Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: When You Accidentally Wear A G-String As A Face Mask...

Episode Date: February 15, 2022

We talked about beauty disasters and Allison phoned up with a hilarious story from when she went to get a full body massage. After Zoi Sadowski-Synnott's silver medal win yesterday, we spoke to her now-famous dad, Sean Synnott to see if he swore again live on the news. Hint, he did! Finally, we discussed the threats you give as a parent and whether you actually followed through with any of them! Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, podcast today, it's the 16th of February, you wouldn't read about, well I actually did just read about it off a computer screen. Who are you waving it at out the window? Emily, our boss mate. Oh, Emily Hancocks, new to the management structure here at The Hits, she's just come in for the day. A lot of masks being worn around the building. Yeah, a lot of masks being worn in general. Actually on the podcast today we had one of the best calls we've ever had before on a bit of a mask mishap.

It was a huge mask mishap. Like, you wouldn't get a bigger one. No. And it was witnessed by another human being, which is the most embarrassing part of the story. What this lady was wearing is a mask. Well, wow you. A little feature. You're wearing an N95.

You've got an N95. I've got an N95. I've got a very short supply of it. They're hard to get. Hard to get. The old N95s. It's very short supply of it they're hard to get hard to get the old N95s it's amazing how it's become a sort of

you know a thing you sort of go you sort of look at other people's masks there you go through various stages in your life it was like when you had kids

it was kind of like with the buggy for a while you're like oh what are they I've got a Philintenna okay you know

you're running a Philintenna you've got the old coffee holder okay nice nice you know it becomes you know and it becomes you know

two things in your life you'll probably have a midlife crisis at some stage you'll be like oh John I see a Lamborghini I see you know

that sort of thing I appreciate that you think I'd be driving a Lamborghini no I was going to say you know a Chrysler but haven't you got a Chrysler no I had a Chrysler

you're such not a car I had a Chrysler like two years ago oh sorry he's so not a car guy I don't know what you've got yeah you just drive you're. I don't know.

You just drive. You're happy in your hood. You know it gets you from A to B. It does, exactly. Sensible car. Practical, sensible. Plenty of boot space. Yeah.

You're right. Yeah, but no, you are. You've got mask envy with some people. I haven't upgraded to the N95 yet because I feel this is just a huge conspiracy by mask manufacturers. Well, the government are in on it, though, aren't they? Heck, yeah. They are.

They are in on it. Yeah. And you've heard about Clark. I'll start those rumours, mate. Boomer rumours. We want to start that segment, Boomer Rumours, but you're a bit worried that we need someone to present them to us. Well, yeah.

You can't just go like a Boomeroomer and, I don't know. There's some great boomer-oomers around the government. So much misinformation. You talk about misinformation out there. Well, boomer-oomers. They must circle back round to Clark and Jacinda and it must be an eye-roll situation. Yeah. They're like, how has this whispering situation

turned out to be this? Yeah. I'd love rumours about me. Start some rumours about me, Ben. If you want to. Do you want some rumours about you? Yes. Tell everyone I'm driving a Lamborghini. I was trying to be this. Yeah. I'd love rumours about me. Start some rumours about me, Ben. If you want to. Do you want some rumours about you? Yes. Tell everyone I'm driving a Lamborghini. I was trying to do that. I was a Chrysler, but you didn't like that one.

You were very quick to put the rumour correct. Yeah. Chrysler said, you know, I did buy a Chrysler and I looked like driving and I felt like, you know,

the leader of the Comancheros or something. Right. It was a cool looking car, but it was shocking mechanically. Oh, really? And then I went online and since found out that Chrysler is the butt of all American automotive jokes. Really? Chrysler, yeah. Oh, see, I'm a right car person, wouldn't I?

Yeah, you wouldn't. Oh, it looked like a nice car. Yeah, no, if I can give you any advice. Yeah. Anyway, today on the podcast, we were joined by Benny, who helped us out with our 28 good deeds over 28 days. She took time out from taking over the world and hanging out in a bleak boardroom with us

to Zoom two children who got a huge surprise, two of our biggest fans in New Plymouth. So that's on the program today. Have a great Wednesday. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. My dad was staying probably a couple of weeks ago, and he's a big fan of the Beatles. Kevin Boyce has dragged you along to,

what are you dragging on, Bob Dylan or something? He's at the concert. At Mount Smart Stadium, and you said it was the bleakest nine hours of your life. You said the concert dragged on. Dylan didn't even talk to anyone. Not a single word to anyone. Did not even know, how are you going?

And then look at the back of his guitar to see what cities he's in Auckland Yeah not even in Auckland So we could go Yeah I've been to a lot of cities Around the world

But you guys are the loudest And the best None of that None of that No banter No talk Did Kevin like the concert Or was he like

Even he was a little bit like You know like he didn't Obviously he's a huge fan Of Bob Dylan But Bob Dylan played A lot of his new music I think that was the thing He didn't play obviously he's a huge fan of Bob Dylan, but Bob Dylan played a lot of his new music. I think that was the thing. He didn't play the, you know, he wanted the old classics.

Yeah, the old Hurricane. I don't know any other Bob Dylan songs. Yeah. So my dad was up and we started watching the Beatles documentary. And now Sir Peter Jackson put this together. So if you haven't seen it, well, you probably haven't got, you've had eight hours of your life, you'll never get back you said yesterday, it was like

watching the Beatles career in real time don't get me wrong they are incredible and it's really fascinating to see them come up because they've got 21 days to come up with this album and so they're in the studio jamming but it's basically, it feels like it's in real time them coming up with the album

it felt like 21 days watching the documentary. But still, at the same time, you're like, oh my God, there's the start of this amazing song that turns out to be a hit. And all the sort of stuff they're going through. The creative process they found interesting, but the whole thing's eight hours. Wow. I'm like, Sir Peter Jackson, just send that down a little bit. Mind you, he paid millions and millions of dollars for the footage, eh? He probably didn't need it.

He just released it. He's like, I paid for this, so you can watch it all uh so it was a hard day's night watching this watching this documentary and tell me is it just like a camera like a fly on the wall sort of situation they just seem to have a couple of cameras in there with them just sort of watching them do their job yeah it just sort of you're like you you watch them come up with songs but they haven't got the lyrics yet so they're kind of just sort of mumbling that and i found that quite interesting or go well that changed to this somewhere along the line you know these lyrics changed out imagine if we had cameras just

filming us watching us so you're just like being clearing some emails julia editing some so me wiping down the bench for dead old wipes but it's uh yeah it is the parts of it is really fascinating it's called get back but i thought you know because it's named get back after one of their songs so i thought it was more appropriate beetle songs they could have called it uh maybe the long and winding road oh now you have your little jams in it are you it could be that could have been called yesterday because that's when you start watching it and then you finish it the next day when here comes the sun and finally you're still watching it when you're 64.

