey, Jono. Yeah. One quick one. You got me on wind up your wife back in about 2009.
Starting point is 00:08:37 Oh, you got you. The two degrees fight. Oh, yes. Yeah. You know, all my kids and all their mates still say to me, I'm going to stop you there. Yes, no, I remember because you were getting wound up and I could go, I'll stop you there. I'll stop you there, which
Starting point is 00:08:51 in turn winds through. Do you know how many people come up and go, you prank called me 10 years ago? Lots, I would say. We're like, John, And it doesn't stack up in 2021, prank calling. You've got to be so angry. I got picked on by my mates. You sent my house bird down.
Starting point is 00:09:07 Sorry about that. I was desperate for a reaction. Thank you for still listening to us, Rowan. Bloody good, mate. Keep it up. We've got Zoe on from Auckland. Parental threats that were followed through on, Zoe. Hi, how are you going? When my kids were little, I used to
Starting point is 00:09:23 tell them that if they didn't stop misbehaving, I would put them outside. And so I did. It's the ultimate threat, isn't it? Just being permanently outside. Yeah. It's a popular...
Starting point is 00:09:35 It gives them a chance to calm down, and it gives you a chance to calm down. And I still use it now if they're being really, really silly. And I'll just say, I will put you outside. It gives them also a good chance to wander off and lose them as well. Thank you, Zoe. Appreciate it. Someone's texting going, my friend got caught by his dad smoking a cigarette, and he always said, if I catch you, I'm going to make you smoke an entire pack of cigarettes.
Starting point is 00:09:58 So he did. But in turn, it's kind of counterintuitive because you're making him more addicted to cigarettes. Yes, you're right. But you're making him... I hadn't thought about that before. He's like, well, now I love them even more. You just smoke the whole pack. All right, then.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Oh, well. Janine, you're on. Welcome. Parental threats follow through on. Yeah. Yeah, definitely did that. What'd you do? My 11-year-old wouldn't put a seatbelt on in the car.
Starting point is 00:10:20 So I said to him, if you don't put your seatbelt on, I'm going to stop and you're going to get out and you're going to walk home. Uh-oh. Said this a couple of times. He still didn't put it on. So I pulled over, told him't put your seatbelt on, I'm going to stop and you're going to get out and you're going to walk home. Uh-oh. Said this a couple of times. He still didn't put it on. So I pulled over, told him to get out of the car and told him to walk home. How many kilometres from home was he? Oh, we were only about a kilometre from home. And he was 11, so he knew his way home.
Starting point is 00:10:37 The little darling took about an hour to get home. It takes 20 minutes to walk there, so I was in a bit of a panic. Yeah, about half an hour in, you're like, uh-oh so I was in a bit of a panic. Yeah, about half an hour in, you're like, uh-oh. Oh, dear God. Yeah, yeah. What's happened to him? Where's he gone? Who's got him? But no, he made his way home. You'd have to phone the police. We've got a missing person. They'll be like, how did he go missing? Oh, well.
Starting point is 00:10:56 Yeah, yeah. Thank you, Janine. Really appreciate it. Great. We'll take one more quick one. Marlis, parental threats that were followed through on. What happened? Hi, sorry. My youngest continued to storm off when she was being told off and slammed the door.
Starting point is 00:11:17 It's a classic, love it. Yep. So I said to her, you slam the door one more time and the door will come off the hinges. Please tell me you took the door off the hinges. I did take the door off the hinges. Oh, well done. For a whole week.
Starting point is 00:11:31 Oh, wow. But then there's a pain in the ass attaching the door back on again. Yeah, it was, it was. But you know what? It was worth it. It was a good call, Marlis. Thank you. She hasn't slammed the door again.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Oh, there you go. Lesson learned. And now you know how to take off and put on doors, too. It's a win-win. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.
Starting point is 00:11:56 Now, you realise you bought, I know you realised you bought your daughter Sienna in the other day. It would have been unusual if you didn't realise that. Oh, jeez, yeah, you're so with me. She was here for a long time. Yeah, she was. So you did bring her in. And I wasn't having that as a passive-aggressiveez. You're still with me. She was here for a long time. Yeah, she was. So you did bring her in.
Starting point is 00:12:05 And I wasn't having that as a passive-aggressive dig. No, no. I was just kind of going there. So I hope, as a parent, you would have noticed that your daughter was sitting here the entire time. No, she had something we needed to do. So she came in for a few hours at work the other day. Yeah. Yeah, and you strangely sent her across the road to pick you up coffee, which we discussed yesterday.
Starting point is 00:12:21 No, she went to get a hot chocolate from the cafe just next door. And then I was like, get me a coffee. You're like, that was weird. When she came back with a coffee. I think the people at the cafe were like, that was weird. They were like, okay, $9. That's what she said that they told her when she came back. But what I did notice too, and it probably happens in a lot of workplaces
Starting point is 00:12:40 when kids come in, is that work the work environment continues on that stop radio stops for no one you know meetings continue on well she was sitting quite quietly in the corner just uh doing some stuff and yeah so some people didn't even know that she was sitting there in the corner and so we you know have a couple of meetings after the show and people come in and you know the language can be a bit blasphemous at times. Not on the radio, though, eh? Not on the radio, which is, I find that so interesting about this industry is that it's so clean cut on air, but then off air, we're just like a troop of sailors, aren't we?
Starting point is 00:13:15 I mean, we'd probably go to a gang headquarters and they'd be like, guys, tidy up your language. It's terrible. But, yeah, so the meetings would continue on. If this, you know, just all sorts of... It's not as bad, but meetings Would continue on F this You know Just all It's not as bad But every now and again
Starting point is 00:13:28 Someone would say something And then they would I think we even invented New swear words But then they realise There's a child in the room They check themselves And they go
Starting point is 00:13:36 They take a big breath And everyone About four people And then they put Their hand over their mouth And then they whisper Sorry You shouldn't be
Starting point is 00:13:43 Whispering sorry You should be Whispering your swear words. Of all the words to whisper. Yeah, you're right. It was always a sorry. They go, sorry, sorry. But then it's the same cycle.
Starting point is 00:13:55 Then you go as the parent, don't worry, it's okay, she's heard worse. That's what the parents always say for some reason. But I, she hasn't. I'll be honest with you, she hasn't. I was like, what worse thing did she hear? She hasn't't but you feel like you need to say that to make the person yeah no that's okay and that honestly happened four times over in different meetings sorry don't worry she's heard worse and then it goes back around julia you were probably one of the worst culprits oh i know i remember when it first happened and it must have been like
Starting point is 00:14:25 maybe six months ago or so, maybe I think. And then I was like, oh no, what's Ben going to think of me? Like, don't, you know, tarnish my daughter with those words. But you were fine about it. Yeah, he said, don't worry, she's heard worse. It's interesting, my daughter Indy's at
Starting point is 00:14:42 that age of swearing, it's just like, that's the worst. Oh yeah, so even like the concert the other night and someone said something over the mic, she's like, can they say this? Can they do, you know? She's just like, wow. You feel like she's drafting up a letter to the broadcasting standards and saw something. She's going to be one of those people.
Starting point is 00:14:59 She's going to be a Karen. She's like, you can't say that. She's like, I will never say a swear word. Yeah, didn't she say? That's what she said. I'm like, you will. You will one day. No, I will never say a swear word.
Starting point is 00:15:10 So I've recorded her. It's like a little video. So one day I'm like, I've got this hair that you will never say a swear word. We should do a story arc on the radio where it's like we try to get Indy to say her first swear word. Would that be irresponsible? Oh, bloody. I wonder where it would go.
Starting point is 00:15:25 We just put her in stressful situations to just try and stop bribing a kid $1,000. Now, tomorrow is a very exciting show for us. We're taking it back to when the hits first started. There it is. Coming Friday. I'm the king of the world. You have me at home. Hello.
Starting point is 00:15:44 John O'Dean's That 90's Show Excellent It's a wild time too Particularly for fashion where there was no concern Over a clashing of colours On one body You could have all the colours of the rainbow And no eyes
Starting point is 00:16:00 No one flicked an eye did they The brighter, the more the colours Clashed the better. Yesterday we spoke to Simon Barnett, who's going to be joining us on the 90s show. We asked him if he could do a reboot of the famous game show Face the Music, which he's going to be doing tomorrow. But he was kind of like, he was the Kanye West of the 90s when it came to fashion in New Zealand.
Starting point is 00:16:20 Pushing boundaries. Frosted tips. A lot of stuff that had people questioning. But that was what you did back then. It's like people are going, Kanye, why are you wearing Crocs now? But one day we'll look back on it and go, he was a visionary. The 90s stuff has all come back in again now.
Starting point is 00:16:36 It's very exciting tomorrow. It's going to be playing music from the 90s. We're talking to people from the 90s. It's going to be a lot of fun. Apparently we've got some big guests lined up too, according to Producer Humphrey. Big guests. We've got Steve Parr. We've tracked him down from Sale of thes. It's going to be a lot of fun. Apparently we've got some big guests lined up too, according to producer Humphrey. Big guests. We've got Steve Pahl. We've tracked him down from Sale of the Century. And you want to play a little game with us now.