So there's some other options they could have gone. But yeah, as I say, fascinating, but very long. And in three minutes, there's any chance of us ever interviewing Peter Jackson. Out the window. I love Peter Jackson. Don't take it. Don't take it. I love Peter Jackson.

I've watched all the Lord of the Rings movies. I've watched The Hobbit. I love, you know, the frighteners. You name it. love Sir Peter J I've watched all the Lord of the Rings movies I've watched The Hobbit I love you know The Frighteners You know it I love it I've watched this I'm committed to this

I'm just saying Sir Pete Just shorten it down Just a little bit Just a little bit I mean it felt like 10 years Watching Lord of the Rings He loves the long haul Jono and Ben

On the hits Now the Humble Yum Yum podcast You can get it right now On iHeartRadio, hosted by Ganesh Raj, you know, from Eat Well for Less. He interviews celebrities, they delve into food, family and fame, and this week he's got a Kim Crossman actor, which will be awesome. Yeah, you can catch it on iHeartRadio, as Ben said.

And if you want to win a $200 countdown voucher, they're proud supporters of the Humble Yum Yum. $0.800 the hits right now, because we're going to get into strange, crazy combos. Condiment combos. So maybe you like, I don't know, mustard and compost. You could suggest that. 0800 the hits. We've got a $200 countdown voucher.

But right now, you can always smell what The Rock is cooking, but we've never smelt what this man is cooking. Because radio has yet to create that sensory experience. It's Ganesh Raj. Good morning. Hey, Jono. How are you, bud, on this beautiful, beautiful morning? cooking because radio is yet to create that sensory experience it's Ganesh Raj good morning hey John how are you but on this beautiful beautiful morning um I'm feeling sluggish Ganesh uh what happened bro I had too much white bread last night and it's oh yeah well tell me this though if you had all that white bread what what did you have it with? Just like butter.

Ganesh, he's even like super thick cut white bread as well, too. I mean, nothing's whiter than Jono, but then you add the bread that he enjoys as well. Here's what's happening right now, Jono, and I say this with the deepest of love. You're going through some pain. I am. Do you know I actually made a fish finger sandwich with that white bread as well?

That's all right. At least a fish finger sandwich. That is delicious. Did you put tomato sauce on it? Did I what? And doused it. Doused it in mayonnaise. I am also blessed with that horrible,

horrible combination. A love for it. A deep love for it. It is. It's wonderful. You don't know what you're eating, but you're enjoying it and don't question it. A deep love for it. It is. It's wonderful. You don't know what you're eating, but you're enjoying it and don't question it.

Ganesh, Humble Yum Yum podcast back this week. Thanks to Countdown. The interesting question we've had come through on the text 4487 is, what are the best

condiment combos? Someone's wondering from you. The condi bows, if you will. Condi bows? Yeah. I'll bring some interesting condi bows to the table because you said it that way.

It's a cool way to say it. We should say it that way from now on. Condi bows. Condi bows. Condi bows. This person suggested mayonnaise with pesto. Pesto mayonnaise combo. You can see that.

Because I've done like a pesto pasta with cream and added mayonnaise to it, and it is delicious. It actually makes it a little bit creamier, a touch of sweetness, quite silken. Mayo is quite a good, so you can see it in the reverse, can't you? Yeah, you can see that working. Are there some that you try that they

just don't match? Well, I mean, I've had some, I want to bring you some things that do might be quite interesting. Strawberries and balsamic vinegar. What? I've heard of that. Oh, I've had strawberries in a salad with balsamic vinegar.

So yeah, I can see that working. Yeah. Yeah. And like the other one, which is quite amazing. And this is great for a summer smoothie and you can add whatever you want into it, alcohol included.

Blueberries and pepper and coconut water. You crazy. You crazy. That's what I'm here for, bro. That is what I'm here for. But, yeah, those are some cool combos. People have done salted cold fruit is quite popular in Asia and Mexico, like cold mango and stuff.

It'll have like chili powder on it and some salt. Here's some other ones that have come through. Banana sliced in a can of spaghetti. That's out of control. Hang that phone up. Ganesh Raj from the humble, yummy, I mean, catch it on iHeartRadio right now. Thanks to Countdown who sponsored the show. We've got a $200 voucher for your crazy combos,

your condibo, Megan and Tokoroa. What have you got? Did you say spaghetti? Oh, someone said banana and spaghetti on 4487 on the text. What are you chucking forward? Banana and tuna. Oh, Jesus. On what?

What are you putting that on? On toast. Oh, Jesus. On what? What are you putting that on? On toast. Oh, my God. Is this one out of necessity, out of taste? Why? I don't know. It just gives it like a sweet kind of a fish taste. A sweet fish taste.

I've always wanted my bananas to taste fish here. All right, we're going to give you $200. That's a spend it countdown so you can buy some more bananas. Oosh. Oosh to you as well, Megan. Thank you, guys. See you, mate. No worries.

Can't get a tow truck in Wellington. That's what the police are finding out at the moment. We'll tell you why next on the Hats. Jono and Ben. Thanks for hanging out with us on New Zealand's Breakfast. We appreciate it. And tell you what, since we've been at this radio station, Ben,

I've noticed a few adjustments in the type of products we get sent. You know, one of the joys of being a low-level commercial radio announcer is you get sent an abundance of, you know, franchise T-shirts. You know, a lot of Whopper, you know, Big Burger King Whopper T-shirts and, you know, Check Out my Big Mac T-shirts. So many T-shirts. I think I've got a T-shirt for every single one of the Fast and Furious movies. All 39 of them.

But that was in a different life. You know, we were at another radio station. Now I've noticed we get sent just lovely, exquisite things like candles. We got sent some candles yesterday. Hang on, is this because you don't really have Instagram? Are you doing an influencer bit on us? Are you trying to get your candle plug in there? Hashtag gifted, hashtag it.

Is this what this is? Segway it into the show. I was actually going to do the opposite and say candles. These are lovely candles. Don't get me wrong. They're scrumptious. It feels like heaven has invaded my nostrils smelling them. But when you give a candle to someone, you don't care me wrong they're scrumptious it feels like heaven has invaded my nostrils smelling them uh but when you give a candle to someone you don't care about that person i love a candle i know you do but it seems the present is like i couldn't think of anything else

i know what you mean here's a kid it's a stock standard because candles are expensive like it's one of those things that are amazing to have and you want to have them but you don't you know paying 50 bucks for a candle, sometimes you're like, someone buys it for you. You're like, great. It's one thing I don't have to spend my money on. But then you end up with so many candles because so many people don't know what to get you.