Starting point is 00:16:50 Yeah, we do this from time to time, but you've kind of flipped it slightly. Yeah, so you're going to make a booking at a cafe, okay? And then I'm going to play music from the 90s, and you need to seamlessly integrate the name of the artist into the conversation, okay? Oh, that's not going to be hard at all. Okay.
Starting point is 00:17:07 Just take my lead on this, all right? Okay, so try and say the artist's name when I hear the music. Yeah, we'll go through the cafe at Nelson here. Oh, jeez. Hello, Groucho's Tap Cafe, speaking with Ava. Oh, hi there. How are you doing? Good, how are you?
Starting point is 00:17:24 Good. I'm one of the new kids on the block to the area. What's this, Corey? I've moved back and I was looking for someone coming somewhere for lunch. Yeah. Did you want to make a booking? Yeah, I do. It's quite weird being back in town, though.
Starting point is 00:17:38 Yeah. For what day? Was that today? I see some of my old mates turning from boys to men. Anyway, I was thinking maybe coming in for lunch tomorrow. How's tomorrow looking? Yeah, of course tomorrow. It's not that busy at all. What time
Starting point is 00:17:51 did you want to come in? Well, I'm working on the car at the moment giving that a bit of a TLC, so maybe 12 o'clock? 12 o'clock, of course. Yeah. Coolio, is that all good? And how many people? Four of us. That'd be good. course. Yeah. Coolio, is that all good? And how many people? Four of us. That'd be good.
Starting point is 00:18:07 Four? Yep. Cool, and a name for that? That would just be under Salt and Pepper. Trevor? Yeah, Trevor sounds good. Yep. Yep, Trevor would be good.
Starting point is 00:18:23 Okay. No doubts, though, you're busy, though. You're busy at the moment? At the moment. Oh, yeah, do you guys do, like, desserts? Yeah, we do do desserts. Anything with vanilla ice cream or anything like that? Yeah, we can do ice cream on the side or desserts.
Starting point is 00:18:41 Awesome, that's really good. Cool. What's that, sorry? Do you sell meatloaf? Sell what, sorry? Meatloaf. Meatloaf? No, we don't sell meatloaf. Oh, that's good. I'm not a big fan of meatloaf, so that's good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:56 Cool, sorry. So what was the name for the booking? You just put it under the Venga Boys. The? Venga Boys. It's just me and the Venga Boys coming down for lunch. The Bigger Boys? The Venga Boys. Oh, sure. The Venga...
Starting point is 00:19:10 Yeah, we'll take the Venga bus and we'll be arriving. Just a second. You're nothing too spicy, eh? On the menu? Nothing? No, I'm not... Like, red hot chilli peppers, not really into that sort of thing? No.
Starting point is 00:19:23 Oh, good. That's good. That's really handy. What was the contact number for the booking? Can I look? I've got to level with you right now. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh.
Starting point is 00:19:37 Yeah. Jono's making me try and insert 90s artists, bands, into the conversation. I'm struggling. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I'm talking about the Venga Boys and Boys to Men. I was so confused. I was quite confused too. I was really struggling to weave someone. Was that Savage Garden at the
Starting point is 00:20:01 end of the tour? Yeah, you were a savage. You have a nice place to sit outside like like a savage garden, I can have lunch. You were very polite for a lady who was bamboozled for the last two minutes. Thank you. Yeah, you were, you were wonderful. Hey, we're going to send you out something for wasting your time. Thank you. Hey, hold the line, we'll grab your details.
Starting point is 00:20:19 Okay, thank you. That was a really awkward couple of minutes. Paid to talk words and stuff Into a microphone It's New Zealand's breakfast Jono and Ben on the hits I'm very stoked this morning Because the cricketers, the New Zealand cricket team
Starting point is 00:20:36 The Blackcaps are world test champions And even more stoked We've just got an interview with one of the players coming up very shortly Colin de Grunholm You're a huge fan of the Blackhams. He's a hard case. He's got a flying mullet. Yeah, he's awesome.
Starting point is 00:20:50 So we're going to be talking to Colin next, see what's happening in the changing room. Yeah. Probably just people getting changed, maybe, having a shower. I always feel weird that sometimes they have the cameras and stuff, you know, per journalist in the changing room. It's quite intrusive. Just like, surely they could do interviews in the corridor outside or something like that. And then sometimes you see people not from the team in the changing room you're like surely it's quite intrusive just like surely they could do interviews in the corridor outside or something like that sometimes you see people
Starting point is 00:21:06 not from the team in the changing room but they've got no reason to get changed should be strictly for changing you'd think so yeah but hey i'm not the changing room place if i was in the town i'm just uh can i just get my trousers on before we do a news interview i'll come out we'll do this it is me as you want out there in the corridor. The corridor or out on the field even. Is there another room for these interviews? Yeah, like an interview room maybe. But anyway, we're not across sport.
Starting point is 00:21:33 But something else that I'm across. Well, I'm quite across at the moment. I feel like kids these days, I've noticed, they're so much smarter and more onto it than we were at that age. They're just so much more aware of stuff. We were so dumb. We were dumb kids. We were dumb kids. Stupid little kids.
Starting point is 00:21:47 I feel like that a little bit. You know, like, as I say, my daughter, and the nine years old, and every time we're watching a movie or watching one on the weekend, and it's, you know, that's a movie. It's based on a comic book. Turned into a movie, and she's just like, green screen, that's green screen,
Starting point is 00:22:00 that bit's green screen. You know? I was like, yeah, well, clearly this isn't happening. But, you know, but they're always so good at picking stuff. You're like, oh, yeah. Fake. Fake. That's a great screen.
Starting point is 00:22:10 That's a great screen. He's lying. Yeah, I get it. Maybe it's taken the joy out of childhood. I tell you what, green screens have really done some good real life scenery out of work, haven't they? I mean, there's some beautiful mountains and trees out there. So they're not being filmed.
Starting point is 00:22:24 Yeah. No need for them I find it kind of unusual but she is quite onto it and she's kind of grown up she's already as I say she's probably like a 35 year old in a 9 year old she heard some swearing at the Drax Project concert she's going to lay a complaint with the
Starting point is 00:22:37 Broadcasting Standards Authority she's trying to come up with a name for her netball team, their netball team at the moment she loves playing netball and they were bouncing around some names and she came home and she said Dad one of the names I was talking about I was trying to come up with a name for her netball team, their netball team at the moment. She loves playing netball. And they were bouncing around some names. And she came home and she said, Dad, one of the names I was talking about, I was like, oh, I don't know if we can call ourselves this. Because before the game, they all do like a hands in the middle sort of team chant and they sort of start low.
Starting point is 00:22:56 And then they leap behind the arms of the air. So it's quite good. And then someone on the team goes, let's call ourselves the Squatters. Because we like squatting at the end. Because we squat with the thing up. And then he's like, they're thinking about call ourselves the squatters because we like squatting at the end because we squat with a thing up and then he's like they're thinking about calling us the squatters and i was like well do you know squatters is well yeah someone is living in a house that's not theirs or that was just oh no or it's a group of crossfitters with magnificent legs who have never skipped leg day the squatters watch out their legs are powerful so she was like even before knowing the meanings behind the stuff this is a she's like i don't know if we can call
Starting point is 00:23:30 ourselves the squad so i'll keep you updated if the squad is it doesn't sound right to have a team of children named the squad no i was like well for once i'm like i think i'm with you on this one and either maybe but you know pick some other names for the brainstorming season. Yeah, it's like my rugby team, the Squelchers. Everyone's like, what are you guys doing? I've got Neville tonight. I really enjoy going to watch Poppy play, Neville. Yeah, those are a lot of fun, yeah. She does.
Starting point is 00:23:53 Do you know the Silver Ferns? They turn up and they help coach the kids and things. The Silver Ferns. Yeah, it's awesome, mate. It's like community service. I mean, you've done community service, so you'll know how fun it is. But yeah, I was talking to one of them, and yeah, she was like, oh, you know, I've got to do 100 hours of this.
Starting point is 00:24:09 100 hours? Of this per year? That's really cool, though. As a Silver Fern. That's really cool to see, you know, the people at the top of the game, you know, coming out and helping. Just think, she could be coaching the squatters one day. She could be going, Savage, you saw the rapper Savage at the netball too.
Starting point is 00:24:26 Yeah, he was there as well. His daughter and my daughter were playing against each other, so it was kind of cool. All the seats were taken. You said to the guy next to you, can you please give it up for Savage, mate? So Savage finally got his. And Savage got to squat down and have a seat.
Starting point is 00:24:37 The squatters, baby. I didn't say that. It is a hit. She got Jono and Ben. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits you got John O'Benn. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. John O'Benn. Breakfast on the hits.
Starting point is 00:24:49 So the cricket overnight, I'm very stoked about this. The Black Caps won the World Championship against India. It was an awesome moment for New Zealand and New Zealand cricket.
Starting point is 00:24:59 Such a great player. Such a proud Kiwi. Whips that one away and how appropriate that ross taylor and kane williamson are there for this moment for this team it's a story that's akin to david versus goliath but kane williamson and his team now world test champions well there you go and ben boyce uh you know we don't usually cover cricket on the show. We silence him, don't we, Juliet, talking about cricket. But this is one day where we're allowing him to celebrate.
Starting point is 00:25:33 And I tell you what, he's a huge, huge fan. He's come dressed today in all whites. He's got the pads on. He's got the helmet. And, yeah, he's looking fantastic supporting the team. I'm a big fan. But you've taken advantage of this once again because you were like, you even said, today you talk about cricket, let's try and talk to one of the players. We'll've taken advantage of this once again because you were like, you even said, today talk about cricket,
Starting point is 00:25:46 let's try and talk to one of the players, we'll get in touch with the media person. Because I know that, you know, what you wouldn't give to be a thigh pad strapped to the thigh of one of those bladders or even a groin guard attached to the, you're a huge fan. I am.
Starting point is 00:25:58 Producer Humphrey has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to try and get you one of your cricketing heroes on the phone so you can, I don't know what, gash you what would you do well i congratulate them on the radio give them the airtime they deserve this morning and uh you know he was struggling i could see some sweat beads of sweat pouring down producer humphrey's forehead i know when things aren't going well next door and so i said how's it going mate went next door he said not good not good not getting any of the players so i I said, I have a solution.
Starting point is 00:26:27 Your solution was Baz from The Office pretending to be one of the players. You didn't tell me this though, did you? You said Colin de Grondholm was going to talk to us and I was excited by this. I got to record with Colin de Grondholm. But you pushed Baz too far. You made him compliment me. This is Ben talking to one of his heroes, Colin de Grondholm
Starting point is 00:26:44 with a black cap. This is Baz from to one of his heroes, Colin DeGrona, Black Cap. This is Baz from The Office, guys. Just during the song. Boys, thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here. Very exciting. Congratulations. I mean, how does it feel?
Starting point is 00:26:55 Is it sunken? Winning it's pretty good, but being on this show is even better. Thank you. I'm stoked to be here. Thank you, Colin. You know how to play to our... Better than the Test Championship. I don't know if that's the case. Definitely a lot better.
Starting point is 00:27:08 That's awesome. No, we are so stoked for you, Colin. It's well-deserved. I mean, this has been a long time coming for Black Caps fans, I guess. There was that World Cup result that we don't really like to talk about a few years ago, so does it feel like this is, you know, almost put that aside and put that to bed?
Starting point is 00:27:24 Oh, I don't even know what you're talking about. No, there's absolutely no way. Look, in order it goes, third, the birth of my mullet. Second was winning this year's championship, and first is being on the show with you, Ben. That's my three life moments at the moment. Well, he's a big fan. He's a big fan.
Starting point is 00:27:40 How long have you listened to Ben for? Probably the last 10 years. The hits is always on the team bus at the moment. It's up loud, so we're always listening to you boys. Oh, thank you, Colin. Is this actually Colin DeGrawen? Yeah. Is it?
Starting point is 00:27:52 Is it? Is it? Is it actually Colin DeGrawen? Or you just got someone pretending to be? Because there's a lot of compliments. Anyway. Hey, I'm so stoked to be on the show, boys. Thank you so much.
Starting point is 00:28:01 Now, what would you say? If it wasn't Colin DeGrawen, I'd say I'd probably work that out midway through that. It was Baz from The Office. I thought it was believable. I thought it sounded like Baz. I was like, Colin de Groenhoek sounds a lot like Baz from The Office. I tried to do a bit of an accent, but it obviously didn't work. Unfortunately, we couldn't get Colin de Groenhoek for that well play.
Starting point is 00:28:23 Is that the next best thing? Baz? For The Office? No. No, definitely hold. Well played. Is that the next best thing? Pass. For the office? No. No, definitely not. Thanks for another one of the players. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits.
Starting point is 00:28:36 Kia ora, good morning. Welcome along to the show. A Thursday morning. Good to be with you. And good to see you. Can I mention the cricket? Because you always say you're not allowed to talk about the cricket and I'm conscious of that.
Starting point is 00:28:47 You are so conscious of it, but he manages to get so much cricket on the show, Juliet. Would you agree? Yes. He always says he's conscious and he always leads with it. You never allow me to talk about it. Then he ends up talking about it. I'll just say New Zealand, the Blackcaps have won the World Test
Starting point is 00:28:59 Championships. It just happened. So that's some good news around for New Zealand right now. You know what? Juliet's even going to make you so proud, she's even got audio of the victory. Have you? Not only can you talk about it, you can hear audio. Oh, play it to me again. Such a great player.
Starting point is 00:29:14 Such a proud Kiwi. Whips that one away and how appropriate that Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson are there for this moment, for this team. It's a story that's akin to David versus Goliath. But Kane Williamson and his team are now world test champions.
Starting point is 00:29:41 Now, you know, explain it for those people who think test cricket is one of the most boring things any human can participate in. Doesn't it last for like five days? Yeah, it does. Wow. They must get tired. A lot of times it ends in a drawer as well, Julia, for some reason. Let's not pick apart some of the faults of the sport.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Let's just say, let's just be positive. So what is this? Explain it. This is pretty awesome. I mean, New Zealand are a very small, as we know, we're a very small nation. We don't have a huge cricketing population. Hopefully there's no new news to anyone. No, but to beat the likes of Australia, India,
Starting point is 00:30:06 England, who's got such a rich cricket history, to be the number one team in the world, that's awesome. So this would be like Italy beating the All Blacks. Yeah, I guess it would be in some ways. It'd be like Italy being the world champions of rugby, I guess. Yeah, so it's pretty awesome for the team. They've been battling away for a while.
Starting point is 00:30:21 They've had some highs and lows over the years, and that's really awesome. And I'll tell you who's been with them all the way. This guy. And I'll tell you who's having to hear about it every time. Me. Just went to the Warriors win next year and then, oh.
Starting point is 00:30:35 I'll even grant you this, okay? I'll even grant you this and it's no guarantee. I'll even let you ask producer B Humps to try and chase down an interview with one of them. Oh, really? Okay, will it go to air? I don't know. But you can talk to one of your heroes.
Starting point is 00:30:50 That'd be lovely. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B**** News. Ah, yes. Every morning we trust in producer Juliet to supply us with a buffet of amusing news stories. And she doesn't give them to us for free, though. That's the only problem. We've got to work hard for them. How do we do this, Ju? So I beep out a couple of words of a news headline you guys have to figure out
Starting point is 00:31:10 or make a witty little insert of what you think it might be. If we can't think of anything on the spot, yeah. Patronising with a witty little insert. A witty little thing. No, it's quite good. It's quite good. It's like a little radio show. You're like, yeah, we know it's little.
Starting point is 00:31:24 Your first news story. Marine engineers turn ****** into a motorboat and now plan to cross the English Channel in it. I'm going to go marine engineers turn Prince Harry's Trail of Devastation, he's left, into a motorboat and now plan to cross the English Channel in it. I'm going to go they turn a motorboat into a motorboat. Just because that's the easiest thing to do, to turn into a motorboat. That's what I'd do. Marine engineers turn there and turn a motorboat into a motorboat. Just because that's the easiest thing to turn into a motorboat. That's what I'd do.
Starting point is 00:31:45 Marine engineers turned rubbish skip into a motorboat and now plan to cross the English Channel in it. So the skip is 200 kgs. And this idea came about when they were having a couple of post-work drinkies, as you do. And it's over 500 kilometres long, the English Channel, so that is a fair distance to go. We had some people help us once turn a bouncy castle into a boat.
Starting point is 00:32:10 Remember that? Yeah. We went across Lake Taupo. Oh, yeah. And they did it really well. They put sort of like a little mattress underneath it. Yeah, almost like an air mattress that they could attach the motor to, so you could kind of go across.
Starting point is 00:32:21 It was really well done. And you didn't sink? No. No, surprisingly we didn't sink. Wonderful. No, Charles was his name. Yeah, Charles. Wonderful Charles.
Starting point is 00:32:28 Yeah, he was awesome. One of those people that could invent anything. Right. And if he didn't have it, he would make it for himself. Yeah, that's right. Wow. I'm not one of those sorts of people. So was he the person that made sure you stayed afloat?
Starting point is 00:32:40 Yeah. Was he? Yeah, I think he worked for a place called Lancer or something. That's right. And it was quite good because we were like, hey, we want to get this Bowser's Castle across there. How do we do it? He's like, leave it with me.
Starting point is 00:32:48 I'll sort it out. Wow. And then he did. That is wonderful. Yeah, we did one test thing in a pool, remember? Then it sunk. It sunk. Charles was back to the drawing board.
Starting point is 00:32:56 And he was kind of frazzled there. We were like, oh, God. I saw him running around. Next news story is... Qatar is getting so hot they're now... Are they doing an alley? It's getting hot in here. You know what happens then?