But then you light them. Like I got one yesterday and it's great because my last candles are pretty much down the edge. Putting a candle in the bathroom is a really good little thing. Yeah. Ben Boyce loves a bubble bath in a candle. We used to be the candle show remember we're the candle show at the rock uh people were judging well because you had to go

you'd hang out in a room and it was just boys at the time a lot of testosterone in this studio come into the studio and go oh you know when you someone opens the door in the morning and people have been sleeping in there and stuff like that it's kind of like a teenage boy's bedroom and so we're like i don't want that i don't want people to go, oh, they come in. So you have guests coming in the studio. So I was like, we've got to light a candle every day, guys.

Yeah, wonderful Akoya candle. You know, like vanilla bean and soy and hemp or something. And it was just, it was gorgeous. People loved it. They did love it. They pretended they couldn't

love it. Publicly, they couldn't say they were enjoying it, but we know. We could tell. Those are some happy noses. Next, we're going to delve into a saying, something that all of us, one of these sayings that we all use, but why do we use them?

Can't have your cake and eat it too. Which feels like, why have you gone to the trouble of purchasing a cake? Yeah, if you're not going to eat it. We're going to find out why this is a saying and what does it mean in just a few moments. This is something we like to do from time to time called What Do You Mean? where we look at a saying that we all seem to say and you just say it and then you kind of go, well, where did this come from and what does it actually mean?

Well, someone in the office said, hey, yesterday, you can't have your cake and eat it too. And this was ironically as we were celebrating Producer B Humps' birthday as well. And we were, well we had the cake and we ate it as well. So what is stopping you after you've gone to the cheesecake shop? Why can't you eat that cake?

Yeah, it seems like... $36, $40 worth of a big cake. One of those nice rainbow ones they've got. Isn't that the point? Isn't that the point of having your cake? Like, isn't it to get your cake and then eat it as well? That saying has always confused me. I'm like, why is it? What is the actual meaning of it?

Not the origin, but like, what situation are you saying it in? You're like, oh, you can't do this and that at the same time? Well, I think, we always have a silly guess, but I'll go straight to what I think. I think it's basically along the lines of once you've eaten your cake, it's gone. So you can't have any more. That's what I

think it is. You can't have any more. I interpret it as you can't be greedy. Like, if you want your cake and you want to eat it too, you want two things, but no, you just have one one You know what I mean Yes you're right and here there's other versions of it In Albania There's the proverb

You can't take a swim and not get wet So there's Repercussions for your actions There's the German version Which says you can't dance to two weddings at the same time Because you're like Unless they had a four person wedding And then you're like German version which says you can't dance at two weddings at the same time. Oh. Unless they had a four-person wedding and then you're like...

There's a half-hearted dancer you were doing there. You couldn't see it on radio, but yeah. Okay, so we get to guess the origins of you can't have your cake and eat it too. Put your bets forward there, Ben Boyce. I think it started with a cleaner

who was cleaning the male bathrooms and it had to do with urinal cake. Someone else was like, oh, that looks tasty. He's like, oh no, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Don't eat the urinal cake. Because yeah,

I don't know if you've ever seen a urinal cake, but you should do that. They are the tastiest looking of all the cakes. I don't even know what you meant. It's a little round bit of soap That you put at the bottom of your rhino

Usually blue coloured Like a little circular thing And it sort of keeps it, you know I don't know, it doesn't It kind of mixes the soapy odour With the other odour The ammonia that's Burning your nostrils

Unusual, but anyway, urinal cakes from time to time. Don't eat the urinal cake. You can't have your cake and eat it too. It was a safety precaution. I'm going to say someone was running a cake museum. Oh, yeah. And they're like, well, mate, you can't buy all these cakes and they don't want to display if you're eating them.

Then what are people coming to look at? Oh, so you can't have your cake museum. To be honest, I was reaching on that. I couldn't find a decent reason. But looking here. Okay, here we go. The origin of you can't have your cake and eat it too. The oldest known reference of it was in a letter from a duke to some guy called Thomas Cromwell in 1538.

And he just said you can't have your cake and eat it. Two. And Thomas probably went, what are you talking about? Yeah, very unusual saying. He's like, that urinal cake there, make sure you don't eat it, buddy. And we still use it to this day. We've got some spy entertainment news on the way. Kim and Kanye. Oh, the drama is real and I'm addicted to it.

We'll touch on that next. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz When we gossip, we gossip hard. And Juliet, let's do some hard out gossip. So this is some good gossip. Have you guys been following the

Kanye West situation that's been going on? I haven't been able to not follow it. For the last three weeks, it's been slowly building up, almost like a volcano that's been threatening to erupt. And over the last three days. So basically, Kim Kardashian is now dating Pete Davidson. And Kanye has publicly announced, and for the last wee while, that he's desperate to get Kim back.

And he thinks that he has a chance to get her back. And he's really going in on Pete Davidson. He's screenshotting texts that he's sent. And it feels like that a lot of this conversation could happen maybe over email. Yes. He's doing it all very publicly. Like what famous person

or normal person would publicly on social media you know, hate on the new boyfriend, you know? But the question

that I have and I think Jennifer says he's had a girlfriend until like yesterday Kanye West. Yeah. How is she feeling

through this whole thing? I know. She did actually release a statement saying, I had love for Kanye, but I wasn't in love with him, so it's not a big deal type thing. Yeah, he flew me to Paris. We had a great time. Yeah, but if you're publicly professing your love for someone else,

even for Kim to go, hang on, aren't you with someone? Yeah. She's just something. It's probably a rebound, yeah. Or maybe a way to make Kim jealous. What was I to you, Kanye? Yeah, but he posted texts from Kim basically saying,

please stop, there are some scary people out there and someone could get hurt. It's scary but it doesn't have to be. So then he posted that screenshot on Instagram being like, nobody hurt Pete Davidson. And then he posted another text with Kim Kardashian being like, I told everyone not to hurt Pete. And she's like, why are you posting our text publicly on Instagram?

And I was literally constantly refreshing Kanye West's feed on Instagram yesterday. I've turned on post notifications because I don't want to miss anything. He sent her a giant truck full of roses I saw. Yeah, for Valentine's Day. 10,000 roses. And then Pete sent Khloe Kardashian a bunch of flowers. Maybe he's sending them to all of the Kardashians. And so what happens to the truck?

Was the truck just left at the gate? I don't know, actually. It was just photographed driving down the street. Did they drop off the flowers or not? Well, I would assume so. Here's a truck and some flowers? Well, maybe. Who knows?

A truckload of flowers? So, I don't know. Everyone's kind of Living for this But also Kanye might be He does have bipolar So he might be He might be needing Some help as well

Well I saw someone Had gone You know Kanye's off his meds Someone needs to help him And then he Screenshotted that And said

Just because I'm Speaking my mind Doesn't mean I'm Off my meds Which is another Good point And he writes in Like aggressive caps locks

Like Jono does sometimes And so you read it as if he's shouting. He just can't figure it out. I know. He can't figure it out. He's over 40. He can't figure out how to get a caps lock off. That's true.