Starting point is 00:33:13 Which is inappropriate for a nightclub. Yeah, it is. I'm going to say Qatar is getting so hot they've now decided to pursue a full-time career as an Instagram model. Qatar is getting so hot they're now air conditioning outside. So they're installing air con in sports stadiums, for example, especially ahead of the 2022 FIFA
Starting point is 00:33:30 World Cup, which is going to be held in Qatar. And also, I was reading in Qatar they have a summertime ban where people who need to work outside aren't allowed to between 10am and 3.30pm because it's so hot and it's actually dangerous for outside workers. 9pm there at the moment, it's
Starting point is 00:33:46 35 degrees. That's crazy. At 9 o'clock at night. That is crazy. So yeah, the air conditioning is pumping outside in Qatar. At 4pm tomorrow, it's going to be 43 degrees. That's so hot.
Starting point is 00:34:02 Your shoes would melt to the footpath. Well, that's so hot. Your shoes would melt to the footpath, wouldn't they? Well, that's a dry heat. Right. Over there, isn't it? I've never been there. Why am I saying it's a dry heat? What an idiot.
Starting point is 00:34:11 I can't imagine it's quite dry over there. And the final news story. Why **** is 2021's most exciting tech trend? Oh, what's the tech trend? I don't know. Falling asleep while watching Netflix. It's a bit of a trend in our household. I'm going to say why I try to figure out how to avoid relentless onslaughts of LinkedIn email requests.
Starting point is 00:34:30 Oh yes, that's good. It's the most exciting tech trend. Why digital clothing is 2021's most exciting tech trend. So this has been introduced. So in real life you can have sort of a minimalist wardrobe, but online your digital self can have hundreds of clothes. So these companies have launched where there are 3D designers and you purchase clothes online and they will literally digitally put clothes on you. So, for example, influencers can then go on Instagram wearing the coolest clothes that they don't actually own.
Starting point is 00:35:02 It's just 3D designers have put it on their photo, which is crazy. Why? Because I don't know. I really don't know. Don't ask questions like, why? No, but to be fair, they did say they're trying to introduce it as a solution to fast fashion,
Starting point is 00:35:21 because fast fashion is just churning through and people are using clothes and chucking them out, so it's kind of a solution to fast fashion because fast fashion is just churning through and people are using clothes and chucking them out so it's kind of a solution for that but it also means that you know people eagle-eyed influencers people are eagle-eyed people on instagram will look at the influences and be like nah that's been photoshopped on that's what i'll be doing anyway because you'll probably be able to one day go i like that and print that off on a 3d printer that's probably how you'll get your clothes i still don't get my head around 3D printing. I don't know how, how does something like that...
Starting point is 00:35:47 And they could, anyway, yeah. That's crazy. Me and Harvey were saying they were printing guns on 3D printers. Wow. People can do it at their home. Wow. I just don't get it.
Starting point is 00:35:56 How does it work? I can't even get my laptop to connect to the printer at home over the Wi-Fi. Yeah. Honestly, I can't. Just connect to the bloody brother MC210444. I know, what a struggle.
Starting point is 00:36:07 Hey, thanks, Drew. That was a wonderful episode of News and Beeps. You should be proud your family will be. Latest from the update from Wellington with the potential COVID situation it is the hits you got, Jono and Ben. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.
Starting point is 00:36:24 Cold this morning. It is a cold morning. But you always feel like, because we're in Auckland, you always feel like, when we complain about that, it's like, oh. You know how much colder it's going to be down south. Yeah, it'll be minus, wouldn't it? Yeah. I'd imagine, in Vikargal. It's like, we have no right to complain about the cold.
Starting point is 00:36:38 Really? Yeah, can we be compared to people that are getting up in Southland this morning? We may have no right, but we do have microphones. Which gives us a huge advantage to complain about the cold. It does, but I always feel like, come on, guys. On a mass level. Come on, guys. It's colder than when Ben ignores calls from his mum out there.
Starting point is 00:36:54 And he does that regularly, doesn't he, Ju? Yes. Poor lady's leaving voicemails. He's like, I'm never going to clear them. But anyway, keep warm. That's a nice bit of advice, isn't it? Thank you, Jono. Now, tomorrow we've got a very exciting show on advice isn't it thank you Jono now tomorrow
Starting point is 00:37:05 we've got a very exciting show on the hits this Friday Jono and Ben that's us step by step take it step by step back to when the hits
Starting point is 00:37:14 first started the early 90s oh talk to the hand because the face ain't listening oh I said this Friday Jono and Ben
Starting point is 00:37:22 sorry no sorry the face was actually listening it was just I thought I'd try and use a 90s phrase. Oh, I see, I haven't heard that one for a while. Yeah, sorry. Are we going to be getting jiggy with it? It's going to be a 90s nostalgia show bigger than the Friends reunion. Oh, my God!
Starting point is 00:37:37 Booyah! Take a chill pill. Oh, yeah, I am pretty chill. Well, I was just reading the script. Oh, anyway, we're going to have the greatest music from the 90s. This is how we do it. And all the great stars from the 90s. Beverly Hills 90210, no you didn't. Oh, yes, I did.
Starting point is 00:37:56 You are all that and a bag of chips. Oh, no thanks, I've just eaten. That 90s Show, this Friday with Jono and Ben. It's going to be aight. Oh, please stop. Booyah. Oh, he's still going. That's fat with a P-H.
Starting point is 00:38:11 Yeah, no, I get it. Stop talking. We are really excited about tomorrow's show. Playing and reflecting back on the 90s when the hits all started. But we're struggling because our show's only three hours long and there's so much great music from that era that we want to get in. Yeah, like we, Ben was like, there's so much music and I keep thinking to myself, well, yeah, it was 10 years,
Starting point is 00:38:36 so there's going to be a lot of music to choose from. Oh, yeah, hundreds and hundreds of songs. We're trying to whittle it down to sort of, you know, 20 odd to play over three hours. So we've got two that are a little contentious that we haven't settled on and we'd like to throw those over to you next yeah we need to choose one of these two songs and we need your help what song are we going to play tomorrow out of these next two songs uh do you want to hear on the radio we're basically going through a decade's
Starting point is 00:38:58 worth of now that's what i call music volumes one through nine and uh picking the playlist tomorrow and we need your help shortly i have a little uh i got it wrong yesterday because you asked where that it was from and i thought it was scooby-doo but it wasn't it was home improvements i'm sorry tim the tall time taylor it was uh it was more of a scooby-doo maybe it was from, and I thought it was Scooby-Doo, but it wasn't. It was Home Improvements. I'm sorry. Tim the Tool Time Taylor. It was more of a Scooby-Doo. Maybe it was the same actor. Yeah, so that was Home Improvements. I'm sorry. It came through on the text afterwards. Multiple times, too.
Starting point is 00:39:34 You idiot! It was Home Improvements. Resign! I think that's a worthy cause to resign over, too. I'm sorry about that. Another problem we're having heading into that 90s show tomorrow is picking the music. There's a lot of music over 10 years. A lot of crappers as well, we won't lie.
Starting point is 00:39:50 But there's also songs that you're like, yeah, maybe you wouldn't listen to every day now, but to hear one day again, you're like, or maybe that was, you know, to reflect on the 90s, you kind of want to hear some of these songs. So what we wanted to do is we wanted to create a show of songs that had some significance to everyone. Oh, we wanted to do is we wanted to create a show of songs
Starting point is 00:40:05 that had some significance to everyone. Oh, you know, this is when I popped my first pimple or this is when I failed my driver's licence test. I was listening to this song. Or this is when I was practising my kissing on my cricket bat in my room and my mum walked in on me. I was listening to this song. So right now we've got, and we're going to do this again later,
Starting point is 00:40:23 and on our social media as well, we've got a choice between two songs. And we're going to put one of these songs through tomorrow to play. One you're very passionate about, mainly because you know all the rappy bits. Oh, well, that was, yeah, it was a dream of mine. And that's from TLC, Waterfalls. Great song. My friend Bevan thought that was Don't Go Jason, Waterfalls. I was like, really?
Starting point is 00:40:44 They want Jason, Waterfalls to leave, don't they? I'm like, it's Chasing Don't Go Jason Waterfalls. I was like, really? They want Jason Waterfalls to leave, don't they? I'm like, it's chasing, not Jason Waterfalls. He's like, it's been a nice party, but... Well, don't go Jason Waterfalls. I've got a family I've got to go see. So Ben really wants TLC Waterfalls in there. And I wanted a song which will really get the mood going at 7.30 in the morning. Do you want the mood going at 7. in the morning do you want the mood going
Starting point is 00:41:05 at 7 30 in the morning sure maybe you do but it is an iconic 90s song this oh i'll make love to you great song you want me to uh and i just mainly i just want this bit for the guy in boys to men with the deep voice yeah baby he's like yeah girl i'm sorry I went and cheated on you, girl. But if I keep saying girl, will you forgive me, girl? Come on, girl. You know it's right, girl. Make love to me, girl. And, you know, I would forgive the guy if he was talking to me like that.