I sympathise. And that is your spy update for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Just after seven, the police's latest threats towards the protesters will have their afternoon sport and weather on The Hits. The Hits. The protests outside Parliament, day nine now, and yesterday the police commissioner was talking about towing the cars

because there were cars outside Parliament blocking streets and roads, but then he was struggling to find tow truck drivers that would actually tow the cars. Vehicles that are towed will be seized and will not necessarily be returned to the owners immediately. We have, from the outset of this, had very great reluctance from tow operators to support us in clearing this situation. So part of what we'd like to do today is to appeal to those who are tow operators to come

forward and help us. And they did come forward and said, we're not going to help you. And so then they didn't tow the car. No, they're still there, right? I mean, you were saying, why don't we just turn the front of Parliament into a top 10 holiday park? Get one of those jumping pillows, you know. Those are awesome. Let's make it a little bit of a fun.

It's a campground. I've been camping before and the novelty wears off. It's a one to two day experience for me. Well, these people have gone on. Day nine. Yeah, it's commitment. Yeah, they really are. But every time we talk about this on radio, Ben, you get flooded

with complaints. I signed up to Messenger and I'm part of the admin for the Jono and Ben Facebook page. And I got in trouble yesterday for saying everyone was rolling around in feces. Yeah, which is not true. It's not true. But I don't know who to believe. Because every time I say that, they're like, no, it's good vibes down here, everything's great.

And then I hear Jacinda going, they're feral they've all got you they're all who do you believe yeah who do you believe but anyway but we're saying the police though it's kind of like a it's almost like the threats that your parents would make yeah we're gonna tow the cars and then they're like okay tow the cars and well they haven't that's the thing I reckon today they might come out with uh i'm gonna count to five and when i get to five i probably don't know what i'm gonna do that's the thing just don't hope i get to five uh they're just desperate they're desperate so uh we wanted to open up uh parental threats and there are some wonderful threats that do happen i saw one yesterday outside school

a little boy was climbing up in a tree, and he was loving that tree. And the mum said, come on, we're going now. He said, no, we're not. I'm loving this tree. So she's like, well, I'm leaving you here, which is a big call. Then you do get off into the sort of the protesters' police territory here. She's walking down the road. You hit the 20-meter mark.

You're like, I can't leave my child in the tree. It's shocking parenting if I leave a kid in a tree. He I can't leave my child in the tree. It's shocking parenting if I leave a kid in a tree. He knows that. He's up in the tree. He's like, she's never going to leave me. So it's a standoff then. And it's an empty threat. It's a wonderful day in your child career when you realise there's no

follow through. There's literally although your parents had a follow through. Yeah, we were in the United States. In LA. Yeah, so I in the United States. In LA, right? Yeah, so I must have been about 10. My brother would have been about 13. And my brother was being obviously quite annoying to mum and dad. And we'd just gone out for dinner.

It was dark. He was being super annoying. And mum and dad were like, right, we'll leave you out on the street if you don't stop. And he kept on going. And so they were like, yep, get out. And he's like, what? This is in America. Foreign country.

Foreign country. It's pitch black. They left's like, what? And they're like, get out. This is in America. Foreign country. Foreign country. It's pitch black. They left him in a park and they drove off. And I remember thinking, oh my goodness, my brother's going to get kidnapped. And so they just went around the block

and put an E, but I could never do that. I bet up the front there were some side eyes between the parents. Oh, we actually do this? Yeah. Oh God, what have we done?

Like, it would have been a great play for your brother just to jump in a guy's van. Oh, my God. He's like, I'll teach them. I'll get myself kidnapped. Okay, so 0800 the hits for 4487 on the text. Standard SMS charges do apply.

But the threats that your parents made towards you, the parental threats, or maybe you make towards your kids, that are probably never going to happen. Yeah, whether they followed through or didn't, we'd love to get your parental threats on here this morning. 0800 the hits, as Ben said, 4487 standard SMS charges apply. You got it. Jono and Ben on a hiss. We're talking threats that your parents will make

and often they're ones they don't really follow through. Yeah, one of my favourite ones is, we'll take that back to the shop you know something you know if you've got a uh a toy that you really love is the three will tell you so no well you know you're not going to take it back to the shop and given you know the shop's refund policy they're not going to give you a refund for a bike that we've had for six months you're not going to take it back to them you know so you've got to put it in the boot okay it's never going to happen yeah sometimes it can be threats as well too Not always in a bad way

Eat the crust, you'll get hairs on your chest I've eaten so many crusts You've got nothing on your chest Smooth as a baby's bottom on that chest He's got a baby's bottom chest And I'm like, come on Come on crust, it's your thing But it's another threat from my parents

Fiona, you're on from Auckland Great to have you on Parental threats But it doesn't, you know, it's another threat from my parents. It never worked. Fiona, you're on from Auckland, Morena. Hi. Great to have you on. Parental threats. Yeah, well, my eldest son was about five. He wasn't tidying up his bedroom. So I told him that all the toys were going to go in the bin. And he still didn't do it.

So I put all his toys in a bin bag. There was about five, six bin bags. Put them out on bin day. What? Yeah, put them out on bin day. But went and got them before the bin men came round and hid them in the shed so my son thought that the bin men had taken them

and then every time he was good I'd go and get one and say that the bin men had brought it back to me oh jeez some beautiful mind effing going on there that's a great point nowadays because they've got playstations I take the power lead for their phones

and for their PlayStations. I take the power lead. So they've got to work out how they're going to use it and the phones, how much they're going to use. You are sadistic and I love it, Fiona. Genius, genius. We'll send you out some hell pizza, mate. You hold there.

Thank you very much. Great to have you on. Joining us on 0800 The Hits right now is Michaela. Now, Michaela, your mum followed through. What happened? Oh, my brother, a bit older than me, so I was probably about six. He would have been about 12. And he really wanted this little toy car from the warehouse.

Yeah. And told me to put it in my pocket while we walked around. And then my mum found out as we walked out the store, walked back in, made them call the police and they did a fake charge on me. There's a lot of information here.

So you obviously had the Matchbox car in your pocket and it beeped at the scanner when you were walking out. Yeah, they had the little stickers on the back of them. Oh, fatal mistake. Oh no. And your brother set you up. Yeah, so had the little stickers on the back of them. Oh, fatal mistake. Oh no.

And your brother set you up. Yeah, so I got in trouble. He got in trouble. They took us upstairs into like a formal meeting room in the warehouse and had the police come and it was like a full interrogation.

They take Matchbox car theft very seriously. And so did the police not have anything better to do that day? Probably not. Did you end up on the straight and narrow after that? Was that the thing you were like oh jeez that police thing really pulled me into line? I don't know if it worked for my brother

but it probably did for me. I had a situation happen to me when one of my kids was really little pushing around a push chair through a shop and i didn't realize because they're at that sort of level you just grab something like and i think it was like a drink bottle whatever and i didn't realize because you're just pushing around the shop you can't see when until i was out of the shop and i was like oh no and i had to go back and give back the drink bottle but you felt i felt like a shoplifter that got remorse you know like like, yeah, sure, your daughter took this from the push chair.

I'm like, yeah, I just want to give this back. You're like, yeah, sure, buddy. I love it that the thief got remorse from stealing a drink bottle. I can never drink out of this without tasting the guilt. Michaela, we'll send you out some hell pizza, eh? Yeah, choice. Someone's text in 4487 as well. The old, I'm going to count to three,

which is both equal parts terrifying for the child and the parent, because neither know what's going to happen after three. Parent doesn't want to get called out when they hit three. Parental threats. Thank you so much for your calls and texts this morning. Within the next 15 minutes,

your chance to win $5,000. It is a hit. You've got it, John. I'm Ben. Scrolling through your feed. He's nine months pregnant and about to give birth to another beautiful news baby. Ben Boyce, give it a big push. Well, yesterday afternoon, another great moment for New Zealand at the Winter Olympics. Zoe Sadowski-Sinnett, just 20 years old, now has, after yesterday, she got a silver.

She got the gold about a week earlier and a bronze in the last Olympics. Incredible. Like you say, so young, and she's going to be our Snow Lisa Carrington. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, isn't she? She's probably got another 10 years worth of medals ahead of her. Exactly. At the least.

Although she could just retire now and have a whole other career and have still plenty of years to do that Yeah Get a sensible accounting job or something I've got three medals I've got that And now I'm doing something else You know she could do that

Incredible So we spoke to her father Sean Sinnott Who's become our hero as well I mean New Zealand was on tenderhooks yesterday Not only for Zoe But also what Sean was going to say live on the news We were all in anticipation. Yeah, now if you missed it, you probably haven't missed it, to be honest.

It's been all over social media. This was Sean after she won gold. This was him live on News Hub. The only thing I looked for was Illume's reaction. She was f***ing crazy. She's been off the roof. I'm pretty f***ing

excited. It was so much joy there. Wonderful live interview there. Yeah, so that was him a week ago. We spoke to him, as you said before, yesterday. Yeah, we wanted to do a bit of an experiment with Sean. We wanted to talk to him pre-Zoe competing, and then we'll talk to him again this morning after the

race. So this was him 24 hours ago. Your daughter's pretty awesome. Yeah, she's pretty freaking awesome, right? Okay, Seanie. That's how he started. Yeah, she's pretty frickin' awesome, right? Okay, shorty. That's how he started. Yeah, so he didn't swear? No.

It was good? And then he had a long lunch, he said. And then appeared on the project last night. Live again. At seven. Hey, Zoe.

You've made us all proud. What a magnificent achievement. Two f***ing gold medals. So we're going to catch up with Sean Sitter after eight o'clock this morning uh and talk about what went uh what went right and what went wrong and what did he have for lunch yeah that's after eight o'clock this morning and just quickly a guy got a tattoo in Ireland uh and he wanted a tattoo that was in you know he's got some Irish ancestry he wanted something in Gaelic um he had a cross, a Gaelic cross,

and underneath had a saying that the tattoo artist told him meant, you will forever be in my heart, which was lovely. Then he didn't realise until later that someone else who could read Gaelic said it read, may I go to the toilet, is what it said. So now he has a tattoo that doesn't say what he thought it said. Well, it's polite. Like, if he's not in an English-speaking part of Ireland, he can just hold his arm out. Oh, yes, just over there.

Your dad was singing a song for many years. He got taught it when he was travelling through Europe, in Spain, and he thought it was something else. And he was basically saying that he was an a-hole when he was singing it. His people had taught him the song, and Dad had been happily going around singing it for decades. Kevin Boyce has 50 songs that he can pull out and sing at a party, and this wonderful Spanish ditty was one of them.

Basically he was talking about how much of an idiot he was. And he was an idiot for not fact-checking that song. The Hits, Jono and Ben. There are rare occasions in my relationship where I get, when I'm in the right. There are rare occasions. You've got to take those wins, don't you? Yeah.

And yesterday I had a win. I had a win. I'd said something. My wife said the opposite. It wasn't like, it was just like, oh, I said this thing. She said the other thing. It wasn't a heated discussion or anything. But it turned out when my wife.

I like it when you talk about your heated discussions. It wasn't heated was just like i'm like oh no this thing and she's like it was room temperature yeah she thought the opposite she went down to do the thing and it turned out i was right the whole time what i said was correct so this should have been a great day for me it should have been a great day you should revel in that glory yeah yeah stand up on your ivory tower my friend so i was in the car where my wife called up and she was like and she called up and she was like she started things off with like she's like hold your tongue hold your tongue but you were right and that's what she said so on this occasion she was acknowledging that i was right but also not giving me the opportunity to go away oh yeah well you know so you know so i had to hold my tongue in this instance uh and then we

got into the combo and I finished the call. But what I didn't, what I didn't realize in the back when I started talking to my kids. Did you hold your tongue? Well, no, I was talking to my kids in the back. And then I was talking to an Indy who's in the backseat. I couldn't really see as she was driving. Was talking kind of funny back to me. And I was like, it's sounding strange.

I was like, what's going on? She's like, mum said to hold my tongue. So when can I stop holding my tongue? And it makes you realise that sometimes kids. It's the latest protection against Omicron. They have to walk around with your tongue in your hand. But kids take stuff literally, you know, and it's one of those things as a kid. You're like, well, of course, mum said hold my tongue.

Why would I not hold my tongue? Well, lucky it wasn't like the cat's got your tongue. Because I'm always like, who's put their tongue that close to a cat to enable the cat to then grab it either with their mouth or their claws? Are you licking a cat? And I was like, well, I had a look last night and I was like, oh, that's what some other sayings that people shouldn't take literally. And there's plenty of them out there.

Throw someone under the bus. You know, you're like, oh, they're throwing me under the under the bus yeah that's a murder charge right there yeah fighting fire with fire another one you shouldn't take literally because you're adding more fire to the fire and yeah the fire service wouldn't be as successful nearly as successful if that was their plan fight it with water yeah that's always a good option with fire uh cost an arm and a leg uh another one you shouldn't take literally unless you're in Thailand well yeah you can sell your kidneys and your bits and pieces

same with give me a hand you're like well literally you're not going to take that one can I pick your brain is another one you do say that yeah at work

you're like can I pick your brain for a moment you do that literally you're like ugh and the last one is well I'm dying to find out you know another saying

again you shouldn't take literally you just got taken with a grain of salt and Ben I'd like you take literally. You just got taken with a grain of salt. And Ben, I'd like you to go out to the kitchen and find a grain of salt. Sift through it. There's one of those Cerebos containers there, my friend. Hey, 5K, we've got it next. It's five words.