Starting point is 00:41:37 I had such an amazing deep voice. They were awesome boys to me. And so we're on the text machine right now, 4487, or give us a call. Oh, Andrew, that's what song I mean it feels like we should put both through absolutely Ben
Starting point is 00:41:49 you're right but it's only a three hour program we could have run this for 48 hours non-stop but that would be ludicrous
Starting point is 00:41:56 that would be wild it would be a reckless broadcasting decision but we do have prizes too we got our
Starting point is 00:42:02 90s prizes Millennial Max went and picked up a whole bunch of toys That he had no idea what they were yesterday So why don't we give away some chatterings To someone who votes
Starting point is 00:42:11 For what song goes through Alright give us a text right now 4487 which song do you want to hear played tomorrow On our 90s show it is the hits Listen here's some news that you can fill in your day with When you're stuck in an awkward silence with a colleague around the water cooler. Okay, what's happening overnight? Well, we've got Rachel Jackson-Leeson with us this morning from our news department.
Starting point is 00:42:32 The department is just her. It sounds good when you call it. Or the news bureau, I quite like as well. Yeah, I'll go with that. There's some big news that happened overnight. The black caps you were just saying before, what an awesome result to win the Test Championships. That is some good news that we needed,
Starting point is 00:42:47 especially if you're in Wellington and you're waking up and you're in Level 2. Hopefully people turned on the TV, hot bus 5, and you saw that amazing result. Number one Test team in the world now. I know not everyone on the show is a fan of cricket, but it is a really big deal. She's looking you down the eyes there. You can't get any joy from this result.
Starting point is 00:43:04 It's a really big deal for the country. If I say that was cool, no, you can't get any joy from this result. It's a really big deal for the country. Don't even go, that was cool. No, you can't say that. What I do appreciate about cricket, though, is their fast-looking sunglasses. Oh, yeah. Why do they all wear those fast? Why that design? They're not going fast at all, though.
Starting point is 00:43:19 Maybe they stick on the face a bit better. I don't know. They look illicit, those sunglasses. But all of them wear the same design. Yeah. I don't know. It's a good point. I don't know. They look illicit, those sunglasses. But all of them wear the same design. Yeah. I don't know. It's a good point. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:43:28 I don't have the answer for that. We're trying to get Ben an interview with one of his cricketing heroes today. Right. Should be possible. Yeah, hopefully. We'll see. But John, I was trying to put some, like, yeah. I said, if we get an interview, you have to ask all the questions that I type for you.
Starting point is 00:43:39 Oh, no. So it'll be like, you know, if you were a vegetable, what vegetable would you be? Oh, no. Oh, no. Things like that. And of course, yesterday there was big news about a traveller from Australia coming to New Zealand who went home to Australia and tested positive for COVID-19. What's the latest update overnight? So everybody is waiting to see if this traveller had the Delta variant.
Starting point is 00:43:59 So that is the one that's much more transmissible, 30 to 90 times more transmissible. So those results are expected back today. It could be this morning, it could be any time. So we're standing by for those. There's also Wellingtonians have to get tested today. So there is thousands and thousands of people need to get themselves to a testing site in the capital. Which I heard was a shambles yesterday. Yeah, it doesn't look good.
Starting point is 00:44:20 And the main testing site in the capital is fully booked today. So you can't even get there if you do want one. So they're having to have other options for people. There's an extra station now operating around the place, Tauranga's Bay Park Stadium. Oh, because two of the people that were with the person who contracted COVID, they live in Tauranga. Yep, so they've had to open another station there just in case. But in the capital
Starting point is 00:44:46 that's the biggest one down there is that thousands of people need to get a test because when this guy was visiting Te Papa for the hour 45 or whatever it was, they say there were two and a half thousand people that passed through the museum just in that time. Jeez, that's knocking off Te Papa in record time, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:45:01 An hour 45, mowing through. Yeah, true. There's a lot to see there. It's probably a three-hour journey, I would have thought. I thought it was good, promising, at least. There are four of the close contacts for this person have tested negative so far, which is awesome. That is great news.
Starting point is 00:45:17 And also they announced yesterday that he had, the Australian tourist had had one of the vaccinations. One jab. So that means that it kind of reduces the amount of kids spread, right? I think it says it reduces your and your symptoms so you don't get it as bad. Ideally they want people to have two, obviously. But there are 19
Starting point is 00:45:33 locations of interest, so he really did make the most of his time in Wellington, went to a lot of eateries, went to a lot of places, so that full list is on the Ministry of Health website, and anyone that was there needs to isolate and get a test. So as I say, it's a really really busy day in Wellington and an anxious wait to see if any of those people that were at any of those places do come back with COVID. I liked it on the news last night because Simon Dallow read all the places that he'd been to but if you just tuned into the
Starting point is 00:45:56 news and didn't know what it was about it's just like Simon Dallow was just recounting someone's weekend. Then they went for brunch at this place. Went to Barry O'Grady's. Yeah, there they went. What is this? It was funny because initially they announced three locations. They were like, oh, he just went to the hotel in Te Papa. And then he obviously kept remembering where he'd been. Oh, by the way, they kept sending them texts. Oh, by the way, I went to
Starting point is 00:46:17 Mary's Cafe. That was wonderful. Didn't you go there? Oh, yeah, I did. Oh, yeah, I did. Yeah. Actually, I saw a lot of Wellington. It was wonderful. But anyway. They say that he actually did use the COVID Trace app, which is awesome. That's great. Because tourists don't have to. I saw that on the news last night.
Starting point is 00:46:31 They're encouraged to do it. But you don't have to. I mean, half of New Zealand aren't using that app. Well, this is a wake-up call, isn't it, to any of us who have been a little bit slack on that front, that you really need to keep it going. Because as you've seen with these 19 places he's gone, you could have been anywhere. It's a great reminder and for people like me actually, I'll admit I've slagged
Starting point is 00:46:49 off and I shouldn't. Ben's reliable, you're good. I'm trying to be. Every time he does it I'm like, nerd. As I'm holding up outside the thing. Women is nerd. No, no, no. I shouldn't say that. It's the right thing to do.
Starting point is 00:47:06 It's all scanned today. And hopefully we get some more positive news. We'll update you with the results come through. COVID, you know what I mean. Good news out of Wellington today. Thank you, Rachel Jackson-Lees. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben.
Starting point is 00:47:16 Spy. The what's up. Spy.co.nz. All right, she's standing by. Getting ready to tear the celebrities a new one. I never know what you mean to be tearing a new one of when you say tearing a new one, whether it's a piece of refill or... Good point. Tear them a new piece of bread from Breaker's Baker's Delight,
Starting point is 00:47:31 you know, a nice tiger loaf or something. Yum, delicious. Yeah, here's Ju with Spy. So Taylor Swift is currently going through the process of re-recording her first six albums because one of the big music managers in America, Scooter Braun, basically bought a record company and with that came the rights to Taylor's music. Now he's also Bieber's
Starting point is 00:47:47 manager. Bieber and Ariana Grande. He must have got some relentless emails from you when you were a teenager, Scooter Braun. Did you punish him? I followed him tweeted him. He was the next step after Justin but basically it meant that if Taylor's music was used commercially he would make the money from that. And so he's now spoken out about it and says he regrets buying Taylor's music catalogue and how it's all panned out. And that all of what happened has actually been very confusing
Starting point is 00:48:14 and not based on anything factual. He said, I don't know what story she was told, but I asked for her to sit down with me several times, but she refused and her team refused to buy back the music. Which is interesting because from her side, she said that she's not been allowed to buy back the rights to her music which is why she's now re-recording all of her first six albums the problem with the disagreement is there's always two sides to every story isn't there and i mean taylor's probably gone it's far cheaper for me to just re-record the songs probably better than i would have back then true what she's doing true
Starting point is 00:48:43 and it's actually making people a lot more excited because she's releasing additional songs from the albums that didn't make the original cut, you know? She gets two bites of her cherry. Yeah. Doesn't she? She's getting to make more money off the music she's already recorded. Totally.
Starting point is 00:48:58 Genius. Totally. So it's actually probably worked out better for her than it would have. Do you know what? Someone's bought all the rights to the Jono and Ben radio shows from the last 20 years. So we're going to go back and re-record from the start. Oh, wow. We're going back to day one starting Monday.
Starting point is 00:49:12 Oh, wow. We're going to re-record all the bits the year before. Do it better. You know, just slightly better. God, I hope it's better. Jeez. And in the Friends reunion, one of the biggest revelations was that Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer, who were Ross and Rachel, actually had crushes on each other in real life,
Starting point is 00:49:26 but it never happened because they were both in relationships at the wrong times. Although there was a lot of canoodling, wasn't there? There was a lot of canoodling on couches. Yeah. Blatantly, callously in front of the audience. I know, I know. And they thought that no one noticed, but they were like, oh, we all noticed. You just thought we didn't.
Starting point is 00:49:42 But anyway, she's spoken more about it, and she said she would proudly say she did the honky tonks with David Schwimmer if it had happened. And she said, trust me, you would know if it happened because I would be very proud about that. And she also said that Courtney and Lisa would know if it did because they would have heard about it and they can vouch for her. So it definitely didn't happen. I don't think anyone's ever said they've proudly hooked up with me. Your wife? No. I don't know if she'd go on public record.
Starting point is 00:50:10 Oh, yeah. On public record, yeah. She would say to me, but she's like, don't tell anyone that. Yeah, true, true. And it is five from where you can head to thehits.co.nz. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. Y'all have a good morning.
Starting point is 00:50:24 Just gone seven o'clock. If you're just waking up this morning, you may have heard in the news the Black Caps, the cricket team, won the World Test Championships. I've been told not to keep banging on about it, so I won't. No, I haven't told you to keep banging on. I've told you on previous cricketing occasions. You can bang on about it today. I don't want to do too much about it, but I am really stoked for the Black Caps.
Starting point is 00:50:42 Ben, a huge cricketing fan. In particularly of the five-day format of the game, the most boring and drawn-out format of the game. Hey, well, look, they won it. They were the world test champs, so that's awesome. Huge achievement, though, isn't it? Someone put it in perspective before, you know, a country of only five million, a team of five million,
Starting point is 00:51:00 taking on India, too, a team of one billion. Yeah. To have a victory like that. And that is their national sport in India. Yeah, and even in Australia as well. It's their national sport, particularly in summer at least, all around Australia. So it's a huge achievement.
Starting point is 00:51:15 And as a good friend, a dear, dear friend, I'm going out of my way to ask producer Humphrey to go out of his way and try and organise an interview with one of the Black Caps just for you. Yeah, but then you're saying that I need to ask questions that you've written, so I don't want to do that. I don't want to. They're just on top of the world right now.
Starting point is 00:51:31 They don't want to know, you know, if you're stuck on a desert island, what CD would you bring along or something? No, it was actually what body part would you eat first if you're going to do the desert island one. Well, those are the conditions. Do you want to talk to one of your cricketing heroes or not? I don't know. It's just going to be awkward for both of us. Well, those are the conditions. Do you want to talk to one of your cricketing heroes or not?
Starting point is 00:51:45 No, don't. It's just going to be awkward for both of us. Anyway, next on the show, producer Juliette, speaking of awkward, you shared a story off the radio yesterday about what happened on a family trip. Yes. Very controversial. A lot of parents make threats like this, but they never follow through on them. Oh, totally. Full respect to you, parents.
Starting point is 00:52:04 Or I don't know if they should have been reported to Child, Youth and Family Services or something, but we'll find out what it is next. That's the hits you got, Jono and Ben. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Just saw
Starting point is 00:52:19 no new cases of COVID-19 in the community overnight, so that's fingers crossed we get some continued good results on that front. My fingers are crossed Ben Boyce and for all the people of Wellington as well it's a bit of an anxious time isn't it? Not having to line up and get COVID tests and things like that
Starting point is 00:52:35 and obviously the system is under pressure, isn't it? I think there's one main COVID testing centre in the middle of town. Oh really? Yeah and it was under the pump yesterday. And Rachel Jackson-Lees was saying earlier this morning that it's been fully booked today for people wanting to get tests as well. So I think they're going to have to put up some more pop-up testing stations.
Starting point is 00:52:54 As an alternative, what you can do is stick a fork up your nose at home and just get the sample and send that off to... No, it's not. Dead hole's a great option as well. Just gargling it. You know, just see what that does. Oh, no. See if it kills the bugs. Oh, God. But, Dead hole's a great option as well, just gargling it. You know, just see what that does. Oh no. See if it kills the bugs.
Starting point is 00:53:06 Oh God. But you know, fingers crossed, you did right, Ben. Next, something happened in the middle of the night which I think would have
Starting point is 00:53:11 happened with most people who share a bed with someone. It's an incident that happens at three in the morning. You're both not in the ideal state to tackle that incident
Starting point is 00:53:19 and we'll tell you what it is next. It is a hit. You got Jono and Ben? Yeah, yeah, no. Yeah. Nah. Yeah, nah.
Starting point is 00:53:24 The whole movie. Yeah, nah. She'll be right and at the end of the you got Jono and Ben? Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie, yeah, nah. She'll be right, and at the end of the day... Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, something happened in the middle of the night, and I'm sure you probably suffered the same fate as... The cricketers won? Oh, excuse me. Keeps plugging these crickets. What happened in the middle of the night? I don't... It's the one
Starting point is 00:53:40 day I'm allowing Ben to talk about cricket, because the Blackcaps have won the World Test Series. He gets into you. And he keeps using every opportunity to just segue into a cricketing result. Sorry, sorry, I'll wait. Now I've forgotten what I was going to say. You guys are right. You woke up in the middle of the night. I really should check the cricket results on Crickinfo.
Starting point is 00:53:56 That's what you said. Oh, we could win this. You know when something in the house needs to be tended to or one of the kids is clearly rustling, you need to go and deal to what they need. So you're both awake. But then you get into a debate in the middle of the night, three in the morning, over who's more tired.
Starting point is 00:54:20 Do you do that? Yeah. I'm more tired. No, I'm more tired. And then you kind of give a back catalogue of what you've been doing to make yourself so tired. We do that even during the day. Who's more busy? I'm more busy because I'm doing this.
Starting point is 00:54:32 And there's no official measurement of the tiredness either. So no one's right or wrong. No one can actually go, well, you know, on the tired Scoville, you know, the tired pressure. Maybe there should be a tired pressure machine that you rate more. But you go round and round. Oh, I've been doing this. And then, oh, you come back. Oh, I've been doing this.
Starting point is 00:54:51 That made me tired. And I was working over. Oh, that made me tired. Yeah, but you didn't have to do that, did you? Yeah, I know. I know I didn't. I went out on Friday night. Well, you didn't have to.
Starting point is 00:54:59 Oh, yeah. But then you just end up going round and round. And then by the time you're sort of sitting at 3.30 in the morning in dead silence because no one's decided who's more tired you could have just gone down and done the thing that needed to be done isn't that a funny situation but it is one of those things
Starting point is 00:55:15 particularly when you're in bed and you're like well it's quite warm and I'm cosy I really don't want to get up and do this thing another great trick which I'm sure producer Beehumps who just had a baby, you might be employing this, and never would you publicly admit it, so I'll admit it on your behalf, is pretending to be asleep when
Starting point is 00:55:34 something's going on and you are doing some Robert De Niro Academy Award winning acting. Acting you'll never receive the accolades for. No, because no one needs to know that you're acting. No one ever can know. Just give me, just blink twice if you've done this Ben Humphrey.
Starting point is 00:55:51 I won't tell you what he just did. No, no, we'll never know, yeah. But that's the skill, Juliet, when you become a parent, that's the thing. Just get good at pretending not hearing things. I didn't hear that. I'm sorry I didn't hear that, yeah. I feel like I'll be very good at that. Didn't your dog vomit and you pretended not to see it? So you just put like.
Starting point is 00:56:05 Oh, everyone just, yeah. It's like, yeah. And everyone kept walking around it. Like, I was in the morning and I was like, oh, we'll get this. I came home that day. I was like, the family had done the same thing. I was like, well played, everyone. Well played.
Starting point is 00:56:17 I did exactly the same thing at five in the morning. I'm like, oh, I guess I didn't see that. Yeah. I made sure the dog was fine, obviously. But I was like, I guess I didn't see that. Yeah. Just practice professionally ignoring things. That's a good key to getting through life.
Starting point is 00:56:32 We've got $5,000 up for grabs in about six minutes' time. It is the hits. You've got John on bed. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game Award Association. We play it every morning at 7.45. We tell you five words. You tell us the words that pop into your head.
Starting point is 00:56:45 And if your words match up with ours, you win five grand. This is my favourite part of the show. Actually, my second favourite part of the show. My favourite part of the show is when we finish talking on the radio and we silently all clear our emails during the songs and ads. It really saps the energy out of the room. But then, Olivia, you're going to bring the energy back for us in Tauranga. Morena.
Starting point is 00:57:04 Morena. Great to have you on, Liv. Do you know, we actually bumped into some All Blacks yesterday. but then Olivia you're going to bring the energy back for us in Tauranga morena morena great to have you on Liv do you know we actually bumped into some All Blacks yesterday they were outside doing promotional work outside the casino
Starting point is 00:57:11 and they were like we listened to Five Words it's endorsed by the All Blacks did I say that yeah I didn't hear that I was having another conversation with them
Starting point is 00:57:19 alright I thought I was there the whole time no you were they said we listened to... Really, did we? Yeah. Love it.
Starting point is 00:57:26 So it's endorsed by the All Blacks. I feel like it was great. I feel like I was there the whole time. Olivia's saying that's great, Ben. I was there the whole... Like, I don't feel like you... Can you say that's great again, Olivia? That's great.
Starting point is 00:57:36 That's great. The All Blacks love it. We all love it. Everyone's loving it. We don't have to pay millions in sponsorship costs like the Weet-Bix, do we? We just get the free shout-outs. Anyway, love, we want to try and win you $5,000. You've got to choose between Ben, producer Juliet, or myself to head into the soundproof booth.