We've been talking about it for the last half an hour. And next, your chance to become a 5,000 denier. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It's a simple game of word association. If we can match your five words with your five words, you'll win $5,000. Listen, we're out here changing lives. We're making a huge impact on a global scale.

Ben, that's not underselling it. Overselling it in any way. Because we've got Chrissie on the phone. Are you ready for us to change your life, Chrissie? Hi. Yeah, that'd be nice. Yeah, great. You've just dropped your son at daycare right I have yeah great a few hours to yourself yeah well to do with work but uh yeah sure it's better than racing around sometimes isn't it yeah Chrissie now 5k uh you're gonna spend it on what um well it would be nice to to go away for a weekend or something

and just take some time off once everything's blown over, maybe. That's right. We're all just waiting for it to blow over, aren't we? I thought it would be two years ago, I thought it would. Yeah. I think the government are waiting for the protesters to blow over, but they're

doing the opposite at the moment. The protesters are out there demanding that we give away this money this morning. I see what they're doing. That's their cause. Oh, well, that'd be nice. All right. Chrissy, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth?

Jono. Oh, Jono. All right. Jono's heading across there. Jono, you've been a popular choice this week, haven't you? He is in the soundproof booth now. Chrissy, what is the first thing that pops into your head when I say topor?

Topor. Lake. Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. Tupperware is the second word this morning. Tupperware. Container. Your standard Tupperware container. Camera.

Word number three, camera. Phone. Camera, phone. Milk. M-I-L-K, milk. Ooh. Ooh. Uh.

Ooh, options work. That's hard. Coffee. Coffee. Jono likes his coffee. He does like a coffee. Yeah, okay, coffee. And star.

S-T-A-R, star. Star. Uh. Star, yeah, yes. Or starlight. Starlight, oh yeah. Got to lock all those in there, Chrissie? Yeah.

Well done. There were some tricky words the last couple. It always seems to be the way. I see a theme developing in this game. There's always a tricky last couple of words. Oh, we start with some low-hanging fruit, don't we? Give you a false sense of confidence. Yeah, producer B. Humpston knows what he's doing.

And then more often than not, B. Humpston makes them so hard that we can't even give you any money. But it's not always like that, though, and that's the beauty of this game. So if you're thinking the same way as Chrissie, you'll win $5,000. Well, geez, $1,000 per word, Chrissie. It feels like the money to word equilibrium is way off there. Yeah. But here we go. Let's try and win you $5,000 per word, Chrissie. It feels like the money to word equilibrium is way off there. Yeah. But here we go.

Let's try and win you 5K. First word, topo. Lake. Well done. I see what you've done here. Yeah, tupperware is a word. Container. He's not even bothering for me to repeat them.

Camera. Picture. Picture. Phone. camera phone And the last two words were milk Coffee You did say coffee, Chrissie was saying you're a coffee fan And star Star struck

Star light Chrissie, cancel the family holiday It's all on Jono Old bald nimwit didn't come through for you this morning. Oh, well, worth a try. We'll have to do this again, all right? Yeah. Hey, thanks for listening.

We appreciate your ears. No worries. Thank you. You're the best. Spy, Jew, what's up? Yeah, we have just got an update on the trial regarding the shooting on set of the movie Rust with Alec Baldwin. Some news has just come through about that, so we'll touch on that next. Spy.

Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. Oh, yes. Now for some stories that'll probably have no impact on your life whatsoever. Juliet, what is happening in the world of celebrity? So some news has just come through about the shooting on the set of Rust, which happened about four months ago now. So Helena Hutchins' family have now filed a lawsuit against Alec Baldwin

and others on the set for wrongful death, alleging that reckless behaviour and cost-cutting led to her death. So it's expected that the matter will go to trial in the next year and a half, and this is apparently quite a quick sort of turnaround. Usually they take a bit longer than that but that's just an update on that scenario which is very sad. It's hard defence for Alec Baldwin. Obviously he did not want any of this to happen

but for him to go, well I didn't pull the trigger and they're like well you were holding the gun. It's hard to not prove that. It's like when you get caught with Chantel's lasagna from the work fridge Ben you're holding that plate. She's like that's mine from last night. Isn't the argument that it was a very old sort of gun and it just went off by itself?

Is that kind of a thing? And obviously he didn't put the bullets in there as well which are meant to be blanks. It's a whole horrible horrible situation it is a horrible situation and I dare say it'll probably get settled out of court

surely and sadly nothing's gonna can't bring it back unfortunately it's just those horrible horrible sort of accidents even for the family to have to go through

the legal process and Elliport and obviously I mean maybe that's part of closure maybe that you know yeah

very sad and Lorde has been announced as a guest editor for the new edition And Alec Baldwin, obviously. I mean, maybe that's part of closure. Maybe that, you know. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Very sad. And Lorde has been announced as a guest editor for the new edition of Viva's quarterly magazine. So if you get that, then you'll know that Lorde has helped edit it. She's also, we know she's a good writer. She's a good lyricist. So she'll probably contribute quite well to that.

So does that mean all the people from Viva have to pitch their sort of, hey, look, I'd love to do this this week. And she's like, no, no, we'll take that one. That's great stuff. Is she like, what was that lady, Meryl Streep? The Devil Wears Prada. Is she like the Devil Wears Prada? She'll channel her.

Am I Anne Hathaway? Who am I in this scenario? No, well, you're not actually working. I don't know if you know. Can I work for Viva? You're not working for Viva. Well, you have to ask Lord. I mean, she's in charge.

She's the big boss. Can she approve my annual leave? Also, actually, speaking of Devil Wears Prada I don't know if you know this And I can't remember if I talked about it once But Anne Hathaway was like ninth in line To play her character I hear that

Which would have been devastating news for Anne Hathaway When she found that out Oh yeah They wanted Rachel McAdams in the show Oh from The Notebook Yeah She would have been good Yeah she would have been good

She's all great actors Emily Blunt of course is in that one as well Yeah she's very good. And then they wanted eight other people, and then they landed on Anne Hathaway. I know. They wanted the cleaner. You'll do.

And Taika and Rita Ora, they posted about each other on Instagram for Valentine's Day, and I love their relationship, so I'm always going to report on it. They both posted a photo of when they met four years ago. Taika said that they've been mates ever since, but then a year ago they decided to complicate things, but things actually just got easier.

She said, thanks for being cool and entertaining me forever. Happy Valentine's Day, bestie. Oh, I love them. They're very cute, and they were at the Super Bowl in the week as well. I know. Bring her to New Zealand so we can harass them. Bring her home so we can all bug and write articles. I want to know what she thinks of New Zealand.

And we'll do a bounty, you know, like a radio bounty. Get them to call through. We'll give, you know, $150, you know. Bring her home, mate. Play it cold, New Zealand. Play it cold. We love harassing everyone, don't we? And that is your spy.