Starting point is 00:57:54 I'd love Juliet, please. Good idea. Yeah, good idea. Safe pair of hands, I reckon. Yeah, she's heading into the booth. What's not a safe pair of hands is Jono Pryor. He now has to walk around and control the computer, the desk, the radio desk here. Yeah, I'm actually silently crapping my pants here, Olivia, over this.
Starting point is 00:58:12 All right, Olivia. So now I need to get this music. That's the one. All right, here is your first word this morning as producer Julia is safely trapped in the soundproof booth. Savalloy is your first word. Savalloy. What did you say? Savalloy cream? Oh, no, not Savlon. Savalloy is your first word savalloy what'd you say savalloy cream oh no not savlon as in like the cocktail sausages yeah well yeah but bigger version well bigger version of those
Starting point is 00:58:36 right yeah savalloy is like a cocktail sausage on steroids isn't it yeah yeah it's really hard to give a describe what something is without saying the word. Okay. Savoy, it's like a sausage. Can I come back to that one? Yeah, like a sausage. That was what I was going to say, but I didn't want to influence you anyway. Is that what you're wanting, Ben? That's what I was thinking, but I
Starting point is 00:58:58 don't want to influence you in any way, because I don't know what producer Juliet's going to say. But I was thinking what? I think of course she's thinking sausage too. So that's what I was thinking. To be honest of course she's thinking sausage too. Oh yeah, so that's what I was thinking. To be honest, if anyone else is thinking anything apart from sausage. Cheerio maybe is another one. Yeah, I don't know. Word number two.
Starting point is 00:59:14 Golf is the second word. G-O-L-F, like the sport, golf. Oh goodness. It's golf club, golf ball. That looks like golf ball. Golf ball, nice. I like it, golf ball. Sl looks like golf ball. Golf ball. Nice. I like it. Golf ball. Slice is the third word.
Starting point is 00:59:28 Slice. Oh, goodness. It's taking me back to the deli again. Sliced meat. Oh, sliced meat. Yeah. Okay. Oh, meat.
Starting point is 00:59:38 Sorry. I've got to be specific. Sliced meat. Meats with an S? Sliced meat. Okay. Sliced meat. Can I ask a question? Producer Bee Humps
Starting point is 00:59:46 Did you come up with all of these words While you were meat shopping At the supermarket last night? Just on our way to golf Yeah The next word Salami or golf cart? No, the next word is phone
Starting point is 00:59:59 Phone is the next word Oh my goodness These all have lots of options. Straight away, phone charger comes to my mind, so I'm going to stick with the first thing, phone charger. Charger, phone charger is a good one. And finally, your fifth word this morning, horoscope. Horoscope.
Starting point is 01:00:15 Oh, my goodness, horoscope. Oh, goodness. This, yeah. What? That is so wide. That could be anything Like straight away I'm just thinking Libra Because I'm a Libra
Starting point is 01:00:28 But that's not to say that Juliet is What is Juliet going to say? I don't know I don't know actually what star sign she is Well listen I'll tell you what she's permanently thinking about It's smashed avocado Okay I'm going to lock in star sign I think it's a good bet.
Starting point is 01:00:45 That's a good, that's a safe bet, star sign. Is it possible, gentlemen, to go back to that first one? Because I feel like I'm not confident with that first one. Savoy. Oh, you're going back to Savoy. Yeah, I don't know why I'm going sausage and cheerio now. I'm sure I heard Jonathan say cheerio or something like that. And that's what I'm so used to seeing in the jelly is the cheerio.
Starting point is 01:01:03 Oh, so you're going to say Cheerio? Yeah, but I'm not too sure. Oh, my God. No, let's just stick with sausage. Okay. And if I end up agreeing it later. This has been a rollercoaster. Okay, so we've got...
Starting point is 01:01:14 I'm a mess, guys. I'm everywhere. I'm nervous. Oh, it's tough when you're on the spot. Savoy sausage, golf ball, sliced meats, phone charger, and horoscope star sign. Those are your five words, Ziggy. Let's get producer Julia out and all the very best. Okay, from the sound and Horoscope Star Sign. Those are your five words. Let's get Producer Juliet out
Starting point is 01:01:25 and all the very best. Okay, from the soundproof booth, she emerges springing out there like a jack-in-the-box. Juliet, we're going to get into it quickly. I think you might match up today. Okay. No pressure. Here we go. First word this morning, Producer Juliet, Savalloy.
Starting point is 01:01:42 Sausage. Oh! Yes, well done. Well done. There was a bit of debate over that. Was thereage. Oh, yes. Well done. Well done. There was a bit of debate over that. Was there? Yeah, it was. Yes. Cheerio popped up in the mix, but there you go.
Starting point is 01:01:53 Okay. Golf. Like the sport, golf. Ball? Yes. Well done. Wow. We are two from five.
Starting point is 01:02:06 Slice is the third word this morning. Slice. Not sliced. No, just slice. You can stop breathing, Olivia. We can hear you breathing. I'm going to say bread. Oh, damn it.
Starting point is 01:02:23 We had meat. Oh, sliced meat. Okay. meat. Oh, slash meat. Okay. And our final words this morning. Phone. Bill. Oh, that was a hard one. There were so many options.
Starting point is 01:02:33 Charger. And horoscope we had as well. Horoscope? Yeah, horoscope. Ooh. Star sign? Oh. Three from five.
Starting point is 01:02:40 Not a bad effort there, Olivia. Yeah, not bad, actually. Oh, sorry, Olivia. I think it's okay. You sound like a bubbly human being, Olivia. Yeah, not bad, actually. Oh, sorry, Olivia. I think it's okay. You sound like a bubbly human being, Olivia. I'll tell you what. It is what it is. It's a hard game.
Starting point is 01:02:51 I'm going to give you something, okay, Olivia, and that is... $5,000? Oh, what a generous offer, Johnny. Well done. You've won $5,000. No, we can't do that. That's how it works. Well played.
Starting point is 01:03:09 Listen, she's just fresh back from deep diving in the ocean of celebrity news. She also came out with some undersized crayfish too, which the Ministry of Fisheries won't be happy about. No. But let's not focus on that because, Juliet, what's been happening? So Art and Matilda have welcomed their second child. On Sunday night, Matilda gave birth to a little girl called Autumn
Starting point is 01:03:27 Green, which is quite a cute little fitting name. Beautiful name. I love it how some people are working in the last name to work with the first name. Teresa would have been good too as well. Teresa Green? Yeah. Kanye West did it too with Northwest. Usain Bolt named
Starting point is 01:03:43 one of his twin sons Lightning or Thunder or something like that. We almost did it too with Northwest Usain Bolt named one of his twin sons Lightning or Thunder or something like that we almost did it because Indy her full name is Indiana but we were just
Starting point is 01:03:51 because my mum's last name was actually Jones so we were like oh maybe we should keep my mum's maiden name in there and then we were like
Starting point is 01:03:56 oh Indiana Jones it's not that I didn't like the movies but it's not like I'm a passionate fan of Indiana Jones movies so it's like oh actually no
Starting point is 01:04:03 that probably doesn't quite work true and it also kind of reminds me of Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom their daughter is called Daisy passionate fan of Indiana Jones movies. I was like, oh, actually, no, that probably doesn't quite work. True. And it also kind of reminds me of Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom. Their daughter is called Daisy, so they're like Daisy Bloom. So it's all quite fitting. Sorry, you probably said this, but I was not listening.
Starting point is 01:04:15 I won't lie. Was this their second child? Second child. They've got a son called Milo already, which is very exciting. It's awesome, mate. Congratulations to them. They're awesome people. They're living a farming rural life now, aren't they? Yeah, just north of Auckland, I think they are.
Starting point is 01:04:27 Yeah, good on them. Gigi would be the hottest farmer, wouldn't he? Ah, green. Imagine him out there, bloody. I don't know. What would they be doing? Pulling a calf out of a cow or something. Imagine his hand inside a cow.
Starting point is 01:04:39 How hot he would be. That's quite a conflicting sight to see, wouldn't it be? One half of it would be hot and one half And Britney Spears is going to be addressing the court this afternoon, or in a few hours New Zealand time, during a hearing about her conservatorship and this is the first time that she's addressing the courts by
Starting point is 01:04:55 herself usually because the conservatorship is that her father sort of makes all of her decisions for her, whether that's money finance, like schedule and medical and everything like that. So she's going to be giving her own thoughts on whether she still wants her father as her guardian. But her boyfriend
Starting point is 01:05:11 did post a story on Instagram wearing a free Britney t-shirt and so he's obviously wanting her to stand her ground. This must be why she hasn't publicly said anything, probably because of the courts. Which makes a lot of sense. Why would you do a tell-all interview when you've probably got a legal thing to go through?