That's probably why he hasn't brought her home. Yeah, exactly. That's your spy update for this hour. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock. It's like introducing her to his parents. Bring her back to New Zealand. We need to meet her.

I can't bring her back to New Zealand. After 8 o'clock, we're going to talk to the dad of Zoe Sadowski-Sinnett. Last night on the project, if you missed it, there might have been a sneaky wee F-bomb. What was the reaction to that? And what has he said to his daughter? We'll find out after eight on the hits. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. You're on the hits.

Jono and Ben. Wednesday morning. We're talking beauty mishaps on 0800 The Hits. Yeah, disaster spas. Daycare disaster spas. You were just saying Selena Gomez had to go home from an event because she over-faked hand. I love nothing more than an oompa-loompa-faked hand.

Have you ever oompa-loompa'd? No, but when my sister went to her school balls, they used to have the Orange Award dedicated to, you'd have the Ball King, Ball Queen, and then the Orange Award. But then that got taken away because it was like a form of bullying, I think. Yeah, yeah.

I remember a heartless radio, speaking of forms of bullying, back in the day when you could bully interns in this industry. It was a wonderful time. I mean, Juliet, the stuff we would have been making you do. I know. Can't get away with it now, 2022. They sent me into a spray tanning booth, tanned me 10 times over.

Wow. Spray tanning. Wait, you had to do that? Yeah. It was like, oh, look, we'll do a stunt. Did you make America great again at the end of it? I put on a red hat at a tumultuous period. So 0800, the telephone number, 4487.

We've got Alison on the phone. We're talking beauty disasters. Alison, what happened? Yes, yes. My children one year shouted for my birthday, shouted me into a hotel for the night. They had a really flash bar, and they shouted me a full-body makeover,

which I'd never had before. Oh, a full body? Yeah, talk us through it. What is a full-body makeover? Well, they massage your legs, your arms, your back, everything. There is no part of Alison's body that wasn't made over that day. You name any nook and cranny, it was made over. There was a couple, but there were either.

Ben Boyce, you don't like day spas. No, I don't like massages. I find them, I just get more tense. I can't relax. I'm not a relaxer. Yeah. I'm the same. And I think of all the things I could be doing at home as well.

It gives you quiet time to reflect on things you're not doing. It makes you more tense. Exactly. But it was really lovely. Anyway, she gave me a dressing gown, and the lady who was doing it was really softly spoken, and I couldn't understand what she was saying, but the word mask kept coming out.

It was about the only word I understood. She then gave me this bit of paper and said to me, now you just put this on, I'll go, you just put this on and I'll come back. And I thought, I couldn't work it out because I thought it was a mask. I kept putting it on my face. I thought, I'm a nurse, I should know how to put a mask on. Anyway, she turned back inside. She said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's a G-string. As you've got a G-string over your mouth. What sort of mask is this? It'll be a good Christmas story from here on.

You should be like, and then she put them on. Oh, there's a bit of face. Jeez, it really was a full body makeover. They're getting you to put on that oh it's such a good story

well well done Alison we'll give you a voucher for a day spa no no we'll give you

a hell pizza okay Alison oh lonely thank you very much no worries thank you for sharing with us

that's awesome you too mate she was funny. She looked like Bane from Batman. She would have. Sean Sinnott, he's our new Kiwi hero. He is Zoe Sadowski Sinnott's dad. He swore live on the news once, twice, a week ago,

and then it happened last night. But for good reason. We're going to catch up with him next. It is the hits. The hits. Jono and Ben. Zoe Sadowski Sinnott yesterday won a silver medal to go with her going to catch up with him next. It is the hits. The hits. Jono and Ben. Zoe Sadowski-Sinnett yesterday won a silver medal to go with her gold, to go with her bronze.

She got in the last game. She is awesome. It was amazing to see her at the Winter Olympics. A huge achievement. And her father, Sean, has become somewhat of a national icon after his first interview live on television. The thing I looked for was Illume's reaction. Her younger sister.

She was f***ing crazy. Just a wonderful, probably the greatest interview live TV has ever been. It's ever been great. It made it to CNN. It was international news. And we're joined by Sean Sinnott now, Zoe's dad. How are you, Sean? All good, thank you.

Very, very awesome afternoon, I'm sure, for the family yesterday. Yeah, it was fantastic. What a result. What a result. Now, Sean, we conducted somewhat of a social experiment with you because we spoke to you yesterday before Zoe competed. We'll just take you back 24 hours. Your daughter's pretty awesome.

Yeah, she's pretty freaking awesome, right? Okay, Shawnee. Careful, she's pretty frickin' awesome, right? Okay, Shawnee. Careful, it's early in the morning. Now you, this is pre the event. It's happening this afternoon. Any plans for the family today? Yep. You can imagine what it's like being in a household full of three women,

none of which know how to iron. So I've been ironing their clothes. Okay, you're on the iron, Sean. Ironing their clothes, yeah. Probably go out and have a bit of lunch before we head down to HQ to watch the events of the day. Yes, right. So it's a strap yourself in early number again, Sean. Are they already booking you in for the live news cross tonight at six?

Yeah. I've had a few people asking if they could interview me, but I might be a little bit more resigned today, feeling the attention. Yeah. So that was 24 hours ago. This is before Zoe competed. And then, Sean, how was lunch?

Yeah, lunch was good. Yeah. What did you have for lunch? Chicken burger. Oh, nice. Good option. But chips on the side there? Yeah.

Beautiful. And then in the afternoon, this happened. She goes for the 12. Zoe Sadowski said it. We'll grab the silver. And then you're obviously elated and then the project run the gauntlet, they put your life on telly again

and this happens. Hazo magnificent achievement two f***ing gold medals like two medals Sean it feels like the same trajectory Yeah nah that was, you would have noted that I said two gold medals

but it was a joke. It was a silver and a gold. So I mean how many it's a long afternoon again how many deep were you when you landed live on the project? About 16 glasses of water actually. You actually to be honest

didn't look bad at all. You looked like you just had a great afternoon. You look actually, in all seriousness, quite emotional. You know, very proud of your daughter. Oh, yeah, look, it really hit me when we were being interviewed. I teared up big time. Well, because, I mean, there'd be so much commitment, obviously, from Zoe. That's a given.

But from the family as well for the sport, I imagine, Sean. Yeah, there is and don't forget about what coaches do I should say and the whole team behind her but the logistics of her international travel getting out into the next one piece

and good body and spirit that's been the focus from predominantly mum in the last couple of days. Yeah, because she's only 20. She's only a 20-year-old, you know, just growing up in the world and already flying all over, competing and winning. Yeah, I want her airports.

If the world was a little bit different, obviously, with travel, would you guys have been over there? Was that the plan? Yeah, we would have been, for sure. And we typically try to get to one international event every year. I mean, the more successful she gets, the more expensive your flights are going to get around the world, Sean. You're going to be travelling all over the globe.