Starting point is 01:05:27 Remember when that was all the biggest thing for that one week? And we were all like, free Britney, I'm not going to stop until Britney's freed. And then, well, we all got on with life, didn't we? She's got a court case coming up. Hopefully it works out for her. Tell you what worked out, this segment, Juliette, stellar one. Send that off to the World
Starting point is 01:05:43 Celebrity News Awards. After 8 o'clock on the show, we've got our 90s show tomorrow. We're playing nothing but 90s music. We're talking to 90s stars. We need your help in designing the show, so please help us out. And we've just got a message from someone from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Is it Will Smith? Probably
Starting point is 01:05:59 not. We'll find out after 8. It is the hits. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Just gone eight o'clock on your Thursday morning. Thanks for hanging out with us this morning. Overnight, well, last night, the flag bearers for the Olympics for New Zealand were announced.
Starting point is 01:06:15 So we've got Hamish Bond, a rowing legend, and Sarah Hirani. She is the Black Ferns woman skipper. So a really great honour. Very emotional. She was very emotional on the news last night accepting the, being bestowed the honour. Which is, to be honest, it's an honour. I don't want to take that away from them.
Starting point is 01:06:34 No, that's what someone says when they're about to say something that feels like they could take it away from them. So don't. All it is, is it feels like me, that's extra training they have to do. Holding the pole. It's upper body. It's more upper body training.
Starting point is 01:06:46 But that'd be like saying you're getting a gold medal and you're like, oh, I had to climb up like it was one extra step after my running race to get up to the top of the podium. I know, but they're walking at a painfully slow pace around an Olympic track bend. And they've got to hold the flag steady, the pole steady. It would be a good workout for your arms, wouldn't it? It really would. And that's extra time at the gym,
Starting point is 01:07:05 taking their focus off what they're actually doing. It's a great honour, so well done. I actually did that for the Commonwealth Games for Namibia. Oh, because the kids would come out as well, right? Yeah, no, it wasn't actually part of that. It was the practice round the day before. So they have like a rehearsal, and it was Team Namibia, and some guy got sick of holding the flag so he passed it on to me.
Starting point is 01:07:25 And tell you what, it's an arm workout. You don't factor that in when you see a flag bearer. Everyone's like, oh, isn't it such an honour? It's like, oh, jeez, those arms are pumping. Speaking of an honour, Ben, surprise for you. Guess what? What? The Blackcaps won the World Test Series overnight.
Starting point is 01:07:42 Yeah. You are a cricketing fiend. Yeah, I do like my cricket. He wanders around in nothing but white clothing. He looks like a Backstreet Boy from 1995 permanently. We've got an interview with one of the players live from the UK. Oh, wow. I said to Ben Humphrey,
Starting point is 01:07:57 we need to make this little boy's dream come true to talk to one of his heroes, Colin de Gromholm. Oh, yeah. You happy? Yeah, I'm very happy. I think you should see the smile On his face Try not to smile Like a little child
Starting point is 01:08:08 At Christmas time I want a great life Look at him So the only twist is You have to ask All the questions I write for you No
Starting point is 01:08:13 They're fun questions No they're not The question is How does it feel To be world champion That's fine Is that one of the questions? What's your favourite
Starting point is 01:08:20 Finger on your hand? Who's your favourite Family member? It is the hits I member? It is the hits. I'm Ben. It is the hits. Jono, I'm Ben. Tomorrow we've got a special 90s show.
Starting point is 01:08:32 We're taking the hits back to when it all started in the early 90s, playing nothing but 90s music, talking to 90s stars. It's going to be a lot of fun. Yeah, it was a great period in life, wasn't it? We put down the can of hairspray from the 80s. We were satisfied with the size of the hole in the ozone layer we'd created over that decade and picked up sloppy hair gel. Everyone dousing their head in greasy hair gel.
Starting point is 01:08:53 And we want to play a little game. A bit of a game show. A TV theme tune game show right now. So we do have prizes from the 90s. We've got rollerblades. We've got an eight magic ball that sort of predicts the the future i don't know how many important life decisions were made off that magic we've got a walkman uh with alanis morrissey because we've got some 90s prizes so we'll pick out something for the winner of this game so give us a call right now we've got some
Starting point is 01:09:18 as i say it's all based around tv shows from the 90s okay oh 800 that hits the telephone number we've got gary on from auckland you can be contested, number one. Gary, welcome to the program. How are you? The program? The program, yeah. How's your 90s knowledge, Gary? It's pretty good. Yeah, great. I was born long before
Starting point is 01:09:38 it. That's great. So it was in the middle of your life. Love it. And Nicole is who you're going to be competing against this morning. Morning, Nicole. how are you? Good, thanks. A little bit sick, but we're good. Oh, you do sound clogged up. Yeah. Not the rona, but we're alright. Not the rona.
Starting point is 01:09:54 Never want the rona. Okay, so what we're going to do, we're going to start off with a TV theme tune from the 90s and just say yell out if you know it. I think we'll be able to pick your voices hopefully. So here it is. Have a listen. First to guess the answer, this TV show from the 90s and just say a yell out if you know it. I think we'll be able to pick your voices hopefully. So here it is. Have a listen. First to guess the answer, this TV show from the 90s.
Starting point is 01:10:15 Can't even hear it. Gary can't hear it. He's hard of hearing. Nicole, what do you think it is? I'm struggling with that one actually Okay, well You two could possibly be the worst contestants We could have got on for this show
Starting point is 01:10:30 I love it, Beverly Hills 90210 It's always hard to hear down the phone line No runs on the board so far So listen, are you familiar with this story All about how a guy's life got flipped Turned upside down, he was playing some basketball On a court with some guys who were up to no good This sounds very familiar Now this is a story all about how Guy's life got flipped, turned upside down. He was playing some basketball on a corner with some guys who were up to no good. Okay, well, here's the thing.
Starting point is 01:10:45 This sounds very familiar. Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down. Oh, they said it in sync. One apiece. In sync and ironically another band from the 90s, a group from the 90s. Nice. Okay, here's the next one. You got it, dude.
Starting point is 01:11:02 What was that? The iconic saying, you got it, dude, little girl with the thumbs up. What show was that from? Oh, crap. The House. It was overcrowded. It was. Someone say it.
Starting point is 01:11:13 Full House. Yeah. 2-1 to Nicole. Here is the clincher. This is Match Point. Pivot. Pivot. Pivot.
Starting point is 01:11:24 Pivot. Friends. Pivot. Pivot. Pivot. Pivot. Pivot. Pivot. Friends. Oh, well done. Gary, she has picked you up and wiped the floor with you this morning. I'm sorry, my friend.
Starting point is 01:11:36 That's all good. Yeah. It's all about the taking part, not the winning. Oh, what a great attitude. We're going to send you guys both something from our 90s collection of stuff. No, Gary clearly didn't win. He's even conceded, saying it's not about the winning, and then you're trying to make him a winner.
Starting point is 01:11:50 All right. I won't be sending you anything at all, Gary. This is my co-host. Winning in life, Paul. He's winning in life. Okay. That's what I meant. He doesn't want to walk him in from 1995.
Starting point is 01:11:59 He's already winning. Okay. And he clearly said, it's fine, I lost. All right. Ben all trying to make everyone a winner. Alright, well thank you anyway. We'll grab the Coles details from you. And actually, speaking of 90s
Starting point is 01:12:12 TV shows, we just got a message through from someone who was on one of the shows we just talked about before, Fresh Prince of Balea, Carlton. The guy who played Carlton, have a listen to this. Hey Jono and Ben from New Zealand, Alfonso Ribeiro here. I guess some would say y'all know me as Carlton have a listen to this hey Jono and Ben from New Zealand Alfonso Ribeiro here I guess some would say y'all know me as as uh Carlton from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air I
Starting point is 01:12:31 understand you guys are having a 90s party well come on you gotta have a 90s party and you could be dancing like Carlton all day long y'all gonna hurt a little bit so have a great 90s party y'all wonderful and we had Fran Drescher yesterday Another internationally famous person Wishing us well they've heard about the show That's awesome It's almost like we've paid these people a lot of money To pretend that they know what we're doing
Starting point is 01:12:55 And who we are It's hard to say Let's just say like Gary said we're all winners in life I'm about to fly Live free So excited that this is back Live free the travel auditions in life. I'm about to live free. So excited that this is back. Live Free, the travel edition.
Starting point is 01:13:11 Thanks to South Australian Tourism on the hits. Now, we've got Tracy on the phone. Guess what, Tracy? Yay, I'm in the drawer. No, no. We'd like to put the people that are not in the drawer on the air. It's a weird system. Makes it awkward for everyone, right? Yeah, but the person who is in the drawer is not going to come on here. We just put you on here to tell you you didn't make the cut.
Starting point is 01:13:29 No, you are in the draw. I am querying it in staff meetings. No, you are in the draw. Congratulations, you're in the draw. A chance to win a $5,000 travel voucher tomorrow. Fantastic. We've got family over there. It'll be really nice to go and see them.
Starting point is 01:13:42 Thank you. And you can sip wine in Barossa or go houseboating on the Murray River to Adelaide. You can get all the details about South Australian tourism at the Hits.co.nz. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys weekdays from
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