And what have you said to her in private? Congratulatory, Rob. You know, outstanding results. You know, there's been a few conversations about, you know, just keep on going and avoid the media. Don't look at Dad's interviews. I mean, looking at the project, I don't know what they were thinking. It was like handing your phone, your music library over to someone on your phone.

They might hit a shocker sometime. Yeah, I was practicing yesterday saying Perkin in front of the bathroom mirror. And I just kept stumbling. I got to do it, I got to do it, guys. Well, you've composed yourself beautifully for our interview this morning. Yeah, of all the shows.

No, we are so proud. New Zealand is so proud. And I saw Zoe's other sibling saying she's now the favourite child. Is that true or not? No, absolutely not. We've no favourites in this family. They've all got their own unique qualities.

Yeah, but that's a rough question to ask a father. Well, the other siblings are going, oh, she's definitely the favourite now. She's definitely the favourite. I mean, secretly she's the favourite, but not publicly, Sean. No. No, no, you don't love more people. Good on you, Sean. Hey, well, well done. Congratulations to the whole family But not publicly, Sean. You don't love more people.

Good on you, Sean. Well done. Congratulations to the whole family and to Zoe. You keep well. Thank you very much. Coming up very shortly, Benny, Popstar Benny, joins us. She's got a new single out. She helps us out with a really adorable good deed. That's not too far away on the hits.

Popstar Benny, we love her. She's awesome. She's got a brand new single out at the moment called Beach Boy as well. And she kindly helped us out yesterday with one of our good deeds. Yeah, we're doing 28 deeds, 28 good deeds over February through 28 days. And it's been good. It's been heartwarming, Ben Boyce, especially yesterday, disinfecting Portaloos. It wasn't as heartwarming, that that one as some of the others.

Yeah, but it was indeed done. And, you know, fresh from washing our hands, we hopped in a boardroom with Benny to surprise a couple of young fans who had just started school, actually, and they were nominated by their mum. Guess what? We opened the microphone and started talking to Benny. Hey! Welcome to this bleak, bland boardroom in our radio station. Guess what? We opened the microphone and started talking to Benny. Hey!

Welcome to this bleak, bland boardroom in our radio station. It's quirky. You're going to help us out today by surprising some young fans in Taranaki and New Plymouth. I am, I am. We're going to Zoom them at school. We're going to do that very shortly. But your new single, Beach Boy, you've written in LA, I understand. I did, I did. In November. September.

September. That's Benny's mum in the background just sort of clarifying the dates. September, September. Back to check. Wonderful, wonderful. Tanya, how are you, Tanya? All right? I'm fine, thanks.

It's lovely to meet Benny's mum. We've met Benny many times and you've raised a beautiful daughter. Thanks, guys. She is an absolute legend of a human being. I shambles at Benny's age, so you've done really well. Actually, the song's called Beach Boy. I wanted to run through a few little beach okays or no's. Is it okay to shake off sand at your tower next to other people?

Only if it's not windy. I always get a bit nervous about that. You never want to spray someone with sand, do you? It always gets in people's eyes. Okay. Is it okay to play your boombox next to other people? I'm not really for music at the beach. Another question.

Is it okay to call it a boombox? Okay, all right. I'll wrap it up. I had more, but I'm going to wrap that up. Yeah. All right, with old boomer box over there.

We then went to Zoom Leah and Zoe in New Plymouth and surprised them with Benny, their hero. I know. How awesome. Hi. Hi. Hi.

How's it going? Good. And you just got pulled out of class. Do you have any idea what's going on? Well, I didn't. And then I just know that we're on the radio and stuff, and I'm scared. Yeah, we wanted to talk to you.

You're expelled after day one. Yes, this is the way they're breaking into kids these days. No. We have a special friend who wants to see you. Would you like to see them? Yeah. Okay, well through the power of technology and Zoom, may we present the one and only Benny.

Yeah. Hi. How's it going? Hi. Oh my God. Hi. I'm the guy. Hi. You've got to be congrats again, Benny yeah how's it going oh my god oh my god you've got to get your congrats again

but this hopefully makes up for it with your own personal call Benny yeah now we've got to

go we've got to do it to another 20,000 people for the rest of the day so thank you so much it was

wonderful the call went on for much longer than that a lot of the time me just figuring out how to turn the camera on it was a bit of a shambles Thank you so much. Anyway, can we get rid of those weathered-looking dudes? Yeah, well, we did. We popped out of the way. We'll have a video for that later on the hit.co.nz. If you've got a good deed that you'd like us to do, 4487, you can just text us.

We've got to get rid of 28 of them over Feb. It's pretty. My song is still within my mouth. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Hands down, one of the most embarrassing things happened to me that could ever happen to any radio announcer yesterday, Ben Boyce. I got busted listening to our podcast in my car. Not our podcast.

Do you do that? Well, I haven't done it probably since halfway through last year. You should though, it's a great podcast. But you live it, you're part of it every day. I'm living and breathing it every day. It's on iHeartRadio. Get amongst it, the podcast. It's like the Black Ferns and the All Blacks.

They review each match, don't they, with video footage. Same as us, except we do it every nine months. Maybe we should do it more often. But I was waiting for Poppy outside school, and I had the podcast blasting. Probably cracking up at your own jokes. Mouthing along. He mouthing us along and stuff too, lot he's probably mouthing a lot you

know me too lg yeah uh rolling around the car in laughter hysterics then i hear knock knock knock and a friend who also waiting for his kid said uh are you listening to yourself oh god that is too oh that is the sanest thing you could do as a radio announcer and then i got somehow flustered and confused and i'm like no no no i'm trying to turn it down but somehow turn it up louder then i'm coming over and stereo surround sound and then just to make things more awkward he's like well i'll sit in the car and listen with you oh that's so awkward it was the it was the way and they were they were long seconds sitting in the car listening to your own podcast with someone else who's just doing it to prove a point they don't even want to hear it they just want to make it more awkward than it already is

it's like when you sat down and watched the bloody sex scenes on bridgeton with your mum yeah you had to go get a cup of tea i was like this is all good i had no exit point it was my car i had that same thing happened to me to come to think about on a plane years ago we used to have

the John O'Bent TV show on there and I just went I was like oh what episode that is just to put it on out of interest

just as I did a guy walking past the toilet so I walked past stopped came back this is the reaction right to yourself

I might as well be watching lovemaking scenes with Bridgerton. You know, it would have been less embarrassing. He's like, you're watching yourself. I'm like, yeah, I was just seeing what episode it was. Part of me used to go, it would have been

better off if I was watching pornography. I'm done. This would have been a safer option. Less embarrassing. Maybe Truman Mallard needs to play us over the last week. That'll clear them all away Outside Parliament It is the hits you got Jono and Ben

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